Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Siksha Gurudeva,

HpS/ASA - Maybe very, very, small moon beam from a higher reality. AgtSP! 😃

...please kindly accept my most humble obeisances; all glories to his divine grace, Srila Prabhupada; all glories to you, his sincere and dedicated disciple.

HpS/ASA - 75%, by His Divine Grace. .0001% by our own sincerity.

I hope that all is going well with you in your life, particularly in your selfless service to Srila Prabhupada.

HpS//ASA - Think it is just about the same as yours!

As for myself, I am still being humbled because of my stubborn and rebellious mind. During japa time my mind is splayed out like a flood light, instead of focusing like lazer or a spot light. I get so frustrated and upset because I find I haven't made any advancement with regards to controlling my mind.

Japa meditation isn't just a routine performance that we can go through just for the sake of saying "my rounds are finally done."

It scares me to acknowledge my failure.

Nearly my whole adult life has been dedicated to the chanting of the holy names, along with studying and distributing the transcendental knowledge Srila Prabhupada taught us.

Still, my mind can only focus on material sense gratification.

I woke up from a dream last night, in which I strangely found myself re-enlisting in the armed forces (I am a veteran, having served during the Vietnam War).

In the dream I was completely disturbed that I had agreed to serve in the military again. It was then that I woke up, thinking that I don't really want to serve Krishna, because I am too attached to serving Maya.

ASA - Photo attached.

I wish with all my heart that I could sincerely cry out to Krishna during japa.

Fulfillment of such a desire is not possible without the causeless mercy of Krishna and the spiritual master.

This is what we chant every single morning: the prayers glorifying the spiritual master and Krishna.

It is absolutely essential that we receive the mercy of Krishna and the spiritual master. And therein lies my problem: failure to surrender.

I felt compelled to share these thoughts, as my rebellious mind pressed heavily on me during my japa this morning.

Your Lowly servant,

Balabhadra Dasa

HpS/ASA - What percentage of devotees in our graduating class of ISKCON even chant their rounds. They don't have 16-bad rounds. They have no rounds!

They have happiness and frustration with little things: Wife, Family, Car, Job, Politics, Toys...

Of after all these years we are still concerned with evaluation of our ritual exercises in terms of the GIANT, Krsna, then that is very, very, very rare in human society.

Welcome to a very small club?

What are you attached to?

previous letter https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14969/

Hare Krsna Merciful Gurudev,

agtSP, pAmho,

Please find the link of which we were mentioining (node 14969)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rFPPt7SJLlaZeFux24MHZGLSV_2LBZN-/view?usp=drive_link please look at 34:35

Here is the link of sankhya folder based on your lecture about (oriental and occidental science)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R2GWqPqcmy3eSkFhyhgwKoAPT_taFWOd?usp=drive_link

It contains

1. Sankhya MP3 file recording of your lecture
2. Sankhya PPT you showed during the lecture
3. Sankhya TXT file having the transcription of lecture from MP3 file.
4. HPS_fb- the lecture given above
5. The transcript of HPS_fb

I think we/others should compile this work and give appropriate end to it.

trying to develop desire to serve as you want us to serve.

Das of Hayagriva Avatar.. Das of Time

HpS - Wow!!! Maybe it could be sorted a little bit and then distributed for reaction from other scholars, devotees.

🐵/🐷 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rneHqyGi6Us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Is_the_Simplest_Thing - We read this when about 12-years old. Science Fiction Shelf in the local library was our temple.

Clifford Simak was great help.

last letter https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14888/

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, agtSP, PAmho.

HpS/ASA - ❗

In the previous leeter [letter] you wrote --"so nice, agtSP, to get your association. your mercy has always been big, big, thing for us. we have big debt to you, that we try to repay."

we were asked by Parth Pratim Prabhu above as

so nice, agtSP, to get HpS's association. HpS mercy has always been big, big, thing for harsh pradhan. harsh pradhan have big debt to HpS, that we try to repay.

ASA🐵 - How many days did you sleep in the library, on the floor, in the Kolkatta Temple to get the Symposium with the Indian Museum and NIOS to happen! Etc!!!

Wonderful .. regarding VishnuSashtra nama, it takes 30 minutes if chanted without error and meter.

Frankly speaking this worked for us, because it is complex, one has to be alert with calligraphy of alphabets while reading.

Our pronunciation of words can be wrong so one has to speak clearly.

Moreover one has to hear the reciter and then speak.

So eyes, ears, speech all our [are] involved....one becomes humble seeing his own mistakes.

it is intense. and after effect of this is that in our mind, the meter and wording re-verberate.

we have still not gone in to meanings.

HpS/ASA - 🐵 🐷 👳... 🔬 WONDERFUL!!! It will take you up. You can help Madhu-mangala in his pujas for Krsna and Radhika...

Hare Krsna Mantra seems quite elevated where the meaning could be anything while chanting. we doze off many times because because it is repetitative, and there is no fixed meaning to contemplate even when we are not chanting from mouth.

HpS/ASA - There are also Prayers by Personified Vedas in SB..??!...

things are better. waiting for Krsna/ Parampara {K/P} [our acronym] to respond through you.

purpose of life as of now- to chant HK/HR properly with meaning, and inspire others.

trying to Das of Hayagriva-Avatar

in Bangalore, Hayagriva-Laxmi temple is known as Exam God Temple, because Hayagriva has perfect memory and recitation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTfaeH_pTCU&t=27s {exam god}{its in Kannada regional language}

ASA - We also scanned the Wikipedia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayagriva

The 1728 Maha-mantras are a deal between Srila Prabhupada us and God. Every trick, austerity, for initiated devotee to chant them as best as possible is highest austerity.

Break them into sections of four for different parts of the day.

Sing them for diety of Mahaprabhu.

Etc.

As usual, this is a private challenge for all of us, and then it is a private reward to see how we have helped Radha offer something nice to Krsna [Who is very nice] that only we could do.

Sahasra nama seems very nice.

Hare Krishna, me siento muy agradecido y bendecido por su invitacion a escribirle. Siento profundo respeto y admiracion por usted y por sus discipulos. No puedo creer este regalo de Krishna de poder escuchar a un santo como usted temprano por la mañana. Gracias por entregar su vida a Krishna y el corazon a los devotos. Gracias por ser el fiel intrumento de Dios.

HpS/ASA - Sri Krsna lifted Govardhana like a little Rock to protect the Vrajabasis from the wrath of angry Indra, king of the gods!

You live in Santiago?

How has your life led you to meeting Krsna and Guru? Lord Caitanya, Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON?

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances🙏

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you so much for your prompt response to my last letter.

HpS/AAS - This one, Hare Krsna, has taken a week or so!!

A couple of times I contacted Purnamasi Devi Dasi while I was in New Vrajamandala. She guided me and shared her experiences on Vaishnava educational topics.

Thanks to your advice, I have regained contact with her and I wish to keep it. Without a doubt, her association is very enriching and a great fortune!

ASA-SP to Hansadutta Swami to HpS/ASA --- This movement will attract the most sane and the most crazy people. You have to know which is which and engage with them all properly.

Mataji seems to be in the The Most Sane category.

I have also already contacted Bhadra Rupa Prabhu and he has given me specific and realistic advice on how to deal with the spiritual challenges that will arise during my master's studies and life in Finland. So we have decided to try it out and by the end of the first year evaluate how it went.

Thank you very much again for your effort in reading our letters.

Trying to be your disciple,

Rukmini Devi Dasi

HpS/ASA - Well, guess it can't be any colder than the Andes and if Bhadra Rupa Das, one Peruano, has lived through it guess you can also.

Is your career in life becoming more clear??

All Glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Now, I came here, dear Guru Maharaja, just to tell you that we had a great accomplishment today in the SII (Servicio de Impuestos Internos) in Chile.

HpS - Like, agtSP, IRS in USA.

We get a tax debt write-off of 7.000 USD, that ISKCON generated since 2017 due the devotees`s repudiation of debt in the past.

After the good response after months of visits, hours invested, irritating Internet and physical red tape, today, in our happiness with the team, we discovered that our new and diligent accountant is a new devotee, who actually met the devotees along with her husband in their participation of several days of the "El Arte y Lo Sagrado" events in Las Condes and iF Chile.

ASA - 🐵 ❗❗❗Amazing. Even a gorilla can take part and dance in ecstacy. We just talked. You arranged the program.



So thank you Guru Maharaja. Thank you NIOS. We used to get in contact with different kind of people in NIOS events, like the psychologist and currently astrologer, your disciple, Mandara Sakha das.

Our accountant

Her name was shared with you privately.

Sometime ago, after staying boring in bed for 6 months because a complicated pregnancy, so she read the "Bhagavad Gita as it is" twice and start the Bhagavatam. 

Then she had an horrible miscarriage. Her child came with problems too. 

Afer they arrived to their home, in sad disappointment and sorrowful, and after the whole procedures that almost left her without uterus, inmediately she invited her husband, who has deep respect for Krishna due to a couple of intense experiences with him, to a read a random Bhagavad Gita sloka to get solace.

They opened the book randomly, and they open tbe book in the following three verses:

TEXT 20: For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

TEXT 21: O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?

TEXT 22: As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.

They encountered calm and even happiness after that.

Now, she's is a 6 months pregnant again but without any problem. The physician said.to them that is a regular pregnant woman now. She even came today to this government office to this last step of a process for ISKCON in this regard. And she's planning the next steps to get donations officially and under de ISKCON DNI in the country.

Please, bless the devotees in Chile who miss you so much. And the new bhaktas that didn't have the good fortune to know you better.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

HpS - Really, Chile is our Sankirtan base. All along the wall widows were pictures of Rama lila, Asoka van! Chile leads the world in so many ways.

All respects to the heroes there.

16/4 >>> pure servants of Krsna. The chariot driver of Arjuna.