Letters to the editor

         Pamho. TlgaSP.

      Querido Gurudeva: Perdone por favor mis multiples ofensas, pienso que soy un ofensor a sus pies de loto, entre otras cosas por no escribir en tanto tiempo, esta carta no será muy larga pero espero sea el reinicio de una mejor comunicacion. Gracias por su misericordia sin causa.

     Continuo con mis 17 rondas, 4 principios en plano burdo, y ahora  3 gayatris.  Puede que esten saliendo muchas impurezas, como cuando uno hace ghee, pero pienso que hay cada vez menos apego a seguir en esta condicion dormida del alma. Siento que mi deseo de mejorar es más intenso, y no tan facil de hacerlo como pensaba, pero no me identifico tanto com mi mente, ni con los objetos de los sentidos.

     En general estos meses en el templo, estoy sustituyendo al Jefe de pujaris cuando el tiene que viajar ( Abhimanyu prabhu) cuidando a las Deidades pequeñas, (muy intenso).  Servicio a Sus Señorias,  cocino Rhaja [raja] bhoga 3 o 4 dias a la semana, visto Sri Sri Gaura Nitay grandes una vez a la semana, baño a las pequeñas 2 veces al mes para estar entrenado en eso, hago el aratic [arati] de el mediodia 6 veces en semana, Mangala aratic todos los dias, limpieza, etc

    Bueno tengo que retomar la lectura estos meses han sido un poco desatre en este sentido por una causa u otra entre otros esta claro que la mayor parte del tiempo por desorganizacion. Estos meses han resultado ser maravillosos pero tambien ha habido pruebas, pienso por falta de conciencia de Krishna,  (ejemplo falta de limpieza o tratos desagradables entre devotos, creo que estas cosas no tienen nada que ver con Conciencia de krishna).

    Estoy pensando que estoy en un cargo que no es el mio, pero como espero algun dia poder ser devoto, y ese es un cargo más elevado y dificil, seguir intentandolo sin tener en cuenta el cargo, o sea mantener mi objetivo, ser consciente de Krishna.

   Sigo tocando un poco pero no tanto como me gustaria.

     Estoy realizando que a veces me resulta muy duro vivir en el Templo, pienso que tengo que buscar la manera de vivir fuera dentro de unos años, estoy pensando volver a Madrid pero no vivir en el templo, y tampoco para el resto de mi vida. Será como vivir una vida totalmente distinta a todo el mundo en general.

    Tengo que mejorar bastante ciertos aspectos, cuando maya me pone a prueba con comportamientos de devotos totalmente inapropiados, mi conciencia queda bastante perturbada. Entonces mis deseos materiales salen a flote, me doy cuenta de mi miserable condicion material, me lo recrimino y se me pasa. Es algo asi como querer comprarse un avión, hacer planes y de repente ver que no hay dinero, entonces se me pasa,jajajaja. Mi inteligencia me dice que por lo menos hay que intentarlo hasta la muerte (ser consciente de Krishna). Maya es muy atractiva pero realmente es muy bromista, cuanto más atractiva es, mas se sufre despues. Todavia hay apego pero cada vez hay más apego por Krishna. Pienso que la vida material no conduce a ningun sitio, y tambien pienso que hay muchas maneras de tratar de llevar vida espiritual, hoy por hoy mi predica es que no es necesario vivir en un templo.  Hay muchas más cosas, espero poder escribir más regularmente. Gracias de nuevo por su misericordia infinita,  estoy totalmente incualificado para recibirla, se que tengo una deuda dificil de pagar, una deuda eterna. Uno puede ser muy famoso en 10.000.000.000....000 de universos y aun asi ser muy poco conocido. Soy muy insignificante.

    Su desastroso sirviente, Jharikhanda-gaura Das.

HpS - Gracias su carta, muy pensador. Desculpa Espanol horrible. Por que no queda Brahmacari, viaje a India con unos mas B'caris para estudiar para unos meces. Desarrollar buen amistad con unos B'caris, toma Sannyasa con profundo compreshension de la filosofia y Krsna en Sus libros y su corazon, y ayuda todo el mundo?

hare krsna, maharaj, pamho, agtsp.

I will come to point directly
you wrote "We have not heard from the Mumbai, Pradhan. We hope that he has also been able to make some progress in assembling the list of possible consumers for Bharatiya-sanskriti and the wonderful Felicitations volume."
In my understanding I think my work was just to compile list of contributors not consumers. Can  you please guide on the path to distribute these books.

HpS - Always so nice to get the straight news from a real horse. Can you contact Dr. Samaresh and see about updating the list? He says that some of the people have changed. Then we can draft an exciting, motivating promotional letter and sell 500 books in three weeks. Then you can retire to the country with your wife and six servants and invite devotees to come and visit you and make your entire village devotees of Lord Sri Krsna. Then . . .

Hope you have got my second long long letter. Hope it was help.  gradually i am finding writing helps one to see and control one's mind. Become an author become an authority

regards
horse

HpS - Yes, you saw our great appreciation for your letter on sense control. Again thank you. What is happening with your PhD?  Can you give us a little summary of your doctorate? Are you going to write for "Psychology of the Sacred" in Lima, Peru, in June 2016?

AGTSP!!!

PAMHO!!! DANDAVATS TO YOU!

Hare Krsna Gurudev, long time without write, i am  sorry for that,

HpS - ASA - AGTSP paoho. Long time to answer. Traveling VERY hard. Sorry about that. Is very, very nice to hear from you.  What has happened to Bhaktin Fernanda?

. . . but now i have internet so i have not more excuse for not write you and i will do it.

HpS - ASA -- We shall all be benefited.
 

We are living with my dad, my husband, and my son Syamasundar, who have almost 1 year old.
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ASA - Una Dama recta! [Un esposo noble].

16 rounds almost all days. but i will try to be better.

ASA - Keep count of your deuda and make it up!
Our service still is the festival of sankirtan in Paseo Ahumada, of course now i go there with my baby, and thats been very nice.
the worship to the deities is better, i wish cultivate tulasi, please some blessing or advices for get it.

i finished my studies about flowers of bach, and now i am distributing prasadam (bread).....

sorry for my bad english.

ALWAYS TRYING TO BE YOUR SERVANT
BHAKTIN FERNANDA LEIVA

HpS - AGTSP.   Paoho.   We are getting so old and forgetful that it is hard to function as Diksa guru more. Maybe we can do it. At least we can try to answer your letters in this Blog!    Where are you?    We will see you in Mexico or Peru???

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

All glories to your lotus feet

Hare Krishna maharaja 

Pleace accept my humble obesciences

I feel deeply Maharaja inside me that you are my Diksa Guru , i will be really like your instruction and advice as Diksa Guru . I am the Bhakta from Panama Juank and i will see you at Chile Maharaj .

your aspiring servant

Bhakta Juanka 

HpS - August 19 - AGTSP paoho. Send us more details!  Who are you close associates!

Hare Krishna Maharaja

Well maharaja i dont know if you remember i have wrote bunch of times i am from panama i lived in panama , i have friends that are devotees and lived at CHILE a few are your disciples one of them is TRIVIKRAMA DAS // I will travel to chile in January to see you ,what other details do you need maharaja let me know please.

Haribol

Your aspiring Servant

Bhakta Juanka

HpS - AGTSP. How are you Sr. Juanka?  I hope you have been reading the letters and DTCs here. You can see why it has taken two weeks for us to answer. In any case it is very nice to hear from you. Yes, we think we remember getting letters from you. Thank you also for the photo. There was big Rathayatra in Panama recently, no? Bh. Sundara Goswami was there and others. Are you steady in your Japa vrata? 16-rounds minimum daily?    Chanting Japa, sitting with attention, it is so natural to begin to experience Krsna's Form, Qualities, Associates and Lila, "NOI 7-8".  Any questions?   Are you married with five wives and 26-children?   Are you a brain surgeon?    Do you have a father and mother?????

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I would like to ask you if you can clarify me following questions which are unfortunately somehow due to my bad nature relevant to me.

When somebody gets purified by bhakti yoga proccess do unfriendly qualities get transformed/destroyed? Or when soul purify and fully self-realize he still need to behave in body like it is programed by modes of nature, similarly as actor who plays bad character?

We can sometimes see devotees which are close friends of Krishna, His devotees, same time they may have some kind of interesting (non-traditional for vaisnava) nature (e.g. drinking blood of enemies, anger). Similarly Krishna didn't allow Arjuna to go to forrest as his nature will not allow him to properly stay there as yogi. So may we understand that 'varna' or human nature cannot be avoided even when after we will become purified devotees? 

Whatever understanding of myself/my psychology is purely based on body/mind/inteligence. At least theoretically I understand that I am not that, but can I realize what are the emotions, logic, behavior of the real me, the soul? When soul is purified and is back in Krishna's pastimes he has own personality. While in material body, does this personality, characteristics get manifested over out material conditioning or we simply live inner live, while outsite be still same bad character?

Your servant Prahlad-nrsmha das

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

It is very nice to hear that U are recovering your energy little by little

As I told U I am on internet cause of work most of the time and in my spare time I read or listen to classess.

I read the very good letter that Harsh posted ¡¡¡¡ And I am writing because I have a point of view of a lady 

I was talking with M. Jambavati more frequently now...and she told me that U said to her that she is a Grhastha due to she has to work to support herself and her father so I think I am in the same situation. I personally belive now that Krsna is taking care of me because I want to surrender to Him... 

I guess that this disease is the most difficult to overcome ¡¡ Until the point you realize that the 4 pillars of religion are pretty real they exist for a reason ...The 4 principles are really helpful PRETTY REAL ... I am sad to share that a friend of mine has a sexually transmitted disease (her husband was with many other ladies so....) So the best policy is to follow 4 principles strictly, but what happened when U follow and your partner no?? U get a disease and ??? karma I guess no??

ASA - Uncle Gismo --- Esteemed Candra-mukhi Devi Das et al, Thank you for your perspective on this topic. HpS is too stuffy to discuss such things but we are practical people, scientists. First, as our old High School teacher, Mr. What's His Name used to say they are not "other ladies". She may be a lady, but they are "women or to call things bluntly as Srila Prabhupada does ...". Second, a lady should not associate with a husband who is fallen, associating with other women. She should only associate for religious reasons. Happy life.

So at least in order not to get a disease U restrain to break principles ¡¡¡ 

About this point on Harsh letter ¡¡

9. Many men think they dont themselves dont need sex , but their wife does, so they indulge in it. In my understanding women can be happy in peaceful home,with a respecting and caring husband, and basic mateiral comforts.  If she does not get these then her sex desire might be more. Secondly if she is really (lusty), then tell her, there are no free lunches in this material world (atleast be a Karmi).  The price for having sex is to care of Kid for atelast 20 years.

CMDD:

Most of the comments that I heard is that women are lustier than men ¡¡ yes this may be true but ¡¡¡ deeply we want to feel protected , loved and most importantly we want to please our husbands or partners, (but in a mundane way) BIG MISTAKE ¡¡¡ Now I realized that our aim MUST be to please Krsna.. So in order to try to please our partners we get wrong advice.... from materialistic mentalities and what we obtain?? DISTRESS ¡¡¡ Until we realized or experienced a HIGHER TASTE ¡¡¡ so  Those wrong ladies need association ¡¡¡ from those who made this terrible mistake.. and learned the lesson  but again .. Do they really want to get advice?? They have to suffer again and again as I personally did until as I said U experienced a Higher taste. Sadly as NOI says an intelligent person do not do what is wrong if they hear but many of us have to experience once, twice .... until finally we understand ¡¡¡

So I have realized that yes ladies need to be protected but not only  by their fathers, brothers, husbands.. but also by elder ladies ¡¡ like M Murti Murti, etc... Because ladies feel more comfortable with other ladies ¡¡¡, also following their Gurus instructions and being sincere etc. 

ASA - Yes!   We all need Ashrama Gurus.

9.  Outside  you will see many women (advertisement or workplace) dressed inappropriately. Have compassion on them as they are being misled that way to be happy is to flaunt one self and have wealth.

CMDD: yes .. most women do not dress properly, in order to get jobs they show their breast etc ¡¡¡ they go to discos and bars to pick up men ¡¡ awful..

I guess that we are influenced by stereotypes if u are slim, beautiful u can get a job a good husband so they struggle to try to fit in that stereotype. And we forget to cultivate within ourselves ¡¡¡¡ But here I want to point out that some girls like me or others go to the beach for example to get sunlight not to show off.. we do not want to feel madonna or any other jajaja we just want to feel comfortable and relax from work or problems...also chaste married ladies do so... others like me feel good wearing designers clothes ¡¡ jaja (lust) yes but not to show off to feel good within ourselves.... maybe I am wrong but I am just being sincere... most of men say She forced me to rapped her look the way she dress ummm ¡¡¡ yes sometimes may be true but also I think that is also the actitude u have ¡¡¡, and convey.

Thanks GM for this blog ¡¡¡ for listen to us ¡¡¡ please forgive my stupidity

An unintelligent, lusty lady

Candramukhi dd

ASA - UG - HpSwami says thank you and you seem to be losing a few rounds to The Witch, but She has completely smashed many others, so you got some devotees ahead of you and some behind you. Serve them both and give The Witch a Knock-out Blow in round three!