Letters to the editor

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami, please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

[I figured you will be busy as it gets closer to your Vyasapuja, so in order to not be of any burden, I am posting this now. You also asked me to not send you personal emails but post everything here so thus here we are.]

I want to take this auspicious upcoming occasion of your birth to appreciate you and all the inspiration, guidance, healing and most importantly, Krishna Consciousness you have shared and inspired in the hearts and minds of so many souls in this world.

You are so kind to have formally initiated me, and I will always be grateful and appreciative for this.

In my past relationships with devotees, I have felt so much pain, distress and insecurity, which I feel stimulated me to act inappropriately towards others and myself. I feel this instigated much distress and confusion to everyone involved.

I have also noticed that over the last year I have lost a taste for chanting and reading. From my understanding of Srila Prabhupada’s books and lectures, this is due to offenses.

I am deeply remorseful for acting in ways that I feel were offensive. I am now working hard to change my own attitudes and behaviors in the way I interface with people to nonviolent communication. As a result, I feel a need in my life for love, transparency and understanding, not fear, anger, accusations or fighting, as could be said previously.

I request you for forgiveness of any offenses I have made, as well as for your understanding and acceptance/recognition of my strong efforts to better myself, and your blessings/prayers so I may in the future have better and closer relationships with you, others, ISKCON and devotees in general. I feel this will help me to be more secure in devotion and Krishna consciousness, as well as regain my taste for chanting and reading Srila Prabhupada’s books, which are very important to me.

I ask you to accept these sincere words of appreciation and my new found determined efforts to better myself, as well as have better relationships with others as my gift to you on this auspicious day.

Hare Krishna,
Prahlada-Nrsimha Dasa
Thank you.

[p.s. side note: I am learning a lot from the Nonviolent Communication courses of Marshall Rosenberg and feel it is greatly helping my relationships with others (devotees) and myself. Since you say this forum is for everyone's benefit, I would like to share a free download of his courses with others here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pjiay3c83x26arc/AACyi5ArXL7RnXpWud6Nes_Fa?dl=0
If you do not feel this is appropriate, please feel free to remove this bottom section/side note]

HpS - ASA ---  Hare Krsna.   We offer our obiesances to you, esteemed Prahlada-nrsmha das.   Thank you for your very fine letter.   We didn't ask you not to send us personal e-mails, but because our relations in the past have had some fire and brimstone in them I was just trying to include a third person in the communication, Nitai-gaurasundara Das. He is a pretty neutral fellow and so could give a perspective on our individual insanities and make any individual communications productive.

However, we just can't handle much individual correspondences. We were getting 400-500 letters per/month before Prahlada-nrsmha Das (Czech Republic, vedabase.com) started this Blog for us. We recommend it to everyone. Now we are handling about 150 letters a month, because people see what others wrote and what we write and so, so much re-dun-dun-dancy is eliminated.

O.K?

Your link looks fine!

"maya tatam idam sarvam..." devotee is a pirate who uses everything for Krsna. Including communication skills!

Prabhupada is the Founder - Acharya of ISKCON, no?   Any relation that we have within ISKCON that does not improve our personal intimate connection with him is unhealthy and should be rectifed, no?

Thank you for so, so, so much austerity.

So much to do.
More news as you have time! !      !

Respected Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

I was very worried when I came to know that you have stomach cancer, but later, I could heave a great sigh of relief when you mentioned that it is not so, I have personally witnessed that you eat and sleep very little, you are on the way to become a Goswami.  As a disciple, I cannot tell you what you should eat or how much you should sleep, but certainly, I can request you to eat a bit more.

HpS - ASA - We have thought you have been kidnapped by Kangaroos. No news for so long!

I had a plan to join you with my whole family during your Indian trip, Priya is saying that it is not good.  She says that if we all go, then instead of serving guruji, I would be serving them, so she says that I can go alone, and she would take vacation from her work and would look after the children and I can go to associate with guruji for two weeks.

ASA - Your wife is a saint.

Can you kindly guide me that where I should join you, for Mayapur/Manipur or Mumbai or Vrindavan.  I was thinking that Mumbai is good, since you are going to be there for a week, and then you are going to be in Vrindavan for 4-5 days according to your present calender, am I right? Priya said that better I ask you that where I can be some productive in your service.

HpS - Did you see the last proposal? http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6016  We will buy the Delhi - Kolkata ticket just now: 21st Feb, Sunday. After that you can see that things are still being fixed, but no objections to the broad plans. Thinking Manipur 4-7th March, Friday to Monday.
What do you think?

Lakshmi said that why guruji does not come to Australia? It has been more than three years since you were here last time and I believe that your Australian experience was not bad, the devotees here loved your association very much.

HpS -   See attached Donkey picture.  North America, South America, Europe, India ...   dead-donkey....   We meet soon.  Get Narada Muni donkey.

Govindanandini said that guruji should come to Azerbaijan -------and the devotees there would be in ecstacy.

HpS - Do they have toothpaste and Tilak mirrors?

Everything is up to you, you are our lord and master, whatever you say, it would be carried out accordingly, your wish is our command.

HpS - ASA ---- Ha!  Ha!  Hare.  Chant 16-enthusiastic rounds daily, follow the four principles strictly, keep a full morning and evening program, and join Lord Nityananda and Srila Prabhupada in Their siddha-svarupas in Sankirtan of the Holy Names.   O.K????? <img alt="devil" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/devil_smile.png" title="devil" width="23" />

Thanks a lot.

yours servant,

Raktak Das
 

HpS - ASA - Ayodhya-pati Das, Bhakti brhnga govinda Majraja was here yesterday. We talked about P Das and everyone. How old are the children? Vanaprastha?  Sannyasa???   You can become a Sannyasi and travel to the Moon to open ISKCON centers.

Waiting for you travel thoughts!

Toda Gloria a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, reciba mis respetuosas reverencias!!!

HpS - ASA --- Super sober news. Thank you. We all read your letters with attention and take great benefit from them. Do you think that it is anyway possible that this perspective that you have for Sankirtan is not something that was developed at least a little bit in the last life.

We hope Krsna gives you intelligence so that your can go on expanding the Sankirtan more and more. Maybe you will become a General in Srila Prabhupada's army.

En realidad lo único que deseamos es hacer Sankirtana "distribución de libros de Srila Prabhupada" y  enseñar a las personas a que se únan a esta sagrada MISIÓN DE SANKIRTANA.

Nose si esto sea un deseo de vida pasada, lo unico que se, es que deseamos humildemente hacer esto y esperamos que el Señor Nityananda nos pueda dar su misericordia.

La primera semana de diciembre fuimos a Bolivia por 8 días, hicimos Sankirtan en las ciudades de Oruro por 2 días, Potosi por 3 días y Sucre por 3 días, fue muy interezante, viajamos con Madre Anadi Adi Govinda, Nadiya Nivasi y yo Gadai, distribuimos alrrededor de 1000 libros entre pequeños y grandes.  

Mucha distribución de libros en Potosi y Sucre, lamentablemente no hay templos de ISKCON, ni restaurantes de devotos, mucha austeridad con la alimentación, gracias a madre Anadi Govinda que llevó una cocina electrica y pudimos cocinarnos a escondidas, sin que se den cuenta los dueños de los hospedajes.

También algunos problemas con la policia de inmigraciones en Sucre, me hicieron preguntas el por que de mi visita desde tan lejos???, pense en mentirles, pero decidí decirles la verdad, que habia venido a predicar y que eramos de la iglesia Hare Krishna, con eso se quedaron tranquilos y se fueron....jejeje que misericordia!!!!

Ahora estamos nuevamente en Perú - Puno, siguiendo con la maratón de libros, mi esposa Nadiya Nivasi estará viajando a Santiago de Chile con la Madre Madhumati, ellas haran Sankirtana en Chile y mi esposa estara para su Vyasa Puja.   Por otro lado yo estare en Puno con Bhakta Percy haciendo Sankirtana. 

Para el 15 de enero del 2016 ire con mi esposa a Cusco a  hacer Sankirtana, estaremos hospedados en la casa de un amigo de Bhakta Percy, aproximadamente estaremos unos 20 días en Cusco.

Esta ves no podremos ir a INDIA, así que iremos a HUANCAYO en febrero, para hacer nuestra base de Sankirtana, construiremos en los terrenos de mi padre para poder descanzar por temporadas y también hacer Sankirtana de una manera local en HUANCAYO Y POR DIFERENTES LUGARES DEL PERÚ.

Bueno Guru Maharaj, me despido, que esté bien y que el Señor Caitanya lo aconpañe en su Sankirtana!!!

Gadai Gauranga Das

PAMHO AGTSP My dear guru maharaja: I had the opportunity to go to Govardhan for the Seminar of Sacinanda Maharaja some days ago and I met Prasanta Mataji, who is the person who manages the VIHE in Vrndavan. I told her that you would be here next march and about the possibility of imparting a seminar at that time, she was very interested since they are imparting now the Bhakti Vaibhava course and told me it would be very good if you could give a summary or a seminar about this Bhakti Vaibhava. She asked me to call her as soon as I have the exact date in which you will be here and also if you are willing to impart this seminar. On the other hand, Radha Carana and Cakori Radha are trying to contact Janardhana prabhu to also see the possibility of a seminar in the temple, maybe in the Balarama Hall instead of the one in VIHE. So please let us know what would you prefer to do and your schedule here, if you have already any, so we can help you somehow to organize a nice visit to Vraja next march. Hoping to serve you soon Your (trying to be humble) servant Tungavidya devi dasi.

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP  paoho...   We have been working so hard to try to adjust this India calendar. We saw your letter and have been waiting a little to try to fix things. Can you see the suggested calendar that we just posted?   We will talk with Rama-giridhari tomorrow and write to Manipur right now to try to get their opinions fixed.
We want to do this within this week.

As it stands we would be in Delhi on 19th and 2oth of Feb. Maybe we could go to Vraja then. Then on the 21st we have to go to Calcutta/Mayapura for the ILS meetings.  After that maybe Manipur and Calcutta with Prof., then Bombay side and back to Delhi Friday 25th.  We could go directly to Vraja, then return to Delhi 29th. Our flight is late night 29th.

That is just four days in Vraja. We could do some seminars, no?  Make a day trip to Govardhana.

Sounds O.K?

Next visit maybe we can focus on Vraja.

Hare Krsna.

AGTSP   paoho....   This India travel is a little hard because really the only fixed program is the ILS meeting in Mayapura from 24 Feb - 2 March.

So here is our proposal:

18th Arrive Delhi

21st Sunday - Fly to Calcutta.

22nd Monday - Hazar Duari to Mayapura

24th - 2nd - Mayapura: ILS, GBC, Meet the Vaisnavas.

+++++   Dr. Samaresh, Manipur (?),

18th, Friday - Kokata to Bombay (Harsh, Rama-giridhari, Giridhari Gopal??)

25th, Friday - BBY > Del (Delhi Temple, Vrndavana.. ?)

29th, Tuesday, Go to airport, flight 3oth at 2.30AM > Amsterdam.

O.K???? 

hare krsna mahraj, pamho, agtsp,

hope all is good at your end..

my mail does not bring any good news as compared to other bloggers in the blog, where they are contributing to sankirtana....!!! i am here are struggling to be just sane man  and do little bit sadhana...
i have written urgent because right now i can not control "urge of mind to get angry or get deluded".

i remember many times you said one should take ashrama that helps one hearing anc chnating.. sorry i messed up here.

you r focus have been on 1. good enth rounds 2. four rules 3. morn prog 4. eve prog.

fo this is is essential by 530  mangl arti is important. then 2 hours of chanting and then reading..

here are some details
the situtaion at my home is topsy turvy my child sleeps by 11pm.  so i am forced to sleep after that.. i get up by 4  some how manage mangal arti.
an after i try my rounds, but mostli doze off.. pill buster says i need more rest esp my mind.  result of which is that my mind is not realxed i tend to enter fight / flight mode.

and whenver i miss my morn prg , miss offering deities, miss my my rounds.... my mind becomes more and more disturbed and gradually
uncontrolled. ..pill buster is again again telling me not focu on such rituals its not practical in my casesuch disturbance increases my irritation day to day basis, eventually lead to fault finding  dis satisfaction...
can you tell me the reason (folly/ actual) my mind is becoming disturbed ?

i know you  are not right person to solve this problem because of ur ashrama.  but u r the person whose instruction i strive to follow whatever small i can..
 

HpS - AGTSP!     paoho....    You are one of the most determined people I know. It is always an honor to associate with you.

The problem I have in answering with details is that I don't know the details. I don't see your daily life with family, associates, city life.

Are you in communication with Nitai-gaurasundara Das?  He was happy to make some suggestions for medication if your psychiatrist was of accord.

The advice from the psychiatrist I cannot judge. NGD himself is director of a psychiatric hospital, father of three successful kids and an Indian and a devotee. His advice to me about stomach, heart etc. has always been very good. If he doesn't know, he says he doesn't know.

Call him on the phone?!

Besides that, it is obvious that as soon as the sun gets up the banks, businesses open, mode of passion results. Then bars, clubs, open as the sun goes down. So mode of goodness is early in the morning.

Take advantage of it as you can. Get sufficient sleep. Be sure that Krsna will not punish you for chanting Hare Krsna during Brahma muhurta. Take a nap later. B-muhurta is hour and half before sunrise, not any fixed clock time. It is naturally peaceful time, no?   It finishes with sunrise and beautiful sky.

Nap, nap, nap.

This is our Parampara advice and personal experience. Ben Franklin said the same. Son's habits can be changed, no? Wake him up so that he is naturally tired a little earlier.

Not too many rituals. Little respect for Deity, picture of Krsna, takes 3-minutes. Japa can be spread out during day. Reading, singing, what you like or feel important during B-muhurta.

O.K????    Talk with NGDas.    Stay in touch here.    Can you take a good nap during the day???

We are just about to buy the India tickets. We some struggle with the India x USA ticket because Jet changed their hub in Europe!