Letters to the editor

Hare krsna Hanumatpresaka swami maharaj

dandavat pranam at your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA --- Oink.   AGTSP.

dear maharaj

It is my great fortune to hear you in starmeeting .com singing guruastakam and chanting japa . Krsna and you maharaj have  so nicely arranged for unfortunate souls like me to remain connected with you. It is my bad karma that i am not getting personal association with you but now through startmeeting even i can expirience the power of sabdha brahma comming from you maharaj. Thank you very much .

Maharaj i have a request . Can you please traslate in  few words in english also on  the class that you give in spanish after japa is done if possible.  Sorry for making this request.

HpS - ASA - Yes, we will look to see if we have a bi-lingual audience in the future.

I also wanted to know maharaj how can we chant our rounds with the mentality of trinad api sunichena ...i mean when i do a nice round (according to me ) i feel puffed up ..i mean i feel like i chant so well ....then again the inner loving  warm emotions go away ..is there a way in which i can remain humble while chanting my japa.

HpS - That's the whole goal. If we chant with humility then the SPOG is dancing on our tongue. So it is not such an easy thing. The whole Srimad Bhagavatam is your answer.

Follow the four principles, hear SB regularly, and then it will be easy to see how much is your effort and how much is Maya and Guru.

Thank you very much for the japa session . It feels great chanting along with you.

Thank you for everything maharaj.

dandavat pranam

rituraj majumder, shillong

UG: Shillong is the capital and Hill station of Meghalaya, one of the smallest states in India. It is situated at an average altitude of 4,908 feet above sea level, with the highest point being Shillong Peak at 6,449 feet. Shillong is the 330th most populous city in India with population of 143,007.

It is said that the rolling hills around the town reminded the European settlers of Scotland. Hence, Shillong is known as "Scotland of the East". The population density of the state of Meghalaya is 342 people per sq mile.

Mexico = 142/sq mi

See following photos.

Hare Krishna Beloved and Esteemed Gurudeva!!!!

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

New adventures in bhurloka!!

 I feel that I have advanced, I was in patala loka but now in bhur loka. Of course Krishna in BG 8.15 describes this place as duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam and again in BG 9.33 he describes it as anityam asukhaṁ lokam, SP in the purport to this verse says "this world is temporary and full of miseries, not habitable for any sane gentleman." This is the perspective i always look to observe my life. I'm always tired, i feel like i dont have time to rest, but also i realize that most of the time I'm happy, thank you and SP,

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Reentering grihastha asram with CMDD brought a new perspective in my life. Again i realized that is not easy, nor a solution but a shelter to advance spiritualy. Fortunately i really feel like that. My mind is a little bit more focused and the willing to make devotional service has increased. I feel honestly that I am where i supose to be. She gets along really well with manu and benji. And we are getting to know each other little by little in a cooperation mood.

Having your association is the biggest fortune i have in my life, I can see what a great personality you are gurudeva. Your good qualities are unlimited, wherever you are you look like a diamond between glass. Lately i have been participating in japa joe program and watching you via mayapur tv. Thank you gurudeva because your instructions are so clear, you set such a high standard example.You push me to reach to that state of conciousness. There is no limit to your Siksa!!!

Every two weeks i go to a radio show to speak about ayurveda, it is very popular, and one time i was there with a very famous doctor, Facundo Manes, he is a neurosurgeon, he operated the president of argentina Cristina Kirchner, he is the rector of a very renowned university and a neuroscientist as well. Now he wants to research about in which part of the brain God's idea is created. Anyway he wrote a book which is a best seller, he speaks about the brain and how to make it healthy. So he was making all these descripions about the brain and i realized he had no information about the mind so he couldnt explain things such as lust or violence from a biological point of view. Then after his interview i spoke with him and i told him, that he seemed to be an extremely clever man but he was too focused on the tree so he was losing perspective of the forest. And he humbly replied "yes you are right, what can i do to change this" and i suggested to research about the mind in works such as Bhagavad Gita As it is and  Carl Jung and the Philemon Foundation. Then i thought how great would be to have a book about the work you are doing in this field to preach to this kind of people.

Unfortunately i have to tell you that my sadhana is not as good as yours by a huge distance, but still i'm struggling to put it as first one priority. Actually most of the time i finish my rounds before going to bed or the next day sometimes. 

We are working this out with CMDD and making strategies to establish a strong FMP and increase the quality of our Japa.

On the other hand i sense I'm making big progress in the auto realization field. I'm observing with atention my feelings and the motto [motives] of my actions. So this allow me to go a little deeper in the process and not just a mechanical repetition.

i love ISKCON life Gurudeva!! 

Thank you for make it very clear to me,

Struggling to become your servant,

At your lotus feet,

Nikunja Bihari Das. 

HpS - ASA - Jaya. AGTSP. Paoho. The first result of devotional service is freedom from suffering. Then things becomr harmonious, auspicious, then . .  .    Very nice news.   We don't give all our strength to chanting 16-enthusiastic rounds because we haven't realized that it will improve all of our efforts, satisfy all of our desires in the most efficient way. As we put them first, then we willl realize the importance of the Japa Vrata and do it with more and more and more strength.

Hare Krsna!
Jay Srila Prabhupada!
In my previous letter I not offer my eternal humble obeisances to your lotus feet, please accept them now! Sorry for my demonic tendencies!

ys,
RMDD

HpS - ASA - We have not got lotus feet. Kind of original Carnation feet.

Hare Krishna
All Glories to SRI SRI GAURANGA NITYANANDA!
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All Glories to you!
All Glories to devotees!

Dear Gurudeva: I hope your health is well. Thanks for Japa Joe :)
Sorry for not send letters in 2 months. 4 principles strictly ok. And rounds.. not so good i li-ll delayed, but firm compromise for recover them.
Gurudeva my life change a lot since you goes up to the plane to Chile! I found a job and it's ok, I gave maha-prasadam to my partners and some books to some of them.
       HpS - ASA -   Wonderful!     Krsna has arranged it for you???

I started to help to give the course "the spiritual scientist". Is for give eternal knowledge to people who is interested in develop spiritual life. I learn a lot about how to give Prabhupada's mercy.
I start again the Bhakti Sastri BG and NOD to give the exams and to go more deep.
Once a week I keep on with my service to cook to Adi Sri Sri Gauranga Nityananda of  Bs. As. Mandir.
Started to learn mrdanga. Only basic mantras.
Krsna send us a projecto to make a "maha mantra workshop" in a Yoga place. Please give your bless to us to can make it!!!
Bhakti Sundar has come to Arg., and with your authorization I asked to Him about Siksa, and he answered, Yes, he is pleased of be my Siksa Guru. Thanks Gurudeva for allowed it.

Gurudeva during your visit I asked to you about the qualities who have to take a devotee to be able for be a good husband. And you told me, I have to make it in the class and   I forgot. Please can u answer me here? Thank you!

    HpS - ASA --- I don't know what I said, but in general, as far as I understand, the first quality is that our marriage partner is a nice devotee.

Bong!   !       !       Then start to investigate the compatibility by interaction between our friends, family, associates and their f,f & a. It is a marriage of two communities, not two people. If you don't have f, f & a and neither does the candidate then we are not candidates for marriage. We are candidates for Sannyasa or bestial life.
 

And for finish, "stones and sticks" please tell me all my faults during you visit, I want to improve, and for that I need to know what things I can improve for other time.

   HpS - No specific problems. Even if there were why mention them. Your help was so nice, so much effort that we have to comment that your efforts were one of the principle features of our success in Argentina.
Yes, you listed so many occupations above, but for ladies, the main occupation is to be fixed on one man. That is natural. Of course, in Kali-yuga all the fathers, brothers, husbands, sons are full of faults. Ooof, but the one good quality is that Krsna himself agrees to be all of these in Kali-yuga, especially through His holy names. So associate with Him like that. Then Deity worship will naturally follow.

If Krsna wants, then He can empower someone in these VAD relations.

Gurudeva thanks for your causeless mercy, for come, for support  and for give spiritual inspiration. thanks for your [Monkey/Piggy's] dairy [diary] means a lot for me. Please give me the chance to be always engaged in the service of Srila Prabhupada's mission.

Sorry for all my mistakes and thanks for your patience.
Your servant, who want to improve,
Rati Manjari Devi Dasi.

HpS - ASA - Thanks for you letter. Is really great. Hope that you life becomes more and more exciting.

Dear Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Happy to hear that you fixed your European trip's date.

There will be lot of programs here in the UK in May but between 13 -15 we can travel to somewhere and we would be happy if we could see/listen to You. What about your Spanish trip? Will you go first to Barcelona or to Madrid?

HpS - ASA - AGTSP paoho. I think you can see that in the other letters. Seems we land in Madrid on the 13th and should stay there until Friday when we go to Italy, Piza.

When we com back on Munday, we have to decide.

In the Kapi Dhvaja you mentioned that you needed help with the inside European tickets.

Just let us know how can we help you, Maharaja!

HpS - ASA - You already did!  We will buy the tickets you suggested.

Thanks for your association.

I wish you all the best!

Your servant, Sri Radhe devi dasi

HpS - ASA -- Hey, that's all the news???    What's happening with your good husband, temple, sastra, sankirtan, the world as you see it, Sister Ass?