Letters to the editor

Todas las glorias a Sri Gauranga y Sri Nityananda

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las glorias al sankirtana eterno

Hare Krsna querido Gurudeva, esperando que ésta carta lo encuentre bien y a vísperas de Gaura Purnima le escribo para comentarle que nuestro equipo de cocina de preparaciones saladas estará formado por P. Gadai, P. Janardana y yo esperamos poder satisfacer mucho a Sri Gauranga en su cumpleaños,

          ASA - TlgaSP!!!!!   Suuper!!!!  El Senor va a comer todo!

... el equipo de p. Mahavirya hará los dulces, sabe Gurudev ahora hay muy pocas cucarachas en el puyari, pero la lucha sigue todavía. Nosotros ahora estamos cocinando en la mañana y al medio día.

Por otro lado le cuento que algunos días con las madres del Ashram; M. Namacintamani, M. Madhavi salimos a hacer sankirtana persona a persona en Chosica es muy bueno estar rodeada de madres sankirtaneras trato de agarrarme de ellas para poder complacer a Srila Prabhupada y no perder el entusiasmo.

             ASA - Muy bien, no? Posible menos libros cuando predica a los vecinos que en Sankirtana viajer, pero puede cultivar los resultados cuando predica a vecinos y por el fin convertir ellos en Sankirtaneros tambien!

También éste domingo 24 habrá harinam en el parque de Chosica, las galletas serán maha prasadam. Hay un plan con M. Gaura Gadhadara de poder salir los domingos con un grupo para poner una Carpa en el parque de chosica con libros y maha prasadam para poder colectar para el templo ojalá se pueda realizar esto sería muy bueno.

           ASA - Tambien con DVDs de musica, y telenovelas!

El sadhana está muy bien, estámos leyendo el Krsna book y el bhagavad gita, 16 rondas al día, las deidades de la casa están con ropitas de remanentes de Radha Madhana Vihari, muchos devotos en chosica y música del mantra hare Krsna en todo el templo.

Devotos del puyari viajaron a India; M. Duiya, P. Tatuavit y P. Lilakanta, quizá se encuentrén ayá en la fiesta de Gaura purnima.

Un gato come maha prasadam cerca a la casa, miauuuu! Y también algunos perros que se comen su porción guauuu!!!.

Bueno me despido hare Krsna querido y siempre recordado Guru Maharaja, lo amamos mucho, usted es nuestra inspiración, usted es nuestra fuerza para seguir luchando en éste mundo material no hay razón para vivir si no damos un libro de SP por medio de usted.

¡Que tenga un felíz Gaura Purnima y un benturoso año nuevo!

Gauranga!!!!

Atte. Nadiya Nivasi Dasi.

  ASA - HpS   -   Reverencias a su Esposo y todos!           En vida previo pienso que Vd era un Sannyasi!   Vamos a pasar Gaura-purnima en Australia!

Dear GM, PAMHO I have been thinking about this for sometime, so I just want to respond to your reply on the post about mythology. Essentially what you are teaching is that I don't know very much and that I should just thoughtfully try to follow the footsteps of our teachers and our tradition.

       ASA - Jaya!  Thank you so much for this topic.  We are back from the jungle!  When you day, "I", do you mean we our you?  We do know enough to follow our Acharya's with realized knowledge of Sankhya, and I think you have a lot of this too from your contact with other Asian systems, but as you do not have it, you should acquire it, and you can!

Science is not very definitive in its account of the big questions. And our experiential base is quite limited. Hence deductive knowledge tends to be more helpful than knowledge built on induction. Do I have the basic points correct?

ASA - Well, even our citations from Einstein make this point that science doesn't answer the big questions in terms of who or what is in control actually and even the so called little questions of how cats see ghosts, how we can actually fly to other planets, and how to avoid divorce are not answered well. The atheists were better in the past.

I just want to keep listening and learning because conviction is the quality that seems to develop very slowly in my case. By conviction I mean the faith and understanding and willingness to accept Krsna as God and everything that this entails. If I can just remain to some degree in the association of devotees and listen and speak about the absolute truth, preferably in a personal form, then this seems to be the best path for making life worthwhile. Please don't forget me. YHS, Tcsd

        ASA - We think about you a lot. How is the Baladeva????       We just finished reading Edward T. Halls, The Dance of Life, that Harsh gave us. Of all the anthropologists we have read he is the greatest. We recomend all of his books and Carl Jung's Tavistock lectures.    From this we can see that the SB is not mythology. There are many cultures that can do things that American and European science CANNOT explain. By following the principles of SB we begin to see things differently and then we can live in that world even.

A G T S P!

paoho & bw!  !
How are you?  We are fine (considering this is the material world, martya-loka). We are sitting a little uncomfortably under a mosquito net in Professor Bandyopadyay's ashrama in Lake Town, Kolkatta. It is 5.16AM.  Maybe first light is just coming.

By the mercy of the great rider in the sky, Horse Pradhana, we have Tata photon USB drive going, and we are using it now before the other people wake up and it becomes crowded.

It is little hot here, some mosquitos, crows and Kawwwking.   We got on Japa joe for the first time in an age! After about 1/2 hour Richard the Righteous of Amsterdam, we think, joined us.  Then Mother Gandharvika from SJC!    Was nice.

We have 15-rounds done and have sent our comments on the GBC Position Paper on who is Srila Prabhupada in ISKCON off, our first draft of how to establish a Bhakti-sastri center in your Temple off and reviewed the Yahoo mail. We got five mosquito bites so unplugged the Acer and got under the net.

Our eyes are falling apart. The screen is starting to blurr.  Hare Krsna!

Ekadasi today, we must starve, then at 9PM we have to go to the airport for a 2AM flight!    We arrive in the wonderful land of Oz(tralia) about 3-5PM in the afternoon. Seems like Lord Sri Krsna wants us to stay up all night on Ekadasi chanting Hare Krsna. I guess the Tata-photon will be working, so we could keep skype etc open until 2am.

O.K.  That's about it.  We are working on the next NIOS book with professor and we hope to talk with Patrak Das today et al.

Let's answer five letters and give our eyes a break!

AGTSP!    paoho  &  BW.     Quick, throw the message!!!!!!    We are back from Thoubal, Moreh, Tamu - Burmese jungle, bomblasts, considerable physical stress, running, ducking, border town from 1857 Peru, USA time.  Nooooooooooooo  internet.     In Imphal for one day and then to Kolkatta.

Internet may die at any moment.

We are O.K.    for 65 year old dumb ass.

Sooooooo  much preaching.   12-more initiations.

       We are up at 1AM everyday for Japa.    Tommorrow no Japa Joe but 23 morning may be.    O.K.   We look for letters marked urgent!!!!

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva :

AGTSP ¡¡¡¡

PAOHO 

I am in Japa joe right now at the university U aren't there buuu jeje.

I really miss iur association during my japa: It is really difficult but I still wake up in Brahma muhurta.

              ASA -  AGTSP   paoho..   SO do we!             It is incredible the pressure and the results.   The tension in the air travel is beyond belief and then six hours of having to hold on to the hand bar above the car door to  keep from banging our head. then..  chanting on 45 beads, then 100 people all crying when we leave!!!!    !!!!  ...  one day back iin Imphal,  squeeeeezing time on the computer..... and back to the jungle.  who knows what will happen tommorrow!

I just remembered that U asked me to sent U the reports about NIMSAR I will do it tonight so sorry I have to my get use to my new schedule....

I am having more association with devotees doing programs at home, yesterday for instance we were to Jambavan's house made some bhajams took prasadam, talk about our lives in terms of NOI (T4) nice ....

Pujari is good in chosica in wilson but we do not have enough pujaris in wilson to do all the turns ¡¡¡ but it something that I can handle ...

I have to go to see LAD I really miss him, I feel bad because I do not have enough time to go and visit him buuu

One Godbrother asked me if U are going to go to India next year .. I told him I can not tell, but he wants some hint about that because he wants to go next year with a group of godbrothers but he wants your association during his first trip. May U comment me about this topic?? 

Thank all so much Gurudeva for your inspiration hope to connect with U soon 

Your eternal servant

candramonkey

      ASA - We don't even know schedule for Oct, Nov, Dec yet??!!!     O.K.  5.00PM  computer dying. No current!  Arati!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Thank you so much!!   Guess Japa Joe on 23rd morning from Kolkatta!!!

Querido Gurudev: Pamho. TgSP y sus seguidores fieles.

Espero que se encuentre bien cuando reciba este mensaje. Bueno, parece que el itinerario sera 1-8 Madrid/ 8-18NVM/ 18-19 Valencia/ 20-27 Barcelona.

Como ya sabe por Madrid hay algunos cambios. Se están incorporando algunos devotos a la misión de prédica de Madrid (Nityasevaka, Jaramara, ...) y esperamos que vaya aumentando el número y, por supuesto, la calidad de la prédica. Representar al movimiento de Srila Prabhupada de forma apropiada no es tan sencillo para nosotros (que venimos de culturas muy degradadas) pero se nos da esta oportunidad y tendremos que aprovecharla. Cuando venga a España podremos hablar mas detenidamente.

Ahora tengo algunos problemas de salud con la espalda (hernia discal). El dia 9 de Mayo seré intervenido quirurgicamente en el Hospital (Madrid). Tambien le informo que a mediados de Septiembre esperamos un bebe. Aún no sabemos si será niño o niña. Esperamos que sea lo que sea nos ayude a avanzar en la Cociencia de Krisna.

No lo entretengo mas, ya que entiendo que la distribución de su tiempo no debe de ser fácil.

Esperando siga bien de salud y disfrutando de la asociación de devotos avanzados y entusiastas se despide

Su humilde (inexperto) sirviente

Jayanta das

             ASA -  Muy bien  la fechas notada.   Puede ver estams en Jungle!    Esperamos mejor communicaion entre unos dias!    Esperamos mucho ayuda individual de Krsna para Vd!!.