A recorded Q&A session given by His Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj on April 8, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. Attendees ask about attaining pure chanting (shukrana), obtaining mercy (especially from Lord Nityananda), devotional humility in service, and guidance on giving or selling japa beads; responses include scriptural references, anecdotes, and practical recommendations.
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All right. Is there any questions? Comments?
Yes.
My question is how can we attain the stage of pure chanting or Shukrana? How can we attain the stage of pure chanting?
How?
Well, gradually that would come. But if we get the mercy of Nikora, then that can come very quickly.
God, the mercy.
How the dacoits, they got the mercy in less than a month.
They were crying for Krishna.
They were crying for Krishna. Such is the pastimes of Lord Nityananda. He is an Avadude. You never know what way he will give you mercy. So Guru Mach, we heard from you before.
To please Sadh Krishna, we need to please Swara Gharama and.
And to please.
Call on the Ma, we need to please Nanda. So Guru, can you please tell how we can please Nandu and get his mercy?
The spiritual master right there.
Shastra tells us that the spiritual master is very dear to Lord Nityananda. So if you please the spiritual master, then you can please Lord Nitinanga.
That's one thing Lord Allah. Allah didn't know he was getting out of mercy. Those who are chanting, of course how.
Lord he turned out. He was giving out his mercy for those who were chanting.
He was told Lord, Lord Chaitanya.
When he was told by Lord Chaitanya.
To go back to Bengal, he stopped in Panihati first.
He stopped in Panihati first.
Rahul Pandit, he asked how many are you?
And Ragha of Pandit, he asked how many are you? There were more or less 50.
Take a bath in the Ganges.
So you said you go take a bath in the Ganges and in one hour I'll have a feast for all of you. So those who are cooks, can you cook for 50 people in one hour? She's very expert and says in Mamayati they were chanting day and night. They even forgot to eat.
They started with all the way all kinds of mystical art.
And they started developing all kinds of mystic powers.
Uprooted large trees.
Some were uprooting large trees. Some were gliding, dancing from one tree to another. And some are holding a 60ft bamboo and playing it like a flute. Usually it takes two people at least. And when Lord Netananda, he danced Lord Chaitanya appeared there but he was invisible.
Except to Lord Nintendo and Lord Jnananda, Lord Chaitanya.
So Lord Nitananda said Lord Chaitanya has.
Come.
But he's not visible to you. He's wearing a garland of this particular scented flower.
You can tell in there by the smell you get what by the smell you can tell.
And if you smell it by the smell you can tell he is there. And so people were just going.
Started rolling on the ground.
They started rolling on the ground.
Like love gas.
Like it was love gas.
What was your question?
What was your question again? What does.
More questions.
One, two.
Lady turn.
Lady turn.
He never takes offense. He doesn't take things personally. And in my office.
Fix it for us and it would fix things personally.
In my observation of you, in the grand positions that you've had in the grand service that you do, you have never taken anything personally. You continue to give from your heart. Continue to give from your heart. In all humility how can we perform our services? Many are few that they are how.
Can we perform our services? And many are few that they are.
In humility without taking things personally.
Can we perform our services in many or few that there are and that kind of humility without paper things personal.
So I mean we see Lord Nanda he wanted people to become Christian conscious.
And.
Our church that was his motive. And so I'm not a real time right Krishna.
Consciousness. So like that if we all try to make the people ka conscious that's the only thing that matters. We don't want to take things personally. We want to make people Krishna conscious. Last question There a question on online.
Also.
We were sharing yesterday that we don't hand out java beads to people who are not devotees, people who just met. We do what we give as a flipper or we should give a flavor.
You were saying yesterday that we don't give leads to not the worries of people that we just met.
And you were explaining that the reason is because Rao said that if we give them the jaffa of beads so.
We take the carnival.
So and we see how in Vrindavan and Mayapur the first comers that come to the temple so the beads are being given to them and also in other places of the boys also do so the question is how do we how to have the criteria when and when not to give beads or sprinters.
They have certain beats red $I yellow kicks on in my OPA we have.
Certain beads they're red color. They're given to people just to teach them how to Chant, if they want, they can buy a set of beads. See, if someone buys a set, then there's no karma.
If you give a set free, if.
You give a set free.
We give a set grave. And we have to pay the karma.
Like at the time of initiation, we give a set of needs for free. And we have to take the karma of the disciple conscious there will be Krishna consciousness. So we take that risk.
That's why the gurus are taking a lot of risks.
That's why the gurus, they are taking a lot of risk. The disciples should be very careful not.
To break their principles.
Not to break their principles.
Prabhupada said that religion has the right to consider celibacy.
In the fifth catalog, Srila Prabhupada said the relation between husband and wife is considered celibacy. So there's no karma.
God has appropriation as a child, as a divorce.
But if one has appropriation for a Krishna consciousness child, then that is devotional service.
And that's even higher.
That's even higher.
One day is go from service.
So one thing is no karma, but one thing is another thing is devotional service.
So like that or you try to.
So if you sell beads, that would be the way. You can sell beads for 1 cent. It costs you a dollar. You can sell it for 10 cents.
That's.
You take money, have to take something, right? Big money, whatever you sell.
I mean, you have to take something. If you take money and that's all right. If you take the money, you take karma.
All deeds of viral.
We don't the deed survival, we don't get free. They can chant. They have to give back the beads. Then you tell them you want to buy that, you have to buy them.
Or you could buy them.
I love that still.
I mean, I don't know. Someone may steal the beads.
What's the karma if they steal your bead?
I don't know. What's the karma if they steal your beads?
Oh, my beads were stolen.
Some disciples come to me and they say, oh, my beads were stolen.
At mylabar, there's still a label recyclable.
In my opor. If you steal the beads from some famous guru, there's a sorry, you can sell it at premium.
Watch, so watch.
Out for your feeds. Guru also said disciple. Famous guru or disciple.
All right, all right.
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