Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva ! 

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!

HpS - TlgaSP!   Referencias a sus pies de loto tambien.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

I write to tell you how I am in my spiritual practices....and how I am in general...

I am so happy to have your saintly associatión every day in FMP, this helps us so much, giving us the enthusiasm to practice our daily sadhana bhakti......16 rounds are Ok and 4 principles strictly are also Ok....of course I can do this only by your mercy...

Also, I want to tell you that I am improving a little bit about reading Srila Prabhupada's books, now I am reading first canto, chapter 3 : "Krishna is the source of all incarnations", I read two verses of SB every day, also I finished reading "the eight phases of yoga " a small book that contains the teachings of Lord Kapila deva, Canto 3. I realized that this book contains wonderful information ! Sometimes I distributed this book without even having read it before...but now I read it. I want to improve more, reading more daily...

Gurudeva,  I would like to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books again, I think this is my Dharma for this life [Yo tambien. Dharma para muchas vidas, no?], when I did it in the past I  experienced a lot of enthusiasm and happiness, it was the best time of my life [Get a partner or two],  but now it seems that my present  Karma does not allow me to do it.....as  I told  you a few days ago I am having arthritis problems again, in my hands, specifically in my left hand, swelling and pain, I am taking pills to  ease the pain, otherwise I can not stand.

Gurudeva I am just realizing that actually I am a sinner, I have always these physical problems, diseases, pain in my body, I have committed many sins in my previous lives and also in this life and it is only by your mercy and Srila Prabhupada's mercy that I  have stopped committing sins. Thank You !!!! Thank you Srila Prabhuapada !!!

As you told me once in the past: "bad health is Krishna's educational mercy" !

I hope to learn the lesson that this life is teaching me..

Now I only want to have your saintly association Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada' s association through his books....."sanga sanjayate kamah"

Thank you so much  !!!!

Trying to be your disciple :

Mitravinda d.d

HpS - ASA --- Fight with your body, being enthusiastic. Use it as you can. Srila Prabhupada could barely whisper but he was playing on the big Mrdanga until the last moments of his strenght. You play your big Mrdanga!   Send us news of your Sankirtan. So many ways to distribute books. Get a partner!!!

Mis respectivas reverencias su Santidad Srila Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja; quiero de antemano que me perdone por algún error que pudiera cometer al dirigirme a tan Sublime persona.

HpS-ASA - Todas la glorias a Srila Prabhupada (TlgaSP!!!). Pienso primero error es pensar que yo soy una persona "tan Sublime". Soy un humilde serviente de Srila Prabhupada y solamente quiero encontar mi puesto en su orquestra gran.

Estimado Maestro soy una persona muy necesitada de un guia espiritual que me ayude a iluminar mi densa oscuridad en la comprensión de nuestro Eterno Padre Sri Krsna; tengo la gracia de conocerle personalmente en un encuentro en Chosica, Lima Perú, gracias a la invitación de un discipulo suyo mi amado amigo Anandamaya Das, quien me abrio las puertas de ISKCON para conocer a Dios.

HpS - Anandamaya Das y su familia.

Aunque tengo conocimiento y devoción a Vishnú desde el 1992, recien en Diciembre del 2014 siento una devoción muy grande por Krsna, pero ando casi solo y caigo en muchas ilusiones. Estoy dispuesto a servirle su altisima Santidad, en todo lo que usted ordene. Tengo alguna practica con cantos aprendidos en Chosica, canto religiosamente mis 16 rondas del Mahamantra Hare Krsna. 

Talves no merezca su misericordia y mil disculpas de antemano si medito en Usted. Solo quiero que tenga piedad por este Ser que le ama y le da gracias al Altísimo Padre Sri Krsna y a toda la cadena de Arcayas por tener la dicha de conocerle. Atentamente José Milciades Cruz Neira (Piura Perú)

HpS - Mucho gusto conocerle. Esperamos que podemos ser util para Vd en sus esfuerzas. Hablamos Espanol como un burro puede leer nuestra Kapi-Dhvaja, revista, cada dos semanas? Anandamaya Das puede ayudar Vd tener contactocon la revista. Pienso si va a nuestra pagina de web, www.jayarama.us, puede econtrar el sendero tambien.

Lea los libros de Srila Prabhupada y aplica lo que encuentra alla! Presenta unos preguntas aqui y con los demas devotos y esforzamos responder. Clari Krsna estaba esperando su regresa a Vrndavana. Adelantamos y nuestra purificacion!

Hare Krsna Dear SS Hanumat Presaka Swami

PAMHO AGTSP!

I hope your energy and your health this better.

ASA - Same as yours. <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />

I am writing to you for the following:

1.- Please, you could give me the link of the recorded classes of Bhakti vedanta.

HpS - We Tweet them!    The Candra-mukhhi DD has them I think. We can get them but it is a lot of work to back and find then. Ask here first, O.K?

2.-Hiranykasipu is very intelligent, he has knowledge about the science of soul, his preaching to his family is very good.

ASA - To the level of Brahman or maybe Paramatma, but it is milk tinged with egoism: Be spiritual and intuitive so you can kill God.

Is the level of self-realization of hiranyakasipu in brahman level?

ASA -  Aaaa!   Yes. The self is Brahman, eternal, but then, "Eternally what"?

3.- Canto 1 and 2 of the SB, SP encourages people to read the SB, and for doing so you will become realized, already from the Canto 3, SP mentions other requirements, even says that it is not enough to chant only hare krsna,, also you have to read, associate, take refuge in a spiritual master.this leads me to think that in addition to levels there are different types of self-realization. Can you please tell me where I can find more information on this?

ASA - Of course, the easiest is the NOI Text 10!   Then look at the abc-ndx.docx in our Jayarama.us Archives under "Yoga ladder". Self-realization usually means Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan. Then Bhagavan means Santa rasa, dasya rasa . ..      No limit.    A dog in Prana-maya, has gone beyone Anna-maya. In Anna-maya the baby and puppy identify them selves with the world. In Prana-maya then identify themselves with their body. In Vatsalya rasa we identify our selves with Yasoda-nandana, in Madhurya-rasa we identify oursleves with Gopi-jana-vallabha.

Self-realization.

Please, forgime my offenses

with much appreciation and gratitude

ys and spiritual niece

Isvari dd

ASA - Hare Krsna!!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! Srila Prabhupada ki Jay!

All Glories to Guru Maharaj HpS. PAMHO...at Your lotus feet.

Hare Krishna

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Finally our faculty here at RIMS have decided on the programme to be held at RIMS as directed by Guru Maharaj and Dr Samaresh. As we desperately want to listen to NOI lectures , we would be blessed to have NOI classes in the morning and evening and so we have kept the RIMS programme at 2pm. The faculty members also felt that it would be better if we kept the film show in the middle of the programme before Guru Maharaja's lecture so that the audience would get a better reinforcement. Have mailed the programme to Dr Samaresh too. The theme of the symposium would be Science, Spirituality and Health. We would be targetting the Medical fraternity .

On 3rd evening , planning for a cultural programme with Mrs Nandini Bandyopadhyay. Requested Gadadhar Prabhu and Tustakrishna Prabhu too. Programme will be especially for the devotees coming from other states...the least that we can offer...this time.....

 Tustakrishna Prabhu is training young boys in martial arts and he can be a very reliable devotee for the Peru-Manipur venture. Trying to identify some devotees as well . Talked to Mataji Ras Leela too , she is a martial arts performer .

About the temple programme.....on LoB....will have to inquire Banamali Prabhu about Manipuri copies. About NOI, Prabhu said last time that he has a sizeable number of copies.

Continuing our classes with H H Haridasa Maharaj....it has been a great spiritual experience for me.

I remain.....your servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna!   All your hard work is seeing results. Have you seen the program that Dr. Samaresh designed?   It seems very good: Short cultural program, three presentations, and then cultural program and refreshments.

The movie we have would not be good for the university program: Wrong time of day, only subtitles (English), cultural, not academic.
Again, might want to show it at the Temple program if someone rehearses the narration carefully.

Mrs. Bandhyopadyay is a little weak so the invocation to the University program may be enough for her. Please consult with Dr. Samaresh about how much she can do. 
In general, the Temple program, we can invite all the people from the 2nd for it on the 3rd, no?  Then LoB would be good basis. We have beautiful art, 2x2 meters. Excellent purports designed for Oriental, Manipuri people, and it introduces them to something they can take up on a long term basis. Pung Cholam, Martial Arts, closing with Krsna's dance in the Vasant Rasa, solo?

Please fix all this with the Dr.

Can we have "Psyche" in the title?  It makes it very hard for us unless people are coming expecting a good component of psychology,.

Thank you!

We want to record this. Edit it in Peru and submit it to WHO.

Then we do a BIGGER one and you can go to New York for three months with the United Nations.

All glories to A.C. Prabhupada Maharaja and Sripada Maharaja

Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda

Guruji Maharaja, Dandavat Pranam!

Please accept my humble obeisances unto the Guruji's padmacharan that  Dr. Nandalal is a dentist. He is now working as a Joint Director, in the Medical Directorate, Government of Manipur. He is the seniormost devotee of ISKCON though we take initiation in the same year. Before taking initiation, he was associated with the Imphal ISKCON center for the last 10 to 15 years. His wife also taken initiated. He has two sons, the elder is reading Doctor in Delhi (Dental) and the last one is reading 12th Standard or so. I dont know exactly. Now he is also coming Mangal Arati on food with his wife. His life is completely changed after his transplantation of his one of the two kidneys. He is now completely improved though taking medicine rewgularly.

He has dedicated his life fully for the activities of spiritual purposes. But he did not take the openion of other bhaktas or matajis before doing anything. It is the only defect from his side. He bought the bigrah of Jaganath-Baladeva-Subhadra from Puri (Jaganath Kshetra) when he went there but all senior bhaktas and matajis did not satisfy their expectation likewide he is not taking interest the construction of Guruji's Ashram but now he wants to use for any purpose as Guest House.

After all he is good bhakta and uninitiated matagis wants his nature but for the last 15 or more years they are coming in the mandir and no one is ready for taking initiation. Not only that they are not following the four principles of ISKCON.

In my mail also please write and instruct him for the better management of our Mandir and regarding arrangement of Guruji's future visit. As I had already mentioned in my earlier letters that we are planning to extend some portion of Guruji's Asram for Gurujis kitchen and residence of Guruji's helper.

Guruji Maharaja! as You know, Thoubal Mandir has less number of bhaktas and  matajis initiated or uninitiated. We need to start the systems of ISKCON padhati with a full dedicated pujari (Brahmachari / Sanyas). 

We want personal talk when Guruji came to Thoubal about the Navadwip Parikrama before 20 days of Goura Purnima in Mayapur. If Guruji leads our team of 10-15 members from Manipur and some from Tripura, Silchar, Guwahati and Silong it will be the best chance for meeting, discussion, question and answer. We will get the opportunity for serving Guruji for all initiated bhaktas under Guruji Maharaja which we had never available.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Thank you for all the nice news. Please give your respects to Dr. Nandulal and ask him how is his health and Sadhana, regular spiritual practices. Ask him if he has any suggestions about our preaching when we visit in just a few months.  Thank you so, so much for your sincere service in ISKCON. I am sure you are buying Lord Gauranga by your efforts.

All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga!
All the Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All Glories be to you!
Please Gurudeva, accept my most respectful obeisances, I expect this health good through Krishna.

HpS - ASA --- This body IS a disease!     Ooof.  You have problems also.

I want to thank you for your visit to Chile, I can imagine how exhausting it must be to always be traveling. I feel blessed to have her [his] association as I am very inspired by her devotion to the service of Srila Prabhupada and her devotees.
I want to write how I feel and also, what I am doing during my residence in the temple. There have been several changes in the temple, because some devotees have migrated to other temples or places and therefore feel that absence because of the lack of hands to cover certain services. For my part, I try hard to keep my sadhana and sing 16 enthusiastic rounds, to begin an arduous day in the temple restorant. I tell you, we have been doing a Bhagavad Gita study seminar given by a devotee of the congregation several weeks ago and it has been very profitable for me. I thought ... many times there arise doubts or insecurities in our mind that is like a child asking for this or that, and it comes to my mind Arjuna thinking of leaving the battlefield and Krishna (Madhusudana) goes to him saying that lamentation, material tears are a sign of ignorance and I can link all this with an extract from the book The Teachings of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, where he instructs Sanatana Goswami, Sanatana with their hands together and in a very humble attitude asks for instruction and instructions for write a book and Sri Caitanya gives his blessings and tells him that the most important thing is to accept a trustworthy spiritual master, and I give thanks for having his shelter.
I would like to ask a question, is it true that the more service we make our anarthas are manifesting more? I wonder, what form could you be aware of this and work those anarthas?
His humble servant, bhaktina Maria de los Ángeles

HpS - Thank you for your letter. I can only think that you must have been a very sincere devotee in your previous lifetime, maybe a Clarisa o algo.
I have heard that engaging devotional service brings out the hidden material desires, trash, but I can't think of any direct citations about that now.Madhya 19.156 and the subsequent verses may give some very interesting knowledge about this. Tell us what you find!