Recorded Q&A given by His Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj on April 18, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. The session features attendees asking about applying the eight verses of Shikshashtakam (practical tolerance), how to respond to offense with praise, and theological questions about Krishna’s relationship to devotees (friend vs. not-friend). Swami answers with practical etiquette (praising others, looking for the good), scriptural anecdotes (Gajendra the elephant, the crocodile/Gandarva curse), and examples illustrating reciprocal divine behavior.
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Any questions? Only two questions. Thank you so.
Much, Guru Maharaj. The way you explained just now that it's very difficult to understand Lord Shiva. Similarly Guru Mahj, the sistas to come Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has put all the knowledge in Sistaskam eight verses. So like Trinada Vishnuishi is at one Shloka, it seems so impractical to practice being more tolerant than a tree. Just thinking about that is like tree. You can nail it and tree does not evolve. So my humble request to you, Guru Maharaj, if you so desire, could you during your stay here and your Stephanie classes, can you please explain to us how we can live by these eight verses? How we can practice in this today's.
World.
How we can make it practical?
Haribo.
Someone here may have worked. How do you make friends? Quite well done.
Someone gave me a book how to make friends by Daily Carnivore.
He was actually saying the third word.
He was actually saying the third verse of Shiksha. No matter what anyone says to you, just praise everybody and you will make friends. Material person like that is able to.
Understand.
How you should tolerate offense and just appreciate others.
How we can tolerate offenses and just appreciate others.
How profound was Lok Chaitan's instructions?
And how profound Allah Chaitan's instructions.
Thank you very much.
I've seen somebody come and say you're rascaling.
You're so much.
It's this not a person. Thank you very much.
I understand that you are very. That's how crazy understand you very much.
Just praise the person.
They say so then what can they say?
So.
Whether you believe it or you just do it because you're told it works.
So whether you believe it or you just do it because you're told it works.
Try it.
Another question there also.
Like a child in D.C. meeting, tell someone to do it and someone said no and something good.
One time somebody told us in the GBC meeting that you tell something good, then some criticism and then something good.
Come on there and I'll do it. Turn my heart on extra.
So you have to think something good. The person next to you there was a lot. Oh, the way you.
Oh, you give us conservatives.
But the Way you give cloth, it inspires us.
Sometimes you drink water. Clothes are little water.
Sometimes when you drink water, you touch. You touch the glass, your hands become smoochy. But anyway, you're very special person.
Have a look at what they say then.
What can they say?
You managed to criticize fellow.
You managed to criticize them. At the same time you praise them. That way you have to be like bees. Look for the honey.
Oh, like flies.
Not like flies. Poison for the source.
What.
Fight a guru, manager. Sometimes he has to find fault.
A guru or a manager, you have to find fault.
If you're self evil, how do you get distressed?
Like if your husband. Or if you just tell people something negative, they get distressed. You say something like, you're very dedicated, you're wonderful.
I don't get worried.
But sometimes you're worried that people may take advantage of you.
I'm sure that they'll take the steps to see that.
Anyway, I'm sure that you will take steps to succeed. You see that? Learn how to say things in a positive way. It's not impractical. It's very practical.
You're the.
You nonsense, rascal. The people will hate you. Well, then they will think that he hates me.
You tell us I'm nice, but if he only likes me, if he says.
Something nice, then he thinks they like me.
I use some advice in this way.
You give some advice.
Without failing. You don't.
They don't feel like you don't like me or something. Hare Krishna.
Hare Krishna. Guru Maharaj, thank you for giving us this class. It's always a pleasure to hear it from your lips.
It adds another dimension to it.
My question was it said somewhere in the text that Krishna is not a friend nor an enemy.
But we know.
But we know. In many places Krishna says, I'm a friend to all. And in his Krishna Leela, he acts as a friend to many. And recently when we went to see the plastic surgeon, you also preached to him, saying that he's not Krishna, God is not a friend or an enemy. And then next sentence you said again, Krishna is everybody's friend. So how should we understand that statement when it says Krishna is not everybody's trying the enemy. Why does it come up on a recurrent basis? Thank you.
I see Allah, wisher Allah.
You see, in the verse it says Krishna's friend, best friend for all living entities.
So.
She wanted to kill Krishna.
I killed her. I killed her.
Krishna reciprocated her and killed her.
Because she gave Krishna her breast. Because she thought that I Had a child I brought my wish so that I had to kill him.
Because she gave Krishna her breasts. Krishna taught, hey, I'm a child. She gave me my breast.
And then she thought if I had a child, I walked on like this.
And she thought if I have a child, I want like this. Too bad I have to kill him.
So Krishna was simply grateful.
Krishna suffocated with her. She wanted to kill him.
Krishna killed her because if she desired and if I had a child I wanted like this. She gave her mouth to Krishna. It's not.
You know.
And she desired that if I ever had a child I wanted to have her like a Krishna. And she gave him her milk. Therefore Krishna reciprocated with her and gave her the position of mother in the spiritual world. So.
He doesn't hold any grudges.
He doesn't hold any grudges.
At the same time he reciprocates very tall oppression approaching them.
At the same time he reciprocates how a person approaches him.
And today we're in high grief time. Saint agenda of the elephant and killed the crocodile Today we were reading that.
How Krishna saved Karjendra the elephant and killed the crocodile.
But on crocodile I do not grieve or curse.
But providenay actually got free from the curse.
He was previously who?
Who?
He was previously who?
Who?
Allah Gandarwas the king of the Gandarvas.
He was joining female Gandarvas.
He was enjoying in the lake many female Ganarvas.
He found the leg.
Somehow in his.
Dark humor he pulled the leg of a Rishi. Rishi got angry and cursed him to be a crocodile. Crocodile. And he begged please predict the save me.
When Krishna saved Gajendra also heal on the cross.
Then he said when Krishna comes and saves Gajendra then the hero to save you.
Everything he does.
In that day anything Krishna does is a blessing. All right, I am reading tomorrow morning with GBC his divine grace.
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