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This desire For Position is a Serious Weed by Jayapataka Swami.

Name: This desire For Position is a Serious Weed by Jayapataka Swami.
Uploaded: 2026-03-16T11:10:09+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Jayapataka Swami
Description: Jayapataka Swami explains prātishṭhā, the craving for status that leaves you incomplete. He cites Lord Caitanya's three pitfalls to avoid after…

16 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Jayapataka Swami explains prātishṭhā, the craving for status that leaves you incomplete. He cites Lord Caitanya's three pitfalls to avoid after initiation and Prabhupāda's teaching that sannyāsa completes only half the spiritual work. The other half requires gundīcāmārjana: purifying the heart of desires for profit, worship, and position.

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Pratishtha. Pratishtha means to desire some kind of material or spiritual position for the sake of just having a position or be feeling incomplete for not having that. Those are the three things that Lord Caitanya said that even after taking, that one should avoid. So Prabhupada said that when a person takes sannyāsa, 50% of the work is over. I mean, the other 50%, they have to also take just like the gundīcāmārjana and cleanse from their heart all the subtle dirts— desire for profit, desire for worship, desire for position. Then one hope gradually to come up to the position of being a Paramahamsa, whether one's a grihastha, whether one's a sannyāsi, whatever one may be.