Letters to the editor

Pamho, agtSP!

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj,

No worries if you don't remember me. I sat in on a Q & A with you at the SF rathayatra last year, just another face in the crowd. I'm a brahmacari from LA, I sent you a letter through Nikunja Bihari some time ago mainly discussing sankirtan. Anyways I am your insignificant servant. I just realized I'm going to be in Berkeley when you arrive on Wednesday, so looks like I can skip the flight to visit you in Seattle. If you don't have some arrangement, I would be glad to offer you a ride from the airport on Wednesday. You can reach me at 310.503.2989.

ys,

Bhakta Eric

HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP....   Actually Srivasa Pandit will pick us up at the airport and then we will go with him to his house afterwards but I will put your name and number in our Diary!   C u then!

Dear Hanumatpresaka

AGTSP,  PAMHO

Please forgive me for not sending this correspondence sooner.  It would be a great blessing for me if I were able to drive you from the Bay Area to Sacramento for the June 27 program at ISKCON Sacramento.  But I will be happy to serve you in any way that is helpful.  It is about a two hour drive from Newark to Sac.  I could pick you up at any time on any day that is convenient.  I am sending this message through Kalindi Devi Dasi's account because my account is not working.

Your servant, David Presta

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!   So, so, so nice to hear from you!   Just put URGENT in the Title field and we answer these letters sooner.  I just talked to Srivasa Pandita Das and he said that, "Yes, this had been the arrangement as far as he knew". Oooof!   A lot of driving for the Dave Prestha. Maybe we can improve he arrangement. We will call you on Thursday!

Thank you. Very nice to see you soon!!

Hare Krsna gurudeva,

We offer our respectful obeisances unto you and all members of param para.
Patita pavana jaya Srila Prabhupada!
We are here in Orlando, Florida. We are taking up new responsabilities and learning many practical things about grihastha asrama. Although we have these responsabilities still we are doing our sadhana and trying to improve. We are taking premarital counseling with Krsnanandini Mataji and we are finding it to be very beneficial. She is a great support. We are going to Houston for a week during the symposium and we are excited to see you. 
Yesterday was the 6 month anniversary of my receiving Sri Nitai Mayapura Candra, my deities of Gaura Nitai. (Jananivasa Prabhu gave Them Their names in LA)

Your little servant and spiritual daughter,                                                                                                                                                 Aindavi dd

HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP paoho.   Thank you for your letter. In Olando, Florida, Grhastha Ashrama! Amazing. We forget all the details of who is doing what almost immediately unless they are repeated at least six times.  But in any case Mickey Mouse is in Orlando, Florida and from what we understand his form resembles Lord Jagannatha so much that little children have even offered their obeisances to him!

Texas!

News??!!

A G T S P !
Paoho & Bw!!!     We are sitting on the porch. Cars rush by on Medical Center Parkway. Not so many because it is Sunday. There is a one x four foot hole in the porch because one stringer rotted and collapased. Ricky (Ricardo) was supposed to come today to work on it, but we never saw him.

The BhVai examination was very enlivening. Now we are looking toward four weeks of cleaning up our details, lost examinations, our Chapter Study Guides, Verse Book, Course Description and Structure. We hope we can present those in the National Conference at the end of July.

Is very hot but with the fan and sitting on the porch we are comfortable enough to work. We could have got an airconditioner for one room, but we are only here for a few weeks and then practically speaking we are not back until middle of September.

Talked with Nimsar in the morning. They are intoxicated with joy that ASA is registered with the National Council of ISKCON and now starting the public legalization.

O.K. We will send some letters for NIOS for Dr. Samaresh and go for a walk. There is other work to do also.

Some very nice letters and questions.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!!!

Dear Swamij, Aniruda das is here in Bali. He is conducting a disciples course that I am attending. I find that it is deepening my understanding of the role and of and my relationship with guru, Krsna, Prabhupada, and ISKCON. After the course is finished I will be given the test for initiation. In August Ramai Swami will visit Bali. I am supposed to meet with him. He wants to send me to either Papua New Guinea, the Solonmon Islands, or Darwin Australia to open a temple. What do you think, should I do that? I continue to follow Prabhupada's instructions and chant my rounds everu day. Your servant, Ken

HpS - ASA ---- AGTSP    paoho.   Very nice news.   I guess it would be O.K. to go. He wants you to go alone or with other B'caris???

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I sent this letter through Nikunja Bihari prabhu on the 18th of last month and haven't yet seen a reply. I just wanted to resend in case it slipped through the cracks somehow, if not, please forgive my lack of patience. Haare Krsna!

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!!  paoho.   Guess it slipped!

I hope you are in good health. I am just preparing for another sankirtan expedition with my team. In spring and summer time we go to music festivals, like Woodstock. Everyone is trying to transcend the daily grind so we're trying to give them something more substantial.

Lately I've been having a little trouble adjusting to temple life again after traveling so much. For almost four years now I've been going out for a month or two, and coming back for a week or so in between. I trained for almost a year with RVC. Outside I have to be surrendered internally, I have to veld motivated, I have to prioritize, and make determined goals; but when I come back to the temple there is a lot of pressure to conform externally to a formula. I realize the importance of setting an example, and I try to get into it, but sometimes I find it hard to stay motivated and sometimes I regret that it may come across as disrespect. I actually like KC activities, but I find it a little frustrating when I feel forced, or if I have to do everything just a certain way. I can't help it, I'm rascal #1 but I'm just trying to contribute what I am able to. I can't seem to live it yet, but I'm at least trying to form a concept of obedience. One brahmacari recently posted this excellent quote by Tolstoy about monasticism. Tasty! https://www.facebook.com/16rounds/posts/10206283068813001

Some high points lately: I managed to complete some new illustrations for my main shiksa guru's translations of Sri Bilvamangalacarya (HG Mukunda Datta prabhu.) I also had the privilege to visit your servant Radhika Raman prabhu and his family; and also Bhakta Adrian and his good wife as well, last time I was in Utah. It was really great to see them again. Bhakta Adrian was my first roommate in LA! 
I was inspired by one of your lectures where you described one interfaith conference where the devotees were talking shop with a Mormon cleric about preaching. He said the most effective preaching is the follow up rather than the cold calling. I'm not such a good book distributor in terms of quantity, so I was inspired to create this website as a recent attempt to build a quality preaching platform on the foundation of my book distribution: Radhakrsna.weebly.com

I'm trying to make some arrangement to visit you in Seattle during your stay there (July 8-11, correct?) Please pray for my colleagues and me, and I will likewise pray to Nrsimhadev for your safe travels as well

Your humble servant,

Bhakta Eric

HpS - ASA -  Hare!   Krsna!      Awwwk!     I can't remember who you are, Prabhu!!!!     Awwwwk.   Past 50-then energy in the body is finished and past 60-the short term memory goes. BUT old age is a great friend for a devotee beause it pushes us from Sensual to Mental to Intellectual platform. Then if we can get completely on the Atma platform we are eternal!!!

Remind us of who you are.

Your clash with Temple Sadhana seems normal. Like you say you just have to learn how to adjust to it, no?   The Tolstoy quote is nice. Compare with BG 4.34, no?  Prabhupada says, that blind faith is condemed. So we have to understand the postion in the administrative structure and the spiritual development (and even esoteric taste) of our ISKCON associates.