Letters to the editor

Hare krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisnaces, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

First of all my sincere thanks for the reply/guidance and it helped me a lot to understand about my confusion (a bit about goal of the life, these quota, Karma etc) and able to know a bit the difference of a "true feeling" and a feeling like feeling (through my intelligence).

What I understood, is with this conditioned body/life, a "true feelings" comes in glimpse and to make it longer, lot of endeavor on ones part and the mercy of Krishna, Spiritual master and other devotees.

The more I read and all are point to Krishna (what else is there other than the LORD) and to really to know krishna, there is nothing other than "serving the lord"

Please help me to correct my self and to be worthy to serve the LORD.

Your humble servant

-Srinivasa (from Richmond)

                HpS - Jaya!    AGTSP.   Paoho.  We are back in USA as you may see in the DTCs. Your understanding seems very nice.   Another way to look at it is that the sun is shinning from the left.  We are following a path through the woods. Sometimes it comes to a little peak and we can see the mountain where we are headed in the distance, so we have enough indicators to keep on the path and we can see that we are getting closer.  As we get closer the view of the mountain is more often and with more detail.   Jaya! Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!!          See you very soon!            Send us some news of your regular work, Karma yoga.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All Glories to Gaura Bhakta vrinda!

Hare krishna dear gurudev, please accept my humble obeisenses.

Long, long time no writing to you, i m sorry. This year have started in a frenetic activities rythm, to much ocupated allways. Doing much service, working much. 

 With my wife and other devotees we are organizing the sunday feast once a month , and  we call it dasanudasa party. the idea is to recover that spirtit, and its beeing very very nice, many devotees geting inspired, also working much in recovering the senior devotees , giving them their space, improving the prasadam and many areas, many ideas to serve the devotees comunity. 

I continue working with my wife cooking and selling prasadam, much demand of the clients, much work, little bit tired but happy. Thinking about taking staff, to get work more light.

            HpS - ASA -  AGTSP!!!  Paoho.  Very nice to hear from you all...   YES!   Once you know how to do it right, teach someone else!  Don't work harder, work smarter!  Utsahan.

We have also a shop in a organic fair, thats very good, people buy a lot of prasadam and also many prabhupadas books. Also with the need of doing some diferent things,more intelectual, artistic. Also continue giving yoga classes, thats nice, but many people are looking for a psycologhist. Making some programs with yogic people, last week we project the light of bhagavata movie  and do a film discussion , kirtan and prasadam, people very very happy. 

Also with ambarisa, vrisabanu, and many of your disciples we are organizing some programs for your visit, many ideas, maybe doing some preview programs, before your coming.

In february in the nitiananda s appearece day we installed gour nitai deitys in my home, since that time i was wanting to write you but not doing it i send you a photo of them, and if you want ,you con put them some nice name, we get them in vrindavana, and radha carana paint them for us.

 Sadhana: following the 4 principles, strugling to finish my 16 rounds every day, with much much problems to wake up early, also to go to sleep early. Also very very tired many times and that makes me difficult to wake up.can you give me some advice in this point?

              HpS - http://www.jayarama.us/archives/japa-joe.txt     Search in the text file for "GET UP EARLY TANTRA" You have to DO IT!! Then later you can take a nap. After some time you become used to getting up early and getting your rounds done. You get more done, and then you can go to bed earlier also!

Many times very tired of material life, also becoming aware of the varana asharama,  of how grihasta ashrama is like getting very  very tired of this word to finally renounce and attach only to krishna.

             ASA - Jaya!

ohh, gurudeva, sorry for this very long recharged mail. one last thing, maybe some familiar is going to give me a donation of land near the los andes mountains, very nice to develop comunity projects, please give your blessings. 

hope you health is super ok,

your  very bad disciple,

Madhavendra Puri DAS

          HpS - Fourth thing is land. 1) Who am I,   2) Who are we,   3)What is our plan,   4)What land, money, men, tools.  Jaya!!    Get to work!   Send report on how many rounds you have done by 10AM daily average after a few weeks!          Look for Names for your nice Gaura Nitai from Caitanya caritamrta!  Send us options..

Hare krsna, hare rama
          jay sri vrindavana dham!!!

AGTSP All glories to you Guru Dev. pamho ______'o__ Sorry for my delay to write in the blog.
Now i m in Córdoba visiting the family of Vrsabhanu nandini. She expend more than 3 years without seeing his family.

           HpS-ASA -  AGTSP!   paoho.   Long time!

We still editing the vídeos for south India. we want to finishing soon. we star after Your last vyasuja a festival call Dasanudasa. the organization start with Madhavendra Puri, his wife Yasoda mayi, devakinandana and his wife, vrsabhanu nandini and i but now there moré devotees like Marcos, Gabriela and Meru devi. One Sunday in the month we organize the Sunday fest. But with the idea to Share the spirit of service, love and trust. Having a personal care for each person in the festival more than 50 deevotees doing service to prepare the festival, new and seniors. Also little by little we want to have a unite family senior and new devotees cooperate and do service toghether. This is a important topic in argentina, so many years with generations of devotees disconected between each others.

In sumerize shareing the spirit of Lord Caitanya of Dasanudasa. We allready organize 4 festivales and were súper succes. a lote of devotees inspired and happy, many séniors devotees came back again to do service. And i feel that the devotees that organize give the best of his heart and Krsna do the magic.

Very beautifull atmosphere of bhakti. We upload the lectures in youtube by the ñame of Dasanudasa.

             HpS - ASA - Yes, we see three classes from BsAs linked to that search, "Dasanudasa".

Please bless us to became a deeper servant and dasanudasa. Thank you for Your patient, tolerance, love, guidence, inspiration, thank you thank you thank you, guru dev every time in this world help me to apreciate more the fortune and grace to have Your association and the oportunity to participate in the sankirtana of srila prabhupada. Trayin to serve Your servent
Ambarisa m Das

              HpS - ASA - Jaya!   Very nice.     What about your rural community project?  What about an orchard for the BsAs Temple?       How is your father, mother, family??

Hare Krishna Maharaja!!

Please accept my forced-to-be-humble obeisancess at your lotus feet

            HpS - ASA - Cherry Blossom Feet.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

I´m sorry for not being specific enought in the last letter, and also i will follow your advice to write everything for the blog, so your instructions can be for the benefit of others, rather than just for me.

Well, about studing philology, it's not in the school Aravinda P. is doing for SP books, its a normal society University, yesterday i signed up in the university of Irapuato, so i will start the 1st semester in august, (thats ending the SB course here in Cueramaro) and my clases there would be only the saturdays, so the rest of the week i can keep my service for the reprinting of SB, and sundays i think sankirtana at least half day with your blessings!

That was the other reason i was asking about the idea of Brahmacari ashram, because, i already made Aravinda P. think twice if its the best for me to take it or not, because of my behavior, and of course, if i study in karmy University, i will be in touch with woman. My desire is to please you and Krishna, i will push myself to do it, as the way you tell me to do it.

Your dumb servant:

Bh. Christian

                HpS - Jaya.  Thank you.  In our opinion if you are dealing properly with women as Sankirtan, not talk with them alone, and you have been following nicely for 6-months you should wear saffron as a proper communication to devotees of what is your status, but this varies according to local standard.   To us your work seems nice, balanced.

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

             HpS - ASA   -   Apple Blossom Feet (maybe)

    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

               HpS - ASA - Jaya!
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    This letter is answer to your earlier letter.

    Guru Dev, Your feet is always lotus. There is no doubt. You present Sri Sri Radha-
    Kunjabihari to all of us so we don't have any doubt.

           HpS - We sleep like 8-hours in a day often. Srila Prabhupada slept 4-5 usually. Often when we are tired we watch bio-graphys and documentaries rather than read the Krsna book.  This is symptom of Madhyama-adhikari. No spontaneous attraction, 100%.  Apple blossom feet, by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.  No "Maya" that breaks four principles. Relating bio-graphys to KC. Material desires under control and diminishing, but if we try to imitate Srila Prabhupada's position we won't advance. 

    No, there is no study partner. We Read alone. During reading, We collect/write lots of   questions and doubts and go to temple and then discuss with Temple Bramachari,
   (whom i report at the local temple).

         HpS - Aaaah!   So that is not reading alone.  You are with him in Vani. Perfect!  Who is this B'cari?

    Your words always give me strength, Like, When you speak with the convection that
    we have Beadd-bag and Prabhupada's book so no need to worry, even if we go to hell. We
   should not worry.

    I live with your words and will live with your Words.

    You speak about Sri Radha-Krsna with such a convection, which i never find anywhere.

    As you advised, We will surely search your lectures in the ISKCON Juhu, website.

    Actually, we were looking for your lecture & question/answer session on BG 9.22.

    Thank you, Guru Dev.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

                HpS - Jaya!  AgtSP.  All glories to your ISKCON Temple!      Sorry little late to answer... one week.  We are doing better.  Recovering from so much service AND pushing not to do too much now!         O.K.  Join us for the rest of today's letters!

Querido Gurudev: Pamho. TgSP y sus seguidores fieles.

En primer lugar agradecerle su visita a Madrid y espero que podamos disfrutar de su asociación mas veces.

Le envio el cartel del Ratha Yatra, que año tras año, venimos celebrando en Madrid y quiero dar otra perspectiva sobre el funcionamiento de Madrid. Estoy en Madrid desde Enero de 1997, despues Costa Rica y vuelta a Madrid en Enero 2000. Así que, de una forma u otra llevo unos 16 años prestando servicio en el Templo de ISKCON Madrid, los últimos 14 años de forma ininterrumpida. Es cierto que según los devotos que viven en el Templo se atrae a un tipo de persona en particular, y esto ha ido variando con los años.

En estos años se han distribuido varios cientos de miles de platos de prasadam ( unos 50.000 platos en "food for life" en los últimos siete años. Tambien harinamas de forma regular, Clases del Bhagavad- Gita, Fiesta Domingos, Distribución de libros, Ratha Yatras, etc. Es el Templo de España donde mas devotos han tomado iniciación harinama en los últimos veinte años y es evidente que ha habido un mejoría en el altar y en la adoración de la Deidad. No tenemos deudas y hemos comprado una finca en un sitio muy bonito para aumentar las glorias de Srila Prabhupada y Gouranga. Todo esto ha sido posible por la misericordia de Krisna y la entrega y dedicación  de muchos devotos comenzando por Bhakti Jñana, que fue el que abrió el Templo y siguiendo por muchos mas devotos que aportaron cosas durante todos estos años.

Los miembros del Consejo Rector, en su mayoría son devotos con experiencia ( Avesa Rupa, mas de 35 años haciendo sankirtan de libros), Jiva Tattva tambien lleva mas de 35 años de devoto, Adi Ras, Jagamohan y yo mismo tambien llevamos de media casi veinte años de servicio ininterrumpido en ISKCON, el último en unirse, Dandava, aunque no tenga mucha experiencia en ISKCON es un devoto sincero y formal.) Aunque casi ninguno vivimos en Madrid, sí estamos al tanto de lo que sucede y, tratamos de ayudar en la medida de nuestras posibilidades.

A pesar de todo esto tenemos muchas cosas que mejorar y sobre todo tenemos que intentar que el proyecto continúe a pesar de los inconvenientes. Es cierto que podemos mejorar en nuestras relaciones con otros devotos y, quizás logremos involucrar a algunos. Eso es tan cierto como que algunos jamás tendrán un compromiso con el Templo. Jagamohan quiere dejar su servicio y yo tambien estoy ya cansado despues de tantos años en uno de los servicios mas desagradecidos que existen en ISKCON (Pte de Templo). Lo cierto es que no es tan facil encontrar a alguien que esté dispuesto a hacer un sacrifio tan grande que asuma la responsabilidad de que los programas sigan adelante inspirando a otros a que se comprometan con servicios por periodos de tiempo importantes ( al menos un año haciendo lo mismo). Teniamos grandes esperanzas con Jara Mara Hari Das y , a pesar que apreciamos sus evidentes cualidades en las relaciones personales y creatividad, su disponibilidad real para apoyar el proyecto es bastante reducida ( debido a su trabajo, familia, etc), lo mismo que nos pasa a otros grhasthas. Ya no vive en el asram y su presencia en el Templo es parecida a la de otros devotos que viven fuera de Madrid. Esperamos que en futuro pueda tener mas presencia y por lo tanto mas influencia para que pueda ayudar a que las relaciones entre los devotos sean mas amorosas y fluidas.

El Consejo Rector le ha pedido que impulse la distribución de Libros (sankirtan) y que dedique todo el tiempo que pueda a tender puentes para mejorar las relaciones entre los devotos.

Srila Prabhupada Ki jay!

ISKCON Madrid Mandir ki Jay!

Sin mas se despide su (aspirante a humilde) sirviente

Jayanta das

             HpS - ASA - Jaya!   TlgaSP.    Honestamente estamos ampliando la funcion de nuestra Blog servir como un foro hablar mas de la desarrolla de proyectos y Templos relacionados con ASA.  De parte nuestra es cierto faltamos bien Espanol y somos Sannyasis entonces pienso esta Blog va a ser util para perspectivas general y noticias como otros pueden participar eg. fechas de Rathaytra Madrid, curriculum para escuela de Domingo para ninos disponible. Estamos recibiendo mas de 20-peticiones hablar de la desarrolla de diferentes proyectos en Espana mientras estuvimos alla y eso es como participar. Unas comentarios general aqui y un foro, pero pienso la mayoria del trabajo es reuniones de devotos alla con el perspective de relaciones Vaisnava primero, administrativo segundo.

De nuestra perspectivo eso es lo que pasa.   Como Jayanta Das esta notando en su carta hay mucha experiencia y mucha energia nueva, entonces hay posibilidad como ISKCON Espana y en todo el mundo puede adelantar a una nueva nivel de profesionalismo (y locura transcendental) y trabajar un union y presentar un voz al lo cual todo el mundo puede oir y tomar beneficio.

Hare Krsna!

Esperamos sus consejos.

HpSwami - ASA