#JayapatakaSwamiArchives 20091119 || Question & Answer Session || Chennai, India

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First question from New York. Madhumati from New York. How do we know when we are over? Endeavoring to achieve some service, but seems very difficult to achieve. It is Krishna's sign to give up. Give it up or a challenge to preserve.

Is a film maker as she makes film. And she is today in Los Angeles. Now she shifted to New York City. As if what you're doing is something that Guru orders you to do, then we do it, even if it's difficult. Like Maharaj Puri, he went all the way to Orissa in order to get some sen of deity that you could say the Osama of 1500 or 2000 kilometer journey. One way, two ways, almost 4000 kilometers. That was over another. But because he was ordered by the deity to do it, he didn't think twice. He didn't. When he got to Elmona, the Goltena Al Dini the Goltal Adini came to the dream and told him that if you abide this sinua to go to since you are nondiscriminant. I'll also get cool down. So he just stayed in Luna and his samadhi is there. How many of you have seen the samadhi? A lot of the Tori and Ramuna. Ramuna is in the water of Bengal in Arisha. So anyway, I'll show you how. If you haven't seen famous for having kir K you like Kirk and he can get Kiritra. The deviant is known as Kirchho Rolidag because he stole all he cares. If we don't know if what we're doing is over and done, we can always ask our Guru if he's present. Or you can ask our Sikhs Guru if the guru is not a little listen on solution. It's also if it's distress on the tail dovis and then he has overdeveloped. If these were like descendants of Sara Maharaj they wanted to deliver their forefathers from their burnt to ashes by the plants of Godila Muni. So this was Sunday horrible. So every descendant trying to do what he could. So they were told that as a young man came down then she would wash the ashes of the sons of Sara and they would be delivered finally Bhagnaharans. He was successful in bringing down the Ganges. But we could say it was a great endeavor. He had to Cut a river rip ahead of the Ganges. And there was a very big test. So he had a a special chariot which would cut the river bend. So then when he reached the mayor tor the Ganges had flooded the ashram of Jan Muni. Sadjana Muni unlike the Ganges. Where'd she go? How can a river disappear? So he was looking at. And then somehow he found out that John Mooney had a drunken Ganges. So then he went and he held the feet of John Muni and he begged him to please allow again teasing her up. He said, I'm sorry, I digested her. Someone is so powerful they can drink our river. You can also reproduce it. So out of his knee can the Ganges. That's one of the Gandhi demons like that? It depends. What is this like Prabhupada, give us the cast to build temple of Vedic Avatarian. In my book, the temple of Vedic Voluntarium is a very difficult task. You can say that this over in Denmark, but because it was given by Srila Prabhupada, we want to do it. And we're very thankful that Amarish Balu he's willing to build instruction. He has to collect to do the finishing workman. He's dead him many millions of dollars to build the structure of the temple of Levi Ataya. So right now all the trees are cut down in life in the central area where they're building the temple. And they got oration from the necessary authorities to do the needles. So whether or not what you are doing is all or another, I would need to know like what is the benefit of the benefit of doing it? If the benefit is high enough, then it's useful to invest some time and evenly. Maybe we shouldn't give so much energy.

The next question is from Joseph from Croatia. How to balance humility with pride when we are working for Krishna. Joseph from Croatia.

Thank you, Joseph. I like your tune. In all life of Croatia, how many are on Internet today? 124. 120,000. You can any of you coming from a distant countries, you can send in your name, your blessings and I'll give you a blessing at the end. Because we only know the number. We don't know where you're logged in from. From Shamdes.

There are 28 devotees watching. 28 families.

Is a code name to one of the countries in the Middle East. Now the question how to balance pride with humility? We should be proud of Ka. Proud or devotee of Ka in one sense. At the other sense we should think that I not really are a devotee and child. We are devotee. I am trying to be a devotee. But I am not yet fully qualified as a devotee. So therefore, if he do something right, if he do anything and he will praise us. Oh, you have done something nice. Did you think it's by the mercy of Guru, mercy of Krishna that he could do something that not fiercely rise? So you Taesan praise to Krishna Guru and we stay humble. We don't take the praise for ourselves.

The next question from Internet is from Sri Mayapur Dham. As devotees, we are not supposed to aspire to go to the spiritual world. We simply aspire to love Krishna wherever we are. Yet the Tula Crt prayers is all about going to the spiritual world. What should be our mood?

I mentioned last night one time I asked Prabhupada for the blessing. I want to serve you life after life. Then he replied to me, why do you want to make me come back? Srimat says no, I want to show you even life after life. So we are adding the word even isra. The point is that generally we like to be with Ka in the spiritual world and we like to serve him eternally. However, if the ancestors in the material world are also happy to do that service. But we want to always be in his devotional service. So this is how balance is not. We are against going to the spiritual world. They are quite healthy to take the Lord's worship. Try to go into this virtual world. But we don't ask for it as something exclusive. The only one thing about this virtual world I don't want to show you anywhere else. That's not our mood. Our mood is to serve Krishna whatever he wants. By the way, Ceremony was the head of our preaching in the university town of London Hall. And then she graduated and became doctor. So she writes for the first cello for RSA or five months. She was one of the doctors who always told me. She was at that time at the Bhaktivedanta Hospital. And she was sent her and one other doctor Sara is here then. And he was a hustler.

The next question Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj. When we see Acharyas, we feel like to become pure and steady in our qualities. But after some time we come to normal behavior which we had in the past. How to become steady in qualities of a pure Vaishnava and in devotion Devote's eternal servant and spiritual daughter Sutta Vaishnava Sevani Devidasi.

Well, every day we should wake up with the commitment to being more like Our previous Acharyas being the daily name Paul shouted that certainly will accept the name. We will. But we should try like this every day. Sunday General and as he looks back, you can see that we made some progress. He looks forward. You see, we have a long way to go. Two things on there. So we shouldn't lose heart because we have some distance to cover. We should rather say, okay, so then his heart. Let me try to be all perfect. Vaishnav Vaisnami as much as possible. Hare Krishna.

Guru Maharaj.

Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna.

Please narrate the pastime of Nithyananda Prabhu breaking the Sannyasa danda of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Your servant. Servant Rangaramtas.

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When we chant every day. Sometimes we hear. Sometimes. Sometimes we hear the holy name and sometimes we don't hear the holy name. Is this problem comes because of our anarthas in the past or it is only our mind flickering or both? How to come out of this problem? Your spiritual son and eternal servant Rama Rupa Chaitanya Das.

Attend offense to the holy names is inattentive chanting. So our God to put our complete faith in honing. So one aspect is that we chant. I don't listen to the gentle. So that's why one is recommended to chant loudly, maybe not that loud, but loud out loud. So this helps to bring our mind back to Krishna. To bring our mind back. Kathy chant mentally. Our chanting is interrupted. But chanting aloud is one way to bring the mind back to the chanting. Now we should try to chant attentively. Some things cover our mind and we get distracted. And any, you know, some kind of argument we have with some near and dear one or some boss at work doing politics against you or whatever, something that tells the mind. So we're chanting, we actually start thinking something else and we don't listen to the chanting. So this is a. This is a bad symptom. It's one of the anartas. So it's one of the authentic. So we should try to chant in here. That's where Kritan is vedra and kicked on. It's loud. It's music. It's easier to focus the mind on the chanting in the jatan. It's easier to get distracted. It was just a long chanting, so it's easy, relatively speaking, to get distracted. So nonetheless, we should try to chant as best as we can. And even if the chanting is not perfect, some chanting is better than no chanting. As they say in Bengali. There was one orphan. He's like no one in the world. No one. No one. I'm all alone. And he said, uncle. So why man? He said, I'll leave uncle, okay? He said, better have a blind uncle and all sorts of better to chant some Hare Ka. Even if the attention is not complete and not chanting at all. Eventually you'll be able to chant. Focus attentive realms. When I started out, my mind would wander everywhere. And I read that Haridas Thakur when his mind wandered, he would sing louder. So I kept saying louder and louder and louder. So I was screaming Hare Krishnam. Hare Krishnam. So the devotees went and complained the problem that this Dr. J. He shouts Hare Kajata. So we're not able to focus on our Jata calling. Why are you shouting? I think that I read the Haridas Tagore. He was Janet Lolly when he was not able to and his mind was lost in chant. So I talked that I knew the body and I was off. So I need to chant loudly. So then Prabhupada he was such a caring minister. He listened. He said, okay, you have my permission. Chant and park. Park. Montreal means Montreal. So there was a park right next to the park. That was every morning enchant in the park. So that was a problem of destruction allowed the enchant. Now I don't want to chant at someone else. If I want to write something or do something that anyone is chanting their life I can't see anything right to chant. I can't write, I can't anything. So I tell everybody, please don't chant here. And I have to do something else. So nine changes at the time. If the roadies are changing, the mind will go there. Take my cakes on the oats.

Okay, this question is through Internet from Sydney Gana Shyama Govinda Das from Sydney has written. I tend to forget Guru and Gauranga very often every day. How to remember and serve you 24.

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Ganeshyam Govinda Ram Sydney.

In devotional our service we do. If you think I'm not qualified to directly offer this to Krishna. Everything has to be offered through the guru and the guru Parampar. So in this way the guru and the guru Parad I'm offering my service. How do we forget Krishna? How do we forget the gurus or Altrini Krishna to the guru. Otherwise we don't have any qualification. Directly serve Ka. So by thinking that I'm offering a service to my guru if he's offering to his guru, he's offering to his guru. In this way he gets a Krishna. By doing it this way he'll always remember the Guru and he won't forget Hare Krishna. Gurmaraj Hare Krishna.

How to set our mind to do best of our devotional service under any materialistic condition I always give excuse to myself for not doing properly. Your servant Sri Guru Sevanandi Devidas.

Came to alter their prayers to Lord Chaitanya who was in the womb of Mother Tsetse obeying alternative prayers. And they have only two problems. One problem is they are attacked by demons. Second problem is that Sarda has so much art material sense gratification that they sometimes they forget Allah Kaeperness. All that God Krishna eternal has some in the materialistic life. We should be actually playing clinging to Lord Sri La Ka. Clinging to that Guru. So that because it's so horrible that we won't think that I want to be in this place. But I have to be here because of my child and my son. Reason I'm here so I cling the lotus vida Krishna in this way Krishna will always give me his shelter. So Prabhawadi. It's too nice because we are Krishna. It's too hellious. We can forget Ka. So here is a little bit materialistic and it's a little bit nice both sides. So it's Valentine that is not so hellish. There always something is not so harsh that we forget about Ka. If it wasn't for the materialism, we wouldn't think about Krishna. It wasn't finding happiness. A little bit of happiness. He want also the Torah, this settling all the time. So this we're in the middle place. A little mix of settling and enjoyment. So this is the ideal place for persecuting or prosecuting our Ka consciousness. So without so that you have some materialistic association. You shouldn't take it that this is all negative. This is to remind you that you don't want to stay here in the material world eternally. You want to serve Ka and otherwise two nights. Two nights again. Oh, it's so nice. Because it's not so nice. Because like Prabhupada said that this is no place for a gentleman or a gentlewoman to stay. People are nasty sometimes for no reason and so like this. But that also keeps us on the track. If they are always nice in that they're such nice people, why do I want to leave? Sometimes the rich people, they're less available to Christian conscience than the poor people. The poor people are suffering enough that they want all like that. I own that. So then Rich people are very proud and they don't want to hear anything.

Guru Maharaj Hare Krishna.

Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna.

90% of scriptures describe how to improve our behavior and character. 10% of scriptures only describes about spiritual world, etc. By guru and Gauravaranga's mercy, I am able to understand scriptures. But practically implementing it, I am a failure. Please instruct me how to improve my behavior. Your servant. Servant Ranga Ramadas.

How many questions did he ask on that? I don't know if there's 190 versus 10. I haven't done this for studying. I guess you are studying whether it's 87 or 13 or 90 and 10. I don't know but it sounds like serving a third body. We naturally learn to be humble. Jamuna Devi Dashi tells us how she was serving Prabhupada and in Los Angeles she had organized his quarters. So she was waiting to get some praise. Thank you for doing such a nice job. Instead of right here, he looked at everything open the drawer. It looked as if he was trying to find something wrong. So finally he tried to open the window. I wanted to open because had been freshly painted and they had a hole in the window. So therefore why this window doesn't open? She looked on trying, she realized that he shouldn't show the guru thinking that he praised me, I did a wonderful job. He should always think that I didn't do as good as I should have. I should have done better. I deemed right, submissive, humble adjudication. So like that we should do our service. You shouldn't think that we're, you know, very brave because they don't know service. We should be humble and we should think that whatever I did, it wasn't quite a good one. There was always something lesson for it. Sarat Rani has his mood Shant for that mood you need to serve Krishna eternally. Why don't you think I done everything such now Krishna should really be grateful. Never finish. Then the Guru is there to cut our ego down.

Hare Krishna, the next Koshnesh Hare Krishna. Is there any assurance that after reaching the lotus feet of Lord Krishna through Ka consciousness, we will not come back to this earth? Is if any mentioned in scriptures or Kannan Chennai.

Sent that once we go back to this original world, you don't fall down again. Someone kept touching the triple. If you want to come down. If you want to come down, you know I want to come down. Always that crazy. You see when you touch. I said don't touch or change. Someone always shows up Touches you and the finger like that. Don't go to the material world. It's a place of selling. I wonder what something is. So somehow or another you all decide to come here to check it out. Here you are now if you get that you have only found that carrying in to feed, birth and death. Insect to reptile to bird to animal. Okay, you see, there is eternal time here. It may be for a long time, but it's not long by eternal time. So our only sentiment was given that says in a restaurant and the person goes to Thailand. I get along after touching and gone through millions and billions of dollars in this entire world. In the spiritual world is a kingdom to the so once you get back, you'll know why you left and you never want to come back again. You don't have to come back. Krishna says there's a Nitya Mukta, Nitya Baddha. You don't have to go back also to the spiritual world unless you want to. You don't have to come back to the material world unless you know you're still enough to want to. And there's no one, there's generally no one that wants that very hurricaneous.

When a beggar is asking for alms and we don't have prasadam at that time, what we should do.

Jeevana Gaura Haridas given Hari Krishna Hare Krishna.

Krishna Krishna.

In the newspaper recently, that one lady she came home early from work and found her daily missing. Her lady had been rented by remaining 100 rupees. The team of lady engaged in alms. So then all kinds of strange things happened. There was one lady in Calcutta and she was. She had her own car and I think when she died she had 15 lakhs of building under her necklace. She was she drive up and parked her car somewhere held walks away and then walked down to crochet a corner and she would like. Yeah. So if you know that Shah is really a need unhelpful. I know but generally he just like to give Prashant because he also if you give you should know the name of Ka. If you know that someone's really in need then you may have some reasons you get help but you want to give in the name of the Ka. Otherwise you have to take the that person is going to be indebted to you and you have to take the karma of that person's indenture. On race ran you get a donation to a full khabar next life. He took birth as a son of the caller because he was his Khaldr was indebted to him. So the way the Khaldr could say that was like having him as a son. But he went to see his as a son of the Calder. He learned how to do shoes there. And he went to the to the house of the his former house where his sons were living and the sons of your father. He owed thy father's money. And he would ask him why he wanted to charge me for returning my shoe and dealing with the shoes. But actually he was the father of the previous birth. So like this it's somewhat dangerous.

If.

You give out a false seal. If you give out, if you think that sounds worthy when you have the name of the Krishna, that's okay. But otherwise we don't really want to give charity. We'd rather give food or something for Shah.

Respected Guru Maharaj Hare Krishna in spiritual life we try to develop loving relationship with other devotees. But invariably, sometimes we become frustrated and may not be able to have loving relationship with all devotees. How can we develop wonderful KC relationship with all devotees? Your servant Amarindra Gauravas Hare Krishna.

Hare Krishna. So if you see al devoting as rather than yourself if you offer them respect and don't expect any respect in return. As I said in the third verse of the Shikshas that's a seeker or see people like you or that person always says something now. And I had a few devotees who were detractors. There are always signs of I treat them lightly, with respect. Then even they would criticize me. They said well, he's very polite but so unfortunately it's not possible always to please anyone. But for our sake we don't have to know anyone as an enemy. Ajata, Ajata Satru we don't know anyone as an enemy. They named our enemy. Oh, we don't recognize it. Hare Krishna I saw as far as the Lord Nidhi Nanda our Lord Caitanya. When Lord Caitanya was trick sannyas he had the single Danda because Akesha Bharti had taken Sanyasvani I Shankara school. And at that time in North India there were really no Vaishnava sannyasis. So this was part of Lord Shaitanya Zamila that he took initiation from the waterline. But he took sannyas from the Shankar school. So the Shankarites they respected Lord Chaitanya as one of them. And this gave him some opportunity to fish in the Sanyasis and narayana and other places. But Lord Nijananda, he didn't like it that he had A single danda. Because as a sannyasi and a wise stone sannyasi he should have a tree dunda. So he rode his dunda into three dice and threw it in the river. Had a place called Dunda Dunna. So there's some controversy whether that's in the Hoichi river. That's in the most people think it's near Dharam for and Lord Chaitanya running had his angling danda. Another reason that Nity Danda Bhaktad Danda was that he thought the Lord Chaitanya was Krishna. So why say he had to take the austerity of carrying a dandara. Not only is the Asanyasi carries a Dandra for 10 years and after that then they can. They don't necessarily have to carry a dandha. Probably carry, he said either a walking stick or an umbrella or danda. So I was using 10 years, I was using a walking stick. But in any case, Lord Jezana didn't like it that Lord Chaitanya was doing austerity to the Sanyasi. Srila Bhagavad has done that Savar Chaitanya he showed his anger on the head. And he arrived alone in the Zara temple. When he saw Jaina, he saw Shama Sundar Krishna and he painted the Khalidini. So the pandas they thought that this was some crazy guy actually doing, you know, sitting or thinking. And he in the temple Bhattacharya he was able to see that he had some special qualities. He said, bring him to my house. So he would walk to the house of Asana Lumavarjaya and there he saw that he was not reading. In fact this little Tulu Arcadum he was able to see that Ka Chaitanya was very slightly reading almost no better. So he was a very deep tsunami. So this way our son of Loma Bhattacharya he understood that hero is a great devotee. Because this cannot be anything. It's only existing in some great devotee. And later Nithyananda and the other. Nobody's heard anything. And they went to the house of Shaiva Madhasarya. They knew how to revive Arjuna by chanting Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare, Hare. So the Lord Shaitanya and in this way his pastime started in the Dharam fight. So the person gone and I sound a little more Chinese, etc. But that's all I like over my limit of speaking. So I move him. Thank you for watching our videos. Be sure to subscribe to our channel we publish new videos every day. And don't forget to like and share our channel.