Letters to the editor

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!  

All glories to Srila Gurudeva!  

Our obeisances at your feet.

Dear Gurudeva, Vidagdha and I are in better health. Thanks to you and so many devotees who supported us and prayed for my family. It was a very purifying experience. My case was complicated due to my allergies and lung problems. Now we are only taking medications to strengthen the lungs and immune system in general, ginger, echinacea, probiotics, etc... 

It is very difficult for a mother to think about dying and leaving her children unprotected, but after reading your message, I gradually acquired more intelligence to understand that I am nothing and cannot control anything. My mom died when I was 9 years old and I don't wish the same for my children. But I understand that our only refuge is Krishna; so, nothing bad could come of this situation.

HpS - You are not nothing. You are a little girl in Mother Yasoda's work force and you have to help pack Krsna's lunch or something like that. We are not too big, or not too small. We have something to contribute in this world, drama, and in the eternal world. https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/1/8/10/ "La madre tiene la gran responsabilidad de brindarle una protección total al niño..."

 It is not easy to say goodbye to this body, your family and everything that identifies you with this life, although we have read about that topic many times. So the days went by, trying to understand my life through this body and accept leaving here soon. 

HpS - Only because we think we are the well wisher of Bhismadeva and Drona acharya. Krsna is more concerned with them than we are. We just need to help Him take care of them. 

One of those complicated days with a lot of fever, physical pain and emotional imbalance, I fell asleep in the afternoon and dreamed of Krishna, the temple deity of Mexico, Sri Madhan Gopal. He asked me to comb him and fix his turban. I combed him, decorated his turban and he looked really so beautiful. Her curly hair, very shiny and soft. All the time he looked at me with so much love. At one point Krishna was no longer made of stone, he came up to me and gave me a hug.

ASA - Srimati Gopi-radha Devi Dasi!!! You are shameless!! 😁 You are writing to us about how unfortunate you are while keeping secret hugs with our Krsna!!

I told my husband and at that moment my heart was freed from all anxiety and fear. I thought that it couldn't be that bad to die and that it was really quite possible to be close to Krishna. My faith woke up. Honestly, I didn't see getting a hug from Krishna as real or close. Of course, with my devoted friends we sometimes talk about what Krishna's hugs would be like. 

I understand that the blessings and prayers of the devotees are very powerful. SG Mahatma Prabhu asked me to focus on living because my children needed me, it helped me a lot to keep going. He always has so much love and compassion to give. So many devotees called, wrote and offered us so many expressions of affection. I wish I could reciprocate with everyone. 

For days I dreamed of many devotees praying around me to get the virus out of my body. I would wake up at dawn very scared, feeling the energy of the devotees. 

Three weeks passed without being able to get out of bed and one day I woke up feeling very good and recovered. At that time, my dear friend (Jahnava) who I have not seen in many years, sent me a message saying that she made an offering to Lord Nrishimhadeva of Mayapur for my benefit. I felt very ashamed for that and for all that you and so many devotees were doing for us. Our only refuge is Krishna and his devotees.

Sorry for my long letter, I wanted to share my experience with you.  

Thank you very much gurudeva for your time and teachings. What can we do for you???  

We pray that you are in good health. 

Japa 16 rounds, gayatri, reading, service to my deities 👍

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Your servants Gopi Radha DD y Vidagdha Das.  

HpS - Respects to everyone. Everyone!! The Vidagdha, the Jaya deva... the kids, who will grow up and cause you even more problems as a grand mama etc.

Sorry slow to answer. We have a lot of service sometimes, and our eyes are getting old. See you in Sankirtana!! Thank you. We feel so much respect for you as a soldier in LC's army.

Our Ayurvedic doctor writes:

Dear Maharaja

I know you will come to Peru in September. I can cure you if you let me do it. The complete treatment just for you included lodging won't have any cost as always. I will need a month to cure you and it's important you will be isolated for it. According to Ayurveda to get longevity it's necessary to eliminate accumulated energy through our life (Vata), the treatment is for this. In addition no people around it's required.

Waiting for your answer.

HpS - So, so very nice to hear from you. Yes, we hope to come to Peru around 26th September and stay for six months in one place.

As of this minute we do not have any diseases other than old age.

This means that we have lost two teeth, though all the rest are in very good shape for our age, 73-years old. I don't think we can cure, that, no? 😊 Our vision is getting weaker. Our digestion and cardiac and pulmonary are fine. Hearing weaker.

I think, by the mercy of Guru and your advice in the past, our health is about as good as it can be. Our allopathic doctor, Amit Singh, our Gurukula student in years gone by, says the same, in top 15% of health for people our age.

Of course, we just cannot give up association of Vaisnavas such as yourself and others. We hope to get more of that while we are in Peru and plant the seed or our own nice Ashrama, New Ashoka Van (here Hanuman delivers Rama's message to Sita) with your perspectives on Ayurveda etc.

O.K.?

PAMHO

AGTSP

Radhe radhe

Dandavat pranam my dear guru maharaja

I hope your health is good now.

After going through some symptoms of Karuna Virus, that fortunately could be controlled in its first stages, I had an accident at home, I fell down and was not be able to walk for a month, I just finished with therapy and now I am walking again very slowly, by Radha Kunja Bihari's mercy.

I had to stop doing my Seva, mmm the Seva Radharani gives me, at the banks of Radhakund but I hope I can restart it very soon, if Radharani allows me to do it again.

But, this accident has also given me the chance to chant more, to read more, to have time with my beautiful Thakurjis at home, everything has its positive side we only have to find it.

The project of our dear Krsna Svarup is stopped at this moment, due to the pandemic we are still in lockdown and transportation is not regular until now, so it is difficult and risky to travel here in India. This project will be continued as soon as Krsna Svarup can come to Radhakund.

I was also in contact with Gour Gadadhar, she sent me the invitation to her wedding at Mayapur at the end of this month, please bestow upon them all your mercy so their marriage can be auspicious and happy.

In this month I have to start again with the visa errands, so I need your help once again😦 to send a letter to Panca Gouda prabhu. I will send you his mail via what's app. Sorry for this but unfortunately even if we are in Radha-Krsna's realm, everything moves with papers.

Thank you so much for your time but specially for your mercy to this soul.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

HpS - ASA -- AgtSP! paoho. Thank you for the news. Please send it more often.

We just sent a letter to The P. G. Das with a copy to the Tunga vidya Devi Dasi. Did you get it?

🙂

AGTSP paoho

In our recent ASA Symposium on Education we were lamenting that no from the Executive Committee or Zonal Reps responded to our invitations to join us, but finally we got to our e-mail after producing the program and then traveling to ISKCON Boise, Idaho, and here is a very, very, very, inspiring letter from Tapan Misra Das, Executive Secretary of the Ministry (and I hope still our very good friend).

We must have missed it because it came after we had alreay dove into the ocean of organizing the event and could not check our Yahoo Mail.

On Friday, July 30, 2021, 10:23:10 AM MDT, Tapana Mishra Das wrote:

Respected Maharaja, Dandavats. Jai Srila Prabhupada.

I am most grateful for your email. Please let me know which slot you would like me to join for. I will try my best to do so. Your servant, Tapana Mishra dasa.

HpS - ASA - Thank you, Prabhu. We hope to talk soon.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama,

Jaya Radha, Jaya Shyama,

Jaya Sri Vrndavana Dhama.

Little Lord Piggy, and Little Lord Monkey, here!!

We are sitting in one of the studio apartments next to the Tulsi garden in New Biharavan, ISKCON Boise.

Our body is O.K. but death is just past a few bends in the path, if we are lucky to not meet it today.

It was a long hard trip from Nashville to Boise. The air plane crashed three times and there was no oxygen.

It was hot.

Stuffy.

No one wanted to talk about Krsna.

but ... that was good also because we had rounds to catch up (bad Monkey! bad Monkey!).

Two people in the terminals, like security guards nod to us with great respect. One said, something about Allah.

Nice to dress in Devotional Clothes? Srila Prabhupada's suggested formal dress...

Krsna West, Hanuman with Sita-Rama in his chest.

About a million devotees here from all over the earth. After the airport, very little Co-Vid care. Fresh air in the temple, but no masks.

We keep distance and accept we may get some reaction to CoVid Delta, but it is all village members.

Adjusting, packing, ant and alligator wacking. We are about 75% moved in.

A lot of mail to now make our brains invested.

We are really on the road now looking for where sItA is sequestered.

Meeting with Shonu Shamdasani was 150% perfect. With Radhika and by the team effort of all of us, we were able to plan for a second meeting with some very principle members from NIOS and Philemon, to enter into some dialog for designing a bridge between Jung and Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati.

OK going to Arati.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I was eager to write to You a long time ago. When I got initiation back to 2004 I started to be a pujari right away. Besides that I was always enganched [engaged] in the temple service trying to keep good communication with the authorities. And so forth,

Years passed and I do not know if I can use the word "corruption" (you can delete it if you think this word is unappropiate) corruption within some temple authorities. These things affected my utsahan and even if I continued with my service, and I recalled all the things that you had to put up with within all these years in ISKCON my faith is not as strong as yours. I am aware that if I continue chanting Krsna will give me the intelligence to continue with utsahan.

HpS/ASA - AGTSP! Paoho. I think corruption is O.K., if we are willing to apply it to ourselves. Another word might be alloyed . I can see it happening to myself all the time.

Some may fall into vanity.

Some into pizza-fudge.

Some into sexo-illicito,

By Diti was certainly smudged.

Yet it they are still all corruption, alloyed, service.

The the thing that affected me the most was how the authorities handle the repainting of Gaura Nitai!!!!

I sent pictures comparing the deities in the past and now. We can tell the difference, I offer money to cover all the expenses and a team to work. I do not know why they are so stubborn :(

HpS/ASA - Neither do we. 😮

One time Jaya Tirtha Das and one senior Mataji were arguing over how Rukmini Dvarakadisha should be dressed, so they to the quarrel to Srila Prabhupada and as we heard it, he raised his hand with a smile and laughed and said that it was a matter of personal taste. He was not going to get involved.

Maybe that. Maybe something else.

Or maybe I am. The thing is that I have no forces to pursue this. My heart is broken 💔 in thousand pieces when I saw how They look today.

I guess that is time for me to let go.

Moreover it's not just me.

Other devotees do not agree either. But "they have the power"

ASA/TB - Does this apply??? https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/6/18/#bb43711 Can we do a sacrifice to "kill Indra", make disciples who can seize government power in our Yatra, so we can serve Visnu the way we want to serve Him???

My faith in You is intact, but I am trying not to exposure as I did in the past. I listen to your classes but in recordings. I join FMP, my participation in the chat is limited. I know that I am not a top-notch devotee. Nevertheless, today I read a message in Spanish that says: Lo importante no es lo que has logrado sino en lo que te has convertido

"The important thing is not what you have achieved but what you have become" For me the important thing is that I continue being part of ISKCON.

HpS - There are many rooms in the house that Srila Prabhupada is building so that in it the whole world can live, no? So, yes, we will NEVER leave ISKCON. Iskcon has absolute no meaning unless Srila Prabhupada is recognized as the Founder, Foundation, and Acharya, current leading authority.

We all have a right, necessity, to direct communication with him [though so many transparent via media].

Nowadays, for me is more important to keep my spiritual life and my contact with you rather than stand out among the devotees. I have the feeling that I do not have anything to show. I guess in the past I had that necessity to do that. I was immature. Maybe I still am. I just have the duty to tell you.

HpS - Thank you. We are all people. We all feel that the crew is not complete without CMDD and if the authorities see that you have been preaching to a dwarf B'cari who is coming to the Temple during Janmastami festival, they should probably look out.

I want to keep a low profile like Patrak d, Madhumanjari dd. Both are great devotees and serve you, but I I can tell that they are not eager to show off.

I continue giving classes in ISKCON Chosica, and leading kirtan 2 sundays a month

4P

16 rounds ok

Thanks in advance Gurudeva

Trying be your disciple

CMDD

HpS - I hope you have practical faith in us. You have faith in your dog, Ulysses. He will certainly protect you and your sister and cats, but... he is a dog and you do not expect him to do more than that. Jatayu was an eagle and he tried to protect Sita when no one else came forward but he could only do it half way.

Be more enthusiastic to see Gaura Nitai with a face that pleases their Mother's heart.