Srila

Prabhupada
on
Importance of
Morning
Program
 A letter requesting Prabhupda to accept eleven new
candidates for first initiation came from Germany, and he
replied to Cakravart dsa according to his standard
format.
"Please accept my blessings. I
have accepted the following list
of boys and girls as my duly
initiated disciples. So you are
the president there at Schloss
Retterschof, it is your duty to
see that the standards of Ka
consciousness are always
maintained. Especially chanting
sixteen rounds daily, observing
the four regulative principles: no
meat, fish, eggs, no intoxication,
no gambling, and no illicit sex
life. The students must all
attend morning and evening
arati and classes. If we follow
Prabhupda's disciples could accept
his anger. They even welcomed it-
theoretically. But to bear it was
difficult. The spiritual master must cut
through his student's false ego to
engage that student in pure service.
The guru's show of anger, therefore,
is good for the disciple. According to
Cakya Paita, one should not be
lenient with sons and disciples.
Unless he deals strictly with them, he
will spoil them.
Prabhupda's anger in Vndvana
was not, however, a mere exercise in
student training. He strongly desired
to see the temple solidly established.
He trusted that his disciples were
sufficiently loyal to him to withstand
the pain of chastisement and take it
So nice to see you,
Prabhupda, I smiled, trying to
look and feel cheerful.
Prabhupda smiled and asked my
wife about her parents, whom he
had met in Australia.
Turning to me, he asked, What is
your morning program?
Well, Prabhupda, we dont
really have so many guests
coming right now, so we usually
dont have much of a morning
program. My wife quickly closed
the glass window between the
front and back seats, separating
Satsvarpa Mahrja from our
conversation.
Prabhupda continued, Guests
may or may not be coming, but
why dont you have a morning
program? Is your temple in
It is both the right and the
duty of a spiritual master to
criticize his disciples. By that
criticism, says Cakya
Paita, good qualities
develop. We therefore at
times hear that it is glorious
to be reprimanded by our
spiritual master. It is glorious
to have him weed the
anarthas from our hearts, but
his reprimand is neither
romantic nor pleasurable. It is
intensely painful. The person
we are working so hard to
please is angryeven furious
with us. Nor can we
I can think of two analogies to
describe how this mercy felt:
open heart surgery without
anesthesia and Biblical
Adams attempt to hide from
God after he had sinned. I
remember feeling I had no
shelter and nowhere to hide.

Genuine concern for our

spiritual lives caused
Prabhupda to act so strongly
because he knew that our
present path would in time
leave no more or Hari Haribol!
We had mixed impurity, the
enjoying spirit, into our Ka
conscious practices and
 Just like a
fish can not
be happy
outside
water,
likewise ...
we can not
be truly
happy by
serving our
senses.
 We can
achieve real
happiness
only by
becoming
Krishna
conscious.
 .I am in due receipt of your
congratulations letter. Please accept
my hearty thanks for your good
wishes. Continue your practicing
Krsna consciousness by strictly
following the four rules and by
always chanting at least sixteen
rounds daily. These spiritual practices
will make us strong and able to
defend ourselves from the onslaughts
of maya. Krsna is always ready to
help us for He is more eager to have
us come back to him than we are to
go. Simply we have to accept His
helping hand and then all our worries
are over.
I hope this meets you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
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2. Dress code 6. Admission
3. Music 7. Removal
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