Letters to the editor

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS! 

Dandavat Pranam Guru Maharaj. PAOHO

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

We are still in a state of extended bliss..post Yaoshang Sankirtan!! We have missed you so much dear Guru Maharaj. The Yaoshang kirtan was explosive!! We celebrate for 5 days...non stop kirtan . We stormed Govindaji's temple.....sang, danced, and of course received the colours of pure ecstatic love....there was no stopping any one of us...no not even  the police......and we had nothing on our minds except Gauranga!! Oh!! What a crowd.....sending some old links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkYgrOJAtCE    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxJT0zs8kdc. 

We are sending some photos which we had taken this time. The Chief Secretary of the State Shree RR Rashmi also happens to be a devotee of ISKCON, Patna. We were invited at his bangalow for the kirtan. HH BVT Swami Maharaj and HH BAHG Maharaj led our kirtan ...and needless to say we had a blast of a kirtan there too. Daily, just after Guru Puja we start our kirtan party from the temple and we finish by 8pm or a little later sometimes. Thats for 5 days...and still longing for more! This time our Chief minister suggested that we celebrate Yaoshang for just 2 days...the e-response was shockingly trivializing. One post went like....Dear Chief Minister Sir, kindly cut your 5 year term to 2 years!! The Chief minister has kept quiet since then!!!!

We dressed  RadhaKrishnachandra differently on the 2nd day ,called Pichkaari day....where there is a huge sankirtan at Govindajee temple. Nobody minds the colours thrown on them. The dress was supposed to be ordained on Guru Maharaja's 70th Vyas puja but somehow we could not finish stitching on time. Hope you like them dear Guru Maharaj, we are sending the photo.

Yesterday ,we went inside the main market area for Sunday nagarkirtan. Blissful ...as always . Thank you dear Guru Maharaj. Started attending Mangal Arti at the temple daily nowadays with your endless mercy. Thank you so much.

Will try all we can to make the exchange program work if Krishna so desires. We have 2 very good dance teachers here who are closely associated with the temple. They train and make all the necessary arrangement. Will collect the motifs and do some homework on the tribal patterns and traditional designs, some of them are worn only by the royal blood. How may we help each other? We don't have sketches and other drawings based on SB and BG. We will keep praying that the movement gets bigger and stronger. Please help us Guru Maharaj ...we are so insignificant.....

Your servant always,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

Your servant always,

Sarada Gaurangi DD.

HpS - Wonderful!!!!    The devotees from Mexico are trying to contact you. Do you have Whatsapp?  Please send you telephone number and email to [email protected]

AGTSP

paoho

The Ministry of Education periodicals for English (Western Hemisphere), Viplavah, and Spanish (South America, Mexico Spain), Jayam, are at:

www.jayarama.us/archives/viplavah3.pdf

www.jayarama.us/archives/jaya1.pdf

Read them, distribute them!!

Hare Krsna.

We are in the Lotus Lodge in Chosika. It is about 35KM from Lima. We are here for an ASA retreat for Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It will be a lot of fun and very instructive. We are near the Temple and many of the programs will be there. The Dean of the Jesuit University will be staying in the same room as ourselves and Abhirama Th. Das.

We are using ARTD cell phone as a hot spot, so we have to write quick to not use up much of his data.

We had Mangala arati in his ashrama with about 12-devotees and 9-on line. Then packed and went the temple in Wilson with Yamunesvara das, gave class, did Guru-puja and honered Prasadam. Then to Rupanuga Caitanya Das; home and many mystical discussions. He is about 85% recovered from his thrombosis. We had Kirtan and left a copy of Oscar's  "Art and the Sacred" movie with him.

Hours of pushing through traffic. The dangers of collision, the noise are all very painful.

Then we made it to the Temple and for noon arati, Maha-prasadam with five devotees and two cats Had  a very nice discussion on fund raising for Radha Madana-bihari with Nitya-kinkari Devi Dasi.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. 9.04 PM

Goodnight!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

       All glories to our dearest Guru Maharaj HpS!!

                All glories to all Vaisnavas!! 

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our humble obeisances . Koti koti dandavat pranams....we are so fallen....we seek your forgiveness. Please forgive our offences committed in ignorance...we feel responsible for the health challenges Guru Maharaj faced recently. We had been seeking mercy from Nrshimha Bhagavan for Guru Maharaj's speedy recovery.....we need Your guidance and instructions so desperately. We pray that GM's health is better now.

HpS - AGTSP paoho.   We want to write more often but once we start these tours we are in contact with pople constantly, so there is only time for URGENT letters.  Maybe we can expand into two people.
We don't remember having any bad health issues. Just normal Dwindling Donkey.

Last Sunday , we went to Gaura-Nagar, around 15 kms from the Temple, at the foothills of Baruni . Here in Manipur, people climb the Baruni and pay their obeisances to Lord Shiva about a week after Yaosang (the local name for Holi). And at the foothills of Baruni is located  a temple of Gauranga. The place is named GauraNagar. Very peaceful.....why does the Lord always choose to be close to the hills?

ASA - Because they remind Him of Govardhana?

As we started from the Temple, we were in split minds, some of us suggesting Nagar Kirtan first then darshan at GauraNagar later.  Mataji suggested Gauranga darshan first and then Nagar kirtan. So finally we agreed to Gauranga Darshan first and then Nagarkirtan. By Nityananda's mercy the Sunday Nagarkirtan group is getting bigger! Thank you Guru Maharaj. So...there .....was it because of the indecisiveness that Gauranga took us for a long ride.....we took the wrong route...realised it only after we have covered a good few kms.....never reaching ...never reaching...driving...driving!! Then we turned back and got our way ...this time , the right tract!! We had kirtan and had a wonderful time. Then on our way back , we went for Nagarkirtan ....reached the temple ...late for the Rajbhog arti by 15mins.Would you please explain to us the meaning of 'mahatattva'?

HpS - Total material energy as far as we know. It them divides into the eight separated energies described at or near to BG 7.4 >>>>>>>

We are sending You some photos. In one foto there is a group of pagan who claim themselves to be a little like the native Red Indians of America...they watch a lot of Red Indian movies!!    Ohhh...they have rich folk dances ....vibrant weavers ...with natural motifs!! But in the middle of the foto is a Mataji who is a Vaisnava devotee  and she has brought members of her tribe to the temple.....we were so happy....we invited them to visit our temple more often.....its rare to find tribals of Manipur coming to the temple.

In one of the fotos, we have a group of little kids holding prasadam, that was a week back! Every Nagarkirtan is a different experience....unique everytime....but always blissful. We thank you so much Guru Maharaj.

We are getting greared for Yaosang.....the Sankirtan is mindblowing!! 

I remain your most fallen, ignorant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - This news is sure to be so enlivening to our readers. Do you have little pamphets, cartoon drawings, based on BG and SB for distribution?

We are looking to organize a Manipuri dance program in the Temple in Mexico City on the 29th of April. That is the International Day of Dance. Can you help them? Can we make international exchange program? Students and teachers from Mexico and Manipuri, sen movie links, photos, samples of textiles, recipes....

Can you all help them?

S U P E R   P H O T O S

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada, mis reverencia respetuosas al Movimiento Internacional para la Conciencia de Krishna

Su santidad, mi nombre es Mauricio Rojas Espinoza soy un Bhakta que estuve haciendo servicio en la finca de Nueva Mayapur en Ecuador durante 6 meses y me sienti muy entusiasmado leyendo los libros de Srila Prabhupada , he leído todo el Bhagavad Gita ( y lo sigo releyendo), ahora estoy leyendo el Srimad Bhagavatan (me encuentro en el décimo canto Cap. 3 "Nacimiento del Señor Krishna" , verso 20) estoy muy inspirado con todos los libros de Srila Prabhupada y he comprendido que necesito avanzar espiritualmente, aceptar y rendirle servicio a un maestro espiritual y escuchar adecuadamente sus instrucciones. He escuchado algunas clases suyas las cuales me inspiran mucho más para adentrarme cada vez más en el camino para la conciencia de Krishna.
Ahora estoy viviendo en Lima -Perú dese hace dos semanas ya que por cuestiones económicas y laborales tuve que venir aquí donde tengo unos amigos que me ofrecieron una oportunidad laboral.
En la finca hable con varios devotos como Prabhu Sudama , madre Divya Priya y madre Laksmana con los cuales tengo una relación con ellos de mucho servicio y me están ayudando a comprender y aconsejar para poder avanzar en este camino . 
He escuchado algunas clases suyas su Santidad y me han inspirado mucho y me gustaría entablar una relación con usted y aceptar sus divinas instrucciones e incluso refugio para ser iniciado. Estoy cantando el Maha Mantra Hare Krishna  desde hace muchos años pero desde hace 1 año y un mese he estado cantando entre 16 y 20 rondas rondas diarias y mantengo un sadhana de levantarme muy temprano a cantar mis japas (3:30 am) y así poder cada vez más purificar mi alma y prestar el servicio en óptimas condiciones espiritual.
Quisiera preguntarle muy humildemente  ¿ Qué podría hacer para poder ser iniciado por usted?
Mis más sinceros agradecimientos por recibir esta carta, su sirviente Bhakta Mauricio Rojas Espinoza .
Hare Krishna

HpS - We are traveling and have little time for letters!    Please read http://www.jayarama.us/peru/archivos/guru-tattva-es.txt for information about Diksa, initiation.   All success to your valient war with The Witch.