PAMHO
AGTSSGN
AGTSP
Dear Gurudev, hoping your health is fine and your sankirtan will please to Srila Prabhupada.
I wanted to show you this work.
At the request of CMDD, I made this Logotype for the project in Peru, which could be used for any purpose.
Your Servant and eternal well-wisher, Parasurama Avatar Das.
Santiago-Chile.
HpS - ASA - Es super hermoso, concentrado! ! !
asa-e; vad; grhasta; divorce
We have been participating in discussions of grhastha ashrama and divorce. We remember that we made some recommendations in: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12644/
Here are some responses to our very humble, small, ideas:
Dear Maharaj, please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
My understanding of your advice is, that Tara Dasi and I can get separated legally, to allow me to legally accept a new wife.
HpS - We are suggesting it as a second class solution. Improving the relationship with her to make a functional marriage is first class.
In such a case the divorce would only be a formality to satisfy civil laws but all legal arrangements would be made so that the real substance of the situation is insured and clear.
As we understand reality a man cannot divorce a chaste wife. He must take proper care of the first and then may try again. It is like one not liking his first child. He cannot abandon the first, must give it all love, even in the form of chastisement, and then try to get another.
Hare Krsna! 😊
These things are automatic if our spiritual life is healthy, no?
I need to ensure I give her a comfortable amount of money, to sustain peacefully and live a reasonable middle class life. I also need to ensure that she is emotionally doing well under her parents/brother's care, until/if she remarries.
I wanted to raise my concerns regarding taking care of her emotional needs after divorce. Firstly, I haven't been able to adequately take care of them, even when married, as I never fully understood them and also found them to be too demanding.
HpS - If a child, wife is mad, then we can only try to satisfy their physical, psychological and spiritual needs, but we must offer the help, and learn how to do the job better. Reasonable healthy life.
All the more, after divorce, it would be very detrimental to second marriage, and I was planning to discontinue all communication with Tara Dasi after marriage, to enable a more peaceful second marriage.
HpS - As we understand, this is the big illusion that developed in this modern, industrialized, world, that real marriage is a superficial arrangement, like buying a car, but that is what our perspective in this situation denies. Getting married really, not just having a business arrangement with the opposite sex for immediate purposes, is a long time commitment, just like having a child. We can sell our car and buy a new one, but it is difficult to separate ourselves from a wife, child, parent.
Again this is reading Vedic wisdom from a self realized soul, and our own depth experience of the situation for over fifty years.
The second (or we see third, fourth, fifth!) wife is going to be quite conscious of the fact that the husband divorced a previous wife: If I give myself to him in marriage, will he really take care of me?
By the mercy of the continuous chanting of the Holy Names all these things can be practically resolved.
Requesting you to please allow to discontinue all communication and contact with Tara Dasi post separation, to allow both of us to move on emotionally and connect better with the future new partners.
HpS - My Lord, we are not the authority to "allow" these things. As we have mentioned, we only want to be a friend and counselor to everyone involved and give more general expression to these dialogs so that they can have some broader benefit.
Of course, there are so many details. Srila Prabhupada recommends Parasara Muni's Dharma Sastra [https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/9/27/#bb15336] to get guidance on how to deal with our marriage, automobile ownership/maintenance, and I think we have enough energy to discuss these things from our perspective in general for a couple of more years.
Then we will die (😉), but from now on I think we can only handle them in letters posted here in the Blog, preferable by all the parties involved ie. Let us send a summary of our situation to The Wizard of Monkey Warrior, and get his opinion.
O.K? Any comments here? 🐘
Your servant,
Yogananda
previous letter: 12641
Esteemed Buck White,
It was honor to receive reply from you. Till now we have been able to communicate with UG,TB and some times HpS.
We might be race horse, but we still need a Jockey. Alexandra's Horse/ Maharana Pratap's Horse, will never their rider, its their duty to be with them , till death/injury takes them apart. Institution or not institution, we will try to be there for use of HPS, and ASA.
So, Let HpS goes to samadhi, we will wait for his command. Will send next mail after 10 days.
ASA monitos can see ASA-e by clicking
https://1drv.ms/w/s!Aiwe2qLAAyANg4QHi_PB58dwJPMMQw?e=EX6wIj
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HpS - Still best for pilot is an edited Word file with different levels of Headings. 🙂
Respected Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all glories to your unmotivated and uninterrupted service.
I am striving to maintain my commitment to waking up at 4 AM, attending Mangala Arati, listening to SB and BG classes, reading Srila Prabhupada's books, and bathing Gaura Nitai daily.
ASA/TomBrown-Buck White-HpS - So are we! If it were not for the sincere association of devotees that attend the online program we might not be able to do it! 😲
I have also been reading from Memories, Dreams, and Reflections. Through various case studies, Jung repeatedly demonstrates that there is some meaning and sense behind the behavior of the psychologically ill. That meaning can be unearthed by analyzing the patient's life experiences, the patient's individual unconscious, and the collective unconscious. As I read the stories of Jung's many patients, I often remember how you say something to the effect that insanity is a sane reaction to an insane situation.
While outlining the development of his intellectual methods, in which dream analysis is paramount, Jung describes his connection with Sigmund Freud. He delineates their intellectual disagreements concerning the repression mechanism and the resulting break in their relationship. In the course of this description, Jung regularly asserted that he "was concerned with investigating the truth, not with questions of personal prestige," and therefore decided to distance himself from Freud (158).
Currently, I am reading about Jung's encounter with his individual unconscious (which, in his view, encompassed elements like Philemon, ka, and the anima). In this section, Jung makes some very interesting and explicit connections to the Vedic tradition. I was especially intrigued by his fascination with the guru.
Thank you very much, Guru Maharaja.
Your humble servant,
Sugopi Radha Devi dasi
HpS - Thank you so much. Maybe we can all join in the discussion with Sony Shamdasini in September. He sat in Jung's chair in his library. 😁
The most wonderful thing in the world is to have some deep experience of Lord Chaitanya's world and then to find someone who can appreciate it.
It is so, so enlivening to read your cogent comments on Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
We hope your Sankirtan at Yale and your whole personal atmosphere develop very nicely.
There are no smaller tests for girls, no?
Draupadi was every bit as big a hero as Arjuna, no?
Such happy looking Gaura Nitai. So clean and bright.
Dear Guru Maharaj, Please accept our humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Please find attached some photos of the Vivah Yajna.
Our Sincere Apologies...Technical glitches prevented the live broadcast being of much use, so we removed it...we hope to share some parts from the final result soon.
Your servants
Gaura Gadadhar Dasi and Vira Gopal Das
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Senyora.
Thank you for the news. We hope that the rituals of marriage were efficacious and that you can follow in the footsteps of such galant ladies as Visnu-priya and Rukmini et al. We hope you had clear vision with your husband about the Ashrama before you took it up and can now build on those more and more.
Our Yoga takes tremendous advantage of the social aspects of reality that Krsna gives us in the material world.
Our respects to your Senyor.
HpS - ASA.
🙂
asa-e; sankirtan; compassion
Mrs. Smith and Mr. Jones filed a complaint in court that I stole their bones,
But I don't have bones, I don't eat meat, not fish, eggs, nor bones!
https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/5/13/5/
It does that surprise me that people are crazy here.
This world is a mental hospital.
It makes me laugh.
They must be in pain.
Let me respond with compassion. Ask them how I can help. Explain that I do not have their bones.
