Letters to the editor

AGTSP

AGTSSGN

PAMHO

Hare Krsna beloved Guru Maharaj,

Before starting with my report and hoping everything is in order with your health, I would like to ask how are you???

HpS - Our eyes are getting bad. Can't see too well. All else is O.K.   We are trying to sacrifice our sense gratification to do more service.

I pray to Lord Nrisimha, for Him to have us under his loving protection, how big is the refugee we can find in Him!!!!!!

Thanks for your response to my last letter. Especially for your good disposition by helping me in clarifying my doubts. Thanks, your words are always comforting and an inspiration for a fool like me...

Sadhana report: following strictly 4 principles, though i have to recognize that at a sutil level i haven´t been that strict….sometimes, there are some blinks of maya that keep rounding in my mind. When I notice that, I seek for shelter in japa and books. I don´t want the black witch to catch me!!!!! Chanting 16 rounds, for the reason I just mention, with some mind and difficulty……and happens that when I realized that I feel so low, because I promise you to chant 16 enthusiastic rounds, but i´m just keeping my vow of chanting……in the teachings of Lord Caitanya are mention the effects of the offenses at chanting, then I think I have to check that…..

HpS - When we put our life into do 1728 enthusiastic rounds and Maya says, "If you work so hard on your Japa as priority you will die!", we say just what you letter title says, "Today is a good day to die!".

Fixed with my services at the temple of flowers and garlands, also  i´m cooking for the deities and on Mondays i´m giving the BG class, which represents a big challenge for me, mainly because my personality is very in the mood of passion (I talk fast and loud, etc), so I think that maybe i´ve been faced in this service to polish those things ….. thanks to the coordination service of P. Jagat Guru Das, who makes the feedback of the class and help us with advice and provide guidelines so we can improve the quality of our service and personally I feel supported for polishing those things I have to work on….Please, please,  please, give me your blessings so I can do the best way my service, considering I am a donkey….

For some weeks, we have the visit of Nirantara Prabhu and for a curious arrangement, he asked me to be his translator for the classes in the temple and house programs (like bhakti vriksa) mailnly with the indian community, so  in addition to very interesting classes, we  have the chance to share very sumptuous prasadam!!!!!

I need to ask you something that’s been rounding my thoughts, because if Krsna is the Supreme Controller  and everything happens under his approval, where does the free will fits?? Because if everything is already decided, what are the chances of me making real effect decisions?? Or is it so true that the only decision we can make is if we are going to serve Krsna or maya?? And if I decided I want to serve Krsna, isn´t that also full of decisions??Years ago, while talking with Krsna, I told him that all I have done in my life is take bad decisions, so I give my life to him to please help me and guide it, but still, I feel i´m constanly facing having to make choices, and then I think, haven’t this already been decided by Krsna????

HpS - Look at www.jayarama.us/archives for our 'asa-enecyclopedia' file. Answer is there as "free will". We cut and paste it below.

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FREE WILL

(rev. 2015 march 26)

We are asked this question so often that we are putting our thoughts here. We may revise this in the future.

We are part and parcel of Krsna. He has free-will. He can make choices. He is all powerful, but He has given us free will.

So we can chose to try His position and then He created the material world for us to play.

In the material world in the mode of ignorance we are forced by our previous choices. We can be in the mode of ignorance, passion or goodness differently in our possessions, senses, mind and intelligence. Eg. one may be a very clean, nice college professor but in his heart he has the greatest illusion: By my austerities I will become GOD.

In the mode of passion we have choices but the pushes of our Karma are strong.

In the mode of goodness we can make real choices, even though they may be between mundane options. Eg. am I going to steal the money or not. That is how we create our future Karma.

If we make nice material choices, following the King’s advice, then that shows us we want to come closer to Him and eventually He gives us the chance to chose spiritual life rather than material life.

Even in spiritual life there are choices of different kinds of service.

SB 1.6.37  Is very, very nice answer.

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Something that i´m absolutely sure about is that Krsna have shown his infinite mercy upon me at allowing me to get in touch with His Name, Srila Prabhupada´s books, and all what is implied on them, His devotees, His adorable form....and so much more...  this have certainly make my life take a better course.....

Hoping for some day  be able to make a quality service to help you in the mission of Srila Prabhupada and fullfill the prediction of Lord Caitanya, your aspiring for servant,

Pundavanika Devi Dasi

HpS - Go ahead. Be an inspiration to everyone!

Hare Krishna s.s. Hanumatpresaka swami 

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas revencias.

Le saluda bhakta victor de Lima, con respecto a su pregunta. Bueno yo nací en Lima y estube viviendo con mis padres aca, ellos nacieron en Cajamarca y Ayacucho, que pertence a la sierra de Perú, pero tambien se han criado en lima , su ocupacion es de cocineros-reposteros y actualmente trabajan en su propia empresa de eventos catering, yo les ayudaba bastante. Tambien tengo un hermano menor por 3 años que está estudiando en universidad. Bueno maharaja reciba nuevamente mis reverencias.  

HpS - ASA -   TlgaSP. Gracias. Nos lo olvidamos sus carta anterior. Ha! Ha! Ha!    Cabeza burro gris!    Escriba unas notas de sus estudios de SB etc. De sus ensenanzas a otros y envian a nosotros aveces!!!  SB esta conquistando Kali yuga!

Hare Krsna Maharaj,
PAMHO, AGTSP

Just wanted to share, even Bhakti Vinod Thakur thougt something inappropriate about SB, what about conditioned souls

"The Bhagavat, like all religious works and philosophical performances and writings of great men, has suffered from the imprudent conduct of useless readers and stupid critics. The former have done so much injury to the work that they have surpassed the latter in their evil consequence. Men of brilliant thoughts have passed by the work in quest of Truth and Philosophy, but the prejudice imbibed from It's useless readers and their conduct prevented them from making a candid investigation...This prejudice is not easily shaken when the student grows up unless he candidly studies the Book and ruminates on the doctrines of Vaishnavism. We are ourselves the fact. When we were in college, reading the philosophical works of the West and exchanging thought with the thinkers of the day, we had a real hatred of the Bhagavata. That great work looked like a repository of wicked and stupid ideas scarcely adapted to the nineteenth century, and we hated to hear any arguments in It's favour...Oh! What a trouble to get rid of prejudices gathered in unripe years."
(excerpted from The Bhagavata Speech, Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur, 1869)

HpS - AGTSP paoho. Thank you so, so much.  Right in the Introduction to the SB:

"In the modern age Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu preached the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by practical demonstration. It is easier to penetrate into the topics of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam through the medium of Śrī Caitanya's causeless mercy. Therefore a short sketch of His life and precepts is inserted herein to help the reader understand the real merit of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

It is imperative that one learn the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the person Bhāgavatam. The person Bhāgavatam is one whose very life is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in practice. Since Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Absolute Personality of Godhead, He is both Bhagavān and Bhāgavatam in person and in sound. Therefore His process of approaching the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is practical for all people of the world. It was His wish that the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam be preached in every nook and corner of the world by those who happened to take their birth in India."

Dr. Samaresh suggests that we shoot for release of our next book by Prime Minister of India while the HpS and Monkey and Piggy are in India, 7-12th of May. Are you ready!??  Sri Hari Das says he can help from Mathura, visits to New Delhi.
We will call you all. You are the hope of Asia.

AGTSP paoho.

We just finished answering letters.
We have so many obstacle in the path of our service, just like you.

We have to fight with the internet robots.

We have to make priorities, understand which service is more important.

Now, 5.47PM it is hot in our office. We sit on the desk. It is by the window. We see cars zooming by on Medical Center Parkway. Let's count how many in one minute. ... 15 cars per minute.

Now we-will pack, chant Japa, Tweet and go to NGD's home for our walk, NOI class on line and to record the first class again.

Hare Krsna ! ! !! !    ! !         !!!!

We wrote an BhVai Examination for Houston today (one hour).

Did our PPTX for Hawaii class tommorrow (1-hour).

Cooked kitri for Lord Nrsmhadeva, laundry etc. (1-hour).

Talked with Dr. Samaresh in India (1/2-hour (but INTENSE))

Wrote Trash.

O.K. Lets. post the trash files in the archives. Look for a folder in the archives.

Hare Krsna Maharaja! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all glories for the Sankirtan movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu!

My name is Fernanda and i have 19 years old. at the moment im living at the temple and my services are deitys kitchen, flowers room, cleanig and sankirtan, these services depends of the day.

im encouraging to write you because im reading Srila Prabhupada's biography and that inspires me so much and recently i talk with tow disciples of you (Vrajendra Kumara and Gopi Radha) and the told me that i need to write you.

so i want to tell you that i´been listen your startmeting clases before you go to south america because in thet moment i wasnt live in the temple; your bhagavatam classes at youtube, and reading the blog and if Krsna wants someday i will like to be your aspiring disciple and serve you. Hare Krsna Maharaja.

HpS - ASA -  Ah, this is same as the other letter. It came three times.
It is very nice to meet you. Being our disciple just means being a disciple of Srila Prabhupada really. Of course, we have our own nature. God made us all like that. If we can be of any help them engage us. Write to the Blog every couple of weeks at least. Read the letters. Notices!

We expect to be in Mexico in the middle of July.

Hare Krishna Maharaja. por favor, acepte mi reverencia. Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada. Todas las glorias al movimiento sankirtana de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Mi nombre es Fernanda, soy de México y en el momento que estoy viviendo en el templo, y mi servicio es deitys cocina, recepción, sala de flores y sankirtan; los servicios son variadas depende del día. Im alentador escritura a usted porque estoy leyendo la biografía de Prabhupada y que me inspira tan mucho y hablo de la pizca de dos de sus discípulos (Prabhu Vrajendra Kumara y Gopi Radha) acerca de usted y me dijeron que tengo que escribir usted. Lo que tengo que decir es que he sido escuchar sus clases, conect en startmeeting antes de ir a América del Sur, y leyendo el blog y me gusta algún día si Krishna quiere que usted puede darme la merced de ser su discípulo aspirante y servirle. 

Hare Krishna. (:

ASA - Hola, Fernanda, Tom Brown/Buck White. - Hay otro carta de Vd. Vamos a ver.