20200425 Mahāprabhu Accepts the Beatings To Protect Haridāsa Ṭhākura

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

Chapter entitled as Mahāprabhu Accepts the Beatings to Protect Haridāsa Ṭhākura

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā, 17.70½

haridāsa ṭhākurere karila prasāda

Translation: After this incident, the Lord blessed Haridāsa Ṭhākura.

Purport: On the mahā-prakāśa day, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu embraced Haridāsa Ṭhākura and informed him that he was none other than an incarnation of Prahlāda Mahārāja.

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mahāprabhura nijamukhe haridāsera dehera śreṣṭhatva o aprākṛtatba jṣāpana—

haridāsa prati prabhu sadaya haiyā
“more dekha haridāsa”bale ḍāka diyā

Translation: Thereafter the Lord mercifully called Haridāsa and said, “O Haridāsa, behold My form!

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the Lord Gaurāṅga, mercifully called to Haridāsa Ṭhākura and said, “O Haridāsa! See! Behold My form!”

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“ei mora deha haite tumi mora baḍa
tomāra ye jāti, sei jāti mora daḍha

Translation: “You are more dear to Me than My own body. I certainly belong to the same caste as you.

Mahāprabhu said to Haridāsa, “Some people may consider your non-Hindu body as inferior to My brāhmaṇa body, but their vision is defective. I say with conviction that there is no difference between your caste and My caste. Rather, your body is superior to My body in all respects.” Modern Hindus consider their bodies superior to the bodies of the Yavanas. Being intoxicated with pride over their respective castes, such atheistic Hindus consider the Lord’s devotees born in any caste as inferior. Their process of reasoning is extremely faulty. The material body of an embodied soul who is constantly engaged in the service of the Lord may from mundane vision apparently resemble the body of low-caste person, but such a mentality is offensive. Persons whose bodies consist of blood and semen are eager to establish their supremacy on the basis of their Hindu or non-Hindu considerations. They develop such considerations because they are indifferent towards the resolute worship of Lord Hari. The sinful Yavanas or the so-called pious Hindus establish their superiority on the basis of their worldly considerations. Being controlled by such considerations, they blaspheme the Vaiṣṇavas and traverse the path to hell without any tangible gain.

In Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 4.192-193) it is stated:

dīkṣā-kāle bhakta kare ātma-samarpaṇa
sei-kāle kṛṣṇa tāre kare ātma-sama
sei deha kare tāra cid-ānanda-māyā
aprākṛta-dehe tāṅra caraṇa bhajaya

“At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders unto the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as Himself. When the devotee’s body is thus transformed into spiritual existence, the devotee, in that transcendental body, renders service to the lotus feet of the Lord.” In the Sārārtha-darśinī commentary on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (5.12.11) it is stated: “Just as a piece of iron becomes gold by contact with a touchstone, the material body and senses of a person become spiritual in the association of devotional service...In order to exhibit the glories of devotional service, the Supreme Lord, by His inconceivable potencies, mysteriously manifests the transcendental body, senses, and mind of a devotee and mysteriously destroys his false body and senses. The purport of saying `mysteriously’ is that people who are blind to the truth identify a Vaiṣṇava with his previous material designations without realizing his actual identity and consider his body as a mortal bag of bones and flesh and thus commit offenses at his feet.” In the Upadeśāmṛta (6) it is stated:

dṛṣṭaiḥ svabhāva-janitair vapuṣaś ca doṣair
na prākṛtatvam iha bhakta janasya paśyet
gaṅgāmbhasāṁ na khalu budbuda-phena-paṅkair
brahma-dravatvam apagacchati nīra-dharmaiḥ

“Being situated in his original Kṛṣṇa conscious position, a pure devotee does not identify with the body. Such a devotee should not be seen from a materialistic point of view. Indeed, one should overlook a devotee’s having a body born in a low family, a body with a bad complexion, a deformed body, or a diseased or infirm body. According to ordinary vision, such imperfections may seem prominent in the body of a pure devotee, but despite such seeming defects, the body of a pure devotee cannot be polluted. It is exactly like the waters of the Ganges, which sometimes during the rainy season are full of bubbles, foam and mud. The Ganges waters do not become polluted. Those who are advanced in spiritual understanding will bathe in the Ganges without considering the condition of the water.” In the Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta (2.3.139) it is stated:

bhaktānāṁ sac-cid-ānanda  
rūpeṣv aṅgendriyātmasu
ghaṭate svānurūpeṣu  
vaikuṇṭhe ‘nyatra ca svataḥ

In other words, whether a devotee lives in Vaikuṇṭha or anywhere else, his sac-cid-ānanda body appropriate for the Lord’s service is spontaneously manifest. By the awakening of devotional service his material body born of five gross elements transforms into sac-cid-ānanda. The birth and death of such a body is exactly like the appearance and disappearance of the Supreme Lord’s sac-cid-ānanda body. Those who consider the appearance and disappearance of the devotees and the Supreme Lord to be like the birth and death of conditioned souls, who are forced to accept the fruits of their karma, repeatedly suffer material miseries rather than obtain liberation.

Jayapatākā Swami: “You are more dear than My own body. Whatever caste you belong to, I am of the same caste as you!” Normally Lord Caitanya, He was saying that He had a brāhmaṇa body, and some people may think that Haridāsa is having a non-Hindu body, so he is inferior. But their vision is defective. Actually, there is no difference between your caste and My caste. In fact, Lord Caitanya said, your body is superior to Me, in all respects. So, modern Hindus consider their bodies superior to Yavanas. You see, such people are very proud of their caste. They think that a Vaiṣṇava born in an inferior caste, is somehow inferior. So, the devotee who is constantly engaged in the service of the Lord, their body is actually transcendental. I mean it is purified, and to consider them as low caste or inferior, is actually offensive. So, people may be born in some higher caste, but if they are not devotees of Kṛṣṇa, they cannot be compared to a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. So, these devotees Śrīla Prabhupāda was stating that like, the people who see the skin, they are called cobblers. And these people are seeing they are Hindu, they are non-Hindus, they don’t see if they are engaged in devotional service. Their seeing this way is actually they are not being respectful to the Lord’s service or Lord Hari. So, if someone is a sinful materialist or even if they are so called pious Hindu, and they establish their so-called superiority on the basis of worldly considerations, it is offensive. And, if they blaspheme the Vaiṣṇavas in this way, they traverse the path to hellish births, without any tangible gain.

In Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 4.192-193) it is stated:

dīkṣā-kāle bhakta kare ātma-samarpaṇa
sei-kāle kṛṣṇa tāre kare ātma-sama
sei deha kare tāra cid-ānanda-māyā
aprākṛta-dehe tāṅra caraṇa bhajaya

“At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders unto the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as Himself. When the devotee’s body is thus transformed into spiritual existence, the devotee, in that transcendental body, renders service to the lotus feet of the Lord.”

In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, in the Sārārtha-darśinī commentary, it is stated that just as iron turns into gold by contact with a touchstone, the body and senses of a person becomes spiritual, in the association of devotional service. So, the Supreme Lord destroys the false body and senses, and mysteriously manifests His transcendental body, senses and mind, of a devotee. So, if people are blind to the truth, they identify the body of a Vaiṣṇava with his previous material designation, thinking the body as a mortal bag of bones and flesh. And they commit offence to the Vaiṣṇava, at his feet.

The point here is that by the devotee engaging in devotional service, and taking initiation from a bona fide guru, his body becomes transformed into a sat-cit-ānanda body, he goes back to the spiritual world. But the materialists, they die suffering their karma, and they have to take repeated births, rather than obtain liberation. So, devotees should not be judged by their previous birth. They should be seen as devotees engaged in devotional service.

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pāpiṣṭha yavane tomā yata dila duḥkha
tāhā saṅarite mora vidaraye buka

Translation: “When I remember how much distress the Yavanas gave you, My heart breaks.

Under the control of greed, human beings begin to act whimsically. As a result, they often commit sinful activities. When they lack the propensity to serve the worshipable object, they invite various forms of piety and impiety in the kingdom of enjoyment. It is the nature of sinful persons to oppose liberated souls. Pious persons neither attack the conceptions of the liberated souls nor do they accept them. That is why liberated souls are always compassionate on the conditioned souls. But when a materialist who is engaged in pious and sinful activities tries to cause pain to the devotees of the Lord, the devotees do not desire to retaliate like ordinary karmis. As a result, such sinful persons become more and more entangled in miseries. This makes the hearts of the devotees compassionate for those sinful persons, and since the devotees’ worship is disturbed, the Supreme Lord also feels distressed for those devotees.

Jayapatākā Swami: “When I remember, how much the sinful Yavanas, gave you distress, when I remember that, My heart breaks!” So, under the control of greed, human beings act whimsically. So as a result, they often commit sinful acts. So, they lack the propensity to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They invite different forms of piety or impiety, reactions, in this field of enjoyment. So, it is the nature of sinful people to oppose liberated souls. So just because one is pious, he may not attack the liberated soul, nor do they accept him. The liberated souls are always compassionate to the conditioned souls. So even though a materialist tries to cause pain to the devotees of the Lord, the devotees do not want to retaliate like the ordinary karmīs. Many devotees ask me, that this other devotee is against me, what should I do in retaliation? Here it very clearly says, the devotee doesn’t want to retaliate. People, if they think negatively about the devotees, they have to suffer themselves. So, devotee wants to feel compassion for the sinful people. Since the worship of the devotees is disturbed, the Supreme Lord feels distressed for those devotees.

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prabhura haridāsa-prīti-jṣāpana-kalpe yavana-kartṛka haridāsera atyācāra, tadrakṣarṇātha mahāprabhura cakrahaste vaikuṇṭha haite āgamana, bhaktera śubhakāmanāya bhakta-hiṁsākārīra trāṇa evaṁ prabhura nijāṅge bhaktera āghāta grahaṇa prabhṛti svamukhe varṇana—

śuna śuna haridāsa tomāre yakhane
nagare nagare māri veḍāya yavane

Translation: “Listen, Haridāsa when the Yavanas were roaming around beating you in the various villages,

Jayapatākā Swami: “Listen, Haridāsa, when you were taken around the city, in different places, the Yavanas were beating you.”

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dekhiyā tomāra duḥkha cakra dhari’ kare
nāmiluṅ vaikuṇṭha haite sabā kāṭibāre

Translation: I saw your distress and descended from Vaikuṇṭha with the disc in My hand in order to cut everyone to pieces.

By the will of the Lord, various laws are current in this material world. The fruitive workers discuss those laws of God. Worldly happiness and distress or reward and punishment of persons who are forced to enjoy the fruits of their karma are directed by the general laws of God. But the gravity of the offenses committed by persons who are envious of the Lord’s devotees is so great and beyond the general laws that the Supreme Lord personally judges them. In this regard one should discuss the topics concerning Mahārāja Ambarīṣa described in the Ninth Canto of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.

Jayapatākā Swami: “I saw your distress, I came from Vaikuṇṭha, carrying the cakra in My hand, in order to cut everyone into pieces.” So, in this material world, there are general laws of God. Normally, people are judged according to those laws. But the gravity of attacking a devotee of the Lord is so great, that the general laws don’t apply. And the Supreme Lord judges them personally. This is described in the 9th canto of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, in the topics concerning Mahārāja Ambarīṣa.

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prāṇānta kariyā tomā māre ye-sakala
tumi mane cinta’ tāhā sabāra kuśala

Translation: “Yet you desired within your mind the well-being of those who almost tortured you to death.

In this world a person dies when he faces the highest degree of misery. Being induced by their sinful propensities, the miscreants gratify their senses by giving as much distress to the devotees of the Lord as they can. But since Ṭhākura Haridāsa was not so eager for sensual happiness and always endeavored to please the senses of the Lord, he did not notice his own distress. Moreover, in order to remove the sinful propensities of those who endeavored to give him trouble, he mentally prayed for their benefit. The tolerance of the Lord’s devotee is so great that even if someone desires his inauspiciousness, rather than taking revenge he prays in such a way that the sinner obtains auspiciousness. Just as a philanthropist gets mercy and support from ordinary people, those miscreants received compassion from Ṭhākura Haridāsa.

Jayapatākā Swami: “Although those who were beating you almost to death, yet in your mind you were thinking of their welfare.” Although these executioners were beating Haridāsa Ṭhākura in 22 market places, Haridāsa Ṭhākura was praying that they didn’t know what they were doing, and prayed that the Lord may please forgive them. So Haridāsa Ṭhākura was so tolerant, and in this way the tolerance of the Lord’s devotees, even if someone desires the destruction of the devotee, rather than taking revenge, the devotee prays in such a way as to give the sinner auspiciousness. Just as a philanthropist, he gives charity to the poor, Haridāsa Ṭhākura, he was compassionate to the miscreants for beating him.

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āpane māraṇa khāo, tāhā nāhi dekha
takhana o tā-sabāre bhāla mane dekha

Translation: “You were beaten, but you ignored that and even in that condition, within your mind, you thought of their well-being.

Jayapatākā Swami: “You were beaten but you ignored that. In your mind you thought of their well-being”

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tumi bhāla cintile nā karoṅ muṣi bala
mora cakra tomā lāgi’ haila viphala

Translation: “When you desired their benefit, I was unable to use My power against them. My disc became powerless because of you.

Jayapatākā Swami: When you were thinking of their welfare, I was unable to use My power against them, and My disc became powerless because of your desire. This reminds us of Lord Jesus Christ, He was crucified, even though He was not guilty of any crime. He prayed for the crucifiers. They don’t know what they do, please forgive them God! So, like that Haridāsa Ṭhākura, he was thinking of the welfare of the executioners. So, the Lord, He didn’t know what to do, He couldn’t kill them since Haridāsa Ṭhākura was wishing their welfare.

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kāṭite nā pāroṅ tora saṅkalpa lāgiyātora
pṛṣṭhe paḍoṅ tora māraṇa dekhiyā

Translation: Due to your resolve, I could not sever their heads. Seeing, that you were being beating on your back...

Jayapatākā Swami: Due to your resolve to help them, I could not sever their heads. But seeing how you are being beaten on your back…

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prabhura bhakta-prahāra nija aṅge grahaṇera cihna-pradarśana—

tohāra māraṇa nija aṅge kari laṅa
ei tāra cihna āche, michā nāhi kaṅa

Translation: I then took the beating on My own body. Here are the marks. I am not speaking a lie.

Since Ṭhākura Haridāsa desired benefit for those envious miscreants, even though the Lord was angry at them He could not award them suitable punishment due to the Ṭhākura’s prayer. Therefore, in order to protect His devotee the Supreme Lord personally accepted the blows of the envious persons’ weapons.

Jayapatākā Swami: “So, I took the beating on My own body, here are the marks, and He showed His back. I am not speaking a lie!” Since Haridāsa Ṭhākura was praying for the benefit of the executioners, even though the Lord wanted to punish them, He was angry at them, He could not award them suitable punishment. Therefore, in order to protect His devotees, the Supreme Lord personally accepted the blows of the envious persons’ weapons.

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bhaktarakṣāi satbara gaurāvatārera hetu—

yebā gauṇa chila mora prakāśa karate
śīghra āiluṅ tora duḥkha nā pāroṅ sahite

Translation: “Besides the other indirect reasons that made Me appear, I came quickly because I could not tolerate your distress.

Śrī Gaurasundara directly checked the envious persons’ attack on Haridāsa Ṭhākura and indirectly revealed His affection for His devotees by exhibiting the pastime of expressing inability to tolerate His devotee’s distress.

Jayapatākā Swami: “Due to other reasons of My manifesting in this world, I came quickly, because I could not tolerate your suffering, your distress.” So, Śrī Gaurasundara accepted the hits on the body, to protect Haridāsa Ṭhākura from suffering. In this way He showed His affection for His devotees, by exhibiting this pastime of His intolerance of His devotees’ distress.

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advaitācārya haridāsera sabiśeṣa jṣātā evam mahāprabhu advaitera premavādhya—

tomāre cinila mora `nāḍā’ bhāla mate
sarva-bhāve more bandī karilā advaite”

Translation: “My Nāḍā properly recognized you, for Advaita has completely bound Me in all aspects.”

Advaita Prabhu properly recognized Ṭhākura Haridāsa. Advaita Prabhu is Lord Śrī Caitanyadeva’s special opulence. Being compelled by the service of Advaita Prabhu, the Lord is bound to Him in all respects.

Jayapatākā Swami: “My Nāḍā, My Advaita Gosvāmī, He has properly understood, He has recognized you. In all respects, He has completely bound Me.” So Advaita Prabhu properly recognized Haridāsa Ṭhākura. And Advaita Prabhu is the personal opulence of Lord Caitanya. And Lord Caitanya is especially bound by the service of Advaita, in all respects.

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prabhura bhakta-mahimā-vardhanārtha akārya-karaṇa o abhāṣya-kathana—

bhakta bāḍāite se ṭhākura bhāla jāne
ki nā bale, ki nā kare bhaktera kāraṇe

Translation: The Lord is expert in glorifying His devotees. What is there that He does not say or do for the sake of His devotees?

There is no activity that the Supreme Lord does not do nor any words He does not speak in order to spread the glories of His devotees. Since the Supreme Lord is omniscient, only He is capable of performing extraordinary activities.

Jayapatākā Swami: The Lord, Caitanya knows how to glorify, He is very expert in glorifying His devotees. What He cannot say, what He cannot do for the sake of His devotees? So, the Supreme Lord in order to spread the glories of His devotees, may say anything or do anything. So, since the Lord is omniscient, He is capable of performing these extraordinary activities, and He does so especially, to glorify His devotees.

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prabhura bhaktaprītira nidarśana—

jvalanta anala prabhu bhakta lāgi’ khāya
bhaktera kiṅkara haya āpana icchāya

Translation: For the sake of His devotees the Lord eats blazing fire, and out of His sweet will He becomes their servant.

Lord Kṛṣṇa once swallowed fire when, after leaving their cows for grazing in the Muñja forest, the cowherd boys engaged in playing and a blazing forest fire surrounded them on all sides. At that time the cowherd boys took shelter of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who out of affection for His devotees, swallowed the entire blazing fire in a moment. (See Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapter Nineteen.)

Examples of the Lord becoming the servant of His devotees such as when He became the messenger of the Pāṇḍavas and the charioteer of Arjuna are found in the scriptures.

Jayapatākā Swami: The forest fire was eaten by the Lord in order to protect His devotees. He becomes the servant of His devotees out of His sweet will. So, Kṛṣṇa once saved the cowherd boys and the cows in the Muñja forest, when there was a forest fire. So, the forest fire surrounded the devotees on all sides. So, all the cowherd boys took shelter of Kṛṣṇa. Out of His affection, He told them to close their eyes, and He swallowed the forest fire. 10th canto Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, chapter 19. So similarly, the Lord became the charioteer of Arjuna, the messenger of the Pāṇḍavas and He carried the shoes of Nanda Mahārāja. So, there are many examples in the śāstras, where the Lord becomes the servitor of His devotees.

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bhagavānera bhaktavaśyatā o bhaktera asamordhvatva—

bhakta bai kṛṣṇa āra kichui nā jāne
bhaktera samāna nāhi ananta bhuvane

Translation: Lord Kṛṣṇa does not know anything other than His devotees. In the unlimited universes there is no one equal to His devotees.

“In this regard one should discuss Bhagavad-gītā (9.21) and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (9.4.63-68 and 10.86.59).”

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa doesn’t know anything other than His devotees. In the unlimited universes, there is no one who is equal to His devotees.

“In this regard one should discuss Bhagavad-gītā (9.21) and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (9.4.63-68 and 10.86.59).”

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bhagavadbhukte aprīta—durdaiva-kāraṇa—

hena kṛṣṇa-bhakta-nāme nā pāya santoṣa
sei saba pāpīre lāgila daiva-doṣa

Translation: Anyone who is not pleased by hearing the names of such devotees of Kṛṣṇa is sinful and cursed by the laws of providence.

Jayapatākā Swami: If one is not pleased to hear the name of Kṛṣṇa’s devotees, they are most sinful and they are cursed by the laws of providence.

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bhaktera mahimā bhāi dekha cakṣu bhari’
ki balilā haridāsa-prati gaurahari

Translation: O brothers, behold the glories of the devotees to the full satisfaction of your eyes. Oh! What did Gaurahari say to Haridāsa!

Jayapatākā Swami: O dear brothers, fill your eyes with the glories of the devotees! What did Gaurahari say to Haridāsa Ṭhākura!

Thus ends the Chapter -
Mahāprabhu Accepts the Beatings To Protect Haridāsa Ṭhākura

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So, His Divine Grace Śrīla Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda, he dedicated himself to spreading the mission, the vāṇī of Lord Caitanya all over the world and as a result, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is established. Some people who were sinful people, they did not appreciate his efforts. But he did so, simply to carry out the order of Lord Caitanya and his spiritual master. Lord Caitanya predicted that, in every town and village of the whole world, His name would be sung. pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma. And some of the scholars and brāhmaṇas in Vṛndāvana, they told Śrīla Prabhupāda, they told Abhaycaraṇa Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda, that this only means the civilized world, India! Ha! They considered the rest of the world uncivilized! But Śrīla Prabhupāda said, no! He said pṛthivīte - that means the whole world, every town, every village! He had that faith that Lord Caitanya’s message would reach all over the world! How dear he must be to Lord Caitanya, for taking the message all over the world! And now we are suffering this pandemic of the Corona Virus, because we are breaking the laws of nature. But if everyone becomes a devotee of the Lord, or if they at least chant the holy names of the Lord, that would naturally awaken their devotion for the Lord. We can see that the Lord would do anything to help His devotees. So then the Lord will intervene, and we will have peace on earth. So please chant Hare Kṛṣṇa or chant the names of God mentioned in your scriptures. Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare, Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare! Oṁ tat sat!

We have not received any realizations from the Chinese devotees?  We did not receive anything from the Russian devotees either. (referring to the Zoom sessions he had recently.)

Jayapatākā Swami: then intently saw a three-minute video on the distribution of prasādam in the villages around Māyāpur, under the ISKCON Food for Life program.

Question: from the Tamil channel: Hare Kṛṣṇa Guru Mahārāja.  Please my humble request. What is the difference between Dharma and Truth. Umāśaṅkarī B. Thank you so much Guru Mahārāja.

Jayapatākā Swami: Dharma is your constitutional positon. Truth is I what is true. Ha! So, when we say Pañca-Tattvas, the five tattvas or the five Truths. The Supreme Personality of Godhead – Lord Caitanya, His expansion of a devotee, His savayaṁ-prakāśa, Lord Nityānanda, the incarnation of a devotee, Śrī Advaita Gosāñi, the śakti of a devotee, Śrī Gadādhara, and the jīva-śakti of the devotee, Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura. Those are the Truths. Dharma is your constitutional position which means serving the Lord. jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya-kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’, our natural position is to be the servant of the Supreme Lord. Thank you Umāśaṅkarī.

Guru Mahārāja did two minutes kīrtan for the Māyāpur for the Māyāpur kīrtana-melā, Facebook website page, online.

Jayapatākā Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare!

It was ecstatic!! HARIBOL!!