mataji i need ur help n blessings.plzzz guide me thru all dis crisis.after much of recoils in ma mind n fears of embarrasments i decided to tell u abt ma problem in a hope to get a solution to all dose ailments me n ma family are going through
ma father is presently working in defence audit services in india.and my mother is a housewife.m d only child of ma parents.ma dad is harinam dikshit from shree chaitanya gaudiya math.he used to be an enthusiastic devotee.ma mother is also harinam dikshit.ma grandfatrher and mother are also initiated.wen ma grandpa left his body,ma father was so much attached to him dat he got annoyed wid krishna n left chanting.moreover he started taking alcohol.ma mother asked him not to do so and keep the faith bt ma father dint agree and all of us witnessed a gradual downfall of bhakti and hapiness in our lifes.though ma mother ws keen to perform her bhakti activities bt father ws engulfed in alcoholic effects.soon he went under a gret depression nd mental agony without any reason and mainly due to d sin he was commiting.after 12 years of such suffering ma father neither lived nor died.ma mother also remains in distress.after so much of distress ma mother started chanting 64 rounds daily wid a hope dat evrything wil get cured gradualyy.within 2 months our family got an opportunity to get darshana of holy saints of our temple.dey asked ma father not to wory and ordered to chant 64 rounds daily.for 1and a half yr ma father chanted almost more than 64 daily,left his alcohol and became spiritualy uplifted and i thought al dat misery had gone away bt now again i dnt knw which sin of his led us to that previous situation.he still takes alcohol n feels like dying all d time.ma mother his also suffering from a serious disease adenomyosis of uterus.i knw m materialyy atached to dem.bt all i wish fr dem is dat they do bhakti without any sins.ma mother stil chants and chants narsingh mantra too.ma father also chants daily 32 rounds or more bt after dat he drinks alcohol.n ma mother is always cryin nd lamenting and i gues her reason for lamenting is right.nowww plzz sugest me a way so that all of us start chanting again nd get bhakti and sadhu sanga by staying at home because ma father and mother both are unable to move out of house to visit temple.plzzz blessss me mataji.plllzzz u r ma only hope.plzzz do treplyyyy.wen is dis misery gonna end?
Hare Krishna dear Mataji, please accept my humble obeisances!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Only thing is coming to my mind is can You invite some nice Devotees to Your home and do Kirtan, Hari Katha and Prasadam distribution at Your home?
Maybe once in week and slowly, slowly twice in a week?
You can invite some 1-2 Devotees to do Kirtan at Your home and then cook at least puris and invite other Your neighbors to Your home and feed them with that.
We become happy when we serve. When we live for others.
Person starts to drink because he needs love but is not able to find in his association.
Also do You have an Altar at Your home?
Do You have Deity of Krishna?
You may wish to invite ISKCON Devotees to Your home?!
See, our home we have to make a Temple.
And we have to use it in Krishna's service.
To chant 64 rounds is good but if we are not in that stage of attachment to the Holy Names then we will be frustrated only. So association of those who are attached to the Holy Name is very important.
Why Your parents cannot come out to go to Temple?
How old they are?
Please try this option for this time!
Your servant,
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Hare Krsna Mataji,
PAMHO.
You may try reading Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad Gita As It Is, together as a family, apart from all the chanting you all are doing. This way, you will get some basic philosophy also and realise that birth, death, old age and disease are something no living entity has been able to escape. Then the anger your father is having on Krsna for taking away his father will automatically go.
Pls try this in addition to whatever has already been said.
Haribol,
Your servant,
Rashmi