Letters to the editor

All Glories to Guruji Maharaja, Sripad Maharaja and  A.C.Prabhupada Maharaja

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay,
Dandavat Pranam,
Please accept my humble obeisanses unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that I got Guruji Maharaja's latest letter accepting extension of one day e.g. 26th Jan. 2017 for Thoubal. All programme were set up through  consultation with Haridas Prabhu. Now he is in Imphal, so I will meet him today and will show Gurujis acceptence letter to him.  The new initiation programme is not yet finalised for Brahma Diksa two members were finalized. I will talk the expected bhaktas personally within two / three days only then I will inform Guruji Maharaja and Haridas Prabhu. Shortly I will arrange a meeting of all initiated bhaktas for final shape of the three days programme.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

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HpS -  Dandavats, Sahaab!   Hari-nama Sankirtan in Manipur. You will go with us on the trips to Silchar etc???      We received the following letter from The Hari-Das Das:
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Dandavat pranam Maharaj, 
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to SPP, SG, SSG & LSK. 
Hare Krsna Maharaj, 
This morning we have a discussion about your merciful North East India Tour Programme. Everything is O.K. Maharaj except the date of Manipur leaving because 26TH JAN'17 being Republic Day of India which is opposed by all the extremist groups of N/E India and observe BANDH all over N/E States, plying of vehicles on the roads are almost restricted and no one wants to take risk of untoward incident, hence, BANDH becomes successful.

We, therefore, pray your lotus feet to stay one more day in Manipur and leave for Delhi/Vrndavana next day on 27TH JAN'17. Kindly have a mercy upon your Manipur/ Thoubal disciples & devotees and advise us so that we can proceed further to arrange Air Tickets etc. Regarding initiation programme, we are seeking mercy of your lotus feet soon within a day or two. 
Thanking you and assuring you of our best services always. 
Your servant, 
Hari dasa, 
Manipur ISKCON, Imphal. 

Date : 08.11.2016.

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HpS - Hare Krsna.  So, we will plan to leave from Imphal on the 27th for Delhi, Vrndavana early in the morning.

"Vrndavana-dhama-mahimamrta" by Prabhodananda Sarasvati:
Sataka One
5 Think of Vrndavana with love. Roll in its dust. Love it ardently. Please its moving and non moving residents. Worship Sri Radha’s birthplace. With all your heart take shelter of Sri Vrndavana, the best of all holy places.

6 If the Vedanta does not directly describe Vrndavana, why should that matter to me? If the faulty logicians, who are like serpents living in the Vedic literatures, ignore Vrndavana, why should I care? If even the devotees of the Lord do not understand the glories of Vrndavana, how does that affect me? Even if my heart were pierced by thousands of thunderbolts, I would never leave Vrndavana.

7 I meditate on Vrndavana, where the cuckoos sing the fifth note, the flute plays splendid melodies, peacocks sing and dance, vines and trees bloom, splendid and charming forests are wonderful with many birds and deer, and there are many splendid lakes, streams and hills.

See you in 10-weeks. Let us make a lot of good arrangements so that the visit is very productive. Eventually we can all continue this forever. Radha Govinda Chandra Ki Jai.

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabupad.

We got the college programs all sorted out for your time in DC. !!

Wednesday Nov 9^th – American University at 6:30pm

Thursday Nov 10^th- George Mason University 7pm

Friday Nov 11^th (veterans day) – University of Maryland 6pm

Saturday Nov 12^th  – Education in ISKCON Seminar at the DC Potomac temple

Presentation 9:30-10:30 am

Discussion 10:30-11:30am

Anything else we can try to fit in? A walk to the memorials? Harinam? Cookies?! Please let me know if I can be of any service maharaj.

Thank you for your mercy!

Your attempting to be servant,

Sarita

**Japa nama from Panama is working on some amazing posters...

HpS - ASA - The Supreme Comando of ASA is also pleased with you.  Photos also added below.  If you have the case of NOIs and some TLCs that will be very good armament.  See you in less than 120-hours. We will come out of the Sky on a Great Iron Bird.

Dear gurudev,

Some news about the congress.

1. Just today we received the final invitation from the devotee encharge of Vraja Bhumi, Nrisimhananda, to Hanumatpresaka Swami and other one to Rama Giridhari prabhu. He already reply and said that he could answer the next week. Are you received this letter well?
2. HpS - Yes we got a letter from him but we also got one earlier. We asked before into what airport we should book our ticket. We will need a Visa, no?  Anything else.   Did his invitation go to Rama-giridhari Das???
3. The dates to the Congress will be:
   1. 19^TH Wednesday > 21^TH Friday April morning > Private meeting about curriculum and exams in “Bhakti” Programs.
   2. 21 ^TH Friday evening > 23^TH Sunday noon, Festival to the South American Community of devotees. A different name?  
   3. HpS - ASA -- "LEARN SOMETHING" In one lecture Prabhupada Srila Prabhupada commented that we should come to these classes not just as a ritual but also to learn something. Then he looked at the audience and said, "All right, come as a ritual but also try to learn something". So come to teach, learn something based on Srimad Bhagavatam and how to apply it in Sankirtan, Primary School, Congregation Preaching etc.
   4. 23^TH Sunday evening > 23^TH Wednesday morning, workshop and led conferences and talks to brahmanas, teachers devotees, temple presidents, brahmacari and bhakti vriksha leaders, etc.
4. My “not complete task” now is the aims and secondary aims of the congress with this general planning that I put above to Chandramukha Swami. But when this work is done I’m planning make a brochure in .pdf with a nice design to invite senior devotees. It will be finished this same week. Could I show you this advance this Monday 7:30 pm?
5. HpS - A little earlier?  We will have some evening program here. We are in Washington D. C. hour. Main thing is who has committed to come and what they want to hear and explain.
6. Baladeva and Param Padam, Ananta Sayana sent to me their topics in the congress. But in my last travel to Italy I missed my phone, and they sent to my throught whatsapp. So now I ask them again in mail. So now, I only should ask the topics to Dhanvantari Swami, Aravinda, Rama Giridhari, yourself.
7. HpS - We want to discuss preaching and teaching in the universities, especially with Psychology and the Sacred, and the ISKCON Ministry of Education which includes Pre and Primary School, and Sastric Education.
8. Dhanvantari Maharaj says that if we invite devotees like Hridayananda das Goswami (in his condition of senior preacher in South  America) or Jayapataka Swami (in his condition of the GBC) could be complicated to the organization because, like too much devotees could come, also a lot devotees could leave the place after this devotees leaved and that even he should go outside because he would be like a host because they would be at Brazil.
9. HpS - ASA -- Seems true, but maybe they could do a video clip for the program!!!!!!!

Prices

1. This is the minimum cost for Vraja Bhumi with prasadam included, according the place when the devotees sleep. (To 10 guests will be free):

1. Festival Congregacional

Viernes – Domingo = 2 noches y 3 días.

1. Chalés= 570 Rs / $120.997 / 181 USD
2. Hotel = 480 Rs / $101.892 / 152 USD
3. Hare & Camping = 300 Rs / $63.683 / 95 USD

ASA - Damn cheap, Bobba!

1. Brahmanas y Ksatryas

Viernes – Miércoles = 5 noches y 6 días.

1. Chalés = 1140 Rs / 362 USD
2. Hotel = 960 Rs / 305 USD
3. Hare (some devotees houses) & Camping = 600 Rs / 191 USD

1. Ksatryas

Lunes – Miércoles = 2 noches y 3 días.

1. Chalés= 570 Rs / 175 USD
2. Hotel = 480 Rs / 148 USD /
3. Hare & Camping = 300 Rs / $63.683 / 92 USD

Hare Krsna gurudevm thank you for encourage us to serve.

HpS - ASA --  The ASA Absolute Undifferiniented Commado is Please With You!  Go ahead with full intelligence. List of Participants and their topics. We will prepare.

Photos below.

Hare Krsna.

Estimado Asta-sakhi Devi Dasi et al,

Estamos en Mexico 24 Dec - 30 Enero.
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Nuestro proposito es unos dias en: De Cristo a Krishna y De Nuevo (y otra vez). Podemos expressar nuestra ideas finalmente en esta area. Utilizar la misma para el simposium en Tirupati, Enero 1-4, y relacionar con Navedad, Los Tres Reys, y distribuir regalos del Oriente (libros de BBT).

Esta bien???

Hare Krsna!!

Esteemed Professor,

We have finished a week in Chicago. It was 6-7 degrees at night and they had not started the heating in the building, so we sat infront of a little fan and heater on the floor like Himalaya Yogis and did your work. We have built very good relations with our good ISKCON authorities and Bhaktas there. Several are in the University and we had two university programs as well as about 800 guests for the Govardhana Puja Program. Subal Das' wife in PhD in Education and we are continuing to work with here.

We tried to contact Rama-giridhari Das on Tuesday as planned, but discovered that he has left for Vraja with 75-devotees from his Navi-mumbai program. He Skyped us that he will be back on the 10th and planned very seriously to get in touch with us all then.

We feel very bad that we have not been able to move ahead with these weekly calls. We are always pushing our priorities, but we have realized that too much anxiety only results in too much eating and passionate effort.

Did you get our previous letter with the Photo links for the "Man Making" Book?

Has Sri Hari Das sent the print outs?

Did you get copies of our letters to him with ISBN and resend of Didhiti Bisvasa letter?

We have to work on the Foreward.

South America, even on the second try, is facing great problems in translating some of the articles, but I have expressed, and even our UN members agree, that we should at least format and circulate what we have, which is substantial, to our Editors and more intimate contacts, then move ahead with good advice to the next issue.

So, Abhirama has planned to have a good, formatted copy available by this weekend with photos.

With him we are also working on getting a page of bio-data for your good self on the Wikipedia and the review of our books in Spanish language journals.

Our work on Jung is slowly but realistically advancing. Our priority sending an effective letter to Professor Shyamdasani.

Our dates for India are more and more fixed:

Dec.  31st - Arrive Delhi 11.45PM

Jan.
1st - 4th - Tirupatti - Vaisnava x Christian Dialog. We are writing for circulation a paper: From Krist to Krsna, and Back Again (and Again).

4th-9th - Madras - Srimad Bhagavatam Symposium. We will present for 25-minutes with: Teaching SB in the Industrialized West.

9th - 18th - Kolkatta. We have answered Acharya-ratna Das letter but he has not got back to us about Kokatta Temple.

18th - 20th - Tripura North / Ananda Bazaar

21st - 23 - Cachar, Silchar. I have informed the organizers that you have very good friend in Asaam and the we MUST organize a very nice program with him for NIOS. Is Prof. Palit in Museum in Guwahati or Silchar at the University? [  ]

24th - 26th - Manipur Thoubal.

26th - Feb 1st - Delhi, Vrndavana.

1st - 8th - Navi Mumbai/Pune

8th-10th - Kokatta

10th-13th - Mayapura

13th - Mayapura to Delhi

14th - 3.15AM - Delhi to Houston, Texas.

Please any advice on this Calendar.

We will plan on calling on the 10th if that is possible!!! but you can always call us for any service.

HpSwami

NIOS - ASA 

HpS - ASA -- We would like to stay in the Northeast forever. It is so simple. So pure. So much Krsna consciousness. We have noted the following agenda into our Paper Calendar and hope to put it on the Website Calendar in the next few days. As per your suggestion we are adding 26th January to the days for Manipur, Thoubal.

Dr. Samaresh has a very good friend in Assam. Prof. P. Palit. Either in Silchar or Guwahati. We will begin to investigate more details, but he says that it is VERY IMPORTANT that we contact him and he can arrange a nice progam for all of us in the Museum or University and we can meet many nice scholars and others.

Now we can start to work on the tickets. Maybe some other devotees also want to travel with us, Harsh, Girivaradhari, our good maternity Doctor Sahaab.

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All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja,

All Glories to Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Ki Jay,

Radha Krsna Ki Jay

Dandavat Pranam,

I am enclosing the suggestions of Guruji's North Eastern India Tour Programme proposed by Haridas Prabhu and the reply from my side. Guruji please  suggest me the best possible way. This time, we are not yet fix Initiation Programme, I will discuss with other senior bhaktas and will reply shortly. 

Guruji Maharaja ! we need atleast 3 days not more inclusive of Arrival and Departure. So  please extend one more day starting from 17th Dec. 2016 or extending upto   26th Dec. 2016.

After Guruji's reply we will purchase Air Tickets so please select convenient fly timing.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das.

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My dear Mukta Prabhu [Yamunesvara Das], 

PAMMHO. AGTSP. 

Thank you very much for the message about Maharaja's almost fixed Tour Programme of India. Out of his tight schedule, Maharaj is ready to spare 8 days time for eastern parts of India. Maharaj is so merciful to us by extending us to have a darshan of his lotus feet as per schedule below, if necessary little deviation may take place in his duration of stay either in Manipur/ Inphal or Cachar / Silchar, otherwise, this given schedule will stand still :

ALMOST FINAL TOUR PROGRAMME OF MAHARAJ :

1. Tripura North / Ananda Bazaar - 18th to 20th January 2017 .............. 3 days. 

2. Cachar / Silchar - 21st to 23rd January 2017 ...............3 days.

3. Manipur / Thoubal - 24th & 25th January 2017 ................ 2 days.

The above is for your kind information and attention of the all disciples of HH.

Thanking you once again and assuring you of my best cooperation always. 

Your servant, 

Hari dasa, 

Manipur ISKCON, Imphal. 

Date : 29.10.16.

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Dandavat Pranam, Haridas Prabhu.

Thank you so much for your kind co-operation in executing Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja’s Manipur visit, but I could not say yes for such a short time for Imphal. Not only that I don't know when Guruji's flight will reach Imphal Airport then Thoubal Mandir holting one night then morning flight for Delhi. Prabhuji, we need atleast 3 days for coming and back. Please try to adjust. This time we want a long discussion in different topics with the initiated bhaktas seperately and another session jointly with all devoties. I will reply only after consultations with other main devoties of Thoubal.

I am enclosing another letter from Guruji Maharaja for reference.

Thanking you once again.

Yours kaniska vhakta

Yamunesvara Deas