Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaj

Please accept my humble obesciences. All glories to Srila Prabhupad. Happy Gaura purnima maharaj. I hope you are in good health. Sorry its been a while that I emailed you. 

             HpS -  Jaya!   AGTSP.   nice to hear from you.....  Thank you....  We are always in good health.  Eternal, but Brother Ass has been having some heart problems. We take our medicine.

Lately I am getting a strong desire to get initiation from you. I am doing Hare Krishna Mahamantra 16 rounds daily and reading Chaitanya Charitamrita daily. I have not been taking coffee for a very long time and have been drinking herbal mint tea in place of it. Most of the times I dont eat onion garlic, but occassionally I have been eating it. Is there anyway that I can be your desciple despite my keep falling down with respect to Onion garlic food.

your servant

Nataraj

           HpS - ASA - In NOI-7:

"If one is sincere, he is initiated, and this stage is called bhajana-kriyā. One then actually engages in the service of the Lord by regularly chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, sixteen rounds daily, and refraining from illicit sex, intoxicants, meat-eating and gambling. By bhajana-kriyā one attains freedom from the contamination of materialistic life. He no longer goes to a restaurant or hotel to taste so-called palatable dishes made with meat and onions, nor does he care to smoke or drink tea or coffee..."

           Srila Prabhupada is pretty strict, no?  It's a science. Of course, it is also very personal so there is no fixed path that is for everyone.  On the other hand there is a fixed path because Srila Prabhupada has made an agreement with Krsna and even if we have personal variety Krsna will personally act to bring our idosyncracies into context of the personal process.     I think there must be some pretty deep attachment that causes you to take the garlic. Maybe it is just physical. Maybe your body has a deep need for it.  Of course, you can find some more sattvic source.    I need heat, but a nice source is parsley.   It produces a LOT of heat, even though it is not hot to taste.
Solve this problem!

Go ahead.

Maybe it is a deep emotional problem, like you have an unresolved conflict from your childhood that is represented by Garlic.
O.K.  Don't wait months to write again.   Investigate why you have this attachement. Chant Hare Krsna when the attraction comes, when it overwhelms you etc and you will learn a lot.