Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna.

AGTSP. Paoho. It is 2.36AM. We just finished answering all the Reports in the Blog! We have a couple more that were sent separately (there is a risk that we may not get them there). It is nice having to formally only take responsibility for five dozen students.

Jaya!

We made it to the Kolkata Temple. We are in Room 301 again. It has a mosquito net on one window. The A. C. only makes a strange "Gaaaa Gaaaa Gaaa" sound when we turn it on and produces no cold air. It is starting to get hot here but not too bad with the fan on.

Such a hard day yesterday.

Piggy - Aren't they all hard?

Monkey - Yes... but they can be hard for Krsna or hard for The Evil One.

Plane was delayed by 45-minutes. A child kicked our seat in the back for the entire flight, 1-hour. We are going blind. In anxiety to pack everything, get print-out of Boarding Pass. Left Rupees 70,000 with Sarad-gaurangi DD, Hari-das Swami, Vana-mali Das et al for printing. Seems the University of Bhagavata Culture is still alive That was B. S. Damodara Swami's ambition. We gave the first class. If we just stay alive in KC then these projects stay alive and EVENTUALLY they will succeed!

Got three rounds chanted. Fought with the internet yesterday. Went to gift shop looking for Deity for Dr. Desai, temple room and joined the Bhajan and Arati. About 65-devotees there. One devotee, Prema Das (?) leads every evening. We had a distant vision of Gaura lila for a moment in the Bhajan.

From our point of view. Which is contaminated. The Kirtans do not have enough internal development. If you chant properly you can make your internal body loosen up, just like stretching your muscles after sitting in one position for a long time. Aaaaaa!

Kirtan is a great form of education. Chant, lead, LISTEN. Communicate your Bhava, attitude, perspective.

A Brahma stamba paryantam, sarva maya, mayam jagat, satyam, satyam, punah satyam, hari nama eva kevalam!

From Lord Brahma down ..... to the most insignifican blade of grass, everything in this world is a product of the illusory energy of Maya. The Holy Names, are alone truth. They again and again are truth.

Best education is to become attached to chanting the Maha-mantras.

Piggy - But we will be unable to do so many other duties!

Monkey - Then maybe so many of your 'duties' are useless, non-essential! Once you are connected to the Holy Names, then you get a proper connection with this movie!

Chant more! Wake up faster! Distribute more books!

Is today the day we become Uttama-adhikaris, forever?

How much of your identity is based upon PLANS? I will do this, I will do that. How much of your definition of your family, business, church, community, is based upon PLANS? We shall do this. We shall do that, but do all of those plans come from the mind and we just identify with them? Oh, yes, what ever you say, Sir (My Mind).

Chant and let Krsna make plans. Chant and watch the plans evolve through the intelligence and then form in the mind and then express in the senses. Hare Krsna!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to you

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Gurudev, this year was so hard for me, so emotionally. This year my plan was to improve my Japa, I began with 8 rounds per day, the goal is to reach again the 16. I have to revert. I am going to hell for not send you this information before your Vyasa Puja. Je Je

Like always say 4 principles Ok, with the guide of our Grihasta Guru Srila Virabahu Maharaja. 

My life goes well, my husband is a good person and takes care of me. We buy a Home, we are demolishing the ruins to construct something new, it is not far from my parents home, my wish is to take of my mom. We call it Radha Krishna's home because they need a fixed place. 

I keep on in my Job in the municipal transportation division. Going on in my Astrologic studies. Trying to participate in spiritual programs, and giving classes to new devotees.

We have had our civil marriage and now we will have a Vedic wedding. We see this is a necessary Sanskara for having good kids.

hope see you soon.

My obeisances.

Your disciple, who want to serve you.

ABC Devi Dasi

HpS - Thank you for your report and your austerities for Srila Prabhupada's Sankirtan!   Thanks to your esteemed husband. He is a real hero in Kali-yuga! Please start sending news of your Yatra, nation, to the Blog. Sangat sanjayate kamah. Your esteemed husband is chanting 16-nice rounds a day? Make Japa yajna a, the, central part of your Ashrama, how you measure and define your marriage. You will see VERY quick change in your life.

What better thing for a lady to do while giving birth to a baby than chant 16-good rounds.  Ha!   Ha!   Ha!

Or while feeding her kids.

Grhastha Ashrama means guests, no? Show them your Deities and all Their paraphernalia. Receive Deities of other Grhasthas and have festivals for Them.

TB - Hare Krsna! Brother Ass had a flash case of diarrhea. Something his body did not like and then flushed out with a ton of water. Maybe it was an overindulgence in Salted Cashews. Dancing in Mangala is a good medicine for any disease, even the whole material disease.

Some more conversations with Dr. Samaresh. Seems the printer may have some copies of Siksa-drsya read before we go. We will have to co-ordinate rapidly while we are in Kolkata Friday to Monday, get money, arrange shipping. Harsh will be there to help us!

The books have been so useful. We have printed about 500-copies of Pratya-prajna-pradipa, Bharatiya Sanskriti and distributed only a few so far, but it has all been worth it. When we showed them to Lokeshcandra of ICCR in Delhi he was totally convinced about NIOS's bona-fides and offered that ICCR would pay to send five scholars to Peru for Art and the Sacred.

(Ooof! The Ambassador of India failed to give us the help we needed for that!)

This morning we met with Hari Dasa Swami, the 11-candidates for first and second initiation here. He is the Siksa guru, we are the Diksa-guru, and Srila Prabhupada is the Founder-Acharya. Should work! So many devotees arriving here. Will be big Gaura-purnima Festival. Last night was a cultural program with two traditional drum dances (pung cholam and dhon-dholok cholam), Manipuri folk dance, Manipuri martial arts, Bhajan, and rasa lila. Was very very nice.

We hope there can be a nice connection between Manipur and Peru! Anandamya can lose a few pounds and he and Karuna mayi can learn Manipuri and visit here with Peruvian, Andenan culture and history tour etc.

Now it is 4.15PM. Our nose is burning (ouch) from the smoke etc. Three devotees have come into offer obeisances. We had a good nap today! Ahhh! No class. Now we go to the Temple and chant on the beads for the tomorrow initiations and associate with the devotees.

Thank you.

See you here or see you there. Sankirtan is our only care!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Acepte por favor mis reverencias

Hoy usted me preguntó acerca de mi ashram. Ahora tengo 29 años, pero mi Karma y Krishna no permiten que tenga una pareja, por esa razón prefiero seguir siendo brahmachari por unos años más o hasta que Krishna quiera un plan diferente para mí. Si me dejo llevar por mis impulsos y emociones cometeré muchos errores por eso quiero ser paciente y centrar mi mente en mi trabajo y en el estudio de los libros de Srila Prabhupada.

Muchas Gracias Gurudev por preocuparse por mi,

Hare Krishna,

Jagat Pavitram das

(LIMA-PERU)

HpS - Muy bien. En la cultura ideal, que espero estamos desarollando en ISKCON, un muchacho tiene que tomar esta decision, ser casado, ser vanaprastha o entrar directa en Sannyasa, en los 24 anyos.:https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/1/17/38/ (Punto numero 2). Pienso vale lea esta significado. Que piensa Vd? Tenemos que adjustar cosas acuerdo de nuestra realidad actual.

Vanaprastha?

Claro prioridad numero uno es como mejorar nuestra participacion en el movimiento de Sankirtan de Srila Prabhupada, ahora, y para siempre. Que le gusta hacer, contribuir, si era posible?

Dear Maharaja and esteemed Vaisnavas,

Please accept my (aspiring to be) humble obeisances. 

All glories to Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada. 

Near my home is a forest. When my children are at school, I sometimes take a break from writing and I go there. There are some very nice young boys that play there on occasion. 

Yesterday I went out chanting japa, looking for them, and I got distracted by my own reflection - I fell down. But I learnt a lot. 

Here’s the video to prove it. 

https://youtu.be/iYNpAasKS38

Aspiring to join Lord Krishna’s Drama Party

Dhruvananda Das

HpS - Hare Krsna! Very nice video. Very funny. Who was the camera man while you were on scene?? More! Before there was Crocodile Dundee, now there is Brown Bull Dhruva!

Hare Krishna dear Guru Maharaja ! PAMHO... AGTSP!!!

Ansewering your questions in the letter I sent to you yesterday https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10035/

I forgot to told you that they made a Sraddha ceremony on sunday February 17, I did not participate because I was in another city. But I know family is so grateful with devotees and they were amazed with the perspective about the death that the Hare Krishna people have. I read a message that Catalina sent to the devotees and Arjuna sent to me and said the family is feeling better after that day.

HpS - Jaya!! Is good for Rodrigo also. He is not dead and he needs help from everyone here also!

Changing the subject, I really want to receive diksha by you... and I want to receive any thing you want to give to me. I'm doing things good, but I just need to be permanent in doing things right. I just want to be able to please you and I know, and I feel, that I will do that being a good boy... my main problem in life is that I am messy and undisciplined, crazy mind. But now I'm bracing myself.

HpS - Yes. It is like attending classes in the university without being registered.

In a letter you reply to Jagad GD about his feelings about Rodrigo's departure... in your answer you said "I meet Carlos's Guru in Vrindavan..." XD what do you meant ? I think was a very crazy vrajabhasi monkey you saw! XD

HpS - I don't remember exactly, but I think I met one devotee while I was in Vrndavana who came up to me and was very animated to tell me that he had met you while you were in India. You make an impression on people.

I read your letter about marriage... very interesting for me to know some details about your previous life before divorce and before you took sanyasa. I also think that a good advice comes from many advisors, I always ask advices to my trusted people, because I think I can use their orientation to get my victory. But I think that is pretty good, even better, to receive your point of view, because your vision is too much better than mine. I always live in a kind of inner contradiction, because I want to get married but, at the same time, I want to stay single and bracing myself to be a vaishnava monk in the future, when my daughter get married, for example... west paradigm is very very crazy about it. Anyway, I'm not single right now... Krishna sent to me a very nice woman, very connected with Him.

HpS - Prabhupada says that a regulated householder is a married Brahmacari. I've seen that in many cased the lady also appreciates the culture.

Thank you very much, because you are so good with me, I think about you every day in many different moments of each day... and it feels so pretty good, it's kind of like I feel safe just because you exist. I feel safe just thinking about you, it's a very beutiful feeling... All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!

What about FMP?

HpS - We do it wherever we are. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. Then we try each Saturday to join the online workshop and communicate our results and hear those of others. Now in Manipura we are reading from CC Adi about Lord Chaitanya's Appearance.

Your aspiring disciple and servant,

Carlos Rold