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Querido Gurumaharaja.

Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Continuando con mi informe, en un tema más personal, nosotros estamos bien dejando las miserias menores, estoy tratando de dejar las preocupaciones del mundo del contagio del virus, parte de mi familia en Perú también fue afectada recientemente, mi cuñado José, un hombre muy bondadoso, falleció porque ya tenía su salud débil, el virus fue un pretexto para un cambio de cuerpo, de igual manera fue muy triste. Cuanta gente muere, recientemente en un video un sacerdote decía "la vida se dió para buscar a Dios , la muerte para poseerlo".

Le tenemos miedo a la oportunidad de acercarnos a Dios porque él amor hacía Él tiene demasiado polvo. Glorias al sankirtana de Sri krishna que nos da la esperanza de perder el temor a la muerte.

Hay una frase muy famosa de Su Gracia Pankajanghri prabhu en el periodo previo a su partida " pensé que este cuerpo era una fuente de placer, una fuente de disfrute, pero el Bhagavatam tiene razón"

Después de su partida un devoto preguntó a Jananivas prabhu "Tantos devotos estaban orando, tantas pujas y oraciones. Aún así, Krishna se llevó a Prabhu Pankajanghri? ¿Por qué Krishna lo hizo? ¿Cómo entendemos esto?"

Jananivas Prabhu respiró hondo y respondió: "Krishna está mostrando cómo Él es el Señor Supremo Independiente".

Este año lo empecé con dificultades de salud, a finales del 2020 tuve una suma de estres fuerte, críticas de mi servicio que me llevaron a una tristeza profunda que se transformó en problemas físicos, estuve en urgencia en el hospital en pleno apogeo de covid y no sabían exactamente qué pasaba conmigo, sucedido que el estrés había desplomado mi sistema inmune y se activó un virus que me provocó una infección que afectó algunos nervios del brazo izquierdo, pensé que se iba a paralizar, mucho tiempo estuve sin poder usarlo, estuve con antivirales y medicina para relajar los nervios locales que me provocaban un desiquilibrio para dormir, malestar, siempre con dolores fuertes y analgésicos fuertes que parecían peor que la enfermedad, duró varios meses pero al fin parece que voy recuperando mi brazo que ya tiene nada más un porcentaje congelado pero poco a poco puedo asistir mejor a la Deidad, es la mejor fisioterapia que puedo recibir.

Ayer prabhu Prestha , administrador del restaurante del templo me ofreció prestarme un aparato electro estimulador, una vez recibí esa terapia y estuve con dolor fuerte por casi 3 semanas pero luego observé un pequeño pero favorable ganancia.

Todo esto me hace reflexionar como puede ser que el cuerpo se volvió cómplice de la mente y perdió la cordura de esa forma?, la medicina es la trascendencia, ruego por sus bendiciones por favor para tomar las dosis indicada y mi enfermedad verdadera se cure algún día. Porsupuesto es vergonzoso pero últimamente tengo que decirlo porque me piden participar en más servicios en el templo y aún no tengo el brazo al 100% pero mi mente se va fortaleciendo más y así como hundió al burro ahora debe jalarlo para purificarlo con el servicio a Krsna.

Prabhu Manash Ranjan le envía sus reverencias, el sigue entrando un día a la semana al altar atendiendo a Sus Señorías Goura Nitay yo le ayudo vistiendo a los Gurus y los detalles que hagan falta. La adoración a la Deidad es lo mejor para los grhastas, principios regulativos estrictos para poder tocar a las Deidades y canto de los Santos Nombres de Krsna sin devoción pero por ahora son nuestros upacaras básicos.

Disculpe por robarle el tiempo con estos temas. Usted nos da demasiado y me da vergüenza no poder aprovecharlo.

Su eterna aspirante a sirviente

Asta Sakhi dd

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Dear Gurumaharaja.

Please accept our respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Continuing with my report, on a more personal issue, we are fine leaving the minor miseries, I am trying to leave the worries of the world about the contagion of the virus, part of my family in Peru was also affected recently, my brother-in-law José, a very kind, he died because his health was already weak, the virus was a pretext for a change of body, in the same way it was very sad. How many people die, recently in a video a priest said "life was given to seek God, death to possess him."

HpS - That's nice. For a devotee threat of death is mercy of God to focus on Him. Arjuna was in risk of death at every moment on the Battle of Kuruksetra.

We are afraid of the opportunity to get close to God because love for Him has too much dust. Glory to Sri Krishna's sankirtana which gives us hope to lose our fear of death.

There is a very famous phrase from the Grace of him Pankajanghri prabhu in the period before his departure "I thought this body was a source of pleasure, a source of enjoyment, but the Bhagavatam is right"

After his departure a devotee asked Jananivas prabhu "So many devotees were praying, so many pujas and prayers. Still, Krishna took Prabhu Pankajanghri? Why did Krishna do it? How do we understand this?"

Jananivas Prabhu took a deep breath and replied, "Krishna is showing how He is the Independent Supreme Lord."

HpS - Radha Krsna can go into the prison and see anyone. Who can stop them.

This year I started it with health difficulties, at the end of 2020 I had a strong sum of stress, criticisms of my service that led me to a deep sadness that turned into physical problems, I was urgently at the hospital in full swing of covid and They did not know exactly what was wrong with me, it happened that stress had collapsed my immune system and a virus was activated that caused an infection that affected some nerves in my left arm.

I thought it was going to paralyze, I was not able to use it for a long time, I was with antivirals and medicine to relax the local nerves that caused me an imbalance to sleep, discomfort, always with strong pain and strong analgesics that seemed worse than the disease, it lasted several months but at last it seems that I am recovering my arm that already has nothing more than a percentage frozen but little by little I can better assist the Deity, it is the best physiotherapy I can receive.

Yesterday Prabhu Prestha, administrator of the temple restaurant, offered to lend me an electro stimulator device, once I received this therapy and I was in severe pain for almost 3 weeks but then I observed a small but favorable gain.

HpS - ASA - Amazing. Amazing. We wish we could have been of some help during all this. I think you took great spiritual advancement from the experience. Great chance to become and eternally advanced devotee.

All this makes me reflect how it could be that the body became an accomplice of the mind and lost its sanity in that way? Medicine is the transcendence, I beg for your blessings please to take the indicated doses and my true disease is cured some day.

Of course it is embarrassing but lately I have to say it because they ask me to participate in more services in the temple and I still do not have my arm at 100% but my mind is getting stronger and just as it sank the donkey now it must pull it to purify it with the service to Krsna .

Prabhu Manash Ranjan sends his obeisances, he continues to enter the altar one day a week attending to His Lordships Goura Nitay and I help him by dressing the Gurus and the details that are needed. Deity worship is best for the grhastas, strict regulative principles to be able to touch the Deities and chanting the Holy Names of Krsna without devotion but for now they are our basic upacaras.

HpS - Yes, worshiping the deity together is so, so, so powerful to build a strong, strong, strong Grhastha community.

"We do it together. We see who is there."

Sorry for stealing your time with these themes. You give us too much and I am ashamed not to be able to take advantage of it.

HpS - Are you strong enough to take a role in the Mahabharata in your next life. If we need a Kunti or a Draupadi, can you do it? 😎 How much Krsna must love their help in His work! Would you like Krsna for your nephew? Waking up.

Maybe you will loose one arm and get four??? That would really impress the other Pujari's, no?!!

Thank you.

Your eternal would-be servant

Asta Sakhi dd

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to Ss Hanumatpresaka Swami

Please Gurudeva, accept my humble and respectful obeisances at his lotus feet.

HpS - Lettuce feet.

Beloved gurudeva I remember that on your last visit to Mexico when you were in Cuernavaca, by your mercy we managed to have some association, it was very enriching because in particular I had not had that closeness with you, it greatly encouraged me in the plaza to lead a little The kirtan, that was something totally new, but at the same time wonderful, the one that despite my faults and total ignorance in singing injected me with enthusiasm and you sang along with me teaching me that everything is possible. Thanks for those nectar droplets.

HpS - I remember the Kirtan. It was very nice. Walking, chanting nicely, offering books to people.

From that moment I felt an injection of enthusiasm, on the other hand, thanks to the virtual tour, online classes and especially the mornings in sleeves and the association with you and the brothers has enriched our determination.

Thanks to the pandemic, each house is a temple and following the recommendations that you suggested a few years ago, our sadhana is to attend to our wife and son and little deities at home, get up to mangal arati, sing a little and a little reading. , offer food, however during the pandemic I lost my permanent job, so I am only giving emotional kinesiology therapies, this helped a lot to dedicate more time to my service at home, so we organize some festivals here at home, with my wife and child. And other festivals we went to the temple, for the experience was totally new, we felt how Krishna occupies himself in service, protects us and gives us his personal darshan, an intimate atmosphere with lord Jagannath.

On one occasion we managed to cook in the temple for Mr. Jagannath right in snana yatra it was incredible and wonderful to be able to serve Mr. Jagannath directly, he also participated helping the pujaris to prepare everything necessary for the bath in the festivals, I keep my service to save the clothes of His Lordships Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra, Goura Nitay and Sri Sri Radha Pranabhallava which he carried out for the last 6 years, bathing and changing Srila Prabhupada took it 2 years ago and taking care of Tulasi devi at home, he who for the Grace of Krishna we have done for 5 years,

We continue to study Bhakti sastri online, with Prabhu Param from Argentina that started last year, and with Mother Chandramukhi from Peru, as I told you in another of my letters, I finished Upadesamrta, but maybe I will have to take Upadesamrta again. with the Prabhu Param. Our studies of Bachelor of Business Administration are going in 8 semester only 1 more left to finish the degree. So if Krishna wants, we will be finishing university and Bhakti sastri this year, please give us his blessing to open this mind that refuses to learn.

In the recent letter

https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12388/?query=retaking+the+the+topic+of+harinama+diksha

It is mentioned to resume the process of initiations. During your visit to Mexico, I gave you the letter of recommendation from my authorities from the Nueva Nilacala Mandir temple in Guadalajara, Mexico. To take the second initiation, will it be necessary to reapply

 Another letter to the president of the Guadalajara temple? What else do I have to do, Gurumaharaja?

Sorry for the offenses, Your smallest insignificant would-be servant Mandali Bhadra das

HpS - Thank you!!! We will look for other letters from you, here and answer them, now. Process of initiation seems very confused now in Mexico. It seems M. Asta sakhi Devi Dasi has been helping all of us by pushing to take care of this!!!

Maybe you can contact her and see if she knows how things should be done.

As you describe yourself you are ready for Second Initiation so let us work out the details.

Hare Krishna dear Maharaja

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to You.

Please accept my humble obeisances and apologize for the delay in responding to your kind words.

ASA - 😂 Compared to us you are a Saint!

We report:

On a daily basis, we try to be humble, sincere, enthusiastic and hard working, overcoming stumbling blocks, stupidity and laziness ... we pray to the Lord ... please help us

Technically we deliver on what we promised. We can breathe and sing our rounds every day and regulate ourselves with good results according to the four principles ... so that we notice the merciful intervention of the Lord in our lives. Thank you Govinda!

We offer daily Bhoga to His Honor (fruits in the morning, and whatever is prepared).

 We maintain the cleanliness of our altar.

We tend to intentionally forget in public places a SP book in the healthy hope that it will be duly appreciated by whoever finds it.

Every day we value a little more the difference between reading SP's books alone and hearing them from the lips of a soul completely surrendered to The Supreme Personality of Godhead.

https://vedabase.io/es/library/lob/42/

 We are infinitely grateful to Srila Prabhupa, to my Gurudeva, to you Maharaja, and to all the great souls who provide association for this soul trying to cry for Krishna.

Ekadasi 60%

                 Viraha

When I was a child I had a dream

a simple and amazing dream

is the feeling of that dream

what remains intact

He in front of us, he was not visible

but his presence was evident

encouraged my mother to consent

in taking me and playing with him

the scene changed for air ...

Sitting on the luggage rack of his bike

among many other children

invisible I found myself

Deep feeling of friendship and affection

unknown and formidable

I have not experienced carefree again

nor for my dearest ones

parents, siblings, lovers, sons , friends and pets

nothing like it.

Then as I woke up

immersed in the deepest longing

I was looking for enthusiasm in sadness

telling myself ...

Come on, they haven't left… they just hid…

Ekachacra N. C.das        (villain's body)

HpS - The materialistic environment, media, school, society, covers these spiritual experiences, but actual investigations indicate that they are actually quite common. The do not happen daily, but in the lives of so many people, WHEN ASKED, they can remember a spiritual (demons say psychotic) experience, but they had no one with whom to discuss it, so it was forgotten.

Time to go home.

Hare Krishna estimado Maharaja

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las glorias a Ti.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias y disculpe la tardanza en responder a sus amenas palabras.

  Reportamos:

En lo cotidiano, intentamos ser humildes, sinceros, entusiastas y esforzados, superando tropiezos, necedad y pereza… rogamos al Señor… ¡por favor ayúdanos¡

Técnicamente cumplimos con lo prometido. Podemos respirar y cantar nuestras rondas todos los días y regularnos con buenos resultados en función a los cuatro principios… de modo que advertimos la misericordiosa intervención del Señor en nuestra vida ¡Gracias Govinda¡

  Ofrecemos boga a diario a Su Señoría (frutas por la mañana, y todo lo que se prepare).

 Mantenemos el aseo de nuestro altar.

 Solemos olvidar intencionalmente en lugares públicos, un libro de SP con la sana esperanza de que sea debidamente apreciado por quien lo encuentre.

Valoramos cada día un poco más la diferencia que existe en leer los libros de SP en solitario a escucharlos de labios de un alma entregada por completo a La Suprema Personalidad de Dios.

https://vedabase.io/es/library/lob/42/ 

  Nos sentimos infinitamente agradecidos con Srila Prabhupa, con mi Gurudeva, con usted Maharaja, y con todas las grandes almas que brindan asociación a esta alma que intenta llorar por Krisna. 

Ekadasi 60%

                  Viraha

Cuando era niño tuve un sueño

un sueño simple y asombroso

es el sentimiento de ese sueño

lo que permanece intacto

Él frente a nosotros, no era visible

pero su presencia era evidente,

 alentaba a mi madre a que consintiera

en llevarme y jugar con él

la escena mudó de aire…

Sentado en el porta equipaje de su bicicleta

entre otros tantos niños

invisibles me encontré

Profundo sentimiento de amistad y cariño

desconocido y formidable

no he vuelto a experimentar despreocupado

 ni por mis seres más queridos

padres, hermanos, amantes, hijos, amigos y mascotas

nada parecido.

Luego, mientras despertaba

 sumergido en la añoranza más profunda

 buscaba en la tristeza el entusiasmo

 diciéndome a mí mismo...

  ¡Vamos¡ ¡ ellos no se han marchado¡… solo se han escondido…

Ekachacra N. C.das        (cuerpo de villano)

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

I heard your dialogue with Chaitanya Charan Prabhu.

I just have one question whose answer can goto multiple levels.

We are numb right , now, confused.

SO we remember --when you dont know anything chant Hare Krsna.

we did it then we remember, one needs enthusiasm. enthusiasm is found in intelligence....

if our intelligence does not work, ask from seniors. So we are doing it

now when we are numb, how does intelligence work, how to acquire it?

two leg horse

HpS - Best I can answer it that ultimately we cannot acquire anything. Krsna is the source of all potency, so we can only take advantage of whatever potency He gives us. So.... very important is to take advantage of resources He gives us. Acquire by accepting.

He has incarnated and left BG and SB.

Take advantage.

He has given an active Parampara through Srila Prabhupada. Take advantage of his BG and SB purports.

!!

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From that perspective we can then begin to understand how to relate to his institution, people, improve the details of our process.

Eg. Chant Hare Krsna and be happy. Chant Hare Krsna in the early morning 96-48 minutes before sunrise and become VERY happy...

... Use what you know. You will make lasting progress. Then use what you know at that point!!!!

Dear Guru Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Once again seek blessings from you and all my God Siblings for our vivah yagna , which will be held on 22 August.

Your Humble servant

Gaura Gadadhara Dasi

HpS - ASA -- Thank you! Hare Krsna. If you can broadcast the wedding, that might be very nice. At least lots of pictures. Thank you.

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Hare

Krsna

🐽 Oink! Oink!

🐵 Whoop! Whoop!

O(only) I(diots) N(eglect) K(rsna)!

FMP, Breakfast, SB class about Brahmara-gita! It opens a lot of more investigation for us.

Nap.

1-hour with Jagat-guru Das from Santiago. News about the family and Yatra, especially some anxiety that M. Guru-govinda Dasi is feeling! We hope it can be resolved.

Rufus delivered some Boga for The Lord while we were on line.

Then half and hour with Bali-mardana Das about ISKCON Ministry of Education and upcoming Viplavah conference.

Then 1/2 hour with devotees in Houston about personal problems and Bh. Vai.

Then going for a walk with NgD and Dr. Desai with a new route and man named Fallon stopped his bicycle and asked us if there was a Sanga (Sangha) here. He said he saw us walking in our robes and hoped he would have a chance to run into us.

We talked for a while and gave him our address card. Hope he contacts us.

Then, letter writing. FEP online with Radha Natabara. then, now!!!! 😊 😊 😊

Thank you for the letters and news of your Sankirtan!!!

If we chant Hare Krsna we are all packed up together eternally.

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