Letters to the editor

All Glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Now, I came here, dear Guru Maharaja, just to tell you that we had a great accomplishment today in the SII (Servicio de Impuestos Internos) in Chile.

HpS - Like, agtSP, IRS in USA.

We get a tax debt write-off of 7.000 USD, that ISKCON generated since 2017 due the devotees`s repudiation of debt in the past.

After the good response after months of visits, hours invested, irritating Internet and physical red tape, today, in our happiness with the team, we discovered that our new and diligent accountant is a new devotee, who actually met the devotees along with her husband in their participation of several days of the "El Arte y Lo Sagrado" events in Las Condes and iF Chile.

ASA - 🐵 ❗❗❗Amazing. Even a gorilla can take part and dance in ecstacy. We just talked. You arranged the program.



So thank you Guru Maharaja. Thank you NIOS. We used to get in contact with different kind of people in NIOS events, like the psychologist and currently astrologer, your disciple, Mandara Sakha das.

Our accountant

Her name was shared with you privately.

Sometime ago, after staying boring in bed for 6 months because a complicated pregnancy, so she read the "Bhagavad Gita as it is" twice and start the Bhagavatam. 

Then she had an horrible miscarriage. Her child came with problems too. 

Afer they arrived to their home, in sad disappointment and sorrowful, and after the whole procedures that almost left her without uterus, inmediately she invited her husband, who has deep respect for Krishna due to a couple of intense experiences with him, to a read a random Bhagavad Gita sloka to get solace.

They opened the book randomly, and they open tbe book in the following three verses:

TEXT 20: For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

TEXT 21: O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?

TEXT 22: As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.

They encountered calm and even happiness after that.

Now, she's is a 6 months pregnant again but without any problem. The physician said.to them that is a regular pregnant woman now. She even came today to this government office to this last step of a process for ISKCON in this regard. And she's planning the next steps to get donations officially and under de ISKCON DNI in the country.

Please, bless the devotees in Chile who miss you so much. And the new bhaktas that didn't have the good fortune to know you better.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

HpS - Really, Chile is our Sankirtan base. All along the wall widows were pictures of Rama lila, Asoka van! Chile leads the world in so many ways.

All respects to the heroes there.

16/4 >>> pure servants of Krsna. The chariot driver of Arjuna.

Hare Krsna Gurudev, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada, y tambien a usted. 🌹

I've been a long time without writing to you. I've done it several times mentally but never managed to send it.

🤓

I've resumed studying Bhakti Bhaivava. I'm doing it with Param Padam and a beautiful group of devotees. I joined them when they started Chapter 2.

I had already done Chapter 1 some years ago with Prabhu Lakshman. We had also done part of Chapter 2, but as we didn't complete it, I decided to start over.

I always knew that studying with devotees generates a lot of enthusiasm for me and brings health to my spiritual life. I feel that my sadhana has been very neglected in recent years, and I know that this systematic study helps me to recover.

Life experiences such as being a mother and others, I have been trying to look at them from the perspective of Krishna consciousness, and that has always been something that keeps me connected and inspired. In a sense, I feel deeper now than before.

🎥

Last year we were invited to teach Photography and Film at the Waldorf school Hari Vamsi attends. To 16-17-year-olds. We started with photography and concluded with film. They were able to create a script and shoot it. We guided them to the end, and the result was a very good 8-minute short film. Everyone was very happy.

ASA - 👍 Now they will continue with beer commercials? 😆 Don't think so. From your association they probably also got understanding of 'why' make movies as well as 'how', no???

This year we were invited again, and we are delving deeper into photography, into the personal aspect, personal motivations of photographers of all times, while the young people develop a personal photographic project.

ASA - Seee!

I am very happy with this opportunity.

I also offered a Film workshop for young people and adults at a cultural center in the area. It was very interesting because there were young people and older adults.

I want to express my gratitude once again for the opportunity to contribute to the DTC-UT project. It was deeply meaningful for me.

I know that I am not able to take advantage of all the opportunities and mercy that Krishna sends, through you and Srila Prabhupada. That can sometimes be a bit overwhelming, yet it serves as an impetus to improve and deepen a little every day.

Muchas gracias Gurudev.

Intentando ser util y servilo siempre,

Vrsabhanu Nandini Devi Dasi

hps/asa - great!!! when you leave this body, they will erect a statue for you at the school and say, 'she was very good person. she taught us a lot. some of us even joined her church'!

.... but watch to see if KRSNA has some special roles for you to play.

do not be afraid of becoming a devotee on the level of narada muni.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I wanted to tell you about my japa chanting. 98% of the time I sing my rounds after getting up for the MA. Sometimes I finish them during the morning when I have to travel early to another city. 

The truth is that lately it has taken me a long time to finish them, sometimes 3 hours or more. In a previous letter I mentioned the same thing, but there are periods when I can sing it in 2 hours or 2 hours 15 minutes. 

My singing is not very attentive, maybe 10% attention, but I am making progress in paying more attention to the sound day by day, sometimes more, sometimes less, but at least I sing the rounds.

Regarding your question from the previous letter (How are your relationships with everyone in the Temple and the community in terms of the violence and chaos that your mind created a few months ago???) My relationship with authority and devotees is of respect, but I do not pressure the situation to be resolved. Last year they told me that probably in March 2024 I would be able to visit the temple, but I don't know what happened to that. I try not to bother.

HpS - Text us on Whatsapp, please.

SOME QUESTIONS: 

What will the FMS be like when you are no longer in your current body? I would love to continue having the association of devotees at Mangala Arati. 

ASA - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/28/48/ and surrounding verses. We are small acarya, srila prabhupada is big acharya. he will be here without much change when we go.

There are different theories regarding whether the soul falls, where the soul comes from, etc. My question is: We as a soul are in the spiritual world and the atomic particle present in the heart of the body is only our consciousness?

HpS - Is the star in the sky in the mirror?

If the Utama Adhikari (like Srila Prabhupada) refers to himself as a Madhyama, then does the Madhyama refer to himself as Kanishta?

ASA - Higher can come down and act like lower. teacher can act like child to show example for children how to read.

Thank you very much Gurudeva

Now that I can be in the FMS my spiritual life has become more stable.

asa - us also.

his servant 

Piyari Mohan das

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaja 🙏🏻

Please, accept my humble obeisances!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

This is the fortnightly schedule of devotees for leading kirtan on ASA / Full Morning Service :

● MONDAY: H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami.

● TUESDAY: Govardhana das, Mitravinda devi dasi.

● WEDNESDAY: Yugala Kishora dasi, Jagad Guru das.

● THURSDAY: Caturatma Goura das, Jagadisvara das.

● FRIDAY: Abhinanda das, Deva Vrata das.

● SATURDAY: Isvari Radha devi dasi, Karuna Sakti devi dasi, Guru Govinda Dasi.

● SUNDAY: Candramukhi devi dasi, Parasurama Avatara das, Vrsabhanu Nandini devi dasi.

Thank you 🙏🏻

ASA - Everyone, agtSP, who is leading is getting up by 4am regularly, attending Mangala arati, performing Kirtan, reading SB etc.? 🙂

Sunday Morning Srimad Bhagavatam class, reading Sri Caitanya Caritamrta. On coming Sunday (June 9, 2024), we will continue reading CHAPTER Eight: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya, verses 8.168 onwards.

Thank you to H. G. Lakshman Prabhu for doing translation for class on June 2, 2024.

It is the mercy of Maharaja, to engage everyone in reading books of Srila Prabhupada.

YS

Upendra dasa

ASA - AgtSP! Ramananda Raja!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.

Acepte por favor mis respetuosas reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada!

Espero que se encuentre muy bien.

Llevo mucho tiempo sin reportarme, pero nada ha cambiado.

Sigo con curso de Bhakti Sastri, y a un grupo pequeño en Curso de Bhaktas.

Estudiando Bhakti Vaibhava.

Leyendo Caitanya Caritamrta, adi-lila.

Desde este mes comenzamos un servicio (una vez al mes) para Sri Sri Goura Nitai del templo (ofrenda de bhoga y puja del mediodía).

Gurudev, debo decirle que casi no puedo interactuar en FMS ya que es la hora de preparar todo para llevar a los niños a la escuela. Cocinamos desayuno y almuerzo muy temprano, por eso me levanto más temprano para cantar japa.

Seguimos con la lectura del Krsna Book por la noche... un servicio eterno. Esperamos que los niños puedan hacer esta lectura cada noche cuando sean más grandes.

Hemos estado celebrando las festividades en nuestra casa o en casa de devotos, que también tienen niños. Las fiestas son en la semana, por eso es un poco difícil ir al templo.

También visitamos muy seguido a amigos devotos con quienes cantamos, y cocinamos para Krsna.

Los niños están en otra escuela. Encontramos profesores y niños veganos y vegetarianos, personas ligadas al yoga, más intelectuales y con más valores. Aunque cualquier lugar puede ser adecuado para ser devoto, estos ambientes pueden ser favorables.

Estamos tranquilos, felices en conciencia de Krsna. Haciendo todo con más devoción.

Espero que estas noticias puedan ser agradables para usted.

Nunca pido Sus bendiciones, pero espero seamos dignos de ellas.

Adjunto algunas fotografías.

Su aspirante a sirviente

Priyasakhi DD y familia.

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Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaja.

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories be to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you are well.

HpS - The same tooth that rotted and had to be pulled recently on the right side, seems to be now rotting on the left side. Doctor said it might happen. 🙂

Seems that not just our old age but also Kali-yuga is reminding us that everything can change a lot at any moment. So making plans for the next few months or years is necessary, but we need to be really ready to adjust, taking constant shelter of the the Holy Names as giving us intelligence to plan.

I haven't reported for a long time, but nothing has changed.

I continue with the Bhakti Sastri course, and a small group in the Bhaktas Course.

Studying Bhakti Vaibhava.

Reading Caitanya Caritamrta, adi-lila.

HpS - Hope it never changes, just gets deep and broader!

From this month we start a service (once a month) for Sri Sri Goura Nitai of the temple (bhoga offering and midday puja).

HpS - Super. Wonderful if all the Grhasthas do this! Different family every night each week.

Gurudev, I must tell you that I can hardly interact at FMS as it is time to prepare everything to take the children to school. We cook breakfast and lunch very early, so I get up earlier to chant japa.

HpS - Fine, fine. For Maite it is like 10.30AM! 🙂

We continue reading the Krsna Book at night... an eternal service. We hope the children can do this reading every night when they are older.

We have been celebrating the festivities at our house or at the houses of devotees, who also have children. The holidays are during the week, so it is a little difficult to go to the temple.

We also visit devotee friends very often with whom we sing, and cook for Krsna.

The children are in another school. We find vegan and vegetarian teachers and children, people linked to yoga, more intellectual and with more values. Although any place can be suitable to be a devotee, these environments can be favorable.

We are calm, happy in Krsna consciousness. Doing everything with more devotion.

I hope this news can be pleasant for you.

I never ask for His blessings, but I hope we are worthy of them.

I attach some photographs.

Your would-be servant

Priyasakhi DD and family.

HpS/ASA - Thank you, Prabhu. How old are your children? What is your esteemed husband doing.

All these things may seem like little things. but now many people in the world now are chanting 16-rounds per day under Srila Prabhupada's authority? There are Mangala aratis going on 24-hours per day, now?

Result will accumulate. It is like blades of grass growing and eventually pushing over a big building.

Such nice photos! We added some Prairie Dogs!