Question: If some temple there is no president in the temple. There are temple council members managing. In that area, some devotee, they are not following devotee worship standards, not following rules and regulations. How can we cooperate with them?

Jayapataka Swami: I don’t understand the relationship between not having a temple president, and the temple council. And then some devotee who doesn’t follow the rules and regulations of deity worship and he is basically considered to be fallen. We should try to...

Question: I have a question related to chanting japa mālā. Sometime back at a program while chanting time, I did not have my mālā and I was chanting on a counter, clicking. Then someone handed me a japa mālā from one of the many malas kept there for devotees to chant. Then I accepted it. Then someone else told me, no, you being initiated should not chant on any mālā used by other people. Is it really so? Can’t we chant on any japa mālā in a situation where we don’t have our own? Kindly bless me to have a taste in chanting and chant more.

Jayapataka Swami: It would be nice if you always had your japa mālā. I never heard particularly that we cannot chant on other malas. We know that, of course if someone chants on other malas, they may leave some offence there. That is why we chant the Pañca Tattva...