Letters to the editor

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?

JAGAD GURU DAS WROTE:

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaj,

Arose a specific question regarding the title of your conference at Universidad Católica.

You said:

_"Light of the Bhagavata, Ecological Wonders from Classical Asia"_

But, there is a question about the *Wonders* Should we translate like "Preocupaciones, Preguntas, Inquietudes" o como "Maravillas" that is the other sense of the word.

ASA - Yes -Maravillas-. We think to base it on LOB content. When do you need the article? Synopsis or complete article.

With María Elvira we have the same question.

By the way, the program is complete now. So, only the final translation of your talk is missed (until now is advertised in English).

Hare Krsna.

¡ Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krishna Guru.M .acepte mis mas humildes reverencias , comienzo mi reporte un poco mas tarde de lo que habia planeado debia solucionar el tema de mi servicio fijo. ya que por mi trabajo no puedo ir en la semana, lo solucione será los días domingos en el cual lavare los baños del templo y lo que necesiten de mi .ademas de reportar mi servicio fijo en el templo. sigo con mi sadhana en casa de 3 :20 de la mañana para cantar mis rondas , guru astakam con Prabhupada , leo me preparo para levantar a mis deidades puja simple mas fruta y luego a trabajar . trabajo bastante pero al hacer mi sadhana todo fluye ademas de esto sigo con b.sastri con p laksmam ya pasamos al nectar de la devoción . para su visita de este año tendré el servicio de decoración de las conferencias igual que el año pasado espero hacer un buen servicio con el aprendizaje anterior. por ultimo Guru .M le comento que p Laksman vino a Chile a conocer a mis padres fue una bella experiencia donde ellos aceptaron al devoto muy contentos por su respeto y formalidad conmigo. ademas el devoto dio 2 clases en el templo como servicio.

se despide su humilde servienta Raman reti devi dasi

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krishna Guru.M. Accept my humblest obeisances, I begin my report a little later than I had planned to solve the issue of my fixed service. Since for my work I cannot go in the week, the solution will be on Sundays on which I will wash the temple baths and what they need from me, besides reporting my fixed service in the temple. I continue with my sadhana at the house of 3: 20 in the morning to sing my rounds, guru astakam with Prabhupada, I read I prepare to raise my deities simple puja more fruit and then to work. I work a lot but when doing my sadhana everything flows in addition to this I continue with b.sastri with p laksmam we already pass to the nectar of devotion. For your visit this year I will have the conference decoration service just like last year I hope to do a good service with the previous learning. Finally Guru .M commented that p Laksman came to Chile to meet my parents was a beautiful experience where they accepted the devotee very happy for his respect and formality with me. also the devotee gave 2 classes in the temple as a service.

his humble servant says goodbye Raman ret devi dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna

Es muy agradable saber de usted y gracias por usar el Código Secreto mencionado en el último Kapi Dhvaja para atención prioritaria. Tu Sadhana suena maravillosa. No importa si tenemos un gran servicio, trabajo, o uno pequeño desde el punto de vista material. Krishna puede enviarnos a las personas más importantes del mundo para que nos enseñen cuando Él quiera. Si continúa como lo hace, parece que se comprometerá cada vez más confidencialmente con el servicio de Krsna.

Te veo pronto.