Jaya Pataka Swami answers questions about Mahaprasad remnants and temple access in India. He shares how Srila Prabhupada gave a gulab jamun to Tamakrishna Goswami, and discusses barriers at Jagannath Puri where devotees must pay 35 rupees for a yagya certificate to enter, facing resistance from local Shankaracharyas and Brahmins.
Questions this video answers
Srila Prabhupada gave a gulab jamun to Tamakrishna Goswami.
35 rupees.
1970.
Hare Krishna. Guru Maharaj, please accept my respectful obeisances. Guru Maharaj, you were talking about the remnants.
Yeah.
Is the remnants. Can. Is only a disciple allowed to take a guru's remnants or everybody is allowed to take.
Guru Maharaj, not only a Vaishnava not supposed to leave remnants.
Normally a Vaishnava is not supposed to leave remnants.
But a girl.
But a guru may leave some remnants for disciples. What?
There is no hard and fast rule.
But there are no hard and fast rule regarding Mahaprashad.
Shil. Prabhupada gave a gulajaman to the Makashlo.
Srila Prabhupada gave a gulab jamun to Tamakrishna Goswami.
He kept it on his plate.
And he kept it on his plate. He was looking at it very proud. He was very. He was very proud. He was looking at it. He was thinking, I got Srila Prabhupada's gulab jamun. Wow. Wow. Gulab jamun. Wow.
And someone reached over and ate it.
Someone reached over and ate it.
You took my gulab jamun.
You took my gulab jamun.
And Tamakrishna was very angry.
Tamar Krishna was very angry.
Raj. Raj. He said, actually there are no rules when it comes to Rahvar Shah.
And RLA Prabhupada said, actually there are no rules when it comes to Mah Prasad.
Even if you take from my plate, what I can do?
If someone takes from your plate, what can I do?
Please let me finish.
Oh. If you take from my plate, what can I do? But please let me finish? Hare Krishna.
Dear Guru Maharaj, please accept. Please accept my respectful obeisances, Guru Maharaj. There are many temples in India like Jagannath Puri that they don't allow white people to go into the temple because of. Because we're Chandalas and. And Malachas, like the verse said. So how can we change the mindset?
Temples connected with Janitori are this Susha.
I mean, only Jagannath Puri and other temples connected to Jagannath Puri have this restriction.
The Chandra have gone and opened up the other temples.
Some devotees have gone and opened up the other temples.
And some devil like in Guru Rahu, you have to officially accept Hinduism.
In some temples, like Guru Vayu, you have to officially accept Hinduism.
I say Yajna, pay 35 rupees.
You go to Calicut, you do a yagya, pay 35 rupees.
Certificate, and then.
You get the certificate.
I didn't do the Yajna that sold it out via certificate.
I didn't do the Yagya but someone got me the certificate.
I know I needed it because I had already gone to Guru Vayu many times.
But I didn't need it because I had already gone to Guru Vayu many times.
And like the Shiva and Varanasi, the Viswanath deity.
So like you know Shiva and Varanasi, the Viswanath deity, he allows. He allows everyone.
Generally the Lord is allowed to go.
So generally devotees are allowed to go.
Except Jayda and especially overall except Jagannath.
Puri and Shakshi Gopal etc.
Actually in 1970 I had Darshan of Sakshi Golopal.
Actually in 1970 I had Darshan of Shakshi Gopal.
Since then they were strict but since.
Then they are more strict.
Prabhupada asked to somehow get permission from devotees to enter.
Prabhupada asked me to somehow get permission from the devotees to enter. For the devotees to enter.
Not as yet.
But I have not been able to do so as yet.
We're trying.
We are trying.
We've given some gifts, some books.
We have. So we've given some gifts, the books.
And see the King of Puri, the Herederi king.
What king?
The king. He said they ought to the Shankaracharya.
So the King of Puri, the hereditary king, he said to go to the Shankaracharya.
He is the final authority.
He said he is the final authority.
The Brahmins won't listen to him because he's a chakra.
But the Brahmins don't listen to him because he's a. The king is. The Brahmins don't listen to him, the king because he is a Kshatriya.
So right now the Sangha Chari are roaring and not several devotees.
But right now the Shankaracharya is not favorable and Puri is not favorable to the devotees.
His junior a bit more favorable.
But his junior is a bit more favorable.
I went to him 1970s to try to get his permission.
So his previous Shankaracharya, I went to him and tried to get this permission.
And he said I asked him, boil one kilo of ghee and drink it.
He said yes, you boil one kilo of ghee and drink it.
I'll die.
And I said I'll die.
Yeah.
But then you'll be born again as Hindu and then they'll let you into the temple. Anyways, we are working on it.
Many places connected to Lord Chai Channa.
There are many places connected to Lord Chaitanya and Jagannath Puri in Tirupati.
They the devotees of our general arrange.
And Tiruppati, the devotees from our temple arrange that you can go.
But otherwise someone comes runs too late. Then they have to assign a regulation and they accept Balaji and God.
But otherwise if someone comes and wants to go in then they have to sign a declaration that Balaji is God. But for the devotees that's no problem.
