Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

Please receive my most humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you.

HpS - AgtSP!!!! ! ! ! ! ! paoho...

How are you doing? I hope your health is fine 🙏

ASA - This body does not get diseases, this body is a disease!

We got bug bites on our ankle, shoulder and too much fat on our stomach... but ... for a 75-years old American we are in the top 15%! AgtSP!. Agt Bhakti Yoga!

Thank you.

How are you? How is Campaka lata Devi Dasi's health?

The other day, in a class you gave, (after a question I asked about austerities, etc...) you said: "in the next life he may be born as Hiranyakasipu..."

And I kept thinking... because you could detect that sometimes I feel like a demon, who has anger and resentment against Krsna, (like Hiranyakasipu who hated Krsna)...

How can I get out of that immature position of being angry with God? How can I become a friend of God like Arjuna or Sudama brahmana?

Thank you Gurudev.

With your blessings I can become a vaisnava aspirant.

My eternal obeisances.

Thank you for accepting me as your would-be disciple.

Deva-Vrata das. cordoba Argentina

HpS - It's a very deep question. I don't even know the answer well enough for myself to try and give you a deep answer for yourself, but. . . what about NoI 7?

https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/7/

After working, we hope, with some tiny, tiny, sincerity, at Srila Prabhupada's yoga for over 40-years, we seem to think that Text 7 is completely true. It's a big deal to get those deep roots out of the heart, but each time we chant, "Hare Krsna" we are destroying the roots.

What do you think?

Sometimes do you see how nice is Goloka, and how we have to be different beings to live there?

We can get free from this envy because Krsna is such a nice friend!

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Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

Reciba mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a usted.

¿Cómo está? 

Espero que su salud esté bien 🙏

El otro día, en una clase que diste, (luego de una prengunta que hice sobre las austeridades, etc...)

dijiste: "en la próxima vida puede nacer como Hiranyakasipu..."

Y quedé pensando... porque pudiste detectar que a veces me siento como un demonio, que tiene enojo y resentimiento contra Krsna, (como Hiranyakasipu que odiaba a Krsna)...

¿Cómo puedo salir de esa posición inmadura de estar enojado con Dios? ¿Cómo puedo convertirme en un amigo de Dios como Arjuna o Sudama brahmana?

Gracias Gurudev.

Con tus bendiciones puedo convertirme en un aspirante a vaisnava.

Mis reverencias eternas. Gracias por aceptarme como tu aspirante a discípulo.

Deva-Vrata das. Córdoba, Argentina

Hare Krsna, Gurudeva, AGTSP, PAMHO,

As your grace [holiness 😄] wrote in 14190 --"we need pictures of you!"

We have only two pictures of ourself, one before going in operation theatre and one after coming out...

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Secondly we think our great/only fortune is that you wanted to give initiation to us, even we are not qualified at all.

HpS - You were, we are, by His Divine Grace!

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while discussing our progress with HG Parth Pratim Prabhu,

from

animal birth in bharat --- human birth( manusya janam) --- janam sarthak kori --- karo paropkar....

it was found ..

our desire to be exceptional interfers with our following small things... though we know in this effort we might compete with Krsna, but i think effort to acheive pure devotional service is itself exceptional,

ASA 🦁 Damn right it is!

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anyways-- we know we want to approach you as pyschologist, father, spiritual master, friend..

we have approached to you earlier as either of these, and you have reciprocated perfectly..

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as there many letters/instructions/advices by you given to us in this blog, hence we are not writing as much as earlier to this blog.....

though we actually want to write ...

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trying to becoming Hayagriva Avatar Das

small but eternal progress

ASA - 🐵. . . 🐖 Hey! What about your surgery. How big is the scar? Did you see the gunk they cut out? Was the doctor feel'n good about the shop work?

How many more miles you got on your present kindeys? Did they give you a warranty?

Hare Krishna, my apologies Maharaja for the lack of context..

In a previous letter I had written to you about how it seems difficult to have relationships in this world, and also with devotees in the setting of a Brahmacari asrama, and you responded by mentioning text 5 of the NOI, and how it helped you see and deal with different devotees accordingly.

You also wrote later in your message that,

“We really, all, only have one Best Friend, and until we get His association we will feel lonely.”

So I was just appreciating that.. that Krishna is our best friend actually and until we reawaken that relationship, we will always feel like something or someone is missing..

And I will attach a picture below so you might recognize me, and a couple other pictures of our sankirtan here! I am one of five of the Brahmacaris here in the Houston asrama.

Hare Krishna Maharaja! Thank you. 🙏

Your servant, Abhaya dasa

HpS - Hare Krsna. AgtSP!

Paoho...

Thanks for the clarification.

We are also looking for closer association.

It is 181% our lack of love for Krsna. We are selfish, greedy, vain and so we don't want any friends. We want servants. People who will gratify our egoistic vanities.

Ooof! What a mess.

If Krsna gives us His association, then it naturally purifies our hearts and is established as a habit naturally.

Let us just love Krsna.

Play with Him.

Play with Him and His, our, friends.

Sometimes there are are many people in our material society.

Sometimes there are only a few.

It is impossible to find a simple external reason why.

Our aglomeration is decided by subtle forces projecting over lifetimes.

Hmmm. Hari Bolo!

🙂

5.51PM - join the MOE education symposium!

See you in just a few minutes.

Hope some of Sankirtan is useful to you, and you will engage us in some of yours.

HpS/ASA

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Hare Krsna, Dandavat Pranam

All glories to HpS Guru Maharaj, Gouranga Mahaprabhu, and Radha Krsna ki jay.

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja padamacharan that our senior bhakta Dr. Leisangthem Nandalal Singh, Retd. Joint Director, Health Services, Govt. of Manipur (Nanda Sutta Das), initiated Nama diksa under the Padmacharan of Hanumat Presaka Swami Guru Maharaj) in the year 2013 and Brahma Diksa took this year Jan 12, 2023. He expired on 25th July 2023 at Delhi Hospital at around 8.00 a.m. and as he desired his body was cremated at Radha Kunda (U.P) on the same evening.

His condolence meeting was held yesterday, the 26th of July 2023 at 8.00 a.m. in the Thoubal Tomjing Mandir by observing 2 mines silence prayer to God for kiping his soul peace in the Goloka Vrindaban by the bhaktas and matajis of the mandir.

Other ritualistic functions will be performed in his original home, Thoubal Wangmataba in the near days.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Thank you. Super! Please also send pictures of him so we can chant some Maha-mantra with good meditation on him! Offer our help in orienting himself as he leaves this body.

Thank you!

HARE KRSNA, GURUDEVA!

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

Today I am officially 70 years old and I am just beginning to discover WHO I AM. Each advance makes me value Srila Prabhupada's message more and more, all good knowledge that human beings say nowadays, Srila Prabhupada already said it, even more, he told us the goal and how to reach it.

Woe to me, poor woman! That I need to verify what they tell me.

HpS/ASA - 😄

And time is running out for me, every moment, we feel life and death in the body, I am thinking that the moment I will leave this body it will be natural that I only remember the beautiful Krsna dancing on the heads of Kaliya.

Everyone fearing that the one who defeated death will die, WHAT A THRILL! I want Krsna to triumph in me, I want Kaliya not to triumph in me.

Thank you very much Gurudeva, eternally grateful, everything I do, every moment I dedicate to you, Srila Prabhupada and Krsna, yes, I also beg you to forgive me for my offenses.

I am at your feet.

Rohini Devi Dasi.

HpS - Hare Krsna. We missed your association and the association of your family when you were not in our Sanga for some time. Thank you so much.

The SB is full of stories of devotees who made some progress and then went on a side trip, learning expedition and then came back and made full success eg. the Pracetas, sons of Pracinibharist.

I do that constantly.

Such nice news.

Give us some advice for devotees who will be following the same path as you?

How about your sister, niece and grand-niece??

Ananga,

Draupadi,

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Todas las glorias a Srila prabhupada!!

Todas las glorias a usted su santidad Hanumat presaka swami!!!

Permitame presentarme,mi nombre es esteban badano,le escribo desde luján,bs as. Me dirijo a usted atraves de su discípulo Adi yagña das quién me dió su contacto.gracias a Adi,pude conocerlo a usted querido y respetado gurudeva!

Hace varios años que visito el templo y estoy muy agradecido a KRSNA por la inmenza misericordia de permitirme la asociación con los devotos.actualmente viajo al templo cada 15 dias para asistir a las clases de Bhagavad Gita y participar de Gaura Arati.

Presto servicio en el templo ayudando a los cocineros cuando hay festivales y celebraciones. También escucho sus maravillosas clases y estoy haciendo el curso de bhakti sastri. Vivo con mi señora,con quien compartimos 19 años juntos. Vivimos en el medio del campo a orillas de un rio muy tranquilo,rodeados de vacas y caballos. Juntos leemos el Srimad Bhagavatam estudiandolo y comentandolo.aquí, diariamente canto mis rondas con mucho entusiasmo y alegria.

Soy dibujante de profeción y como siempre viví en lugares naturales también me dedico a la agricultura.

Le escribo para preguntarle que debo hacer y que requisitos cumplir para poder tomar refugio en usted y para poder ser inciado en algún momento.

Me gustaria que usted sea mi diksa gurú,para poder tomar sus instrucciones formalmente,querido gurudeva. Siento mucho cariño por el señor KRSNA y me atrae mucho la filosofia vaisnava. Siento gran admiración y respeto por Srila Prabhupada y me gustaria agradecerle a todos los acharias prestando mis servicios. Deseo poder avanzar en conciencias de KRSNA y crecer en mi camino espiritual, si es posible a traves de su guía.

Le envío mis respetuosas reverencias y un fuerte abrazo querido gurudeva!!

HARIBOL!!!!!

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All glories to you His Holiness Hanumat presaka swami!!!

Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Esteban Badano, I am writing from Luján, Buenos Aires. I am writing to you through his disciple Adi yagñadas who gave me his contact. Thanks to Adi, I was able to meet you dear and respected gurudeva!

I have been visiting the temple for several years and I am very grateful to KRSNA for the immense mercy of allowing me to associate with the devotees. Currently I travel to the temple every 15 days to attend the Bhagavad Gita classes and participate in Gaura Arati.

I serve in the temple helping the cooks when there are festivals and celebrations. I am also listening to your wonderful lectures and am doing the bhakti sastri course. I live with my wife, with whom we shared 19 years together. We live in the middle of the field on the banks of a very calm river, surrounded by cows and horses. Together we read Srimad Bhagavatam, studying it and commenting on it. Here, I chant my rounds daily with much enthusiasm and joy.

I am a professional cartoonist and as I have always lived in natural places, I also dedicate myself to agriculture.

I am writing to ask you what I must do and what requirements I must meet in order to take refuge in you and to be able to be initiated at some point.

I would like you to be my diksa guru, so that I can take your instructions formally, dear gurudeva. I am very fond of Mr. KRSNA and I am very attracted to Vaisnava philosophy. I have great admiration and respect for Srila Prabhupada and would like to thank all the acharyas rendering my services. I wish to be able to advance in KRSNA consciousness and grow on my spiritual path, if possible through his guidance.

I send you my respectful obeisances and a big hug dear gurudeva!!

HARIBOL!!!!!

HpS - AgtSP! - Paoho.

So nice to meet you.

We are trying to develop ability as cartoonist.

We are looking at lessons given by people like Alphonso Dunn on the YouTube. We like the style of Charles Schultz and Dr. Seuss.

You seem to be advancing very, very nicely!

Super.

We have stop serving as Diksa guru.

In some ways it is a formality. Of course, not without meaning, but you take Karma when you do these sacrifices, and our body is too old for that.

This is natural.

Are there nice devotees in Argentina who are doing this function.

Yadunandana Swami is Spain is doing Dika, initiation. He is very nice devotee.

I think Adi or Nikunja can put you in touch with him.

We can serve as Sika guru up to our level of realization, but in general just develop your relationship with Srila Prabhupada as Guru for all of us and you will get personal inspiration from him how to advance in purification, power and beauty.

O.K?

We will try to share some of your art.

Get your suggestions.

Please share some of yours.