Question:, I am sincerely trying to take initiation but there are a lot of obstacles. How will this desire be fulfilled?
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Question: If someone affects our service in some way and we develop some offensive thoughts, how can we avoid it?
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Question: During Damodara month some devotees locally offer a candle and some offer LED candle, some offer a ghee lamp. Is it ok to adjust according to time, place and circumstance, to offer a LED lamp versus offering a ghee lamp
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Question: How can we change our vision of the devotees and their place of birth? Is it ever acceptable to designate a devotee as “ Bengali bhakta” “Videshi bhakta”.
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Question: Advaita says to Nityananda that he ate from the house of people from the west. Is he predicting or blessing the preaching in the west?
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Question: In one of your classes you mentioned that preaching pleases you the most. One of my principle assignments is clashing with the Mayapur Institute classes. I am in a dilemma. Please clarify Guru Maharaj.
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Question: Jagai and Madhai are two doorkeepers in Vaikuntha. In Srimad Bhagavatam 7.1.47 last sentence in the purport it says, through Lord Krsna’s body they returned to Vaikuntha. Although they seem to have attained sayujya mukti, in Krsna’s body, and they are cursed to take birth as demons for three births, why they became Jagai and Madhai since three births are completed and they are already back to Vaikuntha?
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Question: Is there any way we can relieve the suffering we have created for you by our bad karmas and irresponsible behaviour?
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Question: Even when I desire not to do mental offences, it still pops up in my mind. So how to get rid of this?
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Question: Is there anything that we can do to diminish the disinterest of devotees with ISKCON around the world? The devotees are being interested with the facilities in Iskcon and they are in other matts or other Gaudiyas. Is there any way we can collaborate with them in a way that we can favor their advance in devotional service?
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Question: How can a person motivate his son, non- devotee wife to devotional service and chanting?
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Question: In your personal life as a guru and a god brother, how have you handled relationships, if you found out someone was envious of you?
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Question: Madhudvisa. Is Krsna’s name which means envious of Madhu? If enviousness cannot be purified like the other five vices, how can Krsna be envious of someone?
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Question: What one should do if he knows the devotee is very offensive to devotees? What to do if one hears these offences?
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Question: If a disciple is not able to fulfill the instruction of the spiritual master due to some circumstances and the nature of that service being time based, is it considered offence of disobeying the spiritual master?
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Question: If the Lord cannot forgive vaisnava aparadh, does this mean that vaisnava mercy is greater than the power of the holy name?
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Question: How may I serve you for your satisfaction?
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Question: How to know whether a situation that we are facing is Krsna’s plan, or due to misuse of our minute independence given to us by Krsna?
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Question: Yesterday you mentioned in the class about Sakti Tattva, Visnu Tattva and Jiva Tattva. You said that Radharani and Asta Sakis are Sakti Tattvas. Are the Manjaris also Sakti Tattvas as they are potencies of Radharani? We learn that many spiritual masters like Bhakti Vinod Thakur, Bhaktisiddanta Saraswati Thakur were Manjaris. But we say that Guru is Jiva Tattva. So are great devotees who are Manjaris actually Sakti Tattva or Jiva Tattva? Can you please help in understanding this Guru Maharaj?
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Question: During this pandemic we preached online. But there is no way we could engage them in some service. Can you help us in some way to do that?
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Question: Sometimes our spiritual desires are not fulfilled. It seems to have an opposite result. I know with patience it may happen. How to be patient and hopeful for our spiritual desire?
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Question: Is there any difference between staying in Goloka Vṛndāvana or staying in the material world in the pure service of Lord Kṛṣṇa or Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
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Question: How can I distribute Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books to a hospital doctor or nurse or clerk?
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Question: How was it that Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya attracted to the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu? Was it Gopīnātha Ācārya’s desire?
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Question: Here we see that Lord Caitanya was forced to eat opulent prasādam. Is it okay to serve even if a person doesn’t want to eat, even breaking his order or will?
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Question: What will happen in a home altar if Kṛṣṇa and demigods along with the guru-paramparā is kept?
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Question: I have heard from a devotee that until we get kṛṣṇa-prema we have to come back to this material world. Or until we take birth in a dhāma, we will be back to this material world. But I have heard earlier that if we leave our body in dhāma we don’t come back to this material world. Please kindly enlighten gurudeva.
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Question: What should I do? I am always getting failure in reading books. I just start and read for few days and break comes. How can I overcome this problem? But I read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam every day.
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Question: I am unable to become absorbed and serious in various devotional practices. I chant, try to read daily, but everything seems to be at a superficial material level. It is frustrating at times, there is an intense desire to only serve you and other times mind is plaguing me with material thoughts. How to become steady, serious, mature and take up chanting and spreading as our life and soul? I want to preach and help others but if I am not at that level how can I inspire others?
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Question: I read the scriptures Śrīla Prabhupāda books, am fond of reading his books, but I also read my textbooks. Sometimes I get so immersed in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books that I lose taste for reading my text books. But I know that I require both. How can I maintain a balance between the two? Please advise.
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Question: What is the right mood to study Śrīla Prabhupāda books? I am very fond of reading Śrīla Prabhupāda books, so I am very happy by reading Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books.
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Question: Srila Prabhupada during distribution of books or in the month of Damodara … (how do we tell people the greatness, in the month of Damodara from Srila Prabhupada’s books)
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Question: What is the relationship of living entities with Lord Caitanya, like living entities have four types of relationship with Krsna?
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Question: So fortunate Jagai Madhai to receive such mercy. Can we also receive such mercy?
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Question: Bahulastami is considered to be the appearance of Radha Kunda. And thousands of devotees take a dip on this day. But those devotees were not able to be there on that day, how can they get the benefit of taking a holy dip?
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Question: Many devotees they want to live in Radha kunda and do their bhajan, considering that it is the supreme abode the supremely holy place. But we see that all our acaryas left Vrndavana and came to Navadvip to perform their bhajan. How to understand?
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Question: You have said previously that when the disciples are not following the regulative principles, they are the killer of one’s guru and guru gets the karma. I have also heard that if the disciple breaks the principles, they are not considered disciple and guru does not get karma?
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Question: Even though Madhai was harming Nitai, still he got His mercy. How do we get Lord Nitai’s mercy?
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Question: Radha Kunda and Syama Kunda appeared for Bhaktisiddanta Saraswati Thakur. Is it the same place where they are in Navadvip dhama? Or is there any other place they were as well in Navadvip?
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Question: During initiation, new spiritual name is given. Does the name have any important message to the disciple.
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Question: During Kartik, on Ekadasi day, can we distribute non-ekadasi prasadam to non-devotees?
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Question: We see how importance Caitanya Mahaprabhu gives to devotees having loving exchanges. Sometimes we take devotees relationships for granted or we may not give due attention and we take it easily, junior or senior, and not to take it to heart. What is the root cause for this and how can we deepen our relationship with vaisnavas?
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Question: How to attract youth to Krsna consciousness and preach to them? Methods of preaching?
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Question: How a person chooses guru? How is connection made with guru? Is there any connection from past life?
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Question: What are the parameters we should check before choosing our ashrama?
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Question: In the present society, youth are getting addicted to bad habits. How to preach to them, they are not interested in Krsna consciousness, not chanting and not taking interest. How to give them Krsna consciousness?
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Question: In Krsna consciousness we see that every process has got benefits, for example when we circumambulate Tulasi maharani, all sinful reactions are eradicated, or just by chanting one holy name, shuddha nama, we get the highest perfection. But somehow or other in our lives, we are not able to get those results. What is lacking in myself that I am not able to see that result in my life? What should I improve?
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Question: How to maintain consistency in devotional life?
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Question: What is the real equality, real equilibrium? According to devotees what is the major equality between us and non-devotees, what we need to do and what they need to do?
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Question: How to get Lord Nityananda’s mercy in our life?
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Question: I understand Draupadī’s compassion to a person who has killed her children, but when we see people who are not thinking good for us, we are perturbed. How to overcome this?
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Question: How do we make a newcomer understand about Lord Caitanya?
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Question: The heart wants to be absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and does not want to go for enjoyment of material objects, but at the same time sometimes we are attracted to enjoy and the mind pulls up to that direction, but we want to refrain from that enjoyment and devote our consciousness at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, but that does not happen. So what should we do to get this? Please say something so that we are inspired to go for devotional service.
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Question: You say when we get that higher taste nothing is comparable, but we have no idea of that taste, so it is hard for us to be steady and we keep falling down. What can we do to be fixed up and not be allured by lower tastes?
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Question: How to subdue the demoniac tendencies in us?
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Question: When a devotee accepts initiation, just like when a person is born materially and he or she is a baby and gradually grows. What is the situation of the person when he is spiritually initiated, what is the situation like in terms of material growth, is he a baby in spiritual life or is he an adult in spiritual life?
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Question: More than Gauranga, I love Nityananda (Guru Maharaj said: Nitaiiiii NItaiiiii!). I always like to be Nityananda conscious. So will it be considered as Krsna conscious?
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Question: Which is more important? Vani seva or vapu seva?
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Question: If we commit offence to dhama how can we get forgiveness for that?
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Question: Sometimes I am losing my faith and interest in chanting. How to get rid of this?
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Question: How can I know who is my spiritual master?
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Question: Is it an offence that after taking initiation not to chant on our initiated beads and can we chant on clicker? Guru Maharaj, due to rotational shifts I am mostly doing my rounds on the clicker. I feel very guilty for that but mostly I try to do it on my beads.
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Question: How to be always Gauranga conscious? How to deal with maya’s allurements?
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Question: I am distracted so much by my impressions which makes me distracted in chanting. How can I dive deep into the ocean of the holy names?
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Question: How can I increase my faith in the holy name more and more?
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Question: How to develop determination? Sometimes I take vows like in Damodara month or Ekadasi, but I am not able to follow it completely.
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Question: How can we understand that our intentions are pure while participating in devotional service?
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Question: We have started online to preach for your pleasure. Will you please kindly tell us your vision about internet preaching and how can we contribute to achieve it?
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Question: How to do best devotional service in Krsna consciousness – in preaching, nagar sankirtan and house programs?
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Question: I have a problem with my chanting Guru Maharaj. The problem is I cannot utter the holy name clearly and I am getting throat pain, so that I am not able to complete my 16 rounds, I could only do 4 rounds from 5.30 am to 7 am. Please give me any solution.
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Question: What is the difference between jiva atma and Paramatma?
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Question: How to get aasakti on Srila Prabhupada’s book reading?
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Question: How to control our mind during chanting time and also during day time?
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Question: Damodara arati in the morning time if we do it, is it ok? Or is there any difference in result if you do in the morning instead of evening?
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Question: As Damodara month is approaching from authorities’ side we are encouraged to go out and hold public programs but many of the times we don’t get permission to do so by the local authorities there, the society people or whoever. So can you give us some tips, how do we approach them and how do we get them to do some Damodara month outreach programs?
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Question: How to control envious nature of other devotees?
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Question: How to get free from material attachments?
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Question: How to get good association from devotees inside and outside the temple?
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Question: What mood should we have when we have any normal ceremonies held in dhama, like marriage, anna prasana, etc.?
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Question: Is it possible to give results of our Damodara month services to some devotee for their devotional empowerment? If so, what is the particular process to give our results to Guru Maharaj or simply by praying our results will be gone to them.
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Question: In NOD we read about how devotional service gives klesagni and removes all material distress. But we see that devotees practicing devotional service face all kinds of distress. How do we understand this?
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Question: Currently, GBC devotees hosting department, I am hosting all the GBC delegates who are coming here. I heard in sastras that athithi, someone who comes as a guest without prior intimation, we should host them very nicely in such a way that they get pleased. But currently even after intimating in advance what time they are coming, we are unable to meet their expectations. So in ancient days how did they please all the guests? And how can I carry that mood in my life and please all the vaisnavas?
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Question: Sometimes being in Krsna consciousness devotees are facing so many problems day by day. Why is it so?
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Question: We see everybody as devotees but we whom we have to take good association, who is strong? How to find?
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Question: We heard that if we sow the seed, the seed turns into a tree and then gives fruit and flowers. We should only return back home with the ripened fruits. So while we preach to students, they step back from Krsna consciousness. So what do we need to do to get them to practice to enthuse them again back to Krsna consciousness?
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Question: Sometimes during Kartik masa the devotees chant 64 rounds, but there are so many other activities which they don’t do as well then just concentration on their sadhana, their 64 rounds, going on extremes. How to balance it?
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Question: How a person who has believed in the Lord, but impersonal form, like his father is 61 years old, how can he become a devotee?
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Question: My kids are 8 and 6 years old. My husband is an occasional chanter. I have my in-laws with me. My mother-in-law and sister also stay with us. Please guide me how I can be instrumental in their spiritual life?
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Question: Some devotees are doing service only for name and fame, if I associate with them, my mind also changes and I also cannot avoid their association. What to do gurudev?
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Question: Can we use Tulasi twigs to make lamp to offer to Lord Damodara
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Question: What is the best vow to do in this month of Kartik?
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Question: If one has taken initiation with Gayatri mantra from another bona fide vaisnava sampradaya, like Sri Vaisnava sampradaya and now is inspired by Iskcon and Srila Prabhupada, can they take initiation from an Iskcon guru too? If he is chanting 16 rounds of Maha mantra, following the regulative principles, doing service in the temple?
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Question: Talking about Damodara month, we try to organize home programs as well as public programs. Out of the two, which would you be more pleased with? Which one would you like us to focus upon? House program or public program?
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Question: What is the best way we should observe this Ekadasi? What should we do?
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Question: When one enters the temple room and the curtains are open, is it proper to offer obeisances to Srila Prabhupada first and then to the deities? Which order is the best?
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Question: When we take Lord Damodara door to door for facilitating people to offer lamp and they haven’t taken bath, especially westerners, is it okay for them to offer lamps? What is the minimum cleanliness for new people required to offer lamps?
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Question: I heard Srila Prabhupada telling that it is a good mistake for a young person to eat a lot. But when we eat more, we need to spend more time on our body maintenance like sleeping. Also, on another side Rupa Goswami says, vaco vegam manaso krodha vegam, jihva vegam udaropasta vegam. So how do we reconcile these two ideas?
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Question: Is it good to be attached to the service we are doing in the temple, let it be preaching or deity related service. We being girls, we will get married in the future and go to different temples. And we may not be doing the same service there. We tend to lament that we are not able to get that service there. So how to understand this attachment to the service, and what should be our attachment?
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Question: I heard that Srila Prabhupada has made a home in which the whole world can be accommodated. I also heard that people need to add Krsna to their life and can live their life. But allowing do or doing so, they may create a legacy, they may follow their own lifestyle and culture and also will chant Hare Krsna. So that may create a legacy in ISKCON or our culture, that this also can be done. So what is your opinion on that?
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Question: Sometimes we know the answer to a question in theory but it is hard to apply that answer in our life. What is the remedy for this?
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Question: Is it good for young girls in ISKCON to follow elderly senior exemplary brahmacaris, taking them as siksa guru, utilizing that association only for spiritual upliftment? Because some devotees oppose this.
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Question: How to try and establish our teenage children in Krsna consciousness even when their rounds are not regular?
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Question: if someone fails to finish 16 rounds of chanting, can they do it next day? Is that acceptable?
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Question: How should we worship mother Ganga and Lord Siva to please them?
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Question: Most of the times we are not in the association of devotees. which gives us inspiration in our devotional service. How to be in touch with great souls so that we can practice bhakti enthusiastically?
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Question: What is the right age to start teaching Bhagavad-gita to children? Also, if we are to gift a Bhagavad-gita as a gift to a child, is there a minimum age for a child to receive?
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Question: What is the best way to reach Godhead?
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Question: How to control the mind while chanting?
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Question: You said, kevala ananda kanda. Sometimes we feel happy sometimes sad in bhakti. Why is that?
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Question: Could you please explain Bhagavad Gita 18.61. Translation: The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.
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Question: In the early days of Iskcon, young devotees were given opportunity to become leaders. Why are there so few opportunities for younger devotees to take leadership roles today?
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Question: What is more important in developing one’s taste and understanding – preaching or association of devotees – when living in a place where we cannot have both?
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Question: Beyond the TOVP, what are future projects needed in Mayapur? How can we help you develop Mayapur in the future?
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Question: Should parents who are initiated check astrology of their kids?
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Question: How much does astrology chart come true for an initiated devotee?
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Question: We know that only by the mercy of guru and Gauranga we can be a significant instrument in the hands of guru and Gauranga. So what is the right mood we should have to be in their service? Could you please help me?
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Question: We have heard many times that God is unlimited or Krsna is unlimited, but a general person asks, you say God has 64 qualities and how can you say He is unlimited?
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Question: I have this question about when we want to do preaching, the question is when is the time to start thinking big? As soon as we start chanting 16 rounds is that the expectation that we start thinking big or when is the right time? How to think big? How to implement those ideas which are in your mind and expand them so that it has a bigger impact?
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Question: I have a question from my step mother. Jamie, you call her Yamuna. Her question, She said she read in the Bhagavad-gita, I should endeavor without expectation of any results. And so she has devoted her life to helping people in different ways in her professional life and spiritual life. But sometimes she feels lonely. So how to give up this loneliness, how can she continue when the work feels lonely? She doesn’t want to feel sorry for herself or to feel alone. So she wants to give all efforts to guard and not feel any loneliness. How can she do that?
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Question: If someone is practicing Krsna consciousness and they are also hurting other devotees, but they continue to practice Krsna consciousness, it is better that, even though they are hurting devotees, isn’t it better that, good though that they are doing it and chanting Hare Krsna and taking the association of devotees? How does that balance out?
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Question: Every time we hear, we are not this body, we are the eternal soul. But when it comes to the family life, especially the child and mother relationship, even though we try to bring them up as a devotee, still that attachment is very hard to come out of it. So how can we practice?
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Question: Is that Arjuna? Devotional service, if it is non-different from Krsna, do you think you need a different crowd to talk about devotional service?
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Question: If you could please elaborate the journey of the soul when we leave this material body and we attain our spiritual body. I remember reading somewhere Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur saying the holy name carries the soul to the spiritual world and there is very descriptive details of how the soul is finally engaged in the service of Lord Krsna eventually. Of course there are a lot of stages of training and so on and so forth. I always wondered where does the spiritual master, where does he fit in, when we depart this world and we are on our journey to Goloka Vrndavana?
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Question: I was wondering about the mood that when worshiping Caitanya Mahparabhu, we worship Mahaprabhu as Krsna and we put a peacock feather also when we dress Him, but sometimes I have heard this instruction that this disturbs the mood of Lord Caitanya. In what mood should we approach?
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Question: Who are Sridevi and Bhudevi because you mentioned about Laksmi. You didn’t call them Laksmi, you called them Sridevi and Bhudevi – why?
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Question: You mentioned in the lecture that we are all like floating straws in the river, sometimes we come together as a family, sometimes we take birth elsewhere. What is the relationship between guru and disciple, if the disciple has not attained perfection and has to take birth again, will they be together?
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Question: A week or two ago you were mentioning in your class that ISKCON has various holy places, the birthplaces of the Panca Tattva. But you said that Gadadhara’s either has still not been located or we don’t have it. Can you explain a little bit about that?
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Question: We know that Lord Caitanya was known as Nimai because He was born under the neem tree. Is there any other significance or meaning to the name Nimai?
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Question: I was trying to preach to a gentleman in New York very recently and it happened before also. The gentleman was asking me that where in Bhagavad-gita it mentions you cannot eat fish, meat and all. So I told him that it is patrampuspam.. that sloka. But he was not happy. So both the times they were not happy. So I want to know if you have got any suggestion, so next time people ask me I can give a better answer.
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Question: Sometimes some congregation devotees are asking a question that they are working outside very hard. So every day they cannot complete their rounds, next day they try but they have difficulty that day as well. So what will happen? How to deal?
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Question: How can I maintain consistency in my sādhana and not get setback in change from circumstances?
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Question: How can we develop a good relationship with devotees?
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Question: If someone gets some opportunity to preaching but she has very little knowledge of scriptures and preaching, what should be her duty?
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Question: Some new people who are interested to become devotees engage in chanting of the holy name and other services, but they worship demigods also. How can we help them to focus just on Kṛṣṇa consciousness and not perform demigod worship?
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Question: How to avoid laziness and be active in Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
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Question: Bhakti Vijaya Bhāgavata Swami: Kṛṣṇa saved Pāṇḍavas from brahmāstra, why did Kṛṣṇa not save their five children?
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Question: Do the Vedas talk about any sankirtan yagna or bhakti-yoga and if they do not, why Vedas are written in such a way that they do not even mention about this blissful process?
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Question: In yoga practice we feel immediate relief and stress free situation and to develop bhakti-yoga, or chanting, Krsna consciousness or Maha-Mantra and everything, it takes little time to develop our bhakti. So what should we do that we get immediate relief and faster process of having Krsna conscious bhakti?
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Question: I am reading the Bhagavatam, second volume and it talks about, second canto, and it talks about ahankaras Will that be considered the same as karma? Because it is the knot of material and spiritual together?
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Question: Could you speak a little about the second verse of the Guruvastakam? Especially manaso rasena.
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Question: Krsna incarnates all different animals of all different species?
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Question: What is the context of this whole conversation between Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Murari Gupta?
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Question: How to explain the difference between Krsna and Visnu to a karmi? We as devotees know there are 64 qualities and there some qualities that only Krsna has. But how do you explain that to the non-devotee?
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Question: The species Srila Prabhupada says, again and again from the scriptures that no species become extinct, but our modern science tells us that dinosaurs were here and now they are extinct. And all kinds of other animals are becoming extinct. So how do we accept that? We don’t see dinosaurs walking around. We don’t see any of these animals that are said to be extinct.
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Question: How to increase the reading practice?
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Question: I have a question about Krsna consciousness and other religions in the world. In Islam and Christianity, they talk about going to the spiritual world but at the same time they are eating meat. Will they go to the spiritual world or not?
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Question: How do we keep up the strong determination in Krsna consciousness in favorable and unfavorable situation, especially the family members who are not in Krsna consciousness?
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Question: How to deal with the world where there is so much prejudice, so much fighting going on. It seems that there is so much animosity going on?
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Question: If we don’t want to go through the eight stages? Is there another easier process?
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Question: These nine processes are very difficult for me. Is there an easy one for me?
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Question: According to the Caitanya Caritamrita, I have always heard that Lord Caitanya was the Supreme Lord but He was in the guise of a devotee. Is there any evidence that He Himself knew He was Krsna?
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Question: īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe ’rjuna tiṣṭhati bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart oh Arjuna, and is directing all the wandering living entities, who are seated as on a machine made of material energy. “ He just wants me to read.
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Question: There are three types of God, Brahman, Supreme Personality of Godhead and Paramatma. What I am trying to do and I think is wrong, or maybe it is correct, that is why I am asking, is it okay to do, of course I love Krsna, you know I am here but at the same time we are connected with Paramatma, which is inside me, and Brahman which is outside, is that okay?
Jayapataka...
Question: Right now we are reading the second canto in Srimad Bhagavatam and of course there are so many questions about all the Maha Visnu and Visnu expansions. I have a question that I was wondering, was one, they are talking about, Mahavisnu lying down in the causal ocean, I was wondering what is the causal ocean? What is that? And also they talk about the ocean of milk, which Visnu is laying in the ocean of milk and where is the ocean of milk?
Jayapataka...
Question: Can you say something about your current health?
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Question: You were talking about the mindset of mother Saci when she was raising Nimai, Lord Caitanya. And Jagannath Misra said that how it changed, they wanted Him not to take sannyasa because then they didn’t want Him to leave and didn’t educate Him. So what is the mindset we should have when we are raising children?
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Question: Many years ago I was telling you about how when we first installed Gaura Nitai, we dressed Them like sannyasis. Then I said to you, maharaj, it will be so nice if we can see Lord Caitanya again as a sannyasi! You said, why do you want to see Him in that condition? It was a suffering condition. Could you please elaborate on that instruction you gave.
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Question: Saci mata thought negative about Viswarupa taking sannyasa and thought offensively about Advaita Acarya. She is a very great soul and I am very low. But sometimes negative thought, in Krsna conscious practice, we don’t want to commit any offences but sometimes some negative thoughts come in our mind of devotees. So it is because of our karma or out of habit? If it is so, how to stop erasing those negative thoughts and be saved from vaisnava aparada? Will you please help me to understand?
Jayapataka...
Question: This morning you said, when you asked me how I feel and how my body feels? It is two different ways. You said, I feel thankful for Srila Prabhupada, I am always thankful for Srila Prabhupada. But then when I said, how are you? When I asked about your body, you said, don’t ask! So it is a very powerful thing to do that differentiation. How do you do it? How do you strengthen the differentiation? How do you continuously gain power from your spiritual body?
Jayapataka...
Question: How do we get spiritual master’s blessings to understand sastras or scriptures?
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Question: Can we do Damodara arati after Kartik?
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Question: How do we encourage children to chant?
Jayapataka...
Question: If in devotional service we are faced with family problems what should we do?
Jayapatākā...
Question: At difficult times it happens that we lose certain services or we don’t have certain facilities for devotional service, which we were doing before. How can we show our surrender and dependence on Kṛṣṇa at such situations?
Jayapatākā...
Question: How Aśvattāmā released a second brahmāstra to kill Parīkṣit Mahārāja, when his first brahmāstra was fouled by Arjuna. As per my understanding from Mahābhārata, Aśvattāmā was only allowed to release brahmāstra only once since he did not know how to retract it after releasing.
Jayapatākā...
Question: Whenever we are in difficulty, we pray to Lord Narasiṁhadeva for protection. If this happens at the time of death, do we go to Narasiṁha Vaikuṇṭha or attain Goloka Vṛndāvana, as He is none other than Kṛṣṇa. Please enlighten me Guru Mahārāja
Jayapatākā...
Question: Sometimes we see politics in the movement. How to be enthusiastic in preaching and deal effectively with the issues?
Jayapataka...
Question: Recently got to see some of your magazines from Mayapur when you were very young brahmacari and then a sannyasi. I was observing that in your career as a devotee, you went on increasing your determination and surrender to Srila Prabhupada. My question was that we find brahmacaris staying for ten years or twelve years and then moving out. We find that maya’s influence is more and more. So my question is how can the new preachers and the brahmacaris stay stable and determined in Krsna consciousness for many years, standing out. Do you have some pointers to tell us?
Jayapataka...
Question: What will make you most happy that we can get your blessings for success in our spiritual life.
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Question: Yesterday you told us the pastime of Keshava Kashmiri. How the Lord was thinking how to bring his pride down and not hurt his self-esteem. So how does one do that?
Jayapataka...
Question: What happens to life before birth and after death?
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Question: How to get Krsna mercy and guru’s mercy? When we are chanting we have disturbance and so how to get over it and material consciousness and suffering?
Jayapataka...
Question: Why do Krsna and Balarama seem to have different opinions? Does this mean that there is always a right thing to do and that depends on the person?
Jayapataka...
Question: What is the fastest way to get rid of anarthas? By what service does purification happen faster?
Jayapataka...
Question: In your book Vrndavane Bhajana, you mention that sankirtan does not only mean kirtan with kohl and kartal, it also means to spread the glories of the Holy Name through other means. So for us what is the way we do sankirtan, with the actual kirtan same and other parts of sankirtan?
Jayapataka...
Question: What keeps you motivated to carry on preaching Krsna consciousness, even during your poor health condition and numerous operations?
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Question: We see that in previous years, in Prabhupada’s times, there were so many Srila Prabhupada disciples and we distributed books in millions all over the world. During the last few years although the book distribution is on the rise once again, why was there such a drop in Srila Prabhupada’s books distribution?
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Question: What is your strongest memory of Srila Prabhupada?
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Question: My question is about book distribution. One time when I was doing book distribution, I met someone from another religion, they said, I like the word Krsna. So I thought I will give him a book and he took the book. And I was a little surprised because he was from the Middle East and he said, ‘I really like Krsna.’
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Question: How do we know that an obstacle we face is Kṛṣṇa’s test or a reaction to my own offences?
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Question: Guru Mahārāja if like Arjuna where on one side I have my counsellors, my authorities, other side have my spiritual head, my spiritual master, and another side, students I have my students and others who I preach to, what would I do in a situation like this?
Jayapatākā...
Question: Even if we know that Kṛṣṇa is our sole protector and biggest well-wisher, why do we not have complete faith in times of extreme difficulties?
Jayapatākā...
Question: Dear Guru Mahārāja we have heard that Lord Gaurāṅga gave more mercy in South India after His sannyāsa than when He was in Navadvīpa before sannyāsa. But in our temples we worship Lord Gaurāṅga’s form before sannyāsa. What is the reason we worship Lord Gaurāṅga’s form before sannyāsa, though His sannyāsa form is apparently more merciful?
Jayapatākā...
Question: What time of the day should we do the tarpana for Bhisma deva? Morning or noon?
Jayapataka...
Question: Did the associates of Lord Caitanya know they were incarnations? Did Haridas Thakuir know he was an incarnation of Brahma? Did Sarvabauma Bhattacarya did he know at some stage that he was an incarnation of Brihaspati?
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Question: How do we continue our devotional service with uninterrupted, unmotivated way when we have some material problems? When everything is going good, it is easy to go on with our service in an uninterrupted and unmotivated way but when we have problems, how do we do that?
Jayapataka...
Question: Though I don’t feel taste in material contamination or violation of regulative principles, but sometimes my mind throws the idea of contamination. What should I do to stop my mind throwing ideas of impure actions?
Jayapataka...
Question: If I get Srila Prabhupada’s used clothes as prasada what should I do?
Jayapataka...
Question: On Gopastami we dress Radharani as gopa. Is it okay to dress Krsna as gopi?
Jayapataka...
Question: How does one stay sane within Krsna consciousness?
Jayapataka...
Question: Someone mentioned in Facebook question and answer that Govardhana is in Koladvip? Kindly clarify.
Jayapataka...
Question: What is the correct time for Damodara arati? Is morning arati alright?
Jayapataka...
Question: What are the different types of souls? Lord Supreme Soul and Super Soul and Soul and Jiva atma.
Jayapataka...
Question: Can I offer Radharani a watch in Mayapur?
Jayapataka...
Question: If we have difference of opinion in philosophy with some devotee, or practical application details are different, then is it considered an offence?
Jayapataka...
Question: At the time of death, if we think only of Lord Krsna or His incarnation, then we will either be liberated or get a human birth again, but as a rich or brahmana family where we can execute Krsna consciousness better. What if one thinks of his or her spiritual master only at the time of death?
Jayapataka...
Question: Can you enlighten us why do we fast half a day on the day before Lord Varahadeva’s appearance day and not on His appearance day?
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Question: Is there any difference between criticism and complaint?
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Question: We get to learn in bhakti that we should not look at any devotee on a materialistic platform, but when a devotee looks at us on a materialistic plane and criticizes us, in what way should we view that? How do we deal with this situation?
Jayapataka...
Question: What can we do to protect mother earth?
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Question: So I am kind of a neophyte devotee myself and not having a great deal within my family. So I need to lie to them at times for example, simple Ekadasi fast, I need to lie to them. Till what degree it is better? And also, I have to step down from my principles sometimes, so what (audio break)
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Question: What should be the consciousness or mood in which we have to do deities related backup services like arranging jewelry of the Lord, boutique services, after decoration etc. At times we tend to commit offences unknowingly when we are doing this service. How do we ask forgiveness for such mistakes?
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Question: I am very eager to chant every day and go back to Krsna. I really regret that I left Him and came here. Guru maharaj I have this fear that teenage, or the planets or my karma will cause obstacles to my chanting and devotion How do I combat this fear? (Audio break)
H.H.Jayapa...
Question: How can we maintain the intense mood of praying? Also please bless me to have a deep intensity in my praying always.
H.H.Jayapa...
Question: As per the sastra, what is the best way to help them align to Krsna conscious way of life to attain perfection of the stage of life they are in?
H.H.Jayapa...
Question: When we preach to youths what are some of the effective ways we can employ so that we help them to become more Krsna conscious? How to follow them up? Effective ways?
H.H.Jayapa...
Question: Sometimes under work pressure we become irritable and quarrelsome by nature. Is there any sloka or pastime that we can think of to control our anger?
H.H.Jayapa...
Question: In what mood do we observe the appearance day of Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura?
Jayapatākā...
Question: Who is more merciful – Lord Caitanya or Lord Jagannātha?
Jayapatākā...
Question: As a student I have to study my course books. But I am not able to read Śrīla Prabhupāda books. But I read very little every day regularly. What should I do about this?
Jayapatākā...
Question: I am very eager to read the books, but I cannot concentrate fully. I feel sad.
Jayapatākā...
Question: I try to read Śrīla Prabhupāda books every day, but I don’t know how to manage the time. Maybe today I read one hour, then next day maybe it is half an hour. Then again maybe time increases or maybe I only get ten minutes. So how to maintain the timing for reading more? Please instruct me Guru Mahārāj.
Jayapatākā...
Question: How to overcome fear and lamentation?
Jayapatākā...
Question: What would be our mood during doing Damodar house programs and how to inspire bhakti vrksa members to do more service during this month?
Jayapataka...
Question: When we have to leave this body, will Sri guru be there for us? One devotee gave class and said that Srila Prabhupada’s expression “fly your own airship” means you cannot depend on anyone else at that time?
Jayapataka...
Question: How to overcome the snare of maya which comes in the form of maan, puja and pratista?
Jayapataka...
Question: When we go to the burial ground, even if we don’t touch the dead body, does one has to change his brahminical thread?
Jayapataka...
Question: How to develop the mood of selflessness towards devotees?
Jayapataka...
Question: Lord Caitanya is very merciful, still we know the story of Chota Haridas, the Lord was very strict with him, can you elaborate on that?
Jayapataka...
Question: What can we do to keep an atmosphere like this, remaining in Chile when you leave?
Jayapataka...
Question: How to increase faith in the chanting of the holy names and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu?
Jayapataka...
Question: Lord Caitanya and Nityananda gave mercy to unqualified people, what is the factor that makes the progress faster or slower?
Jayapataka...
Question: I heard that Lord Caitanya He would give Prema Bhakti when somebody touched Him. As soon as somebody touched Him, He would give Prema Bhakti. Now at this time, how Lord Caitanya is giving Prema Bhakti to everyone?
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Question: I took initiation from Bhakti Abhaycaran Swami in 1989 in Lima. You know the history. At that time when my spiritual master fell down, like 18 or 19 years back. It was said at that moment that in 20 years he can come to the normal standard, good standard. 15 years. Somebody said in ISKCON that in 15 years he can come back to his normal standard. I would like to know your opinion that because now it is very required to have senior preachers in our movement.
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Question: Are there similar pastimes of Lord Nityananda during his childhood?
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Question: When Nimai became Nimai Pandit?
Jayapataka...
Question: When someone has hard times, even trying to get better by reading and chanting, but it doesn’t work, what is missing?
Jayapataka...
Question: Is there a reaction? It’s bad if someone goes to the pujari room and takes the bhoga before it is offered to the Deities because that person is hungry?
Jayapataka...
Question: According to the books of Srila Ptabhupada what a practitioner of devotional life should do, what is correct to do and what is not?
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Question: How come Lord Nityananda did not appear as Mahaprabhu’s brother?
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Question: I heard that in Gaura Lila that Subadra Devi descends as Sita Devi, Advaita Acarya’s wife. I was wondering if you could expand on her relationship with Mahaprabhu?
Jayapataka...
Question: In the last two years we heard that we don’t have to follow Srila Prabhupada but we have to follow the sastra, since it is the ultimate authority. Can you give your opinion of those statements?
Jayapataka...
Question: I was reading the Nectar of Instruction that the guru sows the seed of bhakti within the heart. But it confuses me as I think there is dormant love of Krsna already within the heart, then how can it be planted?
Jayapataka...
Question: Yesterday in class you were explaining how Mahaprabhu when He was taking sannyasa, He whispered the vaisnava sannyasa mantra, why did Mahaprabhu take sannyasa in the mayawadi lineage as opposed to a vaisnava lineage?
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Question: If you could speak a few words about what you said about being critical with ourselves and lenient with others?
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Question: You had said that Lord Caitanya when He liberated Jagai and Madhai, He said that no one should criticize them for their past wrongdoings. So my question is 1. Did anyone criticize them after Lord Caitanya asked? And if so, how did He react?
Jayapataka...
Question: I was wondering if the Mayapur project and the new temple and everything that is happening there, is how you dreamed it would be?
Jayapataka...
Question: (Audio break) Why did Lord Caitanya establish the acintya beda abeda tattva?
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Question: H.H. Bhakti Vijaya Bhāgavata Swami: Nityānanda Trayodaśī is coming up. How should we celebrate it? What should be our mood? What should I beg from Nityānanda Prabhu? Please guide us Guru Mahārāj.
Jayapatākā...
Question: How can I in every sphere of life be completely free to execute devotional service?
Jayapatākā...
Question: You mentioned heavenly beings have subtle bodies. Does it mean their gross body is subtler than earthly body? Or does it mean they have only subtle body of mind, intelligence and false ego? Do they have yuga cycle in upper planetary system or it is applicable only to us?
Jayapatākā...
Question: I have a guilt that I am not able to serve your Holiness as I am very lazy in preaching services, so please guide me how can I be more proactive in preaching services and please you?
Jayapataka...
Question: Guru Maharaj my question is, it is recommended that by following instructions of spiritual master, we can serve him. Is there any other way of pleasing spiritual master by rendering service when he is not personally present with me or personally given an instruction?
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Question: My body is diseased and I am not able to chant nicely. Even many times I am not able to serve your first instruction to chant 16 rounds and I am full of anarthas, my heart is not pure yet and I am not able to chant. I am very much worried that chanting is the only process from which I can clean my heart, but I am not able to do so. So Guru Maharaj, how will I purify myself and get out of my anarthas and get your mercy and get Krishna’s love?
Jayapataka...
Question: How can we increase our determination and dedication because even after hearing so many lectures, our taste in bhakti is not increasing?
Jayapataka...
Question: One devotee’s family is suffering from corona. So she is in anxiety or a fearful situation. So, she was asking a question, she couldn’t join in, but she is asking.
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Question: I have heard that Srila Prabhupada has said that we should simply hear while we chant, we should not think about anything, but it is very difficult to keep the mind focused only on the sound vibration. So, is it bona-fide to think of our favorite Krishna Deity or picture or even Gaur-Nitai Deity or picture and pray to them while chanting as actual picture it is not always possible to see. Also, is it bona-fide to think about Krishna’s pastimes, qualities, instructions, etc.,while chanting?
Jayapataka...
Question: How to avoid depressing thoughts of suicide?
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Question: Is it okay for the unmarried girls to get initiation, like before marriage, because sometimes, they end up marrying non-devotees, or their parents force them to marry a non-devotee or there is not Krishna conscious environment at their home, so they are not able to practice nicely so is it okay if they get initiation before marriage?
Jayapataka...
Question: Is it mandatory for girls to enter grihastha ashram? Can a girl practice pure Krishna consciousness and serve spiritual master, ISKCON without marriages? Isn’t marriage an obstacle in advancement in her spiritual life?
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Question: How to develop love for Krishna? In spite of all the knowledge, we end up doing things mechanically, like we know that we should chant attentively, we know that we should do all the devotional activities out of love for Krishna, but we do things mechanically. So how to develop this attitude so that we would be able to achieve the love for Krishna?
Jayapataka...
Question: There are so many spiritual masters, we are associated with directly or online, is there any guidelines to choose spiritual master? How to choose a guru and how can we know when we are eligible to take initiation?
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Question: In nectar of devotion, it is said that devotional service is very rare. Lord easily offers liberation but He rarely agrees to offer a soul devotional service because by devotional service, the Lord is Himself purchased by the devotee. So how can we understand this? Is it the greatest fortune that we have got to do devotional service or we are still on the periphery of devotional service because we also know that we are not pure at this stage.
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Question: Even after doing chanting, reading, and being into bhakti for many years, sometimes, it becomes a very doubtful situation whether really Krishna is there or if He is there, he is watching Me, He is bothered about me or not, or whether it is like this Krishna Conscious process is really true to be followed or not? What to do in such a doubtful situation?
Jayapataka...
Question: How can I improve myself in engaging myself more in spiritual service? 16 rounds chanting, nirjala fasting on Ekadasi, attending the bhakti vrksa and association with devotees I am doing presently. What more can I do?
Jayapataka...
Question: Why do we worship the deities multiple times in a day and Tulasi arati twice a day? Why cannot we have it just one time?
Jayapataka...
Question: What is the significance of holding mangala arati at 4.30 in the morning? Why cannot we do that whenever we get up?
Jayapataka...
Question: Can we match the sambanda, abhideya and prayojana with sandini, samvit and Hladini?
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Question: Narasaraopet where Krsna ran from Kalayavana. Kalayavana was probably deploying his army in Mathura or Dwaraka and both places are far away from Narasaraopet, so how could he have run to that place?
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Question: I got shelter on Sunday, please let me know what are your instructions Guru Maharaj?
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Question: How do we get that vision to see Krsna in every action, in practicality, in every step of our life, being a grihastha we are involved in so many things?
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Question: What is the message for future next generation of ISKCON?
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Question: How do we understand whether we are progressing in devotional service or not?
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Question: If the man is applying for brahminical, should the wife also apply and get the second initiation together?
Jayapataka...
Question: I do this transcription service. Generally, when we do some service and we satisfy the authority – the temple authority or the authority has given us that particular service, if we satisfy them, it is not possible for you to know what service each of us are doing. But when we serve our authority and satisfy them, does it mean that you are automatically satisfied with us Guru Maharaj?
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Question: Should we take up a service that we are good in or, should we take up a service which is given to us, which we do as a matter of duty? So what kind of service we should take?
Jayapataka...
Question: The other night, when I came down to check how you were doing, it was 2 in the morning. I realized there is something that you were up and had some major realization, is that something you do, at 2 in the morning? You were very excited about this realization about Brahma at the beginning of day? Is this something you can explain to me or is it none of my business? I am sorry Guru Maharaj, I didn’t understand you at that time because your mask was on, but I think it was this story that you were telling at 2 in the morning. If I am overstepping, I sincerely apologize.
Jayapataka...
Question: There is an art, everyone says, Guru Maharaj makes everyone feel important. How can we learn this art?
Jayapataka...
Question: You said that Keshava Kashmiri was a devotee of Saraswati who told him that she was the wife of Lord Visnu, Lord Caitanya. But we think that Saraswati is the wife of Brahma.
Jayapataka...
Question: Please can you tell your first interaction, when did you see Srila Prabhupada for the first time?
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Question: In Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna explains different kinds of yoga and at the end He says bhakti yoga is the greatest and you surrender unto Me. Why this is contradictory to what Lord Krsna has spoken in Bhagavad-gita where He talks about different yogas and He says leave everything and just surrender unto Me. So why He actually gave these processes and why at the end He is contradicting His own statement?
Jayapataka...
Question: When you said that Lord Caitanya delivers but does not kill the people. How to deal with the kind of people that say you should believe in my God or I will kill you?
Jayapataka...
Question: I am new to Krsna consciousness. My father and I have a distant, toxic relationship, What can I do from where I am, to help him find peace in his life, while still protecting my spiritual development?
Jayapataka...
Question: What does it mean to get initiated? How to get initiated? I am still new in Krsna consciousness.
Jayapataka...
Question: I work as a cashier at a grocery store. The store sells fruits, vegetables, and amongst other things, meat. Can I get brahminical initiation?
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Question: What are souls who go to Brahma jyoti doing? Are they engaged in any activity?
Jayapataka...
Question: How do I inspire myself to wake up at Brahma muhurta time and chant?
Jayapataka...
Question: What is the difference between power, misuse of power and the relation between power and devotional service?
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Question: What was your last conversation about, with Srila Prabhupada?
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Question: You went with Srila Prabhupada to Panihati, what was your experience?
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Question: I have a question about milk products. Many devotees have different opinions about buying regular milk from the store or they are becoming vegans. I want to know what is your position?
Jayapataka...
Question: The consciousness of the cook goes into the food. Does it apply even to the bhoga made at the temple kitchen?
Jayapataka...
Question: Austerity is needed to grow in our bhakti, can you advise what type of austerities can make one hard hearted?
Jayapataka...
Question: Preaching is very dear to you. (Guru Maharaj said: yes). That means it is very dear to Srila Prabhupada and Krsna. Then why do we get obstacles in preaching?
Jayapataka...
Question: How to develop pure love for Krsna?
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Question: How does one conquer fear of a subtle entity that is attacking and also deal with the bodily stress, anxiety caused by them?
Jayapataka...
Question: How do I know the Absolute Truth? Krsna says, learn the truth from someone who has seen the truth.
Jayapataka...
Question: Sometimes I feel like chanting becomes a burden. You always share how the bliss experienced from chanting is endless. When does chanting change from being a burden?
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Question: Is wearing a black dress, shirt, jacket, not good and why?
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Question: How can we bring our friends in Maya into Krsna consciousness, without losing their goodwill?
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Question: Just by saying Gauranga, one will be delivered from more sins than one can commit. Please help us understand this.
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Question: This process of bhakti yoga is a joyful process. My question guru maharaj says Locanadas Thakur says viṣaya chāḍiyā, se rase majiyā, mukhe bolo hari hari, so (inaudible)
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Question: When you go to visit the homes of devotees in Mayapur, they become Sripat also right?
Jayapataka...
Question: What devotional services we can perform to attract Lord Nityananda’s mercy? Apart from preaching maybe!
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Question: Is it good to have pride in saying, yes I follow Krsna consciousness in front of non-devotee or who does not follow Krsna consciousness? Because sometimes they kid us that you follow Krsna consciousness, you are from ISKCON, you don’t go to restaurants.
Jayapataka...
Question: In Caitanya Caritamrita it is mentioned that Caitanya Bhagavat is the essence of Srimad Bhagavatam. So what is the necessity of reading Srimad Bhagavatam?
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Question: Can you explain about building a two storey building in Panihati, I did not understand why?
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Question: Can you explain how to understand the three confidential reasons?
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Question: What has been the biggest challenge you faced in your career as a devotee?
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Question: In grihasta life most of the time it is very challenging to balance the family life as well as spiritual life. So how do we handle the situation so we can make spiritual advancement?
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