Letters to the editor

Respected Guru Maharaj

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

One of my friend's friend from Noida went to the Delhi temple to pay the money for the guest house and they refused to accept the money when they came to know that the person who is going to stay is an approved ISKCON Sannyasi and a Prabhupad disciple, so all is well if it ends well. So now your room has been booked for 18, 19th and 20th Feb, 2016, thanks to Krishna. Srila Prabupad ki Jai.

In your answer to Girivardhari-Gopal Prabhu, you have corrected the date for your Delhi flight, thanks a lot for that, I yesterday almost booked but somehow had a narrow escape, so now I can book too, 25th march-Mumbai to Delhi, Air India-864 and I am also booking the ticket today from here Brisbane to Mumbai.

You have tremendous energy to perform sankirtan for the pleasure of Shri-Shri Guru-Gauranga, All glories for that. HARE KRISHNA.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

HpS - Jaya!!!    Yes, we are 90% incompetent, making mistakes on the Calendar dates etc!!!       We need so much help from Lord Caitanya and clearer knowledge of what are our regular duties.    We just arrived from Argentina.  It was intense travel and programs and now we are in Santiago for two nights then to and ISKCON Education Symposium.

More news in a few moments.

Huerta Grande, Argentina,

AGTSP  paoho   We travel all morning through the mountains from Cordoba and got here. We are staying in a very old stone house on the edge of the city. Piggy said it was built by Colonial settlers and is guarded by the ghosts of Spanish soldiers. The wooden floors are 400 years old. We had a nice lunch of pumpkin, olive oil and bread Prasadam. 

Tonight there will be a program, but right now we have traveled on Ambarisa and Vrsabhanu nandini's flying carpet with Campaka lata and Devarsi narada to the house of VBNN father. It is also a forest home, but here they have internet.

We have a strong headache but it should go away. Maybe we will go away before it goes away. Ja! Ha! Ha!

One devotee and his wife came by, Visnu-cakra Das. He is a stunt man for the movies and was parachuting out of an airplane with a camera-man also parachuting and filmin him, but at the end their chutes collided and VCD free fell the last 30-meters, 100-feet.

Where did he crash into the ground?

Right into a football field where the local Doctor's association was playing the local Para-medic association in football!

I can imagine then, thinking, "Well, here we get a day off from the hospital to play foot ball!", Plop.

He lived and is 15% steel but looks fine.

Well I guess that's about all for right now. It is becoming a challenge to organize things, India visit, Education Symposium. Seems God wants us to turn more and more things over to others.

Hare Krsna.

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

    Thank you so much, Gurudev, we gone through the letter, URL:  http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6171

    As per the letter, the new schedule is for Mumbai and Pune, begins from 18/Fri to 28/Mon. On 28/Mon at 7:00 AM, you would start for Delhi.
    So we have 18/Fri to 27/Sun for Mumbai and Pune.

    Once you fix, how many days you would have for Pune (after Mumbai programs), we would communicate the same to the local temple authority
    for your lectures and meeting with Temple President HG Radyshyam Das.

    Meanwhile, as the dates are not fix yet for Mumbai Program, we will just communicate your tentative schedule to Temple President
    HG Radyshyam Das and will try to seek his opinion.
 
    Thank you so much, we would wait for your next input for more clarity about Mumbai Programs then would be able to fix schedule for Pune.

    Note : As you have flight on the 30th at 2.30 AM from Delhi, so am not going to book my tickets for Vrndavana.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

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HpS - AGTSP - We are in North of Argentina. We traveled all day. We are in a simple country farm house and no internet nor even cellular connection. We had to drive for 15-minutes to devotees house for connection. We have very bad headache from the travel.

BIG MISTAKE:  I wrote the flight from BOMbay to Delhi was the 28th!   It is not. It is the 25th, Air India (864). So we will be in Vraja from the 25th to 29th.

29th we will go to airport in Delhi.

In terms of visiting Pune, please contact Rama-giridhari Das. He is co-ordinating the whole visit to Bombay, Pune etc.  He is on Skype as "Ramanan Nagarajan", Mumbhai.

Respected Guru Maharaj,

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

I made a phone call to delhi guest house and they have booked a room in your name from 18th, 19th and 20th and but they won't confirm it unless they get paid, they have given me three days to pay (by Monday 25th Jan), I am trying to get in touch with Gokul Hari Das etc, so they can pay on my behalf and later, I can send them money to their nominated bank acct or through Western union, this evening I am going to the temple here in Brisbane and I would try to find someone who is from Delhi, may be their family-members back in Delhi can pay and I can pay them here, anyway, it is my duty and it would be accompalished, once I get confirmation, immediately, I would inorm you, thanks a lot, HARE KRISHNA.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP.  Thank you very much. This is so complicated, but I guess for the Pandava's thikngs were even more complicated!
 

Please accept my humblle obaissances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you loved Gurudeva

I sent Vyasapuja letter and it seems that was one of the two erased. Interesting! All what happens is Krishna's will.

We are working a lot in my job, there is a lot of preassure. I think this is the time in my life whre most pressure I had. So it was hard with rounds and sankirtan.

Now it seems that starts to be a little better. We have been praying and sometimes crying for the help of the Lord to do what we came to do in Colombia.  It seems that it works to ask help to the Lord for a "spiritual desire".

So after 3 years of trying to do something in the countryside, and do almost nothing of preaching. We have come to the city.

Now we ask for your blessings, we need it. We can´t do anything without your blessings, and all kind of wonderfull things will be possible with your blessings. All kind of miracles can happen.

We ask for your blessings because we are going to start this project of preaching in a city where we are almost pioneers, there is few devotees, I think just a couple of them chanting rounds, and the preaching work will be a big challenge.

Srila Gurudeva, all we your disciples are very fortunate because you are a very extraordinary soul in this world.

Somehow or other we are getting some taste by your association, and sometimes, for a short time, rounds are nice, kirtan, appreciation for other devotees service, everything is becoming deeper, sweeter, heart seems to change...

Our focus now is to improve sadhana, wake up earlier in the morning and chant good rounds. And searching a place to start Sunday programs in the core center of Medellín city. And some sankirtan.

We pray to Srila Prabhupada and and Lords Gauranga and Nityananda to empower us to serve them properly  in their mission, to please them, and to please you.

Thanks for all your big mercy. More and more we are apreciating that your mercy is coming to us.

Your humble servant. Jambavan das

HpS - AGTSP. All we can do is chant Hare Krsna, our rounds, mangala arati, SB, and preach peacefully. Then Krsna will do the magic as He likes.

AGTSP

paoho

We just answered all the letters but a couple got erased. Traveling we can't do everything. It is almost 125 degrees Farenheit here in Cordoba, Argentina. It is dark and hot. All the windows are closed. Lot of stress on our eyes with this computer. We did FMP with Ekacakra gram Gaura-Nitai Das, Vrsabhanu nandidni Devi Dasi's father this morning. everyone else was d-e-a-d from the BIG SACRIFICE to organize the Jung x Bhagavata Program last night.

Then we worked on the Godfather Diploma, SB 2-3, file. It is very, very difficult. Trying to sumarize the Bhagavatam in a question format.

Maybe we should do some other Sankirtan, but the best way to do that is to continue with what we are doing.  Sankirtan is the best way to improve our Sankirtan, no?

Then some soup with Ambarisa, Eka, Vbnndd (her baby) and Champaka-lata Devi Dasi.

Life is tough then...      you die.

Then napped a little. Read a little from Gutenberg.org, Britannica about History of China (literature) and    BLOG >>>=====>     Answered ALL the Mail.

Saturday is the Kapi Dhvaja.

The PDP class will be at 8AM Nashville hour for both Spanish and English.

Ambarisa Das just came in (How is Hari Lila Das?), and opened the windows. Got some light now. Heat is decreasing. Not as bad as was Kolkatta. Now we write few more letters: NA Education Conference, (Skype chat with RGD. He is going to Houston), upload some files, bath, go to evening program, read five annual reports.