Question: How do we connect new people to the deities? Usually before COVID we could engage them in services but now with everything online, how do we connect them to the deities and temple, as being connected to the deities is very important?

Jayapataka Swami:  Just like in my app and some of the Kartika month websites, they have a process where we can offer articles to the deities. Otherwise, you can show the deities virtually, and have people offer lamp to the deities. In this way they can get spiritual...

Question: It is said in Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, 16.60, that the dust of the feet of a devotee, the water that has washed the feet of a devotee and the remnants of food left by a devotee, are three powerful substances. So how can we take them, without causing trouble to the devotee?

Jayapataka Swami:The point is that, if you are an initiated devotee, then it is very beneficial for you, and not so much trouble for the devotee. But sometimes people who are not devotees take the dust, and sometimes devotees distribute their guru’s prasāda remnants...