madhavachari

Try purifiying your body with sattvic herbs and fruits.

When your body is in a more healthy and pure state, then this cannabis smoking will be like poison and not the pleasurable euphoria that one feels when his body is polluted with toxins.

Detoxification will help one lose the craving for cannabis or ganja.

 

Smoking ganja is only pleasurable to a body that is in tama-guna.

 

Sattvic diet, yoga, and purifying herbs will help raise the tamasic body out of tamas.

 

then when you smoke it, it will make you sick and you will hate the effects.

 

it will be easy to give it up then.

Oh really?

Sri Krsna Caitanya is Krishna Himself in the Mode of Radharani.

Did he chant the Panca Tattva Mantra before chanting the Maha-Mantra like how the other Vaisnavas practice?

 

 

Hare Krsna

I don´t think so, because the "pancha-tattva" conception was construed by one of Krishna Caitanya´s followers.

That will not help... You don´t seem to understand what a ghost is. It is a person who is lingering in this world, perhaps wanting help to move on or simply due to a desire to look after the loved ones.

ok thx.

 

Erm. no comment. ( i usually would but I can't b axed)

What do you mean exactly?

From the Kalisantaranopanisad:

"These (sixteen names) destroy the Avarana (or the centripetal force which produces the sense of individuality) of Jiva surrounded by the sixteen Kalas (rays). Then like the sphere of the sun which shines fully after the clouds (screening it) disperse, Parabrahman (alone) shines."

http://www.yrec.info/Kali-Santarana-Upanishad.php

What is the use of smoking the male plant? Usually, people who cannabis smoke the dried flower buds of the female plant, whether it is an indica or a sativa.

Indica is not male. There are female indica plants and male sativa plants.

jai Srimannarayana!

srimatham.com

The ghost, if it is really there, is most likely a person who doesn´t know where to go or is attached to either you or the place itself.

Between incarnations, some people don´t go to the next incarnation immediately, but they linger on due to their attachments. Sometimes related persons hang around to watch over their relatives for many, many years.

I suggest you find a very sensitive person, a medium, who can find out what exactly is going on. Or, you could try to address the "ghost" and explain that you want to be left alone and that its´ place is not here, but in the spiritual world, the Light.

sacred-texts.com/hin/yv/index.htm

focus on differences?

aum shaanti

Yes, nice answer.

What is fully realized?

Muralidhar das ji

I have a relevant verse for you regarding upanayana samskara. If you give me your e-mail address I can send it to you. Mail me at:

madhavaramanujadasa@

adiyen,

MRD

So many persons chanted Hare Krishna, and still could not control their sexual urge. Therefore it is not absolutely sure that you will succeed.

However, if you realize that you are an eternal soul and that God is your ultimate goal - surrender to Him and He will take away your material desires.

Dandavat pranamas,

When I was in India I saw the scriptural reference. I thought I had it with me, but when I looked through my papers today I couldn´t find it. But the original system was that the persons who had brahminical qualities received upanayana samskara. This is also in harmony with the teachings of the Gita:

samo damas tapah saucam, ksantir arjavam eva ca

jnanam vijnanam astikyam, brahma-karma svabhava-jam

"Internal and external sense control, austerity, purity, forbearance, straightfrowardness, knowledge, realization, and theism - certainly these are all the natural duties of the brahmana section."

Bhagavad-gita 18.42. Translated by Aksayananda Swami, published by Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.

Here it clearly says that the brahmanas are those who naturally have those mentioned qualities. If one becomes a brahmana in the hereditary way, why does not the Lord state so?

It is like the people who call themselves Goswamis even though they can´t _control their senses_, it is a type of deviation from the original system.

I will get back you later with above mentioned reference.

Humbly,

M R D

Nrsimha Bija mantra

om kshraum

ugram viram maha visnum jvalantam sarvatomukham

nrisimham bhisanam bhadram mrtyu mrtyum namamy aham

'May my head be protected by the mooncoloured one, who is the greatest among humans.

My obeisances unto the ferocious and powerful, the great Visnu, the fiery one, who's faces

are on all sides, the fearful one, Nrsimha, who causes the death of even death

personified, (or who can overcome death)'.

oM AM hriM krauM

oM tattakA hAtaka-keshAgra-jvalat-pAdoka-lochana

-bhadrAdika nakha-sparsha divya-siMha nami 'stu te

"O my Lord, O transcendental Lion, I offer my obeisances unto You along with Srimati

Laxmi Devi. Sometimes flying in the sky, sometimes moving on foot, Your mane-hairs

blaze with golden brilliance. Your glance and touch of You nails are the source of all

auspiciousness.

om namo bhagavate nara-simhàya namas tejas-tejase àvir-àvirbhava

vajra-nakha vajra-damstra karmàshayàn r

andhaya randhaya tamo grasa grasa om svàhà.

abhayam abhayam àtmani bhùyisthà om kshraum

TRANSLATION:

I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Nrsimhadeva, the source of all

power. O my Lord who possesses nails and teeth just like thunderbolts,

kindly vanquish our demonlike desires for fruitive activity in this material

world. Please appear in our hearts and drive away our ignorance so that

by Your mercy we may become fearless in the struggle for existence in

this material world.

Srimad Bhaagavatam 5:18:8

Regarding upanayanam. Caste conscious brahmanas who believe that their offspring automatically are brahmanas do not have the proper understanding. If a person has the qualities of a brahmana, then that person is qualified to receive the upanayana samskara. In what family he is born, is irrelevant.

The objection of body conscious brahmanas against the giving of upanayanam to non-brahmana family born persons is simply due to ignorance.