Letters to the editor

TlGaSP

Mi muy querido Guruji. Espero que se encuentre muy bien, principalmente de Salud.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!!! Hare Krsna//Hare Rama. Body, Mind and Spirit!

Es una alegría saber que se encuentra muy bien en Houston Mandir.

Éste escrito es para agradecer toda la bondad que tiene hacia nosotros.

Gracias por permitirnos estar conectados en M Arati y por estar diariamente motivándonos a través de los mensajes de WhatsApp.

HpS - Seems a lot of our survival is Krsna and Radha accepting our little service in the regular Deity worship that Srila Prabhupada gives us.

Es tan afortunado tener un maestro tan dulce y bondadoso. Agradezco cada día más a Sri la Prabhupada!

En lo práctico, hace un tiempo estamos (Por fin) cantando 16 rondas y principios.

ASA - ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoqxYqTNKmU

Retomar ésta base ha traído muchas bendiciones y tranquilidad a mi corazón y esto, irrefutablemente es gracias a su constante misericordia.

Con mi hija seguimos tratando de ser útil en el programa de niños durante los festivales.

Tuvimos una linda actividad para Nrsimha Caturmasi y hubo una obra Teatral realizada por devotos adultos lo cual trajo a mi corazón una nostalgia por la compañía Gauranga que dirigí hace tantos años.

El arte dramático es tan cautivador...

HpS - There is nothing greater than Theater! Our Yoga is Gandharva Veda. Singing,

Dancing and Drama!!!!

It is a science.

Become a great Director.

Los Domingos escuchamos su clase junto a los devotos. Yí Lin disfruta escuchar su voz y ahora dice que usted también es Su Gurudev.

Disculpe Guruji por contar cosas tan simples y básicas.

Agradezco su tiempo y comprensión al leer.

Por favor reciba mis respetuosos cariños. Una molécula que intenta servirlo y ser útil.

Con afecto, Edd e Yí Lin Gadhadari (dibujó esto para usted)

HpS/ASA - Super photos. Can take a drama and then sketch it and make it into a video clip. Practice going from stage shows to videos, no?

Post them!!

Dear Maharaja and devotees;

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru and Gauranga.

On Sunday, May 25, 2025, at 7.30am, Houston time, we will continue reading chapter 13 (The Lord's Dancing at Ratha-yatra~~Madhya Lila), verse 13.129 onwards; we will be able to finish about 40 verse

Thank you to H. G. Nikunja Bihari Prabhu & H. G. Mitravinda Mataji for doing Spanish translation for class on April May 18 for CC reading notes and Maharaja's class. For May 25, 2025, class: both of them has graciously agreed to do Spanish translation for reading notes on CC & Spanish translation for Maharaja's class.

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

Your Servant

Upendra dasa

Hare Krishna dear Guru maharaja

All the glories to your lotus feet that are the refuge of the living entities that suffer in this material world,

HpS - We are still maybe 51% hogs, dogs, camels and asses! AgtSP. Agt all of our lotus feet and uncovering them ASAP!

I am Vrajendra Kumara das, your Colombian disciple from Mexico, I have been busy in my Grhasta duties without neglecting my rounds nor my spiritual principles dear Gurudeva (I chant 20 rounds most of the days of my life)

I am receiving [residing?] in Russia and we continue with Daily Gaura Nitay + Harinama worship on Saturdays and Sundays with the devotees,

every morning I listen to your YouTube classes after worshipping the Deity, im doing Sankirtan thru the community of Despertar Espiritual , we have Bhaktas from all Latin America, we are now in the Iskcon online departamento Latín America.

https://nas.io/comunidad-despertar-espiritual

I am still conditioned by the Lust and Angry that comes from this mode of passion that runs through my veins, Guru Maharaha.

I want to know how can I take refuge in the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda? How can I please You? How should I improve my practices to free myself one day from lust and anger?

Gurudeva give me your mercy, let me serve you life after life and explain me how to perfect my existence matter, in this dark prison matter I have no other hope than your mercy. 

Your servant Vrajendra Kumara das husband of Ámala Sundari Devi Dasi

HpS - We are so sorry that we are so slow in answering these letters.

It is so nice to get you association.

We hope,

Pray,

that you have been able to get Srila Prabhupada, Lord Caitanya, Krsna's mercy from so many sources in His ISKCON besides our selves.

How to advance.

I think the answer is to keep right on the same way you have been doing, but just keep on learning how to do it better, faster.

Wars are not won by soldiers who look good and have had a good breakfast before they go out to fight with all the girls waving at them!

Wars are won by wounded soldiers who get up again and again with wounded bodies, damaged weapons and go back to fight because they know it is the right thing to do.

Chant Hare Krsna.

Read Srila Prabhupada's books.

Read them here for us!!!

Thank you!!!!

HpS/ASA - From 3-months ago!

PAMHO AGTSP!! all glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

HK Maharaj!! How are you?? So great to hear you are doing OK, I’ve seen you recently on YouTube at an Iskcon Houston Class and you looked so fine!! I wish to be as good as you at the same age :) I’ll try to watch any of your classes on YouTube.

HpS / ASA - Thank you! Please give feedback.

I felt so well after reading your letter! Yes I’m seeing the hand of Krishna during this ☔️ storm, doing a lot of good things,

for example in the fact that I have started playing sports, or the new friends I’ve made here in Buenos Aires, and I began talking again with Govinda Dhamodar here from Mendoza, he’s helping me out with everything :)

I’ll send you here some pictures of my daughter and I, and of my family, they have been of great support always and specially during this time.

Sometimes I feel I’m living on a new level of faith, praying for the people I’m not keen to or to those with whom I feel some difference.

HpS - Usually they are not really criticizing us, no? Usually we just externally stimulate something and then they are bad to us. Of course, sometimes we also deserve it and should thank God for trying to get us out of Maya, Vaisnavi's, clutches.

I don’t quite recall if I told you but I began practicing roller skating slalom, it’s been of so much help, I read on the Bhagavatam from Prabhupada being overweighted is not good for spiritual life, so I enrolled myself into those classes to loose some pounds.

I used to skate since I was a little kid, I remember once we were with my family in Miami along the seashore and this guy was roller skating, he was passing just by my side, and he turned 180 degrees and blinked an eye, and I found that such a cool thing that I told my father: “I would like to buy some skates” and he did, ever since I practiced intermittently till now, well I think it’s Krishna who trains us eternally, before I got to know the devotees I feel he was already helping me a lot!

ASA - 🐵 ⛸ ⛸⛸

I’m really trying to effort myself, and to improve my sadhana.

well Hope you are doing well :)

HK!!

Federico

ASA - thank you!!!

Hare Krishna

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las glorias a sus pies de loto

Agradecemos infinitamente por seguirnos guiando en este sendero y deseando siempre por su salud.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!!👳 🐒

Este año llevamos programas de Food For Live, distribuyendo en universidades, la casa del migrante en CDMX y hospitales.

Continuamos con el servicio de Guirnaldas para Su señorías Sri Sri Radha Madhan Gopal.

Distribuimos libros y nuestra primera colección de Srimad Bhagavatam y seguimos apoyando en La Gift Shop de CDMX.

Además seguimos cantando 16 rondas, intentando que día con día mejoren. Tambien cuidamos deidades en casa.

Muchas gracias por su infinita misericordia, gracias por seguirnos inspirando en este proceso

Mis mas humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto

HpS/ASA - Super! SUPER! S U P E R ! suppppper. so sorry slow to respond to these reports. we are old and our donkey is lame, but seems we are still moving.

Sankirtan reports to this Blog etc. are so nice.

So many people are getting eternal benefit from your service with Srila Prabhupada. Maybe even something you do will stop the war in Ukraine.

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna. Have we met before? We don't have any recollection of your good self.

Yes Maharaj, first time in Peru 2008, then in Monterrey, Mexico 2012, I was in charge of the program together with Gadadhara Gosai. After in 2023 in Monterrey. Also in 2014 in Houston.

Have you done book distribution like this before?

We started doing sankirtan in 2004 and in some way or other have been connected with this service since then. From 2010 we started to go more frequently to the universities and by Guru and Krishna's mercy we started this project and now we're asking blessings from all Vaishnavas to follow we this service.

Thank you Maharaj!!!

Your servant,

Jaya Gauranga dasa.

HpS - Is that you in the checkered shirt in the attached picture?

We still can't catch any memory of you!

Ooof! Yet, it is a great honor to be corresponding with you.

Please send us news and mercy from time to time.

B. S. Damodar Swami told us that Srila Prabhupada told him, and we have seen Purports with same formula, that in the secular university environment you fist talk about what is matter. They have their perspective and we can purify it with our perspective.

Then you can talk about non-material aspect to the self eg. it has free will, it is conscious, it has to make moral choices. ATMA.

Then you can talk about Jiva atma and Param atma.

...but you don't go to Bhagavan, mono theism, in the public setting, but if you establish a personal relation with them, then you can talk about God as a person, and even if you don't, if you can bring them to Param atma, then they can also find a personal relation in their own religious tradition!!!