Mahi-bharta das, Ljubljana, Slovenia

My name is Mahi-bharta das (KKD), and I am siksa disciple of HH Jayapataka Swami. I am coming from Slovenia (EU). My story which I would like to share with you is as follows:

I was initiated disciple of Harikesh since 1995. This story happened immediately after Harikesha left his position as guru in ISKCON.

At that time HH Jayapataka Maharaja very intensely started to visit different countries where there were many Harikesha's disciples. Maharaja made gatherings of Harikesh disciples at that time and offered himself completely to us. He was available for us at any time for talk, support, discussion. It is very difficult to describe how much he surrendered at that time to help the Harikesha's disciples all around the world. This is the practical prove of how powerful and elevated Uttama Vaishnava is Maharaja.
With thousands of his disciples he also took the burden to save as many Harikesha disciples as possible. What an unselfish person is Maharaja. He sacrificed his own life just to save others. Who could describe his glory and how dear he is to Srila Prabhupada.

Maharaja also came to Ljubljana (Slovenia) few times to help us out of crisis due to the loss of our spiritual master. After a long meeting he came out of the temple, and I tried to express my gratitude to him for coming to help us in this difficult times. At this moment he held my hands together and told me: "Please, just chant the holy name."

I still had some rounds to finish that day, and I went to sit down and chant in Tulasi room of our temple. At this moment I felt some special bhava coming from the words of HH Jayapataka Maharaja when he told me: "Just chant the holy name." I started to chant Hare Krishna maha-mantra. Never before I chanted so deeply. I had an experience of flying in the sound of the holy name towards the holy Tulasi plants. And in my mind came a story of Haridasa Thakura who chanted in such an affectionate mood of devotion that he could not stop to chant anymore. Then I started to think: "O, Krishna, now I can understand, why Haridas Thakura was able to chant all the time." My chanting became a song, and I just could not stop and control myself anymore. I became a little afraid because I never before experienced such deep feelings by chanting Hare Krishna. Tears came down my face and I simply got lost in the deep feelings of Krishna's holy name.

After that time I never had such a deep experience of chanting anymore. This was out of body experience. I only remember one thing, that the cause of all this wonderful experience in my spiritual life came from the strong bhava of HH Jayapataka Maharaja who overwhelmed me with his mercy and compassion. His is a completely empowered Uttama Vaishnava who came to save so many conditioned souls in this world. He is a person who took such a big burden of this planet earth on his shoulders by spreading the teachings of Lord Caitanya. I believe I will never be able to really understand who he really is. His spiritual power and compassion to the conditioned souls can save anyone who is at least a little bit meek and humble, no matter how much fallen someone might be. Praying for his mercy I am falling down at the dust of his lotus feet.