Letters to the editor

¡Hare Krsna! Querido Gurudeva, por favor acepte mis sinceras reverencias

¡Todas las Glorias sean a nuestro muy misericordioso Fundador Acarya AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada y todas las Glorias a su Trascendental legado!

Gracias por enseñarnos como continuar empeñados en servicio, aún con dificultades físicas. Oramos constantemente para que la energía de su cuerpo sea favorable para su Sankirtan y oramos para tener siempre su misericordiosa guía. 

HpS - Thank you. One time Raktaka Das said that we were doing very severe austerities to push forward the Bhaktivedanta Institute work in Kolkata, and we thought about it and said, "Not very severe, but at least austere and maybe severe". We take time for sense gratification. We watch the Life of Salvador Dali on Youtube etc.

Try to work hard.

On the other hand, can see that we are really doing nothing. AgtSP!

Escribo como parte del equipo de ASA Carnaval, con nuestro reporte de actividades:

*Nos disculpamos por no enviar reporte de la quincena anterior, debido a que usted se encontraba de viaje consideramos pertinente esperar.

ASA - 👍

* Durante su Viaje a Boise. Prabhu Murari Das, amablemente, compartió con sus sirvientes las grabaciones de sus clases vespertinas y las participaciónes en el Ratha Yatra local de Radhika Raman Prabhu y de usted. Ya hemos compartido la mayoría en la página de FB.

ASA - Super, super. We were trying but it was just too much work. Super. Thanks to him. He is a hero. He did very severe book distribution for years in Spain.

*Continuamos transmitiendo las clases sabatinas con SS Hanumatpresaka Swami y Upendra Prabhu. (*Tuvimos dificultades para transmitir las clases del 23 y 26 de septiembre, por lo que si usted, pudiera compartirnos estas grabaciones se lo agradeceremos mucho.)

ASA - We just tried, agtSP, to open the list of classes on GoToMeeting.com but could not get it to open!!! Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. Maybe we can work on this later. Also, maybe we can develop a habit of sending link right after classes. The Robot gives us a chance to do that sometimes.

That is 23rd.

26th is PartSarthi Foundation. We have no control over that. Write to the Blog and we will try to put you in touch with their administrators.

This pushes all the speakers to do good work.

*El canal oficial de youtube “ISKCON Ministry of Education” compartió la conferencia que usted dictó en el simposio Viplavah 2019, doblada al español, y ya la hemos compartido en la página de FB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JU9DikhrM

ASA - Bali-mardana Das!

*En los canales de FB y Youtube los usuarios podrán encontrar una lista de reproducción con algunas clases de Srila Prabhupada (Ingles - Español)

Proyectos:

*Como resultado de su sugerencia respecto a “contribuir directamente en la misión de Srila Prabhupada”. Hemos invitado a distintos devotos para colaborar con proyectos artísticos y algunos otros para realizar clips del Prabhupada lilamrta. Continuamos trabajando en ello.

ASA - Can you give example of what kind of things they are doing??

* Respecto al estudio Stri Dharma, hemos propuesto a Madre Radhika Devi Dasi (México) realizar algunos talleres prácticos y ella ha sugerido los siguientes contenidos: A) Identifica tu naturaleza, B) Aryurveda, C) Educación Sexual D) Aprendizaje con las diferencias de pareja.

ASA - Is very nice. Wish someone had done their Bhaktivedanta work on this topic. Also, Sannyasa Dharma needs the same extract from Srila Prabhupada's books. We need to bring his work into so many detailed areas.

*Guru Maharaja, durante la clase de este sábado, usted mencionó su deseo de realizar la grabación de la lectura del Néctar de la Instrucción. Quisiéramos preguntar ¿Cómo podemos contribuir?

ASA - I do not know exactly. Of course, devotees can try recording, even as PPTX made into MP4, and see if the quality is good. Inspiring.

Aprovechamos para comentar: Observamos que, en las grabaciones realizadas durante las clases, frecuentemente hay ruidos externos o algún tipo de interrupción. Por lo que quizá sea mejor que las grabaciones se realicen de manera independiente (ya sea desde zoom o goto).

ASA - Yes.... Jagad guru Das had much very professional equipment that he brought to Peru

En caso de que desee lectura bilingüe (como el pasado sábado) aparecen dos opciones: 1) Programar reuniones con usted y el traductor para que lean conjuntamente inglés-español o  2) Que usted grabe la lectura en inglés y en otro momento podríamos grabar al lector en castellano, para después unir y editar. Por favor, háganos saber sus instrucciones, deseando ser útiles de algún modo, quedamos felizmente atentos.

ASA - This requires time and people. Nice to try and record the Preface first in the quality and way that we want. Just audio is nice but as movie is also nice.

We might record some. Others might record.

Can have many different editions. El libro vale la pena.

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Enlaces de contacto:

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Equipo coordinador:

Isvari Radha Devi Dasi / Abhinanda Das / Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

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Por ahora, ese es nuestro reporte. Muchas gracias por sus incansables esfuerzos para empeñarnos en la contribución a la misión de nuestro muy poderoso Acarya-Fundador.

Siempre a sus órdenes, su aspirante a sirviente

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

ASA Carnaval

HpS/ASA - Thank you. 7.30AM. Lot of emotional stress today, as every day, so time to rest, do light work. Jayo Jayo Gaura cander arotika sobha!!

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

🐵 🐒 🐒 🐒

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

For some years now, I have been supporting a preaching program called "Spiritual Shakti," where we hold monthly in-person classes and celebrate festivals. We also conduct virtual classes every Saturday.

I would like to inquire if you would be available to give an online class on one of the Saturdays in November (04th, 11th, or 25th) at 7pm (Perú Time). The topic could be: "The importance of Holy places"

I hope you are in good health

Thank you very much

Jagat Pavitram das

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. We also put this under category of Calendar Development.

Yes, November 4th. On our calendar. If Krsna desires!

Very nice work.

More news as it comes.

[10/11, 11:28 AM] K G. Boro: Hare Krsna Maharaj 🙏

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Gauranga 🙏 All glories to Srila Prabhupad 🙏

Hari Bol!  

Maharaj will you be coming back to the Boro soon or be going to India pretty soon for Karthick maybe? Hare Krsna🙏

[10/11, 12:08 PM] HP Swami - Prof HHR: We've, agtSP, been based here for six months now, with just one week trips out to East and West Coast.

What are your plans? 

🙂

K G. Boro: Oh ok Jai Maharaj! 🙌🙏

Currently searching for new employment, in the mean time performing guitar Kirtan doing some small books distribution at the same time

Etasa Krsna Das your diciple will be coming to Murari Sevaka farm temple for November 13th Mon - Thursday to give mrdanga classes for the temple devotees and few regular local devotees to the temple

I'll accompany him and stay over at the farm during that time

🙏 I'm just trying to remember Krsna and the deities and serve the devotees

But searching for jobs that aren't too hellish maybe, I'm starting to look toward jobs related to music possibly. It's my nature I realized more and more this last year or so. Maybe music therapy profession. These are a few ideas I have 🙏 Hare Krsna Maharaj

Does this seem like the best idea to find a profession within our nature Maharaj? I've tried so many things, music seems to come automatically to me somehow.

HpS - AgtSP. So many times we see Srila Prabhupada, Krsna, recommending people work according to their nature and surrender the results to Krsna.

So, work related to the music industry seems good.

Since it is Kali yuga the best way to understand our nature is Hari Kirtan.

So 16-rounds, Kirtaniya sada harih (KSHari), always chanting.

We put Sm. Etasa K. Das's program on our Calendar, but don't think we can come. Got a nice program on 14th in The Boro.

Our calendar always in the Kapi Dhvaja. We are packing up and the 19th go to Houston, maybe for three months.

Hope to get your association during that time.

Maybe on your way to Murari you could stop by and we could send somethings for Etasa K. D. et al.

Thank you.

Hare Krisna,

Dandavat Pranam.

The Gita translated in Manipuri in Bangali and Meitei Mayek by Partha Sarthi Das will release tomorrow in the Govinda Mandir, Imphal with a special function with Maha prasadam.

Hare Krishna!

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obessiances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Guru Maharaja, we are in deep in the war. Frankly I am getting my (censored) kicked; battered, bruised, bloody, maybe a few fingers lost. However, we are making progress.

HpS - Jaya! Life is like a battle of Kuruksetra, no?

Nityananda Prabhu told me once the quickest way to become purified is to take up some kind of management role in ISKCON. I have this small role as Director of Krishna House Ashram Dallas and YES, he isn't lying!

HpS - Yes! Yet going out on the street distributing books or door to door in the USA is not a small task!

I think I may be a glutton for punishment. I'm not joking. Some kind of twisted pleasure in getting hammered. We are making advancement no matter how hard we get hit and we are getting hit ALOT. It kind of feels good though, it does feel good. Actually, I am learning a lot. A few tears but getting closer to Radha-Kalachandji.

I apologize for not staying so in touch. We will come to Houston and see you. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come to Dallas? I beg you.

Your surrendered disciple,

Nanda-braja das

The picture is of our first Spiritual Sunday program which is our alternative Sunday feast program directed towards westerners. 25 people came, 7 of which where devotees and rest new comers.

HpS - We will look.

Yes! We we're disturbed not to hear from you.

We may not be able to do a lot, but by Srila Prabhupada's austerity we can always give a little practical help.

AgtSP!

Are you working alone?

On the Eve of Radhastami

Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,

pamho, AGtSP!

HpS - Wow!!! you sent this two weeks ago!!!!! Rattle our cage on WhatsApp if a Blog Post needs quick attention.

Of course, you know we were almost drowning in all the service in Boise, and then some time to recover, but here we are looking at this Post!

Here we are, using syntax again...so much going on, difficult not to use shortcuts. Though, you’ve reminded us of time, place, and circumstance, such as one of the creative processors of Radar (radio detection and ranging), finding sometimes even 3^rd class applications will suffice.

HpS - Yes! The Battle of Britain.

Well, that’s sure Kali-Yuga’s standards, the manageabilities are so muddled, yet we keep serving faithfully, for Srila Prabhupada’s instructions reign true.

                                                                                W.W.W.

Finally getting up-to-speed with our World-Wide-Web, some glitch in the “MACHINE,” rendered me a senseless robot. Almost 2 weeks down before a tech finally came & revived my feverous online brain.

Fully contemplating this event, realizing my time was well spent, weaned off the A.I. stream. Read, wrote, and “awoke” with individual hope from the Supreme cause, a flute-playing Blue Lad keeping tabs on this Jiva Jag, enchanted again from the false-ego spin. Thank God, thank God. 

HpS - !!! Wonderful!! No, internet. That's when it is so nice to be walking distance from an ISKCON Temple.

                                                                               SFRY 23

Finished off the San Francisco’s Ratha Yatra (SFRY) 23 in Golden Gate Park, working with Jagannatha Swami Prabhu and Granthraja primarily, though my Go-Bro, Loka Bandhu Prabhu was my right-hand man too. All the guests seemed pleased.

Just beautiful weather and pushing 1,000’s for attendance, though not everything was perfect, plans changed due to certain mishaps in leadership (mine and others), plus learning curves made some complications weren’t my choices, yet the reasoning was needed... for some reason. We’re learning and we also must remember others are too, the tricky part is for each of us to glean the proper lesson, “Bhagavan” works His servants uniquely & intentionally... are we attentive?

The concluding festival site closing was an event in itself, sure had me surprised when a volunteering Bhakta was a wit's end from all the service, seen it happen before and some people even abandoned their seva. In this case, it was on another level, a potential direct confrontation. The truck loading of Gaura-Nitai, float, Altar & stages is a tight fit.

What started this conundrum was another devotee placed a small dolly stacked with chairs amongst the predestined articles and sure enough, our floor space was over-packed. My diligence and efforts to restore safe & proper stowing were taking too long and our Bhakta was impatient to get back to Berkeley, we all were. There is a method we use, we deviate & this is what happens.

HpS - Yeah. Is a fact!!! You are a Sannyasi to try to do such precise technical service in ISKCON institution!

Now the tests of “Will” now come to play, and not in a pleasant way, not knowing this Bhakta very well, I looked at Granthraja with concern, this young man could crush me if he desired. I stood in front of him in a casual horse-stance, mentioning he had some issues with anger. His response was, “I’ll show anger management,” while he approached me I lifted both of my arms up and surrendered to the moment (plus with my arms out I could defend myself if necessary) , he gave me a firm bear-hug and I returned with a friendly slap on the back and we went our ways. He was still mad, though relieved.

HpS - Wow!

Granthraja Prabhu looked over and said, “Well, looks like he failed the tolerance test, but at least we’re out of here.” Replying, I said,” He does give good hugs.” This all brought back memories of the earlier SFRY’s when the Rangers weren’t there, we’d be out in the park till midnight, thank God some “good” institutional policies came about. 

 Pre-SFRY + Post stool

Prior to the SFRY we were trying to write to you, though to no avail, the official Grhastra realm is not always easily managed... here’s the sample from early June:

Wow! Yogini Ekadashi and my rounds are done before Morning Gayatri. Your toleration of my obscure techniques in Japa does pay off!

Am very grateful for your instructions, and now I have time to write before going to work. So hoping I can keep this routine going for it is enhancing my Sadhana and stifling the crazy monkey in my brain, now to actually follow through between seva and strain.

One particular strain presented itself when sewage diabolically backed-up in our humble abode. The good Lord was just reminding us how gross this material life is on a very “personal” basis... in our “lump of ignorance.” Apparently, a prior plumber left the cap off the sewage clean-out pipe outside, we’ve been here a year now. Accumulated stool is not a pretty sight, nor a smell-full-delight. Now no excuses for indulging in House attachments, it stinks. Finally, purchased a $30 wire- snake, locked it on the drill-gun, and spun through masses of paper, leaves, and... We know. The sound the pipe made was like a belch of relief once things were flowing, such a gross event, Lord help us out of these messes.

ASA - Amazing!! Even house pass stool!!!

                                                                         Sweet Sorrow

Not to leave you on such an ignorant elaboration, am still seeking proper collaboration, a quasi-burning question for you on Sadhana & Preaching. Our tapasya in both of these practices seem interchangeable to a point, though one is for personal development the other for social enlightenment. The old axiom, “Acintya Bheda-Bheda Tattva” comes to the mind, again a mysterious conjunction of Buddhi yoga.

The succinct system the Lord has arranged for our purification and postulations are so cohesive in Their results, yet, there are always extremes per individual. I’m guessing that free-will is the crux, though Supreme-will may adjust for specific karmic balances, and the balances are enhanced or maligned due to association. In essence, our choices bring motivation and our faith brings confirmation. Seems we’re working to get our real jobs back and while doing so we must allow others to help and/or be helped and/or direct... is this feasible? ”The way is in training,” as the Sword Master; Miyamoto Musashi was known to say, now applying it?!

HpS - Your question is a little too advanced and esoteric for us.

Can you state it again is a simple fashion like you were talking to a mule?

Seems very interesting.

Very!

Please reask.

Thank you again for your valuable time! All glories to the Vaisnava’s!!

You servant in training,

c.c.

BONUS READ:

 Almost done with Maitreya Dasa’s book, “Escape to Paradise and Beyond.” A damn extensive write, though for a good reason... his journey to K.C. His rendition has more advanced tones of my feeble writing, with quite a command of the English language. Waiting for his conclusion, is like being in a verbal whirlpool awaiting the vortex.

Escape To Paradise and Beyond: An Englishman's Global Quest For Truth And Enlightenment: Dasa, Maitreya: 9798986222707: Amazon.com: Books

Thank you!

Our Temple President in San Jose, what was his name? Was English major. He said that one thing for good writing is to write stuff. Let is sit for three days and then go back and read it and see how clear it it is to you.

Your immediate knowledge of what you are talking about is gone and so you get a chance to read it like you reader, who won't be to hep to your personal thoughts.

Go chance to become poet very soon!!