Letters to the editor

Dear gurudev, 

please accept my humble obeisenses. All glories to srila prabhupada.

hope  your health is much better  and in that way you can get much strength in all your sankirtan efforts.

ASA - Jaya.  AGTSP   paoho.  Yes, seems to be getting "normal". We write more in the DTC today!  Nice to hear from you all!!!

It s like more than  3 months not reporting in the blog, last time i wrote from in india, i m back in the buenos aires city since 2 months. it was a big shock  coming back after 6 month in the holy dham. Now we are almost re adapted?

ASA -  Oink!   Oink!            Whoop!       Whoop!

trying out  to restablish in work, and  all material reincertion stuff. Restarting giving some yoga and meditation classes, with mt wife cooking and selling prasad to yogic and naturist people and starting also selling prasad to some natural food stores. Also giving some meditation and mantras, ayurved and cooking,kirtan courses for non devotees in yoga centers.

Helping with the bhakti vriksa devolpment here in bs as. Now prepearing for next month to give the sri isopanishad in the bhakti sastri course at the bs as mandir. And also a mantra meditation course for new devotees at the temple also.

ASA - Super!      People need to learn how to meditate. Of course, the only really practical course in meditation from Bhakti-yoga, but they can get a taste from techniques guided by devotees and then progress, no?

Sadhana: Allways chanting 16 rounds and gayatris, sometimes forget some gayatri and  with some difficulties to wake up early. Following 4 principle strictly. Nice relationship with all temple people and authorities. Some  extra, mental and material problems that I have fixed faith that with mangalartik every day, they can be solved.

Also planing maybe to start studying some psycology,counseling, starting in agoust.

Do you have some plans to come and visit buenos aires??when???

ASA = You must have been a Yogi in your previous life.    Respects to Vrsabhanu-nandini Devi Dasi.  Our plans are in the Kapi Dhvaja calendar, no?   We will be in Chile in November, and after that I don't know.  The price of fuel is going up. (Has esoteric meaning also, no?). But we are always here in the Blog!.

What about rural development with your and others???

Big Big separation from the holy dham and from your personal asosiation thats not different form the dham.Hare Krishna!!!!

ys,

Madhavendra Puri Das

What is 'asta-satvik vikar'?  What it means?

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If Girivaradhari-Gopal sees these, maybe could help:

prabhura ange dekhe asta-sattvika vikara
ascarya sattvika dekhi' haila camatkara
 

SYNONYMS
prabhura -- of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; ange -- in the body; dekhe -- they see; asta-sattvika vikara -- eight kinds of transcendental transformations; ascarya -- wonderful; sattvika -- transcendental; dekhi' -- seeing; haila camatkara -- they became struck with wonder.
 

TRANSLATION
All eight kinds of transcendental transformations were visible in the Lord's body. All the devotees were struck with wonder to see such a sight.
 

PURPORT
The eight ecstatic symptoms are the state of being stunned, perspiration, standing of the bodily hairs on end, faltering of the voice, trembling, fading of the body's color, tears and devastation.
Antya 14.100


HpS - ASA   -   Jaya!   Thank you. 

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!