20230422 Question and Answer Session

Question: You mentioned about the position of raga-mārga devotees, how we can commit offences. How to understand that? I don’t have that knowledge and I don’t have that rāga-mārga, how can I avoid offences?

Jayapatākā Swami: It is not possible to understand raga-mārga unless one is rāga-mārga. Therefore, Lord Caitanya is advising Jagadānanda Paṇḍita not to associate too closely with the vraja-vāsīs.

Question: When somebody is denying like how Lord Caitanya was denying for him to travel with him or go to Vṛndāvana, so if he asks once or twice, he should have understood that he is being denied and not gone, why did he keep insisting? Is this done, is it our Vaiṣṇava etiquette?

Jayapatākā Swami: He wanted to go! But he followed the etiquette that unless Lord Caitanya allowed him, he would not go. So, he asked Svarūpa Dāmodara to intervene. So Lord Caitanya gave some advice to him.

Sarvajaya Mādhava dāsa: Guru Mahārāja is coughing a lot so we will do a little ārati and end the class.