Letters to the editor

Querido Gurudeva

acepte mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

y Al movimiento de Sankirtan de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

nada Nuevo desde la ultima carta

seguimos en movimiento hacia el final de nuestra vida

la energía está compuesta de energía positiva y negativa y eso mueve máquinas da luz etc

En nuestra vida es necesario esta movimiento de positivas y negativas experiencias

y es por eso que Krishna explica que no debemos lamentarnos porque es de la manera que el diseño

bueno estoy compartiendo mis realizaciones con Ud y los devotos

también quiero compartir una joya que he encontrado

espero que les guste

uno puede recordar la historia de nuestro Señor Ram

su sirviente

Murari das

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Dear Gurudeva

Accept my humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

and To the Sankirtan movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

nothing new since the last letter

we are still moving towards the end of our lives

Energy is composed of positive and negative energy and that moves machines, gives light, etc.

In our lives this movement of positive and negative experiences is necessary.

and that is why Krishna explains that we should not lament because it is the way the design

well I am sharing my achievements with you and the devotees

I also want to share a gem that I have found

hope you like

one can remember the story of our Lord Ram

his servant

Murari das

HpS/ASA - The attach picture is a gem. Devata delivering magical sweet rice for queens to get Rama, Laksmana, Satrugna and Bharata as children.

Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaj 🙏

PAMHO🙇🏻‍♀️

All glories to YOU 🙏

AGTSP 🙏🏻

Dear Guru Maharaj ,

I am Brajeshwari Radhey Devi Dasi from Silchar,Assam (India), one of your most fallen servant🥺.

With your due permission and blessings and under the guidance and supervision of H. H. Bhakti Ananda Maharaj my marriage got solemnised on 05 Mar 21. Since then we have been living together happily. As I entered Grhstha life and being grossly engaged in grhastha duties I somehow forgot to communicate you and ask your well-being. For such a rash act of neglecting my duties, I am ever regretful and therefore seek your forgiveness as a child seeks forgiveness from his father.

We all long to see you in good health, ever joyous and happy as before so we have started chanting extra rounds and continuously offering lamps for your swift recovery.

With a pleasant heart, I would like to inform you that upon empowered by your blessings I am able to complete my sadhana of 16 rounds chanting every day and also able to follow the four regulative principles. Also we are regularly relishing SB, BG and CC classes from H. H. Bhakti Anand Swami Maharaj. As suggested by you, I along with my other god sisters have started to read and discuss Krishna book together. Recently I have also been able to join your GoTo classes.

By the merciful arrangement of omniscient Supreme Lord, I and my husband got an opportunity to have your glimpse at ISKCON temple, Imphal and Silchar last year.

With Your kind permission I would like to share a good news that I am currently expecting a baby of 3 and a half months old and therefore seek your blessings so that thisfetus may become a great devotee of the Lord in future.

Gurudeva we're all eagerly waiting to have your darshan once again.

Your most fallen servant,

Brajeshwari Radhey Devi Dasi

Silchar,Assam,India.

HpS - Thank, agTSP, you. What is name of your esteemed husband. What is his occupation?

Has Krsna sent some innocent people for you to cultivate?

Protect your baby. It is not an ordinary person!

¡Hare Krsna! Querido Guru Maharaja, por favor acepte mis humildes y rendidas reverencias.

Todas las Glorias sean a nuestro muy misericordioso Srila Prabhupada y todas las glorias a sus fieles seguidores que son vivos representantes de su bondad. 🌻

Aquí estamos, orando diariamente a nuestros Señores, le mantengan bajo su bendita protección. (Tengo plena confianza en que así es, pero orar sinceramente nos hace sentirnos un poco cerca de usted y de nuestros Amorosos Señores.🙏) Esperamos que la salud de su cuerpo sea favorable a sus esfuerzos para contribuir al sankirtan de nuestro Divino maestro.

Aprovecho para agradecer de todo corazón que nos lleve (en línea) con usted. FMS es sin duda “la hora feliz” 😊 Sus Señorías Sri Sri Radha Nilamadhava son verdaderamente Dulces y Majestuosos. 😮

Guru Maharaja, por Su misericordia, la de SS Yadunandana Swami y por supuesto por la misericordia ilimitada de Srila Prabhupada, ayer finalizó el estudio del Sri Isopanisad y Sri Upadesamrta que estuve dictando a estudiantes Bhakti Sastri del Instituto de estudios Bhaktivedanta de España. Para mí, fue una experiencia muy agradable y enriquecedora… ¡La profundidad de estos textos, de los significados de Srila Prabhupada es insondable! ¡Entre más cerca estamos, más grandes los vemos! ¡Oramos por poder ser herramientas útiles a vuestro servicio!🙏

Por otra parte, continuamos estudiando “Pada Padma”, bajo la guía de SS Yadunandana Swami, me siento bendecida y agradecida de poder participar, porque además la mayoría de nuestros compañeros son eruditos experimentados.

Como parte de la evaluación su sirviente realizó una presentación sobre "preparación para la muerte". Parece haber sido productiva. Mirando en retrospectiva, a veces me parece que en esta misma vida he muerto y renacido varias veces. 😊 Mientras hacía la presentación recordé momentos en los que este cuerpo ha estado a punto de perecer... observé que, de algún modo, por la misericordia sin causa de Srila Prabhupada, la de usted y otros buenos vaisnavas, nuestra conciencia ha cambiado un poquito: las primeras ocasiones el dolor era tan fuerte que solo podía pensar en él, poco a poco nuestra conciencia ha podido pasar del cuerpo y centrarse un poco en nuestro Señor (aún en medio de esos episodios). Hubo una ocasión, en la que estaba inconsciente, no recuerdo que me llevo a ese estado, solo sé que de pronto escuche la voz de Srila Prabhupada diciendo “Cante Hare Krsna” así que empecé a cantar y luego desperté como si nada hubiera pasado. (Una enfermera me contó que asuste a todo mundo porque grité el Maha Mantra como si mi vida dependiera de ello 😅

(aunque casi nadie entendió que estaba diciendo, luego tuve muchas oportunidades para explicarlo 😊)

Gracias a esta condición, algunas veces recuerdo que “este puede ser el último respiro” y reflexiono un poco sobre la vida que he tenido en este cuerpo, creo que, aunque no soy un predicador potente, de algún modo, mi estadía aquí no fue del todo inútil. Ofrecimos siempre lo mejor que tuvimos (las palabras de Srila Prabhupada y nuestra limitada experiencia de conciencia de Krsna) e involucramos de alguna manera a familia, amigos y conocidos... Me esforcé sinceramente por cumplir mis votos de iniciación, intenté desarrollar gusto por practicar CK, hice todo lo que pude por cumplir con mi deber, y a pesar de que cometí una infinidad de errores, nunca lastimé a nadie intencionalmente.

Sé que siempre podremos hacer más, y deseo de todo corazón poder contribuir de algún modo al trascendental Sankirtan de Srila Prabhupada🙇 . Pero también confió en que, si el destino decide llevarme a otro sitio… Por la misericordia sin causa de Srila Prabhupada y por la misericordia de Guru Maharaja, ese destino me llevará al camino correcto ¡aún si no me lo merezco!

Gurudeva, puedo ver que frecuentemente abuso de su misericordia y me siento avergonzada por eso, por favor discúlpeme.🙇 Espero algún día ser un soldado útil en su misión al servicio de nuestro Divino Acarya.

Eternamente agradecida

Su aspirante a discípula

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

PD - Si a usted le parece bien, nos haría muy felices tener una copia del “Composition Book Diarys” de Piggy y Monkey.

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Hare Krishna! Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble and respectful obeisances.

All Glories be to our most merciful Srila Prabhupada and all glories to his faithful followers who are living representatives of his goodness. 🌻

Here we are, praying daily to our Lords to keep you under their blessed protection. (I have full confidence that this is so, but praying sincerely makes us feel a little close to you and our Loving Lords.🙏) We hope that the health of your body will be favorable to your efforts to contribute to the sankirtan of our Divine master.

I take this opportunity to thank you with all my heart for taking us (online) with you. FMS is indeed “happy hour” 😊 Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Nilamadhava are truly Sweet and Majestic. 😮

HpS - We hope, agtSP, we can develop some Kirtans lead by our online members also. Maybe we do FMS in our Ashrama some days.

Yet, we do NOD in Spanish complete.

Some Chat.

We wish we could zoom in on the Deities more.

Guru Maharaja, by His mercy, that of H. H. Yadunandana Swami and of course by the unlimited mercy of Srila Prabhupada, yesterday finished the study of Sri Isopanisad and Sri Upadesamrta that I was dictating to Bhakti Sastri students from the Institute of Bhaktivedanta Studies in Spain.

For me, it was a very pleasant and enriching experience... The depth of these texts, of Srila Prabhupada's meanings, is unfathomable! The closer we are, the bigger we see them! We pray that we can be useful tools at your service!🙏

HpS/ASA - Both you and Madhava Acharya read and teach Isopanisad!

Iso is nice for preaching to Christians because it talks about God in a general sense.

On the other hand, we continue studying “Pada Padma”, under the guidance of HH Yadunandana Swami, I feel blessed and grateful to be able to participate, because most of our classmates are experienced scholars.

As part of the evaluation, his servant gave a presentation on "preparation for death." It seems to have been productive. Looking back, it sometimes seems to me that in this very life I have died and been reborn several times. 😊 While giving the presentation I remembered moments when this body has been on the verge of perishing... I observed that somehow, by the causeless mercy of Srila Prabhupada, that of you and other good Vaishnavas, our consciousness has changed a little. little: the first times the pain was so strong that I could only think about it, little by little our consciousness has been able to move away from the body and focus a little on our Lord (even in the middle of those episodes). There was one occasion when I was unconscious, I don't remember what brought me to that state, I only know that suddenly I heard Srila Prabhupada's voice saying “Sing Hare Krsna” so I started chanting and then I woke up as if nothing had happened. (A nurse told me that I scared everyone because I shouted the Maha Mantra as if my life depended on it) 😅

HpS - Several times that has happened to Doctors and Nurses even though devotees were completely anesthetized.

(although almost no one understood what she was saying, later I had many opportunities to explain it 😊)

Thanks to this condition, I sometimes remember that “this may be the last breath” and I reflect a little on the life I have had in this body, I think that, although I am not a powerful preacher, somehow, my stay here was not completely useless. We always offered the best we had (Srila Prabhupada's words and our limited experience of Krsna consciousness) and somehow involved family, friends and acquaintances... I sincerely strove to fulfill my initiation vows, I tried to develop a taste for practicing CK, I did everything I could to do my duty, and even though I made countless mistakes, I never intentionally hurt anyone.

HpS - Jaya! Next life we will all be with Nimai in Nadia, trying to keep up with all the fantastic plans He has for different exciting pranks, festivals etc.

I know that we can always do more, and I wish with all my heart to be able to contribute in some way to Srila Prabhupada's transcendental Sankirtan🙇. But I also trusted that if destiny decides to take me somewhere else... By the causeless mercy of Srila Prabhupada and by the mercy of Guru Maharaja, that destiny will take me to the right path even if I don't deserve it!

Gurudeva, I can see that I frequently abuse his mercy and feel ashamed of it, please forgive me.🙇 I hope one day to be a useful soldier in his mission in the service of our Divine Acarya.

Eternally grateful

His would-be disciple

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

PS - If it's okay with you, we would be very happy to have a copy of Piggy and Monkey's “Composition Book Diarys”.

HpS - O.K. Jaya Hari Das asked for one. Devota candidata para primera iniciacion, como se llama, also asking for one? Maybe we can send some to Mexico through visitors for Vyasa puja?

¡Hare Krsna!

Querido Gurudeva, por favor acepte nuestras humildes reverencias

Todas las Glorias sean a nuestro Fundador-Acarya, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Todas las Glorias a la trascendental biblioteca Bhaktivedanta y Todas las glorias sean a usted que nos ocupa en esta orquesta trascendental.

Orando a nuestras Señorías porque le otorguen plena protección. Escribo como parte del equipo ASA Carnaval. Le agradecemos por llevarnos en línea cada FMS. Jaya Hari Prabhu y Unmada-vidhayini dd mataji han compartido con todos nosotros fotos y videos de su visita a Houston.

Gurudeva, en el más reciente Kapi Dhvaja usted mencionó “Hope to start working on ASA Encyclopedia with The Carnival.” Por favor, háganos saber ¿de qué manera podemos participar?

HpS - Can you, agtSP, download the current edition of the Encyclopedia at: https://www.jayarama.us/archives/asa-e.docx and then see if you can open it and understand how it is organized?

Thank you.

Por otra parte, hemos leído la actualización del calendario en https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14513/ Por favor permítanos consultarle:

Respecto al 17 de diciembre - Aniversario harinama y sannyasa diksa de SS HpSwami. ¿Cuáles son las actividades y la meditación correcta que deberíamos tener los discípulos para ese día?

HpS

1. You might read about Srila Prabhupada's Harinama/Gayatri Diksa and Sannyasa Diksa in the Lilamrta or one volume biography of Srila Prabhupada.
2. Send a few ideas about your Diksa and becoming a Goswami either informally for a lady or formally for a man, and what experiences you have had following those vows.
3. Ask us some question about our experiences and following our Mantra and Ashrama vows?

Y en relación al 11 de enero - celebración del Vyasa Puja (español) en línea. Nos gustaría preguntarle ¿Se realizarán diferentes transmisiones (como el año anterior) o será una sola para todos los hispano hablantes? En cualquier caso, nos gustaría saber si podemos contribuir de algún modo.

HpS - Sundara radhika Devi Dasi made a Whatsapp group for devotees to communicate about the Vyasapuja festival. I think if you just filter the Posts for Calendar Development you can find it. You can ask there.

I have not heard of a Spanish language subgroup, but maybe one exists.

I expect she, others, will post some scheduled for the events pretty soon. If they don't then Monkey/Piggy will start posting.

In general, we think the 11th should be like 10am - 11pm. Some devotees will be live in Srinivasa Das and Mataji's house and we can announce the online link.

General purpose is to glorify the Parampara from Krsna to you.

Querido Guru Maharaja, muchas gracias por mantenernos ocupados en este trascendental carnaval. Esperamos poder ser herramientas útiles a vuestro servicio.

Siempre a sus órdenes

Su aspirante a discípula

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

(ASA Carnaval - Equipo Coordinador: Abhinanda Das / Isvari Radha DD / Karuna-Sakti DD)

HpS/ASA - Can Abhinandana Das send some news to the Blog? How does he spend his days? What are his realizations in devotional service?

This, agtSP, blog post arrived empty!

We have been watching the previous ASA Carnaval post but have not got to it yet. We try to answer after about three days. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower!!!

We will look at that letter now!

HpS / ASA 🙂

AgtSP!

Paoho/BW.

Since we are retiring more and more into Sannyasa, both by force of old age and personal effort, 🙂 we don't have too much Management activity to report.

Guess first thing is ISKCON Peru, then Houston and finally Nashville/NIOS.

1. PERU - There are two management, political, issues with which we are involved.

One continues from the Blog Post: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14459/ which is a response by H. G. Daru Krsna Das about criticism of his actions in the Yatra administration, and his critical perspective on actions of others.

I remember that we said that we would wait to see if anyone named in the Post would contact us with a Blog Post, but no one has.

Again, we feel it is an essential, and even for ISKCON, a challenging feature that fundamentally any communications with a Sannyasi about "dhanam, janam, sundarim" money, men and dealings with women be in community forums like this Blog.

Private groups of three or so devotees might be formed to deal with more confidential stuff, but ultimately we have heard from Trivikrama Swami, Abhirama Das, and so many of Srila Prabhupada's Secretaries that he was just the same behind doors about these things as he was in public. He was just the same in private as he was in his purports.

Personally, we do see, maybe 1/1000 times there are comments on morning walks where Prabhupada comments that what he is saying should of course not be said in a public forum.

Daru Krsna Das made this point nicely. Thank you.

However, during some informal communications, one point about the above cited Post was highlighted by two devotees.

As we understand the situation as such:

Hari-buddhi Das made a formal complaint to the Peruvian government that an Annual Meeting of ISKCON Peru corporation, which was supposed to have the members physically present to consider issues and vote even though declared as such never physically happened.

As a result the government sent notices to members of the Corporation that an investigation was going to take place and police would visit them to take their statements.

Abhirama Thakura Das visited H. G. Daru-krsna at that time and Daru Prabhu showed him a notification that he had received from the government that he would be contacted for his statement, and DKD commented that the investigation had started and that ArtD should take the notification that he, DKD, had received to Smt. Gangamayi Devi Dasi, who was the legal administrator of the Corporation at that time. Abhirama Th. Das made a copy of the notification and then gave it to Mataji.

Then, there was a shocking formal letter of denunciation from the Yatra Administration that DKD and Art Das had publicly denounced ISKCON Peru to the police. Which they had not done.

The letter of denunciation was apparently copied to us but we never, never, never saw a copy of it. If we had, we would have dealt with it in the manner we are dealing with the subject now.

[Informally we heard comments that Smt. Gangamayi Devi Dasi supposedly made to JPD and CMDD about giving a report to the police, sanctions from ISKCON if devotees did not cooperate with the Yatra administration in the police reports, and Latin American GBC confidential reactions.]

😱

Ooof! Hey! Surprise??? We are getting a headache?

Yet, when we do construction work we get a back ache. Some head ache, heart ache, is necessary part of our service, but has to be in proportion.

Politicians like Arjuna and Ramananda Raya and Sarva bhauma Bhattacarya and Maharaja Pariksit are designed and situated to engage in diplomatic dealings for Krsna.

We are Sudra, Brahmana, Brahmana, Brahmana. Almost no Ksatriya or Vaisya.

Arjuna and Duryodhana did not approach Vyasadeva to join the battle, but he was an essential part of the battle as a chronicle keeper.

So, that is the only addendum that we can to make to the above post.

Maybe everyone has good motives but there have been genuine misunderstandings. Maybe people have evil motives and secret dealings with money etc but from our position this is all we can say, and we chose to be happy in focusing on friendly or neutral dealings with everyone involved.

Of course we can receive any Posts that devotees want to make on these topics, but other than linking this post to DKD, ArtDas and Mathuresa Das at this point we are 99.99% finished with private discussions of the point.

[We asked Sripada Mathuresa Das to send us Hansarupa Das' contact info so we can just inform him that ourselves, Mathuresa and H. H. Bhakti sundara Swami made an investigation of this issue for the Latin American GBC some years ago, and that if he has any questions for us we can respond.]

The second point with Peru administration is with the decision by the National Council about Nadiya-nivasi Devi Dasi, based on complaints by Milan Ray. Seems that the issue was dealt with with a lot of care and effort, but as Diksa guru we were never informed, and there are a few points that we would need to discuss.

So far it has not moved ahead much and we just sent a follow up letter.

That is the way of administration.

NEVER EXPECT A PERFECT RESOLUTION IN THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE.

Get pragmatic results under Brahminical perspective and then get back to the Sankirtan. 🌴 🌴 🌴

1. Peru
2. Houston. Here there is practically speaking no conflict. We are organizing daily Temple participation with classes etc, the three festivals mentioned in the Calendar and developing our Campsite.
3. NASHVILLE/NIOS. We had very good 30-minute meeting with the President and Secretary of NIOS, both Board Members, yesterday and there will be a Special Meeting of the Corporation to make up for the lack of the Annual Meeting

🐵 See! These bureaucratic faults are in NIOS as well as Peru.

HpS is resigning from all NIOS projects and position and money accounts on January 12th which is 20th anniversary of NIOS and 76th birthday of his body, buddy, yet always available to serve in his geriatric condition.

There are proposals that Srinivasa Acharya Das become a Vice-president, Govinda pramodini Devi Das become Secretary and ArtD go on Board of Directors. Any suggestions from anyone else?

Thank you.

2.53PM

Reread and edit...

3.09PM = 16-minutes.

We feel satisfied, that anyone with half a brain in their head can use this contribution in these issues.

Now we post this. Send link to others. Contact Srinivasa about calling annual meeting, Sadhu/Sri devi about organizing the 'Light of the Bhagavata' festival.

Check Whatsapp and Blog mail.

Go for walk - Gaura arati!

Hot milk and KRSNA book.

Thank you.