20180729 Sunday Feast Class

The following is a class given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on July 29th, 2018 in Chennai, India.

The Sunday Feast class was given with Tamil translation.

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale

śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine

namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe

nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

jaya śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda

śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/

Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim

yat-kṛpāṁ tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam

paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī-caitanya-īśvaram

hariḥ oṁ tat sat

Jayapatākā Swami: I am very happy to be here in the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa temple. I will just speak for a few minutes. We have here Nitāi-Gaura, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa and Jagannātha Baladeva and Subhadrā. Nitāi-Gaura appeared 500 years ago. Kṛṣṇa thought I had such blissful time in My Vṛndāvana pastimes but many people did not get a taste. So I will appear again as My devotee.

parama karuṇa pāhuṅ dui jana nitāi gaura-candra

saba avatāra-sāra śiromaṇi kevala ānanda-kāṇḍa

There are so many avatāras. Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.8)“sambhavāmi yuge yuge”. He comes in every yuga. But there is no avatāra so merciful as Nitāi-Gaura. Although He did not reveal Himself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He came and travelled all over South India for six months. He visited every house, the householder bathed His feet and they gave Him bhoga. And Lord Caitanya sat down and talked with all the residents of the house and others in the village. Which avatāra gives so much mercy? Going to every house, speaking with the householders.

There was Vāsudeva Datta, a leper, he was so detached. He was taking the lice, picking them up and putting them on his sores, poochi poochi (Insects in Tamil). Ha! Lord Caitanya embraced him and he was cured of his leprosy. So Vāsudeva Datta told Him, You cured me! I will become proud! Lord Caitanya told him you just chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and that will protect you.

So Kṛṣṇa came to Chennai and married the princess. But Lord Caitanya was in the mood of Rādhārāṇī. So He did not do anything with ladies. So we are very fortunate that Lord Caitanya spent so much time in Tamil Nadu. He spent the four months of the rainy season in Śrīraṅgam. He was chanting all the time. There is one village here, they are still chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. So by the mercy of Nitāi-Gaura we are getting the service of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. And Lord Jagannātha is feeling separation from Vṛndāvana.

In Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta, it mentions that Kṛṣṇa was crying for His devotees in Vṛndāvana. So that is the form of Lord Jagannātha Baladeva and Subhadrā. So please chant in your house. We are not saying to change your way of life; we are just saying add sevā to Kṛṣṇa. Lord Caitanya’s instruction was bolo kṛṣṇa bhajo kṛṣṇa koro kṛṣṇa śikṣā.

Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa!