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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!!!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Pamho !!!

Hare Krishna gurudeva, sharing a little of the experience we had these past weeks at Radha Nila-madhava Dham, has been very exciting every day full of inspiration and service.

On the first day of our arrival on December 22, Prabhu Prana-hari Das invited us to do sankirtan in a Latino community near the temple in Houston, so we were able to perform approximately an hour and a half of sankirtan, the result was very good we invited The Latino community to attend the Christmas party in the temple, but I couldn´t take pictures of this, this day we were with preparations and previous purchases for the vyasa puja.

On December 23 we were able to meet the new facilities of Goswami Academy, Jahnavi my daughter was amazed, this place has always inspired us a lot.

Day 25, day before the vyasa puja we were cooking most of the day, we made approximately 350 tamales and 18 liters of sauce for Vyasa Puja

Day 26 THE BIG DAY!!!

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and from you I took Diksha initiation as Lalita-radha davi dasi, I am curious to know if my name refers to: servant of the Lalita sakhis group servant of Radharani?

HpS - AGTSP. It certainly can. Or Radha herself.

 After lunch at Goswami Academy we began with decoration at Gauranga Hall and last details for Vyasa Puja, we had a really good association with our god brothers and with the devotees of Houston, great devotees beautiful souls, the whole event was recorded live and Although we could no longer present the vyasa puja written offer, I hope you enjoyed the puppet show.

https://youtu.be/L5sHLnIzMQ0

The next day of vyasa puja we were given the opportunity to do Raja-Bhoga for Radha Nila-madhava, of course we made Mexican food and we were also able to meet the pujaris room, we also visit the little cows and the facilities of the bhakti urban farm, that same day we traveled to Dallas to Kirtan 50 where we were 5 days.

We were also able to cook Raja-Bhoga for Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji and we had the opportunity to cook tamales on December 31 for: H.H. Giriraj Swami, H.H. B.B. Govinda Swami, H.H. Rtadhava Swami and H.H. Guru Prasad Swami who told us that especially H.H. B.B. Govinda Swami enjoyed tamales a lot because he ate about 6 tamales that day.

We had the opportunity to take darshan with H.H. Giriraj Swami, we sang some rounds with he and we were in his classes.

On January 1 there was Pushpa Abhisheka for Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji, the temple was at its maximum capacity, definitely it was an unforgettable experience. 

I would not like to make this letter longer, I don't have enough words to describe all the incredible moments of these weeks, I can only say you thank you for inspiring us every day more and more, my heart is eager to serve you, we want to get closer to the Houston Yatra where we have found a lot of inspiration from Radha Nila -madhava and his devotees, we are seeing the opportunity to go on vacation for two weeks in April, if possible we will go before for more mercy.

your eternal servant

Lalita-radha devi dasi

HpS - AGTSP paoho. We scanned this wonderful letter. We are struggling to keep all of our correspondences!!! Please write. Your description gives readers a WONDERFUL visit to the Temple!!!!

Dear HH Hanuman Presaka Swami Maharaj, 

Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your divine lotus feet.

I’ve been thinking a lot about your character and your unassuming nature lately. While I’ve been contemplating my place in the world of ISKCON and even my place in this world in general, it is challenging to understand how to stay sincere while sharing/preaching Bhaktivedanta philosophy; how to relate with another without falling prey to their doubts; or even how to convince a person without religious connotations or pressures. To be able to preach effectively is a deep skill I have yet to have, and I hope to learn this and so much more from you.

HpS - AGTSP paoho sorry it has taken so long to answer!!! Even now we can't read everything, so best just to read what we can now and maybe read it later!!! So sorry!!! But was so nice to see you all in Boise. Our heart is still full with all the association, thank you.

This past spring, as we attended your Jung Philosophy lecture at the Boise State University, I was really appreciating your “Teacher’s Hat”. I could see you as, not an ISKCON sannyasi, but rather, a learned college professor who had ACTUAL experience in the world and of what you spoke. You did mention you were a part of a religion, but your depth of character showed me that, you were much, much more than just a member at a church. You were a professor, a lover of psychology, some could call you a jnana yogi, some a Jung enthusiast. And with all these different facets of character, and the depth that comes with, people become attracted. Not superficially, but deeply. Deeply they become attracted to their own true characters, to their own completely beautiful and pure personalities they know very well, but which have been covered by ignorance, sleep, and dust of material nature.

You specifically have helped many grow to understand who they are, and that depth of character does not come easily. It doesn’t just take becoming attracted, becoming Harinama initiated, Brahman initiated, Sannyasi initiated. It comes from true-life experiences, or some may call it, the ‘hard knocks’ of life. Knowledge needs to be realized and Maharaj you know that. You know that although the process is blissful, the likelihood for the majority of us to come out from these battles with maya, free of wars scars, is actually pretty unlikely. And you have given shelter to so many who have had the pious credit, the courage, the open heart and the humility to do so. Personalities such as Radhika Raman Prabhu, Murari Prabhu, Kamagayatri Devi, the Palakalas, Nitisara Prabhu and those who have taken guidance from you such as Ananta Rupa Prabhu, Gopal Hari Prabhu, Balabhadra Prabhu, Upendra Prabhu and his family. Because of these devotees, I, a “free, American girl” could come to Krishna Consciousness and be inspired. Because, although very sound and soul jerking, Krishna Consciousness is not just the philosophy. Krishna Consciousness is about character, it’s about sincerity, and purity. It’s about being honest with yourself, seeing where you are at, striving to feel and know your relationship with Krishna, and maintaining good thoughts of and for other devotees.

So, I am inspired by your character, Maharaj, and I feel blessed by you for I suppose so many reasons. I hope to continue learning from you and your devotees. I aspire to be a good devotee to help represent your work. I’m inspired to lead a good example, maintain my vows and fulfill the yoga system as thoroughly as possible with Krishna in sight and mind. Please bless us here in Boise. May your great work and the works of your devotees continue throughout the world as long as possible. 

Your aspiring servant,

Anadi Radha dasi