A recorded address by His Holiness Jayapataka Swami to the Soro (Odisha) congregation delivered on December 26, 2025 in Śrī Māyāpur. The talk emphasizes Mayapur’s spiritual mercy (activities yielding multiplied credit), enumerates local holy sites (e.g., Radhakunda, Shamakunda, Jagannath Dham, Narsingapalli, Pushkara), explains basic Gaudiya-Vaishnava theology (eternal soul, material body as machine, modes of nature, distorted reflection of the spiritual world), and outlines devotional practice (nine islands of Navadvip linked to nine bhakti practices). The speaker also reviews local development: the TOVP (Temple of the Vedic Planetarium) is nearly finished and “hoped to open in two years,” Mayapur currently hosts about 7,500 devotees with a long-term aim of 50,000, and Srila Prabhupada’s vision (including a 10-million-guru remark in April 1975) is cited as a preaching goal. The recording includes a short Q&A on theological questions and preaching strategy.
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The following is an address to the Sorrow Odisha congregation by His Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj on December 26, 2025 in Sridhar Mayapur.
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Welcome to mayapur. It's a mercy.
And here every activity you do a thousand times.
Here every activity you do, you get thousand times credit. In Vrindavan also same thing. In Vrindavan you also get thousand times for every offense. But here is not the same. So Lord Chaitanya is very merciful. But we should try to avoid offenses.
So here are the holy places.
Here all the holy places have appeared. There is narsingapalli, pushkara, tita, Panchaw.
Panchavani.
And.
So there is Radhakunda Shamakunda.
So whatever holy places, they are all existing here. So.
Here also.
Here also we have Jagannath Dham.
Sometime Lord Jagannath actually came here several times.
Lord Jagannath actually came here.
So in that place.
So in that place we have the Jagannath deity.
So they came from the area.
To.
Declare that this is actually the place where Lord Jagannath has come some thousands of years before.
So they actually came from the Odia government to declare this is actually the place where Lord Jagannath came thousands of years before.
And so here I hope that you have a nice time seeing any of the holy places.
So here I hope that you'll have a very nice time seeing the holy places here.
All the devotees who live here, so.
All the devotees who live here, they are very fortunate.
Because this is a very special place.
Because this is a very special place. Lakshmi Priya and Vishnu Priya, they are Shri Shakti and Bhu Shakti respectively.
While this dham is also neela shakti.
This dham is also neela shakti.
So Dharm is standard by the Lord's internal potency.
The Dhaam is expanded by the Lord's internal potency.
Being here one can experience a special Rasa.
And being here one can experience a special Rasa.
We are along the 8 million 400 stages of life.
So before becoming a human being, we have gone through. We. Okay. We have gone through 8 million species of life.
And there are 400,000 species of human beings.
And there are 400,000 Species of human being. Lord Chaitanya came to deliver the fallen human beings.
He known as the Most Merciful or Potential.
Therefore he is known as the Most Merciful. You see, we are the spirit soul.
These bodies are machines.
These bodies are machines made of material energy.
Body grows, all grows up. Wine grows up, Stays his undying roses, undine products, all dies.
So the body takes birth, grows old, stays for some time, produces some byproduct and dies. So the spirit soul doesn't die.
So Allah and Karma. Krishna has superior energy.
So Atma is a part of Krishna's superior energy. So the Atma never dies.
If we desire material things, we take again material.
If we desire material things, we take again material growth. If you're in the mode of goodness, you'll go to higher planets. So if you are in the mode of passion, you'll stay here in the middle planets. If you're in the mode of ignorance, you go down. So if you think of Krishna, you serve him, you go to the transcendental planet.
Krishna consciousness is.
So that's what the all purpose of Ka Consciousness is.
So we're trying to engage ourselves in devotional source all the time.
So we are trying to engage ourselves in devotional service all the time. This is known as Krishna consciousness. So this Navadip Dham has nine islands.
Connected to one of the nine practices of devotional service.
And each island is connected to one of the processes of nine processes of devotional service. Sharing, chanting, remembering.
Sorrows and.
Offering service, offering prayers, offering obeisances and performing deity worship.
Reign of servant of the Lord. Reign of, Reign of the Lord.
Okay, being a servant of the Lord, being the friend of the Lord and surrendering everything.
Nine islands in all of that I learned that there is nine. Right?
So the Nile islands in Navadep are connected to these nine practices of Bhakti Yoga.
Translation.
So not many people know this nine islands. So we were very happy to have all the devotees here serve all the devotees here. So Lord Chaitanya's birthplace is about one kilometer down the line. Down the road. Said Iskcon is the Karmastan or the workplace of Lord Chaitanya. So we are here. We are trying to do the preaching work of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. While you are here, you should see the TOVP temple of Vedic Planetarium. We hope to open that in two years. It's almost finished. You can see by the main gate there's a grass hut.
And at one point that's all there was.
And at one point that's all it was. From that it became what you see today.
This is only like 1/4 of the whole city.
This is Only like one fourth of the whole city. So every week we meet with the master plan committee. And we discuss the master plan of Mayapur. So we now we have around 7,500 devotees. But we want to have 50,000 in the future. So.
Are there any questions?
So are there any questions? Hare krishna, jai guru. Hot, hot. In the beginning we see that when we take a devotional service we advance very nicely. But eventually we notice that we decline gradually. Why is that? It's a Bengali question.
How many person is making offenses?
So maybe some person is making offenses. So the advancement is slowing down. Okay, the next question. Okay. Hare Krishna. No, no, no, no. He's not hiding it. Question. We say that the material world is the perverted reflection of the spiritual world. Everything that exists in the material world is also there in the spiritual world. So animals here survive on other animals. If same is the scenario in the spiritual world. How do we say that there is no death in the spiritual world?
Not that the spiritual world is copy of the material world.
It's not that the spiritual world is the copy of the material world.
Material world has distorted reflection of the spiritual world.
The material world is a distorted reflection of the spiritual world.
So here we have birth death on the spiritual world or not.
So here we have birth death and in the spiritual world it's. We don't have that.
So this is distorted reflection. That means some things here don't exist.
So this is a distorted reflection. That means some of the things which exist here, they don't exist in the spiritual world.
All kinds of things don't exist in the spiritual world.
Like here we have demons or different things that don't exist in the spiritual world.
In the material world, distorted love has lust.
In the spiritual world we have love. In the material world we have the distorted reflection of that love which is lust. Last question. Lord Chaitanya towards South India and spread the mercy there. But many don't know about him until they come to iskcon. Why is he not known widely.
As for us, our work has to be and our work is tested to be amplified.
That's for us. Our work is to amplify it. It's glorious.
Other diligence. All in there where they were chanting.
There is a village in South India where they were chanting the names of Lord Chaitanya. They didn't know what it meant.
Why they were.
They were telling that, but they didn't know.
So lord Chaitanya came 500 years ago. And he definitely had a great impact.
So lord Chaitanya came 500 years ago and he definitely had a great impact. At that time at that time.
Who's the Chief Minister? Even 10 years ago but who's the.
Chief Minister Even 10 years ago we'll forget. Ten years ago it was aidmk aidmk DMK or what?
500 years.
So maybe after 500 years maybe people would have forgotten. So we have to remind them.
And how. Stand of reaching unknowingly and realize Lord.
Chaitanya's religion so Srila Prabhupada wanted to expand the preaching unlimitedly and to realize Lord chaitanya's prediction.
In april 1975 he was talking about having 10 million gurus.
Even in mayapur in april 1975 he was Talking about having 10 million gurus. So we should rejoin as a student but eventually we should become a teacher. So.
Not many are taking this responsibility.
So not many are taking this responsibility.
We have to do it selflessly to please Bhuvana Krishna we have to do.
It selflessly to please Guru and Krishna. Thank you all.
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