Letters to the editor

All glories to sri sri gaura nitai

tlgsp, and my respectfull obeissances to you maharaja.

Thanks for the letter.

yes, sometimes singing my rounds did not come with sixteen , I do not make excuses single job.

I want to ask maharaja as do I improve the relationship with people? I'm very picky and I think they are all ignorant , I apologize but I need your help.

HpS - AGTSP. There are many ways to improve our relations with people. As you advance in Krsna consciousness it will happen. One specific techinique from Prabhupada (?) is that you see what servie people are doing and then you try to help them. That forces the mind to see their good qualities.

and I would like to do some service here in this part of Argentina ( Patagonia ) no devotees where I live , what I do maharaja service ?

HpS - Keep association with devotees by telephone, letters, e-mails, visit them for festivals, do some service together, even if by distance. Then preach according to your abilities. If you make everyone one around you a devotee then you will have lots of association.

not if you remember I am the sister of ter kadamba.

HpS - ASA -- No, we forgot.   So sad.   Please remind us a lot!

Thanks for everything you do . I hope to serve you something, his servant bhaktina bernarda.

HpS - ASA -- Reading the Krsna book?

AGTSP
Esteemed Dandava Das, Maharajas, Presidents et al,
Thank you for your letter. We leave for India Sunday evening and communication will be difficult.

1. We will be in Spain from 13th to 22nd. On the 22nd we go to Brussels for the ISI meeting.

2. Wednesday in Madrid and Thursday the 14th sounds fine for Diksa in Madrid.

3. Can we plan Friday in Nueva Vraja (15th), Madrid Saturday, and then go to Malaga early for the Sunday festival and stay until 20th morning. Then back to Madrid for 20-22 morning?

I'm trying to accomodate everyone's schedule. We haven't been to Malaga so seems we should go there this time and not visit Barcelona now.   Oooof!   Wish we had five bodies.

AGTSP   paoho.
We leave for India on Sunday, May 3rd.  We will be for 6-hours in the Newark Airport and plan to write our BhVai Semester Review Questions there. Then overnight to Brussels, on to Delhi by 10PM. Then we will be based in the Temple in until  2.30AM, 13th May, when we go to Brussels and then on to Madrid. by 1.25Pm On Air Europa.

In India the President wrote that he had other engagements and could not release our book. So we, NIOS, Dr. Samaresh, are now trying to get the Ambassador of India and the Home Minister to release it. This requires unlimited energy: Letters, security checks, finding a hall, flowers, transportation....   Last time we had bleeding and sores in our mouth for three months.   This time maybe we can do it a little better.

So, we don't know what will happend in India. We hope to see you there. You can contact us through Sri Hari Das -

+91 817 162 3460

We want to visit Vrndavana.

Then we arrive in Spain at 1.30PM, May 13th. What will we do???  Initiations for two devotees.  Trip to Italy is cancelled. Lost $154, but seems inevitable. MOE is working as hard as we are.    So, we are in Spain from 13th o 22nd. Then we go to Brussles for the ISKCON Studies Meeting.    27th Back to USA from Brussels.

Mexico:   We sit tight in Nashville from the 27th  May until the 24th of June (hey we are not completely insane. Even 747s have down time).  Then off to San Jose, Boise, Seattle. Still working on that gig.

15th July  plan to come back to Nashville for one week at least. Then the NAC from 29th - 1st August. Then, tomorrow we will book ticket to Mexico on same plane as Lalita et al and stay until 12th. That means we can visit the Monterrey festival and have seminars with Saranagati, Lalita, Krsna-kirtan, about the results of the NAC (Education Symposium) in DF etc.

We will buy the ticket tomorrow for Mexico to Lima on the 12th of Aug.

Then 14-16 I Nimsar Education Conference
17-22 Sattva _ Jung Conferences
23-25 Chosika
26-31 Tarapota

Sep
4-6 Janmastami in Chosika
9th back to Mexico and USA
12th - BI Symposium in Atlanta.
Based in Nashville until January... then Chile!
 

We are old. Our eyes are weak. We walk with an effort to stand.
We are only good for giving advice to whom ever we meet as we can.

Any comments on this Calendar. Speak now or forever hold you peace.

AGTSP

paoho

1.11 PM  -  R(11), G 1/3 . . .  It has been a pretty Krsna conscious day.     Our eyes hurt. They hurt a lot now.  That is because we look at the computer and read to much maybe. Have to look at the sky more.

We mowed the lawn yesterday. It is fun. It takes about one hour. First we have to beat on the lawnmower to get it going. Then it roars and off we go. The motor moves the wheels.

The lawn is wth hills and holes so we have to use a lot of effort to turn, lift etc.   Brother Ass feels very good, tired after words.   We also trimmed the rose bush, dead branches.

We do a lot of work.

Today we are trying to contact everyone. We do that the day after Ekadasi. Tomorrow we will do the Banking, Buy the travel Tickets, do our Shopping and Saturdayy is Nrsmahadeva's Festival. Tomorrow is Jayananda's Festival.

He actually grabbed us once from behind. Put his arms around us to embrace us. We were living in Sacramento and struggling like hell to be Krsna conscious. We would drive the 1-1/2 hours to the Temple in San Francisco some times. So, we had just parked our car in the street in the Mission District and were walking to the Temple when someone grabbed us us from behind.

We were amazed. Our body reacted auto-matically with this Karate stuff. You drop down while shooting your arms forward. That breaks the grip. Then you bring your arms back to strike your assailant with your elbows. Because the embrace was light we reacted lightly and didn't punch bruises into s pure devotee, but we were little embarrassed. Jayananda Das laughed.

Then he said that it was really good to see us. How had we been? Of course that question stimulated feelings of fatigue and stress and he immediately sensed them and said, "Please accept my humble obeisances", like anybody who was suffering to follow Srila Prabhupada was worthy of his respect.

The HELL for arranging the Book Release in India continues.   We finally got a formal refusal (polite) from the President of India.   Shoot for the Rhinocerous.   But Dr. Samaresh is like "niscayena" walking the Earth in a human form, so now, even though there is only one week left we have turned the Big Guns of NIOS ( Ha!  Ha!      Ha!

                        Ha!
 Ha!!!)       Towards the Chief Minister.   He has said that it is possible but he has some little bit of other work to do trying to help with the results of the Earth quake in Nepal (that killed 10,000 people).   We are being sarcastic.  We think of our effort as very little, but maybe it is very important.

Draupadi didn't realize what she was born to cause. Probably would have committed suicide if she really saw what her existence meant.

So Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!

We are keeping our 16-rounds, FMP on the Internet.   Bh.Vai with San Jose.   Lots of work for the Ministry. 

We have been making a lot of progress for the end of July Symposium.
We will post the calendar under a different Blog post here.
We have a lot of pain in our waist.   It is from all this work.  Our eyes and waist a   scranched.    In the middle of all the turmoil: Rasa-lila or Kuruksetra, we just have to hold on to Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet in our heart and pray - HK / HR. Krsna will give us intelligence where to put our little grains of sand.
We have answered all the mail up to three days ago.

We won't be accepting letters from 4th - 27th May except from Candramukhi devi and Kunja-bihari Das. Why them???  Because they are bi-lingual, are on the FMP every day, and God wants to torture them. (Ja! Ja! Ja!)

1.34PM  ....  Dr. Samaresh just called us!!!!  ( Midnight in Kolkata and hellish weather (I told him no more news from Sri Hari Das (in Mathura) and that I was catching up on my mail. He asked if I had had lunch, and I said, no. I asked it he ever slept and he said that it was alright and that if I could call ofter 1/2 hour we could do some more writing work!)

O.K. We post our Calendar thing.
We might answer some URGENT letters while we are traveling and will try to post information.

Hare Krsna!

hare kirshna gurumaharaja!!

por favor acepte mis reverencias!

todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Estoy muy encantada de poder volver a verle, ya que ud. viene a Madrid, Yo soy la devota Con el restaurante GOPAL, LA PAZ con un hijo, que estuve en Lima.

HpS - Esta Vd. arquiteca???  Puedo recordar todo.

Por fin puedo escribirle, perdone que no lo hice antes. Han pasado mucho tiempo y muchas cosas. Primero quiero contarle que finalmente fui a India 4 meses. Tres meses en Mayapur trabajando en Master Plan con Prabu Vaikunta Nitai por indicacion de Maharaj Jayapataka Swami en proyectos de arquitectura para apoyar a hacer el trabajo de viviendas para devotos. Me tuve que venir urgente a Madrid donde estoy residiendo ahora, por problemas con la documentación de mi hijo. Hace un mes llame a Prabu Vaikunta para preguntarle si puedo volver a trabajar en Master Plan y me ha aceptado, asi que voy a Mayapur el 20 de Junio hasta el 8 de septiembre a trabajar alli en Mayapur.

Mi vida espiritual todo este tiempo ha sido constante, siempre canto mis rondas a la madrigada y voy al templo en Madrid casi todos los domingos con mi hijo. Vivo un poco lejos y tengo muchos problemas familiares por ser devota, pero Krsna siempre me apoya.

Ultimamente hice el curso de Formadores en Vrajamandala, Brihuega con Swami Jadunandana, muy inspirador. No se si recuerda que le pedi refugio en La Paz?

HpS - Si.  Tambien fue asociado con Advaita Das para un tiempo, no?

Gracias por ayudarme a servir mas a Krishna! Su más humilde sirvienta! Que Krishna lo bendiga siempre!! Kristina Donoso (Krishnita Dasi)

HpS - Hare Krsna.  Ya Vd es una devota con mucha experiencia. Si, tiene que ser fijado y tomar votos, iniciaion. Puede ser de muchos discipulos de Srila Prabhupada, no necesariamente de nosotros.  Es verdad?

Cuantos anos tiene su hijo?  Como se llama???    Es monstro o angel?   <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" /><img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" /><img alt="devil" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/devil_smile.png" title="devil" width="23" />

Hare krishna gurumaharaj, Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In answer of your question: What does it mean to wear apricot colored clothes?

I understand this topic like this: In Spain we have a proverb “El hábito no hace al monje pero ayuda” for example if I a police while I working I will wear my uniform, but if I am out of work with “civil” clothes and I presence a crime I must to act. But the uniform can help me… for example if I am in the street and some person need help when he watchs my uniform he will identify me like a police and he could ask me for help.

 For the orange color I think that only have a relevant meaning inside the devotees cause for a person that doesn’t know anything about Hare Krishna the color will not be very relevant (maybe they will be more shock with the dhoti, chadar, kurta that the color of them) , now im living in an ashram and I do monastic life, and I would like to use this “uniform” to express my actual “social” position inside our movement. 

HpS - AGTSP paoho.  Very nice thoughts. I think it is correct, but would add that it seems that most of the people in the world now have some idea of oriental monks, so, when we walk arount in peach colored robes we often get asked, "Are you a Buddhist?".   We can answer, "Yes, we are followers of Gauranga Buddha, Caitanya Buddha".
Wear Brahmacari clothes!    Take Sannyasa!   Be a friend to all the women in the world.

I hope that your health is now very better than before!! Now im a little ill (out of energy and with many mucus) maybe is the spring.

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaj, Thanks for your time, I value this a lot.

Your servant Mantri Rama Das

HpS - Hare Krsna Hare Krsna!!!  We will write more in the DTC and Calendar Post.