Letters to the editor

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!!!



All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to eternal sankirtana. Please accept my most sincere obeisances at your feet. Beloved Gurudeva, very soon I will be reunited with my family, I have many business projects and those of my family, my father wants to go to India, since he met ISKCON he always tries to be a devotee with a regular standard.

My only brother has a good character and my relationship with him is good,

my mother really likes Narashinja,

but her character is sometimes also strong 😬

my family respects ISKCON and understands spiritual life,

my aunt Angela, my father's sister, is also a devotee who gets up early and chants some rounds,

in reality my family gives me a lot of tranquility and joy and refuge, I feel happy.

Today I had a dream with you [ASA 🙂 in English we would say "of you"] that told me not to hide anything from me, how are you? you asked me. And now I want to answer you; Life is oscillating full of experiences, I can say that I am beginning to understand and take the bad things that happen to me in the best way and as a purification to one day return home with the hope that Srila Prabhupada and you will take me by the hand.

HpS//ASA 🐵 😢 😢 😢 We hope Srila Prabhupada continues to do the same for all of us!!!

The path is long for the mind, but the reality is that the life of a human being is short, and I try to see the good and the bad as an episode that will pass and that in the end it will end and only the most important will remain Krsna and Guru.

So I don't know if my material life as so important, to inform you gurudeva.

I can only tell you that I am chanting 16 rounds, 4 principles, ekadasis, 3 gayatris, and associating with some devotees,

my life is always surrounded by devotees, and I know that this is important for my spiritual life,

and that is why I try to correct and do an introspection of my mistakes. And accepting my karma in the best way.

I would like to ask you a question.

When I was in Vrindavan for a few days, I want to confess that I didn't chant 16 rounds. I know it's not correct. My question is, many of the Vrajavasis don't chant 16 rounds. How do you explain this? I mean, how can I understand this? Are they on a different spiritual platform, Raganuga bhakti? Excuse me for asking, dear Gurudeva. Please, I would like to go into more depth about this. Thank you very much,

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi.

Hare Krishna.

HpS - As far as I understand if you are born in Braja, it is at the most your last life in the material world.

Maybe you have even come from spiritual Vrndavana just to help KRSNA here and have no material connection, or as above, maybe you are taking one more birth in the material world to get direct connection with Nitya siddha Braja vasis to finish off the details before youi go back to Goloka, back to work!

I have had a few experiences with those born in Braja, and just naturally in their thoughts and conversations they say the Names of Radha and Krsna, Lala and Lali, 1728 times, 16-rounds, a day.

Some are Brahmins, some are gang leaders, but they all have a personal relations with KRSNA like he was someone who just lives around the corner!!

In most of our cases in ISKCON, we need to do some Vaidhi bhakti, follow rules and regulations or else we will probably become contaminated with some Sahajjiya consciousness.

O.K.?

Even internally on Raganuaga we usually see the devotee acts like a Vaidhi Bhakta, following rules and regulations, externally.

PAMHO AGTSP!!

All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!!

HK Maharaj!! How are you??

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Dead and Alive!

Well I know you asked me to write to you in some weeks,

so this is a really brief letter.

Well we’ve been speaking for several year now like 4 or 5, and we met like 20 years ago, I follow your advice regularly, been following the regulative principles now again for some time, and been chanting my rounds regularly really early in the morning, so I would like to ask you for spiritual shelter.

HpS - That is the "dead" part as ISKCON diksa guru. We had to give up initiating people because of our old age, yet we recommend people like H. G. Radha-krsna Das here in Houston to do the job and H. H. Yadu nandana Swami in Spain.

Certainly other reasonable competent people to handle the formality and the personal work with practical perspective!

As Siksa guru, I guess we can continue forever if we get off the bodily platform. I mean the Gopis took Uddhava as their Guru, so I guess we can all accept other people as our Disciples as a service, no?

Do you know Yadunandana Swami?

Very wonderful, really humble person.

The other thing I would like to please ask you is the following: I’ve been trying to make some new friends, specially abroad (maybe in the US) so would you kindly recommend me some devotees to start a relationship?

thank you very much in advance and my very best regards!

Federico

HpS/ASA - What kind of 'friendship' do you want? What kind of service do you want to discuss?

Maybe some readers of us writers will right away want to write to you, right?

Let us go to the next two recent posts?

Thank you!!!!