20250628 Question and Answer Session in Kolkata, India #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Be sure to subscribe to our channel. We publish new videos every day. Don't forget, grab your smartphone and download the Lava Mantra app and stay in touch. Guru Maharaj's message is your advice. Advantage. The following is a question and answer session given by His Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj on June 28, 2025 in Kolkata, India.

Do you have any questions? Yes, Hare Krishna. The devotees had written questions. Do you have any questions? Already written questions can be given and those who want to ask questions. These are cheats. They can be cheats can be passed and those who have written.

If you write in English, I'll answer in English.

If you write in English, I will answer in English.

If you write in Chinese, you won't get any answer.

If you write in Chinese, you won't get any answer. Is Jalangi here?

Chinese translator.

I have a Chinese translator. I think she can translate. If you have a Chinese question. How to control the tendency to engage in in Prajalpa and engage in more engage more in Krishna Katha? How to control the tendency to engage in Prajalpa and engage more in Krishna Katha?

So if we think we are the body.

So if we think we are the body.

How we talk about bodily things.

So naturally then what we talk is about bodily things.

But if we think we're the servant of Krishna but if we think we.

Are the servant of Kaamanakriya Das then.

Naturally we'll avoid Prajalpa.

Then naturally we'll avoid Prajalpa.

Want to please Krishna with every speech.

Because we want to please Krishna with every speech.

So how many think yellow are you?

So how many of you think you are the body?

Raise your hand.

Raise your hand. How many of you think that you are the Nitta Atma?

So.

So another question for preaching college youth students often some materialistic talk is necessary. How to preach amidst.

The question Written in English Rather English. You know, if you are heard of English or Mattel has stayed hot and follow your strategy of bridging.

If you are speaking in English and if you have to speak some materialistic things as part of your strategy.

Teaching strategy.

If that is your speeching strategy, then.

That may be all right.

Then that may be all right.

Gota Bolso and you have to become expert.

Depends on what you say and you have to become expert. It will be about Krishna in the last moment it should be about Krishna.

Hang on. Whatever the focus I managed to get, somehow it be a lot larger than us.

Like whatever may be the slok is I always Somehow or other try to get to Lord Chaitanya. Talk about Lord Chaitanya.

Yes.

Yes.

So this Dr. Chaitanya, he was expert and the white pundit was arguing. Later as a diksha, he became a devotee.

Just like Nimai Pandit. He was just like Lord Chaitanya Mahapu, he was expert at arguing as Nimai Pandit. Later after diksha, he became a devotee.

Did you hear about the war in Israel and Iran?

Did you hear about the war between Israel and Iran?

The whole world is in war.

The whole world is in war. Now the only way of peace or the only process of peace is to chant the holy names.

See, I started out with a material talk war in Israel and Iran. I ended up Hare Krishna.

See, I started with the material talk about war between Iran and Israel. And I ended up with chanting the Hare Krishna. Iran among Israel. Hare Krishna. Dear Guru Maharaj, please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada joy. Guru Maharaj, there has been quite a setback in my. Guru Maharaj, there has been quite a setback in my career where despite endeavor, things did not turn out as expected. This has led to a kind of giving up attitude by myself in bhakti. Giving up attitude, Giving up work. Yeah. In bhakti we have heard that whatever one gets is due to his past or her past karma. But after continuous failure, I feel like giving up endeavor. Thinking. Thinking ultimately I am going to fail due to my bad karma. Also. This has led to depressed thoughts and less enthusiasm regarding bhakti. How to come out of this situation and continue myself in bhakti Yoga. Guru Maharaj. So, Guru Maharaj.

English.

Yeah, English.

So problem is, what we would have got in our material life would have been much worse.

The problem is that what we would have got in our material life would have been worse if we were not Krishna conscious.

Maya is tricking you. If you give up the rest of life. Bhakti Yoga. I take a birth again and again and again and again.

So Maya is tricking you that if you give up devotional life then you will have to take birth again and again and again and again and again. Maya apna KE tall tapnas of them. Japan.

They put stickers on the back of their car.

In America, they put stickers on the back of their cars.

All kinds of stickers.

All kinds of stickers.

One sticker red. Born again. Because they ask the Christians, they say, are you born again? Are you born again?

Because they ask the Christians, they ask, are you born Again are you born again?

Saw in the back of the car. Born again and again and again.

So on the back of their car they put born again and again and again and again.

Anyway, if you're in this material world, this material world stinks.

Anyway, if you are in this material world, this material world stinks.

But serving Krishna is the all blissful activity.

But serving Krishna is the all blissful activity. I am wheelchair bound and my kidneys have failed.

Talking about Krishna I feel very healthy.

But talking about Krishna I feel very happy. Boltegier our Ku Anandohai.

So I hope you all chant Hare Krishna and preach Ka' San Jesus.

So I hope you will all chant Hare Krishna and preach Ka consciousness. Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj Dadavat Pranam all glories to Srila Prabhupada Maharaj. I had applied for Harinam initiation but my form got rejected. Although I am not. Although I am not. Although I am not consuming onion and garlic. But I have a grocery store in which 50% of the items contain onion garlic. And I stay in New Town where most of the people are non devotees. So it is very difficult to remove all these items from my shop. Am I eligible for diksha from you? Guru Maharaj, your servant Rahul Kumar.

Rahul.

Rahul Kumar. Guru Maharaj. Battle Newtown.

I don't know everything.

I don't know everything.

There are some preparations like some chips or something has some onion garlic.

But if some preparations like some chips or something has onion or garlic.

I don't think that.

I think that you are disqualified. I don't think that would disqualify you. I don't think that that would disqualify you.

When I eat something, I look at the packet ingredients. I don't need to take it.

When I eat something, I look at the packet and see whether it's got onion and garlic. If there is onion garlic, I don't take it.

I was in a flight to London.

I was in a flight to London. In that flight there was a sannyasi.

So I went to him and talked to him.

So I went to him and talked to him. I mean.

I saw he was eating plain biscuit.

I saw he was eating the plain biscuit. Actor Cellophane.

I didn't take it because it had onion like garlic or something.

I didn't take it because it might have onion, garlic or something, but he was eating it.

From the west we look at the ingredients.

So being from the west, we naturally look at the ingredients. You should also look at the ingredients and you should read them carefully and then only consume that product.

In India now more packaged food In.

India now more packaged foods are given.

They say what the ingredients are and.

They say what the ingredients are.

When I came in 1970, most of the food was like raw.

When I came in 1970, most of the food was like raw. How many more questions? So many. Like 15.

Go on till 10.

Then we'll stop. So Guru Maharaj, he mentioned in his question that he has got 50% of the items that have got contain onion and garlic in his shop.

I said if some chip or thing contains onion.

Yeah.

Don't eat it. I don't think that alone will just hall. It's selling like a sound shop, a sound meat that's a bit that religious.

How I okay, so the answer to your question is Gurumar is saying that some of the packets they contain onion and garlic and it's written there that it's got onion and garlic. So and you are selling that. But if you are selling meat or something in your shop, then that would be something different. That would be a cause for disqualification.

If you have a choice between selling two items, sell the one without it.

If you have a choice between selling two items, one containing onion garlic and one not containing onion garlic, then sell the one that has got no onion and garlic. Ah J to Kona packet Guy Lakh Japanese Bejban.

I don't know in India.

But I don't know in India if people read the packets. Okay. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories.

All glories to Prabhupada. All glories to Srila.

Guru.

Hare Krishna. Guru Maharaj. How are you Baba? How are you Baba? Am I Baba or am I father or grandfather? Guru Maharaj.

Krishna is everything. He's a child. He is Sonananda. He is a friend to Sudana.

Krishna is everything. Krishna is a He is a child for Yashoda and his friend of Sudama Krishna Chan Shop Sambark that is why better to love Krishna. That is why better to love Krishna. Books distribution. You please bestow your mercy upon me so that I can distribute books and spread the holy names very successfully. Roshikananda Siddham Das, Kibalta Gurude Manusha Karathekarimana K Prashnagarta Krishna. How can we save ourselves from thinking that the spiritual master is an ordinary human being? How can we save ourselves from thinking that the spiritual master is an ordinary human being?

If we think as a spiritual master is dear to his spiritual master, if.

We Think that the spiritual master is dear to his spiritual master. Therefore somehow he is dear to Krishna. And therefore somehow he is dear to Krishna.

So is that ordinary?

So is that ordinary?

No, you should who you think fits these qualifications.

So you should find a guru who you think that who fits these qualifications. Tomar Erakam Dharana Raghyan Gurumasto Jagothar Odhikari.

And if you're sincere then Krishna will bless you in any case.

And if you are sincere then Krishna will bless you in any case. 5 minutes more. Guru Mahaj Hare Krishna, please accept my obeisance as Guru Maharaj. Amaranthari Kobilash Brahman Dikanawa Kintu Parashunami.

Foreign.

Please accept. Please mercifully accept my obeisances. Gurudev, my very sincere desire is to get second initiation. But I do not. I am not so well educated and therefore. But I have been serving in the Calcutta ISKCON kitchen for many, many years now. What should I do? What should be my duty in this case? You please let me know your spiritual daughter. I don't know what type of service you do in the kitchen. Generally if you are serving in the DT kitchen then you have to be second initiated.

His second initiation together the greenish eye.

I generally wish and desire that those who take second initiation they get the Bhakti Shastri degree first.

Because Jaiju Azra.

Because Srila Prabhupada wrote in many places, I think the students, they can read the books. Usually the people from Namata, those who are from remote villages, they usually come with this problem that they say that oh, I do not know how to read and write. I am totally illiterate. If your children or if your brothers or sisters, siblings, they know how to read and write then if they can read for you, then it will be beneficial for them and it will be beneficial for you. I have got stroke and therefore due to my stroke I cannot write with my right hand. And the Mayapur Institute has arranged so. I verbally gave the answers.

I can read. I can read on the screen.

I can read on the screen. So when those who have none of these facilities for them, I have asked in quiet from the BPT what can be done for them. And they said that it is available in Bangla English and all the Indian languages like Telugu, Tamil, etc.

You read that there's Audio Porto Valle.

You can read that or it's in audio form. And this is all available in the Transcend app. And you can hear from it, you can read from it. And the Bengali version is cheaper than the English one.

Hello.

So ask a meeting. There was a meeting and that's why I came a little late.

I don't think there's any meeting tomorrow.

I don't think there is any meeting.

Early.

And I'll come early. I'll come early.

And questions if I don't answer today. And then first.

The questions I didn't answer today. Put them first.

Price.

I won't give you any choice. I won't give you any choice. I won't give you any choice. Hare Krishna Harakastan. Good all of you.

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