Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaj !

Please accept my humble obeisansces.

All the glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you Maharaj, yes. I will do that, I will converse it with other devotees.

 I am trying to comunicate with some of your diciples in Peru, because when i lived in peru I didnt knew Krishna Conciousness , so Iam trying to comunicate with them to see if while you will be there Maharaj i can go and participate in any programme or class you will be doing , if any ! 

I think Maharaj that when I will meet you I will know what should I do !  I am sorry I will no be able to be here in Argentina when you come, is because of some familly duties I should be in Peru for those days. 

As I told you before Maharaj, I want to take refugee on you, I need your guiadance because Iam very very neophite but with so much energy to learn. Iam very greatfull for having find the devotees, Srila Prabhupada , You  Maharaj and Krishna !! please guide me in this path. 

One question Maharaj because I have read in some places that chanting is the most important service one should do, is it like this?  or sankirtan involving reading , chanting. studying, glorifyng is what it refers to ? is chanting the most importans service? 

HpS - ASA - So, for details read SB.7.5.23. The beginning Srila Prabhupada is especially emphasizing whatever we do it should be for Krsna directly. Not so good that I offer what I want to eat to Krsna and then take the Prasada. Better I offer waht Krsna wants to eat and take the Prasadam. Then he starts to discuss each process with a title. Maybe you want to jump to that section and read the Sravanam section.
"Therefore, even if one is able to perform other processes of devotional service, one must adopt the chanting of the holy name as the principal method of advancing in spiritual life. "
 

One more question Maharaj, where can I read about grhihasta ashram ? About the regulations etc? 

ASA - In the 3rd Canto, Marriage of Kardama and Devahuti.

thank you very much !

hoping I will be some day able to serve you

ASA - We also and we look for other letters by Alexandra Magna!

Alexa

Dear Gurudev please acepte una y otra vez mis respetuosas reverencias a sus pies de loto. Todas las glorias aSrila Prabhupada! todas las glorias asri sri Radha Madhana Vihari!!

Aqui le envio fotos de mis alumnas en chile la primera es del 2011, las otras son cuando viaje por primera vez a chile  por el 2006,2007 y tuve alumnas niñas que son sus aspirantes a discipulas suyas como govinda y radha govinda, seguro las conoce, era un grupo de niñas y adultas, muy muy linda expriencia!. lafoto del niño pintado de azul, hizo de Krsna, esto fue en el primer ratha yatra de cordoba. La ultima foto muestran las deidades de JBS que tallo franco para que se realizara el primer Ratha Yatra de Cordoba y fue la primera vez que vine a Cordoba a bailar para el señor Jaganatha!!

Espero pueda empezar  a dar clases en marzo del prox año, le pido una y otra vez sus bendiciones. 

En breve le envio una carta. Muchas gracias por toda Su gran misericordia y perdone please que le envie las fotos tan tarde.

Please perdoneme cualquier ofensa.

Aspirando a servir el polvo de sus pies de loto:  Japa prati jalpa Radha dd.
ASA - Los Deidades de Jagannatha aparecen muy bueno!

 Swamiji,

AGTSP PAMHO! My service at BDS is going quite well. I've bee I've been put in charge of the school library, which I'm organizing. I try to show little Krishna, Bal Ganesha, and Ramayana cartoons to make the students, look forward to coming to the library. I'm also working on setting up weekend English classes for the kids. It is so nice to see all the children learning vedic culture, even the Christian and muslim kids are learning.

 Hare Krishna Maharaja,
AGTSP,
Accept my obeisences at your lotus feet . 
 
Well it looks like I transformed into the shop guy, yes they want me to run the shop fully, not full time but like knowing and managing everything related to shipments, payments, etc. I don't  dislike that much but it does't cause me much emotion though, The only thing is that I have to be careful with going to the bed on time because of the Sadhana. 

ASA - HpS - There was a gift store in the big Temple in Brooklyn, New York. It was on the second or third floor and nobody ever went there. Jayananda was there and he was just starting his problems with his blood cancer and could go out, so the Temple President asked him if he wanted to mange the Gift Store. He said, "Yes!".

Then he put notices by the restaurant, front door, changed then each week, offered free gifts and Prasadam for people who came to the Gift-Store. Of course, once they came there they also got his association, so he sold tons of books, made many new devotees, helped many people advance through all the levels of Bhakti yoga! 

I'm In holidays now, next monday I'll start again in the uni with the english. Reading NOD, its very absorbent and I think It's helping me a lot,
ASA - Danurdhara Swami's Waves of Devotion is a super, super guide to understand the NOD. It is a very complicated, analysis, so Maharaja's book helps so much.
 

. . .and also reading BG, not as much as NOD, I know both are important, It's hard to me to find the internal focus all the time( I can easily get it from external things, like playing in the kirtan, eating, like that)  I remember I heard Aravinda Prabhu saying that after all the external things, the inner stuff begins, and so, I also know that one can go to a certain level of anharta nivriti without being initiated, so i guess I'll have to wait patiently ofcourse. But now, I just see lots of mixed emotions, feelings and samksaras that are coming and going, and I think that it's because i don't want to go deeper that I don't solve them at once,
ASA - It may be because you don't want to go deeper, but it may also be just because it takes time. We have to have patience as well as well as enthusiasm, no? NOI-3
 

. . . it could take time but desire travels faster than time I understand, so you can see it is like a mental circuit in which i feel trapped sometimes, and some times, I can untie some knots with association, Krishna's and guru's mercy. So I just beg you and Krishna for help, and to be sincere whit what I really want, Still I have to discover it because this desires often confuse me .
...and yes madhumanjali mataji is the head pujari here and also Mataji Adi  from peru. we're just 3 ! 
 

 Hare Krishna Maharaja ,Agtsp. Thanks for your time And patience.
 

Trying to be your servant. Camilo

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. Please, offer our respects to the Pujari and Adi Devi Dasi! Ask them to write to the Blog. Happy birthday to Madhumanjari Devi Dasi. Who hope that maybe she leaves her body and goes back to Godhead before her next birthday.

Again, it seems that you must have been a devotee in the previous life. Try to make rapid progress but keep some patience as PART of your enthusiasm. SB 10.9.5!

AGTSP
AGTSSGN
Hare Krishna Maharaj
Please accept my most humble obeisances at your beautiful lotus feet.

ASA - AGTSP.Our feet are pretty clean but not yet lotus.

Hope that when you get this report you are in good health.
I´m Paula, from chile, 36, one daughter, Antonia (14)
I´ve been ungrateful . Haven´t write for a while waiting for the perfect moment to only share good things with you,but time pass and its been too much suffering trying to report when everything is fine in a world of miseries.

 ASA - We may have been ungrateful also and not responded to your letter sooner. We got behind during this six week tour of USA, and now we are catching-up. Certainly we can do more but how much?

But when it comes to CK, seva, etc it turns perfect. And ill keep that.So even though you must hardly remember me, I make a comittment of no matter what keeping constant communication with you. 

ASA - Write to us even if we don't answer immediately!
 

Chanting 16 rounds, sometimes enthusiastic, others in pain, but always trying to improve. 4 principles ok. 5 am for home mangala aratik,chant rounds in japa beads,6.30 prepare my daughter for school, more japa, rounds done by 8.

ASA - SUPER!
Daily  lectures of SB, BhG, NOD, NOI and always complementary readings, just ended the teachings of Lord Caitanya and started Caitanya caritamrita. Also been reading of Srila Prabhupada in Venezuela and its really nice how one, so fallen as to have to get to kali yuga to remember Krsna and understand my real position, can be  inspired by those drops of nectar.

ASA - How is it possible that you were not a devotee in your last life. Maybe you were a Nun, a Monk, a Yogi/yogini.
My fixed services in the temple are going for flowers,  making garlands for the deities and  helping the pujari in the decoration of the altar for feasts .
In my last letter you told me I need a letter from the local authorities for formal recommendation, and they informed me that is ok with that.  P. Bhadra Gopal Das,  in charge of the iniciations here, told me he was going to send e mail to you.Now i´m begging  you to please accept me as your insignificant servant and help me with guiadance for going back to Godhead, Krsna!!!!!!!

HpS - Hmmmmmm! Never got any letter!!  Please talk with him and ask if he sent it!

¡¡Jai Nimai, jai Nitai, jaya Srila Prabhupada!!
B.Paula Quezada

HpS - Thank you for your effort. By staying fixed in hearing and chanting you will certainly advance. You will get a practical position in the ISKCON movement, you will start to wake up so you can hear Krsna's personal communication how to engage in His Sankirtan!
Waiting for more news! (Who is the monkey in the picture? Some one you know in Santiago?)

Srila Prabhupada Ki jay

Maharaja reverencias

Maharaja, le reporta bhakta Italo,

ASA - HpS - TlgaSP! Muy bien. Desculpa demura responder! Viaje destruyendo comunicacion. Espero mas rapido en el futuro. . . 

. . .con buenas noticias y varias realizaciones, ya manteniendo mucho mejor los 4 principios, soportando el doloroso celibato, y realizando que la ansiedad es ya comun,

ASA - Y hoy dia, ya, como es?

. . . en la lectura de libros solo manteniendo los principales SB, Krishna Book; y cada cierto tiempo un poco de otros libros; cantando siempre las 3 rondas por la mañana, y las 16 durante el dia,  bañando al Señor Hanuman todos los dias (5:30 pm);   Cantando Artik dos veces al dia.

ASA - Super! Mantendiendo ahora?

Todos estos dias estuve de viaje buscando un campo de cultivos para comprar por diferentes ciudades pero es caro, tambien  tuve oportunidad de estar ahi y la vida es austera pero me acostumbro y me ayuda mucho el celibato que me da mucha fuerza y sabiduria,

Yo quisiera vivir en el campo y sembrar muchos vegetales  para despues cocinar y ofrecerlos como ofrenda;     y cuidar de una vaca  y que este muy feliz y sembrar mucha alfalfa y contruirle un establo con techo para que le de sombra.

Asi como tambien casarme con una campesina y tener muchos hijos, y que ella este feliz; gracias al celibato que es doloroso y comun llegaron a mi mente muchas realizaciones acerca de la vida familiar, como el sacrificarce por la esposa hasta que este satisfecha, y no tenerle miedo a tener muchos hijos porque Krishna la Suprema personalidad de Dios da para todos y abastece para todos y tambien que la esposa debe ser mas pequeña que yo, casi a la altura del hombro ojala encuentre.

HpS - Jaya! Posible esta vida va a ser preparacion para esta drama y la proxima vida realizarlo. Es un sueno GRANDE!

Maharaja reconozco que he fracasado como vida bramacari toda la vida, no me queda mas opcion que casarme y seguir; ya no importa mucho la ansiedad porque lo acepto como algo comun y que no debo huir, entonces de esa manera mi fe ha crecido. 
ASA - Jaya!
Maharaja tambien realize que soy mu...y insignificante y me siento bien, y todo lo que hago tambien lo es..

Mi abuelita tambien sigue sus 4 principios, y canta hasta mucho mas de 16 rondas de vez en cuando, varias veces ha llegado a 64rondas, y cada dia mantiene su lectura de las Enseñaszas de  Caytania Mahaprabhu, tambien canto en los artik aunque todavia no aprende a pronunciar muchos versos.

ASA - Que piensa ella de Srila Prabhupada???

Maharaja por favor pido que me de sus bendiciones para lograr estos deseos y asi poder vivir pacificamente como devoto al menos toda esta vida.

Estuve sufriendo mucho buscando esposa y lugar sin exito, de repente sera porque no consulte con usted Maharaja; Maharaja estoy listo para aceptar responsabilidad de cabeza de familia, no me parece muy dificil, no me decepcionare.

HpS - ASA - Hmmm. Y despues de esta carta, que ha pasado con sus esfuerzas? Si, Krsna puede organizar milagros, por que no?