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Question: What should be our mood while celebrating Panihati festival?

Jayapataka Swami: There are many senior devotees here. You can get the input. But I am in the glass room and the door is locked. I would think that our mood should be one of service. We want to satisfy Lord Nityananda. We want to help great devotees like Das...

Question: Is there any equivalent pastime in Krsna lila with Panihati?

Jayapataka Swami: You see, the cowherd boys would take their lunch in the forest with Krsna. And that was the pastime that Lord Nityananda was doing in Panihati. He was accepting all the brahmanas and the associates as cowherd friends. So that is the pastime....

Question: During this lockdown, how can we celebrate Panihati festival at home?

Jayapataka Swami: Since they, I don’t know where you are, in Mayapur, since the government is allowing ten people in each place of worship, so we are letting the devotees come for darshan for the first time in 72 days. But otherwise, in other places, people can mix...

Question: Tomorrow is Pānihāṭi festival. Devotees in China do not have ciḍā. They are asking what they can cook to offer and how they can celebrate?

Jayapataka Swami:You don’t have flat rice? It is a good business to start there,no competition. I saw ladies in the village hammering out rice and making it flat rice, Ha! with a type of a hammer that was at the end of a log, and they danced on the log and the log was...
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