Letters to the editor

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

    Gurudev, Thank you so much for your India visit.

    i came back in Pune from Vrndavana, yesterday evening (April 03, 2016).

    Now trying to learn Duties of a Brahman - BG, CH – 18.42;

    Back in office today (April 04, 2016).

    Will write details in few days.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

ASA - Hare Krsna! You read about our trip to Delhi and Spain after we left you?! Thank you so, so much for you help and association while in India! We're still rushing, but hope to cultivate relations with Radhe-Shyama Das and everyone to increase our Sankirtan.

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 could not communicate Guruji through this blog due to office network.

I am regularly reading NOI to increase  my personal spiritual knowledge. Sometimes, the problem of english work meaning. Guruji, when you reach America (Guruji's own station).

Our mandir problem is not yet settled but will solve very soon.

Due to my wife's health problem of stone case in Goldbleder, she was admitted in the Hospital and I am so busy for going Office and that to the Hospital. May God bless her and Guruji.

My Dandabat pranam.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das,

HpS - Hare Krsna. So, so very nice to hear from you. Please just write down some Krsna conscious things that happen every day and send these to this Blog. We hope wife's experience is making here closer to Krsna! We have to wake up. Remember our service in Goloka. Do it quickly. How are your rounds? You get many done early?

HpS - Awk! AgtSP. Your letter is too long for our brain, scheduled service and even our internet robot. Send again shorter but put URGENT in the Subject field. I was able to read half. Radha, Lakshmi, Siva are all servants of Krsna. They all want to help it's get closer to Krsna then they are. Every cowherd boy thinks that he is Krsna's closest friend. He feels ashamed about this. He feels that there are so many boys who love Krsna more then Him, but Krsnas always talks about confidential things with him. Every cowherd boy thinks that he is Krsna's closest friend and by the nature of the internal potency it is a try fact!

Your Holiness,

                         Please accept my prostrated obeisances. All glories to Your good self.

I sincerely apologize for the delay that I have made you endure. I couldn't coordinate my various mental and physical inclinations well enough.

I thank you so much for the suggestions you have given. I did know the name of Rasaraja Prabhu before, and had even visited his website, but had not been able to infer his research aptitude in the field of, quantum physics and its connection to consciousness studies. In West Bengal also there are very learned devotees working on the field of consciousness. However they remain absorbed in their services. Thus I was unable to muster enough courage in my heart to approach them regarding this matter. I did want to contact a devotee who has time on his hands, but Rasaraja Prabhu is such a prolific scholar that I am again intimidated regarding contacting him. However I will try to address my intimidated heart more effectively than I have done in the past. I thank you again for this suggestion.

Maharaja, I have downloaded Ken Wilber’s book “Quantum Questions” and have gone through it a little superficially.  I do intend to study this book better in the future.

I have some questions which have been troubling my heart for quite some time which I will be extremely grateful if you could please try and answer. At first I tried to ignore them thinking that logical contradictions are likely to be there in a treatise as vast as the Vedas. That doesn’t mean I give up rendering devotional service or reduce the intensity till they are answered. But for some reason, which I cannot endure to fathom, the doubts do cast a lengthy shadow on my attitude towards God. Thus I am humbly pleading you to address these doubts in my heart.

They are:

a)There seem to be some intermediate tattvas between jiva tattva and Vishnu tattva. Examples of such tattvas are:

1)Srimati Radharani whom  I humbly think could be addressed as Shakti tattva

2)Lord Siva who seems to be addressed as Siva Tattva

3)Parvati Devi who is again Shakti Tattva

 

It is reasonable to accept that God is all powerful, and all attractive and someone who can and will fulfill my wildest expectations of happiness and go way beyond. But this same all attractive, all benevolent and very personal God seems to have created intermediate tattvas which are not as noble as God, who can be approached but not achieved. Even as a child I remember how incoherent, and unendurable it would be when my parents would seem to show more affection for my sister than me. Now, these intermediate tattvas can be considered to be also children of God. So how can an all attractive, all benevolent God create one child who is eternally going to be more opulent than another.

 One might reason that God wants us to become humbler than a blade of grass. But this blade of grass is allowed to think that he will one day shed the mortal coil and go beyond svarga loka and the host of gods, and the higher realms, even beyond Satya Loka, beyond even Kailash, beyond even the Vaikuntha Lokas and even beyond. Thus the jiva is allowed a fair degree of self esteem. Even as I sit on my desk, I can just look at my relatives and see how they are attached to the lower modes of nature whereas I am leading a more purposeful life. It is pointed out how we are getting freed from the lower modes, and Krsna says that this is verifiable, in the Gita. So self analysis, and a generous leave for self esteem seems to be allowed in a Monotheistic context. When I lament unceasingly, I am allowed to think that a Shudra laments uselessly and I am not a Shudra or even a personality of great prowess and magnanimity who does sometimes lament unceasingly, at least for days. I know of people who have achieved a lot in life, but who nonetheless lament or feel euphoric (and then pay a price for that euphoria) about relatively uneventful things, such as cricket scores or loss of a hundred rupee note etc.

So my perception of transcendence is that humility is one of the assets of a devotee not a cause of disconcerting feelings as to why I have to be satisfied being a caterpillar when someone else can be a king or queen.  Please correct me if I am thinking inaccurately.

In short I would like to just question as to why God has created intermediate tattvas who will act as intermediaries for eternity and who are neither as qualified as God nor as infinitesimal as the jivas.

They are not as qualified as God, for example Siva tattva is pointed out as having some inefficiencies especially in comparison to Lord Narayana.  So while honouring Lord Siva his faults do occur in my mind, and I cannot say that he is just an ex-pure devotee of God, and that one day we will all happily hold hands and dance on an equal level. For example Lord Siva seems to aspire for liberation but doesn’t make it. Yet isn’t by that analysis he inferior to say a resident of Vaikuntha? Does that mean that a jiva becomes more qualified than Lord Siva once he is liberated?

Another doubt I have is that God is called Achyuta or One Who doesn’t degrade Himself. Then how does it manifest that “ He has analyzed that Krsna is cent percent Bhagavan. And Narayana is ninety-four percent Bhagavan. And Lord Siva is eighty-four percent Bhagavan. And all other living entities, all living entities, we are, we are minutely seventy-eight percent Bhagavan”.

Now if God doesn’t reduce in potency due to the effect of ignorance as the Brahma-vadis seem to indicate, how does it happen.

The living being can never possess attributes like Shiva, Vishnu or Lord Krishna. A living being can become godly by developing the seventy-eight-percent transcendental attributes in fullness, but he can never become a God like Shiva, Vishnu or Krishna. He can become a Brahma in due course: - Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.28 purport”

Thus I do admit that I have some inefficiencies in my understanding.

I will be extremely grateful if you could please give me some shastric references, so that I know the authority of the source, that you might be asking me to refer to.  

Your servant

jashodev

and

AgtSP!

Agt Gaura Nitay!

Hare Krsna Maharaja. I´m Budanath das from the little mountain.

I hope you are well in every sense.

I, as always, with many good days and many bad.

I am very sad because I will not be able to see you via Amsterdam, for work. My karma not give more…ha ha ha!

Really, it´s a pity.

The only important thing I can say, I'm trying to germinate Tulasi Devi. I'm trying to beat myself, and believe more in the protection of Krsna, not my strength. And I'm trying to learn to burn the inner fire. I´m so fool.

I do not read much, but I see youtube classes, I want to see more of your classes.

Is there a relationship between the inner fire, the solitude and the presence of Krishna in the mind?

well, it's a pleasure to write to you and read you

Yours, Budanath Das

HARE KRSNA

Hp Swami - Yes, we will be in Amsterdam for only one hour. "Inner fire"? You mean like fire of digestion? Fire of locomotion? Think of Radha Krsna in your heart! Nice poem at the end of NOI Test One. Every Samurai or Sannyasi should memorize it. I remember 80%.

sri-vigraharadhana-nitya-nana
srngara-tan-mandira-marjanadau
yuktasya bhaktams ca niyuñjato’pi
vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

Por favor acepte mis mas humildes y respetuosas reverencias todas las AGTSP! AGTHPS!

ON DEITY WORSHIP AND HOW TO GET FREE FROM ILLICIT SEX.

 HpS -Look for Satyaraja Kahn in NOI. Follow the link and read the instructions in CC. Tell us what you think.

Madhya 15: El Señor toma prasādam en casa de Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

(versos 105 al 111)

Maharaja from my point of view this six verses sumarize, as a practical guide,  the process of devotional service in the beginning stages, where Prabhupada emphasizes specifically the importance  of Arcana, the principle of diksa and the chant of the Holly Names.

It is interesting how Prabhupada describes the Kanistha adhikari devotee, now we understand better this high Vaisnava concept.

We often think that we belong to this category or even to other more elevated ones, but the sad truth is that we do not even behave like real Kanisthas.

It is explained that Kanistha is the devotee who is dedicated to diety worshiping, this we understand to be the main activity in which a brahamana is engaged.

So Srila Prabhupada in this verses is giving us the recipe to progress in espiritual life, specifically for those ,like myself, who were not born in a Vaisnava family, but thanks to your mercy Maharaja, we can aspire to become one at one point.

Thus we understand the importance of following the process very strictly, just like when we want to get cure from disease we take the prescriben drug by a doctor, in the same way if we want to advance in espiritual life we should not be peevish regarding our practices.

To be fair, I had not paid much attention to the arcana process, and was not able to understand its relevance, but now we know thanks to you Gurudeva, that it is essential for us, because we know that while we are absorbed in the shape and the service of the Lord we will gain a greater control of the mind and the senses.

We are being witnesses of how diety worshiping it´s a powerful and efective medium  which is making strong impressions in our mind, and that which I thought imposible to overcome not long ago, its becoming more easily  to achieve, and thus our faith and taste hearing and chanting.

This is helping us to understand better the relation-ship between Guru-disciple and the fact that vani is more important than van (as stated in the sastras), the espiritual life of the disciple it is dependen only on faithfully following the instructions of his espiritual master, and we believe without this espiritual life becomes a show and a phantasmagoria. “Disloyalty to the espiritual master pays off with ignorance”.

We feel that we are going trough a transitional stage, of changes, after having being stucked for some years, but we are clear that we will not let go the train of your mercy, we only aspire to assist you in devotional service.

This is my point of view Gurudeva, for sure there are many others, but this is all I could see, for now, thank you.

your aspiring servant

 Bhadra Vardhana

HpS - Hare Hare Krsna! Very nice to be here with you all Barcelona! We just went for a walk with Nimai. So many nice things for sale. Thousands of tourists, but if we shop for our Deities all the passion and lust disappear. We want to glorify Radha Krsna's conjugal pastimes.

Respetada Maharaji,

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias. Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Gracias tanto que le dio una clase de maravilla en Pune Iskcon, templo de Sri Sri Radha Kunjabihari.

Maharaj, que había dado una carta, y pidió que hacer lo que quiera, por favor déjeme saber su deseo, muchas gracias.

Voy a estar agradecido, si me puede enviar su correo electrónico-id, gracias

tu siervo,

narayandas

HpS - Hare Krsna ! Nice to hear from you. I have tried to call the devotee but no luck so far. Will continue!