Letters to the editor

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!!

PAMHO..at Your sweet lotus feet.

ASA - We offered too much butter to Lord Nrsmhadeva today out of stupidity. Lettuce feet.

Dear Guru Maharaj,

In all humility, I bow my head at your lotus feet for all the mercy that you have bestowed on your fallen servant.

ASA - ... and we bow our head at Srila Prabhupada's and all ISKCON devotees feet to allow us to do something even though very mean and selfish.

Surely, we would add' Psyche'. Please keep giving us instructions....and the mercy to carry them out.

The programme has been made under the guidance of Prof Samaresh and we are so grateful to Guru Maharaj and Prof Samaresh. The timings have been made in consultation with the Heads of Departments of Psychiatry and Community Medicine, RIMS.

Slightly disappointed about the movie....can we get a glimpse of Peruvian life...a documentary or something? Of course , we will screen the movie in the temple. Would the narrations be in english? Having a strong intuition that a handful of the audience of 2nd Nov would come on 3rd Nov too.....having all faith in Guru Maharaj's ability to attract crowds!!

Slight confusion here....we will have just one external programme ...that is at RIMS. The University is a different organisation.

Talked to  Tustakrishna Prabhu. The cultural programme will  include whatever has been suggested by Guru Maharaj. Will finalise with Prof Samaresh today.

New York.....Peru.....Venus.....North pole......wherever Guru Maharaj leads the caravan...let me always be there too!

I remain,

Your eternal servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

Thank you for your immense blessings

HpS - ASA -- LOB movie we will send. It is only with sub-titles, Spanish or English and music. So someone has to look at it several times and practice reading the subtitles with great dramatic voice as they go by.  Would be best to show it last thing in the evening when it is dark?  Do you have a BIG SCREEN.  You can rent, NIOS can make donation for cost.

See Letter from/to Yamunesvara Das for one LOB picture to use for promotion: 8MB. We can even print some of them bigger size for sale.

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja, Sripada Maharaja and A.C. Prabhupada

All Grories to Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

Radha Krsna Ki Jay,

Dandavat Pranam Guruji Maharaja!

Please accept our humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that today we three members from Thoubal, including Dr. Nandalal, [went] to Radhakrsna Manimandir, Imphal, and met H H Haridas Swami, Dr. Sarda and some other bhaktas about Gurujis programme, finalised   all programmes but another meeting will be  held for printing of invitation.

As suggested Dr. Samaresh on Guruji's held ground we arranged one programme each on the 2nd and 3rd. On the 2nd the function will be at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) from 2.00 p.m., not in the University. Next time we will arrange a better function in the Manipur University on any topic suggested by Guruji for the intelectural circles. On the 3rd a gathering of initiated prabhujis and matajis from 9-12 a.m. (two sessions)  to discuss about one of the books mentioned below, book distribution then prasadam. In the night cultural programme will continue.

Both the copies in Manipuri of NOI and LOB are available. Please select one from these two books for collection and distribution among the audence.

NOI is translated by Bonomaly Prabhu and the LOB is translated by Radhamohon Das but the prises are different. 

Now we can't say the exact number of bhaktas will come from Silchar, Agartala, Guwahati and Silong but they are coming.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Hare Krsna!    AGTSP!   Paoho...  We can even invite people whom we meet at the RIMS program to come to the Temple program. It can be for initiated, ISKCON, devotees, but they can understand.

If we have two sessions then why not tow books. First, Light of the Bhagavata and then NoI?

Is O.K?

Here is a very beautiful Light of the Bhagavata picture, 8MB, that you can make very big as a banner, or put into the flyer. Just put a notice that it is a BBT picture and all copyrights are reserved.

www.jayarama.us/archives/lob23-78.tif

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

Hare Krishna, Hare Rama,
AGTSP
Por favor acepte mis reverencias Querido Gurudeva.
Aqui le escribo Devarsi de Buenos Aires. Estoy intentandolo, a pesar de los obstaculos que puedan presentarse en mi camino. Usted siempre es mi mayor referente, y cada avance que yo pueda hacer es gracias a Usted.
Yo se que no estoy tan comunicado, ya que mi trabajo me consume tiempo y energia  (diseño grafico). De todas maneras eso no deberia ser mi excusa.
En cuanto a mi sadhana, canto 16 rondas y sigo los principios regulativos. Mi pregunta es: Como puedo incrementar la dulzura en mi japa?

HpS - ASA -- 'tato jayam uddhirayet...', Srimad Bhagavatam es juestra verdadero medio de conquista. Claro, SB es la corazon de todos los libros de Srila Prabhupada (CC, NoD,ISO...). Programa de la manyana completa: Levantase temprano para Brahma-muhurta con Mangala-arati, Bhajana, Kirtan, then Japa, SB, Prasadam....  !... ISKCON Sankirtan...  Prema-nama.
 

De que manera puedo servirlo Guru Maharaja?
Si en algun momento mis conocimientos de diseño grafico o diseño web le son utiles estoy a su disposición.
Espero ser mas util para el Sankirtana de Srila Prabhupada. Aun no soy bueno distribuyendo libros.
Lo espero en Buenos Aires muy feliz. Estoy orando por su salud y bienestar.
Mis reverencias a Ud. Guru Maharaja.
Su aspirante a sirviente
Devarsi Narada das

  HpS - ASA -- Nuestra enfoque principal, eso es. Obtiene unos libros. Ponelos donde puede ver los y sácalos de aquí! Deseo, deseo, deseo - discubrira tecnicos comm hacer lo. Predica la a otros tambien. Puede ser un libro cada anyo. Entre siete vidas. Pero la esfuerza es la perfeccion. Cada vendador tiene su propio tecnica.

O.K.

El sendero corecto tiene algo dulze des de la comienza.

Noticias de BsAs!

Hare Krsna, Nanuk Ji,
We read all the last five posts.
There are so many things that you may not know about Sriman Hansadutta Das and the whole BBT case, Rtvik case. I was the Treasurer for the San Francisco Temple at that time and finally Hansadutta Ji was really having very, very bad falldowns. He was very open about it. He was taking money from the Temple and turning in his beer recepts and directly telling everyone, "Don't worship me as a Guru!"

He said, "I've got it licked, now I'm coming back very strong!" so many times. I was about two rings away from him but his initimate followers like Kapilsva Das and Ripugna Das were right there taking the beer away from him when he was very intoxicated and explaining to us what he was going through. Since then I don't know how he has fared in terms of the four principles. I do feel that even in that abominable external condition he was more Prabhupada conscious than I was. He was always saying, "How can I face Srila Prabhupada like this."

Then with the BBT, I talked with Vedaguhya Das, whom I have had some contact for many years here and there. There has never been any moral criticism of him. He said that after they got the copyright usage to the pre-1977 BBT books that they started to print them and then Hansadutta Das started to fall into the same old habits intoxication and it looked very bad for their efforts so they asked him to step down as a Director. He did and there was a financial settlement.

As far as the poisoning issue and the hair samples. I asked Nitai-gaurasundara Das, who is our NIOS President and director of a psychiatric hospital and our concern from what you had said was that the arsenic level was low as I remember and the cadmium level was high. This is strange. How to get cadmium in India at that time. Why not use arsenic.

Our basic position is that yes there are many problems in ISKCON. We heard from Prabhupada's lips that this is the material world, there are problem everywhere, so certainly there are problems in the institution. At the same time we heard him say that anyone who chants the pancha-tattva mantra and follows it with Hare Krsna has achieved the perfection of life, but if you want to preach then you should read my books.

So, we are following four principles, up evey day for Mangala arati with devotees, Kirtan, SB, and 16-rounds. Then we judge other people in the ISKCON insitituion. Make our legal fight, and also judge who will be our friends in the ISKCON society, and talk with our Guru, directly.

That's where we are starting from. We can go into a lot more technical details about Guru-tattva, changing books, poisoning, but before that we really want to know if people who claim to be following, representing Prabhupada are following the standard that he set: 16-enthusiastic rounds daily, 4-principles strictly. If they are not, O.K. maybe they are neophyte devotees. Even neophyte pure devotees as Prabhupada calls them, more advanced than we are but need to adjust the externals.

So.... Hare Krsna!!!    HpS

Dear Guru Maharaj,

PAMHO ! AGTSP!!

GM I will be traveling to India for a couple of weeks to visit family. I will be in India till Oct 5th. It was great to see you on a visit to the Bay Area and able to serve you in a small way. Planning to visit parts of Kerala and Ananta Padmanabha Swamy temple there in Thiruvanantapuram.

I would like to join online classes of yours and will make efforts to do so. 

Started SB group study with a devotee Krishna Dharma here. It started with a bang and tapered off for a while. Again trying to be steady in reading SB which runs for an hour. Finished three chapters of 1.1 to 1.3.

Radhika Raman prabhu had given Sanskrit introduction to BayArea devotees during the long weekend. It was amazing especially singing 15 slokas on Prabhupada. Recorded extempore by his Oxford Sanskrit teacher.

your servant

Kolavecha Sridhar Das

HpS - Hare Krsna!!  Why don't you write more often!   We saw the first lecture by Radhika-rama Das, but accepted his advice to not listen to the following lectures.     Haw!     Haw!    Haw!!     We will try to listen to the rest.

Check with Srivasa-pt. Das about the Saturday morning programs. We will be in Pune and Navi-mumbai when you reach India.

Let us stay in touch while we are there!!

Take books for distributing on the airplane etc.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva ! 

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!

HpS - TlgaSP!   Referencias a sus pies de loto tambien.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

I write to tell you how I am in my spiritual practices....and how I am in general...

I am so happy to have your saintly associatión every day in FMP, this helps us so much, giving us the enthusiasm to practice our daily sadhana bhakti......16 rounds are Ok and 4 principles strictly are also Ok....of course I can do this only by your mercy...

Also, I want to tell you that I am improving a little bit about reading Srila Prabhupada's books, now I am reading first canto, chapter 3 : "Krishna is the source of all incarnations", I read two verses of SB every day, also I finished reading "the eight phases of yoga " a small book that contains the teachings of Lord Kapila deva, Canto 3. I realized that this book contains wonderful information ! Sometimes I distributed this book without even having read it before...but now I read it. I want to improve more, reading more daily...

Gurudeva,  I would like to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books again, I think this is my Dharma for this life [Yo tambien. Dharma para muchas vidas, no?], when I did it in the past I  experienced a lot of enthusiasm and happiness, it was the best time of my life [Get a partner or two],  but now it seems that my present  Karma does not allow me to do it.....as  I told  you a few days ago I am having arthritis problems again, in my hands, specifically in my left hand, swelling and pain, I am taking pills to  ease the pain, otherwise I can not stand.

Gurudeva I am just realizing that actually I am a sinner, I have always these physical problems, diseases, pain in my body, I have committed many sins in my previous lives and also in this life and it is only by your mercy and Srila Prabhupada's mercy that I  have stopped committing sins. Thank You !!!! Thank you Srila Prabhuapada !!!

As you told me once in the past: "bad health is Krishna's educational mercy" !

I hope to learn the lesson that this life is teaching me..

Now I only want to have your saintly association Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada' s association through his books....."sanga sanjayate kamah"

Thank you so much  !!!!

Trying to be your disciple :

Mitravinda d.d

HpS - ASA --- Fight with your body, being enthusiastic. Use it as you can. Srila Prabhupada could barely whisper but he was playing on the big Mrdanga until the last moments of his strenght. You play your big Mrdanga!   Send us news of your Sankirtan. So many ways to distribute books. Get a partner!!!