Letters to the editor

Dear Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

I requested my husband for maintenance as you advised but he refused. I found he’s researching how to get visa processed based on abuse report. I wanted to peacefully pass time, not make first attack move, but I also don’t want to put myself in dangerous place in terms of my legal records. Should I file a report to the police now? Or should I wait for further attack from him?

YAS,

Yajnaseni DD

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna. This is the same point as before. No one can give specific advice without specific knowledge. We do not know the details of the immigration laws. We do not know the details of the Indian marriage laws. We do not know the reliability of the sources about your esteemed husbands legal actions. He said, she said, they said.

You may be stepping into the situation of attacking someone and starting a conflict when they in reality had not done anything.

For us to acquire detailed knowledge of this situation would requiere hours of work, and probably even traveling to different places and interviewing different people.

We did this for the Peru gurukula, GBC Regional Body for complaints about corruption by the local officers.

Took hours and hours of work.

So, again, develop practical team of localized people to use for localized advice.

"Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from many counselors", Chanakya Pandita.

Do your best. Krsna will do the rest.

Don't spend too much time on these topics, but keep your Sankirtan as your main focus.

O.K.?

Tom Brown: We received a following important communication from devotee in one ISKCON community. We have edited it for practical use in this here Blog!

"Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva,

AGTSP

PAMHO

Thanks for your letter to the Regional GBC. You are right. During the former investigation that you worked so much to organize, in the end, nobody presented a formal complaint against ABC Das.

Nevertheless, there is something much more deeper here. We do not understand why some GBC authorities support him in the way the way they do.

(Personally I am really sorry to bother You with all these things.)

So for the sake of ISKCON Xyz we will continue with the investigations.

At this point we do not know if our Zonal GBC will meet with us.

I do not know if I can act as friends as with ABC Prabhu and his friends as you suggested.

I trust My Friends and at the end of the day I do not trust them.

Many devotees are expressing themhselves in social media and they erase those comments.

Why do they not want to answer the requests or doubts of the community of devotees? What are they hiding? Anyway..

So sorry for bothering You. We Will continue until we see what Krsna wants

JAYA SRI RAMA 

In service

DEF Das

Tom Brown, Buck White et al.

Hare Krsna, Prabhu! AgtSP. Paoho. Yes, if you smell a rat you should definitely investigate, but remember the sagely advice of Mulla Nasreddin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin) whom Srila Prabhupada also cited:

"One should not engage in an argument with a fool, because people may have a hard time distinguishing which one of you is the fool!"

If you feel that devotees, Jiva souls, are infected with material consciousness, greed, lust, anger, pride, then try to help them, but don't get involved beyond your strength.

Don't get too close, but don't get too far.

The people you save today may be the people who save you tomorrow.

Thank you!!!

More news!

"Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj

PAMHO AGTSP

How are you Guru Maharaj.

Bhakti charu Maharaj decipal group wanted to check how is your schedule on 4th of July, they want to invite you at DeLand Florida, for Bhakti charu swami Maharaj Tirobhava mahotsav."

HpS-ASA --- AgtSP. Paoho. Thank you for forwarding the invitation. We always have happy feeling in our heart when we remember H. H. Bhakti-caru Swami. We was a human being!

We have just finished 6-months on the road, consolidating our decades of traveling and preaching/teaching, and now are just getting our Base Camp in Nashville open and running. We just got our car registered, insured and running last week.

Very nice.

Right now we have no plans for traveling out of town, Murfreesboro, even for the rest of our life. Of course that may change as we get in a better position to see Krsna's plan of work.

Yet, right now we could not join the festival, but might join online.

Thank you.

"Hare Krishna, Gurudeva, accept. my obeisances. I am meditating hard on everything I learned during your visit. honestly during this new goverdan event it was very instructive and i am very grateful to the devotees, but i have my personal reservations and i want to serve sankirtan but i feel very ignorant. develop good communication with Dhruva Prabhu and his Family. , . we want to do sankirtan and start a preaching movement. here in Latin America as a new Goverdan base. MONTEMORELOS."

HpS - ASA -- TlgaSP!.... Thank you. I think 50% of your effort is now finished, you followed up on the visit!

Many times we organize and event. That is 50% of the effort. The other 50% is to continue.

1. It depends on our effort and Krsna's effort. Try to understand Krsna's plan from goof Japa, Srila Prabhupada's books, advice from nice devotess and people - one, two, three. Krsna wants Kirtan, hearing and chanting, in Kali-yuga, so if New Govardhana is amined at that then it is proper.
2. Judge by the results. See how things are developing and then adjust accordingly. You have already done that in terms of your Sankirtan and got good results.
3. Purity is the force. Four principles and 16-nice rounds (Mangala arati etc). Anything you want to accomplishin Sankirtan or with your family will only improve as you stick to these things.
4. Keep posting results, news, here in the Blog. Let us see if the devotees respond.

Thank you, Hare Krsna!!

We just finished watching the film. The family was delighted by so many aspects---the soundtrack, scenes, storyline.

We realized that many people leave big buildings with their names on them, but you have given us a community---of devotees, teachers, statesmen, temple builders, philosophers.

That community is visible throughout the movies---in Peru, Boise, Richmond, Nashville, Houston, and soon, in Spain and India.

How wonderful this is!

Thank you.

HpS - ASA - We say AGTSP, and just recently we realize that it means that when someone glorifies us, it is just correct to point out that we are maybe the brush and the glories mostly go to the artist.

In this case, we would not have even done this work unless, many people had pushed us to "consolidate" our Sankirtan efforts. Thanks to all of them.

Thanks to all of the members and friends (and even intelligent enemies) of ISKCON!

Thanks to our Producer, Director, Director of Photography, local professional photographers, cooks, hosts, rivers, grass, dogs, birds.

There is a kind of funny tombstone in graveyard of the Cathedral at Canterbury. It is understood as a kind of pun, that the deceased would have loved, that says, "He knew his place".

Thank you.

Respects to everyone.

Hare Krishna, maharaja, PAMHO AGTSP.

Thank you for sharing the link for the movie. We watched the movie, and we really appreciated all your efforts you have put into making this film. It is definitely a lot of hard work. Throughout the film, we got to see mangoes 🥭 that have ripened by your mercy. 

I just had a suggestion that I would like to share with you. At some points in the film, it felt like certain individuals were playing a very important role and were being given more screen time than others.

I just feel like this whole Krishna movement is not one man show. It definitely takes a lot of group effort, and every devotee needs the association of other devotees. For example, it would be nice to see the pictures at the end of those people who have put so much effort into making this film happen. Or like how so many devotees are doing service together and inspiring each other. 

I beg for forgiveness if I have done any offenses while expressing my thoughts. 

Your servant, 

Bhaktin Sitarani

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AgtSP!!!!! He made the movie, no? Paoho. Thank you for this very nice comment. Very, very, nice. We felt exactly the same thing when we saw this and the first movie.

We did not edit the movie. We gave suggestions, but in the end Pablo Rivas Plata, Director of Photography, had to push the buttons and make the cuts.

Me, Raul, Abhirama et al made editorial comments, but Pablo had to do the job.

We feel that we were too prominent in the movie. It is about Tom Brown more than HpS, but it is better than the first one.

In Houston, we did full interviews with Subhra Devi Das and one of her Goswami Academy students, Guru-bhakti and Sarva-bhauma, Hari-lila and Nandulal. They are all great.

The same in true in Peru.

We have interviews with devotees who are now on committees with the United Nations.

Ooof!

I wanted so much more to be in the film. I pushed to get some interviews in there because they I felt they were representative, an example, of the general service that so many were doing, but so, so, so much more was possible, but really not practical. Personally, considering how much he has worked to understand ISKCON, us, Pablo made a fantastic collection of final cuts. Fantastic.

I commented to Abhirama that it seems there are six more full movies from the footage we shot during our six months in Peru.

He laughed and said that he, Raul and Pablo had decided that there were ten more Eg. Science and the Vedas, Management in the Church Sector, Hamlet and Arjuna...

The same in true in Houston, Richmond, Boise, but... we have the footage there. All in 4K. So more movies can be made.

You!! Should make movies about the Yatra. About your life. Stop and talk about all that has happened to you, like Sridhara and Radhika rama in the movie. I remember going out with you and M. Arrudha DD doing primary and middle school programs in the summer. You would talk to the kids and dance, no? It was so much fun!

Radhika was in the first movie in Peru.

His family shows up in the second movie.

He won't be in three or four.

Professor Bejar is in the first movie, not in the second, at the end of the third and very prominent in the third.

It will will allow people to have "traveling" companions as they go through the series.

Your idea of a collage of people at the end exciting to me.

I think Pablo tried to catch that with the Rathayatra festivals.

Bhakti Siddhanta made us Brahmanas.

Srila Prabhupada gave us the Vedas.

We have to make the movies, no?

P.S. What do you think of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_cinema

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger