Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Beloved and Respected Gurudeva:

AGTSP

PAMHO

I was really touched by your last posts ¡¡

You since a long time were telling us.. we want to write more.. it is time for you all to take responsabilities..and once on SM you said "who will lead mangal artik tomorrow"

You advised us one thing.. and you repeat and repeat the same instruction, and even if we obtained but results again and again  we are so stubborn that we continue doing the things on our way or not being totally transparent with U, acting behind your back, thinking that this time will work out but NOOOO , the mercy and blessings are in Your instructions until we understand that then is not going to be good results ¡¡¡

Today along with Jagad Guru das, etc are organizing the FMP for leading Mangal artik, the days are almost cover and it may rotate. I hope this will be helpful and also I hope this will be a good training for us.

I analized all my life as a devotee and I see no good results... I just feel ashamed because I just was a burden for You, etc... My nature is being pujari but at this point I do not see in which way I am contribuiting to Sankirtan ¡¡ 

I hope to be helpful for U, so sorry to bother U with my problems and mind

If u see anything I may be useful please let me know

Trying to be iur disciple

Candramukhi dd

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP.  Paoho.   You are doing a lot of service.   Yes, we are waiting for some Mangalal arati Schedule here. Ultimately it is Krsna inside of us that gives us strength, enthusiasm, no?    Thank you!

Madhudvisa: He wants to know how to find out how to please the spiritual master with one service.

Srila Prabhupāda: The spiritual master has given you so many things to do. First of all finish that. First of all finish sixteen rounds, observe the regulative principles. First of all finish this duty. And neglecting this duty, what can you do further? If you cannot finish sixteen rounds of chanting and if you cannot observe the regulative principles, then what else can you do? First of all finish this duty. Be expert in finishing, executing these duties. Then ask for another duty. And if you finish these duties, automatically Krishna will give you intelligence. Tesām satata-yuktānām bhajatām prīti-pūrvakam [Bg. 10.10]. One who is actually engaged in the service of the Lord, buddhi-yogam dadāmi tam, “I give him intelligence.” Krishna will give you intelligence. You will be able to talk with Krishna from within if you become sincere. If you cannot execute the preliminary duties, then how can you execute further duty? There is no question.([The above conversation was recorded on February 22, 1973 in Auckland, New Zealand]

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP, and your's and my regularly washed and trimmed feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, Hope you are good in Health.

    Sure, will check the fire sacrifice & a printed copy of the Gayatri Mantras and update you soon.

HpS  - Very nice!​

    Gurudev, have got 'tatkal' train ticket for tomorrow (26 September 2015), so have to start for Pune
    tomorrow at 10:00 AM, India Time from Vrndavan and will reach Pune on 27 September 2015 by 4:30 PM, India Time.

    Will update you again, about the entire Vrandavan Stay.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Sometimes we want to just forget everything and run away to Vrndavana Dhama.

Jai, Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Professor, Master Harsh et al,

Here we are still in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Our health is still very delicate with need to rest as much as 9-hours in a day now.  Our best medical advice is that we have to continue to adjust our work to live according to our Donkey's age.

In this regard we are basically working to develop a list of priorities and schedule that we can maintain personally and then responding from that perspective to the suggestions of others.

As of now this NIOS work is one of the very topmost priorities for us. We have had a series of discussions on maintaining the functioning of NIOS by shifting its operation to Texas and joining a broader educational corporation there, Goloka Education. This is taking time and energy and we shall be sending you particular notices on this.

Of course we have had our local work with Dr. Ravi and the big Celebrate Nashville Festival this weekend.

I received the final bill from Ma Saraadia press and now we only wait for the general accounting for this one project from your good self.

In this maze of NIOS work two projects seems prominent to us: Distribution of the books we have and the co-operation with the National Library of Peru on the annual journal, "Solaris", and an international conference on "Psychology of the Sacred". Both of these are moving along well with very, very senior scholars and editors. Particularly we have a meeting scheduled by phone tomorrow night with the Director of the Library, who has been beleaguered by hosting the International Monetary Fund, with Presidents and Representatives of 50-nations in Peru. He has written an EXCELLENT paper on the history of religion and psychology and at this point we are looking for someone who wants to go ahead very, very seriously in a dialog between Sri Caitanya's Bhagavata School and Occidental view of nature with this perspective of Jung. Unless we get this the journal and symposium will not have life. Can you help in this?
 

Besides NIOS and its administrative work, there is of course our personal Sadhana, without which we would be dead.  We keep that from 4.30-5.30AM On-Line and are committed to four classes on SB and BG weekly in Spanish and English.

These classes we feel should satisfy our very great debt to our ISKCON disciples and students.

Finally, we have our obligations as members of the Executive Committee of ISKCON'S Ministry of Education but we feel that those are being satisfied by their relationship with the aforementioned Sadhana Bhakti publication and education work.

Of course, there is more work to be done, structuring our strategy, but in-spite of all these challenges we are making tangible progress.

We will try to call both you are Harsh tomorrow and look for any mail from you as soon as possible.

We are anxious to hear about any work you are doing and if Pranava Das has contacted your good self.

HpSwami

NIOS - ASA

From: Srinivasa-acarya Das <[email protected]>
To: HPS Bhaktivaibhava <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 4:54 PM
Subject: Document on online learning

Respected Guru-Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances at our feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Attached is a document from an online english writing offered at http://www.coursera.org by MSJC ( http://www.msjc.edu ). It's pretty good in describing about five types of online learning, types of activities involved, expectations of students etc. I strongly feel it will be useful in your service in ISKCON education. I particularly like the various classifications and the terminology used in the document in describing the online learning.

Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa

All dead now!      We only want to rest and let our body recover a little energy then maybe we can make some plans on our own.     We have pushed Bhakti Vaibhava, Initiations, ISKCON Management, NIOS etc.  But our energy is low.   Donkey is old.   So now we will just look to cultivating our own little internal programs and see if they naturally get bigger from inside and from the outside we will not push now, fix calendars now, but if some one calls us, we will see if our little atma can join them.

5.19 PM.   We just finished 1/2-hour talk with Ambarisa Das.  Things much more clear now.   What we are lacking is a central conversation partner. We were thinking Eduardo might like to do it, but it hasn't developed. Without that, Suta and the Sages, Narada and Vyasa, we have a good stage and lighting but no content.We will discuss that tomorrow with Ramon Mujica. ​