Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

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

Thank you for your reply. It is nice to hear that you consider I'm doing well. I wish I could agree... It's one of the only things keeping me steady. Really 

As time goes on.. more and more drama is developing. Starting to get really really bad. All the Bhaktas are realizing that we are going to have to take matters into our own hands. We made a pack that if one doesn't get up for Mongala Aratic by 415 he gets a cup of water in his bed from the rest of the Bhaktas who are awake! :) I'm looking forward to it. All in good spirit, with love. Nothing malicious.  

Japa rounds this morning.. only two before Mongala Aratic. The rest done before ten. I'm not sure if Harivilasa does all his rounds by then..I've never chanted the pre-aratic japa with him, So I can't say I know for sure. All the devotees are missing his presence here. He is the preferred authority among the Bhaktas. 

I originally decided to stay here until March, then return to Utah. Unfortunately all the other Bhaktas are talking about leaving. They are having a hard time with what is going on here these days. Much tension. I'm the only one who has made a commitment to stay. I'm hoping I can get some of these guys to make the same commitment, but it is doubtful. But now I'm not sure I want to go back to Utah. 

I'm not sure about ASA. I haven't taken the time to read up on it, so I'm unfamiliar with the program. I just want the personal association and guidance of my Gurudeva. 

Your servant,

Bhakta Adrian

HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP   pamho   We jsut gotta run to the temple  its 2.42AM.    The mornong program is personal association with Prabhuapda.  M. Arati, kirtana, Japa SB then he is in yuour heart and will give association!

Hare Krishna! PAMHO AGTSP!

Just some recent cool stuff from my world:

A few days ago I was at Occupy Wall Street in New York City distributing Srila Prabhupada's books.

All of a sudden a Black SUV with tinted out windows pulled up on the side of the road and a few men got out. One of them was a black man dressed in a nice suit. Within a few seconds the man dressed in the suit was surrounded by about 50 news people with television cameras and microphones all trying to get at him. I had no idea who he was, but I figured he must be someone important and should have Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad-Gita. Since I was already holding a stack of Gitas on my chest I immediately pushed my way through the mob of news and television reporters to get to this (unknown to me) man. Just as I reached him (by Krishna's arrangement) he stopped speaking. Seizing the moment, I took a Bhagavad-Gita off the stack I was holding and cut in, saying in a load voice, "Excuse me sir, these books are 5000 year old original texts about God, the soul, consciousness and the mind". I asked if he would take one and read it. He said yes, and right at the instant he took the book all the reporters and television people pushed me aside, and started yelling questions at him. It was as if Krishna had orchestrated the whole thing and created a short window of opportunity for me to give him the book. It was kind of mystical. As I was being pushed away I manage to quickly grab my phone and take a picture of him holding the book. As you can see from the picture, he held Prabhupada's Gita right in front of him as he was being interviewed and  filmed by the TV people. Who could ask for better advertising?! 

After talking to the media for a few minutes, he got back in his car with Prabhupada's Gita and drove off. As the crowd dissipated I asked one of the TV crew people, "Who was that man?" The TV guy I asked just burst out in a sarcastic laugh and yelled at me in an angry tone of voice, "Get out here! Are you joking?!" I explained to him, "No, I am serious, I am a monk. I have not watched television, radio or newspaper for the last 16 years. I don't know anything but spiritual stuff." As he turned to walk away the TV guy replied in disgust, "You mean you pushed me out of the way to get to Jesse Jackson and you don't even know who he is?! I can't believe you!"

In trying to find out who this man called Jesse Jackson is, I talked to some other bystanders that also could not believe I did not know who he was. I finally found out he is the founder of the Rainbow Coalition, ran for president, was voted "the most important black leader", famous activist for black and minority rights,  and was a very close friend of Martin Luther King Jr.

Please every one, I beg for your blessings so I can always be engaged in the Sankitrtana yajna.

Hare Krishna!

HpS - Jaya!  We heard of this from devotees here also.  Krsna uses the most fallen first.  Haw!   Haw!  Haw!

AGTSP   paoh

2.35AM

We are still iin Vraja.  Doing pretty well.  Mosquitos. Alergy light. Wonderful association.  We have to answer like 20 letters in 9 minutes so we will be brief this time!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis mas respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glroias a Srila Prabhupada!!!.

Siguo en la Ciudad de México, compartiendo un departamento con una devota. Realizo servicio a las deidades del Yatra, y sankirtan 5 o 6 días a las semana. Experimentando el Sankirtan en Universidades. Lectura de noche (Krsna Book, Guerrero Espiritual y otros) y,  asociación con los devotos. Con esto estoy manteniendo mi vida espiritual, sin mayores problemas, ni mayores avances tal vez, pero, si, teniendo un gusto por ésta vida que da muchas maneras de cómo conocerse, conocer a los demás, y conocer cómo se mueve todo en ésta realidad y en la realidad espiritual.

Tuvimos un programa de Cine Debate, con la familia espiritual..estuvo muy bueno para ser el primero.

Ayer, en Sankirtan, conversaba con una devota, discípula de Bhakti Tirtha Swami, acerca de lo difícil que es perder al maestro espiritual fisicamente, y otra vez viene a mi la idea de que no siempre podremos tenerlo a Ud. fisicamente cerca de nosotros, o presente en alguna parte de éste mundo por toda la vida...

Ud. intenta hacernos pensar en esto y así nosotros creemos que de alguna manera estamos un poco preparados, pero la realidad es diferente, puede que no podamos entenderlo, y que nos sintamos muy mal si ese día llega. Espero que si eso ocurre, nunca perdamos el horizonte, la meta, y siempre recordemos Sus enseñanzas...Sus instrucciones.... y por supuesto Su eterna asociación...

Lo quiero mucho Guru Maharaja.

Esperando servirle.

Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi

ASA - Jaya!   Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai!    Pfanrh.   Cual es el hecho de separacion.  Vd. canta alla y nosotros cantamos aqui. Por el medio de Los Santos Nombres estamos conectados.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare!!!

Y no por nuestra coberatura, esto cuerpo material, por nuestras cuerpos, identidades espirituales!

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna ... !

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada!

Up late in the kitchen again last night. Still managed to make it up for Mongala Aratic. GBC Harivilasa wants the devotees to chant 8 rounds before Mongala Aratic starts. I haven't made it up to that standard yet, but managed to chant 5. Finished my 16 rounds by 6am. Haven't chanted any extra rounds before 10 today.

Devotees are really starting to get angry with the method of management here, which has sparked a lot of mundane conversations. Makes it hard to just focus on HEARING and CHANTING. Trying to keep to myself when these things arise.

Who would I pay the $600 to? How long would that enable me to travel with you for? That seems like a really small amount of money.

Your humble servant,

Bhakta Adrian

ASA - Drat!   AGTSP   Paoho.   We wrote a nnice response to you above letter and then it crashed!   Save copies!   Your Japa sounds super.  Be sure that you keep the quality and not just the quantity: "Only a wicked person tries to finish his rounds quickly!".      It is also fine to get all your 16-rounds done from after mangala arati until before Greeting the Deitys.  There are different programs. I like Hari-vilasa Prabhu's suggestion. I think that he is getting stronger in his Brahminical character himself.  Does he keep the 8 before Mangala arati Standard himself?

When would you want to travel with us, ASA???

How long is your CONTRACT with Hawaii Temple.  You seem to be doing a super job.

Arjuna was a politician, but he fought only after 14 years of exile, and hearing the BG DIRECRTLY from Krsna.   O.K.  Runnning to the Temple.  Our today news is in the letter to Candra Mukhih Devi Dasi, NIMSAR Appendix.

Gurudev Usted en Vrnda!!!

Tarde mucho en conseguir la foto de Srila Virabaju aquí; y después de mucho luchar sólo me dieron esa hahaha. Lo que sí pude hacer es Darle sus reverencias a Maharaja cuando Estaba acá; y Él me dijo que Le envía Sus humildes reverencias Jaya!!!!!! Gracias Gurudev fué un lindo servicio =)

HpS - ASA  --  TlgaSP  Pfanrh.  Hay como 20,000 perigrinos aqui para Kartika.  Buses, y buses y buses y ......   Ruido sin limites.   Basura, docenas de deidades hermosisimos.  Hoy dia salimos con Dina Bandhu Das y como 300 devotos para llevar Srila Prabhupada a los siete templos principal de Vrndavana para su ultima darsana antes el salire manana a Goloka!   Muchos regalos de Vraja vasis.  3-horas.   Ya esta bien internet y Yahoo!  Salud.  Su amigo, Ravi, nos encontro en la Parikrama hoy dia y dio su reverencias.   Gracias!!!  Estamos recordando a Vd. de Vrndavana Dhama!   Tengo tres mas cartas y tenemos que correr al templo para arati, clase, y despues clase de SB2.3

Guru Maharaja tengo una pregunta: estoy leyendo el SB canto 7: cómo es la interacción entre la Daiva-netra y Paramatma? <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/38.gif" title="" />

(uno de los tantos lugares donde se cita la Daiva-netra es en el 6.17.17 significado; y a Paramatma en 7.2.47 significado)

HpS  -   Jaya!  TlgaSP  Es poco detallado para nosotros en esta momente.  Posible uno de los otro Blogistos puede responder.  Basicamente no es algo muy particular.  Paramatma es en nuestra corazon y puede llevar nnosotros a Krsna.