Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Below is the summary of 1.1.19 - 1.1.23.

Verse Summaries:

V 19:

• About developing taste.
• Mundane news is static. Transcendental news is dynamic and above the mode of darkness.
• Prabhupada said that he could write BG again.
• NOD 2:  Devotional service is easier for people who have taste, not for mental speculators.
• Chanting the holy name will increase the taste.
• HpS - ASA -- We also get a taste for hearing and chanting by doing Karma yoga as directed by Guru.  We are mechanics so we fix ISKCON cars then we like to hear!

V 20:

• Summary of Krishna’s super human acts.
• We are eligible for liberation by hearing the above.
• Explains why Krishna was like a human being : To have relationship with devotees.

V 21:

• Regular hearing of Srimad Bhagavatam is the only way for self-realization.

V 22:

• The ocean of Kali is difficult but we have a ship to cross over it and Suta goswami is the captain of the ship.
• Sages of Naimisharanaya are highly intellectual. Their association is incredible.

V 23:

• Question 6: Since Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Absolute Truth, the master of all mystic powers, has departed for His own abode; please tell us to whom the religious principles have now gone for shelter.

Next week's syllabus would be 1.2.1 - 1.2.5. Thank you for your association. We appreciate it and are grateful for it.

Your servant,

Sundari Radhika dd.

HpS - Such a nice start.  We arrive Boise 7PM, June 1st and hope to stay for about a week. Our mind says, "What to read?". Then the answer is easy - these SB verses. Of course, we will try to expand the program.

Please accept my humble obeisances and all glories to Srila Prabhupad! 

Thank you very much Maharaj for taking the time to reply to me. My counselor has stopped responding to me, it's been almost a year and he did not tell me why. He recommended one boy for me with whom he communicates with about me. None of these messages I ever see and I feel misrepresented by this boy to our counselor and when the counselor makes sharp comments about me I cannot help but feel misrepresented, hurt and sometimes like I should leave. I don't know how to deal with such a complex relationship. I'm not sure if I should end this entire scenario of relationships. I was happily following my counselor until he distanced himself and started communicating only through this boy who barely tells me anything. The process of Krsna consciousness our counselor prescribed to us is very nice, but with difficult feelings like this it's really difficult to progress. I have been trying to pray to Krsna for some help, so I can hold on. But I wonder if I should, in my situation, continue to hold on or leave and seek guidance from someone else and get married to someone else. I seek your guidance. Everything has become very difficult...

Yes the counselor is Radhanath Maharaj's disciple. I still listen to his lectures, still trying to chant and get up early in the morning (still failing) and sing morning prayers (though daily failing to get up early enough). But I haven't given up on striving to do sadhana. I heard that sadhana is to actually please the guru, but when you have no communication with your siksha guru for such a long time, the lack of clarity is dulling. I wonder if this is his way of telling me to go away or testing me. Just heard a lecture by him in which he said lack of clarity can be a test also. When he accepted me as a counselee he told me he will never leave me even if one day I want to. But this complete cut off is becoming daily more unbearable and I am scared of developing negative feelings for him, very harmful for my spiritual life :(. I am eager to hear from you on how to go through this phase.

Your aspiring servant,
Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna. We initiated wife of Ambarisa Das in Argentina as Vrsabhanu-nandini DD, but your good self, you are disiple of Radha-natha Swami, no? To many aunts and uncles in ISKCON.  We should all live in a village and know each other. Ja!   Ja!   Ja!
Maybe your Counselor was eaten by a lion. Maybe he, she, is in Maya.  Seems like it was not a very practical relationship unless you know the associates of your Counselor and can ask them for advice.

Is true?

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

Well I guess for the TPP .. I can wait until June.. or we can use the mail...as U wish

My address is:

...

Claudia Vanesa Quispe Ledesma

Thank U all so much

Your servant

Cmdd

ASA - We cut and scanned and uploaded it today. Nice experience. Then we sent the link to you and The Patrak Das. Did you download it O.K?   We can bring the original to Peru in 120 days.

I hope it inspires you, others to write. There was Agatha Christie now there is Agatha-mukhi, Girl Detective with her Dog-Ulyses.

hare krsna 

agtsp all glories to you guru dev

pamho

hope you recover the full energy.

HpS - ASA - Hope you are dancing with Krsna each night in a Sari! <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />

I'm surviving in Cordoba establishing our Asrama and building ourself the house for the family ( it s our choise but also no other choise for help us)

struggling with my mind to improve my sadhana.

Hari vamsi dhari the next 13 of march will be a year, he s very well and happy. he like bhajans and he like very much the deitys and want to go infront of themm regularly.  also vrsabhanu nandini dd is fine with a litlle stress for the house.

we do some service for the devotees in cordoba but we need our own place for local programs, we are waiting and working for that.

Guru dev we know that Beverly Zabriskie will go to BS As   this year to participate and give lectures with the jung foundation  there, she said that have contact with the director of the natiobnal librery in Bs as and she want to help by giving us her contacts, like others profesors and jungians 

there some profesionals  and psychologist devotees who can help and receive Beverly, we also can go to that date to bs as and help to orgineze.

she also can be invited to cordoba and  to the university of psychology , we have the solaris magazine and we can organize a presentation for the magazine.

you are going to come to Argentina at that time?

HpS - No, we have to go to the Rasa Lila.  Ja!  Ha!  Ga!      Please write to her. We can't come then. We will be in Santiago in July. We hope we can see you then. We can send our Donkey to pick you up. La Familia Semi-sagrado. I think she said her visit would be in June. We can write, call Skype.
We still are reading Jung.  We are also surviving here, but that is enough. Things keep getting better. Send pictures of your house. Father in-law.

what do you think?

we write before some letters i dont know if you received them,

HpS - We saw at least one. We are getting more energy. We are answering now that we don't have 25-interviews and plane/car rides with devotees daily!

thank you guru dev 

your servent Ambarisa Das

HpS - Become Guru for your circle.

PAMHO GURUDEV:

Estamos arreglando lo de la Universidad el Jueves dia 6, puede ser por la mañana o por la tarde. Creo que es mejor por la mañana, ya que al dia siguiente comienzan vacaciones y muchos se iran el Jueves por la tarde ¿Usted que opina?

HpS - Jaya!  Aparece bueno. Llegamos dia 3. Dia 4 es Rama-navami.  Puede co-ordinar eventos con Sanandana-Bhadra y Mantri-rama Das?  Entonces vamos a NVM o quedamos en Madrid?

Parece que lo mejor será que el dia 3 vaya directamente a NVM, al dia siguiente es Rama Navami, podría estar hasta el miercoles (incluyendo una entrevista en Guadalajara con Manuel Almendro)

HpS - O.K.

El Jueves  (mejor por la mañana) podría ir desde NVM al programa en la Complutense y, cuando tenga el horario seguro hablaré con Mantri Ram y Bhadra para coordinar sus entrevistas.

HpS - Si. Especialmente esperamos hablar con Editoral Siruela. Bhadra-Sanandana Das estaba buscando contacto con ellos.

Creo que si el Jueves va para Madrid, lo mejor será quedarse en Madrid hasta su marcha. Falta determinar donde se hará la iniciación si en NVM o en Madrid.

HpS - Si, entonces, 3, 4, 5 en NVM, 7-12 en Madrid. O regresando a NVM como mas devotos pueden accomodar unos dias alla mejor que en Madrid?

Espero sus opiniones para cerrar los programas.

Su sirviente

Jayanta das

ASA - Espero opinion de otros aqui en El Blog.

Hare Krishna Gurudev!!

Pamho agtSP,

This last two weeks has been very intense, teaching at the university, moving to SRI Govardhan (today), pushing FFl, teaching at the yoga Course, being a father, fiance, ayurvedic doctor. It is too much. My mind is so passionate I cannot Chant, i can not Focus in the mahamantra. I have been chanting like 6 rounds a day. Again im falling behind and that terrifies me. I dont want to lose my already tiny spiritual Life.

I think i have a psichological issue that makes me be always busy. 

Tonight it Will be my first night at my new home at the devotees community. Urban Life and my mind are killing me. I hope that helps me fix this problem.

Please help me Gurudev!!
Your fallen servant,
Nikunja bihari das.

HpS - Jaya. We have faced the same problem over and over again and each time we made a little progress in understanding that EVERYTHING ELSE DEPENDS ON HARI-NAMA and HARI-NAMA MUST INCLUDE JAPA VRATA.

Use all your talent and inteligence on how to chant the best 16+ rounds you can, even if they are terrible.

Report to the Blog (URGENT) tomorrow with the results!