Sree Sree Guru Gaurangau
Jayatah!
Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math
Affectionately Yours : Associate with Sadhus
correspondence with Srila BB Tirtha Maharaj
According to Indian scriptural injunction, there are two paths of spiritual
life- worldly family life and life of renunciation. Generally people are
eligible for worldly life. Illicit connection with women is prohibited. If
they are to go to household life, they should marry according to scriptural
injunction- only to get children. Parents should be very careful in their
behaviour after begetting children. Their behaviour will have influence upon
the children. The difficulty is this- Indian way of marriage is not prevalent
in western countries. According to Indian scriptural prescript, if the parents
after marriage beget children and do not do their duty of bringing up the
children, it is a kind of sin. After begetting children, both father and
mother have the duty to maintain children and try to do whatever is beneficial
to them. By creating human beings, Supreme Lord is satisfied because human
beings have got the discriminating power between good and bad, eternal and
non-eternal. Other creatures have got no such conscience or discriminating
power. It is not good for the parents to remain indifferent to children.
Children have got no capacity to be reared up without the help of parents.
Human birth is not meant for eating, sleeping, defending and mating like
animals and birds. Household devotees should not move like ascetics. They
should worship remaining in the household. We should have firm faith in our
object of worship Supreme Lord Sree Krishna- He is the sustainer and
maintainer. You should try to do your duty always taking shelter at the Lotus
Feet of Supreme Lord, sincerely from the heart. Supreme Lord (Bog) is
maintaining infinite planets, He has got no difficulty to maintain you and
your
children.
I have heard about starting of one Ashram at …….. It will be
convenient for
the devotees to perform devotional forms in such congenial place. You have
written your wife was congenial to devotion first but now she has given up
everything. Conditioned souls passed through millions of species. Now although
he or she has got human birth, previous impressions of good and bad deeds may
come to them and envelope them. Good and bad thoughts are flowing in their
hearts. A sincere soul who wants eternal welfare should suppress the flow of
bad thoughts and should increase the flow of good thoughts.
Spiritual practice means struggle. When good thoughts will predominate then he
has crossed the unsafe region. It is my hope, if your wife gets association of
superior vaishnavas, her mind will be changed. It is good, officially you have
not divorced her. You should remember you cannot get spiritual eternal welfare
and also cannot get so called material gain by your own capability. Take
absolute shelter to Supreme Lord Sree Krishna and His devotees and become
peaceful. Prahlad Maharaj was completely surrounded by the anti-devotional
demoniac persons but he never became unbalanced and
gave up bhajan because of his absolute reliance on the Lotus Feet of his Guru
Narada Goswami and Supreme Lord Sree Narasimha Deva. Go through the holy life
of Prahlad Maharaj narrated in seventh canto of Bhagavatam.
You should remember four Narasimha Mantras while going to bed and
just after rising up from the bed and also if possible remember Narasimha Deva,
Panchatattva and Mahamantra before going to do something at daytime. By
remembrance of Narasimha Deva, Panchatattva and Mahamantra, disturbance of
demoniac creatures and all troubles will be removed. But you should do it
sincerely with firm faith.
During the time of giving Mahamantra, I have instructed everybody
including you, how to do Mahamantra on the beeds. You should not cross 'Sumeru'
of the mala. You should know that to cross Sumeru is a kind of offence. You
should also know
how to count the beeds. If any kind of offence is committed out of mistake,
atonement is to take shelter to Harinam and pray for His mercy. Whatever you
do, you should do with sincerity. Krishna has said emphatically, a sincere
soul will never be deceived.
May All-Merciful Sree Guru-Gauranga Radha-Krishna bless you. My love to
you all.
Affectionately yours,
Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha
