Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna
I'm about to leave ISKCON. But not Srila Prabhupada.
I clarify.

HpS - ASA -- Please, AGTSP. SP is the Founder and Acharya of ISKCON. No one shares or occupies that position, so to leave ISKCON means to leave Srila Prabhupada, no?

I am about to leave my relationship with the local administration, not with Srila Prabhupada and the Sankirtan movement of Lord Caitanya. Actually they already left me a long time ago.

It's 2.30am. My demons do not leave me alone. I have to kill them. The only way is to write about them and they will leave. I've already chanted five bad rounds and I can not continue. The thoughts harass me.

"wherever two or more meet in my name I will be there " I always liked that phrase of Jesus. I think ISKCON is becoming an esoteric entity. Wherever there are people trying to fulfill the seven purposes of ISKCON...Srila Prabhupada is there.

I'm not going to tell the administration what your job is. Actually nobody knows what they do. A few years ago, I commented with P. Mathures on the importance of communication between the community and the administration. Something basic. I told him that from the outside you can not see that they do much, you do not see a vision. May be they are doing many good things, They may have a vision. But nobody knows. So how are we going to work in cooperation? You only know about them when they communicate that they are going to punish someone . Anyway, I'm nobody to judge. I am sure they are making sincere efforts. But frankly I do not see a north, a perspective.

This is not an emotional reaction, just in case. I have been trying to do things since 2002. I have experienced many adverse situations in the institution and I have always kept doing things. Only the hospital took me away for a while. But even I could barely move, I came back. If you look up the word resilente in the dictionary ... there's my picture.

I'm fine. I get up early, I follow the principles, I chant my rounds the best I can, I go out on harinam from time to time, I distribute some books and prasadam, I read, I study. As soon as I finished the semester at university, I took this facilitation course with P. Baladeva from Argentina. I'm busy with my thesis project. In September I start the last semester. And then, next year I´ll start my doctorate. I am focused on that for Prabhupada and you. To improve my service in the education area. But I'm thinking more outward. There are many people who need a higher vision. It is surprising what one discovers and learns with outsiders. This is motivating me more to educate myself to help. In fact I already have a good relationship with several people. I give them books, mini japas, prasadam and we talk.
Association I do not lack. I relate to Srila Prabhupada and my sankirtan group, my students and teachers. Also the sangas vituales, etc. With the administration only a kind treatment. No more.

In the educational aspect, I have already spoken on numerous occasions to retake Peru as the examination center for Bhakti sastri, however they have other priorities, another vision, apparently. I'm not going to insist. There is a group that has finished the course, there are others who are waiting for previous groups and there is a new group that is starting. At first I thought about stopping all this, also because of my thesis, but it would not be fair to leave the devotees who are enthusiastic about getting educated. It would also be a bad precedent for the administration because I would have to say the reason why we would stop. I am thinking that a good temporary solution would be for the devotees to take the exam through an other examination  center that we can access through your generous advice. The details would fix here, how to get a Proctor, etc.
Thank you very much, gurudev for your mercy, for listening to me. I hope we can talk about this and other issues that concern me very soon.
ssLAD

HpS - ASA-  Hare Krsna. Your thoughts sound like my thoughts at 2.30AM after five bad rounds. Thank you for sharing them with us.   Now we need another letter at 10AM after 16 good rounds.

Good means the best we can do.

If we are following the four principles then we are sober enough to know if are making a good try to chant good rounds. That is ISKCON: The community of devotees who get up for Arati and Kirtana during Brahma-muhurta, chant good rounds, read and discuss SB amongst themselves and then after Prasada meet to plan their Sankirtan etc.

We keep ASA that way. You can join us with letters like this or on line and when we visit. When we die we can all go to Goloka.

Taking Sannyasa means to minimize our administrative activities in our insitutuional relation with ISKCON.

So, please write again after 16-good rounds for Srila Prabhupada. Thank you so much for your association!

Hare Krsna.

Happy Ekadasi

We have letters unanswered from one week and one day!    This regular travel situation is kicking in. We have been busy all day with Latin American GBC meeting, Daily SB class, Dr. Samaresh, Srivasa Pt. and how we have 26 minutes to bath, pack, run to the Temple and evening Bh Vai SB seminar.

Hare Krsna.

Just like you, no?

Did not see letter from Abhirama Das!

TlgaSP pamhr

Hare Krishna querido Gurudev, muchas gracias siempre por su asociacion.

tengo el deseo de saber como entender este problema el papa de una devota muy querida por mi es iniciado hace mas de 20 años y El toma cerveza alcohol y come pescado mariscos etc yo pienso q no es buen ejemplo para su familia porque ellos quieren ser devotos pero El las confunde. su esposa lo sigue porque asi El lo demanda, yo trato de ayudar a tener un buen estandar como devoto cada vez que los visito pero temo que el padre pelee conmigo se moleste y eso afecte la relacion que tengo con su familia. 

Si desea saber mas detalles para que ud sepa mas sobre como ayudarme as a diksa please let me know because its very important to me. You said to me that you can help me in many ways so please Gurudev help me in this way, thank you very much.

Your servant 

Parama karuna das

HpS - Jaya. AgtSP.    We will write simply so that translate.google.com can make a good translation. Thank you for the letter. We can ony help in limited ways. We are a small Jiva just like you, but we are trying to do something. For example, we maintain the full morning program on line, we work hard to answer mail in this Blog, we travel, we are pushing Ministry of Education in Latin America.

We don't have the ability to go into the details of many situations. Our basic advice is the advice that Chanakya Pandita gives: Victory comes from good advice and good advice comes from many counselors.

Then there is NOI 4 and 5 and 10 which give the basic and pretty extensive ideas about how to associate with different people. You have to apply these NOI principles to be happy and to be a good example for others. You can talk to the family based upon scripture, Prabhupada's words. If that does not work, then you can set a good example. Yad Yad acarati sresthas.

In the end everyone has free will, so the Papa, Mama, Hija... all have to make the decision that Arjuna made to give up the association of bad family members and take Krsna's association. It is dificult.

Many counselors.

We give general principles but you should talk with devotees, people, who know the family and then get advice from them how to proceed.   For example, real marriage is not marriage of two people. It marriage of two families.

Ain't that funny that www.liveuamap.com was full of traffic accidents.  You know, in new wars, attack could come from any side, terrorist (rogue) or anti-terror so called things of any nation, like Russia, #NATO#BERKUT#FAD#Maidan#euro MAIDAN akasha-plane.org #mtfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-C3voZwpM

HpS - ASA - UG ---   Thank you. Such nice post!   We glanced at liveu... It is interesting. What you say is so true.  Back in the 1960s we came in contact with Prof. Marshall McLuhan. He has remained one of our central intellectual pillars. He was a historian of Media etc.  Get, "The Media is the Massage" by him and Quinten Fiore. It is incredible graphic experience. It is a booKartoOn-manual.... 

He said, the third world war will be a media war and there will be no distinction between civilians and military.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

HpS - AGTSP - paoho - We still have lettuce feet but make progress by the mercy of Guru and our infintesimal effort!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Guru parampara.

Gurudev, you say "The regulative principles are not just something mechanical. We follow them because it makes Krsna happy."

Your above statement keeps me focused for what Krsna likes or dislikes. Your statement does not allow me to go against Krsna's happiness.It makes me to see things through your above statement and keep checking if Krsna will happy for this or that.

HpS - It is NOI 2, no? Avoiding Niyama-agraha.  Rupa Gosvami > Srila Prabhupada > HpS > GVDG Das > ...   Also, 'Anya abhilasita sunyam ....  anukulyena ..." 

You are always there in my all spiritual activities, without you it was not possible in this life.

...Waiting for your next India schedule.

Thank you so much Gurudev.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Write a poem about Radha-Krsna in Pune Temple....   We are also trying to fix the India schedule. Waiting for the Bhag bazaar Gaudiya Matha.

Hare Krsna, Mates,

AGTSP.

Paoho & bw.

We are trying this on the portable key board and using the Windows phone. We left the lap top in the Boro.

Works pretty good. Our eyes definitely seem to be recovering.

Kesava bharati Swami has the room next to us in the Sannyasis Palace here in ISKCON Houston and we are four minute walk from the Temple by the pathway behind the adjacent houses.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

The desire to live is so strong. We get some kind of life, reciprocation from our senses. We serve them and they respond. We dip them in chili, salt, sugar and they respond. We don't know what it is like to offer chili, salt, sugar to Krsna's senses. Well we are beginning to appreciate it.

Do you cook for Krsna?

It is so important.

Even can offer fruit and milk and other Ekasasi preparations.

Can cook Kitri, peas porridge.

So easy to learn to bake cakes and use yogurt instead of eggs.

Make halavah.

You quickly see that you adopt cleanliness standards that you would not keep even for yourself and your family. You become quite aware that Krsna, Lord Nrsmhadeva has very sensitive senses and too much chili, black pepper, can really burn Him!

Then you can sing and dance for Krsna.

It is nice to have someone singing and dancing for you while you eat.

Enough.

Don't need to do anything else.

Chan Ting

Dan Sing

Ku King

for your Radha and Krsna.

Take your Jaya beads for a walk. See if you can meet nice people. Look at the people you meet. Offer them all that you have. Even if they want to kill you.