Letters to the editor

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.

PAMHO!!

My obeisances dear gurudeva,

HpS - TlgaSP!! He suffered so much to build this movement.

Gurudeva, we know that you will have a virtual visit in Mexico from May 31 to June 3.

HpS/ASA -- We are planning on that!

We are attending to the recommendations of spiritual brothers from Peru and other nations for your care.

We received an invitation from the Krishna West and Proyecto Mantra preaching programs here in Mexico, so that you can give a virtual class to the academic public interested in psychology and education.

HpS - O.K.!

Mainly the invitation could be made to psychologists and educators. The topics they propose are: "Psychology and the Sacred" or "Education and the Sacred".

The transmission would be made through the Zoom platform and they have a paid account and telephone access through a US number.

HpS - Should work!

The proposed day is Tuesday, June 2 at 6:00 pm Mexico time. If the proposal seems good to you, we can confirm your participation and disseminate so that we have more academic participation.

HpS - We just put it (in pencil 😎) on our calendar. We will join. "Education and the Sacred" seems to be the better title. We can discuss this theme with different groups. We can discuss Sastric education with devotees or others who want to join us. On the 6th-10th of June will be the North American Sastra Mela, devotees from Mexico can also join that. Expect it to be 97.5% virtual.

My sons, Vidagdha and I, are very enthusiastic in serving Krishna, trying to get through this quarantine in the best way. Only service to Krishna gives us clarity of mind and keeps us engaged in constructive activities.

HpS - Hope your community relations become clear also! Since the time of the Azteca Mexico always has a history of violent political relations, no?

I would like in another letter to tell you about my experience giving virtual Srimad Bhagavatam classes to children. I hope to write to you soon.

HpS - Send this now! We want to put it in the next Viplavah!!!

Thank you very much for everything Gurudeva, we hope you are very well.

Your servant

Gopi Radha DD.

HpS - Jaya!!!!! Thank you. Best wishes to the next generation! We all need to move back to the villages and do sacrifice to have nice rain.

Hare Krishna, dear gurumaharaja. Pamho. AGTSP!

HpS - All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!! Without his mercy, at best, we would be nice, moral, Christians, with some intuitive perspective, but..... basically suffering!

Thank you very much for replying to my last two letters.

My dharma is definitely education. Being a teacher-facilitator is what makes me what I am, at least in this current situation being a conditioned soul.

ASA - SP -- 1) Become self realized, 2) build your character and 3) preach! Step one accomplished.

I will continue until the end of the year with the teaching of Pada padma and bhakti sastri once a week. Unfortunately we could not continue with the Pada padma that we were going to do in the temple, nor could we do the seminars that were scheduled for Sundays in the temple. I am going to suggest doing Srimad Bhagavatam and / or Bhagavad gita classes online as they are doing in many places (Ecuador, Chile, Argentina).

Yesterday I was very honored to give an online class for a preaching center run by Prabhu Hari-samkirtan. He got excited and participated in the class that you gave last night. The schedules were perfect and we were able to do both, teach and listen to your class.

HpS - Oooof!!!

Not long ago I did my first 2020 disciple course with devotees from Ecuador, Chile, Alachua, Colombia. It was very rewarding. It was Monday and Friday. Then it occurred to me to occupy those days with seminars. After talking with several devotees, we saw that the subject of association is essential to move forward. Even more with this issue of social distance.

ASA - "Sangat sanjayate kamah - One's desires and ambitions develop from the company we keep", Cited in NOI!! First goal of our ASA Sastric Education is that we learn how to associate as: Teachers, Study Partners, Students; with other Bhaktas gathered around Srila Prabhupada's books. Then Systems of Study/Evaluation, will develope out of that association. Claro, it is different in Lima than Govardhana Eco VIllage in India!

So that's what we're doing, devotee association seminars. Of course, our trend is always ASA and NOI (always trying to follow in your footsteps). So we did seminars based on NOI 4-6. I included things that I learned in ISKCON courses, my university experience, and things that I have been discovering and learning from you and Srila Prabhupada, through reading your books and listening to you for almost 20 years now. We will continue with this as long as we can.

HpS ---- Ha! Ha! Hare!!!! We can continue with it forever, no? Meet again, even in other bodies and develop this same work.

It also occurred to me that I may submit an article to Viplavah about my ASA vision of education. "Yathādhītaṁ yathā-mati".

HpS - What is taking you so long!! 😀

Janmastami issue is academic issue, so write it so that your professor in school can read it and the rest of the issue.

Studying my master's degree, I discovered that the best educational currents coincide with ASA and Srila Prabhupada's vision, in some way. It is actually the other way around, knowing a little about your vision and Srila Prabhupada's vision, which are somehow the same, he perceived, for example in Constructivism, much of the ASA vision. I want to write something simple, not very technical. My tendency is minimalist in ideas, I am not very thorough or elaborate. Anyway, it's something I wanted to tell you about.

ASA - Develop your outline and post it here.

As for the work on the Pada padma, I will be watching to see how I can fit into your working group and I will be ready in case I am needed. I estimate that your suggestions for the First Canto of the SB need to be evaluated and discussed in the BOEX.

HpS - Yes, we are having a little bit of trouble integrating with BOEX. It is distance, they are professionally trained educators (eg. always citing Bloom's Taxonomy, which we just began to look up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bloom) and we are a little lazy, and maybe we are more strategy incklined!

My personal life is going quite well and my relationship with Raman-reti devi dasi too. When the quarantine ends we will make plans for her to come to Peru and get married. We are very excited about our sankirtan plans. As one of my siksa gurus, Prabhu Atmarama from Australia said, “If you get married and stop preaching, why do you get married?

HpS - Wow!!

Thank you very much for your patience with me.

Your servant,

Laksmana-agraja das

The servant of Laksmana's older brother, that is, one more monkey (The Blue Baboon)

ASA - Please send current foto of BB! -0- Laksman "taught some good lessons" in Lanka!

Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay

Todas las gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Hare krishna Guru.M

comienzo mi reporte preguntando si recibió mi reporte anterior,

HpS - TLGASP! Espero que si, posible no respondiendo, o mail cruzando en transito!

además de esto le informo canto mis 16 rondas,

leo,

veo mi jardín

le comento que pase la primera evaluación del Pada padma que fue este jueves con un presentación en power point y resumen de los 3 primeros capítulos, introducción y prefacio.

HpS - Con Param-padam. Super.

también digo dando peqñas clases en forma virtual a un grupo de devotos nuevos y

hace muy poco comenze a predicar a unas chicas a través del teléfono necesitan resolver algunas preguntas de conciencia de Krishna

intento hacer mi mejor esfuerzo que ella se sientan tranquila, escuchadas y así predicar de la mejor forma.

se despide su humilde sirvienta Raman Reti devi dasi

HpS - Super!!!! Busca las oportunidades que Krsna envia!!!!

AGTSP. Paoho.

9.56PM

We had a real "Srila Prabhupada" day, meaning that we have a headache!! 😊

Wrote maybe five heavy letters.

Did maybe 15-little but essential tasks.

Gave class at 5.30AM and 8.30PM, both cases with almost 0-time to prepare.

Only by Krsna's mercy!!!

Wish we could answer Lakmana-agraja Das' letter, but if we do our head will crack.

O.K. See you tomorrow!

Unless there is a solar flare and radio communication is disrupted for the next 150-years.

🙂