Letters to the editor

hare krishna dear guru maharaj, please accept my dandavat pranams, all glories to srila prabhupad

i was on my way to downtown dalllas this morning, due to couple of minutes delay and construction on the main road, i missed my 4am greyhound. I will try to meet you next time when you come to Houston maharaj

your servant

nilachala chandra das

HpS - Haaaaa a    a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare!!!! Krsna.

Ooof!   Well we will see you on line.

What time are you all getting up in the morning? SB every morning with devotees?

Dear Guru maharaja,
please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Will there be Europe StartMeeting meetings while you are travelling?

Your servant Namacarya das

HPS-ASA -. Today, yes. Then  we can discuss it.

Hare Krsna.

We are packing and running to the airport. It is a little hard to see and hard to breath, but not hard to chant.

Symposium was a great success. It is definitely the last thing that we will organize. We can only sit in the benches and make comments to the coach if he joins us at times.

NOw we write.

We will be on the Editorial Board for the new Ministry Journal if Nityananda Das from Dallas joins.

O.K.  See you little later.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Recently you wrote on blog: "Branches must have a President (and Vice-Presidents with different areas if desired), a Secretary and a Treasurer. Secretary must post a Report regularly in the Blog (every fortnight can be good). Then we can work out details."

As Online Vedabase may be branch I would like to post quick report.

Recently finished importing of letters and transcripts.

In last few days researched best way how to handle search and index pages (e.g. Trascript Index Page, Letter Index Page). Found good solution and made simple app so every language will have separate settings, so we can use language specific stemming, stop words, ....

Plan for next 2-3 days is to finish Transcripts and Letters pages, so users will be able to comfortably narrow down/filter results. After that Library section (Books, Transcripts, Letters) can be consider ready.

Importing of Spanish TLC stopped for moment as there seemed to be differences in paragraph due to different versions. (Latest TLC in English is quite different from original edition in English) Will resume after launch of new version.

Still many things to do (explore page - intro text for new people, personal bookmarks/notes, tutorial videos, ...)

I will try to report regularly.

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

HpS - Don't be a Branch. Be Flower. Make your personal reports like this. Did anyone volunteer to help with the Spanish TLC. Don't push your self if no one responds.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja.
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are slowly settling in Slovakia now. Found tiny apartment in which we will live from July, right after Rathayatra in Czech.

I am happy to share with you that after years of struggle my morning sadhana is good. I am chanting all of  16 rounds every day at morning.

HpS - Very, very wonderful. Bhakti yoga is described as the path of progressive rules and regulations. I made a decision at one point that even as a brahmacari I would have two dhotis with no holes. Step by step we advance in our rules.

Also I am wondering how much I can really influence as it seems in my astrological chart there was shift of periods and therefore it is possible for me to wake early. It would mean that my 'devotional service' is controlled by material nature. Like when for last years whole universe was makng obsticles, and however I tried I always failed, which hopefully disappeared :)

We are all fully transcendetal souls, but is it really in my power to behave transcendental in this body? I understand that big devotees can be over material influence, but is it even possible to act differently than what body is programmed for by universe/planets for normal person who is in beginning stages of devotial service?

HpS - This is exactly the content of BG, no? As we surrender to Krsna He takes charge of our Karma. He can make us strong enough to control external forces, but if He wants to take away our power, like He did with Arjuna, then He can do that also.

So, when the mode of goodness is prominent we take advantage of it. We get up early as much as we can. As we advance we may still be in an externally tamasic situation but internally it does not disturb us. We see Krsna wants this and we work within that framework. Arjuna fought the battle.

It seems to me, that on my level it depends purely on mercy what can I do. Like there is no free choice, only mercy.

HpS - No, you have some free will. You can see that. YOu can make little choices, one more sweet ball or two.

Otherwise having marathon to have new Vedabase ready for launch date.

ASA - UG - Hare Krsna!

After launch of new version I will either work fultime on the project or find some IT karmi job depending on situation.

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

HpS - Please continue to work on this no matter what, a lot or a little. We all love it.

HpS - ASA -- Incredible!!!   Is there a good 'Hello' page for people on different levels who may know nothing about Srila Prabhupada's books and a way to buy them?

Will be. There will be link from home to ‘Explore’ page which should fulfill this.

How many candles will there be on the cake. We can have a cyber-cake competition. Cyber gifts.

6 candles. Best gift is to be visiting her :)

[One question [little confidential [Is vedabase.com a Ghrhasta, Sannyasi, B'cari or Vanaprastha?   Is it s B'cari or a B'carini. Should we offer Saris or Dhoti's for it's birthday.  Hmmmm.]]

Well, in Czech language vedabase.com is she (as for example library, cow are, contrary to English). So seems like she is B’carini. When will be right time I would like her to marry with nice Online Education Project guy :)

HpS - Maybe "She" could be married to Vausesika Das, or other Sankirtan page. Read books, distribute books.

Dandavats!!     Any suggestions for our travel in India?????

Don’t have any suggestions. And unfortunately (most probably) we will not be there to see you. :(

What do you think of the Vanipedia?

#$%&&^%$# . But still devotee, so better than any perfect materialistic site.

We feel it is unfortunate project, as Visnu Murti Prabhu has big capacity to inspire people to help, but sadly their valuable time is spend in useless tasks (e.g. making millions of predefined search results which should be instead generated automatically by search engine on demand).

HpS - ASA -- Maybe someone can comment. I know Vidadghda Das, Senior scholar, likes it for collecting relevant citations for him. I think he like the fact that it also searched letters and lectures.   Haaaaa Ray!  Vedabase.com is about all we need in many aspects.