Letters to the editor

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to Guru Maharaj, H. H. Hanumat Presaka Swami.

Please accept our humble obeisances ay your sweet lotus feet .

HpS - Can you see them? We are still looking for them through the fog! Dog, frog, bee feet?? !

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

I feel numb. Our Temple President HG Radhacharan Das Prabhuji just left his mortal body few hours back. Last week at the ICU, we took Maha-garland prasad, some Ekadasi prasad, Charana-amrita and Charan tulsi.

Prabhuji's condition had not deteriorated severely that time. Few days later CT was taken and Prabhuji developed COVID pneumonia. Yesterday , Prabhuji was given muscle relaxants and was kept on high flow oxygen therapy at ICU .

We lost Prabhuji today, he loved us so much , so compassionate and so gentle. I still treasure the set of masks he gave last year as a gift. How can I ever forget such an exalted Vaishnava?

HpS - Why should we? Did Krsna leave the Brijavasis or give them opportunity for even more real, intense association??

HG Banamali Prabhu and some devotees are going to the residence of Radhacharan Das Prabhuji for Harinam Sankirtan .

Last week we lost our head cook HG Narotama Das Prabhuji to COVID. The second wave here is terrifying. We beg for your mercy Guru Maharaj.

HpS - We already heard from Sriman Yamunesvara Das!! We had so much affection for Narottama Das. We'll they've taken the ship to Peru to do some work, but there will be telegrams, and we will meet again, to satisfy our heart's demands.

We are not attending temple Arti anymore. Everyday we offer Mangal arti to our Sri Gaura Nityai at home. Reading SB , Papa well ahead.....am trolling. Am at 4th canto Sati quits body. ...chapter 4. Attending zoom sessions every Saturday with a group of devotees.

HpS - ASA-Bharata, Mangala-arati Teleconference group? We do it Daily. About 40-devotees daily.

Forgive me Guru Maharaj....took a long time to write to you.....and the news is sad.

It is so difficult to bear....losing Pankajanghri Prabhu....and devotees here. Am too human....we know Krishna has better plans....and devotees will have better service in the spiritual world....but the heart is broken.....

HpS - Will you be one of the maids, childhood girl friends, of Subhadra in your next life and hear of the death of Abhimanyu?? ! Bigger heart-brakes are yet to come, but there is great success in Krsna's arrangements!

We pray to Sri Nrshimha Dev to always protect you dear Guru Maharaj

Your insignificant servant,

Sarad Gaurangi DD

HpS - Our altar attached.

We would like to visit ISKCON Manipur...



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Whatsapp, ASA Stri-sanga, writes:

Hare Krsna, Maharaja and devotees.

PAMHO. AGTSP!

Tomorrow Manasi Ganga D. D. will be giving the SB class:

• https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/14/18/
• https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/14/19/

Entitled: The best half of a man's body.

Thanks.

Muchas gracias Maharaja. Este es el enlace para la entrevista en Youtube channel.

https://youtu.be/CNBCMrRF6gQ

https://youtu.be/CNBCMrRF6gQ

Mayapura TV Español,

Muchas gracias Maharaja. Este es el enlace para la entrevista en Youtube channel.

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Was amazing today!

Big discussion of the lunar-solar calendar and subtle influences today.

We experienced one bumbling, slip up, after another.

WAS amazing.

. Got the DTC(p) scanned onto our Monkey-brain, USB drive after two large efforts.

Will send it soon.

. Like PMD in his letter we are trying to develop our illustration skills with the DTC(p).

Dovetail your passions. Learn to fight the demons with words, reach Sita with words.

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BACHELOR BEANS

Today we offered Crunchy Peanut-butter (we got five liters of it when we came back from Richmond!), Kefir and Orange-juice to Lord Nr-Simha deva in the morning, and now one seer of Tea in the evening.

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Around, around we go.

. . . . Every day there is Sun and Snow.

Only Hari-kirtan is a constant friend,

. . . . Who never lets from the right path bend.

HpS - ASA.

So much work to do, but most of us will not be done by us. We must try to do our little part in the chorus well.

Dear Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!

I want to first apologize for not writing sooner.

ASA-HpS -- In harmony, we want to apo logize for not answering sooner!

You sent me the TPP edited document a couple of weeks back and I went through a little bit of the edited document only today.

Last couple of weeks have been crazy. My father in law got COVID in India. He lives in Nagpur and there was sever shortage of beds, oxygen cylinders and other medication. Divya Sri's cousin took him in a car at 5 am in the morning and after trying to get beds in several hospitals, finally got a bed at 8 pm. In the mean time we were calling people who were selling oxygen cylinders from here to get something. Thank fully by Krishna's mercy, he is discharged now and is doing fine.

HpS - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/15/41/#bb16816 . Why we have not learned to act like Maharaja Yuddhisthira?? In the paragraph it directly talks about "life breathing"! Amazing. Fly around in the sky without air. Learn to drink and eat a subtler fare!

We had several devotees from Krishna House visit us this week and a few of them tested positive for COVID. Now the temple is back to lockdown again for a week. I feel too much of my environment and mind space is occupied with COVID rather than Krishna katha. Thankfully, with the service of teaching the Bhakti Sastri course, where we are currently doing Chapters 7-12, the association with Bhagavad Gita and Srila Prabhupada's purports are at least helping me contemplate on Krishna rather than just COVID.

But I can definitely feel that my Sadhana standards have dropped over the last two months. I feel very fatigued both physically and mentally. We are somehow pushing through because of your mercy.

I think the TPP has come out really well. I like how you have changed the font size of the pull-in quotes. It is now very clear to differentiate/visualize your commentary from the quotes. I have some thoughts on the other steps that need to be taken to publish the book. I would like you feedback on them.

1. Can we forward this to Abhirama Prabhu so that he can start typesetting? That way he can show you samples and we can finalize the formatting and design in parallel and when you finish the rest of the editing, the typesetting will be done very quickly since we have finalized the design.
2. We also need to think about the front and back cover design. Should we ask devotees in the blog to send in their designs from which you can choose Guru Maharaja? If we can do these things in parallel, we can get the book out as soon as your editing is complete.

HpS - ASA - We just sent another copy with our new edits to you and Art Das and R. R. Das today. Largely so that it doesn't get lost. We've edited all the Texts and most of the Appendices. Need to finish our ASA index and the BhVai question bank. We did more format editing.

Any comments are very nice, but if no time then after we finish the Appendices we can talk with ArtDas about the format. He is professional.

We would also like to come and see you when you visit Houston. Srirama Krishna Das will also be with us and we are planning to come there on the weekend (22-23 May). We wanted to know if it is ok for us to come and see you in person?

HpS - We pub lished the current calendar for the visits. 19-23AM we are in Nila-madhava Dhama. Then we go about 10AM to Sugar Land. Hard to associate there, but in NMD we can chat outside with proper social dish stance, no?? Call us on the Tele Phone if needed!

Respects to the Sri Rama Krsna Das et al.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa