Letters to the editor

'are Krsna!!! Just a note to let you know that we have letters up to one week old not answered. We are struggling (with our lust and laziness and) a lot of work, but seems we will answer everything.

ASA - TB/BW - HpS

Dear Gurudeva,

Pamho, AgtsSP!!!

Hope you are fine and in good health, I m [I'm] really greatfull [grateful] and in debt with [to] you, for allways [always] inspiring and accompany the fallen ones like me. I appreciate so much all the efforts that you do, the fmp, and your lectures, that sadly many times I can't get all of them, with 50% of attention and monkey jumping over me.

HpS - We feel inspired by you! Using so much creative intelligence for Sankirtan and to maintain your Ashrama. Courage, strength, determination. Hmmm? Maybe we are all getting mercy of Parampara in the biggest part?

Many times I fell like in the middle way in my spiritual path, with a feeling of apathy towards the world, a little mixed with melancholy and sadness, and at the same time searching for a real flavor in the Bhakti practice.

HpS - In NOD Rupa Goswami says this is normal.

The Vaidhi Sadhana is much mechanical,

HpS - People pay a LOT of money for machines in this world, no?

. . . but the necessary medicine I need for craziness…hankering for the real flavor, I fell [feel] like licking the bottle on the outside… how to take the step in purifying the felling, in starting to have a real flavor in spiritual life, in which personal relationship settles steadily, not from disappointment in the world but from a positive position in which there is a personal and loving relationship with Radha Krishna?

HpS - By trying to do the Vaidhi Bhakta more expertly, no? Same time looking for the causeless mercy that Krsna sends and grabbing it.

Even a small percentage of sincerity (me) on this path has lasting results! After so many stupid, lazy, selfish years, by the unlimited patience of Srila Prabhupada, I am advancing in detachment from this material world and attachment to the spiritual world (or else I am becoming senile and prone to sentimental hallucinations).

Gurudeva, many changes this times, a strange year, but nice in the inner place… We are at this time taking a big decision in moving to live in the mountains, very nice place, quite far away, there some devotees, friends, inviting us, a project in progress, much ideas, big chance...

HpS - 1. Who are you? What is your position, nature in the situation 2. Who are we? Family, invitees. Their nature, motives. 3. Plan based upon the kind of person I am, we are... 4. Parafernalia eg. land house horse hose hat heat. O.K.?

In all these times change my work more to the online and is good, slowly developing these, by courses, consultations with Ayurveda counseling and therapy, and also starting reading charts with vedic astrology, Maxi Peralta invited me for next month to talk about vedic astrology in a online meeting of symbolic languages, with the Jungian people…

HpS - Super. We are waiting for the final version of the next Solaris and then we can all send it to Maxi, Sonu Shyamdasani, Bernardo!!! We are looking for a Jungian who knows their side of the river and wants to build a bridge to Rupa Goswami's side.

 Your insignificant servant,

 Madhavendra Puri Das

HpS - Thank you? How is your family?

Nice fotos! Big beets! Scary little girl devil...... Here is link to Co-vis mask with smile!

https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+smile+masks&rlz=1C1CHBH_enUS920US920&sxsrf=ALeKk02O-dm2_voqrAgK5wg3GYWrXGsq8Q:1603995693584&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl46XMtdrsAhVvuVkKHfSnDX4Q_AUoAnoECAsQBA&biw=1280&bih=578#imgrc=k9NcTiWmK8TA_M

On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 02:27:56 PM CDT, Mishra Bhakavan Das wrote:

Carrying on in Texas. Humbles and Glories. 

My job as an audio technician has opened back up. I have many days of work though my back cannot handle the heavy stuff much longer. Mi esposa is nicely situated with her job working for the City of Dallas. Once a week I go to Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji's mangal arotik. I have to be on the road by 03:45 for that. Mostly I go to read the Prabhupada Nectar. We just finished Vishaka Devi Dasi's book about Srila Prabhupada called "5 years 11 Months and a lifetime of Unexpected Love" which was amazing. Now we are reading Yogeswara's "Swami in a Strange Land". 

Although I have had two good months of sankirtan the weather has become really cold and rainy, and I have to go back to work, making it very hard to get out. I bought a case of "Karma La Justicia Infalible" and sold the whole box. So I ordered another case. This time it is "Meditacion y Superconciencia" and have sold about half the case. As far as english books, my son Abhaycharan Nimai Dasa had a stack of 26 various books in Gita Nagari that he felt should be distributed, so he sold them to me to move them here in Texas. So far 11 of those books have been sold including a big hardback "Nectar of Devotion."

I hope this meets you well, safe, and comfortable. Mishra Bhagavan Dasa

HpS - Hare Krsna!  You seem to be situated in Subhadra as well as Bhaga: Auspicious as well as opulent life. Can we publish this letter in the next issue of Viplavah?  Do you also read Srila Prabhupada's direct books? Eg. Krsna book and hot milk?  We find that they act as the catalyst for understanding these other books. All respects to Mataji. Anybody who could live with you has to be a saint. Of course, you don't count because you have no option.  <img src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f60e.png" alt="Emoji" height="16" width="16">

Viplavah: https://iskconeducation.org/journal/

Sent to Dr. Samaresh. 2020 Oct 28

"Thank you for news Professor. Yes, Iwrote that letter to you in May. But there was no postal service to India at that time. So I gave it to Thanu Subrahmanian (Tandavika Das) when he went to India first of this month to attend to urgent affairs.

Go to know that PKD is pushing the book security.

Afte pushing, pushing, pushing, we finally got all the douments for the annual meeting signed and collected by the Secretary.

Now....  we finally got a final draft copy of the next issue of 'Solaris' from Abhirama and Prof. Miguel in Peru. I have discussed it with Abhiseka, our new NIIOS President, and NgD's son. Abhi. is quite enthusiastic and competent for NIOS. I will send him the copy of Solaris and in can serve as a backbone for discussusion on NIOS.

We will then organize a coloquia of all of us to duscuss the Mission/Vision for ISKCONand then head toward more practical goals.

No news from Dhurva Das about visiting Professor Mabbit. Also, need to transfer money from Sri Hari Das to Nila-kamal for our lare debt to your good self.

That is our general news now.

Allergy is little undercontrol.

Ants have gone and mice have come. Our auto has died but maybe we can get it working. 🙏🦍🙏"

https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/25d4e4c978028bcbccf1460aa051818bddc8da7597b8ec4177da1bfe3f0da339

SB 2020 OCT 13, Stri-dharma, S. R. D. D., Canto Four.

Could not attend the class. Just now hearing. Very nice.

Was mentioned that one should not strike a women even if she commits some sin.

If we look at articles on the internet ont "death penaltly gender statisitics" it is very interesting. Maybe men are executed 10-times more.

Also, in most states girls can be legally married at 16-years old with parent's permission. So, could be 'engaged' at younger age and then legally married at 16-years. VAD rules are natual.

Also mention of women, men and eunichs. This is the same point some ASA members have made. Before it was ´he´in literature, now it has become 's(he)', but should actually be 's(he)it'. If you say the whole thing fast it becomes the vulgar, taboo, word for excrement. Maybe this is a sign from God of what Kali is trying to do with human society. Keep 'he' to include naturally she and it?

Arci and Prthu 'went to the same planet' - does this apply to them because they are eternally husband and wife, but in the case of Jivas means they both go to the same plane, Vaikuntha? In their Svarupa they may belong to very different families, but they will always remember how they played this conjugal relation in the incarnation that took them back to Vaikuntha?

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj!! Please accept our humble obeisances at Your lotus feet.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

We pray that this letter finds you in the most blissful state.

HpS - I also pray the same for me and you!

We have installed Sri Hanumanji outside the temple complex of Sri Radha Damodara Mandir, Toubul. Resting coolly under the shades of the banyan tree, our Hanuman gives us a glorious darshan. The local devotees tell us that under this banyan tree HH Bhakti Svarup Damodara Swami used to sit and rest. We will be celebrating Tirubhav on 26th....

HpS - That is Tin goswami Samadhi, no? Now it is char goswami samadhi. I was there in Radha kunda when the celebration happened. Very happy, very sad. Even now, today is 26th.

Last tuesday on Parama Ekadashi our uncle left his physical body. HG Ramanuja Prabhuji and HG Jai Bhima Prabhuji chanted Gopala sahasranama, Gajendra Moksha and BG chapter 8 day before Ekadasi. He was still conscious that time. Aunt chanted Harinaam till the last few moments before he left. On the day he left ,we kept on his lips charan tulsi offered at the lotus feet of Sri Govindaji, read BG chapter 8 and Sri Gopala sahasranama. He made a loud sound before he left. My aunt is bewildered by the sound coming from his mouth. She wants to know what that meant.

HpS - Good question. Maybe just the sound of the prana leaving the body through the lips. Is very exalted way to leave!

We have been selected to be a member of the Sri Govindajee Temple board. Guru Maharaj can we serve Sri Govindajee by being a member of the board? We were taken by surprise by the turn of these events.

HpS - As far as we know it is fine. Just be happy. Lao Tzu gives us advice that can be taken as: The Emperor should control the function of the empire the same way a beggar would cook his one chapati.

Continuing to read Krsna book with father. He enjoys the pastimes so much. We usually read after the SB. Father keeps referring to Krsna as Butter thief.....keeps telling....lets read that Butter Thief's leela....

HH Bhakti Vyasa Tirtha Swami Maharaj is not in the best of physical health. All of 94 years, chanting ardently all the time. We will miss Maharaj a lot ...last time when we went for getting darshan of Maharaj, HH laughed at us and said...' Mataji..be like Chitrangada.....'

Guru Maharaj...merciful dear Gurudev...we seek your mercy to chant our rounds blissfully ....more and more. Thank you so much for changing our lives.

Your insignificant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Thank you for all the wonderful news. We hope the Samadhi ceremony is more and more glorious. We will have one in our community also.