Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna beloved Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Here we are very happy cause we will see you soon. Having moved to Sri Govardhan was excelent. Spiritual life improved so much. Fmp 3 days a week, 16r4p ok.

I'm concern about my children's Spiritual life. We are trying to develop a Gurukula. Manu is very fond of reading. Prabhu Mahajan suggested to buy him Mahabharata by K M Ganguli cause by reading it they will learn dharma. The thing is that while english version is free available by gutemberg project, spanish edition cost 370 us dollars.

So the question is, do you think is worthy to spend so much money on it or I rather give him Srimad Bhagavatam? 

HpS - Hmm.  I don't know. I like Krsna Dharma's M'bharata and Ramayan. They are available in English on vedabase.com. Another is Purna-prajna Das. He wrote them for teenagers. All in English. Is the Ganguli translation in Spanish good?  The original was not written for teenagers. Did Swami Mahajana Das read it as an adult???

Borrow one volume and read it with The Manu and The Benjamin, no?

What would be your advice for his reading? He is 12 years old.

Thank you so much Gurudev.

Your fool disciple,

Nikunja bihari das.

HpS - Some of Srila Prabhupada's books in Spanish everyday with you. Others, but if he wants adventure then dovetailing Mahabharata as mentioned above.   Read  Don Quixote and do KC commentary???  Is there a teenager's Quixote?

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you very much for your holy association. I continue with the pujari service. We had a seminary of worshiping by Anandamaya Prabhu at Abhiram's house. This help me to clear some doubts and learn about the importance of a service with love and surrender. I continue with the Bhakti Sastri classes by p. Lakshman. I'm trying to understand the knowledge and apply it in the best way.

Dear Gurudeva, I want to comment you about my work, the edition of magazines abouth health and integral culture. Last year, I was difusing them in a shop, but now this will change of owner who has other purposes. So, I'm meditating, exploring my internal desires and trying to purify them. I wish to continue writing about health and intregral cultural connected to an spiritual and trascendental aspect. 

I studied and worked for a while as a nurse, then I got ill. By the mercy of Sri Guru and Gauranga, I met the devotees. I met Rupanuga Caitanya Das who helped me to recover health and taught me Ayur Veda. I studied for a short time with him, in his house and at university Ricardo Palma. After many months, he's giving classes again and he is inviting me. I had some experiances in the application of Ayur Veda on myself, with my family and some devotees. And the conclusion I reached to the moment, is that the majority of diseases are originated by mind. That's why is so important the control of senses and mind. So, I want to ask you:

1. From the situation that I am, how could I be useful in the help of your sankirtan?

HpS - Any ISKCON Sankirtan is our Sankirtan, but you can see some details of some specific things we are doing here in the Blog. Get some BBT books. Stack them up where you can see them and think what is good abot them. What do you like, love, die for, about them, and get them out.

Say hello to Rupanuga Das and his household for us.

What is your relationship with your father?   Do you have brothers?

2. Do you consider that I should deepen in any of this aspects related to my service?

HpS - Do you mean the Ayurveda studies?   If you can get a good teacher it is good. Do what you like to do... for Krsna.   It will get more and more wonderful.

Thank you very much, dear Guru Maharaja. Thank you very much for allow me to refugee at your lotus feet.

Trying to follow your instructions,

Tarangaksi Devi Dasi (t'aksi)

ASA - Foto of Taranga aksi below!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

Thank you very much for your answer to the last report. Your message was very inspiring. Now, I'm in vacations. My classes at Catolica University starts in March 12th. I will make friends there and listen to them. But, I have a little doubt. What means to be a good friend? Who is a real friend?

HpS - See picture below. A real friend is someone who gives us to Krsna.

We were on a mini tour with m. Gauri for almost a month. We travelled to Cusco, Puno, La Paz (Bolivia) and Arequipa. In each place we arrived, we had the merciful association of great vaisnavas. We learnt how to improve our sadhana and devotional service.

HpS - Wow!!!

After one year of trying harder, I'm finally chanting 16 rounds everyday, very early at the morning. Now I'm working on chanting GOOD rounds.

ASA - Yes.....   even chanting 16-O.K. rounds is quite an accomplishment.  The 16-enthusiastic rounds.   Then. . . .

Also, I'm doing Mangala Aratik at Wilson Temple once a week. And the other days, we are trying to connect to FMP. 

At house, we have Gaura Nitay deities and we'd recently started to worship them again. Two weeks ago, we went to a Worshiping Seminary by p. Anandamaya Das. Due of this, we decided to establish a standard for the deities. We are doing Govinda Aratik and Bhoga Aratik.

HpS - ... and take them to the beach sometimes? Temple? 

Everyone here in Peru are anxious of your arriving. We hope have your holy association in the days you come. 

Thank you so much for reading this letter. Thank you so much for your mercy, association and inspiration.

Trying to serve,

Bhaktin Rukmini.

HpS - You should visit Laksmi, Raktaka Das's daughter, and her family, in Australia.

What do you think of the story of Krsna Kidnaps Rukmini?   Do you do powerpoint shows?

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you are in good health, I hope you are resting as necessary and feeding ['feeding' would be for a donkey, 'eating' for a 'gorilla'] correctly.

HpS - So sorry not to answer sooner. We have been rushing, pushing, whinning, to get everything done for this 10-week tour. Now it is Friday and basically we just have to accept whatever we have arranged.  Whew!!   It is good to die....    Our body is just like your body.     '@'pop~
 

Little is missing for your visit to Lima and I could have expected to tell you some things personally but I prefer to do it this way. I have started an intense psychological therapy that will help me overcome some emotional slopes that have prevented me from doing many things in recent years. These emotions have to do with a turbulent enough past and an exemplarily dysfunctional family. I do not want to continue dragging conflicts, so I am taking this decision. I have clung to the Mahamantra and the process, however, there are some impediments that make it difficult for me to relate well with my wife, my family and the devotees. This has produced a state of deep melancholy that I have always known to disguise, however, in the last year, the issue became unmanageable, sometimes. At first I thought that any extra attention to the affairs of the mind and emotions was a way of identifying with them but they do not allow me to unwrap as I need to, sometimes I feel a heavy stone in my chest as I stretch my limbs to fly. What can you recommend me, Gurudeva? What readings can serve me as a tool to turn this healing process into an offering for Lord Jagannatha?

I'm very excited to serve you again.

Your little servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - I would suggest talking with The Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi and her Sister. She is a psychologist and maybe could recommend some help.

Not wrong to get help from a psychologist like getting help from a doctor for your gross body, but a devotee psychologist, Catholic, Mormon, Hare Krsna. They all will tell you that our process is very good tool. In the end it will solve all your problems, but if the Maha-mantra recomends you see a doctor to fix a broken bone, then why not accept that it is telling you to see a psychologist to deal with covered mental fractures?

Have you read Jung's biography?  That is nice. He looks at his own problems and of course we can apply it in our lives.

Yes, talk when we are in Lima.

Hare Krishna respected Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances
¡All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
¡All Glories to you!!

This week we are in the process of preparing the promotional materials for March activities (Brochures, offprint and trailer).

HpS - As we discussed Beverely will be at a Regionial Jungian Society Congress in Columbia in March. As many as 400-psychoanalysts will be there and she will distribute any Brochures we have!

We depend upon Sri Nityananda's mercy, to finish the designs, we will send them for your revision and then we start printing.

On the weekend we have a general meeting with SATTVA to refine dates and the details M Candra-mukhi as the official secretary of the tour will publish them on the Blog in order to receive your suggestions.

Oscar is in the process of editing, we hope that Beverly and Radhika Raman send their videos this week to have the movie ready on February 26th.

HpS - Radhika raman Das has sent his. Has Bevereley's come?

We spoke with Ramón, he is in Spain until February 20th. I have already sent and confirmed that he received the powerpoint that you made for him.

Hare Krishna dear Gurudeva, his insignificant servant, Abhiram Thakur das.

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Hare Krishna respetado Gurudeva, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias
¡Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!
¡Todas las Glorias a Usted!!

Estamos en pleno proceso de elaboración de los materiales de promoción para las actividades de marzo (Brochure, Folleto y tráiler), esta semana, Nityananda mediante, acabamos los diseños, se los enviamos para su VB y empezamos la impresión.

HpS: como comentamos, Beverly asistirá a un Congreso de la Sociedad Regional Jung en Columbia en marzo. ¡Hasta 400 psicoanalistas estarán allí y distribuirá todos los folletos que tenemos!
 

El fin de semana tenemos una reunión general de SATTVA para afinar fechas y detalles la madre Candra-muki como secretaria de comunicaciones de su gira publicara los detalles en el blog para que podamos recibir las sugerencias de todos.

Oscar está en pleno proceso de edición, esperamos que Beverly y Radhika Raman envíen sus videos esta semana para tener lista la película el 26 de febrero.

HpS - Radhika raman Das ha enviado el suyo. Ha venido Bevereley?

Hablamos con Ramón él está en España hasta el 20 de febrero, ya le envíe y ya me confirmo que recibió el powerpoint que usted le hizo.

Eso es todo por ahora, Hare Krishna querido Gurudeva, su insignificante sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das.

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaja,

PAMHO  AGTSP!

Despite all the health problems, I hope your energy continues to flow and his meditation on Krsna is on the rise.

HpS - AGTSP!!!    paoho.   Health is good.  We had to fight this flu epidemic but did much better than many people.

Please excuse me taking your time, to clarify misunderstandings so I'll be brief.

In the previous letter that send you, in point 4, I wrote:

4.-Currently they only come to Peru 3 Spiritual Master and you and you are the one who stays more days, So the natural tendency is to cling to asking for more mercy. Devotees are seeing the option to invite other spiritual Masters to ease the burden.

I must clarify the following:

1.- This idea I proposed to M Ganga as an alternative to avoid that when you come there is a lot of pressure on you. (that is, it is my proposal and it is my idea).

The Spiritual Master who spends more time with Péru is you and everyone demands some time with you.

2.- This comment caused discomfort in Abhirama d who understood that this is a threat to you and therefore an offense. I was surprised that this proposal is understood as a threat, but perhaps I need to explain this point better it usually happens that even if we speak the same language many times we do not understand.

HpS - I do not feel threatened...   Does not seem like a threat in any way??  Hmmm.   Maybe the translation gives different idea.

3.- You are a person much appreciated by my GM and very dear to me. I would not dare to offend you under any circumstances.

the last instruction my Gm gave was to take care of it and hear their classes. My GM said that they should advertise their programs at least 1 month in advance. Thinking about this, I asked the authorities of Wilson to request 3 or 4 days of classes in Wilson and to be able to make the necessary propaganda in advance.

I had to write this to the blog to avoid misunderstandings, I do not care if people think badly or wrong about me, but if all this causes anxiety to you or your disciples then I must clarify it publicly.

Thank you very much, Sri Nrsimhadeva protect you

Ys Isvari dd

HpS - Hare Krsna!     If anybody was in anxiety I hope that this clarifies it.    Nobody said much about your ideas except that they helped a lot.
Please go on with your efforts!

Our respects to you service!!!!!   See you in a few days!