Prayers for HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja Speedy Recovery

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Hari Hari Krishna Krishna Hari Krishna. Hari Krishna Krishna Krishna Hari Hari Ram Ra. Sam.

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Now we can start our program. Real thanks to our spiritual brother Ramachandra Gauravarangadas. And now we can start our Guru Katha. Please devotee. So, yes, very humble, devoted.

Hare Krishna. Dear devotees, we are from Saint Petersburg. And now we're beginning to our program. This program.

Dedicated.

Dedicated to. Yeah.

Dedicated to speed the speedy recovery of his great job Takasami.

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And.

We'Re very happy to introduce a very old devotee from the St. Petersburg Yetra who's does a lot of service for the Rathayatra. His name is Srivas Nitenda Prabhu. When I was asked to speak, I wasn't. I wasn't expecting to be the first one to give this talk.

What?

And for a long time I was considering what topic should I discuss. And since this topic has been on my mind for a long time, I decided to read Atmarama Shloka from. From the teachings of Lord Chaitanya. It's from the Srirad Bhagavatam and from the Chaitanya Charitamrita as well.

Options you could.

To me.

This book was the first book that was given to me. And I've been thinking about this verse for 26 years already. And for the past 26 years I've been thinking how nice it is that we have the opportunity to do pure devotional service. Even. Even though we are not perfect. But very recently I had a completely different revelation and the meaning of this.

Verse.

That only that. Only because the pure devotees, they look upon us that we are able to do devotional service. Not that we have any qualifications, but it's the pure devotees that have mercy on us. And so finally, after all these long years, I'm able to have the correct understanding of this verse. And like we know Srila Prabhupada's spiritual master, Bhakti Stantasar Sati. He was called the ray of Vishnu. And when Vishnu's rays they touch this world, then only everything, the creation begins. And a lot of atmaramas begin to appear in this form. 64 types. And I thought that this universe was created so that it's our field of duty just for the regular living entities. But in actuality, this universe is the field of deities for the pure devotees. And they are like the rays of Vishnu. Whoever they look upon, they Begin to practice devotional service. And we can't reach this in any other way. And whoever is interested, you can read this whole verse or book. And my services to do is service for the Rathayatra. And I accident. I thought that the service came to me accidentally. But after some time I understood that this didn't happen by accident. The story starts in 1999 when shve he began the Rathayatra here. And Jabatakasami came to this festival. And there was another devotee who since left his body, Purnachandra Prabhu. And I was curing Ayurvedaktra. So I was treating one slightly crazy astrologer. And he told me that by your horoscope I can see that your Guru is going to come. I gave him this book and he did Lord Chaitanya's horoscope. And he said, yeah, that's him. But I've never met him again in my life. And so I came with my little bag to the park where the Ratayatra festival was going on. And as usual, Jayapatakasamy was there with his big, big cartels, big judges, singing kirtan. And then as usual after this Haranam Yagya there was brain. And I came home and seemingly everything was ordinary. And I was sitting at home and thinking who out of these two persons. And I couldn't make up my mind as to who was going to be that personality. Nothing mystical really happened. And next year in spring, it turned out that no one was there that was able to host the festival, the Vatheatra. And my brother, my brother comes to me, he's an engineer and he's saying, I'm thinking how to make wooden wheels for the ratio. And then so together me and my brother, we constructed the wheels for the Ratayatra cart. And then some other devotees also joined to help. And then one of devotee, one of the devotees, he had an office. And in that office we made the whole chariot. And no one could guess that in this office that's where we made the whole cart because we cleaned it very well afterwards. And that's how everything started. And now I understand which direction the wind blows from. And then I remember from Japitaka Sami's subsequent visits, I have to work so I wasn't able to always be there. And he would say that when you chant the Hare Krishna Mahama mantra and you look at the trees, they get benefit as well. When you step on the grass, it gets liberation. Now I understand that I am that grass and the trees I only understand this after 25 years. And after over 28 rathiatrics, we also made a very specific multi wheel mini rathiatra for kids. And I always had the suspicion that it's not really me who's doing all of this. But recently I completely understand that it's not me who's doing. And I was asked to glorify Gordev and I was thinking how to do it because he's very active, but at the same time he's also sick. But if you look at him very attentively, he's actually not sick at all. I saw the last videos of him and just as a doctor, I completely.

Understand what's going on in him.

There is no actual. His consciousness doesn't go anywhere. How, how old is he and how many years has his body been sick? Me at 57, it's very difficult for me to understand the computers. But Maharaj as the true, as a true ray of Vishnu that he is, he's on my phone as an app, he's in my chat in WhatsApp and these small little videos. It's a very genius thing that I send this devotee to these videos to all devotees who are also sick. And I came to the conclusion that it's actually us who are sick and he's not sick. And to digest the karma of such people like us is not easy at all. I wish a great of many more years of life in Krishna consciousness, that it always grow, that his Krishna consciousness.

Always grows.

And that. And for his glands to be even more and more intense and on us, focused on us. And only then will everything be all right with us. And I wish for all of us here and all of us online that we don't forget all of the hardships and responsibilities that our spiritual master has in front of Prabhupada and all the.

Other gurus of iskcon.

If each and every of us tries to not let other devotees leave as well. Right now all this is called like care for devotees in all these different terms. But actually what you have to do is just grab onto the person and not let them leave. I think our gurus will be very.

Pleased if we do that, because all.

Of the services that we do, it's for this purpose. Dear devotees, now we will give the word to one of the, the very old devotees, senior devotees from St. Petersburg has stayed in her house many, many times. And I hope that, I hope that she will tell us some of the stories that happened during his. Because as Gitamala herself says that it's they're just leelas now. Dear Jabtakasayam Maharaj, please accept my humble obeisances and accept my gratitude for being able to be here in Prabhupada's family. I'll start with the story that happened here in St. Petersburg in 1999. The previous temple president Shataka Krishna Prabhuk called me up and said that the place where Guru Maharaj usually stay is not available. So we have to think of something. And I was, I was really lost because it's a big responsibility to have someone Sannyasi stay in your house. And I need to needed to prepare everything properly. But stoker Krishna Prabhu said Gitamala, don't be fanatical. Where else will Maharaj stay? At the train station. And I of course agreed to do the service and I prepared everything. And he said that he would also.

Send some devotees to help.

And so we prepared everything and cooked everything and the devotees went to find him at the airport. But Maharaj, his things were lost. And the mar arrived very late past 11pm and the next morning there was already a Rathyatra that happened from the theater till one park until Gavidya and I had the opportunity to cook a feast. Today is also her birthday and she sends her obeisances to her. It was a big surprise for us. But we went to the market to buy everything. And then we cooked the feast and set everything up for the delivery. And so everything was ready for Marge to eat. And every all the devotees were protecting him because he's very kind and he always gives devotees his attention. So he had to sit down and eat properly. So the devotees were protecting him. And as he was eating he was asking Tungavidya, did you cook this? Did you cook this? And afterwards there was kirtan and then rain as usual after yagya. Then this is the day of the Rati Yatra. And we came home together with Maris. And the next day was a Kadishi. And we had to take the remaining from the feast. We had to take it with us and we all put it in a bag. And Maharaj came to the kitchen and he said Gitamala. And I said Marge, tomorrow is a Kaddishi. What do we do with all this prashada? And we had to honor all this prashadam before 12. The funniest part of the story is.

That when Maharaj arrived, I gave the.

Keys from my house. There was two keys from the house and I gave them to the devotees who were meeting him. And when Usually the door is only closed on one of the keys. But this time it was locked on both. But they didn't have one of the keys. So no matter how much, how hard they tried, they couldn't open the door. So then the devotee, he went back.

To his car and he brought an axe.

And Japattakoswami personally took this axe and broke down the door so that he could enter into the house. And because of his mercy, now our house is still sent a devotional center and opened the door to the spiritual world. And the next day, Vasanta and Kundalatta, they were cooking for him because there was another program. And I. I entered into the living room and Marge would say, called my name. He said, Gitamala. And I had to explain to him, marge, I'm sorry, but we never locked the door on two locks before. And I felt guilty for a very, very long time. Till 2004. Then I will talk about this. He would host many programs. And we would rent different rooms and halls so that we can have programs with him. Japutaka Swami was so limitless in his power that every time after the lecture, he would always give us even more mercy. We would chant Japa with him. And so we would chant Japa and to make sure that every round is only six minutes long.

And he would have prashadam there after.

The program outside, they would bring all the prashadam with them. Dear Jabra Taka Sam, you're so merciful and you would always give us your divine mercy. And when the center opened and Maya projected, Takasami would personally greet the devotees. And my spiritual master, Hindi Sutta Prabhu remembers that Jayapataka Sami used to say welcome back. And the first time I went to the tam was in the year 2000. I participated in all of the parikrams and of course on the parikrams of Jaipattakaswami. And on the paragraph he would tell the story of Lord Chaitanya's wedding with Vishnu Priya. And we were. We were so engrossed in this story that he asked, who wants to be on the wedding of Lord Chitanya? And all of us raised our hands. His grace Chaitanya Chandrabhu, who at that time already accepted Chaipataka Swami as his.

Spiritual master, was also there.

While we were all feeling ecstatic emotions, he was just sitting humbly on the side with folded hands. The pyramids would start from Mayapur. But you would always come every day to give us kata. And there was Never a day where you weren't there. You always gave us your mercy. And I remember those meetings very well. And I can never. I'm in a lifelong debt to you. I cannot never repay you for all of your mercy. And I wanted to say that you also really loved Rohini Sutta Prabhu.

And you always helped him.

And he always came to his Vyasa Puja wherever it took place. At that time, Madhurika Dumbani was serving him. And she was telling us that at that time he used to have many tickets on his desk in front of him. And he would just point with his finger and he would travel there. And no matter where Rohini Sutta Prabhu Srisa Puja would take place, you would always come. And then one Vyasa Puja Tungavidya was singing a song about how Krishna Bharam came to Mathura. And at this moment Jaipur Takasamy with Banu Maharaj entered.

And they began to.

Dance with my Guru Maharaj. There was an ecstatic kirtan and they were distributing a huge cake. And another time, Japitaka Swami, along with Radana Swami came to St. Petersburg when we opened another center and they were sitting on the same Vyasa sign. He would always maintain our Ka consciousness, protect it and protect us. We felt like we are under the. Under the protection of such a wonderful father, powerful father. And when Jaipattaka Swami was dancing on the Vyasa Puja, he was always smiling. He would give everyone his mercy and his merciful clasp. There is a video called Limitless True.

Love of this Kirtan.

And in it Jabatakasami is just praying to the Lord that he gives us.

All of his mercy.

And Ayindha Prabhu was also there at that camp kirtan. I don't know what where that took.

Place.

But I really love that melody. And I was singing it and sent it to all of my friends.

So that this power would enter into our hearts.

And then in the year 2004, we went to Mayapur for the installation of the Panch Tattva with a group of devotees. And Jabatakasamy would always chant Japa after mangalarti and we would join him. And in 2004 there was supposed to be a lecture in a pandal, but there was a slight rain.

And I.

Went to the pandel, but there was no one there. But Jaiputakasamy entered. I paid obeisances and he touched my head, put his hand on my head, and I paid obeisances and agency but my hands reached his lotus feet and I understood that the guilt that I've been feeling all these years that all washed away. Dear Japutaka Swami, please continue to be happy in your mission to Lord Chaitanya. And we really need you and you always satisfied your spiritual master Prabhupada with your preaching. And I hope that Harinam Sankirtan always.

Continues and grows bigger and bigger.

Thank you very much that we have.

You and that you're always with us.

Video.

I'm in a lifelong debt to you and I always watch your videos every day. And I offer your picture garlands made from jasmine. After. After your visit, Chaitanya Chandra Charan Prabhupada also stayed there and the devotees left. And we had Guru Pujas there at my house. And the devotees left a picture of you. And I feel your presence every day. By your mercy I can still do some things.

Follow the instructions of my spiritual master and of Srila Prabhupada.

And I'm able to continue my devotional service no matter what. Our next speaker is our God Sister Echo Govinda Priya. I'm not yet ready to share some story from my personal experience.

But I will share a different story that happened to my God brothers. God Sisters.

When Jaipata Kasami was already in the.

Wheelchair but still traveling and preaching, he came to one country. I'm not sure which one, but a family approached him and they had. There was a girl who was. Who had cancer and she wanted to get darshan of gurmards.

So they were going to some place.

In the airport and Gurmarj was informed of her diagnosis. But they were walking and she was walking slightly behind him. But he would always stop his wheelchair every night now and then. And no one could understand why he kept stopping every now and then his wheelchair. And when they finally arrived to the destination, the devotees understood that he kept stopping because so that the girl could catch her breath. Since he knew her diagnosis was lung cancer, he was giving her the opportunity to breathe.

And that's from a serious series that.

Is called this is Gurmarj. This is what Gormarj is like.

I might speak a little bit later.

But this is it for now.

We want to give the word to another senior devotee Nardamuni Prabhu.

Who is also witness to many leelas of our Guru Day. I hope he can tell us something. Dear devotees, before telling you a story, I would like to talk a little bit about the personality of Jeb Chakra Swami.

Know.

Of course we may know a lot.

About it and we hear a lot about it, but every time we hear it, it's.

It becomes new, it's spiritual, and it's always. We know that Srila Prabhupada said that Jaipatta Goswami in his previous birth was a close associate of Lord Caitanya. And in this life he came to take part in the preaching mission of Lord Caitanya. And when Jaipata Goswami came to ka.

Consciousness in 1968, he took initiation in.

The same year from Srila Prabhupada. And Srila Prabhupada gave him the name Jayapataka, which means the victory flag of Lord Krishna. And he from. He made him the helper of his secretary. And from the very beginning of their relationship he was already washing his clothes and doing personal service to Prabhupada. And it's very incredible that after two years he already had Sannyas. And as we know that at birth his name was Gordon. The first part of this name is Gore. So from the very beginning it was already very clear. And in 1970, Prabhupada asked Jaip Takasamy to come to Mayapur because they had a lot of things to do, a lot of things to develop. And from then on, Japan has been managing projects in Mayapur and of course all over the world as well. And what's interesting is that when the deities of Sri Sri Radha Madhava came to Mayapur, while in the west, he already had their Darshan in a dream. And so Jaypur Takasamy has been developing the Mayapur project and Food for Life project. And Prabhupada also gave him an instruction to distribute 1,000 big books and 10,000 small books every year. Every month.

Every month.

And Prabhupada also gave him the instruction to have 5,000 disciples, 50,000. Now we know that he already has over 7,000 disciples. And what I'd like to highlight is that Japtaka Swami is a very incredible personality. From his life it is evident that sometimes Krishna puts his devotee in a very, very difficult situation so that everyone else can see that his devotee, he's not part of this world, that he's above all the sufferings of this world, that there's nothing, no, the conditioning of this material world cannot influence him. And Janivas Prabhu once said that between Krishna and Jaipataka Swami there is always a competition.

Krishna said.

Krishna puts Jaipataka Sami in the most uncomfortable situations. Difficult. But jaiputakasamy always comes out as the victor. And Krishna is always happy and pleased with this. Krishna creates these situations on purpose just to show the glory of his devotee. It's so clear and evident just how pure and how esteemed this person is. In 2008, Jeputa Kusami had his heart attack. And I was in my prayer at that time in three days. Jeff Takasayam Marij was in a coma. And at that time what was interesting is that Mayapur was covered in clouds for those three days and there was just a very strong atmosphere of sadness. And at that time in Mypur there was another famous disciple of Srila Prabhupada, Padmalocan Prabhu. And he had a vow that he would go to take bath in the Ganga every day. And the first day after Javitaka Swami's heart attack, he went to the Ganga and came back and asked the devotees together. And when all the devotees came, he said, I'd like to share a very important thing with all of you. When I was taking my bath at the Ganga, I saw how the Panchitattva is walking on the Ganga. And Prabhupada was also there with Panchita and Tamil Krishna Maharaj was there. And I saw how Jaipur Takasami was standing on the shore of the Ganges and he was looking at the Panchitu with folded hands and he was crying of. Of the Panchito they were all calling Jaiputaka Swam and Jebeta Kosami was standing there looking at them with love in his eyes. And he was crying but he was saying no, no, I'm staying, I'll stay here. And Padmalochem Prabhu said, don't worry, he will stay with us, right? And after three days, when Jaipattaka Swami regained his consciousness.

He said that Panchtatva.

Came to me and they called me but I told them that I would stay here for now. I personally heard this story from Janani Vas Prabhu who told it at Padmalachan Prabhu's Disappearance day celebration. And he was sitting right in front of me where this camera is.

And it is very clear that is.

A very close and dear associate of.

Said that when I first met Srila.

Prabhupada time, I could see the aura of every person. And when I saw. He said, when I saw Srila Prabhupada I saw that his aura is golden and white. And then it grows and grows and grows and it just consumes everything around him with this light. This was in Montreal and at that time, all the devotees who lived in the temple could go on morning walks with rla Prabhupada. And on one of those walks, Jaipur.

Takasami spoke with Shaila Prabhupada.

And he told Srila Prabhupada, well, actually.

I can see the auras of everyone around me. Is that normal? Is that okay? And Prabhupada said, you just keep practicing and this will pass. You will elevate yourself from the mental.

Platform to the spiritual platform.

The spiritual master always elevates his disciples.

To the highest level level. And despite the fact that he's such a great personality and dedicates every single day, every single hour, 24 hours a day to Prabhupada, to the mission to Krishna.

He has unlimited amount of projects.

Before his departure, Srila Prabhupada gave Jabtakusami the respons, the response responsibility to head.

The Bhaktivedanta Charity Trust, which helps temples.

And he's still continuing with this service. We don't even have enough time to list even the amount of services that Jaipatta Goswami does. And despite the fact that he dedicated his whole life to all of these projects, he still is able to maintain every single devotee who comes before him. Once, my wife and I, we were traveling from Delhi to Kolkata. We were going to Mayapur. And on one of the stations, perhaps it was Bardaman in the distance, we saw something shining, something saffron on the platform. And we looked closer and were surprised to see that it was Jaipur Tak. And we came closer to him and he was surrounded by a few of his disciples.

And seeing us, he also came closer to us.

And he started asking us, where are you going?

Is everything okay?

He was giving us his undivided attention. And this was early morning and there was a lot of mosquitoes. And while we were talking, we would constantly fidget and rub our legs because we were bitten by all the mosquitoes.

And was really incredible that while listening.

To us, while very attentively listening to us, he also noticed how we were being bit. And he had an anti mosquito spray and he sprayed it onto his hand and then rubbed the spray onto our feet with his hand. And despite being such a great personality, I heard that the president of Nepal gave him a personal award for distributing Vedic knowledge. Despite all of his responsibilities and his being very busy, he feels himself the humble servant of every devotee. That is the greatness of this great vai. And I hope that one day we can truly realize this and in gratitude and be very grateful to him for his service to Srila Prabhupada. Now Jaipataka Swami is in Krishna's hands as he always is. And he was always dependent on Krishna and he always belonged to Srila Prabhupada. The only thing that we can do is help Jayapita Kasami spread Krishna consciousness. Even small things that we can do. Another last project that he's doing in Vrindavan by the mercy of Jabtaka Swami Maharaj a lotus feet of Lorchitenya was installed everywhere all over Rivendaban and Govardhan and Vrindavan everywhere. That's also a great service that he's doing for Lord Chaitanya. That's all I wanted to add.

Hare.

Krishna dear devotee and now we can start our prayers for Ur Maharaj and his speed recovery. And now we changing one round of Mahamantra and please we can share mantra in the screen but maybe always not. And disciple of Chitan Chanchan Prabhu do it.

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Krishna and now we can change one round of Don and after that we can chant Our spiritual brother can chant.

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I can share Hare Krishna Sankirtan Prabhu please you know unmute yourself. I made you a co host. Please unmute yourself.

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Yeah now we can hear you. Yes I will share the mantras Sam Lehitamul Karmashid that Kash Hare Krishna.

Okay Hare Krishna dear devotee thank you all of you for join in our program. Thank you, thank you all for all our lecture. Lecture first okay. For all devotees who join to this program thank you and will recover soon of you from Russia Hare Krishna.