Letters to the editor

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Querido Gurudeva

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HpS - Hare Krsna, Rodrigo Magno!

Espero que se encuentre muy bien. Acá bhakta Rodrigo de Santiago de Chile. Hace mucho mucho mucho tiempo que yo no escribo a usted, han pasado meses desde mi última carta.

HpS - Si..... .      .                .

Siendo bien honesto, yo no me encuentro muy bien. Desde septiembre hasta ahora me ha tocado vivir con mucha ansiedad, muchos problemas en casa, en mi vida. Muchos problemas.

Ahora me siento muy cansado y triste, con muy poca energía vital. Muy poca energía en mi corazón y mi cuerpo. Estoy pasando por una crisis en todos los aspectos de mi vida. Estoy cantando muy pocas rondas.

HpS - Espera que el momento de la muerte va a ser mejor, o ...  la misma, pero peor? !

Tuve una crisis nerviosa muy fuerte de la cual me estoy recuperando. Ahora en diciembre he tenido que ir 4 veces al médico. Nuestra depresión bipolar está controlada, no es una crisis bipolar, pero sí una crisis nerviosa.

En septiembre mi padre se operó de un ojo porque tenía problemas en su visión. Él tuvo que descansar un mes, pero la operación salió mal y esta semana su médico le dirá si es necesaria una nueva operación.

Entonces nosotros, mi madre, mi hermano y yo, tuvimos que trabajar mucho más tiempo en su antiguo almacén (Neighborhood store). En otra carta me gustaría hablar a usted sobre este negocio familiar.

Mi madre se está haciendo varios exámenes porque hay un problema en su cerebro. Muy pronto el doctor nos dirá si es necesario operar su cerebro. Mi madre es súper súper bipolar. Yo tengo una relación compleja, difícil. Es como “amor y odio”.

Mi madre está muriendo día a día, se está volviendo loca, demencia senil. Ella toma muchos medicamentos para la depresión bipolar. Ella es adicta al cigarrillo y a la coca cola. Todo, todo el día fuma cigarrillos y toma coca cola.

Cambiando de tema:

HpS - Por que!  Es bien interesante. Claro, loco, pero no aburrido. Puede escribir un biografia bueno.

Me gustaría contarle que ahora en noviembre estuvo de visita en Chile SG. Visuddha Sattva prabhu. Él es un gran erudito, un sabio y una persona muy muy muy especial. A nosotros (Dharma Comunicaciones) nos tocó organizar una conferencia.

Prabhu Visuddha-sattva es el traductor de la obra completa del poeta Rene Daumal. Rene Daumal es un poeta francés que vivió en la misma época que los surrealistas europeos (André Breton y amigos).

Nuestra amiga Marisol Vera de la Editorial Cuarto Propio se reunió con Prabhu Visuddha Sattva y a fines del 2017 la Editorial Cuarto Propio espera publicar en Chile las obras completas de Rene Daumal.

Yo he estado pensando mucho en Prabhu Raktak y su ejemplo, también pensando mucho en cómo dejó el cuerpo Prabhu Prahlad Nrisimha dasa y pensando también en Gunagrahi das (Swami).

En mi caso tengo tantos anarthas, tantas contaminanciones. Si yo sigo en Conciencia de Krishna es únicamente gracias a la misericordia de Usted.

Me hace mucha falta estar con usted.

Este año mi terapeuta, la doctora Sofía Vera Peruzzi, me dijo algo muy hermoso:

“Mi corazón y el tuyo nunca se despiden”.

Sofía NO  es mi psiquiatra, es mi terapeuta y una de las mujeres más maravillosas en mi vida. Yo hablo mucho a Sofía de usted.

Su inútil sirviente,

Bhakta Rodrigo

HpS - Hare Krsna.  Su carta es bien interesante.

1. Tenemos que acceptar que podemos morir en cual quiere momento.
O.K? [     ]

2. La energia de la alma, de Krsna, es eterno e ilimitable. Si, el quiere retrasarla del cuerpo y mente vamos a morir. Entonces - tenemos que cerciorarse (ascertain) cuanto energia tenemos. A veces es muy poco. Solamente mueve nuestros labios. O.K. cantando Hare Krsna y bailando como podemos.

Es gran regalo de Krsna. Apreciando nuestra fuente de energia subtil, transcendental y utilizando.

3. NO ESFORZANDO HACER COSAS AFUERA DE LA ENERGIA QUE KRSNA COMPARTA CON NOSOTROS.

Entonces, no hay verguenza. No hay estress. Dejando su cuerpo de esta manera puede ser feliz.

Si puede, escribir otro cartas. Puede guardar esta carta para un libro.

Conozco Visuddha-sattva Das para muchismos anos. Era siguiedor de B. S. Swami muy fuerte y hemos pasado bastante tiempo en relacion intima.

Hare Krsna!
AGTSP!   Paoho...  Our letters by Yahoo bounced back. Does anyone have e-mail address for Dandava Das and Yasodananda Swami? ?

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

> We arrive in India on the 31st Dec. and are supposed to get to Mayapura for the SGGSanga about 10-12th of February.

> Will we see you all?

I hope so. We are planning to be there that time and we are looking forward to meet you.

Please let me know if I can do something for you.
My phone number is 07548...

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> How are you?????

Well, it is getting better. Trying to use my time properly.

Over last years my health went worse and worse, but month before kartik we started to go with Madana Priya dd to one chinese devotee here who does accupuncture for 32 years. It seems that my headakes are 99% gone and general health is much improved.

> Also, can you erase all Annual Reports more than 4-months old???

Everything older is deleted.

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

HPS - Thank you. Your health news is amazing. He was puncturing for any specific zones or organs? Yes, we see that the older Reports have been removed. Now we can look at the new ones!

Weekly Report
HpSwami – NIOS

Esteemed Doctor Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, Rama-giri-dhari Das et al,
Please accept our Pranams and best wishes for the New Year!  Jaya Sri Radhe-Shayam!

After intense week of finishing everything on off in Tennessee and then an intense day in transit in Houston, we have arrived to an intense, but rather manageable week in Mexico.

Prof. Dolores Chavez [Lalita-gopis Devi Dasi] is here and even during the Christmas vacations we are promoting our academic perspectives. She was very pleased with the English edition of ‘Solaris’ and I have given her the PDF to print more here.

On the 30^th , Friday, we will be in transit with Radhika and arrive in Delhi Saturday, 11.15PM. On Sunday we will present to 40-select members of their Youth Forum (get a chip for our cell phone…), Monday we will have the honor of lunch at Prof. Kalyan-kumar’s home. Then we will present him the English edition of ‘Solaris’ with his article and seek his perspective on how to proceed. We also want to do another interview with him, as with Professor, and subtitle it in Spanish as we did last visit.

[  ] What questions should we put in the interviews?

In the evening there will be a well-organized public program in the Temple.  The theme is the same as Madras, PASCATYA DESA TARINE: Srimad Bhagavatam and the Scientific Mind-set, with Professor Gupta and H.P. Swami. Some rest and Radhika goes to visit his ailing Grandmother.

Then, the Bhagavata Symposium in Madras. We hope to carry Bharata Sanskriti and Pracya-prajna for promotion at all these events!

[  ] Do we have the NIOS promotional card ready for publication.

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Monday, 9^th January, 13.45-hours we arrive in The City of Joy [Please only one elephant], and I guess you’ve seen some of the letters with the Mukunda and Purusottam. Shall we accommodate in the Albert Road Guest House. I love Calcutta.

[  ] Can we establish a permanent NIOS Secretariat in Kokata?

North East: Probably killed and eaten by a tiger who chants Harinam.

27^th – [Delhi] Vrndavana:

“15 May the land of Srila Vrndavana where Subala and the other wonderful cowherd boys, who are all dear friends of Sri Krsna, play, where Lalita and the other splendidly beautiful young gopis, who are all filled with love for Srimati Radharani, enjoy transcendental bliss, and where Sri Sri Radha-Krsna thirst to enjoy wonderful transcendental amorous pastimes day and night, become manifest in my heart.

16 To drink: the freely flowing st…”, Vrndavana Dhama Mahimanrta 1

Feb. 1^st – Pune????   The two Temple Vice-Presidents, Sriman Radhe-shyama Das put on the trail of Giri-vara-dari-gopal Das have not reported after five days! What has happened? !?

[  ] Let us fix the Calendar for Bombay. If we cannot contact Giri-vara-dhari [!], then I can ask Radha-Shyama Prabhu to host us and have very productive meetings with him about the ISKCON Ministry of Education and all we are doing with NIOS.

Feb. 1^st – 3^rd, Pune and 3^rd – 8^th Navi-mumbai, 8^th – 10^th Kolkata, 10^th – 13^th Mayapura, 14^th at 3AM, Delhi to Houston.

Professor, please excuse us for burdening you with these details but we hope you can fill in many days described here!  You are our Principal Advisor!!!

For the rest of the year.

Arrive in Houston, stay three days. Go to our base in Nashville. Return 1^st of March to join RGD on the Goloka Foundation and Gokula Kids development.

April we have basically suspended our participation in the Latin American ISKCON Regional Symposium on Education. They have not been able to make sufficient plans for a really effective program, after hours of research we can find no tickets really cheaper than $1,500 round trip.

May we are ready to buy tickets for a West Coast tour. We already have some academic contacts and Professor has his at the University of Washington. This would culminate in June 15^th -18^th with Fourth Annual, North American, Symposium on Education with ISKCON in Seattle.

Then, we bought tickets Houston – Lima – Houston, 21^st June – 26^th July. Five universities, Ambassador of India are  P U S H I N G  for a second symposium on psychology and the sacred in Lima. Of course, this is aiming to develop into a Global Event in 2018 with probable theme of Art and the Sacred. Even more of course, this would have to include the perspective of Sanskrit Culture.

[  ] Who can be on the Organizing Committee  for this 2018 event?

Ooof!   This letter is like our life.  We are under considerable pressure, but it seems to be balanced so we won’t get a heart attack or brain stroke.

Thank you. Will call tomorrow.
HpS

Hare Krsna!

We just did about three letters here from Mexico and then it challenged us to prove that we are Hanumatpresaka Swami, but inputing a password that they would send to our cell phone. Of course, we don't have access to our cell phone.

Oh, well we still have the Blog, and on the 30th we can get Yahoo back.

Hare Krisna, dear Gurudeva.

Please accept my humble obeisances, dandavats. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you're fine in all aspects.

We are having a bad times ... ... ... You are so far, but I don't know why you're the only person who I can explain this with. I don't like others devotees can read this, but maybe it works for them. . . .

Thank you for all and I'm sorry for my English.

I hope see you soon in Madrid.

Your fallen fallen fallen fallen servant, but wanting to improve (this ins't a joke and it's true too)

Dandana das

PD. I'm sending a copy this letter to Yadunandana Swami (Siksa Guru)

HpS - Hare Krsna. We sent a letter with a copy to Maharaja to your e-mail address.   In general, we want to help in these situations. Of course, we are not Krsna, but we have a little job to do in his army.  This requires people write to us regularly, otherwise things get so big that we can't give much practical help immediately. We have to read the SB together daily for practical results. There can be happy life in ISKCON. If we don't see it, we just have to learn how.