Letters to the editor

DEAR GURUDEVA,
PAMHO, AGTSP, AGTHAPS!
My only shelter are the words that come out of your mouth,
thanks Prabhupada, the devotees, the program, and the rounds.
Before guru-puja, quikly chant one more
I wish this moment would last all day long
if it wasn´t like this
I´ll be doing nasty things.
This is the best I can do,
sorry but,
I can´t even manage to go out on books.
I am breaking down to pieces
let me just dance for the deities.
This is ooh!! so much mercy,
your servant Sananda dd
I just have to learn how to take it.

HpS - <img alt="smiley" height="20" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.gif" title="smiley" width="20" />    AGTSP    pamho.    In the beginning we all have our good days and our bad days. <img alt="angel" height="20" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.gif" title="angel" width="20" />  <img alt="" height="18" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/36.gif" title="" width="18" />  More important than learning "how to take it" (dhairyat) is learning how to always do something to go up (Utsahan), then "taking it", tolerating will become an active part of it all.    Nehabikramo naso sti.  If you are "falling apart" it not regresion, it is revealing the disorder that exists below the current level of order.
Get up early, get your rounds done well, full (fool) morning and eveing program (Arati, Kirtana, SB/BG, Dancing.   <img alt="" height="18" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a35.gif" title="" width="18" />) and Sankirtan as you can do it.   If you can't go out, then go in.  Read some more.   Help cook for Krsna, Karma-yoga, Go out on Hari nama, go out on the Internet.   Prabhupada manifes discouragement also, but then he would find his fight position and go back out again.
The magic will not be done by you

nor me

nor any living being

the magic will be done by Krsna

when we become pure devotees of Krsna.  (16 nice rounds, 4 principles strictly)


 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada 
All glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai 

P.A.M.H.O. 
Good Morning Estimated [ASA - Esteemed] Guru Maharaja 

I hope, you health, as well as STI  [What is STI??  Sounds interesing!] Activities Are very good. 

Well, I can tell you my Activities That Are as follows: 

My sadhana today is to stand at least Monday-through Friday 6:00 a.m. 
My adoring murtis of radha krsna, Srila Prabhupada and Krishna Gopal. 
 I'm singing my 16 rounds daily, although MOST of them to be ending in the afternoon, this was very Difficult year in college, Almost no time for anything, much work, activities, studies, is very Difficult to Become a year and effort. 
I am doing my service to the garlands on Tuesdays, change my service day on weekends for working part time hours in an ice cream shop. 
Cost me to stay long in the temple, for college and work. 
I Attend my service Tuesday at the garlands for Their lordships and party Friday Srila Prabhupada. 
I try as much as possible to get in touch with the Devotees by phone and over the Internet. 

Krsna book I'm reading in the night and Studying bhagavad gita in my spare time. 
with a book of questions and help in Understanding the Bhagavad Gita, Swami Maharaj Chandramukha (Brazil) Brought to Chile in Their last visit. (Very good and Practical, with Many Questions To Be Answered while Studying the Gita - His name is Gap108.) And Its study is Aimed at bhagavad gita Very useful to Perform sometime in the Bhakti Shastri. 
Currently thinking about Quitting work in ice cream shop. 
to Perform well in college, and Have more time to go to church and be with the devotees. 
well this Is What I can tell in this report, very happy Hoping your next visit to Chile:) 
I had a couple of questions in mind this time I Would like to share with you. 

What is the real Importance of attachment to the main guru (Prabhupada) and Diksa Guru? 
In my case as devotee, I Feel That, you is my guide (guru) to UNDERSTAND more krsna, advance in my spiritual life, and UNDERSTAND the scriptures in this life. 
But always and sense That I am more attached to Srila Prabhupada 
how I can get a Better view and balance on that? and Not Have This feeling of guilt? 
well, dear Guru Maharaja, I appreciate your time reading this report and please accept my humble obeisance again 
Hoping you Have a good and peaceful week. 

( Excuse my bad english)

Your aspiring servant 
Bhaktin Carla Porras Alfaro<img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a38.gif" title="" />
(Graphic Design Student) 
Santiago - Chile

 Thank you for such nice news, which is possible because you have lived a nice year.  I can't make many detailed comments because I don't know details of your life, but this is a fact that we need good advice so that we can act properly in the details as much as possible.
Canakhya Pandita says, "Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from many counselors".    So cultivate the association of "Aunts" and "Uncles" in ISKCON, regular life.         Then regularly hearing the VEDAS, BG, the KRSNA book and keeping personal company with Krsna through His Holy Names you can make all the right decisions, like Arjuna, in your position in the fight with The Witch. <img alt="" height="18" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/46.gif" title="" width="18" />

I think your comprehension of Prabhupada, me, other devotees is fine. Krsna is the Supreme Personality. We are all energys and expansions of Him.   Chapter One of Caitanya caritamrt and NOI 4, 5. 6 give really good information.    Basically, I understand that Srila Prabhupada is the Founder of ISKCON.  ISKCON is the way to and is Goloka vrndavana.  GBC is the Ultimate Management Authority.  Brahmanas and Sanyasis are supposed to be the ultimate spiritual authority (SB 1.17.40-45).     Your relationship to Srila Prabhupad and me et al is individual, personal.    We should develop all the relationships.  It is very necessary that you have a very practical relationship with Srila Prabhupada as your guru, that you feel that he knows you and what you are doing and is watching after you.  That is all that I hope my association can give you and others.    Of course, that relation can be through the transparent via media of me and many other devotees as well as through his books, the paramatma et al.
I hope we see you all soon! 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to Sri Sri Radha Krishna
All glories to you

Please acept my humple obeisances.

Dear Guru Maharaja:                                                       

                                    Yesterday was the instalation of Sri Sri Goura Nitay!! I'm so happy <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a04.gif" title="" />!! It was a very exciting kirtan, the sadhu sanga was great! Were Madhavendra Puri Das, Yasodamayi dd, Ramananda raya das, Jagadananda Pandit Das and many others devotees, was great!! We chant, dance, pray... I can't describe, it was so beautiful. Ambarisa Maharaja Das and Victoria, his wife, choose the name, Nitai Goura Nataraj, because of that whe dance a lot in the instalation hahaha. About my service. I kept serving Srila Prabhupada everyday, and now my childs too. If Gouranga willing can I commence a solidarity service, which consists of handing out food to thoose who need. My japa is improving slowly. I continue studing the Bhagavad Gita in the temple of Buenos Aires. I met there Radha Madana Manohara a gorgeous and sweet person. Thanks about send her to Argentina!! I'm so fortunate by her assosiation!!

In may I will get my college degree, and tomorrow I start working. I keep trying to regularize my time to take better advantage.

Thanks for your time...

Rendered to your loto feets, to serve you forever...

-Bhaktina Romi-

<img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/36.gif" title="" />   <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/38.gif" title="" />    jijiji

HpS - ASA>>>    AGTSP!    pamho. So, do you have the VedasBase, on disk? Or else you can get copy of chapters from someone else and then read Caitanya-cariamrta to Gaura Nitai each day.   O.K?
That will make
Them and
you so
strong,
filled with mystical potency.    Keep chanting, take initiation, you back Home, back to Godhood!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All Glories to Gaura Bhakta Vrinda!

Please accept my obeisenses gurudev, hope you re ok. There is some time dont writing to you.  Here we continue trying to improve our service, we are doing some bhaktivrisa meetings. Also some programs with  yoga students in there houses with basic class much harinam chanting,bhajans and of course prasadam.

Workin in the evenings in an office, also giving yoga classes in the houses of the people, a bit stressed of fast city rythm of life. Havin nice relationship with my wife, the worship of gopalji, jaganatha,baladev nd subhadra nd prabhupadas murti is helping us so much...i was thinkin to put at the side of gopalji a photo of radha beeing a little girl, what do you think about it?.

with my wife we are helpin to organize the bhakti sastri seminar here in bs as, now prepearing a class about prabhupadas mood and mission.  Studin fitotherapy nd chinese medicine, Making a satyananda yoga profundization course, also making many maha mantra bhajans with the yogis.

Gurudev i want to ask you a doubt that i have these last week....since 10 day there is here in buenos aires visitinng a devotee named vaisnavacharya chandan goswami,he is very nice and sweet, and his katha is very profound. He was giving a class in Iskcon temple nd many houses of mostly iskcon devotees. he is the son of Padmanabha goswami from the radha ramana temple and also his disciple. 

how is it that disciplic sucesion goes? its legitime gaudya disciplic sucesion? Also he is here in buenos aires initiating many many devotees, with very diferents requirementes form iskcon. Also he reinitiated some disciples of hrydayanand maharaja nd other Iskcon gurus. Also i heard he said that reinitiation is bonafaide cause its a diferent school. what do you think about that? Also he gives 2nd initiation not brahminical initiation nd giive gopal mantra  to his disciples its the same gopal mantra we chant in the gayatri?

Hope i could see you in vrindavan in kartik,we were taLking with ambarisa nd vicky to go with you to manipur  is there any special requirement at these time to go there?   sorry for so much questions!

Look at these video gurudev http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAJby1NR--M  is very nice, is madhavendra puris pastime made with puppets.

yr servant,

madhavendra puri  das

Hare Krsna,   AGTSP.   Pamho.    Is so nice to hear from you.  We are like someone find water in the desert.  Thank you for the news.    So many activities in the Sankirtana movement but the most essential is chanting 16-good rounds. I have to tell myself that all the time also!           We are still in Tennessee.   News in other Blog Posts.             Your Yoga effort seems like good way to approach people.   Keep praying in the mood of Srila Prabhupada, his books, to intensify your service.     More intense, more intense!
Devotees in Peru were also asking if I knew anything about  Chandan Goswami.   I asked Krsna-ksestra Prabhu, he did so much research work in the Radha-raman Temple for his PhD and knew the devotees, there well.   He said that Prabhu is nice person, favorable to ISKCON devotees.  As I remember he felt there was no objection to him giving classes in homes of devotees.   Of course, giving official classes in the Temple is the decision of the local Brahmanas, President in consultation with others.
The way you are describing him giving initiation seems wrong to me, of course, I am not the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so my opinion is my opinion and although it seems to to be pretty good it certianly is not closed to understand new facts.
Devotees like Prabodhananda Sarasvati were initiated in Sri Sampradaya as far as I know but then took shelter of Gaudiay, Lord Caitanya Sampradaya.  I don't think they took Diksa again, another Mantra.   Prabhu is in succession from Gopal bhata Goswami and this is bona fide as far as I know, but I think it is very important for everyone to stay very fixed under Srila Prabhupada's feet in thei preaching in the modern, Western world.  So, giviing classes, giving advice, infromally being very intimate Siksa guru, this seeems like it might be fine.  I don't know the details of Prabhu's comprehension of BG, SB, NOD et al.   But giving Diksa, this seems that it should be done in good perspective of Srila Prabhupada as an empowered Acharya for the Western world. We could even go so far as to say, maybe the FOREMOST Acharya for the Western world.

The Gopal gayatri is the same as we use as far as I know.  All Gaudiya vaisnavas use the same.

AGTSP PAMHO

mis reverencias a sus pies de loto Guru Maharaja

Radhe Guru Maharaja
solo estoy probando escribirle por este medio, para mi la tecnologia es muy lejana!!!
su aspirante a sirviente 
arjuna dasa
lo esperamos en chile!!!  

HpS - ASA     ----  TlgaSP    pfanrh    Pero eso es simple, no?   Y buen oportunidad oir de los devotos de ASA!   Como esta su padre, negocio, servicio?   Hace mucho frio en La Chile?     Esta  F U E R T  E   su Mangala-arati, Japa, SB?????        Sankirtana.    La tecnologia del alma!  

All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to  You Maharaja

Maharaja, please  excuse  my  previous  letter, I do not  understand  what  happened  to  the  spaces, Please  excuse  me.  He  sent  the  letter again.
Thanks

Dear  Maharaja, Please  accept  my obeisance. We  are  very  happy  to  know  that will  be  with us  during  Ratha  Yatra. We are  trying   to  struggle  to  correspond   from  our  small  place all  the  mercy  that  you  spill  on  us.
In  our  Sadhana, there  is  still  much  room  for  improvement, we  got  up  at  4:00, 4:30 a  small Kirtan  from home,5:00  we  began our rounds to complete the 16 and ended with a  little  more of  Kirtan.

 Although  this month  fail 3 or 4  days, and  do  the  program  later than  usual this  becauseour  health  has  deteriorated  significantly, the  headaches are  very  intense and  sometimes very  difficult  to  sleep, so  it  is difficult  to  wake  up early. By  the  mercy  of  Krishna, we have been  able  to  work  from home  all  this  time  and look a  little  more of  this  body.

We  keep  firm  against  these  adversities, motivated  to  follow  the  wonderful  example  of  our  elder  brothers, which  in  time. I follow  firmly  you  through  the  path  left  by  Srila Prabhupada. Read  this  blog  I've  been  very  helpful  and  inspired  me  to  try  to  serve  it, understanding  how  much  I  needed  to  go.

We  continue  with our  fixed  service  in  the  Temple  5  days  a  week, making  garlands fortheir   lordships, we  participated   in  the  decoration  of  the festival.  Although  we  are failing  Sankirtan, we  have  not  complied  with  the  distribution  of   at  least   one   book   daily  we ask His  blessings  for  us  to  improve  this  service.

We  are  trying to  improve  our  Japa,  and  Japa  Joe  has  been  our  main  tool. We  are  trying  to  invoke  a  beautiful   “Deity  out  of  sound"   and  “Tic   Toc”  so   helps   us   to   avoid  distractions,  Thanks   for  your  gracious  statement.

Please   excuse   the  offenses   committed.

Your   aspiring  servant
Bhaktin  Cruz  Santa  

HpS -  Jaya!   AGTSP    pamho.    We are still in Tennessee.  Very active work with Sankirtana through internet and trying to penetrate the local community.  Is tough.   USA is very materialistic, mechanistic.
Your Sadhana sounds very  good.   One devota, she was deaf from birth, so she couldn't chant the Maha-mantra with audible voice.  So there was no criticism.  Her body would not let her chant with her voice, but she would chant 16 rounds every day with her mind.   She could also feel the Kirtana with her feet often. <img alt="smiley" height="20" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.gif" title="smiley" width="20" />
We are also in horrible in book distribution. We pray to Krsna to have some respectable quantity in our effort, although we do a lot of austerity to lecture.

O.K. We see you at Rathaytra with our friend Hari-lila Das.  He is super devotee, Hindoo, was big architect in Houston.   Built buildings of 50-stories.    He is looking forward to meeting the devotees in Mexico.  He is retired, 66 years old.

Also hope ASA has a super stand, booth, cabana, at the Rathyatra festival.  We can paint children like Hanuman and sell tails and clubs.  Ja Ja.