Letters to the editor

Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, All Glories to Sri Sri Goura Nitay

My husband and I (Marina) use the same email and therefore we also share the same account on the blog.

HpS-ASA - Maybe you were twins in your last lifetime?

I had previously written you a letter, but ended up deleting it because it didn't seem to me to say anything revealing, please excuse me for that.

ASA - 😎

I am currently 3:40 hours on the way from Sri Radha Madhan Gopal Temple. I perform a service a week of washing the last Saturday afternoon paraphernalia, entering at 6:30 and leaving at 9:15 PM. By the grace of Lord Nityananda I have permission to stay that night and the next day (Sunday) I get up a little earlier to sing a few rounds before mangala.

HpS - So, so, so nice. Like Santa Rosa of Lima or such.

I take darshan of the Lordships from him, sing and usually there is always mercy to cover some garland service for Gurus or Goura Nitay. I listen to the Caitanya Caritamrita class and after honoring Prasadam I return to the city of Cuautla Morelos.

HpS - With your pistol full of bullets of Lord Caitanya's mercy! Anyone just sees you they get benefit!

These months have been very difficult tests, and when I think that the storm has finally passed, giant waves arrive again.

HpS - Take the rope!!! (16x4) If you are chanting 16-rounds and following 4-principles under Srila Prabhupada's authority then you are connected to Krsna. Yes. The waves will come, but there is a big difference between being in the waves holding onto a rope connected to a good boat, or dry land, and tumbling in them without it.

Hold your breath and the waves will pass and you can come up for air.

Gasp! Gasp! Gasp!

Krsna keeps pulling us out of the water from His end and we keep moving up the rope from our end. As we get closer to the shore the waves get smaller.

My father, Gilberto Rendón Ortíz, left the body on February 19 of this year. You may remember him at a conference that took place in Mexico City at Krishna west. I approached him to introduce him to him and my dad began to talk about me unstoppable, like that from a very young age I did not want to eat chicken because chickens suffered. Anyway. The loss of my father was just the beginning of a series of unfortunate events that continue to haunt me to this day.

HpS - Why unfortunate?! Your dad had too much conditioning to become a full time devotee instantly, so Krsna took Him to Nabadvipa to live there! O.K.? You want him back here??

My family, my marriage, my friends. My rounds, those have improved. It is very paranormal how the holy name has an extraordinary FLAVOR when one takes the position of a helpless baby calling his mother.

I remember a lot how you at the airport made the comment to me that I should follow the example of Kunti Devi, she straightened her back and raised her head in a sober and elegant way. Now every time I have big problems I remember that scene a lot and I try to get up and give thanks because thanks to those problems the image of Krishna, Kunti, Radha Madhan Gopal, Prabhupada and You come to my mind. You are my strength and my only true refuge. Thanks.

HpS - We are just a mailman, and not perfect, but seems we are doing a ---little--- the real Guru who you are experiencing is Srila Prabhupada. Don't doubt that he directly experiences your efforts to be a hero in Kali yuga. A lot of people depend on you.

It takes me a bit of work to connect to the internet, because in order to do so I have to go out in the dark and do a little circus to get a good signal. The FMP is truly nectarean thank you very much!

Please I would like to ask you if it is important to have a fire ceremony for my dad? I have read in the book of samskaras that these fire ceremonies were highly effective in the past, because they were performed by true brahmins and also because it was the sacrifice of those ages. But now the only true sacrifice is the chanting of the Holy Name.

HpS - Fire sacrifice not necessary. Send his picture and little bio-data her so we can all think of him and chant and offer that music to him! That is very best.

Can you please tell me how can I help you?

HpS - You seem to be very much on the right path. I think it would be impossible unless you had been a devotee in a previous life. Maybe you were a monk in your last life and you've come to finish off your material desires in this life and got the mercy of Lord Caitanya's incarnation!

Thank you very much for your tolerance and patience.

Your always well-wisher and aspiring Marina Rendón.

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Hare Krishna, please accept my most humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Sankirtan movement.

Through this I would like to give renewed thanks to your wonderful person, for being a source of inspiration and blessing to such a conditioned soul (it takes a strong machine to drag with this heap of junk).

By Krishna's mercy we remain in the book distribution service in association with some great Sankirtaneros, Madhava Syam Das from Uruguay and Nrisimhananda Das from Chile.

We visit some provinces of Mexico in April and May, their association for me are incomparable opportunities in life.

The results of these two months of sankirtan were 870 pocket books and 8 Bhagavad Gitas, total that I beg you to accept at your lotus feet and please continue to give me the mercy to continue in this wonderful service.

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HpS-ASA - Super, Wonderful!! The credit goes so much to Srila Prabhupada directly and also to all of us in our places in his ISKCON.

I humbly ask you to forgive my offenses and apologize for being disconnected from online programs, the sadhana of sankirtan is understood by very few and even some are confused. I pray at her feet as Jasmine for her forgiveness I will continue fighting "NETI NETI".

His eternal servant Sacinandan Das

HpS - I am not sure what your comments about the Sadhana of Sankirtan is understood by very few.... but so, so, so many times, and as equally manifest by GREAT Sankirtan devotees like Tripurari Swami, Vaisesika Das, we should learn how the regular Japa and 4-principles during Brahma muhurta and nice Mangala arati with Kirtan, reading SB etc. are the best way to improve our Sankirtan, no? Respects to your partners! I think you have another exciting letter... :>>>

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Hare Krishna, Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Sorry, I only now realized that my letter to you is now here in this blog. Thank you Maharaj for the reply.

Yes I grew up in Switzerland but with Ecuadorian roots.

Some years ago I was traveling and visiting friends in Mexico, Ecuador.... Actually I only wanted to stay for a few months. I ended up spending almost 4 years in Mexico and got stuck there :) . So as a vegetarian in a really meat culture country you are looking for good places to eat, friends told me: Hey, you as a vegetarian, go check out the food at the Krishna Temple!

So that was the beginning. Now when I think back I realize how powerful Prasadam is. Unconsciously I have stopped bad habits like drinking alcohol and smoking at this time.

Prasadam. ki jaiii!

Thank you for the nice lectures and Mangala Aratis in GoToMeeting. I will try to be there as best I can, just sometimes a bit difficult because of the different time zones

Answers to the A,B,C questions

HpS - This is from guru-tattva.txt in our website?

A: Yes i agree this is a good poin,t finish this duties, chant 16 rounds , follow the 4 principles and then get personal instructions.

B: 1- I agree with all the points mentioned

  a: Yes i chant more than 1 year 16 rounds of course it is an up and down with the mind during chapa , i try my best to chant sincerely.

   b: Yes , i was also following the four regulative principles strictly

   c: Yes, during my stay in the temple, I was able to keep that. Outside the temple i get up before 5am and chant my 16 rounds and read prabhupada's books. Now i decidet to go back again to live in the Temple.

   d: Krishna Premarupa Prabhu

  e: Dear Srila Prabhupada,

 please accept my humble obeisances

Your mercy is so infinite that you have come to preach Krishna consciousness to the world. After so many meaningless lives, seeking happiness in senseless things, now i have this opportunity to practice devotional service. Please accept me as your humble eternal servant and forgive me for all the offenses I have committed in my ignorance.

C: Some of this points we had in the guru-disciple course and have been informed. I also agree that the GBC is the Ultimate Administrative Authority in ISKCON.

We have to try to be an example and give our best.

with kind regards

your humble servant Bh.Dave

HpS - So, do you want to become an initiated student of Srila Prabhupada and his movement?

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Hare Krsna, querido Guru Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis rendidas reverencias.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a Usted y a todos los fieles seguidores de Srila Prabhupada.

Deseo se encuentre en buena salud. Muchas gracias por brindarnos su misericordiosa asociación diariamente. ¡Es la fuerza que nos mueve!... Estoy siguiendo las recomendaciones que me dio en mi carta anterior y por su misericordia sin causa, parece que me estoy adaptando mejor a las deficiencias en mi cerebro. Muchas gracias.

HpS/ASA - TlgaSP!!

Gurudeva, en reiteradas ocasiones he escuchado su deseo de realizar un encuentro ontológico entre Cervantes y Vyasa. Aunque Don Quijote de la Mancha es uno de los libros que me ha acompañado desde la infancia y que he leído en varias ocasiones, tal tarea me parece titánica y no sabía cómo alguien podría comenzar.

Sin embargo; Si a usted le parece bien, tal vez yo podría compartir con ustedes algunos puntos que me parecen trascendentes de la obra y la proximidad que yo encuentro a las escrituras (Quizá alguien más pueda pulirlos) 

Me permito enviar una muestra:

HpS / ASA - One aspect of beginning might be to take specific isolated incidents in Don Quixote's travels and then compare and contrast those, no? Many other way to comenze also should be good. Let us see what you have done!!!

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Cervantes y Vyasa: "Busca la libertad"

ANTECEDENTES:

Como sabemos, Cervantes permaneció en cautiverio en reiteradas ocasiones a lo largo de su vida, Incluso la primera parte de su mayor logro literario (Don Quijote de la Mancha) fue escrita durante uno de estos episodios, por tal motivo no es de sorprenderse que mantenga a la libertad como el centro medular sobre el que gira buena parte de su portentosa creación.

Por su parte, Vyasa Deva recopilo los Vedānta-sūtras y el Bhāgavata Purāṇa, con miras a presentar la crema del conocimiento védico a quienes deseen salir del cautiverio material. Por lo que, en cierta forma, la libertad trascendental constituye la motivación primordial de su magna obra.

HpS - Aqui bueno hablar un poco como eso es bien relacionado a nosotros y nuestra mundo actual, no?

Si bien, en apariencia, el cautiverio que buscan eludir es distinto. Ambos se encuentran en la búsqueda de la liberación como fin primordial. En mi opinión, la libertad es en suma, la clave de la poética de ambos autores. Por este motivo, decidí iniciar con este aspecto “La libertad”.

APROXIMACIONES:

A continuación presento algunos extractos en los que el lector tal vez pueda, al igual que yo, encontrar algunas convergencias entre ellos.

Cervantes: — La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad así como por la honra se puede y debe aventurar la vida, y, por el contrario, el cautiverio es el mayor mal que puede venir a los hombres….  (DQDLM, Capitulo LVIII) —

Vyasa: — “Ciertamente no ha habido jamás nadie, en ninguna época y en ningún país, que, sin conocer a la Suprema Personalidad de Dios, haya podido liberarse del cautiverio material. Al contrario, los que carecen de conocimiento acerca del Señor se ven atados por las leyes materiales. Son adictos a la complacencia de los sentidos. Por eso, ustedes, deben mantenerse aparte de esas personas, y aceptar el refugio de la Suprema Personalidad de Dios, Nārāyaṇa, el origen de todos los semidioses, pues la meta final que alcanzan los devotos de Nārāyaṇa es la liberación del cautiverio de la existencia material.” (SB 7.6.17-18) La finalidad del Ser humano es investigar acerca de la Verdad Absoluta  (SB 1.2.10) Todas las ocupaciones y labores tienen por objeto indudablemente la liberación final (SB 1.2.9) —

Cervantes — Digo esto, Sancho, porque bien has visto el regalo, la abundancia que en este castillo que dejamos hemos tenido; pues en mitad de aquellos banquetes sazonados y de aquellas bebidas de nieve me parecía a mí que estaba metido entre las estrechezas de la hambre, porque no lo gozaba con la libertad que lo gozara si fueran míos, que las obligaciones de las recompensas de los beneficios y mercedes recebidas son ataduras que no dejan campear al ánimo libre. (DQDLM, Capitulo LVIII) — 

Así, Don Quijote deja al descubierto cuan pesarosas resultan las deudas materiales que se adquieren con nuestros “Benefactores” y el deber de corresponderles. Del mismo modo Vyasa Deva, hace referencia a tres deudas que un Brahmana adquiere tan pronto como nace:

Vyasadeva — “Prajāpati Dakṣa dijo: Mis hijos no estaban en absoluto libres de sus tres deudas. En verdad, no han considerado debidamente sus obligaciones… pues su deuda con las personas santas, con los semidioses y con su padre, aún no está saldada. (SB 6.5.37) —

Ambos dejan de manifiesto que -la gratitud de los beneficios que recibimos, constituye una fuerte atadura - aunque también nos dan la clave para desatarla…

Cervantes — ¡Venturoso aquel a quien el cielo dio un pedazo de pan sin que le quede obligación de agradecerlo a otro que al mismo cielo! (DQDLM, Capitulo LVIII) — 

VYASA — La cadena de acciones fruitivas se termina cuando uno ve al yo como amo. (SB 1.2.21) Aquel que se ha entregado por completo a los pies de loto del Señor deja de tener deudas con sus antepasados, con los grandes sabios, con la sociedad humana, con los hombres comunes o con las entidades vivientes en general SB 11.5.41 —

De este modo, ambos nos dicen “¡Busca la libertad!”. Así que, la pregunta natural es: —Una vez que se obtiene ¿Qué hacer con ella? —...

Como mencione antes, estoy segura que existen muchas otras citas que puedan ampliar nuestra visión y agradeceríamos su contribución.

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ABREVIATURAS

SB         = Srimad Bhagavatam - Vyasa Deva

DQDLM = El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Guru Maharaja, por favor disculpe la extensión de esta carta. Esperamos ser de utilidad. Si a usted le parece bien, tal vez podría continuar con otros episodios de DQDLM que me encantan. (Me esforzaría para que sean mucho más cortos)

Muchas gracias, muy admirado y querido Guru Maharaja.

Su Sirviente

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

HpS - Super. No puedo leer los citaciones en detalle, sino parte del primero. pero aparece bueno. Ya esperamos para comentarios de otros.

Ramon Mujica, amigo de nosotros, es miembro del Fundacion Real Cervantes de Espanya, lo cual tiene mision difundir la idioma Espanyola en el mundo.

Claro, nuestra esfuerza esta bien relacionado con eso.

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AgtSP!!!!!!!!! paoho.....

We have had a 90% good day. We stumbled a few times but Srila Prabhupada got us back up.

We talked with Prof. Horse about the ASA-Encyclopedia and our gardener came with his great machine and was cutting the grass. We ran to our back across the road and after one year the lobby was open.

Walking, Talking, NoI class... Recovering from super stress yesterday.

Do you make progress every day?

Now, 9.15PM let us rest the machine, no.

Happy Ekadasi!

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Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP PAMHO 🙏☺️💕🐒

More than words ... Pictures

Happy Father's day.

Yesterday I installed a frame of your Hanuman deity in my altar. It is said that if you worship Lord Hanuman you develop humility. I need to work on that a lot.

Thanks for the inspiration

See you in class

Your servant

CMDD

HpS - By your pious activities you father and mother are becoming liberated from bad reactions and proceeding in their happy life. Maybe you will see them in your community as young children!