Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Srila Gurudeva

On this most auspicious day of Guru Purnima, please accept my sincere and humble obeisances at your lotus feet 🙏🙇‍♂️

hps - in our siddha deha we must all have lotus feet, no?

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and All glories to you Gurudeva!!

My beloved Gurudeva, Without your mercy, I would remain lost in this material world, endlessly entangled in illusion and forgetfulness of Supreme Lord Krishna.

You have selflessly dedicated your life to spreading the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Srila Prabhupada, and through your association, I am learning what it truly means to be a servant of the servant of the Lord.

HpS - We have squeaked the Holy Name every now and then like a little selfish greedy, stupid mouse but Srila Prabhupada has kept pulling us along and using us to speak things.

You have patiently guided me, corrected me, and encouraged me, always seeing beyond my faults and helping me strive toward the ultimate goal of life-pure devotional service to Lord Krishna.

On this most auspicious day, I humbly beg you to continue to shower your causeless mercy upon this fallen soul. Please allow me to serve you more sincerely, follow your instructions more faithfully, and deepen my attachment to the holy names and devotional service.

Please forgive my offenses, my laziness, and my forgetfulness. 

I pray for the strength to become a disciple that pleases you and serves your mission.

Thank you very much for everything, Gurudeva. I am eternally indebted to you.

Your tiny servant,

RamaKrishnananda Das

ISKCON of Richmond.

HpS - We can only hope that you continue your journey inward to make your perfection, brahminical japa, more deep!!!! We hope you become an Acharya like Srila Prabhupada.

Let us always be with him, here, Nabadvipa...

TlGaSP

Nuestro querido Maestro Espiritual, por favor acepte reiteradas reverencias.

Cómo se encuentra? Cómo se siente con los nuevos audífonos?

Muchas gracias por ocuparnos en Servicio a través de Dhaksine. Cómo estuvo su viaje? RY?

Hace unos días he leído un post de Prabhu Narahari sobre Guru Purnima, lo cual me hizo reflexionar en SP, en todo lo que nos otorga y en usted; en su magnánima compasión. Y ésto ha coincidido con decenas de cartas suyas impresas que tenía guardadas y olvidadas en casa de padres (correos electrónicos de usted entre el año 2002 y 2007) Volver a leer sus mensajes después de tantos años, ha removido mi conciencia. Me avergüenza enormemente haber escrito tanta banalidad e infortunios constantes, a los cuales usted respondía con extrema compasión y dulzura.

La realidad es que tenemos una vida afortunada gracias a la misericordia de SP y a usted. Una vez más gracias por tanto cariño, bondad y paciencia.

(disculpar mi sentimentalismo)

Su misericordia ha sido ilimitada.

Espero esta vez tratar de complacerlo en un algún momento.

Mi hija le envía un dibujo: dice que a usted le gustan los monos.

Feliz Guru Purnima amado Gurudev, gracias por volver a recibir a ésta Nigredo discípula.

Un gran abrazo 🐘 espiritual.

Vanca Kalpa Radhe Radhe Guruji 🍀

HpS/ASA - TlGaSP

Translate.Goggle.com: Our dear Spiritual Master, please accept our repeated obeisances.

How are you? How do you feel with the new hearing aids?

HpS - Our health is like yours will be at 77 Reformed American Hippy years old.

Hearing like a fish in a fish tank. Is a great mechanical help!!!!!!

Thank you very much for engaging us in Service through Dhaksine. How was your trip? RY?

HpS - We posted in anveSaka group, no?

Also, here?

it was very VERY V E R Y intense and productive. 90% well organized.

see greatest potential for preaching in Boise, Idaho.

need regular rafting, boating trips.

A few days ago, I read a post by Prabhu Narahari about Guru Purnima, which made me reflect on SP, on all that he bestows upon us, and on you; on your magnanimous compassion. This coincided with dozens of printed letters from you that I had saved and forgotten at my parents' house (emails from you between 2002 and 2007). Rereading your messages after so many years has stirred my conscience. I am deeply ashamed of having written so much banality and constant misfortune, to which you responded with extreme compassion and sweetness.

The truth is that we have a fortunate life thanks to SP's mercy and to you. Thank you once again for so much love, kindness, and patience.

(Forgive my sentimentality)

Your mercy has been boundless.

I hope to try to please you sometime this time.

My daughter sent you a drawing: it says you like monkeys.

Happy Guru Purnima, beloved Gurudev, thank you for welcoming this Nigredo disciple back.

A big spiritual hug.

Vanca Kalpa Radhe Radhe Guruji

HpS/ASA - Did you ever, get to India????

Can you please explain the picture?

It looks like a passenger balloon to Africa in 1873.

I think that we have some compassion, because we have the mercy of so many devotees who have dedicate their lives to Srila Prabhupada and his personal and institutional ISKCON!!!

🙏

Por favor acepte mis reverencias a sus pies de loto. ¡Jay Srila Prabhupada! Apreciado guru maharaja, espero que se encuentre con buena salud. Yo me encuentro bien, en mis actividades cotidianas y haciendo un poco de servicio en el Templo de México; gracias a Sri Sri Radha Madana Gopala, los viernes doy clase sobre el Srila Prabhupada -Lilamrta, resumo un capítulo cada viernes y lo relaciono con un verso de Bhagavat Gita. Esta semana leo el capítulo 2 del Volumen 5. Los sábados en la madrugada despierto a Dios (Radha-Krishna) y realizo servicio de pujari, para posteriormente leer el Srimad Bhagavatam. Esas son mis actividades actuales de servicio, que implica llevar lectura de los libros de S. Prabhupada. En el trayecto del Samsara estoy a la disposición de Dios, con la oportunidad se servirles a Radha-Krishna. Esperando que estas sencillas actividades le complascan a su persona, a Srila Prabhupada y al movimiento de Sankirtana. Pido sus bendiciones para perfeccionar mi servicio. 

HpS - Aaaah! More Words! Let us Translate.google.com.

"Please accept my obeisances at your lotus feet. Jay Srila Prabhupada! Dear Guru Maharaja, I hope you are in good health. I am doing well, going about my daily activities and doing a little service at the Mexico Temple. Thanks to Sri Sri Radha Madana Gopala, on Fridays I teach a class on Srila Prabhupada's Lilamrta. I summarize a chapter each Friday and relate it to a verse from Bhagavat Gita. This week I am reading Chapter 2 of Volume 5. On Saturdays in the early morning, I awaken God (Radha-Krishna) and perform pujari service, and then read Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavatam. These are my current service activities, which involve bringing readings from Srila Prabhupada's books. On the path of samsara, I am at God's disposal, and with the opportunity, I am able to serve Radha-Krishna. I hope these simple activities will be pleasing to you, Srila Prabhupada, and the Sankirtana movement. I ask for your blessings to perfect my service.

HpS - How is your biological family?

Who can eat more tamales than a Mexican?

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HpS - ASA --- Is a very short, concise, artistic letter.

Does the Text disappear?

Asta Sakhi Devi Dasi is getting full letters to us!!

Hare Krishna, Gurudev: Pamho. Toda gloria a Srila Prabhupada y sus seguidores fieles.

Contesto a las preguntas de mi última carta:

¿como están creciendo Nimai y Sarasvati?

Nimai ha terminado el primer curso de Universidad de doble grado (Derecho y Administración de Empresas). También trabaja algunas horas a la semana como monitor de triatlón en dos colegios cercanos a casa. Acaba de cumplir 19 años

Sarasvati cumplirá 12 años en Septiembre. Es una persona muy sociable y tiene muchas amigas en el colegio donde estudia y también en los círculos de programas extraescolares (triatlón, voleibol y gimnasia rítmica). Ahora ha estado en un campamento de niños (niñas) aquí en Nueva Vrajamandala. El día 12 se van, junto con Purnamasi, a un erasmus de Hare Krishnas a Lanzarote (Islas Canarias) junto con jóvenes de distintos paises europeos.

Pienso que estan creciendo bien y preparándose para desenvolverse en el mundo material.

¿Purnamasi se retirará pronto de la enseñanza?

Pienso que, de momento, le quedan años hasta que pueda dejar de trabajar. Tiene el trabajo y su familia (padres) cerca de casa (Collado Mediano). Sus padres son mayores ( más de ochenta años) y ella debe estar cerca para cuidarlos. Nimai también tiene la Universidad relativamente cerca y Sarasvati se encuentra a gusto en el colegio.

Yo pasaré mas tiempo en Brihuega e iré a nuestra casa de Collado (Madrid) cuando se requiera mi presencia.

La idea es que la mayor parte del tiempo estaré en Brihuega para acudir al programa de la mañana del templo.

HpS - Wonderful new! Is like breathing air after being submerged in the water. Thank you. Respects to all of them. Please say that we hope they will be engaged in doing wonderful things for the world with Srila Prabhupada's help.

Vidas de Santos cristianos.

Si alguien tiene tiempo puede leer la biografía de San Antonio de Padua. Es un santo franciscano portugués y su vida es muy interesante. Recuerdo que cuando la leí me inspiró mucho. Por supuesto Santa Teresa de Jesús (Ávila), San Juan de la Cruz y San Pedro de Alcantara son de lo más interesantes para los amantes del bhakti.

ss

Jayanta das

HpS - You are a fountain of youth. this is wonderful reading material. srila prabhupada is such an ecumenical saint. we have never found anyone who is more humble and eager to meet religious people from any tradition.

real saint is eager to see religious life in any national context. learn from it. serve it.

Hare Krishna!!!!

I hope that upon receiving this letter you are in good health.

I don't know where you are now, but wherever you are, I'm sure you are very well taken care of and busy with your preaching work.

I haven't logged into the blog for a long time, and therefore haven't written to you either, but today my ingratitude and procrastination have reached their limit.

I am currently still married, working, and a victim and accomplice of this capitalist system. jejeje..

The world is upside down, with conflicts in the Middle East, in Kashmir... this is how we are... nothing new, self-destructing... It seems that the ethologist Nikolass Tinbergen was right when he said, "On the one hand, man is similar to many species of animals in that he fights against his own species. But, on the other hand, among thousands of species that fight, it is the only one in which the fight is destructive... Humans are the only species that kill en masse, the only ones that don't adapt to their own society. This comment comes from a book by Erich Fromm called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, which I find interesting. It's an attempt to understand the origin of human aggression and cruelty, from various perspectives (psychology, biology, history, sociology). In short, things of this world.

HpS /// ASA - But bugs, termites, engage in mass attacks and wars, no?

On the other hand, my spiritual life continues, perhaps not at ISKCON standards, but at the one I'm capable of maintaining. I think in my last letter I was in a similar situation. Pfff!!!!

On your last visit, I saw you very well, surrounded by many disciples, whom I know you appreciate very much, who are always there.

Well, I don't know if you'll ever plan to come back here. If so, I hope to spend a little more time with you or just be close by.

Greetings, and my respects.

With affection, Bhadra Vardhana das.

HpS - This was in Spain? Our memory of you is fading! I think I have your image and character in mind!

Traffic control in LIma...