Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja

PAMHO AGTSP

Many things happend since my last letter.

Will try to resume

1)Bhaktin Marta and I keep trying to serve Srila Prabhupada, Krishna and his devotees at the best of our capacities.

2) Nanda Gram rural community is developing Slowly but surely, 3 families will be stablished at the land among this year.

Many other devotees are interested althow we do not actively promote the project.

3)The youth projects keep developing very nicely many second generation devotees from all around Europe are benefiting and many ISKCON projects are also getting funds.

4) Acting as RGB secretary for Spain, what to say, I try to do my best in that position.

5) Keep distributing books online more than 2000 Gitas already and several Srimad Bhagavatams (I do not know exact number maybe some 6-7 full sets)

6) I got Uruguayan citizenship and right now I am writing you from Uruguay.

I love the country and his devotees some lack of unity, no official temple, but I think that the devotees are very valuable and experienced.

Probably will try to get some facility here so i can travel regularly (Once a year) and have asociation with devotees in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil.

7)Got involved in helping devotees refugees from Ukraine. There are 25,000 devotees in Ukraine and several hundreds of mothers with children are searching for shelter in Europe.

Do you have exact dates for your visit to Spain?

HpS - AgtSP!!! Paoho.... I think we already answered this letter. It is very nice!!!

We are looking to buy the tickets for Spain right now. Thinking like 15th July to 1st October. We would like to basically stay one place where people can be accommodated to visit us. New Vraja Mandala seems to have some of those characteristics?

Is good idea?

Will be great to host you in Nanda Gram

We have facilities to host 60 devotees in our head quarters

Please let me know if I can serve you in anyway

Ysv

JMHD

Hare Krishna

Mis Respetuoso saludos y Reverencia Gurudev Maharaj.🙏🙏

Toda Gloria y Reverencias a Srila Prabhupadaji. 🙏🙏🌼

Estimado Gurudev, Muchas gracias por su Misericordia de haberme dado refugio.

Actualmente estoy en Inglaterra y regreso el Primero de Marzo al templo de Vrajamandala...... Pero por motivos de salud de mi padre tengo que viajar a Perú, ahora en Mayo, pero antes me urge arreglar los documentos que los tengo caducados y posiblemente me vaya a vivir allí definitivamente el otro año.

Oh!! Gurudev Maharaj, con el Respeto que usted se merece, amorosamente, si me lo permite le haría una petición... Si me pudiese dar por favor El (Pranama Mantra) y así, sentirme más inspirada a seguir adelante.

HpS - Hare Krsna, Prabhu!!! Are you a Formal Aspirant? Did the temple send a letter of recomendation?

Gurudev : Recordar y escuchar su dulce voz... Ya es una Bendición.

Hari Boll

🙏🙏

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!! Thank you for all your sincere determination. Meet as many people as you can well and give them your, Krsna's, point of view from BG, SB, CC etc!

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaja,

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

In our last conversation we spoke about my perceived difficulties in maintaining a proper relationship through the internet. I'm full of shortcomings when it comes to upholding my end of our guru disciple relationship...

HpS - I am probably much worse in upholding mine with Srila Prabhupada!!

... and i wish i could have a chance to connect to you. I see sometimes that you mention whatsapp, so i humbly ask if it's possible to get in touch with you and receive your audience. My phone number is +31 6.....

Your servant,

Raghava Pandita dasa

PS. The person in the photo is His Holiness Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Goswami in 1940

ASA - The BSDM photo is incredible. The oxymoron thing is super, super, super.

John Branyan - The Three Little Pigs - YouTube

I posted your phone number in my contact list on my phone but it does not come up when I try to whatsapp you!!.

Dear Guru Maharaja, Hare Krishna!

Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I was asked to participate in a study from a philosophical/sociological university about [as] a follower of religion/faith/spiritual path that is from [an] other religions [religion] than the main one in the country.

I gladly agreed and answered their questions. It was nice to have the opportunity to talk about Krsna consciousness openly, and moreover to ponder about some deeper issues in connection to it.

HpS-ASA - So very nice to hear from you!! I hope you will tolerate our tardiness in answer your blog post. Part of the reason is the pressure from movie production, travel.

We see, and several informed devotees that we contact also see, that it seems more and more, Iskcon, the Hare Krsnas, are being accepted professionally.

It is like you are working on planning the development of some national project and you ask one of the people you are working with, "So, Nicole, you belong to the Mormon church, no?". Nicole answers yes and may make an enquiry about your religion, and you both leave it at that for the time being.

We have established the basic moral standard of the person we are working with, their basic philosophical perspective.

So, more and more people are informed enough to ask, "So, Mr. Nama acharya, you are a Hare Krsna, no?", and they mean it in a respectful and with even practical curiosity.

It seems that more and more we have to know our tradition in good detail in science, politics, family relations, economics, dinning!!!

On our Sunday and Saturday devotee gatherings, I shared about anarthas that are carried into bhakti yoga as a luggage and how they are masked because they seem like "watering the bhakti creeper" but are, to some extent, watering the weed(s). Specifically, the self-righteousness/arrogance/conceit/vanity one. In the presentation I tried to keep myself on the topic, not going to open more of them so that there is enough time to have a focused discussion. It looks that was accepted. Nobody threw rotten vegetables at me.

HpS - Very, very, very nice topic for initiated devotees, no?!!

Blog I read regularly almost every day.

ASA - 😮 Brown and White make up such a fright, with their words of mush and chaos.

We still have a roof upon our heads and a warm room (and water) and warm prasadam food. Thankful for that.

HpS - Yes, here people really feel the threat of a nuclear war right on their doorstep.

The general populace that I meet is not so bad people, though interesting how humans are weird to be killing so many animals which are sentient beings that feel pain, and the killers are ignorant about that.

HpS - They hide the slaughter-houses, no? Also, the package it like it is Burfi or something, no?

Of course, until not long ago, people accepted that black-skinned people are to be kept only as slaves, and it was a big struggle to change that perception.

We are turning 50 in a few months - if that has to mean something in our insane life.

HpS - We heard, read, that Srila Prabhupada said that 30-years is the end of the physical energy in the body and that 50-years is the end for mental strength, that maybe you can push it to fifty-five. That is good because then we have to rely more on our intellectual strength.

Occupation, apart from the main one of trying to become a Krishnaite, is still in school as a teaching assistant for kids with disabilities and the renting (and managing and cleaning and repairing, and ...) of family apartments. Nirgata is continuing with her Iyengar yoga classes. Parents are 86 now and need some assistance too.

HpS - Always funny, Mataji's name translated into Spanish! 😊

Our respects to her. She must be a saint to put up with you.

So, all in all, it looks like we are still alive.

HpS - Furthermore, on the path of becoming a preacher on the level of Narada Muni!!

AgtSP! AgttGP.

Your servant

Namacarya Das

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I hope that your headache is diminishing. We all miss your association all so much.

HpS/ASA - Headache was only for one day. Now we have stomach problems from eating our own cooking. Hope the Lord is able to adjust it. We want to attack the root of the disease, no? Not battle the symptoms too much.

Wilson Temple:

Yesterday, I got the news that finally the authorities from Wilson accepted to repaint The Lordships Parama Karuna Sri Sri Gaura Nitai. My relationship with the authorities is not so good they do not appreciate the letter that I sent to H. H. JPS. Nevertheless, I feel that my letter was respectful and display the truth.

ASA - You are a hero like Socrates!

I am helping to get some sponsors and contacting the former pujaris so they can contribute in some ways. The main authority does not allow me to enter into the altar ja! ja! ja! ja! Actually, I do not need that They live in my heart. Anyway I am a little bit touch by this. Syamananda Pandit d your disciple is doing the painting 🖌️. I will go today to take Darshana.

ASA - Also like Hari dasa Thakura! Muslim lady in Puri.

Sister Brenda: I do not know if it is going to be possible to talk to her or it is not necessary.

HpS - We are trying to get to that. We see her letters and she would like to meet everyone, but priorities...

Waves of devotion: I started one part of the translation a couple of days ago. Pretty intense

HpS - 👍👍👍👍



HpS Movie critics by CMDD:

Sometimes I was touched by some scenes specially the ones in which you are at the sea like recalling something. The part of Hector Bejar I think it's toooooooo long and kind of out of tune with the whole path of the movie.

And finally I can remember a shoot in which we were at the temple in Govardhana puja and many devotees were gathered around Giriraj and you also were there we all were smiling and thrilled I thought this shoot was going to be include. I really miss that in the movie.. It was a very magic moment that I guess can surpass all the screens

HpS - Thank you so much!! ArtDas says that Pablo has done some more editing. We had a meeting with Raul yesterday and discussed a lot about the general theme of the movie etc.

We have different view from him in some ways but that is quite natural. It is a journey. Many things that we filmed in Peru will be put into the movie of the USA travel again or for the first time. Then others will appear in Spain and finally in India, Manipur, Radha Kunda. So keep your suggestions coming. Maybe Krsna is saving the Chosika Govardhana shot for Manipura??? !

It is a journey.

It is learning.

It is me learning about Raul and Raul learning about me, TB/BW/CMD.......!

Thank you.

Your love for Wilson Gauranga is essential. They might die without it.

That's all Gurudeva

Thanks for all your mercy and association

Trying to be your disciple

CMDD

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva 🙏🏻

Please, accept my humble obeisances! AgtSP!!

Divya Drsti DD asked me to send you this letter:

Hare Krishna Guru majaraja

Please Receive my Humble Obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Gurudeva, thank you very much for all your mercy, because of my health problems I could not comunicate enought 🙏🙏.

Please, I Just wanted to ask your guidance, now I;m still with psycosis, panic and fear, when I chant 32 rounds and read the Srimad Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita I get calm, as Well when I go to the sea, when I wake up is so dificult for me I feel all, I think its a mixing of karma, with bhutas and trauma and fear, I'm suffering too much.

My questions are :

1_Do you think if I come back to Cusco and rent a room to live and go to the temple everyday for Govinda and then chant 32 rounds and read will be enought?

HpS - I do not know. I do not know the details of our situation and by telephone or telegraph cannot really give you detailed information. Krsna is in your heart. He can give you detailed information. People who see you daily can help. That is our distant information.

What nice association we have been able to get with you tells me you are a very nice person, so Krsna is taking personal concern with your Karma and progress.

Because I have the doubt where to stay. Now I'm in the temple of San Borja in Lima but I think I can not stay there so long maybe maximun 2 months more and then I have to decide where to stay because Im having body siknesses also and I can not do much service. My family live in Cusco, they can help me.

HpS - That sounds nice. The Sadhana you describe above sounds sufficient if you add your own daily stuff to it. Maybe Krsna is PUSHING you to go back to Kusco.

2_ Other option is to go to the asram of Chosica but the temple is open only on Sundays, because my problem I need to go to temple every day.

Become a Pujari and go every day? Associate with ladies in the Ashrama?

3._please Gurudeva what else could you recommend to me to do to solve my problem? 🙏🙏

What you describe sounds perfect, but again you have to look for local help that Krsna is sending. Maybe it is time for you to die. Let the raging river tear lose the roots of our snake infested body and go back to your real Friend.

Please I beg your mercy, please pray for me for my salvation, Im doing my best. Im already with psicological and psiquiátric treatment.

Thank you very much Gurudeva.

Your servant.

Divya Dristi DD.

HpS - We must all become Goswamis and then pure devotees. Hare Krsna!!