Letters to the editor

URGENT

Hare Krishna, Gurumajaraja

PAMHO

AGTSP

I'm Divya Dristi dd from Cusco Perú I was using the name Manjary but now I prefer to write you directly 🙏.

I'm staying in Cusco now,My plan is to live here,I ve rented un appartment,with two rooms, I have the proyect to invite women devotees to leave with me,to give clases of puppetts,theater and kirtan,to children and teenagers ,in the same appartment in the leaving rooms.

The idea is to ask a cover money for the lessons so this money could be used to pay the rent and other expenses like services and bhoga,and much more, to be it susteinable.

The appartment has all services, wifi,kitchen,one toilet with hot water,located in a good location central city, actually in this building there are a liders institute for children and teenagers in the first floor,so its a good location.the last week Prabhu Dinabhandhu from vrindavan and his servant came to Cusco to preach CK and they stayed in this appartment they liked it and Prabhu Dinabhandhu gave me his blessiings for this proyect.

QUESTIONS:

1._Which advises could you give me to make this plan work?

HpS - AgtSP. Do nice Hari Kirtana, Japa. Understand what your natural passions are. Develop plans with other devotees after understanding their personal motives, and sharing yours.

Who am I? Who are we? What is the plan"

2._Could you please help me to find two women devotees who would like to teach in Cusco and leave here? If they have experience teaching they can stay from one week to much more time.I could hellooo them.

HpS - Not much. 🙂

It is a very distant place for us. We don't know anyone who would want to go there. Very specific character required.

Yet, you have posted the job opening here on the Blog, so maybe we have helped that way, by supplying one forum, community, where someone maybe be inspired to join you.

Any fathers, uncle, brothers, male cousins, grown up sons, nephews, helping you?????

Thank you very much for your aswers.

Your servant

Divya Dristi dd.

🙏🙏🙏🌈

Hare Krishna, Maharaja and Devotees;

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to Guru and Gauranga.

On Sunday, January 26, 2025, at 7.30am, Houston time, we will continue reading chapter 10~~ The Lord's Return to Jagannatha Puri; we will start reading from verses 11.26 onwards, we will be able to cover about 50 verses.

Thank you to H. G. Kunja Bihari Prabhu for doing nice translation for class January 19th class. He stepped in at last minute notice to do translation seva for class, because H. G. Ambrish Prabhu was not feeling well.

Maharaja, thank you for engaging everyone in reading systematically books of Srila Prabhupada.

HpS//ASA - Traveling with Mahaprabhu, Sri Gauranga, in Bharata 500 years ago! Do not desire anything else.

YS

Upendra dasa

Hare Krishna Gurudeva 

PAMHO - AGTSP

I have a question:

How should our relationship be with practitioners of other religions such as Christians, Jews, etc?

If they invite us to their ceremonies, how should our behavior be?

Thank you very much 

Your servant 

Piyari Mohan das 

HpS/ASA -- HK/HR.... thank you for your letter. these are very nice questions. we had, have, these questions.

First, i would say that in the conclusion, i never met a better christian than srila prabhupada. remember listening to his voice coming over the loudspeaker in the kitchen as we cooked the 6.45am offering for radha gokulanands.

he said, 'lord jesus christ, prophet muhammad, they did such good preaching work'.

by that time i had associated with srila prabhupada a great deal by very intensely studying his KRSNA book. i had seen the standard that he required from his disciples, managers.

i had a pretty good basis in direct investigation of christ through my church, churches, personal experiences.

I knew that srila prabhupada was not concerned with trying to get cheap followers, that he spoke his mind about different religions even if it was not popular.

so, our attitude towards christ and christians and islam is respectful to the point of life and death and beyond.

bh v. th says that if we are i the place of worship of some other faith, church, at the time of worship, we should think, 'the same God that I worship is being worshipped here, now. by seeing the adoration of these devotees of my Lord, i can learn things to improve my worship, yet because i do not belong to this tradition formally, i may not be participating in all of the details of this ritual'.

i think that Vatican II has basically the same perspective, so that the pope and cardinals and others my visit a hare krsna temple. they may sing and clap, but not dance. 🙂

maybe someone comes to ISKCON and participates, but does not take Harinama Diksa, 1st Initiation, and then feels that ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, will always be in His heart, and in the heart of Krist, but this person should return to or formally become baptised in another tradition, islam, jehovah's witnesses, LDS...

maybe they have come to realize srila prabhupada as a vartmana pradarshika guru. guru who shows the way. always venerable. expect jesus to enhance their relationship with ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada, but become and remain matriculated in their Jesus Christ university and get their PhD.

O.K.?

After 1st or 2nd or 3rd [sannyasa] initiation, is it o.k. to leave and take diksa, be baptised in another line?

i don't know. lord caitanya took initiation from isvara puri, a vaisnava, but then took sannyasa from kesava bharati.

i think that the answer to this question would need to be taken directly from srila prabhupada. we might only be able to guide a student, our student, in the process of talking about it directly with srila prabhupada.

9.54PM

good night!!

see you in Mangala arati.

if anyone else asks this question i will tell them to ask you and you can show them this essay etc.

January 20, 2025

Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,

pamho, AGtSP!

We received your correspondence, reminding us, that we too must keep in the loop. In this case we’re taking advantage of your world-famous blog, so on with the show!

ASA agtSP..... paoho. 🌴

Actually it’s been trying.

Just to get some dharmic activity since returning from Houston I jumped right into a Bhaktivedanta Institute residential service, and mundane bill coverage along with household and yard pruning, maintenance etcetera.

Though I guess all this is part of dharmic activity, I just feel that so much more effort should go with devotee association.

Then last week, after 2 try’s for Hari Nam, I finally scored on the 3^rd attempt and did get some necessary Sadhu Sanga.

After dancing & singing [🐵

about KRSNA] in the streets, I was in ecstasy… though some Vaisnava’s there were puzzledly looking at me. Regardless, l felt much better, admittedly, the following day I had some intense myofascial convulsions, like leg cramps from hell.

Funny thing was I started laughing it hurt so much and I felt better… hope I’m not getting sadistic [masochistic?] in my old age.

On the social scale, I finished my japa early (that 2am start time just nails the chanting) and a quick visit to Facebook seeking the new devotee’s I met on Hari Nam.

I was hunting and pecking on the Ol’ laptop (Dell XPS is in the shop), and “Pop,” a pornography “rated advertisement was blatantly flung on my screen.

My Brahma Muhurta hours were “hurting.”

Then, later, you were posting on X about keeping our hearts clean and offerable to Shyamasundar Gopal.

So tricky Maya is!

My fear factor is actually rising now, for at my latter [years?], devotional service is important, and we know how the mind knows no limits of sense gratification.

The good thing is that we have such nice darshan of Sri Sri Radha Shyamsundar at the Temple and are getting more association with some very advanced Vaisnava’s! Sri Bhagavan is keeping us engaged where we may do the best, I have to never forget and always remember.

Apologize for my brevity, had limited editing time,

All glories to your service!

HpS/ASA -- We work on the World War II dictum that if first class will never get done, and second class will be too late, then third class is good enough.

Thank you for your powerful and valuable association. Please, by mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Nityananada, go on becoming a devotee on the level of Narada Muni. Eight PM, time for arati and KRSNA book!

more.

respects to mataji and madan mohan das

Hare Krishna, AGTSSGN AGTSP PAMHO!

Dear Gurudev, I hope your health will be better.

HpS//ASA - Hare Krsna, So, agtSP, nice to get your association.

Health is about the same. Doing a lot, lot, lot of work with modern medicine, ayurveda and Krsna, and result seems to be there. We are learning what aspects of our body are functional and how to use this machine nicely then the new one that is sent by Krsna!

Firstly I want to apologize for the time without writing to you, it was difficult year cause my father, but now I'm feel more recovered.

HpS 👍

Today is a special day, it is your birthday and also my sister's death anniversary, also celebrated Smriti Sraddha for Trivikram (I didn't attend). I have been meditating for days on that you told me about talking to others about death, I feel that already it's time to be able to develop the idea and try to provide understanding on this topic, at least as far as I could.

As a result of what happened with Trivikram, I remembered something you told me a few years ago, the day you were invited to meet with Sanja Maharaha (HpS who is this???), you told me that you were fellow asrama, that like some disciples of Srila Prabhupada at some point they decided to leave. , the good relationship with some of their spiritual brothers made them return, which was your reason for accepting that meeting.

HpS - He took Sannyasa from Narayana Swami??

Personally, I was away from Trivikram, so it was not possible for me to know how he felt and perhaps help him. When someone doesn't want to be there, we can't force them, but I do think that being available is a good start for those who want to regain a relationship with SP, you and Radha and Krishna.

HpS - Our understanding!!

In this year, some things happened, I had conclusions after analyzing certain experiences. I decided to stay away from places and people with whom I don't feel good, not to have utilitarian relationships, where there is no concern for people, only for how we can be materially useful. I'm maintaining friendships with whom I've been able to do some services, I'm training in another judo club where I was able to give some books to my new teammates and give them prasadam.

I've a personal question, I would like to know if there is any particular instruction that you want to give me to do, anything that you think I should focus on (in addition to the things we should do).

Also want to express to you that you are someone very appreciated by me, very important, I think I felt I had to take some distance cause of that I experienced with my father, to avoid suffering in the same way with you, but that is not possible, what hurts will hurt. Do whatever you do to avoid it, cause we are people who develop affections and attachments and I think that in that sense it's better to have an attachment to someone who has helped us grow and develop consciousness, than in other things.

Always desired that Radha and Krishna bless you, your eternal servant Parasurama Avatar Das, Santiago – Chile.

(I send photos of my father, of a chapel that I pass by on the way to the Dojo, of my mates and of the poster of Radhika Raman's conference that I made)

HpS - Hare Krsna!! What we do is not so much important as how we do it!! If we chant 16-nice rounds a day, in heaven or hell, and follow four principles strictly daily, then our heart will be protected and step by step by step by... we will become preachers on the level of Narada Muni, by the merc of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Nityananda.

Get up early.

Get your rounds done.

Keep full morning program.

Prioritize the Sankirtan ideas the Super soul sends.

Meet with devotees after Breakfast and make plans for Sankirtan.

Never, Never, Never leave Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON.

The GBC, local authorities are a part of that.

We struggle to keep the institution proper. It is my institution because it is my spiritual master's institution.

Our experience of Srila Prabhupada must be direct through his books, instructions, deities, supersoul, devotees, Managers etc.

Then we must take first class responsibility to serve and offer correction to the Institution. but... more intimate is that we have friends in ISKCON and most intimate is our personal relationship with Srila Prabhupada.

Then we will all meet here and there from moment to moment.

🔴FULL morning program!

🔴Mee Ting with Temple President, H. G. Saranga thakura Das and Cinematographer Abhaya Joshi. Very nice progress on developing ISKCON Media Department in Houston, NIOS, North America.

🔴16 rounds!!!! A struggle, but when we do them just like soldiers and Hansadutta Swami described, we have more and more strength.



🔴Super, intense Saturday home program in Katy, Texas, West of Temple about 35-minutes.

About 70-people.

Distributed five LOB, NOI, TLC!

Very good Ayurvedic lunch.

🔴Did lots of communication: Priority mail for Saranagati Devi Dasi, Subhadramayi Devi Das and families and GBC Annual Financial and Sannyasa Reports.

🐶 Ooof. Eyes collapsing.

Moderate Chest Pains ... "material distress with preaching is preferable to material distress w/o preaching", Srila Bhakti siddhanta Prabhupada.

We will take a quick look at the Blog Mail, Hot Topics Category etc.

.. 7.30PM.

Try to join Sri Sri Radha Natabar Sanga.