19811013 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.10.55

The following is a class given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on October 13, 1981 in Washington DC, USA. The class begins with a reading from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 9, Chapter 10, Text 55.

premṇānuvṛttyā śīlena
praśrayāvanatā satī
bhiyā hriyā ca bhāva-jñā
bhartuḥ sītāharan manaḥ
(ŚB 9.10.55)

premṇā anuvṛttyā — because of service rendered to the husband with love and faith; śīlena — by such good character; praśraya-avanatā — always very submissive and ready to satisfy the husband; satī — chaste; bhiyā — by being afraid; hriyā — by shyness; ca — also; bhāva-jñā — understanding the attitude (of the husband); bhartuḥ — of her husband, Lord Rāmacandra; sītā — mother Sītā; aharat — simply captivated; manaḥ — the mind.

Translation by His Divine Grace, Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda: Jaya! Mother Sītā was very submissive, faithful, shy and chaste, always understanding the attitude of her husband. Thus by her character and her love and service she completely attracted the mind of the Lord.

Purport by Śrīla Prabhupāda: As Lord Rāmacandra is the ideal husband (eka-patnī-vrata), mother Sītā is the ideal wife. Such a combination makes family life very happy. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ (Bg 3.21): whatever example a great man sets, common people follow. If the kings, the leaders, and the brāhmaṇas, the teachers, would set forth the examples we receive from Vedic literature, the entire world would be heaven; indeed, there would no longer be hellish conditions within this material world.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Ninth Canto, Tenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “The Pastimes of the Supreme Lord, Rāmacandra.”

Jayapatākā Swami: The Lord as Śrī Rāmacandra has come, given the perfect example, how one should act as a King, as a human being. (Bell rings) Although He is the Lord Himself, He was playing this pastime or acting in that pastime. The Lord is accompanied by His pleasure potency. He is accompanied by His pleasure potency, Sītā Devī who is also the reservoir of all good qualities.

The Lord Rāmacandra and Mother Sītā, when They were banished to the forest, exiled to the forest for fourteen years, then at that time it was revealed that, They went and visited Navadvīpa dhāma. They visited Navadvīpa dhāma accompanied by Lakṣmaṇa and were enjoying the transcendental beauty. There is specifically a place in Navadvīpa which is not different from Ayodhyā.

In Navadvīpa, each holy dhāma is manifested eternally. There you will find Rādhā-kuṇḍa, Śyāma-kuṇḍa, Govardhana, you will find Narasiṁha-tīrtha, Prabhāsa-tīrtha, all the different holy places. They have all taken shelter in Navadvīpa which is known as Tīrtharāja or Mahārāja, as the greatest of the tīrthas. Because in Navadvīpa, unlike other tīrthas, there is no offense taken.

For instance, if one goes to Vṛndāvana and commits an offense, that is a permanent scar on one’s devotional service. Or a very deep scar that can… Just like, when one worships Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deities, that’s very, ah, one has to be very careful because Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worship is on spontaneous love, so if one is worshiping on the platform of sādhana or strict rules and regulations, he has to be very careful. Similarly, the holy dhāmas like… of course which Vṛndāvana is the sacred place of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the summum bonum līlā-sthāna. But even in Vṛndāvana, if one commits an offense that he can be spiritually harmed.

While in Navadvīpa, Lord Caitanya Nityānanda they don’t take any offense. Rather it has been shown that, devotees like Jagāi, Mādhāi, even Mādhāi personally hit Nityānanda on the head causing blood to come, injuring Him, he was forgiven.

Devānanda Paṇḍita who was a great offender. Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura was in his class. He was reading the Bhāgavatam. But he was more a scholar than a devotee. Rather he was a scholar – Devānanda. While Śrīvāsa is a pure devotee, the Pañca-tattva Śrīvāsa. When he started to read about the qualities of Kṛṣṇa, Śrīvāsa became overwhelmed and he, he started to choke up and he fell unconscious right in the class.

He said, “What a disturbance to my class, Wake him up!”

But he was in samādhi. You see, so they couldn’t wake him up.

So he said, “Take him out, sleeping in my class.”

He doesn’t even know, what a, who a pure devotee is? What a?! He was so ignorant. So, they dragged him out, the students and threw him outside. And he came and he saw that he was thrown out of the class, he was very offended. What could he do? So, he left.

After that Lord Caitanya, He severely chastised Devānanda Paṇḍita, “You rascal, you call yourself an ācārya, teacher.” Not that he was a… he was a… teaching a teacher. And so… but even he was forgiven eventually by the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu for his offenses. So, in that regard, Navadvīpa is very dear to all the devotees. Because we know that, by serving in Navadvīpa even for one night, it is like spending, going to all the holy places in India. And for spending even three days in Navadvīpa, it is like spending one month in the seven main tīrthas of India, of the world.

So Rāmacandra with His good wife Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa, They all went to visit Navadvīpa. As soon as Rāmacandra entered in to Navadvīpa, He started to laugh and Sītā Devī said, “Why are you laughing?”

And He said, “Well, I am laughing thinking of My pastime here in the Kali-yuga.”

She said, “What do you mean?”

He said, “Well in the Kali-yuga, I come here and I distribute freely love for God, chanting the Holy names. Here I spent twenty-four years, then I left my mother and my young wife, and I took sannyāsa and preached all over.”

Sītā Devī said, “That’s a terrible thing. You left Your wife?! I hope that You never do that to me?” [laughter]

And Rāmacandra said that, “No, you are going to come as My wife then, and the whole life you are going to be feeling the separation from Me.”

Sītā Devī says, “It’s a very… It’s a very horrible thing to be without Your association.” [bell ringing]

“Well, you will experience My association through separation then.”

So, then They were able to have, She was able to have the darshan of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, His form like that, then They went to Daṇḍakāraṇya and other places. So actually, in uh, this Kali-yuga, five hundred years ago, Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared. And He appeared, of course along with all of His associates.

The Lord doesn’t come alone. The Lord is not alone. Just as much as we were discussing Rāmacandra, He is a great King. A King, without a Kingdom, doesn’t pull very much weight. A King means, he has got ministers, he has got various uh, subjects, a kingdom, this is a King. If there is some, heads of state who have been exiled like that Princess Tikaluka or something and this one that one, but they have no Kingdom. So of course, sometimes they get a newspaper article, but actually they don’t have very much to say or do without a Kingdom. A King without a kingdom is not very important. A King with the kingdom is very important. So just like that, the Lord has no great significance, if He didn’t have anyone to be the Lord of.

If there was no creation, if there were no living entities, no energies, then to be the Supreme Lord, you would be the only one to appreciate that. But because He has expanded Himself into so many individual living entities, into so many plenary portions and into so many internal potencies, external potencies, therefore, He has come into a proper perspective.

So Śrīla Prabhupāda has instructed us that, “The Vedic conclusion is that as living entities, as individual spirit souls, we should understand our position and we should be satisfied in our position. That Kṛṣṇa, as the Supreme Lord, as the summum bonum of everything, of course, we can understand His unique singular position, one without a second, but our position as one of the unlimited individual living entities is still very significant.”

The living entities are eternal. They are also indispensable. They have an eternal position with the Lord. Just as much as sunlight is necessary, the sun and sunlight both are necessary. What is the sun without sunlight? What is the sunlight without the sun? So Kṛṣṇa is ādi, He is original. But our relationship with Him, our position and relation to Him is also permanent. So, we should be satisfied in our original and real position as His eternal servant.

In any other type of position, we are artificially trying to position ourselves or situate ourselves. We are naturally the servant of Kṛṣṇa. We are His part and parcel. So rather than trying to artificially assume some other type of position, we should take what is our real post, and be satisfied in that. We’ll automatically, we’ll be satisfied in that. It’s because we are artificially trying to be the Lord, artificially trying to enjoy the external energy, when in fact, we are the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, we are His part and parcel. Because of this mistaken idea, therefore we are suffering and being kicked by māyā.

kota nidrā jāo māyā-piśācīra kole - how long will we remain sleeping in the lap of the witch māyā? So Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to deliver all the living entities from ignorance. But in this Kali-yuga the living entities are so fallen. They are so devoid of the desire for spiritual advancement that He has given His ultimate mercy. He has given His ultimate mercy, Kṛṣṇa consciousness to deliver all the living entities, Kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāmṛta.

So, when Lord Caitanya came, He didn’t come alone. He came with all of His personal associates, with those great devotees. Those great devotees would go with Caitanya Mahāprabhu in his residence, in the residence of Śrīvāsa, and they would chant in kirtan. Lord Caitanya and they would also chant out in nagara-kīrtana in the streets. So, Lord Caitanya was saying, “Why should we sleep the whole night like a dead man? Let’s chant Hare Kṛṣṇa the whole night.” So, they would come together and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa in Śrīvāsa’s house, sometimes they go to His uncle Candrasekara’s house and chant. But that would be a closed-door affair. And Lord Caitanya there would manifest His servitorship to Himself. He was in the mood as a devotee. So, He would always be manifesting His mood as a devotee.

With His arms raised in the air He will be crying “Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa” in great separation and the devotees would be overwhelmed with His mood of separation. Sometimes He would become jubilant and shout out and jump. Sometimes He suddenly, boom… falls in the ground and unconscious and the devotees would… hearts would be completely shook. Nityānanda would run and grab Him before He hit the ground.

Sometimes He’d become so heavy that at every step the whole earth would quake, just shake because He was the weight of the whole universe, being Jagannātha, being the Lord of the universe. And sometimes in His ecstasy, He would become so absorbed in Kṛṣṇa that He would become as light as a cotton ball. And the devotees would lift Him up with one finger and pass Him around over their heads [laughter]. And He would be in trance, in ecstasy. And the devotees would be chanting kīrtana, and passing Lord Caitanya around [laughter].

I heard it, in this year in Bhagavān’s zone they were passing Brahmānanda around. I don’t know if he became light as a cotton ball or… [laughter] Brahmānanda Swami.

So sometimes Caitanya Mahāprabhu would become so hot that the devotees would take the sandalwood paste and put it on His forehead. And just like when you put water in a skillet, tsh how it just, phew phew, it would just immediately dry, just as soon as it was applied, dry [laughter]. So hot and the devotees were getting very anxious.

You see, and then sometimes Lord Caitanya would be so cold that to touch Him, just freezing. Then everyone would get in. Mother Śacī would get in such anxiety seeing Lord Caitanya fall like that, that she was praying to Kṛṣṇa, “I can’t take it, I can’t stand to see Lord Caitanya when He falls down like that. I think every bone in His body must be breaking. When my Gaurāṅga, my Nimāi falls like that, please have Your mercy on me, that I… that I don’t, either He doesn’t do it or I can’t see it when it happens.”

Just like one time, Śrīla Prabhupāda was in Calcutta, one of the servants was leaning out the window right next to him, to get that… a neem twig off the… there was a little neem tree in the back there, and then Prabhupāda saw him leaning out over the… over the third st… you know, it was a big double English story, so it’s like a third story height and uh, said “What are you doing?”

“I am just getting you a neem twig Śrīla Prabhupāda.”

He says, “Don’t do it.”

He says, “There is no other way to get it.”

“Well at least don’t do it in my vision” [laughter]

“Too much anxiety.”

So, mother Śacī couldn’t stand to see the, the falls of Caitanya, So Lord Caitanya blessed her that, whenever the kīrtana is going on, as soon as she heard the kirtan, she became absorbed in trance. And at that time, she didn’t know what was going on. She was there. She was completely absorbed in kṛṣṇa-prema and she would just be meditating on Kṛṣṇa in complete ecstasy, and then the kīrtana and the other things that were going on were more or less external for her. In this way she was not put in anxiety when Lord Caitanya fell.

Sometimes Caitanya Mahāprabhu assumed the mood as Īśvara, as the Lord. And at that time, it was a completely different. Those devotees like Advaita were running after Caitanya Mahāprabhu to get His dust from His lotus feet, but who couldn’t do it when He was in His devotional attitude, because rather He would be going for their dust, and He would worship Advaita. But when He was as the Lord, then Advaita could worship Him, and all the devotees liked it when Lord Caitanya would assume His mood as the Lord. But when He would assume His, His actual līlā here as a devotee, then they would have to co-operate with Him in that mood. So, these devotees were very experts, so it was a closed-door for these type of devotees, so they were able to experience these pastimes of Lord Caitanya.

Others who were criticizers, who were envious in different ways, they were not allowed to come in. They wouldn’t have understood what was happening. They would stare, it is not they would go by and stand outside, still they were attracted by Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His devotees, so they would stand by outside the door of Śrīvāsa’s house and speculate, “What are they doing inside there?” [laughter]

And there would be three, four would be standing there and one would say, “Well, I think they must be drinking” [laughter] “They must be taking some alcohol or something.”

“Yes, that’s it they are all. You can hear them shouting.”

“Yeah, they are howling.”

“Oh! What’s that ‘Haribol!’? They must be chanting… they must be drinking, otherwise how they could be shouting so much?” [laughter]

“Yes, they are… these people, watch!” Just… then, going on and on. They’re just offending and offending. Only place you could ever get away with that is Navadvīpa-dhāma. [laughter]

So then uh, you know, sometimes they said, “What they’re doing in there?”

“Oh! They must be having some type of orgy or something. They even…”It is going on and on, so many bogus criticisms. So, sometimes a simple person would come and hear the kīrtana and stop and say, “Oh! How beautiful!”

Said, “What do you mean? Don’t you know what they do it in there?”

Said, “Well! All I know is that, those who are inside there with Him, they are very fortunate. And we’re out here, because we are very unfortunate. Otherwise, we would be in there, [laughter] enjoying the Hari-kīrtana.”

“Oh! So, you’re one of them, huh?”

You know, then point their finger and intimidate the person at walkaways.

“You’re a Hare Kṛṣṇa!” [laughter]

And of course, you know from Caitanya-caritāmṛta, how some of these criticizers, when they put blood and all kind of offering uh, for worshipping Kāla-bhairava or Caṇḍī, I forgot, one of the goddesses of tāmasika-pūjā. Bhavānī. And Bhavānī, one of the forms of the Lord… miss… rather, Devī Durgā. And of course, Śrīvāsa came out and saw that, called all the brāhmaṇas, said, “Look it, I have been doing Bhavānī-pūjā!”

Everyone laughed. They knew that Śrīvāsa a pure Vaiṣṇava. “This envious people…” so they brought the sweepers, and they cleaned that place and threw Ganges water. And then that Cāpāla Gopāla who is one of the… he got leprosy for his offenses. But later, he was delivered by Lord Caitanya. Even if someone commits an offense in the Holy-dhāma, they get punishment, but it’s in such a way that, eventually they can also get delivered. It’s a very special mercy.

So, the devotees who were inside, of course, they were the most fortunate. Even they are outside, they were fortunate. Even they are, still they are born in Navadvīpa, then they could see Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they could hear Him, they could have that vision. We are so unfortunate, we are not able to have that transcendental darśana.

At least somehow or another Lord Caitanya has sent His… has sent Śrīla Prabhupāda and given us the association of pure Vaiṣṇavas. Otherwise, we were simply floating in the ocean of nescience, with not even a drop of spiritual life, simply as dead men, simply biding time until our next transmigration.

So, this is all Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy and the mercy of His devotees, that this Kṛṣṇa conscious movement is spreading all over the world. So that kīrtana began, there in Navadvīpa at Śrīvāsa Aṅgan. So sometimes Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He would reveal to the devotees who were with Him, what their real character was. And the devotees, they didn’t know who they were, in their previous births. Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He knew, but the other devotees, they didn’t know. Just like, Caitanya Mahāprabhu called Murāri Gupta and told, “Murāri Gupta, you are My eternal servant.” This is when mahāprakāśa, when He was in the mood as the Lord. He said, “You are actually Hanumān”

Devotee: Jaya.

Jayapatākā Swami: And at that time, Lord Caitanya assumed His form as Rāmacandra. He assumed His form as Rāmacandra, and He was accompanied by Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa, and all around there were monkeys running, all the hoards and then Murāri Gupta saw his own spiritual form as Hanumān, and he became immediately overwhelmed and he became unconscious. Then he came, Caitanya called him, “Murāri” and he came up and He said that, “In every appearance you are assisting Me. You are assisting Me in coming as my devotee. So now I want to give you a boon. What you want? You just tell Me. I am giving you a boon. You want liberation, mystic power? What is that you want?”

And Murāri Gupta, he said, “I simply want to be Your servant. I want to be Your servant birth after birth. Wherever You appear, there if I can serve You. And if that’s not possible, then at least that I can have the association of Your devotees. This is my only desire.”

So, then Caitanya Mahāprabhu blessed him with pure love for Godhead and He said that, “Anyone who criticizes Murāri Gupta, anyone, his spiritual life is then immediately finished.”

Because Murāri Gupta, if someone thinks, “Well, he was a physician. He was a…” Someone thinks, “Well, this person is not a great devotee.” If someone just criticizes him consciously or unconsciously actually criticizes out of some envy, purposefully… not unconsciously, purposefully criticized him, especially, then Lord Caitanya would not forgive him. So exalted was Murāri Gupta. So dear to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu that He couldn’t… He just would not tolerate any criticism of Murāri Gupta. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He is a combination of Kṛṣṇa and of course within Him there is also Rāmacandra.

That’s why sometimes Caitanya Mahāprabhu would show His six-handed form. The two hands of Kṛṣṇa are playing on the flute. The flute is attracting the minds of all the devotees giving pure love, giving pure love for Kṛṣṇa. The ecstatic… the… especially the main purpose of the flute is attracting, attracting one by the beauty of Kṛṣṇa, by His transcendental qualities. Then Rāmacandra, He has got the bow and arrow. He shoots the demon, shoots the demon in the heart. Just like Rāmacandra killed Rāvaṇa. I heard yesterday you had a big līlā, defeating Rāvaṇa on behalf of Lord Rāmacandra. So that, also the demon in our heart, the demon in our heart which wants to make us the enjoyer, us the Lord, he has to be rooted out. So Rāmacandra can shoot him with His divine arrow. Then the other two arms, Caitanya Mahāprabhu carrying the daṇḍa and the water pot. So, with the daṇḍa, He beats the impersonalists and the arguers, with His daṇḍa, defeats them. And with His kamaṇḍalū, with His water pot, He throws the amṛta water, which gives pure love for Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is attracting and Lord Caitanya is giving the pure love from His water pot. So, Lord Caitanya is both defeating the impersonalists, the Māyāvādīs, the arguers and He is also giving pure love for Kṛṣṇa. So, this is the six-armed form, Ṣaḍ-bhuja of Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

So, there is a parallel between Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes and Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes and Rāmacandra’s pastimes. In that, just as, there was a great separation between Sītā-devī and Rāmacandra, so Viṣṇupriyā, she also suffered a great seperation from Caitanya Mahāprabhu, being only sixteen years old when He took sannyāsa and worshiping His lotus feet for… He sent His shoes to him. And she worshiped His shoes from His lotus feet, her whole life.

Actually, we can understand that, when our beloved… our… and respected previous ācārya, Śrīnivāsa Ācārya visited Navadvīpa that he was greeted by Vaṁsīdāsa Bābājī, Vrajavāsī dāsa Bābājī, the personal servant of Viṣṇupriyā. And he went before Viṣṇupriyā, paid his obeisances, prostrated himself, she is also known as Īśvari because she is internal potency just like Jāhnavā-devī internal potency, they’re not ordinary living entities. So, this was after Caitanya Mahāprabhu had disappeared.

She was very thin. Her hair was unkept, her clothes, everything, she was just not sleeping, not eating, just chanting day and night in complete separation of the Lord. Still, she looked just like the radiant sun, just behind a cloud, couldn’t keep the light in. You could see that she was so effulgent.

When he bowed down, she put her lotus foot on his head and blessed him. And then she sat down and told him that, “Last night, Caitanya Mahāprabhu had come to me in a dream, He sat down next to me in such siddhic and then called me, I sat next to Him, put his arm around me and He told me that, ‘There is one devotee of mine, very dear who has suffered a great deal.’”

This was after Śrīnivāsa has suffered separation missing Caitanya Mahāprabhu, separation of Gadādhara, separation of Nityānanda and Advaita. He was so many times thrown in to the ocean of, into the pits and oceans of separation.

He said, “So, he has suffered a lot. You give him your special mercy and you send him after meeting all of the devotees here in Gauḍa-deśa. You send him to Vṛndāvana to meet Rūpa and Sanātana, so that he can study the Bhāgavatam there.”

Because Śrīnivāsa Ācārya was very eager to study the Bhāgavatam under a pure devotee.

One cannot simply study the scriptures, without, without any guru, without a spiritual master. Just as much as by reading a book, one doesn’t become a surgeon or even more so. Even someone reads a book and could become a surgeon which I think is unheard of in the world. You cannot read the scripture and become a devotee, without spiritual master.

So Śrīnivāsa Ācārya knew that, so he was searching for a spiritual master, but he was just failing to achieve. Just before he would get to a place, the person would disappear. So, then Śrīnivāsa Ācārya thus got the blessing of mother Viṣṇupriyā. But you can see that how she was completely absorbed in separation, thin, unkept materially, but spiritually effulgent, nonetheless, completely spiritually effulgent. So, she was in that ocean of separation. Then soon after, she again left this world, and joined Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

In these pastimes, ultimately Kṛṣṇa is the fountainhead of all pastimes, and Lord Rāmacandra is representing one portion of those pastimes. He has His own unique pastime. But they are moods which are contained within Kṛṣṇa’s mood. Therefore, He is understood to be a partial expansion of Kṛṣṇa.

Śrīn… Sanātana Gosvāmī has described that Ayodhyā as a place which is above Vaikuṇṭha and below Goloka. It’s just in the middle there. Just beyond Ayodhyā is Dvārakā. But Rāmacandra is an unique. He is above the Nārāyaṇa forms of the Lord.

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu has so kindly come down with His associates, who are present in Rāma-līlā as well as the associates who were present in Kṛṣṇa-līlā. And He is delivering the pure nectar. He is giving, what has never been given before, that is pure love for Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa-prema, which is the prayojana or the summum bonum, that highest objective of life, highest goal, highest achievement. He is freely giving it out, without considering, “This person is qualified, this person is unqualified. pātrāpātra-vicāra nāhi - who is qualified and who is unqualified, He is not considering. He is giving to whoever has a desire, whoever is a little interested.”

Even sometimes the devotees are getting delivered, simply by the mercy of another devotee. Even they were not very interested, even they were not very qualified at all or unqualified, simply by the mercy, they are given. So, this is very rare.

Actually, if you think about the opportunity to get Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy, that we were born four, five hundred years… five hundred… four hundred and ninety-six year… well four hundred and some years after Caitanya Mahāprabhu, we were born, and if we think that, “What this chance is, that Lord Brahmā’s one day is a thousand ages, and a thousand ages… each age is four million three hundred thousand years. So, thousand, that means what? Four billion three hundred thousand, three hundred million years, if I am not wrong in my mathematics. So, take one-hundred-year segment, or whatever percentage of that we are going to live, that we have just appeared, this chance comes after four billion years you get the association of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Except by some rare opportunity if someone stumbles across Gupta Vṛndāvana, Navadvīpa which is uh, very hidden anyway. Very hard to find that tract of land, where Caitanya Mahāprabhu is eternally residing. Apart from that, His manifested pastimes, they only appear once in every four billion three hundred million years. He only comes after Kṛṣṇa. So, we are so fortunate. We shouldn’t let this chance go by.”

Sometimes here devotees talk, “Well, if we miss the Kali-yuga…” Of course, you may get delivered by other incarnations, but the kṛṣṇa-prema, pure love for Kṛṣṇa, to be transferred to Goloka Vṛndāvana, it’s very difficult. Even we see Kṛṣṇa Himself, who would only give His mercy to people completely surrendered to Him. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu has given even to those who are not completely surrendered. Simply they are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, they are trying to serve, He gives them His mercy, inconceivable mercy. And thus, they become completely surrendered, they become completely elevated to the highest platform. So, we should take this opportunity and take the advice. Śrīla Prabhupāda has advised us to cling to the lotus feet of Nitāi-Gaura. Don’t let go. Now that somehow or another you have got this association. Even if you just warded in the door, cling on to the lotus feet of Nitāi-Gaura, and don’t let go. Because if you miss this chance, you won’t be able to see Caitanya Mahāprabhu again.

After… once this movement is off there for four billion years, so again Kṛṣṇa comes. And then Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. This are very special opportunity. So, if the people could understand that and if the leaders especially would take it up… So first of all the teachers, the brāhmaṇas have to take it up.

So Śrīla Prabhupāda said that this movement is brought to the West so that there would be brāhmaṇas. So, the devotees who are full-time preachers, they are the brāhmaṇas, the teachers who set the example, the next that is necessary are the leaders. Like Rūpānuga Prabhu is going to arrange that along with our Bhakti Tīrtha Mahārāja preaching to all the big leaders. Then with his good example, then the entire world would become not only heaven, but it will become transcendental, it will at least become a heaven. So, the secret is to inject Kṛṣṇa consciousness into the sinful, diseased world. And this divine transcendental vaccination purifies all type of impediments.

This is the mahā-auṣadhi - enechi auṣadhi māyā. Lord Caitanya says, “I have brought the medicine for this illusion, for this māyā. nāśibāra lāgi’- to destroy this illusion, this māyā, this disease. hari-nāma mahā-mantra lao tumi māgi’ – Take the Harināma, beg for it, ask for it.”

Hari-nāma should be asked for, you should want it. Even if you are unqualified if you just want the Hari-nāma, then Caitanya Mahāprabhu will give you.

Jaya Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu!

jāya śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda
sri advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare 
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya!

Devotee: Mahārāja there is one question.

Jayapatākā Swami: (in Hindi – Kyā. Oh Hindi kā āp kyā boleṅge? Kuch Hindi boleṅge? Bahut samai kam he abhi)

Devotee: (In Hindi – Āp kāl varnaṇ kiyā thā ye mūrtiyan, pictures be he…. (inaudible) – Translated here: You have described yesterday (inaudible), How is it possible to attain the Supreme Lord in Kali-yuga?

Jayapatākā Swami: (Spoken in Hindi – Translated here – Kali-yuga me nāma ke dvāra. Kalau tad-dhari kīrtanāt. Nāma ke dvāra bhagavān ko bahut jaldī prāpta ho sakte hain. Hare Krsna. Mūrti pūjā dvāpara-yuga me. (The Lord is easily attainable in the Kali-yuga by chanting of the Holy Names)

Bhakti Tirtha Swami: Jaya oṁ viṣṇupāda paramahaṁsa parivrajakācārya aṣṭotara-śata Śrī Śrīmad His Divine Grace, Śrīla Ācāryapāda, kī,

Devotees: Jaya!

Bhakti Tirtha Swami: Jaya oṁ viṣṇupāda paramahaṁsa parivrajakācārya aṣṭotara-śata Śrī Śrīmad His Divine Grace, Śrīla Gurupāda, kī,

Devotees: Jaya!

Bhakti Tirtha Swami: Jaya oṁ viṣṇupāda paramahaṁsa parivrajakācārya aṣṭotara-śata Śrī Śrīmad ISKCON Saṁsthāpakācārya, Śrīla Prabhupāda, kī,

Devotees: Jaya!