Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna, Gurudeva

My respected Gurudeva, please accept my most humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Gurudeva, thank you very much for FMP AGTSP!

HpS - AgtSP. NoI. ISKCON Bhakta vrnda.

Rounds, principles, they are simple but sometimes difficult. They require great effort, but there we go. Doing them, I feel greater enjoyment, conscious, in these latter times.

I am still here, in the material world; now I am a curious old woman.

hps - it is easy or difficult depending on KRSNA, no? it is not just physical challenge like the gymnasium, but moral and spiritual. very personal dialog with KRSNA through Srila Prabhupada.

Gurudeva, perhaps reaching a higher level of consciousness, has to do with a "quantum leap."

HpS - quantum leap means it cannot go in infintesimal, continous steps. it was a debate about the orbital states of electrons, no?

yet, our progress can be one syllable at a time... haw ... ray ... krs ... na! its eternal.

Krsna is unlimited and magnanimous; He is the Supreme.

Does this great number of expansions or cows have to do with the idea of quantum physics of the "possibilities of existence that a thing has"?

hps - I studied quantum physics at U. C. Berkeley with good scores, and our professor commented that many times people use the example of billard balls to explain the action of atoms and molecules, but personally he had never seen a billard ball and his own knowledge of billard balls was from his knowledge of atoms and molecules!

So, I don't know too much of the philosophical ideas imbedded in quantum physics, but I have seen that some of them are very deep ideas about ontology. Wave or Particle is very much like achintya bheda a bheda tattva.

Does spiritual power allow one to see all possibilities?

HpS - Well, we do not become Paramatma, but we have all the power we need to understand things for our service.

Purity gives us access to the Absolute Truth, things as they are. The key to the Absolute Truth today is the Maha Mantra, right?

HpS - At the current moment chanting the Names of God is the best yajna. Maybe the only one.

Allah.

Jehovah.

God.

Krsna.

Narayana.

!

Perhaps a comic could be made with this; and "enjoying life."

Thank you very much for your attention Gurudeva, your time and mercy.

Your disciple

Rohini dd

HpS - What do you mean about "enjoying life"?

Sometimes Krsna shows marvelous things to the Brijavasis. Mother Yasoda saw all the universe, pastpresentfuture, when She looked into Krsna's little mouth. She thought she was having a psychotic break down.

Many big physicists had very philosophical questions, realizations.

Go ahead!

Next life you may be a powerful Brahmana in Nabadvipa!!??

In the attachment.

HpS/ASA - Nice poem.

Many nice realizations.

Seems like seeing Goloka through the moving branches of the forest trees.

The basis for exalted realization is being more and more fixed in Santa rasa, service to the lotus feet of Krsna, no?

Better rounds.

More fixed four principles.

(Too much sugar is also intoxication?) Snack life.

We 🐵 🐷 🌳 add a picture of Krsna!!!!

Hare Krishna

Querido y recordado Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias

TLGASP!

No se cómo explicar ni defender mi mal comportamiento, sólo quiero decirle que estoy tratando de salir adelante en mi vida espiritual, con muchos tropiezos, muchos anarthas, algunos pocos avances pero también retrocesos, esa es la verdad.

Actualmente mi servicio en el Templo de Arequipa es administrativo, y gracias a las madres y devotos que realizan su servicio devocional de forma satisfactoria, las actividades son relativamente buenas, ha crecido la comunidad de devotos, la prédica a los nuevos amigos de Krishna es diaria y constante; cada cierto tiempo salimos a las calles a hacer Harinam Sankirtan y Food For Life. La concurrencia del público al Templo es buena en las fiestas devocionales. Pensamos realizar un ratha yatra este año en el Corso de la Amistad por las principales calles de la ciudad, pero aun es solo un proyecto (seria el 15 de agosto 2025).

En lo personal, he vuelto nuevamente a estudiar el Srimad Bhagavatam todos los miércoles con el grupo de estudio de prabhu Laksman Agraja das. Eso ha despertado mucho entusiasmo en mi y también me sirve de repaso, como también la lectura del Bhagavad Gita y Néctar de la Instrucción entre otras obras.

Mi sadhana todavía es muy debil, a veces no llego a cantar todas mis rondas, con la promesa de recuperarlas al día siguiente, algo que no logro cumplir; pero aun así trato de seguir cantando como sea y donde pueda sin perder la atención en el canto. No logro despertarme más temprano de mi horario habitual, soy un tanto perezoso debo confesar. A pesar de ser vegetariano desde hace muchos años, no siempre me alimento de Krishna prasada. Por lo demás, sigo los 4 principios regulativos de manera formal.

Le debo confesar algo, si no le he escrito anteriormente es porque me he sentido avergonzado de no ser un buen discípulo, ni siquiera un candidato de discípulo para usted, a quien considero un fidedigno representante de Dios en la tierra. Pero le estoy profundamente agradecido por su infinita misericordia y por darme la oportunidad de poder mejorar y ser un digno representante del movimiento Hare Krishna de ISKCON.

Su insignificante seguidor,

Raya Ramananda das

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Hare Krishna,

Dear and remembered Gurudeva

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

TLGASP!

ASA - AGTSP!!!!!!!! !!!

I don't know how to explain or defend my bad behavior. I just want to tell you that I'm trying to move forward in my spiritual life, with many setbacks, many anarthas, some small advances, but also setbacks. That's the truth.

Currently, my service at the Arequipa Temple is administrative, and thanks to the mothers and devotees who perform their devotional service satisfactorily, the activities are relatively good.

The community of devotees has grown.

Sermons to new friends of Krishna are daily and constant.

Every so often, we go out into the streets to perform Harinam Sankirtan and Food for Life.

Public attendance at the Temple is good during devotional festivals. We plan to hold a ratha yatra this year on the Corso de la Amistad (Friendship Parade) through the main streets of the city, but it is still only a project (it would be on August 15, 2025).

HpS - Do it!!

Personally, I've returned to studying Srimad Bhagavatam every Wednesday with Prabhu Laksman Agraja das's study group. This has sparked a lot of enthusiasm in me and also serves as a review, as does reading the Bhagavad Gita and Nectar of Instruction, among other works.

My sadhana is still very weak; sometimes I don't manage to chant all my rounds, promising to make them up the next day, something I fail to do. But I still try to keep chanting however and wherever I can without losing my focus on the chanting.

I can't seem to wake up earlier than my usual schedule; I'm a bit lazy, I must confess. Despite being a vegetarian for many years, I don't always eat Krishna prasada. Otherwise, I follow the four regulative principles formally.

I must confess something: if I haven't written to you before, it's because I felt ashamed of not being a good disciple, or even a candidate for one, for you, whom I consider a true representative of God on earth. But I am deeply grateful for your infinite mercy and for giving me the opportunity to improve and become a worthy representative of ISKCON's Hare Krishna movement.

Your insignificant follower,

Raya Ramananda das

HpS/ASA - You, me, are better than some, worse than others.

NoD/Rupa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada, says that if we cannot chant our 16-rounds, then fix a number that we know we can chant for a fixed number of days eg. I know I can chant 9-rounds/day until the next Ekadasi.

Then don't accept excuses from your mind. Do it!

Then judge by the results and take the next vow of number and days.

It works, you will be fixed in doing it, because it works!!!

Thanks for your report.

Your association is always desireable.

So much respects to everyone in Hari Kripa.

Hope to see you soon.

All Glories To Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

PAMHO AGSTP!

HK MAHARAJ! how are you???

HpS / ASA - AgtSP. Died and gone back to heaven.

well in response to your letter I would really like to discuss with my new devotee friends topics related to digital marketing, advertising and ayurveda within ISKCON. Also would love to meet entrepreneurs if possible.

Maharaj I would like to please ask you about some other topic which is communism. I know Srila Prabhupada had a standpoint very against it (https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/8/20), yet some devotees proclaim themselves as communists.

What is your opinion about this matter?

HpS - In my opinion he is against Materialistic Communism and in favor Spiritual Communism. To our mind it is not a very well defined terms and people use it in very different ways.

Prof. Hector Behar has commented that as far as he knows there is not a major political movement in the world today that declares itself Marxist which Marx himself would accept as Marist!

Thank you once again :))

please accept my obeisances,

Federico Molnár

HpS - Hari bol from Heaven!

Join us in next letter.

AgtSP 🐕 🌟 🐕 🌟

We had intense Sankirtan programs from 1.30am to 4.30pm!

Scores of devotees.

Went through the WhatsApp mail.

Looked at Blog mail.

Some recent posts three days old, but will look at them tomorrow, no?

Thank you.

Hare Krishna.

Hare Krishna beloved Gurudeva :

AGTSP PAMHO

I am recovering from a very strong flu. I had fever all day. I went to work anyway (laboral explotation)

Please may you be so kind and give me one contact in Iskcon Miami. One of my colleagues is going to travel there and due to the fact that she had some contact with devotees (prasadam, bharatanatyam,etc). We were together at Palika's beach Houston and took some prasadam.

She watts to go to the temple. What is the accurate address of the temple?

Thanks in advance

Your servant

Cmdd

HpS - AgtSP. We will send you Abhiseka Das' WhatsApp number.

Just introduce yourself and see if he has contact.

I think his father in law is very nice initiated devotee there.

Just Google Iskcon Miami for the address, no?

Thank you!

You are inspiration to us.