Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja!
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
So I just started calling the bead the "Radha bead" because of my own personal speculation...I'll put some reasons here!
Krsna bead on top of the mala...
Every bead a Gopi. ....
Radha and Krsna are always together...
Radharani is the principal Gopi so She would be first and right next to Krsna??...
Astasakis separated by the string, 8 beads in....
What do you think Maharaja? Is this totally out of left field? I don't have any sastric proof for this...I kinda just started saying this was the "Radha bead"..but actually so far you are the only person I mentioned it to!
HpS - As far as we understand, the knot above the Krsna bead may represent the Princes of Vraja, Smt. Radha, and the first eight large beads are Her expansions, the eight principle expansions of Smt. Radha. 😃
The ashram is great. Everyone is really nice and accommodating.
Rupak, Abhay, and I went on book distribution yesterday and we ran into a couple of super nice people.
One of the men asked, "What color do you think Jesus really was?" I told him that I don't know too much about Jesus, but I know he's the son of God. Check this out (pointing to a picture of Govinda in the Bhagavad Gita).
See. Krishna is a very dark blue like a monsoon cloud being struck by lightning.
But temples can't use this color for the Deity so they use black...that means that God is black with a white girlfriend!!
They were cracking up so hard and he took a Bhagavad Gita!!
I basically was just repeating from when you were telling us all that there were two devotees at a convention and one of them said this! So thank you!!
He also said he had a dream that he saw God, except he couldn't see Him because of a super bright light emaninating from HIm..
Sounded legit to me...
HpS - ASA -- 👍 Super legit. From psychology etc it seems that many people have supernatural, religious, experiences but they have no, perspective to understand or remember them, and at best they think it was a 'psychotic episode'.
My Sadhana is okay!
16R+, B4 -4, 4P
Your aspiring servant,
Jaya-hari das
HpS - Krsna is our only defence!!!
