Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna

Dear Maharaja

Please accept my respectful dandavat pranams on to your lotus feet.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

As we was discused yesterday about Varnasrama dharma PPT or Information Based on BG, SB & CC Please help me to get them thanks.

Stay safe & Healthy. Hare krishna

Dasanudas

Narottamananda das

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna, Prabhu. AgtSP! Paoho. Thank you for your association. We would like to consolidate whatever we have understood of Daivi Varna Ashrama Dharma (DVAD) into a video format with discussions with various other scholars and political scientists.

We made a quick look in our archives and found some Ppt and Word files but nothing really complete, so may we suggest that the resources that we have to start with are:

• BG 4.13 - https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/4/13/,
• SB 7.11.35 - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/7/11/35.

Then:

• SB 1.9.25-29 - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/9/25/, Bhismadeva's Instructions to Yuddhisthira on DVAD.

These, especially BD instructions with Srila Prabhupada's purports, have so much perspective, depth and further research references. Can you please look at these and see if they satisfy your requirements, give some indications for more research, and/or we can consider other resources in the SB and Vedic tradition.

Hope to hear from you.

Thank you.

HpS - ASA

Hare Krsna.

TB/BW here!

AGTSP paoho...... So many letters to answer from Whatsapp and Yahoo mail. We are happy that if we can do a little practical service in ISKCON.

Get the books out!

Get the Holy Names out.

The Institution is a vehicle for that purpose.

Lot more letters but that is all we can handle today. O.K.??

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Now we call Hari-lila Das, try to push the foot of snow off of the Mercedes etc.

See you in the Friday program at 7.30PM

Hare Krsna, Guruji Maharaja, Dandavat Pranam,

All Glaries to Sri Krsna, Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Brinda.

Please accept my humble obeisances unto the padmacharan of Guruji Maharajah that I am performing every day 16 rounds or more but what it meant “nice”?

HpS - Thank you for your letter. SP explains this at:https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/3/#bb5881 and the related verse. Sixteen enthusiastic rounds.

O.K.?

The four principles, Mangaarati at 3.30 but no bath and dress because my pujah is performed in the Chitrabot. Again, as I am grihastha, I could not engage whole days in the service of Radha-Krsna. Only two times; one in the morning Mangal aarti and the other in the evening sandhya arati.

HpS - Yet that is like thinking that Arjuna could not serve Krsna during the day because he had his Grhastha duties in fighting the battle, no? Use the morning and evening to fix your self in Krsna's service during the day! Why do you work at the university? For whom are you working? How can you do Sankirtan there?

Jaya!

At the time of the first initiation Guruji gave us Harinam Mahamantra (16 names), the sacred thread, Nama Mala, again in the second initiation (Brahma Diksa) Guruji gave us Gayatri Mantra. Here no mantras of Nityananda & Srimati Radharani. Sadhu-Sanga told me the Mantras and Gayatri of Prabhu Nidyananda and Srimati Radharani are very much necessary for a Goudira Beisnava (Raganuga-sadhana-bhakti). I have found them in local Manipuri books but Guruji's acceptance is compulsorily most needed.

HpS - We chant the Gauranga Gayatri Mantra and of course, that includes worship of Lord Nityananda, and the Radha mantra is given at the time of formal Sannyasa. However, there are Mantras in the Puja of ISKCON Temple Deities for Lord Nitya-ananda and Srimati Radhika et al. Can you ask Vanamali Das or Sadhu-sanga Das for those? ? ?

We certainly approve of that worship!

I have re-read the slokas 8 of NOI and 1.2.294-95 of BRS. The NOI indicates only for those bhaktas who stay at Vrindavan but we are staying at home and practicing only through Gamana-Gaman by (Siddha body). In Jiva Gosvami’s commentary “Now, the method of raganuga-sadhana-bhakti is described. If possible, one should live physically in the places where Krsna lived, such as Vrndavana. If one cannot do that, then the person should live there mentally (self Sakhi-Manjari)". We need more Guruji’s suggestion.

HpS - Yes, if we cannot live physically in Braja, then living in ISKCON temple, or Grhastha ashrama where Radha and Krsna are worshipped is just as good.

Are you worshipping Radha Krsna Murti in your Ashrama??

Our Siddha deha may not be Sakhi or Manjari. Uddhava just wanted to be a blade of grass under the feet of the Gopis. Seems we have to be a little careful to think that we are suddenly more advanced than Uddhava.

Are you ready to be Karna or Bhismadeva or Pandu in you next lifetime?

Even those Lilas are very, very, very difficult, no?

It is very nice to get your association in these matters and we hope that we are not committing and offenses.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Continuing the discussion from here: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12127/

ASA - AGTSP! Paoho ... and having looked at the previous Blog Post...

His Grace Pyari Mohan Prabhu and Her Grace Jiva Mataji requested you to virtually visit on Sunday March 28th, the Gaura Purnima day. Topic will be Gaura Purnima and the class is from 4PM - 5PM EST (3PM - 4PM CST) with other parts of the program following it. Please confirm if this date is still fine with you.

Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa

ASA - Having consulted with the Supreme Absolute Undifferentiated Absolute Command (SAUAC) of ASA we have accepted your generous offer and put the event on our Calendar.

Please send us the address for the Virtual Meeting Hall!

Photos of SAUAC members convened follows.

On Friday, February 19, 2021, Lavanga Villarruel <. . . . @gmail.com> wrote:

Muy apreciado Maharaja Hanumatpresaka Swami.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Lamentamos informarle lo siguiente: 

En atención a una queja privada presentada a SS Bhaktisundar Maharajara y un testimonio escrito en contra de su discípulo Sacinandana das, y considerando que, en el momento de los hechos la afectada era menor de edad, quien narra que fue separada con engaños de su tutora (hermana mayor) por varías horas por el acusado, durante un Harinam. Hechos que podrían derivar de acuerdo a las leyes mexicanas y tratados internacionales para la prevención de la violencia de genero, en la tipificación de varios delitos contra una menor de edad, por los que se ha emitido una SUSPENSIÓN TEMPORAL, hasta que el acusado no reciba una declaración de inocencia. 

 Su sirviente

Lavanga dasi

Secretaría mesa directiva y representante legal.

HpS - Gracias a su Prabhu. AGTSP paoho. ¿Puede enviarnos una copia de la denuncia oficial de las actividades ilegales e indebidas? En esta carta solo mencionas que fue separada de su tutor legal por medio de engaños, lo que ciertamente es inapropiado para cualquier devoto de ISKCON, pero en cuanto a cualquier actividad ilegal bajo la ley nacional o internacional, no se menciona.

Gracias.

Queremos ayudar como podamos con la actitud de ser siervos de todos, y estamos convencidos de que no hay error que cualquiera de nosotros pueda cometer que no podamos corregir. Por supuesto, esto significa hacer lo correcto por todos los involucrados.

Puede enviar cosas confidenciales a la dirección de correo electrónico a la que envía esta carta, pero siempre incluya una copia a un caballero responsable como lo hizo con esta primera copia.

También estamos en contacto con nuestros discípulos y guías en México en cuanto a esta situación: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12148/

Muchas gracias por sus esfuerzos en este esfuerzo.

Si no podemos resolver estos desafíos en ISKCON, ¿cómo podrá el resto del mundo resolverlos?

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On Friday, February 19, 2021, Lavanga Villarruel ... wrote:

Much appreciated Maharaja Hanumatpresaka Swami.

Please accept my humble obeisances at his feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We regret to inform you of the following:

In response to a private complaint presented to SS Bhaktisundar Maharajara and a written testimony against his disciple Sacinandana das, and considering that, at the time of the events, the victim was a minor, who narrates that she was separated by deceit from her tutor (older sister) for several hours by the accused, during a Harinam. Facts that could derive, according to Mexican laws and international treaties for the prevention of gender violence, in the classification of various crimes against a minor, for which a TEMPORARY SUSPENSION has been issued, until the accused does not receive a declaration of innocence.

Your servant

Lavanga dasi

Board of directors secretary and legal representative.

HpS - Translation by google. Spanish above.

Thank your Prabhu. AGTSP  paoho. Can you please send us a copy of the official complaint of the illegal and improper activities. In this letter you just mention that she was separated from her legal guardian by trickery, which is certainly improper for any ISKCON devotee, but as far as any activity illegal under national or international law there is not mention.

Thank you.

We want to help as we can with the attitude of being servant for everyone, and are convinced that there is no mistake that any of us can make that we cannot correct. Of course, this means doing the proper thing by everyone involved.

You can send confidential things to the e-mail address where you are sending this letter, but please always include a copy to a responsible gentleman as you have done with this first copy.

We are also in touch with our disciples and guides in Mexico in terms of this situation: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12148/

Thank you so much for your efforts in this effort.

If we cannot solve these challenges in ISKCON how will the rest of the world be able to solve them?

[2/18/2021] Patraka Das: Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva... sorry to bother you...

i was looking for something you asked about a list of distribution for Kapi Dhvaja... /

google has an option... similar to YahooGroups...

i tried and it works very similar to YahooGroups...

if U want i can do a group por English and Spanish

[2/19/2021] Hp Swami: Sabse acha he!!!  The very best!  On Gmail we are, xxx, [xxx] !  !