Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I have started publishing on my social media, everything has gone well and I have been able to apply what I learned at the institute, I am happy with it, it is a good preaching vehicle.

Preaching must be oriented to each specific target audience, but are there elements that are applicable to all people? When I think about it I remember the archetypes.

When I was studying at the institute I had a “body and expression” course, it was like theater. One of the final evaluations was individual and free topic.

I did a monologue about how we are not the body and reincarnation, while I was talking I was putting on and taking off different jackets to represent the change of body. In the end I said: “And if we are not the body, what will be your next costume?…”. Everyone was left with their mouths open, it made them think a lot.

Please Gurudeva give me his blessings to always keep preaching and share Krishna consciousness through new technologies through culture and the arts.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

my obeisances

Your se

rvant

Piyari Mohan das

hps/asa - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/2/21 . you know the answer to the question above. 

you are on the right path, just learn to traverse it with more depth, agility. it is a spiral.

agtSP

we🐵

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have 13-nice rounds done.

so far we have honored Prasadam pretty good.

yesterday with NgD and Dr. Desai we met Chris Canary.

We hope he can be the official NIOS/ASA real estate agent for Campus Development.

It 😎 is now at 3.07pm.

Blog mail, FMS Priority Coded, etc is pretty well caught up.

Lot of current news there. If you are Member of ASA you should review it, no???

Good letters to the sekretary.

Let us take our laundry off of the line.

Prepare for ISKCON Hawaii class and BOEX meeting.

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet [lettuce]. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you Guru Maharaja. 

Guru Maharaja, I am reading Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita, just finished reading the pastimes of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada’s final moments on this earth (Part 4 – How Shall I Serve You). Soon after Srila Prabhupada received a reply letter in December 1936, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada passed away from this mortal world –

Quote from Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita – ending part of Part 4 – How Shall I Serve You 

Srila Prabhupada writes,

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. You have got many disciples, and I am one of them, but they are doing direct service to you. Some of them are brahmacharis, some of them are sannyasis, but I am a householder. I cannot. Sometimes I give monetary help, while I cannot give you direct service. Is there any particular service I can do? 

Two weeks later, Abhay received a reply.

………………..............................…………

Abhay at once recognised this to be the same instruction he had received at their first meeting, in 1922. He took it as a confirmation. There was now no doubt as to the purpose of his life. What his spiritual master said in 1922 had not that been a chance meeting. The instruction was the same: “Turn yourself into a very good English preacher. This will do much good to yourself as well as your audience”. 

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta passed away from this mortal world on January 1, 1937. He had been spending his last days reading Caitanya-caritamrita and chanting on his beads.………….................…….

While reading this portion of Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita, I am strongly remembering you Guru Maharaja with a lot of anxiety thinking about the separation we have to feel later after you pass away from this mortal world.

Guru Maharaja, I feel very sad in seeing your health troubles. I don’t know what can I do for your good health. We, a team of devotees, are chanting extra rounds everyday, and we are sincerely praying to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and Sri Sri Radha Govindaji, for your long life and good health.

We are very immature. We need more of your association. Please live with us little more years Guru Maharaja, this is our humble request. 

In the past many years, because of my foolishness, I was neglecting the chances of having more of your associations in many ways. In the recent past of about 1 year, I have been regularly associating with you through vapu, mails, blog posts, classes, lectures, etc. and from the association, I am finding in myself a lot of positive changes. The sayings of yours for your winding up of the earthly pastimes makes me very upset. It is the saddest news I ever heard in my life. I am still longing for your vapu association for many more years. 

Guru Maharaja, please let me know which seva will make you most happy from this stupid servant of yours. What kind of seva is most satisfying and pleasing to you from a disciple? What are your projects, what is your mission – how can I take part in those sevas. How can I keep myself engaged in the service of you Guru Maharaj and Krishnachandra with full dedication, full enthusiasm and always nonstop. Please let me know and guide me on these confidential topics. And, please bless me so that I shall keep myself engaged in those sevas till my last breath. 

Guru Maharaja, I have started reading Tava Pache Pache. It’s very wonderful. I am continuing my book distribution seva also. 

Guru Maharaja, whatever offences I have committed to you, please kindly forgive and please guide me so that I become pure in this life time. 

Begging for your association as a disciple birth after birth,

Your humble disciple

Manjuali Devi Dasi

Kaptanpur, Silchar, Assam

HpS - Yes, the separation from our gurus, godbrothers, all vaisnava friends can make us very sad.

That will never, NEVER, N E V E R stop!

You think Radha doesn't feel separation from KRSNA?

🙂

Yet, it is not separation for Her.

It is like black pepper in the Kitri.

It is very nice. It must be in proportion.

We must act in this life so that when we meet again in our next life with Nimai in Nadia we will feel like we know each other.

We have met your family, no?

What other Vaisnavas do we know in Silchar community?

When did we visit there?

Hari Das Swami???

What you are doing now is best service to us. Don't change it. Grow it.

Hare Krishna Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I am pranjal (brahmchari) from ISKCON NEWTOWN, Kolkata. I serve in ISKCON YOUTH FORUM at Bhaktivedanta Research Center and conduct sessions for youth in JADAVPUR UNIVERSTIY.

In weekends I am conducting Ramayana Course for children.

HpS/ASA - Making statues of Ravana and having them beat it with sticks!!! ???

I got your darshan when you visited here . Since then I am periodically following the blog and kapi dhwaj. I am deeply inspired by the content.

I intend to become regular reader Nectar of Instruction with help of TPP book. As advised in the book I aspire to complete the study each fortnight and in this way go through it around 25 times from this gaur purnima to next. I seek your blessings for fulfiling this aspiration.

Secondly In order to get access to your twitter post, I recently made an account there. My user id is titled sarisrip. Can you kindly grant me access

HpS/ASA - Awk! 💥

Gonk! 💥

💥

Brack! 🐵

We don't get notifications from Twitter [X] when there are applications. We dug them up and found six. We approved you are three more.

Didn't approve "Guam" or "Yuri".

Who is Yuri??? Write to us, Yuri.

thank you very much

your aspiring servant

Pranjal

HpS - It was so nice staying in BRC. Thank you. Send photo!!!

Hare Krsna, Gurudeva/Maharaj

Please accept my Dandavats.

I was trying to avoid writing to you, but I was always having constant concern about your instructions and other things by you.

Again as I mentioned my four rules are intact however full morning program or reading is not that much there.

Though I hear other vaisnavas of other sampraday.

I do find myself little purposeless or perplexed about my relationship / association with the current/future ISKCON.

It seems to be very doubtful.

I don't know in what levels and what capacity to associate with them and neither I am finding any one close to your your ideas or even your perspective.

I know all this confusion will go away when I will chant properly and the holy names will talk to me.

However, I don't know when that moment will come . And there is fear of me not associating with anyone from ISKCON once you leave this mortal world.

I do not know how I will I contribute to ISKCON accept for simple chanting and reading and basic non violent or non aggressive behaviour which I had that's all I can say .

I feel solace with you only. I am not qualified or sincere for your concessions given to me. spiritual rituals make sense when you are some how associated.

These days I get up before sun rise and hear metal rock with beats , which gets me started.

My story might be same, hence not writing much.

Pranams

HpS - Cool letter.

American B'cari in New York 1971, rather leader in Temple administration, Sankirtan, wrote to Srila Prabhupada, "SP I cannot stop thinking about illicit sex!!"

Srila P answered, "Yes, because of the birth you have taken you will not be able to stop thinking about illicit sex in this lifetime, but if you follow me you will be able to tolerate it!"

Also heard, saw SP say, sometimes I think about my former activities with my wife, That is natural.

But I don't go back.

That is intelligence.

O.K. Wating for next fortnightly news from ASA - Varanasi.

asa[e] - guru-tattva, hpswami . vaidhi bhakti, mind control

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,

We were hoping that we would get answer of reports.

HpS - 😟 Yes! We have been struggling with our own laziness and limited ability, and seem to be making some progress to toward that goal. That is why we deny having lotus feet. We hope to be one of many avenues to our Guru, ISKCON Founder Acharya Srila Prabhupada.

We pray that you are getting his association through his books, disciples, the Lord in the Heart, and by using us, even though a limited tool.

Even though we know that you are on the journey towards spontaneous bhakti, though maybe not manifest. Its better to assume as you wrote in Guru-Tattva.txt

We will just summarize, we are sticking to four rules strictly, and some manage to chant.

we also did not want to write because their nothing is inspiring to reads, same problem, same issue, even more aggravating.

HpS - "Contributing or distributing the holy name of the Lord is a sublime example of contributing or giving charity (the dadāti principle)." https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/4/#bb5907

You can always post the maha-mantra. you can even use different colors etc.

Monkey and Piggy will read it to our ASA Deitys!

our mind rambling is of no help. however on 25 March 2024, the way you checked our chanting,

ASA - Was what? ❓ Impertinent, useful, confussing? Did your mind wander from the rest of the sentence?

..our four rules are intact, Japa has dwindled over 4 months especially in quality, we are maintaing four rules by subtle enjoymets [enjoyments], of history, interviews etc.

ASA - 🐵 send us some of the nice links. We can, must, see KRSNA in our passions. Eg. Krsna says that He is the ability in man, among men he is the monarch. so reading Ramayana is perfect but reading about great historical figures has its utility. Merit. for us fallen 🐶.

we some how implement the idea that communicating with you very essential.

we our getting bogged down, on thought of our VAD situation, basic prasad, sudden crying, adrenaline rush etc.

ASA - Tell us about it! We are still at about C+ in honoring Prasadam. Yet, this is Kaliyuga, so maybe all we can hope for is B+.

Some days we get A scores.

we now prominsing to chant one breath one mantra, for at least 24 minutes. and then chant 16 rounds somehow.

HpS/ASA - I think that may cause hyper-ventilation. Try as many Mantras as you can on one breath. Maybe even a few after your lungs are empty.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/28/9/#bb26345

we dont know how to maintain even out [our] body....... somehow we think that your Holiness has seen something that he has given inti[ti]ation.

HpS - You passed the test. 🙂 For 1st initiation.

on the other hand we have got introduced to Saint whom we have been hearing , who focuses on Nama-Japa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CNldKCGK80&t=29s

We are finding him more helpful than IKSCON [ISKCON?] execpt [except] you.

HpS/ASA - He speaks in a "funny" language!!! Does he say the Name of Krsna?

Yeah, IKSCON, is kind of a perverted form of ISKCON. Then there are not perverted, but just neophyte forms of ISKCON eg. ISKCON Life Membership Programs.

They can be nice. They can be neophyte pure devotees, but they are not required to follow the standard of Srila Prabhupada's initiated disciples.

I don't know if I will disappoint you.

HpS - I am constantly disappointing our Guru, Srila Prabhupada, but he does praise us for some things we do.

What percentage of people in our social/psychological group of Indians follow the four principles?

Chant any Japa, under the authority of Saint like Srila Prabhupada?

We recommend readers to Hear : Self Love worskhops my H. G. Mahatama Prabhu other workshop https://mahatmadas.com/workshops-courses-devotees/

we are determined not to disappoint you.

trying to [be] Hayagriva Avatar Das

HpS - We have been friends for many years. Hope we continue forever. Going to your next letter.

Thank you!!!!