Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

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

We are happy to hear you are coming to Boise Maharaj.  Please let us know if we can be of some service while you are there.  Sometimes we feel like we have the minds of monkeys and donkeys, but we still pray we can be of some service to the amazing Vaisnavas despite.  We are soooo looking forward to having the association of the wonderful Boise temple community and have been craving it for years.  They are painting the room while we wait at my Dad's farm.  Radha Bunkabihari ki jaya!

Maharaj, due to the mercy of my stepmom's association and the peaceful atmosphere at my Dad's farm, we are happy to report that despite the school load we are always able to get up in the morning, do mangal, chant, and study.  Sometimes 4, sometimes 6 but we are working towards steadily always waking up at 4.  Rounds are good here, circumambulating the cows gives us lots of inspiration.  We hope you can meet them someday!

ASA - HpS  ----   Moooo!     AgtSP!     Paoho.             Brahma muhurta, even if its 9AM or 1AM.   That's what we are shooting for.   It is very, very, practical.   Then your Hymns and Kirtana ahs     S U P E R   effect and you can go out as SUPER-GIRL  to fight with the evil criminals of Gotham City!

We are now on NOI 3.  I have memorized first two verses and ceto darpanam, and each week Karla (stepmom) asks me to give a class to her which has been nice.  We had a question regarding spiritual anger in text one.  She asked me if it is okay to get angry at impersonalists.  We have a family member who is very into the "We are all one", "We are Krsna, Buddha" mentality.  From a Christian standpoint, she does not want to associate with non-devotees she said even if it is a family member because they are impersonalists.  Did Prabhupada exercise spiritual krodha with impersonalists?  What if someone in your family is an impersonalist, should one not associate with them or invite them over?  These questions came up and I was not sure how to answer.

HpS - ASA ---  We don't know th details of how deep is there impersonalism.  If they hate phony priests or they hate God.  But if we are positive and always talk about Krsna then they will naturally go away if they don't like it.

Usually we avoid anger and that stuff unless Krsna and Balarama want us to kill demons and then it will be completely natural!

Also, Maharaj, I am wondering how to best respond to the questions regarding Jesus' proclamations that he is the only way to come to God. John 14:6 [Jesus speaking] "I am the way, the truth, and the life: No man cometh unto the father, but by me" Christians believe that because he is the only uttama adhikari who proclaimed to die for our sins, and rose from the dead, then everyone must go through him.  I explain our parampara system which preserves the words of Krsna, and how Prabhupada is an uttama adhikari who was also sent from the spiritual world to help us.  Since you have a background in Christianity, I am very curious about what other information we can provide from a Gaudiya Vaisnava perspective.

Such loaded questions!  Thank you for taking the time to read Maharaj and thank you for your study guides.  Karla said Text two is very enlivening because of how much it encourages a simple, hermetic life (which she is trying to live).  Its a great text for American farmers!

Your aspiring servant,

Kamagayatri

HpS - ASA -  In the original Aramaic there are two ways to say, "I am", like Spanish, "Estoy"  and "Soy".  One means right now for you guys and then other means always.

Yet, you guessed it, the real translation is, "right now for you guys I am the logos, guru".

And, we do follow Jesus Christ, better then you do.  Jesus was a vegetarian, why aren't you.  When there is enough bread and cheese a real Christian doesn't kill even the fish, what to speak of the animals and their babies.

Todas las glorias al Sankirtan de Srila Prabhupada, Todas las glorias a Sri Sri goura & nitay

Porfavor acepte mis humildes revenrencias

4 principios, 16 rondas.

ASA - Misercordia de Srila Prabhupada y su esfuerza!!

Hare Krsna Maharaja, espero que esta carta lo encuentre muy bien, queria contarle que estoy viendo si congelo la carrera universitaria debido a que no tengo laksmi para financiarla. Y  asi poder enfocarme tiempo completo a la vida de templo, y además poder participar en  esta maraton de diciembre

ASA - Jaya!    Como va a hacer?

que comienza esta semana , sin descartar la posibilidad de retomar los estudios mas adelante, si krishna quiere cuando esten los  recursos para hacerlo. Queria preguntarle que le parecia a usted.  

Espero su respuesta,

su aspirante a sirvienta  

Fernanda L. 

HpS - ASA ---   Claro, no se los detalles, pero ambos opciones puede ser bueno. Canta Hare Krsna y experimentar uno o el otro y va a ser el resulto muy profundo.  Nosotros estamos  SUper feliz solamente oir de Vd. en cual quiere circumstancia.

Por favor, acepte mis humildes reverencias. Todas las glorias sean al Jagad-guru – Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krsna, Maharaja, espero que se encuentres bien. Mi nombre es Gopa-vrnda-pala dasa, discípulo de Param-gati prabhu. Soy brasileño y por misericordia de Krsna y de Srila Prabhupada, trabajo en BBT Brasil, con muy buenos devotos, así como su discípula – Adi Badri dasi.

Estoy escribiéndole este e-mail para expresar la admiración que tengo por su persona y agradecer la inspiración que recibo siempre que de alguna forma tengo contacto con usted. Sea por fotos, videos, clases…

Tuve la misericordia de recibir su darsan en Nueva Gokula al año pasado y actualmente siempre asisto sus clases en internet (en español, porque no comprendo ingles perfectamente). He leído su libro “Desde Rusia Con Amor”, sería maravilloso una versión en portugués. Es un libro muy peculiar. Me gustaría también leer el “Hamlet y Arjuna”, pero no sé cómo comprarlo.

Otro motivo de este e-mail es que me identifico mucho con usted y le tengo de alguna manera como mi siksa-guru. Después de los acontecimientos con mi guru, de no estar más como sannyasi , tengo meditado mucho en que hacer y conversado con los devotos mayores. Tengo la autorización de Param-gati prabhu para tomar siksa de otro guru y después de estos tres años resolví adentrar en una nueva etapa. Por favor, me gustaría mucho recibir a sus e-mails Kapi-dhvaja y estar siempre acompañando sus reportajes. Yo podría recibir o son solamente para discípulos? Deseo estar en contacto con usted si permite. Quiero mejorar mi vida espiritual y volver a servir con alegría el movimiento de Srila Prabhupada sirviendo su santidad de alguna manera.

Gracias por la atención y perdoneme por no escribir en ingles y a cualquier ofensa.

Gracias por todo Maharaja.


Su sirviente;

Gopa-vrnda-pala dasa

HpS - ASA -  Jaya!    TlgaSP! ! ! ! ! !    pfanrh.    Pienso que estoy recordando a Vd. un poco de la visita a Brazil!      Siksa        Basicamente eso es, esta Blog.   Ahorito estamos esforzando MUCHO responder a las cartas y escribir nuestra DTC antes de banar, lavandar, y ir a Mangala arati aqui en Mayapura!
Cartas individual son muy costos, pero posible para detalles.   Preguntas basicamente puede pasar muy, muy bien aqui para la bienestar de muchos!

Mis respetuosas reverencias:

Ahora leere, mas o menos entiendo leer todo un libro pequeño como proposito.

Cuando avanzamos en la vida espiritual, Nuestro guru nos revela las demas relaciones amorosas de otras entidades vivientes tienen con Krishna; de esa manera podemos descubrir nuestra verdadera familia, gurumaharaja, ¿esto ocurrirá en algun momento de nuestro avance?, de alguna manera hay alguna relacion de Gopis y sus esposos, tambien hacia sus hijas e hijos,  hermanos y enemigos. Al final el centro siempre será Krishna, nosotras como jivas particulas y dotadas de las mismas cualidades espirituales en pequeña porcion, ¿seria bueno comtemplar los pasatiempos de los devotos del Señor?

HpS - ASA -  TlgaSP   pfanrh.  Hasta que estamos siguendo el proceso, iniciado, para al minimo 6 anos no podemos esperar normalmente entrar en esta tipos de cosos muy practico.   Basicamente estamos meditando en los pasatiempos de Krsna en esta punto por medio del libro KRSNA y su pasatiempo de BG etc.

Hare Krsna Maharaj, AGTSP, PAMHO,

please find pictures of Lakshmana attached. one more  picture of sita-ram-laxman-hanuman from dlehi temple is  also attached.

continuing with your instrucion at http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/node/834

"Prabhupada said that these children are not ordinary people. Krsna does not send ordinnary people to be children of devotees, so we have great responsibility to protect them so that they can grow up properly and do wonderul things for society."

our question is we did not do any garbha-dhana sanskara, our consciousness while conception was nearly animalistic, neither we ourselves were very strict in our  sadhana, nor we are intiated, neither we provided very congenial environment for child for spiritual progress. ( though we were trying our best to all this, we had desire to do all this, but we were repeatedly defeated by kaliyuga, mind etc)

---- then why Krishna send us an extra ordinary child.. there no positive reason we see here.

the boy was born on kartik poornima, so we anticipate that boy is not an ordinary soul, but why did krsna handed over him to us.

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our sadhana has improved, our gross illicit sex desire is under tremendous contreol so now we can go beyond canto 1 & 2 of SB ( SB 2.2.12).

things are improving.. but not at level where we can become a fomral aspirant of being your disciple.

we met Radhika Raman prabhu's father H G Anant Rupa Prabhu in delhi, he told us it is imperative for us to get intiated to get potency from parampara to give lakshman environment as expected by your grace.

in next letter we  would submit our sadhana report to you.

ASA - Jaya!   AGTSP   Paho.   Nice to converse with you in BhVai last night!    Well, not ordinary does not mean Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati.    Out of many thousands of men one looks for eternal truth.  Out of those who have realized Brahman, there is a reality, only one realizes that it is God.

So, Harsh Pradhana is not ordinary Dude. You and your wife are looking. Rather convinced that there is a God and meeting Him is desireable.   Maybe you could contemplate that Laksmana is a person just like you.  (Oh, my God!)    Ha!    Ha!   Ha!      (What have I done??)

He looks like a nice guy!    O.K.  Next letter and then DTC!

AgtSP

Paoho    3.06AM    Sridhama Mayapura.  Outside the Jackals are howling and the workers are banging hammers and spinning saws up high in the growing Adbhuta Mandira.    Little cool.  Few mo squi toes!

Thank you for the letters.

Got ten ronds done and little Skype exchange with Partha sarathi Das.

Now bath, laundry and scuttle to the Samadhi for Mangala arati. then ....

today we start one chapter a day (SB 1.10) for the next ten daze for Mayapura Institute, Bhakti-vaibhava students!   We are ready!

Lay on teacher and damned be him who first calls, "Hold, enough!".

Been too busy last few daze.   Now more sane.

Still haint got tickets for South America, USA, Manipur, Australia, Radha desa!  Still no news from Yadu Swami!!

We are focusing on the Hare!   In the Maha-mantra first!   If Mataji is there then Krsna and Balarama are there also!   Pronounce each syllable clearly.  Notice what part of the mouth, lungs ... it hhits!

Patraka Das is still in the Samadhi-cave and he is leading us in KRSNA book.  Now we are with Banasura gets his backside kicked but loves it!!!!

Monkey noticed that the Oxford Dictionary has the word, "Hooray!".    Guess how Bhakta Kindle pronounces it!

O.K.    Rub-a-dub-dub into the tub!

(We finished the NOI, MI classes yesterday.  Does that mean we get part credit for the 35 NOIs that they purchased!!!)