Letters to the editor

¡Hare Krsna! Muy querido Gurudeva, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las glorias a nuestro muy misericordioso Srila Prabhupada y a todos sus fieles seguidores. 🌸

Con motivo de la celebración de su Vyasa-Puja, he preparado una humilde presentación artística, con la esperanza de Glorificar a nuestras Señorías, al Guru Parampara, a Srila Prabhupada, a Usted y a los miembros de este trascendental ejercito de Sankirtana.

-Está basada en una canción mexicana, arreglamos la letra meditando en la bendita deuda que hemos adquirido con usted y todo el Guru parampara. 

Aquí el enlace:  https://youtu.be/-UfNTPL4-kg

[Lamentamos no tener habilidades de “Mariachi”, y espero no lastimar vuestros oídos. (mis disculpas🙇

). Mi madre y mis hermanas, confeccionaron los puppets.  Rogamos acepte esta humilde ofrenda, pasando por alto las deficiencias, esperamos sea de su agrado.💐

]

Siempre a sus órdenes

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

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Hare Krishna! Dearest Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to our most merciful Srila Prabhupada and all his loyal followers. 🌸

On the occasion of your Vyasa Puja, I have prepared a humble artistic presentation, hoping to glorify our Lordships, the Guru Parampara, Srila Prabhupada, you, and the members of this transcendental Sankirtana army.

It is based on a Mexican song; we arranged the lyrics while meditating on the blessed debt we owe you and the entire Guru Parampara.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/-UfNTPL4-kg

[We regret not having mariachi skills, and I hope it doesn't hurt your ears. (My apologies🙇

] My mother and sisters made the puppets. Please accept this humble offering, overlooking its shortcomings. We hope it is to your liking. 💐

]

Always at your service

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

HpS/ASA - Wow! We just want to be dust at the feet of ISKCON devotees like you and Srila Prabhupada et al!

Thank you!!

Maybe next year you can edit this and must make it deeper!

Deeper.

Deeper.!..

Hare Krishna querido Guru Maharaj!!!!

Por favor acepte mi reverencias a sus eficientes y sagrados pies.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hace mucho no le escribo, perdón por eso.

Después del divorcio me ha costado volver a tener una vida tranquila y estable, por fin ahora he vuelto a vivir en el campo, me he casado con rosita y he tenido un nuevo hijo llamado Syam.

Madhu kunda sigue creciendo, distribuyo miles de unidades de Prasadam al mes.

Estoy yendo a Harinam cada 15 días , llevamos 3.000 galletitas aproximadamente.

Lo adoro y quiero muchísimo Gurú Maharaj. Adoro Sala Gram Silas cada día y lo adoro a usted dentro del protocolo de Arcana.

Le ofrezco mis reverencias a sus maravillosos pies.

Su muy neofito discípulo Ananda vardhana das

Desde Chile.

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Hare Krishna, dear Guru Maharaj!!!!

Please accept my obeisances at your efficient and sacred feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!

I haven't written to you in a long time, sorry for that.

After the divorce, it's been hard for me to return to a peaceful and stable life. Finally, now I'm back living in the countryside, I've married Rosita, and I have a new son named Syam.

Madhu Kunda continues to grow; I distribute thousands of units of Prasadam a month.

I'm going to Harinam every two weeks; we bring approximately 3,000 cookies.

I adore and love Guru Maharaj very much. I adore Sala Gram Silas every day, and I adore you within the Arcana protocol.

I offer my obeisances at your wonderful feet.

Your very neophyte disciple, Ananda Vardhana Das

From Chile.

HpS/ASA - Don't worship Sila unless you can follow four principles strictly, no?

Chant, Chant, Chant! 😃

CHANT! CHANT! CHANT! 😄

! C H A N T ! 😅

Hare Krsna, an angel or an ant. Chant Chant Chant!

[photo is great] CHANT

Hare Krishna PAMHO 

AGTSP

How is everything going?

ASA - As, agtSP, reported in the previous post. 👷

It's been a long time, forgive me for not being in contact for such a long time, my life after Spain was pretty much a chaos,

now I`m going back to some sort of normality.

Pretty much now I'm working in a honey company with some devotees, and after 22 years of living with devotees like my family and in temples I finally experience what is to live alone from devotees and live very close with maya,

my flatmate is a racist and he did many crazy things, amongst them he put some pig fat in the bathroom for me to touch and I’m really disgusted by it,

now I try to search for another place to work and another place to live, I will be more in contact with you and more frequently.

HpS/ASA - We just came back from heaven.

We hope your flat-mate is pursued by angry carnivorous pigs in his dreams.

I’m right now in a call with my dad. I ask him what he would like to say for you and he said: “No me llevo muy bien con los computadores y el contacto virtual no me llena, no me satisface, que con mucho placer le ofrezco reverencias todos los dias ademas de ofrecerle juntos con la adoración a la Salagram Sila le ofrezco los dieciséis Upacaras y me esfuerzo cada dia con seguir sus instrucciones”

I miss a lot seeing you, with many things to add but they will come in the next week I say goodbye Hare Krsna :D

AGTSP

HpS - Such nice, news. We have been in a situation where we had no Krsna conscious solutions.

We were stuck in a friends flat in New York in the Winter after just arriving from India with only $55.

Everyplace we could go, wanted us to sacrifice our ethical and spiritual principals, but we decided that we would just go and sit behind some hand ball board in some snow filled recreation playground and freeze to death rather than do that.

Then, we got a reasonable invitation to visit Peru, so we did that. We thanked Krsna for one months service and just waited for His next order.

If there is no service for us here He may want us to leave our body and go to Nabadvipa!

Happy life of no compromise!

Hope we can make progress to that breath by breath.

HK Maharaj! PAMHO AGTSP!!

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!!

How are you??

ASA 🐵 - HpSwami Bh.Ved. Died and went to heaven. We, Tom Brown, agtSP, are answering the mail now, until we go to heaven. We have fleas. We would rather be in heaven - guess the fleas would rather be in heaven also.

I’m so glad to hear all those excellent news from you!!! It makes me really happy!

Well thanks for the recent reply!! I hope you are always well Maharaj!! Wish I could visit you sometime there in the states.

In reply to your questions, well I’m not and engineer, I actually studied software development since I was 13 years old till my 24, pausing for studying Chinese medicine for a year and working for some time. Then I studied graphic design for 2 years and was self taught for more than 5 years when I worked in that field. I started digital marketing in the meanwhile and been self taught as well, now I’m more formally dedicated to study again in some courses I enrolled myself.

Also I began studying Portuguese recently, and study English since I was 7, now I’m 41. I’ve lived in Brazil and speak both Portuguese and English fluently, and I’m perfecting myself each and every day.

And I’m from Argentina :) I’m not Italian though I love their culture, country and language. I should learn how to speak with the hands hahhahaha.

I remember you once said the way of impeding an Italian from speaking is tiding [tying] his hands! Hahaha! Oh well, yes, now that I recall I do have some Italian blood.

ASA 🌴🌴🌴🌴 Olive trees.

. . . . . I watched this Prabhupada class today and was really thrilled, was so so good, found that YouTube, profile, Vanimedia Mayapur, which has so many Prabhupada lectures grouped by countries.

Yes my instagram profile is private, please can you send me a request so I can sometimes share you material? My username is Federico_molnar

ASA - How do we do that???

We do not use 'instagram'

Well I hope I can meet you up once again some day!!

thanks for supporting me!!

HK!

Federico Molnar

ASA - Hare Krsna.... Hare Rama.... Chant better and better, no? Send more news about your Sankirtan every few weeks.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada!

Gurudev , muchas gracias por responder mi última carta. En esa carta creo que google traductor hizo una traducción diferente a la palabra "perseguir" (chase) y lo tradujo como "persecution", pero lo que yo quería expresar es que, Jagannatha ha servido como administrador en el templo, y fuera del templo también. De alguna manera parece que su karma es la administración.

En realidad él no siente incomodidad al reemplazar a su jefe. Y como usted dice, Jagannatha tiene un carácter heroico, decidido y valiente. Muchas gracias por Su aprecio.

Gurudev, además quiero contestar a Su pregunta, sobre los audios que envía SS Bhakti Sundar Goswami. HpS - What does he send? Extracts from KRSNA book? CC????

Si, él envía audios del CC, Mahabharata y pasatiempos que aparecen en los libros escritos por los 6 Goswamis, como Lalita Madhava.

Nos parecen muy interesantes, pues hay detalles curiosos que hacen más frescos los pasatiempos de Krsna y Sus encarnaciones.

Por último quiero contarle que estoy muy entusiasmada porque en un programa de "Harinam Sankirtan", organizado por el BBT, pude distribuir algunos libros persona a persona, y estoy leyendo cartas de Srila Prabhupada que hablan de la importancia de la distribución de libros. ¡Es tan maravilloso reconectarse con éste servicio!.

Bueno Gurudev. Espero que esta carta lo encuentre cada vez mejor...

Esperando poder servir

Con aprecio, Priyasakhi Devi Dasi

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Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaja.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!! Paoho....

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

ASA - ❗

Gurudev, thank you very much for responding to my last letter.

In that letter, I believe Google Translate mistranslated the word "chase" and translated it as "persecution," but what I wanted to convey is that Jagannatha has served as an administrator in the temple, and outside of it as well. Somehow, it seems his karma is administration.

HpS - Aaaah! Thank you!!!

Actually, he feels no discomfort replacing his boss. And as you say, Jagannatha has a heroic, determined, and courageous character. Thank you very much for your appreciation.

Gurudev, I also want to answer your question about the audio recordings that HH Bhakti Sundar Goswami sends: "HpS - What does he send? Extracts from KRSNA book? CC????"

Yes, he sends audio recordings of the CC, Mahabharata, and pastimes that appear in the books written by the six Goswamis, such as Lalita Madhava.

We find them very interesting, as there are curious details that make the pastimes of Krishna and His incarnations even more vivid.

HpS - So nice!!

Finally, I want to tell you that I am very excited because, during a "Harinam Sankirtan" program organized by the BBT, I was able to distribute some books person-to-person, and I am reading letters from Srila Prabhupada that speak about the importance of book distribution. It is so wonderful to reconnect with this service!

HpS - It is nice to always have SP's books with us, then we can distribute them when the opportunity comes during our regular dealings!!!

Well, Gurudev. I hope this letter finds you improving every time...

Looking forward to being of service.

With appreciation, Priyasakhi Devi Dasi

HpS - Thank you!!

There are no small parts in this movement, no?

Krsna expects us to all be His perfect helpers, no?

Today!

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

You wrote:

Even more important is to read in the association of devotees. Have study partners, students, teachers.

Could you please share why this is such a significant activity—both in general, and especially compared to reading alone? If possible, I’d appreciate it if you could share your thoughts here, without referring to śāstra or quoting from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s letters, talks, etc.

I have my own perspective, but I’d really like to hear yours—assuming you think I’m in a position to understand it.

It’s not that I don’t want śāstra evidence—I both need it and already have it. However, I’m wondering if there’s something 'beyond' that—some personal or practical perspective—that could help explain the possible advantages and disadvantages (if any) of studying alone versus studying with a group or a partner.

I may (most probably will) use this in my presentations on Krishna bhakti.

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS/ASA - Uh! Ahh! Humph!

Krsna. Krsna. Krsna. Krsna. Krsna. Krsna He!

How are you?

Any more bank security?

How is Nirgata Dasi?

Your father, is still with us???!

Croatia is ready for the the Third World War?

(Vacation spots)

When I write on the Blog today.

Booomph!

I have association.

It wakes me up.

When I do Japa. Alone. It wakes me up. To direct experience of Krsna.

We are NEVER alone.

Three year old children, like us, are never alone.

We pretend we are alone and can do 'it' alone. But Mami and Daddy are watching while they do their adult chores.

My Karma has very little "Guru" in the chart. That means teacher, mayor, GBC, Temple President.

Submitting or becoming one.

Badrinarayana Swami said, "You are one of the few ISKCON gurus that I know who expects their disciples to think for themselves".

So, I we, 🐵 🐷 😺, tend to for relations as partners with people.

Hanuman was with the team looking for Sita for Rama, and making reports.

Prabhupada's Library is very big. Too big for one whole life time. We gotta have help looking for stuff that is dynamite for us!

Study, research, pioneering, partners.

So much of what ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON, not the shadow ISKCON, is, is pioneering.

Have to find ideas that will fit in your field pack. or pick up ideas from libraries of Prabhupada's books as you find them here and there and use them for the task at hand.

Like Hanuman killing a mean horse with his teeth, fist, and claws, and then using it to bash other horses and chariots.

how do we 'die' [to live]??? . . . . Takes knowledge. Research.

ABhAbheda tattva means that we will always be absolute little researchers, applyers, and that dictates that we belong to a team.

Who will we we all be in Gaura lila in our next lifetimes in Nadia?

Who will be the Chand Kazi?

Will you be Govardhana or Hiranya??? Will we be your stable manager?

https://www.jayarama.us/archives/vdm.docx