Letters to the editor

  AGTSP !!!

  Please acept my humble obeisances

 Dear Maharaja

In this your Vyasa-puja many memories come to mind, like those days back in Lima when I used to tranlate conferences for you, then the Hanuman Express Dispactch into spanish,  all the association you were kindly giving 16 years ago.  Now this blog,  all your guidance, inspiration, all going back to your Spiritual Master Srila Prabhupada to whom you've dedicated your every moment, eight fold?   Activities of Uttama Adikaries like you are glimpses from the spiritual wolrd and the Nitya-lilas of Krishna and Gaurachandra.   Thank you for bringing the Paranpara and its river of ectasy closer !  dandavats !  juste a verse from today's Srila Prabhupada's mp3 purport on.. Manasa deha geha arpilum tua pade nanda Kishor !!!  when will that day be mine ?????  jiv jago !! jiv jago !!   Tomorrow I'll meet the bramacharies and distribute 10 books in your name  hari !  

You were right on the essay synopsis, I already see it with different eyes, may be Jung's individuation process translates as discovering your real spiritual identity as an eternal servant and associate of Krishna (for some),

HpS - Seems the same to us, but have to know him more to see how he corresponds, no?

  how can we measure  the transcendental pleasure of reading about Gauranga's Nitya Lila in Navadvipa ??  off the charts !     Got Henry Bergson's L'evolution Creatrice, wow, changes the whole game, theory of knowledge - theory of life-consciousness-evolution.   I have a question Maharaja, it is mention in NOD and other sources that pranayama in meditacion on Vishnu is an accepted process, I personally used it months ago during morning japa in meditation of Hladini Shakti and ...that's when I called you urgent etc, a glimpse of Cintamani-dhama.  etc    I feel attracted to Gauranga  and Krishna Nitya Lila meditation, seems spontaneous to me,  would like to further on, also memories of Vasudeva stage sometimes come to mind and I hanker for it...does it sound too greedy?  individualist?

     HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!!!!    Thank you your letter. We are just trying to represent the Madhyama-adhikari stage. That is sufficient to represent Parampara. Engage people in worshipping the Deity. This comes to your question. Are we experiencing Vasudeva sattva, Goloka vrndavana? It is hard for us to give even an opinion from 1,000 miles away and not having a lot of personal association with your good self. Prabhupada warns that sometimes our affective hallucinations are taken as spiritual experiences. Jung thought Nietszche was on the right path, looking for God within, not just in rituals, but that he didn't have proper guidance, didn't take proper caution and went mad. Jung would do his introspective yoga daily and have his regular psychiatric practice and family relations in the afternoon and he felt that was essential to groud him.

In the age of Kali the process is Sankirtan, no? So if we are having intense esoteric spiritual realizations, experiences, then we should really see how it is coming from Sankirtan and is for Sankirtan. The Pranayama is natural by chanting on beads, dancing, but surely we can add some conscious spiritual though mechanical tricks to control the mind eg. sit-properly.

So, we would say, don't eliminate trying for the highest state of consciousness, but keep it confidential, well certified by nice association and manifestation of high moral standard, detachment from sense gratification and Srila Prabhupada's books.

When Srila Prabhupada begins the second chapter of NOD saying that Rupa Goswami classifies devotees according to their taste what exactly is He refering to?  Like my taste is in meditation on Vishnu, means that's my way in bhakti?   if I chant 16 rounds, meditate on Vishnu, perfect that, I'm ok?      You can see I'm studying NOD, began as part of the research for the essay and now it's a whole full thing on it's own,  I wonder where Rupa Goswami got the soources for defining and explaining rasa, other than his full qualification and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, I'll re read your essay on the matter, related to theatrical studies in India.  May need the entire Bhakti rasamrita Sindhu to fully comprehend fully, after full comprehension of NOD, I'm hooked.  may be that's why  Krishna allowed halidini shakti to visit, so my intellect would be baffled for ages !   Hari !   Hari !  Govinda !  

your servant

Raul

ASA - We looked at Chapter two on the vedabase and also Dh'dara Swami's Waves of Devotion. He is translating "taste" as atttraction. Which is how we understood it. If we have got the mercy/done the work then we have a strang attaction to service or a weak attraction and then we are qualified for the Sadhana, Bhava, or Prema Bhakti stages diferentially as he is describing!

Hari Bolo! More news. Good luck with your Sankirtan. Thank you for you intense association.

Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to this day, your appearance day.
Please accept my humble offering of a few words. Thank you for your association and guidance these last three years. A disciple such as myself is nothing without guru.

I thank Srila Prabhupada for coming and giving me a chance to know Krsna and giving me knowledge that there is a godhead to go to some day. And of course I thank Him for giving you the opportunity for being my guide.

Your aspiring servant,
Rasa-mandali dasi

HpS - AGTSP!!!     Thank you for giving us all you association.   Please send us news of your immediate and extended communities, church, nation, race, gender!   We are just little whistle for Srila Prabhupada.   Surely you are doing the same, no?

todas las glorias a srila prabhupàda!!

todas las glorias a sri guru y gouranga!!!!

reciba usted mis humildes reverencias hare krsna querido gurudev aca le escribo mi carta de reporte de este añoo , este año tuvo muchas pruebas que superamos gracias a su misericordia y por refugiarnos en los devotos.

seguimos los cuatro principios estrictamente y en cuanto a las rondas en su momento fue dificultoso mantenerlas sin embargo ahora estoy estable estoy cumpliendo con mis 16 rondas, no son buenas rondas eso es lo que me preocupa pero sigo esforzandome para que en algun momento sean 16 buenas rondas.

ahora estamos en maraton de diciembre a causa del trabajo solo puedo salir en la mañana , salimos un grupo de 3 matajis a sankirtan de 9 de la mañana a 12:00 del dia distribuimos y predicamos poco pero en verdad nos esforzamos por dar un libro de srila prabhupada de todo corazon y con conocimiento,

estamos haciendo sankirtan persona a persona y en buses es un total nectar. estoy muy feliz por que usted vendra a bolivia estoy contando los segundo para poder verlo pronto.

tambien queria contarle que tengo un profundo deseo de poder tomar segunda inciacion claro si usted y las autoridades del yatra lo permiten espero estar cualificada para asumir mas responsabilidades.

es por eso que muy humildemente le pido si usted podria considerar concederme segunda iniciacion pase clases de BS y ahora estoy en BVB , tengo el servicio de pujari en el templo fijo casi 2 años y el grupo de cosina el mismo tiempo. sin mas que decir espero mi señor nrshimha lo proteja y cuide gurudev siempre a su servicio

apsara gopi dd.

HpS - ASA - TlgaSP.   Pfanrh. Super noticias. Misericordia de Srila Prabhupada, no? Aun los perros pueden unirse con esta movimiento y bailar in ecstasis!

Si, no esta fijado en mantener sus rondas... segunda iniciacion...   Hmmmm???

Pues podemos hablar despues de como 168-horas mas!   Claro es super si puede tomar 2-iniciacion, y entonces tercero, entonces .... .

Hare Krsna dear Hanumatpresaka Maharaja!
Please accept my respectful obeisances, 
all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Today is Your Vyasa-puja day.

In the early morning, when I was lying in bed with a fever and pain in my body it came into my mind that it is so great that I can cure myself.
But at the same time one other thought came out. This material existence is the real and the biggest sickness which never can be cured by my own effort. I need Krsna's mercy, I need Krsna's help!

Srila Prabhupada has written in a Caitanya Caritamrta text's purport*: "There is no difference between the shelter-giving Supreme Lord and the initiating and instructing spiritual masters." and in His widely known Vyasa-puja offering to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura**: "There is only one Guru who appears in an infinity of forms to teach you, me and all others."

For me You are one of the infinity of forms Who teaches me by His example, words and not odinary personality.
I hope once I could add something to Your mission in Srila Prabhupada's service.

Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga!

your servant,
Kadamba Kanana dasa

HpS - AGTSP. Paoho. Thank you! We hope we can see you soon. We hope we can contribute to your mission.

*   - http://www.vedabase.com/en/cc/adi/1/47
** - http://www.vedabase.com/en/spl/1/4

Ho!    Ho!   Hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
 

A G T S P!     paoho....   [What is a "Happy New Year"? 
Sufficient beer and pretzels?
   Gas and duds and a house on the 15th tee (by the golf course)?]
          !Love my Master, Love me!
Krsna is the darling of Vrndavan, a place all lost from time. Were every step is dancing and all the speeches rhyme. [Most of the thyme!]. Real sublime.        If He smile and claps His hands to see the Puris puff. If He likes to fight with boy-friends and play both rough and tough.   Then that was a really good time. That's a Happy New Year.

Goloka is always getting better. Its like a Disneyland of the spiritual world that is not quite yet done. Newer and newer features are being added.
We are being added!
      We are getting better and better and better at our own unique show.    We can contribute something that even God does not know.      Oink!   Wiggy, Piggy!     Bol!    Bol!    Bol!

Merry Krist Mas and a Happier [than ever before] New Year, for Krsna who is 9 or 11 [and to everyone the very most dear. [and doesn't like beer [prefers Kheer]]].

TB / BW [distribute 9-books, by the strength of you look]

Gurudeva, Sent this yesterday and seems to have disappeared, once more. Thanks for your patience!! 

Dearest Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances on this auspicious day of Your appearance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to You.

 
  Poised eagerly, with pen in hand, so to speak, to write a glorification of You, I hear the rain incessantly pouring and thunder rumbling… auspicious signs…  There are innumerable ways to start, and unlimited ways to glorify You. However, this fool is not qualified, however I will simply open my heart and see what it dictates.

  How, fortunate I am, and all those around me to have come in contact with you somehow or the other. Each day, I always remind myself that my present service I have has come to me from, Your, mercy. Somehow, by you kindness, you offer my devotional service, which I know I don’t actually deserve nor appreciate enough. I only wish I could do more not so much in quantity but in quality and sincerity.

  I was remembering recently the “Nectar of Instruction” and how you tell us that this little book spells out everything in Krishna Consciousness. As part of my offering, I am making an effort to distribute 20 of these treasure books before the end of December. Four down, sixteen to go…I often review verse one (NOI), however, this past few months I am reflecting more on verse 3. The six principles favorable to the execution of pure devotional service;

utsahan niscayad dhairyat

tat-tat karma –pravrtanat

sanga- tyagat sato vrtteh

sadbhir bhaktih prasidhyati

  But it is not easy being patient and remaining enthusiastic in times of trials and tribulations. Through all types of weather, you continue to be there, to help and guide, support, encourage and inspire us through the inevitable storms.

  On this special day, I wish to send a simple gesture of deep gratitude for all you have done, for all you are doing, and for all you will tolerate in nurturing this fool.
Your insignificant daughter,
Subhra devi dasi

HpS - ASA --- Thank you. Can you send the power point show? If it is not too big you could even add the audio. My gosh. Then you could even save it as a movie and them upload it to the YouTube!!!! 
It looked really, really nice. If I had kids in that community I would want them there: "To hell with going to MIT, to hell with making money, to hello with everything. I'm going to put my kids in the Goswami Academy, so they can be happy!"