Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to you. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Guru Maharaj hope you are safe and doing well. I have been chanting 16 rounds daily and following four regulative principles. We are reading Srimad Bhagavatham daily and we have completed 3rd Canto and started 4th Canto Chapter 7. Daksha and Shiva story.

It is amazing to read Srimad Bhagavatham. Everytime when we read Prabhupada purports I feel so energized and it becomes interesting chapter by chapter.

Due to Covid the temple had made all online arrangements for Janmashtami. So we had to stay at our home and celebrate Janmastami. Maharaj this time by your mercy for the first time I was successful in keeping Nirjal Fasting for Janmashtami.

I kept myself engaged in dressing the deities and preparing different kinds of Bhoga for our deities. By your mercy Guru Maharaj i was fortunate to get garland service in the temple on Janmashtami and was able to take darshan of the most merciful deities Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji.

I made garland for Jaganath, Baladev and Subhadra Maharani. At home we sang kirtans till midnight and distributed bhoga to couple of devotees and chanted nice 16 rounds on Janmashtami.

HpS - A few devotees is enough!

Maharaj on Prabhupada Vyasapuja Day I was able to do service in the Temple Tulasi house. I was also able to help in making preparation for the Vyasapuja feast in the temple. I am not such advanced devotee but by your mercy Guru Maharaj i got all the services to do in the temple and spend most of the time in the temple in these festival days.

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Guru Maharaj every Thursday we have service of waking up Srila Prabhupada in his quarters. I went for the service and read my vyasapuja offering before him. For 5 mins i was choked and was trembling with fear. But somehow i tried reading by looking at his lotus feet and felt that he was listening to me and reciprocating to whatever i am saying. I asked for forgiveness before him for whatever offense i committed till now and asked for giving me enough intelligence so that i will never repeat them even by mistake. I offered my obeisances by touching his lotus feet and felt that he was keeping his hand on my head and giving me his blessings. This was the best Vyasapuja experience Guru Maharaj. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - When in India for one year, 1996-7 we got to go Mayapura regularly. There would not be too many devotees there and we could sit in Srila Prabhupada's room and chant in front of his murti. It was just the same. We felt at any moment he could move and say, "So!!?". Terrifying. ... but he is so, so, so, kind. Yes, try to do better!

Guru Maharaj please engage me at your service and please let me know how can I serve you forever.

Yours eternal servant

Divya Sri Devi Dasi

HpS - Thank you for your association. Krsna will send you and your family more and more confidential service. For our records, what is your civil name and date of birth???? Thank you !!!!!!

will also would like to contribute to Bachelor Beans. Please tell me how i can do it!!

Here some advice According to Ayurveda.

Most important thing is to honour Prasadam at regular times, every 3 or 4 hours. 75% during breakfast and lunch and 25% afternoon and dinner. Optimus is to have 12 hours of fast between dinner and breakfast. You can fast longer than 4 hs during day, if you have a very Sattvic lifestyle, but Pitta type people should drink warm water often, to avoid too much internal heat. Also is very important to consume double quantity of healthy fats (preferably 50% ghee and 50% seeds, nuts, coconut, avocado and vegetable oils) than carbohydrates.(cereals and potato, sweet potato, carrot, beet, pumpkin). This will boost your liver to transform energy, create tissue and eliminate Ama, cooling your intestinal tract and blood, resulting in a more efficient utilization of Prana thus building Ojas (improves immune system). Legumes and Paneer (cheese) should be consumed according physical activity. Spices should be there mixed with ghee during cooking to enhance process explained above (avoid chili, it dries tissues, black pepper with turmeric, or ginger root, turmeric, coriander and fennel seeds if you are Pitta type). Protein and carbs should always be accompained with 1.5 times of fiber (green vegetables, brocoli, coliflower, cabbage, asparagus, brussels sprouts, zucchini,etc)

Never mix at the same time raw with cooked food. If you are going to eat both in same meal, first raw then cooked. Never eat raw food after eating cooked food, nor before sunrise or after sunset.

Thank you so much Gurudev,

At your service,

Nikunja Bi

Hare Krsna, Hanumatpresaka Swami,

This is Bhakta Beauford,

We met when you were in Oxford with Ravi Gupta and the Center for Hindu Studies, many years ago. Of course, my name is not Bhakta Beauford, but to keep from getting fired from my academic post I better us a pseudonym when writing here.

I've kept an eye on your publications and classes for these many years?

I have a question? How does one stop smoking? Thank you??!!

HpS - Thank you for your kind attention! Hare Krsna.... First, do you really want to stop smoking? The following technique works but the result often is that people discover that they really don't want to stop smoking. There is a deeper reason why they do it.

Before every inhalation chant one Maha-mantra.... and as much as possible all the while you are smoking chant HK/HR. Hope to hear from you again as is practical!!!!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a UD, querido Gurumaharaja.

Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias

¿Como esta?..

HpS - 75% bien occupado en servicio devocional en asociacion de Vd y Srila Prabhupada!!

El boletín ya esta (en ingles y español) en el grupo de Facebook aqui:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/166681160058275/

Este gran boletín nos da energía cada vez que lo leemos, nos inspiramos de muchos devotos haciendo grandes servicios.

Muchas gracias

Equipo de Traductores

HpS - Como se llaman ellos? Son robots?? 😎 Nos inspira escribir cada vez que Vds. Lo traduzca, pero unos sugerencias especificas eg. Tiene que hablar mas acerca de su Ashrama actual.

Gauranga! Hanumat Preshak Swami, Humbles and Glories.

Nandabraja Dasa, a nice disciple of yours from the Northwest Territories has moved into the Radha Kalachandji Dhama Texas community.

HpS - Yes! We got some news from him!!! He moved especially for the school for his wee little ones. 😎

He has one of the best houses on the block, right across the street from the mandir. It used to be owned by a Yavanah family who proclaimed that the Hare Krishna people will never get it. Eventually though they had to sell and a wealthy Vaisnava from India snapped it up.

ASA - Such is the changing face of war! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo

Entonces the entire quadron is all families of Hare Krishna devotees creating a vaisnava village within the Dallas city limits. With the carona pandemonium access to the temple room is very restricted, so the devotees do a lot of Arotiks at Tamal Krishna Goswami's Samadhi in Kalachandji Parque. (foto)

HpS - Super!!! They can put up "frontier signs": Virus free zone.

You are doing a good job as a guru. When people question ISKCON's parampara system I always say that the system is good, you just need the right people.

In Chile and every where else that I meet your disciples, it is a treat. They all have special concern for the Hare Krishna morning program.

HpS - Danger is not then building on that foundation with book distribution! Thank you for your example. War is not won by clean good looking soldiers who haven't got a scratch. War is won by soldiers that get get knocked down, broken tools, but stagger back to their feet and step back into the line, no? Thank Misra-bhagava Das.

Since I got back from Chile there's been challenges. Daily recitation of 16 rounds Hare Krishna maha mantra japa is a long slugfest with the mind. Then in the evening I have been shoving out on Sri Krishna sankirtan. All of that does not feel good until it is done.

Sankirtan is rewarding once we get out there. Over 40 people bought Srila Prabuupada's books from me and I gave each of them the Hare Krishna mantra card and say "diga" while pointing to each santo nombre. Some people chant really clear as if it were not the first time. Others did not have the pious credit to recite Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

"Karma la Justicia Infalible " is my best selling book. It opens with the oracion, "Este movimiento para la conciencia de Krishna tiene por objeto llevar a todos las entidades vivientes de regreso a su estado de conciencia original. "

We hope you will see a reason to visit us in Dallas again. I pray this meets you well. Mishra Bhagavan Dasa

HpS - We think this Karuna-virus maybe a central feature of life on the planet. It may be a milestone in the history of industrialization. We should start moving to rural communities, villages, and then we can control this stuff and go to the Big City once a year for Calicos and Farm Tools. Is correct! Lock down in infallible justice, no?

Pamho! 

AgtSP! 

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja

Le envié un mail con el tema aspirantes de ISKCON México. Me recomendaron pedir las cartas de recomendación a prabhu Tejasvit, internamente hay varios inciertadumbres entorno a su cargo por ello la intención de mi carta es saber si realmente es la persona a quien debo dirigirme para que no suceda lo mismo que el año pasado. Muchas gracias por su gentil y misericordiosa atención. 

Vuestra servidora. Asta-sakhi Dev Dasi.

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HpS - ASA -- Gracias para esta esfuerza. Tenemos que obtener la opinion de S. S. Guruprasada Swami, GBC, en esta persepective tambien?????? VAmos a buscar su carta en Yahoo!! Hay otro como Arista, Lalita G . . .JB . . . . quien podemos involucrar en estas esfuersas?