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.