Letters to the editor

From Whatsapp:

Hare Krishna, Maharaj,

Dandavat pranam! 

All glories to sri guru and gouranga! 

All glories to srila prabhupad! 

Dear maharaj, 

This is Isana das from Imphal, Manipur. 

I have taken brahman diksha from your good self in 2012 in imphal. Maharaj, may I have a request to serve you in the long run and take your shelter... 

It has been so long that I would like to contact you and have your sublime association..... Actually maharaj I am serving here at manipur university as guest faculty in the department of sociology. And I am planning to organize an international webinar in connection with the disappearance day of srila sripad Maharaj which is to be sponsored and supported by intellectual forum of North East (IFNE). The theme is on manipur vaishnavism. And I would to request your good self to be one of the main speaker on the life and work of sripad Maharaj. I therefore humbly request you to kindly accept my sincere approach to serve guru Maharaj. If you kindly accept my request, I would like to further intimate you and would like to send you details of the webinar. 

Yours servant, 

Isana das

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!! Esteemed Isana Das Prabhu, Please accept our humble obeisances.

Thank you for your Whatsapp post. We were getting 400-500 letters a month until we we started this Blog. Now it is down to maybe 150/month, and in general we are getting old and our eyes failing, so we will be doing less and less tying here. We can start to use help from Secretarys.

We had similar request to join in very nice program in Bolivia from very nice devotee(s) there and our response is the same. We have to have the program, calendar development, here is the Blog. Then the ASA community can take up the project.

With the program in Bolivia the communication some how or other broke down. We were receiving topic and time assignments in in Whatsapp and we responded that we could not participate without more developed communication, then finally we got a notice one or two days before the Congress with conflicting timings and an expectation for a 1-1/2 hour presentation on a topic we did not know well!

We tried. We even started trying to do a last minute Power Point show, but everything went beyond even our limited human imagination of how to adjust the situation. It was causing disturbances in our regular ASA programs, so we just collapsed, ran away. 🙂

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We are all actually very small devotees. We must work together in the institution, Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON. More internally we must develop our friends ships. Finally we must have a direct experience (through so many transparent via media) of Srila Prabhupada's awareness of our service. 1. 2. 3.

We are all eternally associated in the Sankirtan movement of Srila Prabhupada. I was the first person to read a letter from Srila Prabhupada to Jaya tirtha Das in San Francisco about different management details and then Srila Prabhupada finished it by writing: You cannot exist without my mercy...

I was shocked by the force of the statement, but swallowed and accepted it: That is what Guru says!

... but then I read the next comment and was even more shocked:

... and I cannot exist without your mercy. This mutual respect, this mutual love, is Krsna consciousness.

So, what we learned from organizing these symposia from H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami and several others, even at the level of Noble Prize winners, is that first there should be personal contact:

Eg. For all the Nobel professors and others who came for the First World Congress in Bombay, Maharaja assigned three PhD candidate boys to see to their accommodation and practical communication.

At our level, we would just need one person who is in personal contact with us and maybe another participant. Ie. we may equal 1/6th of distinguished professor. 😁

Then we have to see if the dates work.

Then the themes.

Then who else is speaking.

Then when a synopsis of our papers and the papers of others is due, so we can all read what others are writing.

Then final paper or PPTX.

Then arrangements for publishing the results.

O.K. Let us do this so the whole world can see the glory of Manipur and benefit.

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our sincere obeisances

AGTSP!!

I hope you are in very good health.

HpS/TB - AGTSP!!!!! So, nice to get a letter from you. Of course, hoping that anyone in the material world is in good health, even Maharaja Pariksit, is a kind of oxymoron, no?

"This body does not get diseases. This body is a disease", Srila Prabhupada Said, Volume 55, Page 445.

I tell you that for the last two months, I have been doing the research to write my thesis and thus obtain the professional title of the school in which I studied in Mexico.

If I want to continue teaching (which is the only job I have at the moment), I must regularize this issue. The investment of time is great but I learn many things from the amount of material that I have to consult.

Not only am I interested in obtaining a professional degree, I also have a great attachment to the field of knowledge in which I work. I have tried to consider the possibility of disengaging myself from this activity but I am not a good enough devotee to give up.

The smooth life that we lead in Huaraz allows me to dedicate myself to my studies, to work as a researcher and teacher and to the development of our spiritual life, in the silence that has allowed me to be more observant of my process.

These occupations have distracted me from my responsibilities at the Ministry. I have not been able to participate in the recent programs, although I think that unconsciously I have distanced myself a bit from what I consider a little informal leadership on the part of the authority.

I want to have a conversation with your good self to propose some actions that make the service of all easier, hopefully he will listen to me a little. I hope to soon find the enthusiasm that will allow me to continue with my service.

HpS/TB - I think we have very similar perception of the Ministry of Education in ISKCON so we can sit together for some time while we are in Peru and work together for the satisfaction of Srila Prabhupada.

Have you been able to develop connection with Karuna krsna Das and the National Council, Regional Secretary (Mathuresa Das) at all in terms of the Ministries work? We will be in Peru in a few weeks so we can discuss it more then.

However, Lord Jagannatha is merciful and has manifested to us in the form of Radha Damodar an hour and a half from where we live, at the home of Daru Krishna Prabhu. He and his family live in Caraz, in a beautiful house where they have a small temple. My wife and I have been going every two weeks to take Darsan of His Lordships and enjoy the association of cultured, sincere and calm devotees. Meanwhile, we serve Jagannatha at home, more inspired each time.

HpS/TB - As far as I know there is no GBC sanction against visiting Prabhu. There was one for example about Sannyasis visiting Narayana Maharaja's Temples in the past.

To speak quite frankly, as I understand is the job of a Sannyasis, I have not had much association with Prabhu Daru Krsna Das for a long time, but we have exchanged respects through others. I think his idea of Srila Prabhupada and worship of Radha Krsna is pretty standard and of course he is developing his own useful realizations.

The only area where I would like to understand his position more is in terms of Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON and GBC authority.

Bhakti-tirtha Swami and Radhanatha Swami in our knowledge of their public statements were outside of GBC authority for some time, but... they were always seeking to reconcile that relationship and in the end they did.

"Anyone who is avoiding the Krsna consciousness movement, but thinks he is in deotional service, in living in a great delusion", SP as we remember from his books.

So, there is the key. Some people left and did not want to reconcile. They wanted separate life. Some came even recently to horrible ends. Others left and wanted to reconcile.

The rounds are very good and the reading profitable, I currently read Jiva Goswami's Tattva-sandarbha translated and commented by Gopi-paranadhana prabhu in which I have found the value of systematic study in pursuit of a more philosophical understanding of the path we have undertaken.

At the same time I read the Krishna Book for sentiments that balance the scale. My good wife is very well, refining her path and invoking you frequently, she is a very good devotee of yours.

We hope to find the time to visit you in Santa Eulalia, although from what I have read, it will take two weeks of isolation to take your Darsan.

HpS/TB - Telephone will be easy. With distance, outside, we should be able to sit with people who are not vaccinated, quarantined, no? To stay in the house, shoulder to shoulder, that means proper precaution, no?

For the first time, I wish I didn't have a job in the summer to go see you. I trust Lord Baladeva's compassion and your mercy to make this happen.

Always wishing you the best, with love.

Your silly servant

Gandharva das

HpS - Thank you. What about your work as Director, formal representative, for NIOS? I thnk that with a PhD thesis in the works it might be hard to do any other job!

Hope that you Brahminical vows are all doing well and you are a leader in Srila Prabhupada's Sankirtan.

We hope to improve our standard as ISKCON Guru.

Raghunatha Das Goswami sets a very high standard.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis rendidas reverencias

¡Todas las Glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada!

Gracias por su respuesta anterior. Intentando contribuir en su sankirtan, continuamos los ajustes para la entrevista del Jueves 9 de Septiembre 4:00 pm. 

DETALLES:

Nombre del evento:   “El viaje de Monkey al Imperio Inca”

Entrevistados --------- Yudhistira Das y Ramacandra Das

Entrevistador --------- Gandharva Das

Idioma ----------------- Español

Plataforma ------------ Zoom

TEMAS PARA LA ENTREVISTA:

***YUDHISTIRA DAS    - Preguntas enfocadas a conocer: 

1) Un poco sobre el entrevistado y su papel dentro de la historia,

2) Acontecimientos memorables generados durante la PRIMERA VISITA de SS Hanumatpresaka Swami al Yatra Peruano.

3) Cómo influyó la educación que recibió en el gurukula en su vida actual.

***RAMACANDRA DAS  - Preguntas enfocadas a: 

– Apertura –

1) Conocer un poco sobre el entrevistado y su papel dentro de la historia,

2) Conocer los primeros contactos e impresiones sobre SS Hanumatpresaka Swami y alguna anécdota sobresaliente para el entrevistado.

– Contribución particular al Yatra Peruano –

1) ¿Cuáles fueron las diferentes facetas en las que contribuyo Maharaja de manera especial en el Yatra Peruano?

2) Primera y única visita de SS Hanumatpresaka Swami a Paraguay.

3) Primera visita del Dr Ravi Gupta (Radhika Raman Das) al Perú, provincia de Arequipa.

– Cierre –

Resumen (desde la perspectiva del entrevistado) de contribuciones y motivos por los que considera importante que se continúen o mantengan esas contribuciones.

*** Esperamos poder contar con sus comentarios durante las entrevistas Guru Maharaja.

Gurudeva, Estos son solo los temas generales; las preguntas están dirigidas a descubrirlos.¿Desea que le hagamos saber las preguntas en detalle?

Agradecidos por vuestra misericordia, quedamos atentos a sus comentarios para realizar cualquier modificación necesaria.

Sus sirvientes

-ASA Carnaval Team-

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi 

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Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my bows

All Glories be to Srila Prabhupada!

Thanks for your previous answer. Trying to contribute to your [ASA 🐵 🐷 AgtSP] Sankirtan, we continue to set up the interview on Thursday September 9th at 4:00 pm.

DETAILS:

Event name: "Monkey's trip to the Inca Empire"

Interviewees --------- Yudhistira Das and Ramacandra Das

Interviewer --------- Gandharva Das

Spanish Language

Platform ------------ Zoom

TOPICS FOR THE INTERVIEW:

*** YUDHISTIRA DAS - Questions focused on knowing:

.9) Are there candidates for Lord Caitanya's movement in Peru? How to find them? How to communicate the message of Lord Chaitanya to them?

1) A little about the interviewee and his role in the story,

2) Memorable events generated during the FIRST VISIT of HH Hanumatpresaka Swami to the Peruvian Yatra.

3) How the education he received in the gurukula influenced his present life.

*** RAMACANDRA DAS - Questions focused on:

- Opening -

1) Know a little about the interviewee and his role in the story,

2) Know the first contacts and impressions about HH Hanumatpresaka Swami and some outstanding anecdote for the interviewee.

- Private contribution to the Peruvian Yatra -

1) What were the different facets in which Maharaja contributed in a special way in the Peruvian Yatra?

2) First and only visit of HH Hanumatpresaka Swami to Paraguay.

3) First visit of Dr Ravi Gupta (Radhika Raman Das) to Peru, Arequipa province.

- Closing -

Summary (from the interviewee's perspective) of contributions and reasons why you consider it important to continue or maintain those contributions.

 *** We hope to have his comments during the Guru Maharaja interviews.

Gurudeva, These are just the general themes; The questions are aimed at finding out. Would you like us to let you know the questions in detail?

HpS - Our question above is the main focus of the movie. Where is Sita? How can we reach Her in the heart of local people? Other questions should follow this.

Grateful for your mercy, we remain attentive to your comments to make any necessary modifications.

His servants

-ASA Carnaval Team-

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

Hare Krishna!

[Color scheme by Brown and White]

S. S. Hanumatpresaka Swami, le ofresco mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias,

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻

Espero que al leer esta carta se encuentre bien de salud,

le escribí una carta hace algunos días pero al parecer la tenía en borrador y al intentar mandarla de nuevo la borre, creo que son arreglos de Krishna para que usted descance un poco,

ingrese al ling [link?] que me dejó y pude darme cuenta lo que espera un maestro espiritual de un discípulo, donde dice que el GBC es la máxima autoridad y entre otras cosas como un devoto @ puede caer,

aquí en León Guanajuato hay dos lugares donde se hacen programas (clases ) y se adora a nuestro querido señor Krishna.

uno de esos lugares es en una casa donde hay puras madres ya tienen muchos años de ser devotas iniciadas y el otro lugar es en el centro de león Guanajuato con un devoto mayor que fue el que trajo conciencia de Krishna a León su nombre es Prabhu Isvaku,

HpS - I have known him for many years!

una servidora asiste a los dos lugares, una temporada voy con las madres y otro con prabhu isvaku y de esa manera me relaciono con todos los devotos,

también trato de tener un buen comportamiento de servicio y respeto ya que son de votos de nuestro querido señor y claro también con las personas que no están iniciadas ya que también son devotos de Krishna.

solo que en este momento todavía no lo recuerdan , después de escribirle la primera carta donde le pido de favor me de refugio le comenté a prabhu isvaku y se alegro mucho dijo que alegría tener una dicipula de usted y me dijo que cuando le escribiera de nuevo le dijera que ojalá pronto pueda visitarnos!

HpS - I think that our visit in this body will not occur, but Krsna can do anything!

Estoy viendo lo de el curso que se toma para tomar iniciación ya que no lo e tomado

su santidad le pido de favor me disculpé si al escribir eh cometido alguna ofensa ya que una servidora no tiene inteligente alguna ...

HpS - No, no, no.... I don't think so.

le voy a escribir mis condiciones tan miserables, que tengo sin duda alguna karma muy pesado por lo que le pido de favor no lo haga público.

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HpS - You don't want us to post the following statements? We did not read them because it is not proper for Sanyasis or Brahmacaris to have private conversations with reverend ladies. Did we understand correctly?

Of course, after discussing challenges, obstacles, here in general terms, we can maybe arrange for a personal discussion with the association of a nice married devotee fellow included for his perspective.

90% of the problems I, you, have, the rest of the devotees also have, had, so general discussion resolves some of them 100% for others also, or at least 90%. So that individual discussions need only be of details.

Your descriptions sound perfect. Chant Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare and hear your heart becoming happy in the Kirtan and just leaving everything aside.

su aspirante a sirvienta

Julia cuellar torres

Pamho agtsp

Hare Krishna, dandavats, pranaam, guru maharaja.

Recently they expanded the number of planes arriving from Argentina.

Sankirtan is getting very good here in Mexico and people are enthusiastically receiving the books in response to the pandemic.

For which we will stay almost until the end of the year before returning to Buenos Aires.

Bhadrasena das

HpS - We hope the books you distribute enter into the dark hearts of the people who get them like the rays of sunshine penetrating the dark forest, and the flowers bloom and birds sing!



Hare Krishna, dear Guru Maharaja

Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you are in good health and happy in everything.

HpS - It is like asking Queen Kunti or Yuddhisthira if they are happy, no? 🙂

I want to let you know about the celebration of Balarama Purnima in ISKCON San Borja on Sunday 22. By the mercy of Sri Balarama devotees offered 210 preparations to their Lordships. There were present like 40 devotees and guests. We had a great Kirtana lead by Anandamaya dasa. Kavi Caitanya dasa lead the Abhisheka, with Phanideva dasa and me.

Adi Lila Devi dasi offered the Sandhya Arati to their Lordships. In the kitchen were Govinda Rupa Narasimha Prabhu (JpS), Medini Devi dasi (JpS), Ganga Mayi Devi dasi, Rupa Manjari Devi dasi, Vamsi Dhari.

HpS - 👸

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I had the fortune to dress Sri Sri Jagannatha, Baladeva, Subhadra, to help in the Abhisheka and to gave the lecture about the glories of Sri Balarama.

Thank you very much Gurudeva to let me be part in the Harinama Sankirtana movement of Srila Prabhupada, Sri Caitanya and Sri Krishna.

I send you some pictures.

Your eternal servant,

Jiva-Sakti dasa.

HpS - We are just an instrument in the hands of Srila Prabhupada, who can make generals out of mud! Vidya vadu jivanam... by serving Krsna like this one gets intelligence about how to build an empire of Sankirtan activies!!!