Well today Maharaj gave me a little instruction.
I told him that it bothered me seeing him mopping the floors by himself. I cannot mop floors due to a bad back but I helped Maharaj do other things and stayed near by him so that he's not doing all this cleaning himself.
Maharaj told me today that I should read Chaitanya Caritamrta about when Lord Chaitanya Himself cleaned the Gundica Temple. Unfortunately I do not have these volumes to read but thankfully it is on the internet so I started to read it. I hope the botique gift shop has this particular volume with this chapter in it because I won't always have the internet to read it from.
As I was reading this chapter in Madhya Lila volume about Lord Chaitanya i discovered that that day when I was helping Maharaj, it was just like the past time of Lord Chaitanya and His devotees working together to clean Krishna's Temple. Of course we cannot imitate pure devotees like that in this age of Kali but we can follow in their footsteps Srila Prabhupada has said. There were other devotees around though when I was helping Maharaj but I was the only one helping him.I was a bit upset about that. I did not want Maharaj to be doing all that by himself. I stayed to help him until he was done cleaning. I refused to leave him do all that himself. I wish some of the other men would have helped but there was no one and Krishna was kind enough to have had sent me to help Maharaj. My Guru Maharaj is so humble though. He told me he had enjoyed cleaning the floor but I still felt uncomfortable and upset about him doing that himself.
So since then I've been trying to keep the floor clean everyday. I told Mahavendra Puri that I needed help in mopping the floor everyday as Maharaj wants it done everyday. As I've said due to a bad back I cannot mop the whole entire floor myself as I would like to to follow Maharaj's instructions. :( But Maharaj seemed pleased enough with me sweeping the floors at least. He understands I can't mop floors. He instructed me not to let the cleaning go of the temple so Im trying my best to keep up with it as much as I can. I will have to keep this instruction with me when I live in the Los Angeles Temple. One must obey's Guru's instructions otherwise one cannot spiritually advance and they will falldown. that's no joke it's the truth. Im glad Maharaj told me to read Chaitanya Caritamrta. I wish I could have the whole volume set now since Maharaj told me to read it. I got inspired just by him alone saying that to me.
