Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj answers devotees' questions during Ratha Yatra in Kolkata on June 29, 2025. He discusses prayer to Lord Jagannath, managing lust and anger, the power of sincere chanting, and whether household life or renunciation suits spiritual seekers.
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Ishwaram Hari Hari Om Tatsad Hare Krishna Maharaj Dandavat Pranam. I am very happy to attain. I am very happy to attain this Rathi Yatra. But I wonder what should I pray to Lord Jagannath here? Because generally we pray Nilachala, Nivasaya, Nithyaya Paramat Mune. But he is now happily come to Sundarachal. So should I still pray this prayer? Please help me with a proper prayer. Maharaj, your servant Amiya Monamane Bhabji Jamar Kivabi Prasana Kara Jagannathka Nivasaya Nitya Paramatman.
Sundarachala Jagannath.
Jaya.
You don't say what you pray for.
But why you don't say what you pray for. You don't say but you don't say. That is not a request.
You can ask Janath that you want to. Henry, are you surrendering and like to perform?
You didn't ask whether you are surrendering at Jagannath lotus feet or you are planning to surrender and perform devotional service at his lotus feet.
These are yesterday's questions.
No, these are today's questions. Oh, these are yesterday's questions. Yes, yes. Name. Name was not written. That last one name was written not written. But this one also. No, not name written. Okay, we'll look for the ones that with the names written. Please give your names when you write the questions. Here there is Nam Hare Krishna Paramaram. Yes, she is here. Guruma, she is there. She is standing. Okay. Prashna Gurudev, I am engaging in devotional service. But as I engage in devotional service I can see the impurities of my heart more and more clearly. As I engage in devotional service even though I do not want the six vices or the six enemies, the senses like lust, anger, greed, etc. In different ways they are rising up and therefore I am very much sad. Please you kindly show me the right path how I can get rid of these six vices.
You see like chanting Hakrishna Mahamandra, gradually these things get cleared.
You see by chanting Hare Ka Maha Mantra, gradually these things they get cleared. Dakota Mahamantra. Whichever language you write, I will answer accordingly.
Shaman Weather.
Srila Prabhupada said that it took him 20 years to get perfection in devotional service. But we do not know how many lives lifetimes it will take us.
So if you.
But if you try very sincerely and you endeavor a lot and you chant very very attentively and very with great devotion then that will be attained very quick. Within this very lifetime you can attain the lotus feet of Krishna. Guru Maharaj Agtsp Agts Gag Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj, please accept my humble obeisances. Guru Maharaj. Thank you for your causeless mercy. I had committed many abominable sins that I can't share with anyone. Even after initiation. I am not friendly. I am not firmly fixed in following one regulative principle. Sometimes I fall prey to temptation and pursue sense engagement. By your mercy, I am continuing my services. Guru Maharaj, I love you. I want to serve you life after life. But I love sense enjoyment more. I am suffering this material world due to my anarthas and past life, past life conditioning. I don't want to take birth again in this material world. Will you please take me to the spiritual world in this life even though I am not purified. Your servant. Who is this? Are you here? This questioner Guru Maharaj Ami Apnar Shevakotechai John Mojan Mantar Ami Indriyat Bogori Arabesikore Amitai Hare Krishna Please write an email to Guru Maharaj personally regarding this question. Personally. Jayapataka at the rate gmail.com at the rate gmail.com J A Y A P A P for Prabhupada P A T A K A Jayapataka attherategmail.com so.
I want to serve you height after life.
So he says that he wants to. He or she says that I want to serve you life after life But I don't want to take birth again. Amita Abhar Janmagrah.
They attached to sex life.
Anyway apart from these things, if one is very attached to sex life or.
For other reasons then they can take Grihasta life.
Then they can take Grihasta life.
And that is not sinful.
And that is not sinful. Lord Chaitanya said, whether you live at home or whether you live in the forest, please take the names of Lord Hari.
Oh my God. If you are having trouble eating, you want to eat non veg.
Or if you are having trouble if you are going eating. If you are going to eat non veg then why don't you eat prasadam?
Say you are suffering in the material.
World, you say you are suffering in the material world.
When we are attached to these vices, naturally have to suffer.
When we are attached to these vices, then naturally we have to suffer. I have to finish before 10. Okay, ETA, last question. This is the last one. Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaj. Kono, bhakto, jyditar, Babamar, birudegi, bhaktiki, karmafaliki, soham, something something.
Now.
Yeah, he's here, Guru Maharaj. He's asking if one does devotional service against the wish of his parents and if the parents become angry in that case, does he have to reap the actions of his karma? And if the parents later on become devotees, then has that have I committed vaishnavaprada against my parents. At the lotus feet of my parents. By going against them and becoming devotee, I became devoted. They became devoted later. Yeah. Either become devotee later on, then that's very good. In Lake Town there was a family. The children, the wife, they were all my disciples. And the Baba, the father was against.
He had Darjella, third degree cancer.
Tarcelo third degree cancer. He had cancer in the third degree.
I don't know. 10,000.
Well built, muscular. One day about three or four people came through his wall. And they were very muscular and very well built. And they had some chamrar dodi, chilo tadar hati. They had some type of like leather ropes in their hands and they had long teeth and very fierce looking. They had all come in.
Shai Bakti, calm, spiritual love.
That person, he was lying down on the bed and these people, they came in front of this person and they were all very, very angry.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The children that were there, they came in and they started chanting Krishna Nam.
He called.
Oh, he called one of the children, sorry. And that boy or that person whom he called, he had a name of Krishna. At that time he told his wife, please, I want to have neck beads. I want to have japumala. I want to read the Bhagavad Gita. Please read the Bhagavad Gita for me. His family members tried and pleaded with him for years and years and years. But the Yavadutas, they only showed up once and he immediately changed. So therefore, I hope that you do not. You won't need the Yamadutas to come and remind you.
Here, Lord Jagannath, he came. I will pray to him. I surrender to you. I serve you.
Here you can pray to Jagannath. The Lord Jagannath is here. You can pray to Lord Jagannath. I surrender to you. I want to serve you. Jai Jagana. Jai suvatrakijai.
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