help | Jayapataka Swami

Question: I am a disciple of Bhakti Caru swami and what should I do now, could you please advise me?

Guru Maharaj: Now, when he was in Ujjain, then what did devotees in Mayapur do? When he was in America, then what did the Ujjain disciples do? So just remembering this, now that Maharaj is with Srila Prabhupada, what is our duty? Now we have to following his...

Question: Sometimes in the cause of helping someone who is depressed, we also get affected by their problems. So how can we help them without getting carried away by the problems?

Guru Maharaj: Some people are more sentimental and they get carried away by other people’s problems. But actually, as Krishna said in the Bhagavad-gita, we should not lament for the living or the dead. So by reading the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna advises how one can give...

Question: How could we help someone who needs help, but they turn away for various reasons after sometime?

Guru Maharaj: There are many reasons why we may not be able to help someone. Just like a father, he doesn’t like to hear instructions from his daughter. And in various circumstances, the relationship may be such that we cannot really instruct a person who is senior...