Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna My dear Gurudev

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my most humble and respectful obeisances

I have not written to you for a long time and I apologize for that. I'm still alive! and fighting for Krishna. A while ago I consulted an astrologer about what career and profession to follow and he told me: Culinary Arts. Although I do not feel very confident in this regard. I remember once I asked you in 2015 if a devotee should study for a college degree? And you explained to me that it depends on each type of case, it may or may not work for me. Nowadays I still think about that and although I know that it is not the most important thing in life, I understand that could help me in professional or work development, especially in Grihastha Asrama, that is why I wanted to tell you that I got married on May 19, 2019, at the present moment I have been married for more than 2 years. My wife, Noemi, took shelter whit ss. Japayataka Swami and probably take initiation very soon. Nowadays we are just fine, thanks to Krishna, I keep chanting my 16 daily Rounds and following the 4 principles, attending Mangal Aratik almost 3 times a week. I live with my wife just 1 block away from the Ikscon center in Asunción - Paraguay. I usually go to the temple to serve in Kirtan, Pujari, lectures, and to cook. It is very nectar all the services we perform, although my favorite one is Kirtan, and I feel that over time I learn more and I can do better service for Krishna and his devotees. One time I asked you, in 2018, How to serve properly in Iskcon? And you explained to me that by finding my position. so I'm still looking for that position so that I can properly serve you and Srila Prabhupada. Today I sincerely ask you what I can do in this life to serve and please you and Srila Prabhupada? 

Finally, I thank you infinitely for your spiritual guidance and your patience with this conditioned soul. I hope we can meet, maybe on your next visit to Peru or where Krishna arranges it, so maybe I can cook for you and listen to your Lectures. 

I Attach photos of our Janmashtami Festival In which all the devotees prepare +95 dishes for Krishna!

I hope you are in excellent health, my dear Master.

Your servant, Vijaya Govinda Das

HpS - Basically chant 16-nice rounds and follow the four princples. Then BG 10.10-11 will happen.

Please read the Kapi Dhvaja and write us with the current Priority Code.

Por favor lea el Kapi Dhvaja y escribanos con el Codigo de Prioridad actual

Please accept my respectful obeisances to the blessed dust of Your beautiful lotus feet!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada !! All glories to you !!

Have a beautiful Sri Krsna Janmastami Gurudev festival !!

We are trying to make a Festival for Srimati Radharani on Sunday, September 19, in the artisans' walk in the city of La Calera.

A place in the open air.

The director of culture of the city of La Calera is delighted that an India Festival is being held and accepted the proposal.

Several devotees have agreed to collaborate.

The Municipality will provide the necessary equipment for the musicians, will help with publicity and will give stalls.

We ask for His wonderful blessings! !!

The festival is being held in honor of Srimati Rdharani THE closest day that we could to the date of His appearance.

We also hope that it can continue to do so at least once a year.

Sri Jaganatha, Baladeva, Subhadra .. !! Will you come for a walk and bless us here ?? !!.

. I will be able to hear the Vaisnavas sing. . And see them in service. . After a long time without seeing them ...

Please forgive any offense in this letter.

Your would-be maid:

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha dd.

P.D. On Janmastami day it was my turn to teach the most diligent student I have.

Hopefully she will soon be able to dance for Krsna!

I am sending you photos of the place where the festival will be.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias al bendito polvo de Sus hermosos pies de loto!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!

Todas las glorias a Usted!!

Que pase un hermoso festival de Sri Krsna Janmastami Gurudev!!

Estamos intentando hacer un Festival para Srimati Radharani el domingo 19 de septiembre en el paseo de los artesanos en la ciudad de la calera. Un lugar al aire libre.

La directora de la cultura de la ciudad de La calera está encantada que se haga un Festival de la India y aceptó la propuesta.

Varios devotos han aceptado colaborar. La Municipalidad proveera los equipos que hagan falta para los músicos, ayudara con la publicidad y dará puestos de venta.

Pedimos Sus maravillosas bendiciones! !!

El festival se esta haciendo en honor a Srimati Rdharani EL día más cercano que pudimos a la fecha de Su aparicion.

También esperamos se pueda continuar haciéndolo por lo menos una vez al año.

Jaganatha , Baladeva, Subhadra ..!! Quedran venir a pasear y bendecirnos por aquí??!!. .

Podré escuchar a los vaisnavas cantar. . Y verlos en servicio. . Después de mucho tiempo sin verlos...

Perdone por favor cualquir ofensa en esta carta.

Su aspirante a sirvienta:

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha dd.

P.D. El día de Janmastami me toco dar clases a la alumna más aplicada que tengo😊 Ojalá ella pronto pueda bailar para Krsna!

Le envío fotos del lugar donde será el festival.

HpS - Lo paso??? Please read the Kapi Dhvaja and write us with the current Priority Code.

Por favor lea el Kapi Dhvaja y escribanos con el Codigo de Prioridad actual

Hare Krisna PAMHO TLGASP Espero tenga un Feliz Janmastami

En la Eco aldea hay dos programas uno a las 7,30 am otro a las 19,00pm, en el primero se le ofrece a Krisna un incienso y una flor.

Ss Jagamohan Das is

ASA - Super. Por favor lea el Kapi Dhvaja y escribanos con el Codigo de Prioridad actual. 😎

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our sincere obeisances

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you are well, surrounded by disciples and well-wishers and in good health.

HpS - ASA -- Srila Prabhupada gives one definition of disciple as one who follows the discipline of his teacher.

Hmmm?

Our discipline is based on 16-nice rounds and four principles strictly. This necessitates the wonderful early morning Kirtans, Bhajans etc.

By singing and dancing will I change the progress of the seasons?

No, we learn to integrate with them, to participate with Krsna's reality.

"Hare Krsna, Hare Rama".

Seeing this world as a reflection of the eternal reality for the purpose of waking up, or being here to help others wake up.

Back to work. Back to Goloka.

Well wishers are people who want us to wake up. Want us to be engaged again in our constitutional position.

Krsna is always growing, so people around us can also be always growing

So much to do!

I give you a brief report of my activities as regional representative and administrator of the Bhakti Sastri program.

HpS - We have no news of the Ministry of Education Executive Committee or Minister??!

• Just today LAD shared with me the application for the certification of ISKCON La Paz as Bhakti Vaibhava exam center. We will review it carefully before sending it to Bhakta Rupa Prabhu who is interested in having an official program in the region. LAD has worked hard to achieve this, we hope that Srimad Bhagavatam will soon be consolidated in our countries.
• The Bhakti Sastri program has about 35 test takers plus about 25 more in the coming weeks. Many started but few finished. However, the effort of my teachers has been enormously worth it. I am very grateful. Yugala Kisora ​​dd is doing a very professional job in examination and personal reports.
• I am translating the Bhakti Sastri and Bhakti Vaibhava question bank given to me by Atul Krishna Prabhu. Hard but very rewarding work. For next year's courses, we will be able to have all the material in Spanish.
• LAD and I, with the collaboration of Raman Reti dd and Indira Sakti dd, are working on an educational project that we want to present to you personally at the end of the year. We agree that it is a mature project and we hope to be able to please you.

HpS - We are really dedicated to the idea that the programs are good, must adjust to the environment, but really it is the teacher commitment that is always the driving energy.

We are fine, busy, aware, and greatly missing your personal association. We pray at your feet to see you soon.

Your servant

Gandharva das

HpS - Thank you. The Full Morning Program takes an effort for us to maintain. We are the technicians that make it work, but without the association of the participants 60% of the program's strength is gone.

Thank you.

We should expect that Krsna will send opportunities for us to do valuable, practical service to us. That is the most common sense thing to expect.

Then plans will follow as we get partners, and develop our teams.

My address book got bombed and we are reconstructing it. Please Whatsapp me Tapan misra Das' number.

Also we are developing the ISKCON-ASA educational programs, and hope to have Hispanomerica symposium between Krsna and January 1st:

Subra devi Dasi

Radhika ramana Das

Yadunandana Swami

You and LAD?

Who else?

Education In ISKCON

Hare Krsna dear Gurudeva

Thank you so much for your answer

I believe that an Hispanoamerican Symposium is a great idea. The guests on the list are top quality. Of course LAD and I can contribute our small amount of experience.

What about inviting Param Padam prabhu? I have a good relationship with him and he has so much to say on this topic. But If you want to make it broader, maybe we could ask for Mitravinda dd. and Harinam Gauranga das, regional representatives of Brazil and Colombia-Venezuela respectively. Both can contribute through very different experiences and perspectives. Brazil is a monster (in educational dynamics), while Colombia-Venezuela are fighting for a consolidation (formalization) of their pedagogical programs. What do you think Gurudeva? seems suitable? relevant?

HpS - This is exactly what I was hoping that you would have names of many people. We will make this "Letter Type", " Category A", then it will cycle into the Kapi Dhvaja and we can start building teams, making plans from there.

Nothing can stop the mercy of Nitai-Nimai.

Let me please help you organize this program.

*Thanks for the disciple - well wisher definitions beyond the institutional, social and superficial. Needed to be induced with this kind of solid concepts.

ASA - AgtSP!!!

Your servant

Gandharva das

La Visión de Santa Teresa

Homenaje en su día de desaparición el 15 de octubre del año 1582.

Cuentas de Conciencia 38 – Sevilla 9 de agosto de 1575

En el libro Cuentas de Conciencia de las obras completas de la Santa hay una increíble descripción de la mayor visión que la Santa tuvo. Ella aquí afirma que es su Señor.

2. “Súbitamente me vino un recogimiento con una luz interior tan grande que me parecía estar en otro mundo, y hallose mi espíritu dentro de sí, en una floresta y huerta muy deleitosa, tanto que me hizo recordar de lo que se dice en el Cantar de los Cantares: Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum – venga Él, mi amado, a Su huerto y coma sus delicadas frutas”.

“Vi allí, en este Eliseo (lugar delicioso donde van las grandes almas), un joven negruzco con una extraña belleza; encima de su cabeza tenía como una guirnalda, que no corona, de gran pedrería, y muchas doncellas que andaban allí con Él, con ramos en las manos, todas en cánticos de alabanzas de Dios. Yo no hacía sino abrir los ojos para no distraerme y no me era posible quitar la atención de ello”.

“Había allí una música de ángeles y canto de pajaritos, de la que el alma gozaba, aunque yo con los oídos físicos no lo escuchaba, más el alma, estaba en aquel deleite. Yo miraba como no había allí otro hombre ninguno”.

3. “Esto duró más de hora y media –que no podía apartar mi vista ni mi atención, y con gran deleite, cosa diferente de otras visiones; y lo que de allí saqué fue más amor a Dios y tenerle más profundamente presente con aquella belleza, no es posible que fuera imaginación”.

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The Vision of Santa Teresa

Tribute on the day of her disappearance on October 15, 1582.

Accounts of Conscience 38 - Seville, August 9, 1575

In the book Accounts of Conscience of the complete works of the Saint there is an incredible description of the greater vision that the Saint had. She here affirms who is her Lord.

2. “Suddenly a recollection came to me with an interior light so great that it seemed to me to be in another world, and my spirit was found within itself, in a very delightful forest and orchard, so much so that it made me remember what is said in the Song of Songs: Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum - come He, my beloved, to His garden and eat its delicate fruits.

“I saw there, in this Eliseo (delicious place where great souls go), a blackish youth with a strange beauty; On top of his head he had like a garland, which does not crown, of great stones, and many maidens who walked there with him, with bouquets in their hands, all in songs of praise of God. I kept opening my eyes so as not to be distracted and it was not possible to take my attention away from it ”.

“There was a music of angels and song of birds there, which the soul enjoyed, although I did not listen to it with my physical ears, but the soul was in that delight. I looked like there was no other man there ”.

3. “This lasted for more than an hour and a half - that I could not take my eyes off nor my attention, and with great delight, something different from other visions; and what I got from there was more love for God and having him more deeply present with that beauty, it is not possible that it was imagination ”.

HpS - Amazing!!!!