Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja, please receive my humble obeisance, all the glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Dear Maharaja I hope when you receive this letter you are well and receiving all the blessings of Krishna.

First I will like to apologize for not writing before. I wrote a letter to Monkey Warrior on May this year. On that letter I shared my desire of seeking refugee on you as my Guru and if it is the desire of Krishna to receive Initiation.

HpS - AGTSP - Paoho. Sorry it has taken us 2-weeks to answer this letter! You have another so we will look at this one and get to the other. After our North America trip and three festivals here one after another we are pretty much back tto a sane work load so we should be able to answer letters more rapidly.

You recommended for me to read the Guru Tattva and give you my opinion about it. I had read the Guru Tattva and I will like to share with you some things.

Last weekend I met with my two Siksa Gurus, Yadunandana Swami and Dandava Prabhu. They told me about the possibility of receiving Initiation from you through the person of Yadunandana Swami. I am not sure if this will happen; since it is a matter that Krishna and you will decide.  In any case, it is something that has gave me a lot of happiness and has fulfilled me with motivation and strength to continue developing my sadhana. Thank you very much.

Three weeks ago I had the mercy of participating in the course for disciples imparted by Yadunandana Swami. It was a very important course for me since it made me realize about the importance and the seriousness of take refuge in a Guru. It also helped me to develop more attachment and admiration towards Srila Prabhupada. I have no doubts to recognize Srila Prabhupada like the Founder Acarya of ISCKON and the main Siksa guru. I had read his books and currently I am still reading the Bhagavad Gita when I go to classes with Dandava Prabhu, almost every week. I also accept the GBC like the most important authority in ISCKON.

I have been following the four regulative principles for some years and I have been chanting the 16 rounds since November 2013. Before this date I was chanting rounds daily but not always  16. I am currently singing at least 16 rounds a day and still following the four regulative principles but, in some occcasions during this year (maybe 4 or 5 times) I have not been able to reach the 16 rounds during some days (3, 4 ó 5). Nevertheless in other occasions I have chanted more than 20 rounds a day. I had shared this matter with Yadunandana Swami, he said that the days I completed more rounds can be considered for those days that I was no able to finish my rounds.

Regards to the Brahma muhurta, currently I wake up at 7:30 am, I chant some rounds and I offer breakfast to the Deities before going to work. I know I should be able to wake up before; at the moment it is my objective. I know I need to change some of my daily routines and go to bed earlier.  At home I do not do the Mangal Artik.  However I always participat in the Mangal Artik when I visit Nueva Vrajamandala. I enjoyed it very.

Two weeks ago I went to Nueva Vrajamandala to do service in the meeting of ISCKON leaders and I felt very lucky to be there next to big personalities. I was very much thankful to Krishna for the opportunity.

Last week I also went to Nueva Vrajamandala for the Course of Devotte Care that was imparted by Yadunandana Swami and Partha Prabhu. It was a very interesting course and I hope to put what I learned into practice.

Currently I´m still collaborating with the Bhaktivedanta Studies Institute and the Temple of Madrid doing the advertising and designs.  I'm also going practically every Sunday at Temple Madrid where I participate whenever I can in the Harinam and do the cleaning of the Temple after the program.

I would like to thank you with all my heart for your interest in my Initiation. In the future, I hope to hold firm in the service to Krishna through the service to my Guru and to Srila Prabhupada and be an instrument to expand Krishna consciousness.

I hope to have the mercy of chanting rounds soon with you and the devotees in the Japajoe.

Thank you very much. Greetings

HpS - o.k let's look at your more recent letter.

hare krsna maharaj,pamho,
IIT B did not access to the journal, but a friend of ours in LOUISIANA STATE university, got it for us.
paper sent to you NIOS id

http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/4640

do u have gmail id?, by that (drive.google.com) you can easily just write Articles you need for you research.
regards,
horse

HpS - AGTSP! Thank you so much! We got the article in our Yahoo account. It will help so, so much! Thank you. We answered with copy to your friend.
Why not just write on our computer?

AGTSP
Paoho

Our brother in Seattle sent this too us. It's very sweet.

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(Irish Luck - Remember to send it back!)

I want this back. It DOES work.
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.  

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. 

'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my son's life.'

'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked.

'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.  

'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted

Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. 



Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. 

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill ... His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill 

Someone once said: 
What goes around comes around.  
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

It's National Friendship Week. Send this to everyone you consider A FRIEND.

Pass this on and brighten some ones day.

AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH: 
I hope it works...
May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
And may you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead..


OK, this is what you have to do... Send this to all of your friends.
But - you HAVE to send this within 1 hour from when you open it!
Now.....Make A wish!! I hope you made your wish!

Now then, if you send to:
1 person --- your wish will be granted in 1 year
3 people --- 6 months
5 people --- 3 months
6 people --- 1 month
7 people --- 2 weeks
8 people --- 1 week
9 people --- 5 days
10 people --- 3 days
12 people --- 2 days
15 people --- 1 day

20 people --- 3 hours

If you delete this after you read it, you will have 1 year of bad luck!
But, if you send it to 2 of your friends, you will automatically have 3 years good luck!!! 

Hare Krsna dear gurudeva,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to you
Please accept my humble obeisances

How is your health?

HpS - AGTSP paoho. For 66-years in an USA body it is good. Old machine so we have to spend more time tuning it, and if we are excessive with it then it falls apart or can even die! Our vision is getting weak. Our feet and legs are swollen a lot, our resporation can be deeper. Old-age is a good friend for a devotee. It pushes him onto becoming a pure devotee.

About me... Everything keeps on very well. I'm working with projects of H.G. Mahatma Prabhu by his mercy and I feel very very happy for to be part of them. A lot of thing to do! I still go to the temple not very often as before, only to do my fixed service.. I'm trying to keep my sadhana with fixed schedules and this became a bit difficult to me because I've never could to adapt the routine in my life. I want/need to change all the time because I get bored. Is it normal?

HpS - ASA -- Yes, for some people, but the nature of spiritual life is nava-nava-yauvana, always fresh, like we hear that Srimati Radha-rani never cooks the same thing twice for Krsna, but Srila Prabhupada wrote in my initiation letter that our American disease is that we always want to change things. The idea is not to tear down the old building, but to improve it. We don't give up any service, we just improve it. We are making tighter and tighter concentric circles, not moving forward on a line.

Got it?

Change means to improve what we have, not replace it.

Psycho-physically I am 70% fire. Maybe you are too. Have ever seen a fire with "gravity"? No, earth has gravity and water has some. So, fire people are always moving and imvestigating. An engineer sees the problem and solves it. A phsicist sees the problem, isolates it so it won't expand and watches it. A mathematicion sees the problem, sees that it is possible to solve and loses interest in it.

Anyway I do it but it's hard for me. I would like also to travel soon... I always think about what you have said me about my woman designation related with my last life. Maybe is not bad to have this body, because bhakti comes from deep feelings and the women are be able to connect more with their feelings. Isn't it? Anyway designations are not already important to me. It's only a thinking.

HpS - Yes, ladies sentiment can be good Bhakti but has to be kept pure by some masculine intelligence. Like kids, they can follow without stupid intelligence getting in their way, but like you say, once you become a devotee andy machine can be used to get a perfect result.

About study... Whatever I've studied doesn't matter if I can't practice it yet. So, I will tell you only that I try to be more humble, don't see faults of others, appreciate others and to understand that absolutely everyone have something to teach me even I although think they are wrong.

HpS - Santa Belena!

My japa... This is the most important and even as I think now it's better because I take 2 hours only for chant, my mind is very negative and it doesn't allow me to focus in the holy name. I always pray to the Lord for the taste comes someday. So, please give me your blessings for improve my japa!

HpS - You should see some progress. Smile! That will trick your mind into being positive. In the beginning your progress may be from mechanical tricks as much as from sincere devotion. Find ways to control the Mind Ape!

Hope you have a great Kartik's month!
My respectful obeisances!

Hare Krsna!

HpS - ASA - Thank you for your letter. Please give our respects to The Mahatma. What kind of service are you doing with His Grace?

Got any pictures of him?

TGSSGN!

TGSP!!

Guru Maharaja:

 Le escribo para hacerle llegar noticias sobre como estoy y sadhana.

Hace 6 meses que estoy viviendo en el templo, todavia sigo aqui, con entusiasmo en el servicio y cuando no tengo demasiado entusiasmo, trato de encontrarlo de alguna manera sobre todo buscando asociacion con devotos mayores. Me encuentro bien aqui. Sigo cantando 16 rondas a la mañana y los 4 principios.
Su sirviente, Luis.

HpS - TlgaSP!!!    Y ya que pasa? En el Templo? Cual ciudad? Si perdimos nuestra entusiasmo siempre podemos encontrar en nuestra inteligencia. BG es el cultivo de la intelligencia y cuando eso es animado, utashan (NOI 3) entonces podemos comenzar Bhakti puro! Si, super metodo purificar la inteligencia, buscar devotos mayores, y claro Srila Prabhupada es disponible en sus libros.

Ya que pasa? Uno fotos de Vds!!

On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 3:04 AM, Mukta Okram from Thoubal, Manipur Mandir wrote:

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Ki Jay

I am submitting my humble obeisances unto Guru Maharaja's padmacharan that if any ISKCON bhaktas can not go to Mandir daily but following strictly the four principles, chanting complete 16 rounds, rising up early morning and reading one or more religious books  and someone is going in the nearest mandir daily but doing nothing of ISKCON rules and systems. Which one is better?

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!  Paoho. Seems that the first one is better but you should look at Srila Prabhupada's Purport to Madhya 15.108 of the Caitanya-caritamrta.

If an initiated devotee following all the rules externally, but has offensive mind toward Krsna or devotees then his service is bad and he is falling away, but if a simple person who does not know what the good activities, four principles, are or because of the reactions of his Karma is still forced to do bad things, but sincerely WANTS to change and has humble attitude to Krsna and devotees then his position is better, no? He is coming closer and Krsna likes His service. He washes off the external dirt and eats the offering.

So each case is individual, but in general we should see the external character is good as well as the heart!

To follow and perform some duties is far far easier then to collect bhaktas and run a mandir. But, if the systems are not in the pattern of ISKCON, then What is the  spiritual development of going to such mandirs run by non vegitarians? 

The traditional goudiya veisnaba bhaktas who have taken initiated in a local Brahmana Guru and going Sundays in the Mandir, but the Guru and the bhakta is a non vegitarian    and not  following the four principles of ISKCON.  Which is better for such bhaktas and ISKCON bhaktas who had taken initiated and following the four principles strictly but not going to above such mandir regularly?

HpS - As you are describing it then the ISKCON devotees are doing very well. Yes, we should try to preach to the non-veg Bhaktas to change their habits. See SB 1.17.38. If such an ISKCON Bhakta has an altar in his home we should consider that is probably a better Temple than a Temple where the Bhaktas are still doing these Kali-karma things described in 1.17.38, no?
Preach to them.

Get them to understand and change. Then let Manipur help the whole world!!!!

Thank you so much for you letters and association. Dandavats to all the devotees. Thank you even for your Tilak Laddus!

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Yours fallen servant
Yamunesvara Das