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Jayadvaita Swami We have two kinds of needs, material and spiritual. I can’t deny that I have basic material needs, like eating for example. ‘Well I’m spiritually realised I don’t eat anymore’, um…No, you need eating, sleeping. Can’t really do without it. Mating. Another basic human need. And defending, we need to defend ourselves from [...]

There’s the material world and there’s the physical disappointment. You know we wanted, we didn’t get it! Or we wanted it, we got it and we lost it! So there’s that disappointment. And there’s, yeah, a deeper psychological or spiritual disappointment. ‘I got it but I felt empty’ or ‘I have it all but I [...]

Audience: If everyone tries to achieve spiritual happiness then they’re not going to get married. The human race is going to go back down…. Jayadvaita Swami: If everyone tries for spiritual happiness, then nobody’s going to get married and that’s the end of the world…. Audience: And there’s no children being made… Jayadvaita Swami: Of [...]

Jayadvaita Swami Live for the moment or seize the day and then get what you can out of it now, You can take that approach……But if there’s something higher while you’re busy seizing the temporary thing, you’re losing the better thing. The person who gives up the eternal for the temporary, loses both! He loses [...]

During the month of kartika in Vrindavan Jayadvaita Swami gave a short but powerful class with complementing questions and answers. One of the questions was “Why is there still religion when we have modern science?”. Maharaja answered quickly and forcefully and gave 4 reasons: Birth, disease, old age and death What is the purpose of [...]

Jaydvaita Swami: I’m not saying you know, somehow or other, if the chocolate tastes good put a rubber band around your tongue or something because you know you just did the wrong thing. No. There’s a natural pleasure that comes from, well Bhagavad Gita analyses it by saying the contact with the senses with their [...]

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007) We’re all connected. we all belong to….we’re all parts of the Supreme. And now we’re acting as if we’re disconnected, and that disconnectedness is causing us untold difficulties. What is that difficulty? No one wants to get old, we’re all going get old. Some of us are already well into it, some [...]

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007) There’s an interesting history in one of the Puranas about a child named Prahlada. He was spiritually advanced from his childhood. He met a great sage and became an enlightened little boy. He was trying to get his friends on board, saying: ‘Come on! Let’s do something! Let’s chant Hare Krishna, let’s [...]

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007) I don’t mean to say that everybody’s just a shameless hedonist. You know that as soon as we pile out of this room we’re all going to be going looking for the nearest club and doing whatever it is that, turns our senses on. I don’t mean to say that. Some of [...]

We’re trying to enthuse material things with joy. You know we talk it up and say, this is the best!! You know… Party!!! or the best club! Or the best, whatever it is! And we talk it up and kind of psych ourselves into “This is really going to be something!’ But at the end [...]

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007) AUDIENCE: If within the material world you, it makes you happy to go a club and dance for a few hours, why is that wrong? JAYADVAITA SWAMI: What’s wrong? Well, here’s the problem! That, first of all, the Bhagavad Gita says (Sanskrit), okay, what is this happiness. First thing is that the [...]

It doesn’t mean that all I do is sit and chant and meditate, and I don’t eat, I don’t talk to anyone, I don’t work, I don’t function, I enter into some sort of o-zone and I’m never seen again. It’s practical. I realise my relationship with the Supreme or with Krishna, and in that [...]

AUDIENCE: … you bought it with your money, so it is your property isn’t it? JAYADVAITA SWAMI: Really? You know I buy a car with my money and then it’s my car? Then someone else buys it from me then it’s his car, then it goes to the next person then it’s his car. So [...]

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007) IMMENSE VARIETYPrabhupada had very definite teachings to give that were also contrary to what was going around. What was generally going around is that when we talk about Supreme or an Absolute or an Ultimate Truth we mean something which is ultimately beyond form, beyond names, beyond qualities, beyond description, beyond thinking, [...]

(Jayadvaita Swami 10/2007) AUDIENCE: I just wondered for example for a mosquito, if in their life, they was like injecting malaria into people, and like, causing loads of suffering to the whole conscious or something. How would that mosquito get further up the scale of consciousness, and eventually, go back to Godhead? JAYADVAITA SWAMI: Okay [...]

AUDIENCE: Can you say a little more about Prabhupada and the 60′s? Can you say a little more? Was he an American or an Indian…? JAYADAVAITA SWAMI: Yes I can say a little more about him thank you. No he was not American he was from India from West Bengal, to be precise from Calcutta, [...]