Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna!

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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 - 👸

👳

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!!!



pamho, AGtSP!

Have returned from San Francisco's Ratha Yatra seva...some for the better, some for improvement.

Was a Saturday program, a bit smaller than the Sunday events, still ecstatic as ever. We had a good crew of younger devotee's from NJP, about 4 to assist and our semi-regular grhastra's.

The difficulty was in short notice, 2 weeks prior, Berkeley had a Mini-Ratha Yatra on Telegraph, so some people chose not to come to S.F.

Regardless, the latter enthusiasm pervaded the actual day of the carts rolling and we felt the bliss of the Maha-Mantra jubilantly filling our ears. As usual, last-minute quirks brought volunteers to fine-tune or adjust paraphernalia and equipment, though nothing like have a wheel fall off or anything. In San Francisco anything can happen at Ratha Yatra... this time it was mostly mercy to the volunteers.

Missed your association, and the other Sannyasi's, only had the Brahmacari's from San Diego who were dancing all the whole parade with Vaisesika Prabhu, and all welcomed that. The festivities continued at Robin William's Meadow (former "Sharon" meadows) and Jagannatha Swami with Titikseva Kurunika rocked out the final afternoon show. The cooler evening air concluded the event. Break down was one of the best and returned to NJP fulfilled with the knowledge that we did another event for Their Lordships.

HpS - ASA --- I have personal experience of how one person came to the Festival and then Krsna arranged her life that from that experience she became a full time devotee and collected more funds than the Rathayatra cost and distributed hundreds and even thousands of big books!

Flew back to Houston Monday and caught up on the rounds and some rest, a bit exhausting for these old bones, yet all was fulfilled and only minor damage in the use of this temporary vehicle. Let's see how next year goes...

All Glories to the Vaisnava's!

HpS - Next stop, that universe where Lord Chaitanya is actually present in Jagannatha Puri???

Hare Krisna PAMHO TLGASP mi querido Guru Deva Hanumatpresaka Maharaja todas las glorias a Srla Prabhupada.

Le envío los devotos que estaban en Madre Tierra y las casas que están construidas son tres y dos que están por constituir incluida la mia que voy hacer más adelante. Con Jayanta Prabhu lamentablemente ya no es vecino a entregado el proyecto de Navalakunda a la fundación Abay.

HpS - Gracias! The more we chant Hare Krsna, the more we develop broad and deep intelligence for Sankirtan.



Dear Esteemed Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and NIOS.

I was very enlivened and enlightened to talk with you today about philosophy. I was very glad to hear of your book club on Carl Jung's the Red Book. I am really fascinated and interested in this from the scientific perspective on the topic of consciousness.

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Sorry this has taken so long to answer. We don't really have a book club, but are putting out the reading materials we have taken up and looking to record comments and inspiration on The Monk's Podcast, with Chaitanya carana Das.

That is actually my deepest interest - the intersection of philosophy and science. I actually have taken philosophy courses while doing my D.Phil. (Ph.D.) at Oxford because it was a passion of mine (I have taken some online courses from Harvard back then also when I was a grad student and some philosophy course when I was an undergrad at BSU).

I was even an instructor at Bhaktivedanta College Finland and was teaching philosophy courses (but there are some details about Greek philosophers I certainly still need to learn :) But I got now more interested in material that cannot be obtained just from philosophy textbooks.

I got more interested now in something more practical and meaningful - bringing together concepts of philosophy and science. The majority of the world views the world through the eyes of modern scientific thought, which includes theories such as - string theory, parallel universes, the God particle, the God equation, extraterrestrial life, directed panspermia, but what are these all anyway - they are mathematical representations of concepts discussed in the Indian philosophies of Vedanta or Bhagavata.

That is what I am striving to work on - creating a local community of academicians to discuss these concepts in a book club and lecture series - the concepts of Vedanta and Bhagavata to modern science.

String theory (every subatomic particle being a wave / vibrations), parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, Fred Hoyle's panspermia (implanting of DNA of different species on earth - in Bhagavata, Daksha Prajapati) are mentioned in the Bhagavata.

I have had speakers from Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) in my Vedanta distinguished lecture series at my university Texas A&M University - Kingsville. I am now going to be creating more distinguished lecture series and webinars. Also, I am interested in getting some of these distinguished professors, especially from renowned world-class universities to join together for a refereed peer-reviewed special issue of papers in a journal, maybe Solaris.

This I hope would eventually branch off from the Vedanta lecture series. I strive for this effort because I feel that philosophers and scientists need to connect more. They were one and the same discipline in the past, only now has modern education divided them into different fields.

I believe that I as a scientist (having studied science at Oxford and also some philosophy), I can contribute to the interdisciplinary field of philosophy and science.

I am inspired by your holiness and hope I can learn from great and distinguished thinkers such as your holiness. Whenever I listened to your lectures, it always inspired me.

Sharing some of my personal thoughts,

YHS,

Aja Govinda dasa

HpS - AgtSP!!!!! Paoho. Your efforts sound very nice. If we can participate in some little way please let us know. We are trying to communicate our abilities and areas of expertise in the Kapi Dhvaja and then from there we are giving YouTube links and Monk's Podcast links and then links to representative programs we are presenting elsewise.

Science and the Vedas is one area listed on the YouTube Channel.

Thank you.