Letters to the editor

hare krishna s.s. hanumatpresaka swami

por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias,  le saluda bhakta victor de lima del templo de wilson.

Queria saludarle y agradecerle por su trascendental visita a peru. ha sido muy inspirador para nosotros, ahora estamos  tratando de leer el libro de krishna todas las noches.

HpS - ASA --- Muy inspirador (y mucho trabajo) para nosotros tambien. Ya estamkos 80% recuperado del estress del viaje, y ya esperamos adelantar, expandir, profudizar, nuestra servicio mas!  Aspiramos siempre ser en los pies de loto de Srila Prabhupada en la assemblea de devotos, de ISKCON.

. . . bueno ahora estamos llendo a sankirtan viajero a cochabamba, bolivia. junto con prabhu tattva-vid goura y bhakta adrian. estaremos 20 dias y al regresar nos quedamos 15 dias mas en cuzco.

HpS - Associacion de Mathuresa Das!

...tambien queria preguntarle acerca del [S]srimad [B]bhagavtam, ya que en el 2.2.35 se traduce a bhagavan como la personalidad de dios y en el verso anterior se traduce bhagavan como el señor brahma, como entender ello?

HpS - No puede comentar como Jiva Goswami, pero como yo entiendo, Prabhupada es traduciendo fuertement sigiendo nuestras Acharyas previos, aqui ellos esta eligiendo el traduccion basado en el contexto. "El Presidente" puede ser traducido como "Barrack Obama" o "Evon Morales" dependiendo en las circumstancias, no?
 

. . .luego en el verso 2.9.31 sig. se menciona los 5 principios fundamentales para alcanzar la perfeccion en el servicio devocional, de los cuales el quinto es adorar a la deidad del señor con devocion. entonces mi pregunta es si esto significa que todos debemos ocuparnos en adorar, ya sea la deidad del templo o unas deidades pequeñas, o adorar los libros?

HpS - En sus ensanzas a Sanatana Goswami, como hoy dia estamos leyendo en "Las Ensenansa de Senor Caitanya", hay como 64-principios regulativas mencionada, y es la misma en NdlD, pero entre ellos estas cinco son la mad fuerte. "Nectar de la Devocion", Capitulo 13. All dice solamente unos de ellos es bueno, or 2 or tres. Esforsamos realizar todos. Vivimos en Templo de ISKCON, levantamos y participamos Mangala arati de los Deidades, oimos SB, Devoto Sanga, Kirtan....   Realiza las mismas cosas mietras en Sankirtan Vijero. Deidades puede ser pequenos de Gaura Nita o si, ofreciendo Mangala arati a los Libros!

bueno reciba nuevamente mis respetuosas reverencias. todas las glorias sean a srila prabhupada.

HpS - ASA --- Jaya, sea feliz en su Sankirtan!  Ke, Krsna esta feliz en su Sankirtan.

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

      ASA - Potatoe feet.

    Gurudev, Hope you are good in Health.

    Meeting with so many devotees to find out my imperfections for Radha-Madav. Trying ot figure out imperfections in my Sadna.
    So that sadna can be revised.

HpS - ASA ---- Very nice!

    Don't want to miss this human life...time is moving very very fast.....i have very less time....+much much behind in devotion.
    Perhaps, have not started devotion yet, for Radha-Madav.

    Trying to summarizing all points, where i need improvements for Sadna.

    My 'chitt' is not fixed yet. Don't know how much time it will take!!

    Please let me know if you have any thing for me.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA - Yes, please arrange for the formalities of second initiation. Gayatri mantra

All Glories to Sri Gurudeva and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna and Goura Bhakta Brinda

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Sri Gurudeva's charanamrita

HpS - ASA -  AGTSP!

That we, the initiated groups started going to Mandir from the 6th September, 2015 and celebrated jointly the Krsna Janma Utsav on the 13th September, 2015.

Our team performed Nama Sankritana for four hours upto 12.00  night. In the morning the Nanda Utsav was organised with a lunch for the bhaktas and other interested invities.

HpS - Kamsa was not happy with the advent of Sri Krsna. You welcomed Him into your hearts!

Please inform us Gurujis tentative time table of India tour programme. We will arrange Gurujis to and fro air tickets from Kolkata to Imphal and back.

HpS - ASA --- We have just got back from this 6-weeks of Intense Preaching Tour in North and South America. Our liver was exhausted and medical advice is to rest and then establish a sane work schedule for body our age. It is one week since we are back and things are seeming to take a turn upward in our energy, but we are waiting for some response to our efforts in preaching in South America before we make more long range plans. Your constant news puts Thoubal, Manipur very, very high on our list of places to visit.  Let us see how things go in the next few weeks. Maybe we can make more fixed plans by then. Now it is at least five months before we could come at the earliest.

As I will be out of station from the 21st  Sept to 9th Oct. 2015 for tritha jatra I would not be able to communicate through the block (BLOG) or email.

Yours fallen  servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - So, I hope you get this letter just before you leave. If not I trust, Lord Krsna, who is sitting in everyone's heart to inform you of the situation and then you can get this letter when you return middle of this next month. Hope your Tirthaytra is very fruitful!!!

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja Please, accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!! At last, we're having our NIMSAR meeting this saturday. I hope that all the members come to elect the new board ... After that, new plans. I'll tell you hot news in the next report. I wish you to have a nice rest for a few days Gurudeva Your servant Gandharva dasa

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP Paoho.   Excellent report. 1) We have seen some Education Peru action from Abhinandan Das and Jiva-sakti Das and Rama-giridhari Das indirectly but nothing has reached this Blog yet. "A wise man reacts to only what happens", Canakhya Pandita.   2) We sent a letter to Eduardo enticing him to equisite dialog but no answer yet.   3) We have actually been getting some substantial rest and recuperation after 6-weeks of hard, hard, exhausting work. Our medical advice is that this was the last time we can risk such stress on our body. Do it again and surely we won't recover.

It is a great adventure, what new frontier do we have to break now?  We are getting a pretty steady diet and and work load. It looks like we will do:

Hawaii class on Thursday

Saturday Morning SB/Bh​Vai etc.   English

Saturday Evening Spanish.

Flexible but nominally Wednesday at 7.30PM, BhSastri with NGD (open to all).   FMP Daily  . This is only in so much as our Sankirtan writing finds its natural element in them.

SANKIRTAN

Hare Krishna Maharaja

PAMHO    All Glories To Srila Prabhupada

I'm in the middle of reading a book "Srila Prabhupada's Miracle" written by Vaikunthanath Das (he spells it Vaikunthanathdas).  It's a loving account of the early days of Prabhupada's movement in New York, Monteal, Trinidad, Hare Krishna Land in Mumbai, India, London, and a few other places.  Among other things Vaikunthanath was a book binder at the first ISKCON Press in Boston.  It's a new book, have you heard of it?

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna, David Prestha, Ji... Immediately we wonder how the mysterious and celestieal Kalindi Devi Dasi is. I have not read the book nor heard of it before, but I hand a few months of Vaikunthanatha Das' association when he lived in San Francisco and the Berkeley temple many years ago.

Just returned home from the Saturday night program at ISKCON Sacramento.  Very nice program celebrating the 50th aniversary of Prabhupada's arrival in America.  I mailed you a letter - if it's easier to respond through this blog please do so.

Your humble prune, David

HpS - It's 6.16PM here. The sun is sending very slanting rays through the trees and so many cars are passing on Medical Center Parkway that it feels like a week-day, not Sunday. We went to Abbhay-narayana's home at 10:30AM to work on our accounting for year-end for NIOS and had a 5-course lunch with himself and his good wife.   Nitai-gaurausundara Das and his family are all in Boston for the anniversary of the arrival of Srila Prabhupada in USA. So, we are quite alone here. Somewhere in the distance a dog howled.

Yes, yes,   yes, yes. . .   it is much easier and much, much more effective to respond here. Many people in this little circle of wayfarers read these letters and so we can all communicate our thoughts to a broader circle.
How is your Self Realization proceeding? You are probably making more rapid progress than we are.  Have you made some realization of the phrase, "You are not the body!"

As I remember, everytime you go to your house you have to pass over 1,000 foot abysss on a magical fairy bridge that self manifested from no where, and the community where you live is like another dream place with celestially opulent fairies that kind of float in the clouds with not real realization even of who are their nieghbors, just floating in the sky in their heads. True?

Of course, ultimate reality is to fill and finish each day with bits and barges of the KRSNA book, no?

Hare Krsna. You can see we have been writing a lot of letters. Our eyes hurt. We will write one more to Dr. Samaresh and stop. It is 4.51PM.  We have to make some preparations for the Celebrate Nashville festival, buy gas and visit NGD Prabhu. We are tired!
Guess you are too.​

Really mean looking spider in our garden. Two inches across. 70% of the spiders here are poisonous. Some very painful. Hare Krsna!    Even spider bites, dog bites are from Krsna.

We are actually making eternal progress.    Our class to Hawaii was very nice today.  We have good audience of Senior devotees there.    Tonight BG with NGD...    Talked with Anantarupa Das for about 45-minutes about his service and the Bhakti vaibhava program. Have to get him, Vais (Srivasa Pt) et al involved, and work on making the Sastric studies more practical and powerful. Then ISKCON will CHANGE!

Waiting for response from Eduardo.   Hare Krsna!!!!!!!!!