In this recorded class, His Holiness Jayapataka Swami addresses about 150 devotees from Pune who have gathered in Mayapur. He opens by welcoming them and emphasizing that every act—whether chanting, resting, walking, or ordinary work—carries a thousand‑fold spiritual benefit when performed as service to Krishna. He explains that offering even a small portion of one’s labor to Krishna is as effective as a sannyasi’s full dedication, and that remembering Krishna in all activities purifies the practitioner and leads toward transcendental bliss. Swami contrasts the limited, pleasure‑and‑pain‑filled material world with the limitless, blissful spiritual realm, urging devotees to seek that higher happiness. A devotee asks how to stay determined in bhakti amid maya; Swami replies that determination across many births can yield Krishna consciousness in a single life, but true steadiness comes from surrender to Krishna’s mercy, not personal strength. He shares his own health struggles, recounting how he continues service despite illness, recalling Srila Prabhupada’s counsel to rest and balance work, and describing the body as a material machine distinct from the soul. Swami then invites participants to assist him in spreading Krishna consciousness worldwide via the internet, concluding with blessings and gratitude.
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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 a class given to the Pune devotees by His Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj on January 28, 2026 in Sri Ramayapur India.
Hari oh so today I suppose I have the chapter.
Today we were supposed to have the.
New chapter But I heard 150 devotees have come from Pune.
But I've heard that about 150 devotees have come from Pune.
So I'd like to.
So I would like to welcome them Swagatam to Navadvp Mayapur Dham.
And here the Dharma is created by Radharani.
So here the Dhamma is created by Shrimati Radharani. And.
Krishna came and.
So Krishna said. Krishna came and said oh you have created such a beautiful Dham for me.
So this Dhaam Vrindavan doesn't burn down.
So may this Dharm be non different from Vrindavan.
That means that every devotee, every activity and devotional service, even ordinary activities, I get a thousand times the benefit.
That means for every devotee, every activities, every devotional service, every ordinary activity, you get a thousand times benefit.
Even I laying down, it's thail rush right now in the temple.
Even lying down and taking rest is like offering to nams in the temple.
Every step walked in the down.
Every step, every step walked in. The Dharma is more than a Ashwameda Yagya actually chant.
Hare Krishna so all the way, all the time.
So even chanting Goranga Nithyananda Hare Krishna is multiplied by a thousand times and.
Within 10 miles of the Ganses. And again a credit bonus.
So even a few more miles within the radius of the Ganges you'll get further credits.
So I get a lot of credit. I hold on you all on how nice experience in the holy mountain.
So like this you get lots of credit and we hope that you'll have a nice experience.
This holy Dham Some people are not illidam regularly.
Some people are not able to come to the holy Dham regularly.
But a song Hal I remember Krishna and holiday.
So somehow by remembering Krishna and the holy Dham they get some benefit.
Krishna has so much benefit.
I was reading in the Haribhakti villas how by remembering Krishna and Narayana has so much benefit.
Salt, whatever you drink, water Krishna Hare.
Krishna so whatever do whatever you are doing, wherever you're living, always remember Krishna and chant Hare Krishna.
So I want you all to realize purified representatives of the Guru Maharaj.
So we want all of you to be purified and become the representatives of the Guru Parampara.
So that sent me by hearing from you, by saying.
By hearing, simply by hearing you, hearing from you, seeing you, they'll become purified.
And that's why we want see the whole world holding the God conscious.
So in this way we want to see the whole world being God conscious.
And so this was the purpose of the international society.
So this is the purpose of the international society for Krishna consciousness to make.
The whole world Krishna consciousness to make.
The whole world ka conscious.
I mean most people don't think about Krishna.
I mean amongst people they don't think.
About Krishna but our raiders halal instead. A program that he constantly, at least sometimes hard times, whatever in a day, remember?
So various religious leaders have instituted at least few times in a day, five times that you can remember what was the last part? Guruj remember Krishna salt.
Doing your work, when you're doing your studies, when you're doing your activities, all these things that you're doing this for Krishna.
So when you're doing your work, when you're studying, when you're doing activities, always remember that you are doing this for Krishna.
This is right channel think about Krishna in this way.
By chanting Hare Krishna and thinking about.
Krishna, you get purified.
You get purified.
That higher taste, you get a higher taste. So. Everyone else lost some work, right?
Every one of us does some work, right?
So if we think that this work. I think you like Krishna.
If you think that this work is actually given by Krishna. And we offer, if you offer the fruits of our labor some percentage to Krishna. A sannyasi is supposed to offer everything. Grahasta. He offers 50%.
Then that's as good as a sannyasi.
Then that is as good as a sannyasi.
10% or something at least you always think about Krishna.
Even if you're offering 10% of something, at least you're always thinking about Krishna.
So in the material world we want to satisfy our senses.
In this material world we want to satisfy our senses when it serves the world.
Ka senses.
So we are discussing about the spiritual world. In the spiritual world we want to satisfy Krishna's senses.
That is actually the meaning of love.
That is actually the meaning of love.
Hope has the. The love in the spiritual world is constant.
Actually the love in the spiritual world is constant.
And everybody feels transcendental bliss.
And everybody feels transcendental bliss.
Saying of Bengali Anand Kono nai.
There's a saying in Bengali, Anander Kono simanai.
Now at limit to the bliss, to the ananda, to the astrazene, no limit.
To the ananda, to the bliss of Ka consciousness.
So in the material world there's a limit.
So in this material world there is a limit.
Brave moment of pleasure.
You have a brief moment, a brief moment of pleasure and then some.
Normal situation.
And some normal situation. Sometimes suffering and sometimes suffering.
So like this, heaviness and distress is some kind of.
So like this there is happiness and distress. Some kind of a. Some kind of an equal, equal situation.
More happiness, hellish planets and more distress.
So in heavenly planets there's more happiness. In hellish planets there's more distress.
In this whole material world there's hellness and distress.
But in the whole material world there is happiness and distress.
In the spiritual world, only transcendental happiness.
But in the spiritual world there is only transcendental happiness.
So we want to transfer you all to the spiritual world.
So we want to transfer you all to the spiritual world.
And by practicing Krishna consciousness in this world you can transfer to the spiritual world.
And by practicing Ka consciousness in this world you can transfer yourself to the spiritual world.
Singha Mantra, Rama Mantra.
So I was reading different mantras, glories, Narayana Mantra, Nishinga Mantra, Ram Mantra.
So by chanting these mantras, by remembering lords, we believe there's one Lord but he has many forms.
So by believing in these lords we believe in. There's one Lord but he has different forms. So one may go to Haridham but.
In the chant chant Krishna Mantra then you go to Krishna.
But if you chant the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra or if you chant the Krishna Mantra then you go to the Golokdam.
So.
So we can go where we want. So we should book our tickets.
So we had a ticket. So you kind of.
If you book a ticket to Calcutta, you can go to Calcutta.
Book a ticket to London.
If you book a ticket to London then you go to London.
High down you're there.
So if you book a ticket to Haydam then you go there. Vaikunta. So if you want to go to Krishna then you have to book a ticket to go there.
Somewhere else.
If you pay less then you'll end up somewhere else. So we welcome you all to my Purnava Diptam.
Ah hear the Lord, he combined with Radharan, Krishna combined with Radha.
So here the Lord combined with Sri Radha and produced the form of Goranga.
So Allah accepted the form of a devotee.
So The Lord accepted the form of a devotee.
And he wanted to experience what the devotees were really so.
And he wanted to experience what the devotees were feeling.
So I went into extreme esocri.
And so you went into extreme ecstasy. The devotees felt so much bliss.
So he was experiencing that firsthand.
So he was experiencing that by chanting firsthand. Oh, sorry, Sorry. Please forgive me. He was experiencing that firsthand.
So how he wants, although he's very merciful, he wants to see everyone share this transcendental bliss.
So although he's very merciful, he wants to see everybody to share this transcendental bliss.
How many here want to experience transcendental bliss?
So how many here wants to experience that transcendental happiness Bliss?
Thank you very much.
So. Thank you very much.
Are there any other questions?
Are there any questions? Can take one or two questions. Sri Ray Kishore. If they have any question, please send it to me.
He didn't write you need a mic. Write your question down.
Send it to me. So Gurmaj, there's a question from the devotees, Pune devotees. How to be determined and consistent in bhakti in the midst of Maya and so many distractions.
Good question.
Good question.
It's not easy, you see.
It's not easy.
Normally you take many, many births.
Normally we take many, many births.
But if you're determined, but if you're determined, if you're fixed, then you can achieve Krishna in one birth.
Then you can achieve Krishna even in one birth.
So we have no. Maybe one's worried about their forefathers.
So there are many. So maybe there are many considerations. One is worried about their forefather's parents.
You go back to Krishna 14 generations. Some before, some out. I got the writer.
So if you go back to Krishna, maybe 70 gurumaj, seven generations. Seven generations. Before and after they go back to Krishna, they get liberated.
I share the benefits.
So if you're indebted to your grandparents, parents, etc. They'll get a share of your benefit.
This is Rajesh of Bhakti Yoga. Yoga practice.
This practice of Bhakti Yoga is a yoga practice.
We have to redetermine.
We have to be determined.
May the Lord by heaven. What we may be allured.
We may be allured by happiness or sense gratification. Sorry.
Or we may be given suffering.
Or we may given suffering.
No matter what happens, are we determined.
No matter what happens, are we determined to serve Krishna?
That's kind of test.
That's kind of test. That may be given.
Solomon came to Krishna consciousness and then father died. And God brings an inheritance.
So someone came to Ka consciousness. His father died and he got a big inheritance and thought I came into.
Garden as I was suffering sir, now I got money.
Wow. So he thought I came into Ka consciousness. I was suffering, now I got money.
Wow. Let me enjoy.
Let me enjoy.
He loved his practice.
So he loved his Ka consciousness practices.
And he tried to enjoy.
And he tried to enjoy.
As soon as money was all spent.
Soon the money was all spent and.
Then it died to zero.
Then he went back to zero. They came back to Ka Consciousness.
So like this, some people are learned by game. Some people are you're lost.
So like this, some people are allowed by gains and some people what was the last part? Pretty much given a lost.
So like that knowing that this happens.
So by knowing that this happens then is it returned?
We should be determined.
We should be determined that.
On our own we can't. We are not strong enough.
By our own we are not strong enough.
But by the mercy of Krishna and by engaging our senses, Krishna service, by.
Mercy of Krishna, by engaging our senses.
In Krishna's service, then we can overcome all these tests.
Then we can overcome all these tests.
So that's why the outside of the people, the intelligent people.
So I'd say this is for the committed people, the challengers, intelligent people. Oh sorry. The intelligent peoples.
That we can know that this material world has its allurements and suffering.
So we can know that the material world has its allurements and suffering.
So we want to taste a spiritual bliss.
So we want to taste the spiritual bliss. How do you manage to cope with the difficulties in your life especially the health crisis that you are going through? And how do I also inculcate the same? Somehow Krishna is making me as an.
Example that I face all world health problems.
That I faced multiple health problems.
But I'll try to do my service.
But I'll try to do my devotional service.
I'm getting tremendous reciprocation and bliss from Krishna.
And I'm getting tremendous reciprocation and bliss from Krishna.
Although materially my activities, my body. How maybe challenge.
Maybe materially my body may be challenged.
Ultimately I know I'm not the body.
But ultimately I know I'm not the body.
And body is a machine of the material energy.
The body is a machine in the material energy.
So I have a group, doctors and experts try to keep my body as healthy as possible.
So I have a group of doctors and experts who are trying to keep my body as healthy as possible.
And within that I raise Other goals.
Within that I have various other goals. Giving many instructions, his divine grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada gave me many instructions.
He gave ISKCON many instructions.
What's that?
He gave iskcon.
He gave ISKCON many instructions.
So I am trying to fulfill those.
So I am trying to fulfill those.
As far as possible.
As far as possible.
I getting a lot of transcendental bliss.
And I'm getting a lot of transcendental bliss.
From that. From that on that I was reading, I was hearing Prabhupada one time I.
Was reading hearing Srila Prabhupada lecture on natural devotion. A lecture on nectar of devotion.
In Vrindavan.
In Vrindavan.
At the same time. At the same time I was suffering high fever.
I was suffering high fever.
But when I hear in the class grace.
So when I was hearing the class by his divine grace, I was feeling transcendental bliss.
At the same time, physically I was sorrowing.
At the same time physically I was suffering.
So same as two situations I realized I'm not the body.
So by seeing these two situations I could realize I'm not the body.
So now Prabhupada, he wrote me a letter once. He told me that you are working too hard and therefore you're getting sick.
So Prabhupada wrote me a letter. He said you are working too hard and therefore you are getting sick.
Take enough rest.
Take enough rest.
Stand Myapore as much as possible.
Expand Mypur as much as possible. I work for your assistance and work through your assistance.
Now in the 21st century, my assistance can be all over the world by the Internet.
So now in the 21st century, my assistants can be all over the world through Internet.
Who here would like to do my assistant?
Who here would like to be my assistant?
I need help.
I need help.
So this is my transcendental engagement.
So this is my transcendental engagement.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much. Welcome again to Mayapur. Please take my blessings.
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