Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

PAMHO, AGTSP.

Hope you are doing well.

I was not feeling well today so could not work much. We met Mother Urmila (Urmila Edith Best) in Chennai in December last year. After talking to her I felt some inspiration to start reading to know (as opposed to just reading or reading because of requirement). Hence as today anyways I could not do much i decided to utilize this opportunity to start on her recommendation.

In the Bhagavad Gita Introduction page 8, there is some discussion on prakrti..it is described as inferior superior, translated as nature, but still I am not able to completely understand..what is prakrti??what do we mean by nature??

HpS - ASA --  AGTSP  pamho.  As we read more and more SB there is more and more detailed explanation. Basically it is the physical world as opposed to the spirit souls and Krsna.

Very basic small doubts, sorry to be asking KG questions. Some other doubts -

1. Lord is very merciful to living entities especially human beings - why humans? why not the apes? or is it that we think so becuase we ARE humans? perhaps he is more merciful to trees or peacocks also? or equally merciful to all?

ASA - He is merciful to all. His mercy is that He gives us human body to have chance to understand Him if we want to.

2. the sincere student should have firm respect for the Supreme personality of godhead (page 6). what does firm respect mean?

ASA - Is like when you are standing somewhere and trying to pull a root out of the ground.  You can have firm stance or weak stance.  So you respect should be firm. You should see what is the ground of your respect.  If there are doubts you should investigate them and see that they are false.

thank you!

Hare Krsna!

ASA - HpS -  Thank you.  You are certainly advancing!  Making a success of your life.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Todas las Glorias a Sri Sri Gouranga y Nityananda!

Hare Krsna querido Gurudev, en la víspera de Su vyasa puja le agradezco a Krsna por Su gloriosa existencia,  muchas gracias por su ultima respuesta, Usted tiene toda la razon, con respecto a las personas en sankirtan, gracias por recordarme que debo ver a Krsna en cada una de ellas.

Le cuento que gracias a Su miserciordia saque el tercer lugar en la maraton de diciembre para el placer de srila Prabhupada, se lo cuento humildemente como una ofrenda en su vyasa puja, tambien le cuento que mis servicios para el templo son el festival de sankirtan en paseo ahumada sabado por medio, en el cual Usted tuvo la bondad de particpar en su ultima visita (por supuesto algo que siempre le agradecere,  nunca olvidare ese momento) con este servicio colectamos para pagar cosas del templo que hagan falta por ejemplo, las contribiones a pagar o deudas, o aportes para la reconstruccion del templo etc, tambien con ese laksmi los devotos cambiaron la fachada del templo, la pintaron e hicieron una placa que dijiera iskcon y todo... en el último evento tuvimos el agrado de tener la presencia trascendental de Srila Sankarshan das adhikari y Su esposa.....

Bueno tambien le cuento que  estoy viviendo aqui en los andes, la razon mas que nada es que necesito conocer bien a la persona que estoy eligiendo para ser mi compañero durante muchos años lo cual no es menor, ademas me casare pronto ahora en febrero.....

Seguimos haciendo bhakti vriksas aqui en los andes, no hemos logrado tener muchos miembros aun pero eso no nos quita el entusiasmo, tenemos dos miembros fijos, Jhon y Silvana ellos son vegetarianos y cantan algunas rondas ....

Este año pasado hubieron grandes cambios en mi vida. Y eso me ha hecho  madurar un poco mas, ahora me siento mas convencida de lo que quiero:  ser devota, y predicar, cambiando el escenario ese deseo continua,  a veces se convierte en anhelo. Vivo lejos de los devotos a 1 hr y media y eso es mas dificil,  a pesar de que vivo con un devoto, no es lo mismo, pero me motiva expandir la conciencia de Krsna, intento todos los dias asociarme con Prabhupada mediante sus libros y escuchar clases de SP. y de Usted, por audio grabado.

Mi sadhana aun no es estable, me esforzare este año por mejorar, aun no despertamos a las deidades porque compartimos casa con mas gente que no es vegetariana, pero esa situacion cambiara pronto si Krsna quiere, por mientras ensayamos nuestro estandar con un altar de fotitos, salgo a distribuir libros casi todos los dias, muy a menudo me siento indigna de ser Su discipula y eso me genera frustacion, pero quiero mejorar de verdad, lo unico que le pido a Krsna es que yo siempre me pueda refugiar en Sus pies de loto y pueda corresponder algun dia a todo Su esfuerzo por predicar sin importar Su salud o Su edad.

Este año me propuse aprender Ingles. asi que espero que la proxima vyasa puja le pueda escribir en ingles.-

Gracias Gurudev eternamente, gracias a Su asociacion una persona tan básica como yo puede despertar el deseo de ser mejor para Krsna.

se despide su aspirante a sirvienta Fernanda Leiva

             HpS - ASA -  Gracias.  TlgaSP!!!    pfanrh....  No olvida la prioridad: 16 rondas entusiastas minimo y 4 prncipios estrictamente.    Claro, levantando temprano.   Programa completa por la manana, asociacion con otros sadhikas es essential realizar estas cosas.   Claro, situacion en Daivi varna ashrama es un parte muy importante.  Espero que su esposo es muy fijado en proteger Vd.  Su vida espiritual!

O.K.  Esperamos reporajes!

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

In the occation of your Vyasapuja I want to thanks that I have the mercy of your association, showing me the path, being an inspiration, and a representative of Krsna, of the guru parampara. Thank you for accepting me as your disciple, although I don't deserve it. In this age, we have the biggest fortune, that common and materalistic people like me can have contact with vaisnavas like yourself. Thank you for giving us your association through the blog, reports, webex... It reminds me that real life is in Krsna Conciousness. It reminds me that Krsna Conciousness is deep, intense. That devotional service for Krsna is very serious business. I pray I can make progress in my love (service) for Krsna and Srila Prabhupada under your guidance, in order to be your real disciple.

Report:
Marathon finished. I don't know yet my score exactly. It is not much much, around... 1800 small book, 120 LOB, 20 big books, 17BG... I am ashamed because I didn't my best. I did not work so hard. My mind becomes tired soon and I didn't push it to the limits, only some pushing to the mind. Now I feel sad and ashamed, because other devotees made more for Krsna, and it is not only for the result or honor. But there is a satisfaction when you give everything to Krsna, I see other devotees can taste this, but because I am "miser"(avaro) I didn't gave everything to Krsna, I kept attached to my comfort in mind and body, so now I cannot taste this spiritual satisfaction of having made a big endeavor for Krsna. So I feel sad. I feel ashamed with Prabhu Aravinda, because I think he expected more. He didn't tell anything of course, but I feel sad I cannot offer a better endeavor and result to my authorities and Krsna . Compared to other matajis I did half... But at the same time I am very grateful I could make something for Krsna, I am grateful for each book I gave, I tried to do it with as much devotion as I have. I hope, if I cannot go beyond the limits of my mind and body, at least I can become steady, and do this service all my life, and improve my love and devotion to my service, in order to really please Krsna.

I gave my email to some very interested people in the marathon, and they wrote to me with very nice comments about the books. One person even came the 31th to the temple (but I think he also had a motivation for me as mataji... so I tried to talk to him with other devotees present, and to preach to him very clearly, showing that it was to share spiritual knowledge that we approach people. He took a BG. But I was thinking what to do in this cases?)

Thank you Gurudeva
All glories to your service to Srila Prabhupada!!!!!!!

Your servant, Nitya Kisori dd

HpS - ASA -  AGTSP   paoho.   Thank you very much. I think that if you go ahead with this attitude you will solve all your problems. You will be able to render pure devotional service unmixed with passion for short term results.   Thank you so much.  Adelante.

    Hare Krsna, AGTSP.    Paoho:

[3:30:03 AM] Candramukhi dd: HK Gurudeva  AGTSP ¡¡¡¡ we are really worried about U... we were on japa joe u did not join buuuu we were chanting more rounds for your health ¡¡¡ Ananda vardhana connected for the first time from san pedro the other times they were in santiago ¡¡¡ I will call U in order to see how are U if U did not reply this ¡¡¡ GM the connection with LAD will be tomorrow 11:15 am your time thank U ¡¡¡¡ I pray for Lord Nrishma to  protect U .... Hare Krsna

[8:08:41 AM] hanumatpresaka swami:     AGTSP     paoho.   Yes,   too sick to join this morning, but we are getting better. Actually several deaths in USA from this flu, but we don't have anything near so bad.  We are much better.  Should be on Japa Joe tommorrow!   We post this as a Blog entry right now.

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 We were drowning is service on Saturday and Sunday, the Vyasapuja Days. We had live program on Saturday in San Jose Temple from 8AM - 12PM. Devotees came from Boise, Seattle, Modesto...    Wonderful.   Then we were called to Internet meetings for festivals in Mexico, Choseeka, Santiago and Cochabamba.  We have a pile of Annual Reports. We close the submission opportunity today.

Then we got this enfluenza. We see again and again and again that this Yoga of Srila Prabhupada makes our body so resilent that we recover in two days from what takes five days for others. Bhakti-yoga practically includes all the aspect of Patanjali yoga such as Pranayama, Pratyahara etc.

O.K. We continue with the work.   Last night (inspite of flu!) was fantastic home progama at Sanatana and Gandharvika and Puja's ashrama for all the Bhaktiviabhava students here in San Jose. We described Cantos One and Two and tested them, then a little introduction to Canto Three.

We are supposed to meet with Vaisesika Das about the Educational Development and tonight we visit Berkeley Temple, tommorrow is program in the San Jose Temple and Thursday scheduled for Stanford!

Hare Krsna!
1. 16, 28, enthusiastic rounds of Nama-japa.
2.  4-principles strictly.
3.  Full morning and evening program.
4. Gayatri Sandhyas.
5. Sankirtana - Blog (Yahoo), ABC (Light of the Bhagavata, Kinder, Bhakti-vaibhava, Sticks and Stones).