Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna,

Maharaja, please accept my respectful obeisances!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Maharaja, thanks for hosting us. The mangal aarti on the porch was very beautiful. Especially with the calming waves of the ocean and the rainbows appearing during Japa time.

Thank you for your text about Krishna Life! It's a great idea! I see that it's a great program and the devotees look happy.

I'm looking forward to Rupanuga Vedic College, and the temple president is eagerly awaiting my return. I'm excited to go back! I'm really learning a lot there.

What should my five year brahmacari plan be Maharaja??

HpS - Very simple. Stay as a Brahmacari as you develop your style and community of and for Sankirtan.

First thing is Holy Names. Secondary is which Ashrama, but good at your age and situation is to shoot for permanent B'cari, Sannyasa, at this point.

Would I spend at least 3 months at RVC, and then go to other ashrams to check them out as well? Like Krishna Life?

HpS - After a couple of months in RVC you will be in better position to answer this question.

Plus I would like to go back in the Sankirtan Van again and learn from Brighupati Prabhu.

So I was hoping to go to the RVC, where I see that the disciples are preaching by example. Hopefully I could learn how to be a gentleman! And learn sastra too!

With five years ahead to please you and four different plans, I was hoping to split the time between them and kinda just do everything. Is this a good idea Maharaja?

HpS - Again, get situated in the RVC plan, as you can, then, then, then look at broader options with that persepctive.

Seeking your guidance,

Jaya Hari das

ASA - JHD commits to become member of BRC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsWQRI6VuzQ

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, AGTSP, PAMHO

We are writing this letter with the motivation-- that one should not be to far or near from guru.

I have sent second postal letter to Prof Samaresh,

following message was sent by him,

when i informed him that i have sent him a post

21-june-2023

"You should have sent talking to me.or treatment we will not be at home and if before our departure if it does not come,it may be returned to you.What does it contain? Is it the same which you sent earlier by email."

when he received second envelope :

16-july-2023

Lady attendant who takes care of our house during our absence has received an envelope sent by you. What does the envelope contain?Ve

Again I am telling you to talk to me before sending anything. Very best wishes.

harsh: maharaj has asked me to send you , fortnighty update of his activity (in print), which is available on his website

Prof Samaresh: You can send but give a call before sending so that the envelope is not returned undelivered.

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in letter 14130

Harsh :Moreover in this world we want Opulence of Fame of Krsna, but we wanted to famous as Renunciant, so that every other famous person ( beautiful, powerful, rich, knowledgeable) will bow down in front of us.

ASA - Even Arnold Schwarzenegger? 😲

answer -- Yes sir,

but we dont want saints to bow to us,

i know this stupid desire...

best desire is to be Horse to carry the monkey

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our only motivation to live/work--- is to live to faith/confidence you have put in me by giving him Hari Naam Intitation.

we are not qualified / sincere at all in any sense, ...

folded hands,

dandvats,

Harsh Pradhan trying to be Hayagriva Avatar Das

HpS - Thank you. How many efforts to develop something good and new went from small to big instantly? Ha! Ha!

Seems best is to start with partially working system and see the result.

Maybe postpone project development.

Maybe change it.

Reevaluate what is the goal of the project.

Have to do that again and again and again.

Fix the goal (for Krsna).

Find a practical step forward.

Hari Bolo!

The result no matter how small is eternal.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, AGTSP, PAMHO

we were trying to chant mentally, as its best thing we can do in city life/commutation, when we are not speaking.

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how can we chant constantly?

what does it practically mean ?

how to chant constantly ,if hearing/ talking sense is engaged in external world activities?

how to chant constantly, if mind is involved in problem solving or palnning ?

folded hands in anticipation of mercy

harsh pradhan trying to be Hayagriva Avatar DAS

previous references: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/13940/

HpS - By the time we answer this I think you will have finished your surgery! We want to news but realize your body will not be doing much internet.

Hare Krsna.

Hare Krsna!

Chanting, thinking of you.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!

We all help each other grossly or subtly to chant constant.

Engage in hearing and chanting constantly.

We keep the FMS going. That is so, so, so powerful.

It draaaaags us forward.

Everyday we learn more about Gurvastakam.

The more we know, the more we are attached, motivated.

Our chanting has influence on the subtle platform.

Members of our group are attached to each other.

How to chant constantly? By seeking association of devotees, acharyas on the gross and subtle platform. Sharing what we find with others.

Do you have a picture of Prabhupada on your altar?

Do you have an altar?

If you do arati, offerings, kirtan for them, they will be present.

Another regular piece of the 24-hour day becomes eternally Kirtan.

Then we join Krsna's dynamic completely new lila which occupies outside of even 24-hour regular schedules.

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna.

we need pictures of you!

Hare Krishna, Dear Gurumaharaja!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and All glories to you.

Please accept our humble obeisances. (PAOHO)

As of every two weeks:

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Hare Krishna. Greetings from Oxapampa, Pasco (central jungle), Peru. It is, 387 km from Lima. We came by bus. It was almost 12 hours of travel.

It is a wonderful place for meditate... Here, we are keeping our sadhana (16R, 4.30 AM, 4P). Reading SB everyday.

Today is our last day here. We've been here for 7 days. We came to work the land, learn to sow and harvest in a proper way. My students are happy. They are more aware of the value of nature. 14-year-old children finish the second seven years of life. The guiding thread of Waldorf pedagogy is the conviction that the child learns and develops through two factors. On the one hand, there is the innate will to learn, typical of its essence; on the other, the stimulation of the human environment, which just gives shape to that will to learn. So, working the land helps to strengthen the will.

We will be in Lima tomorrow morning... We hope we can go to temple at night.

we thanks a lot all you support and patience

Your aspirant servants

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette)

HpS - ASA - Thank you for the translations and the amazing work with your students. We all are connected by so many social media that any good work done with one's students influences the world. Thank you.

There seems to be almost no chance to offer students the kind of experience that you are offering yours in the USA:

More mail!

😃

Hare Krsna, AgtSP

Please accept my humble obeisances

(I'm not shure if this is the proper way of making a salute)

ASA / HpS - Seems great! We offer the same as you have done!

But here I am, now the new temporally base of operations for the sk (sankirtan) is in a place called Villa Carlos Paz a pretty place whit a river and a loot of beutifull birds, the principal base is in San Esteban (aprox 2 hours in car from the new one) and it's also a really beutifull place.

My teachers are for the moment just mahara Dhanvantari Swami, now when we go back to the pricipal base we are going to have class whit Devaki about the meanings of SP of the BG and then a few or so months whit Mitravinda about the Upadesambrita and the the rest (or at least is what i know because the organization here is somthing that It's impossible to understand at least to me) but good new's I give 76 little book's and between 5 or 4 BG a really nice number for just 4 days.

HpS/ASA - There are not two people like you! Your Sankirtan is very inspiring for so many of us.

Now about your health it's somthing that all are going to pass in one moment or other.

Here I see people of all the ages and the old ones are the ones that I feel more compation about, not because their bodies but the life that usually without Krsna consciousness they just know about family, sens and all that, but a materialistic life just will only direct them to the worst destiny and they are not so lucky as the joung ones because even if they can reach some knowledge they usually are too accustomed to a material life to accept Krsna, what we can do to the people that simply dont wan't to hear about Krsna not because they are ateist or somthing similar but because custom and the years have made them become a log that can no longer bend?

HpS/ASA - Try our best to be instruments of the Previous Acharya's like Narada Mooooni who converted Mrgari into t a Vaisnava!

And whit little to few question's more to add i said good bye :D

Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaja, I hope all the travel to your base have being really nice :D.

HpS - ASA -- Distributing books is super, but also look and see if KRSNA sends people who can also become book distributors!

More News!

Respects to Dhanvantari Swami, Maharaja et al!!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I want to answer the questions he asked me in the previous letter: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14142/

HpS - Have to go to bed early?

There are days that I arrive home at 9:30 p.m., for study reasons at the institute. And 5 days a week I study the scriptures with a group of devotees from 20:00 to 22:00. Sometimes even a few minutes later. It is the most stable time of Vaisnava association that I have.

I generally go to sleep at 10 or 10:30 p.m., sometimes at 9:30 p.m. and other times at 11:00 p.m.

What I have verified is that my body needs 8 hours of sleep to not need a nap.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP! Thank you for your news! You should pray to Krsna to make arrangements so you can get to bed more early, no? Then you have Sadhana time during Brahma muhurta?

HpS - There must be some personal motivation within the spiritual motivation eg. desire to become famous as a religious preacher. Is that true?

Of course I do, I realize my shortcomings, I am a devotee full of anarthas, above all I am very attached to recognition, fame, power, etc. But by his mercy, Prabhupada's and Krishna's, that is gradually diminishing.

ASA - 👍 

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There is an increasing desire to serve you and Srila Prabhupada in the sankirtan movement, distributing the books and the holy name, depending on the situation of the person I am addressing.

I wish I had more tools to be able to preach and understand how to get the message across more effectively.

HpS - Who are your Sankirtan partners? If you rely too much on your own management it can be dangerous, no?

You are right, I will consider it more emphatically now, in what practical way could it be carried out? Asking for advice, showing ideas and content to share?

ASA - Yes! Yes! Yes! Taking advantage of the people Krsna sends as Sankirtan partners.

I am very prone to make mistakes and therefore I need the help of other souls, that is clear to me, but the good thing is that I feel the enthusiasm of wanting to share Krishna consciousness, that motivates me.

I want to tell you that my state of health has already stabilized and is even better than when I began to be a devotee, since now I receive the appropriate medicine for my situation, and well, I have clearly matured in various aspects, including the emotional one.

I don't want to make the same mistake again.

HpS - UP ... down... UP .... down. It's natural, isn't it? Learning how to deal with the body. Otherwise it can drive ANY of us to madness.

This world is mad!

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/17/ especially starting with Text 4? Useful?

Gurudeva, what do you mean by this quote?

HpS - Hmmm! I don't remember?

Curiously, a week after he sent me this letter, we began to study this chapter in the study group.

In different instances (three times hereby) you have appointed me Maharaja Pariksit. What should I learn from him

or from this pastime?

HpS - Same as above! If it's important Krsna will bring it to our attention again, no?

your servant

piyari mohan das

HpS - Hoping you get free from the reactions of your previous offenses more and more and more profoundly.

We have them from previous lives, no?

Eg. In next life Duryodhana will take birth as a princess and be subjected to the same humiliation as Draupadi?