Letters to the editor

PAMHO/AGTSP
Dear Maharaja, 

I've been thinking about you lately (feeling like you have my a very positive impact on my young spiritual life) and I also have some possibly trivial questions for you... in any case I'll go for it!

What is the signifigance and/or meaning of the white bead bag? I've been told by disciples of BV Narayana Maharaja that it is an important symbol of a gaudiya vaisnava in the line of Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada. Any thoughts or illuminations?

              HpS - AGTSP.   paoho.  I've heard that we should only use white bead bags because Tulsi is a lady and so She should not be kept in a Safron colored bead bag.  But the source of this comment is not at ALL clear.   I've heard many things from the disciple so Swami ABC but then investigating them they are not at all substantiated by Swami ABC.   I fall prey to the same Urban Myth syndrome so how can I criticise others, but I hope to eliminate it.

Also, looking at inumerable pictures of Prabhupada I practically speaking NEVER see a white bead-bag. If it appears white his dhoti also appears white.   So, ISKCON B'cari and Sannyasi standard is safron as far as I can understan.

Some time ago you mentioned in a reply to one of my questions that you are involved in translating Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada's "Anuvrtti" commentary of Upadesamrta, any news on that? I'm really curious!

            HpS - No, we were never translating it. Other projects with Upadesamrta contemplated but nothing happening with anyone now.  All our current stuff is mentioned here on the Blog is DTC, Hot Topics, Itenarary.

Also, I have read BV Narayana Maharaja's tranlsations of the previous commentaries and have found them to be very beautiful and illuminating! But what do you think of BR Sridhara Maharaja's commentary?

               HpS - Just read the first one and it was quite nice.   Trying to read the rest.

Okay thank you for your time! Much love and respect to you dear Maharaja :)

your servant, Gaura-lila Dasa (Rtadhvaja Swami)

        HpS - ASA -  Sri Sri Radha Kala-chandji Ki Jai.    You had university programs going, no?    How are those.

The idea is there that, sure, we live in this world where everything around us is perceived as physical, as material, but we are something else.

We have a spiritual element to us that makes us distinct. Now, this distinction is really relevant in the scientific context for the following reason.

Things that are physical, things that are material, we assume that the
interactions, the behaviors those things show must follow what we call natural
laws. And in fact, science is the pursuit of those natural laws.

The idea that through careful observation and systematic manipulation, we can
figure out what those laws are. Things like gravity, you know, and, and
various other laws. and that in so doing, we'll gain a really good understanding of this physical world around us.

And so, we studied Physics, we studied Chemistry, we studied Biology Astronomy, etc. all of those are studies of the physical world around us.
But, of course, if we do not perceive ourselves as physical beings, if we
perceive ourselves as spiritual beings, then what we're implying there is that
our behavior does not follow such constrained natural laws.

And if it doesn't, well then, it doesn't makes sense to study it scientifically.

So really, psychology would never be born unless we started to think of ourselves
in different ways and that process really began with Rene Descartes and here's a
story of Rene Descartes that I really like. the idea is that he was walking through a park in, in, in France, and as a typical French park, it had statues and it had
flowers.

Up ahead he saw a statue of, of Diana, goddess of the hunt, beautiful statue.
So, he started to approach to get a better look at her, but as he came closer
out from behind the bushes came Neptune, barring a trident and blocking his path.
A statue of Neptune, I should say, and that's what was, you know, really so
impressive, the statue moved as if with intention. Now, how did it move?
Well, this was the time when hydraulics was just being understood and used.
And so, literally, Rene Descartes had stepped on a pressure plate which forced
some sort of liquid through a tube and ultimately that force was used to move
the statue on some relatively, relatively frictionless set of, you know, rails or
something like that. That's how the motion actually happened.
But in Rene's mind, it was a really profound experience for the following
reason. He knew that statue was inanimate, he knew it was made of material, you know, physical material, and yet it behaved as  though it was alive.
That is, it was animate and had intentions.
It looked like the statue was trying to block his path.
So, Rene suddenly started looking at other things, like animals and humans,
and asking whether maybe their behavior was analogous to that statue.
Maybe they you really were physical beings as well and may be their behavior
did reflect something like hydro, hydraulics, some physical process that
made them look animate.
Ultimately, Rene concluded that that was the case for animals, he felt they were
fully machine-like, fully mechanical. But humans, he thought were a little
different. Humans, he thought, had a dual nature. And we now call this notion, Cartesian Dualism.
So, he thought, yes, humans are partly machine.

                HpS - AGTSP   paoho.   We had to do some editing to make the article inteligible  and even still there is re-redundancy of certain words.  Why is that???  Yet, is very interesting.  Thank you, very interesting!   We will look for Descartes biography on Britannica.  More!

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

HpS - ASA -   AGTSP.  paoho.  We don't have lotus feet yet.

    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Guru Dev, How close you are to Lord (Kisor & Kisori). It shows in your words.It gives us beautiful feeling about you, that, how much love you have for Kisor & Kisori.

    How can, we have that kind of love for Kisor & Kisori.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

              HpS -  Oooof!    When They inspire us we become enlivened. Usually we don't give full respect to There mercy.  We are trying.  Maybe we are on the level of Nistha...

      Si no habla-bla Ingles traduzca lo en: http://translate.google.com/

AGTSP!

paoho

With the co-operation of Brother Ass, Asta-sakhi Devi Dasi, Aristasena Das, Abhirama Thakura, Miguel Polo, Rodrigo and Arjuna, Rati-manjari and Ambarisa Das et al, et al (We erased the names of three of the most important Dudes from the list), let us suggest the following Theme for the Proposed, "NIOS  --  Latin American   (October to December Tour)":

Cultivation of the Human Spirit
NATURE, ETHICS AND ECSTACY
     Light of the Bhagavata
         1. Sankhya
         2. The Song of Songs and Srila Rupa Goswami

What can you or other scholars and poets contribute?

Haré Krisna, Pamho, agtSP, esteemed gurudeva, hére we are in usa, vacations with family 16 rondas ok, Krisna is so mercyful upon us.

This Ass phylosophy is coming to an end for us, at least is what we Desire.

what is The Right attitude?

KC is The only real thing.   Where is god in Disney world?    SP Struggled so much, You are doing The same.   SaDhus.   I want to Join.      The suicidal crue no moré soul cáncer. I feel ashamed. please Help me.

I know preaching gives life. With all respects, at your Lotus feet, bhakta Nicasio.

         HpS - Jaya!       We are so happy to hear from you.           Honestly if we are little sincere we can adjust all these things: 4-principles, 16-rounds, little service of Krsna's Diety, family responsibilities and and and   infecting the whole world with and addiction to hear newer and newer Krsna Katha.     Where in USA have you gone?     Micky Mouse in Disney land looks very much like Lord Jagannatha!   Other than that it is the most air-headed plastic place on earth. Disney corporation bought Ken and Barbi to perform on their big stage:

   Barbie:  Oooo!    Aaaah!   Are we having fun yet, Ken?

   Ken:  Oooo!   Yes, yes, Barbie, fun, fun!            News of your observations of USA culture!!

reciva mis mas respetuosas reverencias

todos las glorias a sirla prahupad

hare krisna maharaj creo que no como utilizar muy bien esto estoy cantando las 16 rondas y en ocaciones canto algunas mas asi como anidduha me presto el libro el nectar de la isntruccion por que yo solo tenia el seminario en video que usted hizo en su visita a mexico, voy a entrar a hacer una obra de teatro en ratra yatra  aqui en guadalajara y vamos a ir algunos devotos al de mexico

                 HpS - ASA - TlgaSP!   Gracias su carta.... Cuando es Rathyatra en Guad. y que es el teatro???