Letters to the editor

Hare krishna gurumaharaja!! Todas las glorias a srila prabhupada!!! Todas las glorias a usted! Estamos en sri dham mayapur, hasta el 20 de abril. No tubimos la buena fortuna de tener aunque sea un momento de su asociacion aqui. Cuando llegamos fuimos a verlo al brahmacari asrama nos dijeron que no estaba alli y nos mandaron al vamsi bhavan, tampoco estaba alli. Luego un devoto nos paso el dato que se estaba hospedando en el edificio de nama hatta nuevo, fuimos a buscar y tampoco nadie sabia. Luego nos dijeron que iba a dar clase a las 8 am en el mayapur institute y cuando llegamos alli nos dijeron que se habia marchado de mayapur a las 5 am. Asi que no tubimos la fortuna de estar con usted aqui. Esperamos que krishna sea mas misericordioso con nosotros la proxima ves y no nos deje con este sentimiento de vacio. Aqui estamos participando de algunos programas hoy comienza el parikrama a navadwip, pensamos participar algunos dia; vaisnavi esta muy bien aqui, cuando la llevamos al templo se pone a bailar y ya esta mas adaptada al cambio de horario. Le pedimos de sus bendiciones para que la potencia de este lugar sagrado nos toque aunque sea un poco. Sus sirvientes, gadadhara, pushpa y vaisnavi. Hare krishna!!! HpS - hare Krsna! So sad. Missed each other by a few moments. Have very rejuvenated experience in the Holy Dhama!

Just posted the big DTC. It was written for Beverly and everyone. We are so tired, have recovered a lot while here in Kolkata. We really miss all of our Masters in North and South America. Kolkata, Bombay, Braja, Europe, Nashville.

DIARY OF A TRAVELING CREATURE January – March 2016 By Tom Brown (Monkey) and Buck White (Piggy) ANJANA SUTA ACADEMY www.JayaRama.us Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Here we are, Tom Brown and Buck White (more graphically know as Monkey and Piggy), with Hanumatpresaka Swami at the ISKCON Kolkata, Albert Road Temple. It is about 83⁰ F here at 5AM and by 5.30AM the sky is just becoming light, the mosquitos begin to gently search for blood and the jungle flowers secrete intoxicating perfumes. During January we trans-versed South America and then reloaded in the USA for this Asia trek. This involved 36-hours from: Murfreesboro, Tennessee to, Nashville, Tennessee to, Newark, New Jersey (where we were in transit for 6-hours and met a retired Sea Captain of the big international oil tankers) to, Brussels (where we met a Catholic Priest) to, Delhi where we rested for 2.25 very nights and did 5-lecture/cultural programs with 200-600 people each. Our driver one evening was a very nice gentleman with a very nice car with nice A/C whom Uncle Gismo harassed until he explained the difference between cellular 3G and 4G connections. He managed about 500 Erickson Engineers who developed the towers and all else for about one third of the world. Back in the aluminum Wiener. One night in Dr. Samaresh’s house in Kolkatta and the next day sharing a taxi from Kolkata airport to Mayapura with two ladies, sisters, from Peru, living in Australia, HpSwami’s disciples. Mayapura is the birthplace of Sri Krsna Caitanya about 1486 AD. Many Bengali organizations have Temples and Cultural Complexes there and the ISKCON one stands like a Tyrannosaurus amongst smaller dinosaurs. It is jungle, farms along the banks of the Ganga, four hours from Kolkata. Oink! Oink! Whoop! Whoop! We really hope The Rooster of Peru is appreciating all the purposeful, though possibly mad, austerity. For ten daze we were in Mayapura ISKCON. There was a mass conflict between different administrative divisions a week before and one of HpSwami’s students was pummeled unconscious. We were there for the ILS meeting (ISKCON Leadership Sanga). About 1,200 ISKCON second level leaders from around the world were there. The last three days we got sick - cold and fever. Our room-mate was our old friend Sukadeva Swami, formerly a doctor, from South India. We were representing the ISKCON Ministry of Education. HpS gave one presentation during three different slots on “Harvard, Oxford and the Bhagavat in Dialog”. It was sold-out every time. The MOE did nine more presentations in the over 240-other slots. Lot of work. We also had to organize and attend MOE administrative meetings, Spanish language lectures and meetings, feed the elephants, visit Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi Mandir, check-in with people left and right, coming and going, that we haven’t seen for months, days, years, decades. HpSwami is a fanatic: Up by 2AM, chanting rosary, reading esoteric classics, writing, bath, barefoot to the Samadhi arati at 4.30AM. The Security Guards and street dogs stand sleepily to salute him and Rtu-raja as they passed by. A loving mother and father, a dutiful king, they can protect you, but the Holy Dhama, She never sleeps. (I guess you get the idea about our life for the past ten weeks. (Reading this, we start to get the idea.)) After Mayapur: Four hours with Hari Das Das back to the Kolkata airport. Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! Kolkata to Imphal and Thoubal, Manipur. Now we are in the North East. This makes the jungles of Mayaura look like a Beverly Hills Country Club. Simple villages in the foothills of the Himalayas. Have to shoo the cows off the runway to land. Soldiers with machine guns every quarter mile in the tougher areas. Feelings of love and communal wisdom that bring you to your knees, and remind you of Jung’s words to the scientific elite during the Tavistock lectures: You think that these ancient Indian and Chinese cultures were fools. They aren’t the fools. We are the fools. They have a realization of introspective life that is simply marvelous. In terms introspective psychology Europe is just a peninsula of Asia. HpSwami has been trying to help there for 10-years, after his Sannyasa Guru, B. S. Damodara Swami died as a result of a bomb blast. HpS is obviously a stupid white-man but the people were traveling by bus, car, buffalo for even three days to join the festivals and in the end they donated 100,000 Rupees, even 10 at a time, for the progress of this Peru-Manipur dialog, and pledged there intellects and talents to the effort. All this has been in a foreground of our background of Professor Samaresh and Dr. Kalyankumar. During the 36-hours in Delhi, when we first landed, we were able to meet with Dr. Kalyan. He was in charge of the administration of all the primary schools in Uttar Pradesh, about 800,000 children, National Education Development Institute and National Fine Art’s Academy. His view has been so parallel to ours, Hector Behar and Ramon’s et al in Peru and the drift that we profoundly feel in Prof. C. G. Jung’s perspective, that unless we nurture, serve, these traditional cultures, then we have a funeral waiting for our souls and the existence of human life on the planet. So here, we let our borrowed ASUS Net book take rest. It is 3.15 PM. We spent one hour with one of the Temple Brahmacaris tranfering Light of the Bhagavata files and our old but happy eyes are about to collapse. Enough work for one day. We will send this report and in the next week we hope to have substantial progress on our written contribution to the Symposium in Peru in June, Miguel’s magazine and our other ASA and NIOS efforts. We are still planning to leave this body (through the mouth?) November 2024. Please write to us. We cannot live without your mercy. Tom Brown and Buck White et al ANJANA SUTA ACADEMY NIOS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies)

All Gloris to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Sri Guruji Maharaja’s padmacharan that I want to know Guruji’s observation (impression) of Manipur visit specially Thoubal. It is the human nature that happiness of meeting and sadness of separation though it may be short or long.

Impression of Thoubal Bhaktas :

1.      Though Gurujis time is short for one night only, it is our golden opportunity that our Guruji came and hold in Guruji’s Aashrm at Thoubal.

2.      Our poor bhaktas who could not go and take darshan our Guruji at Mayapur or the nearest ISKON centre outside Manipur take the opportunity.

3.      Though our Thoubal Mandir is not yet a fully fledged ISKCON Centre, our Guruji visited frequently from far far country for the interest of our poor bhaktas.

4.      We can participate Nagar Kirtan with our Guruji personally around the Mandir.

Inconveniences of arrangement :

1.      We could not arrange separate room arrangement of Haridas Prabhu that is why he did not hold that night with us so we could not get enough time to accompany and communicate with Guruji.

2.      No bhaktas from Imphal ISKCON Mandir including Bonomali Prabhu, Sadhubhusan Das and Nabadwipchandra Das did not hold that night with us and participated mangal aarati.

3.      We could not arrange separate discussion with Guruji and initiated bhaktas of Thoubal

4.      We could not arrange separate discussion with Guruji and Brahma Diksa bhaktas about personal advantages and disadvantages in our spiritual life.

5.      Our Thoubal bhaktas are almost came from poor families so we could not present good dakshinas. Not only that some members including the senior most and brahma diksha Nanda Gopa Das did not turn in the Guru Pujah. It is so unfortunate for us.

6.      None of our Bhaktas from Thoubal except my family could not join at the time of Gurujis departure in the Airport.

Guruji, please guide us in the right direction of our gold and excuse us from all inconveniences caused by our mismanagement and facilities which we could not provided.

I will send the video recording of Guruji's activities during Guruji's visit at Manipur specilly at Thoubal. 

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das.

HpS - All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It is so nice we solved this Blog problem and now we can communicate here. Our visit to Thoboul was very nice. You have such a very rich Vaisnava culture in Manipura. You are very fortunate to live there. Must be because of your previous good activities. It seems to us that all the devotees from Thoubal, Imphal, are sincere enough that we can give them our association and engage in service together. If we do that then our bad qualities will be destroyed at the root. So far the results of our visit are very nice. Let us see if people fulfil their promises. In any case we will make progress in expanding Lord Caitanya mission.

Brother Ass is tired but doing o.k. Traveled from 7.45a.m. to 12.45p.m. to get from Silchar to Albert Road. Hard traveling alone in a primitive foreign country. Many men with machine guns. Many said "Hare Krsna!" We tried to look like a real Indian Sannyasi rather than a Hippie Yogi. Maybe about 35% successful. Have nice room in Kolkata temple. Arrived just in time for lunch. Was very satisfying. Then immediately we gave B'cari ashrama class. About 65 living in the Ashrama. So very advanced. President came. We felt stressed, but told them about NIOS. 5.00p.m. eyes fading. More soon!

Dear Gurudeva: Hare Krishna.

Please, accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhudada!

 Sometime ago, I sent my cover letter and CV to the Mayapur International School. The Principal wrote me back just a a few days ago, saying that she is interested in my application for Kindergarde. Could you please tell me if I should go on with the application or I should forget about it and keep going with my Gurukula service here in Spain? If I would go to India, my son and my daughter would come with me. Jayanta would stay in Spain. 

Sorry for bothering you with this.

Hoping you are fine when receiving this message.

Your servant.

Purnamasi devi dasi

HpS - Very nice to hear from you. Have you visited Mayapura? Is like going to Berlin. Can be dangerous!