Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

             HpS - ASA --  Apple blossom feet, maybe.

    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Guru Dev, we have grown hair for keeping 'Shikha'. But we feel, in office, It could not be good. we feel, pople make a distance from me, if we go this way. They don't talk freely.

    we put full 'tilak' in office time so see my 'tilak', people avoide to face me.Actually we
    put tilak for 24 hours.We like it to put always.

    We spoke about shika with local temple bramachari. They advised, we can shave head
    completely, if we feel there is issue in office.

    We seek your openion on this. We will follow accordingly.
   
    Thank you, Guru Dev.
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

              HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP...  paoho.   Lord Caitanya shaved completely according to time place and circumstance.   We need to see the exact combination of not frightening people and at the same time motivating them to look for Krsna.  Yes, advice of local devotees would seem to be very useful.   Tilak I don't know.  Maybe be good. Maybe it is good that some people don't want to talk with us at first, eliminates bad association, and after some time we see that people search their own hearts and adjust.