20250130 Addressing ISKCON Dvārakā Congregation

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

Jayapatākā Swami: Do you need Hindi translation? I am very happy to welcome you all here! My dear friend is His Holiness Gopāla Kṛṣṇa Goswami Mahārāja! We were together in Montreal as bhaktas! He asked me in Delhi to give my disciple list. Some may have a disciple name from my list! So, I was appreciating how His Holiness Gopāla Kṛṣṇa Goswami would do maṅgala-ārati, would worship his śālagrāma-śilās. Sometimes I was in Delhi because of my hospitalization. Sometimes I visited the Dvārakā Mandir. Sometimes I met His Holiness Gopāla Kṛṣṇa Mahārāja. Since his departure I have been missing him a lot! He was also a member of our Māyāpur Executive Board, MEB. He came every hear to do the pūjā of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva during Nṛsiṁha-caturdaśī. Now in Delhi, we have Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva Deity.

I am very glad you came her to Māyāpur. Lord Caitanya stayed here for 24 years. Every year there is 16 krośa parikramā. There is a Hindi group. Also an English group. Three Bengali groups and one Russian group and one South Indian group. Some of the Russian group members did not come due to the Ukraine war. This dhāma was made by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. And Kṛṣṇa was very pleased to have such a beautiful dhāma! He said that this dhāma will be non-different from Vṛndāvana. But Vṛndāvana any good karma we do we get a thousand times the benefit, and the same is here in Māyāpur. But there is one difference there – in Vṛndāvana, if we do any sin, the reaction is multiplied a thousand times! In Māyāpur, that is not the situation. So Siddha Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja came to Māyāpur from Vṛndāvana because Vṛndāvana was too hot for him! Not materially hot but spiritually hot. Any mistake, it is a thousand times multiplied! But here in Māyāpur he came and achieved his siddha-svarūpa in Māyāpur. In our parikramā we visit his samādhi.

Ādi Saptagrāma is where Lord Nityānanda preached. So you are all going to many holy places!