Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna  Gurudeva,

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All the Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I would like to apologize Gurudeva, I had the opportunity to write many times, however, when things changed a little I decided to wait to see how the things got clearer  and waiting and waiting I never wrote You Gurudeva, even when I really needed.

I have been feeling very weak mentally and emotionally and to be honest I am trying to follow my duties because I know some people I care, expect that from me. Also I know that If I keep trying to follow I ll get answers and my ignorance will get away sooner. I know that I have to continue following because I made that decition before and dubts about it are not allowed in my mind. I made promises and there are reactions if I follow and if I dont.. there will be also reacctions and not just for me, and that is what really scares me. I read once that a person gets depressed when his sadhana is not good and yes, I wake up early in the morning to chant my rounds.. and at 3, 4, or even 5am and at 7:30 (so so) we read Srimad Bhagavatam. I believe is not a perfect sadhana but is good, however, I have lost feelings and I realized  that I am unconsciously angry. So all of this makes that even when I am following in the morning, I am not there.. it makes my sadhana really bad. I am just trying to pronounce good when I chant. 

I have some questions, and sometimes I  get the answer, however, I want a deeper answer.. maybe just to satisfy my ego or something. So I got tired because I am questioning some things, I personally believe that relation ships based on love are the best and when I hear that love doesnt exist, I just dont listen. Now, here we know love is contaminated, but I think, sometimes.. by mercy, compassion or simply in our hearts we feel it.. Am I wrong Gurudeva?. On the other hand, when  relation ships are based on fear, and I feel fearful all the time, it just gets uncomfortable. So I have tried all this year to develop a relation ship with my japa, with Krsna Balarama, philosophy,  with Your instructions, Gayatri trying to have a conecction with the things and people around me to understand better and sometimes was good, sometimes not so much, but I was learning. Trying to find techniques and improving my concepts. So it could be noticed in my behaviour and words and for the first time trying not to be selfish. I could feel inspired by anything because there was always a deeper reason, and at the same time I knew Maya was also there giving some bad oportunities, thoughts and so on. So it has been a challenge.. very hard but I felt alive fighting. And now, because of this nuisance, pain and weak mind I lost some enthusiasm to continue looking.. thank Krsna not all.

Well Gurudeva, my intention was to write very little, it seems I couldnt. Please forgive me Gurudeva, besides everything..trying is my life so I wont give up. I know Krsna loves us and I can find happiness in His assosiation, devotees etc..

I am still painting! now I am in a workshop learning much more. Really hope everything I am and have will be useful in this movement someday. Also, I hope not to forget english! hope I have not made so many mistakes so as You can undestand easily. I know You will be traveling to the Holy Dham! in a couple of weeks I think. It makes me happy, really hope You have a very nice travel!. I will pray Gurudeva, May Lord Nrsimha Deva continue protecing You. 

Su aspirante a sirvienta,

Sita Lalita devi dasi.

HpS - AGTSP. We have written this letter three times and the robot keeps crashing. The only solution is to ask Radharani is She will share Her Krsna with us also. He is the only impetus for real life.

Keep on struggling. It is the actual situation. You are doing the right thing. It will build up and you will get free from gross problems and then, if you are lucky, Krsna will smile at you and carry you off with all of the other Brajavasis so you can get back to work. LEt your material family go. They also have to bee exclusive lovers of Krsna.

Hare krsna gurudev

Dandavat pranam at your lotus feet.

ASA - Locust feet. AGTSP! 

Sorry for not writing since last few months. I am not doing good spiritually. Going through mild depression but slowly coping with everything. 

Sadhana... Rounds are not constant but doing it, but not up to the standards. Gayatri also not very stable since last two months. 

4 regulative principles.. Not followed strictly. Few breaks from the principles happened some time back but trying again to come to standard. It happened due to Karmi food and excessive association of others. Trying again to improve.Please tolerate with me.

HpS - Srila Prabhupada is tolerating us. It is a fact that we make our superiors suffer the bad reactions for bad things that we do. We must be STRONG to resist and do the right thing. There is only one position in this movement that is correct: Paramahamsa. Become a great devotee on the level of Narada Muni. That is the only option.

Regarding deity worship it is constant and this is one thing that is keeping me stable and I find peace serving Them. 

Will definitely want to meet you in Manipur.

HpS - Very nice. The problem is deep. Don't expect superficial solutions will last. They can be stepping stones, but the real change has be deep. 

Trying again to come back to standards. Thank you for replying to my annual report. I really needed a wake up call. 

Sorry for being a disappointment on constant basis. 

Thank you for being merciful. 

Rturaj krsna das 

Shillong 

HpS - What is your work situation???  That is so important at this stage!!

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. AGTSP!
I was writing to communicate to you and to the devout readers of the blog, that already two weeks ago I began my classes in the university. I am following the master degree in university in teaching.
Since 2007 you recommended that I go back to college. However, the opportunity to study bhakti sastri was presented. A pioneering group of 10 devotees who later expanded the program to Lima, the provinces of Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and various Spanish-speaking countries. Previously there was only one devotee bhakti sastri in Peru, P. Ramacandra. After this first revolution (viplavah), ASA has graduated about 70 bhakti sastris. Then came the Bhakti Vaibhava, then the new course of Bhaktas, the Course of Disciples and now the Bhaktivedanta. The revolution continues!
 

So now, I am returning to my own professional training at the oldest and most prestigious University of Education in Peru, La Cantuta, where we have been doing programs with you for over 10 years.
 

The objective is to put ISKCON courses in terms of current academic requirements and to create others as required so that they can be presented in formal institutions as credible academic courses under state law. I am directing my thesis in that sense and I hope to receive your suggestions, dear Gurudeva. Creating curricula, reading guides, adapting didactic techniques to the study of sastras, dynamics for practices, etc. will be a fascinating adventure.
I am reviewing various theoretical and design bases that I will apply gradually. I am also enriching myself with the experiences of other colleagues and teachers. Always thinking about Srila Prabhupada and you. Every time I hear something I wonder: how would Srila Prabhupada say this?. What will Hanumatpresaka Swami think of it? Oh, this is in the NOI! Yes, ISKCON needs this ... etc.
I will tell you little by little my experiences to enrich us all.
Thanks to the blessings of you and the devout readers of this fabulous blog I managed to enter the university. Now please give me your blessings to continue steadfastly in my determination to contribute something to Srila Prabhupada's wonderful ISKCON to continue the revolution he initiated.
Your servant,
Laksmana-agraja 
"We must know the present need of human society ... (SB) it is a cultural presentation for the respectfulness of the entire human society ... meant to bring about a revolution in the impious life of a misdirected civilization." SB preface

VIPALVAH!

EL PUEBLO UNIDO JAMÁS SERÁ VENCIDO! 
THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED!

HpS - All glories to the United People.  ..    Thank you for your letter. Of course, we talked on the phone about all these very related things with ISKCON's educational needs.  Please send us more news and reports here.

Sharing Prasadam with your teachers and classmentes.

There is nothing to do but to go ahead. We are on the right path. The process now is to move faster and more deeply.

{Ganesa is the deity of the people. Ignorance and goodness. Not much passion}

Todas las glorias sean a Sri Sri Gaura Nitay
Todas las glorias sean a A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Todas las glorias sean a los Vaisnavas del Señor

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias guru maharaj, aquí estamos en buenos aires argentina, gracias por su misericordia al permitirme viajar. aquí hay 9 brahmacaris, así que me siento muy contento por la asociación. Se desarrollan bastantes actividades de predica como clases de bhagavad-gita, harinam sankirtan por las calles, distribución de libros, dias de kirtan en el templo para la congregación, etc. gradualmente valoro mas el proceso, pues he leído pasatiempos muy profundos e instrucciones de krsna y sus devotos, gracias a la asociación. hace poco pensaba que realmente sin la asociación de los devotos no tendría ningun control sobre mi mismo, ni podría ver los errores que cometo y trabajarlos. estoy muy dichoso por la asociación! le pido disculpas si me he inundado de conocimiento avanzado para mi ignorancia (tal como srimad bhagavatam, caitanya caritamrta, nectar de la devoción, rasa entre krsna y los habitantes de vrindavan, los extasis de sri caitanya mahaprabhu, etc), pero es por la asociación con devotos mayores y situaciones especiales que tengo la oportunidad de oir y purificar mi corazón, y le pido su misericordia para que pueda mantenerme en ese nectar que tanto he ansiado... le ofrezco mis reverencias nuevamente. trato de asistir a sus lecturas en startmeeting y llenar lo mas posible de servicio el tiempo que dispongo en este mundo, mientras este aquí. le agradezco inmensamente todo, ya que lo que estoy viviendo no es más que por la misericordia suya, la de srila prabhupada, la de los vaisnavas que me ayudan, la de krsna y la de radharani, que permiten que mi sucio e insignificante servicio sea tomado en cuenta...

tengo unas preguntas que me gustaría hacerle, le pido humildemente que por favor me las responda.

¿cuál es el significado del kaupina? y ¿cómo surge esa vestimenta? pues la he observado en imagenes del bhagavatam desde tiempos muy antiguos.

con el paso del tiempo, voy conociendo anarthas cada vez mas profundos en mi personalidad, tal como un iceberg! sin tomar en cuenta el sufrimiento que vivo al sentirme muy contaminado, intento generar el entusiasmo para seguir purificandome y enfrentarme ante mi cara mas oscura. he aprendido gracias a los devotos que hay contaminaciones densas y sutiles, y siento que sutilmente tengo deseos reconocimiento, de ser reconocido por lo que hago, u observado por mi servicio. lo visualice un dia mientras cantaba los santos nombres en la japa mala, y siempre lo tuve, pero esa vez lo vi claramente, y quería preguntarle ¿cómo enfrentar este anartha y trabajarlo?

Le agradezco infinitamente toda su contribución a mi vida y a la del mundo, sin más que decir, se despide su aspirante a sirviente, mandara sakha dasa.

Le adjunto algunas imágenes de un harinam por las calles

HpS - Hare Krsna. Desculpa demurra responder. Estuvimos en pleno panico arrelgando todo part esta viaje a India-Australia.

Su carta aparece super. Aparece ya hay buen ashrama de B'caris in BsAs. Por nuestra experiencia a vexes hay, a veces no hay. Cuando hay tomamos apoyo de la oportunidad y cuando no hay esforzamos adelantar con paciencia (NOI 3) Como podemos.

Hare Krsna.

Es facial ver La contamination en la Corazon y ver como stamps mad y mad libre de eats locura.

Adelante...  Krsna espera su regresa. Hay mucho hacer.   Quienes alla en el templo?? Gracias pot los fotos. Sentimos mucho separation del templo de BsAs.

Hare Krsna Maharaj, 

Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your preaching efforts and wisdom!

Maharaj, this is Anadi Radha dasi from Boise, Idaho. I was hoping to ask you a question regarding an experience I had recently.

HpS - ASA -- Our honor!

Around the beginning of August 2017, one of my teacher mentors from my high school who is now more of a friend (HS was almost 10 years ago) came to visit me at my apartment (I currently live on the temple grounds right next to Tulsi Kunja at New Biharvan). She knows devotees in Peru (she's a spanish teacher) and was telling me one devotee she knows there just recently got engaged to a girl named Tulsi. She also shared with me how she loved chanting with this group she's associated with and she just got a meditation pillow. In the spirit of such a conversation I asked if she would be interested in chanting Hare Krsna on japa beads and that I would be more than happy to give her some. So I brought out a bag with two japa malas, one neem and one tulsi, planning to give her the neem, as she still eats meat. She asked me she liked the other, darker beads, the tulsi beads. I kindly told her that Tulsi is one of those plants very sacred to Krsna and devotees, that she is given very special care and devotion. Because of these factors, its better to start out with the neem beads, and get tulsi beads later after you really get to chanting. So I gave her the neem beads. I felt I was kind, however, I also felt I conveyed a little separatist mentality. I also thought maybe her draw to Tulsidevi and the fact she was talking about this Tulsi girl was an indicator that.. she could have been okay to take the beads. Maybe Tulsidevi would be her inspiration in Krsna Consciousness. Because afterall, the first devotee I met gave me tulsi neckbeads... 

After thinking a bit about it and feeling a bit uncomfortable with my choice, I asked Anantarupa Prabhu about the incident and his thoughts. He told me I did the right thing, but maybe for a little more information and input, I could ask you for some instruction on your blog. 

I always thought giving Tulsi to nondevotees was sort of wrong, and I still feel that way, but I'm also open to Krsna's will...

Maharaj, could you share what you think about this subject matter? 

Thank you so much.

Yhs, Anadi Radha dasi

HpS - Wow. Great question. We would feel hesitant to give Tulasi unless the person was Sattvic, vegetarian, etc. We give little 18-bead Malas that we import by the bag full from Mexico, pine. Look nice, not too many beads, fit in you bag.

But Vijitatma Das, our B'cari partner, and great Sankirtan man since 1974 or more distributes Tulasi beads to attract people to buy books. He is still distributing books. Maybe it works for book distributors but us folk have to be more careful until we some to their level.

That's all I could say. Thank you. Hope to see you soon.

Hare Krishna Gurudev,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope this meets you in good health and momentum. In Benelux we have a monthly kirtan event (called Kirtan Connection), taking place in a different centre every month. Last week i learned that the organization stopped because the person who organized had a hard time to get things organized every month with every centre's and everyone's enthusiasm. I took the opportunity to take over, and after some inquiry i concluded it is good to make it into a bi-monthly event. More dates being optional. I'm very happy to have this chance for service, and i hope to receive your blessing for this faltering initiate's undertaking.

ASA - May God bless you very much!

Regarding sadhana, things are going with ups and downs in enthusiasm. Sadhana is fluctuating, heavily depending on my schedule. Sometimes my schedule is more suitable and i can do reasonably well (still sub-par though) while at other times it's just doing whatever i can. So basically i'm running behind the caravan, trying to catch up one day soon. I ask myself sometimes why it is so hard to find and spend 2,5 hours a day on japa. (Sleeping less is no option, i learned).

ASA - Because you are ignorant!  You have not yet learned that EVERYTHING will improve at the maximum possible rate with improved Japa. We know you are ignerant because we are also ignerant.

We visit sunday feast as often as possible and had a kirtan event in our house last weekend.

ASA - Super.... !.

Also i've finished some nice memories books recently. I look forward to having the chance one day to visit the States and have ample time to be somewhere close without bothering, and deepen our relationship. I think about diksha often. Basically i still wallow in self pity for lagging behind but i take comfort in your remark that whatever is being done, will add up to forever. But i think i mentioned this before.

Your aspiring servant,
Raghava pandita dasa.

ASA - We think about you often. Maybe we will see you very soon. We will be in Europe Thursday.   You news is just wonderful.  Keep trying and soon you will be LEADING the caravan or at least one branch.