Letters to the editor

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PLEASE GURU MAJARAJA I BEG YOU NOT TO SHARE THIS LETTER WITH PUBLIC BECAUSE ITS VERY CONFIDENTIAL. . .

HpS/ASA --- 🙈 🙊 🙉 Then, according to the Standards of Communication for the Blog, which we have to repeat again and again and again and again, we, HpS, TB, BW, UG et cannot read it.

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Hare Krsna!!!!

Awww!

We are Brahmacaris and Sannyasis here and cannot have private discussions with members of the fair sex.

Yet, we are very enthusiastic to help if there is a responsible Grhasta in the dialogs.

So, please send us the name and Whatsapp phone number of such a one and we can make a group chat in Whatsapp. [Of course, these are maybe $5/word. (Financial grants available)]

We will not publish the number of Such-A-One.

JAYA SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA !!

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !! And his dedicated disciples, like you, who carry his message of Krishna consciousness to all parts of this world.

By the mercy of Sri Nityananda, we are with ARTd, since March 10, in Monterrey-Mexico. Then, from the 24th, we will be in Mexico City for a few more days. We hope to be useful to the devotees and contribute to the academic sankirtana of NIOS.

Here is our report:

1.     The DTC-UT/USA edition is over, the final version of the film is already on VIMEO. Now we are focused on the details for the Avant Premier, in April, in Houston.

2.     DTC-UT/Peru is also being subtitled in Spanish, we hope to have it ready as an offering for the appearance of Sri Ramanuja-acarya on March 25.

3.     SOLARIS 7 has already entered its final stage, only the edition of the Cultural Portal is missing, this time it is dedicated to Dr Samaresh Bandyopadhyay and its content is based on the tribute paid to him in Calcutta-India, in September 2022.

HpS - ASA - The editing of this Asiatic Award Ceremony Article has been great, great, stress for all of us and is still not done. Thanks to everyone involved.

4.     We have participated with ARTd in the academic programs that were carried out at the TEC de Monterrey, on the 15th and the Universidad de Monterrey-UDEM, on the 16th. These programs turned out quite well, especially due to the contacts that are beginning to be cultivated.

Also Dr. Valencia is connecting ARTd with important people from the government, all these seeds are growing by the inspiration of HpS and show the potential that there is in Mexico for the development of the academic sankirtana of NIOS.

That's all for now, thank you very much for everything, HARIBOL!!

Bh. Manuel

Hari bool TLGASP Reverencias

Esta carta sera corta, Voy a Mexico para estar en la ceremonia y verlo una ultima vez, asi que ojala Krishna me permita verlo allá, estoy emocionado, todo lo del viaje ocurrio muy rapido y por arreglo de Krishna.

Hari bol :D

This letter will be short, im going To Mexico to be in the ceremony and see you a last time, so I wish Krishna let me see you there, im excited, all the idea of travel travel happend really fast and for Krishna's will.

Hari bol :D

HpS - AgtSP. Very nice to see you, but "be in the ceremony". What does that mean? To be initiated?

Have you been a Candidate for six months? We forget. We are getting too old to initiate.

Hare Krsna, Gurumaharaja

PAOHO

AGTSP!

I hope that you are in good health and that your sankirtan is flowing smoothly over the rough surface of these bewildering times.

HpS - At best our health, energy, bodily operation is manageable, for producing some results.

We feel our Sankirtan is like throwing rocks at the Raksasas who have all military equipment but have some real confidence that the little we do will have a practical effect by Krsna's mercy!

As I told you before, I was given the service of proofreading the Waves of Devotion (WOD), so I am giving you this technical report:

• As it was done by five different devotees, the translation results differ greatly from each other, which is why we are doing a scrupulous job of syntax to homologate the text in Spanish in the best possible way.

• Most of the devotees involved have delivered the assigned chapters with the exception of one that did not and also cut off all communication with the coordinator, which has stalled the flow of the service.

• This devotee should have used a previous translation of the first 19 chapters, but when reviewing it, I realized that it is an earlier edition than the one given to us by Maharaja, so the texts do not completely match. In addition, the previous translator allowed himself many licenses by altering the structure of some chapters. In this case, I will translate them again personally.

HpS - Super, super, super service. Really feel that this book has the chance of making extreme progress in the KC of the Hispanic community.

We all thank you and have nothing we can offer you for this great selfless service!

• A not minor difficulty is that the PDF that was given to us does not allow the direct copy (copy/paste) of the Sanskrit words, which would have greatly lightened the work (there are almost 500 pages!!). The coordinator contacted the disciple of Dhanurdhara Swami requesting the original file and the fonts used in the book, but unfortunately they replied that the original was lost.

The solution is to copy and paste from the vedabase each word with diacritics in the translated text and, in case of not finding them (as has already happened), build them using the Windows Character Map. This process is long and practically handmade.

HpS - Incredible. I will forward the report to H. H. Danurdhara Swami

• Finally, let me tell you that Indira Sakti dd will be in charge of the layout of the book and the elaboration of the graphics. My communication with her is better than with any other devotee who could do the same service. Artd have accepted in giving technical support and a final review of the book previous to its printing and publication.

• Despite the afore mentioned difficulties, I am enthusiastic about doing this service. I am glad to serve you directly and through a lonely academic seva (🙃!!!). But it's going to take me time to finish it, because of the issues I'm telling you about and because I divide my time between some other quite demanding activities. I will keep you informed about the service process.

On the other hand, I would like to tell you that I am still studying Bhakti Vaibhava finishing the third Canto. The course is demanding but the partnership with fellow students and our instructor is top notch. Smart people, receptive to the book, but also with a critical sense. I'm happy. It is wonderful that a text like the Bhagavatam has such a sounding board, this class is like a well tuned guitar.

HpS - Who are these students and teacher(s)?

Seems you are very fixed in chanting enthusiatic Japa and must have good association?

Wh are they?

Thanks for everything Gurudeva

Your servant

Gandharva das

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.