Ways to get rid of Anarthas, unfavorable, unwanted habits
“If one has a strong desire to proceed on the path of devotional service and responsibility,
then no obstacle can do any harm.”
All glories to Sri Sri Krishna Chaitanya Chandra!
Sri Mayapur Vrajapattan
24th Bhadra, 1322
My Dear –
I received your last letter dated 15th Sridhara, full of love and affection, in due time. However, being occupied with different services, I could not reply to your letter timely.
A soul who does not perform Haribhajan, sincere devotional service towards Lord Sri Hari, becomes a jnani, mental speculator, a karmi, materialistic person, or anyabhilasi, one who has worldly desires. Hence, please always pray to Sri Bhagavan by chanting the Hare Krishna Mahamantra. By loudly chanting a fixed number of Krishna Nama with great attachment, one can get rid of anarthas, unfavorable and unwanted habits. In this way, the materialistic thoughts and similar foolishness will run away and mundane people who are averse to Lord Sri Hari cannot then mock or ridicule them. Getting association of the shastra, revealed scriptures, is very auspicious. Later, to understand more about bhajan, one can associate with sadhus, saintly persons, individually. One adhering to the chanting of Harinama without aparadhas, offenses, will surely attain all siddhis, spiritual perfection, very easily. Materialistic persons cannot do harm to anyone then.
Once the third edition of Sajjana Toshani gets published, I will send it to you as soon as possible. Please read that magazine very carefully. Also, you can consider reading and discussing ‘Jaiva Dharma’ if you get enough time…
Common men will always be speaking gramya katha, ordinary and mundane talk. Please be indifferent towards them. If one has a strong desire to proceed on the path of devotional service and responsibility, then no obstacle can do any harm. Please read and discuss ‘Kalyana-Kalpataru,’ ‘Prarthana,’ ‘Prema-Bhakti-Chandrika’ and other scriptural texts whenever you have time. Please give proper respect externally even to the materialistic and worldly persons, but, you should be devoid of any sort of internal affection and appreciation towards them while dealing with such persons. Internally, you should develop a feeling of detachment towards them in your mind.
Everything is fine here. Please inform me about your spiritual well-being.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sri Siddhanta Saraswati
