Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I am writing to you hoping you're in good health and that your sankirtan is thriving. During the last two weeks, we have not been very active. We have been sending invitation letters and talking to exhibitors about the topics they will develop.This Sunday we will meet a second time with young people who collaborate with us in the organization. After this meeting some points will be defined .

I have a question for you, concerning to our responsabilities beyond the congress:

Should NIMSAR take responsibility for overseeing initiatives during the event? Or should we limit ourselves to promote these programs apart from keeping the results?

HpS - AGTSP. We don't understand the question so well.  I guess anyone can make an initiative but then it should be co-ordinated with the local authorities and once there is a clear letter from the local authorities about NIMSAR's position in the Yatra then it can also oversee, evaluate etc. the initiatives that different people present from the administrative side.
So very nice to get letters each two weeks from you. Always be enthusiastic.

I say goodbye to you, Gurudeva.

your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP  paoho.   We couldn't answer much mail while we were in India and Europe for one month so now we have these two reports and the latest one.           Oh, goody, goody, goody!       Just like unopened birthday presents.

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I tell you that we move forward in organizing the August event. Laksmana Prabhu-agraja  will be showing the progress these days. The work is progressing quite well, we have reached important agreements and we are engaging some young devotees in the organizational part and for the development of the congress. We are excited to conduct an event that has an effect on the the community. It is very important to design the post-conference activities so that this project has a real effect on the future. NIMSAR think it plays an important role in monitoring the agreements obtained. We must be very focused on that.

ASA - AGTSP!!      Yes, pre-event, event, post-event work, but we still don't have any letter from the Peruvian National Junta accepting NIMSAR as an official ISKCON preaching organization in Peru. Did you send it to us? Without their approval we really can't do anything there. We mentioned this before, no?

Moreover, Gura Gadadhra dasi begins the worship seminar this Saturday at the temple of Lima,  devotees and authorities are awaiting our actions as a result of the conversations we had with them. We have to support this in the best possible way. I will send you details in the coming weeks.

I hope all is well with you and your sankirtan, Gurudeva.

Saying goodbye with affection

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - O.K. We look at the next two letters.

All Glories to Sri Sri Gauranga Nitiananda.
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All Glories to you!
All Glories to devotees.

Please accept my most humble obeisances to your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA - Potato feet. AGTSP!

Dear Gurudeva, I'm Rati Manjari DD, you remember me? jijiji xD

ASA - The second most famous person in Argentina, no?

Hope your health is good!!!!

ASA - At 67-years USA we can really see that 9-more years for this body is a practical and esoteric estimate. Teeth, memory, vision, hearing going, but experience and intelligence increasing. Gotta get ready for service without a gross body, and you?

Gurudev my Japa improve, I can complete it and keep, following 4 principles but my consciousness is so material.
Gurudev we have gave the course of the spiritual scientist which is based on the small books of Srila Prabhupada and give the information of content in a nice and easy way, when we finish to gave the class the students stay in the class room making more and more questions! I am really grateful about that, I can understand how Prabhupadas message can change the life of people. It encourage me a lot!

ASA - \'0'/  Jaya....    ....   You can't do that if you have very material consciousness. Must have only moderately material conscioiusness.

Gurudev in our last godbrothers meeting we talk about keep connected with your preach line, we have debate about which one of yours principal items is more interesting for each one of us, to start to make study groups, it's a initial idea, but I hope we together can make a work team to keep your crops alive during the time you're not in the country and develop compromise and good contacts for get the better places for you.

ASA - Our preaching line is what Prabhupada and the Parampara sends us through different sources. Every sales man has his own technique.

In Bhakti Sastri we have some questions to make to you, can u help us please?

1- ¿How the Maha-Mantra has made accesible for all? We was talking about in the first moment was a secret mantra. ¿Was Caitanya who change the order of the words to make reachable for all?
ASA - We have heard about this in different ways but never read it in any of Prabhupada's books or lectures, letters, even from devotees who heard it from Prabhupada.
P'pada cites the Maha-mantra from the Kalisantara Upanisad. The wikipedia says that it is one of the Upanisads from the Black Yajur Veda. That is about all I know. 

2- The "rasa" of each entity is always the same? Or can evolve? - We always are "the same" and we discover? Or when we obtain prema, Krsna give it to us?
ASA - In NOI the verse 'nitya-siddha krsna prema..." is cited. Look it up and see where it is spoken and then read that section. Send us your thoughts!

 Thank u!

 More questions:

3- You have some estimeed date to visit our Yatra.

ASA - Seems 12 August to 7 September in Peru. Then January in Chile, maybe Argentina then. We would like to live there.

4 - Mangala Arati: the time to make it, the only way is doing it at 4.30am?  can do it at 5.3 or 6.00 this option is possible?

ASA - In NOI Srila Prabhupada says like, up by 4AM and Mangala arati, but in Krsna book he says that we should chant HK during the Brahma-muhurta. So seems we should have Mangal-arati during the Brahma muhurta. Look for Muhurtas on the Wikipedia and tell us your results!

5- GM one devotee make my astrological chart, and told about this is a good time to travel, based on that and my wish to travel, I  decide to go to India next year when you will be there, you agree? What you think about that? I need your blessings.

ASA - I think we will go there after Chile for like three months.

We start again with the congress and visit issues. ;)

Gurudeva please bless me to understand Krishna Consciousness, bless me for understand Prabhupada's mission and for be a tool in your service.  Sorry for my long letter, thanks for your valuable time. The world would be devastating for me if you were not in it.

Who always want to stay by your side. Your practicant of disciple.
Rati Manjari Devi Dasi.

ASA - Monkey and Piggy are still using the pencil bag that you gave us. Whenever we see it we think of you, the second most intelligent person in Argentina!!

 A G T S P !
    paoho

9.55PM.    Quit'n Time!    Long, full day of service. We seem to be getting a little bit better at how to control our senses. We come up with some full-body work everyday - ironing the clothes, cooking Lord's Lunch, going the Office Supply Store.  We expected our energy to be back to normal by Tuesday and it looks about right. We are getting near death, 76-years old, so we are being FORCED to change our life style.

We are contacting everyone about future events: West Coast Tour, Houston Education Conference, South American Tour. Thus, talked with Visvambara Das and Rasa-candra for about 20-minutes each. We are working to get our Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu, NOD, seminar organized for San Jose etc.
It is really nice. Each time we learn to improve it. Practical Progress in Purusottama Yoga.

O.K. Rest now.

See you tomorrow.

We answered a long letter at Yahoo from Basu Gosh Prabhu from India and didn't get to the Blog, though we looked for any "Urgent" letters.

Hare Krsna!!!!!!!

Herd cows, make rich flavored yogurt for Vrndavana.

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja, Pamho,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and you!

I hope you're well and your sankirtan for Srila Prabhupada is going fine.

2:38 in the morning. Rounds almost done. Best ones before mangalartik.

I'm very excited and happy. Yesterday, Panihati festival was great. Then we went to the city and chanted for 2 hours,

I'm sorry I didn't write before. I'm helping again in temple administration. I'll be secretary for a while until they find another one. I hope soon, cause my main service is education. Now, I'm teaching 3 courses and studying 2. Giving class in the temple, etc. My health still needs improvement, but I feel great inside.

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP paoho....    We are so happy to hear from you.   We all thought you might have been eaten by the great snake of time. Your Sadhana sounds enviable!

NIMSAR Congress for August is taking shape. Many details giving by our fine secretary Gandharva Prabhu.

We need to get together soon to talk about your participation in the Congress. We need your kindly help to invite people to participate with us in this great experience. We already talked to Mathuresh Prabhu and Baladeva Prabhu. They are very excited about their participation, other people as well.

ASA - Because of the one month of travel we did not read his Reports. It seems we should read them all today.

We need to talk about your peruvian tour also in order to allow us to help you a little bit.

It's a great honor working with you and other fine devotees like NIMSAR People and others.

Thank you very much for your advice and mercy to your humble (no much) servant

Laksmana-agraja das.

ASA - But you wanted to fix a time for a meeting, no????    We heard from Daffy Duck that you were considering Wednesday morning. Is that correct?  Seems good for us. Shall we include others, like Swami Sattva???  Who else wants to join?   ASA is a Funcional Family (Ie. nobody is in jail and everybody is talking to everybody else).

AGTSP

paoho

6 minutes past midnight. We answered five new and three old letters. Only 10-in the box. Abhi' and LAD were supposed to write to us here about meeting dates but we did not see any letters from them. I guess everything is coming through.
Our physical energy is returning and we are getting our feet on the ground. We have communicated with:

Visvambara Das
Dr. Samaresh
NgDas
Srivasa Pandita Das
Upendra and Srinivasa Das and Radha-krsna Das.
We can't get ahold of Hari-lila Das and
Had nice talk with Pandava in Seattle.
Tandavika here in Nashville.

Our Plans for Serving Krsna are getting more organized. This education symposium in July is 90% fixed and the tour of San Jose, Seattle, Boise about the same. Seems that we will work on our NOD-BhVai seminar. It is intellectually very interesting and extremely important for any devotees personal spiritual life also.
O.K. Some more Japa.