Hare Krsna Dear Guru Maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Guru parampara.
we know who you are for us...for me. We have boundless respect for you,
for Srila Prabhupada, for devotees, for ISKCON, we don't require this
justification (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10681/). Of course, this
is good for those who don't understand our Guru parampara.
i personally feeling sad to see this letter (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10681/)
we have very less time so it will be better to ignore none spiritual questions.
and focused on spiritual questions and practices. More interested to
know about Krsna and his related things from you. You have huge collections of
confidences / comprehensions about Krsna.
We not required proving ourselves in-front of those none-spiritual questions.
and if someone make me small by winning those questions..am fine with that.
If you really like those none spiritual questions then i have no words.
May be my comments are too harsh, please pardon me. i just wanted to know
about Radha-Krsna. Like :
HpS-ASA -- Thank you for your comments. This dialog with this good Panjabi (?) devotee and then Basu gosh Das from Baroda about Guru in ISKCON is a little difficult for us, but on the other hand it may be useful to so many innocent people attacked by crazy ideas. We have to put our ideas out for criticism.
Also, https://vedabase.io/en/library/iso/11/, we have to look at the bad things about material life as well as the good things about spiritual life. If we only look at good things of spiritual life we will become Sahajiyas and if we only look at the bad aspects of material life we will become Mayavadis We are Sahajavadis! We look at both and get attraction and repulsion both to return to Krsna.
1. How you see Radha-Krsna every day?
ASA - Many, many ways. You also? We "see" Them when we are chanting Japa for Them. We see Them during Mangala arati. Here we see Radha Nila-madhava, in Houston. They are over two meters tall!!
2. How you used to see Radha-Krsna during arti in your pujari tenure?
ASA - We are still Pujari, but now in Sannyasa ashrama. We bath "our" Deities every day. On the altar in San Francisco, we bathed Radha Gokulananda some times. Their brass bodies are not fully covered so if one is in a male body it is shocking to bath Radha rani and I guess it is the same if one is in a female body to bath, Krsna. so.... we have to be able to make some kind of mental adjustment like I am a Gopi assistant of Mother Yasoda helping her bathe Radharani, for at least some time.
3. Which reciprocation with Radha-Krsna made you more close to them?
ASA - In general, Blog ambience, we just see Them and chant for Their satisfaction and feel Their presence in in Their murti form.
4. Which form of Radha-Krsna you like the most?
ASA - Like many. Probably a material taste in many ways. Of course, our first Darshana was Radha Gokulananda in San Francisco, so They are very intense. In general, almost any Temple we go to we become attached to Radha-Krsna in that form and then feel separation when we leave.
5. Which season and time makes you more closer to Radha-Krsna's passtime ?
ASA - None in particular. You??
6. Which Krsna you like the most - Vrndavan Krsna, Dwarika Krsna, Goloka Krsna ?
ASA - Same as 4, no???
7. How you see the offerings before and after?
ASA - For vision usually the same, but intellectually with more respects, but one time I saw how Srila Prabhupada was beyond the modes of nature when I was wondering how Prasadam is transcendental.
8. Which reciprocation makes you think about Krsna?
ASA - Many, many.
9. How you see the full moon in the night?
ASA - As very big. Inspiring. Do you think we might be Were-wolves????
10. What comes in your mind when you see full moon?
ASA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9fWjzYiRUE A song about Radha and Krsna.
Ignore me if my questions are annoyed.
You are always as per NOI.
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das