Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva:

Reciba Ud. Mis reverencias y respetos personales. El motivo de esta carta es para pedirle su misericordia para otorgarme 2da iniciación. Estos 3 últimos años he estado haciendo servicio de pujari en Wilson Lima Mandir entre otros servicios así mismo he terminado estudios de Bakty Sastry y de Arcana. Me encuentro muy entusiasmado por su respuesta y recurro a esta carta ya que estamos en pandemia. A través del Prabhu Abhiram Das le hice llegar la carta de recomendación de mi autoridad, así como unas fotos de mi servicio. Las cuales también se las reenvió por este medio. Le envié también mi reporte annual con todas mis actividades

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Hare Krishna, Gurudeva:

Receive my obeisances and personal respects. The reason for this letter is to ask for your mercy to grant me 2nd initiation. These last 3 years I have been doing pujari service in Wilson Lima Mandir among other services, I have also finished Bakti Sastri and Arcana studies. I am very excited about your response and I turn to this letter since we are in a pandemic. Through Prabhu Abhiram Das I sent him the letter of recommendation from my authority, as well as some photos of my service. Which also forwarded them by this means. I also sent him my annual report with all my activities.

HpS - Karuna Krsna Das has recommended three or four devotees for second initiation on Nityananda Trayodasi, February 14th or 13th.

1. Tarangaski Devi Dasi,
2. Mitravida Devi Dasi,
3. Janapavana Das,
4. Abhirama Thakura Das,

Some of them have some specific requirements to meet but in general

• I need to talk individually with each candidate.
• They all must have passed the ISKCON Disciple Course and show there certificate to us.
• All need be fixed in the mode of goodness in their service eg. Mangala-arati and full morning program regularly.
• Be announced as candidate for second initiation on Yatra media one month, or whatever is the GBC standard, before the ceremony.

Hope to talk with you soon.

Post any recommendations here.

Thank you.

You seem to have many of the qualifications for second initiations.

HpSwami

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las glorias a sri Guru y

Gauranga

Acepte por favor mis humildes reverencias

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

Soy su sirviente Jagannath de Bolivia, hijo de Saumya Rupi devi dasi. Desde que era más pequeño estuve intentando refugiarme a sus pies de loto.

Hoy tengo 15 años y tengo el intenso deseo de recibir iniciación de usted. Pedí a las autoridades de nuestro yatra su aprobación para pedir iniciación, prabhu Mathuresh das me dio la bendición para continuar con mi vida espiritual empezando con 4 rondas diarias y los principios.

Esperando que usted se encuentre muy buen de salud.

Su sirviente

Jagannath

HpS - ASA - Jaya Jagannatha! Muy bueno oir de Vd para primero vez. Puede leer: http://www.jayarama.us/peru/archivos/guru-tattva-es.txt ?

Vale?

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis rendidas reverencias

¡Todas las Glorias sean a nuestro muy misericordioso Srila Prabhupada!

Y todas las Glorias sean a usted querido Gurudeva

Deseando se encuentre en buena salud. Gracias por ser la luna llena que alumbra mi camino durante la oscura noche en la que vivo.

Guru Maharaja, en distintas ocasiones usted me dijo “Sri Rama le dijo a Lakshmana; – No existe error que puedas cometer y no puedas corregir” Y Srila Prabhupada dice “El devoto se arrepiente sinceramente de los pecados accidentales que comete, y, por la gracia del Señor, todos los pecados involuntarios que el devoto haya cometido se queman en el fuego del arrepentimiento.”

Yo no me considero a la altura de un devoto, no obstante, me siento sinceramente arrepentida de las palabras ásperas que dije durante un periodo de locura temporal. Y siguiendo sus misericordiosas instrucciones, estoy haciendo mi parte para corregirlo, con paciencia y confiando en que, nuestro muy misericordioso Señor sanará el corazón de las personas a quienes lastimé.

Ahora sé que no hay forma de recoger las palabras dichas, y me pregunto ¿Cómo es que el fuego de mi arrepentimiento sincero quemará el resultado de las palabras ásperas que ya he pronunciado?   Al principio creí tontamente que, por solo estar sinceramente arrepentida, todo sería más fácil… pero francamente este es un camino escabroso y en ocasiones muy doloroso. Aunque creo que estoy aprendiendo mucho de él. 

Hace unos días mientras estudiaba el SB 1.18 y 19 medite en que: — Maharaja Pariksit, se sintió sinceramente arrepentido de su error, y aun así la serpiente alada termino con su vida. — Sin embargo, él acepto con agrado la sanción impuesta y además obtuvo un GRAN beneficio de ella.  Entonces me parece entender que NO debo usar el arrepentimiento como pretexto para querer escapar del castigo. Porque cuando llegue, traerá con él un beneficio. ¿este entendimiento es apropiado? Y ¿La sanción que yo reciba, beneficiará de algún modo al vaisnava lastimado?

Por otra parte — Maharaja Pariksit, fue muy misericordioso al no presentarse frente a Samika Rsi, y lo hizo para evitarle una vergüenza mayor— De este aspecto, me parece entender que, debo tener cuidado para que mi búsqueda de perdón, no agite a la otra persona pues de lo contrario quizá solo consiga lastimarle más ¿Es así? Entonces ¿Cómo podemos respetar el proceso del “vaisnava ofendido” y al mismo tiempo hacerle saber que estamos sinceramente arrepentidos?

Guru Maharaja, por favor discúlpeme por distraerle con estos detalles. Muchas gracias por su misericordiosa guía.

Su aspirante a discípula

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi 

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Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaja

Please accept my deepest obeisances

All Glories be to our most merciful Srila Prabhupada!

And all Glories be to you dear Gurudeva

Wishing you are in good health. Thank you for being the full moon that lights my way during the dark night in which I live.

Guru Maharaja, on different occasions you told me “Sri Rama told Lakshmana; – There is no mistake that you can commit and cannot correct.” And Srila Prabhupada says “The devotee sincerely repents for the accidental sins he commits, and by the grace of the Lord, all the involuntary sins that the devotee has committed are burned in the fire of repentance.”

I do not consider myself to be of the level of a devotee, however, I sincerely regret the harsh words I said during a period of temporary insanity. And following his merciful instructions, I am doing my part to correct him, patiently and trusting that our most merciful Lord will heal the hearts of the people I have hurt.

Now I know that there is no way to collect the words spoken, and I wonder how the fire of my sincere regret will burn the result of the harsh words that I have already spoken? At first I foolishly believed that, just by being sincerely sorry, everything would be easier... but frankly, this is a rocky road and sometimes very painful. Although I think I'm learning a lot from him.

A few days ago while studying SB 1.18 and 19 I meditated that: — Maharaja Pariksit, he felt sincerely sorry for his mistake, and yet the winged serpent ended his life. — However, he gladly accepted the imposed sanction and also obtained a GREAT benefit from it. So I seem to understand that I should NOT use repentance as an excuse to want to escape punishment. Because when it arrives, it will bring with it a benefit. Is this understanding appropriate?

HpS - Yes. . .

And will the sanction I receive benefit the injured Vaisnava in any way?

HpS - Generally speaking it is another kind of vanity that we have, I have, that I can think that I hurt someone. One factor is that they may just be receiving the reaction for doing just what you are doing in their past life. Even to you.

So, the distress that they are receiving is what they deserve.

Chant and pray, and engage in devotional service. There are things that you know should do. Do them and then by that work your intelligence will become clear how to relate to specific offenses that you have made.

Don't make you life complicated.

Be happy with Krsna as your friend and do the work to reawaken your relationship with him, then your relationship with others will become clear and any adjustments in those relationships will become clear.

Go ahead.

You have a lot of important work that you are supposed to do!

On the other hand — Maharaja Pariksit was very merciful in not appearing in front of Samika Rsi, and he did it to spare her further embarrassment — From this aspect, I seem to understand that I must be careful so that my search for forgiveness does not agitate the another person because otherwise it may only hurt him more, is that right? So how can we respect the process of the "offended Vaisnava" and at the same time let him know that we are sincerely sorry?

HpS - Our answer is in the advice given above. 🙂

Guru Maharaja, please excuse me for distracting you with these details. Thank you very much for his merciful guidance.

Your would-be disciple

Karuna Sakti Devi Dasi

HpS - It is not a distraction. There are at least five more people in the same situation and we thank you for presenting these challenges so we can offer any perspective that we have.

Thank you.

Expecting to hear positive news from you about your Sankirtan and Sankirtan partners.

Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva. AGTSP!

Isvari dd told me that Abhinanda already gave to Mitravinda dd de english text of WoD. So I assumed that she is doing the translation work. I contacted Mp Das aswell and he is willing to help, so I am.

Basically Mitravinda d d is doing the job. I guess she is going to inform you the progress.

Thank you for keeping me in service.

ys LAD

ASA - You assume that she is doing it, and then you say that she is doing it. 🙂 Can you contact MvDD and see if she is doing it, and see if she got a useable format from Abhinandana Das?

Thank you.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!

Jaya Sri Vrndavana Dhama.

Walking alone in Vrndavana with Srila Prabhupada. Some devotees nearby. He is a most personal servant of Krsna. He discusses confidential things.

He wants to be our personal friend for every, who never betrays us.

The entire humor of the spiritual world, even including God, is to be the servant of others.

Our body is tired.

That is good. Our computer is having old age problems, but we can adjust.

We feel that someone is alive when there is the possibility of learning something new about, from them. Rupanuga Das has "died" but when we have these memorial events, as we had today. then we see that there are so many new things to learn about him from other of his associates, that we see he is still alive, teaching.

Sunday Feast in New Ashokavan with PTD cooking Pizza; Abhirama/Maria, JgD/Carolina (Rasarani, Madhavi), Bhakta David.

Very potent full evening program and now a few moments with you, our ASA Sankirtan party.

Where is Sita?

All day long the party led by Hanuman, Jambavan, Angada, would head south like a tsunami. Going through each house and its rooms, sheds etc. They would stay in touch like a flock of foraging birds by Tweeting?

• I am here where are you all?
• Danger!
• Food.
• Time to roost.

Now it is 9.15PM. We hope you relished the many hours of broadcasting today and it inspires your search for Sita. We hope that we can give more and more inspiration. She is waiting for Rama's ring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RUnSjFySn8&ab_channel=JeanMichel

59-minutes

Tom Brown ASA

Hare Krsna dear Gurudev,

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

Krsna and Srila Prabhupada took the greatest mercy upon us by introducing us to one of his most sincere sons.

HpS - Gopal Krsna Maharaja!!! ?? 😎

The first association we remember took place in the halls of St. Marks school (Where we attended Confirmation classes 10 years earlier) wherein you were the esteemed guest speaker for Balabhadra’s community class on Vedic history.

Our strange commentary to you while asking questions after the lecture  concerned false gurus and godless religion.

Inevitably after the encounter we were left with a feeling that we would be vastly left behind if we couldn’t attempt to follow your compassionate personhood imbibed in humble servitude and the knowledge you presented from the ancient and authorized Parampara.

It touched a depth of our soul that needed to be expertly mined and was trapped in vast amounts of past life muck.  Our Kali Yuga drop-out psych was trying to grapple with the downfall of the mother father hierarchy, i.e. the disappointment of our familial Catholic sentiment upbringing as well as a Buddhist, voidist spiritualism.

At that time our new freshman college education consisted of a sad group of intellectual philanderers barren of moralism who seemed exhausted while presenting a downtrodden humanism and an acceptance of a life that embraced dehumanism (Mark Twain...Neitzche....Orwell).

Despite the -isms people like us had prescribed to, your association helped us prescribe to a new transpersonal humanism.

You have great compassion and insight on how to help the tired souls who want to be rescued from hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated mirk.

HpS - We think we are a little tamed externally but still have Godzillas within. We think that we have some sentimental sympathy but really lack compassion in depth because we have not been really submissive within.

The hope is that we don't just get what we earn, but Krsna, Guru, are actively trying to reawaken our good qualities from real compassion.

If we get association of devotees like yourselves, Boise, yatra et al. then it is easy to take Srila Prabhupada's association.

Gurudev your writings, constant blog and twitter presence, and general accessibility through interactive and personable seminars has helped those that are still floundering in the waves of Kali quit disassociating and finally wake….up.

They can Feel a real connection to the parampara and Krsna. Of course there is always the tendency to still want to disassociate because that is Our disease.

We pray Gurudev that we can throw out this old template. There is a heartfelt new template being presented to us when we view Monkey Warrior, Kapi Dvaja, tweets, and correspondence.

We pray All of us can choose transpersonal beyond human association by joining the ASA entourage as you model how to have an attentive morning program and japa as well as dedicate our time to Srimad Bhagavatam and preaching.

Here is the requested Vyasa Puja blog address from the Boise community and beyond: https://hanumansringtosita.tumblr.com.

Thank you so much for tolerating the tech issues. We learned a lot and are very grateful to the devotees who participated.

Murari made an animated offering which is the last post on the blog. Also the whole devotee community came together in person the next day for a jubilant Vyasa Puja celebration.

Citrasaki devu dasi made a wonderful cake (picture on the blog) and everyone was very happy due to the mercy you have given to our community for so many years. 🙏

Gurudev, we asked the devotees about obligations from March to July. It seems that some devotees are traveling in middle of June and Radhika Raman is not available until middle of May. We came to the conclusion though that any time that works for you will eternally bless us. Please let my husband and the Boise devotees know how we can best assist Gurudev. We hope you will consider staying for an extended period or for as long as you feel comfortable doing so. 

Murari Prabhu has been out of service due to spraining his shoulder. We decide to visit the Oregon Coast and work remotely with places that have a kitchenette. The girls have been leading car kirtan and were happy to meet mother ocean and the sea lions.

HpS - ASA - - - Jaya!! We bought the Nashville <>Richmond (VA) ticket yesterday: 1-17 April. Only $75 on Alegiant. Nashville <> Boise Alegiant is seasonal in the summer so we will wait a little to see what is available. I think from middle May until mid-June would be a good time to look for ASA camping in New Biharavan if God and man approve?

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare // Hare Rama, Hare Rama...... !!!

One more letter?

You are all soldiers!

Mangal-ananda Das:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzzdLGWbGg&ab_channel=yogishiva ,

2.30 - "And love exists because You are so kind"

Your servant, 

Kamagayatri devi dasi