Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

So much to tell you, so it goes a series of short letters.

Thank you, thank you so much for remembering us. Receiving the DTC and reading it, was heart touching, utsaha booster. You showed me a different kind of love. Iskcon is so great!!

We are attending Mangala Aratik between 3 to 4 days a week, when we do it, the difference is so remarkable, it only make us think how to improve this situation.

HpS - Step, by step, by step, by breath, by breath, going forward.

4 principles ok, 16 rounds ok, but some days we could not finish them and we have to send them to our debt account. We are still struggling to accomodate this situation. Although we work 3/4 days a week, some of them are so intense that is very difficult to accomplish a proper sadhana. We know nothing is possible without 16 good rounds. Meditating daily how to fix this situation.

Family goes great, that is our main preaching program now. Establish marriage and take care of children. Everybody is advancing!!

We followed your Peru/chile tour online. I am grateful to our godbrothers for streaming your lectures. We see your good self like an "Iskcon Sarva Loka". Your preaching programs are great!! What happened with Sancho Panza and Vedavyasa?

HpS - ASA --- No body take them up yet!

Thank you Gurudeva,

You are a very very bright light house to us in this big Iskcon ocean,

Always at your lotus feet,

Your silly student,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - Hare Krsna. We are struggling like everyone. Everyone is great devotee if they are struggling: Hare Krsna! Hare Krsna! Get intelligence and then do the most important things first!!!

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

We had an intense month, we received at Sri Govardhan from october 29th to december 5th, HH Mahavisnu Swami with Harinam Ruci, HH Bhakti Gauravani Goswami, HG Srila Virabahu Prabhu and HH Dhanvantari Maharaja. So living here is much much better than living in Disneyland, but more challenging also!! Everybody appreciated our project so much!! Benedictions!!

Mahajana Prabhu moved to Spain with his family and left us and other devotee, Ekachakra Prabhu, the responsibility to lead the Yatra, with its two projects, EL Loft in the city and Sri Govardhan, our rural community. And also the National Board was renewed and Nanda Raj Prabhu and myself were selected to be part of it.

ASA - Jaya! We are little ants, but Krsna can give us STRENGTH.

We take this service seriously and with a little fear. Knowing that it could be dangerous for our spiritual life.

We had like six hours of meetings with HG Virabahu Prabhu. Very enlightening!! He told us his whole story as a GBC.

I remember when you quote SP " If you follow 4 principles and chant 16 good rounds, administration will be at the tip of your finger" Also i read Prithu Maharaja´s story in 4th canto of SB.

Besides we presented a project at the university to link food for life with med school. A very nice opportunity to preach. With Julieta my wife, we cooked for 30 professors at a meeting. Everybody appreciated the glories of Prasadam.

HpS - Hospital food was the worst I ever experienced in the world!! Save the doctors!

And then we preach to our patients, we distribute like 10 books per month.

So this is what is more natural to us.

Any advice?

HpS - Let us read the last letter.

Thank you Dear Gurudeva!!

at your lotus feet,

Nikunja Bihari das.

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

We are studying Bhakti Sastri with a few devotees from argentina, we gather online on sunday morning. Very nice disscusions. We use your study guides, generously ceded By HG Laksman Agraja Prabhu.

Also we are organizing lectures at Sri Govardhan. Now we are reading third canto, chapter 5, Vidura´s talks with Maitreya during the week, and on Sunday CC, we are on Adi, chapter 2. On January we want to start on saturday mornings a Pada Padma study using your study guides.

We want to take seriously the study of SP books.

I saw pictures of your book Twirl your beads, we will try to get it from Abhiram Thakur Prabhu (if Prabhuji reads this letter i bow down to his feet for such a great service he has done and is doing to push this Art and the Sacred program, hope we can gather a team to present this program in Argentina also). Congratulations to Srinath Krishna and Radhika Raman Prabhus for editing this nice book.

I have the idea of one day publish as a book your DTCs, they are so so great, a combination of wisdom and art, is like your japa drawing!! Do you think is a good idea?

HpS - I don't know???? Of course, always illuminating Srila Prabhupada's books and the Kirtan he recommends.

If we read then BG 10.8-11 we will get intelligence how to move ahead. Each step is eternal!!

So much things we can do, but better to chant good rounds!!

So much wisdom, and adventures pouring down from the Parampara!!

Thank you so much Gurudeva!!

At your Lotus feet,

Your silly student,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - ASA ---- H A R E KRSNA!!!!!!!!!

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Thank you so much for answering my previous question.

Now i have two more questions, if you can please kindly answer them!!

1) In Dvapara yuga the dharma was deity worship. What were the Istha Deva of that yuga? Cause Krisna was present himself at the end of that Yuga, so were Radha Krisna murtis worshiped in the temples? Or was mainly Mahavisnu or Sita Ram?

HpS - AGTSP! I don't know. It was probably like now, different groups worshipped different Murtis. Tamasic people Lord Siva, Rajarsic Surya, Sattic Lor Varaha, Nrsmaha, Visnu...

2) Yudhisthira was the son of Yamaraja, and Vidura was Yamaraja in his previous life. But we read in Mahabharata that Vidura was uncle of Yudhisthira. How can we relate this two statements?

HpS - Also don't know. We can be on the phone talking to someone and also see them acoss the street and signal to them with our hands.

Thank you so much Gurudev,

At your Lotus feet,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - More letters!

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP PAMHO

I hope you are fine

ASA - AGTSP! Paoho. Let us hope that Krsna is fine!!!!

One friend of mine, she is a devotee, wrote to me a few days ago. She told me that she has been suffering from “demons attacks”, she described the situation to me, she is sleeping but she feels the presence of someone in her bed, and yesterday happened again.

So for me the demon is just a bad energy, I try not to even say his name I just say the evil, but she is convinced that she is in danger, she chants the holy name, I do not know why this happens. I told her to put a picture of Pancamukha Hanuman and blow her conschell but what else she can do?

I think that the worst thing is to give power to that thought, we have to be convince that the lord protects us. Actually I have heard that some devotees have suffered the same, It happened to me once or twice but I just do not give them energy or my attention

What is the proper way to approach these things?

Thanks a lot Gurudeva

Your eternal servant

Candramukhi dd

ASA - Hmmm! Again we do not know the details, the specific things in the situation. We cannot learn all those in Blog posts, but of course the best shelter is "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. Nitai-Gauranga, Nitai-Gauranga"

More and more louder and louder!!!!!

Use your intelligence to give her more advice and ask advice from local people.

Querido Gurumaharaja:

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias!

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Sobre el clima en Enero es invierno en México.

El clima podría estar frío para un desayuno al aire libre.  

Otras alternativas con protección de frio están más retiradas del Templo.

Si el clima está muy frío y si a Usted le parece bien podemos hacer un picnic en el Templo a la hora del prasadam, hay varios árboles en el patio y podemos hacer los ajustes necesarios para Usted y todos nuestros invitados. 

La ceremonia puede iniciar 12:30 hrs 

16:00 hrs aproximadamente prasadam - picnic con entretenimiento ( más presentaciones artísticas) 

En una próxima carta enviaré propuesta de la ceremonia por separado.

TRASMISIÓN POR INTERNET 

Lo haremos por Facebook live desde ASA México D.A.S.

Estaremos enviando detalles de horarios de trasmisión y detalles. 

Aquí el enlace. 

https://www.facebook.com/ASA-M%C3%A9xico-DAS-333608823489627/

Es abierto a toda la comunidad, esperamos llegar a Brahma loka con esta prédica. 

Trataremos que todo el evento sea bilingüe y hacer los arreglos en las presentaciones artísticas. 

OFRENDAS ESCRITAS 

También serán bilingüe y se ha solicitado a los hermanos espirituales de otros países enviar un vídeo corto para trasmitir durante la ceremonia. La propuesta de vídeo es porque la conexión Online en vivo muchas veces tiene interferencias de acuerdo a la calidad de Internet etc e invierte mucho tiempo. 

Pero posiblemente logremos un par de conexiones sorpresa en vivo. 

REGALOS PARA HOUSTON

Conseguiremos regalos. 

CC. Adi 7.106 

Ese es el verso para la clase del Domingo 6?

HpS -- Super gracias su carta!! Hare Krsna! Hare Krsna!!!! El templo aparece mejor del parque.... Si eso es un verso super....

Algunas impresiones o algún material más que necesitemos preparar? 

HpS - El cancion de Parampara de Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, "Brahma hoite catur mukha...", y "Ohe vaisnava thakura..." en cantidad suficiente como todos puede leer aun compartiendo con otro si necsita.

Prabhu Dayanidhi ya nos contactó, llegará el Domingo 6 , 5:00 pm a México, haremos arreglos para recibirlo. 

Su eterna aspirante a sirviente 

Asta Sakhi dd. 

HpS - Muchas gracias. Hare Krsna! Hare Krsna!!!! Muchas gracias!!! Esperamos Krsna nos ayuda hacer un buen festival como ofrenda a Srila Prabhupada y parampara!!