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Hare Krshna querido maharaja: 

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Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Discúlpeme por no haberle escrito antes, soy Rukmini, hija de madre Ramalila d.d. y prabhu Mahamantra d. de Arequipa-Perú, siempre quise comunicarme con usted pero no pude por razones que no lo justifican.

HpS - Yes, we recongnized your name and remembered you. Yes it has been a long time since we heard from you. Are you rich and famous? Do you have palaces on three continents? Do you regularly fly to the moon to give advice to the people there? ???  Let us read on!!

Maharaja usted sabe que desde muy pequeña he buscado el refugio en sus pies de loto pero siempre ha sido mi culpa el no lograrlo, hoy estoy decidida a luchar por ser su discípula,  canto mis rondas constantemente estoy tratando de culminar mi  curso de Bhaktiyoga con prabhu Laksmana Agraja de Lima quien me ha ayudado muchísimo con su paciencia y misericordia. Actualmente cumplo el servicio de asistente de pujari, soy Bachiller en Contabilidad y trabajo en una Constructora, tengo una pequeña niña de 3 años que se la presente alguna vez, su nombre es Ananda Shakti y mi esposo bhakta Gustavo aspirante de  Mahavisnu Maharaja.

Tambien le escribo para pedir sus bendiciones y consejos para mi matrinmonio que se llevara acabo el 31 de diciembre de este año.

Siempre orare al señor nrisimha  para que lo proteja y  pueda brindarnos su santa asociación.

A su servicio

Rukmini Devi

HpS - Casi tan rico.  Tiene bebe, esposo y ya matrimonio?  Confusion.  Pues claro es buen si puede ser casado con su esposo formalment.  We love your whole family very, very much. We wish that we could spend more time with you. I think that you and they must have gone through many challenges, but you all have been such good people, devotees, servants of Srila Prabhupada and Krsna that you will certainly at least get a little house in the pleasure groves of Vrndavana dhama for everyone if you just continue a little while longer on the same path.

Please send us more news and even photos of your wonderful marriage.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj

Todas las Glorias a Su Divina Gracias A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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El día de su Vyasa Puja se encuentra cerca y eso me recuerda que hace 10 años su VP fue celebrado en el templo de Miraflores, ese día yo me atraje mucho a su personalidad debido al servicio que hacias predicando la Conciencia de Krishna en las Universidades. Son casi 10 años que llevo practicando Conciencia de Krishna de manera constante en ISKCON - Perú, y estoy muy agradecido a Usted por permitirme tener su asociación cada año, escuchando sus clases y otras veces con una entrevista personal.

Este 2016 estuve donando el 10% de mi sueldo mensual al templo de Chosica, adicionalmente apoyé programas de prédica en Lima y en Chosica. Por primera vez en mi vida realicé tantas obras de caridad para el Señor Krishna. También tuve el servicio de adorar a Gaura Nitay todos los sábados en Wilson y dar clases del Bhagavad gita una vez al mes.

Tengo el deseo que en los siguientes meses mi servicio continúe y poder algún día ser un discípulo ejemplar suyo

Muchas Gracias por su asociación

Jagat Pavitram Das

HpS -  Thank you so, so much for your letter and wonderful description of your service.  We are simply tryin to be of service to you and Srila Prabhupada. We hope you are more and more inspired by His Divine Grace and do wonderful things for him in Peru and the world.

Now we go to Mexico and in June Lima!    We will see you soon. Always write to us as you need to.

Hare Krsna SS Hanumat Presaka Swami.

PAMHO. AGTSP!

For the reports that you send, we see that your health has ups and downs.

HpS - Thank you for this report. Our health is good for our age. Usually no ups nor downs. Is matter of controlling our energy, lust.

We worried the time pass, our leaders leave.

Sorry for sending this late report.

1.-Answering your questions of the previous report:

_Yes, Nimsar have minutes book.

_ What is the relationship with National Council?

For the moment, efforts are being made to improve the communication with them.

_ Karuna Krsna d explained me: Nimsar can to give courses but first presenting our proposal to each temple.

_ Visit of SSJPS to Perú is suspended.

2.-We talk with lad (Isvari dd, abhinanda d), to coordinate meeting with NImsar.

Lad desire to establish rules for to regulate to administration of NImsar.

3.-Here arrive to Chosica a devotee named Mahabudhi d (Director of Vedic College Florida), was invited to give class of SBhag but devotees they do not know that him is now follower of Narayana Maharaja.

HpS - As far as I know he was associating with N. Maharaja but never to the extent of any formal sanction by GBC.

4.-In the last report of year, I will send a report resume of activities of Nimsar.

That will be my last report. The next year new secretary.

ASA - On behalf of T. Brown, B. White, G. Gizmo and all of the Members of Supreme Absolute Undifferentiated Commando of the Anjana Suta Academy we extend our most sincere thanks for your most expert and sincere service. We can only hope that greater opportunities are soon to come.

5.-I think so we will be on stage to become good citizens of ISKCON.

Sri Nrsimhadeva protect you and let us understand your instruction.

With affectionate respectful.

ss Isvari dd

HpS - We talked with LAD and are hoping for a meeting with NIMSAR this Friday. Excellent prospects.

Querido Gurumaharaja:

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Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Govinda Pramodini está traduciendo el ppt Vyasa-Puja.

Hay otros materiales de Cristo a Krsna,  Sankirtana o canción  para imprimir o traducir? 

Muchas gracias por Su infinita misericordia.

Su eterna aspirante a sirviente 

Asta Sakhi dd.

HpS - ASA -- Me gustaria si era, pero ya eso es todo listo. Nos vemos Sabado.

En 14 de diciembre de 2016, 17:39:07 -05:00, [email protected] escribió:

How was the event, Bhadra-rupa Prabhu?

Dear Hauman Presaka Swami,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you very much for your concern.

It was very successful!  i did a direct presentation about Srila Prabhupada's contribution, glorification  and his 50 years after coming to NY.

We did bhajans leaded by the one of the best singers of chinese music chanting Srila Prabhupada pranam and the Hare Krishna haha mantra.

Then, we distributed prassadam gourmet with tulsi leaves in the preparations.

I will send you the photos on these days.

thank you so much for all your great Support dear Maharaj!

Your servant,

Bhadra Rupa das

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja
Please, accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

How are you, Gurudeva? How is your health? What new things does this Winter bring?

HpS - ASA -- I suspect we are about the same as you only in a little bit older body (buddy). Winter does not bring to much difference. Just very cold, now it is 7-degrees C, at 4PM. Makes it very hard to get out, but really our service is about the same.

I hope your sankirtana is developing as it should be.

HpS - ASA -- Me too!  And you!

I tell you that Indira Sakti and I are no longer in Chosica, I think a brother has already mentioned to you. It was a difficult decision. Part of me wanted to stay there, the atmosphere is very favorable for a serene and introspective devotional life, the daily association with devotees was invaluable too. But other part of my heart was a bit disappointed of the institutional experience. It is sometimes difficult to reconcile the teaching of Srila Prabhupada and the institution which, supposedly, preserves the legacy that he left us (my perception is restricted to this disfunctional yatra; I have no experience with others).

HpS - Yes, our spys tell us everything about Peru. Ha!   Ha!   Ha!    I personally heard from Srila Prabhupada's lips when one reporter asked him, "Swami Ji, are there problems in your Temples", and Srila Prabhupada answered, "This is the material world. There are problems everywhere."

Even when Krsna was personally present in Vrndavan there were demos coming, causing such distubances that the girls were having miscarriages!

You may have figured out now that Omkara Das is not Krsna, although he resembles him in some aspects. Chosica, a different kind of town, is not Vrndavana, and things aren't so bad there that girls are having spontaneous abortions.

If we are Krsna conscious we see all the problems as opportunitys, impetous, for service, no?

Sometime serving in Lima, sometime serving in Chosica. Sometimes serving in Mayapura - Vrndavana.

What I read in books, not always I see it reflected in the cotidaneity. Maybe, I lack the necessary vision to understand that this correspondence exists before my eyes, but my egoism prevents it from perceiving it.

The truth is that we have returned to Lima with the intention to resume some roads that were suspended some time ago. I have been offered the teaching of new courses for the next year, and this perspective excites me. I am preparing material related to the generation of ideas and its materialization in the visual languages. I am developing a course on Semiotic analysis of photography (which, strangely, has led me to wish to read Whitman...?). All this excites me because I am passionate about the genesis of a course, I am very pleased with research and pedagogical planning, in the end I am happy with the opportunities that are presented to me. Meanwhile, Indira Sakti is returning to school to finish her career and working free lance.

HpS - Very, very, nice, but beware the Mode of Goodness and Passion. It is much easier to dovetail with KC but it can also lead you to personal pride and vanity in personal accomplishment. Do it all for Krsna!!

The great question will always be how to reconcile what is important in life with devotion, which is essential.

HpS - You got it! You must have been a devotee in your last life also.

I want to believe that everything creative, any idea originated in intuition or in intellectual lucubration have origin in Krsna, source of all energy, I wish to believe that by awakening in my students a certain disagreement with the artificial face of the world, I direct them (in some way) to the search of the truth. Perhaps they are mere fantasies, I lack the intelligence that allows me to live in full surrender to God, while doing what I love so much. The mysteries of devotional service in professional life

HpS - Seems natural to us. After two years in Lima you may want to go back to Chosica but with much better perspective, or Rome.

We try to cling to the chanting of japa, the four principles, the reading of Srimad Bhagavatam and the eventual association with the few friends we have in ISKCON. We ask you to bless us, Gurudeva, in order to follow you.

We miss you, Gurumaharaja.

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - Keep sending us reports of your work to the Blog so that we can also take your course!

Have you got "The Media is the Massage" by Marshall McLuhan?