Jayapataka Swami answers questions on faith, chanting, and spiritual progress. Reading Srila Prabhupada's books builds faith and aids distribution. Regular chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra gradually removes material desires and cultivates sincere service to Krishna.
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Salt. Today I'm feeling a bit sick, so.
Today I'm feeling a bit sick and
so maybe I'll just have a short class. Question and answer.
Maybe we'll have a short class with some question and answer and.
We don't have the eighth star.
Okay. Question and answer. Any question. Please send it to Srivat Saprabhu. Good. Manage. Maybe we're okay. Wait, Mike, come, come forward. If you don't mind, could you please come closer so we can hear you clearly? Thank. You. Yeah,
All right.
Yeah, yeah, we can hear. Prabhu, thank you so much for having us here. On. On behalf of ISKCON London, we would like to ask how can we distribute more books for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada? How can we have faith in distributing many more books?
By reading the books. I know you have faith in the books.
By reading the book, we'll have faith in those books.
How to pray for the empowerment?
You have to pray for the empowerment from Lord Chaitanya, Lord Nithyananda.
By their mercy everything can be possible.
So by their mercy anything can be possible. One more question, Matish. You wanted to ask. How can one be free from the desires which distract from pure devotion?
Say, the chanting of High Krishna gradually takes one away from this material desires.
So you see, the chanting of Hare Krishna gradually takes one away from the material desires.
Gives us the desire to serve Krishna.
Gives us the desire to serve Krishna.
So one hand is.
So one has to continue chanting.
I was giving out to BBC journalists.
What's that?
I was giving a tour.
I was giving a tour to a BBC journalist.
And I said something negative about sense gratification.
And I said something negative about sense gratification.
What's wrong with that? What's wrong with sense?
So the BBC BBC journalist said, what's wrong with that? What's wrong with sense gratification?
See what people in the material world, the idea of happiness and to gratify the senses.
You see, most people in this material world, their idea of happiness is to gratify their senses.
We want to gratify senses of Ka.
But the idea in Ka consciousness is that we want to gratify the senses of Krishna. By gratifying the senses of Krishna, we'll gradually get happiness.
It's a whole different scenario.
It's a whole different scenario.
And materialist, I can understand that.
And the materialists, they can't understand that.
The only thing I know, I think of the body and all these senses have the satisfied.
Only thing they know is that they are this they think that their material body and if the body senses are gratified, then they are happy.
But of course that lives one of passion. Letter some destruction.
So this brings one. Brings one to the mode of passion and it gives some gratification happiness in the beginning. But then later it leads to suffering destruction.
So. Our Bhakti yoga is to satisfy Krishna.
So understand is the Bhakti yoga process is to gratify Krishna
by doing that.
And by doing that we get happiness.
But that's eternal happiness.
But that's eternal happiness, spiritual happiness.
And so materialists don't understand. My daughters don't understand.
So materialists they don't understand the My word is they don't understand
understand.
Only the pure devotees understand. Last question. Okay. Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj, please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your divine grace. Will we have to to be reborn to go through all the stages of bhakti to gain Prema? Question from Jagannath Acharya Das.
Long it takes you to go through the stages of bhakti. Maintain.
What's that?
How long it takes to.
Okay. How long it takes you to go through the stages of bhakti? Depends,
you know, through all the stages very fast.
Maybe you can go through all the stages very fast.
I know. So it's not that it takes a long time.
It's not that it takes a long time.
It depends on how committed. How
so may it depends on how committed, how dedicated you are.
Very enthusiastically I can achieve palma very quickly.
Yvonne chants Hare Krishna very enthusiastically. They can achieve Baba very easily. Quickly. Sorry.
So a lot depends on our desire.
And that depends on our desire.
Like son of babies crying. But our mother understands. Not very serious.
So sometimes the baby might be crying, but the mother understands what was the last? It's not very serious.
What if the baby cries?
If the baby cries very loudly, The mother may drop everything and come and see the baby.
So intense desire for Krishna consciousness.
If we have intense desire for Krishna consciousness a long time, it doesn't take necessarily. It doesn't necessarily take a long time.
Someone would ask that you said that by rendering devotional service until all the
stages, so someone actually Prabhupada for rendering devotional service we have to gone through. We have to go through the other stages.
But I look back on my life, I say that I have nothing wrong.
But when I look back at my life, I have nothing but sinful activities.
So how do I get devotional service?
So how do I get devotional service
revive and made a good fortune.
And then Prabhupada replied, I made you a good fortune for you Hare Krishna. So Guru Mahj is blessing all of you. Krishna Maturastu also please support Guru Maharaj's physical book table Hare Krishna and virtual book table. Hari krishna. It.
