Letters to the editor

All Glories to A.C. Prabhupada, Sripada Maharaja All Glories to Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay! Guru Maharaja! Dandavat Pranam, Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that I am continuing the reading of Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu 2:2:70. The sangskrit words used here, the meaning and the translation into English are very tough and difficult to graps the idea. For example “ Raga, Raganuga-Bhakti, Ragatmika-Bhakti, Vaidhi-Bhakti etc.” In Gita 2.56 the word Raga is translated as attachment and in Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu and other related books it is the process of thinking in the spiritual life. The Ragatmika is related only the inhabitants of Vraja. Please explain the differences between Bhakti and Vaidhi Bhakti, Seva and Bhakti. Guruji, please explain in a simpler way or form of expression of the above mentioned sangskrit words.

HpS - AGTSP!!  Paoho. It is such an inspiration to get you association. For a simple answer to your question as we understand Rupa Goswami: Raga means attachment or taste. Bhakti is the general process it has three categories: Sadhana bhakti, bhava bhakti and prema bhakti. Sadhana bhakti can be divided into Vaidhi bhakti and Raganuga bhakti. In Vaidhi bhakti we do our Seva, service, Bhakti, according to rules given by an Acharya. The prophet Mohammad tells his followers they must bow down several times (5?) a day to Mecca, fast for Ramadan etc. These rules have the potency of waking up our spontaneous, Bhava bhakti. Bhakti, love for Krsna, which is always manifest with Seva, service to Krsna, and is an eternal aspect of the soul: 'nitya siddha Krsna prema...' (quotes in Nectar of Instruction). When that Bhava is a little bit awake we can start to do our service not just according to external rules for the mind, speech, body, but with feeling if we have the association of a Raga-atmica devotee, a devotee whose soul (atma), is fully awake to its natural attachment (raga) to Krsna.

You practice the piano in a very mechanical way following the written notes, but your teacher comes and says,"You play on the piano, I will play on the violin". In his association you can play with feeling. You are above plain Vaidhi bhakti and can do Raga anu ga bhakti. A raganuga bhakta follows a ragatmica bhakta. When the soul itself begins to express its natural rasa, raga, with Krsna that is Bhava bhakti. It is like a green mango, and when it is fully ripe, awake in its seva, bhakti, then it is prema bhakti.

O.K?

See you in a few days.

We try calling but there is no good connection with Manipur. Tell the Gaurangi that Dr. Samaresh is not coming. Things were not organized well enough so for his necessities so he will be going to Delhi for work then. Our apologizes. We suspect she has been doing the best that anyone can do. 

The regular Sunday Bhagavatam Patha is also continuing and as a part of it I will narrate the portion of 9:10.4 and will continu further. In the meantime, we are planning for the Guruji’s Manipur visit programme from 1-4 Nov. 2017. We will finalise the exact number of Prasadam and books required for the function with Banamali Prabhu, Ekanatha Prabhu and Sadhubhusan Das shortly in Imphal and the amounts to be deposited. How was Australia tour completed?

HpS - Australia tour was very, very, very hard work with very, very, very good results. We will talk about it when we arrive.

We are eagerly waiting Guruji Maharaja's arrival on the 1st Nov. 2017 at 10.00 a.m.,

HpS - Indigo 523 arriving 10.30AM.

. . . though our service (seva) will not be satisfactorily. Please bear the troubles of inconveniences cause from our side. What types of prasad will be arranged and who are accompanying this time excluding Dr. Samaresh and family? Yours fallen servant; Yamunesvara Das

HpS - From Kolkata only myself but from other states others are coming. Some pasta is good for our body - macaroni, spaghetti, simple Dahl.

See you very, very soon.

Hare Krsna. AGTSP. Paoho.

Here we are the second day in ISKCON Kolkata. Our telecommunication and word processor are working pretty well.

The work with Dr. Samaresh is a big challenge but Srila Prabhupada has given us unlimited determination!   AGTSP!  !   ! ! ! !    !

We worked for about two hours on the next copy of Viplavah, MOE Journal, collecting stuff from the internet on our little little HP Elite screen and then passing it to Palak Partha Sarathi Das' computer and editing it and then back to cell phone for sending. Ooof.   Get the job done by improvising whatever you need to do.

It is 3PM... Little warm but no mosquitos. Got 13-rounds done. Dr. Samaresh had to go to a meeting room at the airport instead of the National Museum so we are not sure we can meet today.

O. K. Our eyes need a break. Bath, Gayatri, Japa.

We also listened to the first SB 7.5 class from Boise on Start Meeting.com and today and gave class in the Temple. We are eating once a day at b'cari breakfast and maybe little fruit and milk in the after noon.

Thank you. We look for URGENT letters now.

Hare Krsna, Prabhus,
AgtSP, Paoho & be.

Our eyes are just coming to a complete computer failure.

We traveled for 27-hard hours between New Govardhana Dhama in Australia to ISKCON Kolkata. Was amazing. It proves again the efficacy our Yoga and this path.

It is 2.30PM. We have a nice, simple accomodation, Bhakti Logitech Keyboard is paired with Bhakta HP Elite 3x and tying this letter on the phone card maintained by Sri Hari Das.

Our phone here again is +91 880058 67 45. If want to call to say hello, we will also say hello and then good-bye. That is good.

We are checking the Blog for URGENT mail and you can see from the other posts that we are getting the Yahoo mail caught up with the VIPs. We talked with Dr. Samaresh and that work is underway.

We will go to Salt Lake at 5-pm for program there.

Devotees here have helped so much.

Dhruva, M. Manjari, A.Adri, Dh. Isvari......  All helped to much in Australia. We hope we are of help to them. So much we can do.

Looks like we can get some writing work done here. Not so many individual consultations to make, but our eyes make a limit of about two-three hours a day.

O.K. Hare Krsna.

How is Dr. Ravi et al?

Next we will contact the Harsh and Delhi.

Look at larger Calendar.

First priority is 16-nice rounds, four principles strictly, FMP, then Sankirtan in ISKCON!!

Send some Urgent letters!

PPP - Our stomach pains have almost disappeared! Our fever is 99% done. We are still riding an old ass and death is possible for us at any moment. Then a new body.

Esteemed Dr. S B Chakrabarti
 General Secretary
 The Asiatic
 Society
 1, Park Street
 Kolkata
 700016
 
We are looking forward to meeting with you and other members of the Society with the greatest enthusiasm on the 30th. We have just arrived in Kolkata after an intense 27-hours of travel from Australia. The ISKCON mission at Albert Road is being very kind in hosting us with all accomodation and help. Out India phone number is now working well: 880058 67 45 so please do not hesitate to contact us by call or texting at your convenience.
Is it possible for the Society to arrange for presenting a Power Point show on our topic? I will come with the show on a USB drive so only a computer and projector would be needed if that is possible.
Though they are also religious institutions, both our ISKCON community and the Gaudiya Matha et al have very keen scholars who have interest in the topic to be presented. Will it in anyway be an inconvenience for the So

HpS - ASA -  Follows our letter in response to Urmilla Devi Dasi's article on the Philosophy of Education for the next issue of 'Viplavah'.

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T.L.G.A.S.P.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto

mediante la presente me permito contestar las interrogantes que me hizo

Has atravesado Grhastha ashrama?

Respuesta.- Querido Guru Maharaja, ya atravece el Ashrama de Grhastha y no tengo hijos, mi ex esposa no era devota, motivo por el cual jamas podria estar de Vanaprastha con la ex-esposa, ademas cabe señalar que no tengo ningun tipo de comunicacion con ella, ya que las cosas terminaron muy mal.

Vistiendo el azafrán es mucho más dependiente en la comunidad local estándar

Respuesta.- El estandar dentro del yatra de Cochabamba, es que no contamos con un templo, y pese a no tener templo hubieron muchos devotos que usaron azafran viviendo en sus casa y llevando una vida normal ya sea con estudio o trabajo, como por ejemplo: el hijo de prabhu Mathuresh Nitaysanga dasa, Prabhu Dharmaraja dasa, y Prabhu Deva Deva dasa. al contar con estos antecedentes me permiti consultar a Usted si seria correcto usar azafran dentro del yatra de Cochabamba.

Oficiosamente Goswami

A fin de cumplir su instruccion y tomando en cuenta que pasaran unos años de preparacion para tomar Sannyasa, ya que segun nuestra sociedad ISKCON, existen requisitos que se deben cumplir y mi persona esta dispuesta a ir cumpliendo todos esos requisitos, formalmente ya estoy pasando mi curso de Bhakti Sastri online y recien acabo al año.

¿Cuál es su Ashrama historia?

hice un voto de celibato por un año mientras vivia en el templo de Costa Rica, luego Grhastha ashrama, y ahora Brahmacari.

Atte. su eterno y neofito sirviente  Jiyada Nrsmha dasa.

HpS-In airport in Brisbane. To me it seems fine you start wearing saffron but what does Mathuresa das think. A letter from him to this blog?