Letters to the editor

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias. Todas las glorias a usted, todas las glorias a srila Prabhupada.

Hemos estado participando en las ferias del libro junto con devotos como prabhu aravinda, Nrsimha krpa prabhu y otros. Estas ferias se han llevado a cabo en Puebla y Guadalajara, esta última siendo la más grande en Latinoamérica. Quisiéramos poder mostrarle las fotos, pero no se puede.

Gracias a su misericordia y a la Prabhupada y todo el parampara se lograron distribuir poco más de 2000 libros en ese par de semanas que duraron las ferias.

ASA - No temenos nada decir. Es super.

Ahora nos encontramos participando en la maratón de diciembre de Sankirtan. Estamos en Morelia. Nos esforzamos por tener una buena consciencia al hacer este servicio.

También nos sentimos muy felices de poder tener de nuevo su asociación en un día tan especial como su vyasa-puja. Necesitamos su asociación para poder mantenernos en el servicio.

Nos han extendido la invitación también para participar en un programa de prédica en Panamá durante casi 4 meses (enero-abril), para cubrir a un devoto que irá a India. Nos sentimos inspirados por dicha oportunidad. Regresando para iniciar los trámites para ingreso a la universidad.

Esperamos algún día poder servirlo adecuadamente en su Sankirtan y así complacer a Prabhupada. ¿Qué podemos hacer por usted? Le debemos tanto...por favor ocúpenos. 🙏

HpS - No hay nada especial en esta punto. Tu estas tan ocupado, solamente no deja continuar. Hacer bueno es bueno, pero continuando hacer bueno es mas bueno. Nos vemos en una semana.

Su aspirante a discípulo Bhakta Héctor.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada nuestro Acarya fundador.

Permítame presentar ante usted mis humildes reverencias.

Aquí nuevamente a sus pies el devoto mormon 😊.

HpS - Hare Krsna. Aqui el devote "Episcopalean" (Anglicano). Bueno oir de Vd. Desculpa demurra responder. Poco detras por el viaje a Sud America.

Estas dos semanas han sido una experiencia espiritual maravillosa, difícil de sintetizarla aún cuando fueron pocos días. Lo intentaré con frases cortas.

Vrindavan no es un lugar ordinario por lo que requiere verla con ojos espirituales y eso fue lo que hice.

Pude sentir la misericordia de Krishna en cada paso que di.

El puso en mi camino devotos y devotas que fueron de vital ayuda en su asociación conmigo.

Aproveche la oportunidad de ir todos los días que estuve en Vrindavan al Mangal aratik .

Realice parikram en Vrindavan, Govardhan y Mathura.

Cada día he realizado más de 16 rondas, empezaba en la casa de SP a los pies de su lecho y continuaba en cualquier momento del día, siempre era propicio para recitar el santo nombre.

El estar al frente de sus señorías me ha hecho experimentar el verdadero sentido de la humildad.

El ver a otros devotos me ha llenado de emoción e incentivo para poder seguir adelante. Ellos son un ejemplo para mí.

Me he sentido tan insignificante ante la grandeza del Supremo.

Siento que parte de mi se ha quedado en Vrindavan y sufro de nostalgia al pensar que debo de esperar para volver a ir.

Ha crecido en mi un sentimiento de gratitud y amor por SP, su obra es tangible y enorme. Estando frente al Krishna Balaram mandir mi corazón se ha conmovido muchas veces , haciendo que broten lágrimas de mis ojos.

Me he sentido escuchado en mis oraciones y he sido respondido. Vrindavan es la tierra de los deseos cumplidos.

Ahora lejos de la tierra de Radharani, continuo motivado en la práctica de la conciencia de Krishna llevando conmigo la experiencia hermosa de lo vivido.

Perdoname por extenderme Gurudeva, pero desde que llegué no puedo parar de compartir con todos mi felicidad.

Espero que Krishna te bendiga con salud , para poder seguir siendo bendecido con tu guía.

Tu inútil aunque fiel sirviente.

Bhakta Gino.

HpS - Esta solo o con su estimada esposa, familia, otros devotos de su comunidad? Todo lo que Vd dice es verdad. No hay mas decir.

Sri Vrndavana Mahimamrta

Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrndavana-dhama

by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura

(Translated by Kusakratha Dasa)

Sataka One

1 Meditating on the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha-Muralimanohara, placing myself at the dust of Lord Caitanya’s feet, and respectfully offering obeisances to the great devotees of the Lord, who are so many oceans of transcendental virtue, I shall now happily begin to praise the transcendental opulences of Sri Vrndavana.

2 I am not strong enough to go to the far shore of the great nectar ocean of Vrndavana’s glories. Who can go there? However, because I love Vrndavana I will now dip into that ocean. I pray that this endeavor may become successful and bring an auspicious result.

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AGTSP Paoho. This letter arrived with no Letter Text! HpS - ASA

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Letter to the educators coming to the ISKCON Pune conference.

AGTSP paoho I talked with Radha-Krsna Das for 34-minutes today. He is one of our greatest inspirations for work in Sastric Education in North America. We have a team of about five people now and are identifying our situation and how to go ahead.

Reviewing:

1) I think a simple, short answer, test from a good Question Bank of many, many, practical questions from the books is an essential for evaluation eg. what are the three mode, three levels of devotees, three types of suffering.

2) Short closed and open book essay questions oriented to practical application and preaching challenges that test for citations from the books.

3) Association with authorized teachers and fellow Students. This can be on-line in various degrees. With visiting scholars and required attendance in residential programs eg. RKD and I et al are planning a Retreat in Houston at the end of March that would require applicants for Bh. Sastri etc to all attend. Teachers and Students can associate. Students can be properly evaluated.

4) Certain number of hours.

5) Parallel lines of authority. Temples have to keep a standard of Deity worship in terms of the Ministry of Deity Worship, so there should be a standard of hearing and chanting to be certified as a Temple. Other side diplomas should not be granted without Temple perspective.

6) The BOEX at the current moment should be doing 70% academic evaluation and 30% character evaluation unless it is a case where the Teacher is also a part of the relevant Temple.

Offer variety of curriculum for different types of students.

7)All this will take time, my commitment, group work, to implement but we were the first to read one letter from Srila Prabhupada where he responded to Sriman Jayatirtha Das comments that we have discovered that preaching is good in Berkeley by saying "you have discovered that preaching is good in Berkeley because you have made the endeavor there. Anywhere you that you make the endeavor you will discover that preaching is good".

Is this in general line with everyone else's thinking?

Thank you.

HpS - ASA

Dear Guru Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

I wish I could offer some new images for your appearance day, but it looks like just a letter will have to do for now since the uploaders out of commission...

Now that my chaotic life is finally starting to stabilize, and I’ve had some time to reflect and process all the ideas and experiences that have brought me to this place, I feel more able to say something meaningful to summarize all this silence.

HpS - ASA --- Yes, AGTSP, paoho, very nice to hear from you!! .. but, you life is starting to stabalize must mean that you are advancing in Sadhana Bhakti, no? Otherwise any perception of stablility in Kali yuga is a trick of The Evil One, no?

I’m still here at Kalachandji Dham, I got your Twirl Your Beads compilation last week and read it the other day. I always learn a great deal from the way you apply yourself to the small battles in your Bhajan. I love the illustrations in there from your mailbox gazette too! I heard you’re coming to Dallas in January so I look forward to catching up and I especially look forward to your Sacred Art film.

HpS - No, look at the Calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja. It is always updated. We go to Houston 2-9th with side trip to Mexico City Sunday and Monday for Vyasa puja.

Reivin and I have been working well as a team so far, though it’s taken some time to build the foundation of our relationship. We are so different in some ways and yet I feel like I have more in common with her than practically anyone else. She has been serving here as a Kalachandji-dham vasi for years, taking shiksha mainly with H.H. Kesava Bharati Maharaj for some time, although currently she is studying under the author and astrologer Kavindra Rsi Prabhu, also known as Jamadagni Das, or Jeffrey Armstrong, the lyricist of the Golden Avatar band.

HpS - We knew him a little whem Hansadutta Das was in Berkeley and from our visits to Santa Cruz. That was a long time ago. He was a very brilliant and even passionate person. Long time ago!

Reivin serves a pair of Nitaichandra Gaursundar deities she rescued from a tire shop one time, so we make offerings and chant with them every day. She has been doing some great art-Kirtan in Dallas lately... not long ago her band got to open and sing the chorus “Jaya Vrndavan” during the Texas senate campaign where she was able to distribute a Bhagavad Gita to Beto O’Rourke, a likely presidential candidate in 2020.

As for me, I haven’t had such dramatic success yet, but I’ve got some exciting things in the tubes. My focus has been on understanding my role in the world and the sankirtan movement, which I see as complimentary. I’m working, studying, creating, and maintaining sadhana as best I can while I’ve gotten valuable experience in packing, shipping, storing, and installing artwork; and I’ve made contacts with curators, museums, galleries, and collectors all over Texas. I’ve been stretched too thin to produce very much (or even keep in touch with people) lately, but I’ve read well over 50 books since I moved, in addition to numerous online courses, to develop the conceptual framework and archetypal language of the art theory I’m formulating. I’m drawing on my background as an activist in order to channel the revolutionary spirit of this age in a direction based on personalism, prioritizing self-reliance and social responsibility, which create the best conditions for self realization and Krishna Bhakti.

The world needs a new vision of hope for the future to unite people and I feel intensely the time coming when I will have to step up to do what Krishna has been preparing me for all my life.

HpS - You can write for our magazine, Solaris. Once a year so far but includes Nobel Prize candidates and other very nice people. It is really starting to have an impact.

Although in comparison to my time as a brahmacari my adherence to rules and regs is less strict, I chant 16 good rounds every day, I have a commitment to read Bhagavatam by the end of this year, and I have never felt more clearly about who I am, what the world is, and what I’m here to accomplish. Despite the hardship, life is thrilling and full of meaning, and I feel that I’ve finally crossed a threshold in this incubation cycle where soon I will start to see the things I’ve been quietly working on slowly start coming to fruition. I hope that despite all my faults the final result will be acceptable to you and Sri Nrsimhadeva. Now that I’m finally starting to come out of poverty, I’d also like to start making regular donations to your sankirtan if you would be generous enough to send me that information. Thank you so much for all you do, maharaj, you are truly a light in these dark times.

your servant,

Ekāśma Dās/bhakta Eric

HpS - Jaya! I guess you can always send checks, monkey orders, to NIOS; 2129 Stratford Rd.; Murfeesbor, TN 37129, Payable to NIOS, but your pure chanting is the best help and whatever follows from that.

PLEASE - Post a report in the REPORT page here! Maybe we see you in Houston!!! Respects to Reivin et al!