Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja !!!

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet !!!!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!!!!

I am writing to Blog after a long time....

basically to tell you how I am now...

Only by YOUR  MERCY my spiritual life is a little better.....I am developing a little more desire to move forward and purify my existence....I want to develop more and more sincere desire to make progress in my spiritual life !!!!!!  How can I do this, Gurudeva?

HpS - Upadesamrta quotes BG, "sangat sanjayate kamah" - Our desires and ambitions develop from the company we keep!

Looking back in the last years...actually I did not have much desire to make progress, I was doing my spiritual life just as a heavy duty....just for doing it.....but I did not have a sincere desire to make progress...

Gurudeva, I have made many mistakes....you know that....I have lost a lot of time....I did a lot of stupid things, wasting time.....but now, after all this time I do not want to repeat the same mistakes,  I want to learn from all the mistakes I made in the past....and not make them again anymore...

Now again....I am trying to improve my sadhana getting up at  2 :00 a.m and chanting enthusiastic rounds before FMP......in this way FMP is deeper and exciting for me....I like it...!!!

Thank you so much Gurudeva !!!!!  for all your kindness and patience with this sinful soul !!!!!  Only by your mercy a sinful person like me can no longer commit more sins !!!!!  Now I want to have a pure life forever !!!! 

In the next letter I will write to you about my service...about book distribution....about my little plan to do something.....to do something to serve you and please you....as well as Srila Prabhupada..!!!

Thank you so much !!!!!

Trying to become your disciple !!!!

Mitravinda d.d

HpS - In ISKCON we are all trying to understand Srila Prabhupada, no? So, often we get caught up in the formal rituals of our Yoga and don't get a chance to associate with him personally.  O.K. That may be Niyama agraha to some extene , but there is still good result from it. We follow His Sadhana because we want relief from distress etc.    But basically we must have some higher understanding or we could be Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses or Catholic and that would give us so much more access to society and material well  being.
So, we have been making progress.
No, doubt.
Let us go ahead.
Seems to me the only thing we can really do is to pray to Krsna at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada very sincerely.
If that doesn't work we seem to be lost.

Dear Swamiji

PAMHO, AGTSP. If you feel 2 days is too short then can we plan for later next year?

Your servant,

Ken

HpS - We are just looking at general circumstances now that you asked.

Dear Swamiji

AGTSP, PAMHO. Any amount of time that you can come would be great! Please let me know by the dates. You will be flying from. Calcutta? Devotees will be happy to have you here for any amount of time.

Your servant,

Ken

HpS - What is the airport near you??   Denspar?    From where in India is it best to come?    Delhi - Denspar is only serviced by Jet Airways as far as we can tell.  ~ $650

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, can we perform "Agnihotra". If yes, what kind of? If no, then what are the reasons?
    
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP. paoho.   You know the answer to this question, no????   In ISKCON temples we do Agnihotra for Initiations, Weddings etc.
Maybe we don't understand the question.... Hare Krsna!

AGTSP!

Paoho...    At your lotus and lettuce feet.  Here we are in our cave.  It is 7.11PM and now DARK ourside.  Only insane people go out walking at this time. The cars move around like they have no drivers, but we have the Maha-mantra and your association.  Was so, so busy today: BG 15, Fifty-minutes of Vaisesika Das lecture...   NGD and everyone just got back from the ISKCON Doctors Conference at Gita Nagari. We are letting them rest tonight so we will pass the evening alone here.
 

O.K!   Thank you for your association.  We ahswered about five letters.  Many times we are just exhausted and don't know what we can do, but the desire to do something, a little bit of anything comes along and then we go forward. We will all die soon and then have another body. Only if Krsna comes and meets us will we meet Him and each other again, and then go on with new fun!

HpS - Everywhere people report using Vedabase.com.  What happened to the Share Line, Tweet, button that was on each page. We used it. If it is too much of a problem that is o.k.    Also, as you get more and more languages it seems that you are going to have to put them in a Pull Down List, no?    Do you get Book Distribution Points for every hit?

Yes, new version uses dropdown so screen is kept clean. I removed Share Line because added more languages. Tried to put back widget but for some reason it doesn't work anymore. 

No book distribution points :) But this month we broke round number of 55000 record (in last 30 days it is 55,823 unique visitors).

HpS - Very nice!!!   We were hoping to hear from you!   So, you settled back in Sridama Mayapura?

I will try to post news more often. We are in Mayapur only temporarly. Planning to go to Europe as in case of pregnancy medical care here is unacceptable and Mataji who was doing homebirths (with many years of experience and over 1300 birth) had to leave Mayapur this year due to situation. So February, March or April we will be moving to Slovakia for some time it seems.

We read that some devotees got a public apology and cash, but you didn't get any cash. (Ha! Ha! Ha!)

I didn't want to go there, but Jayapataka Swami was only manager who contacted and spoke with me and then he send one of his servent and ask me to come, so couldn't refuse him. Was funny as 2 hours talks were just about that to use violance against devotees is not good :)  Two of attacker who got indentified went to apologize. My mental state is better although when I am on mangala arati my mind comes with all different scenarios what will happen, who will attack or kill whom. So generally I don't like to be in temple much.

Can you send your annual financial report for NIOS.  Where the money came from and where it went to?
 

Will prepare it and send you.

Our respects to your good wife.  Are you going to live as Vanaprastha couple??

I hope not, at least not in next 20 years. We would like to get children, but due to period intervals (2 or 3 month) we didn't get much oportunities. Just before last calculated day my wife got heavy ear infection, so had to cancel. I am somehow ok as I have faith Krishna will send us children one day who will be devotees, but my good wife is getting stressed. One devotee friend also suggested that maybe somebody using black magic or some curse on us. Let see what is Krishna's plan.

Your servant Prahlad-nrsimha das

HpS -  Black is beautiful!      Took Nanda and Yasoda a long time to get a son, but they did pretty well.       Just keep so busy, with early Japa at the basis that there is not time for speculation, then you will eventually become a Great Wheel in the Big Machine!!!!     Has your father found any interesting bells lately??