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H.H. Jayapataka Swami-Official health update
Saturday 10th Jan 2021
22.00 hrs (Indian Standard Time)
Dear God-family, disciples and well wishers of H.H. Jayapataka Swami Maharaja,
Guru Maharaja is doing well today . His parameters are also better.






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The Official Database of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami. You will find links to audio recordings of the classes as well as transcriptions.
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Question: We understand from your classes how Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu promoted Harinam sankirtan, Kali yuga dharma. During initiation, we promise to do japa, that stressed the importance of japa and we are doing daily. But we don’t do kirtan everyday. Is japa also a form of kirtan? Also a yuga dharma? How performing japa can connect to kirtan?
Jayapataka Swami: Connect to kirtan. Japa is also a type of kirtan. And to do sankirtan, you need a large group of people. But to chant japa, we just need ourselves! So, we say, is to chant 16 rounds of japa. 16 rounds of japa takes maximum 2 hours. And if you are...
Question: When we see our guru or other senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada, what should be our mood when we talk to them? Can we seek blessings from the senior devotees for our preaching, or should we earn that blessing from our guru and other devotees?
Jayapataka Swami: You can ask for blessings. Lord Caitanya would give His blessings by saying: Krsner Matir astu! May you be Krsna conscious. For those already in Krsna consciousness, to stay Krsna conscious, Krsne matir rahu! Krsne matir astu! Krsne matir rahu!...
Question: A lady who is new to Krsna consciousness called Iskcon Kolkata to book a room at the guest house. But she was told no single lady could stay in an Iskcon guest house! She asked how to understand this, when devotee women are to be protected and sheltered. She also asked me why they don’t have the same rules for men? If they were to restrict any sinful activity, why only restrict women? It gives the impression that there is a lot of discrimination.
Jayapataka Swami: I don’t know the rule in the Mayapur guest house. He says the same rule is there for men and women. No single person can stay. We can ask the guest house why they have this rule. Apparently they must have faced some trouble! It is a government rule...
Question: Couple of days back it was mentioned that Ramanujacarya’s servant told his wife that everything a disciple has belongs to his or her guru. In our parampara, Srila Prabhupada gives the example of Rupa Goswami, 50% to be given to guru and Krsna, to be followed by Iskcon devotees. My question is, is there any sastric injunction in this regard, or the standard differs from parampara to parampara?
Jayapataka Swami: We accept that - when I stepped on a nail and got foot infection, Srila Prabhupada wrote me a letter, and said, you have given your body to Krsna, at the time of initiation. So you should take care of it. So, although we think that everything is the...
Question: We understand that Navadvip is non-different from Vrindavana. We know of pastimes in Vrindavana like manifesting Radha Kunda and Shyama Kunda. How do we understand its manifestation in Navadvip dham?
Jayapataka Swami: You see, when Radharani created the Navadvip dham, Krsna accepted the Navadvip dham and said that it was non-different from Vrindavana. So He blessed that all the holy places would be present here. So, that is why different holy places are manifest...
Question: How to engage my daughter into spiritual life, Krsna consciousness as I am afraid she will lose interest. We, as parents, are trying our best. We need your guidance in parenting our kids in Krsna consciousness.
Jayapataka Swami: How old is your daughter? 16. So we have different programs for different youths, different age groups. So, if she can be involved in one of those programs, then it may be more interesting for her. At 16 she needs some devotee peer association as...
Question: I desire to serve Jagannath deity at home, What do you think, I will be able to do?
Jayapataka Swami: This devotee wants to worship Jagannath deity! What do I think about that? Write to me what worship you want to do and who will do the worship? How many people in your family are following the principles? They should write down what worship they will...
Question: Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur and you also said that by liberating in the Navadvip Mandal parikrama, you liberate the whole world. Could you explain how this is possible? For 30 years Navadvip Mandal Parikrama has been performed by the Iskcon devotees, but it seems like only the world is getting worse! If more devotees participated, would that help purify the world more? Does camping throughout the parikrama intensify the potency of this yagna?
Jayapataka Swami: Yes! You asked simple questions. If more people attended the parikrama, will that help? Yes! If they stay out in the holy dham, will that help? Yes! You see, just like the sages did sacrifice in Naimisaranya, which is considered the hub of the...
Question: While Lord Caitanya fell to the ground, the devotees were in anxiety. Similarly, when we perform devotional service like book distribution, cooking, etc. we have anxieties. Does anxieties in such service purify us or help us in reviving our lost relationship.
Jayapataka Swami: Sometimes anxiety helps. Mother Saci, she would feel anxiety that her son was walking on the hard rocks in Vrindavana. Similarly, mother Saci was feeling some anxiety, out of motherly affection. It depends on what your anxiety is for? If one is...
Question: Who specifically composed Srila Prabhupada’s pranati mantra and when was it composed?
Jayapataka Swami: I think that it was composed before I came. But in any case, I wasn’t involved! Maybe Mukunda Swami knows. Or Shyamasundar, he is here. They were initiated before I was. I noticed that Shyamasundar prabhu flew to India in Brothers’ Airway. That is...
Question: Guru maharaj you mentioned that anything good we do in Mayapur we get 1000 times the benefit, however what if someone offends residing in Mayapur and become lazy thinking just because I am in Mayapur, and everything will work fine. How do we see it?
Jayapataka Swami: Srila Prabhupada was saying, what is a thousand times zero? If we don’t do any devotional service, then we get a 1000 times 0. Being here we should do as much service as we can. Then it makes sense if we get thousand times the benefit. But if we...
Question: What is Mayapur management plan in case we find a corona case? Can she or he be quarantined in Mayapur guest house?
Jayapataka Swami: They can be quarantined somewhere in Mayapur, whether guest house or flat. I think we discussed that. But it would depend on the person. So a whole family is [positive, they might have the flat quarantined and someone has to bring them bhoga to cook....
Question: Recently one transgender lady wrote me a letter that what is her hope in Krsna bhakti? And can she get the mercy of Mahaprabhu? How to invite and fit transgender persons in our devotee community?
Jayapataka Swami: Lord Caitanya said that no matter how fallen one is, how many sinful acts they have performed, He can deliver them. The only thing is that if the person is a blasphemer of a vaisnava, je vaisnava ninda kore, Lord Caitanya said, He won’t deliver them,...
Question: What mentality can we serve Krsna by, that we can serve Him very enthusiastically?
Jayapataka Swami: So one of the mano bhavas or one of the mentalities to serve Krsna we heard today, is to avoid offenses. If we are serving the Lord offenselessly, we can also serve the Lord very enthusiastically. We also heard that in the prayers of Haridasa...
Question: If we have no intention to hurt any vaisnava, but a vaisnava gets offended due to our behaviour, we don’t want to offend, but devotees feel offended because of their own expectations, how can we overcome from such vaisnava offence when we even don’t know who got offended?
Jayapataka Swami: Srila Prabhupada would ask a question of his senior vaisnavas. He said if you ask as a question, technically it is not an offense. If you say to someone oh, you are fallen or something. That is offensive. But if you ask a question. Prabhu, why are...
Question: Often we make wonderful plans or routine to improve bhakti. But after some days we fail to continue. Why does this happen? And what should we do then?
Jayapataka Swami: In the path of bhakti, there are different stages, adhau shradha, first stage, then association with devotees, then bhajana kriya, when one takes initiation, then the next stage is anarta nivritti, that is sometime one is very strong, or very weak....
Question: Tomorrow is Aksaya Tritiya and Candan Yatra begins. If you could please speak something on this, please
Jayapataka Swami: I am still absorbed in the unlimited, millions and tens of millions of pranams!! It will take me a few lifetimes to absorb all those pranams! You see today is Aksaya Tritiya, maybe you asked the question yesterday. Aksaya Tritiya is somehow connected...
Question: In Panca Tattva, three Prabhus are Lords and Gadadhara Pandit is sakti tattva and Srivasa Thakura is jiva tattva. Is jiva tattva expansion of sakti tattva?
Jayapataka Swami: There are two kinds of jiva tattva. Like the friends of Krsna, apparently they are expansions of Krsna. And those who are gopis or the queens of Dwaraka, they are the expansions of the sakti tattva. There maybe some difference. [Audio break]...