Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

Pamho

I hope your eye recovers pretty soon, thank U so much for all your example and austerities. I need to learn from U, utsahan, niscayad, dhairyat ¡¡¡

I am a little delay with my rounds, FMP for me is at 5am… For instance, On Wednesdays I leave the University at 11pm so be up for mangal artik is a little hard, plus last week I had the flu.. pfff this body is a disease. But I am trying my best to follow your order. Jaya Rama

Regarding installation of Srila Prabhupada’s murti, well since 2014 when I quit to be chief pujari the authorities do not listen to me, I mean my opinion, so I just do what they ask me, obviously if it is proper. So they arranged an installation ceremony, a fire sacrifice was performed, along with an abhishek, I lead the abhishek. This murti inspires respect. And since the moment He arrived lots of things came to light. I know that U recommend not to do it, but the problem is that they need counselors, ask first, anyway, my personal realization is that The Acarya is now there, so ¡¡¡¡¡¡ He will not allow anything improper to occur.

We also participated in the Sri Nrismhadeva abhishek,we bathed 3 murtis, the one in the temple, Caturatma, Palika, Parvati’s and mine.  Anandamaya gave the class, very nice class

Jiyada Nrismha Prabhu is my student BS and Padapadma student, and one devotee from Mexico.

 Regarding Bhativedanta studies… I am not as active as I used to be, I have no time to read the whole material, So I beg for mercy I would like to join as a free student.

HpS - Sure!   Don't forget that you are working for Krsna.  Don't work for anyone else.  He is very clear. He wants regular SB reading (w/ devotees) every morning.  Of course, you can adjust times. He will send all the money He wants to send. He is nice person.

Regarding the holistic part, I am doing it, but just for me, some patients occasionally, my job in the 2 universities is very demanding

Personal life: Once U told me for a devotee there is no personal life… I was wondering about one question U asked me: What is the plan of your life?

Well now, I can respond that question:

I have a commitment with my mother, she is sick and I have to fulfill my duty as a daughter

My parents educated me in such a way not to depend on anyone, my mother not once told me “when U get married…etc, nor my father  haha for him I was his jewel  haha. Well I have always depended on Krsna’s mercy. But I support myself; I act now as my father haha well in terms that I pay the expenses of my home.  I am kind of accustomed to do things by myself and to be I can say independent, I looked one photo of myself back in 2012 and if U see my smile, I was completely happy, there are always problems but really I was really happy and that was before my Romeo and Juliet relationships hahaha, So I said to myself my dear candramukhi there U have your answer hahaha. I have learned to know myself pretty well and I am subconsciously blocking that romeo and Juliet area on purpose, in order not  to suffer, I do not know if that is Ok or not, but I guess that is something that I need to work or maybe not.

HpS - Really make Gopal, you Deities, your family. Of course, if They want to come in the form of empowering a husband, brother, son, second dog, father.....  O.K.   but why think that it is someone different?!

Regarding the fashion magazines the truth is that I do not spend my money on those I just go for a shopping mall twice a month and pick up something that I like I guess it is a matter of good taste hahaha (my ego talking).

HpS - I think Srimati Radharani would do the same.

The thing is that is now I am just interested in giving support to my family. Not only material, spiritual as well. Even if my sister and mother are favorable to my beliefs they are not actually devotees. So I am feeling that I need to practice more my Spiritual life.. I need kind a Spiritual Retreat. I always remember my days in NOVA GOKULA waking up at 3:30 am attend mangal artik, SB Class, chanting rounds. Dhanvantari Maharaja there, devotees, the cows, the horse, the peacocks, I am sick of pollution, traffic jam, etc. Every day in Lima one girl is rape, murderer or beaten. I need some break… So I was wondering if I can go to Alachua, San Francisco Ratha Yatra, or Festival in Tennesse… what do U think? Which are your instructions?

HpS - These are all short visits. We will be traveling a lot. Maybe visit end of September.  Can you get away from work for more than a few days?  What about November in Chile?   Other suggestions?   Move to Chosica with your family and share a car with devotees for daily commute??

So sorry for this long letter I will just try to write on ekadasis , actually this letter was from yesterday..

HpS - Is fine!   Nice to hear from you.

I had a very nice dream of U this morning, U arrived U asked to talked with me and M Astasakhi, then I asked my sister to take us pictures, You enter in a room and all the devotees were there.. U embraced the prabhus it was really nice :)

HpS - ASA -- Yes it was very nice.

Thank U Gurudeva for always being there

Hope not to be a burden

Your eternal servant

Candramukhi dd

HpS - How does Ulysesses get exercise? Nice photos!

Dear Gurudeva,

receive a cordial greeting and best wishes, may Krishna and Radha bless you and always accompany you in your arduous task.

Hoy are you?

HpS - Fighting our selfish desires!

I hope that by reading this letter you are in good health.

HpS - Nobody in the material world is in good health, no?  Ha!   Ha!    Yet we can do service.

Dear Gurudeva, I feel the need to express my desire to take second initiation, I joined the movement in 2003, 15 years have passed since that first contact and almost seven since my initiation, I lived a year as an interim between Madrid and the farm and in the course of that period I took the course of Bhakti sastri. I was an active member of the Madrid Congregation formally until 2015, not actively participating in 2016, that same year there was an attempt to live in Guadalajara (Nueva vrajamandala) but it did not turn out, finally leaving for Almería. Currently we have plans to return to Madrid, but before making this decision we had other possibilities, even a few months ago we were about to leave for the UK, we also thought about Milan but due to fate our plans did not materialize .

On the contrary, at the end of December I obtained my accreditation as a psychotherapist or Counseller. At the end of my training the academic director of the association asked me to be part of the training team, I am currently fulfilling the role of librarian.

My standard is simple, 16 daily rounds, SB-CC reading, four principles. I have a small pocket altar, The constant changes have taught me to go light on luggage.

I do not know if I meet all the requirements, but as the saying goes, if you do not ask you do not get (quien no llora no mama)

I hope I have not missed any protocol with this request.

Your aspiring disciple

Bhadra Vardhana.

HpS - Second initiation is very nice, but first is enough to go to Goloka.  We have thought of you many times and were sad not to hear from you.  What has happened to Sananda Devi Dasi? She has become Judo instuctor in Hollywood and drive Jaguars?   She will be the first Spanish astronaut on the moon??

Second initiation:    Are you up always?   Regularly?  For Brahma-muhurta????

All Glories to A.C. Prabhupada Maharaja, Sripada Maharaja, Sri Guruji Maharaja. 

Radha Krsna Ki Jay, Gouranga Mahaprabhu Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay.

Guruji, Dandavat Pranam,

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Sri Guruji Maharaja’s padmacharan that the work of proof reading of Prabhu Partha Sarthi Das’s Gita translation from A.C. Prabhupada’s Gita As It Is into Manipuri both in Bengaali and Meitei Mayek script. His translation technique is exceptional. It will realy helps to the new generation for understanding Gita smoothly in right ideas. His word meanings are in the simples form without changing the Sanskrit ideas. One can’t say that it is a translation from any languages. I have some improvements and learn many new things which I have no previous ideas. Before doing this work, I had already read Gita in Manipuri of different writers but it is quite different from them and it will be a new test.

HpS - Such wonderful news!!  Please give our respects and thanks to him and hope he has all strength in his service (even in another body).

I am a regular listioner, viewer of ISKCON desire tree lectures on video, audios and written on different topics. Among them, Gokuleshwara Das is so interested. If Guruji also uploaded all lectures of tour programme, conferences, classes relating to NOI, NOD, Gita or Bhagavatam it will be very help to all the deciples. It is the only means for me because I could not go and participate such activities in the Mandirs.

Your ignorant servant,

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - In the previous Kapi Dhvaja we had the link to our miserable lectures that one devotee was keeping. I will try to get it again. We have to run to different letters now. Our health is much improved and honestly hearing from you is like seeing and smelling Manipur.

<cite>Hare Krsna Maharaja</cite>

<cite>AgtSP</cite>

<cite>Agt Guru and Gauranga</cite>

<cite>Radha Govinda Candra Ki Jay!!</cite>

<cite>I am PabloParikrama from Spain.</cite>

<cite>I hope you got better from your eye, and that you have recovered many strengths.</cite>

<cite>HpS - Much better!   AGTSP!</cite>

<cite>I do not know what to tell you about when it is best to come. I selfishly wanted to advise you to come when I had Varuna on summer vacation ... hahaha ... but the mother told me yesterday she does not want me to be with her this summer ...but with my parents there is no problem…hahaha …but I can think, of course, and I can say to You something in the next letter. Thanks.</cite>

<cite>I guess because she does not want Varuna stay with me in Nueva Vrajamandala, and I will not go back to continuous problems with the mother, again. Varuna is already 10 years old by the time he is 11, and he already knows everything. She will know what she does.</cite>

<cite>I have already sacrificed a lot to be close to him all these years (and I have done it with pleasure and duty), but I think it is time for a change. I had for a long time the idea of waiting until I was 12, but it's almost the same.</cite>

<cite>In the previous letter I told You that everything was fine in Nueva Vrajamandala because I did not want to bother You with so many external things, which are always the same ... problems.</cite>

<cite>I would like to open up a bit to you and explain a little about my current personal situation, especially psychological, and how I see my future, in the light of the mother's ongoing problems (she has lost her head the sense of reality) and of my decision to enter vanaprastha. I will try to be brief and no mentally Maharaja</cite>

<cite>First I want to say about Nueva Vrajamandala, that it is a miracle that this temple still exists, because when people are more concerned with looking at what their neighbors do and trying to sabotage their projects, and trying to take advantage of others by learning mediocre mystical powers instead of advancing spiritually ... that's the way it goes, really a kind of hell.</cite>

<cite>HpS - We heard from Srila Prabhupada's lips in 1975 in San Francisco when a reporter asked him, "Swamiji... are there problems in your Temples?".   Srila Prabhupada (laughed?) and said, "This is the material world, there are problems everywhere".   We are hearing problems from Bolivia, Idaho, here etc.   Of course, we deal with them but don't neglect laughing at them also. We can make everything perfect with the Maha-mantra. (https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/12/3/51)</cite>

<cite>I am 85% determined to go to another country when I come back from India (especially now that the mother wants me to be living in a stable place, apparently the temple is not), and I had almost certainly thought of going to Peru to do service, at least one year, and meet other communities. The truth is that throughout my life, I have been about to go to live in Peru two times ... one married and one already separated, and I am very attracted to the idea of knowing Radha Madana Vihari and her community of little monkeys Hps.</cite>

<cite>HpS - Wow!   I think one thing you may learn is that the number of crazy devotees in Peru and Spain are equal.</cite>

<cite>Regarding vanaprastha, I am determined to continue like this ... or rather, to deepen more and more. I think that at one point or another I should wear saffron, I think everything would be more natural externally, but I do not know if a vanaprastha should do it. This decision is linked to the decision to learn to absorb more and more in devotional service, as my last path in this body, hoping not to deviate (It worry me more than to fall) and not to fall. I just want to find a community where I can feel that I am in the right place, and I do not feel it here. I'm only here for Varuna, really.</cite>

<cite>Maybe Krsna's plan is that I do not find an exact place, I do not know.</cite>

<cite>And I am also very attracted to the possibility of being with You longer seasons, learn to help You in Yours proyects,  and being able to be initianted ... of course I am also afraid, since I do not know if I am ready to be able to be close to the Guru, but I would like to take a chance and try it.</cite>

<cite>I think the speech has been pretty boring.</cite>

<cite>Thank you very much for all Maharaja, and please, let me know your opinion without hesitation.</cite>

<cite>Yours.</cite>

<cite>PabloParikrama.</cite>

<cite>HARE KRSNA</cite>

<cite>HpS - Thank you very much for this letter. I was surprised that you were not reporting problems in New Vraja Mandala. We have the same problems at our level.  Just like I guess Varuna has the same problems at his level.</cite>

<cite>How long have you been at NVM? Have you been following standard for initiation for six months?  Longer?   Yadu Swami will recomend you for Shelter?  Initiation?</cite>

T.L.G.A.S.P.

Nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale srimate Hanumatpresaka-svamin iti namine.

Querido Gurudeva:

El Supervisor Zonal (Mathuresh dasa) este 13/05/2018 desconoció el directorio de Cochabamba y conformo otro, siguiendo sus instrucciones asumiremos como correctas estas determinaciones tomadas por la Autoridad.

 Sin otro particular me despido cordialmente, esperando la presente lo encuentre más restablecido de su salud.

Atte. Su eterno sirviente a sus pies de loto Jiyada Nrsmha Dasa.

HpS - ASA --- Thank you for your letter.  As you present it and as we understand the Spanish, this is an administrative action and certainly you can respond to it in the many ways possible within our great ISKCON society.

We hope we can be of service to you all.