Letters to the editor

[12/9, 6:57 PM] ABC/DEF Dasi Dasa🙏👍Yes, we will be leaving on Monday, Jan 15th.

Today we went for two big harinam events … Alachua Xmas parade and High Springs parade… hundreds of people attend. The devotees for the day event … take Jaganath, Baladev, and Subhadra out on the chariot and got the night event we have Lord Chaitanya on a flat bed with devotees chanting … Books and prasad ( cookies and candies distribution as well as books. People are very favorable and are in the Xmas spirit

ASA - Sunday January 6? Is epiphany, day three sages from the East came to see baby Jesus with gifts.

Hare Krsna.

asa(e) vad,, Sannyasa,, dress.

[12/10, 12:02 PM] Srinivasa Das Hou: Guru Maharaja, can you please tell me which store did you buy your dhoti cloth at? Is it online? I looked at Joan but no peach or apricot. They have orange which looks brighter than what you use.

Also what percentages are cotton and polyester?

[12/10, 12:52 PM] HP Swami - Prof HHR: It is 4-meters, yards (?), per set, top and bottom. 

I buy on line - cotton-polyester blend or 60/40 cloth ie 60% cotton and 40% polyester. 

It is called broadcloth sometimes. Look at comments to see if it is relatively thick.

Color is peach or something but usually not orange.

If you buy 20-meters at one time ie five sets you get it half price.

Comes by mail ok.

We don't keep shirts, just use same material chodar or long and short sleeve t-shirts.

Shirts without pockets are best if someone gives us one to use for a special event and then take it back.

We have several sets now. 

Will divest to b'caris and Sannyasa candidates soon.

Think we got some good quality set(s) for special events.

🙂🙂🙂

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I get excited when I come into contact with you through a book, a video or whatever makes me remember. Most likely we will not see each other in person again,

HpS - 😆 this is in person! silly to think that seeing your gross material body is a personal relationship.

A rabbit can do that, no? 🐰

but our spiritual bond will remain eternally, as long as I fulfill my 16 rounds and 4 principles day by day.

I wish to be a faithful follower of your instructions, although I am very far from that.

If the prophecy is fulfilled that in the year 2024 you leave the body, I would like you to reinforce or deliver the instructions that allow me to continue serving you in this life and thus always be able to keep in touch.

What would be your instructions to follow in my life?

Thank you Gurudeva, by mercy today I can be practicing devotional service in the mission of Sri Caitanya and that of his emissary Srila Prabhupada.

My obeisances

Your servant

Piyari Mohan das

HpS - Kirtaniya sada harih! Reminding others to chant the Holy Names constantly.

"Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name".

Write with the results of that austerity!!!

It may kill your material body very quickly, and your siddha deha manifest.

🐵 🐒 - Tom Brown,

🐷 🐖 - Buck White,

🔬 - Uncle Gismo et al,

offering their obeisances to Srila Srila Prabhupada and asking His Divine Grace to serve in his Sankirtan, Lord Caitanya's Sankirtan.

Now the Sun is at 4.41 Post Meridian and has disappeared from our vision, but officially Sunset is 5.22PM here in Nila-madhava Dhama, ISKCON Houston.

We just finished 1.08 hours.minutes conversation with ArtDas about NIOS, ASA, and a little about management points in ISKCON Peru.

We have suggested to the NIOS Board of Directors that they Dissolve the Corporation unless at least five Directors swear on a pile of SP's BBT books one feet tall that they will do three things for NIOS every year:

1. Have Annual Board of Directors Meeting to review actions of the Officers for the previous year and give direction to the Officers for the following year.
2. Make annual filing to the Secretary of State of Tennessee for NIOS.
3. Make annual filing with the federal, national, Internal Revenue Service.

Also, that H. H. Robinson is officially resigning from all formal management posts in NIOS on 2024 January 12, but will be fully available for any service in concordance with his capacity. Of course, mostly offering advice, perspective.

• We have 15/16 rounds done.
• We over-ate like 13% at breakfast, but was 25% yesterday!
• We should send short notes to RKD, Bh. Guimo, check the rest of the WhatsApp mail (that's why we called the Thakur), and walk to The Temple about 5.30PM for Gayatri in front of Srila Prabhupada, Kirtan for Radha Nila-madhava, and take rest about 9PM.
• Tomorrow or Monday we should be able to make some more contribution to the administrative situation in Peru with communications with Daru-krsna Das, Karuna-krsna Das and Mathuresa Das, posting some more of our perspective as Sannyasi here.

"The conclusion is that diplomacy used for the service of the Lord is a form of devotional service." (https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/12/44/)

Thank you.

Hare Krishna Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

H.P.S. 16/4 done roughly is to remove the outer covering of the shell?

Dear Maharaja:

Despite our insufficient experience, I humbly interpret the action - abrupt - to try to remove the outer cover. It is inefficient. The percussive intensity with which we would apply ourselves in 16/4 would be consistent with time, place and particular circumstances. But never abruptly.

We understand by faith that the fundamental medicine is the Maha Mantra and that the diet is prasadam. So, if we apply ourselves to chanting correctly and taking prasadam, all the good qualities will be added. Without abruptness.

“Prabhupada ordered everyone to chant sixteen rounds a day. This is a fact: we chant Hare Krsna because Prabhupada ordered us to. Although the name of Krsna is completely nectarean and we should chant it spontaneously, we actually chant it under the order of our spiritual master. And whatever sweet taste we progressively get from chanting, we also know that it is due to the mercy of our spiritual master, who has given us hari-nama.” (Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. Reformatory japa manual)

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Maharaja... just a few hours after receiving the corresponding response to my last letter. -Infinite thanks for your kind attention-. I dreamed of you. It was a very short and abstract lucid dream in terms of scenery.

A landscape of extensive caverns with wide, high entrances, from somewhere in the Colorado Canyon or something. Maybe another planet.

There was no dialogue, but we knew the reason for that meeting. His body did not look like his current body, but we knew who we were and what we were for. You would give me flight instructions, but you let me know that the real reason for the meeting was not to instruct me how to fly, but rather, the purpose was for me to learn how to fall.

My translator is Google Translate.

See you always then dear Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies. TgSP

Hare Krsna

ENC das

HpS/ASA - Thank you.

Radha-vallabha Das, who was English student for Bachelor's diploma in the university gave me a copy of "On Writing Well". It was regular university text. Sold many, man copies, was well written, and a great help to me.

You should write more?

For broader distribution?

One of the points he made was that when we are writing really good stuff, we should probably reread/rewrite immediately after writing.

Then, after a few hours. Then afte about two weeks.

His point was, and I really see it, that many of the ideas that I have that go along with my words are there in my head while I am reading what I wrote.

Yet after two weeks I forget my ideas and read what I wrote like my audience, who are not mind readers.

It is so amazing.

When I do that I laugh and ask myself, "What was I thinking when I wrote that!"

Also, I grew up along the Colorado River in Arizona!

Hope to see wonderful art from you!!!!!!

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Hare Krishna Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

¿16/4 hecho con brusquedad es quitar la cubierta exterior del caparazón? HPS

Querido Maharaja:

Pese a nuestra insuficiente experiencia, interpreto con humildad que la acción –brusca- por intentar quitar la cubierta exterior. Resulta ineficiente. La intensidad percutiente con la que nos aplicaríamos en 16/4 resultarían acordes a tiempo lugar y circunstancias en particular. Pero nunca con brusquedad.

Entendemos por fe, que la medicina fundamental es el Maha Mantra y que la dieta es el prasadam. De manera que, si nos aplicamos en el canto correctamente y a tomar prasadam, todas las buenas cualidades se darán por añadidura. Sin brusquedad.

“Prabhupada ordenó a todos cantar dieciséis rondas al día. Esto es un hecho: cantamos Hare Krsna por que Prabhupada nos lo ordenó. Aunque el nombre de Krsna es totalmente nectáreo y deberíamos cantarlo espontáneamente, en realidad lo cantamos bajo la orden de nuestro maestro espiritual. Y cualquier sabor dulce que obtengamos progresivamente del cantar, también sabemos que se debe a la misericordia de nuestro maestro espiritual, quien nos ha dado el hari-nama”. (Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. Manual reformatorio de japa)

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 Maharaja… apenas unas horas después de recibir la correspondiente respuesta a mi última carta. -Infinitas gracias por su amable atención-. Soñé con Usted. Fue un sueño lúcido muy corto y abstracto en cuanto a la escenografía.

 Un paisaje de cavernas extensas con amplias y altas entradas, de algún lugar en el Cañón del Colorado o algo así. Quizá otro planeta.

 No hubo diálogo, pero conocíamos el motivo de ese encuentro. Su cuerpo no presentaba el aspecto de su cuerpo actual, pero sabíamos quiénes éramos y para que estábamos. Usted me daría instrucciones de vuelo, pero me hacía saber que no era la verdadera razón del encuentro el de instruirme para volar, sino que, mas bien, el propósito consistía en que yo aprendiese como tener que caer.

Mi traductor es el traslate de google .

Hasta siempre entonces querido Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies. TgSP

Hare Krisna

ENC das

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias, sigo en la ciudad de Huancayo - Perú. Estoy haciendo algunos planes, espero que funcionen.

Quería pedirle que me perdone, pues hace unos 2 meses que no entro a los programas de Mangal artik (FMP), el motivo fue por que estuve trabajando con unas personas y terminaba muy cansado. Ahora ya no trabajo con esas personas. Felizmente!!!

Ahora en la actualidad estoy trabajando con un devoto editando libros y con otro devoto estoy haciendo cartas astrales Jyotish, algunas veces salgo a Sankirtan, pero son pocas veces. Estas actividades son más tranquilas para mí.

Mi madre, es una de las personas mas importantes para mí, es a través de ella que conocí los libros de Srila Prabhupada cuando yo tenia solo 8 años de edad, en la década de los 90 ella conoció a un devoto, el devoto le predicaba a mi madre, le daba libros, ella aceptaba la conciencia de Krsna, pero no se entrego a ser devota. Paso el tiempo y en el año 2003, cuando yo tenía 23 años decidí volverme devoto, mi madre vio que me había vuelto vegetariano y que cantaba el Maha Mantra Hare Krsna y ella inmediatamente decidió volverse vegetariana y también comenzó a cantar Maha Mantra, a los días le regale unas cuentas de japa, a veces cantaba una ronda, a veces 4. La lleve al templo en 3 o 4 ocasiones, fue para las fiestas principales. Por las actividades y responsabilidades que ella tenía no iba al templo, pienso que el avance que ella hizo en conciencia de Krsna es grandioso. Ahora en la actualidad hablo con ella por teléfono y mientras conversamos le hablo de Krsna y canta conmigo el Maha Mantra. Ella en la actualidad tiene Alzheimer, artrosis y también incontinencia urinaria (no es algo de mucha gravedad pero por la edad que tiene se le complica todo). Ella tiene 77 años. Este cuerpo material es una enfermedad. Trato de ser consciente y entender de que todos vamos a morir, de que en algún momento de mi vida, ella partirá. Siempre ella está en mis oraciones, también le ayudo económicamente, mi hermana y demás familiares están al pendiente de ella. Entonces seguimos aprendiendo en conciencia de Krsna, ¿Que tenemos que mejorar? ¿Que tenemos que pulir?.

Sigo cantando mis 16 rondas de Japa, Gayatris, sigo los 4 principios regulativos, el Mangal Artik lo estoy haciendo a las 5 am, voy retomar el horario de 4 y 30 am, estoy leyendo el Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto 4 "La creación de la cuarta orden", Capitulo 16 "Los recitadores profesionales alaban al rey Prthu". Mi servicio sigue siendo en atender todos los días a la Giri Govardhana Sila y a las Salagrama Silas, y a Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.

En cuanto a mi salud, tengo algunos problemas visuales por mucha computadora (quizás tenga que usar lentes) y también tengo algunos problemas cardíacos, pero por lo pronto no son graves, tengo 44 años, no se si sera un buen momento para morirme, pero mientras siga en este cuerpo quisiera aprovecharlo en conciencia de Krsna, (Sankirtan).

Bueno Guru Maharaja me despido, que el Señor nrsimha siempre lo proteja, tratare de comunicarme más seguido, y nuevamente le pido que por favor me perdone si he cometido alguna ofensa. Hare Krsna 🙏

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All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaja, please receive my humble and respectful obeisances, I am still in the city of Huancayo - Peru. I'm making some plans, I hope they work.

I wanted to ask you to forgive me, because I haven't entered the Mangal artik (FMP) programs for about 2 months, the reason was because I was working with some people and I ended up very tired.

Now I don't work with those people anymore. Happily!!!

Now at present I am working with a devotee editing books and with another devotee I am making Jyotish astrological charts, sometimes I go out for Sankirtan, but it is only rarely. These activities are calmer for me.

My mother is one of the most important people for me, it is through her that I learned about Srila Prabhupada's books when I was only 8 years old, in the 90s she met a devotee, the devotee preached to her. I gave my mother books, she accepted Krsna consciousness, but she did not surrender to being a devotee. Time passed and in the year 2003, when I was 23 years old I decided to become a devotee, my mother saw that I had become a vegetarian and that I was chanting the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra and she immediately decided to become a vegetarian and also started chanting the Maha Mantra, at which days I gave her some japa beads, sometimes I sang one round, sometimes 4. I took her to the temple on 3 or 4 occasions, it was for the main festivals. Because of the activities and responsibilities that she had, she did not go to the temple, I think that the advance she made in Krsna consciousness is great.

Nowadays I talk to her on the phone and while we talk I talk to her about Krsna and she chants the Maha Mantra with me. She currently has Alzheimer's, osteoarthritis and also urinary incontinence (it is not something very serious but due to her age it complicates everything).

She is 77 years old. This material body is a disease. I try to be aware and understand that we are all going to die, that at some point in my life, she will leave. She is always in my prayers, I also help her financially, my sister and other family members are looking out for her. So we continue learning in Krsna consciousness, what do we have to improve? What do we have to polish?

I continue chanting my 16 rounds of Japa, Gayatris, I follow the 4 regulative principles, I am doing the Mangal Artik at 5 am, I am going to resume the schedule of 4 and 30 am, I am reading the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto 4 "The creation of the fourth order", Chapter 16 "Professional reciters praise King Prthu." My service continues to be in attending every day to the Giri Govardhana Sila and the Salagrama Silas, and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.

As for my health, I have some visual problems from a lot of computers (I may have to wear glasses) and I also have some heart problems, but for now they are not serious, I am 44 years old, I don't know if it would be a good time to die, but While I remain in this body I would like to take advantage of it in Krsna consciousness, (Sankirtan).

Well Guru Maharaja I say goodbye, may Lord nrsimha always protect you, I will try to communicate more often, and again I ask you to please forgive me if I have committed any offense. Hare Krishna

HpS - AgtSP! Thank you! We are almost 76 years old. One year younger than your mother!

News is very nice.

Srila Prabhupada offers that by hearing and applying the principles of the SB, we can all become preachers on the level of Narada Muni!

He says that by the mercy of the previous acharya and Lord Nitya ananda we can do more than the previous Acharya.

Don't be shocked if great opportunities and abilities some.

Yet, KRSNA has a plan for our service, no?

Big, small, it is the service we have during the next breath.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

Our respects to your Mother!!

Thank you.

More news as it develops!