Letters to the editor

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!

Hare Krsna.

8.28PM - In NGD living room. Prabhu is here and Rta-dhvaja Swami and Manjari, NGD daughter. The Winter Olympics is playing on the big screne television on the wall. Krsna says that He is the ability in man.

We answered a few letters.

Today we were little bit nauseas. Maybe reaction to the pneumonia vaccination, but we go forward.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.    Look for Krsna.   Look for Krsna. Get a little service Tweeting in the chorus. Become purified of all material recollections.

We can recollect our time in ISKCON!  The pure percentage.

Hare Krsna!!

Hare Krishna querido Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis mas humildes y respetuosas reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Espero se encuentre muy bien de salud y tambien en su sankirtan. Siempre estoy tratando de leer su publicaciones en el blog, sus tweets y tambien sus charlas en StartMeeting, solo que a veces muy tarde para mi por el uso horario.

Yo ahora me encuentro en Asuncion, Paraguay. viviendo en el templo de Iskcon. realizando FMP rondas, servicio de pujari y distribucion de libros. Tambien estare facilitando para la comunidad aqui un seminario de Kirtan, enfocado en la practica de instrumentos clasicos como mrdanga, kartalas y harmonio. 

Estare en Iskcon Asuncion por 2 mes aprox. luego viajar a Brasil, campina grande. Ya que fui aceptado de participar en seminario Gbc college . La idea de pasar estudios en buena asociacion con uds me convencio.  Luego posible viajando a Mar de Plata 9 abril y Buenos Aires para visitar templos y obtener mas su asociacion, ya que segun su calendario ud estara esas fechas. Despues de estos viajes aun no tengo claro a donde ir. Pero pensando en Lima para terminar estudios, ya que he estado viajando un tiempo ya fuera de Peru (2 años) y volver para termimar estudios no estaria mal creo. 

Bueno muy contento entonces de escribirle y por esta oportunidad de tener su asociacion en su siguiente visita a sudamerica. Muchas gracias por todo. acepte por favor mis mas humildes  reverencias.

su aspirante a sirviente. Vijaya Govinda Das.

HpS - Jaya. AGTSP paoho!!!  Muchas gracias para su carta y su vida. Adelante. Adelante. No hay mas hacer. En la comenza es mas Brahman, pero mas adelante es eligir de diferente servicios.

Dear Guruji,

Please accept my most humble obeisances and all glory to Srila Prabhupada.

I have realized that my chanting is largely ineffective because of my inattentive nature. I find that probably my biggest offense while chanting is not having faith. I am always worrying about my job, my family, my problems, my expenses, the future, and on and on.

I realized that if I had true and complete faith in the Lord then I would not be stressed out and worried all the time and I would be calm and peaceful while I was chanting.

So I realized that the cause of my grief is my lack of faith in God. I find myself chained in a box of my own creation and I miss the freedom I experienced while being a brahmacari, distributing books while living in San Jose or Los Angeles temples, or traveling and distributing Prabhupada’s books while living in San Jose or Los Angeles temples, or traveling with sannyasis and gurus.

My only hope for redemption is association (sat-sanga). We are starting again our weekly programs for our Vedanta student club (here at Texas A&M University Kingsville) in which we read the Bhagavad-Gita as it is and we do Kirtan, Aarthi, and Prasad.

In this program my main focus will be on chanting because I need to improve my chanting of the holy name and I need to learn to have faith in God. Though trying to finish chanting 16 rounds, I often have Japa left over and this is building up. I need to catch up on my leftover rounds accumulated due to my schedule and time mismanagement. 

I can come to Houston any time before March because March is when my sister’s wedding will happen in India.

YAS,

Aja govinda dasa

HpS - No one told us about Satakshi's wedding!   What date is it? Dr. Bandyopadhaya said any one who gets her for a wife will be a very lucky person.

On the way to Krsna.

Maya comes in waves. Each time we learn a new skill. eternally. Join us online everyday for Full Morning Program 4.30-5.30AM. It is not great but it is workeable. You can lean Spanish.

Make a report of things you read that surprise you. Even just 10-minutes before breakfast or lunch. Little snacks like that. You will get addicted.