Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, what else is required for me to do for awaking of 'Atma' other then (Good 16R of Japa, 4P)?

HpS - According to Srila Prabhupada, nothing, but don't fight it. Getting up at 4AM, doing Sankirtana, all these things will naturally follow from 16R, 4P.
    Why it takes time to awaking? What could be the root cause for delay?

HpS - Many factors. One is that we have been conditioned for so long so it takes time to recondition.  Other than that is because we don't want to go fast.

    Body attracts for Body very easily. Then why 'Atma' takes time to get attracted to 'Atma' / 'ParamAtma'?
    Why it is taking so much time.

    You are always at 'Atma' level that is why, you are always in KC at any Physical state. You very easily
    get connected with 'Atma / ParmAtma'. Your 'Atma' speaks.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - In Kapila's instructions to Devahuti he says that the attachment of the conditioned soul for the material body is very great, but if one hears about Him with great endeavor for a very long time, he can get free!   So we do it and we see progress at every step. Should see progress every day, every year, every Janmastami.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, As you are coming back again in India (Jan 15, 2018-Feb 28, 2018), Do you have plan to
    pay a visit again in Pune. If yes, please let me know the date for Pune else we would come to meet you in Delhi.

    we also have a calander for Feb 2018 to visit Chhattisgarh for Sankirtan.
 
    Thank you so much Gurudev.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!  We have been making posts about this.   Did you see them.  NGD said that unless we can get a 1st class ticket back to India for January it will be too much stress for our body. So we are not going to go back them. We will rest here in USA until February and then travel to South America.  That is the plan now!

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

Please accept my humblest obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad!

I hope and pray you are recuperating well after your long travels.

HpS - Six weeks of travel, maybe not strange, six weeks of recovery!

I missed you in India but kept up with the blog while in dham. I read VDM whilst there and it penetrated my heart and mind in the most blissful of ways. Radharani’s mercy allowed me stay an extra week (after sweating out a fever for 3 days) and I was allowed to finish Kartik there. Went to all the goswami temples a few times. Raas Purnima night was the most phenomenal. My heart couldn’t take it all in and tried to swallow the mercy at the same time... I met my godsister Govinda Promodini. She was the sweetest!! Singing in Srila Prabhupad’s Samadhi which was the most humbling of opportunities. Thank you for your mercy!

Gurudev, I don’t know if you heard of a girl who left her body a few days ago in Govardhan in a car accident. She was a friend of mine and sooo steadfast in her devotion. She was from Brisbane although Indian-bodied (Braja Vallabhi dd).  We spent a lot of nights at Radha Ramanji and she was just so absorbed and always in mood of service. I got back to DC Thursday and she left her body Saturday in a car accident en route to Radha Kund... and my heart’s been heavy since.  She had a glorious departure, but the separation stings (she was 23 years old). I chanted on her behalf and have been feeling great dependence on the Lord.  My chanting has been more solemn. BG slokas have been so comforting. In a way, I am grateful to be thinking of Krishna and His beloved Radha and Shri Vrindavan Dham, albeit in the saddest of cirumstances. It has helped me ever so slightly reprioritize while simultaneously making me aware of my extremely conditioned state and how entangled I am.

HpS -  I am also very sad... but of course, to leave the body in Vraja is the greatest thing on the way to Radha-kunda!   You will see her soon. Such separation is only temporary. Carry on her work. here.

I pray for your grace and mercy gurudev. In light of recent events, I still find it hard to be honest to myself, and to ask for help. I want to surrender but don’t know how. I don’t think I even pray properly.

I beg for your forgiveness and simultaneously, for your shelter and strength.  Please keep me engaged and sheltered at your feet.

Thank you for you causeless mercy.                                       

Your insignificant and struggling servant,

Sugopi dd

HpS - Thank you for the letter. We are also trying ot recover from the travel. We push oursleves too hard sometimes. Chant Hare Krsna and be.... natural.  Here we go to NGD Friday night program.

Please accept my humble obeisances your feet of lotus.

All glories of Sri Sri Radha Madhana Vihari!

All the glories of Srila Prabhupada!

All the glories of  You!

I hope you are very happy in your wonderful consciousness of Krsna and Srila Prabhupada

 I wanted to tell him that my sadhana has improved a lot. Although sometimes I do not get up, they are very few times. the month of damodara was very wonderful, despite the tapasyas. the altar is lit with candles and the atmosphere is very beautiful. I think I learned some nice things this month. I have written many letters and poems that I never sent .. they are very long. I am learning to associate with you without seeing it .. I cost too much but I do not have another option.

I tell you that because of the infinite mercy of Krishna we are stable and we are going to live in the little town where we are. we have been giving as much prasadam as we can, and we continue to do so. also once I started reading the Bhagavad Gita with the owner of the place where we are. She has cancer and will soon be operated, so I always want to offer prasadam to her and her family and neighbors. She liked reading together and valued the Bhagavad Gita. She liked me so much that she reads it alone from the Vedabase.

franco says that you would like very much this place and hopefully one day we can have the place, at least a little worthy to receive it. rehearsal in the mornings when the sun rises, this is wonderful for me.

I had a small accident on my knees and it made me appreciate my legs so much that they help me collect, dance, take care of my son.

Thank you for your presence and association. Sri Krishna protects him very much.

your eternal aspirant a servent : Japa prati jalpa dd.

HpS - Is Franco doing some Sankirtan, work??   Thank you for the news.   You will become a Saint. Just keep making progress like you are.

PAMHO adorado Gurudev

I summarize in a few lines the tests that happen with the dance:

a "teacher" gave me a slap just for not remembering a dance step, they criticized that I danced alone, they made me travel to leave me without dancing, they promised me things that did not come true, many harshness, very hard with other teachers, devotees, as, everything to do what I love with my soul and that even cost me to take the timid and shame of dancing alone to start a service that would last all my life.  

 but I will keep going because I have His wonderful blessings. Something that I carry in my blood and that comes from my grandmothers is to pray for hours in the morning and to be a stubborn Indian, I will not leave what I love ever.

For your mercy Gurudev I am learning to channel this and transform it into devotional service. and thanks to you I am attracted to the personal form of Sri Krsna so in this way I can offer this service through srimati radharani who beautifully understands the matajis.

please forgive me for delaying so much in telling this. the tests are hard and everyone touches us in one way or another. But Krishna is always inspiring us if we are determined to serve Him. inspires us through enthusiastic devotees, people who value art, your own students, and many other reasons, but always the main one is the sincerity that you can support with a grain of sand this wonderful movement of sankirtan.

your aspiring servant: radha japa prati jalpa dd.

HpS - Hare Krsna.    Krsna is very kind. He does not slap people. You don't have to accept that.  Thank you for you letter.

Hare Krsna

agtsp All glories to you guru dev

we are here in cordoba with Vrsabhanu nandini and Hari vamsi dhari building our house, asrama, traying to be focus in krsna service under your guidence.  

As you ask this morning in the fmp we are here to start the Nios youtube conversation.

we are willing to serve, how we can be useful?

yours servents Vrsabhanu nandini d.d, Ambarisa das

HpS - Very nice. Can you start a channel and post the videos and maintain them?  I will send a copy of your letter to Bh. Joshua in Houston. He is helping us with all of this.