20170709 His. Holiness. Jayapatākā Swāmi addresses the Silchar Youth at Māyāpura.
mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ
paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande
paramānanda-mādhavam
Śrī Caitanya Iswaram
Hari Oṁ Tat Sat.
Gurumahārāja: We are very happy that you are coming to the holy Dhāma of Mayāpur. That this place is said to be non-different from Vṛndāvana. Here Kṛṣṇa came as a devotee five hundred and some years ago as Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and then he started the yuga dharma of chanting, the Hare Kṛṣṇa Mahāmantra. And He was chanting and dancing with thousands of people.
He was between 16 and 24 at that time, and he had many young students. So, you can say that it is was primarily our youth movement. Some of the younger Vaisnavas also participated. When Lord Caitanya went to Gāya to perform Pindi for his diseased father, He took initiation from Iswar Purī Mahārāja, and in Kānāi Natsala which is in today’s Jharkhand he had darshan of Lord Kṛṣṇa. So, when he came back to Nabadwip He was changed. He went as Nimāi Paṇḍita and came back as Gaura Hari.
So, this is the place where He had His youthful pastimes, and this is the place where He started the sankritana. Kṛṣṇa spoke the Bhagavad-gītā. He told that they should forget all other religions and just take shelter of Him.
Sarva dharmān paritajya mām ekaṁ sharanam vraja
But some people didn’t understand Kṛṣṇa. “Who is Kṛṣṇa? Why He is saying to give up all other dhāma? Who is to say that?” People didn’t understand. The Pandavā’s and some people understood. But some didn’t.
Lord Caitanya came to establish what the actual way of serving Lord Kṛṣṇa was. A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda, he took this message to the Western world, and people were interested in Yoga, but they only knew Haṭha Yoga. They didn’t know Bhakti Yoga.
So, Prabhupāda told them about bhakti yoga, and now bhakti yoga has got millions of practitioners around the world, and we have about a hundred branches in India, and throughout the world we have about 650 branches and thousands of informal gatherings known as Namhatta’s or Bhaktivriksha’s.
And for the students they are known as bases or Hare Kṛṣṇa clubs, and many other names. So we hope that, now that you have come here, you will get the special mercy of Lord Caitanya. Thus you will realize how spiritual life is so fulfilling.
Lord Caitanya taught, “grihe thāko, vane thāko, sadā Hari bale dāko.” So, we hope that you will get all your questions answered, and that you have a nice time here.
Thank you for coming.
Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Lecture Suggetions
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20170813 A Talk at Śrīla Prabhupāda's Vyāsa-pūjā at the MCS
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20170810 A Talk at the TOVP Cakra Installation
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20170808 Question and Answer Session at the SMIS
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20170807 Initiation Lecture on Balarāma Pūrṇimā
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20170806 Skype Darśana to the Bolivian devotees
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20170804 A Talk during the Jhulan-yātrā Festival
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20170803 A Talk at the Jhulan-yātrā Festival
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20170730 Intiation Address with Telugu translation.
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20170729 Class
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20170722 Evening Lecture
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20170721 Initiation Talk
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20170720 Evening Lecture
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20210718 Bhāgavata-Kathāmṛta at 50th Kolkata Ratha-yātrā Festival
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20170717 Arrival Address
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20170715 Bhakti-yoga Talk
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20170708 Evening Question and Answer Session
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20170705 Lecture at the Rajapur Temple
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20170702 Evening Question and Answer Session
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20170701 A Talk on Nāmahaṭṭa Day at the Ratha-yātrā Kolkata Pandal
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20170701 Evening Bengali Pandal Address
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20170630 An Address to the Kolkata Book Distribution Team
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20170628 Question and Answer Session
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20170627 Question and Answer Session during the 46th Kolkata Ratha-yātrā Festival
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20170623 Talk
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20170622 A Talk about the glories of Antardvīpa Dhāma
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20170622 Bengali Class
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20170621 Talk
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20170614 Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book
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20170612 Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book
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20170610 A Class on the song