asa-e, Karma and Diksa

Hare Krishna, Maharaj

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you.

Please accept our humble family obeisances.

This is Devendra , Sumitra, Saloni and Divyansh (Sharma family ) from Houston TX,

Thanks lot maharaj for giving your personal association during last Houston trip , we are very fortunate that we got an opportunity to meet and serve you , when we meet first in Iskcon Houston my son really like you, we all like your simplicity and you are a great humble vaishnava.

ASA - AGTSP! Simple or simpleton 😎

It was so nice to sit in the patio of Govinda's with you all, Gopinatha, Caitanya !

Our Sadhana and Seva in temple is going good by Krishna mercy, I have question Maharaj, when we surrender to Krishna , still we have to go through law of Karma ? because being in material world , it is hard to engage always in Akarma activity.

Thanks Maharaj

HpS - Is a question that we also had!

NoI constitutes first instructions for neophyte devotees, so our base is there, no? ! In the Bhaktivedanta Purport (noi 5), Srila Prabhupada cites:

Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 4.192):

dīkṣā-kāle bhakta kare ātma-samarpaṇa

sei-kāle kṛṣṇa tāre kare ātma-sama

“At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders to the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as He Himself.”

So, as we understand, at the time of Diksa (which is formalized by a ceremony, like a wedding is formalized) then the ropes of our Karma pass from Durga to Radha, from the nurse-maid to the mother. So we don't go into the sacrifice as a beautiful 16-year old white girl and come out as a handsome, heroic 25-year old Ethiopian man.

We still have our Karma, but now it is Krsna Karma. Radharani can eliminate, adjust it, but like Arjuna after BG, he still had his Karma, duty as a Ksatriya, but now it was adjusted to integrate with Krsna.

Bh. Vinode Thakura, when he would go to court he was thinking that now he was herding cows with Krsna, no?

O.K.?