Letters to the editor

Continuing from here

http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/7067

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Generally speaking, this is how I understand and act upon these kind of situations.

A person practices ISKCON sadhana bhakti, after some times stops the practice (by leaving ISKCON and joining some other sect, or stopping sadhana altogether). This person may be by profession an auto mechanic. If I need to fix a car, I may bring it to that person. But if that person is a philosopher and scholar by profession, and I need some philosophical points to discuss, I may need to be careful with what to hear/take from a person whose philosophy differs from our parampara.

This is given in simple words. There are more details to consider.

Is that proper?

HpS - As far as we can understand things we act in the same way, and of course there are details. Some people have left and become viscious demons. So, with them we don't even ask technical things.

About citations – they are about connections of Bhoja and Rupa Goswami, then some about historical facts , and about how Rupa Goswami uses Agni Purana.

Now that we are here on this topic, may I ask what you think and what you say to people who declare points that Nitai das propagates: that our line from BSST is not bonafide because BSST did not took initiation from Gaurakisora das Babaji. (There are more points but this is a main one).

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - Do you mean he didn't take Sannyaya from GKDB?   Is there some doubt that GKDB didn't give him Mantra initiation as a Hari-nam disciple or Gayatri mantra?
Sannyasa is a Varna ashrama arrangement in some ways. Real parampara is one Sampradaya Acharya accepting another as his student and then passing the Bhava, perspective, attitude with Sastric reference to his disciple.

http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/1/3/44

... aham — I; vaḥ — unto you; śrāvayiṣyāmi — shall let you hear; yathā-adhītam yathā-mati — as far as my realization.    

O.K?  Just brief idea. Depends very much on the motive of the person who is arguing, no?

Hare Krsna BELOVED Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

I hope this meets U in really Good Health. I know is very cold there... buuu

4p ok. 16 rounds I complete them but I NEED TO WORK in order to chant enthusiastic rounds. And also I need to read more.

HpS - ASA -- Do a little bit here and there regularly.  Get study partners.

Answering your question about my Sankirtan... to add more passion etc.... I have some ideas but I prefer to discuss them in person with U on December. Whenever I say things in advance sometimes those things do not developed or not end in success. I try not to say so much about my life to others just U and with one witness.

ASA - O. K.

I was extremely happy lately participating in the last festivals leading 3 abhisheks in one week. Associating with devotees... very nice. I try to be connected with temple activities. 

From one year I was being training about gem therapy.  I am offering that  theraphy nowadays. Last thursday I was interviewed by Holistica TV.  I feel good helping others. Also I gave to my  interviewer one perfeccion del yoga. Then she wanted to visit chosik. My communication with others is much better.

ASA - I had bad allergies and someone suggested a pearl. so one friendly jeweler put a pearl on a silver wire and attached it on our Japa beads, so every round we touched it, meditated on it. Our allergy droppes 75% that year.

Yesterday we have the Sradha ceremony for Jagajivan d. I read the letter that U post in the blog about him. Everybody appreciate your words.

HpS - He was very nice person. He was rough and thick headed at times, as far as we saw him, but he would not be a Ksatriya, GBC Regional Secretarym, unless he had some qualities like that. We see how we will miss his association (for a while). It is like expecting one to be a woman and not have a soft heart.

Last but not least... Lately I was dating one guy. But nothing happened. we do not even hold hands... Now I can tell when someone's intentions are not good. So I naturally drift apart. I will always tell U everything Gurudeva

Yesterday Tulasi devi arrived at home.

Radhika is very nice with us. 

Thank U all so much

See U in a few weeks

Trying to be useful

Candramukhi dd

HpS - In India, even in the modern world, I think no girl will 'hold hands' with a boy until here wedding day. Always associate with opposite sex with some advice from your grown up Godbrothers. One time we asked Gaura-gadadhara Devi Dasi with Laksmana Das there, if it was better to have a husband or a brother. She smiled and thought about it and smiled again and said a....   Brother.

It is all going to be over very quickly. Don't plan you life in the Transit Lounge.

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Modern science confirms* that every seven years all the cells in the body are changed. That in the range of seven years all the cells in the body are changed.

We use this fact as a example of reincarnation, even in this body.

Srila Prabhupada agreed with this statement.

ASA - Even the nerve cells?  We Googled the fact and got some references that say it is not precise, but yes the cells replace, and still says that the brain neurons are not replaced, but I hear that there is new research about this now.

How it is that those new cells take a form (or qualities) of aged body? For example, the aged body forms wrinkles around the eyes and the new cells maintain those wrinkles (or even makes more of it) instead to being new as in a young body. Or if a person has a tattoo, after seven years that tattoo is still there, it does not vanish. We would understand that a new cell will have a new untouched quality but it is not so.

Your servant Namacarya das

* of course, as in every statement, this one also has  opposed ones

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Dr. Singh. Medical science says that all the bodily cells are replaced every seven years.

Srila Prabhupada. No, not every seven years -- every second. Every second, the blood corpuscles are changing. Is it not so?

Dr. Singh. Yes.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Changing Bodies

HpS - ASA -- We don't have any specialist knowledge in this. Maybe Dr. Nikunja bihari Das has some information. You questions about skin condition is certainly interesting.

In continuation from here
http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/7109

HpS - We also remember where Prabhupada was talking about Narayani Devi Dasi and said, "Mother Narayani".   We feel it is just as respectable a title as Maharaja for a Sannyasi.  Of course, there is not restriction to say, Narayani Mataji, Prabhu, no?

~

Yes Guru Maharaja.

My humble understanding is that it is always nice and safe to address a person in female body as mataji, mother. Term mataji is particularly proper to use when addressing a lady who is unknown to us.

I have slight memory hearing that Srila Prabhupada sometimes happened to call his female disciples as prabhu (for example : “Malati prabhu”) . Is that right? If yes, would that mean we can also address ladies as 'prabhu' ? I heard about term 'prabhvi'. Is that OK to use?

Term 'vaisnavi' is also proper to use.

Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - ASA -  Oink!   Oink!   Whoop!     WHoop!    Tom Brown is doing his PhD thesis with some relation to this topic. PhD - Doctor of Phalocracia.    Yes, Prabhu is perfectly appropriate for any devotee, no? Even letter from Prabhupada we saw that it was appropriate title for Bhaktas following the full program.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

Second letter.from.me today

I feel really touched about what u said in one letter

On Sunday we had an ASA meeting for your Sri Vyasa Puja... please may U be so kind and tell us which bhoga offerings will U prefer. Any other details???

HpS - It is funny in many ways. Depressing in other ways. We, you, become formal icons with opulent worship while we starve to death as people.   Ask us on the day of the festival!  We will have the celebrationin Mexico on the 29th. Should we do the same in Peru et al?? Maybe not? 30th We will be in the air early and then again in the afternoon.

Thank U all so much

Trying to be useful

Candramukhi dd 

All Glories to Guruji Maharaja, Sripad Maharaja and  A.C.Prabhupada Maharaja

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay,

Dandavat Pranam

Please accept my humble obeisanses unto Sri Guruji Maharaja’s padmacharan that  I am so so happly to get Guruji's quick reply. Prabhu Haridasa will arrange Guruji's air tickets from Kolkata to Agartala on the 18th Jan. and by train to Silchar, then from Silchar to Guwahati with Haridas on the 24th by air, then Imphal with me.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Thank you so, so much for posting this here!!!