Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaj.

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Happy Gaura Purnima!

After the Gaura Purnima, I started on the continuation of Bhakti Sastri studies. Thank you so much for notes! They're such a treasure for me. By your mercy, trying with some small efforts to understand Srila Prabhupada's books. In one of our BVs, one prabhu was mentioning that as we become the servant of the servant of the servant, staying at the bottom most rung is beneficial. The essence of sastras is more condensed and ripened as it gets passed down from the upper levels.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP  paoho.  Yes, this is what we understand also.  This is the position that Radharani is seeking. So there is a competion with Her to get the last word in becoming the servant of the servant, but we don't have to give up!   She's only Radharani!  Doesn't mean we can't compete with Her to be Her servant in serving Krsna!  (Maybe a long hard game though!).

Your guidelines and notes are just the condensed nectar of Srila Prabhupada's nectar to me. I'm doing my sadhana regularly but have a long way in getting the mercy of the holy name. By Mahaprabhu's mercy, will need to pay more attention and cry out genuinely. Kindly bestow a drop of your mercy that I continue my sadhana and studies sincerely.

HpS - ASA - If we had even a drop we would give it to you.   {S p l a s h !}

Was reading your Gaura Purnima letter to your siblings, gave me some goosebumps! It inspired me to step back and actually introspect.  Ofcourse, you're all the chosen souls,

HpS - Hansadutta Prabhu commented one time, very firmly, "Prabhupada made his Generals out of mud!"

but does coming from a different religion gives the deeper realization before even the first step of faith (adau sraddha)? As we were told while growing up, all I knew was Krishna as one of the Vishnu Avatars and Vishnu as the all powerful Lord. I could just believe in Krishna as the Supreme when my association with devotees grew deeper and then the studies that gives the firm evidence that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. With my small brain, I definitely did not have the analytical power to think much or reason. Many times we see Srila Prabhupada mentioning nothing should be accepted just by sentiment.  This is probably the situation for many with Indian background.

HpS - AGTSP       I think so many people, including Sarva-bhauma Bhattacharya, Prabhodananda Sarasvati, Gopal bhatta Goswami, had to "change" there religion to follow Lord Caitanya.  Improve there religion.   It seem like a natural stepping stone.   Actually we have to change our religion all the time, no?   We have to refine our principles.  Give up the lower practices and concepts as we advance. We don't like this, "niyama-agraha", but we have to do it.

Our prayers to the Lordships to protect all you wonderful servants of Srila Prabhupada and for myself to remain an humble follower of your footsteps.

Thanks Maharaj.
your humble servant
gayathri 
(Chicago)

HpS - ASA -  Jaya! Yugala-kishore!    Who are prominent devotees there in Chicago?

TLGSP PAMHR

Hare Krishna Gurudev siento no haber podido ir al festival de Gaura Purnima en Bs As. el poco dinero me dejo atras, aqui todo va igual visito a una pareja de mas de 35 años de casados les hable acerca de la conciencia de Krishna lo valoraron ademas.

sadhana bien con sus bendiciones para seguir entendiendo los planes de Krishna. 

HpS - ASA - Jaya!   TlgaSP    Pfanrh.   Eso es El Parama Karuna Das Bailarin, no?   Muy bien.    Si, nos vemos a la Kamala devi dasi bastante en el Templo de BsAs y estamos pensando en Vd.      Si, las historias en SB convierta mas y mas muy practico (very practical) para nuestra propio lucha, mas que experimentar nosotros la vida real.    Adelante!    Como podemos pensar en que Krsna no tiene un plan muy util para nuestra vida!      Solamente necesitamos convertir mas puros rapidos!

Hare Krsna Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru Parampara.
 
    My comments are in Blue :

   HpS - ASA -  Jaya!       We are trying to call India now from Argentina. Little struggle and fix the dates
  for Delhi, Manipur and then Kolkatta. I don't think we will have time to go to Vrndavana or
  Mayapura. We will invite the devotees from those places to visit us in Dehli or Kolkatta.

   Thank you Maharaj. Once you confirm your schedule for Delhi or Kolkatta, then i will book tickets
   accordingly. Till then i will wait.

    Maharaj, i hope you are in good health now. Some time i get worried to read your health issue in
   different letters but i normally do not react but i pray to lord only. because i have no other option.
   We need your assocciation.

   But i have one thing to get connected to you - The Chanting. that i do prafully.

    Always pray for your blessing. Your servent.

your aspiring servant,
Gopal Biswas

HpS - ASA -  Ei Visvas!         Thank you for you letter. AGTSP.   Srila Prabhupada says, (they say), that this body doesn't get dieases.    It is a disease.     Because of all the nescient acivities we performed during the "Hippie" era in the United States etc.    I would not be surprised that we don't have Alzheimer's disease soon.       Of course, no body is great.  We are trying to call India tommorrow.

  TODAS LAS GLORIAS A SRI SRI GAURA NITAI, TLGSP Y MIS RESPETUOSAS REVERENCIAS A USTED GURU MAHARAJA!

 MUY FELIZ QUE SE ENCUENTRE AQUI, APROVECHANDO SUS CLASES SIEMPRE USTED CONTESTANDO MIS CARTAS CON MUCHA INTELIGENCIA! GRACIAS A USTED SIEMPRE  ME ANIMO UN POCO MAS A HACER MAS SERVICIO DEVOCIONAL. DISCULPE QUE LE ESCRIBA MIENTRAS USTED ESTA AQUI EN BUENOS AIRES. ESPERO QUE TENGA BUEN VIAJE MAÑANA HACIA MAR DEL PLATA!!!!!! NOS VEMOS PROXIMA SEMANA!!!

     HARIBOL!

TERESA.

ASA -  Jaya.  Gracias.  Si, estuvo un buen viaje!   Tiempo para cantar Japa!!!!  Ya mentenmos 32 rondas diarios.       Desde 1994, 25-rondas cada dia.   Estivmos probando incrementar a 32 pero no reduccion de dormir, solamente reduccion de tiempo para otro servicio.    Ya aparece es buen tiempo incrementar.  La garganta es mucho mas debil.   Predicando, hablando tenemos que minimizar.   La Japa es mas suave, y realmente es diferent experiencia cantando mas rondas.   O.K.  Ya tenemos 64-rondas. Esperamos dejar inciando en 2014 y dejar el cuerpo en 2024, volviendo a ayudar por nuestro forma original en Gokula!!!!    Esperamos!

Agtsp!!

Jay Sri Radha Madhava !

Pranams beloved Guruji.

I write reminding the devotee "Juan Tabla", he play tabla (indian drum) and other drums, he play with me in your lectures.You have always been his guru.He is from Chile .

Dearest Guru Maharaj,

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

Just at this minute I found out you are in Buenos Aires. Fantastic! I was really missing you yesterday because I was at a house program and I remembered last year Jiva Goswami took us to a house program while in Huston. I'm not a big fan of those; however, Yogendra prabhu insisted I go. 

I was advised by my mentor, Mangala arti dd, to tell you of my involvement with the Bhakti Lounge yoga centre here in Toronto. I have mentioned my services with this program before and it is expanding very quickly. We have recently been granted the opporunity to conduct a club at another university campus in downtown Toronto. Succcess!! It will consist of Kirtan and Japa. Mangala arti has really showed me how chanting definitely is the way of self realization in Kali yuga. Amazing. And this coming June our Bhakti Lounge center will have its third annual inspirit festival- a yoga lifestyle themed event with guest speakers HH Deavamrita Swami and Bada Hari das Prabhu. It's an intese week of service. Very enlivening. 

I got to utilize some of the daksina from my initiation in books. There is an upcoming event in April at the university and we will take part with our books, kirtan, and prasadam. There was the need for someone to sponsor a box of POYs and I immediately volunteered. I hope I did good with this. Please let me know if it was alright. 

ASA - Yes!    Yes....    Jaya Srila Prabhupada!!

On another note, Yogendra prabhu and I have decided that we would like to be engaged. He told me that in order to make something happen one must seek the blessings of the Vaishnavas. And so I come to you as humbly as I can to ask for your blessings and permission. When you asked in the previous letter if I had investigated the Grihastha ashrama I thought about it and in a way i have but indirectly. In my readings I come across this topic here and there. One of the members of the Grihastha Vision Team lives in Toronto and we have received advice from her.  But I shall investigate directly this time and let you know of my findings. 

I think I have written too much although there is still more I would like to convey. I hope I may visit you and have your association this year or you said you might visit Toronto this summer. Only Krishna knows.

Hare Krishna

your aspiring servant,

Rasa-mandali dd

HpS - Jaya, Jaya Rasa-lila, sarva mano rama . . . .    The Bhakti-lounge sounds great.    Many people are attracted to austerities (that work).   One devotee, just took Sannyasa, from Russia, and he does lots of preaching through Ekadasi-vrata. People join and fast all day all day, different levels, and chant, like Kirtan, Reading, Japa, 20-minutes each in group, for hours, even for the first time.  Of course they are Russians, and many like it.
So, nice to hear from you. Why don't you and Yogindra Ji read the story of Kardama and Devahuti together and give us a report here???   Yes, maybe wee can visit Toronto this summer.    We are neighbors.   When is the Rathayatra?