Letters to the editor

11/11/14  Esteemed Guru Maharaja: All glories to Mighty Srila Prabhupada! 

Please accept my humbled obeisances.

Since last correspendence and your merciful replies, everything has been very hellish here.  Krsna seems to have his own method of goswami training. 

If i am correct and "goswami" means "one who contols their mind" then my beautiful forest prison is perfect for my spiritual advancement. 

If I did not keep my mind under control through every Krsna Conscious means available, (which I do) I would loose it. 

Just a few little things to contend with i.e autism, clinical depression, . . . In order to keep my sanity in this 600 sq, ft. living space, please know that chanting and thinking of and calling upon Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga is what keeps me sane, which I actually am, and quite so.

However, it is more draining than I have words for.  Still blessed with very sweet and mostly fixed up devotee association in SAC each Sat night.  Very long and, after dark, dangerous drive for 3 hours round trip, but it is truly Krsna's mercy and I seldon miss it.  It seems we really might begin looking for a larger home in Auburn.  Still too very far from association for a nearly 70 year old mataji, but i'll take what I can get.  Its still 1/2 hour closer to association.  You are in my prayers.

I hope I am in yours. 

Your worthless servant, 
KDD

HpS - ASA - Wow! AGTSP! Paoho. The Japa vrata, 16-enthusiastic rounds, is the basis! For at least two hours/day keep the iron-smile on the face and use every trick possible to keep the mind thinking about what the tongue and jaw are vibrating. Then with intermittent dips into the Caitanya-caritamrta and preaching, corresponding etc. keep the minds contents in the right perspective and Krsna, who is trying to connect with us will have half a chance to do so.

We have paid to have some many little animals butchered. If you read "Diet for a New America" or other books you can see that we have supported hells past human immagination, and how much of it we have actually known but still paid and paid and paid!

Oooof! Is that it? Is Krsna giving us the minimum retribution demanded by the plaintiffs?
 

If we look at what the girls and ladies in Africa are going through we see that we are fortunate.

Left in a mass of old men, children, the women hang together after their husbands have left and gone south with the animals to protect them from the military who come as night in helicopters and shoot at the camp to exterminate the "rats" under the cover of darkness.

Girls have been raped 7-times by military and bandits going to water from the only well.

Old men walk with a foot missing with only one weed to chew on for three days but uphold themselves with dignity and humor.

I would say that you are burning up bad Karma like a roaring forest fire. I would say that you are helping others like anything and paying off all the debts you owe.
Please keep on writing and reading! You association really helps a lot of us. You've overcome a terrible childhood in many ways.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva . Please accept our  obeisances to your lotus feet.  

HpS - ASA - AGTSP! Actually our feet are not much swollen at all. I think it is 90% being caused by sitting at a desk. This is not natural for us. We need a platform to sit and write and sleep. I guess we will try to change it as soon as possible.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you 

Its been a while since i havent write you . i guess i didnt know how to do it so i let time passes . but i dont want to do that anymore . 

im chanting all my rounds . trying to read more . thats helping me . and trying to coordinate your coming (actually rati manjari is the one doing all the hard work) . there is a big disconection bettween all of us. im trying my best but its no easy . still we keep trying. there are many things i want to speak to you . but im not able to do it here. maybe when you come here . i would love that Gurudeva . i hope your physichal health its ok . thank you for everything .Who want to serve  Sarad Bihari Dasi

HpS - AGTSP!   Thank you. It is simple, no? We will be disconnected with each other to the degree that we are disconnected with Krsna. So, we have to have more, better Japa, Kirtan, Sankirtan, books, Deity, Temple service etc. for Krsna!

He is very generous, no?

You must be experiencing that. All the efforts we try add up, forever. So keep on working!! Everything that you do that is hard, for Krsna, has permanent, broad effect.

Of course, we can discuss specific details when we are in BsAs, but we can't help 25-people with 3-hours of individual consultation each in one week. So lets start with general questions now.

Takes head work but once the principles are really clear then the details are more natural.

A G T S P !        Paoho/bw....  It was a typical miserable day in hell. We sit in our warm cabin on the good ship Lollipop looking out the one tiny porthole, with no air, onto a scene of diminishing sunlight, adventing automobile lights, cheap liquor stores, pawn shops, nice corner markets, Walgreens Drug store and little snow in the air.

Brother Ass and Tommy the Tooth are a little better. Seems the simple anti-biotics have had quick effect.

Today was the ISV, BhVai class and individual conversations with a few devotees. Now we head to a Bh. Vrksa program West of Chicago Central by about one hour. Tomorrow initiations and Sunday Love Feast! What more can we do. We are putting our grain of sand into the bridge but the magic will be done by Sri Krsna!!!!!

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We just answered all the Yahoo mail.

Now lets rummage through the Blog letters.

We hope we find Mother Sita tonight!

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Maharaja

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

I am submitting my humble obeisances unto Guruji’s padmacharan and asking two questions for my personal advance knowledge.

Eka-kundalah : (Meaning) wearing only one earing.

Translation : Sukadeva Gosvami Continued ……. He pleases His personal associates, the heads of the demigods, by the sweet vibrations emanating from His mouth. Dressed in bluish garments and weariang a single earring, He holds a plow on His back with His two beautiful and well-constructed hands.

Guruji Maharaja, what it really meant? Please high light the underlying.

HpS - ASA - Very nice to hear from you, Manipur vaisnavas. I don't know. I read a few other places also that Lord Sankarsana, Balarama only wears one earring. Maybe somebody who reads this letter and answer knows and can tell us. Lord Balarama also likes blue cloth. I don't know why He has that preverence either??

Vaisnavanam yatha sambhuh: Sambhu, or Lord Siva, in the ideal Vaisnava. He constantly meditates upon Lord Rama and chants Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare Hare. Bhagavatam     3.23.1.

In this quotation  why Lord Siva as an ideal Vaisnava worships and meditates upon Lord Rama but not Bhagavan Krsna and chants Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare Hare not the complete solah nama : Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna, Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare. 

HpS - I have had the same question before. I looked some places in the SB and could not find any more information. I think the "Rama" upon whom he meditates is Lord Sankarana. We chant Hare Krsna and let Krsna send the news if he wants to.

What are the differences between a Banaprastha and a Sanyas? Please clear my darkness.

HpS - ASA - First is Brahmacari, the Grhastha, then Vanaprastha. In this stage one goes to the "Vana" forest, to live a life close to God and increase his Japa etc. He may keep his own house and wife with him, but completely celibate. Then in San-nyasa, complete "nyasa", reunciation. The wife goes home to offer leadership to family and now man depends completely on God and travels and preaches and now no contact with wife, not even talking. Or couse, we adjust this in ISKCON to Kali-yuga, West, but is very powerful tool for helping us become fully sirrendered, efficiatnt tools.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

Hare Krishna Gurudeva
Thank you very much for your quick response.

Please accept my humble obeisances

At one point in your answers, about talking to devotees who can help improve the situation, or conversing with devotees who are in the same situation,  I have talked confidentially with some devotees, and some devotees have already made the decision to go to other countries, some are trying to go live out of town and start preaching centers, and others decided to emigrate to other countries in Europe, USA,  and South America, India ... then the temple being left with new people (That's good, because most devotees do), but devotees take years, and are very good devotees are bored of seeing that the movement will not grow, does not want to be a family, much less work together, and they decide to go to other yatras, and good many others go to another organization, or just keep your faith in Krishna but leave to attend the temple.

Once you told me, don't look at those who come, or who leave the movement, you follow the road to Krsna, and that I do, and that many do, but we are in the material world, and is equally sad situation.
As you say, everywhere there are problems, and we will never get perfection.
But it would be pretty much our family Iskcon, if all those defects and problems, WERE united, educated, and happy 100%, 

I'm alone in my point of view, and the things that I observe in my surroundings.
 

Maybe there are people who are in the same situation, maybe they are not.
 

I hope at some point find that sweetness back in motion, as when it comes to movement of srila prabhupada.

Thanks dear Gurudeva, for your advice and words of wisdom.
I will write often, so maybe some of your ideas can help to change the vision to improve our private life as a devotee, and in our movement.
 

Maybe it is Karma, maybe I have to learn something from all this that I am feeling.

Your eternal servant!

Monkey - Piggy --   A G T S P !    "The result of Krsna consciousness is that one becomes increasingly enlightened, and he enjoys life with a thrill, not only for some time, but at every moment." - BG 18.76.
 

So, we can see any problem situation as an ecstatic opportunity to spread Krsna's service!  Jaya!

"The magic will not be done my ME, nor YOU, nor anyone else. The magic will be done by Krsna when we become pure devotes of Krsna."

Preach, teach where ever Krsna has put you right now. That is the best way to understand if you should make any change.

AGTSP
paoho.  Here we are in our assigned cave in Lunt Street in Kishor-Kishori's palace in Chicago. Outside there are snow flakes in the air. It is dark and cloudy. We are in the city with Pawn Shops, Anti-Ugly Shops, Check-Cashing Shops, small Markets, and a Dentist.

Karuna Nidhi Das from Madras volunteered to take us to the dentist and pay all the expenses. Was only $30 for the Dentist and $18.09 for the anti-bioitic. We almost froze to death on the walk to Walgreens after the visit to the Dentist. He was across the street. He x-rayed us and it is as suspected for Bhakta Tommy. He stood out from his fellow teeth as a kind of dark color and surrounded by a little trim of blood. "You have a severe gum disease and the only thing I can do is to pull your tooth, or give you a prescription for an anti-biotic and pain killer and then you can see you Dentist when you get back home."

So, we opted for the #2-treatment without the pain killers, and here we are back in the Temple.
 

Another body part back to Godhead!
 

Today:

• Up at 1.15AM. 
• Some Tpp - CB/16 writing,
• CC 2.11, 
• Japa . . .
• Mangala arati .. .
• 5.30AM teleconference with Rama-giridhari Das in India about South America education symposium,
• BhVai Study Partner meeting,
• 7.30AM Temple SB class,
• 10AM Hawai SB tele conference/class,
• light lunch and consultation for Bhakta L. Skywalker,
• 2PM Dentists . . .
• 6PM Spanish Bh. Vrksa program.

When we were out walking two people said, "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna....". Several more must have thought about Krsna when they saw us.

O.K. We got 17-nice rounds done. Of course, Brother as is weak but happppy. Now little Letters, Rest and Bh. Vrksa, no? 

Even a dog can take part and dance in ecstacy!