Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you Maharaja.

Maharaja, it is our extreme good fortune to serve you, your care taker and H. H. Yadunandana Swami in Manipur. Please kindly let me know the details of the trip – when all of you want to come to Manipur and leave, and the details of the devotees, etc., etc. Accordingly, we will buy the tickets and send you Maharaja.

political situation is manageable?

Nectar Of Devotion seminar?

He wants some place to write essays from the SB.

Is Manipura good for that?

He would naturally be fantastic cultural ambassador of Manipur in the West.

Stay one/two weeks?

Then back to Spain for Rama vijayotsava on October 12th.

What do you think?

Political situation is ok Maharaja. We can have Nectar of Devotion seminar with good number of participants during your stay. Yes, Manipur is a good place for HH Yadunandana Swami to write essays. Two weeks stay is ok Maharaja or forever also ok. Everything is all ok Maharaja. Or, we together can have Rama Vijayotsava festival in Manipur too. That day is our Guru Maharaja’s Tirobhava Utsav. Rama Vijayotsava is on October 13th in India.

Maharaja, Manipuris are little racial nowadays with strong anti-Indian feeling. Indian preachers are not much successful in Manipur. We are always thinking to have very good connection with western devotees to preach here in Manipur. Guru Maharaja wanted to have many nice things of ISKCON Manipur. This would be possible only by your blessings, Maharaja. We are really very happy to hear that you are going to bring HH Yadunandana Swami also. All glories to you Maharaja.

Thank you once again for your love for Manipuri devotees and Manipur.

Maharaja, first floor rooms are ok for yourself and HH Yadunandana Swami? Can we have some seminars in Manipur University during your visit? If so, please kindly suggest some topics, Maharaja.

Your humble servant

Sadhubhusan Das

ISKCON Manipur

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. Was waiting a little to answer until things are little fixed. Maharaja is trying to buy tickets right now. Madrid to India on the 18th of September, then he teaches for one week in Braja, and after that we can go to Manipuri. He is young man 😃 only like 65 years old. He can become great lover of Manipuri culture and maybe very strong link with Spanish culture of Spain.

Read all your news very carefully.

Think can give details soon.

Hope we can make cultural presentation that will reach people beyond Manomaya platform. Eg. I am this nation or that and nothing more.

Thank you.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru Maharaj HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj. Please accept our humble obeisances at Your sweet lotus feet.

Hare Krishna dear Guru Maharaj

Our godbrother Yamuneswar Prabhu Forwarded a message about Guru Maharaj's desire to take few classes for us fallen beings of Manipur. This has been our desire for a long time now, too shy and too worried we might disturb Guru Maharaj's busy schedule.

We have daily morning and evening classes starting at 6.30am and 6.30pm respectively through googlemeet.The link ishttps://meet.google.com/naa-phka-fth May we know when Guru Maharaj desire to take class ? Yamuneshwar Prabhu informed in the WhatsApp.

ASA/TB - 6.30AM IST is 8PM evening before for us!

6.30PM IST is 8am for us.

Maybe we can start working on an 8am class. Is there any topic or book that we can focus on?

Continuing our services from home. Chanting 16 rounds minimum daily. Thank you so much Guru Maharaj for the immense mercy.

Sending pic of Sri Nrshimha Dev on the auspicious Sri Nrshimhadev caturdasi. The other structure is the Sri Vishnu temple, the oldest Vishnu temple in Manipur as old as 15th century. The Vishnu Deity was gifted by Burmese king of Pong dynasty to Manipur King Kiyamba, long ,long before the advent of King Bhagyachandra. We were fortunate to give our services there.

HpS - We saw the Temple and heard the story, 'we heard He likes sweet rice'!!!

Opened Yoga programme at our department , trying our best to bring Srila Prabhupada's teachings to everyone somehow or other.

HpS - Asana and prana yama? Stories from SB?

Indebted to my Guru Maharaj always,

Your insignificant servant,

Sarad Gaurangi DD

Dear Guru Maharaja/ Dear Hanumat Preshak Maharaja

Please accept our humble obeisances

All glories to His Divine Grace!

On this auspicious day of appearance day of Lord Nrisimha we again can reflect how many blessings we received in this wonderful movement.

It takes a village to rise a child.

It takes innumerable incarnations and devotees kindness to keep us alive with their constant remembrance via occasions such as Nrisimha caturdashi.

We hope He will keep on glancing on us all and give us qualities to move forward.

In scriptures we find that

Sudarshan appeared as Varahas tusks,

Parasuram axe and Nrisimha nails.

Lord is everywhere!

Traps of His mercy are everywhere!

While writing this we are in the train back to our new "permanent" place that somehow appeared recently and took our time/attention past two months.

Due to the modes of nature and other ingredients I had to leave China and put all the deities to sleep.

Quite uncomfortable experience.

Today coincidentally happen that we are taking last 3 sets of Nrisimha deities to their home on 2000 km train journey.

The others are in Vrindavan.

China was basically paralysed due to covid 3 years and that move couldn't happen before.

My Guru Maharaja refused me 4 times in regards to green light for puja.

Took me 13 years to get the green light.

It was a nice time, time of growing desire for arcana seva.

His reasons are more and more proving right.

We tend to desire at the moment without being aware of circumstances that life brings and interfere with our regularity about seva.

Although I received a green light, it happened that still I had to go through lessons about deity worship and its importance.

Original altar was spread in 3 places and that made my mind 3 times more distracted.

Thanks to Lord Nrisimha and Prabhupadas mercy that we survived after giving the Lord this inconvenience.

Our "permanent" place is southern most part of China, just next to the border of Laos.

Its 2000m above see level and only place where there are some sort of hippy community.

It's ancient architecture towns with big lake in the middle.

Setting up a book table here is allowed (not in any other place in china).

In fact people standing on the street corners and doing some performance is encouraged and that is what makes this place famous in China.

A free zone!

People here wear traditional clothes and all do some sort of puja.

We collect water from the source as it is practice of people.

Tree of a picture-attached is one of 600 Peepal trees in the town.

Locals worship it for good fortune.

When we come to fetch water we do arati, poor water and circumabulate the tree.

Every village around the lake have people/families with particular skills.

Some are into cloth production, some have cows, tea, fish, stone or wood designing, etc....Hills are full of Buddhist temples and one can get some idea of their mood while being in those deep mountain forest doing their sadhana.

They are having large agricultural land and producing their own food.

Very well organised.

They have restaurants all around and if food is not free, then the fee is just very little.

Tibet is close by so strictness in their practice is higher than other parts of China. Proximity to Laos and construction of high speed railway that will open soon from the town to Vientiane, capital of Laos, is raising ideas of Krsna conscious expansion.

Young people speak English there and religious freedom reigns. It's a heaven that somehow has not yet been blessed by Srila Prabhupada and his troops.

We hope Nrisimha enlightens and guides us what is to be done and when. We may venture there in the future.

Anjana Ma has received nectar "from the sky". Your Anjana, whatever cooks is nectar. I am gaining some weight because of that, but I don't complain. 

Maharaja, it's nice to have your association/presence in our life. We hope we can please you and imbibe your good qualities so that we can continue the legacy of His Divine Grace. 

Yours in service of Hari ,Guru and Vaishnava 

Vanara-rani Anjana and Narayan pandit das

HpS - Super. Why not ask Buddha to come and tell people about the absolute truth and its manifestations for them.

THank you so much.

Now we run to Temple.

Thank you so so much!!!

Each word was nectar.

Hare Krisna Gurudev. Gracias por la contestación a mi mensaje anterior, Voy a contestar a sus preguntar para el placer de los Blogueros.

ASA.Su intelecto está espontáneamente convencido de que será productivo, incluso si sus sentidos pueden estar un poco aletargados?

   Si, pienso que el intelecto cada vez es espiritualmente mas productivo. Aunque a veces no me acuerdo de que he ido a buscar a la cocina.  

ASA – Por que no derecho e historia?

La Universidad, desde el punto de vista de los jóvenes, es un medio para conseguir un buen trabajo (artha). Nimai debe pensar que derecho y economía le va a dar mejores facilidades para lograr un buen trabajo.

ASA. Pareces una de las personas más afortunadas del mundo. ¿Cambiarías tu puesto por el del Papa, Putin?

Me considero una de las personas mas afortunadas del mundo por haber conocido a Bhaktivedanta Swami (a través de sus libros, canciones, cartas,etc.) y también por los amigos que tengo, ya que son buenos devotos de Krisna. No puedo envidiar a nadie que no acepte a Srila Prabhupada como El Salvador del Mundo”

 ASA. ¿Podrías entender lo suficiente sobre el libro a partir del artículo para ver si tenía evidencia sustancial para su tesis? Los Pandavas vivieron en Dvarpara Yuga. ¿Ha apreciado ese factor?

¡¡Gracias!!

Leyendo el articulo entiendo que el escritor catedrático de historia, defiende que estas culturas se conocían entre sí y tenían alguna conexión; y lo apoya con diversos descubrimientos arqueológicos. Tengo que leer el libro para ver si la cronología es fidedigna, pero me gusta que el autor nombre a Sahadev (como representante del gran imperio “Kushán”), que es un gran devoto de Krisna. Eso normaliza a Krisna en la historia desde la perspectiva occidental.

Tengo que leer el libro para averiguar la profesionalidad del Ensayo.

HpS/ASA - ¿Puedes ayudarnos con algunos planes para nuestra visita a España?

Estaré encantado de poder ser útil en su estancia en España. Cuando tenga el billete de regreso de India podemos ver las fechas de posibles programas. Entiendo que hasta que no vuelva de India no es necesario hacer ningún programa ya que, entre el aterrizaje del cuerpo, mente, etc. en España y la preparación del viaje a India, esos días son de transición.

Puedo hablar con Mónica (directora del Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid) y preguntarle si le va bien que hagamos algún programa allí a partir de finales de octubre.

También podemos hablar con Luis, el alcalde de Brihuega para hacer una presentación de la película en algún local del Ayuntamiento. Pienso que esta gestión es mejor hacerla a través de Yadunandana Swami que es el alcalde de la comunidad Santa Clara (Hare Krishna) y es algo mas oficial (protocolario).

Si se quiere hacer alguna cosa más, podemos hablarlo en octubre cuando ya haya descansado del largo viaje EE UU-España-India-España. ¿OK?

HpS - Thank you. At our age, making plans for the future is always very doubtful.

Maybe you have see in Twitter today that we are trying to visit India with Maharaja. That is like the 17th of September until the 2nd of October.

When we arrive on the 11th is Radharani's birthday party and then ekadasi, jiva goswami, vamana dvadasi, vsivarupa mohotsava etc. Of course, we hope we can be of some use during these festivals.

Visvarupa mahotsava is anniversary of Upadesamrta.

Of course, Yugala Kishore Dasi and two other ladies are working on suggestions for the calendar also, so we can coordinate it all here, no?

Thank you. 👍

 Acepte mis reverencias.

Ss

Jayanta das

Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva AGTSP PAMHO ☺️

I was wondering if your uncoming Sri. vyasa puja will be this year or the next

Do You know the date?

Thanks in advance

HpS - Robot, agtSP, keeps coming back as Jiva Goswami's disappearance day. That will the January 2, 2025.

Thank you.

Ys

CMDD

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

PAMHO. AGTSP!

HK Maharaj! How r u?

HpS - Same, agtSP, as you and everyone else in the material world, but some mercy is squeezing through by Srila Prabhupada's mercy.... ! ! ! ......

Well, I’ve been living in Cordoba city for 3 years, and thanks to Krishna’s mercy I get to visit ISKCON Buenos Aires once a month,

I’ve many friends there and a lot of acquaintances,

it’s a joy for me going being there since I feel so much happiness during the Kirtana, bhajans,

there are excellent devotees there who perform both extatic bhajans and Kirtana, and usually the classes are really good.

There’s a brahmacari there, Gopal Govinda Prabhu, who preaches like heaven, makes you laugh, chill and get really excited.

I’ve been attending to that temple for the past 20 years, and it was there where I had the opportunity to meet you, and a lot of other great Gurus.

Well, the trial went more or less fine, the judge said that, since I had enrolled my daughter in a Kindergarden in the mother’s town, I was like agreeing she moved there, so he decided she must stay there, but I’ve got so many new rights in regard my daughter, now I have like 1 month and a half of vacations with her, and she comes to my city on weekends, I travel to pick her up, and the mother comes to take her away.

You know I’ve been dealing with some serious attachment issues with my child’s mother.

Well. she tried to blackmail asking for favor in return of the chance of me taking vacations with my daughter, and always used my daughter’s maintenance money for her own favour, and many other mean things, and sometimes it’s like I really forget about all of that and invite her out to have lunch or something, trying to fix the relation, when it’s unfixable I see,

and even I always get really depressed after those encounters,

I always retry seeing her.

What piece of advice would you give me in order to quit that addiction?

HpS - Keep deities of Radha and Krsna on you altar and bath them and feed them and live a nice life for them, and develop relations with devotees, some may be like mother, sister etc.

I have another philosophical question, well, we’ve all heard that Krishna’s the supreme controller, and I was wondering, if he doesn’t interfere with our free will, our decision on who to serve, isn’t that like a contradiction? I mean, sounds like that is something he cannot control, in spite He being the supreme controller.

HpS - He choses not to control it. Your daughter is making a bad choice bay buying into Barbi dolls rather than worshipping her own Jagannatha deities, but you realize that she needs to experience the situation herself. You are the ultimate controller, she is the efficient controller and the dolls are the material controllers.

Hmm? Chant, read, associate, serve and you will begin to see how it works in a very practical sense.

And please another question, regarding the Jiva status quo, I understood what you taught me about the Jiva eternal decision on who to serve, whether it’s Maya or Krishna, but I feel a little bit contradicted internally since Prabhupada states several times in the Bhagavata things like “to reach the spiritual platform and never return” well even Krishna says in a BG verse that the transcendentalist who reaches the spiritual realm never goes back, does that have something to do with what you said about that we should never look “back” or “down” in the spiritual process.

HpS - Memory or understanding of the last phrase.

Revatinandana Swami said that he specifically asked Prabhupada about the places in the BG where it says, 'they never come back' and Srila Prabhupada laughed and said that it means almost never.

If a poor man wins the lottery he will never go hungry ever again, right. 🙂

well thank you always for being there, I really appreciate your mail’s responses and you point of view.

hope you are always well.

HK!

Federico Molnár

HpS - Thank you. Hare Krsna!!! Thank you for the news and I hope several others had the same questions. We just give our answers, ideas, citations, but reading Srila Prabhupada directly is so powerful.