Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Camp: Bombay, ISKCON
December is the month Lord Krsna spoke the Bhagavad Gita on a sacred Ekadashi. It is also the time when ISKCON celebrates their annual book marathon and
I was very fortunate to have a long and intimate association with His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaja since I joined ISKCON. Undoubtedly he is one of the most exemplary l
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I have always heard devotees saying that Srila Prabhupada had mentioned something about the divinity of our beloved Guru Maharaja as an eternal associate of Lord Chaitanya. I ha
We welcome all HH Jayapataka Swami Disciples Website! This site has been created for the disciples of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami celebrating "40 years as sanyasi in the year 2010".You can share photos, videos, announce programs, etc. about HisHoli
How did you meet Guru Maharaja? What did he first say to you that brought you to realization that he was your eternal spiritual father come to take you back home, back to Godhead? What service exchanges have you had with him, or with other godbrother
"The material world is but a shadow. If we hold our hand against the light it casts a shadow image. The shadow image is like an outline of the hand. It doesn't show the qualities of the hand, such as the hair, the skin, or the fingerprints. It is onlRead more…
"Sometimes someone has a little knowledge, and they become very proud. Sometimes someone has a little wealth, they become very proud, they think nothing can disturb them.There is a story once, that there was a frog living in the pond. One day the fro
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So sometimes when people hear these principles of Bhakti..this bowing down, offering a flower, offering a fruit, offering water with tulasi, doing some simple services, they think, 'what is this? this is over-simplified! we have to do some high mentaRead more…
Dear devotees,Please accept my humble obeisances.All glories to Srila Prabhupada!Since 21st December High Hopes Rehabilitation Center has holidays GuruMaharaja has a break of his therapy. He has a lot of homework to do in themeantime, walking a certa
My friends, if we look in the world today, we see that, what do we need most of all but... PEACE! We see that in Bosnia, we see in so many parts as Somalia. People all over the world are killing each other based on what? Some people blame it on relig
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"Bhaktivinod Thakura gives and example of a person trying to stand with his feet in two different boats. Obviously when the boats separate, the person falls in the water. This is the situation we are faced with.We are trying to accommodate material d
When we finally go to the spiritual world, it's transcendental, and then you have different levels of the spiritual world, where in the Vaikunta planets the devotees of the Lord worship Lord Narayana with awe and reverence and with great pomp, majest
Even this mood of anger is there in the Personality of Godhead. He is angry when His pure devotee who are simply dedicated to preaching this message and delivering the fallen souls from their misery, are tortured is harassed and... in so many ways of
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"Just like when a soldier is serving under the order of his commander, the commander is supposed to take on the responsibility. At least as long as the commander is ordering something 'within the law'.So, the GURU is ordering something, which is bona
Dear devotees,Please accept my humble obeisances.Jay Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!Guru Maharaja arrived in Los Angeles, USA, on 3rd December. He is attendingthe package treatment in High Hopes Clinic here, different kinds oftherapies like walking, lokom
"Basically the problems that we are facing in the world today, when we look in the newspapers, we can sum it all up into one common denominator - IGNORANCE! The prejudice, misunderstanding, the lack of mercy, the lack of responsibility to ecology, to
Because of lack of transcendental knowledge, one is thinking, "Oh because of Krishna Consciousness, I will give up some happiness, like going to the movies at night." Some kind of attachment is there.There is a story about Sanatana Goswami's servant.
"See normally people think that happiness is in the material world. And due to some religion they get some good karma, some blessings, we can get more material happiness.But Caitanya Mahaprabhu revealed that Love of Godhead is the HIGHEST HAPPINESS.
“When Srila Prabhupada was sick, he said, ‘Don’t pray to Krishna that I should stay here, pray that if it pleases Krishna, if it is His desire that I stay, then please allow the spiritual master to be healthy.’The devotee has no demand on Krishna. If