Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Prabhu Jiva Shakti das

Receive our [Chosica, Temple Board] attentive greeting. We hope everything goes very well in your personal affairs and your health in general. This letter we send you is for the following reason:  Has appeared on the Blog published by your Spiritual Master, "The Warrior Monkey," a message from you, where you write to your Spiritual Master as follows: "Young devotees who are now parents in Chosica, are asking for a Gurukula. They are asking Prabhu Atmananda (JPS) if it is possible to use for that purpose, the previous Brahmacaris Ashram. " While it is true that in that message, you only collect a comment without specifying who are those "Young parents who are now devotees", we see the need to make the following clarifications, because that comment is already circulating in a forum public.

In the first place, Prabhu Atmananda das (JPS), is not one of the authorities of the Chosica Yatra. Prabhu Atmananda das is one of the members of the Board of Directors that manages Govinda Natural Products and his service is to financially manage that company to produce utilities for the maintenance of the Chosica Temple Deities.

The current members of the Chosica Temple Administration are the following devotees: Omkara Krishna das - President (With license in office), Karuna Krishna das- Vice President, Nitya Kinkari dd-Treasurer, Adhoksaja das-Pujari and Tulsi Priya dd-Secretary .

The responsibility for the use of the properties of the Chosica Yatra is held by the Administrative Board of the Chosica Temple, through periodic meetings, following the procedures and rules set forth in the ISKCON Law.

At an official meeting held on July 25, last year, the Administrative Board of the Chosica Temple voted in favor of the recovery of the Brahmacaris Ashram and that decision was recorded in the minutes. Both the executive committee of the National Board and the current GBC zonal supervisor for Peru were informed about it.

The recovery of that property is an arduous job. That house was rented some years ago. The House of Brahmacaris was in very bad condition and charged with debts. All last year we were paying the accumulated debts for electricity, water, land and taxes of all the properties that our Chosica temple owns, paying more than S / 19,000.00. Currently that house is being implemented in basic services for its operation.

The last instruction we received from our former Zonal Secretary, Prabhu Jagajivan, was that we should protect all of ISKCON's properties with our lives and souls and we are determined to safeguard those properties.

Your Spiritual Master, His Holiness Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja is already informed of the future recovery of the Brahmacaris Ashram and he, very mercifully, has asked us to rent two rooms of that Ashram for next year.

No more to communicate for the moment, receive our attentive greeting

Hare Krishna

Karuna-krsna Das

Hare Krsna!!

T. Brown here.

In the Winter, when it is freezing outside it is hard to get out to run or bicycle. Or garden. Or herd the cows.  Mooo!!!!    Chew!    CHew!!!
 

[4.15PM]

We worked with Dr. Samaresh, then
...did a lot of work on Viplavah3.
.......FMP. (44-minutes writing (Trash))
..SB 7.6. .....

Cooked:

1. One potatoe,
2. One carrot,
3. Fennel seeds,
4. Three almonds,
5.  BIG tablespoon of p-nut butter (crunch),
6. Regular table spoon of butter,
7. Salt, Black pepper.

...... . .Rested. . 30-minutes with Abhirama Das. Writed (mail).
 

Now we go to Yahoo mail. Then Kapi Dhvaja. Then walk with NGD.  Hot milk with sugar and little corn-starch. Then Light of the Bhagavata!  Then little rest.

Fight the waves in Tama guna. Bend with them in Raja guna. Join them in Sattva guna for Krsna!

Hare Krsna.

Dear Maharaja.

PAMHO. AGTSP!

Happy day Nityananda Trayodasi!

Some time ago I wanted to write an offering to you and I take this great day to do it.

Yesterday I was in the temple of Wilson until late helping in many things, and observe the devotees as they performed their service and meditated on the different types of surrender and attitude. I was wondering, what would please Nityananda the most?

And I remember the siksastaka, na dhanam na janam na sundarim ..... and aslisya va pada-ratam pinastu mam .... I want nothing more than Krsna, he is my only Lord … and came to my mind images of you and my Gm in how many obstacles have overcome to continue serving Krsna without any complaint and without claiming anything. At the age that most of us have, you were already preaching and taking risks to please Srila Prabhupada while we are still wrapped in our own lives with our mind and body. If we take this as reference and comparison we can see that you are a great devotee willing to give so much service to Krishna., to the point that he forgets himself, this is surrender, really you have understood and performed the BG you are a devotee of Bhagavata and I thank Krishna for the opportunity  to know him and to hear his classes and I hope someday to be able to serve him or be useful.

By the mercy of my spiritual master I have a name, an identity, he put me on the path to Krsna and by the mercy of SSHPS I am learning to walk this path thanks to you I am knowing how to serve Krsna. you help me understand Srila Prabhupada's instructions and strengthen my relationship with him… What would I do if I had not met you? ... surely I would continue speculating (now I speculate less) . From you I am learning many things mainly to love Srila Prabhupada's books and improve my relationships with everyone.

There is no doubt that Krishna's mercy without cause exists to have the fortune to be able to hear and learn from You.

Forever grateful to you

Sri Nrsimhadeva protect you forever

Ys and spiritual niece

Isvari dd

Note: Abhinanda d send you his offering in December but he forgot to send as “little urgent”

HpS - ASA -- All the bad things we give up, we didn't really like anyway. Who likes smoking, who likes illicit relations? It is not a matter of even giving them up. It is a matter of purifying our attachment. We are attached to eating nice food. That is good if it gives us impetous to nice service.

It is very hard for us to distinguish in a fine way what is stimulating food for the body now, and what is stimulating food for later also.

We are trying to get finer and finer intelligence.

It is like walking on the razor's edge.

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisance and all glory to Srila Prabhupada and your mission in his service.

I am not at all qualified for the service that you have  said. It is only your mercy that you are trying to positively engage a lost soul like me.

I am abiding to the rules and regulations but my attraction to the Holy Names is wavering.  I find that my mind is more attracted to chanting when it is done in a melodious song. But when it is recited without music, it is harder for me to stay attentive. This makes me wonder if I am attracted to the holy name or just the music. I think my mind is contaminated and is still in need of a lot of purification. As you have taught, the only solution is to take shelter of the holy name and therefore I am going to start chanting again to finish my rounds after sending this letter. 

Your aspiring servant,

Aja govinda dasa 

HpS - When you chant with enthusiams, like lifting weights in the gymnasium, after 16-rounds you feel good! Later comes Jnana yoga. Do it everyday and you will develope so much realization of the benefits to health, moral and mental strength, that you can write books about it.

What is your Houston calendar?? .

Hare krishna Guru dev

Pamho

Agtsp All glories to you

In Buenos Aires we are organazing with Rati manjari dd (with collaborators). There are interesting persons to have a dialogue or an interview for art and the sacred, solaris, etc.

In Mar del plata NIkunja Bihari prabhu who propose University programs, an interfaith (interreligious) dialogue and a retreat in govardhan ( devotees village) for the comunity of devotees.

In Cordoba we can organize some programs with  Jungian psychologists, dialogue with interesting persons for solaris or interview.  We have a proposal through Jamuna Tira Vana dd  for a presentations on sankhya and architecture with professors of the university of architecture. And a retreat for devotees. -we are evaluating to rent a monastery for these retreat to invite devotees for all places- or we can do it in Madhavendra puri s house.

We wiil send more details information .

what do you think, some suggestion?

your servent Ambarisa das

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP  Paoho.
6.14.5
muktānām api siddhānāḿ
nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇaḥ
sudurlabhaḥ praśāntātmā
koṭiṣv api mahā-mune

We just want to associate with the devotees and meet innocent people to talk about Krsna. Schedule sounds very nice. Any ideas you have for 'Solaris' or any of the programs are very welcome.

1. World Classical Literature:
   Jung x Bhagavata
   Hamlet x Arjuna
   Interfaith Dialog
   Light of the Bhagavata. >>> NoI >>> NOD >>> SB!!!
   Songs of the Vaisnava Acharyas.
   Sun Wu Kong...

2. Vastu, Yoga, UNCLE GISMO!

T. Brown

Well, we said a lot in answer to the posts today.
You don't do this in one lifetime, no?   So many people in ISKCON were monks, nuns, in their previous lives. Here we go again.

So, many related clips on the youtube: Judy Collins (Joan Baez), Joan of Arc, Leonard Cohen.  They are mixed with poison, but maybe we can extract the nectar and have new ways to see Krsna!

5.02PM. We ate too much today, maybe, but less too much than before. Try to control the senses more and more and each time we learn from the effort and are better. Sleeping two hours a day with short naps is the standard.

Keepin good association.

Full evening program, Nityananda trayodasi, at NGD ashrama at 7PM.

Gayatri!!!   A couple of annual reports.