Letters to the editor

Hare Krisna dear Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you feel better.

I'm sorry i haven't written to You for a long time but i couldn't write too much things.
Actually a lot of things happened to us, but i didn't want to bother You with every little detail.

ASA -   AGTSP!  (Tom Brown here)/    thank you for not bothering us with every detail!
 

Our life is very adventurous nowdays.
Our motto is: Man proposes God disposes.
 

ASA - That's Lord Siva, no?

We had to move from the sublet 1 month ago and it seems we have to move from this flat also soon. Some unexpected thing always comes up.
We wanted to invest in an embroidery machine but due to technical problems we couldn't buy it and after it happened 2 times :)
It seemed we have good opportunities to move from Hungary but in the last minute also something has come up.
So now we try to don't hold on to anything except japa, reading, Mangala arti, just wait and pray and try to understand what is Krisna's plan.
We have one fix thing in our life the morning program, we take part on it everyday and i distribute books once a week for 2-3 hours. I don't distribute too much 3-4 books (Bhagavad Gita and medium books) and preach to the people. Hungary has a special karma, here almost everybody interested in Krisna consciousness. But unfortunately the Hungarian yatra is not so good condition now. They need helping hands but there are special conditions.
I really don't understand few things here but i can't ask it publicly. I thought i write my questions and my husband sends them to the blog. Is it possible to not publish them just the answers?

Thank you very much for everything.
Best wishes!

Your useless servant,
Sri Radhe devi dasi

ASA -  Yeah!    If it is letters from girls, but with cool association like the Mataji's husband, brother et al, then for sure we can edit stuff and give a general reponse. 87% of this stuff is of interest to MANY people, so it behoves us to write our questions and answers in a general way so that others can also benefit!

Hare Krsna!!

Dear Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Gurudeva, your words got deep in my heart, bringing peace and solace. So clear so practical.
Now I see a direction a way to go, a base where to stand.
How shall I serve you gurudeva?
Bhakta temporary Bachelor.

HpS - ASA -    AGTSP         We are just agents of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya, so the basic service to Krsna through them is the Yuga dharma, chant Hare Krsna, recite Srimad Bhagavatam, and distribute what good you experience to others. Specifically, keep looking for ways to benefit your good family. Everybody is different and they need different medicine. Support your local Yatra.

It's pretty simple.    As you see you natural passions then put them in Krsna's service!!  How is the medical study going?

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,
Please accept my most humble obeisance,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

It is not easy to got a conexion while in the farm (cueramaro), we are coming to the village just few times. Sattva devotees did not send any report, and I could not send them a reminder.
I took advice for my desicion to go to the College this year or the next... The autorities here told me I can decide as I like.

ASA -   AGTSP   we sent a letter of recommendation for you!

Malati Mataji told to go this year, Prabhu Akrura told me to stay. With Mataji Malati, she gave me advice very quicly, with Prabhu Akrura and prabhu Aravinda I talked longer... My argument to stay is to finish this experience of sadhana, sankirtan and temple, like my brahmacarini asrama.

ASA - Sounds like good ideas!

I was waiting for these very long and now I have the opportunity to make my bases... I feel is not nice to go so soon. Maharaja Yadhunandana told me to go this year, because is better to take a good opportunity now ( "no dejes para mañana lo que puedas hacer hoy"). So I still feel confused. Is hard for me to take the decision because I feel both are so good! For instance, it looks that it will be for the next year because I don't have all the papers yet and the date had already passed (but Maharaja Yadunandana told me I can still send...), I took the decision of the next year more by external circunstances. It is not good I am so inmature, and not able to take my decision... Excuse me... I am not good to take advice, neither to take decisions...
We went to sankirtan on Friday and I distributed 46 small books. I am not so good on the street, too much mind, not enough spiritual desire, but still I feel lot of attraction for this sankirtan service, but I am like a bee trying to take the honey that is inside the bottle.
This bhakti sastri is so nice, I really didn't understood the BG before... It is so nice to study this books in the association of the devotees (the books are the center!). We have lot of good association, Prabhu Navina Nirada, P. Krsna Nama (auditor of the BBT, from India), m.Radhika (a Mexican senior devotee). They give us so nice classes and care. You are also coming. Life is perfect on the association of this kind of study programs.
But understanding deeper the books, is also making to see ourselves more deeply. And we see how fallen we are, and not sincere... I see most of the time I practice Krsna conciousness to stop from suffering, specting to have a better life, like a pious activity, to have good results. I see so many defects on me, I see I am in an ocean, and I don't so much to really get out. I will try to become more sincere, to apply what Krsna tells to Arjuna to take him out of his material conciousness.
I am just a pretender, but Krsna took a little of sincerity in my heart and He connect me with this mouvement, with Srila Prabhupada's mercy, with you, with the vaisnavas, and I am having an opportunity to heal the envy that keeps me far from devotional service to Lord Krsna. I am very fallen, but very fortunate, and at the same time unfortunate because I am not more surrendered. I pray I can becaome a devotee some day... devotees are dear to Krsna.

Excuse me Gurudeva it is so long,

ASA - Yeah!

you like the truth in few words.

ASA - So does God!
In this context, seen that the heart is so dirty, I see I don't reveal my mind to anyone. I don't have any more experience devotee how I can trust, and I don't have secrets, and he can help me to advance, like a mentor... to overcome my difficulties in a practical way, someone who can give a Krsna conciouss understanding of what I am going through... this is the meening of revealing the mind in confidence?

ASA - Yes, but you don't have to go into profound psycho drama with everyone you meet. We have a lot of friends, that we discuss things with on different levels.  (This is Monkey writiing)

A more experienced devotee, we trust, we don't have to lie or keep secretsm who can give us a Krsna coniouss understandind to overcome our difficulties? I think I lack of this...

Excuse me Gurudeva for my offenses,
I am chanting, 4 reg, mangala aratik, studing, sankirtan... all by the bhakti sastri program mercy

Sad to be in maya, happy to be in Iskcon, and to be your disciple!
your servant, Nitya Kisori dd

ASA - Pretty good letter.  You seem to be half mad.  That's O.K.   better to blabber from the heart than click from the head.

O.K.  We see you in just a few moments.

Stay until next year.  Yadu Maharaja is just in his Salesman's humor for BVC.  That's also good, but better to take advantage of where you are now and then go with a little patience on to university for your degree in education from the college!

HARE KRISHNA!!!

Por favor acepte mios humildes reverencias !!

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada SRI SRI GURU PARAMPARA  !!!

En respuesta asu pregunta , la mayoria de  personas que  encuentro  en esa hora son estudiantes  que  van saliendo de  la  escuela o jovenes que salen a pasear por la tarde .

HpS - ASA -  TlgaSP   Pfanrh   Entonces esta bucando descansar en casa, disfrutar, algo y posible realizar unos trabajos de escuela.   Interestante. Buscan un tipo de literatura especifica en estas momentos.  Algo mas ligera para leer como el lubro KRSNA!

 el lugar donde acostubro hacer sakirtan es afuera de un teatro,esta semana se distribuyeron 120 libro pequeños  y  un bhagavad-gita ...

me despido  maharaja espero poder verlo pronto  en  df  y cueramaro ...

por favor  deme  sus vendiciones para poder  seguir  sirviendo a  Srila prabhupada !!!

perdone mis ofensas 

su aspitante a sirviente 

bhakta Ramses !!!

HpS - Salimos para Mejico en unas horas!

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

    I have got your message on 'Shikha' at work place. So i will follow your instruction.

    Please don't call me 'prabhu'. I am even not a servant. So I would not like if you call me prabhu.
    you did not allowed me to serve you in delhi. I am angry.
    
    I will prepare lectures as you advised.

    I will chant as you advised. Chanting also connect me to you. To think this, chanting feels me happy.

    Guru Dev, What is 'asta-satvik vikar'? what it means?

your servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - AGTSP     paoho.   You are an inciated devotee. We are acting as respresentative of Krsna. How can we not respect you if Sri Krsna has accepted you.  Of course, we have to act like "Prabhus". It is Srila Prabhupada's instruction that amongst initiated devotees we act like this, so we follow th etiquette and realize the exalted postion of any regular devotees in ISKCON.

I don't know what asta satvik vikar means?   It sounds like it relates to the eight aspects of Bhava, ask some devotee with little Sanskrita knowledge for the exact translation.  That might help us in our search.

Hare krishna!! Jay Srila Prabhupada !!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!...Please Accept my most humble and respectful obeisances !!

My Sadhana report : Mangala Artik, 16 rounds of japa (everydays), Assistant of Pujari (thursday and sunday) , Maintenance of the temple, Bhakti-sastri with Laksmana Agraja Prabhu(sunday) and the other days i work in my locksmith shop.

About my situation of married,  for many years ago i did'nt have good relationship with my spouse so  we decide  to divorce last year because Rai KIshori Mathaji does'nt want any relationship with me. I try my best for arrange my situation but it's not possible and i understand that she does'nt want nothing of me . So my sons and i decide  to help Rai kishori dd to cooperate with her happiness  but she does'nt want  any help of  us and she feel frustrated about our married because i know  that from the beginning we starded bad . now she is in relationship with Bhakta Felix and  she leave the house for 1 week  my sons:

-Hrisikesha Govinda Das (Does'nt mind).

-Radha Kishori Sundari dd(She is not agree and she does'nt  want  to come  home because when she comes to home her mother always discusswith me and then she try to help but her mother does'nt want anything  and they discuss for me )  

-Sri Isvara das (He is not agree) and Caitanya Candrodaya das(he is not agree but he understand  that his mother was suffering for along time so He called to her from India manytines for speak with her trying to fix and calm down the situation and he say if  my mother wants to be happy let give the opportunity and krishna will arrange her happiness)

Rai Kishori dd wrote a letter to caitanya candrodaya das that she doest'nt want illicit sex just she wants protection and feels happy servant to krishna together with him.  we dont know if she is gona come back to HOme but i will go to my mother's house if she want to come back  to home , she wrote a letter to caitanta that she is gona leave the house because she does'nt want to discuss with me and anyone.

I will be out of her life and just  i will follow with my duty and keeping chanting hare krishna, bhakti-sastri, service and etc .

Always we will help her when she needs.

His servant Anuraksa Das .

HpS - ASA - Jaya!               Kali-yuga is a complete mess.  Things were bad enough in other ages, but now it is catastrophy, but the really good thing is that if you take shelter of the Holy Names, Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, then you can easily ge free from all these things and go to the Spiritual world!     Jaya.  So our only thought is that.   Stick to Srila Prabhupada's order of 16-enthusiastic rounds and 4-principles strictly and we will see that all these material relations adjust and become auspicious.