Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj recounts joining ISKCON in Detroit in 1968, his decades of global travel earning a million United Airlines miles, and a stroke in 2008 that led to a six-month recovery in Los Angeles where he continued devotional practices with medical staff.
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I'll just speak a few minutes. 1968 I join in 1968 in Detroit. How I joined.
Sorry.
I saw that I ruined.
I visited every temple in iskcon.
All three.
San Francisco, New York and Montreal.
I heard that there's song going.
And at that time I heard there was someone going to open a temple in LA.
Prabhupada called me to Los Angeles.
Then in 1970 Prabhupada called me to Los Angeles and he wanted to send me to India.
But then he heard that.
Then he heard that Achita Nanga didn't have his own place yet.
He certainly told Chicago.
So he sent me to Chicago to help. To help Balan. Anyways, I told you what happened in Boulder, Colorado. So then I went to Chicago. Then got a phone call from Chilapalpa to go to India. Actually Gargamuni called me then I said what about money? He said bring your own. So when I was in LA at.
That time I'd go with Jayananda Prabhu not Beverly Hills.
So he would go to Beverly Hills to catch some flowers. So then. But then someone shot at us then Shivam and said don't go anywhere.
This.
We said we just went to dig some flowers.
I don't think they have.
They didn't have the big teas. I think they. They had. What's it called?
Rukmini Dwarkanat and Bhavan had every week to get our department Srila Bhagavad had.
Every week that we'd give our report to the deities. I don't know if we do that anymore.
We had to give our report.
But we had to give our report. What service we did. What would we do?
And I was very awed.
That was a very wow. Very special thing.
Stand in front of these. Tell your report.
Standing in front of these and telling your report and asking him for blessings For a while I established that in my floor being inspired from here and.
I've traveled around the world.
I've been in India then I traveled all over the world. I've got Indian citizenship.
I was also.
Acharyas at that time there was the 11 CRYAs. So I was asked to go To South America.
Go to Southeast usa.
To go to Southeast usa.
I traveled around the world, and I've.
Also traveled around the world, so I.
Traveled so much around the world and.
I traveled so much around the world that I got a million miles on United.
God's not gonna.
A lifetime gold on Shanghai Starlines.
Full on British Airways.
Full on British Airways. I got a lifetime emerald. I asked my secretary whether I qualified or not on Delta Airlines. Anyways.
2008.
2008, I got a stroke and then.
I came to LA.
And I came to LA for six months.
For six months, I stayed in two.
Months, I stayed in Bhakti Vana Manor for two months.
Every time I go there, the temple president will tell me, welcome home.
Every time I go there, the temple president or something goes, welcome home. This is your second home.
I spent two months, but I spent two months there.
I spent six months here. Yeah, that's why I don't know. I thought LA was your home. They were trying to claim and I said, do I spend more time in la? Anyways, I had the beautiful Darshana and in front, they made this swimming pool. Plastic swimming pool. Yeah. Various festivals, got theatres. So I'm very grateful to la. My home. My home.
Let me go.
She also, she cooks.
Are.
Not only Mike has had this cook for me, she also cooks arepas. Yes. She's a disciple of Veer Bahu.
Well, I have one problem.
I have one problem.
Wherever I know I like to see too long beyond the mortgage.
Wherever I am, I like to see people become devotees. I carry clickers with me when I.
Go to the hospital, I ask the nurses and the doctors.
I ask the nurses and the doctors they should chant Hare Krishna. And I gave him the cutter, said, if you give the beads, you have to take the karma. So you can check when you're on your duty, you can put the clicker.
In your pocket and chant so like this.
So like this.
All right. Doctors and nurses.
Many doctors and nurses, they chant rounds.
Calcutta Airport if you go there.
In Calcutta airport, if you go there, I give out a lot of Prashada. So if you go there, they may ask you, do you have Prashada? So like this. I'm trying to give the mercy around. I'm just following the example of here as mar.
So I have one little.
So anyways, I haven't been able to come here for a while.
So I'm glad to do that.
So I'm glad to be back in my home. During the ils of us here told me that I Have to come to Los Angeles this time I'm just carrying out his order. Standing order. Make that a standing order. So one of these from Laguna beach he's offering me to bring me pashada how many times a day I told her that I complained I didn't get the arepas this time.
Very competition.
There's a big competition. The Colombians say their rapas are best. And the Renaissance they say they're best. As Garage March has said, it's like.
A real family feeling for what family?
We are one family. Virtual Krishna in Krishna consciousness.
And I like to see all my all of the disciples of Srila Prabhupada, spiritual masters.
I'd like to see all the disciples of Srila Prabhupada and the spiritual masters and grand disciples of the spiritual masters grand disciples of Srila Prabhupada under the spiritual masters said we need 10,000 acharyas. Then we need hundred thousand, then 1 million acharyas, then 10 million acharyas. In this way we can have in every town and village and fulfill Argentina's predictions.
So. But all her they are free honorary degree.
So they offered me a free honorary degree.
I don't know, but I said no, I'll take the test.
I'll take the test and I'll sign the readable seats again. Although I've read it already six or seven times, I'll take it. So this time they give me.
So I got A plus.
So I got eight plus and all the exams. So now I'm doing the Bhakti Vedanta. I finished the seventh canto. A plus, A plus.
Prabhupada books. That's how many yagas.
So if everyone reads Srila Prabhupada's books, that's how you get his association now. And the proof is to get the degree Hare Krishna. Thank you very much.
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