Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaj,

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada.

ASA - Jaya!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Thank you for replying to my last message Maharaj. I was scared you had not received it. As soon as I saw the email of your reply, I was very happy. Thank you Maharaj. I really wish your health is in the best condition.

HpS - Material world! This is material world, EVERYONE gets diseases, even just as an example to others.

I'm sorry again, I haven't updated you recently. My last message I believe I mentioned to you that I went to India. I didn't really discuss in detail what I did. Anyway, I went for a month and we first went to Vrndavan for 10 days.

HpS - Did you die? That would have been very fortunate!!

This was my favourite part of the trip. Then we went to Bangalore for a friend's wedding. Actually this is the reason I got a ticket to India in the first place haha. The wedding was nice. And then to Punjab for my cousin's (Surbhi) wedding. My mum came for this one as they were begging our whole family to come. So i met her in Delhi, after Bangalore, and from there we went to Punjab. VERY VERY FANCY. Too fancy, in fact. For me it was too much. But in India, it is still considered barely anything.

If i get married in the future, I want a very simple wedding. Similar to the ones my parents had, just with more family and friends.

HpS - I was there. It was magical. I did the fire sacrifice. The Gurukula boys chanted mantras, Headmaster's wife rushed Acyuta priya Devi Dasi off and they decorated her very nicely. Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadyay was there. Then as we were rushing back to Lucknow from Naimisaranya, your mother asked what day it was and when we told her she started to laugh like a mad girl, and then explained that her sister, your esteemed aunt, had been married on exactly the same day one year earlier!

Anyway, I feel a connection when I'm Vrndavan and I love the environment there. I hope I can go back every year. I really need to get a job here so I can properly save up money. I also need to buy a car over here.

HpS - Maybe Krsna will send you something were you meet people.

Another thing, as you know I'm very confused and indecisive and still am not sure about what I want to do yet. I already finished 1 year of Business and this year began and I just thought I can't continue studying this if I don't enjoy it... I've thought about doing a degree in Creative Industries or Design. Something like this. But also there is the notion that these kind of careers will have no jobs and are not in high demand. Too much confusion. Please bless me to figure this out. So for the time being, it happened that I'm not studying this semester. I was planning to do simple electives and nothing major but the style of teaching at uni doesn't appeal to me. It was too boring. I love to learn. but not the way that is done here... With this quarantine anyway, perhaps it was a good pause. I'm trying to engage myself in as much art at home as I can. I'm painting, sewing, and trying other things. I painted Baladev on a t shirt for one.

HpS - Jaya. Harer nama eva kevalau. Chant for an answer!

Yesterday I saw your interview in Manipur with a lady from Impact TV. It was seriously SO AWESOME. I loved it. The way you speak is so humble and genuine. And I learnt so many things. I'm not sure if I mentioned this before but I've always wanted to make a documentary of devotees. I wanted to interview them and ask how they came to Krsna Consciousness and what inpsired them to join, etc. I think it'd be a gem for future generations. I need to get to this. Too many ideas. Too much laziness.

HpS - Become a Journalist! Learn that!

My chanting hasn't been the best lately Maharaj. At some point I wasn't really chanting properly. I feel guilty but I didn't have enough of a drive to do it. I'm very sorry. Anyway, Sakhi Rai prabhu (you may know him) tries to inspire and engage me so he kind of gave me the idea to be strong. So I'm now just trying to do 4 a day. It's nice. I'm re-building that shakti. My father was best teacher in these things. I miss him in these regards. He always gave me so much spiritual knowledge. I wish I was more inquisitive and interested before. I could've learned so much. I'm happy that you have this forum where I can keep in touch with you. It's perfect. Please bless me to be a better devotee and person Maharaj. And after this Corona Virus is over, I hope you can visit Brisbane soon.

HpS - Ha, Ha, Ha... It will never be over. It will just change its name. Sometimes it is called "Snake Bird", etc. Krsna pushes and Krsna pulls!

We were actually planning to go to Baku in July, for my grandfather's 70'th birthday. But this whole virus has changed the plan of everything. Who would've guessed that 2020 will end up like this. I realised that it's better to just go out and do things. Travel. Everything. Because we never know when there is zero opportunity to do it.

Wow. Ended up to be quite a long message haha. Thank you Maharaj for reading and caring always.

HARE KRISHNA

Yours servant,

Lakshmi

HpS - Respects to Bhima, YOur mother, sister, uncle, aunt!! Chant for what you want. Krsna will answer. Do you want become very, very, very rich?? Beautiful as the Goddesses in heaven???

Hare Krsna Dear Guru Maharaj,

  Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

  All glories to Guru parampara.

  How is your health ?

HpS - O.K. considering time, place and circumstance. Probably like yours!!

No temple services for last 14 days. Working from Home.

Rest as usual, no change in life.

  Don't browse internet now a day. Just focused on office

  Work and spiritual activities only. ASA - Ahhh! Arjuna learned how to make killing people his spiritual activity. If he can so that I guess we can connect less violent things with Krsna eg. cooking for Krsna!

  There are many thoughts, how can serve Krsna more better

  way so that i can get more closeness.

  Nothing much to write, re-planning for BG, SB, Kirtan.

  HG Jibesh Das is doing well, studies going on. He 

  remembers you a lot.  

your fallen servant,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - With whom do you work? ?

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Estamos aquí en el templo de ISKCON Chile junto a 8 devotos, 5 cuerpos de hombres y 3 de mujeres. Ha estado intenso algunos días, el no poder salir estresa y genera fricción entre nosotros. Nos visita un hermano espiritual suyo, su nombre es Misra Bhagavan das.

HpS - Somos asociados desde 1979 o mas.

El sadhana es regular, tal como si estuvieran las deidades, ellas ahora están en la casa del pujari del templo, por el momento solo tenemos pinturas y la murti de Srila Prabhupada.

Estamos transmitiendo las clases en vivo por nuestra página de Facebook, ha tenido muy buena acogida.

Comenzaremos un programa de maha ronda desde mañana a las 7.00 am, en conexión con el proyecto de algunos devotos de latinoamérica como mi hermano Ananda Maya das de Perú, en el cual invitamos a que las personas centren su atención en Dios, independiente de su religión si es que no quieren cantar el maha mantra, para que el coronavirus pare de expandirse. De corona a Karuna, para acercar a las personas a la espiritualidad.

Gracias Gurudeva por sus clases y programas, usted tiene un reloj de Bhakti, su despertador es el amor por Dios. Yo tengo un celular, que a veces ni escucho. A pesar de que me cueste, hago el esfuerzo siguiendo su instrucción de levantarnos temprano y cantar nuestras rondas entusiastamente.

Ahora me doy cuenta que estoy muy lejos de llevar a cabo sus instrucciones de una manera ideal, tengo una naturaleza muy dispersa, siempre me involucro en muchas cosas, mucha pasión. Quiero centrarme en un solo deseo, servirle a usted por la eternidad.

Gracias Gurudeva

Hare Krishna

Su eterno sirviente, Pyari Mohan das.

HpS - Gracias, Pyari mohana Das. Adelantamos. Integramos con birth, death, disease and old age. They are Krsna pushing us to reconnect with him and live healthy lives. Without material suffering there is no material enjoyment. World of dualities.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja

AGTSP, PAMHO

Wishing that he is always well, we always pray Lord Nrishamdeva to protect and care for him. We are writing using Internet Explorer, using Google Chrome when writing, it is automatically deleted, apparently there is no problem with it, please if my report could not receive it, can I send it again?

HpS - We are receiving... AGTSP!!! Paoho...

Dear Gurumaharaja, the family is well, B. Ayda has been, appointed as a Teacher for the Institutions of Initial Education of the Government, she is very happy, she is a little far away, but only for a few years, then they will transfer her to another Institution closer.

Nilacandra will be 10 years old, I changed her to an Adventist School, it is closer to the house where we live, very good that school.

HPS - Yes, usually Adventists are good schools for devotees.

Vrisabhanu Nandanu is going to turn 8 and move on to second grade, she is in a school near my wife's Job, it is only for women. Well now they are home for quarantine, they do their homework and then they play, they gave them a puppy and we named it Harinama. We are all locked up at home, my father is with us, a good person, he has retired, he is in good health. Once he told me that before getting married he went to the Temple in Cusco, when he was close to his house, it was only once, he did not attract much attention. He does not go to the Temple, but he is very respectful, I always take him Maha from Sri Sri Goura Nitay, he loves sweets.

We enroll in the Pada Padma course taught by LAD, we have to do our rehearsals, we learn many new things as a group.

Thank you very much for all that Dear Gurudeva, everything you do for all of us is wonderful and we would be very stupid if we did not take advantage of it. Sometimes when I read your Notepad, I can sadly see comments about the fidelity of the Spiritual Master, personally I would like to comment something, many times when I sing rounds or I am going to give the class, I think about YOU, I can feel it close, and it is easier for me to do my service, Paramatma, the connection, sometimes we forget about practical things and start looking for other things that lead us astray, everything is in the sadana, in the study of the sastras, in the singing of the rounds, then everything else it becomes easy, and without fear of being wrong, it is the evidence that exists between Guru and his disciple, we should all know it since we daily repeat Sri Guru-Vandana.

I know that I have wasted a lot of time on mental things, all because of my immaturity, but now I am much more than convinced that what should be done. It is part of the process, but it only depends on you if you stay or if you advance, I am still in nothing but I know that by your mercy we can do the right things, Dear Gurudeva.

. . .

Your would-be servant

Govardhana dasa

HpS - Thank you!!!! AGTSP.. Paoho... Chant and we are together, at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet, no? Next letter. Let us go together.

Hare Krishna Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Un gusto saludarlo y espero que usted se encuentre bien en este momento.

Nuevamente me presento, soy bhakta Damián de Traslasierra, Córdoba, Argentina.

Quiero compartirle que tuve una muy linda maratón de Sankirtan aquí en donde vivo y también distribuyendo los libros de Prabhupada en la ciudad de Rosario.

Pude distribuir 264 libros chicos y 10 Bhagavad Gita en el mes de diciembre gracias a la misericordia de Srila Prabhupada y del Señor Krishna.

HpS - ASA -- TlgaSP!!! pfanrh,,,, has visto ellos despues???

Siguiendo con el servicio de Sankirtan en enero, con buenas perspectivas porque hay turismo en la zona donde vivo, entonces hay mucha gente estos meses.

Tratando de mantener una regularidad en el canto de japa. Para este año me propuse cantar las 16 rondas todos los días. Ya que cuando cumplo con el sadhana diario me siento mucho mejor mentalmente.

Tratando de retomar mi estudio de Bhakti Sastri, desde hace unos meses lo dejé un poco de lado y deseo recomenzar.

Junto con los devotos vecinos de la zona estamos estudiando el Srimad Bhagavatam quincenalmente y también nos juntamos semanalmente a leer el Bhagavad Gita.

ASA - termina??

Le dejo un saludo afectuoso

Bhakta Damián

HPS - el Kapi Dhvaja, www.jayarama.us

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

AgtSP

Agt Guru Gauranga

Please accept my humble obeisances.

I´m Pandaveya prsni das, from Spain.

ASA - I'm Tom Brown from Hubei

I wish You are perfect in all aspects, I wish read more in the DTC of today about You, all days I see.

This time I haven´t any Iskcon association, it was a very dry time and space…I wish have association in Nrsimhadeva or Gaura purnina in Nueva Vrajamandala or in Valencia in a near future.

Preach ... I preach all I can to the people around me, some more information than others. I try to give this gift all I can, one way or another, especially the gift of the "Mantra Yoga" meditation with the transcendental names of God ... I don't try to give other knowledge unless I am asked for more information, and I am generally asked for more information on why the names of God or why Hare Krishna, then I explain more. I do not usually explain anything institutional unless they wish to know, and this is not usually the case, they generally want to know more, some, but nothing about institutions.

It is also true that I am generally not very long in one place, and I think I give them enough information so that they can find more in the future if I am not, and I think it's quite in my circles, I don't do a very complex preach.

My philosophy is that people do not decide one way or another, because I do not usually see many results, but that they learn a tool of transcendental meditation, and I put my confidence that Paramatma will guide them then. So I have seen many more results over the years, of course in my circles, which are usually very normal.

Sorry about your concerns for me.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

HARE KRSNA.

Pandaveya prsni das

ASA - Super. Vijaya just brought some Prasadam and Bhoga and we gave him a little Peruvian bag with four, 18-bead, Japa malas and five Upadesamrtas!!!