A recorded Q&A (May 6, 2023) with Jaya Pataka Swami in Dallas where devotees ask for personal blessings and home visits and discuss theological topics: Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's ecstatic separation (mahā-bhāva), faith and disbelief among common people, and how Chaitanya's mercy affects past karma and responsibility after initiation. The transcript also records the speaker describing personal experiences of intense separation and physical pain while reading scripture and missing Krishna and Srila Prabhupada.
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Hare Krishna Gurmaharaj, please exit. Please exit my respective fellow presences at your lotus feet. Guru Maharaj, we see here Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was feeling lot of separation from Lord. I also feel lot of separation from you. Before in the zoom call, you used to ask devotees to spotlight and give the blessings. Now we are not having that. I am missing a lot. Guru Maharaj, please can you start doing that again?
And it was so nice.
Each get.
SC for your blessings. Now we don't get that you're missing it a lot. Please start that again.
Come make home visits.
You want me to make home visits?
Yes.
Wow. Wow.
You have to talk with Mahabharaha. He may allow one day to visit all the homes. To visit all the homes. Thank you, Guru.
I don't know my mother also.
But I don't know. It may not be possible.
You see me here.
Seeing me here.
Yes. Good night.
Please accept my inspector that he wrote his feet. So Guru Maharaj have a question. Like how we see in this past time where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has all this Mahabha ecstasy and which is like when we talk about it or discuss with the devotees, sometimes they question that how is it possible? Like it's unbelievable. But we do have faith. But how to explain them that no it really happened? Or how to make them trust? Like whatever the words are here, they all are so true.
He's saying that the common men don't believe.
That's why Kishinaz Kavirov he's saying that the common men don't believe. And others have seen that.
I believe it.
Therefore, until Krishna says I have accepted, I believe it.
I believe. I believe. These are things we just have to believe.
These are things we just have to believe.
And some people don't believe it. With all the things.
If people don't believe it, then there are other things that Mochitana did which are real, which are believable. Mentioned the Shastra and mentioned in the Shastra.
But eyewitnesses saw these transformations, uncommon transformations.
Eyewitness I witnessed and saw these uncommon transformations of Lord his body.
No. So the author accepts. Do you want to accept or not? That's your free will.
So the author accepts. If you want to accept or not, that's your free will.
He gives his reason why he accepts.
He gives his reason why he accepts.
I know. I'm thinking that Lord Chaitanya, I don't know.
We know one thing. That Lord Chaitanya was uncommon.
Please accept my respectful obeisances at Your lotus. So to what extent does your karma change when you're under the shelter of Lord Sri Chituna Maharam?
To what extent does your karma change.
When you're under the shelter of Chichathanu Mahaprabhu?
The second part of the question does it not change nor does it not change? The spiritual master has to accept.
Your karma.
Has to accept your karma.
And Lord take down the mercy. Such Karma Kamila.
And Lord Chaitanya's mercy is such that past karma could be immunity mitigated. And how he wants to do that, that's up to him.
Behavioral activities.
But if after you take initiation you again break the principles or do illicit.
Activities of the yeah and are responsible for that.
And then you're responsible for that.
Guru is also responsible.
Guru is also responsible.
So I should cease to do any temporal activities after taking the surgery.
So one should cease to do any sinful activities after taking initiation.
And follows detain which starts directly within.
If one suffers, we take it that Ka is directly giving him mercy.
Material world is place of suffering so.
That we can experience how the material world is a place of suffering.
Do they please accept my respectable obeisances. This is Akura Chopra Bharat. Really love you. Love your lecture. Thank you so much. I'll try to keep it short. So yesterday we saw while you were reading the Chittanya charity that you were experiencing extreme separation. Even while reading from Chaitanya Mahabharata you could tell from your bodily from just what was going on then. In addition to that you were experiencing extreme extreme physical pain. And then today in the medical meeting you mentioned that you're missing Lord Krishna and you're also missing RLA Prabhupada. How are you able to handle such seemingly diametric feelings all at once?
To tight and the lady climbed on heart to tender solar holding me or the Stamba.
So it's just like when the lady climbed onto the Lord Chaitanya's shoulder holding the Guru's stamba.
Then Lord Chaitanya and thou blessed thee with such eagerness.
Then Lord Chaitanya said, Lord Javanna has not blessed me with such eagerness. So.
He was praying about this lady. But I give him a blessing.
So he was praying that this lady would give him blessings.
Yeah. So much eagerness to see the Lord.
That he would have so much eagerness to see see the Lord.
I don't have so much intense separation.
So I when I don't have so much intense separation that I am surviving.
Michael Intense love for Krishna.
It is due to my lack of intense love for Krishna. Hare Krishna.
I'll try to take lunch early and evening class earlier.
I'll try to take my lunch early and give my and come and give my evening class earlier.
So that everybody can take rest early.
So that everyone can take rest early.
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