Letters to the editor

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Dear Maharaja, how are you? I hope you are getting better from your illness. I have not made myself aware of what it actually is. I'm sorry but I wish I could help somehow.

I started school and am learning on how to be a dental assistant. It's interesting but also not interesting. One thing though is that despite my very heavy course load I manage to chant my rounds every day. By your mercy only it happens. There have been times in the past though where I have left one or two to the next day. I feel like it's such a terrible thing to do but I just need to tell you. Please forgive me. Otherwise it has been a minimum of 16 rounds every day.

My reading has wanned a bit. It's not so consistent and I find myself not trying to make it consistent. I seem to be more concerned of Yogendra's reading than mine. It might just be a lack of enthusiasm although that enthusiasm come from reading. I'm not sure what to do about it. It wasn't like this at the beginning when I started to write to you.

Um, and one last thing. I know it's kind of late notice but Yogendra and I are getting married next week on the 29th of September. He came back from his trip and it was a surprise to me. He's a little grown up now. Please give us your blessings. Again I apologize for my lack of communication skills. Please forgive my ignorance.

your aspiring servant,

Rasa-mandali dd

         HpS - ASA -  AGTSP......   paoho.   So nice to hear from you!    We had the 15th for your wedding date.          He's be a fool not to marry such a nice girl as you, right!            -{:O)-                We think so....     Even Monkey...     It's tommorrow.  Wish we could call to congratulate you.        Marriage is not SO impotant.   The important thing is to have nice Deities and worship them together.     That's the  IMPORTANT thing in married life.  Very fun.

            Main thing is that even if it is small the reading should be regular.  EVERY day read the KRSNA book before going to sleep.   EVERY day read one page of Lila-amrta before beakfast.   Get association do it regularly with your father, mother, sisiter, husband, Jagannatha!                      O.K.              More news.       News of the Temple!

One wedding gift attached.

Hare Krsna!    Hare Rama!               AGTSP       paoho...  We are in Tennessee with Nitai-gaurasundara, Tandavika and everyone.     Our health is good.  We still have itching from the Poison Ivy but the rashes have all gone away.

Here is getting ready for Rathayatra on the 6th.

Preparing for Peru.

Regular Bhaktivaibhava work.

Regular counseling work.

Our eyes are getting more and more intolerant of the computer.  Have to minimize.

We are like 9-days of letters to answer.    Now we plough into them!

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,
Please accept our humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I am back in Mexico DF! For one week, Maharaja Bhakti Busan is here.

We were in Guadalajara one month and one week. We distributed around 7000 books (the group of 5 devotees: Prabhu Radha Raman, b. Carlos, Ekayani, b. Tania, and me). The most wonderfull is that many persons came to the temple because of the book distribution, and they had a good impression, I think they can become devotees one day, not so far. We should pray for them, it will help?

It was very nice, we learned a lot from m. Radhika, she is a very nice asrama guru, she help me a lot to understand about desires and who to balance, to see that devotional service as a life time project, and we should learn to balance ourselves, about seeing our desires in conexion to Krsna in a healthy way, to ask for advice when we cannot alone (I will stay in contact with her)...

I felt very tired while in Guadalajara, it was very difficult for me to wake up to Japa joe. One day I arranged to wake up, but just that day, there was not Japa joe... I think is because I don't eat in the right way, so I don't have energy. I need little more taking care of the body, to serve Krsna better and more focused. I am doing some improvement in this area (eating better and little yoga and walking), and I feel better! Today I woke up at 2:30am alone :) but the matajis asrama here is outside the temple, and there is no internet, and the temple was closed until 3:15am...

Prabhu Aravinda told us (4matajis) to go one month to El Salvador, to help with sankirtan! My parents are worried because they think is a dangerous place! I would like to go, but I don't like they are worried, we will try to make some arrangement.

I have my mind fixed in the idea to go to the Bhaktivedanta College the next year to study education!
Maybe my family will come to visit me here to Mexico in November...

Your insignificant servant,
Nitya Kisori dd
Gurudeva I feel you are not pleased with me, maybe Krsna told you something, ... or is my speculation?

        HpS - ASA ---- AGTSP   pamho.   Speculation.    I never even began to think ill of you.  Honestly we would like to be as advanced a devotee as you.   Is joking and not joking.    We are so happy to hear your results.     Yes, is life long, eternal project.   Most essential is 16 enthusiastic rounds daily in the foreground of 4-principles srictly    helping Lord Caitanya in His Sankirtana, book distribution.  However, sooooo  many ways to participate.      If we give devotees nice Prasadam and they stay to hear the class and take some books to distribute then many people have participated in the Sankirtana!

       O.K.   We wait for more news.

hare krsna Guru maharaj

Estamos aqui en el templo de Buenos Aires con los devotos...  faltan 2 para cumplir 16 rondas para hoy. hace un mes y 15 dias que las cumplo las 16 rondas y mangalaratik y 4 principios! estoy muy feliz otra vez!! el sabado distribui 15 libros!! mis reverecias tengo que ir a cocinar a los devotos pues parese que el concinero lo internaron y los devotos de sankirtana pasaron mil aventuras!!! hare krsna!! 

su sirviente Syama kunda das

                   HpS - ASA ---   TlgaSP     Mil veces, 10 mil veces, intentamos llegar a la plataforma de Japa y Principios eternos!       Entonces estamos util...!

TODASLASGLORIAS ASRI SRI GAURA NITAI,TLGSP Y MIS RESPETUOSAS REVERENCIAS

A USTED GURUMAHARAJA!!!!

LE ESCRIBO PARA SABERCOMO ANDA USTED DE SALUD SI ESTA MEJORANDO? ;( ESPERO QUE ESTE MUY BIEN AQUI TODOS ORANDO POR USTED.

MIS SERVICIOS VAN MUY BIEN VOY TODOSLOS FINES DE SEMANA HACER SERVICIO AL TEMPLO SI NO TENGO EXAMENES QUE ESTUDIAR :) LAS RONDAS VAN BIEN Y LOS 4PRINCIPIOS PERFECTOS ESTOYVOLVIENDO A LEER REINA KUNTI..

            ASA -- Gracias su carta!     Jaya Srila Prabhupada.   Reaccion de alergia en el piel, todo es mucho mejor, pero....   no es perfecto.  realmente vamos a morir todos, entonces mejor usa de una mala ganga...  

ESPERO QUE ESTEBIEN, ORANDO POR USTED SIEMPRE GURUMAHARAJA!

YOUR SERVANT teresa... HARIBOL!

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Guru Dev, In last letter, you have asked me to what i think about BG 17.15 and Puport and how it
    applys in my daily life.

    BG 17.15 Teaches, We should speak - truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others, and
    also in regularly reciting Vedic literature.

    Truthful : I am a strong believer and follower of this. Because without truthfulness we can not
                      approach Lord.

                      Chaitinya or Krsna is in our heart, he knows every thing very well that who is honest & who
                      is incorrect.

                      if we are cheating some one by telling lie, Means we  are actually cheating our own self,
                      not the person.

                      we impure our self by doing so. Whenever we speak lie, we pollute our self. And this
                      pollution drag away our self from Lord.

    Pleasing  : No, Have to work on it. I have to put lots of hard work for this. Because i speak very
                       straight.

                   ASA - Try to think how the person to whom you are speaking will perceive what you are saying.   Will they be able to understand what you are saying our will the violence of your words cover the message?

    Beneficial : Yes, we speak.

    Not agitating to others : Many time my words agitate others. Because i speak very strait. Which
                                                 people don't like.

ASA -  Krsna is not straight.  He wandering on the banks of the Yamuna.  Do you subtley enjoy hurting people with knife like words?   It is a question we ask our selves many times!!

    Regularly reciting Vedic literature : we always like to recite from scriptures.

    Please advice.

your servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

           ASA -  You are an extremely nice person....  but as you know you must purify, not abandon, your words.  It is better to have a wise man for an enemy than a fool for a friend, it is so nice to have one you doesn't flatter us.  Vibhisana was talking to Ravana giving straight advice.