Letters to the editor

Om ajñana timirandhasya jñanañjana salakaya

Caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah

Nama om visnu padaya, krisna prestaya bhutale srimate hanumatpresaka swami iti namine

nama om visnu padaya krisna prestaya bhutale srimate bhaktivedanta swami iti namine

namaste sarasvati deve gaura vani pracarine nirvisesa sunyavadi pascatya desa tarine

Dear and esteemed gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
In this most auspicious day of your divine and transcendental appearence in this world I feel tremendous joy and fortune of trying to glorify you and the parampara.

You always teached me, your fool children, that I must glorify yourself in the perspective of the whole guru parampara. And the importance to do so is exactly what I’m realizing because of your causeless mercy.

A month ago I finished the disciple’s course which is now a pre requisite to take harinam diksa within our institution. It was amazing, a great opportunity for a very funny sadhu sanga and at the same time very enlightening about the guru tattva, the position of Srila Prabhupada as the Founder Acarya of ISKCON and the importance of being very aware about the parampara.

When I think in that perspective one image comes to my heart. I see Radha And Krishna cooking a big feast, continuously, always expanding, with no end. Then this maha prasadam is passing by the whole parampara. Each person takes some and distributes the rest in a very personal fashion. Then when it comes to Srila Prabhupada I see him taking a huge amount of mahaprasad from his gurumaharaj and he serves us a wonderful feast, in the form of his books, lectures, conversation, letters, etc. Then because he is so merciful I am able to see and even taste that feast, but because I am very inexperienced I don’t know what to take or in which order taste it to take real advantage of that feast. So in that moment gurumaharaj, I see you completely relaxed and smiling in a so beautiful way, you approach chanting and dancing and you take a little piece of the feast and you say “Take this please this is suitable for you know, if you want more please ask me”. You make accessible and understandable for me the teachings of our Founder Acarya, and I know that they are his teachings, what he received from his gurumaharaj, but you make me I can understand them and deposit them in my heart as the guiding light of my life.

Dear gurumaharaj, I’m not able to glorify you because I don’t understand your transcendental qualities, but I do feel very fortunate of having your divine association and guidance.

I was a zero, wondering in the material universe, but you came to my life, and kindly put a one before me to give it some valuable purpose, “please serve guru and Krishna with your life and soul, they will do the rest, don’t worry”.

So now I have something to live for.

At your lotus feet always.

Your insignificant servant.

Bhakta Nicasio.

HpS - AGTSP. paoho. I hope everyone knows that you have take Hari-nama Diksa and you have been born again as Nikunja bihari Das. Thank you for you enlightening words! We hope our menu to Srila Prabhupada's feast is of some use. P'pada says that even in 100 years we cannot read all of this books thoroughtly.

We are making progress on the Goloka Education Primary school. News soon.

Reporte Anual

Devarsi Narada das (from Argentina)

Hare Krishna

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias al movimiento de Sankirtana de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu!!

1 - Fue capaz de seguir los 4 principios regulativos este año?

Este año intentamos mantenernos fijos en servicio al templo y combatir la lujuria, y lo estamos logrando!

Fue mas simple seguir los principios, porque me asocie con devotos muy favorables.

2- Fue capaz de cantar 16 buenas rondas diarias con entusiasmo?

Este año cante 16 rondas diarias, pero creo que tengo que mejorar mucho la meditación, para que realmente sean buenas y entusiastas rondas.

3- ¿Quién es su autoridad administrativa ISKCON en esta institución sankirtana de Srila Prabhupada ?

El presidente del templo de ISKCON Argentina Maha Hari das, y el secretario del GBC Gunagrahi das Goswami.

4- Algun otro comentario

Este  año estuve ayudando a prabhu Maha Hari y el templo con el festival de domingo, en le area de comunicaciones y diseño, y trabajando en el restaurante, ayudando a Gandharvika dd . Siento que estar plenamente en contacto con devotos y poder permitirme ayudar en algo es muy valioso para mi vida espiritual. Guru Maharaja, este año proximo deseo con intusiasmo ayudarlo  en su predica mas directamente. estoy a su disposición.

Muchas Gracias

Mis reverencias a ud

intentando servirlo

Devarsi Narada das

(Argentina)

HpS - ASA - Jaya! AGTSP. pfanrh. Gracias muchas por su asociacion durante nuestra visita y esperamos puede adjustar su situacion de ashrama como estuvimos hablando. Mejor esperanzas para la proxima ano.

AGTSP
paoho our humble Oink! Oink! Oink! and Whoop!  Whoop!  WHoop. Here we are in the B'cari ashrama in Chosica, "A Different Kind of City", at 6.18AM. On schedule with Japa, 20-rounds done. Little bit of headache. Now we will pack and then go to Cantuta National Education University and then to Lima to the Ricardo Palma University center for Ayurveda and then....

... Hurray Krsna!
Doing lots of programs in Universities with Professors and Deans even. We really want to start a periodical now. Tommorrow we fly to USA and there we can find out whats the news from NIOS.

We bought the ticket for Mexico yesterday. We'll be in Mexico City for Gaura-purnima day.:

Depart: 10:33 a.m., Sun., Mar. 16, 2014
Houston, TX (IAH - Intercontinental)

Arrive: 11:50 a.m, Sun., Mar. 16, 2014
Mexico City, Mexico (MEX)

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Depart: 11:10 a.m, Mon., Mar. 17, 2014
Mexico City, Mexico (MEX)

Arrive: 2:19 p.m,  Mon., Mar. 17, 2014
Houston, TX (IAH - Intercontinental)

All Glories to Radhe Syam

All Glories to the six gosvamis of vraj

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you

Dear Gurdev <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />   Happy Vyasa puja!!!

Please accept my humble obeisances. Today I opened my eyes and i said thank you  to Radharani  for being here  in Vraj …..maybe I don’t deserve all of this, because I have the opportunity to have nice spiritual life even if sometimes is very hard to adjust  , where every day something wonderful happens to make me understand that all this  wonderful manifestation comes from Isvara , Thanks  Gurudev  for give me the blessings to be able to be here and serve you from here as well, because  with your support I don’t feel myself weak in thins battlefield . Narottam das Takhur mentions "i got this human form of life but i did not care to Worship Radha an Krihna, Therefore i have spoiled my life, i have Committed suicide simply by not worshiping Radha and Krishna In this human form of life.

is so difficult for realize all this, but after all the goal of having this human existence is  to understand from where we come from, why we are here and where we're going  and most importantly to who we belong  thanks  Gurudev ..... to make me  understand this . Your vyasapuya we celebrated in / Gopalji mandir in the company of some devotees of Radha Kund and Vrindavan , we did  with you parikrama as tradition here in Radha Kund,  and gave prasad to monkeys bananas.

may Radhe syam bless you always and reside in you great heart always

ys Radha carana d.

HPS - AGTSP thank you so much for this letter, but please tell us where you stay. Who is taking care of you. What is you schedule like. Who are your friends.

PAMHO

AGTSP

My dear guruji:

This year has been full of service to Radha Kunda, specially during Kartika that we had a lot of vaisnava seva at home, serving a lot of groups of devotees that came home to see how we try to live, as Srila Prabhupada said, simple life with high thinking.

Personalities like Guru Prasad Swami, Sacinanda Maharaja and Bhurijan prabhu, among others, were at home sharing with us our deities' prasadam and doing a lot of kirtan, damodarastakam and katha. it was very nice for us.

Also, I was doing seva at the kunda, cleaning the banks of Radha Kunda every day, hoping that this vrata could help me to be more humble, but in the middle of the month I got sick and could not do it for some days, that was because instead of becoming more humble, I became very proud of doing this seva and Radharani kicked me off until I could realize that this seva is meant for satisfying her instead of satisfying my very big ego, finally she accepted me again and I could finish my vrata.

I also could chant more rounds and sing more prayers trying to satisfy Radhe Syam and doing parikramas to Govardhan and Radhakunda.

At the end of kartika, my dear Radha Carana from Vrindavan was here in RadhaKunda painting a very beautiful picture of Radharani at the banks of Radhakunda, I was helping her to chase the monkeys away so she could paint more peacefully. The prabhu who asked her to make this picture, told me that he was very impressed by her devotion and seriousness.

In relation to Radha Carana, she has been more and more engaged with the painting of deities not only personal deities but also some temples have asked her to paint their deities, I would like to humbly suggest, if you deem it convenient, to give her second initiation so that she be able to do it without anxiety, because when she is asked to paint temple deities, she is very concerned about not having brahmana initiation.

I think she has improved her sadhana, chants her rounds without problems, do Vrindavan parikrama every day, when I go to Vrndavan we do it together and comes to Radha Kunda very often.

Finally, I want to report you that last thursday we had a very beautiful vyasa puja for you here in Radha Kunda, Radha Carana, Lalita Gopi and myself were hosting this little event and did parikrama-harinama with your picture all around Radha Kunda, after we had the offerings, kirtan and a very nice prasadam.

This is my report, I hope it can satisfy you and Radha Krsna a little bit.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

HpS - ..0'.......   AGTSP. Anyone who reads your letter will see how kind is Radharani. We hope to see you all very soon. We arrive in Delhi at 2PM on the 25th of Feb. Maybe we can meet Harsh there and all come directly from the Airport. Then we will leave early the 28th morning.

Radha carana Dasi needs a letter of recomendation from ISKCON temple.

Hare Krsna Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you.

I was planning on having the letter come at the start of March based on the timeline for initiation.

On the 2nd, Mother Nidra, Abhay Prabhu and I celebrated your vyasapuja with a bhoga offering, puspanjali, arati performed by Mother Nidra while I led kirtan, and I shared some of my intentions for serving you and offered some promises I made to you and rememberances of when we were in Houston.  It was very nice.

On New Years Eve we had maybe 20 or so devotees chanting at an event downtown and the crowds that gathered around us to dance would get so large that police had to try to get them to make way for others to have room to get by.  It was ecstatic, I wish every day was like that.

Maharaja, I have big plans that I want to begin work on in 5 years that I am not at all qualified for.  My intention is to try to prepare myself for them from now until then, and to be brahmacari for around 3 years or so for intense purification and training starting shortly.  It seems the closer I get to Krishna, the more I think about falling back to a safer, less intense position and slowing or stagnating my advancement, and the more I think about that, the more I want to surrender fully to His instruction and never leave His lotus feet ever again.  I am just a rascal with no bhakti, but how could I deny myself to Him, and how could I live otherwise?  While I do not feel qualified to do anything good, I can not imagine turning back now.

I am looking forward to being purified by your presence again when you come to New Badarikashrama again!  We have 7 brahmacaris now, and could have 11 or 12 including myself by the time you are here again!

Hoping that somehow or other I can serve you well,
Bhakta David II

HpS - Jaya!  AGTSP paoho.  Thank you for the nice letter. Your life and journey are very  nice to hear about. We will be touring USA in the fall.

I hope the DTC gives enough news of us. You can see that we have little time for anything right now. In USA in four days.