20110823 Vyāsa-pūjā Offering to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

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 20110823 His.Holiness.Jayapatākā Swami gave a Vyāsa Pūjā Offering to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Gurumāhārāja:

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ

paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim

yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande

paramānanda-mādhavam

Śrī Caitanya Iswaram

Hari Oṁ Tat Sat.

My dear spiritual father, His Divine Grace Abhay Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, some or the disciples were saying that I should write, I should use some other song; I have been using your song that Naru Gopal Prabhu has been referring to, “Parama Karuṇā Pahū Dui Jana Nitāi Gaura Chandra.”, because I was having some realisations about the song, but then I thought, “Well, there is a song by Basu Ghosh. He said that, “Jadi Gaurāṅga na hoito ki hoita, if there was no Gaurāṅga, what would have happened?” And for the Indians, they wouldn’t have Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worshipped in so many years, but for us in the West, if Prabhupāda na hoito to ki hoito, if there was no Prabhupāda what would have happened?

I started thinking, what did Prabhupāda give us? And I... So, like Prabhupāda told the American’s that, “You are not Americans, I am not Indian, you are not Russians, I am not Chinese.”

And now the big shock, “What do you mean am not American. I am American. This is my passport.”

“No, you are not the body.”

So, I have a list of links. So, the basic thing, “We are not the body, we are the spirit soul”, that we didn’t know, we didn’t know in the West. Most of the Westerners still don’t know. Unfortunately, a lot of Indians don’t know either. So, we didn’t have the Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā has so many instructions, and Prabhupāda brought that to West, Bhagavad-gītā As It.

There were some speculative Gītās, but they weren’t any principles. So, Prabhupāda taught us all this things.

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Mercy of Nitai-Gaura:

Of course this is not in the order of importance, but Prabhupāda brought the Gaura Vāṇī, he brought the mercy of Nitāi and Gaura, he brought Their process: Chanting, dancing, having a feast, ISKCON’s bullets which are sweet balls.

Deity Worship:

We didn’t know about Deity worship. He told us how to worship Deities. He told us about the transcendental nature of the Deities. Those things we have in India, but in the West they are absent.

Human Life

What to speak of other things? Even being a basic human being we didn’t know. Prabhupāda told us how to be a human being, how to think. He was accused that He is brain washing. He said, “They have no brain to wash.” He gave us brains.

Bhakti yoga:

We didn’t know how to do Bhakt Yoga, how to offer our service to Kṛṣṇa. So, he taught us Bhakti Yoga. There are Haṭha Yoga, so many Yogas, but Bhakti Yoga, it was missing. He told us how to do Bhakti Yoga. If Prabhupāda wasn’t what would be there.

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam:

Bhāgavatam – all the ten cantos were translated by Prabhupāda, a part of the ten. This is the book which is responsible to save us in Kaliyuga. It’s said that Krishna left the Puranayaka, the Purāṇa sun of the Bhāgavatam rose in the East. Prabhupāda gave us Bhāgavatam.

I see this was very early, this happened in, 1067 was the first Ratha Yatra. I was at the second Ratha Yātrā. There was... Jayānanda built a Rath, and somehow I asked some service. So, Prabhupāda gave this Rath Yātrā to the West. Now there are hundreds of Ratha yātraās all over the world, and Jagannāth’s mercy is also expanding.

Holy Dham:

Then we had... Prabhupāda reveal Vṛṇdāvana and Māyāpur. He tried to get some land also in Jagannāth Purī, but that was not possible. So, he is the revealer of the holy Dhām, and if there was no Prabhupāda, then who would teach us about the Dhām?

Rādhā Kṛṣṇa worship:

So, then after all this things comes the Rādhā Krishna worship. The worship of Rādhā and Krishna requires a very very high standard. We are very fortunate that Prabhupāda gave us this Rādha-Kṛṣṇa worship. This is the mercy of Lord Caitanya, but before we can get qualified we have to first become human beings, and then Brāhmaṇas. So, Radha-Krishna worship was also revealed by Prabhupāda.

Caitanya Caritāmrita:

Also we know that Caitanya Caritamrita is the post graduate study. And Prahbhupāda also revealed the Caitanya Caritamrita. Once some New reader wanted to do a.. what you call a review of the Caitanya Caritāmrita, and they asked a Christian Priest to do the review. So, I gave him the first and the last book of the Caitanya Caritāmrita, and he read the book, and then he booked down decision – no comment.

Prabhupāda ki .......Jay.

Temple in every continent:

Prabhupāda, he established Krishna Consciousness in every continent of the world, Russia, Africa, South America, North America, every continent, and he personally visited

Structure of ISKCON:

He gave us the.... of course he is a great monk and more, but he gave us and said, I gave you the structure of ISKCON, you can fill now.

So, I was just thinking, Jadi Prabhupāda na hoito to ki hoito.

We are so indebted to Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda, we are so much indebted to you. I have no words to express.

Prabhupāda ki .... [Jay]