Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna beloved Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisance at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

HpS - AgtSP! Paoho.... I think we might have lotus seed feet, but still not blossoming! 🙂

Happy Krishna Conscious Vyasapuja!

HpS - It was very nice, but also a lot of work! Of course, otherwise we would work hard for Maya!

I am Praying to Krishna to give you more than 100 years with good health to save the lives of fallen souls like me.

HpS - Let us all get our eternal life ASAP, no?! ⛺

Dear Gurudeva because of your causeless mercy now I am attending mangalrati at 4:30 everyday and my consciousness also getting better.

Finishing my 16 rounds in Brahma muhurta and whenever I have time I am doing extra rounds(48 rounds rest of the day)

HpS - Ooof! You can lead so many other ladys, families!!

Everyday reading Prabhupada book for 2 hours with group of 3 more matajis.

We completed reading SB once and we started again. Now we are discussing and trying to understand little bit not deep. (3 days in week).

We started Chaitanya Caritamrita (2 days in week) and in weekend we are reading

Prabhupada Leelamrita.

And also Sri Brihad Bhagavatmrita for half an hour in weekdays.

Doing Bhakti Sastri with Divyanam Prabhuji. Now we are reading NOD.

Everyday listening lectures in Zoom and attending Richmond activities in Zoom.

Thank you so much Gurudeva for your wonderful association everyday morning.

Please bless me to improve quality of my rounds and consciousness.

Your unworthy servant

Krishna Pramodini D D

HpS - Uddhava became Guru for the Gopis, and Suniti for Dhruva, we feel that so many of our disciples (maybe all of them 😎

) are really showin us how to be devotees.

Maybe you were a Sannyasi in your last life.

Look for the innocent people Krsna sends and preach to them. They will be patient to hear the message even if you make mistakes.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisance, All Glories To Srila Prabhupada and Gurudeva.

Here is the report of my spiritual practice

1. Early Morning chanting (5 - 7 AM; 2 hours 20 rounds)
2. Mongalarti (7 - 9 AM) and recitation of various prayers (Brahma Samhita, Narasimha Kavacha, Mukundamala and various astakas.
3. Daily Morning Bhagavatam Reading for 20 - 30 minutes
4. Attending Morning Class 8:30 to 10:00 on Wed and Sat
5. After-noon chanting (another 5 or more rounds)
6. Evening "Gaura arati" (simplified worship)
7. Daily Evening Bhagavad Gita Recitation (Minimum two chapters)
8. Conducting Con-calls twice a week (Monday and Thursday with other devotees)
9. Remaining days, prepare for the class (listening to Prabhupada and other Devotees lectures)
10. Attending ISKCON of Richmond Weekly activities

This is all happened, because of your trip to Richmond last year. That ignited my spirits and making some worth during the Covid time.

Please take care of Gurudeva and I pray for your long health, even though I am not worth much.

Your Humble Servant

-Subala Sakha Das

HpS - Super! SUPER! S U P E R! One of the essential aspects of Rupa Goswami's Sadhana Bhakti is that we are up like Krsna for Brahma muhurta, one and one-half to three-quarters hours before Sunrise, chanting HK. Of course this is the actual time for Mangala arati, but even if we are just chanting HK it is so wonderful. Really without B. Muhurta we are not following principles strictly and things will become slack, and we will not get the satisfaction we need and after sometime, even a few years, we will leave and say, "Oh, I tried that, it did not work", but we have to apply it properly.

You are doing very, very well.

Become a saint like Narada Muni.

Hare Krishna Maharaj.

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

Thank you so much for being willing to initiate me. I am eternally grateful to Krishna and Srila Prabhupada for giving this unqualified soul a great spiritual master like you. I will work hard to follow your instructions and become your sincere disciple.

Regarding the recommendation letter from Temple Authorities, I requested Kamagayatri Mataji for one about three weeks ago. She is willing to recommend me for initiation. She said she wrote a letter and has sent it to you. As for the disciple course, I completed it and received the certification also. Please guide me on further steps for the initiation.

Your aspiring insignificant servant,

Chithkala

HpS - Thank you Chitkala Ji, Here is the e-mail from the ISKCON Boise, Temple Counsel:

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

On behalf of the temple council members we would like to formally recommend Chitkala Mataji for formal initiation. Kamagayatri devi dasi and Anadi devi Dasi have been co-teaching with Chitkala on a weekly basis the last 6 months. We both appreciate her steadiness and dedication to this services as well as her natural quality of humility to serve and assist devotees and devotee children. Her patience and enthusiasm to render Sunday school service is also wonderful Vaisnava qualities that she brings to the group. We have also witnessed her attendance of Sunday darshan and Mangal Arati programs. Chitkala has also been a regular Sunday feast and festival volunteer.

Chitkala Mataji has dedicated herself to be a part of the regular Sunday school program the last 6 months. She has taken initiative to teach the children how to recite key verses from the Srimad Bhagavatam and Bhagavad Gita. Chitkala’s regular attendance as a co-teacher has enriched our regular Sunday school program and the teachers, parents, and children have appreciated her dedicated efforts in this important role.

Chitkala Mataji has reported to us that she has completed the new disciple course and has been chanting 16 rounds the last year.

Kamagayatri devi dasi has also witnessed her attendance of Anjana Suta Academy morning mangal aratis and classes. Her close contact with Srinivasa Acarya, Sundari Radhika and Sugopi the last few years also bears witness to her dedication of adhering to ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada’s standards. Her sincerity and steadiness as a new devotee is inspiring to our community and we look forward to being able to regularly serve and associate with her in the future.

Please let us know if you have any further inquiries or questions Maharaj.

Your servants,

Kamagayatri devi dasi

Anadi Radha devi dasi

Prema Lila devi dasi

Jiyad Nirsimha dasa

HpS - Jaya! So:

Mail your beads to Hp Swami; 2129 Stratford Rd.; Murfreesboro, TN 37129.

Include your full secular name and date of birth.

Who can do the fire sacrifice?

Thank you.

asa(e), sankirtan, wcl, jung and the bhagavata, specific classes, yale 2120125

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. One professor at Yale, Mark Heim, agreed to facilitate a reading course on Carl Jung and Gaudiya Vaishanvism for me. He said he does not know much about Carl Jung but he is willing to facilitate the course. I am also in the same boat right now, as I do not know much about Carl Jung, so the course would probably have to be more of an introduction to his thought and a few preliminary connections that can be made with Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy/theology. Gurudeva, I looked at the reading list you suggested in Viplavah and saved the names of the books. I was wondering if you have any more recommendations of books that I should read during the course of the next semester. Tomorrow, I am meeting with Mark Heim to discuss the details of the course. I am very grateful for any guidance you can provide, Guru Maharaja.

Your insignificant servant,

Sugopi Radha Devi dasi

Hps/ASA - AGTSP. paoho. The reading list is probably too much for one semester. You might start with Britannica article, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung, as an introduction, then read "Memories Dreams and Reflections". After that there could be choice of other books based upon time and interest of the students.

O.K.?

We will write to Professors Shonu Syamdasi and Bernardo Nantes about their opinions also.

Our classes for Bhaktivedanta diploma,

For the Mayapura Institute,

On ZOOM,

Will start next Monday, Feb 1st, from 16-18:30 IST, 4.30 - 7AM Nashville Time,

On Mahārāja Sagara and Lord Rama, SB Canto 9, Chapters 8 to 12.

Then February 15-19th will be Canto 9, Chapters 19-24.

We didn't post this first session on our cell phone calendar so we missed it.

Radhika-nagara Das was sharp enough to remind us. He is only 47-years old, young man!

To avoid the Zoom address going public and risking hackers joining, we will give the Zoom address to just a few people individually and most everybody else can watch it on Facebook.

So . . . who wants the Zoom address, especially for Facebook sharing?

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Obviously we will have to concentrate on preparing our teaching material. We will not be able to join the FMP during those days, and our voice and mind will be exhausted after 2.5-hours of lecturing daily.

Thank you so much,

HpS, Brown Tom and White Buck

Hare Krsna

Hare Krishna Reverencias TlgaSP

Querido gurudev!

Este año fue muy bueno para quedarse en el asram y hacer servicio..

# 16 rondas regular

# 4p bajo control

(tengo dificultades con la pizza ,el queso, en nuestra mente todavia hay mucho deseo sexual)

# Mangala arati regular 80 %..(.muchas veces no deso ir por que estoy yo solo con una matayi) eso me des entusiasma.

#Cumplimos con el servicio de reorganizar y orientar el proyecto de Nueva Govardhana.(Vision,misión,plan estrategico,etc).

# Presenté una serie de charlas online para brahmacaris por 3 meses.

# Estudiamos.el Srimad Bhagavatam con compañeros online y presencial en la finca (canto 1,3,4,6).

# Estoy haciendo bhakti vaibhava con Prabhu Devakinanda das HPS y Mitravinda dd su esposa.

# Maratón de distribución de libros 2020...(101 pequeños, 363 grandes y 50 BG).

Este año comencé a hacer sankirtana en la playa y salen muchos libros mas que en la ciudad...siempre salen primero los BG de mis manos. Siento que Krishna esta feliz y se relaciona conmigo atravez del sankirtana.

Con ganas de hacer Sankirtana viajero!!!!

Todas las Glorias a HPS y SP que hacen que este pobre inutil pueda tocar el sol!!!

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!! Gracias sus noticias. Todo su reportaje superior pero...

pero

PERO

now you should start writing some things? Articles, poetry, edited into books. Movies. More permanent documents.

Of course, this pandemic may mutate and in the end all modern civilization be broken, so the ultimate service is to develop Bhakti yoga in all circumstances.

For that we see not just the externally measurable results of Vaidhi bhakti, but coming to Raganuga Bhakti and Bhava Bhakti and fully awake in Prema Bhakti.

How is that developing: Adau sraddha...?

It is good to write here, but of course, you (b'cari, not ladies 😎) can put in confidential content and we won't publish it.

We have been trying to investigate your coming to M'boro as a b'cari and Sankirtan, devotee. NgD et al are enthusiastic.

We caught up with Sesa Das and discusses NIOS strategy and the visas, and he gave some options, but really it is hard if you cannot join the e-mail cycle and we make phone calls, which is hampered by the remoteness of New Govardhana yatra.

Hare Krsna!

Guess it would need a conference call with Nitai-gaurasundara Das.

Thank you.

Waiting for more of your mercy.

Respects to all! Even the lone Pujari.