Letters to the editor

Hare Krisna maharaj. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you H.H.Hanumatpresaka swami. Please accept my dandavat pranam at your lotus feet. Maharaj hope you are doing well . I am very sorry for writing so often i know you are very busy in the service of radharani and krisna and helping srila prabhupada. Please forgive me . I had few questions . Maharaj they are as follows--- Q) how to make myself humble from inside ? Why do i become proud while telling someone about krisna . I dont want to have that proud feeling . I feel like i know so much while in fact i know nothing . Please suggest few practical ways by which i can feel and make myself humble .

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. Try to see how the people you are dealing with can be engaged in Krsna's service and then try to help them with their service. That makes us humble.

Q) sometimes i see the world black and white. When i dont like someone because they had treated me badly i cant seem to forgive them even later on after months. It takes me a many years to change my opinion for that person. This is hindering my progress in Krisna consciousness because here there is a initiated devotee . I just cant seem to change my view about him even now when he behaves nicely with me . Please teach me how i can change myself . Because if i keep grudge agaist krisna's devotee i will never be able to become devotee . Please help .

HpS - Is the same answer. See that devotee. See how he is doing some service. eg. cooking the Sunday feast. Help him. That will make your mind and heart change usually. Try it and tell us the result after a few weeks.

Sorry again for writing about my silly problems . You are very mercifull towards me . Thank you maharaj for taking out time to answer me. All glories to H.H.Hanumatpresaka swami maharaj. Thank you very very much. Your aspiring egoistic foolish servant Rituraj majumder Shillong , india

HpS - Is nice to hear from you! Read the letters to other devotees. You will find that many of their questions are just like yours.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP

PAMHO

I hope this meets U in really good health ¡¡¡

Gurudeva we want your advice and enlightment ¡¡

We are organizing Ratha Yatra 2014 and one devotee has said that our culture program is not suitable ¡¡

We include the following:

Exhibition of yoga (Gitagovinda das)

A rock band who sings covers from the beatles

A Peruvian rocker Rafo Raez his songs are related to nature etc

Obviously that we include Bhajams etc full maha mantra 

But this devotee says that SP did not want this in Ratha Yatra... I mean he says that we just to chant HK no more needs to be included ¡¡

Is that accurate ?? I was surprised because he find wrong the exhibition by GItagovinda ???

During the whole parade we will chant HK Maha mantra but when we arrive to the stage also HK MM but also culture program is that ok??

What should we do in order to please the Lord?? also Maha prasadam ... ROhini kumar das, Narayani dd (BBS) and me are working really hard alone just depending on the mercy of  Krsna our Gurus and SP, no support. so please tell us what is the most correct ¡¡¡

Thank U Gurudeva for all iur inspiration

Trying to be useful

Candramukhi dd

ASA (UG) - AGTSP!!!!     Paojo!!   ...      "In all phases of life one has to perform devotional activities under the direction of the spiritual master in order to attain perfection in bhakti-yoga. It is not that one has to confine or narrow one's activities. Kṛṣṇa is all-pervading. Therefore nothing is independent of Kṛṣṇa, as Kṛṣṇa Himself states in Bhagavad-gītā (9.4):

mayā tatam idaḿ sarvaḿ

jagad avyakta-mūrtinā-

mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni

na cāhaḿ teṣv avasthitaḥ

"By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them."

Under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master, one has to make everything favorable for Kṛṣṇa's service. For example, at present we are using a dictaphone. The materialist who invented this machine intended it for businessmen or writers of mundane subject matters. He certainly never thought of using the dictaphone in God's service, but we are using this dictaphone to write Kṛṣṇa conscious literature. Of course, the manufacture of the dictaphone is wholly within the energy of Kṛṣṇa. All the parts of the instrument, including the electronic functions, are made from different combinations and interactions of the five basic types of material energy — namely, bhūmi, jala, agni, vāyu and ākāśa. The inventor used his brain to make this complicated machine, and his brain, as well as the ingredients, were supplied by Kṛṣṇa.

According to the statement of Kṛṣṇa, mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni: "Everything is depending on My energy." Thus the devotee can understand that since nothing is independent of Kṛṣṇa's energy, everything should be dovetailed in His service."

Prabhupada had Radha-Damodara BUSES in the Rathyatra Parade in NYC. He also encouraged a devotee who was playing accordion. Real thing is how they attract people to Krsna. Some general stuff, like having a Feast on Sunday in the West.

Specific stuff like, "My Sweet Lord".
Specfic, specific, stuff like Kirtan, Lecture, Kirtan, Prasad.
Stuff you are doing seems O.K. I don't know the details.

Other than that, if there is no specific instruction from Srila Prabhupada then you need to discuss it with a few good devotees and their opinion should be pretty consenual.

Have a baby stroller, kid's dress up, competition. MOre toward including whatever enthuses the devotees, friends, than being traditional. Lord Jagannatha is 75% merciful. Radha and Krsna, more traditional, strict.

Dear Swamiji,

PAMHO, AGTSP! So after 6 months of regularly attending mangal arati and working at BDS, continuing to chant 16 a day, and strictly following the 4 regs, Dina Dayal Prabhu (the school principal) can reccomend me as a candidate. Then after 6 more months I can be initiated? When I chant my rounds I try not only focus on pronounciation, but also think wy I pray to Krishna and the meaning of the Maha mantra.

HpS - AGTSP. If you have been getting up early and keeping a morning program by internet, that is also fine. If you have been 16 nice rounds and 4 principles strictly and morning program as soon as you can get a recommendation you can become a "Refugee", then six months more = first initiation. Jaya!

Dear Swamiji,

PAMHO, AGTSP! I'm not a saint. I'm just trying to maintain a regular program and hopefully come to the spiritual platform. I read the link. As far as I understand it I must attend temple program daily, attentively chant 16 rounds a day, follow the 4 regs, pperform devotional service, and seek guidance of a guru.

I am seeking your guidance, I have an unpaid position at the Bhaktivedanta Dharma school as librarian and story tellar, and I am seeking your guidance. Next month I move close to school and temple. I want to go to mangal everyday and chant japa in temple. I'm trying to surrender more and hopefully make advancement in devotional life. 

your servant,

Bhakta Ken

HpS - ASA - AGTSP Let's look at your other letter.

Hare Krisna Por favor mi Querido Guru Deva Hanumatpresaka Maharaja acepte mis humildes reverencias todas las Glorias a Srla Prabhupada. Como sabéis he estado en la India durante 93 días exactamente y lo he pasado bien en general por misericordia de Sri,Sri Guru Gouranga, Nitiananda. Todo lo que te pasa en el Santo Daham es Bueno. Lo primero que hice nada mas llegar a los dos o tres dias de estar en el Santo Dham de Mayapur fue apuntarme a Mangal Goura Parikrama dirigidido por S.S. Jaya Patraka Maharaja y si no hubiera sido por el esguince que me empezo a dar problemas hubiera ido al Safari. Intentando ser Su humilde Sirviente Jagamohan Das

HpS - ASA - Jaya. Desculpa responder. Viaje de 6-semanas por USA con mal conneccion de internnet.  Y ya que pasa!   Mas detalles!