Jagannath

... um, the English usage originates in the mid 19th century.

Juggernaut is an early rendering, a, a, an early rendering in English of Jagannath, an important-

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... deity in the Hindu traditions of Eastern and North Eastern India.

The meaning originates from the Hindu temple cars, which are Rathas, or chariots, often huge-

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... used in processions or religious parades for Jagannath and other deities, the largest of which-

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Then spiritual body comes.

Our sampradaya, Nitai, Jagannath, they are both of sandhini shakti.

They are ca- therefore [laughs], they can give spiritual body.

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It was on La Cienega Boulevard.

And I went to a back door and there the Jagannath deities were.

And there were big eyes.

And I was very young.

And they said, right, on Jagannath's hand.

All right, like this, locked in.

And it was going on.

If there's somebody from Maharashtra, I don't know, there's Warik, going to Pandit, everybody joins.

In Orissa, Jagannath, everybody joins.

Here, when you go to any Yatra, everybody joins.

Assimilation, tolerance, this is the folk tradition great folk tradition we must bring it to our cities we must bring it to the center of our nation and we must making use of new media if we have to reimagine folk traditions in India we have to state loud and clear that all Indians are all Indians every Indian is Indian fully Indian

They were, as Samasundar points out, he used his $250,000 education at Reed College.

He said, I finally used part of it, the mathematics part, to figure out how to carve Jagannath Swami, Baladeva, and Subhadra.

But as he was carving, Prabhupada was a few blocks away from his apartment, and Samasundar was trying to go slow so that Prabhupada wouldn't leave and go back to New York.

Because he knew he wouldn't leave until Jagannath was done.

But one day, Prabhupada showed up at his apartment.

And...

And, you know, when he did, they're like, oh, my God, here I am.

The cigarettes, there's no chance of getting there in time before he sees them.

Certainly, those who spread the message of Godhead are most beneficent.

Purport, King Prataparujya recited this verse to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu during Lord Jagannath's Rathayatra festival.

While the Lord was resting in a garden, King Prataparujya humbly entered and began massaging his legs and lotus feet.

Then the king recited the 31st chapter of the 10th canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, the Songs of the Gopis.

Both things will happen.

So that's why what Bhaktivinoda Thakur, all of you have heard Bhaktivinoda Thakur's name? So Bhaktivinoda Thakur is a great teacher, he was in India around that time when the British were there and all of these things were going on So what he has considered is a connection point between tradition and modernity so what he did is he took the tradition of the Bhagavatam he took the modern kind of critiques that were there by scholars and by colonialists and others and what he did was he represented the Bhagavatam, Krishna according to tradition without compromising but in a language that was understandable to the people of that time and Bhaktivinoda Thakur is the one who said that the demons in Krishna's pastimes all represent an anartha or a difficulty or an obstacle that each one of us internally have that's very powerful So Bhaktivinoda Thakur explained that each of the demons that Krishna kills in Vrindavan represents an internal block an obstacle a bad quality or a bad mentality that each one of us harbour within our hearts and just as Krishna kills the demons if we kill the demons of these blocks then love will flow see like love is already flowing in your heart but the problem is it's blocked So like imagine you have like a pipe and there's loads of holes in the pipe then the water can gush through but by the end there's nothing because everything has escaped out of the pipe So we have this rush of love but then what we also have is all these blocks or anarthas and therefore the force of that love is basically reduced So that sometimes if we're honest we come in front of Jagannath and we think I just don't have any love We look around at everyone else.

Everyone else is dancing in ecstasy.

So we kind of dance and we're in ecstasy.

Hare Krishna Maharaj.

Thank you so much for the wonderful and thoughtful provoking Maharaj, I just want to ask, sometimes we have some questions in our heart and we cannot approach to our Guru directly because they are not available.

Then I heard from the lecture or got some instruction from some devotees that we can come to Jagannath or in our heart like we are connected with the Paramatma so we can put those questions and then Maharaj we got some answers like and then how can we verify that these questions are basically coming from Paramatma or it is just my mind is giving me some make up things

The beginning of Chaitanya Charitamrita begins with a verse Vande Gurun But the very first line is the most important Plural I offer my respects to all of my Gurus In other words, the moment you accept a Diksha Guru, make sure you also have Shiksha Gurus in your life.