Letters to the editor

Following from here https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11006/

HpS - AGTSP paoho.... What does "cca" mean? 😐

Circa (from Latin, meaning 'around, about, roughly, approximately')

Nothing on Calendar now for Monday 13th April. 6.30-8.30PM what time zone????? We are in Houston time zone!

That is 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM Houston time. Monday 13th April. (6.30-8.30PM is Croatia time. ASA (You have longer hours than we have!))

Topic = Kirtan, External and Internal?

I reckon it is a great topic name.

Are all the meeting details fixed (place, time, topic) ? If yes, I will share it in public.

Thank you Guru Maharaja! 🙏

🌷

HpS (April 7th). That is Abhirama Thakura Appearance Day also, no? It is on our paper and electronic Calendar and will post in the KDh now and post this conversation there also.

Hare Krsna

PAMHO

AGTSP

ALL glories to You Guru Dev

Here the curentena a little austere mainly for our son Hari Vamsi Dhari, and our minds.

We are with Argentine God brothers organizing your schedule corresponding to your visit to Argentina. Do you suggest any topic, seminar?

We are asking to the community what needs they have and on what topics they wanted to hear .

It would also seem good to us to coordinate conversations with the contacts of your Jungian and cultural preaching, as Maxi Peralta (Jungian Psychologist), Bernardo Nantes (Jung TRanslator) , Carlos Rua, (oriental Studies-USAL) etc.

Also Nikunja bihari in Mar del Plata suggested an inter-religious conversation with his Sufi friends.

We hope to be useful in this service.

If we can be useful in audiovisual projects please tell us, we are able to help on that dear Guru Dev.

Thank you very much

your servants Vrsabhanu Nandini dd Ambarisa Das

HpS - Jaya Rama, Balarama. AGTSP who is representing Lord Balarama! We are right in the middle of writing the Kapi Dhvaja. Now is 1.58PM. You can see us in the Calendar section. Thank you so, so, so, SO, S O, much for this Calendar work. Hope Hari-vamsi doesn't 'blow a fuse'. How is your father, the mystical, monastic, banker???

Let us follow the results from Peru and Chile and continue with those in Argentina. Of course, we can bring Argentinan friends mentioned above into the dialogs at any time, but, yes, let us focus on that work when we are focusing on Argentina.

Yes, topical seminars for the Temple/Yatra's/Mar de Platanos interest!

I guess I will post our interests in this KDh with you-all in mind. Of course, also want to focus on the YouTube, ASA Audio Visual, during those days.

O.K. Back to the Kapi Dhvaja. 2.04PM

Dear Guru Maharaj,

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

I was very blessed to get your holy association when you visited ISKCON Houston during your holy auspicious Vyas Puja celebration. I am very happy I was able to get the association of my godbrothers and godsisters, from all over the USA and other countries.

HpS - We also met Mrs. Aja-govind Das, no? We can't remember exactly. If our memory serves us she was a very nice person.

Guru Maharaj, you have inspired devotees all over the world, even with the use of web and video conferencing and tele-conferencing tools. I remember attending your Bhakti Shashtri and Bhagavatam sessions using Zoom and other tele-conferencing tools. This really inspired me.

Now with the Corona virus outbreak, I also started using Web Video Conferencing with Skype for our Vedanta Student Club at Texas A&M University - Kingsville (TAMU-K).

We started our online Skype weekly Bhagavad-gita readings today and will continue this online every Tuesday evening. We were able to connect over Skype to students who already graduated from TAMU-K and read Bhagavad-gita with them also.

Thank you for inspiring us with your great example of using web and tele-conferencing tools to read Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. Your glorious and illustrious example has inspired many generations to come.

Your humble aspiring servant,

Aja Govinda dasa

HpS - Jaya! Maybe soon many will be returning to village centered life, and then it will be easy to isolate Pandemics, talk to your neighbor and have time to develope mystic powers! (Eg. piezolectric crystals in our pineal glands.

Please read the K Dh and put the KDPC from their in your reports!!! ! We need your mercy!!! We need your student's mercy!

Dear Maharaja,

pamho agtsp

HpS - Please accept ours! We are so, so, sad when we read this letter. We think of everyone in ISKCON Australia: You, Dhan., kids, parents, Laksmi, Raktaka family, MADHU-MANJARI DEVI DASI and so many more. We miss you.

It was so nice for me to hear your class on varnashram and Bhagavat dharma live today; a great refresher of your life’s work. I wish that you will empower me to carry at least one spec of sand for you. If I cannot do this, I do not deserve the kindness you have drowned me in.

ASA - 😳 We are just beasts that Srila Prabhupada has taught to dance.

Dr. Mabbett and I have been exchanging emails.

HpS - Wonderful!!!

The last six months in Australia have been fire, flood, and now pandemic. Dr. Mabbett and his good wife seam [seem] to be fairing well through it all. Although he has now fully retired from academic work, he is currently working on a book of his life’s philosophy. I will try to obtain a copy on completion as he is a very interesting teacher and he has a good heart.

HpS - Super... We can review it and sell it in Solaris (Viplavah).

Australia is gradually moving towards more strict lockdowns. Isolation is no stranger to us, as we like to be at home doing bhajan, puja, and study and we are used to spending a lot of time together. I am a full-time online student so these times are favorable to me, to us. My family is all well, due to Krsna’s mercy.

HpS - Radhika-ramana Das looked at all the rules and restrictions and realized that they already were doing all of them. We, devotees, are constantly in quarantine.

Current subjects I am taking at university: Freud and philosophy, 20th Century French philosophy, and Religion, Rights, and Governance. Only 6 subjects left (including the 3 that am currently enrolled in) to finish the bachelor's.

HpS - Can you wear a Black Robe with a Mortar Board hat, shake hands with the President (and use sterile wipe afterwards)! Bachelor (B'cari), Master (Swami), PhD/Doctor of Philosophy (Teacher of Love of Wisdom) = Bhakti- Veda-Anta

Just before the pandemic exploded, I completed 5 weeks teaching Bhakti Shastri and general Shastra Studies at the Gurukula here for the high school students — grades 7-12. For the Bhakti Shastri I chose to study with them the book you carry around your neck. They all wrote nice essays. It was a very informative experience for me — many insights about the state of education today.

We pray this meets you in good health, and we pray that you give us some shelter/service always.

ys

Dhruva

ps, the Freud lecture slide was unintentional but I can’t remove it. Anyways, that's an example of what I am studying at uni, I suppose. His conclusion are quite disturbing and unsatisfying, actually. Thank God for Jung and Prabhupada!.

Hare Krishna, Hare Rama.

HpS - Jung said that Freud was to obsessed with sex, no? Maybe one of us was Freud in our last lives????

Thank you so much for this report!!!!! Best of wishes for your Sankirtan.... Continental conquest!

Primero quiero partir disculpándome porque no le escribí hace varios meses, yo pensaba que no quería molestarlo con mis temas pero me di cuenta que fue un error, así que ahora le escribiré más seguido.

HpS - AGTSP.. And please forgive us for not answering. We are lazy and have more mail and personal consultations with devotees et al, than we can handle. And the letter is in Spanish so it is six times as hard for us to answer, but we try one paragraph more. 😀

Bueno guru maharaj este año ha sido para mi un año lleno de muchos cambios, en el que krishna me ha enseñado muchas cosas. Desde que regrese de argentina la vida me ha cambiado mucho, primero estuve 7 meses con kinesiólogo por dolencias en la espalda,

HpS - Fuerte, pero normal en esta mundo, no??

. . . hoy en día estoy mucho mejor pero pronto comenzaré un proceso con un quiropráctico, para cerrar eso y mejorar al 100%.

HpS - Ja Ja Jare. Nunca 100%, siempre nueva problemas, por la fin, la Muerte!

He aprendido que debo cuidar de mejor manera mi cuerpo para mantenerme estable emocionalmente y para poder predicar de mejor manera.

HpS - Super!!! Me gustaria MUCHO leer mas, pero..... cartas recien con El Codigo De Prioridad Del Kapi Dhvaja (KDPC) del seccion de Letters to the Editor para responder, entonces El Kapi Dhvaja misma. Aparece de sta karta que Vd es uno de los mas sanos, fuertes, personas en la planeta. No deja al lado ninguna oportunidad ser un leider, si unos quiere seguir Vd.

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Este año he estado cuidando a mi abuela junto a mi madre, mi abuela tiene 91 años de edad, tiene muchas dificultades para hacer sus actividades individualmente, por eso yo la cuido, le cocino, y mi madre se ocupa en cuestiones de su higiene personal. Estas experiencias me han llevado a vivir de cerca lo que es la vejez y como el cuerpo se va pudriendo cada vez más hasta que llega el momento en que hay que abandonarlo. Mi abuela ha tomado prasada, le he mostrado videos de vrindavan, tiene un kanthi mala en su cuello, y una imagen gigante de gopala en su habitación. A ella le gusta mucho radha y krishna, dice que radha es una mujer muy bella y se siente atraída hace ella.

Por este cuidado que le hacemos, no he podido llevar la vida de monje que llevaba antes, y me fui adaptando con el paso de los meses.

Este año también ha sido un año maravilloso junto a mi madre, quien cada vez está mas cerca de krishna, ella esta cantando rondas, y esta siguiendo los 4 principios regulativos, y ha cambiado totalmente su personalidad y su vida en general. Ahora ella fue aceptada como aspirante a discípula por su santidad jayapataka swami así que está muy feliz, y yo me siento enormemente bendecido.

Hace poco tiempo comencé a trabajar en lo que estudie antes de ser monje 3 años, que fue psicología, estuve en mucha ansiedad durante hartos meses porque no teniamos dinero, pero krishna hizo los arreglos en el momento indicado, lo que me llevó a comprender que hay que tener paciencia, krishna siempre nos está complaciendo, pero no debemos perder la calma. ahora trabajo con personas que viven en situación de calle, es una realidad muy dura. Esta experiencia me está purificando mucho, ya que debo ser tolerante, compasivo, y me hace ser consciente de los sufrimientos que tienen algunas personas en esta era de kali.

Algunas veces me quedo a dormir en el templo y asisto a mangal artik, pero en casa me levanto temprano, realizo un sadhana matutino y me voy al trabajo. Durante todo el dia me mantengo cantando hare krishna ya que el trabajo me hace caminar mucho. Durante la noche adoro a tulasi devi y la riego, ella ha sido muy misericordiosa conmigo. Mi madre le hizo un vestido muy bello.

Por otra parte, aprendí astrología védica y hace 1 año que estoy trabajando con eso, y por misericordia de krishna hemos podido ayudar a muchas personas. Hay personas que no conocen el templo pero les damos el maha mantra hare krishna porque en astrología se explica que el remedio astrológico más potente de todos, que purifica por completo, es el maha mantra hare krishna. Entonces les damos una japa mala de neem y les enseñamos a cantar, además de que usan ciertas gemas de los planetas.

finalmente me gustaria decirle que estoy agradecido con su visita a santiago de chile, estar con usted me da muchas fuerzas siempre. como soy un tonto, durante mucho tiempo estuve confundido por las politicas administrativas del templo, por maya, por muchas cosas. pero gracias a su agradable ayuda siempre hay un nuevo amanecer y una nueva oportunidad en la vida espiritual.

estoy adaptandome a la vida que tengo ahora, espero tomar mas servicios y seguir madurando en la consciencia de krishna. su agradecido discipulo, que espera algun dia ser realmente un vaishnava, mandara sakha dasa.

Hare Krishna dear Maharaja!

Please, accept my respectful obeisances...

AGTSP

I hope you are as healthy as is possible...

HpS - We are. AGTSP!. Now is months after you sent this letter! 2020 April 7. We are 72-years old and can die at any moment from heart fault, influenza, brain stroke etc, but more and more intelligent! 😎

I'm writing to you to sent the link to the post that Dr. File made on his social networks about the meeting with you. He is very bussy on TV right now, just like last year after you leaved Chile; that time, a few days after, he appeared on the cover page of a very big newspaper (his first important cover page), and I know that was just because of Your association and Krishna... 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5EWkK4gvkE/

He wrote the next text to complement the images:

"Chile is no longer in the darkness of oblivion. We walk towards unity. Protests in the streets are an indication of the need for a respiritualization to change the demonic face of society. Thank you Hanumatpresaka Swami and friends for the hospitality and a space of spirituality in the middle of an insane asylum. Hare Krishna"

My wikipedia account still blocked... I have not done new efforts to solve that... I will try next days, probably this coming weekend. Please Maharaja forgive me...

Your disciple Arjuna Das asked me to upload on Monkey Warrior blog his offering to you at your Vyasa Puja day. So, here it goes:

"AGTSP Pamho Gurudeva. Eternal thanks to you, You are an example to me about how to occupy everything to help in the mission of Srila Prabhupada, always, in body and soul. Eternal thanks to You, because You allow us to be part of this movement, always giving us Your mercy and just because of Your mercy I can keep fighting and trying to keep myself free from criticizing and offending.

I'm chanting 16 rounds every day and keeping 4 principles, also working on Education and The Sacred, 2020 Project.

I hope I can satisfy You.

Your eternal servant, 

Arjuna Das."

That day (night), your Vyasa Puja, I saw the ceremony from Houston through Youtube alive channel, and I shared (whatsapp) the link with some of your disciples. Ceremony Was beautiful... especially the cake!

HpS - It was incredible!! Could only tolerate it as an offering to Srila Prabhupada, that he can make a Mercedes from a bicycle! Once in a lifetime is enough. Somebody else can be The Guru next time.

Here in Chile people keep fighting against the corrupt neoliberal government, and the police still killing and doing more other darkest things... big fires in Australia, Brasil, also in Chile (Valparaíso) a few days ago... the whole world is burning... I heard some times from some devotees "Kali Yuga is moving along forward very fast"... I read a news from China a few hours ago about a chinesse scientist who made some "genetical edition" to alterate the aspects of 2 embryos and gave the announcement "now we can create genetically edited human beings"...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/business/china-scientist-genetic-baby-prison.html

And they still creating wars, violating nature, enslaving all living entities... they have took possession of all religious institutions to drive people away from the relationship with God... and playing to supplant Krishna, but doing it in the worst possible way... this is what human being is about on this planet...

I'm so confused living in this world, more than never before... but I will keep on my fighting and trying to do my best untill my last breath... and I just hope and ask to God that I be able to remind Krishna, Srila Prabhupada and Hanumatpresaka Swami in that moment...

Thank you for everything you do for us... eternal gratitude to your lotus feet...

Your aspiring servant.

Carlos Rold.

HpS - Thank you. Yes, Kali-yuga will progress. Spring will be followed by Summer, Fall and WINTER!! but we are so fortunate to have Srila Prabhupada's mercy, instructions!!! Am I right? Where would you be if he had not entered your life!! So rains Kali-yuga will come ... but ... we have umbrella and can give them to others, and if enough people want then Krsna will send a Maharaja Pariksit, but mostly we think that this Age is good to push us our, like Maharaja Pariksit, and give chance to "learn the hard way" to others.