Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna my beloved Gurudeva,

AGSP!!  Please accept my humble obeisances onto your lotus feet! Hope this message meets you great and healthy. First of all thank you so much in share your thoughts and realizations with us,it's so inspiring for our lives. I'd like to share with you something that I truly consider a gift from Krishna. 

Here in Rio de Janeiro's temple since last year, our dear friend Sukhayanti dd has started a nice programe: Vaisnavi Sanga.The purpose of this meeting is to be a place where ladies can meet and talk about all the topics that they don't feel comfortable talking about in a more open environment. It should be an intimate meeting for ladies to share their experiences, realizations and difficulties in the process of devotional service. Therefore, any topic that will address this thing will be good.  Every month a Vaisnavi ,will give the class about the topic selected.And a new vaisnavi's home  will  be selected for the meeting, all of us will help with some prassadam preparation. The meeting starts with 1.Bhajans;2.Class ;3.Prassadam.Our goal it's to have in the meetings not only established vaisnavis, but  also ladies who are Krishna's friend, who are potential bhaktins in near future.

 Mataji Sukhayanti dd has's gone to Israel,and we've(Kadamba Gopi dd and I) humbly decided to continue the meetings.Summing up, this Saturday. Feb. 5th  it'll happen the first meeting, at my place, I've been chosen to do the lecture(ouch!)..then all of us will go together and meet devotees(prabhus) to perform a huge  Harinama  at   place called LAPA(big crowd)in the evening for the pleasure of Lord Caitanya and all the needy souls that will be there. I'm so happy with this service. 

Dear Gurudeva,please give me your blessings to do this service, feel totally free to give us your wisdom, your words will enlightening our meetings and how we can help our ladies in go forward in their path  Back to Godhead. My sincere desire is serving You, Vaisnavis and Vaisnavas in general in the best way as it's possible.Thank you so much in advance for your kindness and inspiration.Love and miss You a lot  Gurudeva!!

Hare Krishna beloved Gurudeva!

Your humble servant, Radha Madana Manohara dd - Rio de Janeiro/ Brasil 

HpS -  AGTSP   pamho.  Very nice to hear from you.  Bhakti svarupa Damodar was organizing programs like this in Manipur.  It is very, very nice.  Super!
Certainly, all good results.  Maybe even start publishing some things!! 

HARE KRSNA MAHARAJA, MIS REVERENCIAS Y MIL GRACIAS POR SUS SABIAS INSTRUCCIONES.

HACIENDO UN ALTO EN EL CAMINO, HE LLEGADO A UNA CONCLUSIÓN EN MI VIDA, QUE LAS REACCIONES (COSAS NEGATIVAS) ERAN DE ALGUNA MANERA LAS BENDICIONES QUE UNO ESPERABA POR PARTE DE KRSNA, PARA TRATAR DE SER MÁS CONCIENTES DE KRSNA,  PERO SÓLO SE PUEDE ENTENDER ELLO A TRAVÉS DEL GURU COMO UD. POR LO TANTO MI PREGUNTA ES:

¿CUÁLES SON LAS CONSIDERACIONES A TOMAR A PARTE DE LAS REGLAS Y REGULACIONES BÁSICAS PARA ASPIRAR A SANYASI ASRAMA?, ¿CÓMO DEBE SER EL DESEO PARA CON ELLO?.¿CÓMO RECUPERAR EL TIEMPO PERDIDO EN MEDIO DE RESPOSABILIDADES FAMILIARES PENDIENTES?.

GRACIAS POR SU RESPUESTA.
A SU SERVICIO,  VAMSI GOVINDA DAS.
CHOSICA - PERU.

HpS  - TlgaSP.  Pfanrh.   Deculpa Castellano horrible.  Entiendo como 80% de su carta.   Esta bien.  No, hay perdido de tiempo.  No hay tiempo. Solamente es el presente y intensificando nuestra deseo servir a Krsna.  Eso es san-nyasa.   complete renunciation.
Si relacionar bien con nuestra ashrama actual, eso es Sannyasa, no solamente un formalidad, no?  Entonces, de una manera preparando para Sanyasa es incrementar nuestra oir y cantar, mas japa, mas leyenda, mas sankirtana, y  y y realizar nuestra deberes de Varna ashrama actual muy bien.  De esta manera vamos a culitvar la conciencia de Krsna entre el corazon y cuando estamos mas listos para los fomalidades, Krsna, va a hacer la arrelgas!

AGTSP

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All Glories to Hanumat Presaka Swami!

Maharaja Hanumat P., please accept my humbles obeisances! My name is Manuel Andres Poblete Moran, I have 25 years and studied Engineering degree in Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences, currently I'm working on DuocUC as Coordinator of the Technological Center of Natural Resources, center under the same school, this is a place where students apply knowledge learned in the classroom on agriculture.

Devotees know 6 years ago, thanks to my father, who was the first person to preach, he is a devout Catholic, but loves the devotees, he has participated in numerous occasions the Food for life program along with my mother. Since I met Krishna Consciousness that I have participated in the process, singing rounds and doing service, but during this process I had times I've done full service and others hat I have distanced themselves from the devotees for variousreasons, but despite these distances have never stopped thinking of Krishna and Prabhupada, or chant the holy name.

During this time I have met many spiritual masters, initially when I met Swami Indradyumna, which preaches much I love andenthusiasm (and still does), but was not sure he really was my guru, in fact I wrote many times, but never I had a response from him, butyou really feel is my spiritual master, very recently is that I realizedthis and I am very happy doing service in the feast of cooking on Sunday and singing my 16 rounds and following the 4 regulative principles.

Your aspiring servant,

Bhakta Manuel

HpS - Jaya!    AGTSP   pamho.   Thank you for your letter.   Where are you?   Which country, temple???   You ae very fortunate to be engaged in such auspicious austerities.    If you go to www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt   You will find our comments on how we understand Guru.   Basically our idea is that we are following Srila Prabhupada and we are going back home to Godhead, and anybody following us, following Prabhupada is going back to Godhead.   In some ways it is that simple, unless we have simple clear understanding of Guru and then put our heart and sould into Krsna's service it doesn't mean much.

We tried to get out of Vrindavana Dham so many times, but we could not leave because of different reasons, it seems to me that Krsna has an arrangement for us here. So the family decided to move from Chennai to Vrindavana and give the opportunity to the baby to be born in the land of Radharani. We found a nice house in the Caitanya Vihara area. We are working for our parents business, by internet. So our plan is to start a Bhakti Vriksa program here, so many wonderful Vaisnavas and not so much association outside the temple. For Christmas and New year the Latinamerican devotees got together and we had a nice program with lots and lots of prasadam. We have a compass, we know it well… and we use it to don’t get out of the path, but our stupid self likes to adventure to the unknown and get out of the road sometimes. Every time we take a real look at the Dham, we feel our spiritual master’s spirit and that is becoming a big source of energy for us. Nice to know that your Health is well, and that you had a nice Vyasapuja and that you are in Radha Desa. Sometimes we don’t have internet or electricity or water, it’s like living in another era. We made a mistake, we thought that what we wrote last time was the annual report… so we just realize that we miss the opportunity of sending you our annual report, we are so very sorry for the mistake. We have no authority in theory. We pray for the opportunity to be able to see you and our beloved God-Brothers and sisters in this upcoming Kartika. Our obeisance Guru Maharaja, Trying to be of some use, Cakori Radha Devi dasi.

HpS - AGTSP.    Pamho.  Thank you so much for news.  If you can stay in Vrndavana and have a little work that is the perfection of life. If Vrndavana then enters our heart then we can go out and distribute her to others also.   Best wishes for your family also. The Bhagavatam is full, full, full, of families. They made a succes of their human form of life!!!

PAMHO

AGTSP

AGTSG&G

Dear Gurudeva:

I'm very happy, tomorrow is febrary and just in few days I'll be bless with your presence. I'm very fine, near to finish the Srimad Bhagavatam first canto, I'm very happy reading how Pariksit maharaj is speaking with Kaliyuga's representation. 

16 rounds ..... OK

4 principles......OK

Seva to Deities.....OK

Book Reading...... OOK!

Gurudeva, I was reading in internet forums about kabaca use, about if is proper the use or if Srila Prabhupad don't permit or dont said nothing about use it, is offensive the use of kavacas? can we use it? lot of devotees use kavacas but I really dont know if the use can be offensive or not.

I wait anxiously your arrive to BCN, for can I bless my life with your visit.

Your eternal servant

Prananath das  

HpS -  Jaya!   AGTSP    paoho.    Yes, in Spain very soon!     I heard from Visala Das how Prabhupada said that demigod Kavacas were unneccesary. However, devotees from Mayapura are distributing Nrsmha kavacas.   As far as I know Tulasi neck beads and Tilaka are suficient Kavaca, shield in Kali-yuga, but maybe devotee has some special feeling for some article related to Krsna, or Guru.