Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna!!!

Please accept my humble obeisances Guru Maharaja.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Dear Gurudeva!!!, a moment ago, I wrote, to Gunagrahi Prabhu with your messaje, and I will wait his answer.
I now read DTC for  know about You, for the moment I don't have computer.

Some news of the Temple? President? Sankirtan?

The temple is well, Now the president is MAha HAri, the other devotee, Mahatma had a crisis, because was very strong shock that his Guru fell, but now He and His wife are well in Brasil with Maharaja Danvanthari, and they are smarth. They are doing the course of Bhakti Sastri. Some devotees give their association and assistence.

The Devotees here, all right, The Sankirtan Program is stable, some brahmacaris in future are changing for the next Ashram, and there are three new Bhaktas.

I will write in the next ekadasi

Thanks for all!!!

Your Servant

Adi Yajña Das

HpS - Jaya!!!        We didn't see a new letter on Ekadasi!   Don't let our slowness impede you. So enlivening us to hear of you and BsAs.   Hope to be there in April.

"In this verse Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī advises the devotee to be intelligent enough to distinguish between the kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, madhyama-adhikārī and uttama-adhikārī. The devotee should also know his own position and should not try to imitate a devotee situated on a higher platform.", NOI 5

So, we should know this if we are actually Brahmanas, no?  Prabhupada is our Acharya and in his light we can see other members of ISKCON and even other people from ISKCON's windows. He wants us to chant 16 enthusiastic rounds daily and follow the 4 principles strictly.    Ooof!   If we just do that, "vidya vadhu jivanam", we will get sufficient intelligence about what to do next: Books, Daily schedule, Institutional work in ISKCON.   Do you feel like preaching to ISKCON devotees, innocent people you meet, is the only real engagment you have? Other than that we cannot maintain our own little bubble of sanity?   Seems that to be "peacefully" situated in Goloka (consciousness), we have to do Sadhana sankirtan in this world until our mind is dead and then the soul's natural  E C S T A T I C love of Krsna comes out.

Push, push, push  ... PUSH!

Hare Krishna Maharaja 

So I spent February to July at my farm developing it. Then I was invited to go with young devotees from Michigan to rainbow gathering. Right after the gathering I joined the Warped tour with your former disciple primarily to help drive and cultivate 3 interested young men also in the van, I'm not distributing books much cause I don't want to upset the other TSKP. If possible I want to spend time again in the Boro with you?

Hare Krishna 

HpS - Hare Krsna.   Thank you for the letter.     You can see from the DTCs that we are struggling to move ahead here in our little service.  Maybe we are still on a very much Karma yoga platform that we are motivated by a particular type of service that stimulates our mind and senses materially generated, preaching in the world of Carl Jung et al. That of course, makes it a little tough because we are more isolated from Sadhu sanga than in the Jnana-misra Bhakti stage or the Dhyana-misra bhakti.

But wherever we are, that is where we are, and our path of progress is acting according to Vaikuntha, Ayodhya, Mathura ... then we can advance at the swiftest pace to the little forest of Goloka. Is correct?

Thank you for news of Phillip the Sankirtan man.   We certainly hope he has all success in his efforts.

We should be based here until the end of December. We have been pushing to get our calendar settled for little bit of travel on the East coast in October-November, but it has been dragging. Now we made a commitment that we are going to do it this week. Looks like 24th Oct - 27th November, we will be visiting D.C., Richmond and Raleigh. Want to join us then?  Airplane.

Other than that of course you are always welcome to stay in the Ashrama here. NGD is always asking about you. Of course, we do a lot of this solitary writing work, but we could also engage you in some of that maybe. Cultural Sankirtan. We are trying to grow flowers and maybe beans on our property, then there is always MTSU!!

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

ASA - Apple, peach, apricot feet.

    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

HpS - ASA - Jaya!

    Gurudev, Thank you so much.

    After 3 month of backup seva (service) finally, yesterday (on August 11, 2016), i
    have involved for 'Utsav deity sayan' seva, was sooo happy and thankful to you
    while entering the altar.

HpS - Haaaare!!!   So, nice.  Just like going to Vrndavana for a few days..

   Now, I have three below seva in deity department:
    1. Syan dressing seva of 'Utsav deity' on Friday evening.
    2. Raj Bhog seva on Saturday noon.
    3. Backup seva on Sunday evening.

   Then slowly will get chance to move for other deity worship seva.

   Now you could edit the disciple list with my second initiation details, if you feel so.

HpS - Awwwk!   We didn't do it.  What was the exact date we gave you Second Initiation.

   Continuing with BG now a days - two classes.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA --- How is your preaching at work???   It may be slow but it can also be very profound. Are you thinking of going directly into Sannyasa life, no Grhastha life.

HARE KRISHNA DEAR GURUDEVA

TLGASP

PAMHO

Dear Gurudeva, le agradezco por su pronta respuesta, le envío el reporte sobre la situación del Yatra. Antes de su visita las cosas estaban un poco confusas, nada estaba claro de como estaba siendo dirigido el Yatra, muchos problemas, en casa donde se encontraban las Deidades. Pero al final se llevaron las Deidades a Casa de P. Goura Rupa, quien estaba manteniendo un programa estable con ayuda de P Rohini y Ananda Maya, entonces Purusam Bhusana, presisente aún, conversó con P. Goura Rupa a quien le pidió acoger a sus Señorías en su casa, con la autorización y bendiciones  de Srila Virabahu Prabhu Maharaja y P. Mathures se llevaron a sus Señorías a la casa de P. Goura Rupa. Poco despues de su visita, pasó algo, P Purususam renunció a su cargo y pidió a P Mathuresh conversar con P . Goura Rupa para que asumiera la Presidencia del Yatra, el mismo que aceptó ya que todo el programa ocurría en su casa. Ahora se estpa procediendo con la devolución de los enseres del Templo, solo hay un problema con las cosas del Restaurant, pues los enseres se enontraban en la casa de B. Marco pero al parecer los llevo a otro lugar sin autorización, pero estamos de tratar de resilver eso, aunque no pertenezco a la junta, tengo cierto grado de responsabilidad sobre esto, pero creemos que eso se resolvera de buena manera. Ahora se esta organizando un Yatra Yatra para setiembre y la visita de Madhava Prabhu, esto lo están organizando Goura Rupa y Rohini Kumar Prabhu, nosotros estamos apoyando con lo que podemos. Creemos que despues de la tormenta viene la calma, se ve que se está iendo por buen puerto, organizar todo, como le comenté en el correo anterior nos vamos a hacer responsables de algunos programas, con las bendiciones de P. Gaura Rupa, nada separada del Templo. Si mantenemos los programas, nuestro sadana y nuestras rondas, satisfaciendolo a UD Dear Gurudeva, vamos a tener sus bendiciones para seguir empujando este barco de nuestro amado Srila Prabhupada. Dear Gurudeva, le seguiré informando sobre la situación del Templo, se ve que los devotos están entusuiastas en levantar y mejorar el Programa en el Templo, con la misma visión. Muchas gracias por su misericordia Dear Gurudeva, que la Misericordia de Sri Krishna se derrame siempre sobre UD. 

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva.

su inutil aspirante a sirviente.

GD's

HpS - ASA -  -   Hare Krsna,   We responded to this report before, no?   Hmmm?   Maybe it didn't get posted, but thank you. Keep trying to work with the ISKCON institution. Become the leader of the whole institution if necessary. It is your responsibility to Srila Prabhupada, but also remember that besides the formalities of administration in the Institution we also have our circle of friends in ISKCON and then we also have our own direct experience of Krsna and Srila Prabhupada! More Sankirtan in Cusco, center of the world!

Hare Krishna Maharaj

PAMHO. AGTSP!

Its complicated, but due to XXX [the enthusiasm of the senior devotees here], I have had to postpone my initiation. It appears as though Srila Prabhupada's appearance day (26/08 Aust. time) will be the most auspicious and probable date for the initiation.

I beg your blessings in this regard.

Please accept my apologies for the lateness of this communique.

Your servant,

Jay.

HpS - ASA --  Jaya!  Jaya!   Jaya!      Yes, we were wondering what had happened, but this letter is pretty fast news. Yes again, Srila Prabhupada's appearance day would be a very asupicious day to take initiation. You can always remember it and take a look each year on that date how your service is growing!

Oink! Oink!     Whoop!  WHooP!    '@'     'g'         8.11PM. We just finished "Noche Sabado Directo". "Saturday Night Live", on Start Meeting. About 11-devotees in thre groups. Is getting better and better.

For us it was almost impossible in the beginning because it comes at the end of Saturday which is a very full day, and so we were exhausted, but now we are getting our rhythm and planning our energy.

We were doing the Blog mail and then the connection collapsed!   So, we did as much as we can. We seem to be getting our senses under control more and more.   I guess and ordinary person is addicted to Peparoni Pizza and Beer and Hot DVDs with his friends Saturday night, although Sunday morning he feels like hell. So we may have problems with chocolate cake or condensed milk, or too much fruit, but still these are obstacles to doing better and better service.

Krsna loves to dance with pretty girls!!!   But you have to be a good dancer to do this with Him.  We HOPE we are progressing.  Seems that we are getting a practical rhythm here so that we can get a lot of work done in the next four months: End of August to End of December.

Our focus has been Art and the Sacred, 2018, but Ramon has been approved by the Congress in Peru as Minister for the 200th anniversary of Peru's independence celebration. So, we are suggesting Dr. Sameresh and Kalyankumar can write about this very, very strongly from the perspective of India's experience of Colonialism and the aftermanth.

This can also be done in art. If our world is dominated by this European colonial consciousness what will we have?  War?  Animal slaughter?

Is Indian and Peruvian traditional consciousness a good step toward Krsna consciousness?  Prabhupada established the "Sunday Feast". That is not a Vedic festival. He catered to his best customers, Hippies.

Art, like Ekasma Das and others can do is the way to create traveling shows that go on large scale form town to town to educate the people. Then the government will be good!!