Hare Krsna Esteemed Maharaj, PAMHO,AGTSP
We got letter from manipu devotees to ur 108-mnp @yahoo.com id. we are not sure of your exact dates of Manipur travel as of now.hope they will become clear. krsna has plans , as living entities has his..your grace asked us some questions.. so we answer them...[they you were aksing nice questions to us -- u r real well wisher]--
q1-What is your plan for your Ashrama?--
ans- we dont have plan for asharama. becasue it is joint ashrama with espousa. we can not convince her of vedic standards.. so life is going on... as u told in one lecture varna asrama does not work-- it such gives black smoke only. so we are just chanting and hoping to establish better connection with super soul- vidya vadhu jivnam--and then follow that]. we are not setting any standard for ourself as grhastha. as it will demand things from our wife-- then she will feel that we are forcing her.. so better to avoid all.. better save ourself and let the real benefactor take care of our son and wife..
q2-The PhD is practical thing?
ans-apply calculation of mode of passion mind/intelligence it is very impractical thing frnakly the res problem is not clear neither the future. but this is the only occupation we can get little time in our debilating condition to chant some rounds and contemplate. we are hoping krsna may give some inspiration. we tried to corporate job - but were not able to regulate our life and were getting heavily influenced by rajas-tamas.. so we left it.. thinking we are son of rich man our prime duty is to be good son- rest he will take care-so we see Supreme Personality of god head as father who will take care of Us and biological derivatives.. we have no other option thant to depend on him. though we know god help those who help themselves. but first help we want is able to increase standard of our sadhana. and rest leave god to take care.
Got a standard for Japa each day? Number of rounds? --
standard is only 16 rounds, with best possible improvement. brother ass is very troubled, so we can not have anything regular.but the quantity 16 is what we strive for.. some times our japa means..[narayana please fix my tyre, some itmes it means please get me out of this mess, some times it is please tell me what to do,, so we have various meditation of our mantra]. we are hoping we get registered in ASA. 4 rules are intact by god's grace.
Regular program of reading?
we make sure that we do read the chapter of BHvai class on sat in english. so one chapter one week. everything else is variable some times there is krsna book, sometimes noi.. nothing fixed..try to hear prabhupada lecture.. we understood that book our basis for stupid self like us.so we need to associate with srila prabhupada to stay charged.
Association of local devotees??????????????????
this is rare because we are not able to find place for self in this big Ship by prabhupada in india as of now. chowpatty temple is good. but it is for good established grhastha materially job, home, etc. we dont have none. we are not able to find any one with similar pyscho-physical nature.. so practically we dont have any intimate local association.. but we do have good acquintances with devotee. we do for temple.
frankly we were thinking to learn spanish and get a prof job in peru and help u there. we find our place but it is in land of incas. so lets see what can we do..
please tell guru-parampara and god, we are inventing our ways to serve him, we dont how he wants us to involve in sankirtana yagya..but we are looking forward.
thankinf you American Swami, meeting you is the best thing happened in our life..
waiting to get briddled>
caballo
hps - ASA --- AGTSP paoho. Manipuri devotes bought ticket Kolkatta to Imphal 6th March and are buying return 22 March.
Report is super. 4 principles and 16 rounds, SB every week! We can adjust our efforts to help you better and take advantage of your help better since we know this. Yes, VAD is bad in this age. As you stick with the 16/4/SB get up early then it will become clear as DaiviVAD. Arjuna engaged in VAD as his Bhakti yoga. Things will become clear with wife and family. Adelante! Do you best on PhD. Try to have fun with it and make some practical austerity, but again you are right Krsna has to do the VAD work at this point. We do it at the time of 2nd inistiatioon.