Trivikrama Māsa

Monthly Message (24 May 2024 to 22 June 2024) My dear dīkṣā, sheltered, aspiring, śikṣā, grand disciples, and well-wishers, Please accept my blessings and best wishes. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Home base: Śrī Māyāpur Chandrodaya Mandir Camp: New Delhi On the...

Mādhusūdan Māsa

(Baisakha) Monthly Message (25 April 2024 to 23 May 2024) My dear dīkṣā, sheltered, aspiring, śikṣā, grand disciples, and well-wishers, Please accept my blessings and best wishes. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Home base: Śrī Māyāpur Chandrodaya Mandir Camp: New...

Viṣṇu (Chaitra) Māsa

My dear dīkṣā, sheltered, aspiring, śikṣā, grand disciples, and well-wishers, Please accept my blessings and best wishes. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Home base: Sri Māyāpur Chandrodaya Mandir Camp: ILBS Hospital, Delhi I saw that today in Māyāpur, all the Deities...

Govinda Māsa

My dear dīkṣā, sheltered, aspiring, śikṣā, grand disciples, and well-wishers, Please accept my blessings and best wishes. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Written from my Home base: Sri Māyāpur Chandrodaya Mandir Wish you a very happy Gaura Pūrṇimā Festival and...

Question: Often youths who are cultivated and brought up in bhakti life, have to move to other places for jobs and stay there. It not only increases the physical distance from the counsellor, but also dilutes the relationship to some extent since it is not possible for him to come and associate regularly with his devotee family. Also, he may face difficulties in accepting a new authority at a new place. In such situations how can he feel spiritually connected to his counsellor?

Jayapataka Swami: You see, this is the difficulty with working in the material world. And one chooses to work in the material world, or to be part of the ashram, few devotes join the ashram, many people work outside. So working outside, then these are the problems. I...