Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Gurudeva
Please, accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

How are you Gurumaharaja? I hope your trip is bringing you and the spiritual brothers satisfactions and realizations. I am glad to tell you that the NIMSAR team is preparing the courses for March. We have taken the decision to offer Bhakti-sastri, Bhakti-vaibhava, Introduction to Bhakti-yoga and the worship six week seminar for the first semester of the year, so we go gradually implementing new courses. Actually we have no rush. We must be aware to prepare and enable us while we do with others. In this way, we have asked mataji Isvari, who is already in Chile for the education congress, to contact Param Prabhu Padam to ask him if it is possible to receive a special VTEcourse exclusively for NIMSAR. If this is not possible, we will do it anyway by ordinary means. We are willing to prepare better for the challenges of the future. 

We've also summarized the Vision and Mission document and has resulted in the following way:

VISION

• We will contribute to the formation of ISKCON spiritual leaders, teaching them the basics of Vaishnava philosophy and other important issues, collaborating in this way with the mission of Lord Caitanya.

• We aim to be a leading educational alternative for spiritual, intellectual and physical development of devotees and society in general conducting classroom and distance education programs.

MISSION

• We are an educational institution dedicated to the academic training of devotees through the systematic study of philosophy and practice of the principles of bhakti yoga, enthusiastically participating in the temple programs and the sankirtana of our spiritual masters. For this purpose, we teach specialized courses and organize classes and seminars.

Do you have any suggestions on this? Please, let me now your opinion.

We are looking forward for your return.

Your servant

Bhakta Germán

HpS - AGTSP paoho. We have not been answer mail while traveling. Now back in USA. Your letter is very nice. We would like an official list of the courses you are offering. For example, we have not discussed the Bhakti vaibhava course. So far the classes I have been joining are informal. They are not approved by ISKCON formally. That has to be adjusted.

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AGTSP!   Paoho & Bw...
Oink!   Whoop!   Back in the United Snakes of America, our home. We are sitting in Tandavika/Musa's ashrama in Franklin, Tennessee. Outside some snow flakes are falling. Our 67 year old body is O.K. energy is low from the 22-hours travel and all the Sankirtan work before we left Peru and South America.

Now we have to get a local rhythm.

We will go to Murfreesboro on Friday. Full morning program (FMP) on line daily at Start Meeting. Hawaii class tommorrow.

First priority seems to be making a proposal to Eduardo Gastelumendi to write a book together (with Monkey and Piggy) and some others, publish it by July and then have a big symposium based around the result at the Peruvian National Library for two weeks in August.

O.K?

We will be in Tennessee until the day after Gaura-purnima. Then we go to Texas.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva ¡¡¡¡¡¡

AGTSP 

PAMHO ¡¡¡¡
 

We are back to LIMA back to PAYROOOOO ¡¡¡¡¡¡

All the Glories to HH Dhanvantari Swami Maharaja, HH Bhakti Sundar Gosvami Maharaja 

We have  very nice friends in Chile ¡¡¡ We feek so proud of had being part of this wonderful team Thanks to Jagad Guru, Arjuna.. Ambarisa, Vrsabhanu ¡¡¡  etc ....ufffffa lot of effort ¡¡¡¡ Patraka, Nikunja Bihari's translation ¡¡¡ CHile, Peru Argentina all together trying to do a little to help the eternal sankirtan of SP ¡¡¡

Very nice association... a lot of new challenges to face ¡¡¡ We have already talked to B German, Jambavan is going to pick U up from the airport ¡¡¡ 

Here we will discuss about the calendar ¡¡¡¡

Sankirtan report: 2 small books in the airplane, one small book to our chofer to the airport ¡¡¡¡¡¡  Is very little but little by little we will become more expert with iur mercy ¡¡¡

Again Thank U all so much Gurudeva for all iur effort and support ... please excuse my mistakes ¡¡¡

See U tomorrow ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

your servant

candramukhi dd

HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP. If we have basic Sadhana life is always very nice. Now our DTC.

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj,

Please Accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

It would be great to see you. My route is currently on the west coast. I travel constantly as far southeast as Arizona and as far Northwest as Washington. If you let me know in advance when you'll be in the area, I can plan my travels accordingly. You can reach me at 310.503.2989, or at [email protected], at your convenience.

P.S.

I didn't mean to give the wrong impression... I'm a horrible book distributor, I just try to help my team do big!

Your servant,

Bhakta Eric
ISKCON, New Dwarka
3764 Watseka Av.
Los Angeles, Ca, 90034

HpS - AGTSP paoho. We are back in the USA. We publish our calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja - www.jayarama.us every two weeks. We are here in Tennessee until day after Gaura purnima then three weeks in Texas. Hare Krsna!!!   Sankirtana!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva !!! My humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you.

The reason for my letter is to inform you that since more than half a year I met a person from Mexico and after all these months He asked me to marry.
He did not know about the devotees but through me and interne He got to know a little about Krsna consciousness, sankirtan movement

It is a humble and religious person, he says he'll eat what I eat and try to learn about the movement, so it is my desire to share my life with him.
I will be Lying if I say that I'm not afraid that he is not a devotee I can only trust that Krsna help me or give appropriate words so that he may understand and get involved day by day.

The idea we have is this summer (maybe a little earlier), move to Mexico because he already has prepared almost everything so I can travel. He is an engineer and have his projects there so that's why we decided it would be better if I move to mexico, due to  I can continue my studies without any problem.

We want to do things right so we will prepare a civil wedding ceremony and later the fire ceremony. (I would like the ceremony coincides with one of your trips to Mexico).

I take this opportunity to tell you that I am fixed on  4 principles  and 16 rounds too, like mangal aratik like 5 times a week and Caitanya caritamrta reading as you recommended me in the mornings.
Gurudeva please I would like to have  your opinion or advice, and humbly ask for your blessing that is most important to me.
thank you very much for your time
And thanks to  mother candra Mukhi for helping me 
Your eternal servant 

xxx

HpS - Esteemed XXX. Thank you for your letter. If you are chanting rounds and following principles and have nice spiritual life in each morning (mangala arati, kirtan, SB...) then it will all be O.K. It may not work out super. He may discover that he cannot move as fast as he thought, but you have to stick to your basic principles or it will all turn into a great hell with very little results at the end of this life. Then another life...  <img alt="sad" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/sad_smile.png" title="sad" width="23" />

Talk with many others. TALK with his friends and family.

Apreciable Maharaj:

Escribo a usted enviandole un cordial saludo; me parecen muy interresantes sus planes de apoyar la educacion correcta en una institucion tan importante como ISKCON.

Soy educador y quiero pedirle favor que me ayude a entender algunas cosas que he escuchado entre los devotos, tengo tiempo que conozco a los devotos aunque no acudo tan frecuentemente con los devotos, soy Angel Smirnov.

1- ¿Es malo educar a enviar a los hijos en la educacion academica?

HpS - ASA - [Use Translate.google.com] - It depends on the individual child and the "academy". Some children can focus in very Brahminical things like scripture, deity worship and fire sacrifices. Others are more practical and need to learn more modern history and geography etc. Main thing is that the philosophical basis of the education is correct. Many schools, even if they are vegetarian, are based on "karma-vada" philosophy. Eg. if you memorize this I will put a red star beside your name on the wall in the classroom.

2- ¿He escuchado que e debe dormirse con la cabeza hacia el norte en REIKI, que significa el dormir en alguna direccion en especial y que bebeficios tiene? 

HpS - ASA - In one of the sacrifices mentioned in the SB it says not to sleeep with the head North or west. I hear Prabhupada said head east. As I understand, when we go into deep sleep, susupti, the prana, and the more subtle aspects of the body, mind, intelligence, "rise" above the gross body and then tend to orient toward the south or east. Then when you wake up and "come back into your body" you are in upside down if you were sleeping with your head to the West or North. You feel like your head is in your feet and have to shake and jump for some time to get sorted out.

3- ¿En EKADASI que se entiende por granos (semillas, cereales, o cuales si y cuales no)?

HpS - Ask local Iskcon Brahmanas. They can give good list.

4- y ¿en donde puedo leer sobre el Ekadasi, en el Bhagavat Gita no encuentro mucha informacion sobre esto?

HpS - CC adi 15.8 plus following chapters. Other information is in many different places in Prabhupada's books. In the NOD in Chapter Seven there is more information. There is one article that was supposed to have been written by a disciple of Bh. Siddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada. It cited some source that Ekadasi is so pure since it is related to Lord Visnu that sin personified had no place to stay, so Krsna told him that he could reside in grains on that day.

Agradezco mucho su atencion,  y le felicito por su bien admirable trabajo que es muy emprendedor.

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!!