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Hare Krsna,

How can a professional carry Ladoo Gopal with him in

Inter state and International journey or at airport.

Ansy substitue or ways to carry him.

Also its very difficult to manage in Paying Guest rooms.

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  • E-Counselor

    Hare Krsna Prabhuji,

    PAMHO.

    To my knowledge, for international travel, you need to be able to show the purchase documents for your laddoo gopal. There is so much of stealing of idols and transferring abroad happning nowadays that they have started to ask for these documents. I know one full time devotee couple who shifted to USA temple recently and left their deities - Radha Krsna with some family because they did not have the purchase papers. Effectively, they would not be able to prove that these deities are theirs only and not for sale abroad. I am not sure, just saying what I saw that couple do.

    Regarding taking your Gopalji with you everywhere, it is a very pious thought, but may inconvenience His Lordship a little. Therefore, you may consider giving Him to a neighbour or fellow devotee to pray in your absence. If there is no one, then you can even leave the deity in your house when you travel.

    The way to do this is - you leave the deity at home, remove the mukut and flute, like we do when we put the deity to sleep. Basically, you leave the deity/ altar in sleep mode. YOu keep some prasadam in covered box - mostly dry fruits or dry items which will last the duration of your absence, leave water in covered glass. Speak to your deities before leaving that I am going there..... and I will return at such date... and in my absence, please take care of yourself and the house, eat the prasadam. I will come back and resume my service. Like how you will tell an elder in the house before leaving, you have to do the same with His Lordship. This has the sanction of HG Jananivas Prabhu, the head priest of Radha Madhav at Sri Mayapur Dham.

    Haribol,

    Your servant,

    Rashmi  

    • Volunteer

      Thankyou mata ji !

      hare Krishna !

      • Volunteer

        Dear Mataji, could You please give that video or article where HG Jananivas Prabhu told about that!

        Thank You!

        And another thing i know is if deities are really big then we can keep Them at home and take Their photo and do the same service to Their photo.

        In Russia many Devotees carry their Deities always.

        If They are big them they carry Their photo.

        Your servant,

        • E-Counselor

          Hare Krsna Mataji,

          PAMHO.

          There is no recording of this conversation. Once, when I was in Kolkata, one group of devotees had travelled to Mayapur, two families alongwith their deities who they were about to install, for naming by their guru maharaj. In that instance, they had also met HG Jananivas Prabhuji because they could not identify who is Gaura and who is Nitai. It was a group of barely 10-12 people, headed by my shiksha guru , HG Ashray Gauranga Das, who is the head of Education in Kolkata temple, who heads Bhakti Vriksha, Youth and conducts Bhakti Shastri classes. The meeting was held in prabhuji's quarters above Panch Tattva deities in the afternoon immediately after the temple closed.

          I happened to be part of that group, then HG Jananivas prabhuji mentioned this to us himself.

          Haribol,

          Your servant,

          Rashmi

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