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  • Prabhu,

    What kind of ghosts, what color are they, what did they look like, do you have video footage of these demons and ghosts you can share, or was it just in your imagination ????????

  • E-Counselor

    Hare Krsna dear Mario Prabhu,

    PAMHO.

    THank you very much for taking my words in the right spirit.

    You continue with chanting and reading. I will not advise you to be in a hurry to take initiation. You have already taken from 2 paths. That is not good. You first follow the path that is in front of you, only whne you think it is workable for you and you would like to do that for the rest of your life, and you are able to see someone in front of you who inspires you and whom you can trust will lead you to the right path, then you take initiation.

    I know that you are a very pure soul. Not only that, you are an advanced soul. You are feeling trapped in an adolescent's body and want to be taken seriously very soon.

    I know one thing for sure - you may roam around trying to find your path and before you firm up, but you will eventually come to Krsna Consciousness only. Nothing else will give you fulfillment.

    Please chant your minimum committed rounds everyday without fail. If you have not committed anything so far, then you start with a commitment of 4 rounds daily and then increase when you are comfortable.

    To understand our philosophy, you should chant and read both. You can start with small books of Srila Prabhupada - Chant and Be Happy, On the Way to Krsna, Perfect Questions and Perfect Answers. You could also read Bhagawad Gita As It Is. Read from the beginning to the end, including foreward, preface, introduction, everything. Pls ask what you dont understand.

    You can get these books online if you are not in a position to buy them right away - www.vedabase.com.

    Do not get deviated. You are destined for bigger things, just be firm on your path. You will reach somewhere such that you will be an example for everyone around you. I dont call you Krsna's ambassador just like that.

    Big hug to you dear.

    Haribol,

    Your servant,

    Rashmi

  • E-Counselor

    Hare Krsna Prabhuji,

    PAMHO.

    With utmost humility I would like to state that we should chant the mahamantra to develop love of godhead and for no other purpose. To look for another purpose in chanting the mahamantra would make it a ritual - that it relieves ghosts, makes demons run away, is a yogic exercise, is an auspicious thing to chant.... all these thoughts should be banished from the mind and never encouraged.

    Mario prabhu, you started very well, with a lot of enthusiasm. Now you have got caught in this sampradaya, that mantra, this method or that..... its not helping you prabhu. YOu have changed your name atleast twice - who has named you Muniswar Giri and what are you trying to signify? Mario is such a sweet name. Would it not be better if you wait till you firm up which path to follow, which mantra to chant and which guru to take initiation from. Then when the guru gives you a vedic name, to be called by that name. Just a suggestion prabhu, it doesnt bother me what you would like to call yourself, it just gives an insight into your state of mind.

    I think you are not chanting at all these days, otherwise these thoughts would not be there. Please chant prabhu. I am looking for the sweet boy (I know no longer kid) who had such innocent questions. You are Krsna's little ambassador, so you have to firm up quickly.

    Pls dont take offence prabhu. I have seen you from the beginning, thats why taking liberties with you.

    Haribol,

    Your servant,

    Rashmi

    • Jaya Rashmi, one of our IDT mothers!

      Always watching over our bhaktas & bhaktins.

  • Hare Krsna Prabhu,

    I am re-quoting a mail that I read long ago on a devotee group:

    "Why do ghosts and spirits trouble common people? See, ghost means a living entity who has a subtle body, but no gross body. In other words, such a living entity has mind, intelligence, and false ego, but not gross material body.

    Conditioned living entities in the normal sense have subtle body, which is like the underwear worn by the soul, and the gross material body, which is like the outerwear.

    When the gross material body is abnormally destroyed, then the living entity is not yet scheduled to get new gross material body, so the entity just hangs around.

    That means that the ghost has the power for feeling, willing, and thinking, has all kinds of desires, BUT, no means to satisfy those desires. So therefore, such living entities, due to intense hankering, want to experience this desire... just imagine, if you had intense hankering to taste some sweet or savory item, but you had no tongue, no stomach to digest, no nose to smell to taste, but in your heart this intense hankering is there, then what will you do?

    Some ghosts are benign, they are just living out their karmic reactions. Some are malicious, for example, someone who has done some crazy tantric ritual or worshiped ghosts and spirits...

    In order to satisfy this hankering, the ghost must take control of another weaker living entity... so ghosts often take control of those in the mode of ignorance, such as those who are very very angry, or totally intoxicated, or someone who is mentally disturbed. Older people, pregnant women, and children are also susceptible, especially if not properly protected by the responsible people.

    But if someone is very clean, in the mode of goodness, externally clean, and internally also clean, and connected to transcendence by chanting Hare Krishna, then ghost is not attracted, and if such a ghost is malicious, then they are repelled by devotional service.

    But regardless, everyone benefits from chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra, including all kinds of ghosts and spirits, benign or malicious.

    One thing I would like to quote, please kindly listen... His Holiness Bhaktimarga Swami Maharaja has said, based on his own learning and what he has heard, and we can see that it is in agreement with Krishna's statements... whoever you talk about, or meditate upon, or remember, that personality gets attracted to you. So, if you meditate too much on this ghost, spirit, preta-atma etc., then such personalities will be attracted to you. Better to focus on instead remembering the sweet transcendental pastimes of Krishna, Krishna Katha, then Krishna will be attracted to you, and so will the Vaishnavas. So please kindly don't take such other discussions too far, for obvious reasons."

    I also agree with your opinion in the second paragraph, Krsna Consciousness is not merely a sentimental ritual but has a deeper dimension to it.

    -HariBol!

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