Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna,,,, Hare Rama!!!

AgtSP!! Paoho.... We are Kirtaniyas! We (TB/BW) chant Hare Krsna.

The only sin we can commit is to ...

... stop chanting HK!

The rest is the modes of nature or the moods of the Gopis.

Swish! Swish! Swirl! Swirl!!

How are you?

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WE GOT seven of our sixteen rounds done. (plus nine from yesterday!! 🙈)

Local time is 9.02PM

+10.00AM - 2.15PM we did the NIOS accounts and Treasury work with Abhaya Ji and had Ekadasi program with him, Mataji and Abhirama Thakuras Das.

Twelve preparations! [ARTD organized lecture program with Nirantara Das for Radha Madana bihari's Yatra! 👍 ]

+2.15-3.30PM was our evening walking/talking with NgD! Some rain. Used our Jagannatha umbrella from Mayesvara Das and CCD/Sbra DD. Flashed all the cars that passed with the "Black Man's" B I G Smile.

+Finished the DTC(p) dedicated to H. G. Vatsala Das and M. Sasikala Devi Dasi et al.

+FMP.. . . .

Let us look at Letters to the Editor:>>> Thank you!!!

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Atul-krsna Das writes:

Maharaja...Dandavats!...We are looking to gather a team of devotees to put together a module of teacher training specifically for online teaching...Under our current circumstances, obviously required urgently....Could you possibly consider some of your students who might be qualified and available to be involved?

ASA - Anyone can help? Don't be timid.

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E KRSNA, HARE RAMA! Jaya Radha, Jaya Shyama! It is 7.41PM. Sunset is 5PM. That's when we start our 45-minute exercise walk with NgD. We get attacked by heavy depression because it is dark, cold, we are not getting the Sankirtan results we want, but.. we see that we keep struggling, struggling, struggling, to get our rounds done with

ENTHUSIASM

.. which means FMP!!! Then some little progress is always made!! We got five bags of paper and plastic off to the recycling can. We are saving Bhumi from suffering, then she can do her job for Govinda.

Washed the clothes,

Spent one hour preparing for Hawaii class and one hour presenting and then 15-minutes with good talk with Ramananda Das, Organizer, after it.

Very satisfying to do PPTX.

Now 45-minutes answering letters. Is tough because we have like fifty that are mostly Annual Reports (from devotees who apologize for not reporting during the year 😁), but is so nice to hear from devotees.

Put URGENT in the field and describe what it is if it is not an Annual Report.

It is a great honor to be able to try and offer something to devotees so they can advance more and more and more.... O.K.

Have letter from ARTD, Gandharva Das et al to answer.

Now Local evening program and cook some broccoli for Lord. Nrsmha.

Thank you,

HpS/TB/BW

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our humble obeisances 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all his ISKCON army.

ASA - https://www.google.com/search?q=army+of+rama&rlz=1C1CHBH_enUS920US920&sxsrf=ALeKk02D8oDLBBAYfXsoAQOdE3wy4Q65yQ:1611279005758&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAoJaGsq7uAhWQY98KHXyQBxMQ_AUoAnoECBoQBA&biw=1163&bih=525

All glories to you and your services

Please accept our report of this year as a sincere endeavor of improving our actual consciousness. This year was great in terms of introspection and learning about our Anarthas.

Living again with my parents and Ranchor Prabhu has been an Intense experience. I’m a very intolerant and angry being, I recognize that is mostly for tons of unfulfilled desires…i desire to control others, I desire respect and power, I desire comfort and family connections, I desire a convenient Grihasta life. But thanks to Krishna I’m NOT getting that, and I’m learning to get detach from those desires and attachments.

HpS - Want to be Draupadi in your next life. There is an opening for the role.

The first thing we do in our day is look for closer shelter of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions for our life as you suggested, and every day we hear him on Prabhupada box, We feel so happy after hearing his voice, his instructions to keep us strong in sadhana whole day, his sense of humor and intolerance for rascalism. 

Ranchor prabhu set up a nice daily Dinacharya for us—-> 

FMP, Japa, Radha Govinda and Nama Prabhu service with fruits, almonds and flowers @7am, prayers @7:30, SB/BG reading, Yoga, Breakfast, Nap, Diary/Journal writing, Cooking and hearing HpS class, Bhajans, Gratitude journal writing, Milk and Sleep.

ASA - Wow! Super man! 

I’m currently studying Srimad Bhagavatam with my friend Premarani (We read on Skype, almost finish Canto 3). Also I started a job as a Science Teacher for Junior High Students, Teaching Math, Biology, Physics and Chemistry, which has been nice but a bit frustrating because the curriculum force us to teach Evolution and mechanistic view of the world. But kids are sweet and inquisitive, one day we discuss about our temporary body-permanent soul, so is not all bad.

HpS - ... and other girls are being raped an butchered in Nairobi! So, nice your life!! So nice. Find ways to get the truth across, just like Prahlada when he was in school.

Gurumaharaja this year we learned to slow down and trust Krishna’s plans, to plan less and surrender more, to desire less and chant and pray more and go deeper in our spiritual life. 

We would like to offer all our actions and services during this year to your lotus feet, our only goal is to please you and Srila Prabhupada, begging to get your causeless blessings always

Still working on becoming worthy disciples

Always hankering for your service and association

Your fallen servants,

Govinda Pramodini Dasi & Ranchor Krsna Das

HpS - Thank you. Keep chanting and looking for the inspiration of how you can fit directly into the preaching. Now just being Brahmanas, but be Goswami's, Krsna driving your chariot: Shoot here, duck, hold on for this turn.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj Hanumatpresaka Swami, ¿cómo está?

Mis deseos de salud y felicidad en conciencia de krishna para usted!

Con mucha sinceridad quiero escribirle esta carta de manera resumida, pues hace mucho tiempo no le escribía.

En el camino, me di cuenta que no estaba siguiéndolo de manera apropiada, y por ello, las veces que le escribí, usted no recibió mis reportes. Con humildad nuevamente intento escribirle.

Este año 2020 ha tenido muchos cambios para mi. Durante 11 meses trabajé como psicólogo en una institución cristiana con personas que viven en la calle. Fue una experiencia fuerte ya que son personas con historias de vida de mucho sufrimiento, también pude ver muy de cerca la degradación de kali yuga, y en un momento, comencé a enfermarme, pues habían nudos kármicos tan fuertes en ellos, y yo no podía ayudarlos realmente. ni el gobierno del país podía hacerlo completamente. Por las horas laborales difícilmente podía predicarles, entonces no me sentía satisfecho por completo. Y en un momento decidí retirarme del trabajo y dedicarme a la astrología védica, ya que había tenido estudios hace un par de años pero no era tan central en mi vida. Y pues, con ello me siento satisfecho, porque les entrego el maha mantra hare krishna a todas las personas que me solicitan una carta natal, puedo entregarles conocimiento védico y hablarles del bhagavad gita.

También todo este año 2020 he estado cuidando a mi abuela de 93 años, junto a mi madre. Una labor que requiere mucha paciencia, y consciencia de autocuidado propio, pues hay que bañarla, cocinarle, ayudarle a moverse, etc..

Por todo esto, no tuve mucha participación en el templo, sumado al corona virus que nos obligo a estar en el hogar.

Por otro lado,

Este año no he tenido el sadhana ideal, como cuando vivía en templos, pero krishna siempre me ha llevado a madurar y evolucionar, a veces con sufrimiento por errores cometidos, y a veces con inteligencia.

Tengo la suerte de que mi madre es devota más fuertemente hace 2 años aproximadamente, y con ella compartimos el cocinarle a krishna, tenemos nuestro altar, etc.

También le comento que estoy asociado con una devota llamada Gabriela. Tenemos planes para casarnos para seguir lo recomendado por prabhupada. ya los padres de ambos lo saben y están contentos. Ella ayuda con la prédica del ministerio vaishnavi y otros servicios más.

Con esto creo que resumo en general mi vida, le agradezco de corazón sus esfuerzos por seguir a su maestro espiritual Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, por expandir la conciencia de krishna, por tener la misericordia de darle primera iniciación a este tonto, y permitirme intentar saborear el santo nombre bajo la guía del hilo invisible que me ata a usted y a krishna en la distancia.

Me despido pidiéndole disculpas por no haberle escrito antes, me sentí culpable en muchas ocasiones. Pero a pesar de que se que no es lo correcto, también se que eso indica que usted es importante para mi.

En esta existencia eterna me siento agradecido de conocer a un maestro espiritual y la comunidad vaishnava.

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Posted by: mandara sakha das

Title: Annual report

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj Hanumatpresaka Swami, how are you?

HpS -About the same as you!

My wishes for health and happiness in Krishna consciousness to you!

With great sincerity I want to write this letter to you in a summarized way, because I have not written to you for a long time.

HpS/ASA - 😕

Along the way, I realized that I was not following you properly, and therefore, the times I wrote to you, you did not receive my reports. With humility again I try to write to him.

This year 2020 has had many changes for me. For 11 months I worked as a psychologist in a Christian institution with people who live on the streets. It was a strong experience since they are people with life histories of a lot of suffering, I could also see very closely the degradation of kali yuga, and at one point, I began to get sick, because there were such strong karmic knots in them, and I could not really help them. not even the government of the country could do it completely. Because of the working hours I could hardly preach to them, so I was not completely satisfied. And at one point I decided to retire from work and dedicate myself to Vedic astrology, since I had had studies a couple of years ago but it was not that central in my life. And so, with that I feel satisfied, because I give the hare krishna maha mantra to all the people who request a birth chart from me, I can give them Vedic knowledge and tell them about bhagavad gita.

HpS - Hmmm!

Also all this year 2020 I have been taking care of my 93-year-old grandmother, together with my mother. A task that requires a lot of patience, and awareness of her own self-care, since you have to bathe her, cook her, help her move, etc.

For all this, I did not have much participation in the temple, added to the corona virus that forced us to be at home.

On the other hand,

This year I have not had the ideal sadhana, as when I lived in temples, but Krishna has always led me to mature and evolve, sometimes with suffering from mistakes made, and sometimes with intelligence.

I am lucky that my mother has been more strongly devoted to her about 2 years ago, and with her we share cooking for Krishna, we have our altar, etc.

I also mention that I am associated with a devotee named Gabriela. We have plans to get married to follow Prabhupada's recommendation. their parents already know it and are happy. She helps with the preaching of the Vaishnavi ministry and other services.

With this I think I summarize my life in general, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your efforts to follow your spiritual master Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, for expanding Krishna consciousness, for having the mercy of giving this fool first initiation, and allowing me to try to savor the holy name under the guidance of the invisible thread that binds me to you and krishna in the distance.

I say goodbye apologizing for not having written to you earlier, I felt guilty on many occasions. But even though I know it's not the right thing to do, I also know that it indicates that you are important to me.

In this eternal existence I am grateful to meet a spiritual master and the Vaishnava community.

HpS - Thank you, thank Gabriela, Mama and Grand Mama! Get your rounds done. HK. HK!! Then Krsna can give you more chance to preach. Take notes of your Sankirtan. That will help you improve it daily and send a report after a few weeks.

Expect rapid change.

My dear Maharaja,

Namaste! Pranams!

Siya-Rama-maya sab jag jani karahu pranam jori jugpani

Knowing this world as manifestation of Lord Rama, I do pranams with both folded hands.

HpS - and march off to Lanka to fight.

Bhagavatam 12/5 chapter is titled as "Śukadeva Gosvāmī’s Final Instructions to Mahārāja Parīkṣit". Saintly teachers like Sukadeva give conclusions of their teachings in the end and also, summarize it in the end. So this chapter is very important as it is final teaching of Sukadeva. Parikshit attained the state described in Bhagavatam 12/5 after hearing the whole Bhagavatam. So as shrota (hearer) of Bhagavatam, it is important to understand what is our final goal which is described in this chapter.

For the pleasure of Lord Ram within and without, I am copy pasting this chapter. It is just 13 verses. If it is not inconvinient, please read them.

Text 1:

Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has elaborately described in various narrations the Supreme Soul of all that be — the Personality of Godhead, Hari — from whose satisfaction Brahmā is born and from whose anger Rudra takes birth.

Text 2:

O King, give up the animalistic mentality of thinking, “I am going to die.” Unlike the body, you have not taken birth. There was not a time in the past when you did not exist, and you are not about to be destroyed.

Text 3:

You will not take birth again in the form of your sons and grandsons, like a sprout taking birth from a seed and then generating a new seed. Rather, you are entirely distinct from the material body and its paraphernalia, in the same way that fire is distinct from its fuel.

Text 4:

In a dream one can see his own head being cut off and thus understand that his actual self is standing apart from the dream experience. Similarly, while awake one can see that his body is a product of the five material elements. Therefore it is to be understood that the actual self, the soul, is distinct from the body it observes and is unborn and immortal.

Text 5:

When a pot is broken, the portion of sky within the pot remains as the element sky, just as before. In the same way, when the gross and subtle bodies die, the living entity within resumes his spiritual identity.

Text 6:

The material bodies, qualities and activities of the spirit soul are created by the material mind. That mind is itself created by the illusory potency of the Supreme Lord, and thus the soul assumes material existence.

Text 7:

A lamp functions as such only by the combination of its fuel, vessel, wick and fire. Similarly, material life, based on the soul’s identification with the body, is developed and destroyed by the workings of material goodness, passion and ignorance, which are the constituent elements of the body.

Text 8:

The soul within the body is self-luminous and is separate from the visible gross body and invisible subtle body. It remains as the fixed basis of changing bodily existence, just as the ethereal sky is the unchanging background of material transformation. Therefore the soul is endless and without material comparison.

Text 9:

My dear King, by constantly meditating upon the Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva, and by applying clear and logical intelligence, you should carefully consider your true self and how it is situated within the material body.

Text 10:

The snake-bird Takṣaka, sent by the curse of the brāhmaṇa, will not burn your true self. The agents of death will never burn such a master of the self as you, for you have already conquered all dangers on your path back to Godhead.

Texts 11-12:

You should consider, “I am nondifferent from the Absolute Truth, the supreme abode, and that Absolute Truth, the supreme destination, is nondifferent from me.” Thus resigning yourself to the Supreme Soul, who is free from all material misidentifications, you will not even notice the snake-bird Takṣaka when he approaches with his poison-filled fangs and bites your foot. Nor will you see your dying body or the material world around you, because you will have realized yourself to be separate from them.

Text 13:

Beloved King Parīkṣit, I have narrated to you the topics you originally inquired about — the pastimes of Lord Hari, the Supreme Soul of the universe. Now, what more do you wish to hear?

Namaste and Pranams!

Gaurav Mittal

HpS - C. C. after liberation, revive our Svarup!