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Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all glories to you.

Here Deva Vrata [Daaas] 🙂

writes to you from the mountains of Córdoba, Argentina.

How are you?

HpS - jivera svarupa haya, krsnera nitya das. 🐵

💪

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If you are with Krsna and taking refuge in Srila Prabhupada you can never be wrong... so... it is a fact that you are fine.

HpS/ASA - KK//HH . . . '@'pop~

You are an example for me.

HpS - Of evil, vanity, sloth, arrogance, conceit, cunning?

An example that is too high, that sometimes even overwhelms me, that you are someone so pure, generous, kind, funny, honest, determined, dedicated, etc. etc etc....

and me, 1% of all that and 99% of everything opposite...

HpS - AgtSP!!

I hope it is not too pessimistic a letter. I'm going to try to make it realistic.

I'm sorry to say (and sometimes I even repress saying it), that I feel unmotivated in life. It's somewhat repetitive. I have even told you a little about it in previous letters.

Sometimes, I lack drive and enthusiasm to live. I don't know where to get it from.

Daily practice, philosophy, preaching, everything I do, is not enough for me to feel happy. Why is this happening?

HpS/ASA - Following 4-principles? That should eliminate 90% of your distress. Of course, we take too much sugar and that turns to wine in the blood, no? So have to follow four principles strrrrict-ly.

We are making progress.

I am just the same.

Unmotivated. . .

... but in some respects we must just make our own choices. Am I going to turn to Gopal and His friends?

This is our situation: https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/8/#bb6003 ?

Have you come to the neutral stage where you are no longer seduced by The Black Witch, but not yet come to Spontaneous Raga anuga Bhakti?

NoI 7?

. . . You are not motivated any time in the day?

We are motivated at 2AM in the morning after a good sleep, and other times. Some other times we can barely move... 😞

Sometimes it is not that we are tired, we are thirsty, or suffocating. Just a biological reaction of depressed senses, mind, and we identify with it.

Get up!

Wash your clothes!

Trim your garden!

Hari Bolo! Chant One Mantra out loud with your arms raised.

Without living with you in your specific situation I can't give too much specific advice. Get local advisors, friends.

Yet above are some general thoughts, and specific things we do.

We are motivated to read this letter and write, because you WhatsApped us and we see you daily iin the FMS!

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/antya/20/47/

"Iskcon is an uninspiring institution, but all the others are so much worse", Bhakta Abraham.

I am very sorry to tell you this Gurudev. I know that your wish is for us all to be happy. You are a Vaisnava and even an ant matters to you.

HpS - Well actually I usually don't care too much about most people's depression or enthusiasm, because I don't know their details. I try to go out and make myself available and then as I get to know people, then their emotions and attitudes become real to me.

Yes, agtSP, I do care about the ants in my house. Try to facilitate their lives.

It is Srila Prabhupada whom you want to ask these questions of. We can just give a little help like above, and direct you to him!

AgtSP.

When I slow down and focus on one paragraph from the second KRSNA book, it makes me motivated.

Eg. How must chipped, flat, rice did Sudama Vipra take to KRSNA? Was it enough for one lunch?

O.K. Let's look at some other posts.

We're all crazy here.

You're not going to be fully motivated until you kiss Krsna's lotus foot prints in Vrndavana, and get the shelter of the Gopis, and they are not hard to approach, because they are looking for more, and more, and more people to do practical work in their efforts.

How can I feel the drive to live?

HpS - By seeing Srila Prabhupad smile at you.

Where does the enthusiasm to live day to day come from?

HpS - Sankirtan with Srila Prabhuapda and then peanut butter and jam on rye bread sandwich prasadam when you are tired!

I am unfortunate to be so absorbed in my misfortune. I should be absorbed in trying to serve you and Iskcon.

HpS - Maybe our depression is just result of material associaiton, but also just our offensive, greedy and selfish faults! We take a deep breath and chant two Maha-mantras. As long as can breath you can chant. That is your option. Enthusiasm is not something you get (get, get, get) but some way to act (give, give, give). You have to have unlimited determination to serve Krsna, hari kirtan. How much...? Unlimited?

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/antya/20/47/

That's my reality. Anyway, I do the best I can with what I have.

HpS - 😠

Well why didn't you say that in the beginning! That's all we can suggest! 😄

Thanks Gurudev. please give me some advice.

HpS - Just did. 🐈

Eternally indebted to you.

HpS - Good, that will help us pay off our debt to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you for accepting me into your entourage, even though I am the most insignificant.

Bows to your feet.

Hare Krishna

ASA - Pictures cats and dog pictures attached. Thank you for yours. From them it seems that maybe your are not tasting the mystical poetry in the books and sharing that with others.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/5/12/

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Hare Krsna Gurudev.

Por favor, acepte mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada y todas las glorias a ti.

Aquí te escribe Deva Vrata das de las sierras de Córdoba, Argentina.

¿Cómo estás? 

Si estás con Krsna y refugiado en Srila Prabhupada nunca puedes estar mal... así que... es un hecho que estás bien.

Eres un ejemplo para mí. 

Un ejemplo demasiado elevado, que incluso a veces hasta me agobia, que seas alguien tan puro, generoso, amable, divertido, honesto, determinado, entregado, etc. etc. etc....

y yo, un 1% de todo eso y un 99% de todo lo contrario...

Espero que no sea una carta demasiado pesimista. Voy a intentar hacerla realista. 

Lamento decirlo (y a veces incluso reprimo decirlo), de que me siento desmotivado en la vida. Es algo repetitivo. incluso en cartas anteriores te lo he contado un poco.

Algunas veces, me falta ímpetu y entusiasmo para vivir. No sé de dónde sacarlo. 

La práctica diaria, la filosofía, la prédica, todo lo que hago no me alcanza para sentirme feliz. ¿por qué me sucede esto?

Lamento mucho contarte esto Gurudev. Sé que tu deseo es que todos seamos felices. Eres un vaisnava y hasta una hormiga te importa.

Cómo puedo sentir el impulso para vivir? 

de dónde sale el entusiasmo para vivir el día a día? 

Soy desafortunado por estar tan absorto en mi infortunio. Debería estar absorto en tratar de servirte a tí y a Iskcon.

Esa es mi realidad. De todos modos, hago lo mejor que puedo con lo que tengo.

gracias Gurudev. por favor dame un consejo.

Eternamente endeudado contigo. 

gracias por haberme aceptado en tu séquito, aunque yo sea el más insignificante.

Reverencias a tus pies.

Hare Krsna 

Hare Krishna, Dear Guru maharaja!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and All glories to you.

Please accept our humble obeisances. (PAOHO)

As of every two weeks:

* Bulletin is now upload on Facebook (English & Spanish), it is also in Google Groups (English & Spanish) as listed at: http://www.jayarama.us/hello.htm

Hare Krishna!!! I hope You are doing ok. Thanks a lof for your words in the bulletin. They give us a lot of strength.

I just came from Huancaya some hours ago. It was a very interesting trip. Many strange things happened. My only conclusion is that Krsna controls everything for good.

Despite everything, we can still maintain a decent sadhana.

My aunt is in very serious health, she will probably leave her body between today and tomorrow.

Thank you so much.

ASA - We think that some people read it besides you and me. 😆 Hope it inspires comments, questions or complaints in the Blog!

HpS - Send her picture ASAP!!

Your aspirant servants

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette)

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru Maharaj H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami. Please accept my humble obeisances at your sweet lotus feet.

HpS - AgtSP. Our feet are more like lettuce feet.

My pranams again and again , those transcendental lotus feet are my only shelter.

HpS - Probably 99.9999999...% of any good qualities you see in us are the result of Guru and Krsna, AgtSP, who made their generals out of mud!

My apologies for the long, long hibernation. Trapped by Maya....but as always, our glorious Guru Maharaj stands before me to defend and protect me always. Internet services had been shut down for the last 3 months. Temporarily it was lifted last week.....only to be banned again.

HpS - Yamunesvara Das told us the same! Lord in the heart.

During those days, we continued with our morning SB classes through conference call. Our group has completed the First canto , by Your kind mercy. All glories to Your divine mercy Guru Maharaj. We are in the first chapter of Canto 2 now.

ASA - After Preface in First Canto, SG begins to preach.

The evening BG classes could not be continued as all the participants could not be connected by conference call. The few of us continued with NOI followed by Krishna book reading by conference call during the evening session.

HpS - Super!

Now, every evening we are reading a little portion of NOD, followed by Krishna book reading and BG.

We have completed 2 rounds of BG and each of us take turns in reading the BG.

We are in 2.22 now.

My Bhakti Bhaivav classes suffered. Could not join 3 units.

HG Padmasundari Mataji has been so merciful to let me join the classes after 3 months.

We are in the Sixth Canto now.

In this trying times, the Narayana kavaca has come as a huge, huge relief. Our co ordinator has told in the class that we need to seek permission from our spiritual master to recite these prayers. Guru Maharaj, these prayers are so close to my heart. May I get Your instruction on these prayers?

HpS - We don't know anything specific but why not recite anything in SB! Recite them with perspective of the Bh. Vedanta puports, no?

Recently I had been empanelled as a member of the Standing Academic Committee of our Institute. I offer this post at Your lotus feet, for the service of Srila Prabhupada. The exchange programme between Peru and Manipur can come through a Memorandum of Understanding between various Universities of Peru and our Institute. We are working with the Head of Department of Yoga from Manipur University for some collaborative studies. Thank you so much Guru Maharaj, you have showered us with so many blessings. Prof. T.Inaobi, HOD of Yoga and the Dean , School of Education , Manipur University has been greatly influenced by your interaction with him on Your last visit . Thank you Guru Maharaj.

Chanting regularly ....with lots of love, by Your mercy Guru Maharaj. Doing my daily devotional services from home as night curfew has been imposed since the last 4 months. On Sundays, I go for mangal arti to the temple and then go to Sri Govindaji temple.

Your grace is amazing dear Guru Maharaj. The trouble started from Nrshimha Caturdasi.

My heart was broken when our Chief minister touched the Vigraha of Sri Nrshimha Dev last year.

HpS - Touched? Some violence to Lord Nrshma?

This year too, he was invited and I was already in a lot of distress lest the same thing would be repeated.

On this auspicious day, this year, he could not attend as violence erupted on this day. All glories to Sri Nrshimha dev. The entire month, our reading group read the 7th canto....a lot of us cried and cried. I thank you Guru Maharaj for protecting us.

Going to Mayapur on 11th of October with few devotees. Finally. I feel a great sense of relief to be of some service to your relentless efforts in propagating the mission of Srila Prabhupada. I remain a miniscule dust particle at Your lotus feet Guru maharaj.

Your ignorant and insignificant servant

Sarad Gaurangi DD

HpS - Thank you!

Thank you... T h a n k ... you!

Go on being a bright fire of Krsna shakti!

Solving problems in Manipur solves them all over the world.

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krishna!

I am not writing you much. Feel as obstruction into your busy schedule and non-needed tiring for your eyes.

Some disciples also do not write on the blog. I know them. Sure, some of them, meet you in person regularly at least yearly.

It looks I do not travel much or almost nothing. So, in a way, can't write news such as "was here and there, with those and those devotees, visiting that and that temple."

Still, hopefully, the travel is into the depthless of the heart (consciousness - citta). It may be not exotic to talk about, write about (specially in the public forum). Hope against hope that Citta Hari may do his merciful activity and will have a temple in the heart.

I try to chant here and chant there, internally and externally, what is there unless not touched by the Holy Name.

Parents are getting old and crippled. Helping them to go through whatever they need to go through.

Nirgata is doing fine - whatever "fine" can mean for an over-50-person in Kali Yuga.

Trying to be in sadhu sangas with reasonable non judgemental attitude.

Reading Srila Prabhupada's books in a not-in-a-hurry method. Not rushing through the pages. Jotting down notes. Idea is to accept and make transformation (of consciousness) and not just collect data.

Is not easy to live, it is not easy to inquire sincerely and be vulnerable in society (devotee or at-the-moment non devotee). Questioning ISKCON fables and "laws" in a non aggressive, gentle mood while being open to be questioned by others.

Birds fly as much high their wings can take them (sloka from SB), so I try to present the topic with the honest realization. And, if it is a thought or even doubt, I declare it openly that it is a point of my reflection based on reading, hearing and contemplating the sastric teaching.

I continue reading the Blog, Flag with a monkey on it 💖

and Twitter posts.

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - Thank, agtSP, you! Very nice report.

You know Walt Whitman (Thoreau, Emerson)? American poets, writers, called The Transcendentalists. Beginning of USA. had some contact with BG etc!

Whitman wrote that in this life the body travels far, but the soul travels much much more.

I meet the same men, the same women, the same situations and challenges, again and again,

But each time higher, higher.

Life is a spiral.

It goes up.

Where does it go?

..

...

....

I do not know.

But I know it goes some place good!

Paramatma vadi???

Hope so much that our ASA work is of some value to you in systematizing your Sankirtan!

Respects to the Catless one (Spanish: Nir Gata).

Who is there in your Yatra?

Hare Krsna,                                                                                                                16.10.2023

Dandavat Pranam,

All Glories to HpS Guruji Maharaja.

Please accept my humble obeisance to Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan, that I could not sent and read the block [blog] due to Law & Order problem of Manipur since 3rd May 2023.

We are trying to form a new Committee of our Thoubal Manir (Bhagavat Shiksha Ashram). It was a registered body under the Manipur Society Register Act but unfortunately the previous committees did not continue the formalities, so we are trying to continue the formalities with the help of the officials. It will take some time, but it is possible.

HpS - Basic society is Sanga of friends who chant Hare Krsna together, but if that is maturing, like the seed making the flower, then Varna Ashrama Dharma follows the Bhagavata Dharma and we engage in this Ksatriya, civil work. Very nice. Save your circle of contacts in Manipur etc.

Yes, we all need Bhakti-Sastri Classes not for certificate but to increase the Bhakti knowledge.

Guruji! where are You now adays, and when You are coming in India? During Goura Purnima will You be in Mayapur? It will be a golden opportunity for us to visit Navadwip nine dwips of Nabadwip and duwadasa (12) vans of Brindavan under the guidance of Guruji Maharaja. We a team of 10-12 bhaktas of our Manir are planning to come Mayapur during Goura Purnima. We will start from the 21st of March to 27th at Mayapur, then Puri - Delhi - Mathura - Brindavan - Radhakunda -Delhi - Kurukshetra - Delhi - Imphal on 7th April.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamuneswara Das

HpS - We always put our Calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja, but we certainly repeat it here, especially because of the communication block in Manipura.

[How is your daughter, son, relations?]

We have been based in Nashville, Tennesse, USA for months, after returning from India.

We are too old to travel alone or even much at all.

We went for a week to the East coast, West coast, and now after five weeks, 19th November we should go to Middle-South, Texas.

Probably stay there for three months, until just before Gaura purnima.

We are not sure.

Health is not stable.

World politics and peace and prosperity are not stable.

Yet, maybe come back to Nashville end of February and celebrate Gaura purnima here.

After that???

Stay here on our new rural campus???

Go to Europe/Spain then to Radha Kunda???

Maybe next time our body go to India will be as ashes in a jar that someone will kindly pour in the Yamuna.

Of course, if we are ghost following our ashes in airplane to India we can steal peoples drinks. 😆

Thank you for the news.

Please send any questions.

Hello to Vana mali, Sadhu, Ekanatha, Sarad, everyone!!!!!

TB/BW

Hare Krsna.

AgtSP

Paoho & BW,

We watched a documentary on Bill Waterson who produced cartoon, "Calvin and Hobbs". It was very enlivening in terms of understanding how our Sankirtan of the Holy Names can progress in the current world.

Happiness comes from personal relations.

One time we visited Prof. Linus Pauling with H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami et al and it was fantastic how much personal relation Prof. Pauling had with the sticks-and-balls molecular model on his desk!

Worked more on DTC(UT) Spain with Ambarisa/Vrsabhanu Devi Das, Prof. Raul and ArtD. Making progress.

Wrote a one-hour letter for Daru Krsna Das in Peru about our perspective on the management problems.

Lost $32 to the bank for a late fee! We were sure that there was no payment due. Trying to manage our credit card makes us very suspicious that the bank posts the information with a little intention of manipulating us.

Hmmm.

Conspiring? Paranoia?

Done 90% of the rest of the $$$ accounts and banking.

Reading and answering a lot of mail. We forwarded by Twitter a nice report from M. Subra Dasi from Florida.

Now gayatri, look at Blog posts, finish $$$, three last rounds, hot milk, 8PM NOI 9 with PSF!

HK/HR!!

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We remember one study that we saw while we were in University. It was an investigation of how far any USA citizen was from the President.

The study asked random adults who they would contact if they felt they had news that was directly important to the President and everyone would agree that it was.

First a lot of people would know someone like a lawyer. Then he would know another lawyer who was involved with politics like at a state level, and s(he)it, would know someone in Washington and...

In general, it showed that no USA citizen was more than six steps away from the President.

Similarly, by being members of Srila Prabhupada's mission we have individual and institutional contact with people all over the world, from a KC perspective. People who don't smoke, drink, fornicate, gluttonize, gamble; and are conditioned by the intelligence of Sukadeva Goswami, Arjuna et al.

World's a mess ([Kali Yuga].

Keep you little candle going in the association of Srila Prabhupada. Bring it in relation to other candles, LCD, and make villages of light.

Thank you.

See you in classes.

Hope the Kapi Dhvaja is useful.