Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

    As part of previous letter, i am briefing about my donkey & donkey's activities. This will give you
   some idea, how i have to move forward.....

    I have started Associating ISKCON from Pune Since 2007, 1st day i started with a youth program in
    the evening and stayed at night at temple to attend Mangal arti in the morning at 4:30 AM. It
    convicted me so much that i started, Head shaving and become a regular visitor or everyday visitor.
    Immediately i registered myself for different courses (one by one) - Discover yourself, Positive
    thinker, Self manager, Pro-active Leadership and cleared all exams with diction (Certificates). It took
   4 years to cover all courses. Currently Studying Bhagavat Gita under Guidance of H.G. SriKeshav Das
   (ISKCON Pune, India). Which include complete discussion with commentaries of different acharyas.

    I had started chanting 16 rounds from 2 day, after associating ISKCON and still continuing and will
    continue till my death (Lord is very mercyful to me).

    Every Day time table - Chanting, Morning Puja at home, office, Hearing of lectures, reading and
    discussion on some topics.
   
    Started, initial youth guiding (preaching) at temple in the evening then later gone to engineering &
    medical college in weekend (Saturday & Sunday). Done arrangements for evening programs.

    Due to office work, now i don't go for preaching but still continuing the service at office level or
    wherever i go and if i get a chance - Train, bus, office, any where.

    Other activities Book distribution, Making Life members, fund collection, Prasadam distribution,
    BTG distribution + BTG Year subscription, attend weekend program, classes festivals.

    I like, or can say, very much attached to 'keshi Ghat' in Vrindavan that's why try to visit vrindava
    twice in a year. when i am at 'Keshi Ghat' or assume about 'Keshi Ghat', i always feel Krsna will
   return (when sun goes down in the evening (Sun-set)).

    Always i feel that the above are not devotion, these are just prerequisites, i have not started yet.
   Have to start but don't know how to start...........

    i will KEEP writing, because this is the only way to feel, i am with Maharaj.

Your aspiring servant,
Gopal Biswas

HpS - ASA -- Very, nice.  Why you have not yet taken vows and Hari-nama Diska in ISKCON?

Hare Krsna Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

    i have read from www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt about Guru-Tattva. Please find the comment
    & Commitments below:

    1. Have you been able to follow the four regulative principles strictly?
      Yes, i am strictly folllowing four regulative principles for last 4 years and will continue till my
     death.

    2. Have you been able to chant at least sixteen good rounds daily the whole year?
      Yes, i am doing 16 rounds every days for last 4 years and will continue till my death.
      
   3. Who is your Sankirtana, administrative, authority in ISKCON. Can be local Temple President et al.
       We have to have a practical connection with ISKCON.

      My Siksha Gurus are as follows:
      
      i. H.G. Gopendra Das (bramachari & Pujari of Sri Krsna-Balaram, Krsna-Balaram Temple,
          Vrindavan, India)
      ii. H.G. Radhakunj Bihari Das (bramachari & Pujari of Sri Sri Radhakunj Bihari, Sri Sri Radhakunj
           Bihari Temple, Pune, India)
      iii. H.G. Balaram Hari Das (bramachari, Sri Sri Radhakunj Bihari Temple, Pune, India)
      iv. H.G. Gangapati Nimay Das (bramachari, Sri Sri Radhakunj Bihari Temple, Pune, India)
      v. H.G. Sri Keshav Das (bramachari, Sri Sri Radhakunj Bihari Temple, Pune, India)
      vi. H.G. Gauralila Das (bramachari, Sri Sri Radhakunj Bihari Temple, Pune, India)
     
4.    Any other brief news for HpSwami and Srila Prabhupada.

      I am aspiring servant of His Holiness Srila Hanumat Presaka Maharaj.

      Because of Srila Prabhupada, i know the Bhagawan and that is Krsna. It is Srila Prabhupada, who
      is reason to know the path of KC. He is our Acarya for KC.

    Please let me know if require any further details.

 Your aspiring servant,
Gopal Biswas

ASA - Jaya!   AGTSP   Is very nice to hear your austerity and good association.  Do you understand what Diksa means in ISKCON?

Hare Krsna Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
 
    Thank you Maharaj.

    I am extremely sorry Maharaj. I know this is going to make you erritate again. But.....All know i am
    "Murka".....Still i am not getting "the list for the Preface" , what its meaning. I mean from where i
     have to read. Would you please send me the link so that i can read and make the list.

   Because when i hit this link - "http://vedabase.com/en/noi/", i do not see any preface there. Please  guide me.

Your aspiring servant,
Gopal Biswas

ASA - http://vedabase.com/en/noi/preface

Hare Krsna Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

    Thank you Maharaj.

    i will study this link   www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt and update you by tomorrow.
  
Your Aspiring servant,
Gopal Biswas

ASA - AGTSP! O.K.

 

AGTSP    paoho    Well, Monkey apologized for thowing mangos at Prabhu Laksmana, but yes, a nice meeting today revealed many things with Nimsar that have to be clarified. The basic thing being always our Vaisnava relations. So Laksmana is going to talk with some devotees and HpS and he will meet.

Without Vaisnava relations what is the use of any group?

Hare Krsna!
A G T S P  !

paoho.       Here we are in Nitai-gaurasundara Prabhu, Mother Matsya, Sruti, Abhiseka, Manjari, Radha Vrndavana-natabara, Nitai-Gaurasundara's Ashrama in Tennessee. It is 1.08AM in the morning. We are like 75% Krsna-conscious with option to increase it more and more.

-Our eyes cannot handle this computer screen much more.
-Our respiration, cadio-vascular etc are fine.
-For 63-years old this body is in good shape.

YESTERDAY we had a very crucial meeting scheduled with Laksmana-agraja Prabhu to work out people's personal commitments in Nimsar. He was too busy to attend with his engagements with the Deity worship of Radha Madana-bihari, Christmas marathon book distribution and Temple Festivals. Going through, Patraka, Candra-mukhi, Om Purnam and Jesus Christ Prabhu's, we, Monkey and Piggy (and HpSwami and Uncle Gismo), finally got in touch with him through Skype and Yahoo mail.

Ooooof!

He explained why he wasn't availble for the meeting with us in the morning but that he had been able to meet with Mother Rohini and Ananga and had some idea why they had dropped out of the BhVai classes and were not answering our letters. A large part of it was that robbers broke into their house and stole all their money, including the Nimsar money and their computer was also lost.
We were very disturbed (but we also always laugh at our disturbances) that they had not invested the 35-cents required to use a public computer to communicate this to us.

IT SEEMS THAT MANY PEOPLE IN ISKCON HAVE DIFFERENT PRIORITIES THAN US.

This is O.K. Iskcon is a big ship. As a diksa-guru as Srila Prabhupada's servant we don't require that your work in the Sankirtan movement of ISKCON with us, however, we do require that you have a practical relationship with some aspect, someone, in the Administration of Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON, Sankirtana, movement and:

We require that you report it to us once a year and:

It may be that there are those masquerading like Kali as ISKCON administrators, GBC, Temple President, BBT, but who are actually, practically, agents of Kali, and we have to learn to make fine discriminations to distinguish them, and the same faults, in ourselves, and make progress in our Sankirtana service.

MONKEY: Wow, well written but a little dense.

PIGGY: Thank you. We Pigs are by nature a little dense.

MONKEY: So the bottom line is?

PIGGY: Nimsar is like 97.7% closed as a Branch of ASA. We are happy to go ahead with anybody individually in these educational programs of ASA, and we ourselves have a lot of work to do to get it together. We have to read the KRSNA book more consistently and go on purifying our association more and more, but now that things are clear with Laksmana Prabhu and Mothers Rohini and Ananga and NIMSAR it is like a breath of fresh air. We hope it is the same for them also.

Now:
HpSwami's Personal Faults in Sadhana.
NIOS
ISKCON Ministry of Education
   BhVedantaCollege/Radha-desa
Disciples.

Disciple means he follows someones discipline. It's 1.32AM. We did 33-rounds yesterday, but we are still we are a gob behind on our 25-daily from all this over endeavor with different projects and other offenses in our service. So we must follow Srila Prabhupada's discipline more strictly but not fail to appreciate that we are all doing good things and improve them. This is devotee society, not demoniac society, but we have to advance to Uttama-adhikari.

1.36AM - R(0)  . . .   See you soon.   Japa - Sankirtana! !    !        !