Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeissances,

AGT Srila PRabhupada.

Hello Maharaja, this is David from Argentina. I have two questions jumping around my head and I have faith you can give light on it : It is the same to chant Holy Names using wood Japa than using electronic counter? I´ve found really easier to do grhastra life using an electronic counter , while doing things, waiting on bank, walking to the metro, etc, to chant just pushing a botton on a digital counter on my finger....but deep inside of me I think this is not the same than having a Tulasi Japa on my right hand. Please enlight me with your knowledge Maharaja.

             HpS - AgtSP.   paoho.  Prabhupada says like "Sixteen rounds minimum on beads".  So that is the best.  Seems that, yes, having Tulasi beads increases the potency.   But if we can't do that then chanting on mechanical device is certainly better than not chanting!!

The second one is about luxury. How does luxury appears in mind and heart?. Once on desire its so hard to keep intelligence strenght, but I wonder why luxury appears, what is the mechanism that allows luxury to do the first move. I want to know it, to understand and prevent those episodes .
            HpS - I think the word is lust, no luxury.  Luxury means like "lujo".  High class restaurant or airplane seat.    Lust comes because we want to be attracted by Maya. So,  Krsna draws our attention to our senses.  When the senses are engaged in serving Krsna, seeing Krsna, smelling Krsna...   Then they are transparent channels and no energy builds up on them.   When we start to try to please them, get rasa from serving them rather than Krsna, that is lust.  The pressure builds up unaturally and then we want to release it.
Oh, and just one more...have you been Grhastra right?.
                HpS -  Kind of.  When I was becoming a devotee, but soon, Bhakta Huber and wife got separated and she remarried a nice person after six years and he stayed b'cari.

That is all Maharaja, I do keep my sadhana but this kind of question I believe is keeping me away from spiritual advance.

AGT Sri Guru Gouranga

AGT your lotus feet,

Please do not take any offense.

Hare Krishna

HPS - Jaya!   Next letter!   Thank you.  Don't eat to much and work hard!

AGTSP

paoho

We get internet in our cave/office tommorrow!   We have 1 week and 5 days of letters to answer. We are getting the Office going. There was no ventilation in our office room, but today we broke open one of the windows and looks like we will be O.K. with no air-conditioning and just a fan.  The air-conditioning is rather expensive.

We are actually making good progress with the writing work.    It's always austere in sannyasa ashrama if you follow it properly, but that is good. Even a fool can get purified by Prabhupada's mercy and go to join the boys in the pastures in Goloka.

Lots of work to do there.

O.K. Letters!

hare krsna maharaj,
pamho,agtsp.
Prof Bandhyopadyay/Museum gave you CD having photographs of the event in Kolkata. Do you have it with yourself?

We need single Photo of following persons from that VD
i. Shyamal Kanti Chakaravarty
ii. Durga Basu
iii. Kalyan Chakravarty
iv. Prabal Sen
v. Pratap Bandyopadhyay.

If it is possible for you to send the images, please send me on my email id.

Hari Bol. thank you for engaging us in service.
dwart/f

   HpS - ASA -  AGTSP.   paoho.  As I remember I worked on the CD in his house. It had very extreme problems and then left it there for him to do more work. My netbook didn't have a CD reader and I have not seen the CD in my luggage.  I don't have it.  He worked on it and gave it to Sanjaya at the Gaudiya math.  Maybe there were two CDs.  Movie and still photos.   I don't have either.  Thank you!!!   You are a generous person!!

    A G T S P !     (((paoho)))                9.41PM.   We have 24/26 rounds done.    We've answered all letters up to one week ago (looked for any with URGENT in the Subject field).    Some letters longer eg. South America travel plans.

We are in Tandavika Das' Ashrama tonight, but tomorrow we go to Murfreesboro and NGD home and our NIOS office.  There are many things happening with NIOS. Some with the Ministry of Education. We are trying to develop things very seriously in South America.     Our plan for writing is very clear now.   We have the Japa Joe Power Point done. Now we will start a Word Dialog with Dr. Carl Jung. We'll do that by re-reading the Tavistock lectures in the next few days.

We need a publisher.
   NIOS???      Miguel Polo???     IECOO???             ASA???? (If all else fails (Then we will probably be going to Goloka very soon)).

                Well that's all.    A little clip of KRSNA book from the You Tube, Vatsasura, and take rest.    Thank you so very, very much for your association!!!!    TB/BW et al...

Hare Krishna, Hare Rama.

Todas las glorias a Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias GuruMaharaja.

Espero que se encuentre bien de salud al recibir el presente reporte.

Seguimos estables 4 principios, 16 rondas, levantandonos a las 5 am, leyendo bhagavad-gita, las enseñansas del señor Caitanya y algo de la biografia de Srila Prabhupada. acabo de terminar la universidad así que ahora hay más tiempo para leer. 

               HpS - ASA -  Super!   Ensanansas del Senor Caitanya son muy super. Es como cuatro diagolos, no?  Super bien para distribuir a profesores et al.

Como le habia comentado este fin de semana estuve en Guadalajara, mucho servicio, participamos en el festival mensual de Maha Harinam, la asociación con los devotos es de lo mejor, el pasar algunos días en el templo me carga las pilas para seguir en este mundo material. 

De nuevo estoy reuniendome con algunos devotos aquí en Uruapan, hay programas los viernes, sabados y domingos, yo estoy asistiendo los domingos.

En diciembre del año pasado secuestraron a prabhu Ananta Vilas, él era la autoridad, no lo han soltado, de hecho no sabemos si aun este con vida. En este momento no tenemos una autoridad formal acá en uruapan, es por este motivo que habiamos dejado de reunirnos. 

Mi mayor deseo es poder recibir Diksha por parte de usted, Madre Radhika me dice que ella podría darme la recomendación ya que prabhu Ananta no esta. 

Me despido esperando su instruccion.

Le ruego disculpe mis ofensas.

Sus aspirante a sirviente Bhaktin Linda Janteh 

              HpS - Diksa.  Esta cantando 16-rondas entusiastas cada dia y siguiendo los 4 principios estrictos para seis meces?   Ella es autorixado por GBC dar la carta de recomendacion???   Entonces, puede ser un Aspiranta Formal.   Podemos entrar su nombre en la Lista...   Hmmmm.   Pero somos "Diksa-gurus" abajo de Srila Prabhupada bastante estupido.  Mejor buscar uno con mas inteligencia, juventud!!!

   Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias, si estoy haciendo Mangal Aratika y cantando Gayatri, escuchando clases en las mañanas de audio, que esté muy bien,

   Su sirvienta,

   Dhanistha devi dasi.

                    HpS - ASA -   Jayatam Dvijate!   (Prabhupada Dijo).  Todas las glorias a los doble nacidos.    Entonces Vd es pura y Krsna puede enviar personas sinceros preguntar de Vd. acerca de que es esto mundo!