Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama,

Jaya Radha, Jaya Shyama,

Jaya Sri Vrndavana Dhama.

Little Lord Piggy, and Little Lord Monkey, here!!

We are sitting in one of the studio apartments next to the Tulsi garden in New Biharavan, ISKCON Boise.

Our body is O.K. but death is just past a few bends in the path, if we are lucky to not meet it today.

It was a long hard trip from Nashville to Boise. The air plane crashed three times and there was no oxygen.

It was hot.

Stuffy.

No one wanted to talk about Krsna.

but ... that was good also because we had rounds to catch up (bad Monkey! bad Monkey!).

Two people in the terminals, like security guards nod to us with great respect. One said, something about Allah.

Nice to dress in Devotional Clothes? Srila Prabhupada's suggested formal dress...

Krsna West, Hanuman with Sita-Rama in his chest.

About a million devotees here from all over the earth. After the airport, very little Co-Vid care. Fresh air in the temple, but no masks.

We keep distance and accept we may get some reaction to CoVid Delta, but it is all village members.

Adjusting, packing, ant and alligator wacking. We are about 75% moved in.

A lot of mail to now make our brains invested.

We are really on the road now looking for where sItA is sequestered.

Meeting with Shonu Shamdasani was 150% perfect. With Radhika and by the team effort of all of us, we were able to plan for a second meeting with some very principle members from NIOS and Philemon, to enter into some dialog for designing a bridge between Jung and Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati.

OK going to Arati.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I was eager to write to You a long time ago. When I got initiation back to 2004 I started to be a pujari right away. Besides that I was always enganched [engaged] in the temple service trying to keep good communication with the authorities. And so forth,

Years passed and I do not know if I can use the word "corruption" (you can delete it if you think this word is unappropiate) corruption within some temple authorities. These things affected my utsahan and even if I continued with my service, and I recalled all the things that you had to put up with within all these years in ISKCON my faith is not as strong as yours. I am aware that if I continue chanting Krsna will give me the intelligence to continue with utsahan.

HpS/ASA - AGTSP! Paoho. I think corruption is O.K., if we are willing to apply it to ourselves. Another word might be alloyed . I can see it happening to myself all the time.

Some may fall into vanity.

Some into pizza-fudge.

Some into sexo-illicito,

By Diti was certainly smudged.

Yet it they are still all corruption, alloyed, service.

The the thing that affected me the most was how the authorities handle the repainting of Gaura Nitai!!!!

I sent pictures comparing the deities in the past and now. We can tell the difference, I offer money to cover all the expenses and a team to work. I do not know why they are so stubborn :(

HpS/ASA - Neither do we. 😮

One time Jaya Tirtha Das and one senior Mataji were arguing over how Rukmini Dvarakadisha should be dressed, so they to the quarrel to Srila Prabhupada and as we heard it, he raised his hand with a smile and laughed and said that it was a matter of personal taste. He was not going to get involved.

Maybe that. Maybe something else.

Or maybe I am. The thing is that I have no forces to pursue this. My heart is broken 💔 in thousand pieces when I saw how They look today.

I guess that is time for me to let go.

Moreover it's not just me.

Other devotees do not agree either. But "they have the power"

ASA/TB - Does this apply??? https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/6/18/#bb43711 Can we do a sacrifice to "kill Indra", make disciples who can seize government power in our Yatra, so we can serve Visnu the way we want to serve Him???

My faith in You is intact, but I am trying not to exposure as I did in the past. I listen to your classes but in recordings. I join FMP, my participation in the chat is limited. I know that I am not a top-notch devotee. Nevertheless, today I read a message in Spanish that says: Lo importante no es lo que has logrado sino en lo que te has convertido

"The important thing is not what you have achieved but what you have become" For me the important thing is that I continue being part of ISKCON.

HpS - There are many rooms in the house that Srila Prabhupada is building so that in it the whole world can live, no? So, yes, we will NEVER leave ISKCON. Iskcon has absolute no meaning unless Srila Prabhupada is recognized as the Founder, Foundation, and Acharya, current leading authority.

We all have a right, necessity, to direct communication with him [though so many transparent via media].

Nowadays, for me is more important to keep my spiritual life and my contact with you rather than stand out among the devotees. I have the feeling that I do not have anything to show. I guess in the past I had that necessity to do that. I was immature. Maybe I still am. I just have the duty to tell you.

HpS - Thank you. We are all people. We all feel that the crew is not complete without CMDD and if the authorities see that you have been preaching to a dwarf B'cari who is coming to the Temple during Janmastami festival, they should probably look out.

I want to keep a low profile like Patrak d, Madhumanjari dd. Both are great devotees and serve you, but I I can tell that they are not eager to show off.

I continue giving classes in ISKCON Chosica, and leading kirtan 2 sundays a month

4P

16 rounds ok

Thanks in advance Gurudeva

Trying be your disciple

CMDD

HpS - I hope you have practical faith in us. You have faith in your dog, Ulysses. He will certainly protect you and your sister and cats, but... he is a dog and you do not expect him to do more than that. Jatayu was an eagle and he tried to protect Sita when no one else came forward but he could only do it half way.

Be more enthusiastic to see Gaura Nitai with a face that pleases their Mother's heart.

Hare Krishna, dear guru maharaja,

It happens again, I lost everything here (this time was Ctrl+W). I'm a slower student. A headache starts immediately. But stop after to reconsider that is good because I was taking too much from your valuable time.

HpS - I don't think so. We all appreciate your association and association of your family.

Whe we erase everything it makes us think if the letter was important, and if we decide to write it again then we can do it better on the second try.

So, like I'm trying harder to go the bed early, but still, I want to write you something today I will go with bullets now.

• Too much time without writing guru maharaj. My life is externally boring now. So I don't know what to tell you. But Maybe, internally is more active than before anyway.

ASA - Bahir nrsmho, hrdaye nrsmho.... Pushing to see Lord around us both inside and outside and our place in the dance!

• I was invited to speak in IV Congreso nacional fenómeno religioso 2021 organized by the Universidad de Chile. The topic will be Communication between religions in times of crisis.
• 16 rounds every day before go to the bed. One exception was like 10 days ago, paying the salaries of Madhu (10 devotees working now) and I slept only one hour and on the couch so is not completely a fault. Anyway, I chanted 32 rounds the next day.

ASA - You are a great hero. Wish we could follow you in many ways.

• Rasarani loves books. From her gifts from birthday, she prefered hard this book https://samhitapress.com/shop/the-story-of-gajendra-elephant-king-by-anna-milagrits/ instead of Britannica for Kids (in just 1 volume) fully of colour and an Encylopedia of Animals which came with a lot of photos on every page, a lot of pages.
• She's after the devotional comics the whole day. Now I understand why we have too much despite the I don't like them too much. She is acting, performing and re-tell the stories after.

ASA - Wow!!! What will she do next? Is she Gabiela Mistral born again in Lord Caitanya's movement. 😁 These children may really surprise us

• We are suspecting that her early association with you had a powerful impact in her taste for Krishna Katha. Like Narada Muni and the sadhus, in his previous life.
• The war is cultural and the devotees from Samhita Press and bands like "King of Braj" with its first album "This is how I rebel" are doing great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv279STotyc
• The interesting news about the new constitution here:
• "Making history: Chileans start work on first constitution equally drafted by women, men" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/making-history-chileans-start-work-first-constitution-equally-drafted-rcna1353
• "Elisa Loncón: From poverty to PhD to writing Chile's constitution" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57733539

That's all, guru maharaja,.

I would like to be a decent disciple, guru maharaja. But at least I try to avoid giving to you extra work. I'm trying to do my part, but I know is not enough.

Hare Krishna. Please help all of us here, whom we are taking shelter under your guidance to keep increasing our Krishna Consciousness more and more.

Please accept my humble obeisances,

Your poor report from the South,

Jagad Guru Das

HpS - Was very, very nice to talk with you. Of course, it was pushed by this very bad incident of Piyari Mohan Das go psychotic, but was so nice to get news about so many other devotees. Hope they mention the Name of God in the Constitution. Put "In God we trust" on the money etc!!!

Hare Krsna Maharaj

Today we heard commentary of Annual Cart Festival by Lord Jagannath Yatra 2021 by Doordarshan National TV https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsuK5b0I58

It was amazing to hear devotion filled commentary in English, Sanskrit and Hindi.

There are body builders to get the lord in the cart. Body builder with strong stomach are different (to get the lord up from back ) and strong arm are different(to push lord from sides).

I wish it could be a National festival or even International Festival.

He is the current king https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibyasingha_Deb

Did the Broom service.

The glories of Odisha should be spread. I would more Research in this.

HpS - Wow! Thanks for the news. Maybe The End of the Industrial Revolution as innaugurated by these pandemia will mark the beginning of our return to depth in our traditional festivals.

ASA-e; Stock Market [s/a] gambling

Hare Krsna Maharaj, PAMHO, AGTSP

This is in continuation on phone call we had. Harsh jumped in to stock market, because only way it seems he can serve temples is to donate money. Though it is not his forte, but that's what he can see as "dovetail" service and training he has got.

However harsh remember's that HpS said, "hope you get confused", now if that is a blessing, then we will leave the stock market, as it is not recommended by you.

can you please clarify the same.

jumping monito

HpS - Thank you!!! What I have heard from devotees directly involved with Srila Prabhupada in these matters, he was not opposed to intelligent capital investment. He set up long term investment portfolios to provide funds for Mayapura and Vrndavana ISKCON. If you invest the companies and their history etc then investment is not gambling, but if you buy speculative stock on uranium mines in madagascar, that is gambling.

Best luck.

Jay Maharaj!

Please accept my obeisances!

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

How r u?

HpS/ASA - I guess the same as you! Hare Krsna!!!

This is a reply to your last letter, in which u were asking me if we have met (u asked if I was that 2 meters high MMA fighter, and well…Im not).

We did met once like 10 years ago when I was dating a disciple of yours, Kriya Shakti from Chile, and I asked for an interview with you, I was needing some piece of advice about that.

That was in the Buenos Aires temple’s room besides Prabhupada murti. I was trying to speak to you in a clumsy English and you talked to me in spanish. I remember as it was yesterday.

HpS - Ahhh!

I'm really trying to find myself and Krishna, been such a sinner for so long, sometimes I see, internally I'm harvesting what I sowed.

But thanks to the devotees I'm trying to make peace with Krishna, I read the other day from Jayapataka Maharaj that if someone has a serious problem that keeps one away from Krishna one can pray him to ask for forgiveness and help to change in that area.

I did so and that was really a relief.

HpS - !!!

About my health, I had the other day an interview (which I find a great milestone) with the head of psychiatry of my healthcare plan, he told me that he’s not sure my diagnosis is schizophrenia, which was very encouraging. I was going back in time reviewing some facts that occured in my life, and I found that well, things might not be as I thought they were.

Many times I was told: Oh, that’s a psychotic symptom, when I read might have been an abstinence symptom. This was because sometimes I would take my medicines, I never got too much along with the medicine I was taking, specially knowing about its possible long term side effects and the short term’s.

Now I started an Ayurvedic and Orthomolecular treatment and well, feeling better in some areas.

HpS - !!!

Maharaj, I'm seeking for new graphic design opportunities, this time I would like to serve for free, not as a job as I asked you previously, do you know by chance any temple that might be needing that kind of service?

HpS - No.... Maybe somebody else reading this knows of some options. Best is to take Krsna as our employer now! He has come as Lord Caitanya, Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON, and then we can get a lot of employment. Maybe not our specific Karma, but with some intelligence we can do it anyway.

Would like to ask u a question, how do u think is the best manner to use in service to Krishna the talents we’ve got from him?

HpS - Ahh! That is just the advice we gave above. https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/3/#bb5876

This is very nice discussion of the question.

1. Chant Hare Krsna and the Lord in the Heart will give some inspiration.
2. Get direction from Prabhupada's books.
3. Talk with nice devotees for inspiration and direction.

thank you very much once again for being there for us,

kindly,

Federico

HpS - We hope to see some of the results of our efforts!