Letters to the editor

Dear Guru Maharaj,

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

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I hope you keep this letter private. Other than that, I wish you are keeping up with your work and health and are happily moving forward. 

Your aspiring servant,

R V D

HpS - ASA -   AGTSP   Esteemed RVD.    So nice to hear from you.  Letters from girls we always make public, but guys we can keep private.   Yet 99% of your letter is very important for many devotees, and now we can't answer, ooof!    All that needs to be done is highlight the very individual parts for censorship and then the rest is for everyone's benefit.

Basically our comment is just what we would hear from Lord Caitanya and all of his followers. It is what you should do and then after becomging a seasoned practitioner we also can repeat the instruction with authority.

Get up early and with get your rounds done with enthusiasm!

Simple, religious formalities, family challenges,  Sankirtana, they all become fun after we do that!!   O.K.   Please write again with a pseudonym to we can publish it.       You can not exist without my mercy, and I cannot exist without your mercy. This mutual respect. This mutual love is Krsna consciousness.

Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you very much for your answer.
I started to chant gayatri mantra again.
I have few siksa Gurus but You are my main one therefore i meditate on You when i chant the mantras. Is it OK, Maharaja?
Can i tell your pranama?

I tried to find accomodation in Radhadesh but unfortunately there is no space in the guesthouse and in the surrounding village every hotel is very expensive :(
So it was easy to decide we will go to Simhachalam in May. It's not bad, it's always auspicious to take darshan from Lord Narasimhadeva. And your vani is also important to me.
I hope somebody will record the symposium and i can listen to it.

Maharaja i'm not so problematic that it seems but nobody can answer my question here, therefore i need your guidance. If i can see everything clearly i will not disturbe You so often.

Thank you once again.

Dasanudasi,
Sri Radhe dd

HpS - ASA - AGTSP.    paoho.   We hope the Symposium is not only recorded but broadcast.    I guess you can meditate on us like one might meditate on Srila Prabhupada's ant or something.   One time an ant was on his desk and his pushed a little grain of prasadam at it and it stopped to take prasadam!

Look at our books, look at Srila Prabhupada's   Ha!      Ha!      Ha!              Explanation of our position in Guru-tattva clear.

So, please send us some Maha-prasadam, fotos from Nrsmha-deva.  Maybe we can even talk while we are in Eruope!!

Hare Krsna!!

Please accept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
it was so so nice to have you divine association here in mar del plata. Thank you
We understand our unfortunate situation struggling here in this material existence, but we feel happy we are in this ISKCON boat to go through it.  Today i was reading SB 1.13 dhrtarastra quits home, the importance of associating with sadhus, vidura, devarsi narada. 
We are very enthusiastic here, the community is growing very nice, many devotees taking shelter under iskcon gurus.
Prabhu Mahajan returned from india, he brought beautiful beautiful deities of radhika giriraj and big neem gaura nitai to install in the country.  Lot of work ahead
Personally family ok, manu wants to take his japa to school, job ok, 16 rounds, SB/BG in the morning, Prabhupada lilamrita in the evening. We want to improve.
Only by your mercy gurudeva.
Hae Krisna!!
Bhakta Nicasio.

HpS - Jaya!    AGTSP    Paoho.      I keep telling everyone about the interfaith dialogs in Mar de Plata.         We will put our news in a DTC.        We are having hard time answering the letters, as the time is at the "end" of the day, and by then we are to tired.   Then we were thinking, "We work HARD from 1AM - 9AM. So that's the 'end of our day'.   It's a fact.  After breakfast looking at the mail, is very natural, then,     Bonk,     a nap.

We will be back in Kolkatta with Dr. Samaresh in less than one month.  We will write about it in the DTC, but last time we were there was with you!

How are your Ayurvedic books that you acquired there doing?

Are you studying BhSastri with Mayapura Swami?

Our respects to Maha=jana.    We hope we can be of use to you. Even from a distance.    Actually, our days are numbered.  We should always plan on doing something that fits into the plan of Krsna's work.   The Rural Development is Krsna's plan, not ours, no?
 

 AGTSP

Please accept my humble obeisances

Dear Maharaja

Wonderful as usual to receive you latest news and Kapi Dhvaja. We are having trouble keeping internet contact going due to the loss of our laptop two weeks ago. (stolen). Here in Montreal Temple devotees remember you fondly. Rama Keshava among them. We had a bhajan-singing class with great Indian devotee and reached the outskirts of Vrndavana once more. More devotess want to join for music with this fallen jiva and we just keep thanking the mercy of the »Lord and all Vaisnavas. We can`t get the links on this issue nor enter the blog from this poor Library computer. We`re trying to find out why the modern western mind left sacredness and God behind after Newton. Reading about paradigmatic shifts and its correlative epistemoligical, phenomenological and even ontological elements. We see science as a spoiled child who grew aiming at God since Phytagoras, Plato et all. to Copernicus, Decartes, Galileo and Newton. But felt to Maya and Ego. Afterwards.
We can;t thank you enough for your last answer and advise. I no longer fear the Universal form and understand better that part of the Gita. Govinda was all we needed to see.

hari, hari ...su much to learn and so much to un-learn
your poetry has it all compressed in a small package. We keep it in mind and also keep the flute playing as you do. Small steps from this donkey but it might save us from falling lower next birth.  *update* Maharaja in the event of a devotees music group would you kindly allow us tu use some of your poetry as lyrics ?    Thanks again for your precious time and have a wonderful time in Peru !   happy to read about your programs an activities in Chiclayo ! 

a most fortunate nobody
Raul from Montreal
 

HpS - ASA  ---   AGTSP     paoho      Thank     you      for     your      letter.     97% less mosquitos, but even one can cause you pain.    Which is why we should never think that our littl effort to fight evil has no result.     As far as we know it's fine to use Monnkey and Piggy's writings for any purpose.       It's interesting that as we refrain from getting involved with gratifying our itching genitals, then we get a tangible reward in the form of not being deeply disturbed by mosquito bites.

What is your work, daily schedule?      Chant Japa everyday???

Por favor acepte mis mas humildes y respetuosas reverencias a sus piecesitos, todas las glorias a srila prabhupada!

Todas las glorias a Sri Sri Radha Madhana Vihari!

ASA - Jaya!    Madan-bihar!   Jaya, Srimati Radharani

Espero se necuentre muy ben y feliz en chiclayo , peru, que hay pasado hermosoa dias con los devotos y las deidades quee xtraño tanto. Tengo 8 meses de embarazo y me faltan aprox 4 o 5 semanas para que nazca nuestro devotito. Le pido por favor Sus bendiciones para que sea un parto natural y conciente de mi señor Krsna.

Queria hacerle unas preguntas: Los dias como rama Navami, Gaura Pournima, Janmastami, se deben hacer Ayuno de granos, es decir se debe romper el ayuno con prasadam de ekadasi?

ASA - Todo lo que podemos entender nosotros es un debate en ISKCON.  Yo de visto una carta de Prabhupada (copia) donde dijo con granos, puede romper, pero otro no.   Como yo entiendo en India toman todo samosa, pakora, todo en la fiesta cuando rompen.     Pero, claro es mas suave para el cuerpo romper con ekadasi Prasadam.

Para una persona embarazada ¿ debe hacer los ayunos hasta la puesta de sol por ejm en rama navami o hasta la apricion de la luna en Gaura pournima o por lo menos hasta medio dia o no debe hacerlo? ¿ como es en este caso ?

HpS - Puede pregunta  unos buenso grhasthas . . .

¿Comer fideos comprados en supermercados es como comer pan hecho por no devotos? cual es la diferencia si  que hay?

ASA - Si, no es bueno!   Arroz cafe es la misma tambien.  Pero avena plano es la misma.   En Italia, Argentina(?)  Has su propio pasta.

Seguro paso una hermosa fiesta de rama navami en chosica, por favor reze por nosotros paar pronto poder ir y tomar asociacion de las deiddaes y los devotos, gracs por sus respuestas, ahora camino con dificultad, casi no salgo de casa y no escribo seguido. el nombre krsnaRam es en honor al maha mantra: hare KRSNA, hare RAMA  y Gopal en honor a gopalito que sta siempre con nosotros, son nombres separados, o tal vez podria ser solo krsnaRam y alguna sugerencia suya ,mis padres ahora s encvuentran en dificultades fuertes de relacionamiento, asi que no hemos preguntado a ellos, necesitamos estar muy tranquilos ahora sobre todo.

Muchas gracis por sus respustas, que krsnita lo proteja en todo momento! Extraño mucho Su asociacion!!

 Su discipula que extraña ver danzar sus pies, que me inspiran en todo momento: Radha japa prati jalpa dd.

HpS -  O.K.  Buena suerte con su parto!    Buena suerte.   Gran responsbilidad.  Krsna ayuda.   Cual quiere forma del nombre esta bien.  Lo que piensa el Papa!