Letters to the editor

Dear Guru Maharaja,

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

We got the college programs all sorted out for your time in DC. !!

Wednesday Nov 9^th – American University at 6:30pm

Thursday Nov 10^th- George Mason University 7pm

Friday Nov 11^th (veterans day) – University of Maryland 6pm

Saturday Nov 12^th  – Education in ISKCON Seminar at the DC Potomac temple

Presentation 9:30-10:30 am

Discussion 10:30-11:30am

Anything else we can try to fit in? A walk to the memorials? Harinam? Cookies?! Please let me know if I can be of any service maharaj.

Thank you for your mercy!

Your attempting to be servant,

Sarita

**Japa nama from Panama is working on some amazing posters...

HpS - ASA - The Supreme Comando of ASA is also pleased with you.  Photos also added below.  If you have the case of NOIs and some TLCs that will be very good armament.  See you in less than 120-hours. We will come out of the Sky on a Great Iron Bird.

Hare krsna, maharaja; please accept my obeissances.. i havent write in a long time and pasing de time i feel more and more confused about my dutys and less entusiastic about everythin related with my espiritual life and a subject that i want to coment its about the guru...

i feel a little confused and sometimes i think i have to meet other gurus i dont know if it is because of my mind or mi condition but i feel confused about everything im in a relationshiep and part of all this i think its because of that because im not doing the things right i try to and some times i made it but other times no so much... now i dont know i think i have to chant more and read i know more o less my fails and im working on it but i lost comunication with the guru and im sorry because this fallen condition :/  tryin to follow the steps of the previus acaryas YS: Bhaktin F

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna, Mataji. Are you in Mexico???   One foto of your self and friends.

King Satyavrata had a similar problem to you. Read http://www.vedabase.com/es/sb/8/24/46   from Text 46-53.  Krsna is the first Guru, then Srila Prabhupada if you want to accept him as your Acharya, then His disicples on down to the blades of grass, but the above link is a good place to start. Take a few days to read it. Discuss it with some friends. Then write again!  [and take nice Maha-prasad!]

Dearest Guru Maharaj,

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

Thank you for your kind reply. I am again most humbled to have your kind mercy upon me. Regarding whose association I have here, I don't have any devotee association here, apart from hearing Prabhupada's kirtan and japa on the laptop and Prabhupada's Bhagavad-gita in hard copy. But I do really want to visit ISKCON Houston when you come in December to get the most precious association.

HpS - ASA --- Jaya!   We arrive 11.45AM, Wednesday the 7th and leave 7.15AM, Monday the 12th. Have you got accomodations etc???  Text us.

When I first arrived at my current place of work, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Corpus Christi is the nearest large city, which is about half-an-hour from Kingsville (the small university town of a population of around 20,000). I found a facebook page called Bhakti Yoga Society of Corpus Christi, to which I sent a message, but got no reply. San Antonio is a very large city here, the second largest in all of Texas after Houston, with a population of about 1.47 million people. San Antonio is around 2 hours drive from Kingsville and many of the Indian students go to work part-time jobs there and I also went once. I found the address for ISKCON San Antonio and went there, but it was just a house. I am not sure how to get in contact with devotees in these south Texas cities. It maybe that some devotees were running preaching centres or temples here but left after some time so now there is no active centre. Do you know any devotees active in San Antonio or Corpus Christi?

HpS - We just Texted you M. Guru bhakti's phone number and little bio. She can help!!

I wanted to get a tulasi plant for my evening worship. I have seen a Shri Venkateshvara Swami South Indian Hindu temple, but never found any ISKCON centre or devotees in this area. My parents and I would like to dedicate our lives to starting an ISKCON preaching centre under your guidance. For this, I am really hoping I can get a permanent faculty position somewhere, because my current position is contractual (i.e. temporary).

Your humble servant,

Aja Govinda dasa

HpS - Thank you for this super, super news. Contact Mataji and I think she can put you in touch with good associates.

What are you teaching in the University?   What would you like to publish with NIOS???

HARE KRISHNA MAHARAJA 

POR FAVOR ACEPTE MIS HUMILDES Y RESPETUOSAS REVERENCIAS

TODAS LAS GLORIAS PARA SRILA PRABHUPADA

Mi nombre es Jagannatha caran Das, vivo en Santiago de Chile, soy esposo de su Discipula Priya Sakhi d.d.,  hace tiempo le envie un correo con las cartas de recomendacion para refugio de Martin Moris y David Leyton. me pidio que las publicara en este blog, disculpe la demora. ¿debo publicar algo mas sobre los devotos recomendados para refugio?

Me despido de usted.

su aspirante a sirviente

Jagannatha caran Das

HpS - Muchas Gracias.  Tengo anotacion en nuestra libro de ellos de Vd. 8 Septiembre.  Eso es para Refugio y no para Iniciacion, no?  Por favor envia fecha de nacimiento de ambos aqui, y comunicar que tiene que comenzar communicar aqui con prontitud.   Muchas gracias, Prabhu!! Nos vemos en Abril.

Dear gurudev,

Some news about the congress.

1. Just today we received the final invitation from the devotee encharge of Vraja Bhumi, Nrisimhananda, to Hanumatpresaka Swami and other one to Rama Giridhari prabhu. He already reply and said that he could answer the next week. Are you received this letter well?
2. HpS - Yes we got a letter from him but we also got one earlier. We asked before into what airport we should book our ticket. We will need a Visa, no?  Anything else.   Did his invitation go to Rama-giridhari Das???
3. The dates to the Congress will be:
   1. 19^TH Wednesday > 21^TH Friday April morning > Private meeting about curriculum and exams in “Bhakti” Programs.
   2. 21 ^TH Friday evening > 23^TH Sunday noon, Festival to the South American Community of devotees. A different name?  
   3. HpS - ASA -- "LEARN SOMETHING" In one lecture Prabhupada Srila Prabhupada commented that we should come to these classes not just as a ritual but also to learn something. Then he looked at the audience and said, "All right, come as a ritual but also try to learn something". So come to teach, learn something based on Srimad Bhagavatam and how to apply it in Sankirtan, Primary School, Congregation Preaching etc.
   4. 23^TH Sunday evening > 23^TH Wednesday morning, workshop and led conferences and talks to brahmanas, teachers devotees, temple presidents, brahmacari and bhakti vriksha leaders, etc.
4. My “not complete task” now is the aims and secondary aims of the congress with this general planning that I put above to Chandramukha Swami. But when this work is done I’m planning make a brochure in .pdf with a nice design to invite senior devotees. It will be finished this same week. Could I show you this advance this Monday 7:30 pm?
5. HpS - A little earlier?  We will have some evening program here. We are in Washington D. C. hour. Main thing is who has committed to come and what they want to hear and explain.
6. Baladeva and Param Padam, Ananta Sayana sent to me their topics in the congress. But in my last travel to Italy I missed my phone, and they sent to my throught whatsapp. So now I ask them again in mail. So now, I only should ask the topics to Dhanvantari Swami, Aravinda, Rama Giridhari, yourself.
7. HpS - We want to discuss preaching and teaching in the universities, especially with Psychology and the Sacred, and the ISKCON Ministry of Education which includes Pre and Primary School, and Sastric Education.
8. Dhanvantari Maharaj says that if we invite devotees like Hridayananda das Goswami (in his condition of senior preacher in South  America) or Jayapataka Swami (in his condition of the GBC) could be complicated to the organization because, like too much devotees could come, also a lot devotees could leave the place after this devotees leaved and that even he should go outside because he would be like a host because they would be at Brazil.
9. HpS - ASA -- Seems true, but maybe they could do a video clip for the program!!!!!!!

Prices

1. This is the minimum cost for Vraja Bhumi with prasadam included, according the place when the devotees sleep. (To 10 guests will be free):

1. Festival Congregacional

Viernes – Domingo = 2 noches y 3 días.

1. Chalés= 570 Rs / $120.997 / 181 USD
2. Hotel = 480 Rs / $101.892 / 152 USD
3. Hare & Camping = 300 Rs / $63.683 / 95 USD

ASA - Damn cheap, Bobba!

1. Brahmanas y Ksatryas

Viernes – Miércoles = 5 noches y 6 días.

1. Chalés = 1140 Rs / 362 USD
2. Hotel = 960 Rs / 305 USD
3. Hare (some devotees houses) & Camping = 600 Rs / 191 USD

1. Ksatryas

Lunes – Miércoles = 2 noches y 3 días.

1. Chalés= 570 Rs / 175 USD
2. Hotel = 480 Rs / 148 USD /
3. Hare & Camping = 300 Rs / $63.683 / 92 USD

Hare Krsna gurudevm thank you for encourage us to serve.

HpS - ASA --  The ASA Absolute Undifferiniented Commado is Please With You!  Go ahead with full intelligence. List of Participants and their topics. We will prepare.

Photos below.