Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna!

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to you!

Gurudeva,

I am so very excited to see you soon in Houston. Your association face to face, through your blog, Kapi Dhvaja or in any shape or form is so much appreciated.

I wrote to you a sometime ago about 2nd initiation while you are Houston. I received my letter of recommendation from Nityananda Prabhu, he also emailed it to you directly at [email protected]. I have copied and pasted it below.

Letter from HG Nityananda Prabhu:

"Dear Hanumatpresaka Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace and Srila Prabhupada. 

I pray this meets you safe and well.

I am very happy to recommend your dear disciple and a very sincere devotee in our Dallas Yatra, His Grace Nanda Braja Prabhu, for second initiation.

His list of many services include:

Krishna House director

Bhakti Circle (western audience outreach) program director

Temple office congregation/guest services 

Srimad Bhagavatam class scheduling

Currently taking Bhakti Shastri

SB, BG and Sunday fest classes

Sunday feast announcements

Monthly Laxmi contribution to Sri Sri Radha-Kalachandji

Contribute/Volunteer for each festival.

Thank you so very much!! 

Your servants’ humble servant, affectionately 

Nityananda dasa 

Temple President, Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji Temple, Dallas Texas

Regional Supervisor for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska and Kansas"

If you are willing to give 2nd initiation to myself during your up coming visit to Houston then this mercy of yours is very welcomed. I am surrendered to whatever instruction you may give. I dedicate my life to serving your lotus feet; your very dear Spiritual Master, our founder Acharya of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktividanta Swami Srila Prabhupada's, lotus feet and Sri Sri Radha-Kalachandji's lotus feet. I will be honest seeing my wonderful godbrothers and sisters, your disciples, I understand I am not so good at this but I dedicate my life to always making progress and getting better. Most importantly I believe is that I dedicate my life to your instructions of full morning program, 16 enthusiastic rounds and following strictly 4 regulative principles. If I may serve the Lords pure devotee even just a little then it is my greatest fortune.

Your disciple,

Nanda-braja das

HpS - AgttSP. Paoho... Second intitiation is for Brahmanas, Ksatriyas and higher class Vaisyas. You got the Ksatriya spirit to some degree, no?

Your good wife taking initiations?

Kids?

Baptized as Mormons!!! ?

Trying to fix program in Houston. Arrive 22nd about 9pm after 20-hours of travel in economy plus.

so not going out and doing light work until home program Saturday. Sunday Feast lecture.

Asking Saranga about 2nd for Devendra and Sumitra, but no answer. After that just the week days and we go to Mexico on Satruday.

One month in Mexico and back to Houston for some time.

People think that it might be best to do the initiations then. April.

What do you think?

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,

PAMHO AGTSP

You wrote: What kind of work are you doing?

I am still working as a teaching assistant in elementary school helping a blind boy. Moreover, still working with our rental of apartments.

HpS - Did not know about blind fellow. Just one student? What do you do for him?

Able to preach in the environment?

I chant HK (before/after job) and then smile at people, and if they ask why I am so calm and serene, I reply according to circumstances.

HpS - Smile, comportment, Kirtan. Three Sankirtan tools Srila Prabhupada says we have and should use, no?

Can you introduce pantheism in your professional work eg. taste of water, light of the sun?

Sannyasa?

Your servant Namacarya Das

Guru Maharaja,

you wrote:

We have very, very powerful desires to see new pastimes eg. Netflix, Hulu... just chant and watch emergencies.

What means to watch emergencies here ?

HpS - Gosh!!! You have such good intelligence, but we cannot understand the context of the statement. It looks like a typographical error. What kind of work are you doing? Able to preach in the environment?

All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please accept my most humble obeisances!

Hare Krishna Maharaj! How are you? How’s your health? Where are you now?

HpS - Read the Kapi Dhvaja. 😁😁😁

I’vee seen some pictures of your Radha Kunda’s ashram! Maharaj you are so blessed! I was happy when I heard the news of it’s inauguration. How’s it going? And how’s your movie going?

Well here I’m doing well thanks to Krishna and the devotees! I’ve been

Watching some of your classes on YouTube, it’s been a while since I wanted to write you a letter.

I wanted to thank you for your advices, I’ve been practicing punctuality and cleanliness as you recommended in one of your preachings, and it was like a magic key, that lead me to be more organized, and along with all that came a more intense spiritual practice. I’ve been also trying

to speak naturally to Krishna, and he has been a real friend, helping me out and accompanying me.

Maharaj I’ve read the Matsya Avatar chapter in the Srimad

Bhagavatam you told me, would you be so kind to recommend me another thing to read?

HpS - Have you read first, second, third canto??? Go through systematically like that as you can, but anywhere you open and read is purifying. Read chapters, 4, 5, 6,,, canto one, and make a report here.

Everything in my life is going on tracks, everything…Including the psychiatric area, it is going

so much better! This wednesday I have a consultation with a new Vaidya from India in order to continue the Ayurvedic treatment I quit some years ago.

I’m feeling hopeful and enthusiastic about that :)

I’ve been also assisting an English group for language exchange here in Cordoba, and I’m improving my speaking.

I always reminded of you when I used to speak your native language.

Maharaj I would like to please ask you a few questions, I’ve heard that Dronacarya and some of the Pandavas sometimes used to visit the heavenly planets, so didn’t they came when they returned to earth to a much advanced in time moment of history, because

of the accelerated time in the

heavenly planets?

HpS - Don't know. Good question, but there must be different ways to adjust these things, like people using scuba outfits to stay with the fish.

And how much are

we supposed to pray during our daily life, I mean whilst performing our duties, can we live actively praying to Krishna all the time?

HpS - Can just chant. Engage our tongue and jaw. Then the mind will follow with attention. then we will want to see the diety, put a picture of our deities on the kitchen wall, then.... we will start to realize Krsna's qualities eg. He is very lazy!

Then we will see Him with associates and then.... we will see pastimes that we never read in any of Srila Prabhupada's books.

thanks for all the help Maharaj!

HK!

Federico

Thank you! Your austerities and good planning are purifying the world.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am chanting 16 rounds everyday and following the 4 regulative principles. (I still have multiple rounds left from the 3 days we were busy with the wedding Guru Maharaj. I will catch up on them asap)

The wedding went really well Guru Maharaj and i am now a Grahastha. Please bless us both to progress nicely in Bhakti and serve you and Prabhupada's mission to the best of our abilities.

HpS - Are you going to take your new bride to visit all the places of celestial enjoyment in the universe like Karadama Muni? 😎 Well, you can take your Deities to the beach for a nice day of fresh air sunshine and sand castles. with other grhastas.

Me, Vishaka, my wife, and her parents have come to Sri Rangam to take darshan of Sri Ranganathar.

I will be leaving India on 4th February. Vishaka will come in the third week of March after completing visa formalities. I am planning to come to Houston at the end of February to meet you Guru Maharaj. Hope you had a comfortable journey back to the States.

Thank you. We get news from your good brother and others also. We were thinking of your wedding while we were in the air at 33,000 feet!

Hope to see you in Houston, Nila madhava Dhama, but don't make undue strain!

Congratulations!!

I have ordered Gaura Nitai deities from Vrindavan, Guru Maharaj. The deities were delivered but they were damaged, so i had to send them back for replacement deities. Vishaka will bring them when she come. I would like to visit you along with Vishaka in April Guru Maharaj, when you're back in the Boro.

Waiting eagerly to meet you in person soon, Guru Maharaj.

Your humble Servant

Srirama Krishna Das

HpS - Brass deities damaged? Interesting. Must be some deep meaning!

HARE KRISHNA MAHARAJA please accept my humble obeisances ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA AND ALL HIS LOYAL DISCIPLES LIKE YOU, who inspire us to sincerely try to follow and practice his instructions.

In these last 2 months, the social and employment situation in Peru have been very complicated. This situation prevents ARTD from smoothly managing academic sankirtana in universities (for example, the master's degree in Sanskrit with the University of Bombay and San Marcos through NIOS-BRC), and he has also had health difficulties with gastritis and lower back pain, but by the mercy of Guru and Gauranga everything is improving. Also, his internal health is improving, especially he is trying to chant his rounds more attentively and thus listen to the Maha-mantra with favorable feelings.

Well let's start, this report is about all the progress on SOLARIS No 7, the next one will be about DTC-UT port of call USA. The content of SOLARIS No 7 is as follows:

1. Ravi Gupta: Transcending Context and Contextual Transcendence: Carl G. Jung and Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Thakur.

2. Héctor Béjar: War and Peace.

3. Fabian López: Salvationism in Hinduism

4. Dolores Chávez: The importance of signs in Carl Gustav Jung and in Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Thakur.

5. Miguel Polo: Zhuang Zi and life as a dream.

6. Claudia Lira: Resonance, serenity and synchronicity: Jung and classical Chinese thought.

7. Gonzalo Dávila: Ecology and the sacred: universities and technology transfer.

8. María Julia Córdova: Beekeeping and the sacred.

In relation to the content, we have a question: The topic, SCIENCE, PSYCHE AND SPIRITUALITY, THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN CARL JUNG AND BHAKTISIDHANTA SARASWATI will be commented on his "perspectives" page that comes after the presentation of the journal that Professor Miguel Polo makes or it will be done besides, as an essay?

HpS - We can try to do it any place and format that you like.

Another point, the Cultural Portal of this issue is dedicated to the homage to Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay held in Kolkata, India, on September 16, 2022. We have the 70-page document that Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay prepared with the support of from Mother Govinda Pramodini. With the director of SOLARIS, Dr. Miguel Polo and the editor ARTD, they are editing this material. Once the editing is finished, they will contact Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay to give his approval to the document.

We are already finishing the layout of the magazine; we hope to have it ready by the last week of February to be send to Mexico.

HpS - BIG PROBLEM. The copy that was sent to you was only a partially edited version sent as a emergency to Govinda and HpS if Dr. was hospitalized. It has many, many errors as far as Prof. says. Now, finally he and Subhadra mayi are doing the final editing this week.

That's all for now, the next report about the DTC-UT/USA film we hope to do in 2-3 days.

By your mercy we hope to better tune our antennas and better tune in to Krishna consciousness, so we humbly apologize for our limitations and slowness. HARE KRISHNA

ASA - These reports are life and death. Please keep Harinama movement alive! Thank you.

SADAI NIMAY-NITAY KI, JAYA!!

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TODAS LAS GLORIAS A SRILA PRABHUPADA Y A TODOS SUS DISCÍPULOS LEALES COMO USTED que nos inspiran a tratar de seguir y practicar con sinceridad sus instrucciones.

En estos 2 últimos meses, la situación social y laboral en el Perú están bien complicadas. Esta situación impide que ARTD pueda hacer, fluidamente, las gestiones del sankirtana académico en las universidades (por ejemplo, una maestría en sanskrito con la universidad de Bombay y San Marcos previstas a través de NIOS-BRC), además él ha tenido dificultades con una gastritis y lumbalgia, pero, por la misericordia de Guru y Gauranga todo va mejorando. También su salud interna está mejorando, sobre todo está tratando de cantar las rondas con más atención y así escuchar el Maha-mantra con sentimientos favorables.

Bueno, empecemos, este informe es sobre todos los avances en SOLARIS No 7, el próximo será sobre DTC-UT port of call USA. El contenido de este número 7 es el siguiente:

1.    Ravi Gupta: Transcending Context and Contextual Transcendence: Carl G. Jung and Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Thakur.

2.    Héctor Béjar: La Guerra y La Paz.

3.    Fabian López: El Salvacionismo en el hinduismo

4.    Dolores Chávez: La importancia de los signos en Carl Gustav Jung y en Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Thakur.

5.    Miguel Polo: Zhuang Zi y la vida como un sueño.

6.    Claudia Lira: Resonancia, serenidad y sincronicidad: Jung y el pensamiento clásico chino.

7.    Gonzalo Dávila: La ecología y lo sagrado: las universidades y la transferencia tecnológica.

8.    María Julia Córdova: La apicultura y lo sagrado.

En relación al contenido tenemos una pregunta: El tema, CIENCIA PSIQUE Y ESPIRITUALIDAD, EL ENCUENTRO ENTRE CARL JUNG Y BHAKTISIDHANTA SARASWATI lo comentara en su página “perspectivas” que va después de la presentación de la revista que hace el profesor Miguel Polo o lo hará aparte, como un ensayo?

Otro punto, el Portal Cultural de este número está dedicado al homenaje al Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay realizado en Kolkata, India, el 16 de septiembre del 2022. En este sentido tenemos el documento de 70 páginas que el Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay elaboro con el apoyo de la madre Govinda pramodini. Con el director de SOLARIS, Dr. Miguel Polo y el editor ARTD, están editando ese material. Una vez terminada la edición, ellos entraran en contacto con el Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay para que dé su Visto Bueno al documento.

Ya estamos acabando la diagramación de la revista, esperamos tenerla lista la ultima semana de febrero para enviarla a México.

Eso es todo por ahora, el próximo informe acerca de la película DTC-UT / USA esperamos hacerlo en 2 o 3 días.

Por tu misericordia esperamos afinar mejor nuestras antenas y sintonizarnos mejor con la conciencia de Krishna, por eso, humildemente te pedimos disculpas por nuestras limitaciones y lentitud. HARE KRISHNA.

SADAI NIMAY-NITAY KI, JAYA!!