Letters to the editor

Dear Maharaja Accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet !!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

All glories to Sri Vijay Gauranga Nityananda Ram!

   Dear Maharaja, i hope you are doing well, in good health, and having everything in order.

My sadhana is pretty active, i attend to mangal aarti twice or three times a week, as much as it is possible for me to attend. chanting my 16 rounds daily as some more rounds. I'm attending to Sadhya aarti and Bhagavad Gita classes after that, I'm taking notes and trying to study every text from the chapter that is being exposed or explain, it's a good way for me to keep track. my principles are fine. I'm still dealing with anxiety and patience, as well as depression. i talked about it with a closed elder devotee friend and he told me that depression may come from the mind being scared of me focusing in pleasing Krishna instead of pleasing it (the mind), and that's why depression occurs.

HpS - Could be. Have to show the mind it is most happy pleasing Krsna!!.

I'm chanting and taking prasadam to keep strong in the process.  My services are good as well, washing Prabhupada's clothes, making garlands, and helping with the kitchen and the cleaning in the temple in general matters. 

 I'm still missing something, or maybe it's just anxiety wanting me to be worried about something to give something to the mind to play with.

HpS - Maybe!!   -[;0]/\___

  if there is any advice or instruction for me to follow to improve my sadhana I'll be happy to know dear Maharaja. 

HpS - Get association in what you do: Japa, Reading, Deity Worship, Sankirtan!!!       Who is in the Temple there?

 Hare Krishna

Haré Krsna querido Gurudev acepte mis reverencias .

Estamos en vrindavan tomando refugio de los santos vaisnavas , el santo nombre y los lugares sagrados. En unos días salimos para mayapur en donde estaremos dos meses y después retornaremos a vrindavan por un mes más .

Mil gracias por su micericordia . 

Su eterno sirviente Rohini kumar Das

HpS - Super!  You will become a ISKCON Indian in your next life?       You are cooking?      Who have you met????

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

Please accept my humble obeisances. 

 Sorry for the double or triple messaages I sent. I didn't think you recieved them XD. 

Thank you for your response Maharaj - I appreciate it. 

Bheemsen is good. He began high school this year, and he likes it. But he is quit annoying, hhehe.. But aren't all siblings?

HpS - Krsna and Balarama "fight". Radha and Krsna, fight. You all should visit Peru.  Get a government grant to do an exchange study program. From one 'land down under' to another 'land down under'.

I suppose I am also annoying to him. He plays to many games. It's too hard to convince these boys otherwise.

HpS - What is Goloka without games? Wrestle with Krsna!

Maharaj, this year I have begun year 12. The final year of my prison sentence ;) I have calculated I have around 145 days more of torturous time. I will have completed 3 terms. The 4th term should be quiet relaxed. I can't wait to finish school. Hopefully then I will understand what I want to do. I guess it will come to me in time. Or in uni after I try out some courses. 

I have also started driving Maharaj. It is quite fun. I might have alrready completed around 2 hours :) 

Also, thank you for answering my questions. The link was spot on. Now I know where to quote about this topic ;) Heheh! 

I have another question: 

1. When someone has committed sinful acts and has Karma to pay off, even us devotees, they have to pay it off. But always in the scriptures it is said the chanting of the holy name eradicates all sin. Does that mean the most sinful person may commit whatever actions they want and in the end, if they chant Hare Krsna, or perform some activity, for example, bathing in the Ganga, do they still have their Karma to pay off? Or maybe it's minimalised?

HpS - In the Gita, can't find it righ away!    Krsna tells Arjuna that the intricacies of Karma are difficult to understand and when we also include devotional service it becomes even more complicated.

If you break the law you have some reaction, but if the King gets involved then it changes. He takes some interest. He is being kind. He makes some personal adjustment, but decides that for the most part is better if you follow the law rather than try to be involved in things with Him personally.

You see how it works a little better?

If we can't be 100% devotees (Chapte Twelve) then... then  ... then...  Follow the Green path, Follow the Yellow path, Follow the Red path. Fot us, initiated devotees, at the time of second inistiation, Krsna takes charge of our Karma. It may still be running but now he controls how it runs and relates it more and more tightly to purer and purer service.

Is complicated. Depends on the individual situation, but basic principle is that anyone who yells, Hare Krsna, because you tell them Krsna will give them all protection, will get it.

You all should go to Peru!
What was Rukmini's solution to Her "career" choice?

Hope your health is in good condition Maharaj. Please visit us again :) 

Hare Krsna! 

Yours servant, 

Lakshmi 

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?