{"id":10285,"date":"2012-02-10T19:38:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2012-02-10T19:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:39:24","slug":"live-from-sri-mayapur-candrodaya-mandir-jayapataka-swami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10285","title":{"rendered":"Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir! Jayapataka Swami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
\nDate: February 10th , 2012 Topic: Maharaj Prthu’s Going Back Home Verse: SB 6. 3. 20-21 Speaker: HH Jaypataka Swami
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dvadasaite vijanimo dharmam bhagavatam bhatah guhyam visuddham durbodham yam jnatvamrtam asnute<\/p>\n

TRANSLATION: Lord Brahma, Bhagavan Narada, Lord Siva, the four Kumaras, Lord Kapila [the son of Devahuti], Svayambhuva Manu, Prahlada Maharaja, Janaka Maharaja, Grandfather Bhisma, Bali Maharaja, Sukadeva Gosvami and I myself know the real religious principle. My dear servants, this transcendental religious principle, which is known as bhagavata-dharma, or surrender unto the Supreme Lord and love for Him, is uncontaminated by the material modes of nature. It is very confidential and difficult for ordinary human beings to understand, but if by chance one fortunately understands it, he is immediately liberated, and thus he returns home, back to Godhead.<\/p>\n

PURPORT: In Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna refers to bhagavata-dharma as the most confidential religious principle (sarva-guhyatamam, guhyad guhyataram). Krsna says to Arjuna, “Because you are My very dear friend, I am explaining to you the most confidential religion.” Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja: [Bg. 18.66] “Give up all other duties and surrender unto Me.” One may ask, “If this principle is very rarely understood, what is the use of it?” In answer, Yamaraja states herein that this religious principle is understandable if one follows the parampara system of Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, the four Kumaras and the other standard authorities. There are four lines of disciplic succession: one from Lord Brahma, one from Lord Siva, one from Laksmi, the goddess of fortune, and one from the Kumaras. The disciplic succession from Lord Brahma is called the Brahma-sampradaya, the succession from Lord Siva (Sambhu) is called the Rudra-sampradaya, the one from the goddess of fortune, Laksmiji, is called the Sri-sampradaya, and the one from the Kumaras is called the Kumara-sampradaya. One must take shelter of one of these four sampradayas in order to understand the most confidential religious system. In the Padma Purana it is said, sampradaya-vihina ye mantras te nisphala matah: if one does not follow the four recognized disciplic successions, his mantra or initiation is useless. In the present day there are many apasampradayas, or sampradayas which are not bona fide, which have no link to authorities like Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, the Kumaras or Laksmi. People are misguided by such sampradayas. The sastras say that being initiated in such a sampradaya is a useless waste of time, for it will never enable one to understand the real religious principles. [End of Srila Prabhupada’s purport SB 6.3.22]\n

HH Jayapataka Swami: So I take this opportunity to first of all welcome all the GBC and IRS(?) members who have come here and to Bali Mardan. This is your home – Mayapur Dhama. Prabhupada built the Iskcon centre here to be the home of all the devotees. Haribol. [Haribol.] Srila Prabhupada Ki! Jai!<\/p>\n

I like to share with you a few things. One thing is that Prabhupada wanted the devotees to attend the regular Gaura-purnima festival every year. One of the GBC’s said, “Prabhupada (At that time it cost $500. Now it is more expensive.)Each year thousands of devotees go and they pay $500 each. That is $500 000. We could build a temple. (In those days.)” Prabhupada said, “Yes. The devotees eat so much [Laughter] If they didn’t eat we could have so much money. [Laughter] The GBC shut up. [Laughter] we can’t live without food. Similarly association with devotees from around the world it is a special energising process. And as we know this year to have all our leaders
\n– so many leaders. It is a very special reunion. So we want to take this opportunity to say that we are sure that Prabhupada is very pleased that you are all here and by your association we also hope to get a chance to serve you in Mayapur dham. We also as leaders hope to get more energised, more nice association with all of you.<\/p>\n

One day Saci-matta was very disturbed. She had a bad dream and she was confused so she asked her son Sacinandan what is the meaning of this dream. She had Krishna Balarama deities in her puja room. There she saw Krishna and Balarama on the altar. She also saw baby Lord Caitanya and baby Lord Nityananda and They were talking to Krishna and Balarama. Nitai was doing all the talking. He was saying, “This yuga is Lord Caitanya’s yuga. It is not Yours! [Laughter]…”Then He ran up to Mother Saci, “I am hungry. Feed Me!” So what does this dream mean?<\/p>\n

“Well what i am seeing here is Nityananda is hungry. You should feed Him. So I will go and invite Him for lunch. You prepare the lunch.” And so Lord Caitanya went looking for Lord Nityananda. At that time Lord Nityananda was swimming in the Ganges so He called Nityananda over and said, “Today You are coming for lunch.” “Oh, very nice. I will go.”<\/p>\n

As They were walking to Mother Saci’s house – Jaganath Misra’s home, Lord Caitanya said, “No funny business! No funny business.” And Lord Nityananda said, “Me! I don’t do funny things. You do funny business.”<\/p>\n

So when They sat down in the puja room and Mother Saci was so ecstatic to serve the two. In her ecstasy she put down three leaves… So then she gave rice. The traditional way of serving a Bengali feast is a mountain of rice and around dhal subjis and bitter gourd. She was getting more things and when she came in instead of seeing Nitai-Gaura she saw Krishna and Balarama. Then Lord Caitanya spoke, “Mother Saci, Mother Saci!” She started crying. She ran to her room. She wouldn’t talk…<\/p>\n

So like this Nitai Gaura, They were having pastimes here in Navadvip dhama. One thing stands out – this is Their yuga. And it was predicted in the Brahma-Vivarta Purna that there would be a ten thousand year Golden Age when Lord Caitanya’s holy name will be preached in every town and village.<\/p>\n

All the holy rivers and kundas and sarovaras came to see Lord Krishna in Dvaraka. They pushed Ganga-mayi ahead. She was the spokesperson on behalf of everyone. So she said, “Very soon we see that Your pastimes will come to an end and You will go. So we are wanting that You take us with You. We can see that a new leaf – Kali-yuga will begin and so many sinful people will just bathe in our waters and just dump all their sins on us. So we rather go with You.”<\/p>\n

Lord Krishna was smiling. He said, “Just to see a Vaisnava is purifying, what to speak of touching one. In five thousand years I will send a special devotee who will take this message, My holy name to all the continents of the world. And all those devotees will come and bathe in your holy waters. This will purify you and for ten thousand years there will be a Golden Age. Haribol! [Haribol] After that Kali-yuga in its normal form will be Gaura Kali. At that time like the Sarasvati River you can go underground and wait until Satya-yuga begins.”<\/p>\n

So Prabhupada came after five thousand years of the Kali-yuga and he took the message of Krishna consciousness to all the continents of the world. He took it to South America, North America, Europe, Asia, Russia, and Australia. So he fulfilled the prediction.<\/p>\n

Om Visnupada Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur had told of how after two hundred years of Lord Caitanya’s movement when this chanting was very prevalent all over Bengal, Orissa and different parts of India. At that time Kali was desperate how to stop Lord Caitanya. So he approached the guru of the demons, Sukracarya and said, “I need your help. I have to stop Visnu. We have to stop Him!” Sukracarya said, “Well I don’t want to with Visnu. Because of Him I have one eye blind.”<\/p>\n

When he told Bali Maharaj to tell Visnu, “No. I can’t give You three steps.” Bali did not follow. At that time Sukracarya had taken with his mystic powers a form of a fly and climbed up to the water pot spout of Bali. So Vamanadeva took the staff and poked him in the water pot spout and blinded one eye of Sukracarya as a fly… So when Sukracarya took his human form his one eye was blind.<\/p>\n

So he said, “I will get back at Visnu. I WILL GET BACK AT VISNU. I will take my appearance as Rupa Kaviraj… and I will preach sahajism, that just by imagining that you are Yasoda or Radha or some great devotee or sakhi – no sadhana or no bhakti – just imagine.” So there are these apasampradaysa that teach one can be a devotee without going through the sadhana bhakti practice, ecstasy is there. So in this way the movement of lord Caitanya wavered but Prabhupada came and his mission was to spread the message of Lord Caitanya. That is why we need to be very much fixed on Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya and not get deluded by the sahajiyas or by the Mayavadis. Prabhupada said that there are two sides of the same coin. On the one side you think you are god and on the other side you think you are some great devotee. We just want to be dasanudasanudasa – servant of the servant of the servant.<\/p>\n

So Prabhupada had great expectations for the leaders of Iskcon: the temple presidents or the GBC. He wanted the GBC’s to go and supervise the presidents, to imbibe in him the spirit. And also there are many letters were he wrote to the presidents where he wanted the presidents to see to the preaching. When I was a president he told me to write to him twice a week. Twice a week! He didn’t want to the … he wanted to preach to the leaders. At first he said, “Make temples.” So we were in the mood of making temples. When we had about forty temples he said, “Now we should boil down the milk.” In India the milk sellers say, “I don’t put any water in milk. I swear on Gita! I do not put water in the milk.” They take milk and they put it all in the water. [Laughter] So they don’t put water in the milk. They put milk in the water. [Laughter] these are all kinds of …<\/p>\n

Anyway the point is somehow if milk and water gets mixed, more water, more water, more water very soon it is not milk any more. So there was a time he wanted to boil the milk. Then when he has a hundred centres at that time – he had some prediction that he would make a hundred temples. So now he said, “Now I want to write and I expect the leaders to take this management headache from me. I expect the temple presidents – they can have something and get together and talk. And when I finish Bhagavatam we should have one thousand centres.”<\/p>\n

We have – last time I heard was about 950 centres. There are many nama-hattas, bhakti vrksa groups, counsel groups, sastra groups – different kinds of groups. I don’t know how the fit in the equation but Prabhupada wanted 1000 centres. So the idea we are very much grateful to the Strategic Planning Team. As we see the GBC has given some special areas they want to concentrate on like – Devotee care; Position of Srila Prabhupada; Parallel lines, what is the organisation of Iskcon… how many zones and all that. So many other topics. So the idea is to share those with the progress we have made so far – share that with the Iskcon leadership and to associate with them. Of course I don’t know if any one, others are allowed to visit this seminar. I don’t know. That they can say. But this is a great opportunity to really find out. Also not all of these meetings have only GBC’s. They also take leaders from around the movement. So in some community especially interview them tell them to run this building. Maybe they will think … No one told them I am just speaking.<\/p>\n

Krishna and His GBC – eight mahajanas. Prabhupada hoped in the future that the GBC will be like mahajans…. Prabhupada had great expectations. He wanted the leaders and GBC’s and everyone to take some responsibilities. I am readings again the books. So recently I read again – I forget how many times – ‘The Nectar of Devotion’ I am still reading and there Rupa Goswami states that there are three levels of devotion: practice, ecstatic devotion and pure love.<\/p>\n

So in the practice level there are two sub divisions. One is to follow according to the sastra, according to the guru. Prabhupada wanted us all to chant sixteen rounds and read his books and engage in devotional activities, rise early. He said if you do this it will be very easy to manage Iskcon. That is the first thing. Then when one starts thinking, how to improve my service, how to do better. A president has a whole state or a country to expand. So he has a larger area. His service, how to take care of devotees, how to expand the preaching in all of this area, how to make more centres, how to make more devotees. So when he starts to think how to improve my service that is one level of raganuga. On another level expand love. This is also called raganuga. So the devotees start to think how to do better in my service. How I can make a difference. If I can bring one person, one person to become a pure devotee you get a free ticket. A free ticket back to Krishna!<\/p>\n

Om Visnupada Bhaktisiddhanta said Bhaktivinode Thakur used to say – Prabhupada told us – how if one person, his whole mood of sixty four temples and thousands of devotees – if one became a pure devotee he will consider the whole movement a success. So we hope that many, many pure devotees, men and women and leaders, they can please use their intelligence, use their creativity, use their inspiration how to improve their service, how to expand the Krishna conscious movement more and more. This will be very pleasing to Lord Caitanya and very pleasing to Srila Prabhupada. Haribol. [Haribol] [Applause] Any comments or question?<\/p>\n

Prabhu: Hare Krishna Maharaja. Thank you for the very inspiring class. Maharaj you mentioned the existence of the apasampradayas and how Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur defeated them to establish pure bhakti. My question Maharaja is in what forms are these apasampradayas still existing around the world and what can we do to defeat them? HH Jayapataka Swami: I know I am thinking it is Bhaktivinode Thakura but we know there are different apasampradayas. During the time of Bhaktivinode Thakur he sang a song aula, baula, kartabhaja, prakrta-sahajiya, sakhi-bheki, jati-gosai, gaura-nagari. There were like thirteen sakhi-bhekis. … all the deviants. I have seen in one temple a lady is doing arati. She turned around and she is not a lady. She is a man – big beard but she\/he wears a sari. It is called sakhi-bheki. In the mood of feeling holy they are practicing wearing a sari. So all these are speculations. I only know one…. so i don’t think that it is a wise use of time.<\/p>\n

We want to follow Srila Prabhupada. [Haribol] Anything not authorised by Prabhupada – Haribol! Okay. … Please while you are here in Mayapur I hope you all help whether you staying or are just visiting for Gaura-purnima please have a very nice ecstatic time. Every service you do here is a thousand times – a thousand times benefit. Of course Prabhupada said what is a thousand times zero! [Laughter] While you are here the idea is a transcendental location. More chanting, more hearing or more puja. Somehow keep yourself busy, more hearing, more associating with Lord Krishna in this way utilise your time in Krishna’s service and you will get multiplied on thousand times. Srila Prabhupada Ki! Jai! Haribol! [Haribol] [Applause]\n[To receive Mayapurlive lectures by email, write to mayapurlive@pamho.net]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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