Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,

   Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

   All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

   All glories to Guru parampara.

   Thank you so much Gurudev for showing my current fallen situation on URL : https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/9983/

   Please requesting you with folded hand, please mention all such none-sense things in me

so that i can work on those to serve you and others well before my time-off.

   Eagerly waiting for your all points which you found Specifically in me and which are not

favorable for Bhakti.

   Thank you Gurudev.

your fallen servant,

Girivara

HpS - AGTSP. paoho. Your determination in devotional service is very nice! Any faults you have are quite common for me and other devotees. The ones I mentioned were general problems that devoees at your level of experience often have. We try to be the GREATEST SERVANT if we can't be God and then we try to decide for ourselves what is service rather than taking instruction.

Thank you so much.

Please send news of the Pune Temple!!

Oink! Oink! Whoop! Whoop!

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, Jaya Sri Vrndavana Dhama.

Here we are in the ISKCON Kolkata Guest House. We had a good Ministry of Education (MOE), North American Regional Representatives, meeting from 8.00-9.00AM. Our fever is almost gone, but our voice is still weak. The move from the Temple to the airport was fast, so we were in the airport for 3-hours before we flew to Kolkata. Slept well on the airplane. No one wanted to talk.

Purusottama Kesava Das and Pankaj met us and about 30-minutes to the Temple, bath, laundry soap, Gaura-arati, purchase a bit KRSNA book for this room, HOT MILK on the roof in the B'cari ashrama.

Some mosquitos.

Talked with Dr. Samaresh.

Now some world classical literature an take rest.

We should do the Kapi-Dhavaja but the travel has been exhausting.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!

The Holy Names are a gift of Gaura-Nityananda, Narottama Das Thakura, Srila Prabhupada. If we take Them we can find an eternal place in Vrndavana under the shelter of the Manjaris.

Hare Krsna,

1.54 AM... AGTSP Paoho Our second day in ISKCON Delhi. Up at 12.30 AM, chanted two rounds. aswered important mail and read from KRSNA Enters Mathura! Roses and narcissus!

3.06AM ... R(10). Slow chanting with no voice. Go challenge. No voice at the time of death. Practice for passing that examination, Death. After that Diploma, there are others.

"Contributing or distributing the holy name of the Lord is a sublime example of contributing or giving charity (the dadäti principle). By the same token, one must also follow the pratigåhëäti principle and be willing and ready to receive the transcendental gift. ", NOI 4. So, if you are chanting you are offering the best thing to others. If you want to increase your Book Distribution, chant mo' rounds bettah.

Time for 6-minute nap and then Bath-Kirtan, Puja, go to Partha-sarathi Temple.

11.45AM - R(16)... Voice a little recoverd. Rest. Rest. Rest. We have to find tasks that do not require thinking or personal contact with people much more in the bodily concept of life than us (Haw! Haw!). This is like gardening, ironing clothes, going for walks. Just one class a day (every day) is intense.

The Art of Living. Do you have a PhD in The Art of Living? Bhava.... (Goals and 'practical' work follow automatically from the proper consciousness (bhava [buddhi]).

12.15PM - We answered as many letters as we could. Our eyes are starting to get strained. Now we have to bathe and shave (once every two weeks). One b'cari, Aditya narayana (and others) is assigned to help us. He is great guy. He got razor etc for us. We wash our clothes in the morning when we bathe (with Tungavidaya DD soap) but he irons them.

We posted some of the answers in the lettes to the ASA Encyclopdia. Seems like a project that might just work.

12.21PM - Whatsapp to Atul - The work in Pune was one of the highlights in my life to that time. Next Braja and we gave a two hour class for Adi-P in the VIHE.    I think this God-father Diploma might really be a good tool. It would be for giving Bhakti-sarva bhauma one time. We could get all the Senior Devotees on board eg. Roma-pada Swami, Vaisesika. Das. They could be assigned specific chapters to work on. We could get a general idea of what the character requirements etc. are for the diploma, generate good start of essay questions, standard slokas, short answer questions, and show off to the world the excellent academic quality of devotees in ISKCON. What do you think? We would be glad to work on NOI to Bh. Sarva level and Canto One + Two of Srimad Bhagavatam. It would include the work for the previous titles.

3.42AM (Monday) - Hare Krsna! We should have posted this last night but forgot. Didn't make it a priority, but Daily Sankirtan Reports, after everything, are essential.

Aditya Narayana Das brought some Maha-prasad. We wanted to take with the devotees, B'caris but not possible. We honored some nicely, napped, recovered our voice, answered and sent mail, went to Gaura-arati and danced ... one two three, and met Yuddhisthira Das and his daughter Kalindi from Ecuador. Back to Room 4 and Yuddhisthira Govinda Das was here. We discussed NIOS stuff with excellent results and then hot milk and Krsna book etc.

Up at about 1.15AM, voice better but little fever in the box.

O.K. Japa. Blog, Whatsapp, ASA-Encyclopedia and now Bath-kirtan.

We missed M. Urmilla Devi Dasi's class yesterday!

HpS - Death is going to another world. If it is better world, why stay here? 😎

NgD - But before you go Maharaj you will have to prepare us to follow you.

HpS - Since you asked. 🙂🙂🙂 The most basic lesson we have learned is get up early and get your rounds done. Early is Brahma muhurta, 1-1/2 hours before sunrise.

If we can do that then next we have to make sure that we are chanting ENTHUSIASTIC rounds. NOI Three. It's part of the contract. So we challenge everyone to turn on the recorder on your cellular and record one round. Then skip back through it and listen to the quality of the Acoustical Icon, Mantra, that you are producing.

We tend to chant unclear Names and add an extra Hare.

What about you?

Hare Krsna

All glories to Sri Sri Radha Krsna.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Hope that you are well and that we were able to catch your flight.

I write to you after long time,

We are still in Delhi, I keep teaching 7 days a week, I have 3 classes a day of 3 hours each.

We keep a nice altar and follow the 4 principles, but I have problems chanting my rounds.

I reach home every day Past 9pm and most of the days I feel like a robot, but I like to teach, my students are good people.

We go to the temple for festivals, because most of the time I'm at work and my husband is still between USA and India, but we are seen the possibility of opening and office or something here in Delhi or in Chennai.

We have a very quiet family life.

I wanted to know if you are going to be in Delhi. It's virtually impossible for me to take a day off to go to Vrindavan, but I can try.

HpS - Ooof!! No one ever looks at the Calendar. (Smile) We are in Delhi right now. We will be here until Tuesday morning then we go to the airport.

We would really like to see you, specially Vrinda. She is a good kid and is maturing spiritually.

We are so sorry for any stress or anxiety cause to you.

I have tried to get Krsna away, but I can't.

I was angry, so angry with him.

But I cannot be a non devotee.

With bitterness one day I told Krsna that he didn't care about me, but he showed me he did.

My desk at work is facing directly towars an altar of Hanuman that it is opposite to our building. And 2 of my 3 classes are opposite toward an altar of Radha and Krsna and Saraswati, every afternoon I open the window and do classes while they do Sandhya Aarti 5 meters across....they sing the same song than in Radha Raman.

Krsna has me surrounded.

I can't go to the temple, but Krsna brought it to us.

Hope we have the opportunity to see you,

Cakori Radha Devi dasi.

HpS - Krsna will never punish you for chanting 16-good rounds. He will always reward you in every way, but if don't chance we are consciously letting go of the rope and being carried away by the waves again. How can we blame Krsna! In the Peter Brook 'Mahabharata' Dhrtarastra says, "Krsna, I tried my best to avoid this war!". Krsna says, "So did I.".

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Hoping that your stay in Vrndavana is great I greet you.

According to my last letter about Chosica Mandir program (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/9969/) I have to tell you that the ideas mentioned are not of my inspiration. These proposals were given to me by Karuna Krsna prabhu for your knowledge. Perhaps you prefer Karuna prabhu to contact you directly to discuss these points. I am only the postman ready to serve you as needed.

Your servant

Gandharva das

HpS - If he can write it is great, but if not we will have to live with whatever postal service we have in this part of the jungle.