Question: If any of our relatives leave their body, for how many days should we observe and not touch the altar? As I am not initiated, so how many days should I observe and how many days should an initiated disciple observe? Please kindly enlighten me Gurudeva.

Jayapataka Swami: It depends, like a sannyāsī doesn’t have to go through this, the days of aśuci. I think that for vaiṣṇavas, generally it is for 11 days. But if there is no one to do the worship and it is an emergency, that emergency knows no rule. Just like a mother...