20230412 Question and Answer Session

The following is a Question & Answer Session given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on April 12th, 2023 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

Jayapatākā Swami: One lady and one man. 

Who is first? I found out that Kavi Karṇapura, he wrote the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā. Someone asked yesterday. 

Question: In today’s Kali-yuga can we have such a close relationship with the Deities? 

Jayapatākā Swami: This was 500 years ago, it was still Kali-yuga. Kali-yuga is going on for 5000 years. And this happened 500 years ago. And I am asking every temple to keep a book where they tell the type of miracles that the Deities performed. Actually, I don’t know if I told here but in San Diego, the Deity Subhadrā was burnt out. And then they investigated, and they found that the pūjārī was breaking the principles. And Rukmiṇī Dvārakādīśa have many, many miracles. It is quite possible to have such relationship. 

In Māyāpur we have the ancient Jagannātha Baladeva Subhadrā Deities. One blind man he could not go to Jagannātha Purī, nobody wanted to take a blind man walking to Purī. But then these Deities, They manifested and so although the Deities were on a termite hill, what do the termites eat? Wood. What is Lord Jagannātha made of?  Wood. But they did not eat Jagannātha. And there are many, many miracles of these Deities. I personally, like there were 25 owners of the land. So I got everybody to sign except two members. I told the pūjārī once we take over the Deities’ worship, we cannot stop. When the two people sign, then we would start. He did not tell me, he had already started. And then he stopped, being afraid that it would displease me. I had said, once we start we cannot stop. We opened up the door of the temple where the Deities were. The Deities were gone. They were walking over the field, They said, “We are starving, We will go and take prasāda with Rādhā Mādhava and take the bhoga there.” Then I found out that the service was started and stopped. 

After some time, one pūjārī, he was riding on a bicycle back to the Rādhā Mādhava temple, on the road there was a man lying down. He just drove-by and the man jumped up and scared him. Ah! You scared me! Then, he was lying on the ground, he thought what mistake did I do to Lord Jagannātha? He went back, he found out, instead of sugar in the caraṇāmṛta, he had put salt! You cannot mess around with Lord Jagannātha in Rājāpur! 

So we will continue tomorrow.

The associates of Lord Nityānanda!

Haribol!