Question: I sometimes become very much afraid or panic a lot for some small, small, health issues. I cannot keep myself steady and start thinking negative and worry that what will happen to me next? But Gurudev we have always seen you so much motivating and steady, even when you had gone through serious health issues! How will that same determination come in us? I often tend to break down!

Jayapataka Swami: I would hope that this determination will enter into you! Ha! Ha! By understanding how this material world has got so many problems, it is a dukhalaya. And that it is a temporary world. My dear spiritual daughter we should always remember how the...

Question: You, as always have a lot of young audience who are also watching the classes on Facebook and Zoom. So the question is more focused on the younger audience. At such a young age it is difficult to find determination and come out of laziness, to be able to perform service. If you had the drive and you had to give us the advice about the drive, what is the biggest factor that really motivated you to take up this service so diligently?

Guru Maharaj: It is quite an introspective question. Somehow Srila Prabhupada gave me a lot of mercy. And I had a lot of his personal association in the first days. So therefore it was very special. I wanted to find a bonafide guru. And I tried different paths,...