Letters to the editor

Dear Guru Maharaja

please accept my humble obeisances.

All Glories to the devotional Service that emanates from your person

You are my only refuge and the goal of my life.

This has been a long year, full of growth in every aspect,

in short.

after living in Vrndavan and Mayapur, 

• Colombia Adventure

I had a business, a house for me and my wife, a truck for sankirtan, but the devotees of the temple did not let us do service because I am a very fallen soul, then I was about to want to throw everything away (what is the use of laxmi if we dont have asocciation of devoties), then Krsna (meaby Giriraja maharaja) gave me the mercy to break my business there, they stole my motorcycles, they threatened me, etc, then I sold everything we had, and I bought tikets.

• Adventure Russia

 and we went to live in Saint Retersburg Russia, they don't speak much English there and I didn't have documents to work so..... to support my family I worked in a hinu restaurant (but I sold chicken and fish) His Holiness Guru Prasad Swamy and H. H. Mahavisnu Swami gave me their good advice, there we did harinama with the devotees 3 times a week (almos 15 devoties in -20 degreessss!!! Amazing) , the devotees loved us very much and that love made Saint Petersburg not seem so cold.

• 3. Back to Mayapur

Finally the devotees helped us to come to the Dham by H H Maha Visnu Swami's instruction, we participated in the Harinama Ruchi Party with my wife again, we went to Nepal and now we are living by the MERCY of Krsna and you Guru Maharaja in Mayapur Dham,

• 4. Work and Services 

 We have 2 jobs for Iskcon , we are well paid,

 we have a food for life program every week, (we cook and sponsor ourselves with my wife and friends) we distribute 2000 dishes every sunday in Navadwipa and Godruma dvipa,

we do Harinama once or twice a week in the different islands of navadwipa (9 islands every month more or less) and we distribute books, 

• Our Saddhana

I am chanting every day (somentimes next day) from 20 to 24 rounds, my wife 16,

i was getting up to mangala and all the morning program here in mayapur mandir, but now i am chanting rounds and reading with 15 people around the world from different countries (for me work), so sometimes at 4 am I have to connect with them, almost always at 5 am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ( no Mangala :( )

So my service is to attend the deities at home in the morning, my wife cooks for them,

I wake them up and we do puja and honor prasadam together,

then I go to work in the office assigned to me.

It sounds very unbelievable now that I am writing it, but my eternal enemy is still there Gurudeva, waiting for me to be careless to bite me again and again, so I am trying (I am just trying, without success) to keep myself busy and active in Krsna Consciousness to escape from that.

We are now in the Mayapur committee making all the arrangements for your Coming to Mayapur and India Beloved GURUDEVA with mother Gaura Gadhadar DD, with mother Dhaneshvari dd and with Brajaja Naranjana prabhu.

• A Question

Gurudeva we carry the standard we set to worship their Lordships Nitay Sacidulal (named by u 😍) all this year, we have had Giriraja in a clean place on our altar, offering bhoga to him through Gaura Nitay as you ordered us,

(Giri has given us given a lot of mercy in the form of His pranks as you explained to us especially in Colombia He take off everything)

You asked me to write to you after a year to see if we could start bathing and decorating Giriraja Maharaja.

what should we do? How should we assist you in your worship of these deities Beloved Gurudeva?

His eternal would-be servants

Vrajendra Kumar das and Amala devi dasi

HpS - ASA --- Hare Krsna, Desculpa lenta responder as carta. Puede ver nuestra historia aqui y en el Kapi Dhvaja. Muuuy bueno oir de Vd.

4 regulations 16 rounds 3 gayatris good? Good Brahminical character? Consult other, but as far as I know is O.K. to bath Giriraja once a week in water from Ganges. Ver la reaccion. Claro, idea es. somos contamiandos pero por comenzar hacer servicion practico, podemos purficuarnos y adelantar a servicio masintima.

Nos vemos muy pronto.

Vamanos a proxima carta juntos.

Reverencias a su super esposa. Plans para familia?

Jaya Guru Maharaja!

Hare Krishna

Danvadat Pranam

please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Gurudev thank you for inviting me to New Biharvan! Wonderful meeting Godbrothers and Godsisters and their associates. Thank you blessing me with your association and counsel. Thank you for your mercy on me then now and always. Please bless me to pay forward some tiny portion of this mercy. Please bless me to be a strong finisher in this and any future lives.

HpS - ASA --- Forgive us for taking three weeks to answer this post. Forgive us for not being a better example of pure devotional service in New Biharvan. AgtSP!! Who gives us this fine standard in hihs books and his transcendental residence in our hearts. We pray you get direct experiences of his mercy, instructions... What's in the rest of this letter?

Recently sponsored a Bhagavatam set for my Mom on your behalf. We are going to alternate days reading together Bhagavatam and books she selects from her tradition- first one is ‘theology for beginners’ by Frank Sheed.

ASA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sheed Super guy! Born one year after Srila Prabhupada. Could even read Your Ever Well Wisher with her.

I've been wearing Nectar of Instruction in my headphones for a little while now and looking forward to reading Tava Pache Pache.

ASA - Did you get it from Amazon? It is nice. Study guide, need a study partner.

Hope to be able to understand and follow strictly. I fast on ekadasi except temple prasadam, do not eat from restaurants, working on avoiding any garlic, onion. Will you be in California any time soon? Chaitanya Charitamrita Das is flying from Alachua second weekend in august to serve Ratha Yatra. Grateful for your mercy! Hope the Lord blesses you in all ways. Hare Krishna

HpS - Our calendar is in each Kapi Dhvaja (Except the last). Spain, India, Spain, Houston (22 Feb) ??? Mexico, Nashville... India??? Goloka???

your servant,

Loka Bandhu Rama Dasa

HpS - Please read the Kapi Dhvaja and send your reactions!!! Cynthia???



Hare Krishna, Dear Gurudeva!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada & All glories to you.

Please accept our humble obeisances. (PAOHO)

As of every two weeks:

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Hare Krishna.

I hope You are having a good time in Spain.

Our sadhana is ok. These 2 weeks were a bit challenging because our routine changed. We keep trying to chant 16 good rounds everyday. Worshipping and Reading SB every morning.

holidays are over. Tomorrow we back to work. As I told you before, I'm in charge of the 1st and 7th grade. The school asked me to work with those grades until the end of the year and I accepted. So this year I stop with private classes.

Thanks a lot for

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette)

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

Le comento que desde hace 4 años realizo un servicio fijo en el Templo. Hacer las guirnaldas es un lindo servicio, el cual puedo desarrollar con mucho amor y devoción. Participo del servicio todos los jueves y por supuesto para los festivales, decorando el altar con hermosas flores y cintas de colores.

Muchas gracias Maharaja por permitirme compartirle algunas fotografías de mi servicio.

Su sirviente,

Diana Sánchez

Iskcon Chile

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Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

I tell him that for 4 years I have been doing a permanent service in the Temple. Making the garlands is a beautiful service, which I can develop with a lot of love and devotion. I participate in the service every Thursday and of course for the festivals, decorating the altar with beautiful flowers and colored ribbons.

Thank you very much Maharaja for allowing me to share some pictures of my service with you.

his servant,

Diane Sanchez

Iskcon Chile

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!! In San Francisco the floral shops sold garlands from Hawaii. I think now they might be like $70 each!

Offering Krsna nice garlands and flowers is not a small thing.

I hope the systematic nature of your service extends to organize your life, other service, and add color to it.

Why not do the same job with the Gopis in Goloka?

There the flowers are people.

Very nice, informative photos. After our Lion on a Bicycle we offered some flowers.



Send some photos of your good self with some friends?

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I wanted to tell you that I have done well in high school, learning interesting things, and well, I have a hard time accepting it because I see little of it, but mine is in the field of arts and the cultural industry, so I must dedicate myself and develop myself in that area.

My north is communications, culture and the arts.

Despite that, I also have skills for other things, such as administration, guidance and business.

It's hard for me to stay fixed doing just one thing, so I think that over time I'll dedicate myself to different occupations, but within the area that I mentioned before.

HpS - Sounds good. Who is helping you manage your mind?

I wanted to ask your advice on how to deal with these areas in connection with Krishna consciousness.

In music you advised me to compose songs based on the poems of the acaryas.

HpS - Yes, we commented on your progress in other post. Thank you.

In illustration I am good at working with graphite, I am doing a portrait of Prabhupada. I have read that Prabhupada liked the works for the books to be realistic, but I don't know if that applies to all devotional works. Any idea for the graphic part? I've heard a few times that it would be interesting to do comics.

HpS - Some stuff, just do from your own inspiration, delight, but the rest try to do in the practical Sankirtan association of other ISKCON devotees.

In writing I have learned some things in the race. I once heard from you in a class that you can take a pastime from Srimad Bhagavatam and adapt it to modern life for example, can I do that? or put it in a different and attractive context. I've thought about writing philosophically, but people like stories better.

HpS - Yes, but apply principle above.

The other thing is that I have not advanced in the proposal to make a connection between Srimad Bhagavatam and Don Quixote de la Mancha, you also said that you could do a rehearsal of a scene for example, I have not done anything with the excuse of first finishing read Prabhupada's books.

And well, those are the three areas that I dominate the most, perhaps in the future these can be united in the audiovisual field.

The art of theater does not go with me, I am ashamed to do it, to practice it, it is not natural for me, but I understand that it is very therapeutic. Maybe in the future Krishna will bless me to get into this art.

I like all artistic expressions, I would love to experience them all, but I am not unlimited, only Krishna can.

Well Gurudeva, thank you very much. At the moment I think that making devotional art is the beginning for the expiation of what happened in the temple, since they extended the period in which I cannot go to the temple for judicial reasons, so I still cannot do service in that place, I only this remains.

I plan to apply everything I have learned in Institute to my artistic career. I wish to be of help to Vaisnavas.

your servant

Piyari Mohan Das

HpS - Are you making correspondences, letters, with other devotees besides this Blog???

Thank you for you efforts.

Very important.

Yes, should do them in part as expiation for moments of temporary insanity, but especially for apologizing for offences, voluntary violence.

When we are the victims of these material reactions, we should not let ourselves become "victims". No, that is Maya's trick. "I am not a victim! I am in control of my attitude to the violence this person is aiming at me, my body, and I chose to help them."

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Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Quería contarle que me ha ido bien en el instituto, aprendiendo cosas interesante, y bueno, me cuesta aceptarlo por que lo veo poca cosa, pero lo mío va por el ámbito de las artes y la industria cultural, así que debo dedicarme y desenvolverme en esa área.

Mi norte son las comunicaciones, la cultura y las artes.

A pesar de eso también tengo habilidades para otras cosas, como la administración, la orientación y los negocios.

Me cuesta quedarme fijo haciendo una sola cosa, así creo que a través del tiempo me dedicaré a diferentes ocupaciones, pero dentro de el área que antes le comentaba.

Quería pedir su consejo para saber como desenvolverme en estas areas en conexión con la conciencia de Krishna.

En la música usted me aconsejó componer canciones en base a los poemas de los acaryas.

En la ilustración soy bueno trabajando con grafito, estoy haciendo un retrato de Prabhupada. He leído que a Prabhupada le gustaba que las obras para los libros fueran realistas, pero no se si eso aplica para todas las obras devocionales.

¿Alguna idea para la parte gráfica? He escuchado algunas veces que sería interesante hacer comics.

En la escritura he aprendido algunas cosas en la carrera. Una vez escuché de usted en una clase de que se puede tomar un pasatiempo del Srimad Bhagavatam y adaptarlo a la vida moderna por ejemplo, ¿puedo hacer eso? o ponerlo en un contexto diferente y atractivo. He pensado en escribir de manera filosófica, pero a la gente le gustan más las historias.

Lo otro es que no he avanzado en la propuesta de hacer una conexión del Srimad Bhagavatam con El Quijote de la Mancha, usted también dijo que se podía hacer una ensayo de una escena por ejemplo, no he hecho nada con la escusa de primero terminar de leer los libros de Prabhupada.

Y bueno, esas son las tres áreas que más domino, tal vez en el futuro estas se puedan unir en lo audiovisual.

El arte del teatro no va conmigo, me da vergüenza hacerlo, practicarlo, no es natural para mi, pero entiendo que es muy terapéutico. Tal vez en el futuro Krishna me bendiga para poder adentrarme en esta arte.

Me gustan todas las expresiones artísticas, me encantaría experimentarlas todas, pero no soy ilimitado, solo Krishna puede.

Bueno Gurudeva, muchas gracias. Por el momento creo que hacer arte devocional es el comienzo para la expiación de lo sucedido en el templo, ya que extendieron el plazo en que no puedo ir al templo por cuestiones judiciales, así que todavía no puedo hacer servicio en ese lugar, solo me queda esto.

Pienso aplicar todo lo que he aprendido en el instituto en mi carrera artística. Deseo sea de ayuda para los vaisnavas.

Su sirviente

Piyari Mohan das

Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP PAMHO

I have seen your photos and videos in spain it's really wonderful. The band that was live when arrived it was so refreshing, sometimes the kirtan is so loud that the mahamantra is covered.

I came to Jacksonville in order to meet my little niece, Gabriele. I met a devotee at the airport in Miami. I was waiting my connection flight in one gate and then it change it to NASHVILLE. Some day I will go to know the city.

My cousin ordered Tava Pache Pache on Amazon prime!!!! I got it. I Will start reading it tonight. Reading it is like listening to You talking to us directly.

Superb Job. Lord Nrismhadeva is traveling with me. I made cookies for the family today.

Thanks for all your effort in spreading Krsna consciousnes.

I will see You soon

Trying to be Your disciple

Candramukhi dd

HpS/ASA - Very nice news. AgtSP! He guides our travel. All over the planet are nice devotees like us. People expect us to preach. Do it in an appropriate way, but remind ourselves and inform others of the principles of BG, SB, LOB, NoI, TLC!!!!

Happy life.