Letters to the editor

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba mis respetuosas reverencias.

Guru Maharaja, mi mudanza a la ciudad de Tarapoto solo duro aproximadamente dos meses y medio, ahora estoy nuevamente por Huancayo, al parecer estaré nuevamente por aquí, y quizás sea por corto tiempo, después no sé que pasará.

Hago planes, pero al parecer hay una fuerza sobrehumana que los cambia, debe ser el Señor Supremo Sri Caitanya. No lo sé.

A Huancayo llego su SS. Bhakti Arjava Priti Vardhana Swami Maharaja con su sirviente Prabhu Jaya Prahlada.

Su Santidad estuvo una semana en Huancayo, en el templo de madre Laksmirani, Maharaja dio entrevistas en las radios locales y algunos canales de televisión de la región, también dio conferencias en unos auditorios, y gracias a Srila Prabhupada tuve la misericordia de tomar su santa asociación y servirlo.

A Maharaja y a su sirviente les gusta cocinar y nos enseñaron algunas recetas, fue una experiencia muy bonita e increíble. Maharaja fue muy misericordioso con nosotros y muy tolerante con nuestras deficiencias.

Aquí le comparto algunas fotos.

Bueno Guru Maharaja, me despido y que el Señor Nrsimha lo proteja siempre.

Hare Krsna.

Gadai Gauranga Das

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All Glory to Srila Prabhupada!!

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja, please accept my respectful obeisances.

Guru Maharaja, my move to the city of Tarapoto only lasted about two and a half months. Now I'm back in Huancayo, and it seems I'll be here again, perhaps for a short time. After that, I don't know what will happen.

I make plans, but it seems there's a superhuman force that changes them. It must be the Supreme Lord Sri Caitanya. I don't know.

His Holiness Bhakti Arjava Priti Vardhana Swami Maharaja arrived in Huancayo with his servant Prabhu Jaya Prahlada.

His Holiness spent a week in Huancayo at the temple of Mother Lakshmirani. Maharaja gave interviews on local radio stations and some regional television channels. He also gave lectures in auditoriums, and thanks to Srila Prabhupada, I had the grace to enter into his holy association and serve him.

Maharaja and his servant love to cook and taught us some recipes. It was a very beautiful and incredible experience. Maharaja was very merciful to us and very forgiving of our shortcomings.

Here are some photos.

Well, Guru Maharaja, I bid you farewell, and may Lord Nrsimha always protect you.

Hare Krishna.

Gadai Gauranga Das

HpS - Jaya! I have never heard Maharaja's name or pastimes before. Where is he from? Is he ISKCON Sannyasi?

Thank you for the news. In any case Srila Prabhupada spent a lifetime in preparation, so maybe we will have to spend twenty life times in preparation, but in any case we are already experiencing the development in Bhakti Yoga that is promised.

HpS/ASA - No, agtSP, content in the letter!

Would like very much to hear from you.

Thank you.

Diary of a Dreaming Creature

It 😎 is at 5.11PM. Sunset was some time ago, here in ISKCON Houston.

Very nice letter from Miguel, Terkadamba Devi Dasi, Dallas, but should take a break now for our eyes etc.

Been pretty good day.

1. Japa Joe 📿🐵
2. Full Morning Program in the Temple ⛪
3. Meeting with:
4. Atul Krsna Das on the Bhakti-sarva-bhauma diploma.
5. Tandavika Das about Guru-puja in Nashville.
6. Rest and Reading. Mail.
7. Preparing for meeting with Uncle Gismo and H. G. Gopinatha Das from Hewlitt-Packard this evening.
8. FEP

Thank you for your association. Sankirtan!

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Please adored Gurumaharaja accept my humble obeisanced to Sweet dust of Your lotus feet🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🙏🙏💖🌷🌹🌷💐🌻🌹🌷💐🌻🎵🎶

HpS/ASA - We feel really unhappy when people talk about "the sweet dust of our lotus feet". It seem kind of like what a lady might feel like if her husband washed her feat in public and sprinkled the water on his head and the head of others. 😆

In Vaikuntha I guess we all have lotus feet (or lotus hooves) but here they are maybe just venerable as chaste ladies, austere Sannyasis, no?

AgtSP!!!

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada!!!🙇🏻‍♀️🙏💐🌻🌹🌷🌻💐💖

HpS/ASA - 👦 🐒 🐖 Jaya! !

All glories To You Gurudeva!!!🙏🙏🙏🎵🎶🙇🏻‍♀️💐🌻🌹🌷🌹🌻💐🌻💐🌷💐🌹🌻💐🌷💖

We have been concerned about your throat for a long time, and we are very happy to be allowed to talk about this on the blog. How can we help? ... I always think that a little tea with honey and perhaps ginger would help... but I really don't know what is good for your dosha.

If any well-intentioned disciple knows what is best for you, it would be so good if they could help you so that this stops once and for all. It is very painful to think that your throat might be hurting from the inflammation caused by making that sound that helps you continue speaking.

I think—please correct me if I am wrong, beloved Gurudev—that although, as disciples, we cannot advise you, and that is taken as offensive, there is also the example of the gopis, who did not care about going to hell if they had to give the dust of their lotus feet to cure Krishna's headache. And... even though we may not be advanced or pure like Them, I think it's normal to feel pain if you see the most beloved person in the world suffering, and you know how to help, but... for fear of offending, you don't help.

So... I sincerely hope that some devotee who knows how to reduce the swelling in a throat that's draining... water? from Her lotus nose, can help stop this and allow you to have some peace of mind, at least about this.

Please forgive me if I've caused any offense... I've long wished this could finally stop bothering you.

On the other hand, it's so lovely and inspiring to see my brothers and sisters wanting to follow SDG Srila Prabhupada so well! My deepest respect to all! I hope we can all understand how to improve our service and relationship with You. Better and better, clearer and clearer...!!! Jaya Gurudeva! Your class was so wonderful; it was exactly what I needed to hear.

Always aspiring to serve the dust of her fantastic lotus feet;

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha Devi Dasi

HpS/ASA - Very nice ayurvedic doctor here, Ananta isvara Das. South Indian Brahmana boy.

Very, very nice.

I hope that he and Nikunja and others can all be in touch.

Maybe a Latin American Tour.

We have some specific medicine, daily: Chaywan Prash, specifically blended for our nature. Is very strong.

Other than that our throat, eyes, ears, skin, heart are all under systemic care that seems to be the best remedy.

Of course, when we get up in the morning we have to wake up everything, so there is some coughing to clear the throat.

In general, it is o.k. Weaker that ten years ago, but still functional.

I hope to get a new one when this one is finished!!!

Thank you!!!

I think you speak for many people.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my obeisances.

Gurudeva, I have no problem with the ISKCON authorities, nor am I very close to them.

My service is outside the temples. I currently hold no authority, but I was thinking of taking Maharaj Yadunandana Swami as my Siksha guru. What do you think?

HpS/ASA - Seems very fine. ISKCON is Srila Prabhupada's body, no? So, we should see the the Head, Shoulders, Arms, Belly, Legs are as healthy as possible.

My service is outside the temples: cooking for my deities, chanting 16 rounds, reciting the Srimad Bhagavatam, observing the Ekadasis, chanting the Gayatri, and worshipping my household deities.

HpS - Your attitude seems great. Just work to become a part of the institutional Sankirtan more and more. You must protect the GBC. You are their Mother!

My father's name is Hugo Morales; he is 71 years old. He is a retired math teacher. He is currently not working but owns some properties in Peru that he rents out and runs a small business with my mother-in-law.

My father has known ISKCON since 1994. His friend, who was also a vegetarian at the time, introduced him to it. From then on, my father always taught his family and friends about Krishna consciousness. Thanks to my father, I was able to read Srila Prabhupada's books. He taught me to sing the Yapa chant, to cook, and to worship in our small temple at home.

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi

HpS/ASA - You are such a fortunate person. Become a devotee on the level of Narada Muni by the grace of Lord Nityananda and our Founder Acharya!

Come with us to the Next Letter! ➡

asa[e] VAD; grhastha ashrama; divorce

"The divorce act is encouraging prostitution, and this should be abolished."

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/17/38/#bb17253

"If her husband is fallen, it is recommended that she give up his association. Giving up the association of her husband does not mean, however, that a woman should marry again and thus indulge in prostitution."

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/7/11/#bb47099

The entire Verse and Purport give very clear advice on this topic. Please study them nicely! https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/7/11/28/

For even more detail:

"Actually the qualified brāhmaṇas are meant to give direction to the kings for proper administration in terms of the scriptures like the Manu-saṁhitā and Dharma-śāstras of Parāśara."

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/9/27/#bb15336

We found a translation of Parasara's Dharma Sastra at the University of California Berkeley, Law Library.

A copy is at: https://www.jayarama.us/archives/parasara.doc

As we remember it explains that for a woman whose husband dies or takes Sannyasa, it is first class for a woman to follow her husband in the same fire of sacrifice.

If he dies she enters the funeral fire.

If he takes Sannyasa, then like Visnupriya, she followed the Lord as a woman by dedicating herself fully to taking shelter of the Holy Names while staying at home.

As we understand, she would collect one grain of rice for each maha-mantra and then cook what she had collected by 2pm.

She was as good of a Sannyasi as Lord Caitanya.

This is first class Dharma for a woman, wife.

Second class is that she does not enter the fire, but she enjoys life in a civilized fashion but does not get remarried.

Third class, and still progressive in Kali-yuga, is that she gets remarried after six years.

Any comments?