Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

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

Sarvabhauma Prabhus phone is broke so he wanted me to relay the following message to you: 

In Houston we are re-starting from the beginning of SB 1.1.1 to facilitate a Krishna House approach for predominantly newer devotees. Any aspect of the first Canto might be a good topic for this Friday. Could be:

1) an intro to the Bhagavatam

2) discussion of SB 1.1.1 

3) 1.1.2

3) the topic of rasas in SB 1.1.3

Your servant,

Sri Rupa dd

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AgtSP! Thank you, Matajij. Can you please write here to this Blog? We have limited access to telephone text messages.

Thank you!

It is a great honor to be part of the SWF programs.

We will be in Houston for about 10-days after Radhastami.

Let us do "SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - The Big Picture. Introduction to the greatest world classic."

O.K.

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Dear Guru Maharaj, Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please find below the link for the live broadcast on YouTube of our Vivah Yagna on 22 August, from 11 am to 1330 Indian standard time

https://youtu.be/8EuNMGufiGo.

Hope you and all my God siblings are well.

Your servant

Gaur Gadadhar Dasi

HpS - ASA - We did not see this soon enough, but here it is any way. I think they may publish the results. Now the link shows as private.

Very best wishes to become as powerful and Devahuti and Kardama muni.

ArtDas has found an Ashrama and sent video to Abhiseka Singh (President of NIOS) and ASA. Here is our reply:

Hare Krsna, Art Das!.

AgtSP

paoho

Thank you so, so, so much for your efforts to develop this New Ashokavan.  Sita is dying to be rescued.

Saw the promo video and discussed with Abhiseka.

It seems nice but:

1. Does it have good internet?

2. Where is it?

3. Did you talk to Gandharva Das about his property? Seems like it is too far?

4. Abhiseka and I agreed that you can offer up to $250 (less if possible) in good faith money, if you think it good, to the landlady to hold the property for a few days until we finish our work. If we don't sign, she can keep the money.

5. Do you and Caturatma Das think the lease agreement is good and standard?

6. What are the starting and closing dates for the lease? How much is the total price for the lease? Where are those stated in the lease?

Jaya!

O.K.

On to Lanka!

Hare Krishna

Respected Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Reading your replies shows such maturity in you, I am spellbound.

By your mercy and prayers, my sadhana is little better now. One wrong trap for me is I am wasting quite a time on social media... I know I need to reduce that.

Mostly I am staying in Darbhanga. I conduct a small program at my room on Sunday. 2-3 families are slowly taking to the process of Krishna Consciousness, while 1 new online batch has been started- your blessings are required so that it grows into a group of devotees. As informed earlier, a ISKCON center has come up here in Darbhanga being managed by some devotees. Now I am trying to look for some other place for developing preaching. Sometimes I feel a little weak due to lack of association. If things work out nicely then in 3-4 months I can expect to serve Lord in a small temple near Sitamarhi. Sitamarhi is said to be the place where Mother Sita was found from within the Earth by Maharaj Janak. There a few devotees are also expected to join us. Not getting much/ any practical support from my authorities sometimes disheartens me and causes fear- how long I would be able to flap before maya captures me?

Please keep me under your blessing and let me know if I could do any little service for you.

Your servant,

Purushottam Keshav Das

HpS - AgtSP. As soon as I saw your name on this Blog post I was thinking about you and wanted to answer. I hope our other posts and our Kapi Dhvaja communicate our spiritual and material situation.

Hare Krsna!

Even now it is 5.07PM and we have one hour to wash clothes, cut nails, shave face and head as per every two week standard and then we have Juhlana Yatra and second night of a Symposium on Nectar of Instruction given be Krsna through our mind (We hope).

Here is what I was thinking

Why not move into the Bhakti Vedanta Research Center (BRC) Ashrama in Kolkatta and work with them. Get a diploma in history etc. be representative for our NIOS there, coordinate with Dr. Samaresh.

NIOS can make donations to BRC to help with any expenses.

What do you think?

I think it is a terrible plan,

but I also think it might be good.

Anything in this world is terrible unless Krsna wants it.

You are carrying on in all difficulty, like so many other followers of Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON devotees.

We will win.

My dear Maharaja,

Dandavat pranams. Jai Vaishnavas.

I wanted to hear your personal experience on the first step of Krishna consciousness - ““I am not this body but am spirit soul”. I will appreciate if you can share it as it will encourage the sadhaks.

HpS - It happens all the time. I believed that I was immortal about 4-years old when our neighbor's dog died and I evaluated my knowledge of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Then of course it is continuously confirmed by KC. Of course, we are not 100% fixed in Sat Dhama, but we seem to be on the right path after all our investigation and making more progress daily.

Here is my experience or sadhana report:

When you do mantra jap or make Krishna object of your thoughts, you start becoming aware of the space in which these thoughts appear and disappear. Thoughts come and go. But the space in which they come and go is unchanging awareness. It is not limited by this body and mind. It is prior to mind. That is you, the pure consciousness and awareness. So mantra jap or making Krishna object of our thoughts leads to realizing oneself as distinct from body and mind.

HpS - Yes, same experience. The Mantra as Japa or Kirtan or Sankirtan does that "Man" "Tra"

Here is what Srila Prabhupada explains:

“The very first step in self-realization is realizing one’s identity as separate from the body. “I am not this body but am spirit soul” is an essential realization for anyone who wants to transcend death and enter into the spiritual world beyond. It is not simply a matter of saying “I am not this body,” but of actually realizing it. This is not as simple as it may seem at first. Although we are not these bodies but are pure consciousness, somehow or other we have become encased within the bodily dress. If we actually want the happiness and independence that transcend death, we have to establish ourselves and remain in our constitutional position as pure consciousness.”

Regards,

Gaurav Mittal

HpS - Thank you sir. What has happened to the family? Are you still in Texas. Hare Krsna.

RE:

HK Gurudev aquí le dejó otro vídeo , es una melodía hecha por mi esposo para el mahamantra . Yo canto en el video.

Olvidé enviarselo en la otra carta ,saludos y reverencias

ASA - O.K. We will look. Be sure to put tilak and neck beads on your baby (and husband) or The Evil One will get them.

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