Letters to the editor

asa-e, Karma and Diksa

Hare Krishna, Maharaj

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you.

Please accept our humble family obeisances.

This is Devendra , Sumitra, Saloni and Divyansh (Sharma family ) from Houston TX,

Thanks lot maharaj for giving your personal association during last Houston trip , we are very fortunate that we got an opportunity to meet and serve you , when we meet first in Iskcon Houston my son really like you, we all like your simplicity and you are a great humble vaishnava.

ASA - AGTSP! Simple or simpleton 😎

It was so nice to sit in the patio of Govinda's with you all, Gopinatha, Caitanya !

Our Sadhana and Seva in temple is going good by Krishna mercy, I have question Maharaj, when we surrender to Krishna , still we have to go through law of Karma ? because being in material world , it is hard to engage always in Akarma activity.

Thanks Maharaj

HpS - Is a question that we also had!

NoI constitutes first instructions for neophyte devotees, so our base is there, no? ! In the Bhaktivedanta Purport (noi 5), Srila Prabhupada cites:

Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 4.192):

dīkṣā-kāle bhakta kare ātma-samarpaṇa

sei-kāle kṛṣṇa tāre kare ātma-sama

“At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders to the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as He Himself.”

So, as we understand, at the time of Diksa (which is formalized by a ceremony, like a wedding is formalized) then the ropes of our Karma pass from Durga to Radha, from the nurse-maid to the mother. So we don't go into the sacrifice as a beautiful 16-year old white girl and come out as a handsome, heroic 25-year old Ethiopian man.

We still have our Karma, but now it is Krsna Karma. Radharani can eliminate, adjust it, but like Arjuna after BG, he still had his Karma, duty as a Ksatriya, but now it was adjusted to integrate with Krsna.

Bh. Vinode Thakura, when he would go to court he was thinking that now he was herding cows with Krsna, no?

O.K.?



Hare Krishna, Dear gurudeva!!!!!!!!!!!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you.

Please accept our humble family obeisances.

As every two weeks:

* Bulletin is now upload on Facebook (English & Spanish), it is also in Google Groups

Sadhana is going well. Family is helping with worshiping sometimes.

ASA - Thank you!! Whole neighborhood should help. Temple should organize regular festivals on tour. Come to different places in Peru.

Today I received the second vaccine. Everything is ok for now. Now that Health is more balanced, we are adjusting our diet (Sattvic). Next week we will receive our diploma on "Educational coaching, neuropedagogy and talent management".

ASA - From whom? Can we see each other while we are in Peru? Where can we lease [to buy] as hacienda for at least six months? DTC - UT. Patraka Das.

We continue with classes everyday with young boys and girls. This week we star Geography classes, and our project is to make interviews to people from other countries. For that our students will interview some devotees. They can share not only about their countries but also about their life.

ASA - Make life long friends. Need people from India?

As always this bulletin is one of our best foods!

ASA - Non fattening! Maybe it replace the New York Times. 😂 😂 😂

Thanks a lot

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette )

July 4th is Independence Day, Mukti, but after Mukti comes Bhakti, the character of the living force in immortality - Caitanya Caritamrta.

So, July 7th - 11th let's have a CCCamp with live presentations from The Boro?

• Rupa Siksa?
• Sanatana Siksa?
• Sad Goswami Astaka?
• TLC?

Annual Event?

Old age is a good friend for a devotee - SP

Are we becoming spiritually advanced or senile dementia?

Both?

Our Short-term Memory goes and it even becomes more difficult to drive. Yet, this forces us to operate more on habits and intelligence, rather than the mental platform. That is good, because the immediate memorys may go, but the deeper Bhava, Buddhi, intelligence will survive.

Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam... BG.

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All Glories to Shri A C Prabhupada, Sripada and HpS Guruji Maharaja.

Dandavat Pranam!

I have read Gurugi's reply and re-read Krsna chapters.

As narrated by Prabhu Partha Sarthi Dada the story of Yamu and Krsna are found in the book Puranic Encyclopedia: Yamuna is the daughter of Surya Deva and twin brother of Yamraj, again the sister of Sanideva.

Yamuna is one of the wife of Krsna and play with gopis after rasalila in the Yamuna.

It is a long puranic story, I am so satisfy to know the story of Yamunesvara: The iswara of Yamuna; Krsna.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamunesvara Das.

HpS - Thank you. I have seen one maybe two Puranic Encyclopedias. One friend, Balabhadra Das in Boise, Idaho, has a copy. I think that Srila Prabhupada spent a long time in the library using the Puranic Encyclopedia to write the biographys that he has in the purports to the first two cantos.

We also read that Yamuna is the liquid form of Visaka Devi.

Krsna - Yamunesvara.

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Do you have Sadhu sanga for reading with other devotees?



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Hare Krishna, Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

There is a house available on Lokey street about a mile from your Ashrama.

It's available from July 11 to July 15.

Should we book it Maharaja?

Your servant, Sundari Radhika devi dasi

HpS - ASA - AgtSP! paoho.... Thank you for your kind association. It seems fine from our side.

No calendar conflicts or great universal cataclysmic events happening.

It will be very nice having the association of everyone during those days.

Our real concern is that Sri Krsna Chaitanya and the whole Panca tattva take us in hand and give us some good service to offer to Radha Krsna during those days.