Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaja! 

Please accept these respectful and loving obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. 

What dates would you like to be in Boise? We will be a part of the 4th of July parade again downtown and would love to have you with us for the grand procession. It is also 40 year anniversary for Boise temple, very close to 50 years since disappearance of Srila Prabhupada and 60 year anniversary of ISKCON. 40-50-60. We want to start our celebrations and programs on the 1st of July and Ratha Yatra will be the culmination of those programs. 

Been thinking about esoteric themes and the only thing I can think of is Jayananda Prabhu and pulling Lord Jaganatha into our hearts with devotional service. Those are pretty obvious I guess. Gurumaharaja, what are you thinking for esoteric themes? 

Nanda Braja Prabhu may be able to join us as well. Maybe he could fly with you to Boise? 

Radhika Ramana Prabhu and I are wondering how long you could stay after Ratha Yatra festival. Temple is ready to buy your ticket when ever you are 🙏🏻

We blasted your talk on Easter Sunday with the bramacharis here in the kitchen this morning and it inspired some wonderful discussions. Thank you! 

your aspiring servant, 

Nitisara das

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna.

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ISKCON Houston to Iskcon Boise, July 1st seems good, no?

Alaska or Southwest.

Alaska has a flight through Dallas if Nanda Braja Das will be joining.

Govinda priya Devi Dasi: NA GBC, Vaisnavi (Kula-stri) Ministry, Sacramento, expressed that she would like to visit also.

GPDD, Aruddha DD, R-raman Das, HpS ... others? Bhakti-vikasa Swami (disciples)...

((HpS Brother and Sister from Seattle (in their eighties)). Devotees from San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco.

July 4th is Saturn's Day!

Stay for two, three, weeks then go to Seattle and India?? Udipi?? Seattle on the way in?

Need to contact GPDD and check if she and her family would like to come. Fresh air, sunlight, white water rafting, Christian - Vaisnava Dialog.

Themes: "America, Angels and Sirens"?

diary of a traveled creature.

it, the location of the sun 😎 is 4.59 post meridian here in houston texas usa.

our eyes hurt.

guess that is the end of looking attentively at little letters on the screen.

been here one week now.

back home, back to dog head.

everyone here has a dog or cat.

it is end of the white race.

that was evident to some as soon as they saw bald headed men from the east preaching the ways of the old ones.

Srila Prabhupada, what will happen if there is a nuclear war???

SP: Oh, very nice! We can just sit down and chant HK. We won't have to deal with all this headache of preaching anymore, yet it will also make people more interested in spiritual life.

Getting in touch with all the local devotees: Houston, Richmond, Nashville, Dallas, Boise. Calendar for next three months is emerging.

Contacting US government.

Got tickets and appointments, calendar emerging.

Radha Krsna das is down below. He will leave for three months at the end of the month.

Whole Yatra here is so big.

Two hundred people for Sunday Festival on an ordinary Sunday.

Next big festival is Lord Nrsmha.

We are scheduled for SB classes one to two times a week.

We need systematic study.

Whatever you are reading it should be in perspective of the whole Bhaktivedanta Library. If you are reading any book, it should be because of how it fits into all of the rest of the books intimately.

Yes, the elephant has nose, ears, tusks, legs, sides, tail, but you cannot separate them. They are part of the elephant. Try to separate his tail from the body and see what happens.

Part but also parcel.

If you are holding onto the elephant at the rear end properly then you know what the person is feeding him at the front end and you can give advice. "Less fruit!".

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna.

Better to die chanting Hare Krsna.

Krsna sends us deep challenges.

If you do not feel that you have deep opportunities to advance in going back home at every minute you are missing what's happening to you.

Krsna is giving you chance to choose how to gratify your tongue, but He is also giving you chance to peruse Indra loka, or Vaikuntha, within the external, material experiences you meet.

Do not fear. You have something ESSENTIAL to offer that no one else can offer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozX0KazFoDk

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Guru Maharaj.

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances at Your sweet, merciful lotus feet.

HpS - The same to you and more of it. 🙂 Do you have feet or hooves in your svarupa???

Sorry for the delay....wanted to share so many stories...don't even know where to start..

We begin with Shantipur festival...the first in my life...mango groves everywhere...endless queue...endless seva...we later heard the next day Mangal arti announcement that this year...it broke all records...50,000 prasadam plates distributed by ISKCON, Mayapur...All glories to Srila Prabhupada....standing in the queue was worth it...

HpS - I guess we can give up on "Back home. Back to Godhead". This is home, this is already Godhead.

The prasadam was simply great...I did not take the tomato chutney as I was more interested in Khichri and subjee....and when I requested some seva...the sweet devotees gave me a bucket full of chutney....there Sri Advaita laughing at me...for refusing chutney...hahahaha....then nobody was really taking it...and was really worried whether poor self will have to loiter here and there without nobody taking the chutney....just as these thoughts ran in my monkey mind....one by one...the devotees called...here...here...chutney please...chutney please...there in just about 45mins...not a drop of chutney was spared....Thank you Guru Maharaj....in Your sweet name I offer this

Seva...for those who visited Shantipur

Had a holy dip at Mother Ganga...joined a great, great Ganga arti and Puja....

Visited Yogapeeth....Chand kazi samadhi...ghosala...Srivas angan...and Rajapur Jagannath....what a feast...we booked for 17 of us...we'll ahead of Gaura Purnima..

Classes were so nice...

A day before Gaura Purnima, the Matajis offered Vasant Raas at Sri Anuprabhu and then again on the same day...at Gopaldev Mandir....thank you Guru Maharaj...for the strength and will to offer our humble services

Gaura Purnima at Mayapur...ecstatic as always....at night we left for Sri Jagannath Puri...

Got a dip at Puri....so purifying....

Had Sri Jagannath, Baladev and Subhadra Ma's darshan...

Then leela unfolds....as we were attending Mangal arti at ISKCON, Puri....a mataji just sat next to me...we were reciting the rudra geet...after the arti...she asked me ...where I am from? Then asked whether I would like to have darshan of Adi Jagannath....the sweet, sweet NeelMadhav....took some mins to decide....as I did not want to break from the group....somehow 2 matajis from the group wanted to be with me....that's when I said to the Mataji ....and we went all the way...a good 90kms from Puri....by auto...bus...then another vehicle to climb up the Brahmadri hill....the first time we had Darshan of NeelMadhav....we had darshan of Sri Raam mandir on our way to Sri NeelMadhav

Next day we went Alarnath....we cried seeing the body print of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu on that flat rock....everything came alive...

Had darshan of Tota Gopinath....Gambhira....Adi, Madhya and Antya all covered .....Thank you Guru Maharaj....we realised much later

Then....Hanuman and His mystical magic....

As we were to leave Puri, we went for just one last darshan at Sri Jagannath Puri....one mataji and myself were walking in the premises....suddenly...this man starts following me....asking me where I want to go....I told him...I am looking for the South gate as the Pujari asked me to be there....then he kept following ...his eyes were shinning brilliantly....at 4pm....then he told us....wait...before you go to the East and South gate...watch the change of flag with me....then....

He narrated the arti of Hanuman daily before changing the flag...how wind speed comes down after the arti....He narrated a lot of pastimes....something dauned in me....I asked his mobile number....He said...I don't have a mobile....so strange....then he said...don't worry...I live nearby...Next time you come you will find me...

Then I ask for a pic with him....then he said...we can take the pic later...I will tell you how to look at Sri Jagannath...

Then I asked him how many times have you joined Rath Yatra....then he said 8 times....immediately I was reminded of Astasakhis....I couldn't help myself...just took his hands and paid my obeisances....

We forgot to take pics...I landed at East gate....and then Pujari was waiting there....I never saw the man again

Vasudev, the Pujari lead us to have Garbha griha darshan...followed by Sri Jagannath's mahaprasadam

Started BG classes....new one for children and young ones who are reading for the first time....started last Sunday on Papamochana ekadashi..

Will be starting IDC on Saturday

Continuing with our morning and evening classes.

Every Monday we ( 25 of us) read the book Speaking about Varnasrama, with HG Devarshi Prabhu. Thank you for your mercy Guru Maharaj....may I be able to give everything for Your service ....Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaj

Sending some pics of the yatra...

Your insignificant servant,

Sarad Gaurangi DD

HpS - Do you just read BG As It Is from cover to cover or do you extract topics, purports?

You never now who you are dealing with in the Holy Dhama's no?

Dear Guru Mahārāja,

All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Please accept my humble obeisances.

I would like to ask a question. Please reply if and when you feel inclined and have the time.

(Though this itself raises a thought: Kṛṣṇa is Time—so what does it really mean to “have time on one’s hands?”)

According to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in Caitanya-caritāmṛta:

“In this Age of Kali, five acts are forbidden: the offering of a horse in sacrifice, the offering of a cow in sacrifice, the acceptance of the order of sannyāsa, the offering of oblations of flesh to the forefathers, and a man’s begetting children in his brother’s wife.”

(CC Ādi 17.164)

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/17/164/

From this verse, a doubt arises regarding Vaiṣṇavas entering the sannyāsa-āśrama despite this clear śāstric statement.

I am aware of the explanation commonly given—that what Gauḍīya (and other Vaiṣṇava) traditions accept is tridaṇḍa-sannyāsa, not ekadaṇḍa-sannyāsa. In brief, the tridaṇḍī serves Bhagavān, whereas the ekadaṇḍī aspires to become Bhagavān.

However, apart from this explanatory distinction, I have not been able to find a direct śāstric reference that explicitly supports this conclusion in a way that fully satisfies me.

I am not suggesting that the explanations given by the ācāryas are wrong. Still, since our teachings are grounded in śāstra, it seems reasonable to expect more than “only” an explanatory interpretation when something is followed—or not followed—despite an apparent prohibition.

Thank you very much for your patience and guidance.

Your servant,

Namācārya Dāsa

HpS - We need maybe one, two, full size volumes on Sri dharma, Sannyasa Dharma, just edited from Srila Prabhupada's books, no?

He gave us the library and now we need to extract timely topics, and make puppet shows, movies.

How is this: https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/6/13/

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba mis respetuosas reverencias.

En la carta anterior usted me responde lo siguiente:

HpS- Jaya. Un mes, agtSP, y tres semanas para responder esta carta. Disculpen la demora. Mucha presión durante esta gira de tres meses: EE. UU. [Nashville + Dallas], España [India], Latinoamérica [Chile, Perú, México].

Súper, súper resultados.

Si no respondemos a las publicaciones importantes del blog, intente enviar otra con la palabra "URGENTE" en el campo del título.

Todos sus mensajes son urgentes.

No tengo mensajes urgentes, por lo pronto 🙏

¿Cuáles son las noticias ahora?

Por lo pronto ninguna noticia, todo sigue igual.

¿Aún ganas el templo de Madre Laksmirani Devi Dasi?

No entendí la pregunta o quizás el robot no lo traduce bien. 😊

HpS - I also do not understand. 🙂

¿Dónde está?

Estoy en la ciudad de Huancayo - Perú.

¿Algún Sankirtana?

Por lo pronto no estoy haciendo Sankirtan con los libros de Srila Prabhupada, porque tengo la columna vertebral lastimada, justo cerca a la parte de la cintura. En la actualidad mí Sankirtan es hacer servicio en el templo de Madre Laksmirani, el templo se llama "Nimai Nitai" y está en el centro de la ciudad de Huancayo.

HPS/ASA - We saw that Jayananda Das was in a wheel chair from the progress of his cancer and they gave him charge of the Gift Shop in the Temple in New York, but it was on the third floor above the restaurant and nobody went there. Yet, he started putting signs down next to the restaurant. Offered free gifts for people to come and visit, and very soon he had people coming, books, cassettes of music, everything selling.

He was such a challenge, that whatever our body or situation is, we can always find a way to get results if we make the endeavor, no?

Super.

Bueno Guru Maharaja, me despido y que el Señor Nrsimha lo proteja siempre.

Hare Krsna.

Gadai Gauranga Das

Hare Krishna worship Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances 🙏🏻👣🪷💖All Glories To Srila Prabhupada! All Glories To You eternally My Gurudeva! 🙏🏻🙏🏻👣🪷💖🎶

During a merciful transmission from Japa Joe, while I was asking You Gurudeva a question, I received a message through another medium, quite painful for me....But I think we learned a lot from it🙏

I remember Srila Prabhupada saying that for Krishna, this material world is a game, but for us it is not; we must be very careful to get out of here.

I'm actually always asking Krishna to purify me soon. And by His mercy, this year began with many trials and it continues to this day 😊

Please Gurudeva continue to pray for me, so that I may understand your sweet heart and please you eternally.

For me, everything You say is extremely important 🙏👣🪷

My trip to Peru to see you couldn't happen because of Krishna's will. I did everything I could...!!! but I tried not to force the trip, trying to follow your instructions, Gurudeva. I remembered so much when You told us about Your trip to India and Your trip to Peru. Your experience that when you tried to force the trip, the experience wasn't good.

May you have a beautiful Rama Navami celebration! Gurudeva.

Always, always, always wishing to please You: Japa Prati Jalpa Radha Devi Dasi

PS: We did 2 dances rehearsals for Sita Ram! . We always learn while we dance! May I always be refugee in his mercy, Gurumaharaja Lotus Feet 🙏🏼👣🪷🎶

HPS - Thank, agtSP, you. Chile, Peru, Mexico, were all very intense and productive. Now we are in Houston.

ISKCON Houston.

It does not matter where we are on the map.

Basically things are about the same all over the world now.

Just be a good devotee where you are and then do what you can to serve others in their progress to being good devotees, no?