Letters to the editor

Hare Krisna, dear Gurudeva. Please, accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you're fine in all aspects. We are fine by Krisna's Mery in our new stage as parents.

I had a very dificult time by administrative issues and bad relationships with some devotees for that. Whe somebody fall down in offenses his spiritual life falls down with him. But step by step I'm going up, I'm stronger before and I'm giving value that it give it. I'm selecting better my friedships in Krisna's conciousness and I'm protecting to open my mind needlesly. You told my onetime ago I had to get association with devotees with similar nature, and I'm learning to do it, taking skelter in senior devotees as Yadunandana Swami.

We're in Madrid's Temple administration. The proyect is going on weel, growing with new devotees, new initiations. We don't stop. Very intensive but happy. We remoleled the ashram in July. It looks new.

Manu is 5 moths old, but he is very big, entusiastic.

Well. When do you come to Spain again? Do you need something to come? If you need something, please tell me if you think I can help you.

Thank you for all, for your gretting in my birthday last Oct 3th. Please forgive my offenses.

You humble and ethernal servant, Dandava Das.

HpS - Hare Krsna!!  It has been so long since we heard from you!   Yes, learning how to deal with politics in ISKCON is essential.  We have to deal with incredible politics if we want to participate in the different parties. Balarama leads one group of cowherd boys and they have competitions with Krsna's followers, but they only do it to increase the understanding of how to serve Krsna.

Prabhupada used to push Tama-krsna to fight with him on philosophical points. Then when he fought with Karmis it was simple.

We wanted to visit Spain on our trip to or from India: Start of Januar or middle of February, but the cost kept coming back as high, high, high.

We got our ticket round-trip to India from Houston for only $785. That is about $200 less than the cheapest that could be expected. No matter what happens we will set some priorityu and come at come time on a separate trip from USA.  Krsna will make it clear what he wants.

Sananda Devi Dasi is doing a lot of work on this Psychology and the Sacred Sankirtan.

Real nice baby! ..... !...

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, reciba mis respetuosas reverencias.

Estamos en Huancayo, acá esta mi respuesta a algunas preguntas que me hizo en la carta anterior:

Con quien esta asociando alla?  Hay unos devotos mayored in Huancayo?

Acá nos estamos asociando con Madre Laksmirani, Prabhu Ranchor Dwarka, Prabhu Ram Bhagavat, que son los encargados del centro de perdica de Huancayo.  Ellos son devotos mayores, devotos antiguos que estan siempre manteniendo los programas los dias sabados y miercoles. Claro como en todo lugar, aquí también hay problemas entre devotos.

Pero mejor relacionarse más con Srila Prabhupada a traves de sus libros.

HpS - Si, y los libros (NOI 4-6 por ejemplo) nos da una buena perspectiva como distinguir diffentes clases de devotos, no? Tambien NIO 10, de Vikarmis a Radharani

Puede desarollari contacto con la Iglesia Catolica or otros?

Si, en realidad se puede hacer todo eso, pienso con una buena organización en equipo.

Hice un analisis de mi propia vida, antes que predicar a otras personas, tengo que predicarme a mi mismo, mejorar mis rondas de Japa, mi Sadhana, mejorar los 4 principios, luchar con mi mente asquerosa, tratar como a una Dama a mi esposa y no ofenderla, mejorar mi caracter, cantar mejor mis rondas.

HpS - Mucho hacer!

No voy a poder realizar un centro cultural en Huancayo, tengo que mejorar yo mismo como persona y tratar de ser un ser humano, pienso solo poder ayudar a Srila Prabhupada con la distribución de Prasadhan y de sus libros, ayudar a los Sankirtaneros, SOLO  MARATONES  DE  SANKIRTAN..... es lo mejor por el bien de todos..... perdoneme si no puedo seguir su instrucción.  Espero que cuando yo mejore como persona poder realizar su instrucción.

HpS - Claro, mejorar su mismo! Peru achintya bheda abheda, para mejorar nuestra mismos, tenemos que associar con otrs: Krsna, Gopis, Gopas, Narottama Das Thakura, ISKCON pujaris, Sankirtaneros... Desarrolla su caracter pero en el mismo tiempo desarrollar su Iglesia, no?

Luz de la Bhagavata es super para predica, no?  Puede imprimir unos Textos de ww.vedabase.com, Espanyol, y distribuir,

Si en realidad es muy bueno, La Luz del Bhagavata, distribuirlos, mas libros en las calles!!!

organizar seminarios en temas especificas.   Vamos a Peru en Abril-Mayo!!

Claro podemos ayudar a que algún devoto mayor sankirtanero pueda dar alguna conferencia en alguna universidad ó auditorio municipal.  Espero poder verlo en Abril - Mayo...

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, me despido, espero verlo en Perú...

Gadai Gauranga Das

HpS - Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!!!  Gracias a Vds.   Unas experiencias de su Sankirtan!!!!

Hare  Krsna SS Hanumat Presaka Swami,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

We feal that your health is not well. The deterioration of the body it is unavoidable all we pass through it. We pray to Krsna to improve your health .We have your good partnertship for longer.

Here our report:

1.-LAD continue teach course Disciple of ISKCON  in Chosica Temple. It is for 2 months.

2.-Karuna Krsna d (Secretary of National Council) said me he will write to you and answer his [YOUR] letter.(the letter send to National Council).

3.-We send a brief report of NIMSAR to SS Jayapataka Swami (by whatssap).

HpS - Do you know Atmananda Das and Divya-priya DD? He told me to work with them. I have exchanged letters with them one time and was very friendly and enlightened about situation in Peru.

4.-Talking with devotees authorities about education in ISKCON:

4.1 There is a confusion about of what they think that preaching is the same as education in the sense of that all students must become preachers. With this logic, therefore if there is not preacher is fault of NIMSAR or that we going to take preaching.

HpS - Preaching means teaching, but there are many ways to do it, no? Yad yad acarati srestha: For the common people the preaching is done by the twice born by there example. The mother explains things to her children. Yamaraja preaches to the Yamaduttas after they return for trying to arrest Ajamila. Scripture is the basis of all these things. The twice born Prabhupada wanted to have this Bhakti Sastri level, but for people who only take first initiation, they don't need to get this knowledge formally. They need to get it informally like through puppet shows and hearing discourses by the Brahmanas put into their language.

4.2.-They say Most of NIMSARs members hasn't lived in ashrama so they dont have certain about maturaty to teach.

HpS - Of course there will be so many personal opinions and we shoudl deal with them like that, no? Individidually and personally, but then as an institution we need to have public discussions, then make public statments and rules and regulations. It is the second class relationship, administrative, like Arjuna.

4.3.-There has not been a good  attitude for some members to authorities.

4.4.- Authorities need teachers for ashrama. And for this Karuna Krsna d give seminars for temple of Chosica y NIMSAR only courses.

HpS - We don't understand the grammar in this???

5.-Some good devotees have recommended that NIMSAR  is low profile for some time (coulb be to April).

6.-What requirements need NIMSAR for enroll in web of MED (Ministery of development of the education)????

HpS - MOE (the name has changed) has the Board of Examiners, and different Temples, ISKCON institutions, can be registered as Bh Sastri, Bh. Vaibhavi centers etc.  The information is on the web site. It is rather disorganized to my point of view, and I am a Member of the Executive Committee of the MOE: http://iskconeducation.org/category/schools/iskcon-board-of-examinations/

I would say that education in ISKCON is just as disorganized on the global level as it is in ISKCON Peru. So we have to each fly our own airplane: Understand what is the goal of education and how to achieve that, then do that as friends with others and then also work on developing it in our institutional roles. GBC Secretaries also have friends within the institution.

With afecction
NIMSAR team.

HpS - Thank you very much for your letters!!!     We seem to be making real progress!    Now to more mail!

Hare Krsna,

If anybody is available, Dr. Samaresh sent us notice of a program by an associate in Irving, Texas on the 23rd, Sunday.

125 w. scotland dr, irving texas 75062

Poster attached!

Hare Krsna, Gurudev 

All glories to srila Prabhupada 

All glories to you gurudev

My humble dandavat pranams your lotus feet 

Hare krsna 

I am more steady in my sadhana now. Regular 16 rounds and 4 regulations are ok ( needs more work on sense control on the subtle level..first is to control my desire to taste tasty prasadam...I am trying to keep my prasadam simple and avoiding food professionally cooked even if inside the temple until or unless I am too hungry ...I feel it is helping me little bit to control my senses)

HpS - Seems that keeping regular times to honor Prasadam is a great help! Even six times a day, but regular times.

In bhaktisastri we completed bhagavat Gita till chapter 12. In 12 chapter  Prabhupada writes that krsna has already given us all the good qualities but we need to develop them from ourselves. No practical advice was given on how to do it. I mean externally do we need to act more humble , not show distress even if we feel distress, etc....what's the best solution.

HpS - SB 5.18.12, no?   Do our service and if we can't do service then, we can try to act in the mode of goodness, follow suggestions for moral behavior of Bhisma Deva, Socrates.

Krsna has also been very merciful. I got to eat \serve mahaprasad in Radha Raman Ji out of the blue. Yesterday I was praying for devotee association of my age but who is very highly realized so that I can progress and krsna sent a very sincere devotee from the 24 hour kirtan team and as I spoke I could feel that he is very realised devotee but he is only my age. He is completly dependent on krsna . I too hope I too can become like him. so much sraddha for krsna . please give me mercy. I am little stupid to understand deeper things that you say. Please guide me gurudev . And forgive me because of my stupidity.

HpS - We should be intelligent enough to explain things properly.

The last answer that you told me helped me a lot. I chant now a days thinking of the fact that I am not this body..sometimes so chanting has improved. 

Please keep me in your prayers.

Lots of love and pranams to you from Vrindavan .thank you for doing the name giving of nitai and nimai. We will have their Maha Abhishek on 14 November and formally start taking care of them from that day .H.G.Mukunda Dutta prabhu is also guiding me. I had the darshan of very very very beautiful Radha shyam in his home.

Hare krsna

Your eternal servent 

Rturaj  krsna das 

Vrindavan

HpS - Hare Krsna.  Thank you.  It is 9.22PM.  We have had a hard day.  Get criticism from some people, but Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!   That is purifying.

We got a replacement computer from Gopinatha Das and sent our sick one back to him. Took a long time with auto breaking down, finding the Fed Ex office. Getting the new compute working. Nice 108 minutes talking with Peru devotees.

Jaya!!!

Good night!