
Fortnightly Message (21 November – 4 December 2025)
Keśava Māsa, Gaura Pakṣa, Pūrṇimā, 539 Gaurabda
My dear dīkṣā, sheltered, aspiring, śikṣā, grand-disciples, and well-wishers,
Please accept my blessings, best wishes, and praṇāms as appropriate.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Home Base: Śrī Māyāpur Candrodaya Mandir.
Camp: ISKCON Chennai
Date: 4 December 2025
Highlights
I returned from Simhadesh to Chennai late at night on 24th November and have been here since then. I consulted a nephrologist and continued my regular dialysis.
Apart from meetings and other services, I also visited the outpost managed by Raṅga Kṛṣṇa dāsa and the extension centre by Murali Śyāma dāsa and gave classes there. I am very happy to see the preaching expanding in Chennai.
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Message
Śrīla Prabhupāda mentions that people come as a student and then they have to become a teacher.
“Every student is expected to become Acarya. Acarya means one who knows the scriptural injunctions and follows them practically in life, and teaches them to his disciples.” Śrīla Prabhupāda letter to Tuṣṭa Kṛṣṇa, 2 December 1975, New Delhi
“Teach them the science of the Bhagavad gita and train them to be first class representatives of Krsna. It is not very difficult, simply one has to hear from the perfect authority who is in disciplic succession from Krsna Himself, and then repeat the same message without any change. If one does this then he is qualified to become guru.” Śrīla Prabhupāda letter to Jayadharma dasa, 20 August 1976, Hyderabad
My Message
I want all my disciples to systematically study Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books and become teachers in the future. So, like this, become gurus. It is very important to know the śāstras. Initially, you may be a student, but it is not that you remain a student forever. For some time, a student, then you have to become a guru.
We have Māyāpur Institute and many other institutes that offer the degrees, and if you are in any leadership position, and if you are over 40, you may also take the one-time summative test.
I read Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books daily. I have read Bhagavad-gītā many times, maybe more than 20 times, but I am still reading it again, and I am in Chapter 11 at present.
Inspirational Stories
Murali Syāma dāsa started his online preaching during the second wave of the COVID lockdown, and now he has built a community of devotees. He preaches in Tamil. He has 700 sincere volunteers serving online, around 4000 active devotees, and more than 1000 of them are chanting 16 rounds. And then he started as an outpost in October 2024, and now it has developed into a preaching centre in Chennai, and when I visited, he had more than 500 devotees present. Also, another day, when I gave an online class to his members, there were around 1300 devotees who joined online. If you would like to know how to make your online preaching successful, you may write to him at muralisyamdas@gmail.com. He continues his daily morning program online, and he has had around 1000 devotees attending for the past 5 years without fail.
Last week, I received a letter from one of my disciples, Revatī Rūpeśvarī devī dāsī from Denmark, regarding her services in recording Śrīmad Bhāgavatam audios. She, along with another devotee, Yadunandana dāsa, is recording Śrīmad Bhāgavatam in Danish, Italian, and Portuguese for Radio Kṛṣṇa Copenhagen with BBT permission. These are the links for the different languages:
English:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqIBxTTD_jfTq7BTzZs5o46VEdr8b3mLd
Portuguese: Srimad Bhagavatam Primeiro Canto – YouTube
Italian:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnsAjTDpJE8&list=PLqIBxTTD_jfR6a2DPMz5hjW4AGBVTWX4r
Today, Nāma Niṣṭā dāsa came to meet me. He gave me a very inspiring preaching report. During the COVID lockdown, he began his online outreach, and now he has a fully established Śrī Śrī Rādhā Govinda temple in Maṅgaḷūru. He gave a detailed update of the temple’s progress, and I was very happy to see how nicely the activities are expanding. Many companies are coming forward to support the development, and this will help them further enhance the temple facilities.
They are also constructing a Bhagavad Gita residential college, and they are offering Bhakti-śāstrī and Bhakti-vaibhava courses in eleven different languages. I am very grateful to my disciples for helping me expand the movement of Lord Caitanya.
I wish you all a successful Śrīla Prabhupāda book marathon. You can send me your preaching ideas and reports to jayapataka@gmail.com.
Your well-wisher always,
Jayapatākā Swami
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