Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaj. Pamho, AGTSP!

This is a small report and some perspective on my personal life.

Almost half of the year has passed and we need a small evaluation.

Basically, once again, my service to Srila Prabhupada's mission is focusing more on education. I collaborated in many other aspects, but here I can contribute a little more, I think.

The basis is always the full morning program (fmp), as you always recommend, constantly quoting Srila Prabhupada's  purport for NOI 3.

" In this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we require everyone to rise early in the morning, by four A.M., and attend maṅgala-ārati, or morning worship, then read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, perform kīrtana, and so forth. "

If there is not that, we practically live all day in the mind. Worried more about eating, sleeping, mating and defending. Without much perspective. I have personally experienced it many times.

On that basis, the intelligence is sharpened, our perspectives are increasingly clear. Our vision is broad, etc.

So, I think my life has to take a little twist.

I have had the great honor and fortune to work with you on education since 2003 and that will continue to eternity and beyond. Your instructions in this area, and practically in all areas, are becoming my life and my soul. I want to do nothing but serve you and Srila Prabhupada. Sure, as much as I can and my intelligence allows me.

Now, in that same sense, I think it's time to focus on my training. I have a tendency to talk too much and to believe that I know everything. I want to hear more, learn more.

For that I need your advice and your help more than ever. I want to learn more from Sesa Prabhu, from Ramgiridhari Prabhu, I want to visit Yadunandana Swami. I want to personally see what is happening elsewhere in ISKCON. And I also want to do my master degree, to professionalize myself more. Have more educational experience in other places.

But I do not want to be selfish and worried about just growing up. I want to do everything to help you better, to better help ISKCON Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador and where I am required. If were up to me, I could spend all days watching Netflix and eating chocolate ice cream

Besides, here for now on the National Board are not very inclined to use my services. It's unfortunate, but real. I do not want to be naive and pretend that everything is fine.

However, I am leaving with a sense of relief cause I made my efforts so that P.Karuna takes care of the education here. So no one will miss me.

We have an educational meeting in Lima, which is being organized by P. Karuna and P. Gandharva. I hope that it become a new era of sustainable growth in education. All my good wishes to them.

In that meeting will be many capable and intelligent devotees, so my intervention will not be in details. However I will emphasize only two things. The importance of cooperation and unity in diversity. In Ravindra Svarup's book on the position of Srila Prabhupada, conscientious and basic work to rediscover our founder acharya, he emphasizes again and again the topic of cooperation and unity in diversity, as I see it.

Then all these initiatives and so forth, which will be presented at the III Educational Meeting, I think they have to take into account these two core points. I think the task of a leader is to ensure that this happens. Let us hope that it doesn´t become an academic dictatorship, a controlism, centralism, verticalism, a professionalism at all costs, etc.

Personally I like the perspective of ASA. Association, process, content. People, plans and resources. Inspiration, debate and depth, etc., etc.

Well, that's just an idea. Maybe I'm wrong.

I would like to talk more with you when you are in Lima. I need advice on contacts and things to start moving out. A couple of years out would be good for me. Then I´ll return to be with you in Peru, as you have projected, and perhaps accompany you in Vrdavana when you have your base there. And someday have a formal ASA institution, university or something, before the government and everything, as a medium and long term project.

For the time being I will continue to serve the students I have. I don’t think I’ll take new groups. I hope that Perú as examination center can be stablished soon. I will travel to Cuzco and Arequipa in August to help a bit, as we have planned. Then we will see how we are going in the logistics for my personal projects and how soon they can be accomplished. In the meantime I'll do what I can here.

There are many more things, but enough for now.

Please, your blessings to be able to carry out my projects.

Thank you for your patience to listen to me.

Your eternal servant.

THE LAD

HpS - ASA ---- AGTSP!!!  Paoho. Thank you for your clear and wholesome ideas. To me you seem to be on a very nice path. Best way to stop being to proud of our own ideas is look at our rounds. Are we really hearing the mantra with attention. Even every syllable - 50%, 25%, 70%. Then the mind becomes accustomed to listen to something other than its own thoughts. The Mantra is from Goloka, no?

Happy birthday, June 14th, but what is the year of your birth?

See you Thursday.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj

Dandavat Pranaam unto your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA -- Lettuce feet. AGTSP!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu.

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Hope you are in good health. My father prays unto your lotus feet for darshan during your India visit(if possible atleast a few days' visit to the North East or he may personally come to have your association).

We published the plan.  You saw it?

Guru Maharaj, I apologise and beg for forgiveness if my letters create a nuisance in your tight schedules of seva.

No!  They are good questions to many people read then dialog. We hope it is useful to you.

Guru Maharaj, I have been scratching my head over the term "tattvatah" in B.Gita 4.9. Now Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport ".... One who can understand the truth of the appearance of the Personality of Godhead.." ; "... One has to understand this fact with conviction.."  Also devotees in general say tattvatah means to know factually. What does "knowing factually" mean? Referring to 18.55 where Lord Krsna unequivocally asserts only His devotees can understand Him, to me it feels knowing in fact is like how the mother of Donald Trump would know her son, his psychology, inclinations, abilities, likes and dislikes; and not just the knowledge of Donald Trump as The President. Simply put, there is a difference in knowing Krsna and knowing about Krsna. The former requires a personal relationship and the latter is just fact-finding. (I still feel there something's more as I am not satisfied yet) Please give me your opinion.

Also proportional to one's tattvic understanding, I think an equivalent amount of reciprocation should exist between the aspiring devotee and The Lord. Now from scriptures we have got knowledge such as ("I am not this body,  I am eternal servant of Krsna etc). Nevertheless, we continue acting on the bodily platform. So certainly such theoretical knowledge cannot be termed as tattvic understanding. (why cant we act in that way despite knowing it?)Analytically seen, I think this is due to our lack of faith (100%) in such statements. If this entire chain of reasoning is correct then what is the reason for this lack of faith? Is it because Krsna is not revealed to us yet? Also Lord Krsna reveals proportionally to one's surrender and  one surrenders when one has faith on Him, isn't it? So this entire thing seems paradoxical. Is it like taking a leap of "blind" faith in surrendering to Krsna (Like hypothesis in Science) and then slowly when Krsna reveals proportionally, our faith becomes corroborated(experimental verification) which reinforces a higher degree of surrender. Guru Maharaj, please be merciful and forgive me if I causing you inconvenience.

Dandavat Pranaam unto your lotus feet.

Your fallen servant

Bishal

HpS - ASA -- Your question is very good, but is not simple to answer in detail. That is why the same thing is mentioned many times from many persepectives, no?

Knowing that the USA is running with a certain administrative character is knowing Donald Trump as Brahman. Knowing him as the President is paramatma and knowing him in Dasya, Sakya or as you mention,Vatsalya, Madhura-rasa is Bhagavan. Really we have to come at least to Santa rasa, Maha-Visnu, before we achieve BG 4.9.. Two other Visnus are still with material component.

Faith does not mean blind faith, that is condemned. Se BG 4.34 purport. Krsna always gives us enough knowledge, but will we apply it?  That is being faithful.

O.K?

Krsna is always the male, aggressor, He gives us knowledge, then we have innate ability to evaluate it. We are Sat CIT ananda.

O.K.

More will come as you advance by applying what you know.

Hope very much to see you all in just a few weeks!

All glories to Goura nitay All glories to Srila Prabhupada All glories for you maharaj Hare Krishna, Maharaj, please accept my humble reverence. Forgive me for my affront because of my ignorance, and also, for not writing you before, I have no excuses. I’m David Leyton from Santiago of Chile. I hope this message finds you well and that the devotees are taking care of you. About your question HpS - Hare Krsna!!!    I could have written the same things!   I doesn't matter if we acheive some great thing in the Bhakti yoga, because at every step it is practical, and the goal becomes more and more clear. Even in the womb and as incapable infants we can make progress. How is your family? It’s very difficult for me to talk about my family, I’d like to tell you about that, but in private. I wish I could talk to you in person or write to you through a private section in your webpage http://hps.monkeywarrior.com. Now, I’m focused on making, together with my wife, a conscious and healthy family. My wife and I are working on healing our ancestral lineage by Bhakti yoga, and an alternative therapy called dowsing. It has worked, we feel inner peace and self-confidence, this is a great achievement for us. There’s little time left to your arrival in Chile. Here, autumn is very cold. I think winter is early this year. I bought you some warm socks. They are made of alpaca wool. I hope you really need them, if not, please tell me what I could do to satisfy you. I hope you’re well. Best wishes Hare Krishna.

HpS - Thank you for physical association last few days. We use the socks to walk in the Temple. See you tommorrow.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada!

Gurudev, ya me comuniqué con Prabhu Jagad Guru, y le envié información de nuestro proyecto educativo aquí en Chile.

En la última clase del Curso para Disípulos, revisamos éste verso:

gopayed devatam istam

gopayed gurum atmanah

gopayec ca nijam mantram

gopayen nija-malikam

Hari-bhakti-vilasa, 2.147

Quiero preguntarle, si usted me puede dar un significado más detallado de éste verso?. Yo intento analizarlo, pero no logro entenderlo del todo.

Agradezco Sus palabras Guru Maharaja.

Su aspirante a sirviente

Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi

HpS - ASA -- I don't know if this is really applicable. I remember reading that Hari-bhakti-Vilasa is unnecessarily ritualistic, but Sanantana Goswami had to go with the flow of the time and everyone were smartas.. following rituals. We tend to let everyone know that we are worshiping Radha Krsna, That Prabhupada is our Guru and there are pictures of Prabhupada with his Japa in public, but those may have been Diksa-malas... We put ours out because it helps us concentrate. we like to see them..   etc.

Please let us talk of your educational programs. Ask about them in class.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, we all can see how you are travelling for Prabhupada for Krsna service with so many obstacles.
    You are always positive in all odd conditions, you just continue without second thought. You just accept Krsna's wish.
    You don't have desire to change Krsna's wish, you just float with his wish.

    Just to see we all learn and get strength for to make better & better for SP & Krsna.
    
    As usual continuing with Pooja Seva, Dasanudasa Seva (Dressing), BG classes for Sri Sri Radha-Kunja Bihari Ji.
    
    New assignment at office is a bit far from Pune (outside Pune) so have to travel daily for office work.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA -  We are so sorry that we have not been able to answer this letter sooner! India is fixed. Mumbai, Pune, 5th - 11th, then AUstralia, then back in Mumbai for Srila Prabhupada disappearance. Then Kolkatta, North East. O.K???

Por favor acepte mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias 

Todas las GLorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a Sri Guru y Gauranga

Es un placer para mi enviarle estas cartas de recomendacion para primera iniciacion de Bhakta David Leyton y Bhakta Martin Moris

su aspirante a sirviente 

Jagannatha caran das

HpS - ASA ---- Sahara koti danyavad. Much as miles de reverentias.. para estas austerdiades de administration.. lo iso para 10-anyos y entonces. cambia a Sannyasa.  Super. Gran, Gran servcicion para Srila Prabhupada, nada mejor.

Pero.... Es recommendacion para Refugio or Iniciacion. Pienso ambos son bien advanzadas y Si Vd. piensa son listos para iniciacion, O.K.  >>>. Lo haremos Domingo!

NOTA A PIE - Es "He"  not "She", no?