transcendental | Jayapataka Swami

Question: Can the conditioned souls participate in Lord Gauranga’s pastimes after developing love for Him and being engaged in His service?

Jayapataka Swami: Why not? What else do we want? If you have a strong desire to serve the Lord, why will He not allow you? Then you no longer are a conditioned soul, if you attain the love for Krsna, then you are transcendental. 14-MAY-2020 SRI MAYAPUR DHAM,...

Question: How can we also develop the surrender and love what ŚrīvāsaṬhākura had?

Jayapataka Swami: We can understand that we are like an insect, compared to Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura. He is so transcendental! He had such a loving attitude for Lord Kṛṣṇa. We can only pray to his lotus feet, that he gives us the blessing that we can also develop love for...

Question: Devotional service is always pure and transcendental, but Lord Kapiladeva says to His glorious mother Devahūti, about devotional service in goodness, passion and ignorance. How can it mix with material or material mix with devotional service?

Jayapataka Swami: Devotional service is offered for the pleasure of Kṛṣṇa, that is transcendental. If someone offers devotional service because they want to get vengeance against someone, that is in the mode of ignorance, and if they do devotional service because they...

Question: Nowadays we can often see people while fighting or arguing, they curse very easily. Should we be scared of this curse or does this curse really affect us?

Guru Maharaj: I don’t know why you are fighting with people so they want to curse you. I don’t know how much serious is the curse. We see there is some example like the dog is cursing the grapes on the tree, why they are not falling but it doesn’t affect the grapes....

Question: As it was explained in Caitanya-līlā how prasāda and mahā-prasāda and mahā-prasāda are transcendental. Can we honor the prasāda the next day if it is more though materially they seem to be stale?

Guru Maharaj: Generally, it is said that we should honor prasāda, within the time period allowed. At the same time, prasāda is always transcendental. It’s worthy of our respect. 14-Oct-2020 Śrīdhām Māyāpur, India

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