Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna dear Gurudev

All the glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We celebrated a beautiful Vyasa Puja. The service’s mo was present in everyone. Really is inspiring serve with the god brothers… is a shelter.

In  the party was 70 devotees attended and they were very happy with the program and the prasadam. Thank you for the inspiration.

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Querido Gurudev

Clearly feel how the debt contracts with the spiritual master is something that can not be returned.. Normally in this material world the debts are a problem, is something  that you want to pay as soon as possible ... Oppositely, this debt to you is for me a treasure and something that makes me very happy because it gives me the opportunity to be connected with you always and try to do something to serve.

I was reading the book of HH Mukunda Goswami and listening devotees tell about the beginning of the Hare Krsna movement. How Srila Prabhupada was and the way he present and introduce Krsna in their lives.

I can see how the sincere Young people from that time, all became part of the power of His love.

Thank Gurudev for give your life to fulfill the desire of Srila Prabhupada. Thanks to be  a transparent medium to Him and to see  all possible ways to encourage us every day to be more Krsna Conscious.

For me Your classes, answers, your ways of presenting Krsna are the reasons to continue every day and help me to understand how to carry out this life in the best way.

Thanks for accepting me as his disciple and allowing me to be connected with the disciple succession.

I have no qualifications, just a strong desire to do my best to follow your instructions and please you always.

trying to serve

Vrsabhanu Nandini devi dasi 

              HpS -  Jaya!  Thank you so much for this letter.  You are like a Mother to all the devotees in Argentina. Maybe you were Eva Peron en your last life.   Ha!     Ha!     (1/2 joking).      We are trying to fix our Calendar and looks like we would head for South America in October...     We can visit your rural community then...  We will have some work for everyone with our Journal that we will publish for NIOS in September.  The title might be A Human Spirit or Common Cause..

   AGTSP   paoho.    The internet connection in Radha-desa is not good in the afternoon or evening yesterday so we could not write our Diary...   Every evening we are having NOI symposium and try to go tot Bhakti-vaibhava level.  Is very nice. Lots of devotees.   As we just try to talk about things spontaneously the class goes into depth and it seems that even in four or five evenings we will just cover maybe two or three verses and purports!

We arrived Wednesday morning. Crashed for a few hours and gave class Wednesday night.  The yesterday they had us give class in the morning. One hour meeting with Yadu Swami and Dina-dayal Das about on-line education, and then NOI in the evening. We also fought with the robot and after 1/2 hour found out how to remove the partition on our external hard drive and made a back up of our files!  Actually were several other complications.

We beat ourselves for not working enough, but seems that maybe we are working O.K. We can desrire to be like Rupa Goswami, utsahan, but we should have patience, dhairyat.

            We are really struggling to catch up with the Blog letters.   100 vyvasa puja letters has got us drowned.  We look for "Urgent" letters.

In anxiety not to be doing Dr. Bandyopadhyay's work!             NIOS work....   Hare Krsna...   We are compulsive personalities.   Slow down, Tom!  Chant Hare Krsna and be happy. Learn to decline work. Set a practical standard of what you can do.  Keep the important things first and be sure that your work is well coordinated with others.  Then everything will get done for Srila Prabhupada very nicely..

Querido Guru Maharaja Si usted lo desea por Favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias postrado a sus pies de loto.

Le envie mi reporte tarde recien el dia 13/1 /13 espero me disculpe si no lo recibio y es posible se lo envio nuevamente ,aca le mando una copia de mi ofrenda de Vyasa Puja .

Hare Krsna, Francisco.  TlgaSP   pfanrh.     No contenido en esta carta!!  Re enviar!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All Glories to Gaura Bhakta Vrinda!

Hare Krishna dear Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisenses. 

Hope your health is really fine, i was just reading many letters in the blog, and feeling big separation from your personal association. Today i come back to buenos aires, i was like 15 days traveling cordoba, and some areas in the north of argentina with my wife nd other 2 devotees, doing sankirtan, meeting nice people, visiting devotees and looking for lands, to finally get out from crazy buenos aires city life nd start some nice project in the country. 

Also We do a little but nice vyasapuja celebration in cordoba with vrishbanu nandani s mother and brother, and some other devotees. We cook subji,chapatis, coconut rice,ladhus,  peanut butter,nd a big cake, it was really good!

I want to thank you so much gurudev for all the inspiration you give, for the dedication you have with every devotee, for beeing so warm and human and also always so strict and loyal  to Srila Prabhupada. 

your fool aspirant to servant,

Madhavendra Puri Das

    HpS -  Jaya!!!!   AGTSP   paoho..    Thank you very, very much for the concise news.  Best of wishes for your rural project!!!    Will help many, many people!          We will be in South America like July - August or October ... for sure, Krsna willing.   In any case we are always in associaton by literature and the Paramatrma!!

Dear GM, PAMHO AGTSP AGTYH I was recently reciting the dasavatara stotram and considering the verse about varahadeva. वसति दशनशिखरॆ धरणी तव लग्ना शशिनि कलङ्ककलॆव निमग्ना । This rose two issues that I would like to ask you about: How can I accept such an extraordinary story as anything more than a mythological account that may provide a tool for teaching humans about dharma? How should I consider other religious stories that appear to be mythological in nature but are not part of our tradition? Such as a Hopi creation story or Norse gods. How much of this is real and how much is imagination? How much of this is for the purpose of teaching us things which are beyond the realm of cognitive capability? Do some religions get it right and others get it wrong? YHS, Tcsd

HpS - ASA - AGTSP   paoho.  O.K.  Let's write on this for publication.
First, even within our own tradition, Vedic culture, there are texts for those in the mode of ignorance and those in ...   So some these are directly exaggerated to deal with really stoned dudes. Even the Bhagavatam says that some of the stories there are allegories. Others the parampara says are actual descriptions of reality but extraordinary to oue personal experience.
Appreciating the parampara, the authority, is very important in this discussion. Like last year I heard Jay Labov from the National Academy of Science saying to most people, college educated people "scientific knowledge" is "revealed knowledge" just as stories coming from different religious traditions. So we have to investigate the scientific or guru-parampara authorities. The last one in our line, Srila Prabhupada is quite accessible through his books and students if we want to investigate, and then he says that everyone of our Acharyas were greatly realized souls with no reason to accept imagination as serious fact.

Parampara, in Mathematics, Proof Through Induction.

Then we can use the available scientific and other information and try to understand these stories in the Bhagavatam.  First principle is that the SB is using a different coslmology from that which we have evolved in the West from Socrates to Plato to Aristotle to St. Thomas Aquinas, Kant, Newton, Einstein.
To see the validity of the predominating Western paradigm requires to look carefully at history. There is good literature available, authorities like Harvey Cox, Carl Jung, Marshall McLuhan, E. T. Hall.  All well respected scientist - "Quantum Questions" by Ken Wilber.   So many books which in the end demonstrate that the Wester Cosmology confronts may experiences that we can't explain and amongst all these the concept of Time we feel one of the most principle.

To many college educated Dudes, time is a line, it moves in one direciton only, it has no branches and all the steps are just the same size!!  Very German.  Yet, cross cultural studies, regular scientific studies in psychology, advanced physics, show us that there are many alternative views of time which funcition quite well andd even better in different circumstances.

So, to take the "myths" of the SB on their own terms, and not to just extract one thing out of context, like 1 + 1 = 10, and say that it is rediculous, but not to understand that the statement is made after it has been established that we are working in a base 2 number system, we see that the pastimes of Krsna were occuring at the end of the Dvapara Yuga.   For us in the Kali-yuga it is like some cockroach in the middle of Winter in New York trying to understand what things were like in the Fall.  The vegetation, atmosphere, everything, were different.

What to speak of Satya -yuga.

So many things were possible then that are not now.   Methusala in the Bible is worth finding a reading.  How old did he and his fellows live.

We could write much more but I think the idea is clear, no? If we read the SB parampara we will gradually understand the cosmology better and see how it is not only reasonable but apparently much more practical. From it come Ayurveda, Vastuveda, Jyotishveda...  Very practical and effective physical sciences.
Is O.K.?    This is just an extract, but a word to the wise is sufficient.   If you look up Carbon Dating on the WIkip. and the Britannica and follow the scholaraly links on them you will see that there are great deficiencies in the scientific "myth" about how they are establishing their dates.

We will post this on the JayaRama.us archives as, vedas-myth.docx