Letters to the editor

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

(In start of Ratha Yatra,) what is the meaning of coconut arati and breaking of those coconuts?
Are those smashed coconuts Krsna prasadam ?

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya das

               HpS -  AGTSP   paoho.   I don't know.  Srila Prabhupada doesn't mention it in any book, so it can't be so important.   One story is that it is to extract all the bad ellements away from the Rathayatra and then smash them, so the coconut is poison.  Another is that it is offering to inspire auspiciousness and then the coconut is good.   Hmmm???   If you ge news let us know.

My dear Gurumaharaja.

Hare Krishna!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All Glories to Sankirtana movement.

All Glories All Glories to Sri Guru & Sri Gauranga!!

Please accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet!

             HpS - ASA -  AGTSP...  We have 50% spiritual feet.

Thanks for all your effort and always inspiring me to chant the holy name of Krishna.

Sadhana is three days a week, 2 days a week in the temple, one at home with chant and adoration to Gopal and Sri Jagannatha Baladeva and Subadra. I am trying to 1 day a week participate in Japa Joe.

Tuesdays and Fridays, I'm going to Sankirtan with a matayi, has been wonderful try this service, please Gurumaharaja your blessings pair so you can continue.

I continuous chanting 16 rounds and 4 principles. I am Studying German and English, is the first time that I write in English for you, surely looks terrible, is very dificult , but I need to try and necesary.

Raja Bhoga Monday morning.

This week I will try to begin to seriously study the First Chant of Srimad Bhagavatam, Gurumaharaja please give me the intelligence to understand the Bhagavata light.

I'm learning how to look internally and talk with senior devotees to avoid offense, I felt like the work has become more internal than external. Listen to devotees gives me stability and knowledge to act.

Trying to surrender to your guidance.

His slow aspiring Bhaktin Zareth.

Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Jaya Sri Nityananda! Jaya Sri Gouranga!

                 HpS - ASA ----   Interesting.  You English is very nice.   What about the KRSNA book?  That is very, very, very fundamental reading and in many ways what more do we need?          With who you will study Canto One?       N I C E  !      !       !    Foto!

Hare Krsna Por favor acepte mis más humildes reverencias TGSP Estimado Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja Siempre escribo en español porque es más rápido y fácil para mi, pero si lo desea usted puede responderme en inglés, lo entiendo sin problemas. Mis más humildes reverencias Su insignificante aspirante a sirviente, Bhaktina Juliana desde Mar de Plata

             HpS - ASA -  Ah  ha!   En Mar de Plata.  Esta expandiendo el centro????  Krsna enviando nuevo gente????

Hare Krsna Por favor acepte mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias Todas las glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada Estimado Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja Hoy desperté en éxtasis recordando que soñé con usted, y como hace bastante q no le escribo, me pareció una buena oportunidad para comentarle el pasatiempo.... Usted estaba de visita en Mar del Plata dando unas conferencias en un encuentro parecido al de la última vez pero no recuerdo bien los tópicos. En ese momento yo me encontraba estudiando para rendir el examen de iniciación que usted iba a tomarme, y recibí la misericordia del servicio de trasladarlo a usted en automóvil. Auspiciaba de chofer y lo llevaba adonde necesitara. Claro que siempre íbamos entre devotos y escuchando sus nectáreas palabras, pero recuerdo puntualmente una ocasión, en la q usted me ayudaba con los temas del examen y me daba la instrucción de recaudar fondos para hacer un viaje en el 2014 a Europa del Este. Allí se llevaría a cabo un encuentro de todos los gurus de ISKCON y usted quería que yo este ahí. Lo recuerdo tan claro Maharaja....fue un néctar!! Es la primera vez q me sucede y le aseguro q me hizo comenzar el día muy entusiasmada. Respecto a mi Sadhana, voy muy bien. Con mucho entusiasmo. Cantando la mitad de las rondas antes de las diez am y el resto a lo largo del día. Se qué no es suficiente, q debería cantar las 16 antes de las diez, pero también se que por el momento es lo que puedo hacer y no quiero entrar en ansiedad. Estoy adorando a Tulasi, lo que me reconforta mucho. Si puedo le enviaré una foto para q la conozca. Hoy por la mañana le corté la mayoría de los Manjaris así los reparto entre los devotos del yatra. Deseo que se encuentre muy bien de salud. Le envío mis más humildes, afectuosas y respetuosas reverencias desde Mar del Plata. Ojalá pueda servirlo personalmente pronto. Su aspirante a sirviente, Bhaktina Juliana

              HpS -   Jaya!   TlgaSP!     pfanrh.....  Muy buen carta.  No se que significa el sueno pero es bueno asociar, pero esperamos que en sueno como alerta Krsna esta occupando Vd. en servicio muy cotidiano (actual).  Donde esta, BsAs???    Por seguir los principios y cantar 16 rondas y adorar a tulasi un desarrollar poderes misticos fuertes.  claro el mas gran es compacer a Krsna en Vrndavana.

All Glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to you!
All Glories to devotees

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja!
I miss so much your and the devotees association in Japa Meditation, but is so hard for me waking up at 3.30Am to join in Japa Joe, before go to work. Krsna Consciousness is so exigent! And I’m so busy because of Krsna’s mercy. I try to not loose my time and doing always something for Krsna, oh Gurudev! Is so difficult stay consciousness all day all days. Sometimes I feel like a machine, without feelings and doing things because I have to be a good disciple a good person, because without effort there's no goal. The Krsna Consciousness is the process and the aim at the same time. Now I'm trying to redirect my wishes to Krsna.
I keep studying the Bhagavad Gita in BS. One day a week I stay in the temple to do Mangala Aratik, once a month, participate in Dasanudasa Fest decoration, 4 principles, and almost all days 16 rounds, sorry for that, worshiping SriSriNitaiGauraNataraja ans Srila Prabhupada. I have a dream, you was here and tell me “who not chant the rounds, is not my disciple” and your look was so deep to my eyes, that dream was great GM! I can realize in my heart your huge effort to keep us consciousness, Thanks, thanks thanks!

With my partner, like you ask me in my previous letter, strive and strive. Both have a strong personality and sometimes is difficult for us understand and support each other. Is not easy give to a person exactly what it wants. We keep living with our families, and we’re not talking about marriage yet. We are engaged right now and like four years together. The Grhasta Asrama got many lessons hidden. And sometimes we’re overwhelmed because of that.

Thanks for ask about that and for take care about me GuruMaharaja. You’re so important in my life, everyday I offer my obeisances to your holy lotus feet. AGTSP.
Please keep teaching and showing the correct way. You are the object of my vision, because of your mercy I can aspire to be a dust atom of Srila Prabhupada's feet. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Jaya Hanumat Presaka Swami.

Your fool but determined servant.

RatiManjari Devi Dasi.

            HpS - ASA -  Jaya!   AGTSP........   paoho.  Thank you your letter.  Srila Rupa Goswami says in the NOD that in the beginning there is a tendency to impersonalism. We try to give up our attachment to the personal reflection in the mirror, then we don't yet have personal relation with Krsna, devotees. So don't be too distubed by this. Try to chant you rounds with feeling. It will happen soon.

           You need to get all your rounds done, even if you have to keep a register of how many you are behind. You promised Him you would do it. Don't break you promise. Of course, eventually you will see perfectly that whatever strength you have if you give it chanting 16-nice rounds then you will get the greatest benefit for every other aim by doing that.

Krsna will never punish us for chanting 16-nice rounds. Hari bolo!   Have fun with Krsna!!!!