AgtSP !
Dear guru maharaja, hoping that you are in very good health and everything else. I am stopping by just to greet and offer my obeisances to you. Have a great Vaisnava New Year and as always a wonderful Sankirtan.
Y.s. madhumangala das
HpS - ASA - Very nice to hear from you! We are thinking of you! More news????
Hare Krishna Gurudeva
Please accept my respectful obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
With an eye to the future for when we do not have communication by this means, I would like to work out some details that have to do with the service that I can offer you by following your instructions.
My sadhana continues as I have told you in other letters, and now I have also spent several days trying to get up at 4:00 AM and perform Mangala Arati. I haven't been consistent, maybe 40% of the days since I started, but I'm trying.
HpS - AGTSP! Hare Krsna! Eventually we should enter into Mangala arati as a transcendental ritual that invokes the primordial elements of the material world.
1.- One morning while we were in the final part of the program of the temple in Santiago de Chile, you told me that I should teach by my example, I interpret that it is related to the role of administrator that you see in me, I don't know, but clearly we see that that ideal behavior has been completely shattered.
HpS - Wars are not won by well dressed soldiers marching bravely into battle. Wars are won by wounded soldiers who get back up and crawl forward to the fight.
2.- You told me that I should go to the United States and study with Pyari Mohan das, I imagine to learn issues related to administration. I wrote to PMD when we were entering the pandemic, I asked him if I could go to his yatra and learn with him after all this happened, that was the year 2020 and I never received a response.
Now I have contacted a devotee who lived there and he tells me that there is no brahmachary ashrama there, and there is no management training program.
Clearly, due to my condition, it is difficult for me to be received in different temples within ISKCON, so carrying out this instruction is quite difficult for me.
HpS - I don´t remember what I said, but it was not about specific admnistrative training. It was a more general instruction of looking for older devotees with similar nature and taking there association in an Ashrama relation. There is no limit to how you can do that.
3.- You also encouraged me several times to dedicate myself to the administration of a temple. That is why I tried to take administrative responsibility while I was living in the temple in Santiago. The truth is that I am so emotionally unstable that it was very difficult for me to carry out this role due to my immaturity, inexperience and little spiritual advancement. Maybe in the future, when I'm mature, I can take an administrative role somewhere, but I don't know if the devotees want a dangerously mentally ill person to manage an ISKCON temple.
HpS - Ooof! We don't remember pushing you in that direction. We agree with you that it is not your nature, but if it was necessary, asked for by the authorities, then we encourage devotees taking up admin responsibilities as an experience, perspective, for some time.
4.- You have told us on several occasions about developing a rural community in Chile. I want to support that goal, either monetarily or in any other way that Krishna allows me. And just as you have also guided us, our yoga is Gandharva Veda, so I hope that various projects of artistic and cultural preaching will be developed in that center. And as you said, the role of our generation is to make movies.
HpS/ASA - Jaya!!! Hope things are all adjusted to the satisfaction of the Chile yatra in terms of your temporary insanity.
We all act in crazy, tamasic and passionate ways at different times in our sojurn in the material world.
Hope to hear more from you.
Thank you Gurudeva for forgiving me. I wish never to stray from his lotus feet by executing his instructions.
your servant
Piyari Mohan das - Clown.
AgtSP! Pamho.
For now I am living at the Bhaktivedanta Institute, I am going to swim with Brahama tirtha p. and every once in a while I take a trip with Hdg.
My wife comes to see me in the USA every 3 or 4 months, she lives in Chile, And I also go to Chile every 3 or 4 months. I am thinking of going to live in Chicago with my brother Etasa Krishna because I want to learn to play piano.
Y.s. Madhu
HpS - Thank you so much. The Bh. Vedanta Institute is the exact name? I thought Rasa raja Das et al had requested devotees to use some slight variation.
What work are they doing there?
What is your Sankirtan?
We have little direct and indirect news from Etasa Krsna Das.
We hope he is doing well.
Some danger of becoming conditioned to heavenly life in KC movement, no?
Dear Gurudev,
Thank you for your interest, my obeisances and deep thanks to you and S.P.
Bhaktivedanta Institute is the correct name for now. The general work of the BI is the activism in philosophies of sciences. I do not fulfill any function with the team of scientific devotees. My service is the development of KW worldwide. I work directly with leaders from all over the world but with a greater emphasis on the USA.
I am training leaders in preaching and administration, and the BI is my base and center of operations to give courses and workshops and to move around the USA.
Etasa Krishna Das is one of the leaders I am training in Chicago. I have at least 5 leaders there and several cities in the USA in which I am directing preaching and expansion programs for KW.
y.s. madhumangala d.
HpS - Thank you.
As inspired, please send us more news about the project. Prominent people etc.
Thank you.
Hari Bolo!!
Some danger of becoming conditioned to heavenly life in KC movement, no?
One Hundred percent,
I was recently diagnosed with autism, although I don't know the degree yet, and I was also diagnosed with severe ADHD. All my life I have been struggling with these neurological challenges without knowing the name of my problem.
I always knew that I was not a normal person.
I am with the help of a neurologist, psychiatrist and psychologist.
This helped me a lot to understand myself better and improve my quality of life as well as communication.
Even so, despite the fact that I fulfill my duties within the institution, the only thing I think about every night is returning to my tiny house in the middle of the mountains in the south of Chile and being able to live in peace with my neurodivergence.
HpS - What about your tiny house in the great forest of Vrndavana, where the other worlds of Dvaraka and Vaikuntha are even forgotten?
🐷🙂🙂
April
3/Mo - Arrive IAH at 9.45AM
5/We - Rasa-purnima
7/Fr - CCC (Caitanya Cinema Circle), release DTC-UT USA!
8/Sa - Ecstatic Home-program in Katy (North Houston) at home of Devendra Krsna Das and esteemed family.
9/Su - Sunday Festival
11/Tu - Hobby to Richmond on SWA.
