Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna queridos devotos,todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada Todas las glorias a su santidad HPS por favor acepten nuestras reverencias a sus pies, Deseamos invitar a SS a que participe del festival en Nueva Mayapur (la finca de iskcon en la playa) la ultima semana de diciembre 2016 y la primera semana de enero 2017.Seria una gran inspiracion para todos tener Su santa asociación esperando su respuesta sus sirvientes Guru mangal das y los devotos del comite' Nueva Mayapur.

HpS - ASA -  TlgaSP.  Aparece mooo y buey-no a nostros.  Por favor enviar mas informacion del evento como puede.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, if possible, please share your India dates, means, date wise schedule, as we have to book tickets.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

We are just waiting now for any final decisions from devotees, then we will look for inter-India-tickets.

Dear Gurudeva,

Please accept my obeisance’s. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!!  

Here we are. A long lone time no writing here in the blog.

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!    That's what Mani-sati-sita Devi Dasi said in the last letter also.

Always following it. This has been a year of much traveling, looking for balance. Working with therapies, yoga, Ayurveda, Prasadam. Giving courses, etc. Also some Sankirtan book distribution traveling to Bolivia, learning natural building techniques.

In the long way to move from Bs As, very crazy life, to Cordoba, little bit less crazy life. First with the idea to go to the lonely hills, but then changing the idea to a more civilized place with more human interaction.  Times of many doubts, very strong mind.

By moments reflecting in the materialistic perspective of life of how everyone is living as they are never thinking going to leave this body. Many times finding difficult to find some sense to this no sense theatre material world; other than make an inner transformation or help others in that way. Apathetic many times, but then finding light in connecting all as Krishna s gift. Trying to change the paradigm of my heart.

Principles are OK, 16 Rounds are Ok , but with a large debt. Chanting Gayatris, losing many.

HpS - ASA -- Our personal experience, again and again and again. Statement of scriptures... 15% weak/behind rounds = 15% suffering, 22% = 22% etc.   We only neglect our rounds because we are STEWPID.  I am stupid sometimes, chant bad rounds.

Last weeks getting more involved in looking for interested people for your preaching in Bs As, January, is like a dead month in Bs As, but we are trying to look for some possibilities with  Rati manjari, Jhanava, and Dhanya Lalita.

ASA - Jesus says, "The Kingdom of God is only for the completely dead!". Looks like we have the right month.

Talking with some institutions waiting for their answers. There are some important people and institutions that are interested in you and in  Jung and Psychology of Yoga Kundalini, but they are on holidays or closed in January.

ASA - That means they are PERSONALLY available.

Gurudeva, here I attach some photos of some encounters of meditation japa, Mantra Proyect,I was facilitating during this year.

Always remembering you in my heart and in my little intelligence,

Aspiring to serve you,

Madhavendra Puri Das

HpS - Well, its good to hear from you. Yes, KC is 97% internal work (resulting from a lot of external work).
Let's look maybe for personal meetings in January rather than institutional meetings, no?   Also, if all the institutions are closed, the people left in BsAs may be very bored and looking for something different. Kundalini Yoga. . . Sex and Celibacy(?)  ....   Weird, but let's have lots of fun.  Lets have a revolution. Lets get 15% of the BsAs population coming to our program.  Three Radio Shows?

Nice pictures.

AGTSP!!!

PAMHO,
Dear Guru Maharaja,

I check your calendar:

7th-30th March, India (Plan Calcutta, Manipur, Mayapura for three weeks, Bombay for two weeks, Vraja for one week?)

Did you know when you arrive to each place?  Because my intention is follow you. I have to buy the tickets, because of that I ask, to take the same plane or at least can be in the same place.

THANK YOU. Forgive me for ask you something. I hope my Karma let me serve you in Holy Dham.

Your servant.
Rati Manjari DD

HpS - ASA  -  AGTSP paoho....

Thank you for your valuable question.

1. We have the basic ticket: Jet Airways - EWR to BRU to DEL, Wed 17 Feb, 6.30PM ... 10.45PM, Thu 18 Feb.

Leaving DEL 30th Mar, 2.45AM for BRU (Spain).

2. After that we still have not yet bought the local tickets. Seems that we are still O.K. on those. We are trying to fix the exact local times now, but is still not certain: Eg How much time we will spend in Kolkata, Mayapura etc.

3. We are a Civil Deadman eg. In Kolkatta we will be staying some nights in the ISKCON Temple, some nights with Dr. Samaresh etc. We can try to give general dates, but you can count very, very little for us in terms of specific accomodations etc. Of course, we can give advice about which trains are the best etc.

4. Really as a girl, going for first time, you should 125% be going with someone else. Staying and traveling with someone else.

O.K?

Hare Krsna!

Esteemed Professor et al,

We are writing from Franklin, Tennessee. As usual our energy is a little delicate. Death is only about 9-years away and we should be expecting more and more debilitation of the gross body as it approaches, be we hope to have a harmonious departure, having all our accounts in order.

CALENDAR

We have our tickets:

We arrive 10.45PM, February 18th, in Delhi on Jet Airways 229

We leave March 30th, 2.45AM on Jet Airways 230

What shall we do in between times? The ISKCON programs in Mayapura formally begin the 24th, but we may be expected to arrive before that to help set up things. You and Mrs. Bandyopadhyaya can come to visit the project?
After that we should make some effort to visit the North-east, Manipur, although it is mostly a personal obligation to our disciple Yamunesvara Das.

Beyone that we have invitations to visit Mumbhai and Pune and Baroda and of course we would like to visit Vrndavana, but these are more optional until we get your opinion.

BHARATA-SAMSKRITI

We are working on the brochure, we had to drive over to Ravi's home, 45-minutes each way to get the books and dust covers. Today, Friday, we hope to take the information and put it into a flyer. We also go to his house today for regular Friday program and at the same time look for our copy of Abhivadana (spelling [?]).
 

EDUCATION IN CLASSICAL INDIA

We looked at the Program for the Delhi book release and we did not see any more details of our Welcome Address and after a second review do not see an older version of it on our computer memory. I guess we can go over it by phone at some point.

CORPORATION

We will visit Texas next weekend and hope to meet with the Accountant then about the details of Incorporation. We are waiting for Rama-giri-dhari Das to approve or edit the Mission Statement, but even if he does not get back to us soon we will send it to you for your opinions.

PERU SYMPOSIUM

Ramon was exhausted after his business trip to Spain, but has pushed to organize a meeting with Ravi next Wednesday during business hours to establish personal committments for the projects and then detailed contracts. If this doesn't happen then I think we should reconsider the project.

OTHER DETAILS

Are always there and are coming along slowly but steadily. We are getting a more and more efficient work schedule. Usually we have 1-3 hours of class programs daily and about 15-letters to answer daily. We started the Sanskrit vocabulary course with Goloka Education: balukah vane vasati. It is at www.loftylearning.com and looks to be a good start for a very practical course. We are promoting it. The more the merrier.

We will call on Sunday and hope to have the Bh-Skrti flyer off to you before that.

Your very incompetent servant,

HpSwami et al.

Dear Gurudeva,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All the glories to Srila Prabhupada!

According to what we have lived here in Chosica, especially the last years, our perspectives have been changing about where to live. So we are planning our years 2016-17-18, and it seems Sita-lalita is going to continue with her studies of English to be a teacher in the ICPNA (institute in lima)  and she is also starting to prepare to apply to Lima s Conservatory… Bibhatsu Arjuna is also going to study english in the ICPNA in Lima, and he asked us to dedícate this year just to that, after finishing his secondary (this year he finishes) and in his gap year, he is going to decide what he wants for his future.

So we have thought of living in Lima starting 2016, but not in the house of my parents in law or my family, but, we would rent a house, and at the same time it could have other functions… Some time ago we have been thinking of opening a Cultural Center in Lima, where we could live, have a business as a boutique, restaurant, cultural workshops and especially a place that can be useful to preach…

HpS - ASA - Sounds so nice.

Because we have to live in lima, because of work and studies, to prevent expenses, this is our way to be not so close to the temple, but to be hooked with preaches, and to shelve living confortably at home watching televition and enjoying with the family and Friends… In fact, we have more details about this proposal, and even we have advansed talks with a couple of partners devotees and Friends with whom we would work for this Project… Now we are at the stage of asking for advice, and yours is the most important for us. What do you think?

HpS - Sangat sanjayate Kamah.  Our desires and ambitions develop from the company we keep. So seems nice to get a residence near to devotees with whom you can preach. We don't know details, but Caturatma, Palika, Abhirama, Maria, Patrak are all in the same area. Maybe that is a good place for a preaching program.
Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!

Also, you can see our days for visiting Lima in January and February. We will have initiations for Sita and Karuna those days?
 

What do you think???
 

Your servant Anandamaya das

Querido Gurudeva,

Por favor acepte nuestras humildes reverencias. Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Debido a lo que hemos vivido aquí en Chosica, especialmente los últimos años, han ido cambiado nuestras perspectivas con respecto a donde vivir. Así que estamos planificando nuestros años 2016-17-18, y al parecer Sita Lalita va a continuar sus estudios de Ingles para profesora en el ICPNA (instituto en Lima)  y comenzar a prepararse en el conservatorio de música (Lima), para presentarse a admisión…. Bibhatsu Arjuna también estudiaría ingles en el ICPNA de Lima, y nos pidió solo dedicarse a eso por un año, después de acabar su secundaria (este año acaba) y en este año sabático, va a decidir que oficio tomar para su futuro.

Entonces hemos pensado vivir en Lima a partir del 2016, pero no en casa de mis suegros o de mi familia, si no, alquilaríamos una casa, que tenga otras funciones… Desde hace un tiempo estamos pensando en abrir un Centro  Cultural en Lima, donde podamos vivir, tener algún negocio como boutique, restaurante, talleres culturales, y especialmente nos sirva para poder predicar…

Debido a que tenemos que vivir en Lima, por los estudios y mi trabajo, para evitar gastos, esta es nuestra manera de estar lejos del templo, pero seguir enganchados con la predica, y dejar del lado de estar cómodos en una casa viendo televisión y disfrutando con la familia y amigos… De hecho tenemos más detalles acerca de esta propuesta, e incluso tenemos conversaciones avanzadas con un par de devotos socios y amigos con quienes trabajaríamos este proyecto… Ahora estamos en la etapa de pedir consejos, y el suyo es el más importante para nosotros. Usted qué opina?

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