Letters to the editor

Srinatha Krsna Das wrote to us:

Dear Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!

Sorry for the late reply Gurudeva. The last week has was crazy. We are trying to consciously go though grhasta ashrama one last time so as to not have this desire again. Buying a house has definitely helped with that! It was a painful process but we could clearly see that Krishna was helping us all along. It is incredible how Krishna communicates if we try sincerely to hear Him. It is only through your association and mercy that we are able to have tangible experiences.

We should definitely plan on going ahead with the Japa book Guru Maharaj. Divya Sri said she will help. I will take care of the publishing.

Radhika Ramana Prabhu can oversee it although he doesn't have to be deeply involved till we finish the TPP book. I already spoke with him about this in brief sometime back and he was excited about the book. He said if we had about 7500 words, we could make a nice book. It is currently at about 2900 words.

Srinivasa-acarya prabhu can also be involved if he has time. He wrote a very nice Meaning of Vyasapuja essay for the Vyasapuja offering book. He can expand on a the section in Japa Joe, where you mentioned texts and purports from Srila Prabhupada's books. You can then go over it and do a round of editing.

I can coordinate the entire thing and do some editing as well Gurudeva.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

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HpS - ASA --- AgtSP! paoho.... Whatever Krsna wants!!! It seemed to have some value and was relatively developed. Japa Joe. Then the next article would have been. "Return of Japa Joe", then "Japa Joe Goes to Harvard", then "The Joe's Last Round", then "The Son of Japa Joe".

😎 Maybe first step would be for Srimati Divya-sri Devi Dasi to make some comments?

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a Usted!!!!

PAOHO

Hare Krishna Querido Gurumaharaja... Como esta?

HpS - Jaya!!! Mismo como describiendo en el Kapi Dhvaja. Luchando con lujuria el cambiando de un cuerpo a otro, predicando!

Estamos aquí en nuestra Cubil (casa). Hoy cumplimos 55 días en cuarentena. El presidente anuncio que estaremos dos semanas mas (hasta el 24/may).

Continuamos dando clases diarias de manera virtual, es mucho más agotador. En la pedagogía que trabajamos no estamos de acuerdo con la exposición excesiva de las pantallas, asi que estamos haciendo un equilibrio de horas.

EL BOLETIN YA ESTA LISTO!!! en español e ingles a la pagina de facebook

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

Gracias por la gran oportunidad de servicio

HpS - ASA --- Somos motivado mejorar la revista por que esta traducido de manera pronto!!! Gracias!!!

YS

Equipo de traductores ( por ahora mi hermana y yo)

ASA - Ella tiene nombre???!!!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Obeisances

We are preparing all for tomorrow, FMP singer [5.30 Chile time], translator for the class of Srinivas Acarya das [7.30 Chile time] and all about the conference "Día Internacional Vaisnava de la Mujer".

Here we have the information of the event:

Friday, May 1st, there is an auspicious celebration for the Srimati Sita Devi and Jahnava Devi's appearances, two great women of the Vaisnava tradition of east. We invited to join us in this commemorating, to other great contemporary women, exponents of Bhakti Yoga; Malati devi and Rukmini Walker, both early Srila Prabhupada's disciples.

The result is that this Friday at 4:00 p.m. (New York time), we will have an online seminar where Malati and Rukmini, along with Hanumatpresaka Swami, will reflect and dialogue from the concept to the spirituality of women in our society.

This is a free online event but with limited spaces as it will not be broadcast on open platforms. Therefore, we cordially invite all those interested in booking a space, to inform themselves about the presentations and to register for free at iskcon.cl/womensday/

Facebook event or comunicaciones at iskcon.cl for more direct communication:

https://www.facebook.com/events/237168120824676/

At what time you return to Argentina in Saturday, we have also class of Srimad Bhagavatam in the Chile time this day?

Thank you Gurudeva

Your servant

Pyari Mohan das

HpS - Awk!!!! Such a nice letter, but we didn't post it in time. The KDPC is potent, but then you can draw our attention to things even more intensely with Whatsapp message to look at the Blog post and even a comment in the Chat in the FMP! Thank you so much for this effort. More. Failures are the stepping stones to success.

HpS - Thank you for using the Kapi Dhvaja Priority Code. It was Piggy-1 and you used that. Some members think that "KDPC" is the KDPC. That is like thinking that the word "Banana" is a Banana!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva! 🙏

Please, accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!

I would like to make a brief report about our service for Vedabase.io :

The last book we finished for Bhaktivedanta Library in Spanish was "Teachings of Queen Kunti". It is already on line.

Then, it's been two months that we have been waiting for more books from BBT. I kept communication with Prahlada Nrsimha prabhu and he told me that there were no books to import into Spanish yet, he had gotten some books but those were not possible to import at the moment as they do not exist in English.

So, now I want to tell you that a few days ago and by Krishna's arrangement BBT sent "Néctar of Devotión" !!!

Now I am working on it. I hope I can finish it soon. It would be ideal if it will be finished when you finish with Sri Isopanisad reading on FMP.

HpS - Yes!!! AGTSP paoho. It was there in VedaBase.Com!

Gurudeva, I am happy to be able to do this service, I am enthusiastic to do it and also feel happy because I know that you have been wanting NOD to be on Vedabase.io in Spanish language for a long time.

HpS - I think Srila Prabhupada also!!

Please, Gurudeva give me your blessings to do a good job !!

Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to purify myself !! 🙏

Your aspiring servant 🙏

Mitravinda devi dasi.

HpS - Jaya!!!! Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. More chanting more service! Thank you. Go ahead.

Dear Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances and all glories to Srila Prabhupada. Maharaj, my marriage was arranged by my Krsna conscious superiors. I experience frequent physical violence in this marriage for 2 years. Is it right for me to continue on like this?

Your aspiring servant,

YajnaseniDD

HpS - ASA --- Hare Krsna! AGTSP paoho. Of course, this is a frequent encounter and yet one question is who is being violent. I knew one person very intimately who was never physically violent with his wife during marriage, but she bit him with intention to do physical damage two or three times.

Of course, it maybe the exact opposite with your situation. Maybe the husband is biting the wife.

Eventually she filed for divorce because she required him to eat meat with the family etc and he told her in strong terms that he would never do it.

Talking with him many years later he felt that she was actually a very nice person, but neither of them knew how to adjust the social situation back in 1974. At that time if you were a vegetarian in here common, family society it meant that you were probably a Communist or a Homosexual also!

Knowing what he knows now, he feels pretty certain he could have adjusted things.

Looking in our asa-encyclopedia we found the best source are the Verses and Purports starting with SB 7.11.25. They are fanstastic.

Please read and discuss them (with your other real advisors), and please give us some more thoughts on the matter.

Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva, pamho. AGTSP!

Just to answer some questions you asked me before.

I am not working outside. I tried very hard to get a teaching job, but it didn't work. I think Krishna wants me to work only with devotees for now. And in fact I am doing it full time doing the activities that I mentioned before.

ASA -- Check!

P. Karuna was already organizing the classes online since before I suggested it. So that point is fine.

Yes, I´m trying to balance vidya and avidya as we are meditating on the FMP. Furthermore we were putting emphasis on that with the Bhakti sastri group. We have already finished the ISO and now we are going with the NOI.

I feel quite confident, for the simple reason that I try to listen to you carefully, as much as I can.

Already for some time. I cannot take everything that my spiritual master gives me, as you always say, but something remains in my mind.

I feel completely identified with ASA thinking and I try to motivate my students according to what I have learned from you.

HpS - !!! I fell like Big Brother out of "1984". Was that translated into Spanish?

Of course, I also try to practice what you always recommend. I am increasingly convinced of the importance of the FMP. Some still see it as a temple ritual, as something ad libitum, not as essential for spiritual advancement.

As for administration in general, I am not much involved now.

As for the Romeo and Juliet matter that you mentioned to Raman reti dd, I think it's a matter of time. We are both clear that we are going to come together to do service together. The theme of romance will be there for a while until we can handle it better and move on to a more detached stage. Of course with your blessings and the blessings of all the Vaisnavas and authorities.

HpS - Ha! Ha! Ha! Maybe a new phase. For some great sages, the Vanaprastha and Sannyasa stage became a source of INCREASED attachment to wife and home, because now the wife's chastity became manifest on the subtle platform and the husband knew that his wife would follow him into death just to be with him (catch him, Ha! Ha!) again in the next life! Only solution is increased attachment KRSNA!!! Worship the Deity!!

Thanks again for your patience.

I hope someday to be a servant for you.

Laksmana-agraja das

HpS - We hope that we can all integrate - HpS, LAD, KKD, CMDD, Yugala-kD, et al, et al, Gandharava in building a nice educational system in Peru.