A recorded spiritual discourse by His Holiness Jayapataka Swami on avoiding offenses to fellow devotees (Vaishnava aparadha) and preserving devotional enthusiasm. Using the metaphor of an elephant trampling a garden and pulling a creeper from its roots, the speaker warns that offending devotees removes devotional nourishment, causing loss of taste for chanting, worship, reading, preaching, and service. The talk emphasizes humility, seeing the good in others, and recounts that Lord Chaitanya was merciful yet strict about Vaishnava aparadha, publicly chastising those who offended devotees.
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Chaitanya Mahaprabhu advises us to avoid the elephant gets let loose in a madden condition. In someone's nice garden, nicely nurtured plants, trees, flowers can be crushed and can be ripped out from the ground. When they're rampaging elephant. The example is given that the root of a devotional creeper reaper pulled out from the ground. If you take a plant and pull it out from the ground so the leaves immediately fall off from the plant. They immediately turn brown and they take two leaves to completely dried up. But because the root is pulled out from the ground, the nourishment has stopped. So this example is given that in our devotional people when we engage expose the severe Vaishnav of grants it's like pulling the creeper out from the root. We don't get any more nourishment and then we systematically start to dry up. We lose the taste for chanting. We lose the taste for daily worship. We lose the taste for reading. We lose the taste for preaching. We lose the taste for book distribution. What could be worse? We lose our devotional service. And we just like that dried out trampled plant which the elephant has pulled out from the root and trampled on will become a dry crystal devoid of devotional enthusiasm. Then it's easy to go chronic events going on attending and offending and attending to try to substantiate why I like feeling the spiritual happiness and husband. We just start doing a more work providing completely being promotional service to see the good in others. Like what Chaitanya advises offer respect to others. Don't expect any respect for oneself. That's another way of avoiding offending. Try to see the good. They also see the good in others. First you should appreciate their good qualities and empty their constructive suggestions. It's very easy because our egos are always in a We want to think ourselves professional. Someone may think that their service is better than another's. That too can go to another extreme where they start to criticize the other to make oneself feel more elite or more elevated, special. And then again we are involving ourselves in this rationale. We should do our devotional service do whatever art is trying to do regardless of other people what they are doing. I should think we so much looking for other people's thoughts we should look for our own food. We should see the other devotees as better Try to see that good quality. See what effects we have and how we can purify ourselves. Lord Caitanya, we know him as the most merciful spati Baba but he was very strict when it came to Aisha Aburat. When he saw David and the Pundit after he had offended Srivas publicly chastised him. If you're committed to Vaishnava or not, you are not having any devotional quality. Your Bhagavatam classes are very dry, speculative and pure. Devotee like Shivas comes to your tries and your finger publicly chastised. Very hard for powerpointers to accept.
