Jaya Pataka Swami answers questions about chanting technique, overcoming distractions during practice, reading Srila Prabhupada's books, spiritual dreams, and how to fit devotional practice into daily household life.
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Any question? Namaste. I'm new in Krishna consciousness, but I've started chanting 16 rounds every day. Wow.
16 rounds a day per year. That's one crore. 10 million.
If you chant 16 rounds a day in one year, that's one core 10 million. Sorry, 10 million. She has two children. Says she has two children, two daughters. They're chanting two rounds every day.
Very good. 1.25 million. Very good.
1.25Million names a year. Oh, they. They also observe a. Cody.
Oh, how old are you?
Can you give me some tips on chanting? Because when I'm chanting, my mind goes everywhere.
It's good to watch Ruggas on picture Krishna. The deities.
When chanting, you can focus or watch a picture of the deities.
And I would keep a little notebook.
I would keep a little notebook because.
As a manager in iskcon, we had many activities to do.
Because as a manager in iskcon, I have a lot of activities to do.
So then I'm trying to chant and listen to the holy name.
So when I'm trying to chant and listen to the holy name, something comes.
Up in my mind. Yeah, I do this, I do that.
So something may come up in my mind. I have to do this, I have to do that.
What I do, I write it down. I'm notebook.
What do you do?
I write it down.
So I write it down in my notebook for later, and then I go and continue on chanting like that.
At the end of the chanting, I look at my notebook, see what I have to do.
So then at the end of my chanting, I look at my notebook and see what I have to do.
Otherwise my mind would get distracted.
Otherwise my mind would get distracted.
That's right. I don't know. Grahastas may have multiple things to think.
About, so I don't know. Grastis may have multiple things to think about.
In my limited sphere, that's what I did.
In my limited sphere, that's what I did.
Time or take your drinks so you.
Can give time for particular things.
This time for chanting.
Like this time for chanting.
This time for cleaning.
This time for cleaning.
This time for cooking.
This time for cooking.
And they cook. Now they have the books and Audio.
When we cook, we now have our books in audio form and you can.
Play the book audio.
So now you can play the book as an audio and listen to it. And listen to it while you're cooking. While you are cooking.
Of course, don't let your milk boil.
Over of course don't let your milk.
Boil over in ecstasy.
In ecstasy.
But you can listen to the Schwitzeraya cooking.
But you can listen to the books while you are cooking. Any other questions? Thank you for chanting so sincerely.
Of this.
Could you repeat little slowly?
Yesterday we have a train at the same time. My daughter also done the same training. So we are very happy.
And.
And the question is why?
He had a dream of you yesterday.
Then today.
So he had a dream of you yesterday. Then he had his daughter had a.
Dream of you today.
So what is that all about? What am I supposed to learn from that? Getting a dream review? It's just quite surprising to me.
I don't know what the dream was.
I could tell you. But lucid dreams are suspicious.
So usually dreams are auspicious.
If you have a dream of a guru or some Krishna or something.
If you have a dream of your guru or Krishna or something.
Of course to eat many pizzas with regular bread and have a dream of pizzas.
If you eat many pizzas before going to bed and you have a dream of pizzas.
So since you and your daughter are dreaming about me.
So since. Since you and your daughter are dreaming about me.
I don't know what the dream was, but maybe social message.
I may not know what the dream was, but maybe it's some special message because I'm trying to find the answer to that dream. So hopefully sometime soon.
After this.
So you can talk to me after this, please accept my respectful obeisances. Accepted. So my question is how we can develop our love for Srila Prabhupada's book. Especially for Choita no Chori Tamrito.
I've been practicing Krishna consciousness for 55 years.
So you see, I've been practicing ka consciousness for 55 years.
I was born in Milwaukee.
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wisconsin.
And I was sent to India in 1970.
I was sent to India in 1970.
And Prabhupada told me that when I see this light, I was born in India.
Prabhupada told me that in my previous life I was born in India.
To read Bhagta before I took first initiation. Prabhupada said I had to read Bhagta.
10 times before I took first initiation, Srila Prabhupda said that I have to read Bhagavad Gita 10 times. So as I read the Gita I would count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. Oh, you still have the Gita. I still have the Gita.
And then after that gradually Rah Rah was translating the Lava Tam.
Then after that Rla Prabhupada was translating the Bhagavatam.
And actually I saw Ikar Mayapur, he get up at midnight and translate till 4 in the morning.
Actually I saw in Mayapur that he would start at midnight and translate until 4 in the morning.
And then he would chant his rounds.
Then he would chant his rounds, go.
On a morning walk.
And go on a morning walk.
And then I saw that he was at great sacrifice. He was translating.
But anyway I saw that he was making a great sacrifice in his translating.
Which had seven or eight tikas, Adyan Acharyas.
So he had a special Bhagavatam that had seven or eight tikas of great Acharyas. Madhavacharya Sridhar Swami, who's the other one.
He was doing a great sacrifice to write these books.
So he was doing a great sacrifice to write these books.
He wrote the Chaitanya Charitamrita right quickly.
So then he wrote the Chaitanya charitamrita very quickly. So because he knew Bengali, it was very easy for him.
Torah Torah, Hindi, Jandahu.
Tora Torah, Hindi, Jandahu. I know a little Hindi.
Sunday night, what I want to read, I want to read all the books six or eight times. I don't know.
I must have read all the books at least six or eight times.
And they wanted to give me honorary degrees.
They wanted to give me honorary degrees.
But I said no, take the test.
But I said no, I will take the test. I want to be a good example for other devotees.
I just earned my Bhakti Vaibhav degree.
So I just earned my Bhakti Vaibhava degree.
And I've already taken some tests for the Bakti Danta.
And I've already taken some tests for the Bhakti Vedanta.
All the tests I get A or A.
For all the tests I get an A or an A plus.
And you keep on reading, you'll like it more and more.
If you keep on reading, you'll like it more and more.
And always new things that you realize.
There's always new things you will realize.
How large I tell you, I think about this task of combining all the books I could find on large tennis pastimes.
I've taken up this task of combining all the books I could find on Lord Chaitanya and his pastimes.
Because the different authors, they don't. They respect the other authors, they don't repeat the same thing.
Because different authors, they respect the other authors. And so they don't repeat the same things.
What happens if you don't know Bengali and you don't know all the aspects of the past lives?
So what happens is if you don't know Bengali, you won't receive all the aspects of all the pastimes.
And just like a Krishna book, making a Chaitanya book.
So just like we have Krishna book, I am making a Chaitanya book and.
All of a sinners. I'm almost finished.
I'm almost finished. Mahabhara says we need to finish.
All right. So if you read, you'll realize. I will. 8. And now as Vashada, I'll end here. Anyone has any questions.
So if you read, you will realize. So now it's time for Prasadam. So I'll end here. If anyone has any questions, they can come and see me. Hare Krishna.
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