Hare Krsna Maharaj,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
We are happy to hear you are coming to Boise Maharaj. Please let us know if we can be of some service while you are there. Sometimes we feel like we have the minds of monkeys and donkeys, but we still pray we can be of some service to the amazing Vaisnavas despite. We are soooo looking forward to having the association of the wonderful Boise temple community and have been craving it for years. They are painting the room while we wait at my Dad's farm. Radha Bunkabihari ki jaya!
Maharaj, due to the mercy of my stepmom's association and the peaceful atmosphere at my Dad's farm, we are happy to report that despite the school load we are always able to get up in the morning, do mangal, chant, and study. Sometimes 4, sometimes 6 but we are working towards steadily always waking up at 4. Rounds are good here, circumambulating the cows gives us lots of inspiration. We hope you can meet them someday!
ASA - HpS ---- Moooo! AgtSP! Paoho. Brahma muhurta, even if its 9AM or 1AM. That's what we are shooting for. It is very, very, practical. Then your Hymns and Kirtana ahs S U P E R effect and you can go out as SUPER-GIRL to fight with the evil criminals of Gotham City!
We are now on NOI 3. I have memorized first two verses and ceto darpanam, and each week Karla (stepmom) asks me to give a class to her which has been nice. We had a question regarding spiritual anger in text one. She asked me if it is okay to get angry at impersonalists. We have a family member who is very into the "We are all one", "We are Krsna, Buddha" mentality. From a Christian standpoint, she does not want to associate with non-devotees she said even if it is a family member because they are impersonalists. Did Prabhupada exercise spiritual krodha with impersonalists? What if someone in your family is an impersonalist, should one not associate with them or invite them over? These questions came up and I was not sure how to answer.
HpS - ASA --- We don't know th details of how deep is there impersonalism. If they hate phony priests or they hate God. But if we are positive and always talk about Krsna then they will naturally go away if they don't like it.
Usually we avoid anger and that stuff unless Krsna and Balarama want us to kill demons and then it will be completely natural!
Also, Maharaj, I am wondering how to best respond to the questions regarding Jesus' proclamations that he is the only way to come to God. John 14:6 [Jesus speaking] "I am the way, the truth, and the life: No man cometh unto the father, but by me" Christians believe that because he is the only uttama adhikari who proclaimed to die for our sins, and rose from the dead, then everyone must go through him. I explain our parampara system which preserves the words of Krsna, and how Prabhupada is an uttama adhikari who was also sent from the spiritual world to help us. Since you have a background in Christianity, I am very curious about what other information we can provide from a Gaudiya Vaisnava perspective.
Such loaded questions! Thank you for taking the time to read Maharaj and thank you for your study guides. Karla said Text two is very enlivening because of how much it encourages a simple, hermetic life (which she is trying to live). Its a great text for American farmers!
Your aspiring servant,
Kamagayatri
HpS - ASA - In the original Aramaic there are two ways to say, "I am", like Spanish, "Estoy" and "Soy". One means right now for you guys and then other means always.
Yet, you guessed it, the real translation is, "right now for you guys I am the logos, guru".
And, we do follow Jesus Christ, better then you do. Jesus was a vegetarian, why aren't you. When there is enough bread and cheese a real Christian doesn't kill even the fish, what to speak of the animals and their babies.
