Letters to the editor

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 -- Jaya! AGTSP. Paoho. About the same as yours, but at 72-years old!

  Temple services are as usual for Saturday, Sunday and Ad-hoc. Joined Capita  India Pvt Ltd as Project Manager. Rest as usual, no change in life.

HpS - Yare dekhe tare kaha, krsna upadesa.... Always looking for ways to take your work mates up, up, up in Consciousness. Ie. NOI 10.

  HG Jibesh Das is doing excellent Book Distribution in west Bengal. He  remembers you a lot.

HpS - All success to him!! We hope he gets Diksa. Send us and questions he has!

  1. When you are coming to India ? Hope you have plan to come to Pune also?

  2. HG Jibesh Das eagerly waiting for you in Mayapur.

  3. Attached few photos from HG Jibesh Das from your Vyas Pooja celebration.

  4. I had submitted my Annual Report in December 2019 but not received  any comment!!

  5. Your sankirtan country at the moment.

  am just floating with Krsna's mercy...just floating, can't turn in words.

  can see his plan, his direction in my daily life, his plan for me. we just

  need to wait to understand his plan for us....tears comes out from eye  automatically. Sometime i feel it is your mercy or krsna's mercy.

 and i found both. 

  i enjoy a lot while doing seva or darshan. both are very beautiful, can  not express in words. i would be able to see them in Pune with crowed area. i like to be alone and think about them and that i  enjoy a lot specially when am in seva. Don't like to meet with people who don't speak about Krsna.

  Some devotees say, i should focus on preaching but don't know why i   like to do personal seva of Lord and enjoy a lot. i speak with them.

  you can think am mad but yes i speak, request, pray, do sringar.

  offer flowers to lotus feet. i like to take darshan of lord for hours.

  don't get satisfaction if i have not done seva with concentration.

  feel angry within if done seva is improper.

  So office and seva only. That's all. That's my situation now!!

your fallen servant,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - We are STRUGGLING with our Mleccha body and Karma as usual, but learning more and more how to connect them with Krsna. Seems you are not reading the Kapi Dhvaja???? We try to answer like 85% of the questions your good self asked there. Also we put a Kapi Dhvaja Priority Code (KDPC) in the text some place and then we give priority to people who include that in the Title of their letters. We are trying to answer letters, pay bills, fix windows, shovel snow, help Board of Examiners... Ha! Ha! is like fighting with Kaliya!

Good Deity worship naturally leads to preaching. How can we keep Krsna in our heart. He grows so big He overflows. Your smile at work is worth a million dollars.

Thank you.

Dear Gurudeva Pamho Agtsp

Because of Tulasi's miscericity, and because of your mercy we are in the Holy Dham today we leave Vrndavan to Mayapur. 

HpS - Krsna, must love you! Write all the time of what happens. Even simple things. Years from now you will read them with great joy.

Gurudeva came some shilas to me and wanted to ask if I could worship them. I am always in Sankirtan and Harinama but since I do not stay in any temple I have not been able to exercise my deity worship, I really wish I could do it, with its authorization.

HpS - I think that the Shilas are too advanced for us. They are for someone with very Brahminical culture. Bhima carried Deities of Sita Rama that he got from Hanuman around his neck. Little Gaura Nitai dieties seem very, very, wonderful. They would love to travel with you! 

I'm going to travel with Harinama ruci through India and then maybe Europe.

(This is private please don't published). ASA - O.K. but only because you are in male body but in summary you have sent explanation of personal and social Ashrama situation.

Krsna is certainly working with all His power to help you, so do not be discouraged. Any distress is minimized from what we deserve, maybe we were Bank Robbers etc in our last life, and... Krsna is using the bad reactions for our ETERNAL progress. Go ahead with your Sankirtan first and give some interest in your Ashrama situation. 

please allow me to keep myself busy day and night in the devotional service at your lotus feet, excuse all my shortcomings I try to do my best.

Trying my best to be servent of your servers Vrajendra Kumara Das

Hari Bol,

please find as ordered.

http://www.bwcindia.org/Web/QuarterlyJournal /2018/Compassionate_Friend_Winter_2018_Vol_XLI_No_4.pdf page 11

When living creatures are slaughtered or killed, the waves emitted are known as Pain Waves. This phenomenon has been completely and experimentally observed. These Pain Waves are technically nociception waves. As Albert Einstein was highly concerned about violence taking place, around 1924 he showed a great interest in stopping killing of living creatures and published several comments in favour of a compassionate way of life. We have named these pain waves as Einstenian Pain (EP) waves to show our respect to the world-renowned great scientist. There has been no difference in the views and ideas of Albert Einstein and the experimental observations which we have witnessed. In slaughter houses and other centres of killing (mechanised and non-mechanised) these EP Waves were vigorously studied at several places, for example, Brain Research Institute, Gurugram (Haryana): National University.

We reported our work with detailed experiments in India and abroad and we also presented them in the presence of several scientists. Mechanism in non-mathematical simple words. It has been found that EP Waves are different from the waves which we encounter from other sources and these waves are just opposite of compassion waves. EP waves are extremely dangerous, brutal and damaging and have been found to cause several earthquakes.

ASA - UG -- Thank you very many. We will have to look at the link above. This sounds like a good article for Viplavah, Fall issue. Are they electro-magnetic waves? How are they measured.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, reciba mis respetuosas reverencias, gracias por responderme a mi carta anterior.

Sigo aquí en Huancayo, y, también siguen habiendo cambios, pero bueno, seguimos en sankirtan "distribuyendo los libros de Srila Prabhupada".

HpS - TlgaSP!!! Pfanrh...

Ahora mi padre esta enfermo, tiene neumonía, fue internado en un hospital de Lima, bueno, este mundo es así, mi padre respeta la Conciencia de Krsna. Estoy predicando a mi familia, por teléfono.

Mi madre se volvió vegetariana cuando comencé a conocer la Conciencia de Krsna, en el año 2003, también canta una ronda del Maha mantra Hare Krsna por las mañanas 7 am.

HpS - Prabhupada dijo que la mayoria de la gente a quien estamos predicando no va a convertir en devotos en esta vida. Pero proxima vida, si. Posible eso es nuestra hostoria, no?

Mi padre tiene 70 años y mi madre 75, entiendo que en un momento de sus vidas dejaran el cuerpo,

HpS - Ja! Ja! Yo 72! y todos

. . . nosotros también dejaremos el cuerpo, cada instante de nuestras vidas es importante para seguir desarrollando Conciencia de Krsna y no desaprovechar la misericordia de Srila Prabhupada.

Bueno le comento que un tío materno nos quiso estafar con un dinero que le dimos para los tramites de la embajada italiana, nos dimos cuenta a tiempo, estamos recuperando el dinero de a pocos, bueno, lo lamentable es que tendremos que empezar de nuevo pero con otro familiar que es mas responsable y serio. Bueno, si las cosas no se dan, entenderemos que es voluntad del Señor Supremo.

En mi carta anterior le comente sobre comprar un auto y trabajar para comprar libros, hacer programas de predica, etc. Bueno, son solo ideas, no es algo que sea definitivo o que ya este decidido, veremos que pasa y como se den las cosas (TENGO QUE ANALIZAR DETALLADAMENTE ESTE PLAN).

HpS - Canakhya Pandita dijo ... Exito proviene de buen consejo, y buen consejo proviene de muchos consejeros.!

Guru Maharaja tengo 3 preguntas:

¿Usted que opina de la Astrología Vedica?

HpS - Es la ciences ... ayurveda, vastu veda.... mas sutil, y entonces es el mas deficil. Es mejor obtener opinion de seis astrolgos en algo muy fina, pero para modo de trabajo, profesion.., matrimonio, momento de muerte, puede ser bien. Tambien tiempos bueno para vijar.

Hay devotos que han aprendido la Astrología vedica pero no lo utilizan para predicar sino para ganar dinero

Encontré una publicación en el Internet donde Srila Prabhupada le dice a su discípulo Sanatana Dasa lo siguiente:

Mi Guru Mahārāja era un gran astrólogo y astrónomo, pero lo abandonó todo. Eso es para los karmīs. A nosotros no nos interesan esas cosas.

Carta de Ś. P. a Sanātana dāsa (3 junio 1975)

¿como entender adecuadamente lo que Srila prabhupada nos enseña?

¿Se puede estudiar Astrología vedica y utilizarlo adecuadamente para el Sankirtan?

HpS ... Otra vez, es dificl relacionar on KC, pero posible. Usualmente Krsna da buen inteligencia a nosotros como relacionar con el mundo material. Prahlada ananda Swami y Bhanu Swami utilizan. Subhaga Swami me dijo que Prabhupada utiliza en forma simple para adjustar sus viajes.

Bueno con respecto al Sankirtan viajero, hay un grupo de devotos serios que quieren viajar en Sankirtan y por ahí algunos devotos independientes que viajan solos. Nos preguntamos ¿con quien viajar???

HpS --- No, se los detalles. Con buen devotos.

Bueno Guru Maharaja, que Nrsimha lo proteja y guíe sus pasos, que tenga un bonito festival de Sri Nityananda. Hare Krsna.

HpS - Hare Krsna. Siempre muchas gracias por su asociation. Cuales libros esta Vd distribuyendo????

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Dear Guru Maharaj,

I don't know if this post should be completelly public,

HpS ... O.K. We will edit it.

...because I just would like to know your perspective and to have your advice regarding this hot topic. But always your criterion is the best.

This letter Is regarding Dhanudhar Swami. I met him at NYC 5-6 year ago. Actually he helped us to get a cheaper place where to stay that nights, a hostal managed by the food for life encharged, it was my first visit there. And he was nice and took us to meet the Hare Krishna tree and the Second Avenue Temple. A nice person in my opinion then.

After my wife post a picture with him, we received warning about his issues with the ISKCON-GBC, CPO. etc.

HpS ... From whom? Official GBC, CPO people?

Now, my question is more practical, We are using his study guide "Waves of Devotion".

So my question is, Could we separate the work from the author?

Is seems that Prabhupada used to made the connection between both. For example, Tulsi Das, Prabhupada wasn't a fully supported of him. There is conversation where Prabhupada suggested that his bad experience with his wife influenced so much in his opinion regarding women in general, and Prabhupada didn't support his Ramayana either.

HpS ... I do not have very, very deep understanding of Tulasi Das and his Rama carita manas, but as far as I know Srila Prabhupada lliked many of his things but criticized others.

So in this case, seeing Dhanudhar Swami situation, and the CPO resolution about him by, and the thousands of devotees asking to the GBC don't letting him come back (see campaign here http://chng.it/WwNqwWcPsn) And, considering that at leat I don't know any news about an apology from him to his victims.

How can we relate to his literary work considering all of this?

Thank you for always give us some enlightenment which is essential to continue.

Hare Krishna.

Your servant.

Jagad Guru Das

HpS ... All of my personal dealings with Maharaja have been nice. Maybe he was a little proud of his knowledge and competency. I have not had contact with him for many years and only a little through nice devotees whom I know.

What is the official statement for the CPO? As far as I know he left ISKCON, GBC, many years ago formally. Also as far as I know the complaints were about harsh physical treatment by former Gurukula students and never any abou sexual abuse. That is all I know about his character.

Yes, Lord Chaitanya tood Sannyasa in a Mayavadi Sampradaya, we can use things for Sankirtan. Prabhupada quotes from Chanakhya Pandita, but Krsna-kripa Das told me that Prabhupada told Tamal Krsna Goswami that Chanakhya Pandita was the greatest politician who ever lived, but also a Mayavadi.

We have to be careful, yes but that is the nature of Lord Caitanya's movement, yukta vairagya, and the example of our Aharyas, no?

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