Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja,

please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We are very excited to see the 5th movie. And show it along with the other four at our monthly movie night program starting this Fall.

We understand that there are some copyright issues. May we have the secret link?

So sorry to miss your call on Janmashtami. The work load at the temple and trying to finish a fence for a client before leaving for tour was almost too much to handle.

Been having nice morning programs on the road and good rounds and classes with Anadi and Yamuna over the phone. Shows have been good. Been distributing lots of CDs and vinyl records and talking with many inquisitive, vegetarian, open minded..people. I’m understanding more and more, deeper and deeper that I can only give to others if I am filled up myself. So the goal is to get filled up to the brim every morning and stay in association with devotees. This is the only way for us to survive! This world is such a dangerous place on many levels.

Gonna listen to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and think of you and all the nice devotees in Richmond right now:)

Thank you, Maharaja. I’m glad you are able to decompress a little.

your aspiring servant,

Nitisara das

HpS / ASA --- Thank you for the news and update! We sent the movie link. Did you get it???

Thank you. Best wishes for the forthcoming progeny.

Hare Krisna Gurudev!!

Please accept our humble obeisances!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

A very Dear friend of us (We can not disclose his name 🙄) is asking for the secret link to watch the 5th movie from ASA.

Can You please send it here?

Thank you!!

At your service.

Nikunja bihari das.

HpS / ASA --- We sent it. Did you get it???

Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

HpS/ASA - Hare Rama, Prof. Hayagriva avatara Das!

From wikipedia

Lederman explains in the book why he gave the Higgs boson the nickname "The God Particle":

This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle. Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn't let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing. And two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one...

Hayagriva Avatar Das

HpS - Yes!!! Thank you. AgtSP. We are dying. Even now our eyes are hurting typing.

😃 We also read some time ago that Lederman did not like the name.

Prabhupada says that because they are impersonalists they look for God in the biggest, super nova, or the smallest, sub atomic particles.

Hare Krishna Querido Gurudeva Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada🌺

. Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias: Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que no escribo, quisiera comentarle que mis rondas han estado estables, algunos días mas fáciles que otros. Por otra parte no he podido continuar con mi servicio de cocina y guirnaldas en el templo porque me encuentro con un problema de salud importante, pero ya se esta solucionando y la segunda semana de agosto me harán un operación en donde me van a extraer un quiste muy grande de mi ovario izquierdo y eso me impide hacer esfuerzos. He estado leyendo más, repasando Bhagavad gita, intentando tocar instrumentos y leyendo libros de Carl Jung para continuar mi servicio de reseñas de libros en NIOS. Quisiera compartir con usted que estoy en una relación con un devoto. Su nombre es NitaiPada, desde los 12 años es devoto, estudia mucho las escrituras, de profesión es Traductor y Profesor de Lenguaje y literatura; él siempre me esta enseñando. Estoy muy agradecida porque aporta mucho a mi vida espiritual. Su maestro espiritual es Bhakikavi Atulananda Swami. En nuestras actividades siempre esta leer ya que compartimos ese gusto y tocar instrumentos. Unas de las últimas lecturas a sido entorno a la importancia de tener un maestro espiritual y quisiera decirle que estoy eternamente agradecida por aceptarme, usted es un gran inspiración para mi y siempre mi deseo es ayudar en su Sarkintan. El maestro espiritual es el sol de nuestro vida espiritual y siempre nos mantenemos conectados a través del santo nombre. Por ultimo, en este tiempo he intentado tocar mridanga, gracias su misericordia eso va en buen camino 🙏

Para terminar le comparto algunas fotografías de mi últimos servicios y actuales.

Muchas gracias por toda su misericordia y gran asociación querido Gurudeva.🌺

🐒

Havihsara Devi Dasi.

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Hare Krishna, Dear Gurudeva, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada🌺

Please accept my humble obeisances: It has been a long time since I last wrote,

hps/asa - eight, agtSP, months?

I would like to tell you that my rounds have been stable, some days easier than others.

On the other hand, I have not been able to continue with my cooking and garland service at the temple because I am having a major health problem, but it is already being resolved and the second week of August I will have an operation where they will remove a very large cyst from my left ovary and that prevents me from making efforts.

I have been reading more, reviewing Bhagavad gita, trying to play instruments and reading books by Carl Jung to continue my book review service at NIOS.

I would like to share with you that I am in a relationship with a devotee. His name is Nitai-Pada, he has been a devotee since he was 12 years old, he studies the scriptures a lot, he is a Translator and Professor of Language and Literature by profession; he is always teaching me.

I am very grateful because it contributes a lot to my spiritual life. His spiritual master is Bhaktikavi Atulananda Swami.

In our activities we always read since we share that taste and play instruments. One of the last readings has been about the importance of having a spiritual master and I would like to tell you that I am eternally grateful for accepting me, you are a great inspiration for me and my desire is always to help in your Sankintan.

The spiritual master is the sun of our spiritual life and we always stay connected through the holy name. Finally, during this time I have tried to play mridanga, thanks to your mercy that is going in the right direction 🙏

To finish I share with you some photographs of my last and current services.

Thank you very much for all your mercy and great association dear Gurudeva.🌺

🐒

Havihsara Devi Dasi.

HpS - AgtSP. Atulananda Swami was follower of Paramadvaiti Swami?

He is outside of the ISKCON institution?

Such a relationship can work but is unusual. Require creativity and sincerity.

Middle picture is of you an Nitai-pada?

Is he same age as you?

Thank you!



Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. 

All glories to AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada!

In connection with what you wrote here (and in many other places you mention the same point)

https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15208/ 

"If people are dressing themselves falsely as leaders of the institution but at heart are self seeking demons then we shall chant Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, praying for Rama and Krsna to save all the honest members of Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON, and if They want us to kill demons it will be obvious that we are just Their instruments."

How could I be sure that Krishna and Rama want me to "kill" demons in ISKCON? Of course, I do not want to kill anyone, literally. However, there may be particular ISKCON laws and attitudes that I do not want to sign to or follow, and I may be embarrassed to be in such an organization. 

I know that first I should look into my own heart and all the garbage there, and deal with that. Still, sometimes, some actions/words/expressions of others I do not approve. I am not sure if I should go into a clashing of thoughts with ISKCON authorities, because my experience is that it causes a lot of emotionally surcharged words and dealings and, in the end, it may not give (my) desired result. 

I am mindful that all the answers could be given from Krishna in the heart if I am sufficiently clean and the sattva guna (visuddha sattva?) predominates in my consciousness. But then..., as I was doing until now, better I keep my mouth shut. 

Another point is that I believe that many things can be told, but there is a way how to say it (internally (the mood) and externally (the tone and expression)). Like not judging the person(s), not attacking their personality, not calling them bad words, etc.

And..., I remember your story with a TP from San Francisco, when you talked with him openly (in private) and he talked back to you openly, explaining why is he acting in the way he is.  

If it is possible, would you like to comment on this topic, apart from chanting better japa, getting up always at 4 AM for mangala arati, praying to Krishna, reading SP's books deeply, talking with other devotees, minding my own business, etc? To be clear, I do not have anything against these activities. I am asking if there is more elaboration, help, advice, and experiences in connection to this subject. 

If you would like to answer by audio or video, that is very fine with me. If that is the case, I will need to know where is the file/recording.

Thank you, again, and again!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - Hare Krsna. I remember our travels to Lucknow. 🙂

One example of this was also in the Berkeley Temple.

After Mangala arati we were chanting Japa in the temple room. is big. holds 200+ people.

and i walked into the lobby.

there was one street guy, maybe 26 years old from Telegraph Ave who used to visit the Temple a lot, but he was on some kind of drugs, and was saying very offensive things about Prabhupada.

he knew enough KC to really irritate the devotees.

there were about six b'cari's there just about to tear him into little pieces. he was physically threatening everyone.

quite spontaneously as i walked past him i dropped, got him right in the solar plexus with my right shoulder and bounced him off the wall behind him.

he fell to the ground stunned.

the b'caris picked him up and tossed him out the front door,

and at breakfast he came back really miserable.

begggggging for forgiveness.

apologizing for everything

and devotees accepted it.

i just kept on walking.

i think it was KRSNA using my Karate conditioning.

i didn't plan it.

afterwards everyone felt good about it.

i felt,'hey, i'm really cool', but realized that it was KRSNA.

b'caris were glad that they didn't fight with a basically good guy.

o.k?

another one is yuddhisthira. he was guided by God, the Brahmanas and vedic literature, so bhisma said that even though he caused the death of 640,000 people it was cool!

chant hare krsna [god], talk with six nice devotees [brahmanas] and find justification in prabhupada's books [vedic literature], then you can take big recourses.

is some help?

Bg. 1.23

Translation

Let me see those who have come here to fight, wishing to please the evil-minded son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.

Purport

It was an open secret that Duryodhana wanted to usurp the kingdom of the Pāṇḍavas by evil plans, in collaboration with his father, Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Therefore, all persons who had joined the side of Duryodhana must have been birds of the same feather. Arjuna wanted to see them on the battlefield before the fight was begun, just to learn who they were, but he had no intention of proposing peace negotiations with them. It was also a fact that he wanted to see them to make an estimate of the strength which he had to face, although he was quite confident of victory because Kṛṣṇa was sitting by his side.

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Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada!

Question about everyone on the side of Duryodhana - were they all really birds of the same feather? Duryodhana was evil. I suppose most of people will agree with that. Was Bhisma evil? Or Dronacarya? 

It could be said that because they were on the wrong side, they are the same. However, birds of the same feather mean (according to my understanding) people who have similar characters or interests, especially ones of which you disapprove, and who often spend time with each other. 

Based on this meaning, we can see that Duryodhana, Bhishma, and Drona have distinct personalities and differing interests. Additionally, it is unclear how much time they spent together.

Sure, I may be wrong.

Now, saying that, I would like to introduce another perspective or background.

One perspective to my inquiry is that Srila Prabhupada and sastra (often) use absolute words like all, nobody, everything, nothing, always, never, only. Still…, it looks that life and existence itself have nuances. Somehow, I reckon, these are overlooked in some of the devotee gatherings, lectures, talks, etc. By doing that ISKCON (in part) tends to be fanatical, overly orthodox, and unduly stern, which can provoke unduly harshness towards others and devotees themselves.

Please, if you deem it appropriate to answer, I am all ears (eyes).

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

hps - thank you. hare krsna.

i think you're right.

can we say that bhisma and drona did not 'join' duryodhana?

they felt they had to fight pandavas because it was their duty.

they even wished arjuna victory, no?

prabhupada said that one reason they were in the opposite side was to show that no matter how materially, morally, powerful the opposition is, it cannot defeat KRSNA, The SPOG.

Nicely complex.

Dramatically complex! 👍

Second thing, yes also, that is hyperbole, no? Say, 'he is the greatest', but meaning that as a category rather than a unique post.

i think it is more common in ksatriya speak. they like to see things in black and white so that it is a simple fight!

need women preaching to women.

girls preaching to girls.

puppies preaching to puppies.

then we can catch the neophytes and then they will understand the superficial differences and appreciate how we have ksatriyas in iskcon, emotional women.

it is a big army. we need all kinds of people, no?