Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you Guru dev

Here we are, still alive. Now more than ever it is a relief to know that Krsna says that any progress one makes on the path of bhakti is not lost.

I am a bit shocked at how the world has changed in a short time due to the pandemic (the social situation). I realize that for me the Kali Yuga advance existed as an idea. I also realized that I still have "faith" in the material world as a refuge ... I see things differently now, although sometimes it is a bit depressing.

HpS - Only depressing if you don't accept that you and Radharani (Hara! Hare!) are not going to let Krsna's birth day party stop. O.K. Radha, I have an idea for the menu. Is it good?

Reading prayers of Queen Kunti attentively helped me a lot. Thank you and the devotees who invite me to give a lectures about this topic.

HpS - Thank you!

Hari Vamsi is very well. As you mentioned in the previous letter: Yes, helping him teaches me to understand my mind. For me, the experience of motherhood is an opportunity to improve my character, develop humility and patience very fast… Although many times I feel that lack of tools to help him.

He is going to a Montessori kinder garden, he is happy and now he asks us to teach letters because he wants to read and write. His curiosity is intense, and so is his energy.

He likes Kirtan, he is enthusiastic about offering a wick to Damodar (maybe 50% attraction to fire- 50% bhakti). He likes to listen Krsna's pastimes and he has quite a few questions about demons and details. He is also have atraction for the Monster Trucks, dinosaurs, speed and power.

HpS - He can fly on Garuda some times.

I have improved the rounds, but I still cannot go back to the standard of 16. Many times I feel helpless in the face of laziness, poor time management and lack of focus ...

HpS - Srila Prabhupada says in one letter, that that is O.K. but don't stop trying, and, yes, eventually you will succeed. Then .... next challenge!

About my work, I am working as a freelance for clients in the USA, retouching and cleaning their photographs.

Also in our house and in the garden. Some days ago four cows and two calves came to our garden and ate some things, but most of them survived (They left some compost in return). Hari helps me and already recognizes the plants, insects and removes the leaves that have fungi.

HpS - Wow! Should have collected some of their milk as a tax also.

You also asked me about my father, Ekachacra Nitai Candra das. He is very well, he attends the FMP every day and he is happy with it. He and two of my brothers live in the north of Argentina. I hope we can meet this summer.

HpS - Ahhhh! That is Ek Ch. Nitai! I was thinking it was maybe our disciple from Peru!! Big administrative progress today.

About ASA Audivisual. We download almost all the Twitter links that you posted, some are lost because our internet service is sometimes suspended and the links are only available for a few days. But we can recover those recordings from the recordings that devotees broadcast on Facebook.

I'm really happy with the service, but unhappy with me because I perform the service with interruptions. I really hope I can improve and be of useful to your Sankirtan. 

HpS - See! This is exactly what we heard from conversation with Prabhupada. As our 16/4 is steady, then our other services are just as steady. So, put effort into the better rounds because (also telling myself this) then being:

1. Mother
2. Wife
3. Citizen
4. Cook
5. Gardener
6. Photo artist
7. Channel Manager
8. Sankirtan Devotee

will all improve in the fastest and most efficient way.

I think of the channel (asa audiovisual) as a library of your classes, to keep them in an orderly manner and to be able to share with whoever is interested. We have invited more devotees to the work in a team, to translate, upload or edit more classes. Still no one joined, probably due to our faults.

HpS - Hector et al say. Ask six times and then you will get practical results.

We are working on the missing classes and the illustrated FMP. Time management is the challenge.

Please let me know what we can improve and how to be really useful.

Thank you very much Gurudev for your inspiration and constant care. Your effort in maintaining the FMP, classes, and programs. Your loving way of always finding a way to engage us in service.

your aspirant to servant

Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

These are the links of the last videos uploaded

Cosmologia Védica

https://youtu.be/tR8YIz6WHTM

Festival por la aparición de Srila Prabhupada

https://youtu.be/MYhMXPBAWT0

SB 2.7.8

https://youtu.be/JqI33mflZm0

Radhastami

https://youtu.be/LPmd5lf6mEM

Desaparición Haridas Takura

https://youtu.be/oCDg5DV2-wU

SB 2.7.7 (by Sugopi Radha)

https://youtu.be/dmVxg91nuAg

SB 2.1.5

https://youtu.be/vy3pcKdEjgQ

SB 3.2 Uddhava Siksa

https://youtu.be/w0R_Ob21Nyw

My dear Maharaja,

Dandavat Pranams. Namaste!

Thank you very much for your reply.

There is a world outside which is fundamental. In this world, there is body. In this body, there is consciousnesses. Materialistic people think that this consciousness is produced by matter or don't think much about it. We reject this idea.

Second view is as follows:

There is world outside which is fundamental. In this world, there is body. In this body, there is consciousnesses. This consciousness is also fundamental and not product of matter. It occupies space in this body. In this second view, outside world is still starting point. This is how I used to see the world earlier. This world . . .

HpS - Outside world?

. . . is created by Krishna. In this world, I am eternal, unborn, ever existing and part of Krishna (Gita 15/7 - mamaivānśho jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ).

HpS - Yet, we existed in the spiritual world before this world was created?

Third view is to start with consciousness. Consciousness is most fundamental. Paramatma and Atma illuminate ego and mind (Gita 15/15 - sarvasya chāhaṁ hṛidi sanniviṣhṭo

mattaḥ smṛitir jñānam apohanaṁ cha). World of images, perceptions, sensations etc gets projected in the mind. Mind identifies with these projections as Me and Mine and cycle of samsara starts. Consciousness is witness (seer) of the world including objects, body and mind.

This third view is huge fundamental shift in how one sees reality. This is our experience also. When we wake up, mind which is illumined by consciousness comes into existence before outside world. In the dream, mind creates another world which appears as real while we are dreaming. When we hit stone in dream, it hurts. When we are in deep sleep, mind is not active. There are no thoughts, no perception, no sensation and no mind. Still, consciousness (atma) exists. Seeing that I (atma) am illumining all 3 states (waking, dream and deep sleep state) and I remain distinct from these states which come and go is big shift in vision of reality.

When I am reading 11th canto of Bhagavatam (especially trying to understand sanskrit texts), I see that Bhagavatam is pointing out reality which starts with consciousness. Same text which I read earlier give totally different meaning after this shift in how I see reality.

There are 2 references of [to?] "I". When reference of "I" is on body and mind, then Ram is my master and I am His servants. All objects including body and mind belong to Him. When reference of "I" is on "atma" illumining mind, then I am His amsa (part). Reference of "I" is slowing moving towards "atma" illumining mind and senses.

Sriram is doing 2nd year computer science in Texas A&M. He has very strong work ethic and is noble person. Anjana is in 12th grade and applying for college. Few days ago, Anjana asked me - "Dad! where are your bones!". I said that they are in this body. Then she mentioned that she used to think that bones are in her. But now she can clear see that she is different from the bones. Bones are not in her. I felt that I am doing something good as parent. Sriram claims himself as an atheist. I remind him that Gita is science of Atma. As long as he accepts that he exists, he is following Gita. He, the atma, is eternal, ever-existing and part of Paramatma. That is true whether one accepts this truth or not. So everyone is follower of Gita. I am quite hopeful that one day the knowledge of Bhagavad Gita will be revealed to him.

Anandamukhi decided to leave 5 years ago. So we got divorced. I try to maintain good relationship with her.

Thank you very much for reading this email.

Dandavat Pranams,

Gaurav Mitttal

HpS - Thank you. Thank you with news of the family. I was thought Mataji had left.

I would make this comment on your Sankhya.

I would say that it starts with Ananda and not Cit. Love and not Consciousness. We primarily are lovers, servants, followers. Then there is Cit and then Sat. Of course, they all exist simultaneously. Balarama is the Sat or Sandhini potency.

Pradhana, external world, exists eternally, with Maha-visnu, like a piece of cloth with Mahavisnu. Then the 2nd and 3rd purusa avatars agitate it because the kids, the Jivas, want to play Mommy-Daddy, and it starts to take form like a puppet. The cloth gets marked, cut, sewed, ornamented, and the Jivas enter into some of the parts of it, and call it their puppet.

O.K.?

BG gives little description. SB 2 and 3 .... give more.

TLGSP, TLGHPS, PAMHR, Hare Krsna

HpS - Gracias por esta carta. Creo que somos un poco lentos en responder.

En general, la política, la administración en Kali-yuga, es deficitaria. Podemos simplemente mirar SB 1.17 y ver que la administración en Kali-yuga es un compromiso.

Por otro lado, cantar, individualmente y en conjunto, ¡es muy efectivo!

Mirando más detalles en su carta ...

El año pasado, fui convocada a una junta por algunos hermanos espirituales para formar un equipo de trabajo diferente al que ya estaba funcionando, cuya fecha se remonta antes de su visita y evento del 16 diciembre 2019.

Me pareció bien, dado que, en los eventos académicos, yo cumplo con mi parte, de contactar y conectar a los invitados, entre ellos: Mtra. Itzel Barrera De Diego, Dr. José Luis Valencia y la Mtra. Malintzin Pitzahuac (Marina Prieto).

Desde entonces, algunos devotos/as estuvieron manifestando su inconformidad con la organización de otra madre.

Ahora, en noviembre 2020, me eligen como su representante y me piden que organicemos otro equipo.

Yo le escribo a usted y usted autoriza esta forma de organizarnos. Ahora, dicen que existe una división de los discípulos, cambian de opinión y están inconformes con ambos equipos.

Como me eligieron su representante, he notado muchas diferencias de opinión e inconformidades, de parte de algunos miembros. Por tanto, estoy tomando la decisión de renunciar de representar a cualquier grupo.

Todo lo que ha surgido en estas horas parece surgió de la respuesta que yo le di a la mataji AstaSakhi, porque consideraba que era una falta de etiqueta vaisnava no responder a ese mensaje.

HpS - Estoy confundido. ¿Hubo una publicación de blog de Asta-sakhi Devi Dasi a la que respondiste y luego ella no respondió?

Por lo tanto, ante estas conductas anti-vaisnavas, prefiero no participar en organizaciones de equipos y renunciar como su representante. Tanta volatibilidad e inmadurez, demuestran nuestra incapacidad total de prestarle un servicio digno de usted.

Si usted lo permite, de forma individual, trataré llevar a cabo mi servicio a usted y a Srila Prabhupada y elaborar una humilde ofrenda para glorificar el parampara. Lamento no poder servirlo a usted y a los devotos como se merecen.

Hare Krsna

Su inútil sirviente

Lalita Gopi DD

HpS - Creo que todos nuestros Acharyas también renuncian a todos los puestos gerenciales y administrativos varias veces al día, pero después de la purificación adecuada en la modalidad de la bondad, canto, Prasadam, descanso, vuelven a retomar el trabajo como lo hizo Maharaja Pariksit.

Por favor, todos, escríbanos (aquí), contáctenos mientras deambulamos de aquí para allá bajo la influencia del Paramatma, y les responderemos como podamos con gran felizidad.

Aparte de eso, tenga una idea clara de la administración de su propia vida. Sus propios tres pasos de tierra, y luego desarrollar relaciones con otros devotos, amistades, desamistad, y si eso llega a las relaciones institucionales. OKAY.

He pasado por el mismo trabajo con mi amigo, el Secretario de GBC, H. G. Virabahu Das, el GBC Regional Latinoamericano, durante las últimas semanas, mes, tambien. Cada vez mas experto.

OKAY.?

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AGTSP, AGTHPS, PAMHO

Last year, I was summoned to a meeting by some spiritual brothers to form a different work team from the one that was already working, whose date goes back before their visit and event on December 16, 2019.

It seemed good to me, since, in the academic events, I do my part, to contact and connect the guests, including: Mtra. Itzel Barrera De Diego, Dr. José Luis Valencia and Mtra. Malintzin Pitzahuac (Marina Prieto).

Since then, some devotees have been expressing their dissatisfaction with the organization of another mother.

Now, in November 2020, they choose me as their representative and ask me to organize another team. I write to you and you authorize this way of organizing ourselves. Now, they say that there is a division of the disciples, they change their minds and are dissatisfied with both teams. Since I was chosen as your representative, I have noticed many differences of opinion and disagreements on the part of some members.

Therefore, I am making the decision to resign from representing any group. Everything that has come up in these hours seems to have arisen from the reply I gave to the Mataji Asta Sakhi Devi Dasi, because I considered it was a lack of Vaisnava etiquette not to respond to that message. Therefore, faced with these anti-Vaisnava behaviors, I prefer not to participate in team organizations and resign as their representative.

So much volatility and immaturity, demonstrate our total inability to provide a service worthy of you.

If you allow it, individually, I will try to perform my service to you and Srila Prabhupada and make a humble offering to glorify the parampara. I am sorry that I cannot serve you and the devotees as you deserve.

Hare Krsna

Your useless servant

Lalita Gopi DD

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

Here the playlist of your seminars on GBC-College Latam:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmEzpAHxy_wcE-igofwx33QmY61uRZeh3

Your servant.

Devaki-nandana das.

HpS - ASA -- Thank you. AgtSP!

Ambarisa/Vrsabhanu-nandinid Devi Das' - Can these be referenced, included in our Youtube, ASA-Audio Visual Channel. We were trying to consolidate our final knowledge on ISKCON management in these presentations.

We liked them.

Harsh - They could be posted in the ASA-enc under VAD, Ksatriya, Management in ISKCON, no?

"Managing in ISKCON is like herding cats", Bh. Vatsala Das, big medical industry manager.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada 

Please accept my humble obeisances 

Hare Krishna Dearest Guru Maharaja 

Thank you very much for taking me into consideration and dedicating the DTC to this insignificant servant ... sorry for my delay in answering the DTC was saved in Spam of the email .. 

Right now in Nueva Govardhana (Mar del Platanos) we are finishing the strategic plan for this coming year with the SMART points and key areas to be developed. We did the leadership based on the material received at the Gbc College (training and strategic) and we are having a very good experience about it and I hope good results. 

Its like herding cats!!!

2020 marathon!!!!

I find the possibility of serving you personally and assisting HPS in sankirtana incredible. It is taking me time to understand the role I can play in Tennessee. I have no great expectations .. My fear is not being able to fulfill HPS expectations and those of the devotees, wasting time and money .. If I could just follow you in your Sadhana and assist you in whatever you need it would be a resounding success to me... we can see the possibility of doing something more concrete if necessary and you see it relevant to your strategy, such as studying at UT or do any cultural or educational exchange between Spanish and English speaking.

 It occurs to me that there may be two options to execute. a) travel to Tennessee at the end of December and see the possibilities of study and analyze if we could continue with a plan in the future ... as it says to travel with you to South America and then if necessary return to the USA to continue With the service.. b) continue to develop the idea of ​​Going to Tenesse to attend and do some study at UT. And we could travel to the USA in the next year after the return from the South American tour.

 As I already told you, I do not feel qualified nor do I believe I am a great University student, but we can make the effort and surrender to his plans and those of Krishna to continue harvesting our sankirtana and that Krishna gives us the necessary qualities. 

Waiting for your advice..

Your servant Ptd

HpS - Local devotees, Latin American devotees, HpS, TB/BW, everyone seems to think it is a good idea for your to come here. Abhi.Th. Das makes good point that a Spanish speaking devotee would be very useful here to help co-ordinate the Sankirtan programs.

Please contact Sesa Das (Seth Spellman) about getting a visa. Let me know the results. I don't think a Religious Worker's Visa is good. There are Business Visas or Student Visas that NIOS could sponsor. Don't think it is good for an ISKCON center (they are religious and there is none here in Tennessee) would be a good sponsor.

He is immigration lawyer with decades of success, GBC of Ministry of Education etc.

His number is +1 202 494 6601. It is also his Whatsapp number.

Thank you.

Best wishes for New Govardhana!

pamho Maharaja! AGtSP!

We need sweet smellin' badges!

Caught your note on Badges and etecetera. There are so many marketing promo's you can shake a stick at.

We need to plan out goals for this one, so many choices. The Chinese Web Marketing, such Alladin has 1,000's of choices and potential Badges, buttons, pins, baseball hats, shirts..even bobble-head figurines. We just get a design and send.

Though we should also look at local markets too, just need to centralize our needs for economical benefits to home businesses.

We'll discuss again!

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!! paoho What about a simple rectangular cloth badge that could be sewn on shorts or t-shirt with our simple Hanuman logo (attached) and "Anjana Suta Academy" above and "www.JayaRama.US" below, in black-white-greyscale?