Letters to the editor

Querido Gurumaharaja:
Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias!
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Estamos en periodo de vacaciones escolares por ello no podemos organizarle alguna entrevista importante con académicos, muchos salen de viaje, disculpe por favor por no poder asistirle en este servicio por esta ocasión.

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna!  Pfanrh..

La ventaja de este periodo es que el tráfico es un poco más fluido o rápido dependiendo el horario, por ello atendiendo vuestro deseo, si Usted considera apropiado podemos trasladarlo al Templo para tomar darshan de las Deidades y luego  puede haber una plática breve de Su parte por favor. 
El equipaje de monje ayuda mucho a salir pronto del aeropuerto. 

PROPUESTA 1
6:30 am Recepción en el aeropuerto 
8:15 am aprox. Darshan y breve clase  en el Templo 
"El Srimad Bhagavatam y los viajes de una criatura viajera DTC" 
9:00 am desayuno con todos en el templo o privado en casa de Prabhu Vidagda. 
10:00 am Descanso en casa de Vidagda Prabhu. 
12:30 salida al aeropuerto. 

Ya hablé con Prabhu Daniel Parrasales (psicólogo traductor), administrador del templo,  está muy entusiasta por esta posibilidad. 
La clase de SB habitual es 7:45 am. 
Justamente ese día le toca dar la clase a Prabhu Daniel y puede dar la introducción hasta que Usted llegue y estaremos en contacto con los devotos por cualquier retraso. 
Muchos devotos estarán felices de tomar Su santa asociación. 

PROPUESTA 2
Mismo programa en casa de Saranagati y Prabhu Amara (cerca del aeropuerto) 

Gurumaharaja por favor digamos cuál es la mejor manera de poder servirlo y asistir en Sus servicios que complacen a Srila Prabhupada. 
Haremos lo que Ud nos instruya tratando de purificar nuestros corazones para un mejor servicio. 

Disculpe nuestras ofensas por favor. 
Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente 
Asta Sakhi dd.

HpS - Nos gustaria mucho visitar al Templo si es posible!

Querido Gurumaharaja:
Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias!
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 
Si a Usted le parece bien, el programa sería el siguiente:
Miércoles 26
6:30 am recepción en aeropuerto 
Casa de Saranagati y Prabhu Amara. 
8:30 am clase de Srimad Bhagavatam 
9:30 am prasadam 
10:30 am Descanso 
12:30 Consultas personales 
1:00 pm prasadam 
1:40 pm. Salida a Aeropuerto 

Quedamos atentos a vuestras instrucciones 
Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente 
Asta Sakhi dd

HpS - AGTSP paoho. Aparece muy bien!  Megustaria tomar darsana de Radha Madana-gopal, pero puedo ver no hay tiempo. Algo de servicio para nosotros??

 aare Krsna!

You can see from the letter to Dr. Kalyankumar Chakravarty that we are under great pressure here, but also experiencing great association and Sankirtan.

We are on the second story here in Mathuresa Das' home. The keys on this computer are different than what is marked on the keyboard. We have stomach turmoil even after some milk and a nice bananana, but when we hear about the HELL people face in Serbia and such, then we don't complain. It is gettng dark. It is about 46-degrees Farenheit and night and gets a little warm during the day. There is a lot of sunlight and fresh air. You can walk out the door and see, smell, cows. There are so many devotees today arriving from La Paz etc. Some disciples no one has seen for more than a year!  Someone is chanting with the harmonium downstairs and in 14-minutes we will all pile in cows, mount motor cycles and take the 15-minute drive to Cochabamba where the temple is in Rudra simha Das home.

Hamlet and Arjuna played to a full auditorium last night with good questions - What is Karma? Did Hamlet have a Guru like Arjuna had?

We gave class on SB 6.9.31 plus this morning, went for a walk up the back roads to Tiquipaya with about 15 devotees and sat in the Church for some Japa. We wrote letters. You can see them. Shaved in the cold water.

Now we will write a short story.

TREE TOP TELL TALES

Once there was a donkey named Dilson who spoke Latin and French.

He did not know the difference between atoms and Adam, but he loved to recite the books of Prabhupada while sitting in the park on a bench.

It was summer and the beach was visible below. People would come and spread their blankets each day, and though he never talked with them they all stayed and listened to the poems.

He read of the Sone of Drona Punished and Krsna Enters Dvaraka.

After all this he dug deep into cyber space and found other stories of Sita and Rama.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

When the puris puff up and Baby Krsna laughs and claps His hands, everything is very, very nice.
 

Dear Guru Maharaj

PAMHO AGTSP

It's a long time ago I wrote to you.

Please forgive me my offences and mistakes.

HpS - If you forgive mine. Of course, that's easy to do when we think how tolerant Srila Prabhupada has been with us.

I'm okay.Chanting 16 rounds every day,following four regulativ principle, watching and listening the lessons you are giving .

All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

Please forgive me I was not wrote a such a long time.

We are living in Serbia,work,I'm married no children.

I hope you still remember me please accept me back like your servant and disciple

Hare Krishna

Indradyumna Das

HpS - Don't make we sad. We have thought about you so many times and hoped that you are well. Your sister was married to Nama acharya, no?  How is she???

What is your good wife's name?  What is your work?

Are you getting a chance to help others?

We saw two more letters but could not answer them because you can see from the other letters here that we have so little time and our body is struggling so hard to do the local work.

You are a great hero. Don't ever think that Krsna doesn't appreciate your sacrifice. Help others! We will see such success for Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON.

More Pictures!

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,

Thank you for your last letter.

After one day in Lima, one day in Cusco, now we are for one week in Cochabamba. It is still cold and very high altitude, so a lot of stress for our body, but the preaching is wonderful. They filled the Civic Center for Hamlet and Arjuna last night.

We are giving the SB class most mornings and everyone very readily agreed that the focus for this National Winter Festival, about 155-devotees involved, could be, The Prayers by the Demigods to Lord Visnu in SB 6.9.

We are on about the fifth verse and we started by a quick read through of all the prayers. We also wondered why the SB changed to prose after the first two prayers.

Our thoughts are that the demigods don't seem to be as elevated as ISKCON devotees (Ha!  Ha!   Hare!). Of course, they start by illuminating, glorifying, isolating the Lord so that the communication can be good. We notice that they start by saying that He is the source of the results of fruitive material activity. We say material because the second line says that He is the cause of destruction of the results of sacrifice. They say He has many names and this seems to feel like He has not got a very specific personal name. In the third verse they recite a very, very beautiful bunch of names, but for several verses they are saying that they are not sure if He takes a material body when He incarnates.

A lot of other discussion abut their level of realization.

Without the formal knowledge of cosmology from ISKCON it seems so easy to see that we could also be classified as Sa-kama devotees and we really don't know how real the body of Radha Banki-bihari's body is.

In any case, meditating on their state of consciousness and their wonderful prayers we can also see the consciousness of many people in this actual world and then know how to relate our preaching to them.

We continue with these prayers. What is our next module?

Tomorrow, 7AM Boise time, we have our regular Anjana Suta Academy, Pada-padma online workshop. Of course, we are always inviting the whole world to join, and we will record it and can send the link.

Very intense discussions with our GBC representative here about the educational development.

Can you please send a summary of your Seattle thoughts and get M. Arruddha to do the same for the Journal. It is supposed to be in the can within the next 8-days.

We will post this letter on our Blog also.

Thank you.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

Esteemed Director, Kalyan Chakravarty,

We have not read Dr. Samaresh's letter yet but we shall reply to yours with copy to his excellency. We have heard that you are visiting Spain?

Since the last letter we have passed through Arrequipa (Hari-krpa) which sits at 3,000 feet in the shadow of two active volcanoes, Cuzco, the ancient capitol of the Inca Empire and after being seated on a replacement airplane we continued on to Bolivia, Cochabamba, from where we now write. The airport in Bolivia is 13,333 feet altitude. The Red Cross is waiting with oxygen. I actually saw one child pass out and being giving oxygen, "If you have hypertension medicine use it".

Back in Lima we hear news from Alejandro that the Ricardo Palma Community Center in the Lima, Miraflores district, has received the prospect of hosting "Art and the Sacred, An Introduction", in September or October 2018 with great enthusiasm. Our organizers are neighbors and childhood classmates of the Directors. It has four state of the art exhibition gallerys. Promises that 40,000 people a week will pass through the gallerys and an excellent performing arts theater.

I have suggested that we can all sign a Letter of Intent while I am back in Lima for Monday and part of Tuesday. Then we proceed back to our USA.

By September the new Ambassador of India should have been installed and we should have some ideas of a budget. We should also have a decision from Marvin Gurvich about his participation with "Faces of the Divine".

While I was in Cusco for the one day we also met with Oscar Natars and his wife Anna who were doing dance workshops there. He was elected Director of the Year in 2015 and we have done about five movies with him. He agreed that the Ricardo Palma Center is a world class tourist center and that the auditorium only housing 150 would be adequate for mounting an good show that could be repeated for five nights.

Art and the Sacred, Sacred Music and then what came up was Drama and the Sacred, but this led us to Dante's Divine Comedy. Last night "Hamlet and Arjuna" scored another knock-out success at the Municipal Art and Cultural Center here in Bolivia, so the Divine Comedy might also be a nice meditation for all of us?

Jiyada nrsmha Das has just arrived with some Coca Tea so we don't have bad stomach reactions to the altitude and then we are off to our evening lecture.

We are scheduled to arrive in the all glorious New Dehli 28th of September. Our first foot in Bharatavarsa. Then we leave for Ujjain on the 2nd or 3rd of October. We are struggling in our inept fashion to always be at your's and Dr. Samaresh's service. Please direct us.

By your mercy we will send news as soon as we get back to USA on the 26th.

Hanumatpresaka Swami

Prof. H. H. Robinson

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