Letters to the editor

   Todas Las Glorias a Sri Sri Gour Nitay!!

   Todas Las Glorias a Srila Prabhpada!!

   Todas Las Glorias sean a Usted!!

   Guru Maharaja por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias, en este trascendental día de Su Vyasa Puja, quisiera ofrendarLe mi esfuerzo sincero por seguir la instrucción que me ha dado, a veces la energía material es muy fuerte y me aparta de ese esfuerzo por servir exclusivamente Su instrucción. Su esfuerzo y entusiasmo constante en el Servicio Devocional es muy inspirador para mí y para todos. Es verdaderamente muy admirable la manera en que Usted sirve a Krishna.

   En el Canto 1 del Srimad Bhagavatam Srila Prabhupada explica como "refugiarse en los pies de loto del Señor significa refugiarse en los devotos puros cuyo único interés es servir", yo reconozco en Usted esas cualidades y espero sinceramente complacerLo algun día con mi servicio. Disculpe por favor mi negligencia, flojera e ignorancia. Le agradezco infinitamente Su enorme misericordia para conmigo y Le pido por favor que nunca me la quite, porque me doy cuenta que todo lo que he podido lograr ha sido gracias a Usted,

   Su sirviente,

   Dhanistha devi dasi.

             HpS - Gracias. Tambien faltamos en nuestra esfueza realizar los instrucciones de Srila Prabhupada, pero intentamos hacer lo que podemos cuando hay oportunidad, y ser mas y mas fuerte. Nehabikramo naso 'sti...  no hay perdid en esta sendero.  Cada paso adelante es eterno!      Esta regular levantando temprano, Mangala-arati, kirtana, SB?     Eso es la vida ejmplar de un Brahmana, no?  Entonce esta movimiento puede advanzar para la bienestar de todos!

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

    Answering to our last communication.

    Guru Dev, if you remember, we had a communication months back ago, where i had highlighted my
    worries, by this http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/2492

    And where you had advised some way.

    But for me you (My Guru Maharaj) is ultimate.

    I am in dilemma again . So please guide me again.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

 ASA - Jaya, Giri-govardhana!          Jaya, Giriraja Das!                Gopal!                 Honestly I don't know the details. I am barely able to see to some accomodations for our own donkey during these visits and travel. So if you go to Kolkatta, Manipur, Mayapura please be sure to adjust everything with local authorities.      Seems fine if you stay for the Temple opening in Pune during our first week in Kolkatta, but when we come back from Australia we will be there again for a week, so you could come to visit Kolkatta then and join our Sankirtana during that time. You could also make plans to visit Mayapura before or after as you think fit!

Please accept my respectful obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to You on Your auspicious appeareance day!

Because i have nothing and don't know anything, i'll borrow few words from the previous elevated persons like our founder acharya Srila Prabhupada and His perfect disciple to tell something relevant to Your appeareance day.

Srila Prabhupada said about siksa guru:
"...the spiritual master who gives instructions for elevation is called the siksa-guru."
Srila Prabhupada: Sri Caitanya-Caritamrta Madhya-lila 8.128.purport

"What is the function of the siksa-guru?
The siksa-guru teaches you how to maintain your relationship with Krishna eternally, how to do bhajana, how to serve Krishna — because you are the servitor and Krishna is the person to be served. You may take siksa from many gurus on different levels.
We give the following example: Your legs are dangling in the air. How can your legs be fixed in the land of Vrindavan? That is siksa-guru’s business. He fixes your legs in the land of Vrindavan. That establishes the relationship. Then the next phase is that you cannot stand still. You should learn to move. The siksa-guru teaches you how to move."
Gour Govinda Swami: Lecture, Bhubaneswar, 2 August 1990. In: Madhavananda Das: When Good Fortune Arises. Life an teachings of Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja. GopalJiu Publications, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, pp. 326-327.

I know by following your instructions and example i will be able not just to move but dance also.
So thank you for Your practical and sometimes life-saver hints and tips!

Hare Krsna,
your servant:
Kadamba Kanana das

              HpS -  Jaya!         We just describe what we see!  - (:0)+ + +

Hare Krishna Gurudeva paoho agtSP agtY! I writing  to apologize to you , I want you to know that although we havent written on about your  calendar and activities that take place during your  visit here, the devotees were  considering many options, but we have not taken a hit yet , but something will come up , sorry i canot not help with that, the truth is that I leave here before i get more involved in  debts again,  i apologize  to you again Gurudeva i feel really bad about not being able to help with this , who wants to serve Sarad Bihari Dasi

HpS - ASA - O.K.      We try to be Krsna conscious and really depend on Krsna to fix the Calendar!

Hare Krsna Maharaj, PAMHO,  AGTSP,

Respected Exalted soul, your qualities are beyond our comprehension.

       ASA - Thank you. AGTSP. We thought  we were incomprehensible t but your opinion has given us firm conviction. - Tom Brown, MONKEY.

There are so many things to learn from you ,till our death

we repeatedly read in SP purports that human life for austerity and training. Can one train himself , just by knowing the principles?  What are requirements of Training ? what are requirements for austerity?

hari bol
aspiring to be trained to please Guru Parampara

ASA - Krsna is always present as the Supersoul, Advaita-acharya. So we are being trained by force by His mercy if we want it or not.  That could take a long time.  Better we try to co-operate. Then we come to vaidhi-bhakti and the first principle of vaidhi-bhakti is to take shelter of an Acharya, and that means to hear from him. So you are doing it. By hearing irregularly you learn how to hear regularly. Srila Prabhupada is our Acharya we hear from him and everything is progressive.