Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    My applogy for delay.

    Gurudev, Actually i have had 'aparada bodth' for i did not come to meet you on your
    February 2013 trip in Kolkata, Mayapur. I was in Pune for new temple opening
    ceremony at that time to serve devotee. I had service at shoes stand for two days.

                HpS - ASA -  AGTSP...   paoho.  Wonderful.   You know that Krsna did something like that at the Raja-suya sacrifice, no?

    Due to this 'aparada bodth', i have not entered into the new temple till today. I have
    not took darshan of new deity till today. Myself is not allowing me to pardon myself
    because as i understand, Guru is ultimate & Guru is more important then Lord.

    It may be a small incident but it is not allowing me to pardon myself. And due to this i
    was not writting in blog.

    But when you called me on 30 April 2013 at 8:12 AM (Indian Time) in the morning to
    know about me. I was Speechless. There was tears in my eyes. Your call given me lots
    of unwordable things.

    Guru Dev, only you can pardon me.
    
    Report:
    1. Four-regulative principles as usual.
    2. Chanting our fixed rounds.
    3. Study - BG, NOI, 'Parsad of lord chatinya' - Every day one character, Padmapuran,
        Sansipt-Brama-Baivartpuran, (Body & I, Types of human - Study based on lectures).
    4. Bhakti Shastri not started yet. Waiting for new batch starting.
    5. Limited/Reduced temple activity.
    6. Temple visit 3-4 time a week. Discussion with temple bramachari (local temple
        shiksha guru ) on BG and other doubts.
    7. Still preparing topic for - Body & I.
       Remark - Topic contains formation of our body in this material world (as SB - 8
       elements and as per 'Sankhikyi' 24 elements). But not completed the topic yet. Need
       to do lot of works. Still study is going on.
    8. Every day, Mangal arti, Guru puja at room.
    9. Read your blog every day.
    10. Spend 9-10 hours at office in working days.
    11. Continuing learning Bengali.
    12. I am trying to focus more on Study rather temple activity.

    Please advise, how can i rapidly grow in KC. What to do?

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

                HpS - We discussed your visit and had both decided that it was probably better for you to  stay in Pune for the Temple opening. I didn't take it as any kind of offense.   That we what we had planned.   I would liked to have seen you when we cam back from Australia, but ooof.  Honestly we were so, so busy with this work with Dr. Samaresh that we didn't have any time for anything else. Of course, maybe you could have visited us then and helped with that work, but I think that our little intelligence is working the best it can and Krsna's unlimited intelligence is making all the adjustments necessary to carry on His Sankirtana.                 Your lists look very nice.  We are working on Sankhya also and our next phase will be to get a copy of the Master's Thesis that Yadunandana Swami did when we get to Radha desa.   More news about Pune!

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias;TLGASP.

Gracias por contestar mi carta Maharaj;    Anka es el nombre que me puso mi padre al nacer; ( He born in Croatia), se el significado de Ankita(como me llaman algunos), significa la que lleva marcada los signos auspiciosos, segun he visto en el BG; quisiera saber Maharaj que significa Anka por favor. Por aqui en el PA, seguimos  con el Sadhana  y teniendo nuevos visitantes para los retiros espirituales , intentando servir a Guru y al Señor Krishna. Anka dasi

        HpS - ASA -   AGTSP...   Gracias...     "She who is marked with auspicious signs?"  Nuestra Espanol falta bastante.      Si eso es, Ella tiene tiene rasgos auspicioso, podemos interpretar como Radhika Devi!               Cuales son los fuentes de los contactos para los retiros espirituales?  Tiene nuevo pero?          Como estan los devotos??

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

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

Recently, we have seen your pictures Maharaj (posted from Mumbai) and you appear little weak. Please take care of your health Maharaj.

Maharaj, we have been following the 4 regulative principles and chanting minimum 16 rounds for past 4 years, attending Bhakti Vriksha every week, listening to lectures and reading Prabhupada books.

And we also attending the "Disciple Course (Bhaktivedanta online course)" and will be done in 3 more weeks.

We expressed our deeptest desire to take your shelter when you were in Richmond last September and it's been 8 months and we would like to request your permission to chant your "Pranam Mantra".

Radhika Raman Prabhu is here at our home and he can help us in this regard.

Awaiting for your Mercy.

Your humble servants,

-Srinivasa and Kameswari

               HpS - Jaya!     AGTSP...  So nice to hear from you Mr. Srinvasa of Richmond and esteemed family and esteemed friends.   You can see from the Kapi Dhvaja and the Blog that we are in Spain.    June 1st we are in USA and our cell phone should be working.           Plan is to visit Virginia en September.           ISKCON law is that you can start chanting the acharya's mantra when you are a formal aspirant. That just requires a letter of recomendation from your local Temple President or other person in that capacity.

We feel that any respect to us is like 99.999% due to Srila Prabhupada's miracle, sacrifice to make even a dog take part in his Sankirtana and dance in ecstacy.

     AGTSP.....   A G T S P!!!!!                  ---paoho----   Oink!   Oink!           Whoop!   Whoop!    How are you?          We are O.K.          We are in New Vraja Mandala, ISKCON mountain village. It is 9.46PM.  Still some light in the sky.  We just finished our first Bhakti-sastrai course, BG 3.1-21.  It will go every night from 5.45 to 9PM with 30-minutes for evening Arati.  It was O.K.    It is hard teaching someone else, another guru's, classes, because every brahmana has his own way of teaching.

Is a very old castle, manor-house, here. Fresh air. Madrid is nice, the King's gardens, but here their is less pressure. Already our fever seems better.

We have several projects to complete, but a lot of things we are just putting aside because we have not developed working relations with the necessary people to do them.

O.K.  (Om Kesavaya-namah!)    Will read the Krsna book and then sleep and then get up at 1.30AM for Japa Joe!  (Foto attached)  Thank you!

Hare Krishna Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

              HpS - ASA -   AGTSP!   We don't have lotus feet.   Pineapple feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Hope your health is doing good and you're able to get some rest.

              ASA -  Ha!    Ha!        We are fight with a FEVER and exhausted, but pretty happy with the results.

Maharaj, you may not remember but am one of the many recipients of your mercy from Boise.  I have to take my final test for Bhakti sastri next Sunday. I'm far from doing the application of the study. Its only due to the mercy of Srinivasa Pr(Boise) that I was even able to study and continue with my schedule. Ofcourse, his strength comes from you.  Thank you so much for everything Maharaj. we follow you through your lectures, notes and hearing from your disciples. Our sadhana is holding on, still long way to do 16 good rounds.

From the study preparations, there was one question - Are Vraja bhaktas superior to Prema bhaktas or is it the other way round.

                 ASA - Prema bhakti begins at Maha-visnu loka to Vaikuntha to Ayodha to Mathura to Vrndvana and then is more intense in Gopas, Gopis...   So Vraja bhakti is the highest form of Prema bhakti.

I check your itinerary to see if you would be even passing via Chicago. We really pray that you may someday come to see Sri Kishore Kishori. Praying to become a nice sadhaka and serve the servants of Srila Prabhupada. Kindly shower your mercy that we may continue our service to please Guru and Krsna.

your aspiring servant

priya carana Dasi

                  HpS - ASA ----  I think that now we remember you more.      We are barely able to travel at all, now but by the mercy of Krsna we cross over mountains, fly in the sky...   If Kisor Kisori want, we can go to Chicago.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada !!!

Todas las Glorias a Usted!!!!

Querido Guru Maharaja por favor hacepte mis respetuosas reverencias, __/\_° por favor disculpeme por no darle noticias formales mias  despues de la ultima carta que le escribi, afortunadamente pude pasar la prueba de krishna y Usted Gurudeva gracias a su inspiracion y proteccion me han ayudado a realizar y comprender lo mas importante de la relacion con Guru, Krishna y los Devotos, no queria escribirle hasta poder darle buenas noticias mias y sentirme digna de llamarle Gurudeva ahora este es mi plan para intentar poder servirle cada dia con mas fuerza y determinacion, despues de la cituacion que paso con el devoto de Dallas y de la carta que le escribi tome la decicion de regresar a vivir a el templo de Sus Señorias Sri Sri Radha Madhan Gopal, estoy levantandome diario a las 3:00am, 16 buenas rondad y 4 principios estrictos estoy tratando de cantar el mayor numero de rondas pocibles antes de Mangala Artic para poder hacer mis respectivos servicios con mejor conciencia despues de todo lo sucedido creo que he encontrado cual es mi lugar en el movimiento del Señor Caitanya y es el de servir a la Deidad y a los devotos eso es lo que me hace feliz.

Ahora el nuevo presidente del templo es P Vanamali Gopal Das y el es mi autoridad en ISKON en este momento, mi deceo es poder ir a hacer Sankirtan en la proxima maraton pero solo con sus bendiciones podre lograrlo ahora mi Fe y Determinacion estan aumentado considerablemente es como una sensacion de volver a comenzar mi vida espiritual con el mismo entuciasmo y determinacion de antes , Gurudeva por favor pido sus Instrucciones y bendiciones para poder retomar mi estabilidad y amor por Guru, Krishna y los Devotos.

Por favor Gurudeva perdone todas y cada una de mis ofensas, en verdad me esforsare en poder ser fidedignamente su discipula.

Su aspirante a sirviente Saranagati Dasi.

                   HpS - ASA --  "Cuando alguien sigue un proceso regulado de higiene no se enferma. El ser humano debe ser entrenado conforme a ciertos principios que revivan su conocimiento original. A esa vida metódica se le denomina tapasya."la.  Eso es de Upadesamrta.  Muy simple. Seguir Bhakti yoga feliz y puedo descriminar cuales cosas son buenas o malas en terminos como mejorar mi Sadhana.   Despues  hay mas y mas gusto en hacer cosas, pero principios regularivas, Japa +++   son el piedra de toque (touchstone).              BUENA SUERTE adelantando rapido!!!     Santa Saranagati Deo Dasi...   entrenando 25 nuevas chicas esta ano!!