19970208 Radio Krishna Loka Question & Answers Part 02

Lecture Code: 19970208
Radio Kṛṣṇa loka question and answer session Part-02
By His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja
In Moscow, Russia

 

vande 'ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaisnavams ca

  sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam tam sa-jivam

sadvaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devam

sri-radha-Kṛṣṇa-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams ca

 

(translator RJ:) How to neutralize the offences we have committed to those

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Acha! The second part

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: How to neutralize offences

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Of course now-a-days you can ask a person by phone, fax, email

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: for forgiveness

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But if a person just not at all available

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Then you can sincerely pray to Kṛṣṇa that you can be forgiven for this offence that you repent for any offence you made

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And continue to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa all the time

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And by chanting the holy names eventually one can get forgiven for offences.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Of course you can directly somehow get the dust from that person’s feet then we can get forgiven immediately.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So thank you for these spiritually very high level questions.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Dealing with the behaviour of devotees.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa!

 

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(translator RJ:) She says, recently joined us in this broadcast of Kṛṣṇaloka Radio station and then she is most fond of the music, her name is Ena. She understands that the main progress of our life is to come back of Godhead, isn’t it. So here question is does is mean if a person is pious, it doesn’t matter in which way does he return or comes, does he come back home back to Godhead? And what is your attitude towards other religious traditions like Buddhism and Christianity? Do you think for example christianity to be a misleading teaching or it is a bonafide teaching that leads us back to Godhead?

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: 

(aside:) Ena, thank you for your, spasiba! We hope you keep listening to this wonderful radio show.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and be happy

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So the question about going back to Godhead is a very wonderful question

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Definitely to go back to Godhead and to develop love for God, these are the goals of human life.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: They are mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita and the vedic literatures as a goal of life, goals of life.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Kṛṣṇa says, ‘whoever comes back to My spiritual abode doesn’t come again to the material world’

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In the spiritual world there is no birth, no death, no old age, no disease

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: There everyone is engaged in loving service of the Lord.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Everyone is conscious of God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And everything is alive and dynamic.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So that abode is beyond the material worlds.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And the only way we can reach that abode is through devotional service to the Lord.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We have to actually develop a desire to want to know and love Kṛṣṇa or God and to be with Him and to serve Him.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Lord Jesus he also said that we should love the Lord, our father with our heart, all our soul and mind.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Islam also teaches that we should surrender to God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And in the holy Quran it also mentions that loving Allah is the perfection of life.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So we see that basically the goal of all religions is the same or similar.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Now in the vedas, it explains that pious activity is different from direct devotional service to God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: A pious activity is a good karma.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: which produces good material results.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: You give charity

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: You feed the poor

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: You plant trees for the public

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Different types of pious activities are there which are meeting basing and helping other people’s existence.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: The result of pious activity is a good birth.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: A beautiful body

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: good education

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: money

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: things like that

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: People who don’t do pious activity

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: who do impious activities

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Activities which harm others

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: violence

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: theft

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: and so on

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: They get, the result for that is the absence of the good results.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In other words, you get the opposite of good results

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Instead of good health you get bad health

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So to the beautiful body you get ugly body

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: or crippled body

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: instead of the healthy body you get a sick body

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: instead of a good education you get no education or poor education

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: instead of a very favourable birth from aristocratic parents, you may get more ordinary birth or unfortunate birth in difficult situations.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So this is the laws of pyramid that cause us to take different kinds of birth according to our activities.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And in the vedas they say, there’s also a higher dimension of the universe called heaven.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Where people with many pious activities go and enjoy very healthy bodies and very happy times.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But eventually they fall down from that

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And again they have to take birth on this plane

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So Lord Caitanya said sometime we take a birth in the universe which is very happy birth, sometime a very hellish birth.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: What is the value of that?

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We’re just going up and down, up and down.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So, actually Kṛṣṇa consciousness might look like pious activity.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But Kṛṣṇa consciousness is actually yoga for developing this pure love of Godhead which is the goal of all religions.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: To practice Kṛṣṇa consciousness one doesn't have to change their religion.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Person can be a christian or a muslim and still practice Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We have buddhists.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So in this way Kṛṣṇa consciousness is, techniques can be used by anyone if they like.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: How to develop love for Godhead? That is the difficulty. Everyone says develop it, but how to do that?

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We need to know about God

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We need to appreciate His great qualities.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We need to direct our energy to Him, not just to do pious activities, we need to direct the energy to Him through devotional acts.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In this way we get purified from our material attachments

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: From our bad habits.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And we become very fixed in spiritual life.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And we start to develop the taste, a very sweet taste for the beauty and wonderfulness of serving Kṛṣṇa.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We start to see God in everything, in everyone

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We can appreciate how everyone is a part of God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And then we feel naturally we are compassionate love for all living entities.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We don’t want to cause harm on any living entity

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And we wish the upliftment of all.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In this way we become attached to serving Kṛṣṇa.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And that attachment is deepening our relationship.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And I said, attachment further deepens.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Finally it becomes ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And we start feeling, our hairs stand on end in ecstasy.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Tears fall from our eyes.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Tears of love

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Sometimes we feel so much joy in chanting the Lord’s names that we can’t help but laugh in ecstasy.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Like this there are 8 different ecstatic symptoms said. Automatically and naturally appear in the body when one reaches the level of ecstatic love for Godhead.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So these are the result of devotional service.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And when one is so much in love with Kṛṣṇa then naturally at the time of death all the devotee can think about is to go back to God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Then they don’t go to a better birth, they go beyond birth and death to the spiritual worlds.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We leave behind these mortal bodies and achieve a spiritual form.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So this is a basic difference between Kṛṣṇa consciousness goal and just pious activities.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In the vedas it also talks about pious activities and their many results.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But this Kṛṣṇa conscious considered the, the final step before the Supreme liberation from all material bondage.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: As far as other religions

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: To the extent that any religion can deliver one to pure love for Godhead, we respect that.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Religion is laws and spiritual guidance given by God through some representatives.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And given at different times and places and circumstances for the particular people of those areas.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So we respect the truth that exists in all religions

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But naturally we look through the eyes of the vedic scriptures.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: There we can see how there are common relationships in many common preachings. So it’s easy for us to understand this.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Recently in Calcutta in July, on January 12th there was the second World Congress for the Synthesis of Science and Religion.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: The Dalai Lama was supposed to come to inaugurate but he suddenly had a, was not, had to decline because of some other problem he was facing.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: One of the Ayatollahs from Iran was a distinguished guest speaker.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: They were representatives from the Jewish faith and great fellowgens from christian faith.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And then that was on the religion, and of course there were representatives from the Hare Kṛṣṇa.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Then there were also many scientists

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: from all over the world

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: including one Nobel guys Lorette Physics.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Dr. Thomas

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: who discovered the laser

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So in this way we are trying to see how to synthesize religion and science to make a better world.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We are very open for interfaith dialogue and for greater understanding amongst religions as well as with scientists.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: The Bhaktivedanta Institute had that big congress and they are all scientists, so they were able to discuss on the scientific issues.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: I was speaking there on behalf of the vedic tradition

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And the retired assistant secretary general of the United Nations, he spoke there about the ecology and about peace in the world.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So he also requested all the religions should try to get together so that no wars are fought in the world on the basis of religion.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada wanted that all theologists, all theists should unite together to create a better world.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa!

 

(devotee:) Question: 

(translator RJ:) He has two questions and he wants to receive qualified answers to these two questions. That is his one problem, I thought spiritual masters of ISKCON speak, Kṛṣṇa about demoniac and Godly qualities manifest in one person now in this age. And I seem to suffer from this problem, I feel simultaneously a feeling of love and envy and envy towards God. I can’t understand where these feelings come from and what is the source of these. Could you kindly tell me how to get rid of these. My second question is I, for long time, devotees say that this mysticism story increase one’s spiritual, so I wanted to ask whether it is possible to make progress in devotional service on the spiritual way and the same time developing powers by means of bhakti yoga.

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: What kind of mystic powers do you want?

 

(devotee:) Question:

(translator RJ:) For example transportation in spiritual world or some other world. I read hoptic and Jewish book on mysticism because, so I do not know exactly what?

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Spasiba!

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: 

(aside:) If everyone is asking two questions it takes twice as  long to answer.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: 

(aside:) I think we have many people calling in.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: 

(aside:) So rather we put to ask one question and somebody else get a chance too.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Well, very grateful for this call from our christian friend

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Actually I am very sad to hear that he’s facing these conflicting feelings towards God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Many times we feel bad about God because we don’t know enough about Him.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: My mother is also a christian

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And she has read the Bhagavad Gita several times

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And she found that it gave her a much deeper understanding now by reading Bhagavad Gita of what a Bible means.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Everything starts to make sense to her.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Many times we blame God for things which are not really His fault.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: That they do to our own activities and the reactions of our karmas.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In the Bhagavad Gita Kṛṣṇa says, although He creates the worlds

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And although He is the Lord of the worlds

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But He doesn’t, He lets the world go on according to the laws of nature.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Even means, aloof

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: At the same time if He wants to, He can intervene.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And sometimes He does for His devotees.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So many other sufferings that people are doing it’s, it’s not directly Kṛṣṇa's fault, but it’s that He’s allowing us to get the reactions that, to the activities we have done in the past.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And Kṛṣṇa who is, we call God the father Kṛṣṇa. So when I say Kṛṣṇa you just think of God the father.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And because Kṛṣṇa says that I’m the seed giving father of all living entities and everything is coming from Me.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So Kṛṣṇa doesn’t want us to suffer

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Therefore he comes here himself sometimes to give us spiritual knowledge like the Bhagavad Gita

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Or He send His own son

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Like Jesus Christ

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Well He sends different spiritual masters and representatives

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: to guide people on the correct path

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Everyone should have a personal spiritual master to help them in their spiritual life.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And develop a disciple relationship with the spiritual master.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Now regarding this both divine and demoniac nature that are within us that are fighting with each other to be supreme.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: The way we can overcome that is by sacrifice.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: By purification

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: God is all good.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Absence of God is bad

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: That means we are partially we are conscious of God and partially we’re not conscious, and that’s allowing the darkness to come in.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: There is a saying in the vedas, vedic literatures

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: 

kṛṣṇa-sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra

yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa, tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra

That Kṛṣṇa is like the sun

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In other words God is like the sun.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Maya or material illusion is like the darkness

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Wherever there is Kṛṣṇa

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: or God consciousness

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: there’s no darkness

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: there’s no maya, no illusion

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So in other words in order to free ourself from demonic influence we have to add more God consciousness in our life.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Just like cleanliness is the absence of dirt

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Everyday we bathe our body

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: that’s how we stay clean

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: but how do we clean the consciousness?

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Demoniac thoughts, envious thoughts against God, thoughts which are envious against other parts of God, living entities

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: these are like dirt

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: that are coming on our pure consciousness

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So how to cleanse this dirt away?

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Lord Caitanya tells us

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: If we chant the names of God

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: This is, cleanses away the dirt of the consciousness.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: If you took the consciousness to be like a mirror that’s reflecting our thoughts and our feelings and our spiritual aspirations

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: but that mirror has become covered with some thick dust

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: we cannot see anything clearly

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: everything is distorted and dim

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: what will we do?

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: we’d wipe off the dust

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: and see things as they are.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: see things purely and clearly

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So how to cleanse off that dust from the consciousness?

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Is chanting the holy names of God

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Those names have this ability to counteract the dirts of demonic influence.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We recommend the sanskrit names of God

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. However, if you have more faith in names in another language

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: If you want to chant them in Russian or in Arabic or in Hebrew 

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Then you can chant them in any language you like. If they are bonafide names of God they will have some effect.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: I know one nun, she was chanting the name Jesu Christo Jesu Christo, Christo Christo Jesu Jesu. That’s up to you can try, you can try chanting the names of any names of God and see how that will help to counteract this demoniac influence. We pray for you, we want you to overcome this.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: You should understand that Kṛṣṇa, God is your well-wisher.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: He’s your best friend

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Bhagavad Gita explains

bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ

sarva-loka-maheśvaram

suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ

jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati

That when you understand that I’m the Lord of all the universes

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: I am the one who’s receiving all the prayers and all the religious offerings of all the religions.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: I am the friend of all living entities

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ, when you know Me in truth

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: you will achieve peace.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa!

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Spaciba! Accept my wishes.

 

(devotee:) Question

(translator RJ:) Why didn’t Arjuna see any ethical or etiquette difference both between himself and Kṛṣṇa. Why wasn’t, why was he seen sometimes to be lying on the same bed which Kṛṣṇa with his leg on the Kṛṣṇa’s chest, by Narada Muni? That’s her question.

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: 

(aside:) What’s your good name?

 

(devotee:) Radha Rani

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Radha Rani! Wow what a beautiful name?

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So that’s, it’s a very esoteric question

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Normally we think of God as someone far above us in the spiritual world on the big throne.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And that’s one aspect of God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: That is Lord Kṛṣṇa’s expansion Narayana

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: He’s not different from Kṛṣṇa

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But the Supreme Lord, He’s not limited person

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Sometimes He wants to come and show that He can also be very personal, loving and caring.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: He told Arjuna that you have taken many births and I have appeared in this world many times but I never forget, but you do.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So actually Arjuna was the cousin brother of Kṛṣṇa

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Cousin brother

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Like Kṛṣṇa’s aunty was Arjuna’s mother

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: or Kṛṣṇa’s uncle was Arjuna’s father.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So they are cousins

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Sometimes we call cousin this cousin brothers

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In vedic culture it’s a very close relation to be a cousin

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Very similar to brothers

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So some devotees are so special that Kṛṣṇa keeps it hidden from them that He is God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: He has a illusory potency called Yoga Maya

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Which allows devotees just to love Kṛṣṇa as He is without remembering His position.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Here is something very interesting

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: All the rich people in the worlds they must always wonder whether their spouse loves them or loves their money!

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But for Kṛṣṇa. He doesn’t want this position to come underway of His loving dealings with His dearmost devotees.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So for some devotees who are having this very intimate relationship, they don’t remember that Kṛṣṇa is God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And this is very confusing for theists and philosophers to understand.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: In the Bhagavad Gita this was revealed by Arjuna that he was doing these things.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: At what point? remember?

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: It was in the chapter 11, The Universal Form

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Kṛṣṇa was accepted by Arjuna as a guru.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Kṛṣṇa said now, Arjuna said, now I am your disciple. I want you to instruct me what I should do, what I shouldn’t do. No more friendly talks, now You guide me, I’m bewildered.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So then Kṛṣṇa changed His mood from a friend to a Guru and was instructing him on the Absolute truth.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Then Kṛṣṇa told Arjuna, actually I am God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: I am the Supreme controller.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: I have just come down here in order to protect My devotees and to take away the miscreants and the demonic influences of the world.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Well Arjuna said, I may believe You, I mean I believe You.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But maybe others won’t believe You

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Could You show me Your universal form by which You are manifesting all the universes and within Your fraction of Your potency.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And then Kṛṣṇa revealed His universal form with so much force and potency.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Arjuna became frightened.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Then he said that, sometimes I just treated you as my brother

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: as my friend

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: and we are lounging together, lounging

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Will you forgive me for any offence I may have made.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Because now he was realizing Kṛṣṇa’s real position.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So that’s why Arjuna expressed all those things and that’s why he didn’t understand it before because he was under that spiritual pastime potency called Yoga Maya.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: When we go back to the spiritual world

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: and we take up some loving service with God.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Then that pastime potency of Yoga Maya helps us to integrate in Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So these are very esoteric topics

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: If you read the Kṛṣṇa book or the book called Teachings of Lord Caitanya some of these things are explained.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: The science of God realization is something very deep and profound.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And they are revealed in the west by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa!

 

(devotee:) Question:

(translator RJ:) If you find this question to be confusing one you may, may decide not to answer to it but I want like you to speak brief about yourself, to describe your life. About that incident that happened in Spain way back, information in Varsha, may be if you find it conflicting, you may decide not to speak about it at all. Every representative of Kṛṣṇa, of God slashed want to carry out his own duty, he own mission in spite of all the difficulties he faces. And the incident have happened in Spain seems to be good example of this, muslims attempt to kill you there.

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Greetings, best wishes.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa! No, I have personally always had very good relations with muslims.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And great respect for the Holy Quran

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: That was, there was a incident in Spain but I was, some crazy man attacked me in the airport.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: He was put in a synod sailam.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: He was feeling bad against all religions and somehow he took me as some, want to take out his anger.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: It was a great miracle of God that I was saved from such a serious danger.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And given more time to serve Lord Kṛṣṇa in this, in this body.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: To we feel shy to talk about ourselves

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: You could find out from my disciples more details.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: I am here to talk, answer questions about philosophy, about Kṛṣṇa, doubts that people might have.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But I appreciate your concern about me and your appreciation for everything.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So I have been asked to keep all the questions very short so that many people can take advantage of this over time period.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Spasiba! Hare Kṛṣṇa!

 

(devotee:) Question: 

(translator RJ:) My name is Richeslov, I’m calling from Moscow. My question is like follows, is there such a relationship between the piety, the level of piety of a person and the number of demons he is surrounded by? Meaning, he means that, the more pious a person is, the more demons surround him or trying to tap him?

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Is that all Richeslov?

 

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(devotee:) Ya!

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Spasiba! Hare Kṛṣṇa!

 

(devotee:) Spasiba Maharaj! Hare Kṛṣṇa!

 

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Well when one is godly 

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Then one becomes aware of the conflicting qualities of people.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami:  We can see that good qualities and bad qualities, demoniac qualities in people around us.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But Prabhupada said we shouldn’t hate a person even if they have bad qualities.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We should consider those like a disease

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We don’t hate somebody because they have a disease.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We hate the disease

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: We want to cure the disease

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So the thing is to become more spiritually strong through Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So you can also help the people around you overcome the influence of demoniac qualities.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: When one is starting out in spiritual life and trying to leave the material world process, influences then sometimes one is put to various tests.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: The material illusory energy doesn’t want to lose a convict.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But if one can crossover these tests then one can achieve full liberation.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: One can achieve the full shelter of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Ultimately for the devotee they find that the material world is not a suitable place to reside permanently.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: And if people know that someone’s godly then materialistic people think that they can keep them easier.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So some great saintly people sometimes hid the godliness from the world just to keep away such people who want to try to exploit godly people.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: But the real devotees recognize them as saintly people because of the, those only they reveal to their very intimate associates.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: So Richeslov, we wish you the best of good fortune in your path back home back to Godhead to Kṛṣṇaloka.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Sometime if you give a little bit of Kṛṣṇa prasadam cookies or food to some of the friends around you see that their qualities would become a little more mellowed out.

 

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa!

 

Transcribed By: Bhagyavati Subhadra Devi Dasi

Transcribed On: 28 Jul, 2020

 

Proof Reading By: Amrita Padma Devi Dasi

On 14/10/2020