Letters to the editor

Reverencias a todos.

Este es el informe de la colecta de fondos en España para los audífonos de Gurudev.

Informe a los devotos a través de un chat de whatsapp de discípulos que tenemos en España y la respuesta fue:

Adiras 108 euros

Gadadhara 108 “

Jaganmohan 50. “

Jayanta. 92. “

Krisna Kirtan 50. “

Mathura Mani 80. “

Purnamasi. 108. “

Yugala. 20 “

TOTAL. 616 “

Ha sido un placer hacer el servicio

vs

Jayanta das

HpS/ASA - I feel, Srila Prabhupada Ki Jaya! very ashamed. Why should people be spending money for ear phones for me.

If people donated what they actually thought it was worth to them, that is fine. Spiritual life is not a matter of sentimental speculation or imaginative ecstasy, rather practical activity in the foreground of spiritual life.

They do help, but like so many devotees my social and physical background, our eyes, ears, heart, skin, joints, voice are disintegrating so that the elements can be recycled into new bodies.

We need to spend 27% of our time packing up to leave for our next body.

The rest is just for our regular Sankirtan development using the tools and potency Krsna provides us.

Paoho!!

We hope we can use technology to serve you and Srila Prabhupada's Sankirtan movement.

Hare Krishna Gurudev. Dandavat pranam. AGTSP.

Gurudev, In gita my most favorite sloka is 8/14.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/8/14/

My prayer unto your lotus feet is to bless me for attaining this devotional stage and type of devotional service.

At present by your grace we are practicing anusmaran of our ASA, Sri Radha Shyamsundar. My prayer unto your lotus feet is to instruct me, the type of lord's seva.

Gurudev knows me how i am foolish, incapable of preaching, even to understand after reading books. So forgiving all my aparads, kindly guideme your spiritual instruction.

Dandavat pranam gurudev.

HpS - Hare Krsna!

Of course, the service is 16 nice rounds, and 4 principles strictly.

It works, it works.

Keep your altar according to your wealth.

Serve with love.

Cleanliness.

Punctuality.

Then more or less paraphernalia and ritual according to your means.

At least have Mangala arati. Can be simple, but clean, punctual regular, brahma muhurta, bhajan kirtan, then read Srima Bhagavatam.

Srila Prabhupada has explained things so that even first class fools like us can understand.

Srimad Bhagavatam also means CC or Krsna book.

If we do this then Krsna will give us intelligence how to build on this foundation, many new friends and students!!

So nice to hear from you.

You have very special character and qualities. Share them.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

PAMHO - AGTSP

1. The municipality of Cabildo is asking me for digital marketing services. What complicates this is that sometimes I'll have to create videos and graphic pieces related to topics such as leather crafts and perhaps non-vegetarian cuisine.

2. A greengrocer also asked me to do digital marketing work, but they also sell eggs, coffee, and meat products.

Since I've been working, I've always avoided jobs that involve promoting issues related to the 4 principles.

What do you recommend I do in this case? Especially regarding point number 1.

Your servant PMD

HpS - Purport in the first canto where prabhupada mentions that the killers, transporters, cookers, servers, eaters are all part of a conspiracy and they all suffer. so i guess same is true of the advertisers. just tell the employers how you feel and if you lose the job take it as Krsna protecting. you.

on who does good my friend is never overcome by evil.

maybe we die.

then we wake up in goloka.

lots of advertising work to do.

PAMHO AGTSP! All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

HK Maharaj!! Good morning, how are you?

HpS - Struggling with great pain. 9.32PM here in Boise, still light enough outside to barely read a book.

Now we get your association.

Are you still in the states? How’s your health doing? I tried to follow you on X but found out you’re not there anymore, and Vrisabanu told me you have a WhatsApp group, well here I’m sending you my number, would you please add me and delete it from the post??

HpS - I cannot add you. Ask Nikunja bihari Das in Argentina.

Well here things have been working out better, my parents went on a trip to Brasil and I was left home alone, and well that gave me the peace to adjust my sadhana and get back to normal.

The relationship with them was a bit hard, they’re on their 70s and well they have a lot of tricks, my father specially usually makes a big problem out of nothing, he curses and insults, so I’m avoiding them whenever that happens, I will just stay away from trouble.

I began English classes with a new teacher from Berkeley, if my memory doesn’t fail you went to college somewhere around that city, am I right?

hps - yes.

So I still keep journaling, now I’m doing one day all in English and the other day I do it in Portuguese, because I learned that it better to keep separate days for each language learning activities.

I began studying a marketing program called NextMBA, they have there Philip Kotler and some other famous guys. Well I’m founding it interesting so far.

I’ve been feeling my Japa better. You know I’ve been feeling closer to paramatma than ever. I would love to connect deeper with Krishna, could you give me any piece of advice?

HpS - The process works! Just keep doing it. You will become more soft and awaken your real self.

I’ve been listening to a lot of Christian music lately, if makes me feel so well, I feel like if I were chanting Japa whilst listening to it.

And the last thing, I’ve been looking to get married, been searching for a spouse on the Vaishnava Marriage website, which is supported by Jayapataka Swami. Some Matajis sent my a proposal, but usually they live in India and aren’t willing to move to Argentina 🇦🇷 so now I’m trying to look for someone who might live closer.

I was remembering you these days. Is there any rural community in the states that you would recommend me to visit? I quite don’t remember if asked you already that question…

HpS - None special. We are camping in Houston until Janmastami! Nice place, but Gokula is the best.

Maharaj I would like to ask you for your blessings, if you found it useful, to start an English-Spanish exchange conversation club for members of ISKCON :) what do you think about it?? I’ve been attending, as I once told you, to some of those groups here in Buenos Aires, and I thought might be awesome to share that experience with devotees

HpS - I guess it would be O.K. Why bilingual? Guess just start with one or two friends, no?

What do you think of Govardhana Das letter from today????

Thank you very much Maharaj in advance for everything,

I hope we can meet up someday in near future.

HpS - We are meeting now. Physical is not much if any different, no? 🙂 We meet in our Sankirtan at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet.

PAMHO, HK

Federico Molnar

Hare Krishna, Dear Gurumaharaja, pamho,

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!!! ! ! ! Paoho......

Dear Gurumaharaja, hoping you are well, in the mercy of Sri Radha and Krishna.

Please excuse the delay in writing. Since last year I've been traveling for work. I was in Arequipa, which wasn't a very pleasant experience, as the people my friend who took me to work there got into some trouble, but I always stayed out of it; I more or less knew where things were going. Once some people attacked us on the street. My friend took the worst of it, but nothing happened to me. I think I'm doing something right... but anyway, now I'm working in Cusco, a little more peacefully.

HpS/ASA - !!! hare krsna!

Mother Yogamaji dd is now in charge of the program in Cusco. Last month, Harinam programs were held on Saturdays, very good, and books were also distributed. I wasn't able to participate because I travel to Abancay on weekends to be with my family. My wife still works there as a kindergarten teacher, and she's doing very well. My children have grown quite a bit. Nilacandra turned 15 and is in third year of secondary school. She's learning to play the bass guitar with her friends. She's forming a rock band with her friends. My daughter, Vrsabhanu-nandani, is now 13 and in her first year of secondary school. It's a struggle to deal with two teenagers at the same time. I hope Lord Krishna gives us the intelligence to guide them properly.

ASA - Any little help with have a long lasting effect. Talk to them, but just as important, even more important is to set a proper example, no?

LAD and RR visited us in Cusco. We're taking the Bhakti Vaibhava course with him. We're studying and trying to wake up before Mangala Aratik to chant the rounds. We're still in the process.

We are personally doing an online program, Mangala Aratik online. Not many devotees connect, sometimes one or two, but usually we are alone, but we continue anyway, this to encourage the devotees of Cusco. We know that little by little everything will improve. I will connect later to your FMP; you inspire us and fill us with energy. All glories to you.

I told you a few years ago about doing a program, "Clinic for the Soul," an online preaching program. We believe that this way we will be able to preach, introducing Krishna Consciousness to people; that is what we want to do. I will soon send you more details about its structure. Please, your blessings for the success of these projects.

We have formed a company called "HPS108 Corporation," to carry out some of my personal business activities as a business consultant, including financial education, among other activities. We are seeking to become independent; we already have five clients.

Dear Gurumahara, thank you so much for your infinite mercy. Truly, without it, our lives would be meaningless. Sometimes we think about giving up, giving up, but in the end, like a slap in the face, a reboot of our Windows, we realize that the true path is to serve you and Srila Prabhupada, our beloved Acarya.

Dear Gurumahara, thank you so much for reading this letter and for all your instructions. May the mercy of Sri Radha and Krishna be showered eternally upon you. Jay Srila Gurudeva!!!!!!

Your useless would-be servant

Govardhana dasa

HARE KRISHNA

HpS - Maybe there are three people like you in the whole world. You stand like an island in the middle of a raging ocean at night.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let us go to the next few letters together.

I hope others read your letter and get as inspired as we are.

RADIO CUSCO

Dear Guru Maharaja, Hare Krishna!

Please accept my humble obeisances (to all your divine forms of a monk, monkey and piggy.)

All glories to AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada!

You mentioned (in different talks) something like that Hari-bhakti-vilāsa is unnecessarily ritualistic.

Is that from this purport, or is it from somewhere else?

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/23/105/#bb1108811

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - I, agtSP, thought that we already answered this important letter.

The above link seems like what we read, but we also have some recollection of hearing SP talk about it in like a letter etc.

Same thing.

For us it just points out that the major points are repeated with depth and perspective again and again and again in the SB, SP's purports etc. so that we have sufficient info to be intimately connected to him and Krsna.

Then, we must appreciate other important literature in the basic perspective of Srila Prabhupada's comments.

I think Jaiva Dharma is an example of this, that it was also written with very specific time and circumstance content and we have to understand it in terms of SP's books.

We can, must, use all the books, buckets and brooms in the world in KRSNA's service, and SP's books are the proper perspective, no?

Thank you so much for your association.

Hope you find your position as leader of ISKCON!