Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudev, tlgaSP, pamhr.

Empezamos el año con mucho servicio en Lima-Peru y Mayapur-Vrindavan-Delhi-India en nuestra experiencia personal mantener los compromisos y nuestra palabra (promesa) nos hace personas confiables y dignos de la verdad, un valor q todo ser humano deberia de tener¡¡

Lo recordé mucho al momento de Viajar por largas horas tomando varios vuelos y parando en diferentes aeropuertos todo un esfuerzo para ser sirvientes del sirviente. Al llegar a India Calcuta tenia los zapatos rotos, no tenia laksmi y me sentia muy cansado pero por la Gracia de Mahaprabhu todo mejoro en Mayapur.....baño, prasadam, darshan de Radha Madhava astasakhis, Pancattva, Lord Nrisinhadev (ah quien amo¡) y saber q Ud estaba en Mayapur fue todo MARAVILLOSO.

Bajo la guia y direccion de SS Bhaktimarga Swami cumplimos con nuestro servicio en el drama '' The Queen's Secret'' ''El Secreto de la Reina'' la historia entre Kunti y Karna, conocer mas sobre el Mahabaratha y el impacto q tiene en nosotros es resaltante, por ejemplo cuando estábamos ensayando la escena de Drupadi siendo ultrajada por Dushasana (despues del juego de dados) la devota q hacia ese rol empezó a llorar mucho sin parar porq sentia la pena y lo fuerte del momento de como Drupadi fue tratada, al final ella no lo pudo hacer mas y tubo q tomar ese rol otra devota. Karna y toda su frustacion verlo desde una perspectiva psicológica, Kunti y su dolor interno en soledad de saber q sus hijos se mataran entre si, Bhisma héroe glorioso me hace pensar q debemos abrir los brazos y q Krishna aparezca y acabe con nosotros (con nuestros dolores) y liberarnos aqui y ahora. mi rol en el drama fue de Dushasan.

tubimos 6 presentaciones en Mayapur y 2 en Iskcon Noida donde nos hicieron un poster de nuestro drama super...¡ cumplimos con nuestro sankirtan porq mas de 2000 personas vieron nuestro drama y muchos nos bendicen para seguir con nuestro servicio cada año. una persona un amigo me dijo en el mangal aratik (tu ya le pertenecen a Mayapur).

Los ultimos dias nos fuimos con SS Bhaktimarga Swami a Vrindavan para Gaura Purnima ki jay.¡¡¡ y caminamos juntos la colina Govardhan, Radha Kunda y Syama Kunda fue magico...... kirtan, parikrans, sadhu sanga y mahaprasadam solo nos dio la tierra de Krishna ademas de una bacteria a la garganta q nos hace toser ....nos hospedamos en el Ashram de Yogamaya alado del Seva Kunja a 2 cuadras del rio Yamuna y el templo de Radha Damodar donde Srila Prabhupada tenia una habitacion.

gracias a su misericordia puedo obtener mas de lo me imagino Gurudev en la vida, tan solo seguirlo a ud a Srila Prabhupada mi vida se vuelve exitosa, me traigo recuerdos hermosos de mi servicio y mucha parafernalia, ahora tenemos Gaura Nitay en casa, mi esposa Radharani esta feliz y eso es me pone feliz.

su sirviente Parama Karuna das.

ASA = !!! Espero mas y mas profundo su purificacion. Mas y mas.

PAMHO

AGTSP

My dear guruji:

Some days ago we celebrated the advent of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, our beloved Gouranga Mahaprabhu.

Here in Radhakund, for seven days, we had a big festival including a lot of activities, among others we had lila kirtan, that is a group of singers chanting the life of Mahaprabhu, we also had kirtan, dancing, prasadam, and holi and culminating the day of Gour Purnima with a beautiful parikrama around Radhakund and after that the abishek of Mahaprabhu.

But, let's write something about the advent of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu extracted from the Caitanya Caritamrta:

"Lord Sri Caitanya M8ahaprabhu, adventing himself in Navadvip, was visible for forty-eight years, enjoying His pastimes.

In the year 1486, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared.

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the full moon evening in the month of phalguna, an auspicious time full of auspicious symptoms, when Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu advented Himself with the chanting of the Holy name, Hare krsna'.

Chapter 14 of Sri Caitanya Caritamrta ' The Advent of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu".

Hace algunos dias celebramos la aparicuon de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, nuestro andado Gauranga Mahaprabhu.

Aqui en Radhakund, por siete dias, tuvimos un gran festival que imcluyo muchas actividades, entre ellasila kirtan, que es in grupo de cantantes, aguantando la vida de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, tambien tuvimos kirtan, baile, prasadam y holi, culminando el dia de Gour a Purnima con un bello parikrama alrededor de Radhakund y despues el abisheka.

Pero vamos a escribir algo cerca de la aparicion de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu extraido del Caitanya Caritamrta:

" El Senor Caitanya Mahaprabhu aparecio en Navadvip y estuvo visible durante 48 anos disfrutanfo sus pasatiempos.

Aparecio en el ano 1486.

Ofrezco mis respetuosas reverencias a la noche de luna llena del Mes de phalguna, in momento auspicioso con sintomas auspuciosos cuando el Senor Caitanya Mahaprabhu aparecio junto con el cuanto del Santo Hombre, Hare Krishna'

Capitulo 14 del Caitanya Caritamrta 'La aparicuon de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu".

My dear gurudev, we will be reporting from Radhakund very soon.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

Note: I could not attach pictures.

HpS - You clicked in the Attach Pictures area below? Maybe it is the weak connection in India. Gauranga..................

PAMHO

AGTSP

My dear guruji, please accept my humble obeisances to your lotus (lettuce) feet.

We had recently the festival of Gour purnima, which in Radhakund lasts seven days full of kirtan, lila kirtan, that is chanting the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, chanting, dancing, prasadam and the last day parikrama around Radhakund with the host deities, Nitai Gour in picture 1 and abisheka, picture 2.

We also had Gour lila in the mornings and krsna lila at evening, see picture 3, padyavali in the afternoon and a lot of fun with the holi lila.

My dear guru Maharaja, pls bless me to be here the rest of my life so I can relish these festivals and narrate something about them to all of You, so all of the readers can be here in radhakund at least for a moment.

HpS - All your little children bless you, Mataji. May Krsna save you from naughty monkeys! See you soon. Thank you so much for the news but we only see one photo?? ! We see there is another letter!!!

Dear Guru Maharaja

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

Although your stay in Dallas was very short, we had a wonderful time associating with you. Thank you so much Guru Maharaja for tolerating our faults and accepting our service. We only wish it was longer.

Radhika Raman Prabhu has finished editing the Preface and has started editing Text 1. He has almost edited half of the transcribed files for Text 1. I printed it for you. Please take a look at it when you have some time and give us your feedback. I think it has come out really well. I am currently transcribing Text 2.

HpS - Thank you. Our visit to Dallas was hard work, but good results. Very good results. Yes, we have the hard and soft copy of the files. As you can see from the DTC we are packed with work right now, but this NOI commentary is very high on our list. Thank you so much for working on this.

I am learning so much when transcribing and the book is going to be a great addendum to Srila Prabhupada's commentary.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

AgtSP!

paoho... Brown and White here. The first day of the Jungian congress was INCREDIBLE. About 600-attended - seventy percent ladies (21-81 years old). The level of scholarship and artistry was amazing. Jung was amazing. Shonu Shyamdasani was like a giant mountain surrounded by other giant mountains. We felt like a little rat at the foot of the Himalayas.

Beverley Zabrieskii also presented and when it broke for lunch we saluted her and had a short but nice discussion.

So many people have made the connection between Jung's work and their work. Jung and Caitanya-vaisnavism would be one more effort (but the best!).

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We do all this in the middle of a war zone. [BANG! BANG!]

1. We are still on an Indian time mode so in the after-noon we tend to crash and then wake up like now - 7.40PM-11.40PM.
2. Our host, Giridari-priya Das (John Patel) is a super, second generation ISKCON devotee, hero, but he is event-organizer for big people in a large retirement community, so he has his schedule and we have to walk softly not to be a burden on him.
3. Getting around is a challenge. We are a 71-year old ass behind the wheel. The GPS map on our Windows Phone is pretty good, but finding Lot 22 on the U.C. Santa Barbara Campus is a little challenging for it. Fortunately they sent us maps and we can remember them and found the parking garage. The event was programmed into the automated parking system but still we lost $5 on the first round with the robot parking attendant.
4. We learned a lot about Jung's timeline. We chatted with a few people but no intense connections so far. People ask who we are, dressed as Sannyasis. We say Bengali Vaisnavas.
5. During the intense Plenary Session in the morning we listened to, contemplated, Prof. Shamdasani and Beverley's presentations but still it does not arouse our heart intensely. Japaiya sada harih. We were chanting on beads the whole time.

Our other ASA and MOE work is greatly reduced. We are trying to find our place in Srila A. C. Bhakti-vedanta Swami's orchestra.

O.K. . . . 12.06AM. Lettuce chant on beads. Vidya-vadu-jivanam. Plans will come from the Name. Bhava, perspective, will come from the Name.

HARE KRSNA. HARE RAMA. JAYA SRI VRNDAVANA DHAMA.

12.30AM

We just finished a three page long DTC. Pushed the wrong key and erased the whole thing! Here it is again (Niscayad - NOI 3). Got to Santa Barbara after a long, hard trip. We are Tom Brown and Buck White, riding Brother Ass.

Every day in Houston was filled with Temple and MOE work, two to three hours, etc.

On the trip here we met Omir from Pakistan, a flight attendant, university graduate, who dreamed of becoming a Monk last night. To our Trained Ear (AGTSP!!!!) his story was so natural, so we told him our story (SB 1.6) and HAD A LOB IN OUR CMDD's BRIEF-CASE and gave it to him with the Web-page address and changed planes. "Write to our Blog!"

In transit between airplanes we got on The Last Great Window's Phone (LGWF) and booked a car ($243 for four days!) and then met Prof. Angelo and Christina Novokovitch in the Boarding Line. They were also going to the Jung Congress. She was Young, Beautiful, Intelligent, Intuitive (Battle Stations, Battle Stations, Alarms, Alarms, Kingon Cruiser 3,000 meters!). Taking our seat we noticed that all the women on the Executive Jet to St. Barbara were Young, Beautiful, Intelligent and dressed in black! Prof. Angelo came back our seat and ofered us some raisins and nuts from a newly opened bag.

At the luggage pick-up we met Prof. again and he walked us to the Rental Car Counter and hung out with us. We didn't have to say anything: Welcome to the family (Awwwk! Alarms!)

Into the rental car with a 71-year old Ass behind the wheel. Almost ran over three other donkeys on the way to Giri-vara-dhari-priyas Das' home.

He is very, very, very nice Gurjurati body devotee, disciple of Bh. Caru Swami.

Back in the car. Off to the Bank. Almost ran over six other donkeys: Can't send wire transfers to Peru after 1.00PM. Awwwk! The Congress is daily starting tomorrow.

Back to our Campsite: Fruit, nuts, raisins, 1955-historical documentary on YouTube. Crash (As usual, one week later, we still have Jet-lag!) and up at 11.01 PM to bashfully greet GPD going to bed (like a sane man).

12.43PM - Rewrote this DTC. Saved it to PND's Blog three times, mot just the clip board.

We feel guilty that we are not great devotees. Guess we are neither great nor gruesome devotees. Just devotees. We push when the modes are light with our Satsvarupa Goswami like character. AGTSP, we are all becoming great devotees.

CALENDAR - !! Today is Amavasya here, not in Delhi. Kapi-dhvaja goes out today with Viplavha, $$$ etc. etc. Will be time to wire money on Friday. Leave the conference.

Now let us find water. Sri Visnu. Sip it and chant five rounds, review ART Das "Art and the Sacred" video, M. Champaka-lata Devi Dasi's "Gurukula Standards" proposal, nap and FMP.

Hare Krsna. Rewrite. 1.00AM