20260608 Special Class on Pānihāṭi

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-gurun dina tāriṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

Jayapatākā Swami: Śrīla Prabhupāda came here and named this place as New Pānihāṭi dhāma. What was the significance of Pānihāṭi, the devotees did not understand. I went several times to Pānihāṭi dhāma in India, with Śrīla Prabhupāda. I realized that it is a very important place. This is one of the five places Lord Caitanya eternally manifests! Śrīla Prabhupāda also gave various instructions. Under the present Government. Any way, now the devotees here in New Pānihāṭi dhāma understand the significance of Pānihāṭi. And now we have a very nice festival. Doctors said that my health is somewhat very fragile but then it immediately started to improve. One of the preaching I am doing is that I am trying to make some video presentations. So, Śrīla Prabhupāda said that 50% of his mission is not fulfilled. He said he wanted to establish daiva-varṇāśrama but he was not able. I was thinking about that. How can it be done in Kali-yuga? After reading the Bhagavad-gītā maybe 20 or 30 times, I came to the conclusion that the work we do, has to be combined with Lord Caitanya’s mercy – that is the only way. Lord Caitanya said I am not a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya or śūdra. I am not a brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha or sannyāsī. I am a servant, of the servant of the servant of the servant of the Master of the gopīs of Lord Kṛṣṇa! Some wanted to categorize the varṇāśrama-dharma into different guṇas – sattva, rajas, tamas. But Śrīla Prabhupāda said we are not śūdras, we are Vaiṣṇavas. The guṇas in the varṇāśrama system, it is a gradual process and takes many births. We cannot avoid that in Kali-yuga, we don’t know what our next birth will be. We want to go back to Godhead in this life. All we need to do is to follow Lord Caitanya’s saṅkīrtana process. Whatever we do, we offer it to Kṛṣṇa and we also practice Kṛṣṇa consciousness!

So, I will show one video, and I would like you to see it, and we will share a QR code. How many of you have mobile phones? Anyone without mobile phone? Those who have mobile phones, you can scan the QR code and give your comments on the video we are going to show. This is still Work-in-Progress. Like this, we would like to practice to people of all religions, all faiths. Work for God and chant the holy name of God. We chant:

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