Letters to the editor

Dear gurudeva,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to you
Please accept my humble obeisances.

Than you so much for your answer. I was reading SB and thinking a bit about it. I want to share you... 

So, from what I understand, the real spiritual master is just one: Krsna. But because we are conditional souls with lusty desires in our heart, we can not understand, love neither surrender to him. As he is so kind that help us sending pure devotees that represent him, for we can surrender to them. And in this way, surrendering to those souls is like surrender to Krsna himself, regardless the kind of guru (siksa, diksa, etc).

      HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!!    Yes, this is how we under stand the situtation. Very well expressed. You must have been a great Sannyasi last lifetime who was too much attached to a certain girl! This time you have to resolve the situation! Only thought is that we surrender to different kinds of Gurus differently.
 

So, disciple following Krishna's instructions through these souls. And technically the only difference between this devotees is that diksa-guru is who take our hand and bring us into the parampara. But as much diksa as and siksa gurus should be very important because by their mercy, they help us to return home, back to Godhead through their instructions. "The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth."

   ASA - Diksa guru is like a Monk who marries the boy and girl, Krsna and Jiva. Siksa gurus are like those who give advice. Of course, the Diksa guru is active the the relation after the ceremony. He is not just a Ritvik. He is the active link to the Parampara. Principle Siksa guru (Vartmana pradarshika guru) usually becomes the Diksa guru, but not always. Maybe he is too old, can't take the Karma. Maybe is a lady (http://vedabase.com/en/sb/4/12/32). So, usually Diksa guru is one of the Siksa gurus also. One of our disciples is a book distributor. She naturally tooks so much association from Bhakti Bhusan Swami but we were responsible for seeing that she didn't neglect her rounds.
Maybe you will decide that you actually should be a Mormon. Maybe you will take this person aor that person as Diksa guru. Basis is to advance in our service to Radha Krsna and the it will all be satisying to everyone!

Then, as you say, while in spiritual world someone follow Candravali or Radha and some are mixing both, something like this happens in this material world too. While I am accepting gurus who follow the path of instruction given by Lord Krsna to Arjuna, everything will be right. Is it? I mean "gurus" because I don't have only one. I already can see my Gurus clearly: SP, Mhtma and you. Then, I am not following just one... also I am mixing both relationships in the same direction: that of Srila Prabhupada =D Is it right?

HpS - If you are ready to accept Srila Prabhupada as your Sampradaya Acharya and not Lord Jesus Christ or Prophet Mohammed. I know very nice Sufi guy in Mar de Plata. He left Argentina looking for a Guru. Eventually in the Middle East he met a very nice person, Guru, and asked, "What are you?". Guru said, "I am Sufi". He said, "That's what I want to be."
If he had joined ISKCON he would have been a GBC Secretary by now. Very nice person.

On the other hand, another topic... A devotee that is living in the temple now, wants to give me her deities to take care. They are Gaura Nitai. Do you think that I am able to do it ? ... That it will be good for me to have them?

Hp S - ASA - I think so. Ask local Brahmanas what they think. She will be traveling and you will just care for them like an Aunt? 

Thank you for teach me always lovingly,
Mangala aratik with you by SM is such nice. Thank you for that.

Ys,
Bhktn Belén

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!  Paoho.    Oink!  Oink!!!

 A G T S P !
(paoho & bw)

Brother Ass is EXHAUSTED! Yesterday:
Mangala-arati with Ganga-mantri Das
Pack - 5.30AM off to NGD house
Peru BhVai Class
San Jose BhVai Class
Organize and Direct Annual NIOS Board Meeting with seven present and five on conference call.
Help set up 30-foot Symposium Tent and Chairs, Tables and sound system.
Rest.
Prayyyyy to Indra to not rain (but it did rain (before the symposium (and not after that (and then it was cool during the event))))!
Receive the Imam from the local Mosque
Pioneer the Symposium and help Manage it.
Say farewell to Imam (great! Discussion and we will talk more, we learned that Sufis are not some marginal, abused Muslim group, but they were there from the very beginning, in the Great Mosque of Sophia, and that is why they were called, "Sufi"). He discussed liking steak as opposed to us liking vegetables, but after the Symp. he asked, "So you are strict vegetarian"... "Yes"... "Being vegetarian gives you good health", he said! We will meet more.
Joined the end of the 12-hour Kirtan.
30-cars out front.
Blew the conch shell and did the Arati at 6PM and then everyone joned the Feast with a great roar... Home to our cave, crash, not a minute for Japa! (Krsna even hid our bead bag (but up early and 16-rounds before Mangala arati(((.

Now it's 7.30PM.
Went for a walk with NGD, 44minutes door to door as always.
Plotting plans and took some dokla and V-8 juice Prasadam after consulting with Lord Nrsimha deva and Hanuman.

Hare Krsna . Hare Rama.

A little bird writes:
I have a hard time understanding people some time, sometimes it is better to remain silent and be though a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
We apes respond:
But attentive. Perk up your ears and listen. Listen deeply. Ask questions or make comments like a doctor saying, "Stick our your tongue, let me look at your eyes".
"Nobody every listened himself out of a job", Calvin Coolidge.
Of course, Draupadi did not know why all these strange things were happening. She howled and complained, but she never lost faith that Krsna was ultimately in control and in the end she saw things adjusted in a way that was so cosmic and so deep that she could not have imagined it.
Stay on board the ship.
Try to understand people.
Even if you can't don't give up faith. Krsna knows why things are happening.

[7.36PM Dark as the inside of a goat outside. Ganga-mantri just showed up. He stays in his van in the yard and baths and lounges inside.]

Hare Krsna Hare Rama. Krsna's pastimes are so, so much fun. He is expanding them everywhere! Join in the fun. Become a demon killer for Gauranga!

Let us look at all the letters from today and a few from yester-years. Now that this Annual NIOS Symposium has come to a successful conclusion we turn to the Celebrate Nashville Festival next month. Then we have no commitments until 31st December.
So, we can write. Publish.
Our eyes have been giving us a lot stress lately. See if it clears up.
Letters!!!! >>>======>

AGTSP paoho

9.25PM. Just finishing letters in NGD's home. It is very, very hot in the day on our Ashrama, so can only work with fan directly blowing on us. Sometimes it is like being a loaf of bread being cooked in the oven. We are thinking about buy an air conditioner.

Just like all of you, we have lots of physical pressure, lusty pressure from our senses, pressure from our godbrothers and family.

Hare Krsna! Hare Rama! Chant and be happy.

We were able to answer a few nice letters.

Tomorrow is our 12-hour Kirtan. Is a lot of work to organize it and an academic symposium. We are not pushing as much as before.  To quote Patrakito, "Don't go where people ignore you, but where they adore you".

Today 11AM Hawaii class was heavy and tommorrow we present BhVai review. Jaya!

We are winning!

I just write you to make you know about how are things going here for me
I got almost a month living in the temple, is very nice, I feel like my taste is increasing, here the association of the vaishnavas is so pleasent to the heart.
But still if you don't work your own things, is a waste of time.
Well i wanted to tell you a bit about my weekly schedule, which consists on :
-4 days a week english classes in the university.( Im not sure if Im going to keep on with the this because, here at the temple i haven't time to study )

- 2 days of sankirtana, fri and sat. ( it may change due to the reason above mention. )
-3 days cleaning temple and toilets, corridors.
- Every evening i have to attend the shop.

Im feeling that Im purifying my heart slowly, and i feel that krishna is sending good signs to make me progress, sometimes i need like a shove coming from Him through devotees or situations, even though i know how things should be done, I think that I've that 3rd class intelligence, and that also Krishna is kindly making me pay my karma in a sweet way.
couple of days ago I completed the shelter form for Iskcon Gurus,temple president needs to sign, check and he"ll adress it to you, hopefully.
Im studying BG in bhakti sastri (bramacaris exclusive course)  , so we are studying from the first chapter.
I felt attracted to start reading NOD, maybe its just a tantrum, or I should read NOI a few more times and then ...
 what do you think ?

Igot some bramacari classes you gave last year, and that class about three minutes with a genius, is so good. Im trying to listen to them whenever I can.
Also Im doing questions on bhagavatam classes, it's very good.

Hare Krishna Maharaja AGTSP.

That is all for this time, i will try to ask you more profound questions, someone told me that you like that.
Hope you are okey, trying to be your servant, Camilo.

PD: Ive just sold a bhagavatam set from the shop, it was very nice and inspiring.

HpS - AGTSP! Thank you for you news. It is like visiting the Temple. NOD is had to understand without BhSastri study guide or Danudhara Swamis', "Waves of Devotion". We need both NOD and NOI. Try all the books and see which ones are for you!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my most humble obeisances :) . Now we are working and studying a lot about psychology, still in University. I feel that I don't have much to tell you, I don't want to waste your time, but also I wanted to write you, and tell you that we're trying to serve you in what we can.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP! Ha! Ha! Ha!  and we could have written exactly what you wrote above to us, to you. Our Carl Jung program is going ahead satisfactorily.

I would like to share with you one experience I had in january and february of this year. I was in a team of traveller sankirtan, with Panca Tattva Das, Oscar of Chile, Adi yajña Das, and Prema-rasarnava, in Viña del Mar and Pichilemu. Everything was so mistical, because Krsna send us many people who leter become devotee, also we've distributed many books, and also we celebrate Nityananda Trayodasi in Pichilemu (one city ..*****), were we did a jajña, a class, a beautiful kirtan and prasadam. I really felt that Srila Prabhupada and Nityananda prabhu felt satisfied with this service.

Another thing that I would like to say to you, is that in the University I'm going very well, thanks to Krishna, Prabhupada and his mercifull inspiration. I still maintein the best grades of my generation class. Also I had the opportunity to gave classes of Vedic Culture and Psychology as assistant proessor, in my university and in another. So in both universities the students of Psychology knew about Srila Prabhupada's teachings, and they had to explain in their exams...is such a nice thing the universitary preaching.

Finally, my spiritual life it's OK, with high and low, but always trying to do an effort with trust. I remembered that you told me that I should buy "covers" for the glasses of my Deities when you came to have lunch in my house. And now, they have so many things, and of course, their covers in their glasses! also beds, and necklaces. For my part, I'm living in a moment of changes, and to grown up like a person, I'm trying to be strong, for that I'm asking you for your blessings to become a better devotee.

I send you a hug, wishing you are well with your health and with your service to the Acarya, your ever well-wisher and servant Abhimanyu Das. 

HpS - AGTSP. Thank you so much. We are thinking about you also, and reading this letter calms our worrys. Again, we are also trying to do this Psychology Sankirtan for you and others. We are all very small compared to Srila Prabhupada.

Todas las Glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada !

 Todas Todas  las Glorias sean a Ud Guru Maharaj !!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj quiero contarle que me siento muy agradecido e inspirado de poder estar asociandome siempre con devotos..  Aun me encuentro viviendo en el asram de el Templo de Santiago- Chile . asistiendo siempre a Mangala-arati  haciendo todo el programa de corrido.  y cubriend0 todos los servicios necesarios , tambien  cocinando a las deidades con mi esposa.. como servicio fijo.   Continuamos saliendo de Sankyrtan todos los dias  minimo aunque sea un poco .. muchooo nectar . cada vez me doy cuenta de cuan afortunado somos de poder estar realizando este servicio para Srila Prabhupada , y no quiero dejarlo NUNCA. en Septiembre viajare de nuevo a Argentina para definir mi situacion alla. queremos realizar sankyrtan viajero , conocer nuevos templos y mas devotos. .  siguiendo principios y respectivas rondas =)  y durante sankyrtan cantandoo mass rondas,  tambien estamos tomando la asociacion  de Gunagragi Maharaj.. hace 2 semanas esta aqui.. y tomando ejemplos de Vijaya Prabhu. quien tambien  visito el Templo.. ayer me tope con un libro que me llamo la atencion "Garga-Samhita" .. ud considera que pueda leerlo ¿¿??

HPS - AGTSP! Paoho. I don't think there is anything bad in the "Garga-samhita". They use it on the Vraja mandala Parikrama to describe pastimes. I read it, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned by any of our Acharyas, so it is a little strange.

por otro lado  recuerdo que ud me dijo que definiera de que manera quiero desarrolar la forma de predicar... y ultimamente eh estado estudiando Etiqueta Vaisnava por Radanatha Swami ,y tengo una inclinacion de querer enseñar con el ejemploy  poder volver mi vida impecable para poder predicar y ayudar tanto a devotos como a persoonas que recien se acerquen al movimiento.. y simultaneamente me encontrado con situacion que confirman estos pensamientos.. ya que en el templo aqui escasean los devotos activos en servicio..

quisiera saber si es que sabe en que tiempo vendra aqui . por que deseo mucho su asociacion personal 

HpS - WWW.jayarama.us/kd/cal.htm .. 21 January to 7 February??

la deuda que tengo con ud y Srla Prabhupada es impagable asique por favor ocupeme en servicio constantemente.

le estoy muy agradecido por el tiempo que dispone en contestar estas cartas y en estar dandonos tantos buenos ejemplos con su vida propia.

 - Hare Krishna Hare Krishna - Krishna Krishna Hare Hare - Hare Rama Hare Rama - Rama Rama Hare Hare -

su eterno sirviente Garga-acarya Das

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!  Love exists because Krsna is so kind!