Letters to the editor

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 Guru Maharaj,

I write this letter with a lot of pain...regret ...and shame...thought about a lot before writing

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP Paoho.... Can't be much worse than the things we have done and are doing!!

...but not asking for Your advice and help would kill the life out of me. We were attending SB class this morning....3.15.18 ....the mood was so good . HG Banamali Das was giving this beautiful class....at one moment we felt we were at Vaikuntha....then this ugly spat happened ..a senior Bhramachari started arguing with Banamali Prabhu..to the point of offending him...we endured for a while ...silently....I was literally weeping inside....this morning programme was the only little Guru seva that I could afford...and here I am...being subjected to this kind of environment. Some senior congregational devotees requested Prabhuji to continue the class...still this Bhrahmachari kept disturbing Prabhu....more shoutings....more arguments....I could not tolerate anymore....paid my obeisances and got up....said...I did not come to ISKCON to hear this bul####. Guru Maharaj....what must I do when such incidents happen again? I am really disturbed.

HpS - Oh! So sad.... A Madhyama adhkari loves God, avoids the demons, makes friendship with the devotees and preaches to the innocent. An Uttama adhikari sees how everything is related to Krsna, and is proper. Narada Muni encouraged Kamsa to kill Devaki's babies!

So, as Madhyama-adhikaris, we see the devotee and demon are in the same body amongst other Madhyama Adhikaris. So we have to learn the art of avoiding the demon in our classmates and making friendship with the devotee in our classmates.

Some body may have a very intense anger toward black people. Irrational. They may not even be conscious of it. So we have to avoid that unless we can help them by preaching.

In Vrndavana, ISKCON, only Krsna and Balarama kill demons, no?

Everybody else calls, "Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!" when the demons appear, so you should have done that! If Krsna wants to you to use sharp weapons or sharp words He will empower you. He will grab you and you will not be in control. I have seen it happen to me on several occasions. Then the demons, the innocent and devotees being attacked, they ALL feel happy afterwards. The demon thinks, "She said the right thing. I needed that", or "I don't agree with what she said, but it was right for her to say it".

O.K?

Chant Hare Krsna, talk with senior devotees, if your should make and apology do it.

We are exactly 3 years new today...... joining Srila Prabhupada's mission ...with Your mercy Guru Maharaj. Since last week we are washing Srila Prabhupada's dresses daily with Mataji Niscintya Nitai DD and Mataji Nandimukhi DD. HG Ramanuja Das Prabhu and HG Jaibhima Prabhu Das have been a great inspiration for us. Thank you Guru Maharaj for giving this sweet service..the moment we touched Srila Prabhupada's dress..our heart melted...so soft ..and so full of love...thank you dear Guru Maharaj for giving us this priceless mercy of serving Srila Prabhupada

Once Guru Maharaj asked whether saving milk for Krishna is better ...or feeding Krishna....and that time Guru Maharaj wrote...with time Srila Prabhupada will reveal ....today with conviction it is clear that feeding Krishna is more important! Thank you Guru Maharaj...All glories to Srila Prabhupada....All glories to Guru Maharaj HH Hanumat Presaka Swami!!

Tomorrow is Republic Day of India.....we are going to Toubul to offer some Vaishnava seva....kindly help us to serve the vaishnavas better..

Your unworthy servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

Hare Krsna. Reading "Jung in India" gives us a different impression of his view of Indian mysticism. This of course is influenced by the perspective of the excellent author, but it seems that Jung only came in contact with the non-dualism of Sankara and the pre-religion of Buddha.

We see almost no appreciation of Indian mono-theism before Srila Prabhupada. Are Jungians in a position to appreciate it now?

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We live in a bubble of time and space, dominated by the feet of His Divine Grace.

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Hare Krsna!!!!

Please accept my obeisances, Maharaja.

I humbly request a soft copy of your Diary of a Traveling Creature.

I have a PDF I'd like to share with you, but I guess I can only attach photos.

your aspiring servant,

Thakur Haridas das

HpS - AGTSP.. Paoho.. We are shocked to hear from you! If you send us Whatsapp number here we won't publish it and then we can get into contact to get your PersonalDataFile and send Monkey and Piggy's will imaginations DTC. Please bless us to be like you when we grow up!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

This is a short letter to inform you about my studies. I'm travellying to Dallas this February 1st to the University of North Texas. I will stay there for about 3 weeks. After that, I would like to stay in the temple of Radha Kalachandji and visit the sunday school. As I won't have any accomodation or a place to stay, I wrote the president of the temple, but he didn't reply me. If there is no place for where to stay in Dallas, so may be I could travel to Houston. I'd like to know your point of view.

Trying to serve,

Rukmini dd

HpS - Sorry so slow to answer. Fighting with freezing weather etc. We just answered your first letter and then got a similar letter from Aindavi. https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10800/

Sri natha Krsna das may have her phone number. You can see here when you are there.

todas las glorias a Goura Nitay

todas las gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Hare krishna Guru.M comienzo mi reporte contestando las preguntas que me envió la vez pasada si cuido a un pequeño y también le enseño tiene 6 años le hago un repasó diario de lo que le envían del colegio esta comenzando a leer, escribir a demás de sumar y restar, le refuerzo hábitos, además jugamos, en este momento estoy trabajando en otro sitio ya que renato fue de vacaciones con su abuela regresa en marzo y nos reencontramos. Cuando voy a Perú tenemos pensado ir definitivamente a fin de este año es lo planeado krishna verá si se cumple. le cuento que estoy con mi servicio fijo de cocina dos veces a la semana volviendo experta en los tiempos y en las preparaciones siempre krishna me envía a devotos ayudarme sabe que me esfuerzo pero requiero de ayuda para pelar los vejetales me gusta bastante cocinar pero krishna me dio un desafío de cocinar en ekadasi si bien no es difícil la preparación de halava de zanahoria y panes de papas era algo que evite por mucho tiempo nunca en los años que cocino a la deidad lo hice pero krishna decidió que era el momento debo decir que ya salen bastante bien seguiré mejorando siempre pido la opinión a los devotos para pulir la preparación, ademas de este hermoso servicio limpio el templo lo encerró me gusta hacerlo sigo dando clase cuando me lo piden y con el estudio de b sastri a mejorado mi servicio me gusta dar clases a fin de febrero p Lakshman hablara con mi autoridad para que me tomen el examen ya preparándo los ensayos y resúmenes que se deben presentar por último le cuento que por el momento solo me estoy leyendo los libros del estudio del b sastri y en las noches krishna book en marzo comienzo en forma sistemática el Bhagavatam.

se despide su humilde sirvienta Raman Reti devi dasi

HpS - Super, super, super. mas que podemos encontrar una apego FUERTE al Srimad Bhagavatam, CC etc. mas que podemos compartir esta apego a otros. Esta apego proviene de oir, y.... Karma yoga, haciendo lo que puede hacer para Krsna. Cocinando... Relishing SB and then infecting others with our "disease".

Hare Krsna dearest Gurudeva, please accept my most respectful obeisances.

Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Jaya Guru-parampara! Jaya gaura-bhakta-vrinda!

Srila Gurudeva, I would like to thank you again for the time shared in Houston, for the darshan that you kindly gave me and the encouragement to pursue what my heart desires as an offering to guru and Krishna, I liked when you said “this is your journey of self-realization” , meaning to get to know and discover myself.

When I was in Houston I prayed to Sri Sri Radha Nila Madhava to please show me the way I’m suppose to follow and to please please make it very clear to me, to give me clear signals so I know for sure what They want for me without doubts. So, I came back to Dallas, and everything changed, things got difficult here, long story short, I’m unemployed and I was indirectly requested to move out asap of the temple apartment . . . . . During my time in Houston Subhra mataji spoke to me about some positions opening in the Goswami Academy (GA), she asked me to apply to them in case I was interested on, which I really am. I have almost a year experience as a teacher assistant (this was back in 2016 when I lived in Providence, Rhode Island) and I remember my heart being to its highest level of happiness when I was working with children, almost at the same level I experienced doing harinama and book distribution in Mexico. Yesterday I sent her my resume and letters of recommendation, today I had a phone call interview with her, next step is having all the candidates next week going to the school to perform with children and we’ll be judge on those basis, then we’ll have to be patient and wait till they make a final decision about who they are going to hire.

Meanwhile my intention is to keep applying to other jobs in Houston in case I don’t get into the GA. I’m currently looking into options to move there, trying to figure out my living situation, talking to Manasi mataji, Giriraj Swami has also asked on my behalf to the temple authorities, so Nityanda prabhu (the Dallas TP).

The answer that we got is that there are some temple apartments for rent starting at $850 (studio).

This is a above my budget for now, because with bills it would be probably around $1000 per month, with car and insurance, $300 more plus groceries! (?) [huh, material world]. Do you have any suggestion for me? Any instruction?

HpS - No.... Of course, we may all be dead within three weeks from Corona influenza, but that is the material world. We don't know where we will live etc. Everything is a cinema being directly by Krsna. Just chant, chant, chant. He killed Maharaja Pariksit so that he could change his serviced quickly.

My idea is to start taking classes in a community collage this year, and finding out more about the Montessori certifications that they offer.

I keep chanting Hare Krsna on my beads and praying.

I’m so sorry if this letter was a little too overwhelming.

Please accept my respects and obeisances, vanca kalpa tarubhyas ca...

Hari HARIBOL!

Aspiring to be your eternal servant,

Aindavi Devi Dasi

HpS - Thank you. Chant, chant, chant!!!!!!!