
What is real happiness?
Jayapataka Swami: Everybody wants to be happy. But it seems so elusive for many of us. So in the Vedas, it is said that there are different types of happiness. There is sensual happiness. There is happiness when you are young, especially it is a peak time to try to enjoy sensual happiness. The problem ...

Can only human beings collect Karma?
Jayapataka Swami: Only human beings can collect good and bad karma. This is time when you can score. Once you are animal, then you just suffer the karma. You don’t get to take new karma. Because animals don’t have discretion, they act according to their instinct. Therefore they are not responsible for any particular karma. ...

Does chanting of Hare Krishna mahamantra anytime have the same effect or not?
Jayapataka Swami: "Namnamakari bahudha nija sarva shaktis, tatrarpita niyamita smarane na kalah". There is no hard and fast rules for chanting the Holy Name. It does not say, if you chant at 4:00 AM or 10:00 PM, it has different effect. Ofcourse, our consciousness is better in the morning, more in the mode of goodness. ...

Sometimes we are unable to tolerate unreasonable criticism, and we do retaliate with good intention. Does this happen due to our lack of faith in guru and Krishna? Does this speak of one's love of guru and Krishna?
Jayapataka Swami: Of course, it depends on who is making the criticism. We see some people can make it, but cannot take it. When there is criticism, sometimes the devotee becomes very depressed and allows that depression to impede his devotional service. The point is , we should not lose our enthusiasm for devotional service. ...

How can I be good to others in my life? How can I give up self-centered thinking? How can I become good for my parents? How I can become a good human being?
Jayapataka Swami: Well, if consider that you are a devotee of Krsna, you develop all the good qualities of the devas. So it is easier to try to be a devotee. And if you learn to serve Krsna, naturally you give up being materially self-centered. And as a service to Krsna if you learn how ...

How do I become serious in devotional life?
Jayapataka Swami: It is said if you serve the pure devotee of the Lord, a Vaisnava, then you will become serious in Krsna consciousness. Because a pure devotee is very serious, you will have to become serious serving him. In one case, Prabhupada’s living quarters was being painted. Yamuna Devi Dasi was organizing all the ...

How to establish healthy co-relations with family members? Most of the time, my husband and children, they quarrel with each other for petty things. They get angry, sometimes I get very angry. There is always fighting, so what to do?
Jayapataka Swami: Sometimes, they have a kirtan inside the house to sway away all the ghosts and subtle entities which are creating disharmony in the house. They also say, you study the qualities of devotee -have to be patient,have to be tolerant. not that we should be always be impatient and intolerant of things. Generally ...

How to live a well-balanced life while committed to different obligations? Will it be possible to maintain it by the most-average people in a diverse society?
Jayapataka Swami: Well, this is why our grihasta devotees are so important because our grihasta devotees are showing this. They are doing their material duties, raising their children responsibly. We need that kind of role models; advanced devotees who do their work, maintain their families and at the same time they give the minimum time ...

How to practise Krsna consciousness in provoking or difficult conditions?
Jayapataka Swami: I am trying to think of situations where one is not in some difficulty. Usually there is always some difficulty. Devotional service to Krsna is different from other yogas. Like Mother Yasoda, she worried about Krsna; all the stones are so sharp, Krsna’s lotus feet are so tender, I want to know if ...

Some people strongly believe in Lord Siva, Ganesh and Murugan. What is your view about this?
Jayapataka Swami: We also believe in Siva, Ganesh, Murugan, Kali, Durga. We believe that they are powerful expansions, energies or servants to the Lord. Siva is an expansion of Visnu. Siva-tattva is an essential factor for the creation of the material world. It is said ‘vaisnavanam yatha shambu ‘, he is the greatest of all ...

Sometimes in the spiritual career we get a doubt, ‘Where am I getting to’? Is this normal or lack of faith?
Jayapataka Swami: This question is normal for someone who is just beginning because there are so many things, so one is not sure what they are getting into. But for one who has been already in the movement for a long time, having this doubt is very strange. I had it in the first few ...

We read in the Vedic literature, that the husband guides the wife in Krsna consciousness. What if the wife has to guide her husband?
Jayapataka Swami: It is said that the wife should be the intelligence of the husband, even if the husband is Krsna conscious. When we have couples where the wife is more advanced than the husband in Krsna consciousness, she is expert in how to make the husband feel important and at the same time she ...

What happens to a devotee with material desires?
Jayapataka Swami: Devotees are always headed to Krsna. But if they have material desires Krsna will fulfill those desires first. So they may go to the heavenly planets, the higher planets where they can enjoy for tens of thousands of years. Then again they get born back on this earth for another chance. The problem ...

What is the cause of material desires?
Jayapataka Swami: Material desires are because we are identifying with the material body. We think we are this body and by satisfying the body’s demands, we are going to be happy. It is like George Harrison, the Beatle, he thought that if he is rich, famous and powerful, then he will have achieved the success ...

What is the real education? What is the goal of life?
Jayapataka Swami: Real education is the education that we are not this body but the spirit soul that is the eternal servant of Krsna. I was in one printing house in Krishnanagar, the headquarters of the Nadia district. Here the printer was printing exam papers. So they had a question, ‘What is your identity?’ So ...

Why did Krsna give us free will, didn’t He know we are going to abuse it?
Jayapataka Swami: The thing about free will is that if there is no free will, there can be no love. Krsna wants us to love Him. He wants to have loving exchanges with us, but he doesn’t. Sometimes we see these movies or read about them, about robots and clones. So if we are all ...

Why do we say that the soul is eternal?
Jayapataka Swami: Because material things are created, it has a beginning and an end. But that is the nature of material creation. We the souls, we are not created by God, we are parts of God. Krsna is there before the material world is present, and even after the material world is destroyed, He continues ...

Why does Krishna appear in different forms when He appears? Why does He not appear in the same form, so He can prove He is the Supreme?
Jayapataka Swami: One of the qualities of Krishna is that He is Ananta-rupa, He has unlimited forms. So He comes in the different forms. These forms are described in the shastras. So thus it proves that He is the Supreme, because it is all explained in the shastras that He comes in these forms. That’s ...
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The living force which is in the body, that is indestructible, that is immutable.- Jayapataka SwamiSame category same basic potential but due to being developed or undeveloped in consciousness the full potential of the spirit soul comes out filtered by the extent of materialistic consciousness that we have.- Jayapataka SwamiThe Mahatmas are focused on Krishna and they like to worship Krishna. But they respect all the others.- Jayapataka SwamiIn difficult time we do not give up our devotional service, we stick to it and in good times we also do not give up our devotional service.- Jayapataka SwamiWhether there is some difficulty or there is something good we need to do our duties, we need to do our proper Krishna conscious thing.- Jayapataka SwamiThis chanting of Hare Krishna even if someone does not know what it is, it still works.- Jayapataka SwamiThe sankirtana movement is so spiritually pure that by remaining in its fire our consciousness will be refined to immaculate purity.- Jayapataka SwamiThe devotees always remain moderate, in distress or when they are in opulence. They are moderate in their existence and keep Krishna as their top priority in their life.- Jayapataka SwamiThe process of transcending is to become attached to Krishna.- Jayapataka SwamiWhen we are fully attached to Krishna we become automatically detached from Maya, naturally.- Jayapataka SwamiOne is liberated when he is attached to Krishna so much that he is not attached anymore to other things.- Jayapataka SwamiBy chanting hare Krishna constantly, we get forgiven for all offenses.- Jayapataka Swami
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