Question: While offering bhoga I sometimes get late due to which my family members get irritated maybe because they are too hungry, or they need to take prasāda and go out for work. So, they tell me to hurry up and do some shortcut of this offering process. But I don’t know any shortcut bhoga offering process. I do as per you taught us. Bur generally it takes time, they become very impatient. It seems that instead of wanting to offer to Kṛṣṇa, they want to have it first.

Jayapataka Swami:  Technically once the bhoga is offered to Kṛṣṇa, it can be taken. We usually wait till the whole process is finished. But if someone is in a hurry, as soon as the bell rings, that means Kṛṣṇa has already eaten. So, at that time they can take if they...

Question: What happens if one devotee does not forgive another devotee?

Jayapataka Swami: This happened to Śacīmātā. She had offended Advaita Gosvāmī. So, Lord Caitanya brought her and she asked forgiveness from Advaita Gosvāmī. But Advaita Gosvāmī. started to glorify Śacīmāta. He said, “I cannot be offended by Śacīmāta, I am very...

Question: I feel that I don’t get the same interest in hearing Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta as I have for Bhagavad-gītā or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, I found it difficult to understand anything even after reading it many times, I feel it is beyond my understanding.

Jayapataka Swami: The Caitanya-caritāmṛta is more esoteric. Because if one understands the pastimes in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, then Lord Caitanya, He relives all those pastimes. But He is sometimes doing the pastime of Narasiṁha-līlā, sometimes Varāhadeva, sometimes...