Letters to the editor

Dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

First of all I want to thank you for being the source of my inspiration without you could not continue in my spiritual life. now we are doing harinama and sankirtana with the groups of Bhakti vriksha here in Mexico Df, there are already 7 groups with a fixed attendance of at least 7 people per group some more and others less, last week were distributed between groups 135 books for them distributed in the week and was a success, all distributed at least 3 or 4 books per week.

HpS - ASA --- So, nice!!

The world manager Seva Svarupa das agreed to come on Tuesday 5 to Mexico to commemorate with us and groups the 20 years of Bhakti Vriksha and recently SS Bhakti Busana Swami, p Hanuman of spain and p Aravinda were given [giving] a sankirtan course and attended by about 54 people.

On my own I keep doing sankirtan and live in the temple, this is the report my insignificant service now

Dear Gurudeva please excuse all my offenses I just want to satisfy you and help you with your service, please tell me how I can satisfy you what do you want from me?  

I humbly ask you to take charge of my life and manage to your will because I do not have the intelligence to take my free allowance.

his servant

Vrajendra Kumara Dasa

HpS - You did not take second initiation, no??  1st is sufficient, but 2nd is also good if you can do it.

If we chance 16-enthusiastic rounds, can say we have association of at least 6-enthusiastic devotees, and enthusiastic morning and evening program, then Krsna will take charge of our life. He will give  us good intelligence who to talk with about things etc.   Keep us in your orbit in this Blog but also get good advice from ISKCON institutional authorities and you will be pushing Srila Prabhupada's movement like anything.

All the glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you replying and the opportunity to write. I am resuming the Maha mantra, i want to have a service attitude of how to improve, i have a very mental karma. We want to improve our round and then do a regular service.

My times are now reduced with my work, classes to teenagers youngs,

¿How can we improve?

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna. Really Krsna has surely given you some good intelligence. You are a very nice, sincere person. So if you stop and think about it you must really have some good ideas what you need to do to improve you relation with Sri Hari-nama, eg. chant more in the early morning when things are quiet.

We read the Bhagavad gita, improve to the food, spontaneous principles, meditate in good ideas. I know you are going to leave the body very soon, i want to get your refuge again, but maybe, ¿take initiation from of other master if not is possible in this life.  Mother Guru Govinda disciple of Japataka Swami is offering me a service to the temple deities,

HpS -very nice.

...but i think i should improve my rounds and heal my mentality of pride for this direct service, i hope to be useful, the criticisms towards me on the part of some devotees have distance me quite. Moreover, i would like to know, ¿what book do you recommend reading about carl young [Carl Jung]?

HpS - ASA -- His auto-biography, "Memories, Dreams and Reflections" is very good. Did you graduate from the university?  What was the subject of your diploma??   Thank you for your association.

Please accept my obeinsances that this good of health. 

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
 HpS - ASA -- And to your lotus feet!
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada. [ASA !!]
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, i have updated temple authority for your Pune Visit ( October 05, 2017 - October 08, 2017).

    October 05, 2017 (Thursday) - Arrival at 3:15 PM (Jet flight). Maharaj wish to have a program / class that evening on "Light of the Bhagavata".
    October 06, 2017 (Friday)      - Need to fix schedule / class.
    October 07, 2017 (Saturday)  - Need to fix schedule / class.
    October 08, 2017 (Sunday)    - will leave for Mumbai after breakfast. So we can have one more class.

    Diet plan also has been shared.

    Thank you so much Gurudev, would keep you posted the update.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Thank you. Then we will all go together to Navi-munbai and with Harsh et al burn down the town.E xtatic Kirtan.

MAYAPURA INSTITUTE

Prabhus, Padmanaya Das, Radhika-n., Atul-k., Rama-giridhari Das et al,

Hare Krsna!    Hope all is well with your Sankirtan.

1. We are still struggle and expanding with Bh. Sastri, Vaibhava and Vedanta in San Francisco, Houston and South America.  Again we are still interested in making a relationship with these centers as affiliates with the MI. Sent some messages on Skype to arrange meeting time with Padmanaya and our director in San Francisco, Srivasa pt. Das, but didn't hear back. Can we have a call? Looks very good.

2. We leave for India Travel on the 27th: Delhi, Indoor, Ujjain, Pune, Navi-mumbai (Australia), Kolkata, Imphal, Delhi.   We would like very much to help develop this Sastri Education anywhere along the route. Of course, we are trying to meet with Radha-shyam Das in Pune et al. Any service for us?
 

  a) There will be official MOE meeting in Ujjain 3rd-5th October and your participation would be wonderful. Tapana-misra and his esteemed wife will be there and can represent the MI in some ways, no?    We also want to get an online meeting if possible for maybe 45-minutes when MI, VIHE, Pune et al can just make a brief presentations (Power Point?) of what they are doing to facilitate P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L cooperation between the academic educators of ISKCON. We can record this and then broadcast it.

  b) We are arrive Kolkata airport from Imphal 12.15PM Saturday November 4th. We want to go straight to Mayapura and sit in your Ashrama (makinging generous donation) to teach and learn until 7th morning. Then we have to go back to Kolkata-Delhi-Houston. HK/HR.

    Can someone, the Radhika-nagara Das, co-ordinate our visit to MI. Tapan is supposed to be there the same time. We can present about "Teaching and Preaching Srimad Bhagavatam in the Modern Academic World". It will be a HOT presentation. The elephants will be crying in ecstacy. The street dogs will sitting at attention with their paws and ears raised, their eyes bulging from their sockets, and the blook running cold in their veins.

HpS - Hare Krsna

AGTSP

We push. We restrain.   We only have so much energy. We rest. Read World Classical Literature. Energy comes back and we do what we can.

Kapi-dhvaja is late.

Fund raising work is late.

Web page is late.

Blog is on time.

FMP and FEP are going on.

Class to Hawaii is going on!

Traveling and preaching is going one.

BhVedanta Study group is going on!

O.K.   Push as hard as you can with all the energy you have all the time. Learn your real strength.

Why Solochana das would have been killed ...

HpS - ASA --- Hare Krsna. Nanuk Ji.      Srila Prabhupada is with us. We are doing Sankirtan with his living direction.    We see many problems in ISKCON, but we see so many positive possibilities directly with Srila Prabhupada and with our friends in ISKCON and even with the Insititution, which we don't expect to be much more than and insititution, Varna-ashrama-dharma, which is not going to be perfect in Kali - yuga.

Are you a disciple of Prabhupada. I mean do you follow his discipline?   Up early, Mangala-arati-kirtan, SB, Sankirtan, 16-rounds, four principles?

Then we want to associate with you.  If there is only fault finding and not glorification it is Mayavada view, not this, not this.

Not Mayavada, not Sahajiya.  Isopanisad, both seeing faults in material world, Institutional ISKCON, and good qualilties.

We personally talked with the Pulitzer Prize candidate who wrote 'Monkey on a Stick' after serious investigation of this stuff. Other very serious journalist. There conclusion was not that Cakradhari and Tirtha presented a bad case for ISKCON. It presented a bad case for the Navy Seals in not being able to integrate their trained assasins back into normal life.
 

Our experience does not paint the Insitituion or its Institutional leaders anywhere as black as you present. Maybe we are wrong, but we only seriously listen to critics who are living a popular alternative. Who are involved in book distribution according to their nature and ability.

So, many problems but complete possibility to associate with Srila Prabhupada and get his opinion on anything.

Just one specific example. A personal friend is Akruranatha Das. He was lawyer when Hansadutta sued for copyrights to the BBT publications. Also, Vedaguhya Das.  From them we understand that Hansadutta won copyrights for all pre-1977 books, but then sold them to Vedaguhya, who has been publishing them. The BBT International was the legal name for the BBT as Prabhupada wanted it.

Yes, if they dropped "fairies" out of later editions we think that is probably wrong.

Many things wrong. We are just tying to get our little area right and see the wrongs deleted almost automatically in our area.

O.K.?

Chanting rounds and following principles??