Letters to the editor

 All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my humble obeisances.

Dear Gurudeva

its me Trivikrama das i am much better from my fracture  but still can't make any service in fact i have not cook for the Sri goura nitai either , but i had the chance to help in other areas. Recently finish the disciple course ,now we are waiting the result of the evaluation , it was very inspiring i felt that studying or training myself as a devotee make me a better disciple for you ,i want to find the way to study Bhakti sastri i am a donkey and the virtual classes makes it hard for me so i would try to accomplish.

i still have my plans for kartik 2017 to go to India but always and only if i got your blessings

 i chant 16 rounds and follow the 4 principles

this is my report

your eternal servant Trivikrama das

HpS - Very nice. How is your family? Can you go to India with some experienced devotees. Use your tongue. Out is not broken. Ha. Ha. Hare!

AgtSP

Agt Nimai and Nitai

Hare Krsna Maharaja.

I hope you are fine in all respects. I remember a lot about you.

Thank you for everything you do, I look at the blog as twice daily

For me, it's like watching the mail away from home.

Tulasi forest continues to grow, I am very happy. Yesterday I used the first leaf in an offering…it´s dry alone.

I've had good and bad days. I can hardly be aware of Krsna, in every thing, every moment, in every action, but lately, when I'm fine, I feel as if I started being aware of Krsna for the first time in my life. I have always believed I had many accomplishments, and ultimately begin to seem like an illusion.

I think I could never make a conscious action of Krsna, because I have never been free to choose, and every day this is changing a lot, or I think, thanks to the saintly devotees and Krsna's mercy. It's like open arms, and had a door in each hand, the world of Krsna, or the material world.

I imagine that sooner or later I soured, hopefully not, but I want to thank the Parampara, starting with you, not abandon a poor fool like me.

How I can keep this "yellow brick road" without deviation?

A big hello, Hare Krsna.

P.D .: I'll try to send you a cookie recipe.

Yours, Budanath das.

HpS-ASA - Hare Krsna. AGTSP. Keep association with devotees and follow the relative principles of hearing and chanting.

O.K?

AGTSP
paoho & bw.

Here we are in Abhirama Das house, ashrama, in Callao, next to Lima. It is a little cool. It is 4.00AM. Everyone is sleeping because they were up until 2AM picking up NGD and the three ladies at the airport. The Psych and Sacred symposium is going along very well. We are already meeting very nice, complatible, powerful people and moving the Sankirtan of the Holy Names forward.  Today we go to Chosica to the BIG TEMPLE with NGD and everyone.

Our body, Brother Ass, is O.K. (almost 70-years old, so teeth, eyes, memory et al are failing [but intelligence is increrasing {we think}]), except for some more Poison Ivy rash that we got when we attacked the plants in Tennessee before we left.  It could be MUCH, MUCH worse, and we will see it the body can take care of it before we go to more sever efforts (steroids again).

We answered all the letters to three days, but now we should do some Japa, so we have not got to any of the Disciple reports etc.

We are working on this.

We are keeping pretty good balance of work and recreation.
O.K. Japa. Today or tomorrow is the Kapi Dhvaja.

So, so, so much help from all the devotees here.

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

HpS - Potatoe feet.
   

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

    Gurudev, Hope you are good in health.
HpS - ASA  ---  Brother Ass is O.K. except for normal failing due to almost 70-years of usage and this Poison Ivy infection. It is not so bad and we are not going to try Steriods again for a few days to see if the body will eliminate it. It is caused a lot by our Pita nature.

    i have sold (Rs. 1500, INR) your one book (Bharatiya Sanskriti), which you had
    given to me for advertising, would hand over the amount, once you are in India.

    i followed up months a devotee for the same book on WhatsApp  but did not received
    positive response. Then i had no other option to sell the book, as i had committed
    to give that to a devotee.

    Continuing the path with your instructions in mind....

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - You tried to contact Rama-giridhari Das? He has the books.  Try to call him at +91 93 226 91019. How is your Donkey?

This is a continuation to the previus letter found here:

hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6612
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ASA - Can you mail them? Do they keep well for long time with warm weather?
ND : Hmmm... I believe mailing is possible. For example in the box.
         As for  keeping them for long during warm weather, I would say that is not possible. Of course, what is meant by "long time" and "warm weather". Considering south European territory, I would say these sweets can could keep 2-3 days in max. summer temperature and much longer during winter season. In our humble abode, they got eatan in max. 4 days.

ASA - This recipe is good then, but for Cookie Central, it will not work so good, because we want a cookie or cracker that will last like Mayapura Prasada to travel for weeks and still be worshipable.

How is your family?
Than you for asking Guru Maharaja <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />   As for my parents, when I ask them the same question, they reply with "excelent, fine, good" and if have some bodily pain then they add news about that. Considering that they are 80 years old, lived in 3 countries and throught 2 wars, they are quiet OK.  They do not talk about or show any religious / spiritual inclination. TV is their friend and guru. 
Nirgata is doing fine. Trying to develop her job as a Iyengar Yoga teacher. We listen to classes online (by different devotees from around the world) together and then discuss what we heard by sharing our thoughts and realizations.
That would be one aspect of the family <img alt="laugh" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/teeth_smile.png" title="laugh" width="23" /> Then there is the aspect of ISKCON family and (should I say more important) our Supreme Father's family. I wanted to add this thought here, but will not discuss it for the reason of the size of the letter.
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Guru Maharaja, if you allow, can I ask you why in the DTC 6(Fr) you wrote "4-principles strictly (chocolate???)" ? What is the connection of 4 principles to the chocolate? And, if it is in connection to the topic, when you say "chocolate", do you mean cocoa or a product that has cocoa in itself and is sold by the name chocolate?

HpS - We have seen an exchange of letters from Prabhupada about Chocolate. It seems similar to onions. They bother contain theo-bromides as far as we understand. So, they stimulate lower chakras. This can be source of good energy under certain circumstances, but usually we want mode of goodness. I read that Prabhupada said that Grhasthas could take some, but it could not be offered to the Deity. GBC banned it, then canceled there ban. So seems, that under certain circumstances it maybe O.K.    Urad dahl is more acceptable but also not for regular diet.   Any cocoa product.
O.K?

Thank you!
Your servant Namacarya Das

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Ki Jay

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji's padmacharan that I will try at my level best to execute all Guruji's instructions of our Mandir and personal duties to increase spritual knowledge. Please communicate Imphal ISKCON members to make programme for Thoubal in the Mandir activities and other problems of the initiated bhaktas for their further advance knowledge and seva bhava of Sri Krsna. 

Another bhava of Gouranga Mahaprabhu : As Sri Krsna never move out even a single step from Golok/Vrndavan ; Gouranga Mahaprabhu did not move out even a single step from Nabadwip. What is the internal idea? Which Gouranga is  going outside Nabadwip and other places but staying at Jagannath Puri. What are the differences?

HpS - Hare Krsna. Yamunesvara Das.  Is very nice to hear from you. We are in Peru now, South America. The Sankirtan here with big symposium on Education is very intense. We have some little dangerous skin rash but are fighting to cure it.
We have not heard so much about Lord Caitanya residing eternally in Nabadvipa, but as you mention it, it seems likely. I remember that Lord Caitanya told Damodara Pandita to visit Mother Saci and tell her that all the offerings she made to him, even though he was in Jagannatha Puri, He was personally coming and eating.
It is the Vasudeva and Sankarsana portion of Krsna and Balarama that go to Dvaraka, but which aspect of Lord Caitanya is present in Puri, Vraja, South India, I don't know. We can pray to Him and the Acharyas to reveal that in our heart and confirm it by showing us the information in Sastra.

What will be my Sakhi and Manjari? Who will bring my sidhi Manjari to Vrndavan and under whose Sakhi and Manjari my sidhi  Manjari will followed and what will be duties as Dasera-anudasa? Please highlight me about my Sakhi and Manjari.
 

HpS - The development of spiritual life is described in great detail by Srila Prabhupada and the Acharyas and of course originally in the Srimad Bhagavatam. The different levels are very nicely summarized in the verse from Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu by Rupa Goswam, "adau sraddha, sadhu sanga ...". You can find all the Sankrit, as I remember, in the Puport to BG 4.10. The you can find it paraphrased again in the Purport to NOI Text 8.
In the beginning our realization is that I am not the body. I can stop smoking, drinking etc. Then as we come to the level of Nistha and Ruci we can begin Raganuga Bhakti. Then we start to do our regular Sadhana, but trying to follow the humor, Raga, of a Ragatmika devotee, a devotee, Sakhi, Sakha, in Vraja or Vaikuntha. We can try to serve Krsna in the mood of Hanuman or Lalita.
This is only done after we are liberated from Anarthas, bad habits, by following the Sadhana bhakti.
O.K?    More questions?    What do you think of the description in NOI???

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das