Candra-mukhi DD - Pandava-ekadasi, Shelter for Ladies.
Hare Krsna, Beloved Gurudeva ¡¡¡
A G T S P ¡ ¡ ¡
PAOHO
I hope this meets U in really good health ¡¡¡
Thanks for your association and inspiration. Our Sadhana has improved a lot. Japa joe at 1:30 am has helped us a lot.. Mangal artik is nice.. service is better now. Our sole Bhakti Sastri student Radha govinda dd is young and she is very nice. Her association is helping us a lot.
I am focusing as U advised me on my BELOVED GAURA NITAY They are so merciful and kind ¡¡ They are helping us a lot ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ We are under Nityananda's lotus feet shelter.
Bhakti vaibhava study is extremely nice for us ¡¡¡¡¡ I have realized that Srimad Bhagavatam is our very means of conquest in this age ¡¡¡¡¡
Association with good devotees like Madhumanjari dd, Palika dd, Sundari Radhika dd ¡¡¡ extraordinary ladies ¡¡¡ helped us A LOT¡¡¡¡¡¡
I am pretty busy so Maya can not get in ¡¡¡ I have to finish my Doctor Thesis in education THIS YEAR, also a lot of work in my university and in the temple ¡¡¡ It is nice, helps to keep our heart clean and our conscious up ¡¡¡
NEWS: The whole set of Srimad Bhagavatam IN ENGLISH has arrived at our home ¡¡¡ mercy from Palika dd I am paying it in parts I am so happy Krsna Himself as His literary encarnation is at home JAYA
Nevertheless on the other hand I have one concern. U said one thing to me in your last email ¡¡ 3 ladies alone unprotected ¡¡ Just one nice dog ¡¡¡
My mother, sister and me .. U are a sanyasi You can protect me with your instruction and mercy BUT here in Peru where can we take shelter?? Who can be take care of us here ??
Also next on June 19th it will be Pandava nirjala Ekadasi any specific instruction for me for this Bhima ekadasi?? that can help me ?
Thank U all so much
Trying always to be your disciple
Candramonkey dd
HpS - ASA - Jaya! AGTSP.... paoho. Sorry has taken eight days to answer this. Too much work. We have to surrender more to get power to do more service! Jaya. From our experience there was no emphasis on Bhima-ekadasi while Srila Prabhupada was here, at least not in San Francisco Temple. It started after he left. Recently Guru-prasada Swami, Guna-grahi Swami and Bhanu Swami among others investigated this and the conclusion was something like, there is no specific scriptural injunction nor instruction from Srila Prabhupada to do Nirjala ekadasi on this ekadasi. Of course, every Ekadasi can be nirjala ekadasi as we can do it and must at minimum be a fast from beans and grains, all with the purpose of increasing devotional service, especially hearing and chanting about Govinda. Read the Krsna book with someone else on Ekadasi!
I don't know who specifically you can take as social-psychological-practical shelter now that your father is not present, but the basic principle is super important and if you pray to Krsna I think he will give you help. For example you have a relation with Pallika Devi Dasi. O.K. She and her good husband may be natural people. Another practical thing would be to sell or rent your house and buy a house near to the Temple in Chosika or something like that. There are so many ways to start heading in the right direction, and ultimately because it is Kali-yuga and Varna-ashrama-dharma is so weak, Krsna, Himself, is inclined to become father, brother... but better to look for the physical representative he is sending. Please let us all know your progress in this regard. It is very important. Temple President should help.
