Letters to the editor

Hare Krisna, dear Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We already are at home after some holydays in Malaga.

By Krisnhna's Mercy the Carcika's pregnancy is going up (now 14th weeks). We don't know what's he/she. We don't mind.

This summer has been very hard. Many changes in Madrid's Temple, you know. Many adjusments in the service and in our minds. The mind can be the best friend or de worst enemy. Many time our mind is the worst enemy. Now I'm reading and studing The Nectar of the Instruction. I realized that I have to start in the begining. Maybe i wont to run quickly and I lost the begining. I want to concentrate in the chant and The Nectar of the Instruction introspetively for some months. I want to concentrate my service in the congregational development and preaching, helping to Yadunandana Swami. I still be the Madrid's Templep's treasurer. Not how long. The administration is many dificult  living at 50 kilometres from the temple, and many unpleasant things and letdowns have happened . Krisna will say. What do you think about this?

HpS - It is just as you say.  [Best of wishes to Mataji and her baby.] Temple worship is for Dvapara Yuga, but on the basis of Sankirtan we can do it in Kali yuga and then it helps the Sankirtan so much.  So,    Madrid temple has to be a Sankirtan party.  That is most important focus.  Whatever else you can do, do it. Understand you personal contribution and then see what devotees you can work with . Many times I have tried, even 7-years, to get some program going and then I had to be a little firm to politely withdraw. People appreciated it was the correct thing. Other projects are going on 65%, so we give 71% effort to them.
O.K?   You keep your Sankirtan program going ENTHUSIATICALLY and then connect with others as much as you can.
 

Carcika and me are working in the congregational development and preaching  with one Bhakti Vriksa group. And we are working in two diferents courses programms: One, "Self Knowledge, Therapyes for a better world " where we speak about suffering, forgiveness, happines, action and reaction (3th Newton Law), etc from a phycological point of view; and the other one, "Material Problems, Spiritual Solutions" where we speak about the same topics but from spiritual point of view and much more deeply.

I hope I don't go to the hell. But I want to get better. I'm not giving up. I'm not even Kanistha Adikari, but I want to serve to the devotees. It's enought.

Mathura Mani DD was operated yesterday in the morning. The operation was longer doctors thought. Finally They removed her the pancreas, duodenum, pylorus, and some ganglions arround pancreas. She'll sedated for a some days. It was cancer. It's very serious. Krisna knows. Please pray for Mathura Mani.

HpS - Krsna is a very jealous lover!     Maybe He wants her back immediately, so He is going to give her a little time for becoming detached then take her to Goloka very soon.  Is it good or bad if she dies soon?

When you come back to Madrid again?

HpS - Maybe when we come back from India, no? Beginning of April?

Your humble and fallen aspiring to servant, Dandava Das.

HpS - Thank you.  Do not doubt that Krsna appreciates very, very, very much your efforts!!!

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

You wrote: HpS - AGTSP!   Oh, dinosauro of Middle East, so nice to hear from you.  Maybe is Window's 10, conflict then.   We can live with it.   Just takes more work.  Guess it will be resolved.  This Blog is so nice.

What are you doing!!!?    Sankirtan.   No news.      You can see what we are doing (dying (Sankirtan)).
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Yes, Blog is nice. Very useful for sharing ideas and informations, staying in email-touch. Thank you Guru Maharaja and Prahlad Nrsimha prabhu.

In the meantime of waiting what is going to happen with BhVai program, I read Bhagavad Gita, Jaiva Dharma, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, and then continued with Srimad Bhagavatam. Finished 7th Canto and starting 8th, maybe not with specific study as we were doing in BhVai, but strong regular reading. I almost forgot about Narada Muni's previos life (one before being maidservant's son) which he personally described.

HpS - Well, we publish in the Kapi Dhvaja, that we are having, always the regular Saturday morning classes.  We go back to what we personally really want to accomplish.  Pada-padma, Cantos One and Two, well developed, is one of those things. So now we are trying to develop community each Saturday morning for those things.
Then Srivasa, San Jose, Upendra, Srinivasa, everyone wants to go ahead with Cantos 7-12, even without Bh. BVai diplomas, so I have been suggesting maybe we can make an arrangement with Mayapura Institute, to join them as Study Partners and become registered as on line Bhakti Vedanta students as a group. Then we can work out times for physical meetings and use their administration and curriculum and help them to develop it.
What you think. Others think it might be good idea.
The higher education in ISKCON is very much pioneering. It is only go on with personal committment by everyone, especially you. You have a lot of qualifications to help! 

As some other Blog followers, I too followed Hrdayananda das Goswami on tour of Israel and Europe by watching the recordings on Youtube. I am inspired  by his preaching and ideas.  Maharaja surely gives food for thought. You mentioned something about him in a letter to Raghava Pandita.

HpS - Yes, he is very nice devotee.  We agree with about 81% of his perspective. Of course, other devotees like other leaders. It is natural, no?

From when I came back to Pula (16 years ago), between our small local devotee community there were (are) a dozen children. Somehow, we never got a program for them. Last Nrsimha Caturdasi, as the initial bhajans finished and a lecture started, I heard the children (3 of them) playing, jumping and screaming in the another room. I got inspired to go and be with them. I asked one mother if it is OK that I go and do something with the children. She agreed. So, I went to the room and asked if they want to hear about Nrsimadeva and Prahlada. They said "YES!". I told them the story, intertwining philosophical points of Krsna consiousness. Later parents told me that the children were very happy with the time I spent with them and with what they heard. Parents were also very grateful. And I was also enlivened by how all the situation came about and how children asked intelligent questions which made me  aware of necessity to dive deeper into KC. ie more surrender). Now, we have  program with the children during a Sunday program lecture. It is once a month, taking in consideration that before neither parents not children were coming regulary for Sunday program.  During Gaura arati kirtan children chant, dance and jump happily.

HpS - The average Mormon boy decides by 12-years old that he is going to do two years of missionary work after college!

Krsna-ksetra Maharaja and Smita Krsna Maharaja blessed us with their visit to our local temple. That was nice and sweet, too.  

We went to Ratha Yatra in Rijeka (Croatia) and there tried to pull Krsna to Vrindavan and specifically to turn our hearts back to Him, after insolently leaving Him with the idea of becoming self-centered King of the world.

Big challenge in life is how to balance (not sure if this is the right word) sadhana with other duties as husband, son, citien of Croatia, ISKCON member... How to chant minimum 16 nice japa rounds, attentively study SP's books, do puja, be/stay clean outside and inside, and work for livelihood which entails mingle with persons, offices, bosses who (for the time being) are satisfied with their material way of life.

HpS - Later it becomes achintya-bheda-abheda-tattva.  We see how all these things intimately relate to our service and we can mix them very well, but until we come to that point, Bh V Thakura says that we have to "balance" them.  One nice balance I heard is that morning is for Spiritual Life, daytime is for making money (with both arms and both feet!), and evening time is for enjoying - goodness, passion, ignorance.       If morning program is strong then the other two parts of the day are FOR Krsna also, no?

Another challenge is to percieve Krsna in all living entities, devotees too :-)

Naturally, it  all depends on fine program of japa and abiding to devotional regulative principles.

Please, excuse me, I am not writing on the Blog more often. You say many times that eyes, legs and heart pain you. And you are occupied with many other letters so I feel like I do not want to burden you.

Somebody kindly shot and I am attaching few photos  of a wandering jiva who is trying to consciously stand on his  spiritual legs.

Thank you Guru Maharaja.

Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - Super nice letter!    Please write more as necessary.  Maybe join us on Saturday morning!  Next week Candra mukhi Devi Das will tell us about the new Diary of Draupadi that was found in the ruins of M. Yuddhisthira's palace in Dehli!

Toda Gloria a Srila Prabhupada.

Por favor acepte mis reverencias a Sus pies.

Hare Krishna Gurudev!!!

Gracias por sus respuesta.

aqui bien quizas soy un poco impulsivo en la carta anterior, o grave innesesariamente, la relacion con mis autoridades es muy buena, pero tenemos que discutir algunas cosas y no estoy acostumbrado a esto.

HpS - Ha!  Ha!  Ha!    TlgaSP.  Es un arte, luchar como forma de communicacion. Realmente solamente es para Grhastha Ksatriyas o Vaisyas. Necesita una buena esposa para ayudar.

. . . aqui las cosas a nivel administrativo estan muy bien y a nivel espiritual pienso que tambien, todos los programas se mantienen he incluso hay algunos nuevos.

HpS - Aparece como Vaidi Sadhana Bakti. Super, pero...  necesitamos adelantar a Raganuga tambien.  Una vida interior para nuestra Sadhana exterior.  Con Krsna en la carroza!
 

. . . esta semana Krishna me ha puesto en trabajo de la humildad, por que he tenido que ver como me equivoco muchas veces con los devotos.

HpS - Si....   verguenza para nosotros aqui. Monocito, Puerquecito, aveces no sone muy generos compartir se bicicleta rojo con otros!

Gracias por su tiempo y disculpe!

nos vemos pronto!!!

Su sirviente Adi Yajña Das

HpS - Tenemos el boleto!  Vamos al "Lado Bueno"

saḿsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-
trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam
prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya
vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

Pamho!!!! agtsp!!!!!!!! agthps!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you are well when you receive this letter in all aspects.

HpS - Ha!  Ha!  Ha!    We want to do mere intimate service to Radha-Krsna!

Dear Maharaja, we have been thinking about the last letter you wrotte us,

so, the first thing that we wish to do is to travel to India (Mayapur) and do the four month course on deity worship and brahminical culture.

ASA - Great.

Personally, I´m meditating about the posibility of giving up my job or maybe asking for a leave of absence, so I could get my job back after .

It is something that  came up since we have decided not to keep trying to have children.

This is a great opportunity to start a career for Krishna, traveling and serving in temples of Spain or out, this can be a great experience for both, we believe this will help us to grow and gain spiritual maturity, in order to enter the vanaprastha asrham.

HpS - Yes, travel with the Sananda Devi Dasi to ISKCON India, but ....  go with experienced devotees. Have good plans, confirmed with ISKCON India before you go...

After (or at some point) there would a  possibility to move to Almeria, and start something there, as part of Yadunandana Swami´s  project of the 54 provinces, because Sananda lived there some years ago and got an apartment (with a morgage, that has some years still to pay...).

This is up untill now our brain storm...<img alt="sad" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/sad_smile.png" title="sad" width="23" />, what do you think?

always  waiting for your infinite mercy,

thank so much

aspiring to become your servants Sananda and Bhadra.

HpS - I think we don't know the details well enough to give detailed advice, but in general we can give the advice that Canakhya Pandita gives:  Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from many advisors.
So talk to a lot of devotees who know you two, the situations and then make a practical decision based upon good rounds and SP's books.
Oink!     Then even if you have to kill 640,000,000 people it will be cool, man!
Awaiting your next step!

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaja

Dandavats pranamas. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you are in good health.

Still no answer from Rama Giridhari Prabhu, but I am being patient. <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" style="line-height: 1.5;" title="smiley" width="23" />

HpS - ASA -- Enthusiasm is more important than Patience (NOI 3). His phone number is: 91 india 93 22 69 1013+the day of your birthday. eg. 1013 would be 1012 if your birthdate was the 1st. (UG did this). If it is 9PM in Peru it is 7.30AM the next day in India.

To your request, a little about your servant. My harinama inititation was in Radhastami 1999 and my brahmana inititation was in Gaura Purnima 2003. I was lecturing in Bhagavad-gita since 1995. I was gurukula teacher in Chosica between 1994 - 1996. Actor and Director of Jagannatha Theatre from 1995 to 2008. Involved in Bhakti-vrksa developing and preaching. I was lecturing in Srimad Bhagavatam since 1999. Head Pujari at ISKCON Lima in 2000. Head Pujari at ISKCON Miraflores from 2002 to 2005. I passed the Facilitation I course and obtained the Certification from VTE in 2003. I passed the Leadership and Management course in 2003. The same year I started to teach the bhakta course and helping devotees to prepare for harinama and brahmana initiation tests, etc. We participated in a temporal Commission of Education in 2005. Head Pujari at ISKCON Chosica between 2006 - 2007. I obtained the Bhakti-sastri degree in 2011. Member of the ISKCON Miraflores Board from february 2012 to february 2014. A new Commission of Education appears in july 2012 from the National Board and started a new Introduction to Bhakti-yoga course, I developed the entire study program. In charge of ISKCON Miraflores Education since july 2012. Member of the ISKCON Peru National Board since november 2012. Appointed by the National Board as its Secretary in september 2013. Appointed by the ISKCON Miraflores Board as its Secretary in february 2014. June 2014, appointed by the National Board as Director of the Commission of Education ISKCON Peru. Member of the ISKCON Lima Board from february 2014 to 2015. In charge of ISKCON Lima Education since february 2014. In charge of ISKCON Lima Communications since february 2014. In charge of ISKCON National Board Communications since june 2014. May 2015, I passed the ISKCON Disciple Course and obtained the certificaction. August 2015, speaker at Regional Meeting of Education in Chosica. We are working with the National Board to standardize the requisites and tests for refugees, harinama and brahmana initiations. Now, the Commission of Education is organizing the first ISKCON Disciple Course to be 26 october - 1 november with Baladeva Prabhu in Lima.

About the Commission of Education ISKCON Peru.

PRESENTATION AND WORK PLAN

Introduction

The Commission of Education is primarily an empowering body, facilitating education and educators. Therefore the Commission recommends values, principles and guidelines, in accordance with the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. It is also involved with issues of assessment and accreditation for educational initiatives and institutions. The Commission takes the responsibility for the development of education in ISKCON Peru. Facilitates any facet of the implementation of education and coordinates with the whole of existing educational initiatives.

VISION

Be the educational entity that provides Krsna conscious quality education through centers, educational institutions and various initiatives in ISKCON Peru nationwide.

MISSION

Promote and develop the education system in ISKCON Peru, for the integral formation of our community and the general public, in accordance with the purposes of ISKCON.

OBJECTIVES

To establish, maintain, and monitor effective quality systems to:

1. Instruct and train all devotees in the principles and practices of Krsna Consciousness, qualifying the members according to their aptitudes and interest to contribute to the welfare of ISKCON.
2. Train appropriate devotees to teach the principles and practices of Krsna Consciousness.
3. Equip students with all the skills required for a productive life in Krsna Consciousness.
4. Support devotees in developing and furthering their life-skills.
5. Meet ISKCON’s need for qualified people to serve its mission, by devotees equipped with the basic tools for favorable service.
6. Host, promote and recognize the educational initiatives, according to the requirements of MED.
7. Develop the National Education Plan, gathering proposals from existing educational initiatives for discussion and integration.

FUNCTIONS

1. Promote Krsna conscious quality education in the devotees and develop the education system in ISKCON Peru.
2. Recommend values, principles and guidelines for the empowerment of educators and the improving of educational initiatives.
3. Promote the importance of having qualified members in ISKCON community as an essential mechanism for institutional strengthening.
4. Accredit educational initiatives and institutions for inclusion and gather their plans, strategies and models.
5. Coordinate with the whole of existing educational initiatives and intermediate communication between them, within the educational system of ISKCON Peru.
6. Implement and promote programs for the development of education in ISKCON Peru.
7. Periodically monitor and provide advice to educational programs undertaken by educational initiatives and institutions.
8. Organize educational meetings seeking openness to dialogue, generating agreements and commitments in assembly

HpS - ASA - Ooof!   It is nice but starts to seem redundant and not connected to tangible results. Seems you should make it smaller, and get to work, and then modify it after seeing some results.  We read on.

GOALS

Achieve the training of devotees according to values, knowledge and skills in:

Bhakti-yoga, Guru-disciple, Sastra, Brahminical culture, Worship, Education, Communications, Leadership and Management, Bhakti-vrksa.

Aditionally:

Sankirtana, Cooking, Kirtana, Hatha-yoga, Ayur-veda, Jyotir-veda, Vastu-veda, Natya-veda, Varnasrama.

Organize effective communications media to spread all relevant information that involves the whole of existing educational initiatives.

HpS - Eg. you could say educated as taught in Srila Prabhupada's books.

ORGANIZATION

Direction: - Director, - Secretary, - Treasurer.

Members: - Responsible for education of each center in Peru, - Representatives of educational initiatives and institutions.

Collaborators: - Communications, - Design, - Pedagogy, - Organization, - Planning.

Advisors: - Spiritual masters, authorities and senior vaisnavas.
Thank you very much.
Your eternal servant,
Jiva-Sakti dasa.

HpS -  Thank you!   Is good, but seems for us, ASA, Monkey-Piggy, you need to have a simpler declaration.  Taking citations from Prabhupada's books are tje very best.  Short, Sastric, Sankirtan oriented.

AGTSP PAMHO Haribolo maharaja, como esta?

ASA - La misma como Vd.

Le escribo para decirle que le voy a mandar un mail, candramukhi DD me paso el correo. Mi mail es [email protected] le aviso para que sepa. Mis rondas están mejorando mucho. Estoy muy feliz. Espero que se encuentre bien. Quien espera poder servirlo, Bktn lali

HpS - O.K. pero no lo vemos.  Mejor comenzar comunicando aqui!