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.

  we know who you are for us...for me. We have boundless respect for you, 

  for Srila Prabhupada, for devotees, for ISKCON, we don't require this 

  justification (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10681/). Of course, this

  is good for those who don't understand our Guru parampara.

  i personally feeling sad to see this letter (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10681/)

  we have very less time so it will be better to ignore none spiritual questions.

  and focused on spiritual questions and practices. More interested to

know about Krsna and his related things from you. You have huge collections of

confidences / comprehensions about Krsna.

  We not required proving ourselves in-front of those none-spiritual questions.

  and if someone make me small by winning those questions..am fine with that.

  If you really like those none spiritual questions then i have no words.

  May be my comments are too harsh, please pardon me. i just wanted to know

  about Radha-Krsna. Like :

HpS-ASA -- Thank you for your comments. This dialog with this good Panjabi (?) devotee and then Basu gosh Das from Baroda about Guru in ISKCON is a little difficult for us, but on the other hand it may be useful to so many innocent people attacked by crazy ideas. We have to put our ideas out for criticism.

Also, https://vedabase.io/en/library/iso/11/, we have to look at the bad things about material life as well as the good things about spiritual life. If we only look at good things of spiritual life we will become Sahajiyas and if we only look at the bad aspects of material life we will become Mayavadis We are Sahajavadis! We look at both and get attraction and repulsion both to return to Krsna.

  1. How you see Radha-Krsna every day?

ASA - Many, many ways. You also? We "see" Them when we are chanting Japa for Them. We see Them during Mangala arati. Here we see Radha Nila-madhava, in Houston. They are over two meters tall!!

  2. How you used to see Radha-Krsna during arti in your pujari tenure?

ASA - We are still Pujari, but now in Sannyasa ashrama. We bath "our" Deities every day. On the altar in San Francisco, we bathed Radha Gokulananda some times. Their brass bodies are not fully covered so if one is in a male body it is shocking to bath Radha rani and I guess it is the same if one is in a female body to bath, Krsna. so.... we have to be able to make some kind of mental adjustment like I am a Gopi assistant of Mother Yasoda helping her bathe Radharani, for at least some time.

  3. Which reciprocation with Radha-Krsna made you more close to them?

ASA - In general, Blog ambience, we just see Them and chant for Their satisfaction and feel Their presence in in Their murti form.

  4. Which form of Radha-Krsna you like the most?

ASA - Like many. Probably a material taste in many ways. Of course, our first Darshana was Radha Gokulananda in San Francisco, so They are very intense. In general, almost any Temple we go to we become attached to Radha-Krsna in that form and then feel separation when we leave.

  5. Which season and time makes you more closer to Radha-Krsna's passtime ?

ASA - None in particular. You??

  6. Which Krsna you like the most - Vrndavan Krsna, Dwarika Krsna, Goloka Krsna ?

ASA - Same as 4, no???

  7. How you see the offerings before and after?

ASA - For vision usually the same, but intellectually with more respects, but one time I saw how Srila Prabhupada was beyond the modes of nature when I was wondering how Prasadam is transcendental.

  8. Which reciprocation makes you think about Krsna?

ASA - Many, many.

  9. How you see the full moon in the night?

ASA - As very big. Inspiring. Do you think we might be Were-wolves????

  10. What comes in your mind when you see full moon?

ASA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9fWjzYiRUE A song about Radha and Krsna.

  Ignore me if my questions are annoyed. 

  You are always as per NOI.

your fallen servant,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja, pamho agtsp! I had a great time being close to you again, I could grasp certain ideas about Srila Prabhupada and Guru Tattva, I will soar my devotional service with your shakti. I will keep helping the aspirant devotees and the devotees that are younger than me. It was a great pleasure to see you!

I look forward to seeing you soon again.

your vary many fallen servant,

Jagat Bandhu Jagannatha Swami dasa

HpS - Thank you. AGTSP.... paoho... We are really, really, just struggling to get 16-nice rounds done daily and not trying to be anything different than what we are in the Param-para. You seem to have done something very good with your life so far! Helped others also. It is very enlivening to get your association.

Haré Krishna Gurudeva mi correo es:

sarana. . . (ASA)

No entendí bien si quiere que yo le escriba también los correos de los candidatos a iniciación y a refugio?

HpS - Estamos en contacto por email with Caturatma Das, no???!! Si, no, otra vez su direccion.

Hare Krsna Dear Guru Maharaj,

  Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

HpS - 70% Lotus feet. What about yours?

  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

  All glories to Guru parampara.

HpS - Jaya!

  Thank you so much Gurudev for your comments and divine photos of lord

  on https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10669/

  Temple services are as usual, was doing Rajbhoj seva on Saturday

  and Sunday. Dasa-Anudas seva going to start from Thursday in the 

  evening ( 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ).

  BG study as usual now. It was irregular for few days earlier.

  New job is bit demanding, don't get much time. Going to get new assignment

  soon so getting some time for myself.

  HG Jibesh Das is doing excellent Book Distribution in west

HpS - AGTSP. We are in a roaring river now back in the USA. Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. Kapi Dhvaja like tomorrow!!!!!! Preach to your work mates.

Paramatma Das and I are engaged in helping to develop the Strategy for Preaching in Latin American for the Regional GBC. Here is our current response comment:

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,

AgtSP!  Paoho.    We are running at about 83% efficiency. I guess that is pretty good

for the material world. We have survived the 14-week, fourteen airport, tour and arrived in Houston.

As I proposed in the last LARGBC meeting lettuce continue with our dialog.

I registered my thoughts about your strategy.  Very, very, very nice and improvement would be to 1. integrate with our management culture more explicitly, which is Varna Ashrama Dharma, and 2. base it on Sastric references, 3. develop the strategy in stages of deeper and deeper complexity.

1. Who am I????  I really have struggled with this in this current dialog, and it has been a big advance in my spiritual life trying to write it for you.

I remember the exact moment. I was using a cross-cut, arm-saw in Gunar Lindh's Custom Carpentry Shop, Sacramento, California. I had got a book, was visiting the San Francisco temple and trying to get from Adau sraddha, Sadhu sanga to Bhajana kriya, although at the time I didn't know it. I was trying to get from random chanting to focused, systematic chanting.

Then, using the saw, I made the decision, that in the midst of all these new spiritual rituals, I would always chant "Hare Krsna" and remember the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada within the core of my heart.

Of course, we are still a long, long way from perfecting that, and doing book distribution, and going to Mangala arati are necessary for doing it, but that is who we are. Later we realized that it is definitely a Sannyasa perspective. 'A Sannyasi is happy when he is always remembering Krsna within the core of his heart', Jagadananda's prayer at the end of NOI 1 purport.

So that is who we are, Sannyasis endeavoring for Bhava, expecting plans to develop in our minds as a natural sequence.

Do you see our point?

Where do we fit Sannyasis into our Strategic Plan for preaching (in Latin America)?

Are you planning on taking Sannyasa?

Are our Sannyasis involved in management up to 80% really Sannyasis?

Without dealing with these fundamental issues it is Tactical Planning, not Strategic Planning, no?

Of course, I agree that we need to progress in both areas. The best way to develop a preaching strategy is to preach. No Commander ever made mistake in battle if he decided to pull his ship alongside the enemy and fire.

So, I guess my next shot would be, does your honorable self plan on taking Sannyasa?

Can we adopt this as a basic statement of our Mission, from the Intro to NOI: Our Mission is to qualify ourselves to help Lord Caitanya in his mission of spreading the science of Krsna consciousness to the conditioned souls by studying the books of Srila Prabhupada scrutinizingly.

All glories to Srila Prabhuada! All glories to Guru Maharaj!

Please accept our humble obeisances at Your sweet Lotus feet..

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

We had a great session last Monday. We used zoom apps and had our first online Bhakti Sastri class! The first thing we were told to give a brief introduction about ourselves...through the video which was obviously shared. Then second thing...we were asked a very relevant question..What do you hope to acheive by doing Bhakti Sastri? Straight away....the essence of preaching came to our mind....and we answered ....for preaching through Sastric knowledge conforming to the mood and mission of Srila Prabhupada....our facilitator was happy...

Lots of homework given...starting with Module 1 ...BG. We are told to read BG chapter 1 upto 1.22 ...prepare the relevant 8 questions as given in the Student Hand book. ....besides the Preface and Introduction.....and write an essay on the Mood and mission of Srila Prabhupada...We feel so happy.....we feel connected to Srila Prabhupada and Guru Maharaj....

Ohhhh....we forgot to tell you about the kirtan....just before the class ..as we all waited for everyone to join....was so beautiful...soulfull....

We are struggling with the Annual report...want to go on writing and writing...but there are some letters in the blog....little disturbing...one on Diksha guru and Siksha guru... For us we are so thankful to Srila Prabhupada for blessing us with Guru Maharaj as our diksha guru....we do not have any doubts...Srila Prabhupada is so merciful...

There is a Prabhuji who desires to be initiated by Guru Maharaj... we are encouraging his whole family to be initiated. They are chanting 16 rounds and following 4 regulative principles. He is attending temple mangal arti since this month. How can we help him guru Maharaj ? We requested him to read and follow the Guru tattva given by Guru Maharaj...

HpS - Hare Krsna. First is to take shelter of Srila Prabhupada by reading his books, associate with devotees, develop practical relationship with Temple and they can read the Kapi Dhvaja and write here as they like. After six months of that process they can think about becoming a formal aspirant for initiation by an ISKCON Diksa guru etc. O.K. AgtSP!!

We are praying for Srila Prabhupada's mercy ..for whatever we can offer on 28th Dec...

Your insignificant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Thank you. We will write a DTC with all our current news!!!!! Thank you! Again, with whom is this Bh. Sastri course?