Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna respected Gurumaharaja!

PAMHO

AGTSP!

Sorry for the lack of communication. 

We have moved to Thailand with my family, and I'm working as a teacher. We have opened a small restaurant Govinda where we live. We are all very busy and transitions are always tough, but we have the company of devotees so everything is ok.

my chanting is not attentive these lasts months, and reading is not so good either. Please bless with more enthusiasm to improve my self and service.

your insignificant servant

Sudama Sakha dasa

HpS - ASA ---  Yes, is good to hear from you!   Your situation sounds encouraging. The 'blessings' of a Sannyasi, Brahmana are not some kind of magic pill. Rather the mercy of Srila Prabhupada is his instructions, no?    Then we have to do our part.

Maybe you are an insincere rascal who knows what he should do but would rather take te easier, grey service, of Karma yoga. Focus on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it.

Or maybe you are a very sincere soul who is just in a difficult situation and so the little chanting and reading that you can do are quite exemplary.

We don't know. You have always impressed us as a very sincere person, I would opt to think that you are in a difficult situation and thus offer the advice to not kick yourself too hard for you failings in the basic regulative principles of Bhakti-yoga (sravanam kirtanam visnoh), but rather see all the good things you are doing and then make little, but enthusiastic, changes to your Bhakti-yoga, even daily, to refine your Sravanam, Kirtanam. Get Study Partner(s) and read and discuss one of Prabhupada's books.

Eg., start reading 'Your Ever Well Wisher' for 10-minutes every day before lunch and discuss it with another reader and...

O.K?  What do you serve in the restaurant?   Do you get leads for catering from it?   That's usually much more effective!!

Acepte mis humildes reverencias . 

Todas las glorias a srila prabhupada . 

Mi nombre es hector y en estos momentos estoy viviendo en el templo de la ciudad de México. Anteriormente estuve en Cueramaro. Ahora estamos intentando implementar algunos cursos dentro del templo. Quería preguntarle cómo podríamos trabajar para mantener dichos cursos durante mucho tiempo. 

Me despido, su aspirante a sirviente 

Bhakta Hector.

HpS - Hola, Hector!   TlgaSP!   Tlga Radha-Madana gopala de Srila Prabhupada. No, se los detalles, transfondo, de su pregunta. Por ejemplo, Prabhupada dice en uno de sus libros que la Biblia y Koran, son escripturas Vaisnava pero no son eternos, son algo generado en un momento para alguna gente como ellos pueden adelantar en su circumstancia especifica.

Entiendes? Entonces no esperamos los cursos, la Biblia, va a durar para mucho tiempo. No queremos que estaba continuando para mucho tiempo.

Entonces, posible Vd. va a implementar unos cursos con la fin de producir un resultado y despues va a pasar a otros curso.

Nuestra mision esta bien explicado en el prefacio del Upadesamrta: Queremos cualificar nos como podemos ayudar El Senyor Caitanya en su mision de compartir la ciencia de KRSNA a las almas caidas por estudiando los libros dejados por los seis goswamis.

O.K.   Si sus cursos son relacionados con esta perspectivas va a tener potencia durar para mucho tiempo, no?

Espero que sus cursos son muy exitosos y placentera a la comunidad Vaisnava de Mexico!

Subject: AIR TICKETS FOR N / E TOUR

Dandavat pranam Maharaj, 

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

Hare Krsna Maharaj, 

I do confirm herewith that all the necessary Air Tickets on the subject tour have already been arranged and sent to you through your email. So, Maharaj, kindly take care and prepare yourself to bear the burden of North East India travel.

We are all eagerly awaiting to have a Darshan of your lotus feet. Kindly shower your mercy upon us the fallen souls.

Thanking you and assuring you of my best cooperation always. 

Your servant, 

Hari dasa, 

Manipur ISKCON, Imphal. 

Date : 16.11.2016.

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HpS - ASA -- 2106 nov 17. Hare Krsna, Hari Das Das!    We have only recevied air tickets from Guwahati to Imphal and Imphal to Delhi.   Have you sent air reservations from Kolkatta to ... ?   From there I understand we will be taking ground transport, no?

.....   We checked our Yahoo account again and four more air tickets have just been posted there. We will look at them soon. Now is 3.49AM so we bath and go for Puja and Mangala arati.  That you so much.  Brother Ass, our body, has to "bear" a lot of the burden of this travel. He is almost 70-years old, American, so we will have to make some compensation for him.

Hare Krsna,

AGTSP paoho.  We are depressed, with stomach ache etc. etc.  Haw!     Haw!   Haw!     Our Donkey.   It is 5.25PM and dark and cold outside.  No people.  We started just eating rice and beans prasad today, once a day and so far it is good. It is depressing, but we learn to substitute water and little exercise, dancing.

Out visit to D.C. has been wonderful. All cities so far have been wonderful.  We are cementing 10,000 times stronger relations with the ISKCON leaders here.  We have done programs in 6-colleges and universities so far.

Tomorrow we fly to Raleigh.

While we were tackling our Letters and Essays, Abhirama Das called from Peru. We talked to him for about 30-minutes. He has very practical work he is doing there. We are developing very good relations there with first class university people.

We also got a very thoughtful letter from the Catur-atma Das about his work in the administration in Peru and we were advising him to adjust in terms of his age but continue until 50-years old with his mental strength, then continue with his intellectual contribution.

We feel very happy that we followed this once a day eating all Kartika and now are stepping it forward for Katyayani vrata. The purpose of all of this is to increase book distribution. Doesn't mean just quantity but also quality.

O.K.   Here we go to the temple. The Temple has about 20-acres of land here. It is one of the riches area. One cow, now.

Hare Krsna!!!

HARE KRSNA DEAR GURU MAHARAJA

hope this meet you in good health..

... it's been more than two months since our last letter... things haven't been so good in these time...

Materially I do very well ... I can not complain ... I have two jobs and the studies are quite good ... it is much more than I expected.

In fact I have more responsibilities at school for next year and that makes me very happy because I'm doing what I like and working in a place where I can have some freedom of teaching.

As for health I am taking a special treatment to gain weight. Some doctors are pushing me to eat meat but i am still looking for other options. I feel that I have more energy but I am trying to dose that energy. My mind works more than my body.

My big concern is that in these months I have been questioning a lot Who am I? What is my relationship with Krsna? What is my mission in this life? Do i really want to keep doing this?
I have taken material priorities and because of that I have neglected my spiritual life to the point that I am not chanting the rounds, I am not going to the temple or associating with devotees.

I really know what my duty as a disciple is, but I always find excuses not to. Sometimes I feel like I do not want to. All I ask Krsna every day is to help me feel desires to chant the rounds and improve my spiritual life. 

I feel quite embarrassed to write this because I know I made a promise to you and being honest you gave me so much and I'm always failing. So far I could never consider myself a follower of Srila Prabhupada's follower. 

I do not want to make more promises that maybe I will not fulfill ... I just want to tell you that despite all this problem I still try to improve every day. I know this is only a stage and I hope it happens fast.

I'm working a lot on my introspection and I see that I have a lot of disqualifications but that helps me to realize that there is a lot to work on.

Without your blessings, our life does not make any sense. Without your presence in our life is like being dead in life.
We apologize
That's how we are now and we need to tell you this.

HpS - ASA --- Please, please, write with a little news from now and then. Just one letter every two months in like going to the Doctor for your body every two months, no?    You do have a lot of excuses with your body, but in the ultimate issue, 16-4 is something directly between you and Krsna, God, creator and maintainer of all bodies. Prabhupada was not chanting Japa at the end of his life, no?   He could not even hold his hand up.

Can you fix a certain number of rounds per day until the next Ekadasi and then make your report here of the result????   Our respects to your Mother, Sister et al.

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?