20251222 Evening Address in Śrī Māyāpur, India #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Evening address by His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaj (Dec 22, 2025, Śrī Māyāpur) describing Mayapur/Navadvip as spiritually potent (spiritual activities "multiplied by 1000"), emphasizing cleanliness and upkeep modeled after Srila Prabhupada, and recounting local anecdotes (markets, floods). He reports progress on the Temple of Vedic Planetarium (TOVP) and its west wing (Vedic Science Museum), outlines thematic floors (consciousness, evolution, spiritual world), and explains Navadvip as nine islands each tied to devotional practices. The talk contrasts consciousness (including a critique of AI as lacking consciousness) with material/biological views, sketches spiritual-world topics (rasas, Goloka), and ends with questions from devotees.
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December 22, 2025 in Śrī Māyāpur (Sridhar Mayapur), India.
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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 an evening address given by his Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj on December 22, 2025 in Sridhar Mayapur, India.
That's it. Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. You also have devotees from Switzerland and Spain. Oh, yeah.
So what should I speak tonight?
So what should I speak tonight?
It's a harvest. This is the Holy Dharma.
So this is the holy Dharma of Navadvip.
And here every spiritual activity is multiplied by 1000 times.
So here every spiritual activity is multiplied by 1000 times.
Lying down same as offering your pranam.
Even lying down is same as offering your pranams.
So someone said to Prabhupada, then, can't we just sleep all day?
Can someone say to Prabhupada then can't we just sleep the whole day? Can't we do anymore?
It's hot, you know. Prabhu was training us that Mayapur should they neat and clean.
So Prabhupada was training us to keep mayapur neat and clean.
All around. And. And say, what is this?
So when Prabhupada was walking around, if he sees any paper or any dirt, he would call us and ask, what's this?
So Prabhupada was. He was very what to say? He was trying to train us to keep everything neat and clean.
So Prabhupada was trying to train us to keep everything neat and clean.
We always shall have the temples. And we don't keep it well maintained.
When we go to some other temples, they don't keep it well maintained. Not non iskcon temples.
And Sadhguru would. He wanted us to take our care.
So Prabhupada, he wanted us to take care of all care.
And there was some water thing as a by the roadside water.
Oh, he was. When he saw some water by the roadside internal road. Our internal road. Then he sent Horace and he said, who's responsible?
So they all pointed at me.
All pointed at me.
He's responsible for everything.
He's responsible for everything.
Of course, the person who's in charge of plumbing.
So who's the specific person in charge of plumbing?
So he was saying that I should see everyone as a service.
So he was saying that I should see everyone does their service, but every.
Service should be assigned to someone.
But every service should be assigned to Someone.
Like this, he was dripping any.
Little thing like this, Water dripping, any little thing.
He was very conscious of this.
He was very conscious of this.
When he walked through, he walked out the back, he saw a little triangle of land and there's nothing going there.
So when he walked off the back, he saw what grain of land.
Triangle of land.
Oh, triangle of land.
So I said, every piece of land should be cultivated.
He said, every piece of land should be cultivated.
Flowers, vegetables, something should be grown.
Flowers, vegetables, something should be grown.
Everything was an instruction.
So everything like this, everything was an instruction.
Someone walking on the back, one road.
So someone would be walking on the back what road?
Bung road.
Bung road.
I can't see Jalanghi river water from entering Mayapur.
So that keeps the Jalangi river water from entering Mayapur.
Now, one visitor, he came with a basket of vegetables on his head.
So one visitor, he came with a basket of vegetable on his head. And Prabhupada stopped him.
He said, spend the whole day. And another didn't matter. I'll buy your whole basket, how much you want.
So he said, you spend your whole day in the nav market selling your vegetables. I'll buy your whole basket. How much do you want?
That's all I got. And I.
Like that. He was trying to bargain with that guy, trying to cut the price down.
And then he told one devotee to accompany him to the kitchen.
And then he told one devotee to accompany him to the kitchen. He would give the vegetables and he would get the money.
You can do some work in your house.
Prabhupada told him, you can do some work in your house.
Why waste your whole day sitting in the market?
Why would you waste your whole day sitting in the market?
Like this Prabhupada was very spontaneous.
Like this Prabhupada was very spontaneous.
And other day he was teaching us different things.
So every day he was teaching us different things. So.
He said how? He said, build the temple of the.
So he told us how to build the temple of Vedic planetarium.
He said, it's higher than any other temple.
He said that it should be higher than any other temples.
So honors rule. I took it out by the service.
So Ambarish Prabhu took it up as a service. And he started and he started it.
And now devotees around the world are.
Donating and now the devotees around the world are donating.
And we're almost finished.
And it's almost finished, Haribo.
But the west wing is the science writer. Science.
But the west wing is the Vedic Science Museum.
And so that we have run consultant for that.
We have one consultant, he was very.
Expensive and he didn't spend the time to understand the topics.
And he didn't spend time to understand the topics.
So now we have the new.
Consultant.
Consultant.
So now we have the new consultant.
As his own India and as a whole group. So they have understood the topic very well.
So he's from India and he has a whole group and they have understood the topic very well.
So we're working on that.
So we are working on that.
And so yesterday was. We normally meet on Sundays, but there was no agenda and I'm meeting on some schedule. The first, second, third, fourth one.
So yesterday we had a meeting. We were meeting, it didn't have any special agenda. We were discussing about the first.
Third floor. First floor is consciousness.
First floor is consciousness.
Second floor is the evolution.
Second floor is the evolution.
So you're trying to revoke Darwin's theory.
So we are trying to defeat the Dravin theory.
Of the body, that we're a spirit soul.
And we are trying to establish we are not the body, we are the spirit soul.
As the whole universe is consciousness based.
And the whole universe is consciousness based.
AI is a buzzword.
AI is what?
A buzzword in password.
Buzz, buzz, buzzword, buzzword.
But machines don't have consciousness.
But machine don't have consciousness.
They grow out.
They know numbers, therefore they know numbers.
So here are all conscious things.
So you all are conscious beings.
And Krishna is the supreme conscious being.
And Krishna is the supreme conscious being.
And you are eternal. And Krishna is the.
You are the eternal. And Krishna is the supreme eternal.
So.
There'S a big difference so there's a big difference between you and Krishna.
And you and level of saints, between.
You and Krishna, between you and the machines.
You have consciousness, you are, you know. So that all first floor dedicated to the ideal consciousness.
So you have consciousness. Therefore the whole first floor is dedicated to the idea of consciousness. Very important, Very important.
Scientists have met one of the outside science and religion. What do they call it?
I don't know, the remnants.
It was.
Symposium, okay, There was some symposium.
So all the guest figures was on. Well, prize laureate and.
One of the speakers was a Nobel prize laureate from in physics.
And he said 20 years ago I do sitting with religionists, I say you're crazy.
So if 20 years ago, if you'd have told me, I would have said religion is crazy.
But now consciousness, we don't know what it is, where it begins, where it ends.
So now we don't know consciousness. What is it, where it begins, where it ends.
So maybe the religion must know consciousness.
Maybe the religion is consciousness.
So I'm here.
So I'm here.
So this is the consciousness is a major thing.
So this consciousness is a major thing.
And like that we're developing the subject.
So like that we are developing the subject of consciousness.
Who's there?
Who's there? There are many devotees. Yeah. Oh, this is Janaki Ramachandra. Yes, yes.
He's hiding with his hat.
Yeah, he's hiding in his cap. But he looks blissed out though.
So the fourth floor is a spiritual world.
The fourth floor is the spiritual world.
So we know a lot about Krishna, all the towers, pastimes.
So we know a lot so we know a lot about Krishna, his avatars, his pastimes on the earth and the universe, and in this universe.
But we don't know that much about spiritual world.
But we don't know that much about the spiritual world.
We know that in the spiritual world there are no demons.
We know that in the spiritual world there are no demons.
They don't have an entry past.
Oh, they don't have an entry past. They don't have an entry pass to enter the spirit world. Jai Vijay. The doorkeepers will keep them out.
So anyway. Hello, dog.
So we are trying to explain Maheshtham, Haridham and Golokdam. Do you all know anything about Mahesh Dam? No, Guru Maharaj.
Trying to find what? Prabhupada said very little about Mahesham. But he told us that in the west language.
Prabhupada didn't say many things about Maheshitam, but he told us in the west wing we should show the Maheshitam. So.
So we're researching and we will be sharing whatever we get.
So we'll be researching and we'll show whatever we get.
So it's very interesting. This is the war I loved.
It's very interesting. Before I left my book reading, before I left Mayapur, I was reading from Chaitanya Shikshamrita. And.
So he described rasas. Krishna is enjoying rasas.
So he describes Rasa. Krishna is enjoying rasas.
And salt. I understand that in the fourth floor to make the whole thing understandable.
So in the fourth floor, in order to make things understandable, we should. We should discuss the races.
Hurry down.
In Haridham they don't have RASAs.
Two and a half.
Two and a half races. In Haridham they have two and a half races.
Very much conscious. The Lord is all Horrible. All, everything.
So they're very much conscious that the Lord is all powerful. He knows everything.
And. They don't. Either they don't know or they don't think it's very important. So no, when you go to go.
Look them, either they don't know or they don't think it's very important to know.
Love is not what he is.
They love Krishna for what he is.
His beauty, his knowledge, his humor.
His beauty, his knowledge, his humor, his dance. Everything stop.
Like that. We're trying to. Some people say, well, they went skip through.
So some people are saying they should. We should skip through minimally Dwaraka and Mathura or concentrate in Vrindavan and concentrate more in Vrindavan.
So you all see the eventually. So you'll see the final product.
So eventually you all will see the final product.
Oh, I thought I would tell you.
So I thought I'll tell you all this.
I think twice a day they have tours.
Twice a day. Oh, twice a day they have the tour of the tovp.
Are you all.
So you all are visiting. Visiting Mayapur? Have you all seen the tovp? Temple of Vedic Plan. How many of you have seen the tovp? How many of you have gone for the TOVP tour? Who has not gone? Oh, this whole site of devotees, they.
Didn'T go this how Broken hands. You're not ready to hand or anything?
Some. Yeah, maybe they're not getting it.
Guru Maharaj. Oh, you're here. See the tldt.
How many of you have seen the tovp?
Oh, there it is. While you're here, if you are haven't seen it, please see it.
While you are here, if you have not seen it, please see it.
When I first came, all that was in Mayapur was the grass hut.
When I first came, all that was in Mayapur was the grass hut.
So Prabhupada said, keep the grass hot. This is where it all started. This was all there was.
So Prabhupada said, keep the grass hut. This where. This is where all started.
So I started there. And then sometimes there was floods.
So we started there. Sometimes there were floods.
Floods how? We were distributing prasadam.
During the floods, we were distributing prasadam.
We went on boats. So I asked, put my hand on a tree, narrow tree.
What tree?
Narrow, narrow, narrow tree.
So when I was going on the boat, I accidentally put my hand on a narrow tree.
But because the tree was above the water, all the ants are lying on the tree.
So because the tree was above the water, all the ants climbed up the tree. Ah, All kinds of ants on my hand.
So sometimes in some things there's water hydrolyzed or and some things were floating on the water and one snake came up on the water.
Sometimes things were floating on the water and one time a snake came up on the water. What's that water? A boat.
A wooden board. Wooden boat or something.
A banana tree or something. We remember he was showing his fang.
Out so we had to deal with that.
So we had to deal with that.
Oh, we haven't had a flood for a long night.
So we haven't had flood for a long time.
Here's every six years of solid hell.
But previously every six years or so we would have. But now I don't know. For a long time we haven't had.
Anyway, how the dam is known as the.
Anyway, Nowadib dam is known as the Aoudarya dam.
That means land of dharma Mercy.
That means the Dharma of mercy.
Nine islands. Nine islands.
There are nine islands.
Each island is tended to one of the nine processes of devotional service.
Each island is connected to one of the nine process of devotional service.
Bhakti Yoga.
Bhakti Yoga. And enter Drip. You all got it? Know it.
So central island of Lord Chaitanya.
The central island, the birthplace of Lord Chaitanya is Antard.
And Panchata deities are in Anterweep.
So the Panchata deities are in Antartvip and the. Androidities Radha Madhava, Mayapur, Chandra they are in Rudyati.
On the border.
Lord Nishima is on the border. I don't know which.
So in the ancient landmass has Rudrapara.
In the ancient land maps they have Rudrapara.
Means Rudrap.
So Prabhupada said Rudrapara means Rudra DV.
And so Bharali.
So Balal Digi is so anyway.
He said at the high non song guitar he saw them dancing and then turning into a.
So now the Bhavataranga Bhakti Vinod Thakur says he saw the Harinam party dancing and chanting turned into a Raslila party. Raslila dance.
So all of you must have many times engaged in junkyard.
So all of you must have many times engaged in Sankirtan.
This is a special Leela.
So this is a very special Leela of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Okay, any questions?
Any questions?
One woman.
We have many information about Golok Vrindavan and Krishna's pastime but but not many information about Goranga's Abode in Krishna Loka. Could you tell us about it? Could you please tell us about it?
We have all of us.
So in the spiritual world we have Vrindavan, Mathura and Dwaraka. We also have the Shweta, Dwip. And Lord Chaitanya is in Svetedvip.
One pastime Lord Chaitanya seated and all the holies on one side. And the queens of Dharma on the other side.
So there's one pastime Lord Chaitanya that he exhibited. The Gopis were on one side and the queens were on the other side.
They were all bathing. Lord Chaitanya.
They all were bathing.
Lord Caitanya then came and dealt the situation in the universe of the four headed Brahma.
And Narad Muni came and told him the situation in the universe of four headed Brahma.
Did you hear that?
Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Please respond. Did you hear that?
Every universe has a Brahma.
So you see, every universe has a Brahma.
Our universe has a four headed Brahma.
Our universe has a four headed Brahma.
And it's the smallest universe.
This is the smallest universe. Teeny mini.
I don't know. So you can't imagine how big some of the universes are.
So you can imagine how big some of the universes are.
Like that situation here. Descent.
So like this. Narat Muni told the situation here. And Lord Chaitanya and Goloka he said, I will descend.
And he asked for volunteers.
So he. And then he asked for volunteers.
Some of the associates.
So some of the associates volunteered to come.
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