20230505 Question and Answer Session

The following is a Q&A Session answered by His Holiness on the 5th of may at Dallas, USA.

Question: Many of your disciples are far away in different countries, how can we serve you?

Jayapatākā Swami: You see, there is two types of service to guru – vapu-sevā and vāṇī-sevā. When I am personally present and you are doing some personal service, that is called vapu-sevā. But otherwise, vāṇī-sevā to serve the spiritual master by following his instructions. So if you make devotees, if you study Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books, engage in some form of devotional service, I get very happy by that. And it is not necessary that you have to be where I am. You can carry out my instructions anywhere.

Hare Kṛṣṇa! 

Question: When we are chanting the mahā-mantra how can we develop that love of separation from Kṛṣṇa?

Jayapatākā Swami: You know, Śrīla Prabhupāda said that it took him twenty years for him. How many lifetimes it will take for us, I don’t know! But we try to do service for Lord Kṛṣṇa, for Śrīla Prabhupāda, for guru and this way, eventually the devotional ecstasy, devotional service increase.