Dear Guru Maharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!
Thank you so much for your association in Houston. In spite of your health, you gave us so much of your time. I have attached pictures of our home altar as you asked.
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You named our Gaura Nitai as Nitai Navadwip-Chandra. Divya painted the Kusum Samovar backdrop.
Guru Maharaja, you mentioned many times in your lectures that you had dressed Radha Gokulananda at least 1000 times. And that Radharani is not fit for Darshan when not dressed. So you need to have a proper attitude when doing the service. You have also referenced nikuñja-yūno rati-keli-siddhyai verse in this context.
We dress Radha Govinda here in Dallas twice a week and want to know how to approach the service, especially Radharani. When I was doing pujari service, you told me in this letter (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11709/) that we practice Raganuga Bhakti Yoga as soon as we realize that Krishna is a person and add some feeling to it. For Eg, when we are offering Bhoga, instead of it being mechanical, we think how does Mother Yasoda offers lunch to Krsna, the cowherd boys. So, we can try to say the prayers with that attitude, see the altar with that attitude, not to enjoy Krsna, but to try to give some more feeling for Krsna.
How should we apply this principle when dressing Radha Govinda Gurudeva?
HpS - ASA --- I don't know the details of your relationship with Radha Kala-chandji! Try different attitudes that seem natural. You know enough about Mother Yasoda's attitude to Krsna, the Gopis yo Radha and Krsna.
That is the adventure. Bhakti yoga forces us onto the mental, intellectual, spiritual platform.
Chant Hare Krsna while you dress them. You know that Mother Yasoda does not know except maybe a faint glimmer of the conjugal relation of Radha and Krsna. You know enough about the Majnari's and non-material sentiments to experiment.
Srinivasa Das got the Tava Pache Pache, so now we can distribute them!!!
We hope we, or someone, can write a cover letter for the LOB/NOI/TLC as a nice, progressive, study module.
Your servant
Srinatha Krsna dasa
UG: Awk! Brank!! Grok!!! We can't open the HEIC format photos! Can send in JPEG??
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