Letters to the editor

hare krsna maharaj,
PAMHO, dandvat pranam, AGTSP.
hope you are having nice preparation for Janmasthami in Boise!!. And your health has also must have improved!!...
 

HpS - ASA -  AGTSP  paoho...   We were like 80% out of the Janmastami rush.  Was a big festival for such a little metropolis.   Devotees came from hundreds of miles away to visit with us so we spent a lot of time in personal meeings with different devotees, families.  Hare Krsna!

     Inflamation in thoat, mouth and tongue has been gone for like six days now.  Ayurvedic analysis, vitamin B-12 supplement, Hand of God, seem to have worked!

   ...  we have many issues to talk/tell about so should we write them in single letter or in multiple letter.. (please suggest as per your convenience)...

HpS - ASA - Best is bite size pieces.  Post them here are put the top priority items first because we could have a global plague and all die at any moment.

   ...top priority is our sadhana
in last letter[node/1849] your grace wrote--- So get a habit. I would recomend Caitanya caritamrta. Start reading every day before breakfast. Can't eat until one page done. Then report back to us.

we read TLC daily atleast one page. its very esoteric, however we did read it after break fast [only 4 days] rest were before breakfast. 16 rounds average intact.[1 rule broken] we are at teachings to santana goswami.  we are attending managal arti mayapur.tv 

    ASA - It's nice isn't it???     Prabhupada's books...   TLC is the philosophy extracted by Srila Prabhupada from the Caitanya-caritamrta, the logic of Lord Caitanya's philosophy.   We see that it is a GREAT book for scholars, 4-5 five nice size dialogs, logic, history.         The Caitanya caritamrta has more history, culture drama tossed in.  That's why we recommended it to start with.

Intiation
we had a question how does relationship with you varies for you as formal aspirant as compared to hari nama intiated person ?

ASA - AGTSP!      I guess it is like asking a professor at the university if your can just sit in on his class as an informal student and he says, yes.   Then after you decide to become a registered student, satisfy the admission requirements, pay your fees, sign your contract and end up in the say class again with the same professor. Same thing but now with more commitment, more perfomance requirements, promiised rewards..

    ...   if we are able to follow 16 rule and follow 4 rules strictly, so in India trip in march 2013 can we take hari nam intiation or we can be just formal aspirant..

ASA - O.K.  Pull out the fingers...  Sept (1), October (2) ...  March (7) = Formal Aspirant,   ....  August (12) = First intiation.   + two years = second initiation, + 4 = grhastha-goswami iniciacion ....       Had a funny conversation with one American couple few days ago. They said that when whenever the felt like kicking or biting or beating on their beloved partner they would kiss them instead.  So, simple but really worked. They realized that they really love each other.  They want to go back to see Krsna hand in hand!   (Jaya!  Interesting.   We pretty much skipped that and went straight to Sannyasa).

You also wrote that:Honestly seems like you can make good conclusion to this race!!--- what race were your grace was referring to .

ASA -  Human race!   Rat race!            Race against death!    Become Krsnna conscious before we leave this body!

Family
family front is better, (Yeah, Anantarupa Das asked our opinion about the advice he has been giving you all. We agreed so much. There seems to be a real way to do things.) our son seems to be Ksatriya to us it seems he has karma of becoming a ruler or administrator... [we also have ksatriya quality but want to fight not rule]... i think its better to bring him to mode of goodness.. any suggestions?

       ASA - Krsna didn't try to bring Arjuna up in the mode of goodness.   Best find peoples Karma and then teaching to use it for Krsna.   Nanda-maharaja was mixed passion and ignorance, Vaisya, but all was done for Krsna, so it became saturated Purely Good within the broader perspective.   Vaisyas have to cut the testicles off of bulls to make them oxen.  Most of the men I know, actually all of them, would probably object if some one wantd to cut off their testicles.  Sinful reaction, but was within the broader perspective fo serving Krsna so it was a good thing.

Service
We were thinking to make some ppt or transcription for you
1. we offered transcription service of sankhya lectures.. but you asked us to hold...as you said you would be doing it.. is this service still available?
2. we were thinking of making ppt on TIME its origin etc [ one of the question of Parikshit Maharaj in chap 8 canto 2]..as we got many insights from on time, do you think it is worth an effort. we would offer this ppt to you as you generally meet highly intellectual people.
3. or is there any service we can be engaged over micro-soft office. [making balance sheet in MS excel etc]
4. we are still trying to serve Prof Samaresh

ASA - Our life is still not stable enough to give any decent answer to these questions.   This USA Tour which we just finished, May, Europe, India tours, were last of a series in our life.   We are facing some kind of Paramahamsa Ashrama in our Sannyasa now.  Our Parivrajacharya has to end.  Gotta settle down more and as we do that we can have a desk with papers and ideas in diferent jars, drawers.  Just write to us interesting things from your professional life that relate to Krsna here at the Blog!

thats for now... thanks for japa joe and correction in those.....
waiting to be briddled again
cabballo

         ASA - Horse!   Krsna was charioteer for four for Arjuna!   Thank You!

Hari Bolo!    (Brown Tom here!)       A G T S P !            paoho....  & bw.  Well, we made it to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, our ASA Office.   Was great!  Ten-long stimulating hours: Two airplane rides, three automobile rides.

    Mmmm!       Mmmm!             Yum!        Yum! !        !      "We don't expect it to happen but if the windows pop-open and all the air is sucked out of the airplane, like we are flying at 35,000 feet, like Denver is only 5,000 feet, El Alto en La Paz is only 13,000 feet, then while the blood is coming out of your ears and eye sockets taken the oxygen mask that has fallen from the sky and put it over your mouth and breath normally."

Ha!      Ha!              Ha!   Breath normally!     Yeah, sure.     "And we know that you don't know who the guy next to you is and you'll never see him again but try not to look over his shoulder at his Tom Cruise movie that he is playing on this cell phone or he might feel uncomfortable.  Just stare ahead at the blank seat in front of you for the next five hours and pretend you are practicing Za Zen".....    

So, we got here.  It was a pretty good trip.    We have learned so much how to do these Yajnas   We left books in the seat-back bag on both flights.   We looked for people to talk to in all the airports.  America is so impersonal and we are so solitary by nature, but we got a lot of computer work done.

We still have to be careful of over loading our eyes.

Now we are starting to get connected with Nitai-gaurasundara, Abhiseka, Rufus, Musa Prabhus et al.   M. Matsay and Manjari are out of the house for an Indian wedding.  It seems very important that you dress in the propr fashion!

Hare Krsna.        We kind of put our stuff, plans, projects, partners, commanders down on a big sheet of paper as ideas come while we are chanting extra rounds and then put them in more and more harmonius relations and then plan out th work (and play) for each day!

                            So, lets read the Letter to the Blog!   Robot says we have letters from four days ago to today.       We are your servants!

Tom Brown, PhD (candidate).  ASA

Hari Bolo, Prabhus,

             AGTSP     paoho.     Just finished all the Letters up to two days ago.   In the middle of the process we started getting strong chest pains left and right.  Hmmm!    Very funny, curious, ecstatic.  Dimished a lot.   Maybe heart attack or more likely bad posture from using laptop on the lap....

        ..... Still in Boise.  Outside our window, part of same "U" shaped building in which is our room, we see the Temple and other residential rooms.  Cars parked and many devotees, kids, coming with preparations for Janmastami, dramas ....!    Now some Japa.  We have  24/32 done and then at 6.30PM  regular SB Sanga with Srinivasa, Sri Hari, Upendra and others.     Back to Godhead.   About 95` F. during the days here.    There is nothing to be had in the 14-world but the Name.  It has filled the soul of Bhaktivinode Thakura....

<cite><var>Todas las Gloras a Sri Goura y Gauranga </var></cite>

<cite><var>Todas las Gloras a srila Prabhupada</var></cite>

<cite><var>Hare Krishna querido Maharaja acepte usted mis humildes reverencias, escribo para informarle del nacimiento de mi primera hija.</var></cite>

<cite><var>Ella nacio el jueves 19 de Junio a las 6:27 am y la llamamos Gita Jahnavi, es una bebe tranquila y me levanta juzto para cantar mis rondas a las 5:00 am no he podido ir los domingos al centro de predica por el reposo despues del parto pero si fuimos al festival del Señor Balarama y estaremos en Janmastami, queria saber si aun se publica Kapi Dhvaja?? por que ya no me han llegado publicaciones desde hace mucho tiempo, tambien queria compartir un fragmento de una lectura que recibi de Kadamba Kanana Swami acerca de japa pues me gusto mucho lo que decia...</var></cite>

             HpS - TLGASP!!! Si estamos enviando a Patraka ya, y el esta poniendo en el Grupo de Yahoo traducido y depues recibimos.   Hmmm!          Vamos a buscar en Yahoo si hay una problema!           Siempre esta en Ingles en www.jayarama.us y puede traducir su mismo por un robot!
                                Muchas gracias por su trabajo en adventimiento del buen hijo que tiene.  No son personas ordinarios.   Krsna nunca envia una persona ordinaro ser hijo del devoto!

<cite><var>"En la japa nos mostramos ante Krishna tal como somos. La japa es como una ducha fría: nos enfrentamos cara a cara con nosotros mismos, con nuestra falta de bhakti. Nos enfrentamos a la realidad de no tener ninguna devoción. Con la japa obtenemos un espejo que refleja cómo no estamos a la altura. Cada pedazo de bhakti que nos falta nos es expuesto sin misericordia y nos obliga a encarar la realidad: “No tengo absolutamente ninguna devoción”. Esto es japa. Por supuesto que la japa es mucho mas que eso; así es la japa en el sadhana. Pero a medida que continuamos cantando japa, ésta permanecerá con nosotros, es la única cosa que permanece..."</var></cite>

Gracias por su tiempo

Lalita Madhava of Monterrey México

               HpS - Ah!   Ha!            Eres hermana de Govinda, no????  Aaaaha!      Como se llama su Padre...  (El Abuelito)....    Sankirtana Das??      Y su estimado esposo???                 Muchas gracias a Krsna.    Muchas gracias a Vd.    Fuerte, fuerte esfuerza producer nuevo ser humano, devoto!!!       Esperamos noticias de Gita Jahnava!

Todas las glorias a Sri Guru y Sri Gouranga

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Le ofresco mis mas humildes reverencias

Hare krsna Guru Maharaja:

Bueno, estoy en La Paz - Bolivia, realmente me gurtaria poder ir a arequipa y poder servir a sus pies de loto,  le pido a krsna y a usted que me den su bendicion<img alt="" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/51.gif" title="" /> para llegar a arequipa pues no conosco el lugar ni a nadie en Peru, en que mes llegara usted?

ASA -  TlgaSP   .   Ya estamos fijando.   Aparece fin de semana 14-15 Octubre.....

              Krsna hara sus arreglos dependo completamente de él. <img alt="" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/59.gif" title="" />

Por otro lado le cuento que este Janmastami los jovene nos ofrecimos a hacer el arreglo del altar todo sera con guirnaldas de flores estamos muy entuciastas y felices por el servicio que haremos.

Estamos preparando un numero de bhajan tambien dirigido por madre veronica y prabhu vasudeva mukunda dasa.<img alt="" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a35.gif" title="" />

          === ASA  -  Bueno!    Bueno!    Graba lo! ===

                    Cada dia que pasa nosotros pensamos que somos muy afortunados por estar en conciencia de krsna somos muy felices tratando de servir a krsna<img alt="" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/04.gif" title="" />

GRACIAS gurudeva por su tiempo

Su aspirante a sirviente angela

                                             === ASA -  Si, pasamos muchos experiencias como podemos apreciar una vida mas alla de esta cuerpo destinado morir!!!            O.K.       Esperamos resultados, fotos, reportajes! ===

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