Letters to the editor

hare krishna Maharaj pamho agtsp.

motivation for writing this letter is very low, because basically I have nothing good to say.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!   It may not be good, but its spiritual!

...still here between Oslo and Årjäng, Sweden, it is a small village on the border. struggling to work. I humbly hope the day where I can do something nice for you. I know that without following the process, sing and follow the 4 regulative principles; you can not make any real progress, in order to rise to the transcedental platform where you can savor the nectar of devotion, and experience ananda. anyway sometimes I have very good realizations that keep my spirit alive. about me; Great Barrier, 3 modes of material nature. want to act in a way; without following the script is impossible. Hope is my friend; to be in a better position where I can fight harder.

Maharaj thank you very much for everything.

HpS - Look at BG 6.37 +. Krsna says that one who does good my friend is never overcome by evil.   Make some practical plan. Inch by inch its always a "cinch" (easy).   Vow to chant a certain number of rounds that you know you can do, here, in the Blog, for a certain time, and then make your report, etc. All progress here is eternal. Yes, it is easier to follow th Sattvik princples in the mode of goodness, but you can be a devotee in any situation.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,

Please accept my obeisances and forgive my offenses,

All the glories to Srila Prabhupada.

First of all, I wanted to say that your arrival to Chosica was very helpful for many of us, I wanted to tell you that I will strive to develop the necessary qualities such as patience, punctuality and cleanness. About the initiation, I personally believe that is a difficult decision to make for some authorities because I am still young and somewhat immature, so this situation has encouraged me to improve faster, is not easy for me sometimes but I will try to do my best. I have started reading the Nectar of Instruction again, but this time in English!

HpS - ASA -- Then Hindi!

Moreover, I have a little doubt about your answer to my last letter, was about: duty, asrama and marriage. Being single has not been a problem for me all these years, and that’s principally because of the education I received from my parents and all the classes You Gurudeva! have given here in Chosica when I was a child, I remember that I felt that Your words were instructions for me and me spiritual sisters. So I have always tried not to disappoint You and my parents, and to be honest I think Sita Ram Lakshmana Hanuman have helped me in this process, I have like a pact with my father and is something like if someone tells me or asks me about marriage or something, I will have to answer that my father is making all the arrangements and any doubt about it could be answered by my father… I think it was something like that, fortunately I haven’t had the opportunity to say it. Well my doubt was about this, because I know marriage is my duty and is going to happen in the near future, but I don’t have idea about how is going to happen, I mean I am not planning to hang out with many devotees and then realize who is the right one, however some astrologers have told my father that there is no worry about my marriage, that there is no need about fixing my marriage with a devotee because is already done, something about destiny. So this has helped me to develop a confidence in Krsna, but still I have to say that this confidence is not completely sincere, but is more like afraid. Is this good?, are there some things that I must consider?... I am praying to Sita Ram, Krsna Balarama and Radhe Shyam to help me in this process.

HpS - ASA -- We, ASA, cannot say too much since we are all Brahmacari here in the ASA Comando, so you and your father, mother, brother... need to look for help from good Grhasthas. We all need Ashrama gurus. I can be a good Ashrama guru for Sannyasa candidates. Even then it is for a certain type of Sannyasis, American Sannyasis, if we want to get very specific.

Canakya pandita: Victory come from good advice and good advice comes from many counselorss.

Focus on your place in Sr​ila Prabhupada's, Lord Caitanya's, movement and then your Varna-ashrama requirements will follow easily. You can see, your father and mother have a relationship in terms of their service in ISKCON.

Also, this is Kali-yuga, so we should not expect too much perfection in our marriage situation. Best use of a bad bargain, but if we look at our partners as devotees this can be a lot of fun.

So, not putting too much faith in astrologers only, its Kali-yuga, I hope your parents, brother et al, can help making arrangesments for a nice Grhastha ashrama for you. There are many nice boys also looking for partners.
 

Next week is Radhastami, and there is going to be a painting contest, I hope I can do a good job painting her beautiful and spiritual form!

HpS -  If you are sincere She will let Her beauty pass through you. Even there are 25-winners that still would not be enough to give us a glimpse of Radharanis love for Krsna, no?

I hope not to disturb and I also hope You are fine!, que el Señor Nrsmha Deva lo siga protegiendo Gurudeva! Hare Krsna!

Su aspirante a sirvienta,

Sita Lalita devi dasi. 

HpS - Thank you!!!    Send us more news as you have time!

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaja

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

Concerning the Commission of Education ISKCON Peru and the letter to Rama Giridhari dasa, I did not get any answer yet.

I hope you read the three papers I gave you here in Lima, waiting for your comments. Till this moment there are some arguments about the requirements for initiations. We will have another National Board meeting to discuss this.

We want to improve the work of the Commission of Education and develop this very important subject here in Peru, stablish a strong relationship with the Ministry of Educational Development, organize courses, inspire devotees to read and study Srila Prabhupada's books, etc.

We are having meetings with Rohini devi dasi about the Bhakti-sastri graduates, to see how the second initiated can help the Deitites service in Chosica. Also we want to have meetings with other devotees to develop others things.

We are organizing the ISKCON Disciple Course with Baladeva dasa, to be here last week of october. Previously, we passed it on-line with Param Padam dasa from Escuela Vaisnava. With Baladeva dasa we will co-facilitate here and then be certified to teach the course. There are eight devotees who want to apply and we expect more.

I am teaching the Introduction to Bhakti-yoga course every week from february to december, organizing the saturday evening program, Bhagavad-gita class and lecturing on it once a month, along with the National Board duties.

Gurudeva, no plans for children. We are getting mercy and protection from Sri Jagannatha.

Your eternal servant,
Jiva-Sakti dasa.

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP  paoho.  Thank you for your austerities!!    We feel very sure that the standards for initiation should be basically the same all over ISKCON.   Of coutrse, there may be some local adjustment by country or by Diksa guru, but these should be relatively simple, no?   Prabhupada had one standard for the whole society, no?

I talked with Rama giri d​hari Das and he said that he got back to you!     I also have had trouble getting mail from him and other people in India.   Write to him again and say that you never got the letter from him.  Also, give you phone number and Skype I.D.

Second initiation is for Brahmanas, Ksatriyas and higher class Vasiyas, no?  Some Brahmanas are teachers, others worship the Deity and some receive and distribute charity or combinations there of, so we should not expect that all second initiated devotees will become Pujaris.
Deity worship should be adjusted according to time, place and circumstance. Sankirtan should lead the Deity worship, but without Deity worship it will be very weak.

Our ideas.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP 

PAMHO

I hope u are fine ¡¡¡

I was about to write about this topic in ekadasi but I read the letters regarding BV.. so I want to make a humble request.

My schedule had changed as I told U, I give classes on saturdays at 9:00 am so I am commuting to work when SB classes starts ; I wanted to join by cellphone but even if I use headphones the traffic in Lima is terrible and the sound is really annoying. And I really want to listen to the class in Sattva guna. So please I want to ask U if I can join the Spanish group .. I am listening the recordings that U put on twitter but I miss the sanga....

Thank U Gurudeva in advance

Trying to be iur disciple

CMDD

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP.   Paoho.   After this Latin American tour we really had a chance and really had to reconsider our service. So, considering everything we dicided: Thursday, 11AM, Hawaii, SB; Saturday AM,San Jose, SB (The time for that may change); Saturday evening, Spanish class. This Spanish class we can work out at SB or other things. We want Yugala's, LAD's, your, Ambarissa, Vrsabhanu...  opinion, Jambavati, Asta sakhi, Krsna kirtan............   but it seems Satuday night at 7.30PM is a nice time to start. Later we can adjust.

Please join any of those classes!

A MONKEY CHAMPU

BY BHAKTA NARO

But then one day,
A rat moved in,
To their house in Madrid town,
Made pussy joke and laugh,
He became a furry, Krsna, klown.

A respectable Japanese rat, from ISKCON Kammisato, he was.    Spoke English, Mandarin, Spanish and Brajabasi.    Strict vegetarian since birth.    Parents honored Raja-bhoga Mahaprasad daily from the Head-pujari.

Monkey: Did they play the Big Mrdanga? Did they distribute many, many buks daylee?

N: Well, sometimes yes and sometimes no. I mean, they were animals.
Their owner would play a hurdy-gurdy machine and they would do tricks like in a little circus and then Bosco would go around with a cup in his mouth for donations and had a bag of books around his neck, and people would give coins and take small books.
Then they would read them and order big books and other books by mail.

Monkey: Spanish books?!

N: Yes, well usually, but sometimes even Chinese and Japanese books because many tourist came to Madrid.
Most of them did not become Hare Krsna devotees, but they became Paramatma realized and then they could find God in their own tradition.

Monkey: Vasistha told us that in Russia they call God, "Bhog".

N: Do they kill people in the name of God?

Monkey: I don't think so. That kind of religious violence seems to be a European thing, like the Spanish Inquisition, the Third Reich. In Russia they seem to kill people for political power and prestige, and the sex and good house and food that come with it.
If you are a Hare Krsna, you just don't pay any kind of direct attention to this kind of violence. You just engage in devotional service, Sankirtana, as Srila Prabhupada encourages, and get the books and music out.
That's enough.

N: Bosco, Kitty and Ratty didn't distribute a lot of books, but they made a lot of devotees, who each distributed a few and sometimes a lot of books.

Monkey: Achaa!   I will go and do likewise. Hare Krsna,     Hare Krsna.    Krsna book, Ki Jai!

N: Flabbergasting! !    !

Todas las glorias para Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias para usted Maharaj

Soy David Leyton nuevamente. muchas gracias por su respuesta estaba ancioso por recibirla, ya que hace mucho que no le escribo. También quiero contarle de algunas terapias que me he hecho y también saber si estas se pueden usar para la conciencia de Krishna o simplemente para darle salud interna o mental a las personas.

Estuve realizándome terapias alternativas desde Junio se llama Sintergética. Me hizo sentir en paz y controló en ese momento mi problema de psicomatico y síndrome Gill de tourette. Me ha dado muy buenos resultados aunque temporales y fue aliviador.

También hice AONC (auto observación neuroconciente) es una terapia que se hace despierto y relajado, la persona va describiendo los recuerdos y visiones que uno está teniendo en ese momento, relacionandolas con las sensaciones del cuerpo, donde esa sensacion o dolores se describer. Eso me ha reducido por parte el problema de los dolores y molestia del cuerpo (psicosomatico), pero aun no encuentro la manera de solucionarlo definitivamente.

Maharaj, usted cree que el AONC podría ser alguna terapia que pueda superar mi problema? He leído que algunos hermanos espirituales cantan mantras que le han ayudado con sus problemas internos y creo que el Srimad Bhagavatam o Bgita tienen mantras que podrán ayudarme.

Una tercera terapia que me hice fue Biosintesis la cual 2 terapeutas van analizando mi energía interna y problemas del pasado que me hayan llevado a los problemas actuales, una de ellas me comento que fui monje franciscano en una vida pasada e hice un voto de pobreza, pero que aun esta vigente. Se supone que la muerte hace que esos votos se terminen y uno comience una nueva vida con Dios. Eso lo relacion mucho con la mayoria de los problemas y dolencias que estoy teniendo.

Favor maharaj necesito que me diga algo sobre esto y me guie para terminar con estos votos. no quiero caer otra vez.

Muchas gracias por estar con nosotros

Hare Krishna.

Bh David Leyton

HpS - ASA -  TlgaSP.  NOI Texto Tres, "maya tatam idam sarvam...". Puede leer esta Texto, tres. Alla puede encontrar los principios basicas de evaluar estas terapias.  Puede ser muy util.   Pienso el libro, "Los Hombres son de Martes y los Mujeres son de Venus" es un super libro para todos, especificamente para Grhastas. Claro, estamos utilizando todo del perspective de SB y los Significados, Bhaktivedanta.  Muy buen obra relacionar unos practicas de psicologia con SB.

En detalle no puedo decir mucho.  Falta de idioma.    Falta de conocimento de estas sistemas.  Pero... por que no habla con Madan mohan Das???  Es psicologo, devoto, loco, su vecino!!​