20250320 || Safari 2025: Cultural Program at ISKCON || Tirupati, India #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Have another dance. You cannot miss this dance. This is very special. Something you will feel, you know. Transport to the Spiritual World. This is a surprise. Also, we will not announce fully now. Okay. The program. So now. No, no, it's okay. ¿What's happening? No, no. Yes, yes, yes, no. Please, sit down, sit down. We're not finished.

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Oh, yes, you are from the drama. Okay. Okay. Okay. Please, the ones in the drama you can go. OK. Because only one or two people. Okay. The rest, you stay here. Because we're going to remain here for another five minutes or ten. No, no, yo stay here. Bosun, please. Bosun. Okay. You know, His Holiness, Jayapataka Swami Maharash in the Ganga Safari. This is, we call the South India Safari. That was a Ganga Safari. We traveled for twenty days along the Ganges River. We are sleeping on the boats. Can you imagine His Holiness, Yapataka Swami also sleeping in the boats every day for twenty days. We have four boats that we join in the boats every day for Mongol Arctic, for Sunday Arctic. One boat was a kitchen cooking on the boat. Moving boat. And we have another, you know, boat for Matajis, another for Grijastas, another for Brahmacharis. Was a really fantastic trip. Very, very nice. And one time I remember his coordinates. Jayapata Kasuami. Wake up. And he composed a song from his heart. It's a fari song. OK. Today. Everybody knows English. Here. If you don't know English, you will learn today. Okay. There's only four lines. It's very simple. But the condition we're going to chant. But you have to repeat loud. Okay. If it's not loud, we're not going to. Continue. OK. You please repeat the song That was composed by his Holiness, Jayapataka Swami after me.

Going on safari for another day. Chanting Hare Krishna all the way. Singing, dancing, staging a play.

Spreading.

God's glories wherever we stay.

Okay. That was just a practice. Now it's coming. Okay. Now you please clap. Okay. And repeat loud. Now. It was really like very weak. One more time. Okay. Remember, our Guru Maras Kiscorines Yayapataka Suame is watching. This is a live broadcast. So Guru Mara, this is for you. We're going to sing loud this time.

Everyone going on safari for another day.

Good, good.

Chanting Hare Krishna all the way. Singing, dancing, staying a play, spreading over as glories wherever we stay.

Aribor, thank you very much to say a few words. You see, this afar is very special. ¿Why is special? Because, you know, we come into South India. ¿Why? Because Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came to South India. Something you know, this affair is related to Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Lila's coming to Saudi. Maybe Maharaj can be kind of. And because so many devotees are watching from all around the world this program, there are thousands of people watching. Maybe Maharaj can explain little bit the importance of this pilgrimage to South India.

Hare Krishna. I've been coming to Torapati quite a long time now. I first came here. It was nineteen seventy six. I came at that time there was no ISKCON center here. I was a member of the BBT Library party. ¿And I was traveling with Mahavishnu, who is Mahavishnu Swami now? And the two of us. We had a matador van and we were traveling around South India where ISKCON was unknown. The only center in South India at that time was Hyderabad. Anyway, we came here in Thirupati and we went to the TTD, the Tirumala, Tirupati, Devastanum. And they were very hospitable. They received us very nicely. Actually, Srila Prabhupada came here, I think, three times, to Torapati. And Srila Prabhupada had told us, he said we have to learn how to manage from them. He said their management is very good. He liked very much how they managed everything. So it's very nice to see how our center has developed. Of course, TTD they gave some land to us here in the beginning. And Rivati Raman Prabhua, under his leadership, they've developed such a wonderful center. It's interesting to see. So many others have also come here, like across the road. You know, it's once Ramakrishna mission. And next door down the road is the. ¿What is it? Brahma Kumaris like that. So they're all here, you know, all the different. But we were here first. We were the first ones to come here and preach because the TTD invited us, they gave us life. So Marici wanted me to speak about why Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came South India. Chaitanya Charitam Rita describes that you go where the ground is the most fertile, where you can get the best preaching field. Just like Srila Prabhupada was so anxious to go to the west because he knew it was untouched. Practically it was untouched. Nobody had been there before. Nobody had done anything it was wide open for him to go there and do something similarly. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came to South India after coming to Jagannathpuri, you know, in the pretext of saying he was going to look for his older brother Vishwaru. He came wandering down. But Israel purpose was to distribute the Holy Name. Everywhere he knew the people of South India were very open to receive the Holy Name. It was not something foreign to them. And he was happy to come and wander through the villages in South India and distribute the Holy Name. So Srila Prabhupada also. He wanted the preaching to go on all over India. Prabhupada himself came. I said he came a few times here in Tirupati. When he came, the TTD arranged lecture for Prabhupada. It was up the hill. Usually some sadhu would come. They'd give a lecture up the hill. They had some big hall and you could gather all the pilgrims because there was a big. There's a big like Dharmshala or place where people can stay up on the hill. Just like when I came here with Ma Vishnu Swami, they gave us a place, they gave us the cottage up the hill. They said, come and stay for a few days. And they gave us a cottage up on top of the hill at Tirumala. And they gave us prasadam. Every day they sent us a prasadam from the deities. They really took care of us so nicely. So Prabhupada told us also. He said, you have to learn from them how to do everything. They do it very nicely. So coming here, we're seeing also how the devotees, our iskcon devotees are taking care. I've been very grateful, although my health at this time is not very good. The devotees are helping me very much, taking care of me, giving nice prasadam and erase some medicine for me also. So I'm very grateful for their love and care. It's really very nice. This is the mood. This is the mood which we learn from TTD that they have that mood. They're caring, they have a lot of care programs, they have colleges, they have hospitals, medical centers, they do a lot of welfare services for the community. Of course we want to emphasize on the preaching and Srila Prabhupada emphasized that especially that we should give the emphasis on the preaching, the distribution of the Holy Name and we try to do that here at our ISCON center. The devotees go out every day to the different areas around Tirupati and Tirumala and they have their book tables and they're every day distributing books and many different languages. Next time I come here, I want to bring you some of our books from Thailand because you may get people coming from Thailand here and we have the Bhagavad Gita published in Thai so it would be nice. You can have it here. If somebody comes, you could distribute to them. So Srila Prabhupada wanted us print books in all the different languages. Just like here in India, the books are there in Tamo, in Telugu and Mali Alam and Kannada. All the different languages they have to print in. So when they have a book table here in Tirupati, you have to be fluent in all the different languages because so many people coming from all the different parts of the world. And it's an opportunity to preach to the whole world. Number one tourist spot in India, Tirupati More people visit Tirupati than any other place in India. It's the number one tourist spot. So such an important place for us to be here and to be preaching. Hare Krishna.

Thank you very much. His coordinates bhaktivikna binahnarasim kaswami. And before we come down off the stage and prepare for the drama, would like just to request to come just for a minute to his grace Revati Raman Prabhu. When I made the announcement, first of all, I want to thank thanks grace for taking such a nice care of all the safari devotees. So second, you see here we have this occasion of three footprint installation of Rochitania and Tirupati which is a very historical event. So we want to express our gratitude for making us part of this event to our Guru Maharaj, to all the sanyasis and especially also to his grace Rebati Raman Prabhu. You know when the day that we installed the footprints in Tirupati in his temple personally by him together with all the spiritual masters on the presence of his coordinates Jayapata Kaswami also and all the sanyasis devoted from around the world on that day. ¿That was yesterday or before yesterday? Yesterday. Yesterday was happening on this moment. On yesterday something special happened. It was his grace Rabbit Raman Prabhu yesterday has been approved as to be an initiating spiritual master. Congratulations. His grace Rebati Raman provides a very, very sincere devotee who has been doing so much service and dedicated his entire life for Iskcon for preaching. Now he has more responsibilities. Probably he will be traveling also around the world with different responsibilities. He's a servant, a very good servant of Guru Matters. I know he likes him very much. And now he has so much trust, he gives extra responsibility. I know he's very busy. But I request everyone to please shower his blessings, your blessings into him for this new services for Sila Prabhupada from ISKCON. ¿Hare Krishna, what is next? So now we take our seats.

I just want to make a little comment in here.

He told me that sixty percent of this temple was built with book distribution.