63rd Vyas Puja of H.H Jayapataka Swami Maharaja
3rd April ,2012
Mayapur ,India.
Lecture :H.H Jayapataka Swami Maharaj
Nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesha-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
mukam karoti vacalam
pangum langhayate girim
yat kripa tamaham vande
srigurum dinatarinam
paramananda madhavam
sri caitanya mano isvaram
Hari Om tat sat!
The Diksha Guru is representative of Radha Madan Mohan,Shiksha Guru is compared to Radha Govinda.Radha Govinda are same as Radha Madhava.
So,in Krsna book Krsna is talking to his school friends ,Sudama Vipra.How important is to have a Guru that,Krsna is Guiding from within as Atar Yami and from without as Diksha and Shiksha Guru.
So,in this way Krsna is Guiding us ,because we are not so receptive,to hear him as Atar Yami.So,he guides from without as the Guru.
In this way,we get help from Krsna to cross over the illusions of Maya.Sometimes,the Guru may misunderstand like when Ramchandra Kaviraj,he went to see his wife on the order of his Guru.
So the wife said:”You left home and you went .What did you get?I want to get that spiritual otherwise as ordinary wife ,I can get a child anytime .But,I want to get ,what you call so valuable.
So the whole night he told her about Krsna consciousness& she was so grateful that she decided to practice Krsna consciousness her whole life & she bowed down from her hair unto his feet.
So,when Ramchandra Kaviraj he went back to ,Ah!! See his Guru.The Guru saw Red Kunkum on his feet and Thought “You Rascal!!,you enjoyed all night and you didn’t take bath?” and he chased him,but later he found out that he had been instructing Krsna consciousness to his wife.
So,in that way he was sure that he misunderstood.So,we were sometimes Srila Prabhupad would tell us ,that :”I am not the Supersoul,I get information from the Supersoul but,I am not the Supersoul”.
So, Prabhupad said that he was not the Supersoul,what to speak of us? We are very insignificant.So you all are very fortunate,that you have as Param Guru Srila Prabhupad and you can get his instructions in his books,tapes,lectures,letters.So,he s guiding us all of us through the Guru either directly or through his representatives.He engages all the devotees in Krsna’s service.
So,Krsna is so wonderful we cannot imagine how wonderful ,Krsna is?.In the Nectar of Devotion,it mentions Krsna he even speaks the language of the Animals.Now we have translations English to Bengali,to Russia,Chinese.But,Krsna knows all languages.He knows everything& he as our Supersoul he can understand.He is our constant guide.But,we sometimes amused is it our mind or is it Krsna who is guiding us?
So,we ask the Guru & he confirms .Sadhu,Shastra and Guru these 3 things confirm.So Krsna he always refers to the Shastra.Although he is the writer of the Shastra.Although ,he is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.He refers to scriptures.
So ,Srila Prabhupad he was so concerned with people of this Kaliyuga.One time leader said “Prabhupad sometimes I am concerned ,I worry about the conditioned souls” and Srila Prabhupad looked at him ,and said:”Why sometimes?Why not all the times?”
So, Srila Prabhupad he was concerned of all of you all the time,and that is good.We have Lord Caitanya & Lord Nityananda they were considering how to give the mercy to everyone.
So, Srila Prabhupad took the mercy to the Western countries & on his own ,he took mercy to India.He sent me to India.So I have also visited India,Bangladesh,Nepal,Malaysia & Latin America.They are my Gurudatta DESH.Either given directly by Prabhupad or by his representative of GBC.So like that,the world is divided into zones and in the future.They are supposed to be 108 zones.
Kunteya das,has strategic planning team is working on this along with his organization development team reporting to me.Idea is that ,every area should be covered by ,someone from the GBC ,by someone who represents the GBC.But,also the Temple Presidents they have a great duty to see how Krsna consciousness can be spread in their area.
Krsna is seeing how we relate to Guru and he also sees if we are ready to serve him directly.If we surrender to spiritual master then Krsna knows we can surrender to him.The spiritual master is the representative of the whole Guru Parampara.But ,he never thinks that he is the Supreme Personality of Godhead or then he is a great devotee.
At the same time,the disciple worships him,respects him as “Sakshat Hari” , Sakshat represents Svayam means someone like someone with qualities like .
Spiritual master carries all the mercy of LORD Krishna and he tries to engage himself & all his devotees ,disciples in the service of Supreme Personality of Godhead.
We have many illustrious Spiritual MASTERS who have left us like,Bhakti TIRTHA maharaj,Tamal Krsna Goswami Maharaj,Gaur Govind Swami MAHARAJ, Sridhar Swami they were very much dedicated to serve Srila Prabhupad .
So,we want to carry the the flag of victory of Sankirtan Movement & follow the great souls who have succeded.Like this,this material world entices us to enjoy,and we think that through the senses we can enjoy ,but,actually the senses are never fully satisfied.
There was one great devotee he said:”My Lord,I am a great saint,I am praying to you .I am serving the masters Lust,Greed ,Anger,Hate ,Envy.But,although I serve them very favourably,they are never satisfied,never satisfied!!They don’t have also any embarrasement ,to take any service & I get nothing in return.
So now,I have decided I don’t want to serve these false masters anymore.I want to serve your Lotus feet.” Haribol!!!
“I want to serve your lotus feet Oh Lord Krsna!!.”So,this is the teaching of the Pure Devotee,Spiritual Masters,so that we can engage our mind ,our thoughts ,our words,our activities n service of Lord Krsna.
Although Krsna is very kind,he lets us have a certain amount of sense gratification.This sense gratification can never satisfy us.rather we get satisfied when Lord Krsna is satisfied.So the Guru,is there to tell us to do some devotional service to Lord Krishna.
In every step,we should take shelter of the Lord.So,Initially Madha is attracting us ,the desire to enjoy the senses,but he is attracted by Madan Mohan Krsna.So we want to take shelter of Madan Mohan Krsna that is the Diksha Guru& then to make further advancement ,we take some guidance from Shiksha Guru& then finally we want to reach Radha Govind a to Radha Gopinath.So,this is our system.
Every step in Kali Yuga there is many defects,but we are given some special mercy that if we chant.We can very easily,awaken our Bhakti.So we should chant,:
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna
Krsna Krsna Hare HARE
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare!
In Sri Sampradaya many of the Madhavas,& also spiritual master Chiras they have said that we should chant the name of Lord & we should raise our hands & this is a symptom of a Pure Devotee& this is a symptom of a Vaishnava.
So,some of the Chiras have said the only one to do this is the Hare Krsna devotees.Why you are not doing?.So,this is not only for us .But,all the great devotees ,all the acharyas have said chant the Holy Name ,but Lord Chaitanya’s followers we do this .So,this is our System to chant ,dance and to please Krsna.
Hare Krsna!
Are they any Questions?
Hare Krsna Kirtan continues ………