Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,

 Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

 All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 All glories to Guru parampara.

 Gurudev, if you would have available in India now then i would have spoken with you 

 in person because discussion is about Gyatri Mantras.

 Don't want to write here much.......should have the discussion 1-to-1 on this.

 Do you have any specific recommendations for advance stages so that we can check that we 

 are on correct track.

HpS - Srila Prabhupada, conversations with Ramananda rai, discusses these things in public, but yes, they remain automatically confidential in terms of our purification.

we have not really seen srila prabhupada discuss these mantras, nor any of his disciples, separately from the realization of the maha-mantras.

skc, pna... hk/hr... haraye namah...

they should become more brilliant as your chanting becomes more brilliant.

you should dance internally with their chanting as we dance externally with harinama kirtan.

because of the birth we have taken, kali yuga sudra, mlecha, yavana et al.

in this life time we will not be able to chant them on a level and in a position independent of our harinama kirtan.

maybe we will take birth in brahmana family in nabadvipa in our next lifetime.

thank you.

Your dependent,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you Guru Maharaja.

We have met your family, no?

When did we visit there?

Yes Guru Maharaja, you have met our family members many times in Manipur, Tripura, Radhakunda and Silchar. You have visited our home in 2016, 2017 and 2023. You gave Harinama Diksha and Brahman Diksha to many devotees at my house (Kaptanpur, Silchar, Assam) in 2016 and 2017.

HpS - That, agtSP, was what i thought. it is so vivid in our memory. haridas swami is your cousin?

The inconveniences Guru Maharaja faced during your visit to our home village Kaptanpur at Silchar - Assam, please kindly forgive all of us for that by considering we all are very unqualified and stupid fools.

What other Vaisnavas do we know in Silchar community?

Guru Maharaja has many disciples at Silchar. They are all following 4 regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds. Some of them are –

-        my mother (HG Padmashri Devi Dasi) and we, four sisters – HG Kalpalatika Devi

Dasi (who resides in Vrindavan with her husband), myself – Manjuali Devi Dasi,

HG Ratnavali Devi Dasi and HG Sachimata Devi Dasi

-        HG Krishnasvarupa Das and his family

-        HG Pramodini Radhe Devi Dasi (presently serving Sri Gopalji at Radhakunda)

-        HG Rupa Manjari Devi Dasi

-        HG Brajeswari Radhe Devi Dasi

Hari Das Swami???

His Holiness BA Haridasa Maharaja is doing good. Recently one month ago, he had operation for piles at Bhubaneswar, Orissa. He is ok now. He is going to Mayapur in few days for some meeting purposes.

What you are doing now is best service to us. Don't change it. Grow it.

Yes Guru Maharaja, I will keep it up and try to grow whatever services you told me to do for your satisfaction and Srila Prabhupada. Guru Maharaja, please bless me so that I will never doubt your teachings and I will never negligent in serving your words with unalloyed devotion till the last breadth of my life.

Guru Maharaja, I have made four devotees till date. One has already taken Diksha from you in the year 2016, her name is Brajeswari Radhe Devi Dasi. Another one has taken initiation from HH Jayapataka Swami in the year 2023. And another two are not initiated yet. They are bhaktin Krishna Devi and bhaktin Radharani Devi. They have been following four regulative principles for the last 6-7 years, chanting 16 rounds, doing Mangala Arati, Ekadashi, and reading Bhagavatam and Krishna book daily together with me.

HG Brajeswari Radhe Devi Dasi is a very good disciple of you Guru Maharaja. Sometimes she writes to you to this blog. Her husband is serving in Indian army and his name is Deepak. Even if serving in the Indian army, Deepak has been following 4 regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds, observing Ekadashi, doing Mangala Arati, etc. from the last 13 years. Although sometimes he is compelled to eat Indian army’s vegetarian food which contains onion and garlic because of his work, he takes it out and eat. But he is very sincere and serious. And, Smt. Rupa Manjari Devi Dasi is a very dedicated disciple of yours. She took initiation in the year 2017, but by mistake, her name is not appeared in the list of your disciples (http://www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt). Her husband Nandalal Singha has been practicing four regulative principles from the last 18 years, following Ekadashi Vrata, eating only Prasad and doing daily Mangala Arati at home.

If Guru Maharaja can give Brahmana Diksha to Brajeswari Radhe Devi Dasi and Rupa Manjari Devi Dasi; and Harinama Diksha to Deepak and Nandalal Singha, and bhaktin Krishna and bhaktin Radharani, it will be a great mercy to me.

They all expressed their desire to serve you in the form of Diksha Guru, many times. They have been following you from many years ago. I am begging this from you Guru Maharaja from my heart. If you bestow your mercy upon the above-mentioned devotees by accepting them as your disciples, it will be a great mercy to me in performing many services together with them for the satisfaction of you and Srila Prabhupada. If Guru Maharaja gives permission for them, we will come through proper channel and HH BA Haridasa Goswami.

With the above-mentioned devotees, every day I read Bhagavatam and Krishna book over conference call. I am continuing my book distribution seva with many new wonderful experiences. Please give me the strength so that I become a good preacher, Guru Maharaja. Thank you very much. Hare Krishna.

Your servant

Manjuali Devi Dasi

Kaptanpur, Silchar, Assam

hps - agtsp!! paoho. we have been trying to communicate that we are 99.999% too old to give harinama diksa now. we certainly hope h. h. haridas swami takes up this work.

we can probably give second initiation with recommendations from h'dasa maharaja.

very nice.

🙂

be confident that the religion, yoga, philosophy, culture that you have received from srila prabhu pada is worth the attention of anyone.

be patha pradarshika guru for the whole world.

show them lord caitanya's path.

Hare Krishna, Maharaj, mis reverencias.

Nanda Gram está en Santander, Sita y Prema vienen a veces de visita y Jara mara Hari Das prabhu viene a visitar, yo en este momento estoy en Madrid, vine hace unos meses por que me enfermaba muy seguido y no me sentía bien, además estuve lidiando con papeles legales y planeo asentarme en Irlanda de el Norte en algunos meses, últimamente no tengo mucha asociación con devotos, solamente nos enviamos mensajes, veo sus clases en la página de Facebook y mis rondas no han sido las mejores, hay días en los que me siento un poco perdida pero sigo cantando para que Krishna me muestre el camino, que puedo hacer para seguir fortificando mi relación con Krishna? También me gustaría saber cómo puedo seguir siendo iniciada si no estoy viviendo en el templo? También tengo un pequeño altar pero quisiera saber si podría tener mi propia deidad para poder hacer aarti todos los días y crear esa atmósfera privada de la que me hablo la última vez.

mis más humildes reverencias. Espero que se encuentre bien y su salud sea buena.

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Hare Krishna, Maharaj, my obeisances.

Nanda Gram is in Santander, Sita and Prema come to visit sometimes, and Jara mara Hari Das prabhu comes to visit, I am in Madrid at the moment,

I came a few months ago because I got sick very often and I didn't feel well,

I was also dealing with legal papers and plan to settle in Northern Ireland in a few months,

lately I don't have much association with devotees, we only send each other messages, I see their classes on the Facebook page and my rounds have not been the best,

there are days when I feel a little lost but I keep chanting for Krishna to show me the way,

what can I do to continue strengthening my relationship with Krishna?

I would also like to know how I can continue to be initiated if I am not living in the temple?

I also have a small altar but I would like to know if I could have my own deity so I can do aarti every day and create that atmosphere that I was talking about last time.

my most humble reverences. I hope you are well and your health is good.

agustina abalos

HpS/ASA - agtsp. hk/he. thank you for your letter.

to get initiated you need approval of temple president or other agent authorized by GBC Secretary.

Introduce yourself to you, geographically closest temple president and explain your situation. they can approve you even without physical residence,

hare krsna.

who is on your altar now? statues and pictures are the same in many ways. they are both authorized by Srila Prabhupada for simple worship. offer incense, flowers, lamp, fragrant oil, food with respect.

as long as you are chanting hk/hr you are making progress in the path. other items eg. 4-principles. m. arati, class, are to accelerate effect of the Mantra,

Hari bolo. join us in next letter.

thank you.

your efforts are heroic. do not think less of yourself. go ahead. every step is permanent purification if you accept.

Hare Krishna

PAMHO AGTSP.

I read a letter with a response which categorized, Maya, as a black witch. There was also mention of getting help from a White Witch.

My question is, what are these categories of the Black Witch and White Witch?

Since the letter is about service involving spiritual books, could you please cite some reference in the scriptures which describes or defines a Black Witch and a White Witch?

Thank you

HpS/ASA - Thank you. Very good question. The statement was by Bh. Tom.

The distinction is kind of on a general basis.

We heard from Bhadra vardana Das Brahmacari many years ago that Vedic culture includes left and right handed Tantra, or Black and White magic.

We follow the Pancha ratrika Tantra, no? It is a Sattvika Tantra.

Radha-rani is the Tantrix, Witch, of White Magic, and Durga is the Tantrix of Black Magic.

As much as we are not pure devotees, we see Subhadra and goddess Durga under who's authority one can eat meat and drink wine. (SB 1.17.38 mentions this, no?).

Then, when Krsna calls Yoga Maya, Subhadra, in the first chapters of the Tenth Canto, He mentions that she will be known by different names because She will satisfy different desires for the materialists.

Is some help.

We can all aspire to see here as the Gopis do in the Prayers to Goddess Katyayani in their Agrahayana vrata in the 10th canto.

🙇

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru Maharaj, H. H. Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj. Please accept my humble obeisances at Your sweet lotus feet. Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP! paoho. Can you see our 'sweet lotus feet'? 🙂 I guess everyone of us has 'sweet lotus feet; but now are covered. Are they hooves, bird feet, monkey feet, one foot (flower). 😃

Dear Guru Maharaj,

We are so happy to hear about Spain visit...closer to Sri RadhaKund...America is so far away...

Guru Maharaj, we would like to offer our service at your lotus feet by arranging the ticket to Sri RadhaKund, if Guru Maharaj allows us to get this service....for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada. When will be the most suitable date for the visit, we would like to book the ticket as soon as possible.

Visited Sri Dham Mayapur for Gaura Purnima. Thank you for Your mercy Guru Maharaj. We were 10 of us travelling together from Manipur, some of them visiting Mayapur for the first time....everytime it's a new experience for me.

HpS - When we come into the Temple after putting our things in our room, after months, years of not seeing Radha Madan-madhava, we feel like we are dying. Like we have come home.

..

We are continuing with our daily morning and evening classes. Going for Mangal arti to temple only on Sundays. Rest of the days we offer our services at home. Chanting 16 rounds and continuing with Gayatri.

Celebrated 75th Vyasa Puja of H. H. Jayapataka Swami Maharaj at devotee's residence. H. H. Jayapataka Swami Maharaj has been so merciful. At Mayapur, had an intense desire to get Maharaj's Darshan....and just in about 2 mins time, Maharaj came by in a big, big auto rickshaw...customized one...how great and merciful are our Vaishnava acharyas...I was left mesmerized and bewildered by the grace. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are subscribing 30 copies of BTG magazine from Vrindavan and started distributing ....thank you again Guru Maharaj...your mercy is boundless...

Sending some photos dear Guru Maharaj...we are eagerly waiting for you at RadhaKund dear Guru Maharaj.

Your insignificant servant always,

Sarad Gaurangi D. D.

HpS - AgtSP.

Such nice news. Thank you. Thank you all.

Travel to Radha Kunda???

We take your offer seriously, but we think about our body and what kind of travel we can do. With your impetus maybe we can make some more plans about a visit to Radha Kunda during the stay in Spain.

HpS/ ASA - Gauranga! . . . who's the news? what's the news? when arrive in NMDh??

TC - Hare Krishna Maharaja! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you.

Still in India. In Coimbatore now, on my way to Chennai (or Madras as it was known before). Need to look for some silver simhasan for Lord Narasimha Deva Saligram. Also need to spend a couple of days at my family's house.

Simhasan work for Yoga Narasimha Deva is going on. Need to get the carvings completed... As of now, plans haven't changed. Supposed to be reaching Hugh's Town on the 17th. If the work gets completed before that, I may prepone my ticket.

HpS/ASA - Great! Should be a powerful festival.