Letters to the editor

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 12:06 PM, Mishra Illo <[email protected]> wrote:

I can't find a way to log in to your letters page. 

      HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!!!!!   This is a serious problem. This could mean the end of the three worlds! The Earth falling into the sea! The blood is running cold in our veins! What is the problem?  The web page doesn't open? You have an account and the password don't werke??

You should not have to mow the lawn in Tennessee. Srila Prabhupada told Tamal Krishna Goswami that a sannyas should have some brahmachari assistants, and brahmacharis need to have a sannyasi to serve and learn from. 

   HpS - ASA - I have five offers of gardeners but we LOVE doing our yard work. We want to expand it and grow potatoes!!

I arrived for work at the American Airlines Center in Dallas,Texas on Thursday morning, to do my job setting up the audio for Queen to perform their famous "Bohemian Rhapsody." Our sign in time was 07:30 with hammers in the air at eight.

After signing in and getting my gear together, I sat down to relax until 08:00 and read the newspaper I had bought earlier that morning. I opened my bag and lamented that I had not put the paper in it before leaving the house. So I decided to read some of a copy of "Easy Journey to other Planets" that I always have in the front pouch.

A new hire to the company named Mason was sitting on the road case next to mine. He looked over and said, "What do you got there?" I replied it was "a book from India, it inspired the music of the Beatles and Stevie Wonder."  

He gestured me to hand it to him, and then he opened it and was fascinated with the first sentence,  "Materialistic Science may one day finally discover the eternal anti material world which has for so long been uknown to the wranglers of gross materialism," 

I showed him the pictures, explained the changing body as the soul just passing through, and told him that I was going by Kalachandji's that evening and could bring him a copy of this book for 2 dollars. Mason said he would like that very much. 

We came back that night to work the loadout for a 21:30 call. I did not have an "Easy Journey" at home so I brought a "Beyond Birth and Death." Mason just happened to arrive at the same time asI did. After we both passed through security and were heading downstairs I said, "Mason, I brought that book for you." He said "Oh great" and pulled out the laxmi for it. 

I said, "Now you can associate with Srila Prabhupada by reading this book." He looked at the picture of his divine grace on his beautiful new book, and asked "Is he someone famous?" to which I could only say "Mason, If you only knew how famous he is."

Your Servant, Mishra Bhagavan Dasa

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Great story! Great technique. I tell people, here take this one, I can buy another one when I get o Texas etc and that is a comfortable way to inspire them to give a little donation.

Here I tell people that ISO is the great book to distribute to Christians and already some result! Thank you. I will post this on the Blog. We get to Houston next Tuesday and stay for a week, Details in our Calendar, link in the Kapi Dhvaja!!!! Thank you so much for your inspiration!!!

AGTSP
paoho. Maybe we are 87% pure. Running like mad today. Whole world running.

Used siphon we got yesterday. Took gas out of lawnmower tank. Put papers under filter. Used wrench we bought last month to open it. Cleaned it. Prayed to Lord Balarama, He is a gardener, lawnmower started.

Was weak at first. Maybe had to clean out carburetor with fresh gas. Cut the lawn. Muscle happy and exhausted.

Big white car pulled up across the street and back window came down. Young man waving at us. I thought they were Mexican drug dealers. I couldn't hear him, for lawnmover. He came over, 25 years old. Captain Smitty, local police. He said, some people passing by on Medical Center Parkway called and thought you were a convict dressed like our convists, (orange pants and shirt) so we came to check it out. No problem. Your yard looks nice. WHy are you dressed tha way? We are monks. "Oh, Buddhist, I always wanted to ask about Buddhists."

15-more interesting things like that.

Have to go Now for evning walk.!

Letters answered to 4 days ago. 

Little heart stress for all this work.

After the symposium we will not take any more adminstration work.

Now you have to do it.

We'll help, give advice.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, You are a very mystic, beyond my understanding. we have seen, how
    you observed at Srila Prabhupada Samadi mandier in Vrandavana, during Mangal
    arti time. It is very difficult and impossible for me to understand.

    Gurudev, why you don't write you autobiography for us. would you please
    write for us.

    Gurudev, Your life is full of mystic things....i have very small mind,
    can not understand. But whenever we think about you.....always found you,
    at a very higher and great level...and feel happy.

    Gurudev, we desire to preach BG.....your blessing required, without
    your blessing, can not do it.we are following your ppt guide.
               HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Maybe we are mysterious because we are crazy. Best place to start BG preaching is with people you meet every day. You can at least talk about Chapter 10, Taste in Water, Fragrance of Earth. You pray and you have chance, and actually you will have many listeners if you continue.

    Gurudev, how can we represent you in day-to-day life.

        HpS - By getting up early and getting rounds done with enthusiasm. I think  you are already do that pretty well. Thank you for the dhoti, shirt and uttariya. We use them for special ocassions.

    Now people start knowing me, in Pune temple, that i am your disciple.....i
    feel proud and very happy, Whenever someone glorify you.

    Thank you so much Gurudev for accepting me, for taking me in your
    shelter....a very fallen me.

    Because of you, i feel 'sanath'. Gurudev, i can not pay you, even if i
    give my life to you.

    I always remember, how you introduce Deleep and the small monkey
    (with banana offering to lord) to me.
    But i did not understand, why you smiled, when the garland petals dropped around you!!

    Few things from last letter....my father retired for last 10 years,
    3rd brother is not a devotee.but visit temple and do some service.

    Thank you, Guru Dev.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

      HpS - ASA -- What work did your father do??

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, May i share your PPT and lectures with other initiated devotees and non-initiated devotees.

     HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Some are for Pada-padma Students, some are just for fun. You can decide. I don't think any of them are bad.

    Gurudev, you had asked about my US plan in Vrandavana this year. I am ready to come. Have attached my resume
    for your review.

    Actually, i want to be with you for at least one year. And need to learn lots of things and have to decide lots of
   things for spritual progress.

    I seek your advise.

    Thank you, Guru Dev.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

       HpS - ASA - Maybe some travel for me to India, or you to USA will develop. I have seen Krsna does do miracles. But if not then we will meet in India later next year. Maybe we stay for longer time.

ALL GLORIES TO SRI  SRI SRI GAURA NITAI 

TLGSP, AND MY RESPECTFUL OBEISSANCES TO YOU GM! 

I don't want to write so followed gm im selfish on my part, I know that has a lot to respond to the other disciples and much service, but how do you health? :o

     HPS - ASA --- AGTSP. Well, at least a few lines every now and then. We Really wish that we are in BsAs. How is Bharata Das?

 The word arrhythmia is formed with Greek roots and means "one who has no rhythm" their lexical components are the prefix A-without(negation) rithmos (pace) plus the suffix IA (quality, action)

 But you guru maharaja has pace much! I hope that it will improve.

HpS - ASA - Doctor say is mostly just stress. We try to adjust. Work hard but not to hard. Is just like running old machine. New machine is waiting. Good one if we use this one well.

Guru maharaja thank you for your previous letter ... i can't be more happy when I read your answers! I spoke with the authorities to live in the temple, I am happy, I continue with my studies of music, but I live in the temple.

Be all the days in the pujari with the brahmacarinis i learn a lot, clean, take prasadam, read, sing, dance, we laughed a lot! It is nice! ........One last thing gm why am I jealous? Insecurity is?

HpS - Could be many reasons. Basic reason is because we want to compete with Krsna. Good way to fight it is to help person of whom you are jealous with their service, even a little. If it is small thing then don't worry. General Yoga will remove it.

          Once more my respectful obeisances to you gm!  Trying to serve with bad face.. Ter Kadamba devi dasi

    HpS - Jaya! Let's read three more letters! Thank you. How's Bharata Das?

AGTSP

Paoho...... It is a miracle that we are still alive. One boy came to Prabhupada and Prabhupada asked him how old he was, and he said, "17-years old Srila Prabhupada", and Prabhupada responded quite sincerely, "And still alive!".

It's a miracle.

There are so many ways to die.

Heart attacks.

Auto accident.

Suicide.

Poison spiders.

Old age.

Robbers. . . . We are doing our BhVai reading and our Friday Hawaii class. Then we try to work with the TPP-CBs. Everyone is in a panic for the Houston Education Programs. The Teacher Training started yesterday and our Seminar is getting closer.

Ohhhh!  We are not the controlers. We are petit-isvaras.

                 Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!!!!!

We look at Lord Nrsmhadeva and lament for disciples who have gone to hell. We lament for our godbrothers and older devotees who never seem to really have been able to get out of hell.

. . . . . ."Do good to those who hurt you". . . . 
. . . . . Avoid their mindless violence in the future.
. . . . . .You are not the target.

Hare Krsna! Krsna will help them! He will give them His Duryodhana Lila show. Was Duryodhana a senior devotee in ISKCON in another universe who aquired a tremendous number of pious credits, so he got to be Duryodhana in Krsna lila and even he make progress?

Queer thoughts of a demented ape.

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Off to NGD Ashrama!