Letters to the editor

AGTSP,PAMHO AGTHPS!!!! HARE KRISHNA GURUDEVA!!! I HAVE BEEN FOLOWING YOUR STEPS BY THIS BLOG...AND I HOPE YOU ARE VERY WELL!!! SANKIRTAN IN MAYAPUR DHAM..MAY BE ,MANGALA ARATIK AT PRABHUPADS SAMADI EVERY MORNING??? ASA - yes. HAVE BEEN LONG TIME I DONT SEND YOU LETTERS..SORRY AND I'M VERY SAD I COULDN'T HAVE YOUR ASOSIATION IN BS AS,CORDOBA OR CHILES TOUR...LAST YEAR WAS A YEAR OF LOT OF SERVICE AND TRAVELING AND I NEEDED TO TAKE A REST FROM ALL THE MARATON, SO I TOOK HOLIDAYS IN CHAPADMALAL IN JANUARY. OUR HEALTH SOME TIMES IS A BIT BAD (HEADACHE VERY OFTEN,DIZZINES)IT IS VERY DIFICULT TO RELAX OUR MAIND... SP PRABHUPADS MARATON WAS VERY GOOD,WE BEEN IN CORDOBA FOR ALL MONTH TRAVELING WITH ONE MORE DEVOTE, WE ALMOST DISTRIBUIT 5000 BOOKS...AND WE GOT THE FIRST AND SECOND PLACE IN THE MARATON RANKING..ALSO I PARTICIPATE IN THE BOOK D. MARATON FOR THE PLEASURE OF HIS HOLINES BHAKTI BUSANA S.M.IN LAST JULY..GETTING FIRST IN THE RANKING ALMOST 1000 BOOKS. NOW I'M BACK IN BRAZIL IN THE BRAMACARI ASRAM AT NOVA GOKULA FARM.IS VERRY GOOD, VERY GOOD FOR YAPA AND ESPIRITUAL PROGRAMS, RIGHT NOW WE ARE 2 BRAMACARIS AND ONE MOR DEVOTE IN THE ASRAM. WE ARE FIXING AND RECONDITIONING THE ASRAM TO INVITE SOME BHAKTAS INTERESTED IN ESPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.. SO RIGHT NOW I'M COLLECTING WITH BOOK DISTRIBUTION FOR THE ASRAM IN N.G.TRAVELING I. BRAZIL..MAY BE THIS YEAR WE STUDY FIRST CANTO SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM WITH DEVAKINANDA DAS PRABHU,WILL SEE IF IS POSIBLE.. ALLWAYS TRING TO SATISFY SP AN HPS!! PLEACE GIVE US YOUR BLESSIGS AND PRAY SO I CAN CONTROL MY SENSES AND MIND FOR YOUR SERVICE AN SRILA PRABHUPADAS... THAK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EVERTHING HARE KRISHNA!!!! HpS - ASA. -- Superman of the Latin Yatra. Do you invite people who take books to stay in touch with you? Any contact with your family? Can they understand your work,

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In reply to my last letter you asked about Temple Newsletter. I don't understand. Can you elaborate please?

Your servant,
Raghava Pandita dasa
 

HpS - Hare Krsna! Weren't you doing the local Temple newsletter? ? ?

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.