Letters to the editor

Namah OM Bishnupadaya, Krishna Presthaya Bhutale, Srimate Hanumat Preshak Swamin iti Namine

Namaste Hanumat Preshak Swami Namo Atiyanta Dayaluve, Kalijuga Pashyate Dese Gandharva Vidya Pradayene.

Srimat Hanumat Prashak Swami, Guru Maharajji, ki Jaye

Srila Prabhupad Gurumarajji ki Jaye

Jaye Shree Krishna Chaitainya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sree Advaita, Gadadhar, Sreebash, Adi Gaur Bhakta Brinda.

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA

KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE

HARE RAMA HARE RAMA

RAMA RAMA HARE HARE

JAYE RADHE, JAYE KRISHNA

NITAI GAUR PREMANANDE HARI HARI BOL.

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharajji,

Dandawat Pranaam.

Plz accept my most humble obeisance onto your lotus feets. All glories to Guru and Gauranga.

Gurumaharajji i now feel very lonely n as if lost with out getting your kind and merciful association. Plz punish me for my miscreants but i beg you to consider me as dust mole onto your lotus feets.

HpS - ASA --- 🐘 🐘 🐘 Dust from the lotus feet of our great Acharya is in his books, no? So nice to hear from you. He is making big foot prints that we can all follow.

Gurumaharajji its around two years since I met you last. If possible please 🙏 forgive yours most foolish servant ever born on Earth (me), for not communicating you for the last two years.

HpS - We don't forgive you because it is just something that has happened. Now we get your association. This is eternal, after two years, three years...

Gurumaharajji, when I met you at that time my house's homely environment was not at all good. It was highly toxic. Panchali was pregnant and my father, instead of being the guardian of the home started drinking alcohol like anything and used to make home environment toxic by quarrelling and doing unnecessary activities.

On 8th/feb/2020, KRISHNA gifted ur a baby boy. Thank you 😊💓☺💗💛💖 Gurumaharajji for showering your immense mercy that we got an opportunity to serve a baby boy to be a honest and humble devotee in his future life. My father named him as Balaji Dutta.

By then my home environment was a bit better. But on April/2020, first lock down, my father had brain hemorrhage. We somehow managed an ambulance and took him to Guwahati, Rehman hospital. At there they did their best and got him cured. But the doctors told us that because of excess alcohol drinking my father is currently suffering from liver cirrhosis stage 1. And because of Covid, we couldn't go to any better hospitals somewhere in South India for further treatment during that time.

Months passed like this with his health not that improving and was not that getting bad also.

On June/21 my whole family was diagnosed as covid positive. During that time whatever ayurveda i knew, with that knowledge i served the rest of my family (my father, my mother, Panchali and even Balaji). We were all home quarantined but got cured at home itself, accept me. In my case the covid became severe with oxygen level had fallen to 52%. An so accordingly, I was admitted to local hospital in ICU for around 20 days.

But again it was yours immense mercy on me that brought me back alive to home. Thank you Gurumaharajji for saving us.

Now my father's cirrhosis had increased a bit more (stage 2). He was admitted at Silchar medical college in ICU, and from there, this time we have brought him to Medanta Hospital via air ambulance, at Gurgaon, near Delhi. At here Dr A.S. Soin, told me that his liver condition is bad so they are further looking for liver transplant. And so I am the probable donor.

I am singing my 16+ rounds daily but during my covid time i couldn't chant for around 3 months.

Hope to meet you soon if i survive, missing you badly. If my letter have displeased or hurt you in any respect then please forgive me Gurumaharajji.

Yours most foolish servant ever born on this Earth,

Viswambhar Gauranga Das

HpS - AgtSP. We wonder if giving your liver will really help your father??? If it cause you an untimely death and disturbs your service, then that is the greatest loss to him, whether he is in this body or that.

Chant Hare Krsna and get good advice from local devotees!!!

In any case Krsna is everyone's friend and He will give us inspiration to stay on the path back to Him.

God bless your family and son.

Sankirtan.

Please accept my humbles obediences Allll Glory for Srila Prabhupada

Gurudev, you wrote on the blog that you may need a secretary to help with your letters. We approached Balabadhra prabhu and informed him of this need. We are both interested in helping. Possibly I could read the Spanish letters and he could read the English and we can have weekly phone meetings to discuss briefly your letters from disciples.

I will be unforgettable service

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HpS - Like Srila Prabhupada, it would have to be someone with us, no? So nice to hear from you. We hope to visit Boise again between middle March and middle July. Then go to Spain and then go to Radha Kunda!!! Let's go!

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja.

PAMHO at your lettuce feets 🙃

AGTSP

Firts [first] of all, we are still alive. That´s the good new. We can make big efforts to focus our activities in bhakti service.

16 Rounds, 4 principles and very sweet sevas in the temple, helping cooking for Radha Madana Gopala, Raja Bhoga, Viakalika, Sandhya and last offer three days at week, dancing nice folklore, learning harmonium and working in the TESIS to get my scholar degree. I hope this can be a real thing next year. I am very enthusiastic. I was trying to be in FMP every day, but is a little difficult now that we are in different time zones. Heard you every day is a very nice medicine for this lethargy.

I write you because of all the letters I mention the wish to get married with Vraja Mohan Prabhu, so Bhakti Sundar Maharaja ask us to get merried this year, soon as posible. We talk about it and my wishes to first, take iniciation, and then get married. So, the desition is that in this december Vraja Mohan Prabhu will talk to my parents to make this "formal" thing as the tradition says here in Mexico, and then we will married next year. The autorities in México City, president and devotees ask me to talk with you about my wish to take first iniciation, are interested that I can make part of this ISKCON family and get iniciation of you. They give me a nice recomendation letter to take iniciation.

Finally thank you to be in my life, as I dont deserve it.

Your ever aspirant, Bhaktin Natyelli Garza.

Radhe Radheeeeee!!!

HpS - !!! Very nice. Have you read: http://www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt ??? If you have been following the standard described there for six months, then with letter from Temple President (disciple course), you can become a:

Formal Refugee

Six months more of service that you are now doing then you can become a first initiated devotee! Then second, then third, then fourth...

... chant with attention. Chant with meaning. Srila Prabhupada's SB, CC, TlC is full of meaningful prayers!! Take some of those for your mood in chanting your rounds, your constant chanting!

Thank you so much for your sacrifices in Krsna Consciousness!

Hare Krishna dear and respected Maharaja

PAMHO AGTSP AGTHPS

I hope you are in good health or as best as possible. I read on the blog that a few weeks ago you had a stomach ache and something in your eyelids. I haven't heard or read about your allergy for several weeks, so I hope you are feeling better about it. I suffer allergy so I can understand what it is.

I want to write to you about different matters, so to make reading a little more bearable, I've decided to write different letters to you, each one focused on a specific issue.

In this letter I want to tell you about Saint Eulalia and my desire to travel to visit you and the devotees during February at the New Asoka-van ashram. I also want to tell you about an idea that I've got and that I'm very enthusiastic about it and that I wish to be able to carry out, as long as I can count on your permission and your blessings, Maharaja.

I've read some reports and also what you write on the Monkey Warrior blog and it´s exciting to imagine the activity and all the services that are being carried out in Santa Eulalia and the entire process of filming the movie "The Diary of a Traveling Creature". I think is fascinating and the reports they have published on the blog are very good, very explanatory, well detailed and synthetic.

The plan I have in mind today is to be able to spend all of February in New Asoka-van with you and the devotees, doing any service you need. And what I most want to do while i'm there is working on the production of 2 books that I want to publish: I've thought and felt strongly and for quite some time that I would very much like to write a book for you, which is written by me but under your instructions and supervision, and that it is published under Your authorship, is the work format known in literature as "ghostwriter": I write it under your full direction, you review, approve and the book is published with your name as the author. A basic working format may be that you simply dictate to me and I write, or I record and then transcribe, always based upon your ideas and thoughts and feelings and words, your direct message or whatever you want to share; Another format could be that you send or give to me some of your manuscripts so I can order and transcribe them and shaping the book step by step, or another way could be that you want to publish a book based on your classes available on the ASA channel on Youtube and/or on the letters from the Monkey Warrior blog; or even only you speaking focused on this idea to a new way of life for the human being conected with the nature, the sacred, the spirituality life... the simple life living from what the land that we cultivate gives us and the elevated thinking towards the sacred... for example.

The other book that I want to write and publish would be based on conversations between you and me and other devotees you want to invite to participate (conversations that of course I've got to prepare and also brace myself). Titles usually placed at the end, but to give a general idea of ​​this book I've thought of titles such as: "Conversations with a Vaishnava" or "Dialogues with a Vaishnava"; I really like the word "Vaishnava", so I think it would be very nice if this word appears in the title. This book is to be published under my authorship (but also written under your full direction, your review and your approval before publish). So if you agree with this project, we could schedule some of the days during my stay there in Santa Eulalia to hold these dialogues or conversations, I also want and can make audiovisual recording with mobile phone (very good cam integrated and probably recording with 2 nice phones) and later edit on my own some videos that we can also use for promoting the film.

I think around 4 weeks approx. of focus work (as far as possible) there in Santa Eulalia will be enough to gather all the material which one I will continue working on until I achieve the refined texts to publish (the texts of both books). All production costs involved will be borne by me and we can also receive support in whatever form may eventually arise. I will also ask and request Abhirama Thakur Das for his layout, design, editing and printing professional services.

I know you are very very busy, so I can understand perfectly if you decide that is not possible to do this books project, and I ask you apologize beforehand, it's just an intent to do something good for you and Srila Prabhupada through something that I know and love to do: writing.

In the following letter that I will write to you during this weekend or next week I will tell you:

- summary about my activities during this year, personal life, sadhana, etc.

-a brief report about ASA's activity on instagram and facebook where we publish information about your activities, under the supervision and help of your chilean disciple Arjuna Das and your argentine disciple Jahnava Devi Dasi.

-about 2 devotional visual art projects that I'm directing together with one of my sisters (Viviana Rold - Vrinda Devi Dasi) and who is (and all her family) disciples of Sankarshan Das Adhikari and his wife.

- report on the tribute book for Rodrigo Hernández Piceros.

To finish this letter I want to share with you a phrase that I read recently in the book "Modern Man in Search of a Soul (complexes and the unconscious)" by Carl G. Jung. In his epilogue Jung writes: "I'm convinced that the scientific study of the soul is the science of the future"; So little by little I am understanding why You and Srila Prabhupada appreciate Jung so much. For me he is a fascinating character and I think he probably is one of the greats of the 20th century; of course the greatest of the 20th century is Srila Prabhupada, indisputably, irrefutably.

Thank you very much Maharaja for all that you do for us and for allowing me to be able to somehow receive your mercy and your loving kindness.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krishna!

Your aspiring servant,

Carlos Rold

HpS - ASA -- 😕 AgtSP. Paoho. I think that the best thing would be to try and do something by internet to start with. The book that we wanted to do first was Tava Pache Pache. We dictated it a little each day after Mangala arati and it has taken almost 10-years to transcribe, edit and format.

I don't think I have anything special to dictate that we are not already doing.

Pancha tattva or others can take dictation and type.

How can we relate these efforts to the production of the movie and not distract limited resources from the project?

How are your Bhoga offers to your Deities???

AGTSP

paoho

We squeezed in a call to Houston with Caitanya and Subra, and then as many priority letters as we could do. They are caught up to three days ago.

We would do a few more but now we have our 9PM class with Nashville in 25-minutes and have nothing prepared.

Hare Krsna.

Nadia has very important letter. We try to get to it next!

NitayGouraPremanande!! Querido y siempre recordado Gurudev, por favor

Acepte mis humildes Reverencias!!

TODAS LAS GLORIAS A SRILA PRABHUPADA!!

he tardado en escribirle Amado Gurudev, pues, estuve esperando mejorar de mi salud que colapso a mi llegada a MX, ... estuve viendo documentacion para mi atencion en el Hospital General, ya tengo la programacion de mis examenes de tiroides ycita con la especialista, esto es para fines de diciembre y mediados de enero, ..

HpS - Todas las glorias a hermana burra!

mientras tanto ando buscado donde quedarme, por la Pandemia muchos Devotos no estan apoyando a los Devotos Foraneos por el temor al Contagio, provisionalmente estoy quedandome en casa de una amiga que hice cuando vendia productos de belleza, ella sabe que soy Hare Krishna,

la he llevado al Templo y siempre que puedo le comparto Mahaprasadam ... mi situacion es un poco austera, pero, ahi la voy llevando, por la misericordia del Señor Jaganath pude asistir al Ratha Yatra de Guadalaja, fue Extatico!!

HpS - Que el Senyor Jagannatha saca nosotros a Vraja con El!

Todos los devotos asistentes vivimos una Atmosfera de Agradecimiento por estar ahi, y poder Cantar, Bailar y jalar la Soga de la Carroza y sumergirnos en el hermoso pasatiempo!! muchos devotos al igual que yo estabamos con lagrimas en los ojos durante el festival asistieron 3 Maestros Espirituales: s.s. GuruPrasad Swami, s.s. Bir Krishna Swami y s.s. Bhakti Sundara Swami,

aunque el festival se hizo solo un dia, fue muy Extatico e intenso ..... al dia siguiente del Ratha Yatra m. Syama Gouri quien me hospefo en su casa me llevo a un paseo a un rio de aguas Thermales, fueron varios devotos con sus niños, pasamos un dia de descanzo y, convivencia pacifica, compartimos como una familia el Prasadam y los juegos ... 2 de mis amigas Sankirtaneras (m. Sarva Sri y m. Gokulesvari) fueron con sus niños , tambien estaba mi hermano espiritual de argentina p. Balabhadra y su esposa m. Tulasi estan en Mx haciendo Sankirtam.... acabo regresar a la ciudad de Mexico despues de una semana de Sankirtan en Guadalajara, apesar, de que la casa de m. Syama Gouri esta bastante lejos de la ciudad, no me afecto a mis riñones ... estando en la casa de la Madre SyamaGouri, lo recordaba mucho a ud. pues, ella vive en un rancho rodeado de muchos arboles y alejada de los ruidos de la ciudad, y, me imagino que ud. tambien debe estar hospedado en un lugar parecido,....es un lugar donde se puede descanzar y estar Oracion, ... pude cantar mejor mis rondas, en mejor meditacion!!! .... por sus oraciones.querido Gurudev, aqui tengo amigos devotos que se preoupan por mi situacion, ...m. Dhamayati me ayudo con 10 $ p. Akinchana 10$ m. Gokulesvari 15$ p. Kurma 70 $ ademas me va a donar unos libros de su M.E s.s. Bir Krishna maharaja el titulo del libroes: "tu no eres el cuerpo" sus discipulos lo han impreso a colores y papel Couche... las Donaciones me ayudaran para ver lo del cambio de fecha de mi boleto de avion. ... .. tambien, con respecto al tratamiento de mi maxilar lo dejare pendiente pues , el presupuesto del Doctor Kawasaki esta bastante caro , .... mantengo comunicacion con mi Padre por telefono dejando uno o dos dias, y con mis hermanos por wattsap .... hace unas semanas mi padre se puso mal y lo llevaron al medico que le prescribio analisis .... mi padre se queja de que le duele mucho los riñones y tuvo un pequeño sangrado ..... anda con Depresion, pues mis hermanos no tienen tiempo para sacarlo al parque, ... tampoco lo comunican con su hermana que el tanto quiere pues ella hace poco dejo el cuerpo, y,no quiere decirle por temor a que se vaya a poner peor ..... .por su gracia, querido Gurudev el sigue leyendo el Libro de Krishna, me dice que lo relaja mucho y, no se olvida a pesar de su Alzheimer de decir Hare Krishna!!!!

Radhe, Radhe, Radhe..

Su inutil y torpe sirvienta

M. Jambavati d.d.

HpS - Jaya. Nuevo coches para todo el mundo???? Estamos aqui en Sta Eulalia grabando nuestra pelicula de consolidacion de todo nuestras, suyas, esfuervzas en predica a esta punto. Tengo el altar de Vd. aqui con Gaura Nitai, Tulasi y Gopal.

Llegamos a Houston 7 Marzo!!!!

Muy buena suerte en su Sankirtan!!!

Reverencias a todos en Mexjco.