Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Guruji

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JVe17V1SLxYjVpHZ27rvm2T291EGdxsztBO4g33x87A/edit?slide=id.g33e23aba2d7_0_30#slide=id.g33e23aba2d7_0_30

This link is about causality.

You are the inspiration for this.

The slide is supposed to be corroborated with audio.

But we trust TB he can know what these slides means

Bowing down

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tb - wow... agtsp. hps could catch a lot.

it looks great, but like several days with at least an hour each day.

phenomena and .... noumena, no?

is it to develop enduring friendship with these students? is one of them having curly hair, swarthy complexion, playing a flute, natural leader of rest?

Hare Krishna, most beloved Maharaja 🙏

All glories to the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya 🙌

This is Gunavira Das:

About my position related to ashrama, it seems that, even as a brahmachari, all this time I have being functioning as a artificial grihastha for my relatives’ care.

Everything seems to be dharmically logical though! I still work hard as a nurse and in the family business, so brahmacharia development is more about the internal than the external.

hps/asa - nice to hear from you. we hanker for reports from you.

unless you have a wife you are a in vedic b'cari ashrama. b'cari can work in medical trade, but should develop attitude that he is doing it for KRSNA.

16-nice rounds?

personal altar?

About sensual/mental gratification. It looks like I need horse blinders to stay focused, too many ways to lose control; and deep anarthas taking refuge in the shadows… I have being eating, besides fruits and vegetables, herbs from the garden, moringa leaves and many more and they help. Also seeing the beautiful gender indirectly, and to the feet, and these measures help. I had intense challenges in previous months, but already on track again!

hps/asa - same .... got an altar? bathe your deities, dry and ornament them and sex desire goes away.

About Comparative Religion. I have being reading both biblic and vedic literatures in order to understand the crossoverality of the religious practices. It seems that everything matches! The allegued “differences” are just about perspective: Considering Judeo-Christianity as a religion for the 3rd dimension entrepreneurs (but much more to be revealed according to the same Scriptures) , and Vaisnavism for the multidimention enthusiasts… Book of Job might be considered a Purana as is highly complex. Sorry if I am inaccurate in my logic.

hps.asa

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKb40l59SbQ, "a perfect stranger".
• https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1653, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_of_Christ, "imitation of christ", thomas akempis

I continue on the path with Gadadhar Gosai Das Prabhu for the good of the world. Sometimes I help like an ant (not proportionally), sometimes like a tortoise (I wish I did), sometimes like a hawk (I think).

Sincerely, servant of your servants!

Gunavira Das.🐢

your servants, hps/asa 👳 🐒 🐖

_________

Hare Krishna, amado Maharaja 🙏

Todas las glorias a la Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya 🙌

Se reporta Gunavira Das:

Sobre mi posición en el áshram, parece que, incluso como brahmachari, todo este tiempo he estado funcionando como un grihastha artificial para el cuidado de mis familiares. ¡Aunque todo parece tener lógica dármica! Sigo trabajando duro como enfermero y en el negocio familiar, por lo que el desarrollo en brahmacharia se centra más en lo interno que en lo externo.

Sobre la gratificación sensorial/mental. Parece que necesito anteojeras de caballo para mantener la concentración; hay demasiadas maneras de perder el control; y anarthas profundos que se refugian en las sombras… El Harinam, los Principios como bases, y he estado comiendo además de frutas y semillas, hierbas del jardín, hojas de moringa y muchas más, que me ayudan. También veo al llamado género bello sólo indirectamente, y a los pies, y estas medidas me ayudan. Tuve dificultades intensas en los meses anteriores, ¡pero ya estoy en el buen camino!

Sobre la religión comparada. He estado leyendo literatura bíblica y védica para comprender la transversalidad de las prácticas religiosas. ¡Parece que todo concuerda! Las supuestas "diferencias" son solo cuestión de perspectiva: si consideramos el judeocristianismo como una religión para los emprendedores tridimensionalistas (pero con mucho más por revelar según las mismas Escrituras), y el vaisnavismo para los entusiastas multidimensionalistas... Aunque el Libro de Job podría considerarse un Purana, ya que es sumamente complejo. Disculpe si mi lógica es imprecisa.

Sigo en el camino con Gadadhar Gosai Das Prabhú por el bien del mundo. A veces ayudo como hormiga (no proporcionalmente), a veces como tortuga (me gustaría), a veces como halcón (eso creo).

Atentamente, ¡sirviente de tus sirvientes!

Gunavira Das.🐢

Hare Krsna

Hare Krsna, Gurudev

All Glories to Sri Sri Goura Nitai

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to you

Please accept my humble obeisances.

After quite some time, here I am, resuming contact with you. I hope you read my letter. How is your energy? Here I receive your messages from the WhatsApp groups, thank you for that.

In my previous letter I told you that my beloved Tulasi Vrinda Dasi has arrived in this world, a very interesting and joyful personality. Motherhood has fully taken over me, making me experience feelings such as austerity, renunciation of results, giving selflessly, discipline, starting over after a lost battle, dealing with my own frustration, and has taught me to see new perspectives in life. My priorities have shifted, my time is vanishing, and tiredness is a constant.

The mental load has overwhelmed me on several occasions, and the need to indefinitely give up my own desires for a greater good—these are just some of the thousands of things Tulasi has taught me since her birth.

My love overflows when I see her, I feel that with every hug I can breathe again, and I feel proud of every small achievement in her early path of life.

She shows signs of devotion like putting her hands together when the altar is opened, even though it wasn’t a gesture that was taught to her. She interacts with a figure we have of Lord Ganesha, she leaves [loves?] toys to Goura Nitai, and helps me ring the bell during artik.

I want to humbly ask you, Gurudev, to please grant your special blessings to Tulasi so that she may always stay connected to Srila Prabhupada and the parampara, and thus learn to love Krsna throughout her life.

ASA - "These are not ordinary children. Krsna does not send ordinary people to be the children of devotees. You have big responsibility to protect them so that that can grow up and do wonderful things for Krsna", Letter from Srila Prabhupada that we remember.

As for me, I work, I’m disconnected from my Sadhana. I try to chant and to connect, sometimes in an effort to recover my rhythm. I’m no longer so critical of my process and understand that perhaps this is a moment in which I have to fulfill my family responsibilities, and I hope to be able to bring order back to my life so that the spiritual can once again take precedence.

Sorry for the length of my letter, but prolonged absences require lengthy explanations.

Thank you for being my Guru.

As I read in another letter, I’m sending some photos for your eyes only. I hadn’t sent updates because I resisted sharing photos of my family, and that letter gave me the impulse—thanks to those Vaisnavas too!

Reverences Gurudev

With much affection,

The one who always wishes to serve you

Rati Mañjari Dasi

(P.S. I translated it into English using ChatGPT)

HpS/ASA - So, I guess we should not share the photos unless they are espionage for the CIA, no? I guess as Sannyasis we must share them with some responsible Grhasta.

If you can't chant 16-rounds a day, then fix some number you can do. Maybe three rounds a day. You will find that it does not take strength, it gives strength!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

PAOHO AGTSP

I hope you are in good health.

HpS/ASA - Ha! Ha! Ha!!! Jaya Srila Prabhupada!!! I bet our health is about the same as your's and Matajis: This body does not get diseases, this body is a disease.

I'd like to tell you that I completed my Master's degree in Cultural Management after a year and a half. I've finished the courses and submitted my thesis, and all that's left is to present it to the jury in October. It's been a very demanding period, but I believe it's been worth it.

I place this degree and the information I've received at the feet of Srila Prabhupada, hoping to contribute to his mission, although I sometimes think about how little receptivity there is among devotees toward ways of doing things other than the ones they know. Despite that, let's hope there's an opportunity to contribute in some way.

HpS - I sometimes think the same way, but then I think, that even in the secular society, the stuff we are trying to present would receive about the same reception. Intellectual, Masters, usually find that 90% of the world's population just want to survive kind of like bears with the same foraging for food, shelter and a little romance.

Terminator 17.

Son of Terminator.

Terminator Goes to Harvard.

On the other hand, I'd like to begin a doctorate in Humanities and Digital Societies, but it depends on my financial means. Aside from the fact that it's very difficult for me to put aside my interest in studying, earning these degrees represents better job opportunities in the academic field, so, if possible, I will begin those studies at some point.

I'm beginning the study of the Fourth Canto in Bhakti Vaibhava and reading Jaiva Dharma, published by the Gaudiya Math. The latter is a very beautiful book, about which I had little information, and complex as few others. Fortunately, I've found study guides online that will allow me to clarify very profound notions regarding dharma, for example. Srila Bhaktivinoda's literature is deep and written beautifully.

HpS - The only thing is to take these books Parampara. I think it is a Purport in CC where Srila Prabhupada comments that Srila Sanatana Goswami's "Hari bhakti vilasa" upon which our Deity worship and daily rituals are based is unecessarily ritualist, but everyone at that time were mostly Smartas and so he had to go with the flow of the time.

So, if we have good life in the words of our Acharya, then we can understand the works of the previous Acharyas.

I was looking at Narayana Maharaja (One Gaudiya Matha)'s translation and commentary on one very key verse and comparing it to Srila Prabhupada's and they both had like seven citations in their purports and five were the same, but Maharaja's perspective was tinged toward the importance of Second Initiation where as Srila Prabhupada's was toward the sufficiency of HariNama Diksa.

In my few spare time, I continue translating Dimensions of Good and Evil by H.H. Suhotra Swami. You mentioned that this is a third category service, which made me think that this is the kind of service I can do, at best.

However, Indira Sakti dd and I will go to Chosica on Janmastami to begin the photographic and documentary record of the temple. I hope to interview devotees of the pujari (Ramasundarya das and Vindhyavali dd) and compile material to present it on a digital medium for the service of devotees.

HpS - Very nice. I think that there are many Catholic people who would also like to see the contrast and comparison with their own religious life.

I say goodbye, reiterating my best wishes for your well-being.

Gandharva das

HpS/ASA - Seems to us that Srila Prabhupada was always emphasizing, though not singularizing, village based media.

We have seen that village based technology, like puppet shows, can reach a very high level of technical sophistication, but use local materials, generational family traditions.

We heard Prabhupada commenting that television was not necessary for common people. Maybe two, three dozen televisions in the whole world, I guess for Ksatriyas or something.

Hare Krsna villages.

How is your village life?

Are you staying with your Mother?

Is Pandita Daru-krsna Das your neighbor?

Please Gurumaharaja, always accept my obeisances at your lotus feet🙏🏻👣🌺🌷🌹🪷🌸

HpS/ASA - Please accept our obeisances at your lotus feet. Of course, maybe you have lotus pesunyas in your siddha svarupa!

I also find this song very beautiful, so much so that I uploaded it to the channel. I hope you like it:

https://youtu.be/D6q_yj0PDjE?si=h4fZ8pA_g8nk5dtW

ASA - Did a LOT of work to mix it with clips from the "Little Krsna" movie. It seems to be philosophically correct but cannot know for sure because is in Hindi, no?!

In the previous video, you're right. I see a part where the music is sung, but it's not subtitled. But for me, when the music is so beautiful, any editing flaw loses importance. The joy of listening to this music is so great that it fills everything.

always trying to understand her beautiful lotus heart, her futile attempt at maid:

Radha Japa Prati Jalpa Devi Dasi

Jay Sri Radhe!!!

Gopis gopis gopis gopis🎵🌷

where are they?🎵🌷

where are they going?

🎵🎵🎵

Jay Srila Prabhupada!!!

Jay To You Gurumaharaja!!!

Hare Krishna, Siksha Guru Maharaja, please kindly accept my most humble obeisances; all glories to Srila Prabhupada; all glories to your good self for your own exemplary years of selfless devotional service; all glories to all the devotees of Lord Chaitanya.

My rounds are done this morning, and Bhagavatam class from Hawaii will commence soon. It's only now that I am able to find time to write some thoughts.

My mind is still occupied with recollection of your most recent visit to our home here in Boise.

As I had mentioned during prasadam, your association, along with the association of the other devotees present at that time helped to make our home into an ashrama once again.

It brought back memories very nice programs of hearing and chanting and prasadam with devotees very kindly blessing our home with their association.

Now it seems like we are strangers to them: the same Vaishnavas who were always welcomed to our home.

It's so painful that I can't really put it into words, and I'm trying to understand how it came to this.

I try to chant nice rounds every morning: sitting quietly in front of my altar, with my ears plugged for amplification between the ears, with incense burning, and some quiet flute meditation playing for ambience.

I feel very lucky to have such an domestic environment for my devotional service. A couple of Bhagavad gitas went out this week to passengers. One was a successful gentleman who seemed really lost in his life. He gave an extremely generous tip for accepting Bhagavad gita. The other was a girl who had an emotional breakdown, and seemed to be somewhat disoriented, as if under the influence of some drug.

She happened to see a copy of Bhagavad gita and asked if she could have it. I took it as Krishna saying "give it to her," and so I did. She was very grateful whilst she continued crying.

There is so much more that I want to share; so much more that needs to be said, but I fear that I will annoy you with a long drawn out letter. I can see from my own practical experience how my whole spiritual existence is dependent on the shelter of the spiritual master. Please kindly forgive me for my many offenses. Please don't give up on us: my wife and I. How should we live, where shall we go and what should we do if we lose such kindness, shelter and mercy?

Your lowly servant,

Balabhadra dasa

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Dhrtarastra was painted as a very nice person in many ways, but he had some bad results from previous activities. Karna was also a great person. Krsna glorified him in front of Arjuna after he died, no?

In some aspects I feel that we are all pushed by Krsna to realize the He is our only friend.

Every other friend is just a friend in that relation to him.

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