Letters to the editor

hare krsna maharaj,
PAMHO, AGTSP,
hope your stay in USA is helping you recover/prepare from/for strenous travel in southamerica/india.

    HpS -   Jaya!  Harsh Pradhana!!    Yes, it is very nice in many ways!!   First week gone by.

We wanted to confirm details of your Kol stay. from cal.txt we found
18-25 Feb,3-6 march, 22-24 mar,22-30 may. 
you would be staying all time in ISK Kolkata guesthouse where we stayed last time?

    HpS - No, 19-25th.   5th March,   22-29th April.  This is pretty much final after adjusting to different situations.

Your esteemed self would have got the emails same in [email protected] id.

    HpS - Jaya!  AGTSP   they seem to have come yesterday so we can check them today or tommorrow!

2. From Mayapura to Kolkata and back there are two daily AC chair car trains, one is morning and one in night. One from sealdah station and and from Kol station.please tell when you want to travel  from which train.

     HpS - We erased the ones we dont want and kept the ones we do want so that we can adjust the time for Mayapura.

from howrah to Krsna Nagar

train no.             train name                                 depart           arrival

from krsna nagar to howrah

your grace can tell us the train no he would like to take for tro fro journey.

hare ram.jaya ram.
caballo ..

       HpS -  Jaya!   Thank you so much for this help.   I can only hope that we can put all this effort to some good use!!!!     Nitai-Gauranga!!!

Hare Krishna Dear Guru-maharaja.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Please accept my humbles obeisences.

I'm in Buenos Aires. My rounds are going sometimes good and sometimes bad, but I chant every day my 16 rounds. I'm reading the SB at least 1 hour every day, now i'm finishing the 8th canto. At this time I'm not doing mangala arati. Recently I´ve changed my work and I'm trying to adapt to this change. But I know that it's like an excuse. 

I´m going every Saturday to do service for Sri Sri Gaura-Nitay. I find it really sweet. This service really inspire me.

The grhasta life is giving me too many different realizations. Sometimes I'm really frustrated with the material world, and sometime I discover the way to engage my karma and my desires in Krsna's service. It's very hard for me and for other devotees to get good Senior Grhasta association, many of them are burned or without enthusiasm. But I´m lucky to have friends like Madhavendra, Ambarise, my brother Gadadhara gosai and others.

We are thinking on the idea of going to live to the country, but we are not sure yet. We spoke many times about this with Madhavendra and his wife, but still we have fear and insecurity. The great problem is how to get a work and the different things to fulfill our daily necesities. We don't want to act in the mood of passion, we are planning diffrent ways to do this great change and  also to encourage others devotees to do that also. 

Thank you dear gurudev for giving me so much inspiration.

I hope to see you soon.

Su aspirante a sirivente,

Devaki-nandana das.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!!!!   Paoho.  Soooooooooo oooo oooo ooo ooooooo  nice to hear from you. Monkey and Piggy were sure that you had left your bodies.    Main thing is to do service, no?  Does Krsna want us to live in the city and do Sankirtana or move to the country and do Sankirtana, or live in the country and travel 30 minutes twice a week to the city to preach, do business?

We can get a good idea of what He wants from us, then the maintenance will follow automatically.

PAMHO     AGTSP...     Dear GM, In Chapter 15 of NOD about Spontaneous Devotional Service, I am wondering if there is another synonym for 'attractive' because I am not clear about how envious and fearful beings can be considered attracted to their object of envy and fear. Is the message in these paragraphs that being envious or fearful can be considered spontaneous attraction, however, they cannot be considered devotion, bhakti?

  Jaya!  -  AGTSP   paoho... Why is this so small?   Robot!    Yes, we are envious of Krsna because He gets all the best food first erc.     So we are attracted in envy.  Duryodhana got all the Ksatriyas together in one place at one time to hurt the Pandavas, Krsna's devotees, Krsna. He was empowered to do this "krsna anu silanam", empowered service to Krsna. He got them all in one place at one time so Krsna could finish off His mission of incarnation quicky, but it wasn't "anukulyena", it was "pratikulyena". First means with a CONSCIOUS intention to please Krsna, the second means wih CONSCIOUS desire to hurt Krsna.  This is "anyabhilasita sunyayam.." NOD 1.1.11.
It's cited in NOI.

The essential verse of the BRS (NOD)

Danurdhara Swami's "Waves of Devotion" gives so much detail with grafics to help understand the NOD, Sceicne of Devotion.

So these are not types of raganuga bhakti?

    HpS - No, this is like Karma-yoga.  Linking your passion to Krsna.

"The gopīs may be considered to be examples of spontaneous love in sensual attraction. The gopīs are young girls, and Kṛṣṇa is a young boy. Superficially it seems that the gopīs are attracted to Kṛṣṇa on grounds of sex. Similarly, King Kaṁsa was attracted to Kṛṣṇa because of fearfulness. Kaṁsa was always fearful of Kṛṣṇa because it had been foretold that his sister's son, Kṛṣṇa, would kill him. Śiśupāla was also always envious of Kṛṣṇa. And the descendants of King Yadu, due to their family relationship with Kṛṣṇa, are always thinking of Him as one of their members. All of these different kinds of devotees have a spontaneous attraction for Kṛṣṇa, in different categories, and they achieve the same desired goal of life. The attraction of the gopīs for Kṛṣṇa and the affection of the members of the Yadu dynasty are both accepted as spontaneous, or rāgānugā. The attraction of Kaṁsa to Kṛṣṇa in fearfulness and the attraction of Śiśupāla in enviousness are not accepted as devotional service, however, because their attitudes are not favorable. Devotional service should be executed only in a favorable frame of mind." YHS tcsd

         HpS - See...  the Gopis and Yadus are distinguished.  Kubja is attracted to Krsna in conjugal love to enjoy with Krsna.  LIke somebody who wants to gratify their lust with Prasadam, but will only take Praletsadam. Prabhupada says that we have to be careful because Krsna associates with this Shakti only some times, but with the service attitude conjugal Sakti, Laksmi, all the time.
But someone like Kubja who is attracted to Krsna as the Supreme candy will advance if She doesn't commit offenses.

Take Prasadam for lust and eventually you will think about Krsna and want to take Prasadam like the Cowherd boys have lunch with Krsna!
 

hare krsna maharaj. pamho, agtsp. how are you.

   HpS - Almost dead!  AGTSP   paoho.  Many letters to answer after Blog is back!  {:O)+

.... how was program in ecuador. what did yiu present there. can u upload socrates y pariksit on archives. ------------ in india a terrorist was hanged. at his last moment he was chanting lord name(may be he can not remember lord). it seems he was convinced what he was doing was for god, he is dieing for god. may be this is offensive chantingg..... so how to avoid offensive chanting. esp third offence disoneying sp master. esp when he gives adcices, suggestions.. are his advices and suggestions are also instruction .... we can not expect guru to micro manage life. but is it possible that devotee can b in illusion that he is following guru and god. regards, caballo

            HpS -  AGTSP!!!!! ! ! ! !       Yes, if we want to think we are following Guru so that we can obtain material gratification then Krsna will cheat us with false inteligence.    We will think, I am an intimate associate of Gurudeva,I deserve special treatement!   Yet Krsna will use this teach us.   We can know when we are sincere.  BG 10.8-9..   Krsna is in our heart, He will tell us.
Everyone is different.   Prabhpada took like 11 years to get initiated formally, no?   He teaches by example.  So it may take some time to control our senses, vanity, anger.  Yet, we should be able to see progress!

All glories to Sri Sri Gouranga Nityananda
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to Sri Hanumatpresaka Swami

Please accept my most humble obeisance

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, I hope that you are felling stronger and healthier. My name is Ignacio González and I`m from Viña del mar.

            ASA - Jaya!  Ignacio.  We remember you really well.   We are Monkey/Piggy from China!

I want to present you the advances that we have make in the vision and mission of NIMSAR, and also the progress at Bhakti sadacara.This information is in the images, if you want the original file, here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sdbme0iypn4br0c/Vision%20%2B%20Mission%20%2B%20Objetvies%202.0.docx

(report: 4 principles for 2 weeks… 16 rounds 3 years. First program at Cinthya´s house this Sunday)

Your lousy servant

Ignacio

                ASA - AGTSP.....  paoho.... Actually "lousy" means one who has many "lice".   Actually the four principles are natural. Krsna never suggests anything unnatural.  Be enthusiastic. Get free from unnatural libations. Be heathy and natural. Nature will reciprocate!

Aaaagh.  We cant look at the attached grafics until we respond to you letter.    Will do that and then apost and edited version.

HpS - AGTSP   paoho.  We posted them and they are still too small.  And  we don't have time to look at the link!  If we do then we won't finish our BhVai work.  Aaaah!

Send verbal summary of your ideas in the next letter are the link to look at them.

Hare Krishna Maharaja, please kindly accept my most humble obeisances; All glories to Srila Prabhupada.  We are all anticipating your arrival here in Boise next month. 

It so happens that on the day that you are scheduled to arrive, Jan. 21, that day happens to be inauspicious: It's my birthday, and I will be turning 62. 

I have already filed for Social Security retirement, but my wife would have to wait another 11 years before she can retire.  Things have been going south for us for the last 6 months or so, in terms of economics.  I have been mostly out of work; now my wife is mostly out of work; The tenants that we had have moved out and it has become near imppossible to replace them with new tenants who are willing to live with older people who also happen to be vegetarains and Hare Krishna's to boot.  If we don't make a decision soon and things don't change for the better in terms of employment, we be in serious dire straights. 

Now that you have a graphic update, I can tell you that we have decided that it is time to once again become devotees.  We are sick and tired of begging for jobs, being rejected because of gender, age and religious discrimination.  We are seriously talking about sellling the house, and even moving out of the country, but we are scared because all of this is new to us, and we don't know where to go, what to do and what we will find after we move; Also we know that by selling and moving we lose whatever so called security we have and are at the mercy of whatever community we find ourselves in. 

I am hoping to take shelter of your guidance.  We are both thinking of perhaps living in South America somewhere.  There is an ad in Chakra about devotees living in Guyana, and we have responded.  So far, we are awaiting to talk to the devotees on Skype so that a relationship can begin.  It's is not that we have decided to live there; Simply we are investigating is all.  But I would like to know if we have your blessings, and if you ever make any visits to Guyana.  If you don't, but you give us your blessings, then perhaps we could engage in some form of preaching that would attract your association-should we decide to live there.   

There is more to say, but I was hoping to have some private moments to say these things to you when you arrive.  If this is acceptable to you that would be wonderfully helpful and appreciated.  I know that I am not a surrendered soul by nature, but I have no hope but to try, and you have been most merciful to us that it is only natural that we both turn to you for guidance on this matter.

Your lowly servant,

Balabhadra dasa

HpS - AGTSP  pamho.   We may all die of starvation! Did we ever think otherwise?   Old age is a kind of starvation, so it's going to happen one way or another, no?
What I have understood is, "don't leave, don't deviate". Whatever service you KNOW you should do, then do it. If it is only 16/4/mangala arati and SB, then do it. If you know more. Then do it. Don't try to adjust things too much by mental speculation. Some is O.K. but mostly is listeneing to what Krsna is planning.
Draupadi didn't understand Krsna's plan, but she was convinced that there was a plan. If she knew the plan she may have flipped out and run away.

She was the cause of the death of 640,000,000 people. Maybe better not to know what is the plan!    Yesssss, we can meet in Boise.... Five weeks from today!!