Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva
Please accept my humble obeisances
All Glories to Sri Guru & Gauranga
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Thank you for your fast response, and excuse me for my slow response from the last letter, this 3 weeks where intense... At least, we did Gandharva Yajña with Aravinda Prabhu and some of the Grihasthas of the comunity who knows our persons, the documentation of Sri Radha for civil Wedding hasn't showed up yet... About your Questions, we were doing Mangala-aratik at 5:30  5 days/week and 2 preaching programs in Queretaro (we are co-authorities with Vanamali Prabhu (ex-president for Mx. Temple)). Not going so well with rounds but getting them done so far... we are reading a nice book about Garbhadhana Samskara from CTE it includes SB stories with SP purpports.

After the Gandharva wedding we started a sankirtan mini-marathon, for the last 3 weeks.... i missed a lot of rounds, i took note of each of them and right now i am paying the debt; we took the desition to come to Uruapan Mich. for two months with Murli Manohara Dasa (director of a preaching center with gorgeous deities called Sri Sri Nitai Gaura-Candra) , a great great friend of mine, who is also a psichologist so Sri Radha can take a 8 weeks course and i could prepare a project which i want to develop as a service for ISKCON devotees and  also as my income activity.

Please Gurudeva, i want to know if my project is permitted inside of ISKCON before i start to spend next two months doing the plans, i hope you can tell me... The main idea is to create an iskcondesireetree.net---kind of web, for audio and maybe video classes from Gurus/Senior devotees all in spanish for all the latin-american devotees who doesnt speak english. The "job" will be to collect recorded classes from their disciples or local devotees -i have already kind of half a Terabyte of Spanish classes- and also translate more from different ISKCON Gurus from english and edit the audios (as if they where recorded in the temple with instant translation) and also to administrate the web. For that Quest i will be searching for REGULAR donnors and Sponsors who want to promote their services or products on the web. So, is it a possible whithin ISKCON, or is it just pie in the sky?

Thank you SO-VERY-MUCH! for all your effort trying to serve your own spiritual master.

Your aspirant to service
Krsna-kirtana Dasa

HpS - ASA - Of course, you should co-ordinate with GBC authority. Then it is in ISKCON administration. As a project I would say that you need some partners. If it is O.K. with GBC and some partners you can start the project and see what is the result. Work on it for some time, like three months, and see the result. See if there are other similar projects and join with them so that you don't duplicate the work.

Of course, ANYTHING we do will be improved in the very best manner as we improve our 16-rounds. We are damaging any project that we do by minimizing our Japa.

Nice photos!    Best wishes for everything. You seem to be doing very well!!   Just do better.

06/13/16   Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja!  Dandavats and pranams!  All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!!

Last letter, you mentioned we could take your association via projects and Smart Meeting.  Yes, please assign me a project if it will be helpful to you.  Please advise me what is  "Smart Meeting" and how, when and why would I access it?  Thank you very much!
YS,  Kalindi Devi Dasi

HpS - Jaya!   It is StartMeeting.com and when you go to the web-site you can "Join" a Meeting. Our Meeting number is always 992-055-489. This is in the Kapi Dhvaja in each issue. Then you click on the little telephone hand set and that allows you to speak and listen. Under "Settings", I think, it allows you to adjust the microphone etc.
In the Kapi Dhvaja we list the times of classes and workshops.
We are meeting with the devotees here in South America and planning these projects and thinking of your excellent help, but of course the BIG project is 16-nice rounds, 4-principles strictly!!

Thank you very much.

Todas las glorias a usted y a srila prabhupada .

Siempre con amor y afecto lamento molestarlo con mis cosas que se usted debe tener mas importantes.

Me fui de la casa de amala karuna y me lleve el televisor, lavadora,vajilla para poder cocinar, las deidades pequeñas de jaganatha y algunos libros, tambien el horno porque con eso yo hago pan y colecto asi puedo pagar el colegio de mi hijo y nos mantenemos.

Asi mismo maharaja debo informarle que descubri que prabhu amala karuna das esta con otra persona.

Mantiene comunicacion con otra mujer que le envia fotos de ella desnuda y se citan en un hotel y otras cosas.

Yo tengo prueba de ello, asi como tambien de que el asume que si me pego.

Escribo esto ya que aca en cuzco el es muy conocido y a todos a dicho que yo me robe sus cosas, y no es asi solo tome lo que necesitaba, no se que piense usted.

Por otro lado si era por una mujer no era necesario golpes ni tampoco malos tratos yo se en que era estamos y eso es normal al parecer.

Queria que sepa que me lleve de su casa y el motivo por el que me dejo las pruebas que tengo al no tener con quien hablar aca ni la autoridad tiene tiempo, se las comunique a dos devotos un devoto y una madre .

Se me esta haciendo dificil concentrarme en mis rondas Gurudeva porque no esperaba algo como esto.

Pese a que se que nada es gratuito, pense que en algun momento se podria arreglar esto, de todas maneras debo agradecerle a Prabhu Amala Karuna Das el hecho de que por el me conecte de nuevo con la conciencia de krshna y mi hijo tambien.

Bhaktin Amparo

HpS - ASA - Hare Krsna!  (Utiliza - www.translate.google.com) Thank you for your letter. We have only heard about these things from your good self and Amala, and of course the letter of recomendation for initiation from your Temple President, and we are at such a great distance almost all the time that we cannot have much direct experience of the situation.
The solution is 1. Krsna directly knows what is happening and He will talk with us and deal with things directly if there is no other connection available,   2. We have to learn to keep association with devotees. You describe this effort in your letter and that is the proper way to act. Then, with 5-6 devotees we can have proper judgement about money and physical violence etc., and act peacefully interms of our "material" situation in Krsna consciousness.
O.K.  Chant Hare Krsna, study Prabhupada's books, keep in the association of ISKCON devotees, and even if you have to join Arjuna in the battle of Kuruksetra you can know it is Krsna's arrangment.

See you all in a few days.

Traveling Raktak's Diary

Guru-Lila (part 4)

In some temples, either before or after the lecture, the devotees chant one round togecher, and believe me, this is quite purifying experience.  Some people may not have chanted at all throughout their lives, but in this way, they also get a chance to sit together with all the devotees/congregational members and get some first hand experience on chanting especially with the beads.  So here in this clip, which was made on 19th of March, 2016 at Navi Mumbai, you can see this thing and it is more special, because guruji His Holiness Hanumat Preshak Swami Maharaj is there, though he is not chanting with them, since he was chanting his evening Gaytri Mantra, silently, but he was listening, and another thing, you may also see my ugly face in this clip becuase there was a mirror (but you are lucky that you see it only for a few seconds, otherwise, you may have bad dreams in the night).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7tgeRroxvs

HpS - ASA -- We like that everyone chants one round together. We hear that Srila Prabhupada had the devotees do that in the first days of ISKCON, in front of the Deities, but we DO NOT like that it is done in unison. As far a we know this was a practice added without Prabhupada's consent, after he left. He had the devotees chanting at their own pace with individual concentration.

Hare Krishna Maharaj

PAMHO. AGTSP!

Thank you for your considered response with regards to my career dilemma which I appreciate.

I am currently enjoying your lectures via ISKCON Desire Tree, and am surely interested to know whether you plan to come again to Australia soon, perhaps after CA?

I have learnt that Dhruva and Dhanesvari are in and around Brisbane. I have not had the good fortune to meet them yet. Maybe I can canvass them to get on your case for a visit?

Which tactic would you recommend Maharaj?

Your not-so-humble servant,

Jay (aka Janardan Das).

HpS - Hare Krsna. AgtSP. Paoho. How did you get this wonderful name Janardana? These long flights are getting very difficult for us, and really seems we should be sending books, movies, rather than our body.

Haw haw haw Hare.

Our first and second disciples are both in Australia.

If we can push on our little Sankirtan for Prabhupada that is where we must all go, no?

News of your Yoga and Sankirtan.

Hare Krishna beloved and esteemed Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Recipe:

1 part of tosted unsalted peanuts

1 part of peeled sunflower seeds

1 part of mascabo sugar or honey

dried grated coconut 1 cup per kg of prep.

Blend the peanuts and the sunflower seeds. Put in a bowl, add the honey or sugar. If sugar add a little water. Then make balls or patties. Pass them through a plate with the coconut.

Answers to my previous letter,

I cook for my deities of Gaura Nitai 100% externally 10 % internally. Usually we cook for ourselves and offer it to the deities.

ThE Glorious MDP Yatra team are:

Mahajan das (BTS) and his wife Kamyavana dd ( DAS), Arjuna Sakha das (HDG) and his wife Krisna Prya dd (GDG), Jaya das (GDG) and his wife Kamala Sundari dd (mahatma das), Mathura dham dd (DAS) and her husban d prabhu Mario, Govinda lila dd (HDG) and her husband Matsya Lila das (BMS), Kirtida Jivani dd (KKS), Radha Raman das (JPS) and his wife Giselle, Cidrupa Nitai das (JPS) and his wife Guadalupe, prabhu Matias ( you met him in chile few years ago), prabhu Lolo and his wife Jagannatha Prya dd both ( BDDS), Our bramachari Jagan Nivas das ( BDDS), prabhu Juan (BDDS), Acyuta prya dd (BSG), Gauranga prema das and his wife  Rasa lila dd both (GDG), Mahabandhu das and his wife Madhava Mohini dd both (GDG), prabhu Daniel and his daughter Cintamani dd (CMS), Jivananda das and his wife Candra kanti dd both (GDG) and many more to come.

here there is a link for the play we made for Rama Navami. Now we are preparing Gita concised for Janmastami and to play it in different theatres. Is from our youtube channel. We upload all the lectures at el loft.

https://youtu.be/akDEyWIhqSM

https://youtu.be/MFRoNMiXSgo

Thank you so much for your inspiration gurudev,

Your fallen servant,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HPS ASA -- Thank you for the list of devotees. Big team. You can change the world. We opened asked reviewed the Link. It is very informative as a record. What I saw. To go from live show to a video is definite work, no?

You have to edit and even better, take some time and directly film the scenes as you are going to show them. E.g. close-ups, cutting from face to face. It can be worth the time. Maybe you have a five minute summary and the whole recording as an archive. If you have two cameras for the live recording that is super. Then you can do very simple editing between the two and her six times the effect.

"The movie is a snake made of sound where we hang visual images", Eisenstats

Turn your community into a movie company!