Letters to the editor

asa[e] vaidhi bhakti

All glories to Prabhu pada, 

I am a Brahmachari from India and met you in Amsterdam.

I wanted to ask you ,how I can reduce my sleep to 4 hours daily.

For a long time I try it by reduced eating and regulation but I have to take 5 hours rest to the body.

Your servant

Bhagavan das

HpS/ASA - AgtSP.

We remember H. H. Tamal-krsna Goswami commenting to Srila Prabhupuada that one devotee in Los Angeles was sleeping more than six hours a day.

Srila Prabhupada answered firmly, that what was the difficulty with that if, when he was awake, he did three times as much work as TkD did.

Hmmm. Big topic, but seems that some jobs require that we let the body sleep more to recover.

O.K.

To our mind, we remember that the American philosopher, Benjamin Franklin commented that one should not eat to dullness.

Jayananda Das told us that he had tried so many diets but the one that actually seemed to work was: Don't eat too much and work hard.

Chant HK/HR while you eat, while you fill your plate, while you digest.

Pray to Krsna to engage your senses in His service etc.

I useful?

We might be able to say more but please post in our Blog. Then the dialog can be useful to many other devotees.

Thank you!!

Hare Krishna Gurudev.

PAMHO. AGTSP. All glories to you. I am excited to see you in Richmond soon!

HpS - Hope there is chance for nice dancing!

I think astrologically I'm going through a transformative spiritual transit.

Ended another relationship (which is a huge bummer because he was going to come with me to rva and meet you).

Aw well, I keep holding on to your words saying Radha is arranging everything and trying to have hope.

Otherwise, I’m keeping engaged in doing/teaching yoga and mantra meditation.

The local studio is hosting a BG course under Hari-Kirtana das so it’s a nice push to sankirtan.

We did a kirtan night 2 weeks ago.

I’m always engaged under Sankirtan Yagya and his food truck. We made over $60k in donations last year and are working towards a few big grants.

My tulsi jewelry business has been going well and I’ll most likely stop after Janmastami. I would really like to make a necklace and earrings for your Nrsimha deity gurudev. Does He have pierced ears?

HpS - No. I really think He's not my Nrsmha, but rather I am His boy.

I was thinking of taking a quick trip to Taos, NM, to visit the Neem Karoli baba temple. I will probably take my father along – he is a Hanuman Bhakta.

HpS - We have some interaction with them. Interesting.

Some of them have reputation for like Sahajia: I am your Radha, You are my Krsna, no?

I don't know many details and recent developments.

Listening to lots and lots of kirtan. Hopefully I can come spend time in India with you – how do I go about staying at your ashram?

HpS - It's small but there are places nearby. I don't know who you would contact. A lot of devotees will be visiting. Should be HAPPY.

Maybe Subal knows some of our friends there.

Is it open to stay it?

I’ll be in Vraj in Dec helping with a ISKCON youth retreat. Anyhow- I’m just plodding along this life. Please keep me engaged in your service and under your shelter gurudev.

Thank you for your mercy.

HpS/ASA - We will be there like end of September and beginning of October. You are asking about December. Hmmm? I think by then it may be closed.

We can talk in Richmond.

Thank you!

Very refreshing to hear from you!

You are a soldier!!!!

Your aspiring servant,

Sugopi devi dasi 

Hare Krishna!

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obessiances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to you!

Guru Maharaja, I appreciated very much your point if we do FMP then why wouldn't we want to share it with others. It got me thinking quite a bit.

It got me thinking about my current service and if I should be asking the current devotees I lead to come to 4:30 managala arati with me. We currently make 5:50am the "mandatory". It was quite interesting that the next day we had a meeting where they said they want to come to 4:30 managla arati and it should be mandatory for them and something that new Bhaktas work towards. I was so happy, amazed and full of gratitude.

Gurudeva, I talked to Nityananda Prabhu about morning program. I expressed how important FMP is to us. You have always been clear in our wanting us to do FMP and it has penitrated my heart also. I asked him if I was to go to India with him what would our morning program look like. He is committed to 5am - 7:30am FMP. He understood and was appreciative of our communication.

What do you think Guru Maharaja?

Your servant,

Nanda-braja das

HpS - Is, agtSP, a big topic.

On this traveling partys as we have heard Srila Prabhupada was very very heavy about devotees not getting up by about 6.30AM. For that delay he was The Great Destructor.

When I was with H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami, my esteemed Sannyasa Guru, Siksa guru... !

He would not be up and in Mangala arati at times during our program organization.

His disciples, others in the Ashrama would often follow this program.

He was a more action oriented person than myself. We both knew this.

He got stuff done.

Yet, we would do our Dharma, he did not object.

We and our Lord Nrsmha deva would be up and chanting and dancing even though we were like 20% less weight from the heat etc of Calcutta.

He looked hot.

We learned so much about Prana and Yoga then.

Then, it gave us strength the whole day 💪

We will always be stronger in some sense than other devotees and weaker in others.

We should not focus on criticizing others because it will only agitate their mnds.

Out of maybe 9 devotees in the Ashrama in Calcutta in 1987, preparing for the BI congress about three more would get up and join us for the Mangala arati.

Maharaja appreciated our persepective. Thanked us.

Maybe same arrangement for you in India.

Hk pamho

Querido Gurudeva este es el afiche de su próxima venida a NVM, hecho por Vrsabhanu DD. Lo difundiremos un día después de Balarama.

Muchas aventuras antes de sus llegada.

Una princesa Inca como paracaídas estuvo un dia de improviso en NVM.

Mucho entrenamiento previo. Vemos que Krsna manda ayuda.

Muy felices todos por acá. Lo esperamos Gurudeva, sus bendiciones para ser útil en el sankirtan.

Krsna lo traiga con bien.

Haribolo!!!

Su hija que lo adora:

Yugala Kisora Dasi.

Sunday Morning Srimad Bhagavatam Workshop will start reading Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya-lila, Chapter Nine: Lord Caitanya's Travels to the Holy Places. We will start reading 9.104 verses onwards. We should be able to complete reading about 30 verses.

Thank you to H. G. Ambrish Prabu for being there to help with translation.

It is the mercy of Maharaja, to engage everyone in reading books of Srila Prabhupada.

YS

Upendra dasa

BnD: HK Gurudeva pamho, TlgaSP!!!

Could you give me a few minutes to call you on the phone please? If possible. You propose the time and I will call you on WhatsApp.

I am [xxx]

Gurudeva, my current wish is to withdraw from Iskcon, in order to end this political persecution to which I have been subjected.

I do not want to give up on you or Srila Prabhupada, and I wish to continue supporting your Sankirtan... But not within Iskcon, I will look for a way to continue serving Srila Prabhupada in Lord Caitanya's mission. I will find a way to do it,

[LPlease give me your permission to withdraw from Iskcon.

[8/16, 7:05 PM] HP Swami - Prof HHR:

Why, agtSP, let them win?

☹️💪💪💪💪

I will never leave ISKCON.

It does not belong to anyone but it's Founder Acharya!

If people are dressing themselves falsely as leaders of the institution but at heart are self seeking demons then we shall chant Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, praying for Rama and Krsna to save all the honest members of Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON, and if They want us to kill demons it will be obvious that we are just Their instruments. 

You me and Prabhupada will always stay in ISKCON even if everyone else leaves?