Letters to the editor

HARE KRISNA

Por favor acepte mis mas humildes reverencias.

     El miercoles pasado celebramos el Kirtan en un parque grande de Villalba. Vinieron Jajanta y su familia, Hari Cakra, Irina y sus hijos, mi hermana, mi hija, una persona que conocí haciendo Sankirtan que se llevó un libro y yo. Estuvimos cantando, bailando, comiendo Prasadan y compartiendo entre nosostos y con esta persona el placer trascendental de cantar los Santos Nombres. Nos lo pasamos muy bien incluida esta mujer que decía que había notado algo muy bonito y especial al cantar el Maha Mantra. Estoy muy contenta porque está muy interesada y siento que Krisna también está feliz por ello. Quiero hacer esto una vez a la semana aquí en Villalba. Siento que no hay nada más importante que dar a conocer los Santos Nombres y que Krisna me guía a través de S. Prabhupada. Y creo que es porque todos los días, en mi sadhana me entrego a Krisna. Le doy todo mi cuerpo, todo mi esfuerzo, toda mi alma y toda mi mente. Le entrego mi vida porque no quiero hacer nada más que servicio devocional. Ahora estoy saliendo a hacer Sankirtan todas las mañanas de lunes a viernes. También he animado a mi hermana a que lo haga y sale conmigo de vez en cuando. Krisna es maravilloso porque me bendice siempre que salgo a distribuir libros conociendo a personas que están interesadas y que puedo ayudar de alguna manera. Siempre hay personas que se llevan libros y siento como un poquito de S. Prabhupada se va con ellas. Y eso me da mucha alegría. Percibo que él está conmigo en esos momentos y que está contento. También estoy muy feliz de que usted esté contento con todo esto que hago.  Mi próximo proyecto es ir a Segovia, la provincia vecina, a hacer Sankirtan junto con otros devotos. Mi intención es ir por la mañana temprano y estar distribuyendo libros hasta el mediodía. Despues, hacer un poco de turismo con los devotos. Ya se han apuntado dos: Yus y Kirtan y junto con mi hermana  seríamos cuatro. Le mantendré informado.

     Por otro lado, también quisiera decirle que el próximo fin de semana iré al Ratha Yatra de Barcelona con otros devotos: Jaga Mohan, Yus, Kirtan y mi hermana. Me hace mucha ilusión; todavía no conozco el templo de Barcelona y lo mejor: poder estar con el Señor Jaganatha, Baladev y Subadra. 

     Ahora y para terminar me gustaría hablarle de mi hija. Ella se llama Sara y tiene casi ocho años; los cumple en agosto. Es una gran devotita; aparte de llevar muy bien su sadhana, la gusta mucho ir al templo  y siempre está pensando en Krisna. Pone fotos de Krisna por todos los sitios, hasta en su tablet. La gusta mucho oir musica devocional, está aprendiendo a tocar el armonio y ya se sabe alguna canción que toca en los kirtan que hacemos en los parques. Le voy a mandar unas fotos en las que sale ella tocando. Y lo último que ha hecho es pedirle a Yadunandana S. refugio como Sicsa Guru. Maharajas le dijo que sí con agrado porque le estuvimos diciendo cómo es su sadhana y le pareció bien. A mi me dió mucha emoción; espero que siga así. Yo haré todo lo posible para ello. Y como yo la hablo de usted, también siente mucho aprecio y respeto hacia usted.

     Le mando unas fotos de nuestros Kirtan en el retiro y del Kirtan en Villalba el otro día.

     Sin mas, quedo a su servicio.

HpS - ASA ---- Puede ver por que nuestra respuesta es tan lento para esta carta en nuestras DTC.  Gira de Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Huston.       De su carta su vida, hija, todo es super.   Mantenga 16 buenas rondas como base y por el paso de tiempo va a desarrollar una mundo de espiritualidad increible. Ocupa otros en Sankirtan!

Hare Krishna Dear guru maharaj, Please accept my dandavat pranams, All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

I have been thinking about writing a letter, but have been busy with lot of changes in life. I have been blessed with a baby girl Sphurana in January. please bless the baby.   I have been reading the news letters and blog occassionally and getting back to my routine life. I wanted to meet you when you come to Houston, but could not make it. Apologies for my laziness.

HpS - Well, we are slow in answering this letter so how can we criticize you any more than we criticize our selves, but we get our rounds done well, mangala arati, sankirtan.   I guess you Sankirtan is taking care of your family materially and spiritually. How old is your daughter?   We will be in USA until December so we can talk!!!
Keep your priorities, otherwise even wolves have families!!

Its nice to see the instructions you give to different disciples. I will try to make it when you come to Houston next time

your servant

Nilachala chandra das

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda

Dandavat Pranam

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji's padamacharan that I am reporting my personal sadhana and weekly the nama sankirtana of our team along with Banomali Prabhu and his team. Last Saturday, chanting of mala one round loudly with all the bhaktas after distributing malas for new invitees and those initiated bhaktas who came without mala. We  are looking both qualitative and quantitative.

Everything is possible only Guruji's aasirbad.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - So very very nice. How is the University and the Manipuri State?   If you can send some pictures that will be very very nice. You just add them by Browsing your computer at the place below.

Our respects to Vanamali. From the DTC you can see what we are doing.

AGTSP
paoho

Esteemed Regional GBC Secretaries, friends and intelligent Enemies et al.
We received very encouraging letters from Swami Hanuman and Jayapataki Swami. Thank you so much.
After the 'Psychology and the Sacred' symposium, we had intense event like one day, week, after another in Cusco, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chosica and Lima.
Then without chance to lie down to rest for 34-hours we transited back to Houston with 5-hours in-transit it Mexico City, and then five day Bhakti-vaibhava Seminar in Houston followed by this super-intense, "Third Annual Norther American Symposium on Education with ISKCON", here in Houston.
All this stuff has been very intense and very productive.
This is 90% of the reason we have not answered Jayapataka Swami's letter yet and also because we wanted to get our Summary Video of the event up where you could see it. A picture is worth a thousand words [and since a video is 24-pictures per second it may be worth more].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dx_aHNMxT4

Maharaja asked us some bio-data on the participants:
Dr. Ravi SIngh (Nitai gaurasundara Das). Our friend and many of you know him also in Tennessee for many years. He is Director of local psychiatric hospital, excellent devotee. President of our organization, NIOS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies). He was a leader in RSS in India in his youth but not so active in Indian politics after becoming ISKCON man. His brother is currently President of the Indian Lawyers Association etc.
Dr. Ravi Gupta (Radhika Ramana Das) - He spoke about 'Maps of the Mind'. Ramon said that 'he was pure gold'. Of course, he is very prominent in ISKCON and currently chair of department of religion at his university in Utah.
Ramon Mujica - Director of the National Peruvian Library. EXCELLENT Jungian and philosophical scholar. Great devotee of Santa Rosa of Lima. Great sense of humor. Family has been Ministers and founders of Museums for generations. Visited ISKCON center for three days in a row with his father when a youth.
Dr. Darrol Bryant - He is one of the most active and respected scholars in the area of interfaith dialog at this point. University of Ottawa. Our contacts in India were impressed he was coming.
Beverly Zabireskii - Co-founder of the Jungia Society of New York and the wonderful, powerful Philemon Foundation. They are editing and publishing so many unpublished works by Jung. Prabhupada said that of all the Western philosophers, Carl Jung seemed to have the most sense. She was also drama critic for the New York Times.
Cecilia Monterra - As we know, French sociologist. Married a Chilean businessman. Served as Director of Social Services for Chile. Became disgusted seeing people as statistics, so changed to spirituality and has now several books published by big presses. She said that she knows what is going on in South America and there was no even like this anywhere.

Om Bhakti - Our ISKCON Indian classical musicians from Chile. They have been on grants two times to study in India. One of the best I know in or outside of India. They 'Wowed' the Psych audience and also did 30-minutes at the Yoga day festival with 1,600 participants.
Sudip Chakravorty - He is Ambassador for India in Peru. He gave us help HELP H E L P.   He even paid the hotel stay for Om Bhakti. He was in ecstacy for the program and gave a relaxed, funny Inauguration address that was amazing.

Kalyan-kumar Chakravorty - He was Director of Primary Education for Uttar pradhesh (like 600,000 school kids) et al. We made a fanastic video clip of him while we were in India and it was played with subtitles. He has clear idea of global strategy. Also turns out he is very close friend of the Ambassador so they exchanged several phone calls about the event.

IN PERU
Eduardo Gastelemundi - President of Psychiatric Association. Father founder of one of the best universities of Peru and friend of Ramon since childhood. He organized a meeting with Beverly, HpS and NGD with the Freudian society.
Juan Vega - Director of Graduate Studies at best Jesuit University in Peru. His Director chastised him when he heard about the event that he had not arranged a daytime event on their campus while everyone was there. he did it and Radhika and Darroll went. Never had such serious and intelligent questions, Radhika said.
Bustamantes - Head of Buddhist Society. He said that Nirvana is not Voidism. It is more like concept of Brahman in Hinduism. Very practical answers to questions about suicide etc from audience.
Miguel Polo - Director of Philosophy at San Marcos University. The oldest university in South America. Big congress organizer. Lost becoming Dean by 5%. Very friendly, sharp, Buddhist ethics scholar.
Dolores Chaves (Lalita-gopi) - Senior Professor from second biggest university in Mexico. Gave incredilby informed presentation on meditation in the modern world. Director of the Ethics and Morality training program for her university.
Hector Behar - One of Che Gueverra's generals. Excellent thinker. On the United Nations Committee against hunger. One book a year. Teaching in six universities. on Radio constantly. UN estimate is that 1-million people a year commit suicide. That is more than all the deaths from all the wars in the world. Psychology is a very necessary science.
Some more but stop here.

They all said the next even should be Art and the Sacred and planned for 2018. Then we bring Mahaprabhu's show from Uraguay and art critics from around the world. Of course, psychology will fit in without effort.
We are just like passengers on the boat at this point
There is more, but that is a general principle of where this stands. These are ALL doing people with wonderful followers. It is like preaching to the four Kumaras.
The co-ordinatig back bone is the Journal. Solaris. It is in Spanish and God willing it will come out in English next and then the next issue will go into production. Planning annual now.
Please help us, direct us!
Thank you.

Aare Krsna, Mates

AGTSP paoho.   5.45PM here in Nila-madhava Dhama. Not too hot, there are some clouds, so we can sit with the windows open.

Our room is on the second floor.

Hari-lila Das is with Rama-giri-dhari Das, but should be coming in any minute.

We have 15-rounds left from today, but have chanted 16 from yesterday. We fell behind somewhere here. We do that and then catch up. We have to get better at Sadhana bhakti.

Brother Ass feels a little sick, probably liver stress, but we can walk and chant.

We finally got to the Blog and answered a lot of letters. You saw them!!!???

That's what happens when we don't have classes to prepare for or 7-hours of Symposium time. We can spend time here with you all - Monky Warriors.

Gotta set priorities, understand our limits. That is Vaidhi Bhakti, no?

Everyday here, the Temple program from 4.15-9.15 AM is wonderful. So easy to have a personal relationship with Radha and Nila-madhava. So many devotees here for the programs regularly.

Kirtaniya-sada-hari.... That is the eternal, constant, basic program and then Krsna will give us Association. That will give us Plans.

O.K. Answer Jaya-pataka Swami's letter and post a copy here.

Dandavat Pranam

I am forwarding a letter written by KrsnaSwarup Das of Silchar. He could not send his letter in this blog so he send to me .

Krishna Swarup Das <[email protected]>

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Guru Maharaj.  Hare krsna. Dandavat pranam unto your lotus feet. Pamhao. All glories to Guru, srila prabhupada,and nitaigour. Although myself not qualified, by your great mercy only, you have accepted me as your disciple. You are just like in the spiritual sky and I am in family hole. Moreover l am so fallen, l don't know how to serve you guru Maharaj. But your grace and blessings, my spiritual advancement is not possible. So daily I just look and cry unto the lotus feet of your alokhya guru Maharaj. No of times l am fail to connect you. Hope this prayer will find you in good health and fully dissolved in devotional service. Kindly acknowledge the receipt of this with writing the place, where you are guru Maharaj and if possible some time awake me through SMS in my mobile no 919435072632. Or[email protected]. that will inspire me very much. Forgive me. Again Dandavat pranam unto your lotus feet Guru Maharaja.  Your most fallen servant. Krishna swarup Das. Silchar. Assam.

HpS - Hare Krsna. Thank you Yamunesvara Das.   If you read our DTCs. Diary of a Traveling Creature, you can see you busy we have been with the programs in South American and then here in Houston.

Just yesterday we finished the ISKCON North America Symposium and today Monday, we have a little time. Actually, our body is feeling very weak at this moment, but we trust that driving it from the spiritual level will help it to get the energy it needs to go on for  a few more years. Then we get new car, body, no?

Please, please, please, write to Krsna svarupa Das and thank him for his letter, and ask him if he has any study partner for BG etc. as we suggested?

See if you can get him on this Blog. It makes us very sad that we cannot connect with him here.

Also, we see like two more letters from your esteemed self here in the Blog, but we cannot get to them today.

Tomorrow we hope.

I think you are a very great hero in Krsna's eyes.