Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami!!

Before starting this report, I want to apologize for the delay of the report, I am trying to be a good servant, but there is still a long way to go.

HpS - Ohhhh! Again and again we say this to Srila Prabhupada, to everyone. We think that maybe we are the second worse devotee in ISKCON.

We have tried, for several weeks and in several ways, to reach a cooperation agreement between NIOS and CEAS (UNMSM Center for Asian Studies) for EDUCATION AND THE SACRED 2020, in the end it did not result because the study centers cannot subscribe agreements of this type.

Then, we have resumed the process to make an Agreement of Academic and Cultural Cooperation THE EDUCATION AND THE SACRED 2020-2021 with the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of the National University of San Marcos. The General Office of Cooperation and Interinstitutional Relations-OGCRI of the university has already issued its favorable opinion, but, has asked us for some additions for final approval. We hope that this process will be completed in a month or before your arrival in Peru in April.

HpS - That is why frequent communication is good because we can help with decisions. Maybe it would have been better to give up the focus on these events with San Marcos and focus on something else. Hmmm. Yet, there is no loss in going ahead with the agreement with San Marcos. As always the magazine before the symposia.

To give the necessary formality to the convening of the II INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, EDUCATION AND THE SACRED 2020 we have developed a DECLARATORY OF WILL OF PARTICIPATION which will be signed by the CEAS and NIOS as ORGANIZERS and by the Embassy of India, The Faculty of Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University, ASIRI-Peru and Montessori-Peru as SPONSORS.

HpS - We sent it back to you today with one very important correction. Did you get it?

Considering his arrival in April we are making arrangements to make Dialogues and Round Tables with the sponsors based on THE EDUCATION, THE SACRED and THE GOOD GOVERNMENT, we are also talking with prabhu Karuna Krishna about Rama-Navami on April 2 in Chosica. In the Next report we will make a detailed proposal of the calendar.

HpS - O.K. It is only five weeks until we get to Lima! Who will join the Rama-navami festival from ISKCON and outside? What do you want to do? How will it relate to Solaris?

That's all for now, in another report we are communicating the progress of SOLARIS No 5.

Hare Krishna respected GURU-MAHARAJA, his insignificant servant, Abhiram Thakur das.

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LA EDUCACION Y LO SAGRADO 2020 – AVANCES

Antes de empezar este informe quiero disculparme por la demora del mismo, estoy tratando de ser un buen sirviente, pero, aun falta mucho camino que recorrer.

Hemos tratado, por varias semanas y de varias maneras, lograr un acuerdo de cooperación entre NIOS y el CEAS (Centro de Estudios Asiáticos de la UNMSM) para LA EDUCACIÓN Y LO SAGRADO 2020, al final no resulto porque los centros de estudios no pueden suscribir convenios de este tipo.

Entonces, hemos retomado el trámite para hacer un Acuerdo de Cooperación Académico y Cultural LA EDUCACIÓN Y LO SAGRADO 2020-2021 con la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional mayor de San Marcos. La Oficina General de Cooperación y Relaciones Interinstitucionales-OGCRI de la universidad ya emitió su opinión favorable, pero, nos ha pedido algunos añadidos para la aprobación definitiva. Esperamos que este trámite concluya en un mes o antes de su llegada a Perú en abril.

Para darle la formalidad necesaria a la convocatoria del II SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL, LA EDUCACIÓN Y LO SAGRADO 2020 hemos elaborado una DECLARATORIA DE VOLUNTAD DE PARTICIPACIÓN la cual será suscrita por el CEAS y NIOS como ORGANIZADORES y por la Embajada de la India, La Facultad de Educación de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, la Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, ASIRI-Perú y Montessori-Perú como AUSPICIADORES. 

Considerando su llegada en abril estamos haciendo arreglos para hacer Diálogos y Mesas Redondas con los auspiciadores en base a LA EDUCACIÓN, LO SAGRADO y EL BUEN GOBIERNO, también hemos conversado con prabhu Karuna sobre Rama-navami el 2 de abril en Chosica, en el próximo informe le haremos una propuesta detallada del calendario.

Eso es todo por ahora en otro informe estamos comunicando los avances de SOLARIS No 5.

Hare Krishna respetado GURU-MAHARAJA, su insignificante sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva!

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

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Thank you Gurudeva for your reply to my last letter, it was a very precise answer! 🙏

I meant to write you again a long time ago, but I could not find the right time to do it..

Maybe for my mind this moment is not appropriate either, but if I wait for the "right moment" I am going to take too long to write....so I do it now!

HpS - AGTSP!!! One man was in his chair, sofa, at the beach reading a book, and he notice another man step into the water at the edge of the ocean with his bathing suit on and stand there, but the first man went back to reading his book. Then after about ten minutes he looked up and saw that the second man was still standing in the water of the ocean up to his ankles and had not gone any more into the water. So the first man, with a smile asked, "Are you going into the water or not?". The second answered very seriously, "Oh, yes, but I am just waiting for the waves to stop before I go in."

Gurudeva, I wanted to sent you a report about our progress in Vedabase service, but I saw that Prahlada Nrsimha prabhu already did it.

HpS - It is worth reporting many times. Such great Sankirtan. He had cards to hand out to people.

Anyway, I want to inform you that we were waiting for books from BBT to continue with importing. The Books are being sent and now we have started with "Teachings of Queen Kunti".

ASA - Oh, yes! Reina Kunti, prima de Isabella!

Also we have already corrected the typing mistakes that LOB had. As I once told you...Importing is usually about copy and paste paragraphs and not necessarily reading the paragraphs completely, but then I noticed that some words in the paragraphs were misspelled. The original versión in Spanish which we were working had these mistakes, so it was necessary to check all the text and re-edit it. We will check the other books to see if there are those errors to correct them.

HpS - French poet: Nobody ever finished a poem, they just stopped working on it. Nobody ever finished correcting all the mistakes in a book, they just stopped looking.

Gurudeva, by your desire we want to complete all the Bhaktivedanta library in Spanish!!

HpS - Then Santa Rosa of Lima will take birth in Lima again to read them!

I like to do this service, I think it fits my nature. I like to do things in detail, writing, editing, etc, and I have time to do it.

On the other hand I want to talk about my sadhana...

Gurudeva, for a long time I have been feeling dissatisfied with my sadhana..

It is like...lately...I have been making the minimum effort to do it. Not trying my best to do my best...as other times I did. I know that I can give more, do it better, but my mind, lazyness...tama guna?? are like a constant obstacle....Gurudeva, please...what is the cause of it??

I know that I can give much more to Krishna and I do not do it. I am like a miser who have a 100 dollar bill in my pocket and only gives Krishna two dollars. 😭 Gurudeva, what is the cure for this??

HpS - I do not know. I have the same problem. We have our Karma, which is now being controlled by Radharani not Durga, but still it is there. Now it is being used for our purification and service. So, some times we are in Tama guna and because we are not pure devotees it has some influence. It hurts us!!! We decide to become pure devotees. In the ultimate issue, our Sadhana is a very, very personal relationship with your old friend, Krsna, and how we are being His friends or not.

I wanted to talk to you about one more topic but I better leave it for the next letter..

Please, forgive me if I have been a little complaining in this letter..😥

Thank you very much for your causeless mercy!!!

HARE KRISHNA !!!!

Your aspiring servant : Mitravinda dd.

HpS - Thank you so much for your letter. Many subtle things in spiritual life. Many are very funny. Is God a joker? You seem to be on the right path. Maybe you were a Monk in your last life. Maybe you were Santa Rosa of Lima. Look at your resources, association, and do the best you can.

More news!

Por acepte mis humiLdes reverencias querido gurudeva TLGASP🙇

Como la luz que no se apaga en medio de la oscuridad, su sirviente eterno Sacinandan Das de méxico reportando que aquí todo marcha bien, los festivales han sido muy agradables y han visitado muchas personas, Gauranga y Nityanada tuvieron un vestido de flores en este Nityananda Trayodasi, y nuestro sadhana y rondas están mejorando¡ también ya nos hemos casado madre Marina y yo 👰

👳HpS - Romeo y Julieta!!!! .

El viernes 24 de Enero¡ Por civil. La boda por fin se realizo, gracias a su misericordia gurudeva, nuestro único anhelo es poder seguir siendo una partícula de polvo en sus zapatos y servirle eternamente.

HpS - Trata vivir como Kardama y Devahuti. Convierta en los liederes de la sociedad de Ciudad Mexico.

Su Aspirante a Sirviente Sacinandan Das.🙏

All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Guru Maharaj HH Hanumat Presaka Swami !! Please accept our humble obeisances at your sweet Lotus feet!

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

We have started preparing for the Gaura Purnima celebrations at The Radha Damodara temple. Vrindavanchandra Das Prabhuji and Jai Bhima Prabhuji are motivating us so nicely. Last week Holi sankirtan party have started . We are sending pics. Jai Bhima Prabhuji has erected a signboard for bird protection at the premises of the temple...lots of migratory birds land at Loktak lake...Siberian geese too!

We crossed Loktak lake with kirtan all along to a village at Karang for a house programme last week!! It was so beautiful and so calm...thank you guru Maharaj

Today is an off day for our office. We are going to Ukhongsaang ,a remote village south of Imphal for house programme after morning SB class. Going to distribute NOI. Kindly give us Your mercy Guru Maharaj.Lots of kirtan...classes...and prasadam!

Tomorrow...we plan for sunday nagar kirtan at Thoubal.

Thank you Guru Maharaj for bringing us closer to Peru! All glories to the special devotees of Peru!

Your insignificant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - ASA --- Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. AGTSP! After one week we have a computer. Ours is being repaired. We hope to get some help in posting the long list of devotees who took initiation last time. We will send it when our regular machine returns. This one is like 70% functional. Do think the human body could have manifest by Chance and Natural Selection? Do most mutations produce a DNA with less information or more? Any known mutation producing more information?

What will you be in your next life?

Hare Krishna, Jaya Srila Prabhupada and the Guru Varga!

I'm very sorry for my incompetence and lack of respect and sanity.

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP! I say that to Krsna and Srila Prabhupada repeatedly every day!

My mind and maya had been winning the fight for so long, yet somehow this mercy has descended upon me and I once again am feeling the presence of bhakti in my life and a desire to become a serious Devotee. This great wave of love and emotion has been repeatedly sweeping over me, sometimes while chanting japa and sometimes just randomly while thinking about different things (such as Srila Prabhupada, Iskcon, you, Radharani, Balarama) I begin crying so hard and choking up, it feels like a great release and purifying.

HpS - Hmmm. Suspicious. No, intellectual clarity also?

None of my plans seem to work because I am so dysfunctional, I'm not sure where my life went way off course but depression and confusion have taken their toll.

I am working some, currently, and saving up, I have about $5,000 and considering to just move to India or something.

HpS - Haw! Haw! Haw! India is as great a mess as the West in many ways!!!! This is Kali-yuga, no? No "Place" is decent, only the process, no? Hare Krona, Hare Krsna!

I just worked 75 hours this week and very exhausted and unsure about life and this world, but I admire you and wish to somehow be of service to you and your projects. Would I ever be able to stop by Murfreesboro again to visit you?

HpS - Of course! We are almost living under a tree so how can we be particular who else sits under the tree.

I understand if it is not appropriate though. I will try to utilize this blog to keep in touch better, and also I will try to make use of the morning program you broadcast online. I'm so sorry that I don't amount to much. There is some positive news and sankirtana to report. Still over the internet young people contact me and they look up to me, I send them to temples and be their friends, gradually helping them however I can until they get more of a taste and attraction to Bhakti.

HpS - Vartmana pradarshika guru. Nice work if you can get it! You are doing o.k.

Also these famous internet people still keep in touch with me and let me influence them and their message. I can see great things coming. This one youtuber guy has half a million subscribers and he was distributing Krishna pamphlets in packages to fans, from this several new people have joined ashrams.

I wish I had better things to report. Thank you for tolerating me and being a guide in my journey.

Hare Krishna

-Bhakta Daniel

HpS - Maybe you should aspire to become Dhananjaya Das rather than Daniel??? Servant of Arjuna!!! Wars are not won by guys who kill 'em all with the first bullet. Wars are won by half competent, wounded, soldiers who don't stop shooting, throwing rocks, until their last resource is finished. Keep on throwing rocks. When the chance comes do as much as you can. When Raja and Tama guns hit try to do as little as possible!

Use the Priority Code in the Kapi Dhvaja in the Subject field.

Our dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our most humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!

Hare krishna Guru Maharaj, Dandabat Pranam unto your sweet lotus feet!

HpS - AGTSP!!!! Our feet are not lotus, yet.

Guru Maharaja we (all Assam devotees, India) are extremely sorry that we cannot communicate and send you any Sadhana report or annual report in time. Please kindly forgive us for that.

Guru Maharaj, we are very fortunate that we get you as our diksha guru and H.H Bhakti Ananda Haridasa Goswami Maharaja (HHBAHG) as our Siksha guru. In your absence, He (HHBAHG) Maharaj guides us as our spiritual father.We get the opportunity to associate with him at least one or two months in a year. We had Srimad Bhagavatam & Chaitanya Charitamrita discourse in the morning session and Bhagavad Gita discourse in the evening during His presence. Under His guidance,we some devotees started to practice Bhakti Shastri Course by studying the Nectar of Instruction and Sri Isopanisad but cannot complete as there is limited time for Maharaj.

HpS - You can read together and discuss. That is very good. Then send comments to the this Blog.

We are getting more letters than we can handle, and many times the questions and comments that people make show that they are not reading the Kapi Dhvaja. So, we put a Priority Code in each copy of the KD and then read and answer first those letters that have this Code in the Subject field.

If we read Srila Prabhupada's books together all good fortune will follow in quantities we cannot imagine. Bhakti Hari Das Swami, Ki Jai!

This is your mercy that we successfully celebrated the very auspicious Vyasa puja of Guru maharaj with the assemble of around 60 devotees... The Mahaprasadam was also very nice..

Guru maharaj, we pray and seek your kind and favourable mercy so that we can advance in our spiritual life and can strictly follow your instructions..

Thanking you,

Dandabat Pranam unto your lotus feet Guru maharaj🙏

Your's insignificant servant

Manjuali Devi Dasi

(on behalf of all Assam devotees, India)

HpS - Thank you!! More news with the KD Priority Code!!!!! Assam is an essential factor in Srila Prabhupada's Sankirtan.