Letters to the editor

February 20, 2024

Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,

Please accept my humble obeisances, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Bhaimi Ekadasi is underway, and thoughts are beginning to sway, best I find something to say. Japa is resting for a moment, after 16 rounds of fulfilment this day. 

While fasting, am packing cookies to restore meager offerings to others, though this batch was not so easily matched with pillaged dough and distraction shown.

Dry mixes all astrewn, butter was fluid, seemed to be doomed, my only hope would be the Lord’s boon, for my mind was swooned...again.

Well, kept the faith and mixed it straight, came out great, these cookies have been offered since 98’, only the Divine saved me this time.

Age is showin’ have to keep goin’,

for too eager for the everlasting past,

regardless,

changing bodies remind us we don’t last,

time to pass... going out with a biscuit blast.

On to the gift of “now”, we’re present to expand our presence,

best yet with an essential vow...

may our minds be supine like Tulsi, resting on Govinda’s brow [?], then our frivolous pride will humbly bow.

Under the sway of Ekadashi, then Lord Varaha pulls the Earth from the ocean's waves. That’s not all to say, next is dear Sri Nityananda’s day, so be it, within this week’s superb spin.

Still composing with a poetic license, though I only have a learner’s permit, unable to fully commit my trips, I will not try your patience or stir agitations with half-baked citations.

Thank you for your patience and compassion, for this fool is ingracious, an obscure bastion-pouring shards of mental debris upon innocent beings.

Concluding, self-diluting ways, arriving to surmise, I have a kaleidoscope for a mind. Thus your flexibility in our banter has forged some intelligence, I'm becoming a chanter. Am grateful for your miraculous subtle touch for I feared so much, this brain could have gone insane, and my japa would not regain.

Now in doing so, ventures are tenured where they grow... I only have to do the needful and flow, always remembering your examples in Sadhana goals which do not encumber our Guru’s Souls, but free their glories to fulfill the eternal toll of God’s Love, priceless and whole.

Enough of my tumultuous tittering will leave you with another's offering, “The Butter Thief” from a real-deal poet who knows it and shows it.

Thank you for your most valuable time!

 c.c. das

HpS/ASA - Thank you!

Thank you for the box of cookies.

They were here when Nandulal Das brought us.

In the rush he forgot his box, but we gave it to NgD and local constituency.

What about minimal sweet, biscuit?

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I am sorry about your dental problem, I hope that upon receipt of this letter the pain has subsided.

HpS - It seemed like loud noise, high pitched noise. Body resonates and control of other organs is lost, but now is almost gone.

A question Gurudeva, soon I want to make a piece of furniture for my altar.

I have a murti of Hanuman that belonged to Rodrigo Piceros, the poet. My question is:

Can I put Hanuman on my altar?

HpS/ASA - Yes!

Thank you Gurudeva

my obeisances

Your servant

Piyari Mohan das

HpS - Sorry took two weeks to answer!

Yes, put Hanuman on altar with Krsna and Gopis. He likes Vrndavana.

Next letter.:>>>

Hare krishna gurumaharaj

Please accept my most humble obeisance on to your lotus feet

All glories to srila prabhupada

How are you gurumaharaj ? It has been more than a year while we had your last Darshan here in India, at Radhakund.

You told me to write to you whenever I had doubts in anything.

Your book Tava Pache Pache has been such a wonderful guide to Nectar of Instruction that whenever I read it, it guides me what to do and I feel your presence.

I never wrote before as I was having tough time fighting with Maya and completing my 16 rounds on time. But now , from last one month I have been able to get up early by 4:30 am and complete my rounds on time.

HpS - Very nice! ! !

By your mercy i'm able to chant 16 rounds properly so I took a pen and wrote to you giving my sadana report.

My service of small giriraj at my home is also going on.

I decorate him everyday with sandelwood paste as you suggested me.

Gurumaharaj, can I do bhakti shastra course, which book should I start reading?

HpS - If you are in Radha kunda you could do it with Bhagavata Maha-vidhyalaya, no? They are near Govardhana. Try to contact them. Sukadeva Das may have their contact information.

Please guide me as I will proceed as you guide me

Thank you gurumaharaj

Hare krishna

Ys- panchali Devi Dasi

HpS - Thank you for wonderful news. Where are you staying in more detail. How long have you been there?

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva!✨🌟🌟✨

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!🔅✨🔅

Thank you so much for mentioning the three levels of Iskcon, I'm interested to know about that!😃

HpS/ASA - Look for "Gopis Attracted by the Sound of the Flute" chapter title in the KRSNA book. Tell us what you find there.

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I had an idea about Sankirtan...🍇🍇

I was thinking about writing a book about

the transformation from

matter [ial attachment] to spirit [ual attachment],

and then I was wondering, what about a zine??🥥🪴

Basically this idea is

to take Srila Prabhupada's teachings, as spoken by him,

and as spoken by you,

and transform that from a book into a zine... complete with art from His Holiness Hanumatpresaka Swami, Bhakta Angel, Jaya-hari das, and anyone that wanted to contribute.🌵🌵🪴

HpS/ASA - So, first, agtSP, we make a book and then from that a [maga]zine??

Seems like a more common method is to start with a series of magazines, with articles and then collect them into a book.

Hmmm.

What about doing a first issue of a magazine, see how it circulates, what is the response, and then plan from there?

I think it has very good Sankirtan possibility

I could add Hanumatpresaka Swami's poems, recipes and sayings, and favorite books as well if he would allow?🚎🚎

There could possibly be occasional pages for WW9, piggy's parting pearls, "my ol grandpappy used to say", some kind of activity page, and whatever else it develops into. 🍀

It will most likely have the advertisements for upcoming programs like Taco Tuesday and Soulebrate Sunday here in Houston.🥑

My goal is to become a transcendental madman...(cough cough), I mean mailman for anyone who wants this, but maybe the coffee shop crowd is a good place to start?🚎🤺🛸

Because I'm not a very "tech-y" person, maybe this could be a quarterly edition? With possibilities for increasing production?🧘

It might be mostly photo-copied or hand drawn pages. ⭐🐒🐒🌟 I have a book scanner, too.🪷

The idea was that I could distribute Srila Prabhupada's books to interested people using this as a gift to attract people to the table, or to donate for the book on the street...🔥

I could also try to "sell" it wherever zines are sold ..🔅

I think it might be very similar to the kapi dhvaja!! And if H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami allows, then it could even use the art from the Kapi Dhvaja?🔥🔥

Or, if this turns into a continuation of the Kapi Dhvaja then of course I could print it monthly and try to somehow get it online...🐖🐖 (But if that is the case then i need a lot of help...)

What do you think Gurudeva?

Your aspiring monkey,

Jaya-hari das

HpS - I read everything twice. And what we would suggest is try and make 1st issue and see the reaction.

👍

AgtSP!

TB/BW/ASA - Paoho...... Brother Ass's headache is getting so bad that think we should stop. Still week old letters from CCD and Piyari m. Das, but at his age (Brother Ass) bad headaches can turn into brain strokes.

• Hope to get more rounds done.
• Give class at 6PM for Arequipa (Hari Krpa), and 8PM for Radha-natabara!

Thank you!

🙂 🙂 🐵 🐒 🐒 🐒

Dear Guru Maharaja

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

I pray that your dental issues get resolved soon and you are free of pain.

HpS - AgtSP. In material life we enjoy our mouth so, so, so much, no? We enjoy chewing. The pain is just the duality of that material enjoyment.

Shadow reflections of the non-dual pleasure of wresting with Krsna in Goloka?

I hope your visit to the doctor helped.

HpS - Damn fine! Now 85% recovered. Surrendering ]MY[ body two teeth at a time.

Both of us are doing alright and Divya's health is good. We get to dress the small deities, Chota Radha Kalachadji (Divya on Tuesdays) and Radha Govinda (Divya on Thursday and I dress on Tuesday).

ASA - Wow!!! 💥

This time we were fortunate to dress on Vasant Pancami and Advaita Acharya's appearance day. I've attached the photos.

ASA - Just amazing!!!

We have been really involved with the Pujari department here in Kalachandji Dham. We did an entire reorg a couple of weeks back with 6 sub departments and working with devotees to take up the head positions and so on.

Every time I engage in management situations, I am reminded about the principles of

1. Who am I,
2. Who are we,
3. What is the Process [Plan],
4. What [Things] do we need ?

ASA - We got it as a mystical experience ☁while at Rama ghatta, but Srinivasa Das showed us https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996", that Micron was using and Stanford had come to the same principles.

I came across a letter that Srila Prabhupada wrote in 1973 about Radha Kalachandji.

"I am very much pleased that the Deities are worshiped so nicely and as this continues, the children there will become more and more purified."

https://vanisource.org/wiki/730218_-_Letter_to_Bhaktin_Toni_written_from_Sydney

I've been thinking about what I am doing and also Dallas as the place that Srila Prabhupada chose to establish his first Gurukula. It was such a nice reciprocation from Srila Prabhupada for what we've been trying to do here in the pujari department!

Can we say that since Prabhupada chose Dallas as the center for education, because of his desire and potency it will be the center for learning in North America like how Navadwip was in Mahaprabhu's time?

HpS - Sanatana Goswami says that every cowherd boy, thinks that he is Krsna's closest friend.

Guess he is ashamed: Why is Krsna so kind to me???? So many other boys live Him so much more than me.

Then SG continues:... and by the nature of the internal potency, it is a fact.

We see that Murfreesboro can also become the center of education in ISKCON!

😃

I am hoping to come and visiting you in Houston this weekend.

HpS - Missed you, but didn't miss you. Right with you now!

Divya Devi Dasi's health is such a source of intense concern.

Maybe she will be personal servant of Saccimata in Nabadvipa in her next life.

Everything we are and we do is only because of your mercy Guru Maharaja🙏

HpS - We are just little bell on the Post Man's foot. AgtSP!

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa