Letters to the editor

ArtDas has found an Ashrama and sent video to Abhiseka Singh (President of NIOS) and ASA. Here is our reply:

Hare Krsna, Art Das!.

AgtSP

paoho

Thank you so, so, so much for your efforts to develop this New Ashokavan.  Sita is dying to be rescued.

Saw the promo video and discussed with Abhiseka.

It seems nice but:

1. Does it have good internet?

2. Where is it?

3. Did you talk to Gandharva Das about his property? Seems like it is too far?

4. Abhiseka and I agreed that you can offer up to $250 (less if possible) in good faith money, if you think it good, to the landlady to hold the property for a few days until we finish our work. If we don't sign, she can keep the money.

5. Do you and Caturatma Das think the lease agreement is good and standard?

6. What are the starting and closing dates for the lease? How much is the total price for the lease? Where are those stated in the lease?

Jaya!

O.K.

On to Lanka!

Hare Krishna

Respected Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Reading your replies shows such maturity in you, I am spellbound.

By your mercy and prayers, my sadhana is little better now. One wrong trap for me is I am wasting quite a time on social media... I know I need to reduce that.

Mostly I am staying in Darbhanga. I conduct a small program at my room on Sunday. 2-3 families are slowly taking to the process of Krishna Consciousness, while 1 new online batch has been started- your blessings are required so that it grows into a group of devotees. As informed earlier, a ISKCON center has come up here in Darbhanga being managed by some devotees. Now I am trying to look for some other place for developing preaching. Sometimes I feel a little weak due to lack of association. If things work out nicely then in 3-4 months I can expect to serve Lord in a small temple near Sitamarhi. Sitamarhi is said to be the place where Mother Sita was found from within the Earth by Maharaj Janak. There a few devotees are also expected to join us. Not getting much/ any practical support from my authorities sometimes disheartens me and causes fear- how long I would be able to flap before maya captures me?

Please keep me under your blessing and let me know if I could do any little service for you.

Your servant,

Purushottam Keshav Das

HpS - AgtSP. As soon as I saw your name on this Blog post I was thinking about you and wanted to answer. I hope our other posts and our Kapi Dhvaja communicate our spiritual and material situation.

Hare Krsna!

Even now it is 5.07PM and we have one hour to wash clothes, cut nails, shave face and head as per every two week standard and then we have Juhlana Yatra and second night of a Symposium on Nectar of Instruction given be Krsna through our mind (We hope).

Here is what I was thinking

Why not move into the Bhakti Vedanta Research Center (BRC) Ashrama in Kolkatta and work with them. Get a diploma in history etc. be representative for our NIOS there, coordinate with Dr. Samaresh.

NIOS can make donations to BRC to help with any expenses.

What do you think?

I think it is a terrible plan,

but I also think it might be good.

Anything in this world is terrible unless Krsna wants it.

You are carrying on in all difficulty, like so many other followers of Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON devotees.

We will win.

My dear Maharaja,

Dandavat pranams. Jai Vaishnavas.

I wanted to hear your personal experience on the first step of Krishna consciousness - ““I am not this body but am spirit soul”. I will appreciate if you can share it as it will encourage the sadhaks.

HpS - It happens all the time. I believed that I was immortal about 4-years old when our neighbor's dog died and I evaluated my knowledge of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Then of course it is continuously confirmed by KC. Of course, we are not 100% fixed in Sat Dhama, but we seem to be on the right path after all our investigation and making more progress daily.

Here is my experience or sadhana report:

When you do mantra jap or make Krishna object of your thoughts, you start becoming aware of the space in which these thoughts appear and disappear. Thoughts come and go. But the space in which they come and go is unchanging awareness. It is not limited by this body and mind. It is prior to mind. That is you, the pure consciousness and awareness. So mantra jap or making Krishna object of our thoughts leads to realizing oneself as distinct from body and mind.

HpS - Yes, same experience. The Mantra as Japa or Kirtan or Sankirtan does that "Man" "Tra"

Here is what Srila Prabhupada explains:

“The very first step in self-realization is realizing one’s identity as separate from the body. “I am not this body but am spirit soul” is an essential realization for anyone who wants to transcend death and enter into the spiritual world beyond. It is not simply a matter of saying “I am not this body,” but of actually realizing it. This is not as simple as it may seem at first. Although we are not these bodies but are pure consciousness, somehow or other we have become encased within the bodily dress. If we actually want the happiness and independence that transcend death, we have to establish ourselves and remain in our constitutional position as pure consciousness.”

Regards,

Gaurav Mittal

HpS - Thank you sir. What has happened to the family? Are you still in Texas. Hare Krsna.

RE:

HK Gurudev aquí le dejó otro vídeo , es una melodía hecha por mi esposo para el mahamantra . Yo canto en el video.

Olvidé enviarselo en la otra carta ,saludos y reverencias

ASA - O.K. We will look. Be sure to put tilak and neck beads on your baby (and husband) or The Evil One will get them.

😎 👺

Hare Krishna querido Guru Maharj ,AgtSP .

Hace mucho no le escribo,no hay mucho para decir .

Tampoco ahora, pero bueno, hubo algunos cambios, nosotros; yo, mi hijo y esposo estamos bien .

Nos vinimos a vivir a Francia hace tres meses ya, estamos pegados a suisa,en el limite. Nos prestaron una hermosa casa demasiado grande .

Pronto, apenas podamos iremos a la granja HK de Tours y también está el templo en paris , todo es cerca si tenés vehículo. Sólo tomar prasadam y oír kirtan, espero el humor espiritual por estos lugares no sea tan ajeno.

Sigo teniendo y temos nuestras deidades Natavara Nitay que nos cuidan mucho.. y son muy misericordiosas. Mi hijo juega con ellas por ejemplo, nuestro estandar es pésimo pero es.. y es hermoso. Abajo le dejó un vídeo hecho por Luis mi compañero.

Creo que sigo aprendiendo y la maternidad me ha prermitido empatizar y distinguir mucho más . Al mismo tiempo me he vuelto muy vulnerable y débil a los miedos.. se lo que me falta..el mahamantra ,pero al mismo tiempo me desprende tanto de este mundo que llega un punto que nada tiene sentido y ahora tengo un hijo , necesito también esa pasión por el mundo.. que te lastima a la vez. Entonces hacemos un poco .. y espero volver pronto.. soy un hipócrita y tengo que tolerarme,pero siento que es lo que está bien para mi.. si estoy muy confundida me gustaría saberlo..

Pienso ,vagamente quizás, que no siempre nos toca ser héroes y hacer todo bien ,eso es muy lindo si.. pero se y siento en mi que soy un sirviente y que estás cosas pasan y nos enseñan.

Usted es una gran guía para mi y alguien a quien sigo comprendiendo por la gracia de krshna ,sin embargo espero en algún tiempo poder estar más cerca .

Hasta la proxima GM

Yamunatiravana dd

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Hare Krishna, Dear Guru Maharj, AgtSP.

I have not written to you for a long time, there is not much to say.

HpS - As long as we can breath we can chant, and chanting will take us to another realization of what is actually happening. Jaya!

Not now, but hey, there were some changes, us; me, my son and husband are fine.

ASA - ! 👍

We came to live in France three months ago now, we are glued to Switzerland, on the edge. They loaned us a beautiful house that was too big.

Soon, we will hardly be able to go to the HK farm in Tours and there is also the temple in Paris, everything is nearby if you have a vehicle. Just take prasadam and listen to kirtan, I hope the spiritual humor around these places is not so foreign.

I still have and fear our Natavara Nitay deities who take great care of us .. and are very merciful. My son plays with them for example, our standard is lousy but it is ... and it is beautiful. Below is a video made by Luis my partner.

I think I'm still learning and motherhood has allowed me to empathize and distinguish much more. At the same time I have become very vulnerable and weak to fears .. I know what I lack .. the mahamantra, but at the same time it detaches me so much from this world that there comes a point that nothing makes sense and now I have a child, I need also that passion for the world .. that hurts you at the same time. So we do a little bit .. and I hope to come back soon .. I am a hypocrite and I have to tolerate myself, but I feel that it is what is right for me .. if I am very confused I would like to know it ..

I think, vaguely perhaps, that we don't always have to be heroes and do everything right, that's very nice if ... but I know and feel in me that I am a servant and that these things happen and they teach us.

You are a great guide for me and someone whom I continue to understand by the grace of Krishna, however I hope at some time to be closer.

Until next GM

Yamunatiravana dd

HpS - If Krsna wants you to abandon your child that is the best, but usually He is very, very practical. Chant one round every day, no???

HpS - https://vedabase.io/es/library/noi/1/#bb5785