Letters to the editor

 HpS - ASA -- AGTSP paoho. It's interesting to hear your words. But we lack the general background to put too much action juice into them. If I told you that we have to meet with Laksmana agra Ja in about 45 minutes you wouldn't know if Laksmana was a man or a women, if it was in Lima or Chosika and what the topic was.
See what I mean? Your investigation is honestly very interesting and your reports of conversations with Sri-kara Das interesting! There are non-ISKCON Hindu panditas who also calculate the Adhik mas, no?
For example, we are now celebrating Vijaya-dasami, tommorrow. So I guess we could all agree that it is Dasami, but your conclusion is that this is a different month of the lunar calendar, no????

Dear Maharaj:

Pamho, AgtSP!

1. Sorry it has taken me so long to respond to your comments which I greatly appreciate. I have been adjusting to completing the year long medication regime which was so far successful but I won't know for sure until 12 months have past. Nonetheless, I was not up to par for awhile.

2. Regarding your comment about 10/24/2012 and celebrating Ramacandra Vijayotsava. As of 10/15/2012, the GBC calendar was back in sync with the proper stars and this holiday was correct.

3. Regarding your question about non-Iskcon Hindu pandits calculating Adhik mas. This is precisely the where the problem appears to lay. The common method is derived from Bhaskara II in the 12th century which uses the idea of lunar months and solar transits.

          HpS -  AGTSP     Hope your drugs help your service!   What is a Solar Transit?

This method uses the tropical signs of the zodiac and does not address problems with proper alignment of the vedic lunar months with their respective nakshatras. This is my whole point.

               HpS - What is a tropical sign?    What are Nakshatras?

4. I realize that I need to develop this material into an easy to visualize series of pictures which I will soon do. Sorry, I understand this is a difficult subject for a non-astronomer/astrologer. Hope this does it for now.

Yhs, Saranga Thakura das

            HpS - Does what for us now?    Ha!     Ha!     Ha(re)!           It is just like talking French to a Chinaman for us common folk!!!      Honestly.    You have to define the terms assuming you are starting with people who have a simple newspaper level of astronomical understanding.   Did you know that a 12AU7 was a dual pentode vacum tube?               -{:O)           More News!!!

TLGSP ; HARE KRSNA QUERIDO GURU MAHARAJA  , GRACIAS POR VENIR A AREQUIPA , GRACIAS POR ACUDIR A MI AUXILIO , POR SU SANTA ASOCIACION HIZO QUE TODOS LOS DEVOTOS NOS UNAMOS  PARA PODER SERVIRLO HASTA LOS QUE ESTUVIERON MUY ALEJADOS  POR SU GRACIA HAN RETORNADO AL TEMPLO ; Y TODOS ESTAMOS ENTUSIASTAS POR HACER SERVICIO, ANTES DE SU LLEGADA  ERAMOS COMO HIJOS MALCRIADOS, LLEGO EL PAPA Y NOS PUSIMOS EN REGLA ; SU SOLA PRESENCIA HA SOLUCIONADO TODOS LOS PROBLEMAS. INFINITAS GRACIAS GURUDEVA.

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GURUDEVA LE CUENTO QUE TAMBIEN CON SU LLEGADA RECIBIMOS LA NOTICIA QUE LAS DEIDADES DE  JAGANNATHA, BALARAMA Y SUBHADRA ESTARIAN LLEGANDO  PARA ENERO DE INDIA, LOS DEVOTOS DE LIMA NO LOS PROMETIERON, SERAN COMO LAS DEL TEMPLO DE MIRAFLORES  QUE ORIGINASLMENT5E FUERON DE AREQUIPA .

QUERIDO GURU MAHARAJA ESPERANDO SUS  INSTRUCCIONES PARA PODER HACER MEJOR MI SERVICIO Y SIEMPRE ORANDO A SRI NRSIMHA  DEVA PARA QUE LO PROTEJA .

                                             A SU SERVICIO

                                                                                RAMALILA D.D.

HpS - ASA -  Jaya!   TlgaSP   Pfanrh....  Muchas gracias a Vds!!!      Pienso que la presencia de Mathuresa Prabhu era un factor muy fuerte en esta visita tan exitoso.   Como pasa Govardhana puja   y   desaparacion de Srila Prabhupada!!

Estamos en Chile pero manana, manana volvaremos a Lima para dos noches.  Hare Krsna!                Hare Krsna!!!!    Govardhana puja??

     AGTSP    paoho.

Still in Santiago, Chile.   Still little allergy infection (like 2,000,000 more people here). Today we have big program in the Casa de Monedas.  It dates back to the Colonial Period. It is Socrates and Pariksit.

Yesterday we concluded 7-hours of phone calls to Jet Airways to try to change the return date of our ticket from Radhadesa in May. The Educational Conference was fixed for three days later so we had to change our travel date. It has been hell past human imagination trying to do this, but stll we haven't received final confirmation by internet.

In Vrndavana only Krsna and Balarama kill demons. Everyone else just calls, "Hare Krsna, Hare Rama"!

I guess that's all. We have so many individual discussions, consultations, wth devotees daily and the Temple is packed full for lectures.  AGTSP!!!   Please accept our humble obeisances.

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PP

Oink!    Oink!           TlgaSP      pfanrh...   Pasa las noticias de Monocito por el Bing Traductor!   http://www.bing.com/translator/ 

Estamos en Santiago.   Salud bastante normal.  Alergia como todo el mundo.  Programa fuerte hoy dia in la casa de monedas!!!    Das, das, das.   Aparece fuerte lucha con boleto para Radhadesa Educacion Conferencia esta exitoso despues de 7 horas en el telefono con ellos!

       O.K.  Cartas y Japa.  Ya son las 5.14AM  aqui!

           A G T S P  !

       (((paoho)))      Santiago Temple.   5.05AM.   Tulasi Puja is going on down in the Temple Room  Brothe Ass just sneezed from little pollen iritation.     Ekadasi was pretty good.    We have hard time balancing all our service.  We get the travel arrangements going and then we have rounds left.  We get the rounds done and then it is time for class or sankirtan or iindividual consultations, then we dont have time for Letters to the Editor, because it is late and Brother Ass is tired and he wants to write fun stuff or see fun movies, Maha-bharata or read fun books. Ramayana......    ....             O.K.  PP  and then Japa with devotees, then 11AM, San Jose, Boise, Bhaktivaibhava, Internet, Webex, Symposium.  12.15PM     Skeedaddle into the coche and off to a program at one devotas Yoga Center.   Expect about 30 devotees and 40 guests.

Monday is Super Programa at the Mint with 700,000 special inviteds.   Socrates and Maharaja Parikshit!!!                      Arjuna.....        Maybe form and Organizing Committee for next year's program...    The Song of Solomon and Rupa Goswami....   TKU - T.Brown...

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Piggy's Perlas

Oink!    Oink!    TlgaSP!    Pfanrh   &   Bq....   Esperamos todos muy occupado en Sankirtana de Srila Prabhupada!!!!   ISKCON!!!   Aqui Santiago.   Muy bien todo.  Poco allergia, voz ronca....     Muchas consultaciones para devotos,   clases, Sankirtana..    Siempre Bhakti Vaibhava....  Ya estamos en 3.31  con Srinivasa Das y 3.26 con Peru,  y hoy dia   3.27  con San Jose ....         Luchando con boletos etc.  Pero son transcendentales si cantamos los Santos Nombres abajo el refugio de Pancha tattva (Srila Prabhupada, Sad Goswami), y Senor Jagannatha (Haraye namah...)

Hari Bolo!

5.16AM   Abajo Tulasi, 10 offenses.... vamos a cantar....   Japa ....    volver con los devotos.    Muchas prograsm hoy dia y Sankirtana!!!!

Hare Krsna Hanumatpresaka Maharaja,
please accept my respectful obeisances,
all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I'd like to ask a question about japa.
I run a blog on chanting japa, and i use your classes and Japa Joe doc also. (You can check it here:  japa.blog.hu)

You wrote in Japa Joe (rev. 2011.02.11.):
"Then you mind goes into an iconographic rather than linear mode."
I tried to find the definition of iconographic but i wasn't successful.
Can you explain the meaning of this word, please?

                 HpS - ASA -  AGTSP  paoho.  It is a term that you can probably find in Marshall McLuhan's books.     In the mode of passion our mind is working in a line, reasoning:    It's 6AM now, will I have time to take my car to the 24-hour oil change place and get the oil changed before I go to work...

  .... In Iconographic mode, no mental speculation, we are in Dhyana, meditating on things, the Holy Name.   In Ernst Poppel's, "Mind-works", the shows results of his experiments that Western people can keep about 3-seconds of events in their consciousness at one time as one event.  Time is not a line that can be divided into nano-seconds.  It can be complete events, icons, that we can contemplate of up to three seconds.      We discuss this in the Japa Joe book.  A Yantra is a visual icon.   A Catholic will say they that they are worshipping the Icons in the Temple, where we say the Deities in the Temple.  The Orthodox Church is famous for it's Icons.

          Mental speculation: Jnana,    go to Meditation, contemplation: Dhyana, and we hope then to Bhakti!

Thank you for the nice example how we can follow Srila Prabhupada!
your servant:
Kadamba Kanana das

        ASA -  Oink!   Oink!       Whoop!    Whoop!      Hope to see your Wet-ware form soon.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Todas las glorias a Sri Sri Gauranga y Nityananda.

Todas las glorias a usted, Gurudeva.

Acepte mis mas humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Hare Krsna gurudeva, le escribo esta carta para reportar que estoy cumpliendo con mis 16 rondas y los cuatro principios, asociandome lo mas que puedo con los devotos, mas ahora e tenido pruebas al ego falso, la mente y la inteligencia no me queda mas que aferrarme a sus pies de loto querido gurudeva y seguir sirviendo a los amados sirviente de krsna, pues soy una  humilde sirvienta suya querido gurudeva, cada dia le ruego le oro a usted que me ayude para seguir adelante en el servicio devocional a Sri Sri Radha y Krsna a Sri Sri Gauranga y Nityananda a Sri Sri Sita y Ramacandra, que jamas olvide a Krsna y algun dia pueda optener prema bhakti por ellos, le agradesco tanto a usted gurudev por ser tan misericordioso conmigo. <img alt="" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/51.gif" title="" />

su eterna y humilde sirvienta apsara gopi devi dasi.<img alt="" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/01.gif" title="" />

          HpS - ASA -    ....   !! ..  !        TlgaSP!   Si, el ego falso es el enimigo.  Muchas veces estoy slavado por "trnad api sunicena...".     Tratando buscar los buenas cualidades en otros y ninguna necesidad presentar nuestras y cantar Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

           En Vrndavana solamente Krsna y Balarama matan a los demonios!

Tiene que leer Caitanya caritamrta cada dia si puede!!