Letters to the editor

PAMHO

AGTSP

AGTSSGN

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

Hope that when you get this report your health is well and your energy has improved.

                HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!!!  We hope the same for you!

 I would like to thank you for your visit to Chile. For me, to rely on your instruction and association are an invaluable treasure. Especially because on this occasion I could assist with my mother, who works in European Southern Observatory   and two astronomers, to your conferences on Carl Jung and The light of Bhagavata, and for everybody was a very enriching experience.

Sadhana:  chanting at least 16 rounds in japa beads, but have to recognize that sometimes my enthusiasm is down, but its been better for the last month. Following strictly four principles.

Because of my family responsibilities, im doing mainly house programs and try to assist to at least one program of the day in the temple.

Maharaj, i have a question. In the purport of BG 5.15 it is said that the Vedanta sutras (2.1.34) confirms that “ "The Lord neither hates nor likes anyone, though He appears to." But then in BG 12.14-20 Krsna describes the cualities of the devotee that makes him very dear to him. How can this be???  Was just an illusion of my mind when I have felt loved by Krsna?

Its been some time since the last time I wrote. Sometimes I fell trapped in a maelstrom that difficults my capacity of communicating and I didn´t want to bother you with my issues. This because I pass through some complicated times with my service in the temple. In my last report I told you I was in charge of the flower services, clothes and jewels for the deity and in helping with the decorations offers (mostly of the altar) for the parties. In this I was when the president of the temple P. Amara Gouranga Das asked me if I could take the service of being his assistant, temple secretary, and secretary of the administrative board. Considering that in the temple we were going through a little complicated situation regarding administrative issues, I agree to accept the service. I also helped in the attention and administration of the temple restaurant. Due to the fact that some inconvenient situations arose and considering the advice received by major devotees, that the most important thing was to take care of my spiritual life, is that I talk with my authorities to thank the opportunity and confidence they had on me, but decided to leave this service.

After I re evaluate my situation regarding what service I should realize, and remembering your words about how lucky we are of being able to be in touch with  the deities in kali – yuga and due to the infinite mercy of my beloved Krsna, is that I could take again my services. So im back doing garlands, going for flowers, helping in the service of clothes for the deity and decorating the altar and the temple for special occasions. Krishna is perfect.

Actually lots of service preparing for Goura Purnima. Reading the Teachings of Lord Caitanya for inspiration.  (my sadhana includes everyday lectures on SBh, BG, KB)

Hopping that someday i can get the mercy of the shelter under  your lotus feet. That you can accept me to be your insignificant servant.

Please, bless us so we can continue engaged with service, in the mission of Srila Prabhupada!!

Hare Krsna.

Bhaktin Paula Quezada

               AGTSP! - Krsna likes everyone. He is the Supreme Enjoyer. He likes to enjoy everything. So if someone wants to have a good fight with Him then He enjoys that, Kicks and Screams and Bites like Hell! A good fight, and the Demon feels good, "That was a good fight! I don't feel so angry anymore. Maybe Krsna would like to take a dip in the lake and have a little hot milk after all that!"
From another point of view He is angry at the Demons and favors the devotees. It is a matter of how you look at it.
We should try to be good and do the right thing so that Krsna will be pleased with us and not have to be worrying about us!!!

AgtSP!

Agt Guru y Gauranga!

Pamho Maharaja!

Soy Bhakta Pablo del Parikrama, de España.

I wish You are well in all aspects Maharaja.

I write from Madrid Mandir, I am here since Goura Purnima. Today Gaura-Nitay, sevices, class with Akrura Prabhu, Jarikhanda Das, Jara Mara Hari Das, Bhakta Marcos...etc. Sooo nice be here. Now I am happy. Madrid Mandir Ki Jay!!!

I think a lot of You Maharaja. I want to speak with Dandavat Das about be again your formal " aspirante " if You don`t say other think diferent. What I need do for that , etc.

I will go to India since 29 april to 29 of may, Madrid-Bombay, Bombay-Navadvipa and again came back. I want more but I can´t with security in my obligations here.

Today I have had one nice realitation for me, it`s a nonesense, but I have never had like today. Krsna is sooo kind with all of us that give to us all that we want. That make me be " tranquilo ", Krsna is with all of us, taking care of us always. Sooo nice. 

I will go to write to Jayapataka Maharaja Vyasa-puja giving obeisances. Is a big reference for me, like You Maharaja.

Your fool sevant, Bhakta Pablo.

At yours feet.

Hare Krsna.

                    HpS - ASA - Jaya! Thank you for your association in Japa Joe also. We hope your visit to India is very refreshing. Yes, aspiration for Formal Initiation is very very nice!!!!!

Hare Krisna, dear Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

First I hope you're fine after your travel to India.

              HpS - ASA - Jaya! AGTSP  paoho.... We recovered after about a week. We were exhausted!

By Kisna's Mercy we are fine, very positive and with a lot energy.

From the administration changes in Madrid's Temple on last 26th Jan we had some problems, but by Kirsna's Mercy we are overcoming with all Congregation's devotees. We are beginning to be a great family. Before we seemed distant cousins, now We are beginning to seem brothers in arms.

I explain you what are we doing now and which are our plans for next months or year.

¿What are we doing now?

1. Putting in order the administration, saving money to Srila Prabhupada, etc.
2. We are elevating Deities' standard.
3. We are pushing the academic training helped by Bhaktivedanta Institute: Bhakti-Yoga Introduction course, Bhakti-Sastri First and Second modules and Bhakti-Vaibhava first Chapter of Srmad Bhagavatam.
4. We are starting a development congregation program and devotee care. How?. We invited to Akrura Das for coming to Madrid to teach us about Gita Coach, Devotee Care, Develop Leaders and training coachers program. We are having different seminars  about that. He is in Madrid from 2 weeks ago and he'll be here until he wants.
5. We are implementing a communication preaching program via Facebook, website, Google+, email, posters in the temple, face to face, etc.
6. We arranged with New Vrajamandala to develop our relationship, and that be closer.
7. We arranged in the last Communication meeting to be joined to rest of Spain Yatra.
8. We have Harinamas all weeks and we are starting to have Harinamas every day at 17:00.
9. We are pushing Nama Hathas.
10. We are inviting to Elder devotees and leaders of projects for coming to Madrid during the weekend or days to do preaching programs with them.
11. Now, all days are distributed  many Srila Prabhupada's books on the Madrid's Streets. Now we have 4 sankirtaners: Jaramara Hari Das, Yasodanandana Das, Bhakta Alejandro and Bhakta Quique.
12. We built a boutique in the temple, with Srila Prabhupada's books, and other things as mala bags, essences, incenses, malas, cds, Deities, etc ...

HpS --- Aaah! Very active!!

What are our plans for next months or year?

• To develop facilities for Matajis. We would like to create a Mataji's ashrama with a  Matajis' Leader.
• We would like to buy or rent an apartment close to Temple, other side the ashram wall where Jaramara Hari Das lives now to develop de Matajis' ashram there.
• We would like to expand  the Temple's room. We want buy an other room together at  Temple's room and put them together, about  15 square meters more.
• To create a coachers team to devotee care and mentors.
• To keep the level of the academic training.
• To develop more and more Nama Hatha and start a Bhakti Vriksa program.
• To consolidate Srila Prabhupada's distribution books and Harinama daily, etc.

You  know I'm working outside the temple, but I'm going to the temple three times per week more or less and all administration team are in permanent communication.

All team are developing a great job and the devotees are more and more committed.

We hope that differences with some devotees of prior administration disappear soon. It depends on all.

We want you coming to Spain and Madrid soon and It's my duty to invite you for coming. We must work very hard still to obtain Krisna's Mercy and yours, but please don't leave us without you and your mercy  this year 2014.

Thank you for all, Gurudeva.

Please, let me keep at your Lotus Feet.

Your humble servant, Dandava Das.

              HpS - ASA - Jaya. AGTSP.  You can see in the DTCs and the Tweets and the Kapi Dhvaja reports what we are doing. I think we will be based in Tennessee until August. Then we will tour USA, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest. Then back to Tennessee and South America in March April 2015. Guess we would get to Europe in August of 2015.

Depends on our strength and Krsna's choice. Right now we are trying to recover our bodily energy and we will have to see how that goes.
Certainly best of wishes in the preaching in Madrid?

What about more centers in other parts of the city? Bhakta-vrksas get their own full-time centers eventually?

AGTSP
paoho.

Thanks again to Prahlada-nrsmha Das and his esteemed wife for so, so much for their help while we were in Mayapura. They are very great saints. We hope they get all success there.

We have recovered after a week back in USA. We were really, really exhausted.

Now we are starting to clear up the Blog mail, answer all the new letters and a few older ones daily, but when we go to the disciple reports we can't tell which ones we have already answered!

We are asking Prahlad how to distinguish that.

We are Tweeting.

It is 4.48 PM. We are in Radha-Natabara's ashrama and then at 5.30PM we and Tandavika and NGD will meet about meet about the Strategic Plan for NIOS.

We have really, really, really been making a lot of progress in our own Strategic Plan for our life, service. we feel that we are quite insincere: Lusty, greedy, selfish, but may have some sincerity and Srila Prabhupada, our Acharya, is keeping us engaged.

Looking at our many, many projects, responsibities, we have been quite successful in getting our promises under control. We only have 275% more service that we can properly do.

(Haw! Haw! Hare~~)

After years of efforts at writing we have finally been successful to restrict ourselves to making 'TPP: Tava-pache-pach -- Afterwords to the NOI' our first priority.

Also after unlimited experiments we are using 9.75 x 7.5 inch Composition Notebooks. It is working well. We got a LOT of empetuous, as we always have, from Satsvarupa Maharaja's journal.

We started writing March 5th and now we have 57-descent pages done in 'Step One'. It is like our duty, whether it is good or bad, we have to work to make it good. We have to integrate our other writing, previous writing. It comes before this Blog, letters everything, but of course these other writing works should all follow behind with even more significance.

O.K. Time to give Brother Ass a break!

Thank you so much.

Pamhr. 

tlgaSP.

cantando 16 rondas

50% gayatris

leyendo srimad bhagavatam y krishna Book

organizando Bhakti Vriksa, 5 grupos 

trabajando para Krishna West. 

planificando educación. 

4 principios. 

S.s. madhumangala d.

                HpS - ASA -- Jaya! Si, es super tomar tiempo para "tri-sandhyas", gayatri etc. dawn, noon, dusk.   How is your son?

Haré krishna!!

por estos días estamos organizando los cursos que deberían tomar los líderes de bhakti Vriksa durante este año.

si todo resulta bien el currículum para este año sería:

bhakti-Sastri VTE

comunicaciones VTE

facilitacion I y II. VTE

liderazgo y administración VTE

curso de discípulos  VTE. 

Quedaria pendiente para el 2015  los siguientes cursos. 

Cauching, resolución de conflictos, mediación y asuntos matrimoniales y familiares. 

A mitad de febrero estaremos trabajando en establecer Visión y Misión para el proyecto de educación en Chile. 

Desde marzo incluir más personas para completar el equipo de trabajo 

segundo semestre de este año quizás partir con una escuelita de fin de semana. 

S.s. 

Madhumangala das.

                     HpS - Jaya!  TlgaSP.   pfanrh.  Descupla la demurra responder. Puede ver la problema, no? Fuerte, presion de viaje a India! Ya, despues de una semana en USA estamos de salud, energia normal. Sus cursos aparecen super.

Esperamos hablar con Rama-giri-dhari Das 12-19 Marzo acerca de Ministry of Education (MOE) y Sud America. Hay mucho interes de Lima tambien. Tambien Jayapataka Swami por Ekanatha Gaura Das tiene mucho interes en organizar cosas en terminos de MOE.

Mucho oportunidad!!

Esperamos mas noticias durante proxima dias.  Reunion 12-19th en Houston.