Hare Krishna,
Please accept my most humble obeisances, Gurudeva. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I have been dealing with an issue, and I need your guidance. There is a funny entanglement of relationships and spiritual authority between me and a few other devotees. I will try to be brief, please forgive the "temple drama." My fiance, Bhaktin Revati, she had a friend when she was living in Hawaii, her name is Sharon. Sharon is engaged to a brahmin initiated devotee named Yashoda Dulal Das from Hawaii (maybe you know him, he was once engaged to one of your disciples). The other person involved is Bhakta Tracy. This girl, Sharon, has a deep history of being immodest with other men. Tracy is 37 years old with a strong hankering to get married, and has a strong interest in Sharon. Long story short, Sharon encourages Tracy's attraction with sweet words and physical contact. Now, Rebecca has felt uncomfortable with the situation because she is friends with Tracy, Sharon, and Yashoda. I myself have considered Tracy to be a good friend since I've known him. But with the inappropriate interaction between Sharon and Tracy, it has caused much disturbance in our house. Tracy, Revati, and myself all live in the same house. Revati feels cheated because Sharon uses her as an excuse to visit Tracy, which only propagates the secret relationship of Sharon and Tracy, leaving Yashoda in ignorance. Revati has tried to give advice to Sharon in so many fashions hoping that she will stop betraying Yashoda and causing Tracy more frustration. Since then there have been many arguments with Tracy and Sharon on one side, and Revati and myself on the other. It is making things more difficult in our home. Tracy only continues to argue that he is our superior, by age, and vedic knowledge, however he is only using certain sastric arguments to ultimately support his sense gratification, which is against a brahmin no less. My understanding to be Veda-vata-rata? He also argues that because Revati and myself are on relatively equal platforms with age and devotion to Sharon (meaning uninitiated. I could go on describing why she is actually spiritually inferior to Revati, but will spare dirty details) that we cannot give her any instruction. And that we are also in no position to give instruction to Tracy because he is "superior" to us. (again, could go on why I think he is not our superior... dirty details) So, even though our arguments are based on Srila Prabhupada's own words from various purports, or even the support of the revealed scripture, are we supposed to just ignore the situation and passively allow it to continue? What is our position, and how should we act properly in this situation? This has caused many arguments and much stress in this house.
ASA - Jaya! AGTSP First option in Kali-yuga is to call for help from Krsna and Balarama by the mercy of Radharani by chanting Hare Krsna Rama. If there is no immediate result apparent chant louder. Actaully it is the only remedy. The usually Krsna starts to give you good intelligence or takes charge of your senses like Arjuna or you see Him do something Himself, change someone's heart or drop bird dung from the sky on somebody or...
... my intelligence would be that He will tell you to take the issue to higher local authority. Ask them to help.
IN OTHER NEWS we have just had Festival of Colors. We are just gearing up for another one on the 14th in Salt Lake City. It will be the first one ever. 90 thousand people came. Left a big mess. Lots of service on our part. It has been really great actually. 5 days of solid cleaning. Revati and I played about 6 or so hours of solid Kirtana. I am much better and mridanga than I used to be. Made my fingers bleed in this really uncomfortable way (duh). It's for the Lord's glorification, it is so nice...
I had spoken to Caru Prabhu about what you had instructed in your last letter. He said that we would schedule a meeting after all the festivals are done. We are all doing so much work! I suppose I didn't want you to think that I was neglecting speaking with him and making a formal contract of preparing for initiation. It is in the works. Revati and I are thinking to get legally married now, and have a proper vedic wedding in November around Tulasi Saligram Vivaha as we mentioned earlier. We are waiting for our meeting with Caru Prabhu to get his input. Do you support?
HpS -Sure! We're all nutz here except for the few Nitya-siddha avatars amongst us, but we are taking our medicine, 16/4 mangala arati, kirtana, SB, Sankirtana, so anybody with 1/2 a brain in his head can use the situation to go ahead! Caru Das, Ki Jai!
Japa beads broke! :( getting new ones. I hand carved these japa mala completely from scratch about two and a half years ago. I guess they weren't up to par.
I looked on the calendar to see your next visit to Boise. It wasn't posted. Do you know when you will be visiting again? With no employment, we may not be able to come up with funds to sponsor you to visit Utah. Our hearts are heavy.
I eagerly await your guidance and association. We are so fallen.
Your lowliest servant,
Bhakta Adrian
HpS - AGTSP last Kapi Dhvaja has the plan. Visit Boise/SFO to go to the SFO Rathayatra! O.K. Ahead. The DTC has a more general note!!! Thank you so much for your news!
