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, 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 Krsna Dear Maharaja.

PAMHO, AGTSP!

I hope your spiritual energy go in increment and your body's health improves.

Thank you for giving us your assosiatión in the midst of many difficulties. Soon I will send you my report.

I want to know, how did Srila Prabhupada celebrate the Gita jayanti? and what do you recommend to celebrate Gita jayanti, which things we can do?

Thank you very much, Sri Nrsimha protect you

with affection

ys and spiritual niece

Isvari dd

HpS - ASA --- I have never heard that Srila Prabhupada had any particular celebration on Gita-jayanti. He may have, but I have not heard about it. Does not mean that we cannot have nice celebration. We can read the entire BG, Sanskrita, English (Spanish) or both. We can especially read Chapter 11, prayers by Arjuna!

We can have lectures, dramas. We can take pledges for people to organize "Gita-ashramas" during the year at special times for them. This means some special hearing and chanting and distribution of BG to their friends etc.

Hare Krsna!!!

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP AGTU

We are so happy that U are recovering from your long trip

We had your classes, photos and videos from your trip, I was so pleased to see that U were using the green bag that I gave to U 

I am doing pujari once a month in Wilson and in Chosik

Giving BG classes, helping in pujari during festivals. I have 3 Bhakti Sastri students.. very nice

Also I am continuing giving Gem therapy and aromatherapy. I am doing cinammon, roses, etc essences

Today we have a meeting in order to coordinate your Sri Vyasa Puja. Jiva shakti d says that for Peru your VP will be on the 20th but in my calendar it says 19th... well the thing is that we were wondering if You may be so merciful with us and agree to have an internet connection with us...pleaseeee, well I guess other yatras will also want a connection.

The second request please Gurudeva come to Peru in February. We really need your association.... Please humbly forgive my offenses

Hope to see U on February 2018

Trying to be useful

Cmdd

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP paoho.   The day before Jiva Goswami's disappearance anniversary. HpS effort to glorify the Parampara including him and you. No minimization, no exageration.   I think we can have internet connection.

Your bag is pretty good. We would make some design changes for the "perfect" bag. 

We told you about Gauri Das Pandita and Srila Prabhupada's aroma therapy, no?

Where from are the wonderful pictures?

Hare Krsna Mahara, Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Prof Gupta has food poisoning, and he is burdened up with work (not everybody is Connected to SPOG as your grace does).
We called on your USA number twice, it went to voicemail.
We will try to make sure he contacts you by monday night.

salute,
by passionate horse

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna, Horsey!
Monkey, Piggy here. We arrived back in Nashville, finish of our India-Australia tour, at 8.15PM Saturday night. Traveled with NGD in Amita Ji's car to the 'boro. Our body is still stressed from the travel in general, material world in general, and the last push which included 45-hours from Kolkata Temple to Houston ISKCON.

We seem to have fundamental good health and now, Monday, we are greatly recovered. Our priorities are pretty clear. That's the greatest secret, no?  Having clear priorities, for eternity, this lifetime, today...

Going back to India just after two months is going to be GREAT stress. Nitai-gaurasundara Das (NGD) is like basically fobidding it unless we get a 1st class ticket. Then the stress will be about 70% less. It will still be an austerity, but the conference topic, description, sponsors, seems very nice. Very well related to all of our work, ISKCON's development.

I think it is going to be too much, but we will try to talk with Dr. Pankaj. Maybe we can submit a paper. We would like to be part of the group and its work. The ILS in Mayapura particpation also seems to be impractical in February. Will talk with Sesa Das today about it, but seems best thing is to rest here, work on the Ministry of Education Journal, and go to South America in February-March.

We can sort it all out here in the Blog!
Thank you so very many much for your association. You are very tolerant and merciful. AGTSP!!!!

HpS - ASA

We wrote a letter to Gopal Bhatta Das about presenting at the ILS, 4th-11th of February in Mayapura. Follows our note to Harsh about an invitation to the "Symposiom on Business, Management and Spirituality in a Global Environment" organized by the Jendal Group in Delhi 24-25 January.

If we get confirmations for both we would go back to India for the 15th January to the 28th February. Is it too much stress on our body?   Hmmm?   We are all going to die but if we can do such nice preaching then let's die that way, no?

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Hare Krsna, Prabhu [Harsh]!
AGTSP.
We arrived sick as a dog, but pretty strong at heart. Forty-five hours of hard travel.

How can we serve you?

We have not heard from Pankaj Gupta Ji. We need to buy our tickets for India by the 15th. We need to hear from him a formal invitation and confirmation of participation as a Keynote Speaker or something like that. We need to talk with the organizers in Toronto (?) and see if we are going to be friends on this project.
Can you please contact him?
HpS - ASA
Hare Rama!!!

All Glories to A.C. Prabhupada, Sripada Maharaja All Glories to Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay! Guru Maharaja! Dandavat Pranam, Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that I am continuing the reading of Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu 2:2:70. The sangskrit words used here, the meaning and the translation into English are very tough and difficult to graps the idea. For example “ Raga, Raganuga-Bhakti, Ragatmika-Bhakti, Vaidhi-Bhakti etc.” In Gita 2.56 the word Raga is translated as attachment and in Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu and other related books it is the process of thinking in the spiritual life. The Ragatmika is related only the inhabitants of Vraja. Please explain the differences between Bhakti and Vaidhi Bhakti, Seva and Bhakti. Guruji, please explain in a simpler way or form of expression of the above mentioned sangskrit words.

HpS - AGTSP!!  Paoho. It is such an inspiration to get you association. For a simple answer to your question as we understand Rupa Goswami: Raga means attachment or taste. Bhakti is the general process it has three categories: Sadhana bhakti, bhava bhakti and prema bhakti. Sadhana bhakti can be divided into Vaidhi bhakti and Raganuga bhakti. In Vaidhi bhakti we do our Seva, service, Bhakti, according to rules given by an Acharya. The prophet Mohammad tells his followers they must bow down several times (5?) a day to Mecca, fast for Ramadan etc. These rules have the potency of waking up our spontaneous, Bhava bhakti. Bhakti, love for Krsna, which is always manifest with Seva, service to Krsna, and is an eternal aspect of the soul: 'nitya siddha Krsna prema...' (quotes in Nectar of Instruction). When that Bhava is a little bit awake we can start to do our service not just according to external rules for the mind, speech, body, but with feeling if we have the association of a Raga-atmica devotee, a devotee whose soul (atma), is fully awake to its natural attachment (raga) to Krsna.

You practice the piano in a very mechanical way following the written notes, but your teacher comes and says,"You play on the piano, I will play on the violin". In his association you can play with feeling. You are above plain Vaidhi bhakti and can do Raga anu ga bhakti. A raganuga bhakta follows a ragatmica bhakta. When the soul itself begins to express its natural rasa, raga, with Krsna that is Bhava bhakti. It is like a green mango, and when it is fully ripe, awake in its seva, bhakti, then it is prema bhakti.

O.K?

See you in a few days.

We try calling but there is no good connection with Manipur. Tell the Gaurangi that Dr. Samaresh is not coming. Things were not organized well enough so for his necessities so he will be going to Delhi for work then. Our apologizes. We suspect she has been doing the best that anyone can do. 

The regular Sunday Bhagavatam Patha is also continuing and as a part of it I will narrate the portion of 9:10.4 and will continu further. In the meantime, we are planning for the Guruji’s Manipur visit programme from 1-4 Nov. 2017. We will finalise the exact number of Prasadam and books required for the function with Banamali Prabhu, Ekanatha Prabhu and Sadhubhusan Das shortly in Imphal and the amounts to be deposited. How was Australia tour completed?

HpS - Australia tour was very, very, very hard work with very, very, very good results. We will talk about it when we arrive.

We are eagerly waiting Guruji Maharaja's arrival on the 1st Nov. 2017 at 10.00 a.m.,

HpS - Indigo 523 arriving 10.30AM.

. . . though our service (seva) will not be satisfactorily. Please bear the troubles of inconveniences cause from our side. What types of prasad will be arranged and who are accompanying this time excluding Dr. Samaresh and family? Yours fallen servant; Yamunesvara Das

HpS - From Kolkata only myself but from other states others are coming. Some pasta is good for our body - macaroni, spaghetti, simple Dahl.

See you very, very soon.