Letters to the editor

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a Usted

Hare Krishna Maharaja, he estado extrañándolo, deseo pronto servirle personalmente, gracias por su misericordia con todas las almas caídas.

Ya estoy caminando, tuvimos una celebración en nuestro templo, uniendo la cultura de Chile con la filosofía Védica, estuve cantando canciones con este objetivo. Muy buen prasadam.

Estoy ansioso por verle, gracias Maharaja. Hare Krishna!

Reverencias.

¡JAYA GURU MAHARAJA!

Bhakta Piero.

HpS - Once these trips start it is very difficult to communicate!! Now that we are in Madird for three nights we have brief rest from Temple activities and preaching work! Now we have a little time to answer letters. Are you still walking. For the first time, we experienced real weakness in our knees in ascending the five stories to our room in the Noida temple.

Old age seems to be just a collection of diseases that don´t go away. Then there is death and the body is recycled so that the elements can be used in new bodies.

We will see you in Lima??? For sure Chile! Yes, songs are insuperable way to spread Krsna consciousness.

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to Guru parampara.

Thank you so much for your acceptance (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10444/), would always grateful to you, would eagerly wait for your India trip in October.

Thank you so much Maharaj.

your aspiring servant,

Jibesh Das

HpS - Hare Krsna, did we see you while we were there? How are you? Your Sadhana and Sankirtan??

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

PAMHO, AGTSP

we never understood the importance of ritualistic following 16 rounds and 4 regs.

5.15.3 says

"If one rigidly observes the regulative principle of chanting sixteen rounds of the mahā-mantra every day, his dealings with the material world for the sake of spreading the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are not different from the spiritual cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness."

for the benefit of readers.

money follower.

ASA - Money follower or Monkey follower, or as in our case, Monkey Money follower?

harsh

HpS - ASA - It was very nice to get your association in Delhi, Noida. It was such a short "busness" trip that we did not have much time to associate with anyone on more brahminical terms. Please don´t give up on us!

In terms of your question our first thought is what we heard ine time from a lecture of something that Srila Prabhupada said that following these rituals of vaidhi bhakti are like the marriage ceremony. It is a formality. The marriage has already been arranged before the ceremony, but it is not without meaning. If the rituals are dictated by an Acharya according to time, place and circumstance they are the practical application of the general principles found in the Vedas, and beyond that there is the aspect of this standard being the contract between us and Krsna by the media of the Acharya. Even if following the rituals has some defect, it is the standard established by our Master and He will adjust for any mistakes.

There are three ways to do things! The right way, the wrong way and the ISKCON way!!

Yes, Sir!!

Okay?

Hari bol, Sri Hanuman Pratseka (Preshaka) Swami

My name is Kunti Mohan. I believe I last ran into you at the Bhagavatam class you gave in Boise Idaho this past year. I thought it was really great. I just wanted to offer my sincere apologies if I came across arrogant in any way when I was wondering how psychologists and the field of psychology had to do with bhakti. I realize as you include in your posts, that many bhaktas have many different preaching engagements that reach out to different levels of people with different compositions. I sincerely apologize and I hope you are able to forgive me for my lack of understanding. I see the great benefit in reaching out to all types of intelligences and helping them to surrender by their intelligence to Sri Krishna, Guru ,Sadhu ,and Sastra. I also appreciated how you spoke in the class how the Bhagavatam details all the mental, mind ways people are entangled and the pathway out of that which is detailed in the Srimad Bhgavatam. Thank you so much for all your Inspiration and Seva to everyone. Most sincere all glories to you.

Haribol, Kunti Mohan

HpS - Thank you for your letter, Prabhu. We don´t remember the event, so I guess we can smile and say it was not a great trama for us. It is correct though that we have to be careful that we do not become like the people we reach out to if they are not pure devotees!

Please send us news of your Sankirtan!!!!!

Hare Krishna dear Gurudeva,

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

It's been a while since i last wrote. Good things develop both internally and in the family, but in this case i feel the need to share about my practical service.

Yesterday i've organized our third bi-annual kirtan event, which was received with joyful and satisfied response. We had about fifty people this time, a steady increase. A team is starting to form and for our next event we work on establishing this more solidly.

I consider this my offering to you and Srila Prabhupada, to organize this facility for community building and devotee cooperation and the chanting of the Mahamantra. Especially the time prior is very enlivening and spiritually saturated. Since i'm not in the high speed lane of vaidhi sadhana bhakti, this is very much appreciated.

I pray this meets you well.

In the process of becoming a humble servant,

Raghava Pandita dasa

HpS - Jaya! As we read this we are in your neigborhood, Spain. How long is the Kirtan event? Different people lead? For how long each one? Is it only Maha-mantra? Do you match it with a specific holiday???

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

You wrote on Twitter "So much editing needed for KRSNA book." Please, can you say and explain more about this, for some, hot topic ?

Thank you.

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - AGTSP. Have you listened to the tapes from www.prabhupadavani.org? They are very nice, but Srila Prabhupada says so many things are grammatically incorrect in English. Also when I say, "Dinner will be at 7PM" my tone of voice can make it a question very clearly, no? But, it can also be a statment, so there also has to be editing even for a native speaker from spoken English to written English.

Content changes for example we feel would include the mention of Mirabhai in the dictation tapes and then being removed from the first and all Krsna book printings. That I suspect was done by Srila Prabhupada when he manually edited the typed manuscript. The devotees would have had no reason to remove her name. I would think he would have done it because her situation is not exactly clear in Parampara system, though I think he considers her a nice devotee.

Another one is that in the takes Srila Prabhupada says that Iskcon devotees can take rocks from Govardhana and worship them at home like we worship the Deity. Then in the Krsna book it does not say, "devotees of ISKCON", it says "great devotees". So, again, seeing the transcript I would say that Srila Prabhupada had second thoughts about authorizing his ISKCON students and manually changed it.

These are some of our thoughts.

What do you think?