Letters to the editor

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru Maharaj H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami. Please accept my humble obeisances at your sweet lotus feet.

HpS - AgtSP. Our feet are more like lettuce feet.

My pranams again and again , those transcendental lotus feet are my only shelter.

HpS - Probably 99.9999999...% of any good qualities you see in us are the result of Guru and Krsna, AgtSP, who made their generals out of mud!

My apologies for the long, long hibernation. Trapped by Maya....but as always, our glorious Guru Maharaj stands before me to defend and protect me always. Internet services had been shut down for the last 3 months. Temporarily it was lifted last week.....only to be banned again.

HpS - Yamunesvara Das told us the same! Lord in the heart.

During those days, we continued with our morning SB classes through conference call. Our group has completed the First canto , by Your kind mercy. All glories to Your divine mercy Guru Maharaj. We are in the first chapter of Canto 2 now.

ASA - After Preface in First Canto, SG begins to preach.

The evening BG classes could not be continued as all the participants could not be connected by conference call. The few of us continued with NOI followed by Krishna book reading by conference call during the evening session.

HpS - Super!

Now, every evening we are reading a little portion of NOD, followed by Krishna book reading and BG.

We have completed 2 rounds of BG and each of us take turns in reading the BG.

We are in 2.22 now.

My Bhakti Bhaivav classes suffered. Could not join 3 units.

HG Padmasundari Mataji has been so merciful to let me join the classes after 3 months.

We are in the Sixth Canto now.

In this trying times, the Narayana kavaca has come as a huge, huge relief. Our co ordinator has told in the class that we need to seek permission from our spiritual master to recite these prayers. Guru Maharaj, these prayers are so close to my heart. May I get Your instruction on these prayers?

HpS - We don't know anything specific but why not recite anything in SB! Recite them with perspective of the Bh. Vedanta puports, no?

Recently I had been empanelled as a member of the Standing Academic Committee of our Institute. I offer this post at Your lotus feet, for the service of Srila Prabhupada. The exchange programme between Peru and Manipur can come through a Memorandum of Understanding between various Universities of Peru and our Institute. We are working with the Head of Department of Yoga from Manipur University for some collaborative studies. Thank you so much Guru Maharaj, you have showered us with so many blessings. Prof. T.Inaobi, HOD of Yoga and the Dean , School of Education , Manipur University has been greatly influenced by your interaction with him on Your last visit . Thank you Guru Maharaj.

Chanting regularly ....with lots of love, by Your mercy Guru Maharaj. Doing my daily devotional services from home as night curfew has been imposed since the last 4 months. On Sundays, I go for mangal arti to the temple and then go to Sri Govindaji temple.

Your grace is amazing dear Guru Maharaj. The trouble started from Nrshimha Caturdasi.

My heart was broken when our Chief minister touched the Vigraha of Sri Nrshimha Dev last year.

HpS - Touched? Some violence to Lord Nrshma?

This year too, he was invited and I was already in a lot of distress lest the same thing would be repeated.

On this auspicious day, this year, he could not attend as violence erupted on this day. All glories to Sri Nrshimha dev. The entire month, our reading group read the 7th canto....a lot of us cried and cried. I thank you Guru Maharaj for protecting us.

Going to Mayapur on 11th of October with few devotees. Finally. I feel a great sense of relief to be of some service to your relentless efforts in propagating the mission of Srila Prabhupada. I remain a miniscule dust particle at Your lotus feet Guru maharaj.

Your ignorant and insignificant servant

Sarad Gaurangi DD

HpS - Thank you!

Thank you... T h a n k ... you!

Go on being a bright fire of Krsna shakti!

Solving problems in Manipur solves them all over the world.

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krishna!

I am not writing you much. Feel as obstruction into your busy schedule and non-needed tiring for your eyes.

Some disciples also do not write on the blog. I know them. Sure, some of them, meet you in person regularly at least yearly.

It looks I do not travel much or almost nothing. So, in a way, can't write news such as "was here and there, with those and those devotees, visiting that and that temple."

Still, hopefully, the travel is into the depthless of the heart (consciousness - citta). It may be not exotic to talk about, write about (specially in the public forum). Hope against hope that Citta Hari may do his merciful activity and will have a temple in the heart.

I try to chant here and chant there, internally and externally, what is there unless not touched by the Holy Name.

Parents are getting old and crippled. Helping them to go through whatever they need to go through.

Nirgata is doing fine - whatever "fine" can mean for an over-50-person in Kali Yuga.

Trying to be in sadhu sangas with reasonable non judgemental attitude.

Reading Srila Prabhupada's books in a not-in-a-hurry method. Not rushing through the pages. Jotting down notes. Idea is to accept and make transformation (of consciousness) and not just collect data.

Is not easy to live, it is not easy to inquire sincerely and be vulnerable in society (devotee or at-the-moment non devotee). Questioning ISKCON fables and "laws" in a non aggressive, gentle mood while being open to be questioned by others.

Birds fly as much high their wings can take them (sloka from SB), so I try to present the topic with the honest realization. And, if it is a thought or even doubt, I declare it openly that it is a point of my reflection based on reading, hearing and contemplating the sastric teaching.

I continue reading the Blog, Flag with a monkey on it 💖

and Twitter posts.

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - Thank, agtSP, you! Very nice report.

You know Walt Whitman (Thoreau, Emerson)? American poets, writers, called The Transcendentalists. Beginning of USA. had some contact with BG etc!

Whitman wrote that in this life the body travels far, but the soul travels much much more.

I meet the same men, the same women, the same situations and challenges, again and again,

But each time higher, higher.

Life is a spiral.

It goes up.

Where does it go?

..

...

....

I do not know.

But I know it goes some place good!

Paramatma vadi???

Hope so much that our ASA work is of some value to you in systematizing your Sankirtan!

Respects to the Catless one (Spanish: Nir Gata).

Who is there in your Yatra?

Hare Krsna,                                                                                                                16.10.2023

Dandavat Pranam,

All Glories to HpS Guruji Maharaja.

Please accept my humble obeisance to Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan, that I could not sent and read the block [blog] due to Law & Order problem of Manipur since 3rd May 2023.

We are trying to form a new Committee of our Thoubal Manir (Bhagavat Shiksha Ashram). It was a registered body under the Manipur Society Register Act but unfortunately the previous committees did not continue the formalities, so we are trying to continue the formalities with the help of the officials. It will take some time, but it is possible.

HpS - Basic society is Sanga of friends who chant Hare Krsna together, but if that is maturing, like the seed making the flower, then Varna Ashrama Dharma follows the Bhagavata Dharma and we engage in this Ksatriya, civil work. Very nice. Save your circle of contacts in Manipur etc.

Yes, we all need Bhakti-Sastri Classes not for certificate but to increase the Bhakti knowledge.

Guruji! where are You now adays, and when You are coming in India? During Goura Purnima will You be in Mayapur? It will be a golden opportunity for us to visit Navadwip nine dwips of Nabadwip and duwadasa (12) vans of Brindavan under the guidance of Guruji Maharaja. We a team of 10-12 bhaktas of our Manir are planning to come Mayapur during Goura Purnima. We will start from the 21st of March to 27th at Mayapur, then Puri - Delhi - Mathura - Brindavan - Radhakunda -Delhi - Kurukshetra - Delhi - Imphal on 7th April.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamuneswara Das

HpS - We always put our Calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja, but we certainly repeat it here, especially because of the communication block in Manipura.

[How is your daughter, son, relations?]

We have been based in Nashville, Tennesse, USA for months, after returning from India.

We are too old to travel alone or even much at all.

We went for a week to the East coast, West coast, and now after five weeks, 19th November we should go to Middle-South, Texas.

Probably stay there for three months, until just before Gaura purnima.

We are not sure.

Health is not stable.

World politics and peace and prosperity are not stable.

Yet, maybe come back to Nashville end of February and celebrate Gaura purnima here.

After that???

Stay here on our new rural campus???

Go to Europe/Spain then to Radha Kunda???

Maybe next time our body go to India will be as ashes in a jar that someone will kindly pour in the Yamuna.

Of course, if we are ghost following our ashes in airplane to India we can steal peoples drinks. 😆

Thank you for the news.

Please send any questions.

Hello to Vana mali, Sadhu, Ekanatha, Sarad, everyone!!!!!

TB/BW

Hare Krsna.

AgtSP

Paoho & BW,

We watched a documentary on Bill Waterson who produced cartoon, "Calvin and Hobbs". It was very enlivening in terms of understanding how our Sankirtan of the Holy Names can progress in the current world.

Happiness comes from personal relations.

One time we visited Prof. Linus Pauling with H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami et al and it was fantastic how much personal relation Prof. Pauling had with the sticks-and-balls molecular model on his desk!

Worked more on DTC(UT) Spain with Ambarisa/Vrsabhanu Devi Das, Prof. Raul and ArtD. Making progress.

Wrote a one-hour letter for Daru Krsna Das in Peru about our perspective on the management problems.

Lost $32 to the bank for a late fee! We were sure that there was no payment due. Trying to manage our credit card makes us very suspicious that the bank posts the information with a little intention of manipulating us.

Hmmm.

Conspiring? Paranoia?

Done 90% of the rest of the $$$ accounts and banking.

Reading and answering a lot of mail. We forwarded by Twitter a nice report from M. Subra Dasi from Florida.

Now gayatri, look at Blog posts, finish $$$, three last rounds, hot milk, 8PM NOI 9 with PSF!

HK/HR!!

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We remember one study that we saw while we were in University. It was an investigation of how far any USA citizen was from the President.

The study asked random adults who they would contact if they felt they had news that was directly important to the President and everyone would agree that it was.

First a lot of people would know someone like a lawyer. Then he would know another lawyer who was involved with politics like at a state level, and s(he)it, would know someone in Washington and...

In general, it showed that no USA citizen was more than six steps away from the President.

Similarly, by being members of Srila Prabhupada's mission we have individual and institutional contact with people all over the world, from a KC perspective. People who don't smoke, drink, fornicate, gluttonize, gamble; and are conditioned by the intelligence of Sukadeva Goswami, Arjuna et al.

World's a mess ([Kali Yuga].

Keep you little candle going in the association of Srila Prabhupada. Bring it in relation to other candles, LCD, and make villages of light.

Thank you.

See you in classes.

Hope the Kapi Dhvaja is useful.

Narayana-parah Das: "Since you have gracefully accepted to be in Houston for an extended period this time, can we make this trip a more personal one? Just your own experiences, your journey in this spiritual path... the road you took, the Jharikhanda forest you had to travel through, the animals you came across, the ones who tried to make you dance and how you made them dance...

We, as your servants, don't fully know the plans for your departure from this material world. If you are still planning on leaving next year, then a chronological autobiographical account of your journey would be the most essential staple for all of us who will be forced to continue in this world without your physical presence."

HpS - We, agtSP, are amazed that anyone can have much interest in our life. I guess it is like someone who was actually there at the invasion of Normandy. They are disappearing. Some of them remember things and they say that they are as brilliant today as they were so so many decades ago. Sometimes, with tears in their eyes, they say, somethings you just can't forget, no matter how hard you try.

So, if we come in contact with Krsna, Prabhupada, gain a little gold to our color.

Hmmm.

On the other hand. With these four movies we are trying to catch a little of what you ask about.

Inspiring a seminar on the SB would also be personal for us. SB is one of the greatest personalities we have met but... we hope to avoid getting involved in the mechanical arrangements necessary, niyama agraha.

Is that your idea also?

Any more details of how to accomplish your goal???

One thing that hits us is that we 'pascatya bhumite haile' people, Gringos, are filled with 'nirvisesa' and 'sunyavad', so that there may be very little personal psychological content in our lives. Our only hope is following the externals of a personal system and having it go right to the change of heart, that may not really show up too much until we die.

Hare Kṛṣṇa Mahārāja!!

Por Favor acepte mis Dandavats Praṇāmas a sus Pies de Loto.

Espero esté muy bien de Salud.

Me ha costado trabajo seguir su instrucción, más que nunca, ha Sido la prueba más difícil durante mii estadía en la Conciencia de Kṛṣṇa.

Llegué a pensar como un ¡perro! Pero experimente lo que es la misericordia del Gurv por primera vez plenamente, gracias a Śrīla Prabhupāda ki, a UD. y los Devotos que me instruyen siempre sin sesar, pude regresar a la conciencia y pensar como Bhakta y no como Perro.

Es muy fácil ser Perro eh!!

Maya ofrece el hueso con un buen disfraz.

Pero Su Santidad y el Darśana de mis hermanos me hacen tratar de seguir a Narottama Dāsa, a quien ya adoraba en mi altar hace casi 1 año.

Su Shakti me da fuerza Mahārāja, ya mandé carta a Nueva Vrāja-maṇḍala España buscando el refugio de mi Señor Adorable Yadunandana Svāmī Mahārāja, espero su respuesta, no se ve muy fiable su perfil en febook pues lo uso por última vez hace 3 años.

Empecé a ver sus Clases y me asocié con mi primera hermana espiritual en España Kuntī d.d.

De todos modos espero que Mataji Asthasakhi d.d. me consiga un contacto directo con Su Santidad Yanudananda Svāmī mí Señor.

muchas Gracias por su Misericordia sin Causa Mahārāja.

segyire reportándome, sirviendole, y tomando su refugio.

Dandavats Praṇāmas.

Su Sirviente eterno.

Kazzymiro.

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Hare Kṛṣṇa Mahārāja!!

Please accept my Dandavats Praṇāmas at your Lotus Feet.

HpS - Lettuce feet. AgtSP!!!

I hope you are in very good health.

HpS - 75% good, and you?

It has been difficult for me to follow your instruction, more than ever, it has been the most difficult test during my stay in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.

I came to think like a dog! But I experienced the mercy of the Gurv for the first time fully, thanks to Śrīla Prabhupāda ki, to YOU. and the Devotees who always instruct me without thinking, I was able to return to consciousness and think like Bhakta and not like a Dog.

It's very easy to be a Dog eh!!

HpS - Hmmm. Actually it is easier to be a man. To be dog requires more damned determination.

Maya offers the bone with a good disguise.

But her Holiness and the Darśana of my brothers make me try to follow Narottama Dāsa, whom I already worshiped at my altar almost 1 year ago.

Your Shakti gives me strength Mahārāja, I have already sent a letter to Nueva Vrāja-maṇḍala Spain seeking the refuge of my Adorable Lord Yadunandana Svāmī Mahārāja, I await your response, your profile on Facebook does not look very reliable since I used it for the last time 3 years ago.

I started watching his classes and associated with my first spiritual sister in Spain Kuntī d.d.

Anyway I hope Mataji Asthasakhi d.d. get me a direct contact with the Holiness of him Yanudananda Svāmī my Lord.

Thank you very much for your Causeless Mercy Mahārāja.

keep reporting to me, serving him, and taking refuge from him.

Dandavats Praṇāmas.

His eternal Servant.

Kazzymiro.

HpS - Any photos? Pictures? Drawing? Your work seems to be nice!! Go ahead. The progress is eternal, the fall downs are temporary.