Letters to the editor

Dear Gurudev, Hare Krishna,

thank you so much for blessing me with your association through your answers. good news! 16 rounds are ok!!, every days, since the last letter that i wrote you.

Thanks to your mercy 4 principles ok!! and my enthusiasm is fixed on keeping well.

My husband it's better, He start to worship the deities again, in the morning he makes govinda and in the night i do them sleep. (i have SO much to learn yet in the worship of the deities ) And his effort for chanting his rounds is better too. I think that my job its not mentally criticize to him...

Maharaj Bhakti Bhusana Swami visited us in Chile, and he went to the festival sankirtan. Is the third year of this program, and we would like to do for all the life, is so nice! sorry for my bad english. always trying to be your servant.

Bhaktin Fernanda L.

HpS -  AGTSP!   Hace mucho tiempo no oir de Vd!      Esperamos, si, sus familares son fuertes en su sadhana. Un vez yo era molestado con la Sadhana de unos de mis autoridades in ISKCON y abriendo un libro de Prabhupada, en el significado, Prabhupada dijo: No toma mucho preocupacion con los principios religiosos de otros. Eso solamente va a agitar la mente. Mejor enfocar en sus propios principios.

Hare Krsna!          O.K.  No ciego a estandard de otros, no solamente juzgando por exterior, pero mejor nuestra estandard, y la suya aparece buena!    Como esta su bebe?         Libros???

Toda Gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a Sus pies Querido Guru Maharaja,

Espero se encuentre muy bien. Disculpe la demora, EN lo perosnal bien un poco de crisis Isntitucional,pero no puedo hablar por una cuestion de que todos los devotos que le escriben pueden leer lo que digo, y en general, no todos, se dejan arrastrar mucho por la critica.

Estoy bien en el Asram de los Brahmacaris, quizas algo que no le dije, es que me voy a anotar mañana en la universidad de Filosofia, para aprender a estudiar y conocer la cosmovision de otros...., mi crisis personal es mas de Varna, me gusta hablar, nose estudiar, llevo 10 años en el templo y no lei el SB ni el C.C., esto lo digo con un gran dolor, tampoco he aprendido a tocar ningun Instrumento, tengo problemas para concentrarme en estas actividades, por que demandan que lo haga por mi cuenta y no tengo la madurez y aveses el espacio, lo que si he hecho es ser responsable con mi sadhana y lo intento mejorar, he aprendido casi todos los palabras por palabras, me gusta cantar mis rondas antes del Mangalartik por lo menos 10, y tengo un apego por el BG, asi como prediacar en las calles con los libros.

Hasta el 20 de noviembre voy a Estar en Argentina despues viajo a Chile Gracias.Estoy avanzando por su misericordia, disculpe que no me sepa comportar del todo y aveses me dominen las pasiones.

Su sirviente Adi Yajña Das

Esta fue Mi ofrenda a Srila Prabhupada, disculpe que el sancrito no supe como modificarlo Ofrenda a Srila Prabhupada nama oˆ viŠu-p€d€ya kŠa-pre˜h€ya bh™-tale r…mate bhaktived€nta-sv€min iti n€mine Ofrezco respetuosas reverencias a Su Divina Gracia A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup€da, quien es muy querido por ®r… KŠa, habiéndose refugiado a Sus pies de loto. namas te s€rasvate deve gaura-v€Š…-prac€riŠe nirviea-™nyav€di-p€c€tya-dea-t€riŠe Te ofrecemos respetuosas reverencias, ¡oh, maestro espiritual, sirviente de Sarasvat… Gosv€m…!. Bondadosamente estás predicando el mensaje de ®r… Caitanyadeva y liberando los países occidentales, que están llenos de impersonalismo y nihilismo. Jaya Srila Prabhupada ebe jaa ghuuk tribhuvana: ¡Tu fama se propaga por los tres mundos!, me animo a pensar aquí que Srila Narothama Das Thakura esta hablando literalmente, Ahora a partir de estas palabras y otras, voy a hacer un humilde esfuerzo por glorificarte y comunicar Mi sentimiento de gratitud a Srila Prabhupada Puedo destacar que tienes muchas ideas de como llevar la conciencia de Krishna a la vida de todas las personas: Esas ideas están en Sus libros, cartas, charlas y caminatas, veo que muchos de Sus discípulos y seguidores están haciendo de todo para probar Su entrega a Sus pies, tomando Sus divinas instrucciones de estas fuentes y viendo como en cada pais se va llenando de Devotos de Krishna, y de Su influencia. Sabemos por la experiencia practica que Usted es muy influyente y que Sus libros se encuentran en todos los lugares de la sociedad, esperando a que se despierte el interés en el corazón de las personas, y a la vez generando revoluciones en esas personas Las cualidades que quisiera destacar de Usted Srila Prabhupada son Paciencia y confianza, la cuál Usted cita en el Nectar de la Instrucción. Hay que llevar a cabo estas actividades con paciencia. No se debe ser impaciente al seguir el proceso de conciencia de KŠa. Este movimiento de conciencia de KŠa, en efecto, fue empezado sin ninguna ayuda, y al principio no hubo una acogida, pero debido a que continuamos ejecutando nuestras actividades devocionales con paciencia, la gente empezó a comprender gradualmente la importancia de este movimiento, y ahora está participando con vehemencia. No se debe ser impaciente al desempeñar el servicio devocional, sino recibir instrucciones de labios del maestro espiritual y ejecutarlas con paciencia, y depender de la misericordia del guru y de KŠa. La ejecucción exitosa de actividades conscientes de KŠa requiere tanto de paciencia como de confianza. La joven recién casada espera naturalmente que su esposo le dé hijos, pero no puede esperar engendrarlos inmediatamente después de casarse. Claro que tan pronto como se casa puede intentar engendrar un hijo, pero debe entregarse al esposo, confiando que su hijo se desarrollará y nacerá a su debido tiempo. Similarmente, entrega al ejecutar servicio devocional significa sentir confianza. El devoto piensa, avaya rakibe kŠa:” Sin duda KŠa me protegerá y me ayudará a desempeñar exitosamente el servicio devocional”. A esto se le llama confianza. h€ h€ prabhu koro doy€, deho more pada-ch€y€,¡Oh, maestro, sé misericordioso conmigo! ¡Dame la sombra de tus pies de loto! Siempre en deuda EL sirviente de Sus sirvientes Adi Yajña Das

HpS - Jaya!!!  Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.   Puedo entender como 87% de su carta.  Nuestra Espanol poco bruto.    Puede ver nuestra poposito - Chile como 6 Enero hasta 3 Febrero, y claro ya planificando pasar a BsAS - Cordoba unos dias.    Si quiere comunicar en privada de unas cosas, podemos. Espero que puede adjustar su situacion de Ashrama un poco mejor!!!!    Pienso es posible.​
 

HpS - Hare Krsna. Swami Oscar!!!     Ooof!   When we got back from the whole tour, we were almost dead. Medical diagnosis is that we just exhausted our liver, and if you are 37-years old it recovers, but at 67-years old we had been living a very dangerous life. We rested and now we are back to a pretty sane level of energy. Of course, we had to minimize our mail and really were not able to get to your letter until now.   We really had to just put all money, and plans aside.
What do we want to do in life?   We only have 9-years left in this body as far as a very good estimate goes, so we are really working on our own plan of work and investigation.  Personally I consider you one of my best friends, and I hope you are also merciful to have some care for me.

Your fast, in the 'Bhagavad Gita' Arjuna asks about someone who does austerities for a good purpose but is not able to be 100% successful. Then Krsna gives him some details but in general says, "One who does good, my friend, is never overcome by evil".

As far as helping with finances, we have to look toward what is left to pay for the 'Bharata-samskrit' book, what Ramon is expecting from us in terms of the proposed "Psychology of the Sacred" symposium in June and then, I would say, that of course, we always want to help you and Integro.

As always, we cannot send money overseas for programs, but have to have some tangible product, like a book, or movie etc.

What kind of sponsorship were you thinking NIOS might be able to make?

Our phone is 209 505-3219, and just for practical purposes we do 90% of our mail through our Blog: Letters to the Editor  It is a great system and then puts all the stuff we are discussing in front of our whole community so they can also get involved!

Hope to hear from you as soon as you can!!!

HpS

From: oscar naters <[email protected]>
To: HpS HHR <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 6:29 PM
Subject: oscar naters

Hare Krsna!

are you receiving my mails?

Oscar

El Lunes, 28 de septiembre, 2015 19:02:17, oscar naters <[email protected]> escribió:
 

Hare Krsna!

Dear Maharaj,how are you? Still in Mexico?

Now I am home again. I couldn t finish the 9 days at the mountain, I did 4 days because my kidneys got swelled. Anyway in these matters there is no defeat. There is a sentence that say:"You do everything right and everything goes wrong".That is a good medicine also.

I will try ir again next year.

Maharaj I wonder if it is possible a NIOS sponsoring for our next INO MOXO season, as you remember I have been recognized as best theatre director of the year with this work, and also received 7 nominations, best lights, dance performance, singer, scenic design, best musin , best director and best ouvre.We just presented it 4 days at the Teatro Municipal de Lima. Now we will do a short season at Teatro Britanico from March 31th till April 11th.

We really need some help because the peace has some complex  technical necesities.

Hope you give us a positive answer.

I am reading Jung books, and I am sure next time the program will be better. I am planning to call Eduardo Gastelumendi very soon to prepare something new.Thank you very much.

Oscar

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

Since last letter some major things have transpired in my life, of which i wish to inform you. First of all, August 6th our second daughter was born, healthy and beautiful, named Madelein Anandini.
Because my life has been highly irregular since, i have not chanted japa regularly.
 

HpS - ASA -    Thank you for this service to this new devotee!     Look for the time. One round here. One round there.    You will become som much better servant of your babies if you do this sacrifice for purification.  At least keep track of how many rounds you have fallen behind and later  you can chant them, like old Prasadam.


I mostly take care of our eldest, and my wife of the youngest. Besides this, i still work my job in irregular hours (6 am - 2 am). All was too much on me, so i slacked. Up till august i was pretty fixed, and it is only since a week that i feel that i am getting back on track. The will is back, though the understanding of the need for chanting never faltered. I have to admit that i transgressed one of our principles a handful of times. It was bad conduct; it was calculated.

HpS - ASA --- Oink!    We are third class learners some times!

In retrospect, i see that, apart from the big family demands and obligations, i have been through a small crisis, like ones i have seen before. Just before the delivery, we had a kirtan event which for me was very powerful spiritually. Then i kind of lost my touch. Earlier in my devotional life, i lost touch twice, after i realized i couldn't match up to the people i looked up to, after first feeling myself their equals. This was like a sort of disgrace, because i realized they saw through me and i saw myself acting like a fool, and so i withdrew myself.

HpS - ASA ---  Ha, ha, Hare!    We are all going to falldown big or little. It is more important how you get back up!!!

Something similar happened again this time, but it feels now i'm recovering from that much faster, and without the leave. It is like getting up after falling, and i see the goodness of that; the getting back up. However, i am apprehensive that humility again will not go deep enough to prevent things happening again. Pigheaded is the word, me thinks. At least understanding of that specific mechanism is coming gradually.

HpS - Enthusiams is the most important, no?   But without patience then we will go sloW.  Make progress,  but perfection may take a few more weeks.

The good thing about these last two months in the desert happened on the intellectual level. I found myself connected to Hridayananda Maharaja and his Krishna West approach, and more so about his inter religious presentation. In my work i meet many elderly Surinami ladies. Surinam is a former colony where African slaves worked and lived alongside locals, Hindus, Javan and Chinese immigrants, and they lived together happily. I meet many Hindus and Christians, and many know about each others faiths, but generally there is a lack of deeper understanding of Indian history and philosophy, and so i get identified as a Hindu often. Personally, i don't like to be identified as someone who likes Indian culture, because i don't, and with the help of Hridayananda Maharaja, i have been able to have many successful spiritual conversations, in which sometimes i helped broaden understanding, and sometimes was able to explain more about Krishna's teachings about the soul to Christians. Also, my understanding of various Christian groups and their particular ideology is broadening. So i feel very enlivened again, in a way that seems new to me in my career in Krishna Consciousness. Even though i fell down in sadhana, at least this aspect of my devotional heart and mind kept flowing.
HpS - ASA --  Jaya!!!!
Before i really got attracted to KW, i purposefully wore decent normal clothes on harinams, so as to give a signal to people who saw us, that you can look like a Western guy when you're a member of ISKCON. This was inspired by meetings i had on sankirtan, where several young, spiritually oriented people told me they would not take to KC because they didn't wanna be like identified as a Hare Krishna because of our personal presentation. Of course this could be called shallow to some extent, but to me it indicates that people here in this country have reservations to join a group that expects its members to follow certain dress codes and wear tilak on their faces.

HpS - ASA -- Lord Caitanya dressed like a Mayavadi!

So i think i was a 'member' of KW before i knew it.

In Amsterdam, our temple has opened doors in a new center since earlier this month. It is a rental, and management is still saving for the down payment of 100k for buying property. There are no residential quarters, so that is a bit unfortunate, but the center is nice. It has a good kitchen, and bright and decent temple room.

My apologies for a long letter, but in conclusion, i mostly wish to apologize for intentionally breaking my vows. I have suffered from it, and i am climbing back up. Perhaps you still find me a candidate for your guidance and mercy. It saddens me to read of your struggles, but it also gladdens me because of how you deal with it and keep adjusting and keep going strong.

Param Vijayate Sri Krishna Sankirtanam!

Your aspiring servant,
Raghava Pandit das

HpS - We were wondering more, and more often what had happened to you!    Seems that this is one thing that you might add.  Write a little more often!   Your War on the Witch, is personal and individual. The White Witch will help you!   Krsna and Radha and all the Gopas and Gopis are watching (and eating popcorn??).

About 91% of what Hrdayananda Goswami says I agree with. I think similar to him and Satsvarupa Goswami.

Please give our great respects to your good wife and here great work!!!

Temple news next week?

Hare Krsna Gurudev,  ._^o_   AGtSP!

Aqui esta el Link del trailer sobre el "I Congreso de Educacion con Iskcon" Chile 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyoZHNZPB14

Muchas gracias por su asociacion, su infinita inspiracion y ejemplo.

intentando servilo

Vrsabhanu Nandini dd
 

HpS --- ASA ----    AGTSP!!!    Por la fin obtuvimos oportunidad ver esta enclace.  Es super!   Hay un parte donde los subtitulos son tan suave no puede ver.  Pero es super!      Gracias.