Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you are in good health. It has been very gratifying to have had your association the last few days you were at Nueva Vraja Mandala. Likewise, it has been very inspiring to hear from some godbrothers about your activities and Sankirtan programs carried out in Mexico.

As you know, I arrived at NVM in February. I stayed for almost 2 months serving mainly as a teaching assistant at the Gurukula. It has been such an enriching experience for my career and my spiritual life! I also had the chance to do other services like cleaning, making garlands for Radha Govindachandra, singing and playing the mrdanga at Mangala Aratik and Sandhya Aratik, even leading kirtans in Madrid Harinams! Also, I had the chance to meet so many devotees and take their wonderful association, as well as preach and make friends with some guests who were temporarily staying at the farm.

Now I am back in Peru. Why? That is what I want to tell you in this letter.

Earlier this year, I had a strong desire to return to Vrindavan and take the Bhakti Sastri course. However, during my stay at NVM, Radha Govindachandra turned my plans upside down. There is no doubt that they were! It seems that the Gurukula will require a teacher for the next school year (which starts this September). Since the children already know me and I was learning how the teachers are carrying out the Gurukula, I feel responsible for continuing to support the school. I want to offer the career that I have studied at the service of the devotees.

So, I accepted the challenge. In that sense, in order to stay longer in Spain I must apply for a religious visa. That is why I returned to Peru and I am currently processing all the documents required. I don't know how long this process will take, nor if my visa will be accepted or denied, but we are leaving it to Krishna's will. However, so far everything has been favorable and we have received so much support from Yadunandana Swami and other devotees. In fact, They have encouraged me the most to take this opportunity. I was a little unsure if I could do a good service for the children of the community, but I will do my best.

I realized that, in the end, the intense longing that I had to return to Vrindavan actually came true. As one mataji told me, NVM is Vrindavana Dham, that place where one can be Krishna conscious 24 hours a day. At the beginning of this year, I was missing taking darshan from Krishna Balarama and Radha Syamasundara every day, and this wish was also fulfilled! I was able to take darshan from Radha Govindachandra every day. When I realized all this infinite mercy, I cried with happiness. Finally, I have also realized that I like so much the ashrama life, running every day at 4:30 am to sing and dance for the Lord. I remember when I was little I used to admire the monastic life. I also wanted to give my life to the service of the Lord. This childhood memory was revived at NVM.

So, that's my report, Guru Maharaja. Krishna's plans are mysterious and wonderful.

Learning to live a life of service,

Rukmini dd

HpS - AgtSP, We have been getting news of you! This all seems very nice. When Krsna wants something it happens. The world becomes Vaikuntha ... but ... He does not want us to get too attached. Like he shook up M. Pariksit when he got to attached.

So, do your service in this reflection and be happy seeing it all as a reflection of Vaikuntha, but be ready to get on the boat and leave for next destination at any moment. Teach the kids that.,

We get our news out in the next few days also.

Hare Krsna!!! Super!!

Hare krishna Dear Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

listen to my audio and the verses that I think are badly sung I re-recorded them and sent them to the same email.

trying to serve him and hoping not to offend his beautiful lotus feet

have a great trip!

his eternal would-be servant: Radha Japa Prati Jalpa dd

HpS - ASA --- Just got back to our Base Camp. Will listen soon!!! Thank you.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - Jaya!!! AgtSP.... Paoho..... Thank you so, so, so, so much for this letter. Thank you!

I’m still here chanting 16 rounds, following the four principles of freedom and rising early for morning program. We are maintaining and keeping things going at the temple. I really appreciate what you said in your response to my last letter: Temples never fail. They are part of the Sat-Cit-Anaanda reality. Such a wonderful perspective. I’m holding on to it. I am seeing all of my zeros and I am trying to put that One in front of them every morning. It’s hit and miss. Only by your grace and inspiration am I able to attempt.

HpS - Srila Prabhupada makes his Generals out of mud!!

Lord Nityananda on the altar subtly winked at me the other morning to say “you are doing okay, you can do better”. I heard from Gopal Hari Prabhu in class recently that spiritual life is actually never stagnant. You are either going up or you are going down. This is very profound to me because I find myself just wanting peace and comfort but actually taking risks for Krishna and being bold is where the real life/fun is I’m starting to see.

Many experiments to conduct here and you have helped me see how Srila Prabhupada has given us everything. Now we must find new ways to “let Krishna out of the box” like you are saying. Please pray for us, Maharaja.

We’ve been very much enjoying seeing you in Mexico and chanting with you through the internet and hearing your talks. Such a wonderful thing to see you with Bhakti Sundar Goswami Maharaja as well.

On the appearance day of Lord Rama we presented the cane that you gave Anantarupa Prabhu to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you so much for this. Prabhupada looks very happy to have it. Very beautiful handle!

HpS - Do you see the SB verse engraved in the handle!!

Maharaja, will you be able to visit us this Summer or Fall at any point?

Also, I was wondering if I could come see you in Tennessee for a day or two and do some service. What do you think?

Your aspiring servant,

Nitisara das

HpS - We have been On the Road for nine months. We are close to dead as an ape can get.

Hanuman returns to Kishkinda with the news for Rama.

Kishkinda, Nashville, NgD other Princes and Kings of the Monkey army.

After a few days resting there and getting our feet on the ground I hope we will have the proper perspective for the next plan of work of Krsna, and our possibility of joining it.

Maybe we visit Boise again in this lifetime.

Need a travel partner.

Yet, also very nice if you all can visit us for a symposium and personal association in Nashville. You can channel Bhaktivinode Thakura through guitar and music! 😄

If we travel in USA it will be to only three places: Houston, Richmond and Boise, but now please join us getting our feet on the ground in our Base Camp.

Make movies.

Do Kid's dramas.

Interview local community leaders and scholars.

Local devotees headed by Ananta rupa Das.

Now 10.22PM. As you can see from the letter to Anandamaya Devi Dasi we are ripped up from today's war, so we will rest our body now.

HK

HR

HK

HR.

See you soon. Very much respect to all of the Mothers. Husbands. Brahmacaris....

Hare Krsna, gurudev

AGTSP

Please accept my pranams at your lotus feet.

HpS - Lettuce feet, AGTSP! Paoho.

Since my last letter in January, my sadhana was good with 16rounds and 4regs till Gaura purnima.

HpS - Three months. Quarterly Report. That is nice.

Since Gaura purnima I am again struggling. There are ups and downs.

Yesterday on 1st April I was lamenting that I am bereft of your grace and at night in dreams you came and touched my head and my body became calm in my sleep. Thank you.

HpS - Hansadutta Swami told us that SP told him that the Spiritual Master does not do anything extraordinary usually. He chants Kirtan, answers letters, but ...through him... the Paramatma does many things. AgtSP.... Paoho...

On the note of association, I wanted to ask a question. The place I stay, we don't have an established Iskcon temple but there is established ISKM Ritwik temple with regular programs.

I am lonely here without any association.

Will it be a offence at your lotus feet if I go there for kirtans, prasad and programs?

HpS - If you can extract the poison from the nectar then do that. Even more potent is if you can go there to help them become free from misconceptions.

Praying that your blessings never leave this useless soul.

Hare krsna Srila Gurudev

Rturaj Krsna Das

HpS - Hare Krsna. Nehabikramo naso sti, pratyavayo no viddhya te, svapam api asya dharmasya, trayate maho bhayat. Find this verse and purport. Tell us what you think. It is after, around BG2.35

Hari bolo.

You are an importan soldier in this effort.

You need to become Guru for a thousand people.

Go ahead.

asa[e] - yoga ladder, guru, sadhu, sastra

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I thought that this was something very intimate in the spiritual life and that it should not be revealed openly to other people, but following your instruction, I am now making the contents of the letter public.

I want to reveal my mind regarding a situation that has been happening to me for a few weeks. Today, April 1, 2023, I am writing this letter to you again.

On several occasions in the past I have tried to have a mystical connection to be able to make decisions in my life. On one occasion I asked questions in my mind and felt the answer in different parts of my body, but I found that it was not something reliable. I also paid attention to what was happening around me to have answers, but that can eventually turn into paranoia.

Before and after meeting the devotees I have practiced different methods of meditation, and recently I tried to meditate and have an answer within. And indeed I had an answer, either positive or negative.

As the days passed, I began to have answers in meditation that seemed contradictory, and the question arose in me: Could it be my false ego?

After that experience I tried to connect with who I really am, the soul, momentarily freeing myself from the false ego, and at the same time visualizing you: Hanumatpresaka Swami, Srila Prabhupada and Sri Krishna Caitanya (his feet), as an altar in the heart or in consciousness.

When I began to meditate and receive an answer, either positive or negative from this altar in my heart. The contradictory answers stopped and such a great clarity and peace came within me that I felt happy and surprised at the same time.

I have realized that I need to go into a state of deep meditation to have a clear answer, otherwise the false ego gets mixed up in the communication.

I have been able to organize my life better, have peace and be able to make decisions that are difficult to make due to my indecision and insecurity.

However, I come to you to confirm this communication in the heart. This may be my speculation or something similar, even more so for a mental patient like me.

Is this real Gurudeva or should I avoid doing it?

Thank you very much Gurudeva

Your Servant

Piyari Mohan das

PS: After receiving your response to the previous letter on this topic, this fact of communication in the heart began to be contradictory and finally stopped working.

Anyway, if this is not real, it has helped me to realize the implementation of intelligence, and make decisions through it.

Thank you Gurudeva.

HpS - AGTSP. Thank you so much for these comments and questions. Honestly, as far as we know, they are so useful for many people. Some are in a very similar situation as you and may not present it, and for others it is a chance to understand people of different mentalities than themselves.

Our Yoga is "sublime". That means it works directly on the root connection, directly from our current situation. We can be inclined to Tama and Raja guna in a body like Jayananda Das, a Sudra or woman or a child or a dog... but that does not matter. Krsna incarnates in a gross form like the Rathayatra cart or bread and potatoes, and we can do Yoga straight from the heart through that incarnation.

Our stuggles with building or assembling the Rathyatra cart touch our heart.

Yes, the mind and intellect, manas and buddhi, must become purified, but no direct effort is needed. If you see the light house and try to go towards it, automatically you negotiate all the obstacles in the path.

O.K.?

Maybe you are influenced by Tama and Sattva guna, so you can do very inspired art, but then sometimes very gross physical desires are activated in a very artistic way.

So, you must learn how to engage your body, words and mind in Krsna's service. Direct experiments with Yoga might be a natural part of your work, just as Anandamaya Devi Dasi or Jaya-prema Devi Dasi in their letters might be involved with children and mothers or aunts.

It is Visvannatha cakra Varti, as we remember, who says that whatever realization we have, we should check it with Guru, Sadhu and Sastra.

So, you may be in contact with the Paramatma, Deities on your gross or subtle altars, but then you check that with Guru... we are acting as Diksa guru, Siksa guru and Srila Prabhupada is your Siksa guru and Founder-Acharya (Samstapaka-acharya) Siksa and Diksa guru. He gives tons of information in his books, by his examples,

Sadhus --- There are the examples and preaching of the previous Acharyas through him, and our godbrothers in ISKCON.

Sastra - Does your inspiration agree with Srila Prabhupada's books.

If the answer is yes, yes, yes, then you can have trust in the details you get by inspiration. All of us must become Gosvamis. All of us just develop connection with Prabhupada in our intelligence. After that we can become completely pure devotees.

If there are very fine, necessary details to discuss, that you cannot solve by detailed discussion with other devotees, then we can communicate quickly about these details in more confidential communications.

Hare krishna! Le ofresco mis más humildes referencias todas las glorias a Srila prabhupada.

Gurumaharaja el día de hoy me regresé a León Guanajuato y no pude despedirme de usted

Gracias por su visita a México, Gracias por aceptarme cómo su discípula, muchas gracias por tantas y tan buenas enseñanzas Que el señor Nrishimha lo proteja siempre.

Le pido sus bendiciones por favor 🙏

Su aspirante a sirvienta

Jaya Prema Sakhi DD.

HpS: AgtSP!!! Paoho. You certainly seem to be working to deserve more and more mercy from His Divine Grace! Now go ahead to the next initiation.

Die fighting for Krsna.

Go with us to the next letter!

We will answer it with you in mind.

Let's go!!!