Letters to the editor

Very Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Thank You for being so merciful, by giving instructions and teach me about Lord Nrsimhadeva. Never imagined such undeserved mercy. And I'm again insisting on serving you somehow, maybe with translations. I have read text 8 from NOI as you told me, very carefully. I understand as much I can what it says about Lord Sri Krsna, devotional service, chanting His Names as much as posible, surrender to Him and live in Vraja Dham. I've been told that Lord Nrsimhadeva is Krsna also, His special form to save Prahlad Maharaja and to specially protect Devotees, (if this somehow wrong, please teach me) but still I couldn't make a "direct" connection from the text to the matter "how can I know if I am a devotee of Krsna or another Krsna's form?". I'm humbly asking for your kind help about this. I'm sure one phrase or word from you will help me to understand. I don't ask nothing big. You are already helping me so much. ASA - In text 8 BSSTh gives the levels of purification. You can see it is a long distance for us to travel. Talk to local Btahmans about this also! You are very merciful by saying we can even in our position have affection for some form of the Lord. I'm just looking for Refuge, somehow I experienced things that made me have more faith in Sri Nrsimha's Protection from this world than Sri Krsna or other forms, even reading many times that Sri Krsna is the deposit of all forms and avataras. I should have no excuse to prefer Lord Nrsimha, but the fact is that I felt a special attraction for Him since I got to KCON. And in difficults moments, after praying so much to Krsna, when nothing seemed to get better, I ended up asking for help and praying much more to Lord Nrsimha. Only that way things got solved. Is not my intention to be negligent or offensive, but hard situations made me strenght my faith and attraction to Lord Nrsimhadeva. Nowadays I cannot stop my prayers even when the troubles I prayed for help are over: 1) Because I like Him particulary, His ferocity to Protect Prahlad, His mood, form, passtimes I heard, etc. 2) Because I am so fallen that I don't want troubles around me anymore, and always that I stopped prayers for Him daily, all bad things started to happen again. Even if it's an insignificant reason, it made me to have more and more faith on Him, and to wish becoming a Good Devotee of Him... Dign of Him. I sent and email to an argentinian Brahman whom I learned and trust a lot, on how to worship Lord Nrsimhadeva. I'm waiting for his response. ASA . Very good. I took from SCC the word for word meaning of first 2 paragraphs of Nrsimha Pranam, and the 3rd last one I searched on VedaBase its words meanings from other purports as well from an online nirukti dictionary. I'm chanting it everyday and meditating more on its meaning. It helped a lot and I feel to Glorify the Lord in a better way. Like getting to know the most interesting Person ever imagined! Little by little. Word by word. Thank you. Just two more questions. Sorry I have written a lot this time. No rush at all on responding: 1) In a SB class these days it was said that Prahlad Maharaja lives in the Patalas. I don't understand and don't know about this, isn't there a loka for Nrsimhadeva and Prahlad Maharaja? Why such a Pure Devotee does not live in such loka, even if is the Asura's king? I'm confused and don't know the sastra. Could you please explain more about this? ASA - Look in SB around 5.18.12. 2) Is there more sastra about Lord Nrsimha that I could read? ASA - Several chapters in seventh canto. Your insignificant student and aspirant to serve, Nadia Radha dd

Dear Gurudeva

It seems that I can not travel because the temple was left without resources and I already can not afford the tiket , already had everything ready with visas , well it is just a result of my karma , is not easy to reach the holy dham , I aplicare more in devotional service to see if someday I get there, I look forward to partnering with you soon my dear sir .

 His servant Eternal

Vrajendra Kumara dasa

HpS - Hare Krsna! GP is 23 March. Too soon to plan a trip to India. Do Sankirtan to please Krsna. He will send you where He wants to!.

Gurudeva

let me know when Gaura Purnima in Bombay to see if I manage to collect in sankirtan if I go out all day and strive to the fullest, in order to fulfill its instruction have a very strong desire to have their asociasion at least if I fail to go celebrate Gaura Purnima in its incredible asociasion my life will be perfect , if the temple can not pay my tiket no problem I 'll ask them to let me collect in sankirtan , please inform me how long I have , when you will be in bombay ??

 his donkey

Vrajendra Kumara Dasa

HpS - Hare Krsna! GP is 23 March. Too soon to plan a trip to India. Do Sankirtan to please Krsna. He will send you where He wants to!

Hare Krsna. Half dead, just like you. Making the dead body serve Krsna, just like you. In transit in Guwahati with HariliaDas and Rtu raja. There are evil camels and men with knives and cigarettes everywhere. We are doing bhajan. Answered all the recent letters. Hare Krsna. Won the crown jewel of Assam by bending the bow of King Looie. Sell books. Sell books.

hare krsna guru maharaja. please accept my humble obeisances. all glories to guru and gauranga. all glories to srila prabhupada. my sincere appreciation and admiration go to you for responding to me. forgive me for my delay in responding. i wanted to write immediately but have had issues with my computer. it pains me so to hear you are suffering from a cold. i pray to lord nrsimhadeva for your speedy recovery. my son is doing well. thank you so much for asking. i am heading to dallas this afternoon to visit him. also while in dallas i will pray for sri sri radha kalachandji's blessing to have your darshan somewhere in india in the near future, haribol. aspiring to serve the vaisnavas aron illo HPS - hare krsna. We left Mayapura and are now in the primitive North East. There is big military presence hear. Misra says we may all meet in Braja. Your son of becoming a young man, no?

Hare Krsna Maharaja!

AgtSp!

Agt Guru y Gauranga!

I am Budanath Das from the little mountain

How are yours days in the Dham with sooo many excellent devotees?

How are the seva to Sri Sri Radha-Madhava Asta sakhi? And Prahlada-Ugra Narasimha? Sooo beautiful Mayapur? how are the servants of them? And the senior devoties?

I'm fine, struggling with my sadhana. but some days are sooo good.

How is the health of your body?

I think a lot lately that you're a shaft in my spiritual life, and my only physical union with Iskcon. I feel a great sense of debt to many devotees of ISKCON, They are my spiritual teachers, and You are the main.

Maharaja, if I sing rounds, and want to feel the external reality, clear as mountain sky, trying to feel the maha -mantra from behind the clear reality, and I feel I must let go of all my body, is that desire for mystical powers?, because something tells me I should be a mystic, and that the maha-mantra has to teach me something more than gross matter, I should not look for mystical powers, but if I hear well the maha-mantra, nothing will seem to me more mystical and wonderful, surpassing the matter, and may feel a bigger world without seeing it, perhaps, with the eyes but with the heart, conciusness, soul, but I feel that my conscience becomes a platform, say rounder, rather than as the body, straight. I do wrong? O well? Is a play?  In my dream, Bhaktisidhanta Sarasvati said that to me. Is a nonsense? I just want to run into that world, plane. Is Ok?

Sorry, sorry for my looong letter, but I'm very happy to know that you are in the Dham.

My family is ok, growing, waiting more spiritual instructions from my. I hope that in a year or two, to impress my son very much, in their own way.

Happy, happy travel, sanga, seva.

Yours, Budanath das.

HpS ASA - Hare Krsna Yes, we had to skim over a lot of your letter. We couldn't understand many things. In the previous DTCs we answered most of your questions. Did you see them? Some fixed Japa vow these days? DTC next.