Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba mis respetuosas reverencias, muchas gracias por su respuesta a mi anterior carta.

Copie lo que me respondió y lo traduje con google traductor.

HpS... podemos reiterar lo que le dijimos a Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi sobre el mismo tema.

Según nuestro entendimiento del libro de KRSNA, las Gopis viven en tres niveles y esto se puede aplicar perfectamente a ISKCON:

1. Son buenos ciudadanos de la aldea de Nanda Maharaja. Pagan sus impuestos, intercambian el precio del yogur. Se quejan de lo que consideran incorrecto. Esto es ISKCON a nivel institucional.
2. Tienen su círculo de amistades dentro de la institución. El amigo más cercano del Presidente del Templo puede ser el lavaplatos del Templo. Las gopis miran a su alrededor para ver quién las observa ordeñando vacas y luego empiezan a hablar confidencialmente con otras gopis, sus hermanos, etc.
3. Cada uno de ellos experimenta una relación directa con Krishna. Claro que esto se da a través de muchos medios transparentes, pero esos medios son transparentes, incluso inconscientemente. Nosotros, tú, yo, debemos estar experimentando una relación transparente y directa con Srila Prabhupada. Por la naturaleza de tu potencia interna, eres el discípulo más íntimo de Srila Prabhupada. En nuestro servicio como guru en ISKCON, solo intentamos actuar como ese medio.

¿Quizá estos entendimientos solo sean para devotos avanzados?

A mi me puede tomar mucho tiempo en comprender todo esto, quizá a otros devotos menos.

Hemos estado y estamos viviendo esto personalmente y conocemos a otros que también lo han estado.

¿También?

¡Nunca abandones el ISKCON de SRILA PRABHUPADA!

No puedo dejar Iskcon, aunque algunas veces lo estuve pensando, pero es muy difícil dejar Iskcon, no hay otra cosa mejor que Iskcon, no hay!!!

Nunca tengas miedo de actuar con entusiasmo, valentía y honestidad, para servir en los tres niveles.

Si hay problemas en la Institución, entonces tal vez estén allí simplemente para lograr que los devotos peruanos hagan mejoras, resuelvan problemas que guiarán al mundo entero.

¡No existe ninguna restricción para que usted tome Sannyasa y se convierta en Presidente del GBC!

Hace unos años atrás seguí muchos consejos de tener una vida tipo Vanaprastha, por más que lo intente no funciono en mi persona, ahora en la actualidad y conociendo mi naturaleza nunca tomaría sannyasa.

Es muy importante conocerse a uno mismo, y aceptar su realidad, en lo personal si me tengo que volver a casar o ser Grihasta me casaría, si tengo que tener hijos los tendría, uno no puede reprimir sus sentidos auto-engañándose, mis sentidos, tengo deseos sexuales, no es un tabú, no puedo auto-engañarme, no puedo tapar el sol con un dedo, claro tampoco estoy desesperado, es una lucha a diario.

Para que alguien tome Sannyasa tiene que tener muchas características astrológicas en su carta astral, las cuales yo no tengo.

¿Si uno se conoce a si mismo, tendría que actuar de acuerdo a ello o tendría que ir en contra de su naturaleza?

Bueno Guru Maharaja me despido que el Señor Nrsimha lo proteja siempre y le pido que me perdone cualquier ofensa en mi comentario y en mis preguntas.

Hare Krishna.

Gadai Gauranga Dasa.

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja, please accept my respectful obeisances. Thank you very much for your response to my previous letter.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!!! paoho.

I copied what you replied and translated it with Google Translate.

HpS... can we reiterate what we told Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi on the same subject?

According to our understanding of Krishna's book, the gopis live on three levels, and this can be perfectly applied to ISKCON:

They are good citizens of Nanda Maharaja's village. They pay their taxes, exchange the price of yogurt. They complain about what they consider wrong. This is ISKCON at the institutional level.

They have their circle of friends within the institution. The closest friend of the Temple President may be the Temple dishwasher. The gopis look around to see who is watching them milking cows and then begin to talk confidentially with other gopis, their brothers, etc.

Each of them experiences a direct relationship with Krishna. Of course, this happens through many transparent means, but those means are transparent, even unconsciously. We—you and I—must be experiencing a transparent and direct relationship with Srila Prabhupada. By the nature of your internal potency, you are Srila Prabhupada's closest disciple. In our service as a guru in ISKCON, we only try to act as that medium.

Perhaps these understandings are only for advanced devotees?

HpS - Different levels of understanding these things, but I think that even at the level of 1st initiation one can experience a direct relationship with Srila Prabhupada.

It may take me a long time to understand all this, perhaps less so for other devotees.

We have been and are experiencing this personally, and we know others who have as well.

Also?

Never leave Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON!

I can't leave ISKCON, although I've sometimes thought about it, but it's very difficult to leave ISKCON. There is nothing better than ISKCON, there isn't!

Never be afraid to act with enthusiasm, courage, and honesty, to serve at all three levels.

If there are problems in the Institution, then perhaps they are there simply to encourage Peruvian devotees to make improvements, to solve problems that will guide the entire world.

There are no restrictions for you to take Sannyasa and become President of the GBC!

A few years ago, I followed a lot of advice about living a Vanaprastha-type life. Try as I might, it didn't work for me. Now, knowing my nature, I would never take sannyasa.

It's very important to know yourself and accept your reality. Personally, if I had to remarry or become a Grihasta, I would. If I had to have children, I would. One cannot repress one's senses by deceiving oneself. My senses. I have sexual desires. It's not a taboo. I can't deceive myself. I can't hide the sun with a finger. Of course, I'm not desperate either; it's a daily struggle.

For someone to take Sannyasa, they must have many astrological characteristics in their birth chart, which I don't have.

If one knows themselves, should they act accordingly or go against their nature?

ASA - 🐵 😆 😆 😆 - Like Krsna advises Arjuna, we should purify our nature and then use it in Krsna's service, no?

Well, Guru Maharaja, I bid you farewell. May Lord Nrsimha always protect you. I ask you to forgive any offenses in my comments and questions.

Hare Krishna.

Gadai Gauranga Dasa.

HpS - So, nice. Thank you.

Hope you get chance to get out OUR O U T with Srila Prabhupada on Sankirtan. See you in a few moments.

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

This is an answer to Namacarya prabhu's question in his letter https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15502/ about the letter's statement about the pH requirements of starches and proteins. I am going to relate this to the Ayurvedic concepts of Rasa, Virya and Vipaka.

The key to relating these two perspectives is to understand that Ayurveda and modern biochemistry use different frames of reference to describe the same phenomenon: the difficulty the body experiences when trying to digest certain food combinations.

• The letter Framework (Biochemistry):
• The letter's statement ("starches require an alkaline environment, proteins require an acidic environment, enzymes are neutralized") describes a possible explanation of the digestive mechanism at the molecular level (enzymes and pH). It is based on the observation that certain digestive enzymes (such as amylase for starches in the mouth and small intestine, alkaline environment, and pepsin for proteins in the stomach, acidic environment) function optimally at different levels of acidity or alkalinity. The letter suggests that by combining foods that require these opposite conditions, the digestive system is challenged, leading to inefficient digestion. This is called Viruddha Ahara, incompatible combinations,in Ayurveda.

• The Ayurvedic Framework (Rasa, Virya, Vipaka, Gunas, Agni, Ama):

• Ayurveda describes digestion in terms of the strength of the Agni (digestive fire) and how qualities (gunas), the Rasa (flavor), the Virya (power) and the Vipaka (post-digestive effect) of foods interact with each other and with the Agni and the Doshas.
• Ayurveda does not talk about enzymes or pH. Instead, note that foods with Gunas opposite or very different, or with Virya or Vipaka incompatible, or that they are simply very heavy (Guru), impose an excessive burden on Agni.
• Let's consider complex starches (like grains) and proteins (like dairy or legumes). Both are often considered heavy (Guru) in Ayurveda. Combine two or more foods heavy in a single meal requires very strong Agni to process them completely. If Agni is weak, digestion will be slow and incomplete.
• Furthermore, by their Vipaka they can be different (Madhura for starches and some proteins, but Katu for legumes). Agni has to simultaneously process substances that will end up having different end in metabolic effects, which can also be a challenge for the system.

The Relationship:

The relationship is that both frameworks describe a situation that leads to suboptimal digestion when certain types of foods are combined:

• The letter (biochemical framework) says: Combining starches and proteins can be difficult because the enzymes require different pHs, which can cause "enzymatic conflict" and poor digestion.
• The Ayurveda framework ( R/V/V, Gunas, Agni) says: Combining starches and proteins (especially if they are heavy) can be difficult because their qualities (Gunas) and its transformation processes (Vipaka) are different or impose a heavy burden on the Agni, leading to incomplete digestion.

In essence, the letter's claim about enzymes and pH, offers a possible modern biochemical explanation of why the combination of starches and proteins can challenge the digestive system. Ayurveda describes this same difficulty based on the inherent qualities of food (your Rasa, Virya, Vipaka and Gunas) and their impact on the life force of digestion, the Agni, resulting in the formation of Ama (the undigested material that the letter might, from your perspective, describe as "toxins").

It is not that the Rasa, Virya and Vipaka cause directly the need for a specific pH, but these Ayurvedic properties tell us how the food will affect Agni and the body, which, from a modern perspective, involves a cascade of enzymatic reactions and pH adjustments that can be compromised by incompatible combinations.

They are two different languages ​​describing the same observable truth: the combination of certain foods, such as starches and proteins (especially if they are heavy or have very opposite qualities), can make digestion difficult and generate toxic waste (Ama).

I hope this explanation helps Namacarya prabhu see the connection point between both approaches. If you have any more questions, please let me know.

At your service,

Nikunja Bihari das.

ASA 🐵

- Nikunja Bihari Das is regular Western M. D. and Ayurvedic savant and successful practitioner for many years in Argentina. He has/had a nice dog and wife and children and rural and municipal estates.

We will send this link to Sripad Anantesvara Das who is very experienced Ayurvedic Doctor here in Nila madhava Dhama.

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias,

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada,

Esta es una respuesta a la pregunta de Namacarya prabhu en su carta https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15502/ acerca de la afirmación de la carta sobre los requerimientos de pH de los almidones y las proteínas. Voy a relacionar esto con los conceptos Ayurvédicos de Rasa, Virya y Vipaka.

La clave para relacionar estas dos perspectivas está en comprender que el Ayurveda y la bioquímica moderna utilizan marcos de referencia diferentes para describir el mismo fenómeno: la dificultad que el cuerpo experimenta al intentar digerir ciertas combinaciones de alimentos.

• El Marco de la Carta (Bioquímica):
• La afirmación de la carta ("los almidones requieren un ambiente alcalino, las proteínas requieren un ambiente ácido, las enzimas se neutralizan") describe una posible explicación del mecanismo digestivo a nivel molecular (enzimas y pH). Se basa en la observación de que ciertas enzimas digestivas (como la amilasa para almidones en la boca y el intestino delgado, ambiente alcalino y la pepsina para proteínas en el estómago, ambiente ácido) funcionan óptimamente en diferentes niveles de acidez o alcalinidad. La carta sugiere que al combinar alimentos que requieren estas condiciones opuestas, el sistema digestivo se ve desafiado, lo que lleva a una digestión ineficiente. Esto se llama Viruddha Ahara, combinaciones incompatibles.
• El Marco Ayurvédico (Rasa, Virya, Vipaka, Gunas, Agni, Ama):

• El Ayurveda describe la digestión en términos de la fuerza del Agni (fuego digestivo) y cómo las cualidades (Gunas), el Rasa (sabor), el Virya (potencia) y el Vipaka (efecto post-digestivo) de los alimentos interactúan entre sí y con el Agni y los Doshas.
• Ayurveda no habla de enzimas o pH. En cambio, observa que alimentos con Gunas opuestas o muy diferentes, o con Virya o Vipaka incompatibles, o que simplemente son muy pesados (Guru), imponen una carga excesiva al Agni.
• Consideremos los almidones complejos (como cereales) y las proteínas (como lácteos o legumbres). Ambos son a menudo considerados pesados (Guru) en Ayurveda. Combinar dos o más alimentos pesados en una sola comida requiere un Agni muy fuerte para procesarlos completamente. Si el Agni es débil, la digestión será lenta e incompleta.
• Además, sus Vipaka pueden ser diferentes (Madhura para almidones y algunas proteínas, pero Katu para legumbres). El Agni tiene que procesar simultáneamente sustancias que terminarán teniendo efectos metabólicos finales distintos, lo que también puede ser un desafío para el sistema.

La Relación:

La relación es que ambos marcos describen una situación que lleva a una digestión subóptima cuando se combinan ciertos tipos de alimentos:

• La carta (marco bioquímico) dice: La combinación de almidones y proteínas puede ser difícil porque las enzimas requieren pH diferentes, lo que puede causar un "conflicto enzimático" y mala digestión.
• El marco Ayurveda ( R/V/V, Gunas, Agni) dice: La combinación de almidones y proteínas (especialmente si son pesados) puede ser difícil porque sus cualidades (Gunas) y sus procesos de transformación (Vipaka) son diferentes o imponen una carga pesada al Agni, llevando a una digestión incompleta.

En esencia, la afirmación de la carta sobre las enzimas y el pH ofrece una posible explicación bioquímica moderna de por qué la combinación de almidones y proteínas puede desafiar el sistema digestivo. El Ayurveda describe esta misma dificultad basándose en las cualidades inherentes de los alimentos (su Rasa, Virya, Vipaka y Gunas) y su impacto en la fuerza vital de la digestión, el Agni, lo que resulta en la formación de Ama (el material no digerido que la carta podría, desde su perspectiva, describir como "toxinas").

No es que el Rasa, Virya y Vipaka causen directamente la necesidad de un pH específico, sino que estas propiedades Ayurvédicas nos indican cómo el alimento afectará el Agni y el cuerpo, lo cual, desde una perspectiva moderna, involucra una cascada de reacciones enzimáticas y ajustes de pH que pueden verse comprometidos por combinaciones incompatibles.

Son dos lenguajes diferentes describiendo la misma verdad observable: la combinación de ciertos alimentos, como almidones y proteínas (especialmente si son pesados o tienen cualidades muy opuestas), puede dificultar la digestión y generar residuos tóxicos (Ama).

Espero que esta explicación ayude a Namacarya prabhu ver el punto de conexión entre ambos enfoques. Si tienen más preguntas, por favor, háganmelo saber.

A su servicio,

Nikunja Bihari das.

Dear Maharaja and devotees;

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

On Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 7.30am, Houston time, we will continue reading chapter 13 (The Lord's Dancing at Ratha-yatra~~Madhya Lila), verse 13.115 onwards; we will be able to finish about 40 verses

ASA 🐵 🐖 . ..🐖 we are waiting with great enthusiasm.

Thank you to H. G. Nikunja Bihari Prabhu & H. G. Mitravinda Mataji for doing Spanish translation for class on April May 11 for CC reading notes and Maharaja's class. For May 18, 2025, class: both of them has graciously agreed to do Spanish translation for reading notes on CC & Spanish translation for Maharaja's class.

Maharaja, thank you for engaging everyone in reading systematically books of Srila Prabhupada.

Your Servant

Upendra dasa

77th Maharaja’s Vyasa Pooja offerings 2024

Nama om vishnu padaya Krishna presthaya bhu tale

srimate HanumatPresaka Swamin iti namine

Om ajnana timirandhasya

jnananjana salakaya

caksur unmilitam yena

tasmai sri gurave namah

mukam karoti vachalam

pangum langhayate girim

yat kripa tam aham vande

shri GuruMaharaj dina taranam

Hare Krishna Srila Gurudeva,

Please accept my sincere and humble obeisances at your lotus feet. 🙇‍♂️

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to you, Gurudeva!

Happy Krishna Conscious 77th Birthday to you, Gurudeva!

On this most auspicious day of your appearance, I humbly offer my gratitude, though I feel unqualified to do so.

Gurudeva, I still remember the first time I saw you in 2020 at the airport and received your vapu association. You are such an expert preacher, empowering so many people like me with your vapu and vani. Every time I hear you speak, I am amazed—my questions are answered even before I ask them.

Today, we are celebrating your 77th Vyasa Puja. Not only your disciples but the entire ISKCON of Richmond congregation is celebrating with love. Every devotee in our congregation has at least one memorable moment with you, Gurudeva. That is how much love you have shared with us.

Your compassion knows no bounds, as you see Krishna in every living being. I still remember an incident in your ashram where some ants were near the sink. I was about to kill them, but you stopped me. You carefully took them and threw them outside gently, sparing their lives.

You also bring joy with your sense of humor. I recall wearing Adidas shoes once, and you pointed out, saying, “Did you see that? It says ‘Adi Das.’” Since then, I stopped wearing that brand!

Gurudeva, your every visit gives us memories to cherish for a lifetime. I will hold onto these moments until my last breath.

Thank you so much for always emphasizing the importance of chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra attentively and studying Srila Prabhupada’s books with great faith and enthusiasm. After hearing your dynamic lectures and the way you explain Srila Prabhupada’s purports so strongly, I truly feel that Srila Prabhupada is living in his books.

Please continue to guide me and help me to remain under your shelter always. I pray for your mercy and blessings to overcome my unwanted desires and steadily progress on the path of bhakti.

Our sincere prayers to Lord Gauranga Mahaprabhu are for your health and energy so that you can continue distributing His love to millions of conditioned souls.

Gurudeva, it is my sincere desire to assist you in some small way in your service to Srila Prabhupada. Please allow me to stay in devotional service and remain close to your lotus feet.

Thank you very much for accepting me as your disciple.

Your insignificant servant,

RamaKrishnananda Das

HpS - When, agtSP, we see you in the full morning program we are always happy.

we see you as an engine in mechanics ville just filling your furnace with fuel. doing your work in the field and making all your neighbors think about KRSNA, the SPOG!!!

Gaura Nitai!

GAURA NITAI!

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Hope you have more and more chance to meet your neighbors and engage them in deity worship.

braja raja krsna das!

adi das shoes and products are nice, no?

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

PAMHO

AGTSP

This year for me was exceptionally good for my Krsna conciusness, but everything started to move on the last 2 or 3 months before this year concludes, I'm super happy that I finally was able to see you, now I'm Germany I have meet a lot of people here, very nice and devoties and also I meet one mataji called Kanu Priya, she thanks to my (spiritual) big brother Jara Mara that put us in contact, she is very kind, now I'm writting this from one campament of the european group Erasmus it's basically a meeting of joung devoties and it's the forat time in my life that I can be myself with other people I just so glad for everything, with you, with Jara Mara, with Kanu Priya and of curse with Krsna that for that, also I finally found what happiness is for me in this world and it is being with Krsna and thinking in him, this for me are very deep pensamientos thay I would like to tell you in person but I don't know if the time will allow me do tell you in person.

Was also challenging and I found a lot of dificulties to continue with my service but thanks to all the devoties and Krsna I could keep on.

With few to nothing to add I say good bye and I hope that you will have a excelent Vyasa-Puja :D 

hps!!!!

Hare Krishna Dear Maharaja!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

hps /asa - yes. yes. yes. yes. agtsp

We have seen SP's synthesis: fresh and beautiful, embodied in his loving suggestions, namely...

– 16 good rounds very early in the morning… observing and perfecting the four principles.

SP lives in his books.

If we can breathe we can chant.

If you write books with only the Maha mantra on their pages, they are perfect books.

¡Super¡ ¡Super¡ ¡Super¡

-So here we remain… attentive to the taste of the water and to the innocent people who approach us with thirst.

I am a pygmy trying to follow in your footsteps Mharaja,

hps/asa = we are like a black crow hopping along trying to follow prabhupada!. hope he keeps us all engaged!

hope we can be a link in the chain. it is no credit to us whatsoever.

guru krpa.

if we can serve as guru to anybody that is their mercy. thank you.

maybe it is the same for you.

maybe you have disciples. too.

just they are few years younger than you.

biological children.

joined iskcon later.

by their mercy that use you as a tool.

thank you.

but we know perfectly well that enthusiasm, will and confidence are the allies in the transition towards the common purpose that is in sight, but so far away… To please Krishna.

Therefore I pray to Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva to give absolute protection to that wonderful person who selflessly gives practical instruction on how to unconditionally surrender ourselves at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to you

Ekchacra N. C. das

ASA - Uncle GIsmo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekachakra

go on!!! go on!!! go on!!!! you are helping so many people!!!! just go on!

Hare Krishna ¡Querido Maharaja!

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Hemos visto la síntesis de SP: plena y hermosa, plasmada en tus amorosas sugerencias a saber…

– 16 buenas rondas muy temprano por la mañana … observando y perfeccionando los cuatro principios.

 SP vive en sus libros.

 Si podemos respirar podemos cantar.

Si escribes libros en cuyas páginas solo existe el Maha mantra son libros perfectos.

 ¡¡Super Super Super¡¡

 -Entonces, aquí permanecemos… atentos al sabor del agua y a las personas inocentes que se acercan a nosotros con sed.

 Soy un pigmeo intentando seguir tus pasos Mharaja, pero sabemos perfectamente que es el entusiasmo, la voluntad y la confianza los aliados en el tránsito hacia el propósito común y a la vista, pero tan lejano… Agradar a Krisna.

 Me apena pensar que te iras de este mundo antes que nosotros. (Aunque Krisna sea el que tiene siempre la última palabra). Aun así, creo yo, hace ya mucho tiempo que has partido de este mundo, aunque al parecer… tus brazos, piernas, manos etc. aún permanecen aquí…

 Por lo tanto, ruego al Señor Nṛsiṁhadeva que brinde absoluta protección a esa persona maravillosa que aporta desinteresadamente la instrucción práctica de como entregarnos incondicionalmente a los pies de loto de Srila Prabhupada.

Todas las glorias a Ti

Ekachacra N. C. das