Letters to the editor

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Hare Krishna, Gurumajaraja

PAMHO

AGTSP

Gurumajaraja hoping that everithing is going well there, its Divya Dristy dd from Cusco, Just wanted to tell you that Ive tried a few thinks to make work the matajis asram Ive opened althought they didnt work.

My questions are:

1- Gurumajaraja, how can I feel the presence of God,Even thought I chant my rounds I feel alone,how can I stablish a connexion with God? Feel his presence, His company? His help?

2_ How can I manage loneliness? Because even thougt theres is a lot of people sorrounding me I feel alone,now Im in Cusco,I ve put distance with devotees because for me is dificult to set a balanced relationship with them,sometimes there are discusstions arguments,but at same time I want to have their association, thinking in just to do harinam, kirtan and japa chanting with them no more than that.

So how can I have connexion with devotees and people since me been devotee? And stop feeling loneliness?

2_ What kind of programa can I organize to atract women to practice Krishna conciusness?

3- How could I have any autosustainable program? because Ihave to pay rent and services expenses.

3_ At same time I'm thinking to engage profesors of art giving workshops in the living room,puppets,theater, handicrafts,etc. Could you give me more suggestions about this please?🙏🙂

Thank you very much for your answers Gurumajaraja.

Your servant.

Divya Dristy dd

Photo bhakta Juchi the piggy and My deyties

HpSwami ASA - Sorry, agtSP, slow to answer. Limited strength and selfishness also.

AgtSP.

Many questions!

I can't even begin to answer them very well, Hare Krsna, let's ask Srila Prabhupada, Jayananda Das Prabhu, to give us answer.

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Chant louder!

Longer.

That's what we do. It has worked in so many situations.

Take the friendship of you deities.

Lord Nrsmhadeva has been our friend when we are completely alone.

Make the subject Hot Topic if it is really urgent.

Also we did not know it was you writing.

Srila Prabhupada was a lifetime in preparation for his Sankirtan success.

Yet Krsna made some practical arrangements.

Keep trying.

"Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from many counselors."

We can't know the details of your situation, so we can't give any detailed advice.

Why not join with Mitravinda Devi Dasi???

Ladies ashrama is natural under the protection of Senior Grhastha couple, no?

Hare Krsna!!!

🐵 - Nice piks!!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

PAMHO AGTSP

A while ago I met a type of clown called Pierrot.

Pierrot is a melancholic character born from Italian commedia dell'arte and later adopted by French theatre. He represents the sad, naive clown, often in love without being loved back. Originally, he didn’t sing or play instruments, but over time he became associated with art and music, as seen in Schoenberg’s piece Pierrot Lunaire. Today, he is sometimes portrayed as a bohemian artist who sings or plays instruments.

YS

PMD

HpSwami ASA - Thank, agtSP, you!

I hope you, we, can preach to him, his spirit, his community, and add the magic of Nimai's drama to his thread.

Nothing lost.

Everyone on board.

Hare Krishna Gurudev, Please accept my humble obeisances..🙇 All glories to srila prabhupada 🙇

I'm still here in Vrindavan dham, doing sadhanas very strictly. Attending mangal arati daily and doing gurupuja in the ashram where I'm staying (Sant colony, Vrindavan).Reading prabhupad's books daily.

Gurudev I'm still serving in VIHE , and I've got wonderful opportunity to enroll in some the courses as a student cum facilitator and thinking to start Bhakti sastri also in near future.

In this Ram navami I've got wonderful seva of distributing Tava Pache Pache ,near Krishna Balaram Mandir. 🙏♥️

It's all your blessings and mercy I could stay here in Vraj for almost 7 months now🙏 🙇

And please engage me eternally in your service gurudev.🙇♥️

As you instructed to learn mridanga, the practice is still going on and with your mercy I'm getting sevas of doing kirtan and going for harinam sangkritan.👏💐

Your insignificant servant

Navadvip Iswara Das

HpS - Very nice to hear from you. With whom you are associated?

Do you belong to the WhatsApp anveSaka Group?

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

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj.

Please accept our humble obeisances at Your precious sweet lotus feet.

Thank you so much for the reply Guru Maharaj.

Our cup overflows with your love. We are trying our best to please you dear Guru Maharaj. We have only Guru Maharaj as our refuge. Even if the whole world disowns us, we will continue to seek Your mercy Guru Maharaj.

HpSwamiAgtSP

We visited Kumbh Mela...it was a spiritual experience of a lifetime. We were not aware that the day we took the holy dip at Triveni Sangam happened to be Advaita Acharya's appearance day. We take this, not a coincidence but a special blessing from our Guru Maharaj. We had to wait in the queue for nearly 3 hours to take darshan of Hanumanji....the only Hanumanji who is in lying down position.

Thank you Guru Maharaj once again. The CC classes have started on Gaura Purnima. We are having every Sunday at 1pm. A small group of about 15 of us. This again is Your blessing Guru Maharaj. Most of them are doctors, retired professors ...surgeons, Psychologists, Anesthesiologist. The oldest is Sir Akshaykumar Prabhu, all of 85 years, who was also one of the dignitaries of the programme conducted at RIMS together with NIOS when Guru Maharaj visited our Institute.

Sending some pic. Both the devotees holding the CC were our teachers . One was the Head of Biochemistry department and the oldest , Sir Aksayekumar Prabhu holds the CC with lots of love.

Our godsister Radha Japa Mataji is teaching us Spanish and Peruvian dance. We surrender to you Guru Maharaj. We remain indebted to you Guru Maharaj for making such wonderful things happen in our lives. Only when we Associate with you dear Guru Maharaj can we find real peace and satisfaction in our lives.

Your insignificant servant always,

HpS - Maybe we can study CC together.

ASA will be reading CC adi 7.

ASA - Submitted several weeks, months, ago!! Hare Krsna.

Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our most humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are very excited to have your darshan at the morning program in Houston on your Vyasapuja. It is so nice to chant with you Guru Maharaj. You have and continue to be our reason to be inspired in Krsna Consciousness. Currently we are watching the Vyasa Puja on YouTube.

We wanted to present a small offering. It is a compilation of your poetry and illustrated manuscripts. There are 30 posts from the last four months on the blog: https://poetry-anthology-by-hp-swami.tumblr.com/ . If we have your blessings, we hope to keep looking through twitter and the blog from the last ten years to create an anthology of your poetry.

HpS/ASA - Amazing! ! ! AgtSP!!!!!! . . . . We looked at the first one third. It seems to be like Moon Beams from a Larger Madness.

Little birds and bees that ornament the forest trees of Srila Prabhupada's cogent symphony.

Read a few a day:\?

We asked Srinath prabhu a few months ago if it was possible to print an anthology that could be up to 300 to 400 pages. We are thinking that it may be that long Gurudev because of how prolific your writing has been through the years and how important it is to preserve your writing that means so much to your disciples and everyone in the Vaishnava community who appreciate your art. Srinath said it is possible to publish this many pages and is happy to help with the process. It would be an irreplaceable gift to the devotees and disciples, as well as every human and of course non-human that could hear near and far.

ASA - Kindle? Printable format like Word and PDF that people can publish as they like.

We have a lot of questions about how you would like to organize it Gurudev. We would also like to find other Vaishnava poets in the ISKCON movement or beyond to help with a preface.

We can ask Radhika Raman Prabhu and others about possibilities. Also in blog form we could make changes and edits and can send the login info to you also to make edits. We can send this in a separate message.

ASA - You can see that even though we wanted very, very much to answer your post, looking at it and others often, we just do not have the strength.

After months in Houston we are getting some kind of working schedule.

Not planning on changing our Camp site before August 15th, Janmastami.

How is the Army!

Spaniards, Cowboy American Kids, Missy's, Potato People?

We also have questions for publicizing such as: Should we have just one poem per page or is two ok if it is under 8 lines? What kind of Titles for each poem would you like? For now we put Date above the poems and if there were more than one publication the time was also included.

We also noticed how special the picture icons are with the accompanying poems. When we transferred from twitter on the computer to word the pictures became very big. If we copied from the phone though they stayed the same. Would you like the pictures with the poems Gurudev? We included some with and some without. We are curious if emojis could be published.

On another note, we felt like Idaho city home got transformed being able to honor you Gurudev for Vyasapuja. We made a veggie pot pie dish and made holiday cookies. Also you requested from my husband pictures. Jahnavi wanted to draw the Syamataka Jewel and was very happy to hear that it was a pastime you are also fond of. Sita wanted to draw Radha Krsna "getting married" and said she really wanted to see them get married. She said it was not in the Krsna book but said it did happen in the forest and wanted to share it with you.

Here is a poem:

Dear Guru Maharaj

The snow falls

The suffering

the hurt continues

like a Robert Frost poem

people are getting lost in thinking...

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

We know another road less taken

Where Krsna plays

Gets lost in the woods

with his best friend

holding each other through the storm

and frolicking thereafter

All of the devotees wanted to believe Krsna is theirs only

And when the trees fell down and demigods came up

the rumors spread

Krsna is extra Ordinarily special

Still

they couldn't stop believing that Krsna is our family member, best well wisher

Our life force now and forever

Guru Maharaj we want the same

You gave us a glimpse of

Being our utmost friend, well wisher

We sometimes forget like Krsna's friends and family

Your position

Because we are so happy to be with you

And get this attention we never feel worthy of

From Krsna's special friend

Its other worldly

and we never want it to end

Missing your association means we miss

going to the watery source

We want to draw/leap/forget what is painful with you

and just serve

You gave us a family

Your oasis source of Srila Prabhupada

The spiritual world that's opened up to us like a tent in the middle of Kansas

escorted us to join the circus of our childhood dreams

Thankyou 🙏

You said a few years ago

With a jovial laugh

"Your old enough now to be a grandma"

We are sad to see jealousy, remorse, sadness, lamentation

Not leave us even with the gravity of age

What an exhausted sigh and opening monkey warrior

we get steadfastness to Srila Prabhupada's process

every prose or excerpt is a passage

on how to step into the spiritual world

where every step is a dance

seamless, easy, simple and natural

to just slow...... down

with japa; studying service and gandarva prance

Make it our main skip line and Dandavats

At your and Srila Prabupada's lotus feet

Every waking and evening prayer

We beg to transform dry limerence and notoriety

into being a servant of the ants in the temple or the worm tiller of the rosemary outside

who serves the herbs that find its way to Krsna's plate

In the woods we wait 🙏

We miss you Gurudev. Please let us know when we can see you again. We could take turns going to Houston. Happy Vyasa Puja!

Your servant,

Kamagayatri dd, Murari, Aja, Jahnavi, Sita and Arjun

HpS - Wow! As soon as we ask a question you answer it.

I hope our Blog Posts, Twittttttter and no anveSaka have been able to keep you informed about us.

Poetry is great.

You are putting something very, very substantial on the plate!!!

Don't wait.

Don't hesitate.

Distribute in bite size pieces wherever you go, whomever you meet.

Those who will take to distribute also, to whomever they meet, dump a bagful at there feet.

Hare Krsna! Muy querido Guru Maharaja, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias sean a nuestro comandante en jefe; AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Fundador Acarya de ISKCON y todas las glorias a los miembros de este trascendental ejército! 🙇

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Querido Gurudeva, orando siempre a nuestras Señorías le otorguen la energía suficiente para continuar con Su Sankirtana. Agradezco de todo corazón cada esfuerzo que usted realiza para involucrarnos en esta trascendental misión. Solo por su misericordia sin causa consigo esforzarme, tanto como puedo, por vivir conforme a sus instrucciones (estoy repleta de fallas, pero me esfuerzo con entusiasmo, determinación y confianza en el proceso) Soy solo una partícula en este inmenso ejército, y mis batallas son así de pequeñas, tan solo intento que cada experiencia me conecte con nuestro Señor y compartir Conciencia de Krsna, a quienes conozco.

- 4/16, FMS, FEP... Srimad Bhagavatam, es la panacea, diariamente nos refugiamos en Él a través de los significados Bhaktivedanta, de vuestras clases y las de maravillosos vaisnavas. La asociación de buenos vaisnavas nos brinda guía, contención y apoyo, les estoy muy agradecida.

- Intento adorar y cuidar de nuestras Señorías, desarrollando amor. (Observo que no estoy dándoles amor, porque la idea que tenía del amor estaba condicionada a distintas experiencias materiales; expectativas, ilusiones y traumas, poco a poco vamos descubriendo la diferencia entre el oro y el hierro.)

- Aun hay dolor tras la muerte de buenos amigos, pero intento refugiarme en la misericordia de Krsna. Escuchamos una clase muy iluminadora sobre el suicidio, de Rambhoru Devi.

( https://youtu.be/dfSK_gXMRCs?si=en8qrqW_pkQxTJqS ) 

- Como es normal, la salud de este cuerpo se deteriora. Estos últimos meses hemos padecido inflamación cerebral, ahora parece más estable, aunque tengo muy, muy poca energía, tanto que casi no he podido conectarme al ASA FMS, estoy realizando el programa matutino un poco más tarde (5 am).

Gurudeva, creo que más que morir, me asusta la posibilidad de permanecer en un estado de inconciencia, porque es muy probable que no sea capaz de recordar a nuestro Señor, me asusta pensar, cuánto tiempo podría pasar en esa condición y a dónde me llevará mi baja conciencia😕

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Por ahora ese es el reporte desde esta pequeña trinchera, intentamos tener una lucha digna, batallando entre dolor, temor, quizá un poco de amor, pero con mucha confianza en nuestro misericordioso Señor y Sus representantes.

Eternamente agradecida con usted, siempre a sus órdenes.

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

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Hare Krishna! Dearest Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to our Commander-in-Chief, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of ISKCON, and all glories to the members of this transcendental army! 🙇

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HpS/ASA - ❗

... Dear Gurudeva, I always pray that Our Lordships grant you enough energy to continue Your Sankirtana. I wholeheartedly appreciate every effort you make to involve us in this transcendental mission. It is only by Your causeless mercy that I strive, as much as I can, to live according to Your instructions (I am full of flaws, but I strive with enthusiasm, determination, and confidence in the process). I am just a particle in this immense army, and my battles are that small. I am simply trying to connect with our Lord and share Krishna Consciousness with those I know.

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🐒 ASA ! 

...... - 4/16, FMS, FEP... Srimad Bhagavatam is the panacea. We take refuge in Him daily through the Bhaktivedanta purports, your classes, and those of wonderful Vaishnavas. The association of good Vaishnavas provides us with guidance, support, and encouragement; I am very grateful to them.

- I try to worship and care for our Lordships, developing love. (I notice that I am not giving them love because the idea I had of love was conditioned by different material experiences: expectations, illusions, and traumas. Little by little, we are discovering the difference between gold and iron.)

- There is still pain after the death of good friends, but I try to take refuge in Krishna's mercy. We listened to a very enlightening class on suicide by Rambhoru Devi.

(https://youtu.be/dfSK_gXMRCs?si=en8qrqW_pkQxTJqS)

- As is normal, the health of this body is deteriorating. These past few months, we've suffered from brain swelling. Now it seems more stable, although I have very, very little energy, so much so that I've barely been able to connect to ASA FMS. I'm doing the morning program a little later (5 am).

Gurudeva, I think more than dying, I'm afraid of remaining unconscious, because it's very likely I won't be able to remember our Lord. I'm afraid to think how long I could spend in that condition and where my lowered consciousness will take me.

HpS - "Unconscious" may mean Conscious of the material elements eg. water, fire, earth and nothing else. We are absorbed in looking at something stupid, but... if we want it, we can be detached from that absorption and realize that behind the material nature is paramatma... and He is manifestation of that rascal son of Yasoda, whom we all love like anything!

All the work you have done develop that consciousness is fully appreciated by Krsna.

!FULLY!

Last verses of Isopanisad. You will not be unconscious.

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For now, that's the report from this small trench. We try to have a dignified fight, battling through pain, fear, perhaps a little love, but with great trust in our merciful Lord and His representatives.

Eternally grateful to you, always at your service.

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

ASA 🐒 - Death is God's way of saying, 'it's time to slow down!'

Pain is not letting go our our prestige and rejecting just crying like a helpless baby for KRSNA!

Seeing, agtSP, you every minute.