A recorded evening class by His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaj on August 27, 2024 in Sridhar Mayapur, India delivered on Srila Prabhupada's Vyāsa-pūjā. The lecture praises Srila Prabhupada as ISKCON's founder-acharya, recounts early incidents (e.g., differing responses from godbrothers when Prabhupada arrived in the West), notes internal politics and misunderstandings that affected Western devotees' faith, and recalls supporters like Bhakti Pramod Puri Maharaj and a Calcutta center (South Calcutta, 'Rajihaini'). The speaker also summarizes Prabhupada's institutional acts (forming the GBC, initiating parikramas, translating/writing commentaries) and closes with celebratory Vyāsa-pūjā exclamations.
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August 27, 2024
Sridhar Mayapur, India
Srila Prabhupada's Vyāsa-pūjā (Vyasa Puja)
South Calcutta, 'Rajihaini'
Bhakti Pramod Puri Maharaj
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How God has divine grace. He's exactly had Roger Stern International Society.
Srila Prabhupada His Divine Grace Srila Ac Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada had registered the International Society for Ka Consciousness.
His son, founder Acharya.
ISKCON Founder Acharja Swami Srila Prabhupada Vinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ISKCON Panji Kritakara Unisha he was saying that he is the founder Acharya of Iskcon Founder Achar Jaholan. He registered iskcon and in this way he became the founder Acharya of iskcon.
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And different godbrothers tried to bring this ISKCON within their own jurisdiction. I could not understand, but I could personally see everything. We acquired a place. We got a place in South Calcutta, Rajihaini. I told one of the godbrothers of Srila Prabhupada that Srila Prabhupada was preaching the message of Lord Caitanya in the Western countries very, very nicely. But none of them were eager to go to assist but His Divine grace Bhakti Pramod Puri Maharaj. In the beginning he had said that he wanted to go.
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So the. So some Grihasta devotees came to Puri Maharaj and said that why you should go. He is a junior Sannyasi. He is junior to you and you are a senior Sannyasi. Why you should go to receive him in this way? None of the God brothers had come to receive him at the airport. But they all said that you please come to give a lecture.
Mark.
Srila Prabhupada said that they wanted me to come to their maat so that they could get the credit that I had gone to the west on their insistence or on their on their desire.
Oh Lord, he told us that I want to take the credit. I asked for help. I didn't do any help.
Srila Prabhupada told us that they wanted to take the credit. But when I asked for help, they didn't Come forward. In this way I understood that there are some kind of politics going on amongst the inner circle. Srila Prabhupada wanted to follow the instructions of Srila Bhakti Siddhant, the Sasvatip Thakur as he had given them. In this way, he had gone to the western countries on the order of his spiritual master.
So he established a son and he was the founder Acharya.
So he established ISKCON and he was the founder Acharya Bhabe Uni Iskon. So when in Calcutta we had a center, Srila Prabhupada called me in and interviewed me. At the time he said that he was not willing to go. So somebody gave a letter and he described how Srila Prabhupada had gone to the West. And in a very negative way he had explained how Prabhupada went to the West. So Achitananda and other devotees, they heard this and they were spreading this.
That's right. Here's the thing.
In this way they confused a bit. Finding this kind of letters. Different people, they came to the idea that Srila Prabhupada was Krishna. In this way, some misunderstanding was going on. And the western devotees of iskcon, they were losing their faith.
Prabhupada is our founder Acharya.
Sir. Prabhupada is our founder Acharya. Srila Prabhupada Acharja.
He made his song what he wanted to.
He made his call. He wanted to the way he wanted to. Because he formed the GBC. He started the parikramas or the circumambulation of the DHAMs. He translated many books and wrote purports and commentaries.
Only children.
He wanted that all the godmothers and the grand disciples would cooperate. Therefore, we endeavor, we try to do this. So how Srila Prabhupada wanted to create how Srila Prabhupada wanted to form ISKCON also, we are all trying to assist him. We are all trying to cooperate with him. I have been asked to speak for 15 minutes. I think my 15 minutes are over. Sheila Prabhupada's 128th Vyasapuja Maha Mahotsav Ki Jai ISKCON founder Acharja His Divine Grace Sheila Ac Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Ki Jai.
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