Letters to the editor

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and your service unto him.

I recieved a letter from Japan and wanted to know where I can direct them or how to respond to them so that they can order the book Pracyaprajnapradipa by Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay.

The Letter:

Dear Sirs,

We would like to obtain the following book.

Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

Title: Pracyaprajnapradipa : Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay

felicitation volume on early Indian history and culture / ed. by Ian W.

Mabbett

Imprint: Murfreesboro, North American Institute for Oriental and Classical

Studies, 2012

Yours sincerely,

Manabu Oda

Assistant Librarian

HpS - AGTSP. Paoho. I have the book here. Can you write to them and ask them what is the best way to send the book from USA to them? We have them here.

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

Pamho, agtSP,

It was my pleasure and honor to serve you in the effort of curriculum development, ensuring a consistent sastric best practices so that the aspiring students can reap the optimum benefits.

As our new website is on the way, we will consolidate all efforts in the cloud based solution for Americas. I want all the educators to contribute. Please stay tuned for more info shortly. Anjana Suta Academy materials will be one of the source system for next step.

Your humble servant

-Balimardana Das-

Regional Secretary, ISKCON Ministry of Education, Americas

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HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!!! Paoho, BmD!!.

We were hoping for this letter for almost two weeks. Of course, the idea is for you to be Head of the Anjana Suta Academy, Sastri Studies Development Committee.

• By this nice letter are you agreeing?
• When shall we meet?
• Can you post news each Ekadasi from the ASA-SSDC??
• We can include devotees from Silicon Valley, Potomac, Peru, Argentina, Texas... and become integrated with the Regional Reps of the Ministry (eg. you, Srimati Gopi-gita Devi Dasi, Param-padam Das, Gandharva Das) and the Ministry Executive Committee?
• We can we enormous fun?

HpS - Wrote to RRD/SNKD

Hare Krsna!

AgtSP

Paoho

1. We are struggling with our bad character, hay fever, a world full of Tamasic consciousness, too many ISKCON projects, and trying to keep TPP-NOI in focus.
2. We finally got a chance to work on it today but we could not find the file in our recent files.
3. We could not find it on three of the four different computers that Gopinatha Das has kindly provided us.
4. We could not find it on two USB drives.
5. We see when we sent a letter to you last with our changes, we attached the Mr. P-nut file but forgot to attach the edited file.

Of course, we are smashing our heads against stone and entering into fire, and then finally have started to Chant Hare Krsna!!

I think this is a message from God asking us if we really want to do this?  If it really is an important service, and in the end if we realize that this is going to be another Govinda bhasya or maybe more accurately a Monkey/Piggy bhasya, since I feel that they are more Krsna conscious than we are. 

I think we had gone through Pref and Texts 1 and 2.

Do you have any of the edits that we made after you sent the file to us (?) 29th August?

The 29 August file you sent us would also not download until we restarted our computer. We actually have 4-that Gopinatha gave us.  This is a new kind of Atyahara, no?

Aaaaaaa!   <img src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f62c.png" alt="Emoji" height="16" width="16">  Hare!!!!!   KRSNA!

Niscayena!!!!  Nsicayena!!!!   <img src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f610.png" alt="Emoji" height="16" width="16">    Utsahan....  We will (our puny will) go ahead and edit Text 3 from the file we got from you and wait for any news about Pref-1-2.

Hare Krsna!!!

Radhika-nagara Das wrote:

Saturday, October 10, 2020, 01:57:19 AM CDT, Dandavat Pranams Maharaja, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you very much!

Kindly find attached the Student Handbook along with another guide.

Would you be able to take one more Unit, if it is available?

Ys, Rnd.

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HpS - So, we are planning for February next year. That is 4-months from now and at 72-yers old I cannot promise that I won't be dead or senile demented, but otherwise we will do it.

1. I see your manual. It is 121-pages? Will take some time to review.
2. I see Gauranga-darshana Das, Vidya-pitha Manual. We have been doing some close work with them. Is good tool.
3. We can log on on ZOOM but as of now we cannot do the Voice Over Internet (VOI). We just do the screen over internet and the voice by telephone call in. It burns too much Data otherwise. So.... do you have a Zoom account that has a USA number that we can call? That is essential.
4. We could do another session. That would seem to be our limit. Two sessions, and probably all that anyone could tolerate of us.
5. Can our Anjana Suta Academy students join as observers?

Hare Krsna! May all the Mayapura Cobras come to your Kirtans and show their hoods, but not bite.

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaj,

The video Gastón Soublette's video was a relevant point of the report, but I separate the link. Excuse me. I suprise myself how fool I am, every time.

HpS - Yes, I do the same thing. At least we cannot claim that we are getting newer and newer realizations in Krsna Consciousness (at how great of a fool we are).

Now is good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27LAd906yM

https://youtu.be/N27LAd906yM

HpS/ASA - We pasted it and the video started. We will watch it later. Now we have to do some more mail. Trim the hedges and go to NgD!! Thank you.

Is a 15 min. interview extract to Gastón Soublette, a Claudia Lira's mentor and one of the 8 or 10 most famous and important intellectuals of Chile nowadays (93 years old and still alive! and with a clear mind)

The interview is in Spanish, however, it has subtitles, and the feature of automatic translation of youtube/google have improved a lot recently, particulary to this kind of videos with a good Spanish spoken.

Mr. Soublette was in the release of Claudia Lira's book and I broached him in the last summer (January-Februay), and when I told him about you and your efforts and that maybe you both can talk, he gave me his phone. He would like to know more about a spiritual guru, swami with a western background.

HpS - We should have an exchange of ideas by mail, first, no?

He lives slightly as a hermit, so for communication, he has just cable-phone, and no smartphone and internet either, so an encounter could be possible in your next physical visit. Or maybe we can try by phone after the event.

HpS - Can you send paper-mail to him?

Hare Krishna guru maharaj. Thank you for your kind words. Sometimes we feel that never will be good enough, but still we are little "porfiados", obstinate- and we continue trying to be better.

HpS - Thank you.... Thank Carlos, thank Arjuna, than Priya sakhi Devi Dasi, thankkk... I can name so many more in Chile, Santiago, even more important. It makes us start to cry. Such nice people!!.

Hope we have our own village soon.

Hare Krishna Maharaja, please kindly accept my most humble obeisances; all glories to Srila Prabhupada, our founder acharya; all glories to you for your devotional service to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna.

It's Sunday evening, and I was doing my evening arotika just minutes ago. The house is very quiet and feels empty, although it is not. As I was doing my service, I found myself thinking about all the arotikas that I have been doing over all my years as a devotee: particularly in Denver, where I was first trained as a pujari on the altar some 37 years+ ago. Because the house was feeling so quiet and peaceful during the arotika ceremony I felt this great emotion arising from within.

HpS - ASA -- !!

I found myself thinking of how I've never had any second thoughts or doubts in my entire career as a devotee about coming to Krishna consciousness. I wonder why Krishna hasn't sent me away, because of so many sinful desires in my heart. It's not like I have some special realizations whereby Krishna deems me as someone of special importance or significance.

HpS - According to our understanding of Sanantan Goswami we are ALL of special importance. We are designed to fill a unique need!

The very idea that I am still doing arotika, in spite of still having so many material desires, brought tears to my eyes: even as I was performing my service to Their Lordships. I can understand the concept of "causeless mercy" in principle, but the realization of such mercy still escapes me: or else it is very, very shallow at best.

I often find myself thinking of the shelter that you have given my wife and I over the years, particularly during our years of isolation. At times I still feel so very isolated. Too many sinful desires in my heart. These thoughts brings tears to my eyes too. I just wish that I could say or do something to express some sincere gratitude for your kindness.

HpS - I think if Srila Prabhupada was putting your and me in cases in the tool box we would go in the same case. We have a little bit different Karma etc. so our situations are a little bit different, but I think that am just as bad as you, and any 'mercy' that I give has some little, little credit to me, but is mostly Srila Prabhupada using a bad tool to accomplish his goals.

However, I feel like such an incompetent old fool, set in his ways and unable to have any serious change of heart. What a hopeless and helpless case I am!

HpS - Like it or not in a few more years we either be in our Siddha svarupa (unlikely) or be incompetent YOUNG fools again! 🙂 But maybe we can take birth in Nabadvipa with Nimai and Srila Prabhupada, and join the fun right from the beginning!

Lately we have been inviting the devotees over to our home once every other weekend just for kirtan and prasadam. It seems to be going well, or so the devotees all tell me. I have shared with them how I would like to invite each household over to our home on a "one on one" basis: just to chant japa together, read together, and take prasadam together. I look forward to the shelter of your blessed association.

HpS - Super, SUPER, S U P E R ! Karuna virus, Ki Jai!

Your lowly servant, BbD

"Even fleas have little fleas that bite them, " William Blake. Servant of your servant, HpS. Let's go to the next letter.