Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you Guru Maharaja.

We have met your family, no?

When did we visit there?

Yes Guru Maharaja, you have met our family members many times in Manipur, Tripura, Radhakunda and Silchar. You have visited our home in 2016, 2017 and 2023. You gave Harinama Diksha and Brahman Diksha to many devotees at my house (Kaptanpur, Silchar, Assam) in 2016 and 2017.

HpS - That, agtSP, was what i thought. it is so vivid in our memory. haridas swami is your cousin?

The inconveniences Guru Maharaja faced during your visit to our home village Kaptanpur at Silchar - Assam, please kindly forgive all of us for that by considering we all are very unqualified and stupid fools.

What other Vaisnavas do we know in Silchar community?

Guru Maharaja has many disciples at Silchar. They are all following 4 regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds. Some of them are –

-        my mother (HG Padmashri Devi Dasi) and we, four sisters – HG Kalpalatika Devi

Dasi (who resides in Vrindavan with her husband), myself – Manjuali Devi Dasi,

HG Ratnavali Devi Dasi and HG Sachimata Devi Dasi

-        HG Krishnasvarupa Das and his family

-        HG Pramodini Radhe Devi Dasi (presently serving Sri Gopalji at Radhakunda)

-        HG Rupa Manjari Devi Dasi

-        HG Brajeswari Radhe Devi Dasi

Hari Das Swami???

His Holiness BA Haridasa Maharaja is doing good. Recently one month ago, he had operation for piles at Bhubaneswar, Orissa. He is ok now. He is going to Mayapur in few days for some meeting purposes.

What you are doing now is best service to us. Don't change it. Grow it.

Yes Guru Maharaja, I will keep it up and try to grow whatever services you told me to do for your satisfaction and Srila Prabhupada. Guru Maharaja, please bless me so that I will never doubt your teachings and I will never negligent in serving your words with unalloyed devotion till the last breadth of my life.

Guru Maharaja, I have made four devotees till date. One has already taken Diksha from you in the year 2016, her name is Brajeswari Radhe Devi Dasi. Another one has taken initiation from HH Jayapataka Swami in the year 2023. And another two are not initiated yet. They are bhaktin Krishna Devi and bhaktin Radharani Devi. They have been following four regulative principles for the last 6-7 years, chanting 16 rounds, doing Mangala Arati, Ekadashi, and reading Bhagavatam and Krishna book daily together with me.

HG Brajeswari Radhe Devi Dasi is a very good disciple of you Guru Maharaja. Sometimes she writes to you to this blog. Her husband is serving in Indian army and his name is Deepak. Even if serving in the Indian army, Deepak has been following 4 regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds, observing Ekadashi, doing Mangala Arati, etc. from the last 13 years. Although sometimes he is compelled to eat Indian army’s vegetarian food which contains onion and garlic because of his work, he takes it out and eat. But he is very sincere and serious. And, Smt. Rupa Manjari Devi Dasi is a very dedicated disciple of yours. She took initiation in the year 2017, but by mistake, her name is not appeared in the list of your disciples (http://www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt). Her husband Nandalal Singha has been practicing four regulative principles from the last 18 years, following Ekadashi Vrata, eating only Prasad and doing daily Mangala Arati at home.

If Guru Maharaja can give Brahmana Diksha to Brajeswari Radhe Devi Dasi and Rupa Manjari Devi Dasi; and Harinama Diksha to Deepak and Nandalal Singha, and bhaktin Krishna and bhaktin Radharani, it will be a great mercy to me.

They all expressed their desire to serve you in the form of Diksha Guru, many times. They have been following you from many years ago. I am begging this from you Guru Maharaja from my heart. If you bestow your mercy upon the above-mentioned devotees by accepting them as your disciples, it will be a great mercy to me in performing many services together with them for the satisfaction of you and Srila Prabhupada. If Guru Maharaja gives permission for them, we will come through proper channel and HH BA Haridasa Goswami.

With the above-mentioned devotees, every day I read Bhagavatam and Krishna book over conference call. I am continuing my book distribution seva with many new wonderful experiences. Please give me the strength so that I become a good preacher, Guru Maharaja. Thank you very much. Hare Krishna.

Your servant

Manjuali Devi Dasi

Kaptanpur, Silchar, Assam

hps - agtsp!! paoho. we have been trying to communicate that we are 99.999% too old to give harinama diksa now. we certainly hope h. h. haridas swami takes up this work.

we can probably give second initiation with recommendations from h'dasa maharaja.

very nice.

🙂

be confident that the religion, yoga, philosophy, culture that you have received from srila prabhu pada is worth the attention of anyone.

be patha pradarshika guru for the whole world.

show them lord caitanya's path.

Hare Krishna, Maharaj, mis reverencias.

Nanda Gram está en Santander, Sita y Prema vienen a veces de visita y Jara mara Hari Das prabhu viene a visitar, yo en este momento estoy en Madrid, vine hace unos meses por que me enfermaba muy seguido y no me sentía bien, además estuve lidiando con papeles legales y planeo asentarme en Irlanda de el Norte en algunos meses, últimamente no tengo mucha asociación con devotos, solamente nos enviamos mensajes, veo sus clases en la página de Facebook y mis rondas no han sido las mejores, hay días en los que me siento un poco perdida pero sigo cantando para que Krishna me muestre el camino, que puedo hacer para seguir fortificando mi relación con Krishna? También me gustaría saber cómo puedo seguir siendo iniciada si no estoy viviendo en el templo? También tengo un pequeño altar pero quisiera saber si podría tener mi propia deidad para poder hacer aarti todos los días y crear esa atmósfera privada de la que me hablo la última vez.

mis más humildes reverencias. Espero que se encuentre bien y su salud sea buena.

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Hare Krishna, Maharaj, my obeisances.

Nanda Gram is in Santander, Sita and Prema come to visit sometimes, and Jara mara Hari Das prabhu comes to visit, I am in Madrid at the moment,

I came a few months ago because I got sick very often and I didn't feel well,

I was also dealing with legal papers and plan to settle in Northern Ireland in a few months,

lately I don't have much association with devotees, we only send each other messages, I see their classes on the Facebook page and my rounds have not been the best,

there are days when I feel a little lost but I keep chanting for Krishna to show me the way,

what can I do to continue strengthening my relationship with Krishna?

I would also like to know how I can continue to be initiated if I am not living in the temple?

I also have a small altar but I would like to know if I could have my own deity so I can do aarti every day and create that atmosphere that I was talking about last time.

my most humble reverences. I hope you are well and your health is good.

agustina abalos

HpS/ASA - agtsp. hk/he. thank you for your letter.

to get initiated you need approval of temple president or other agent authorized by GBC Secretary.

Introduce yourself to you, geographically closest temple president and explain your situation. they can approve you even without physical residence,

hare krsna.

who is on your altar now? statues and pictures are the same in many ways. they are both authorized by Srila Prabhupada for simple worship. offer incense, flowers, lamp, fragrant oil, food with respect.

as long as you are chanting hk/hr you are making progress in the path. other items eg. 4-principles. m. arati, class, are to accelerate effect of the Mantra,

Hari bolo. join us in next letter.

thank you.

your efforts are heroic. do not think less of yourself. go ahead. every step is permanent purification if you accept.

Hare Krishna

PAMHO AGTSP.

I read a letter with a response which categorized, Maya, as a black witch. There was also mention of getting help from a White Witch.

My question is, what are these categories of the Black Witch and White Witch?

Since the letter is about service involving spiritual books, could you please cite some reference in the scriptures which describes or defines a Black Witch and a White Witch?

Thank you

HpS/ASA - Thank you. Very good question. The statement was by Bh. Tom.

The distinction is kind of on a general basis.

We heard from Bhadra vardana Das Brahmacari many years ago that Vedic culture includes left and right handed Tantra, or Black and White magic.

We follow the Pancha ratrika Tantra, no? It is a Sattvika Tantra.

Radha-rani is the Tantrix, Witch, of White Magic, and Durga is the Tantrix of Black Magic.

As much as we are not pure devotees, we see Subhadra and goddess Durga under who's authority one can eat meat and drink wine. (SB 1.17.38 mentions this, no?).

Then, when Krsna calls Yoga Maya, Subhadra, in the first chapters of the Tenth Canto, He mentions that she will be known by different names because She will satisfy different desires for the materialists.

Is some help.

We can all aspire to see here as the Gopis do in the Prayers to Goddess Katyayani in their Agrahayana vrata in the 10th canto.

🙇

HpS/ ASA - Gauranga! . . . who's the news? what's the news? when arrive in NMDh??

TC - Hare Krishna Maharaja! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you.

Still in India. In Coimbatore now, on my way to Chennai (or Madras as it was known before). Need to look for some silver simhasan for Lord Narasimha Deva Saligram. Also need to spend a couple of days at my family's house.

Simhasan work for Yoga Narasimha Deva is going on. Need to get the carvings completed... As of now, plans haven't changed. Supposed to be reaching Hugh's Town on the 17th. If the work gets completed before that, I may prepone my ticket.

HpS/ASA - Great! Should be a powerful festival.

Hare Krishna, Maharaja and devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to Guru and Gauranga.

This is a Blog Post for next Sunday morning ~ Srimad Bhagavatam workshop on weekly reading on Sri Caitanya Caritamrta.

On coming Sunday (May 5, 2024), we will continue reading CHAPTER Eight: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya, verses 8.38 onwards.

Thank you to H. G. Ambarish Prabhu for doing translation for class on April 28, 2024.

It is the mercy of Maharaja, to engage everyone in reading books of Srila Prabhupada.

YS

Upendra dasa

ASA[TB/BW] - 🐵🌴 🌴. . . 🐷

Hare Krishna, respected Gurudeva!

HpS - All glories to our Guru, Srila Prabhupada.

Please accept my respectful and humble obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope that you are well and in good health or the best as is possible in the execution and development of your sankirtan for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada.

I heard and read that you will be in Spain during the last quarter of this year and for several months! I would like very very much to be able to travel to visit you and be able to serving you in Vapu mood during your stay in Europe.

Your disciple Abhirama Thakur Das invited me to participate in the new edition of Solaris, I must write a bibliographic review of the book “The sacred and the profane” by Mircea Eliade; I'm very happy because it represents a great challenge for me, mainly due to the hard requirement that my daily activities demand of me and also because the author was a very important academic of the 20th century and who is still valid through his philosophical and interreligious researching work where also, just like you do, he dedicated himself to building bridges between the philosophies of the East and the West, this is a topic that interests me a lot.

I take this opportunity of writing this letter to tell you that I have thought a lot about the idea of how I want to approach and develop the book I want to write with you (I mean do interviews with you) and about you; I want to prepare a document setting out to you my ideas on the matter so that I can comment on them formally and see together what we can do, only if you are available for do this.

The reason for this letter is to tell you that this Tuesday, April 16, the Rama Navami festival was held on Iskcon Chile celebrating the appearance of Lord Ramachandra. And I was blessed to be asked by the temple festival committee and the matajis devotees in charge of the garland service to take charge of making all the garlands for the festival. It was the first time that I've had such an important and great service! We made 11 garlands in total: the painting of Lord Ramachandra and His associates, Sri Sri Gaura Nitay (the regent deities of our Mandir, installed by H.H. Jayapataki Swami during the 90s), Lord Nrishimha, Prahlada Maharaja, Panca Tattva, Salagram Sila , Tulsi, Guru Parampara, Srila Prabhupada small size murti, Srila Prabhupada real size murti. They also gave this service to a devotee named Valentina, who came to know Krishna Consciousness approximately 2 years ago and since then she comes to the temple permanently and does various services. She is very skilled and virtuous, she has many qualities, she is very chaste and sincere, she is an artist, writer, nurse.

On Monday, April 15, I went early to the Santiago Flower Terminal to buy 8 bouquets of flowers, carnations and mables, white, red, burgundy, green, yellow, pink, lush and beautiful flowers, only Krishna who is the Supreme Artist can create something that wonderful, and how wonderful the flowers in the spiritual world must be!

During the afternoon together with Valentina we were both making the garlands from 3 pm to 11 pm and we couldn't finish the service, so we had to return to the temple during Mangalarati and it was already the same day of the festival!; We were there from 4.30 am to 7 am and we were able to do the floral arrangements, vases, organization and cleaning that we could not finish the previous service day. I attach pictures of the garlands before being offered and when they were already put into action to perform their service to decorate the transcendental forms of Their Lordships. In the afternoon during the festival, the person in charge of this service named Krishna Sevini Devi Dasi, she thanked us and congratulated us for the garlands we made for this very important festival (especially important festival for the devotees of the Anjana Suta Academy, All glories to Srila Prabhupada!), and she also made some observations regarding to the combination of colors, a maximum of 3 colors should be used, in the case of this festival must be red, yellow and white, I used 7 colors.

I love making garlands for the Deities, Gurudeva, it's for me a beautiful form of meditation and one that I enjoy the most; it allows me to appreciate the beauty of Lord Krishna's creation, connect with my sensitivity, develop fine motor skills, perform a loving service for the Supreme Lord, serving Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada (I say serving Gurudeva because I started doing this service to be able to get initiated by you and whenever I'm making garlands I think of you listening to Srila Prabhupada chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, I always listen the same audio on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDqCcmkvWcg )

I know by certainty and experience that this blessing that I've received and that I've been able to make so many garlands for this festival of Rama Navami, is exclusively due to your mercy Gurudeva, just by giving me your loving and transcendental association you are allowing me to advance a little more on my spiritual path and gradually approach the platform of devotional service for the Supreme Lord, and it's always thanks to the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Sri Radha Krishna, All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Soon I will write another report to you with news from Sit Properly 108. For now I can tell you that a few weeks ago we published the third single on all platforms and digital stores, it's a reggaeton rhythm that has the Maha Mantra Hare Krishna in the ending, it's the first time In the history of this musical genre that the Maha Mantra is included in a song of the style and we hope that other artists appear who also include the Maha Mantra in their songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8loAdXOnY

I must also write to you a report about my sadhana, 16/4, service for Iskcon Chile and my preparation to be qualified to take first initiation.

Thank you very much for everything Gurudeva, I always carry you in my heart, please accept my respectful and humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami! All glories to the assembled devotees! Hare Krishna!

Your aspiring servant,

Carlos from Iskcon Chile.

HpS/ ASA

AgtSP! Thank you for this nice letter.

1. Trip to Spain - Of course, if you can visit Radha Govinda candra that is great. Contact Yadunandana Swami and the devotees at New Vraja Mandala for permission to visit, service, accommodations etc!!
2. Book with philosopher. We can start with some practical activity.
3. Radharani makes garlands for Krsna - Light, fragrant, durable! 😃
4. Now we go for a solitary walk to to Office Max.

Thank you. You inspire us. You have so much potential.