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Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva

Por favor acepta nuestras humildes reverencias.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Esperamos que estés mejor de tus alergias de primavera. Nosotros estamos bien, cantando a veces un poco más de nuestros votos, y siguiendo 4 principios. Tambien estamos tomando Dióxido de cloro, gracias a los consejos de Ramacandra Prabhu, Pandaveja Prabhu y otros. Y nos está yendo muy bien... Karuna tenía un dolor en su rodilla, por más de 20 años, después de su operación y se le ha pasado, parece ser un buen producto.

Todos los días participamos de FMP en GTM, y a las 6am. mientras voy bañando simple a todos en el altar (los sábados son más elaborados) Karuna viste a Krsna y Balarama, les hace unos bonitos turbantes, y también prepara la ofrenda de la mañana, de medio día, y hace ropas nuevas en lo que resta del día, además la veo muy entusiasta en leer nuevamente el BG, yo estoy leyendo el Vaisnava Ke.

Al inicio de la cuarentena a pedido de unos amigos hicimos unos seminarios de Etiqueta Vaisnava. Habíamos programado hacer más seminarios pero en un momento del curso nos dimos cuenta de algo importante, que se lo contare en otra carta, luego hemos decidido dejar de hablar y nos hemos dedicado solo a escuchar y participar de todas sus clases, y de otros Vaisnavas.

También empecé a subir mis archivos visuales (videos) a mi canal de youtube, porque no sé cuánto duraran con vida mis discos duros, y no quiero perderlos. Y hay muchas clases de Usted en ese canal, en principio estaba pensando en pedirle permiso a Usted para abrir un canal oficial de youtube con su nombre, pero luego me entere que ya había uno “Asa visual” donde Ambarish prabhu sube sus clases editadas, asi es que yo le dije que él podía bajar todas las clases que hay en mi canal, editarlas tan expertamente como él lo hace y subirlas mejor presentadas a canal de ASA Visual. Aún tengo muchas clases en video y audio que voy a subir. Ojala sirva de algo.

También nos hemos comunicado con Prahlad Nrishimha para poder apoyarlo con los libros en español, y él se ha puesto muy contento y me dijo que va a esperar a que envíen más archivos y que me comunicara con Mitravinda mataji, así que estamos en eso.

Quisiéramos hacer un servicio tangible a Srila Prabhupada, o poder apoyar en el estudio del Srimad Bhagavatam, pero de eso le comentare en la siguiente carta.

Sus aspirantes a sirvientes AmD y KMDD.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

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We hope you are better off your spring allergies.

HpS - AGTSP!!! Better. Using Yoga! Ayur-veda. Less lust in eating.

We are fine, sometimes singing a little more of our vows, and following 4 principles. We are also taking Chlorine Dioxide, thanks to the advice of Ramacandra Prabhu, Pandaveja Prabhu and others. And we are doing very well ... Karuna had a pain in her knee, for more than 20 years, after her operation, and it has passed, it seems to be a good product.

HpS - Jaya!

Every day we participate in FMP at GTM, and at 6am. While I am simply bathing everyone on the altar (Saturdays are more elaborate) Karuna dresses Krsna and Balarama, makes them beautiful turbans, and also prepares the morning offering, half day, and makes new clothes in the rest of the day, I also see her very enthusiastic to read the BG again, I am reading Vaisnava Ke.

HpS - Hope photos attached!

At the beginning of the quarantine, at the request of some friends we did some Vaisnava etiquette seminars. We had planned to do more seminars but at one point in the course we realized something important, that I will tell you about it in another letter, then we decided to stop talking and we dedicated ourselves only to listening and participating in all of his classes, and other Vaisnavas .

ASA - Ahhh! A great suspense!!

I also started uploading my visual files (videos) to my youtube channel, because I don't know how long my hard drives will live, and I don't want to lose them. And there are many classes of You on that channel, at first I was thinking of asking You for permission to open an official YouTube channel with your name, but then I found out that there was already a “visual loop” where Ambarish prabhu uploads his edited classes, So I told him that he could download all the classes on my channel, edit them as expertly as he does, and upload them better presented to the ASA Visual channel. I still have many video and audio classes that I will upload. Hopefully it will do some good.

HpS - We feel that we have a little to say to help people to Srila Prabhupada, but we don't want to be anything other than that. 🙂

We have also contacted Prahlad Nrishimha to be able to support him with the books in Spanish, and he has been very happy and told me that he is going to wait for more files to be sent and to contact Mitravinda Mataji, so we are working on that.

HpS - Super! Yes, if you all can work together it is great. So many things can go up in Spanish. Srinivasa Das was going to write to him to maybe include a link that would tell you the proper meter for pronouncing each verse.

We would like to do a tangible service to Srila Prabhupada, or to be able to support the study of Srimad Bhagavatam, but I will comment on that in the next letter.

Your aspiring servants AmD and KMDD.

HpS - Super, but you both have so much more potential. So much more to teach Bibatsu Arjuna and Sita-lalita and their families.

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

As you know, our son is going to start University in Crimea and we will have to move with him.

Just got confirmation from my upper management that they can let me work remotely from Crimea for two years. I may need to come back to Botswania for a week or two, once or twice a year. I also have an offer from Titan Insurance company in Crimea. Financially they are looking same but with 3M, Botswania, I get to save travel time and still join our SB classes. In CRM I have to drive for an hour to work to Titan Insurance.

I am leaning to stick with Mac and pass the opportunity from TI. Does this seem OK to you Maharaja?

ASA - AGTSP paoho.

1. There are no perfect situations in the material world. Even MPariksit was disturbed, by Krsna, so he would not get attached.
2. Seems good to us from what I know of your family, travel at this time would be good. See things from a different perspective.
3. Chanakya Pandita says, "Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from many counselors", so you've asked us and we have given our, broad perspective and our intuitive opinion, but then talk with as many others as necessary to get a good perspective and you will win. Eg. others who have done the same with 3M.

O.K?

Hare Krishna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Haribol in the light of what’s happening around US, is it possible for the ISKCON primary school to have classes for students to understand what is racism and how to avoid becoming one. When we teach from youth they’ll grow up with better characteristics. Please consider having this if it’s not already openly discussed.

ASA - This reminds us of two devotees in the Berkeley Temple, Gohita Das and Ajamaila Das, who used to joke about racism all the time. Gohita was from low class white family, some brothers in prison. Ajamila was a black bodied devotee. He had been a trainer for elite military commandos in the the US Army. As solid as a rock.

They would make all kinds of clever racial jokes to each other. Eg.

G: "Hey Buddy, what you doin here. This is the white man's Hare Krsna, Temple. The Black Hare Krsna Temple is down the street".

A:"Oh, thank you, I didn't know. I'll take a quick bath and get right over there".

Even more intense: I was returning from the Saturday Pre-Rathayatra Festival in Vancouver with Jaya-govinda, Temple President, driving, Prthu Das (German) in seat next to him, myself and Bhir-krsna Das (Jewish) and one more Senior devotee in the back.

Prthu and Bir-krsna were carrying on a kind of joking banter of racial/ethnic superiority that had been obviously going on for a few days before.

Then Prhu Das with a completely smug, nose in the air attitude arrogant German attitude said, "Well I don't care what you say, I never met a Jew who wasn't a pig!".

Bhir-krsna Das broke into paroxysms of laughter and Prthu was struggling, struggling, struggling not to break character and start laughing. The rest of us were amazed at the level of play and eyes turning wet with the humor.

Devotees can be deeply involved in understanding these race, gender, age, wealth etc differences and removing the poison while finding the truth, no?

Big topic.

Maybe only topic un K.C.

Hare Krsna.

Answered a lot of letters!!

Finished the Education Symposium. Terrible stress for us!

Now it is 34-degrees Celscius here. We go to the Latin American Sastric Education meeting with Gandharva, Baladeva, Lalita gopi Devi Dasi et al. Thank you.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, reciba mis respetuosas reverencias.

ASA - Please receive ours!

Bueno, sobre la pregunta que hice sobre Siksa Guru, fue una pregunta que nos hicimos. Nosotros pensamos que siempre hay muchas cosas que se deben consultar con usted, esa es nuestra opinión.

Le comentamos que también estamos participando de las clases de Maharaja Yadunandana Swami que son transmitidas por la página de Facebook (Hare Krisna Spain Nueva Vrajamandala).

HpS --- !!!!!! Muy buen persona!!!! Hay mejor????

Ellos también se dedican a la agricultura y a las vacas y estan full servicio devocional, muy inspirador, derrepente vendemos todo y nos vamos a vivir por allá en esa linda comunidad de devotos.

HpS - En esta mundo o la proxima!

Guru Maharaja usted me hizo 2 preguntas....

HpS - ¿Estás cultivando tu jardín? 

Hace un tiempo atrás plantamos orégano, hierba buena, menta, tomillo, perejil, sábila o áloe, toronjil, hinojo,caléndula, huacatay, romero

También algunos plantones frutales como fresas silvestres, guindas, níspero silvestre, guindones, aguaymanto, sauco, palta, tunas, tumbo, granadilla, sacha kumar (una planta que tiene ese nombre por estas zonas, es un fruto en forma de tomate dulce silvestre.

Mantenemos el Jardín recultivándolo, sacando las malas hierbas, protegiendo las plantas del frió, algunas resisten por ser de la zona.

También tenemos flores para Krsna como lavanda, rosas, geranios, claveles, manzanilla, dalias, y tenemos 2 plantitas de Tulasi la amada de Sri Krsna.

Acá se sufre un poco del agua, viene un día si y un día no, felizmente logramos tener 2 tanques de agua y con eso estamos resistiendo. Algunas plantas necesitan mucha agua, otras no.

En estas fechas hemos sembrado más semillas de tulasi, aprovechando que la luna está creciendo, la luna crece y las plantas también, reciben una energía muy favorable, con la astrología védica también se pueden ver fechas favorables para sembrar.

HpS - ASA --- Jaya!! Goloka! Vrndadevi es La Jefa de jardineria de Goloka, no?

¿No puede visitar a los agricultores vecinos?

Acá Guru Maharaja la cuarentena no se siente mucho, se puede salir al campo, pero en la ciudad es diferente, tenemos contacto con los vecinos, una vecina nos va ayudar a sembrar rabanito, coliflor, espinacas, zanahoria, betarraga, apio, brócoli, col, acelga.

Vamos hacer pequeños biohuertos con abonos orgánicos. Algunos necesitaran estar protegidos por la helada de invierno.

Hoy día hizo más frió y tuvimos que salir en la madrugada a proteger a las plantas del frió, algunas resisten otras no.

Se puede combinar astrología, Vastu y ayurveda y utilizarlo en sankirtan (a mucha gente le gusta los temas esotéricos).

Bueno son solo comentarios, Krsna controla todo, esperamos servir a Srila Prabhupada y satisfacerlo aunque sea un poquito.

Bueno Guru Maharaja, me despido, que Nrisimha cuide de su salud y lo proteja siempre.

Quise mandar algunas fotos pero el Internet esta horrible.

Hare Krsna.

Gadai Gauranga Dasa

HpS - Oportunidad entrar en los libros mas profundo con unas personas!!!!!!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

This is in relation to this letter:https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11189/

Thank you so much for giving me shelter at your lotus feet, Guru Maharaj. I am overjoyed.

I have read the other post as you instructed and also read the Guru Tattva document on jayarama.us.

I will chant 16 rounds and follow the 4 regulative principles strictly for the next 6 months, Guru Maharaj.

I have also started preparing for the Disciple course and plan to finish it by the end of this month. Thanks again Guru Maharaj!!

Your humble servant

Sriram

HpS - Please get letter from Temple President expressing their solidarity with this effort!!! Hope all your do-loops are infinite.