Jayapataka Swami Vani

Teachings of Srila Jayapataka Swami

Category: Experience

It is very difficult to stay focused on the goal of going back to Krishna Although I try reading and also experience suffering but how do I increase my focus?

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Krishna consciousness is a gradual process. We start by faith adhua shraddha. We hear from the authorities and then we start associating with devotees, then we start to practice Krishna consciousness, take initiation and then we start to eliminate the anarthas and then we get fixed in bhakti and then we gradually develop a taste or ruchi. We become very attached to Krishna and then we come to the stage of ecstatic love for Krishna and then when we see Krishna we get pure love of Krishna. So as your affection and love for Krishna increases, then you don’t ask such questions. You think how can I live so long without having the association of my wonderful Lord. I am not this body, I am a living force which is a part of Krishna. I am known as the jiva shakti. Sanatan Goswami, when he went to Lord Caitanya, at that time he was the prime minister of the empire of Hussain Shah and he said that people call me a great pandit but actually I am a fool because I don’t know what I am supposed to do, I don’t know who I am. So please enlighten me. So Lord Caitanya said, jivera svarup hoya nitya Krishnera das, that the living entity is eternally the servant of the Supreme Lord. So when we realized that then we won’t think it is hard to go with guru, Gauranga or Krishna. So it is a gradual process and you have to go step by step. When Parikshit maharaj was hearing the 10th canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam he had vowed that he would not eat or sleep before hearing the Srimad Bhagavatam. So I guess at least five days had gone by by that stage. Now what would we ask? I have to have a drink; can I sleep? But what did he say? Tell me some more about my wonderful Lord. Tell me what did my wonderful Lord do? Tell me more, tell me more. He was so eager. So, we have to develop that enthusiasm to hear about the Lord.

HH JAYAPATAKA SWAMI
2nd July 2018
Chennai, India

What gives you enthusiasm to glorify even under such difficult conditions?

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I was thinking Lord Caitanya He did not reveal to the people of Navadvip who He was, only few people knew. After ten years He went to the other side of the river to see Rupa and Sanatan Goswami. So the word spread that Gaura Hari is there! Gaura Hari Gaura Hari, Gaura Hari, Gaura Hari, Gaura Hari, Haribol! Mothers who were cooking milk, they neglected the milk and came running. The people whether young or old, men or women, when they hear Lord Caitanya came, they came running and then they were on this side and so went to the boat. The boatman said, wait, wait, don’t overload. But no one was waiting and the boat sunk and there was water up to the knees. People began swimming. The Ganges is normally saffron colour but it became black that day because of all people’s hair. All were chanting Gauranga Gaura Hari, Gauranga Gaura Hari, Gauranga Gaura Hari! So such were the pastimes of Lord Caitanya and the more we hear these pastimes, the more we want to serve the Lord. Although my body may not keep up now but my desire to serve Srila Prabhupad and Lord Caitanya is ever increasing! Haribol!

HH JAYAPATAKA SWAMI
24th July 2018
Chennai, India

How can I learn to depend on guru and Krishna in every circumstance?

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He is asking, ‘how to?’ How to depend on Krishna? These ‘how to’ questions, all these things are in the natural process of devotional service. Ho w to get a taste for chanting? How to practice dev service? It is in Nectar Of Devotion, it is in every book we read. And we develop such a thing gradually. But if you try to develop these qualities, depending on Krishna, associate or follow the footsteps of people that are already depending on Krishna, and then you will be able to do it very quickly. But if you don’t have anyone to follow, that depends on Krishna, then you can practice yourself. But there could be a few slips on the way. You know, if you use your intelligence, then what can you depend on? By selective process you can see that there is nothing that is dependable. There is no one else who is fixed, other than Krishna. So naturally we should depend on Him. If we depend on something else, the president, your member of the legislative assembly, Ha!, your member of parliament, your doctor, all have their limitations. Only Krishna is unlimited. So if you depend on Him, He reciprocates and He protects us. If we depend on something else, like Draupadi, she was holding on to her saree and Dushaasan was pulling. He is a maharathi, she is a woman. Then she just realized I can’t fight it, I have to depend on Krishna. So she raised her hands and said Keshava! Krishna! Keshava! Krishna! and her crying was so sincere, that Krishna became her unlimited saree! So she could not be disgraced in the Kuru assemble. Bhima, at that moment he vowed that he would really kill this guy. Kshatriyas they do such things.

HH JAYAPATAKA SWAMI
23rd March 2019
Sri Dham Mayapur, India

Comfortable position in Heavenly Planets

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“The demigods are devotees, but they are devotees of material desire, those who have material desires, then Krishna reciprocates and gives some comfortable situation. That’s why it is dangerous sometimes that a devotee in a Krishna conscious movement, if they become attached to the idea of having a very comfortable situation, and if that becomes predominating desire in their lives, then as a result, when they live their body, if that hasn’t been thoroughly transformed into pure devotion, then they may get a very comfortable situation as a devotee on the heavenly planets.”

His Holiness Srila Jayapataka Swami Gurumaharaj
10th January, 1985
Mississippi, USA

Practical Realization of the self

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“The Krsna conscious program is to give people practical realization of the self. There are many methods of religious practice, but specifically this is considered to be the topmost of all spiritual process by which one can realize their own spiritual identity.”

His Holiness Srila Jayapataka Swami Gurumaharaj
14th September ,1986
New Panihati dham, Atlanta, Georgia

Happiness is beyond the body

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In 1973 or so, I had a high fever. But after listening to Srila Prabhupad’s lecture in Vrndavan on Nectar Of Devotion, I was feeling so much bliss. But physically I had high fever and I was suffering, but spiritually I was very blissful! So I realised that the happiness of hearing Krishna, or hearing Krishna, or chanting Krishna’s names, that happiness is beyond the body. So we hope that all of you will be absorbed in the rasa, nectar of Krishna’s devotional service. While we are in this material world sometimes we will be happy and sometimes we will sad, we are in the body, but spiritually we should always be in bliss. Hare Krishna!

HH JAYAPATAKA SWAMI
14th March 2019
Sri Dham Mayapur, India

Dedicated to ISKCON Founder Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.
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