Letters to the editor

Querido gurudeva!!!

Mis mas humildes reverencias

Todas las glorias a srila prabhupada

pues respondiendo a su carta, la perfumeria me despidio hace unos meses por falta de trabajo, pero mirando la parte positiva tengo mas tiempo para estudiar mientras me sale otro trabajo.

mi hermana esta muy bien y mi madre ...bueno, los problemas con ella siguen ,dado que hace cosas que no me gustan, pero la tengo que respetar,al fin de cuenta ella me trajo al mundo.

Tengo ganas de que la situacion cambie y poder separarme un poco de mi familia, no me ayuda ha avanzar espiritualmente nada y me siento un poco encajada, pero, igualmente le doy gracias a krsna por poder asociarme con devotos, tenerle a usted y a pesar de no vivir ahora en una familia conciente de krsna ,no perder la conciencia y las enseñanzas que me inculcaron de pequeña y que voy recibiendo a traves de usted.

Cambiando de tema para no aburrirlo, tengo que decirle que el templo es oficialmente de los hindues aunque gracias a la misericordia de krsna el otro dia una devota y yo pudimos recibir en el templo a dos clases de un instituto de valencia y hablarles de la conciencia de krsna.

Les hablamos de sri caitanya mahaprabhu,de srila prabhupada,de la importancia de cantar el maha mantra,de tener a un maestro espiritual,porque es importante la limpieza,realmente fue un resumen orientado a niños de 15 y 16 añitos del introducctorio a bakti yoga,y les dimos algunos dulces maha prasadam y el resultado fue maravilloso,hacian preguntas y estaban interesados en el tema.Vieron la puya y cantaron el maha mantra.

Ojala krsna nos ilumine y podamos seguir haciendo la familia grande.

respecto a el reporte,las 16 rondas,mangal aratik(,aunque sola en casa),unos tres o cuatro dias por semana,leo libros de srila prabhupada,atiendo a las deidades de casa y esperando que venga el buen tiempo para plantar tulasi :-).

gracias por su tiempo y asociacion,espero se encuentre bien de salud y espero poder verlo pronto.

su fiel y monkey sirvienta mani-sati sita dd

HpS - Super. Muchas veces nosotros eligimos nuestra sendero en como 12 - 13 anos! Entonces presentar una muestra muy vivida de nuestra vida y ideas a ninos es algo super importante.

Claro, la familia es una program de predica muy particular. Hay ventajas y desaventajas. Nuestras reverencias al presidente del templo! Como se llama?

Pienso super su perspectivo y espero Krsna mejorar mas y mas su situacion, associacion, yatra, y abilidades para servir a el.

Muchas Gracias a Vd. y Sita Devi!

AGTSP

paoho

We thought our battery was charged but it is not! Only a few minutes left so we will send this DTC (Oink! - Whoop!!) and answer letters until it goes Kaput. Guess cell phone will still work but typing is slow on that Dude.

Went to Vanderbilt University today. It like going to the palace of Indra/Ravana. Left at 11.15AM and returned at 2.45PM. Found the Indology Journals where we submitted Dr. Samareshes Felicitation book but none have reviewed his book yet. Is not a surprise as it takes time.

Was a stressful, compicated adventure but got the result and know how to go again!

It is the big, big, big local university.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama. keep on chanting this perfect song.

All Glories to Sri Sri Radha  &  Krsna! 
All Glories to Sri Sri Gour Nitay!
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All Glories to you ! 

I hope you are well, please accept my sincere obeisances.

Camila, Santiago-Chile, Social Work Student, 20 years old. 
4 principles!
16 rounds per day! (they aren't nice, we want to improve the quality of them)

Maharaj, I've been thinking, about different things, I started the Disciple Course in the Temple of Iskcon...and we talked about Srila Prabhupada, and how we can remember him, and keep Srila Prabhupada as the preeminent guru. ¿Can you please help me with this? ¿What we should do, to do that?  

      HpS - AGTSP paoho. It comes naturally as you read his books, follow his discipline, associate with his other disciples, and serve his mission. Do what you can do for ISKCON naturally, not dog hard.

Also, I see in others and in myself, sometimes that we are in a rollercoasters of emotions, happiness/afliction. If we are chanting hare krsna, and we still feeling bad, and sad...¿that is because we are not chanting properly?

   HpS - In the beginning we are still in the violent river even though we have the rope from the shore (16 x 4) so we get nice parts of the river and then bad parts. Srnvatam sva kattha krsna.. Canto One Chaper Two.... As we get closer to the shore the waves decrease.

Excuse my stupidity, i'm not yet qualified to understand this things, and do things correctly. 
Thanks for reading this letter.

¿How can we serve you?

   HpS - You already are! I an a dependent of Srila Prabhuapda! to serve him is to help our stupid selves!  News of the Yatra?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxX89gcvNlg

¡Here is a nice video of a Parrot singing Hare Krishna!

PAMHO! 
AGTSP ! 
RADHE RADHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AGTSP paoho
We are sitting at NGD dinning room table. Everyone's honored Prasada and now disbursed about the house. We come each evening when he comes home from the hospital. Haridas Thakura used to visit Advaita Acharya the same way.

Today our project was to finish the Bhakti-vaibhava Semester Review PPT. We did it. Them we did some Uncle Gismo work to try to get the internet and e-publishing stuff improved. It is 8.21PM. Feeling a little heart arhythmia. Ha!  Ha!

We only have real internet when we come here in the evening. Saves us $55/month, and gives us more chance to write at the Office.

We just answered bunch of old and new Blog letters. Only 21-letters to answer now.

O.K. ~ ~ ~ Tommorrow we try to go to Vanderbilt University. We can't use the University bus because it is only for employees so we will have to drive, and then navigation and parking become a big adventure.

So many times there are causes for distress [our heart is still a little irregular]. How can we get direccions and travel tomorrow? What about Japa - Joe?

Hmmmm, but just smile and laugh and chant 'Hare Krsna, Hare Rama' and your mind reacts,"Oh, were smiling! ?  I guess were having fun!? I guess a heart attack at the dinning room table is a real joy!!"

O.K. See you soon.

We Tweet all the time.

Monkey - Piggy et al

Dear Gurumaharaja.

Hare Krsna AGTSP, PAMHO

Dear Gurumaharaja!

Sadhana is very strong in the Chicago temple, 15 bcaris, a lot of preach increasing in spring and summer times.  I’m the new halwai of kishor kishori, making diferent sweets for them. A lot of services in the temple and a lot of preaching. It is so difficult to be balanced, the days turn very short. I opened a bhakti club in Truman Collage where I’m studying and I’m taking care of one bhakti club in Loyola University, the students are very enthusiastic. I’m preaching profusely in order to expand Latin preaching through harinama, book distribution, advertisement. Rick Warren’s book about how to lead a church is very helpful to me now a days.

I started 2 Canto Bhakti Vaibhava, and giving complete sections in SB classes about 6 canto in the temple. It’s hard to digest all that knowlege.

   HpS - ASA -- AGTSP paoho.  Who is leading the Bh. Vai. programs?

The only reason why I’m doing this is because I have this sense of gratitude with You, Srila Prabhupada and Iskcon, other wise, I can not handle with this. However is very extatic also, and everyday i'm traying to increase my conection with the dieties and japa.

The temple president of Chicago temple wants to invite You. So he ask me about your email, but i dont know which e mail  I can give to him to be in touch with you.

I'm thinking that we can organize in northwestern or loyola university a program or even the community here the never hear about Ligth Of Bhagavata or how to present the book. Or a festival with the latin community which is big in Chicago. That's all for now Gurudeva

I hope you recive this letter good of health.

ys Etasa-krsna das

  HpS - Yes, Sadhana bhakta means to understand what are the priorities. It is a great art.  You can see our calendar on the Kapi-dhvaja. Maybe we can come to Chicago, but now we are just getting our foundation set here in Tennessee. Without that we cannot develop anything very substantial, always running the car in first gear.

Let us see how things go after a few more weeks. Already there is so much improvement. Regular diet. Regular writing. Regular eye strain. (Ha! Ha!).

Priorities, how soon will we have to leave this body....       

Bhaktin Belen S. from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Hare Krsna Maharaja!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my humble obeisances .

I do not think you remember me but I'm from Buenos Aires, so I met you here and also in Chile recently.

I was thinking to write you when I received your answer. haha! Thanks for your answer. It makes me think about you and the humility that I need to develop.

Well, when you left Chile, I stayed there distributing books to people (for the first time) and I liked it soooooo much. In fact I thought I could do traveling sankirtan all over Argentina and later go to Brasil and do Bhakti Sastri but also I thought about my job, my rental, the stuff that I need to do, etc. So I arrived to Buenos Aires, Argentina last friday and I have a lot of obstacles in my head... I don't know if you remember one of the question that I asked you when we were in Chile, but it was about my job. I work on the channel television news at night from 22 pm to 5 or 6 am, wednesday to sunday, they pay very well. I was studying Image and sound Design so my job is about editing news...So one of my question is about my position in the sankirtan movement. I have not yet very clear what is the best thing for my spiritual life and what I want to do, but I feel I have a desire to preach even the minimum knowledge that I have ( in my job I can not do it, because the kind of people, you know... closed mind) and secondly I would like to study, taking more classes, wake up early like a normal people.. - well not normal, like devotees more exactly - chant my rounds early. Also I thought about making movies like "La Luz del Bhagavata", and merge my profession with preaching. But anyway I would need money to live... At the moment, I continue working but I think that I need a change. I don´t know if its about sense gratification or what but I feel that my job only gives me economic stability but add nothing to my spiritual life. In fact, the news are poison to people, you know, and It's not the kind of preaching I join, but it's very difficul for me to take a desicion because I feel alone, it costs me feel Krishna is with me, I feel that the decision that I'm going to take is purely my responsibility and I'm afraid.

On the other hand, I had asked you about the difference between repression and carry out regulatives rules. That was not very clear for me. I keep regulatives rules but my mind makes me think that is repression so it disturbs me. And what about the vaisnava etiquette? Sometimes I find very impersonal relations between devotees in the temple maybe just for trying to carry out the vaisnava etiquette.. so I don't like impersonalism. How can I understand this point?

Sorry for my bad english again..

I continue your instruction chanting hare krishna but anyway I hope to serve you even more in this life.

Your servant,

Belen.

             ASA - AGTSP. This came when we were traveling in India so we are just getting to it now.

We have been on Japa Joe, no?

Let me see if there are later letters from your good self. So many good questions. We could give answers but the basic premis is that I haven't got time to do that and do the writing that I am supposed to do.

Basically, yes, your progam is pretty crazy. You should try to get a job where you can use the time from 4AM to 10AM for strong hearing and chanting, even if it means getting less money. It is the right thing and Krsna will always give you lots of help doing the right thing!!!

Don't be fanatic but start moving in the right direction.

Even at work you can find ways to chant softly, read snippets on your screen, talk about Krsna as the taste in water, fragrance of the earth.

Etc. Squeeze in some Krsna katha during the Brahma muhurta and get a regular rhythm for getting all your rounds done.