Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja

PAMHO   All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

I'm reading a small book titled Swamiji.  In it Bramananda explains what it meant to him to be given Sannyasa.  "After the sannyasa cerermony there was a prasadam feast.  Sannyasa, we were told was social suiside.  No more society, frendship, and love.  Total dedication to Krishna, without any distractions."   Prabhupada sent him (and three others) off with only 25 cents in his pocket.  He slept in construction sites and showered in colleges.  "In fact, they were being trained in the school of real life, so that their newfound renunciation would have depth and legitamacy. "  In my ignorance, I have been being too familiar with you.  I have been a distraction and have not been treating you with the proper respect that should be given a pure devotee of Krishna.   We hope you can fit Sacramento into your schedule next year.

I remain your humble servant,   David, the fool on the hill

HpS - Hare Krsna.     Thank you so much for your letter.   I think you have been treating us rather well. Another definition of Sannyasa is eating good food and not having to work to hard.  Ha!   Ha!  Ha!         Actually, we have slept under trees sometimes.  Bathed in public beach showers.  I don't think it is much for tough than being a married guy for Krsna if you are doing either ashram with sincerity.   A lot of the real austerity for me is passing hours standing in airport lines, and sitting in transit lounges.

Maybe we are 87% pure, by Srila Prabhupada's EXTREME austerity.  Lot more to go.

I have clipped, filed and am trying to get to your paper letter again and again!

Hope you get a chance to get some of your wisdom out to others on your hill!!!!

Hare Krsna

Pamho Agtsp

Guru dev

We were talking with Jagad guru, Vrsabhanu nandini dd, Madhavendra puri, Rati manjari and Jahnava dd about the Chile and Argentina calendar, and the preaching activities.

Here in Cordoba we have the Jung s activities and preaching programs for devotees. in the Cordoba capital the devotees  are triying to open a temple after many years, i think we need your guidance and inspiration.

 We are organice a team in BS As with Madhavendra, Rati and Jahnava dd for organize in a better way the jung preaching and have good contact and dialogue with interesting people. in Bs As there a few contact like Bhakta Luis and the director of the mental hospital and Rati manjari,  Jhanava dd have other contact to work on it. Also there a devotee who is Psicologist that could organize a meeting with others psicologist student of psicology.

Here we have diferent dates option for your travel to Argentina and Chile, what do you think?

BNA (Nashville) EZE (ezeiza Buenos Aires)

COR (Cordoba) SCL (Santiago de Chile)

Option 1...  Option 2....  Option 3....  ASA - See below.

thank you for your time,  effort and inspiration.

traying to serve to your mission, and Srila Prabhupada Ambarisa das.

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP.   Paoho.  Thank you all  for so much effort.   We just finishing like 3 hours working on all the options and here is the result:

[This reservation was ticketed and confirmed on Fri., Oct. 9, 2015 at 10:58 a.m. Central Time]

Mon., Jan. 4, 2016 | Nashville, TN, US (BNA) to Lima, PE (LIM)

Depart: 11:23 a.m, Nashville, TN, US (BNA)

Arrive: 1:49 p.m, Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental) - Flight Time: 3 hr 26 mn, Flight:UA3962

Change Planes. Connect time in Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental) is 2 hr 11 mn.

Depart: 4:00 p.m., Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental)

Arrive: 11:35 p.m., Mon., Jan. 4, 2016, Lima, PE (LIM), Flight Time:
6 hr 35 mn:  Total Travel Time: 12 hr 12 mn

Wed., Jan. 6, 2016 | Lima, PE (LIM) to Santiago, CL (SCL)

Depart: 10:15 p.m., Lima, PE (LIM)

Arrive: 3:50 a.m. +1 Day, Thu., Jan. 7, 2016, Santiago, CL (SCL), Travel Time: 4 hr 35 mn

Mon., Feb. 1, 2016 | Santiago, CL (SCL) to Lima, PE (LIM)

Depart: 7:14 a.m., Santiago, CL (SCL)

Arrive: 9:04 a.m., Lima, PE (LIM), Travel Time: 2 hr 50 mn, Flight:AV624

Wed., Feb. 3, 2016 | Lima, PE (LIM) to Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental)

Depart: 1:10 a.m., Lima, PE (LIM)

Arrive: 6:40 a.m., Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental), Travel Time: 6 hr 30 mn, Flight: UA855

Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 4:47 AM
Subject: BhVai - where we are at?

Dear Guru Maharaja and devotees, please accept my humble obeisances. 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please excuse me for disturbing your bhajan. 

If you allow, I would like to ask where we are at in our BhVai study program?

Also, am I expected to do something about the situation in which the program is now?

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya das, from Yahoo.

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ASA - 2014 Oct 8

Hare Krsna!     AGTSP.     Paoho.   Please write to the Blog with all this.
From my perspective we are right at the Lotus Feet of Srila Prabhupada, doing Nama-kirtan, with this program (barely).     We still have the Saturday morning meetings on line, and I send the links to the recordings by Twitter.

We tried our best, which is very tiny, to get the record keeping stuff arranged but:

After about four requests to complete the document list, not all the testing for the last canto done, no report of progress on correcting the examinations, no progress in efforts to involve the temple managements in the administration and development of the program after repeated efforts, then:

We are taking another approach.

We are pretty much waiting for the next step in systematic progress to come from the formal ISV side.
We have looked back at our own heart in terms of this systematic relations with Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet, study of his books, and we recommended that everyone should do that, often!

Our conclusion is that we need to:

1. Have regular Pada-padma Study every Saturday morning, and we will continue it with SM now.
2. We need a general Spanish class at SM every Saturday evening.
3. We have a BhS program going with NGD, we are joining the Boise, Anantarupa Lilamrta class Friday evening and that is about it.
4. All this is in intense perspective with the Ministry of Education etc.
5. We will post this letter on the Blog!
6. So....    please Chant Nitai-Gaura, HK/HR and join us Saturday. This week we will do our overview of the First Two Cantos, then some one else can do something that tickles their fancy the following week.

Let's all go to Goloka!  Let's all stay in the very same boat!   Let's all stay in the Sankirtan movement, ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, will keep us all afloat (with the words he wrote)!

Dogs Bark,

Chickens Grumble,

But only Monkey-rama's never fumble. ____________________________________________
If you are a member of ASA you may laugh or die, but you will never, never, never ask why?  [BG 10.8]

We answered letters!

From the King's of earth.

We listened to classes from Hawaii's berth.

Even if things are tough or lean, Lord Nrsmha Deva still needs Kitri and ​yogurt, once a day, and beer* in between.

Now we head for NGD's home for BG 11-12!  Be there or be square.

*Piggy: Swami Ji means, Coconut Water

CHAPTER NINE – Billy Brine

Billy Brine, cousin to our Rat,

Was distinguished by a Bolivian, felt, simpleton’s hat.

151007

3.25AM - R[5]
We just started Chapter 17 of the TLC. We learned one new detail after another: Chapter 17 so far is a summary study of CC 1.7, Lord Caitanya in Five Features. The dialog with Prakasananda Sarasvati that starts in Chapter 18 also starts in CC 1.7. The assignations of the verse, “Pancha tattva makam krsnam…”, now seems clearer to us. We see Prabhupada talking about both Confidential and Internal devotees when he is talking about Gadadhara Pandita, as contrasted with Srivasa Pandita who is the marginal potency. This seems to clarify our questions of whether Jiva souls become internal potency when they become attracted to conjugal love. Seems that some are Jiva and some are Hladini Shakti.

We develop a hypothesis. Then we read with that attitude and see confirmation or rejection.

Next, we see Prabhupada emphasizes learning from the Six Goswamis, but here we see him emphasizing especially following the path chalked out by Srila Jiva Goswami!

3.34AM – Time for bath, Puja, FMP. See you after that.

7.05AM – FMP, Japa to R[16], Krsna-katha with Bk. Daniel. Now let’s read and write and honor Banana, P-nut butter and Jam Prasadam.

Monkey: Well, Mr. Wizard, what should you write?     You have BhSastri, BG class, to give later.

HpS: Well, Bhakta Tom, at this point I guess we should write lyrical fiction. It’s the only thing that seems to take us out of the work-a-day world of dollars and incensed people.

Deely’s Day

Once there was a goat named Deely, who was standing on the seeding machine out back of the barn. It put him about 30-inches up in the sky, so he had a pretty good view of the barn-yard around him. It was a little before 7AM and the October frost was just starting to dust the pumpkins. The smell of the sage from the desert was especially intoxicating, and Deely just stood there feeling the strong rays of the rising sun warming him. Eventually he even let out a loud bleat, feeling so animated.

A few hours later he was headed up the path to Clear Mountain Spring with Barney, the farm owner’s son, and Buitch, Barney’s collie. Barney had strung a pair of shoulder packs on Deely’s back and he was actually feeling quite useful. He also knew that unless he was able to contribute with cargo like this he probably would not have been brought along. Barney liked him, and so did Buitch [and Tasco, the Myna bird] but the extra care for a non-contributing team member would have been a real liability on a trip like this.

Deely rolled his shoulders a little to adjust the pack and then even took the lead some times since he was actually the oldest there by body years.

When they got to their destination, it was cold and crisp. It was the Ashrama of Leeky-pal Muni and the Ambarisa Bhu, Camp-park.
Some campfires had already been set in the fire rings and the smoke of burning pine and people huddling around fires in thick wool coats filled the air.

Barney, Buitch and Deely, set up their little tents by one open section next to the Great Stream and then went to see Leeky-pal Muni.

“How many times does the work, “hate” appear in the Krsna book, and does it mention Krsna ever hating anyone.

Leeky-pal went into trances and responded, “As far as I can tell, two times, and it is demons hating Krsna or Krsna not hating anyone.”

We will go back to the world and quite reading pamphlets from “The Hindu Heavenly Hate Society”.
“Good idea”, said, Leekey-pal Muni, "Better to go for a bike ride and dress like a Yogi so people ask you about the “Happy Heavenly Hindo Society”".

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Hare Krisna, querido Gurudeva. Por favor, acepte mis humildes reverencias, dandavats. Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada.

Perdone por no haber escrito desde que estuvo en Madrid en Mayo. Han sido unos meses muy difíciles para mí. La administración es la puerta del infierno a veces, y en otras la puerta a Goloka. Yo soy muy burro y me acerco más al infierno que a Goloka.

Ahora estamos Carcika y yo descansando en Málaga, una semana junto al mar. Si Krisna quiere seremos finalmente padres en el mes de Abril, a finales. Después de dos abortos y un año muy muy intenso, Krisna nos da un nuevo servicio, cuidar de un alma  para ayudarla a ser devota o que nos vuelva devotos a nosotros.

Siento de corazón lo mal aspirante a devoto y discípulo que soy. No entiendo aún como Krisna nos permite cantar su Santo Nombre cada día. Estamos más en el suelo, que caminando. Pero queremos seguir mejorando, aunque a veces no sabemos cómo.

Solo quería que supiera que un devotito is coming y que aunque algo maltrechos seguimos adelante en la misión de Prabhupada. Se siguen haciendo devotos en Madrid. Cuando regresemos a Madrid, le escribiré más tranquilamente. Gracias por su infinita misericordia.

HpS - O.K!!!!!        Cinco dias, no cinco meces!       Pero, los caidos pueden ser piedras para adelantar en el sendero, entonces muchas veces no hay, nada, NADA, lamentar en problemas si podemos entender verdades eternos de ellos.

Esperamos su proxima carta!