Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaja.

PAMHO, AGTSP!

I hope your spiritual energy go in increment and your body's health improves.

Thank you for giving us your assosiatión in the midst of many difficulties. Soon I will send you my report.

I want to know, how did Srila Prabhupada celebrate the Gita jayanti? and what do you recommend to celebrate Gita jayanti, which things we can do?

Thank you very much, Sri Nrsimha protect you

with affection

ys and spiritual niece

Isvari dd

HpS - ASA --- I have never heard that Srila Prabhupada had any particular celebration on Gita-jayanti. He may have, but I have not heard about it. Does not mean that we cannot have nice celebration. We can read the entire BG, Sanskrita, English (Spanish) or both. We can especially read Chapter 11, prayers by Arjuna!

We can have lectures, dramas. We can take pledges for people to organize "Gita-ashramas" during the year at special times for them. This means some special hearing and chanting and distribution of BG to their friends etc.

Hare Krsna!!!

Hare Krsna Maharaj, AGTSP, PAMHO

How are you?

ASA - We ate some puffed rice Prasada with spices and now we have lot of acid in our stomach! Hare Krsna! We are learning.

I was talking to one of phd (PhD) student from policy making about population (burdern/dividend). So i told him the idea about polygamy to decrease population. He understood but he said that in his country place where muslims are there they have polygamy, their population has increased.

then I told system do not matter much, its the people in system matters. Every system can be exploited, spirit of law is more important than letter of law.

your esteemed,

harsh

HpS - Yes, seems to be the basic principle. One man has to take care of 36-children from six women and five men stay brahmacari and have no problem. Get begged to help. Man with 36-children burden may begin to look for better way to become happy.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja!

Jay Radha Krishna!
Jay Giri Govardan! (today we celebrate in Arg)
Jay Patita Pavana Srila Prabhupada
Jay Guru Maharaja

Accept my humble obeisances to your Holy lotus feet.

HpS - ASA - Homely feet.

Dear Gurudev, Thanks for answering my annual report, thanks for your blessings and here we go with my answers.
This topic of Grihasta Asrama is a very huge thing! I can see that we do not receive the proper education about that, many ideas about what it is or what it is supposed to be. I see that I must have more consciousness in less free time. We are in the phase of Artha, economic development, many austerities and anxieties.
With my husband things go well both got same vision, I think it makes things easier to make choices.
I kept my job, 12 hours outside home (travel + work). Sometimes more time.
Next year we hope to visit Holy Dham to get the blessings of the Dham to be more enthusiastic and develop more inspiration. After this trip we will reconfigure our way of action. More risks to keep our family and individual spiritual life.
Few months ago Srila Virabahu Maharaja (Father-in-law Guru. He refers to himself in this way, because I get married w / His disciple) visit Buenos Aires and we serve Him and talk some times.
I doing a Bach flowers course, to be flower therapist. Keep on in Ratha Yatra, I think it´s my last year in organization. 
Gurudev i´ve realize that’s my more important service is maintain myself Krishna Consciusness, devotional service, association and many other thing are the way to keep involved in this issues, but my real service is maintain my vote and serve my family. 
 

Hope my letter find you in a really good energy. You´re my reason to stay inspired, like i always say thanks for be my Spiritual Master and Thanks for be an example of disciple.
My obeisances to your holy lotus feet.

Thanks for your time and for your patience.
your servant.
Rati-Mañjari DD.

HpS - Hare Krsna!   AGTSP paoho.   So nice to hear from you Rati-manjari Devi Dasi.  You are married?  You are in Argentina?   Ha!   Ha!     We have hard time keeping track of people as we get older, but we can remember you very well. Did you go to India since this letter?   We think there is another letter within the last three days.

Do you have your own Deities? Do you serve them with your husband?   Is Krsna, the ultimate husband and others are His representatives?

These are some of the intricate questions that only you, someone from Argentina ISKCON can answer!

We all wait with baited breath for your answers!!!!

Hare Krishna !  TLGSP 

I respond is letter, with many questions. my intelligence is not pure, and i have very little time by work now, but we always try to sing japa, i dont forget krishna and let´s  get better this. Actually my plans to serve in the temple need enthusiasm. This year i have worked cities different, and i have had many positive vision from those experiences.

The subject of the thesis was very the importance of singing in children for development of early musicality, benefits and application.  A very simple research from psychology to practice and we trust a book of Arnold Bentley, and other investigations. We write and musicalize part of works for childrens theather very scarce. 

I am very grateful for mercy de Srila Prabhupada, and sometime when i travel i read his biography and his mission with his bhaktisidanta spiritual master, understanding this point ...  also, i met a disciple of Srila Prabhupada which began in iskcon and is now is disciple of Atulananda Maharaja... other disciples of Vana goswami maharaja disciple de Narayana Maharaja, etc, etc. This very confusing but i appreciate the details.  ¿How do we know  our destiny?

HpS - First, by asking the Creator of Destiny, Karma. He answers in BG etc, in a general way. Your Destiny is to get sick, grow, old and die, or to chant HK more, listen to Srila Prabhupada more (even a little, little more) and go back to heaven with your friends where Krsna, who really misses you a lot, is waiting for you with everyone. Your ways of knowing will get better as you wake up more and more.

We have the book by Carl Jung , is very valuable in Chile, and there is a monopoly of the books, then  we have it pdf , and we will begin to read. I want to write your carl jung classes, by my memory is fragile and sudra,  and the only way  is to shape in the mind writing to learn. .. Thank you very much. 

I hope i do not offend ... my reverences ...excuse my english,  i am at your dispose. ..

HpS - ASA --- Hey have you got a little daughter?

“If Kṛṣṇa is satisfied by one’s actions, then everyone will be satisfied.”

From BG 2.41 purport

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Taking these words, and whole sentence, literally as they mean, at least to my understanding, it means that when some devotee does anything in the matter of Krsna-seva, and if that service is satisfying to Krsna, Krsna will be satisfied and what follows is that everyone will be satisfied.

I can say that at this moment I know at least few persons who are not satisfied. Does this mean that at this moment there is no devotee somewhere who pleases Krsna?

Also, Srila Prabhupada was present for 80 years on this planet and of those years, 11 in the west. I believe it would not be an exaggeration to say that during those years there were people who were not satisfied. Does this mean that Srila Prabhupada’s service was not pleasing to Krsna? Because, if his service was pleasing Krsna, at least at some moment(s) everyone had to be satisfied, no?

Of course, possible sub-questions are: what means “satisfied (in connection to Krsna and in connection to everyone”) and “everyone”.

Apart to the direct inquiry here, the background of the question is what SP is saying to us and if sometimes his words can mean different things. I specifically think of situations when SP uses words “always”, “never”, “everyone”, “nobody”, “only”.

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - ASA - Hare Krsna. Good question.  For us the basic ideas is that when we put water on the root of the plant then all the parts are satisfied. But what if somebody wants to be and obtuse, anti-social son of a base female dog? Well, he is also satisfied. He gets more things to complain about. You can hate your wife, you can hate your car, you can hate your boss, but....    Oooooo!    You can really hate Krsna!!!    You can really hate a devotee!!!

Hate Jesus Christ and look what happens!    It's in the newspapers on the TV, cinemas, books for the next 2,000 years!

Srila Prabhupada's arguments have passed though PhD students in Oxford to Alister McGrath who was Head of the Department of Theology at Oxford University. He used them to fight with Richard Dawkins, BIG atheistic biologist and maybe Prof. McGrath and Dawkins didn't know where the source of their satisfaction, a good fight(?) was coming from.

O.K?       Service to Krsna is service to the Devil?

Hare Krishna dear Gurudev Please accept my humble obeissances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

I hope that you are well, and that you can rest in USA.

HpS - ASA --- Actually we feel really sick at the current moment. We feel like we are suffocating, no full respiration. How about you? If we do Pranayana, take full breath in, hold it and then blow it all out and hold it out, as Srila Prabhupada mentions in SB, then we can see that as we hold it out we get demand for air, deeper and deeper. If we can satisify that little man within we are still alive and hope to expand to to the gross body.

about me, everything's it's better...
i am studying english in an institute since 2 weeks, (so i still have to use the google translate hehe)

HpS - Yes, but you can start to recoginze what Spanish words to give the Translator so he has an easy job!

i am also going to sankirtan 2 or 3 times a week, but the books distribution in universities its finish for now, back to "person to person" mood. A few weeks ago we had the visit of Aravinda Prabhu (from mexico), and he was so kind with us (priya sakhi, gokulesvari and i... my  "sankirtan team" for now) we had a sankirtan meeting and he inspired us so much. He also give a seminar called "sastra seva" with prabhu Govinda Damodar. 

With my husband, we are still working in prasadam, everythings its going better, your advice help me a lot, for the mercy of Lord Jagannatha my husband will paint the ratha yatra´s chariot, and he is very enthusiastic with that, tomorrow he start. He is really trying to correct his mistake, as you said, so i am giving him a chance.

From tomorrow i will join again to fmp, its been dificult to me chant my rounds in the morning, because of my job, i have to start to cook at  6 o clock and because the sankirtan in universities was in the afternoon I arrived late at my house, 10 pm approx, then my sadhana has been very messy this last time, I sing the 16 rounds during the day, I'm sorry, I know you are very emphatic in the sadhana , but from now on I hope to improve this.

HpS - Krsna NEVER suggests anything impractical. If you make 16-nice rounds your priority then EVERYTHING will improve in the fastests way possible.

thanks for everything dear gurumaharaja and please excuse my faults

always yearning to be able to become a better disciple

Indu Lekha devi dasi

HpS - You are doing pretty good, Mama!