Letters to the editor

all obeisances to Srila Prabhupada.
please master accept my humble reverence.

 
I understand that the moon is still in orbit, like the living when their activities are purified

this fixed in devotion, and is post as a portion atomic of Mr. .

but what I still do not understand is what happens to the soul in maya yoga while this is a shared dream, this sleeping soul is relationship with krsna?, like a perfect dream?, in full consciousness

hare krsna master !!

        ASA -  AGTSP  paoho.   Esteemed JR.  We don't understand your question in detail, but if you are asking what is like this dream of Maya. It is like being in a movie hall, cinema hall, together, no?  We are all absorbed in the movie. We are passing popcorn to one another but with almost no consciousness of our "real" life.  O.K?

hare krsna!!

TLGASP

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias Gurudeva.  cientos y cientos de veces mi alma honra su magnifica persona!

   Estoy nadando  buscando el barco de su misericordia...

   Reportando desde mexico su sirviente sacinandan das, saliendo a sankirtan distribuyendo libros en los buses, cantando rondas y leyendo el canto 9 (Ambarish Maharaja)-tambien el yatra esta saliendo a maha harinam los sabados, como 70 devotos!

    Creo que se debe  ser como  el general de un ejercito, con conocimiento,  fuerza, inteligencia, comprencion, sadhana, buenas rondas. nectar-veneno, dulce-amargo-felicidad y tristeza una mezcla de muchas emociones!

 Sin embargo es mejor depender de la misericordia de Krsna renunciando al resultado, servir a su devoto,  Krsna ayuda en el grhasta asrama, gracias por su misericordia gurudeva.

soy como un bebe feliz cantando hare Krsna y haciendo sankirtan!!

     su sirviente eterno : sacinandan das

                HpS - Jaya!!!  Muy bien, muy bien!  Pero no podemo quedar como Bebes.  Tiene que madurar como Sannyasi o Grhastha cuando llega a 25 anos.    SB 1.17.38  !!  Jaya.  Vamos a Rathayatra en Santiago.

PAMHO AGTSP

      ASA - Jaya!   AGTSP!!!!   We had a dream last night with you in it!  Can't remember the content!

Dear GM Thank you for your reply. I do not have much to say about myself that is new or interesting or worthwhile for this blog audience to hear about. My sadhana is not as strong as it probably should be and I'm not fully up to the iskcon standard, but that does not mean I am not Krishna consciousness. Of course, I am still wrapped up in body consciousness to a degree. This seems to go with household life to some extent. I do some reading and listening to lectures most every day. I am currently reading the nectar of devotion.

ASA -  Do you have Waves of Devotion by Dhanurdhara Swami?   Availbable on internet.  He gives fantastic expalation of the Sanskrita words tat Prabhupada is translating so quickly.  Puts in grafic charts they show what Prabhupada roughly describes.  The NOD is an EXTREMELY analytical book.  Without Waves of Devotion I think only an advanced Paramatma realized person could get a lot a benefit from the whole book!

I listen to your lectures and some from a few of the other devotees in iskcon. I have been watching the memories of Srila Prabhupada on YouTube recently. The issue for me over the years have been to develop the intelligence to have proper faith. It is a very large world out there and there are many things which test our faith. So sravanam and kirtanam are important and I am hoping will develop more steady smaranam. I haven't any association to speak of here so I rely on lectures through the Internet and reading. Although I'm not a fan of speaking about myself (I am self-absorbed enough as it is), please feel free to ask me any other questions. I have a few questions: Is there a good site for accessing your more recent lectures over the last few years? Is it correct that there is not a reply button on this blog site and that in order to reply or respond to a letter or comment, I have to post a new letter? What is your current email address? By the way, if my English seems rather colloquial that is because I'm using Siri. YHS tcsd

            HpS - Jaya!     Yeah, I think the way it's set up you have to post a new letter.          We don't answer letters besides the Blog currently, except for specific things, like Itenarary, Bhakti vedanta College, etc.   If you'd like to write about a more confidential topic then you could write to Monkey's Mail Bag at [email protected] we usually get all the mail from him after he "chews it over".     He is a very tight lipped guy.

We are running to the airport now!        I have to aske Srinivasa Das if he has more current lectures.  Right now we are working on a serious book for San Marcos University....  See you in Chile!

 All Glories to Srila Prabhupada !

Please accept my humble obeisances

Dear Maharaja

We are always grateful to receive an answwer from you, we know how much each letter takes precious time and what precious every letter you write to us is.  We are fortunate to have had the mercy of serving you in the past and have an association with  such a pure devotee of Krsna and disciple of Srila Prabhupada,  this is beyond luck is pure mercy from The Lord.   The Kapi Dhvaja is full of news and ispiring teachings.   Your eyes and hands have been working tiresly on this program and many more.  Panchatatva  ki  jaya ! 

You are right when you say the raditions are build and passed on orally.  We are trying to put our breath to the service of theLord by learning devotional ragas and singing them, oue eyes to read Prabhupada`s book and admire the deities, our mind to filled up with the teachings and lilas of Lord Caitanya and his associates, we consider you one of them serving Srila Prabhupada.  Our book found interesting dramatic center in one of your lectures in Catolica University in `99 probably, we have the video and we received the mercy of translating live.  So much we`ve received from you, again thank you !   The book is called The Infinity Lotus and deals with the journe of a very young guy who slowly and with the help of Siksa Guru discovers bhakti and finally  Bhagavan.  We are using the theme of  begining from the most pantheistic side of the Vedas with their demigos and  building up towards Purusotama - Adi Purusa  Govinda.  

amazing news from Peru !     Chiclayo, The jungle,  New Vrndavana everywhere...

your humble servant

Raul GC    

            ASA -  Jaya!   AgtSP!!    TKU ur letter.        We are just running to the airport for Santiago and the internet is running very bad..  ha!   Ha!    Ha  (re)!        We see you there!!!

      Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.  Por favor acepte mis más humildes reverencias. Por favor perdone todas mis ofensas.

   Querido Gurudeva, ahora estoy en el templo de Barcelona, descubriendo otro humor dentro de la cociencia de Krishna. 

    4 principios regulativos, 20 rondas y todos los dias el programa de la mañana del cual estoy dando alguna pequeña lectura-clase de Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Ahora  me levanto a las  3:45/3:50. Todo gracias a su misericordia, y a la compañia de los devotos. Ayudo en la cocina  y a veces limpio el restaurante (debe haber sido un arreglo de Sri Krishna porque antes solo limpiaba); (asi limpio mi corazón). Tambien estudio ingles con la madre de Nimai Pandita Prabhu, 2 veces por semana a traves de skype. 

    Guru Maharaja hace unas semanas tuve una discusion sobre el tamaño del alma, en la BG 2.17 Srila prabhupada cita This soul is described as one ten-thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size.  "When the upper point of a hair is divided into one hundred parts and again each of such parts is further divided into one hundred parts, each such part is the measurement of the dimension of the spirit soul." (Svet. 5.9) 

Las preguntas que surgen: ¿tiene realmente el alma tamaño o es solo el tamaño en el mundo material? ¿si en el mundo espiritual nada es medible, alli no tiene tamaño? ¿es solo una analogia? ¿porque en el verso anterior 2.16 Krishna dice que en lo eterno no hay cambio, y en el verso 2.18 Sri Krishna define el alma como inconmensurable (no medible).  Bueno le hago esta pregunta, porque me a roto un poco los esquemas y pienso que para predicar es más facil ceñirse a lo más sencillo y medible que irse acercando a temas misticos que estan fuera de nuestro alcance. Cuando uno se cree que más sabe, descubre que menos aprende.

  Seguire intentando el poder servirle algun dia; mi deseo es su bienestar y estoy tambien muy contento con su visita a España.

 Jharikhanda-gaura Das

              HpS - Jaya!!!!   Muy buena carta, noticias!,  TlgaSP   Pfanrh.....  Como yo entiendo es un analogia.  Es como medir una manzana un espejo.   La alma es mas subtile de una idea.  Por ejemplo donde esta quimica?????     Claro es un Cuerpo de Ideas.  Tiene forma, pero no bien relacionado con espacio.  Claro.  Los libros de Quimica en la biblioteca occupand espacion mediable, pero Quimica es un Cuerpo de Conocimiennto.  La alma es esto y mas.....  Immortal y compuesto de amor!!!!

Super fotos!!

Hare krisna!!
Pamho, agtSP,

Dear gurudeva, your intelligence is far far beyond our comprehension, connected to paramatma, pure, so i feell little aukward giving you this advice.
i read in your last Kdh that poison ivy is gone but now you have allergic reaction, all of this seeems to have same origin.  Ama in bowels increasing pitta in body.
My advice is take only raw food as breakfast, take prasadam in a strict schedule everyday at the same time, avoiding to skip meals or changing times (uff, with your travelling schedule this seems almost impossible, so drink lot of water if it is time for a meal and you can not have it), and drink plenty of  fresh water along the day between meals. Of course diminishing traveling would be good but i think that is a matter far beyond body affairs.

One question what is the meaning of this entry in your calendar?

I will be there then.
Aspiring to become your servant,
Bhakta Nicasio.
 

HpS - Jaya!    Rupanuga Das has given us practically speaking the same analysis with a diet including aloevar and perihil and ghee massage and regular sleeping schedule.    We are 70% pitta, at least.  This means that unless we have fire in the body it doesn't exist.  O.K.  but the problem is that fire has to flow.  If it accumulates, in the skin for example, then the skin burns up.  So th answer is not to reduce the fire in the body too much unless you want to die, rather to keep it down, but to keep it flowing, like you both suggest.  Thing is that Ayurvedic people seem to not contemplate chanting and dancing as part of the regulation.  it;s a fact, no?   Dancing in love of God will keep the fire moving in the right direction, right throught the skin also, no!   SMILE!     Smile!   smILE!

                       This body does not get diseases, this body is a disease.

                        No more disease  ....  !!!   no more body  !!!              Your body is NOT your Buddy!        See you this Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!