Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,

I am almost crying thinking of the Temple in Kolkatt, Radha Govinda,B'caris, community, your self etc.
I hope we can have a little place in the Yatra eternally.

I just purchased our ticket.

We arrive in Kolkatta at 1.45PM, on Monday, January 9th, on Indigo 9E-992, from Channai.

Please start to think of service for us. Of course, we are working 100% with Dr. Samaresh. We are developing appreciation of Indian culture, Vedic Culture, Rupa Goswami, ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, Science and the Vedas and especially this Peru - India connection and Psychology and the Sacred.

I will send you more information as it develops.

Our cellular is.....

From: Acarya Ratna Das_ISKCONKOL 
To: jayarama108....
Cc: Harsh Pradhan, samaresh bandyopadhyay; Mukunda Lila P; Purushottama Keshava Das Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: HpSwami
 

Respected HH Hanumat Preshak swami maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I was very happy to watch small video on YouTube on psychology and sacred 2016. Congratulations for successful event for pleasure of Srila Prabhupada.

We will be very happy to receive your association in Kolkata, birth city of Srila Prabhupada. Kindly let us know your dates of arrival. I hope we can have more positive and fruitful discussions and hope we can move forward in NIOS services.

Thanking you,
Your servant,
Acaryaratna das

On 12-Sep-2016 9:42 pm, "jayarama108...." wrote:

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,AGTSP!    Paoho.   We have not heard much from you for a
long time, but of course you have also not heard much from us either.
Dr. Samaresh tried several times and ways to call the devotee whose phone
number you gave us and it was always, "Out of Reach", even on the weekends.
 Lamentably I could not follow up on that any more.
We really are hoping to get the association of all of you soon.
We have continued with this academic Sankirtan and by the unlimited mercy of
Srila Prabhupada there have been amazing results. The last thing we did was a
Symposium on Psychology and the Sacred in partnership with the National Library
of Peru. This is one of the most prestigious and interesting in the world, with
many ancient manuscripts and intense areas of artistic and scholarly
investigation.
Please, go to youtube.com and use the keywords: psychology and the sacred 2016,
to find a short and little longer, very illuminating, video extract of the
event. The Ambassador of India, the scholars, everyone, wants to develop this
more.
I hope very much that you and everyone can take leading effort in this
Sankirtan, why else call your selves residents of Kolkatta, the City of Joy.
We got a Houston - Delhi - Houston ticket for only $785!    We will be in the
glorious land of Bharata from 1st January to 15th February.  The beginning and
end are tied down with 2-6 January and 7-10th in Tirupati and Madras with
Radhika-raman and Krsna-ksetra for a Vaisnava-Christian Dialog and a Bhagavata
Symposium, University of Madras.
Are you participating in these???
Then at the end like 10-14th February is the Guru, GBC, Sannyasi Sanga in Sri
Sri Sri Dhama Maypura.
What shall we do in between. We have calls from Rama-giri-dhari Das and Goloka
Education, Pune, and Manipur, but we are always very much at your
service!!!What city can be more enlivening than Kolkatta!

Dear Gurudeva, pamho, TLGASP!!!

Le escribi tres reportes por esta via,

 llegaron a su carpeta de recibidos?

HpS - We received one and we just answered it. It was very nice.

A lo mejor no hice bien al enviarlos, podria volver a enviarlos....

Es eso necesario?

                                   Perdone hacerle perder su valioso tiempo de Sankirtan Gurudeva...

                                                                          Su tonto discipulo AmD

HpS - Aaaah!  Si, hay dos mas de cuatro dias.  Estamos esforsando responder entre tres dias, pero bastante estamos comentando en DTC cuantos dias falta de responder. Ya es tres dias. Hoy dia sus otros.
Gracias!!!!

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We are really missing the association of this blog and have been proliferating what to write, and decided to tell ourselves to keep it simple stupid or else we have the tendency to speculate and analyze an action for so long we don't do it. Thanks to Srinivas Prabhu for consulting to us junior leaguers to send a paragraph a month instead of a book to you. I think to be honest Guru Maharaj I deliberate because I always want to be doing better than I am and then give a sparkling report. Now I will be reporting As it is, the tale of Kamagayatri bafoonery once a month in 800 words or less. Then our procrastination tendencies (BG 18.28) can take a hitchhike, small obtainable goals, and the tortoise can win the race. Thankyou Guru Maharaj for listening to our babble.

Right now we do the peer support services, a type of social work I guess 4 to 5 days a week with clients in between service and 2 days we have off with Aja where we read SB, Ramayana, do homeschool, cook, etc. We hope to become more regulated and attend readings at the temple as well at 8 am before his Spanish kindergarten school days on Monday and Tuesday. Individual classes on BG with you and Ananta Rupa on Wednesday and Friday which requires an hour of studying on our own time, damodarastikam at the temple as well in the evenings. We do the cooking, offering, and Arati every Thursday since Murari left the beginning of September (he will be back November 13th), cooking Saturday morning, and Guru Puja every Sunday. With Arudha leaving and class ending we'll do the Arati on Wednesday night and Saturday until Murari returns.

Sunday school has been going on at a slow throttle speed after we wrapped up our week long Krsna camp using Arudha's SB comprehensive guide. The Krsna Janmastami camp was a great turn out of a dozen children ages 3 to 12, making paper mache dioramas, practicing there Damadarastikam pastime play, kids Kirtan and Krsna storytime with Mother Arudha, feasts cooked every day by the mothers, cupcakes, pizza and prasad junk food, water games in the afternoon. We also made a kids Rathayathra cart this last July...so activities have been steady.  Now interest is finally there and Krsna has sent volunteers so we can do a 6 week Sunday school session with the devotee kids and congregation kids. We will be starting after Diwali am with Ananta Rupa guiding/encouraging and some mother volunteers to help. Trying  to balance work, school, seva, Japa so our head does not fall off. We were supposed to study for a test to pass the national counselor exam and get licensed, but we may have to put this off until end of January since there are pressing services and it's hard to see prabhuji do so much at his age... Ananta Rupa says we have more determination now, but honestly Im working on consistency steadiness and confidence. We are getting high association from high places which helps with this, but we definitely need more confidence that we possess the maturity, faith, and intelligence to maintain this schedule.. we will very much miss the Wednseday classes. Guru Maharaj will there still be something digital we can attend?

Thankyou for saving us from the snake pit of maya and having mercy on a rascal like us, we can't imagine how miserable we would be without it. The snakes are still trying to charm us no doubt, but for now my only maya is 100 psychology, self help and contemporary fiction books we got through a going out of business sale and we Created a rule of reading after finishing our devotional daily tasks and usually we are too tired to be able to pursue it. Is this is ok, I'm not sure? Art sometimes reminds me too much of a past life worth forgetting about, but I am interested in studying Different styles of prose writing to get a grasp on how I would like to write. Let me know if you have some thoughts on how to study without taking in the association of the writer, if that's even possible ... Thankyou so much !!! For listening. 

Your aspiring servant,

Kamagayatri Dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna. Focus on chanting 16+ good rounds. Adjust everything to support, stimulate this, husband, Church, children, progression, recreation, etc. You will then discover your level of spiritual life. May be very impersonal. Chanting at its best may be based upon a series of transcendental though material tricks to engage the mind, but that's okay.

Otherwise where will the center of your life be with so many things happening?

We will try to work with Boise temple for nice class programs that you can join.

Your life seems such potentially wonderful! ! !

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

In Introduction of D. Haberman's rendition of Bhaktirasamrtasindhu, there are  citations from Neal Delmonico (aka Nitai das). Considering the case Nitai had with Srila Prabhupada, how should we take that D. Haberman cites Nitai?

AC Bhaktivedanta Swami - Letter to: ALL GBC MEMBERS -- Vrindaban 15 September, 1976

NOTE TO ALL GBC MEMBERS:

Please let it be known that Nitai has become a venomous serpent. Be careful of him.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: ALL GBC MEMBERS -- Vrindaban 15 September, 1976

Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - Thank you very much. We did not know his secular name. Prabhupada praised s book that Satsvarupa Maharaja wrote for university students, dating that he had chief Si many demons but his bio had not been contaminated.

We would have to look at the individual citations. We disagree with some of the things D Haberman says. We try to use it for its practical knowledge. DH respects devotees, devotee scholars.

. Lord Chaitanya took Sannyasa in Mayavadu sampradaya took reach the scholars etc.

O.K?

Dearest Esteemed Guru Maharaj,

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

I am most humbled that you remembered a sinner like me. I feel that I am still very much a toddler in my spiritual life. I often try to walk, but fall again and again. Many a time, I have hurt myself from the fall. I am now trying to improve my sadhana. I am keeping a better track of how many rounds are remaining from my daily 16 rounds, and if some were left, I try to complete them the next day or before the end of the week. The one thing that I keep forgetting is the importance of taking shelter of you Guruji and taking your association. I get so involved and mentally insecure about my life, my job, my salary, my finances, my accounts, my taxes, on and on, etc..., that I forget to take shelter. I recently visited the church! It was the TAMUK BSM - Texas A&M University - Kingsville Baptist Student Ministry. One student invited me for a prayer session and so I went with him. I learned a lot and gained insight forcing me to reflect on my own faith from the prayers and sermon. The priest definitely put a lot of emphasis on the word of God and how the word became Jesus. I remember how you used to teach us about the Logos in your own lectures. I realized how much need there is for me to study the scriptures, both of my own Vaishnava tradition and the Christian faith, from which we can also learn a lot. I sometimes or often times feel bogged down by my corporeal desires, especially relating to material success. I think what life would have been like if I did not have those desires and if I led a much simpler life. The church sermon especially pointed out something that showed how shallow my relationship with God was. In John 4, Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman who accepts his word and spreads it to her townspeople. The woman was not a follower of Christ for any miracle or for any material gifts, but for his word. I realized how shallow my relationship with the Paramatma Shri Krishna was, wherein I ask him for material gains and don't ever think of worshipping Him only for His sake or knowing Him only for His sake. 

Maharaja, I have far to go on the spiritual path and am only an infant in wake of God's path.

Your aspiring servant,

Aja Govinda dasa

HPS -

silly disciple Amd

.HpS AgtSP! Paoho. Sita abandoned her program with the university in Cuzco?

 your news is very nice to hear. Pray chant, to get a deep program from Krsna. Who are you keeping for associates?

again, your program seems super. You seem to be making a very substantial contribution to the happiness of this world

Dear Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Seguimos esforzándonos para terminar nuestras 16 rondas diarias, y seguir los 4 principios… Maya es fuerte y siempre que encuentre hierba mala alrededor de nuestra plantita del Bhakti, las usara como instrumentos para tentarnos, así que vamos a trabajar en nuestro jardín…

En estos meses desde que Usted se fue de Perú, nos invitaron para apoyar a programas de predica a Huancayo y Cusco… Ahora estamos ya un par de semanas en nuestro cuarto en Chosica, con Karunamayi, Arjuna y Sita… Ellos vinieron del Cusco dejando sus planes, por 6 meses, con la esperanza de poder ir al Santo Dham… Ahora con Krsna Balaram, Lord Nrishimhadev y sus asociados, somos muchos para un cuarto… Intentaremos buscarnos un mejor lugar pronto, pero todos estaremos según lo programado hasta final de febrero en Chosica… Espero que ellos le manden su propio reporte….

Nos hemos involucrado en un programa de Harinam de tres horas diarias por 6 meses (ya llevamos un mes) y a lo mejor Guru y Gauranga puedan complacerse con nosotros y abrirnos las puertas del Santo Dham para Gaura Purnima 2017…. Aparte de este reporte le estoy enviando dos cartas más…. Si Usted necesita más detalles, estamos listos para responder… Estamos tratando de seguir sus instrucciones, que es donde residen las bendiciones del maestro espiritual… Que podríamos hacer sin ellas? Por favor bendíganos para poder seguir adelante en esta lucha…

                                                                   Su tonto discípulo AmD.

Dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

We are continuing striving to finish our 16 rounds daily, and following the 4 principles ... Maya is strong and always finds bad weed around our little plant of Bhakti, she will use as instruments to tempt us, so we will work on our garden ...

In these months since you left Peru, we were invited to support programs of preaches in Huancayo and Cusco ... Now we are already a couple of weeks in our room in Chosica, with Karunamayi, Arjuna and Sita ... They came from Cusco leaving their plans, for 6 months, with the hope to go to the Holy Dham ... Now with Krsna Balaram, Lord Nrishimhadev and Their associates, we are many for a room ... We will try to get us a better place soon, but we will all be, as scheduled, until the end of February in Chosica ... I hope they will send their own report ....

We have engaged in a Harinam program of three hours daily for 6 months (and we took one month) at best Guru and Gauranga can please with us and open the doors of the Holy Dham to Gaura Purnima 2017 .... Apart from this report I am sending two letters .... If you need more details, we are ready to respond ... We are trying to follow your instructions, where reside the blessings of the spiritual master ... what could we do without them? Please bless us to move forward in this fight ...

                                                                   His silly disciple Amd

.HpS AgtSP! Paoho. Sita abandoned her program with the university in Cuzco?

your news is very nice to hear. Pray chant, to get a deep program from Krsna. Who are you keeping for associates?

again, your program seems super. You seem to be making a very substantial contribution to the happiness of this world! !