Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

 AGTSP; PAMHO ¡¡¡

Gurudeva, I can not join the Pada Padma class on Saturdays due to at that time I am commuting to work <img alt="crying" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/cry_smile.png" title="crying" width="23" />....

I give classes all saturdays at 9 am :(

Sorry GM I can not present on saturday :(

I join all your classes expect [except] that class.... That is why I joined on saturday nights....I really miss the association of the group ¡¡¡

Looking forward to see u on FMP in a few hours

ys

CMDD

HpS - ASA ---   O.K. See you Saturday night!   Then we will present Bhismadeva's prayers and Topics in the first two cantos and record it and send the link!

May you get a three month contract with the University, with an approved leave-of-absence where you can make $51,000 doing what you like to do, and then not have to work for a year or two.

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

You wrote: HpS - AGTSP!   Oh, dinosauro of Middle East, so nice to hear from you.  Maybe is Window's 10, conflict then.   We can live with it.   Just takes more work.  Guess it will be resolved.  This Blog is so nice.

What are you doing!!!?    Sankirtan.   No news.      You can see what we are doing (dying (Sankirtan)).
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Yes, Blog is nice. Very useful for sharing ideas and informations, staying in email-touch. Thank you Guru Maharaja and Prahlad Nrsimha prabhu.

In the meantime of waiting what is going to happen with BhVai program, I read Bhagavad Gita, Jaiva Dharma, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, and then continued with Srimad Bhagavatam. Finished 7th Canto and starting 8th, maybe not with specific study as we were doing in BhVai, but strong regular reading. I almost forgot about Narada Muni's previos life (one before being maidservant's son) which he personally described.

HpS - Well, we publish in the Kapi Dhvaja, that we are having, always the regular Saturday morning classes.  We go back to what we personally really want to accomplish.  Pada-padma, Cantos One and Two, well developed, is one of those things. So now we are trying to develop community each Saturday morning for those things.
Then Srivasa, San Jose, Upendra, Srinivasa, everyone wants to go ahead with Cantos 7-12, even without Bh. BVai diplomas, so I have been suggesting maybe we can make an arrangement with Mayapura Institute, to join them as Study Partners and become registered as on line Bhakti Vedanta students as a group. Then we can work out times for physical meetings and use their administration and curriculum and help them to develop it.
What you think. Others think it might be good idea.
The higher education in ISKCON is very much pioneering. It is only go on with personal committment by everyone, especially you. You have a lot of qualifications to help! 

As some other Blog followers, I too followed Hrdayananda das Goswami on tour of Israel and Europe by watching the recordings on Youtube. I am inspired  by his preaching and ideas.  Maharaja surely gives food for thought. You mentioned something about him in a letter to Raghava Pandita.

HpS - Yes, he is very nice devotee.  We agree with about 81% of his perspective. Of course, other devotees like other leaders. It is natural, no?

From when I came back to Pula (16 years ago), between our small local devotee community there were (are) a dozen children. Somehow, we never got a program for them. Last Nrsimha Caturdasi, as the initial bhajans finished and a lecture started, I heard the children (3 of them) playing, jumping and screaming in the another room. I got inspired to go and be with them. I asked one mother if it is OK that I go and do something with the children. She agreed. So, I went to the room and asked if they want to hear about Nrsimadeva and Prahlada. They said "YES!". I told them the story, intertwining philosophical points of Krsna consiousness. Later parents told me that the children were very happy with the time I spent with them and with what they heard. Parents were also very grateful. And I was also enlivened by how all the situation came about and how children asked intelligent questions which made me  aware of necessity to dive deeper into KC. ie more surrender). Now, we have  program with the children during a Sunday program lecture. It is once a month, taking in consideration that before neither parents not children were coming regulary for Sunday program.  During Gaura arati kirtan children chant, dance and jump happily.

HpS - The average Mormon boy decides by 12-years old that he is going to do two years of missionary work after college!

Krsna-ksetra Maharaja and Smita Krsna Maharaja blessed us with their visit to our local temple. That was nice and sweet, too.  

We went to Ratha Yatra in Rijeka (Croatia) and there tried to pull Krsna to Vrindavan and specifically to turn our hearts back to Him, after insolently leaving Him with the idea of becoming self-centered King of the world.

Big challenge in life is how to balance (not sure if this is the right word) sadhana with other duties as husband, son, citien of Croatia, ISKCON member... How to chant minimum 16 nice japa rounds, attentively study SP's books, do puja, be/stay clean outside and inside, and work for livelihood which entails mingle with persons, offices, bosses who (for the time being) are satisfied with their material way of life.

HpS - Later it becomes achintya-bheda-abheda-tattva.  We see how all these things intimately relate to our service and we can mix them very well, but until we come to that point, Bh V Thakura says that we have to "balance" them.  One nice balance I heard is that morning is for Spiritual Life, daytime is for making money (with both arms and both feet!), and evening time is for enjoying - goodness, passion, ignorance.       If morning program is strong then the other two parts of the day are FOR Krsna also, no?

Another challenge is to percieve Krsna in all living entities, devotees too :-)

Naturally, it  all depends on fine program of japa and abiding to devotional regulative principles.

Please, excuse me, I am not writing on the Blog more often. You say many times that eyes, legs and heart pain you. And you are occupied with many other letters so I feel like I do not want to burden you.

Somebody kindly shot and I am attaching few photos  of a wandering jiva who is trying to consciously stand on his  spiritual legs.

Thank you Guru Maharaja.

Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - Super nice letter!    Please write more as necessary.  Maybe join us on Saturday morning!  Next week Candra mukhi Devi Das will tell us about the new Diary of Draupadi that was found in the ruins of M. Yuddhisthira's palace in Dehli!

Hare Krishna Maharaja Please, accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I'll be in charge of NIMSAR communication from now on. After 2 meetings the following was agreed:

1.-To have a protocol for meetings.

2. It was agreed that members of NIMSAR receive training seminars in skills and introspective (psychological)areas.

3. Areas were developed by committees and all is related as a body

HpS - ASA ----  AGTSP!  Excellent Letter, but.... we don't understand this point???  ​
 

4.- An executive and educational model was presented, we will go looking for results at future meetings.

Communications (under the direction of the secretariat) will be developed in 3 stages: The 1st stage (from October to February 2016) we will develop a colaborationa plan for ISKCON temples Agreements: We will take the workshop by Mr Palomino. Sunday School will be developed by Priya Sakhi and Yugala dd SS Isvari dd

AGTSP!

Investigated and purchased the following flights.

Thursday -  14 january 2016,   10:45Santiago de Chile (SCL)       12:45Buenos Aires (EZE),    LA467

Wednesday -  20 january 2016,   06:55Buenos Aires (AEP)          08:25Cordoba (COR),    LA4200

Wednesday - 27 january 2016,   11:55Cordoba (COR)   -   13:30Santiago de Chile (SCL),    LA951
 

AGTSP!

Hare Krsna

Pamho Agtsp

Guru dev

We were talking with Jagad guru, Vrsabhanu nandini dd, Madhavendra puri, Rati manjari and Jahnava dd about the Chile and Argentina calendar, and the preaching activities.

Here in Cordoba we have the Jung s activities and preaching programs for devotees. in the Cordoba capital the devotees  are triying to open a temple after many years, i think we need your guidance and inspiration.

 We are organice a team in BS As with Madhavendra, Rati and Jahnava dd for organize in a better way the jung preaching and have good contact and dialogue with interesting people. in Bs As there a few contact like Bhakta Luis and the director of the mental hospital and Rati manjari,  Jhanava dd have other contact to work on it. Also there a devotee who is Psicologist that could organize a meeting with others psicologist student of psicology.

Here we have diferent dates option for your travel to Argentina and Chile, what do you think?

BNA (Nashville) EZE (ezeiza Buenos Aires)

COR (Cordoba) SCL (Santiago de Chile)

Option 1...  Option 2....  Option 3....  ASA - See below.

thank you for your time,  effort and inspiration.

traying to serve to your mission, and Srila Prabhupada Ambarisa das.

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP.   Paoho.  Thank you all  for so much effort.   We just finishing like 3 hours working on all the options and here is the result:

[This reservation was ticketed and confirmed on Fri., Oct. 9, 2015 at 10:58 a.m. Central Time]

Mon., Jan. 4, 2016 | Nashville, TN, US (BNA) to Lima, PE (LIM)

Depart: 11:23 a.m, Nashville, TN, US (BNA)

Arrive: 1:49 p.m, Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental) - Flight Time: 3 hr 26 mn, Flight:UA3962

Change Planes. Connect time in Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental) is 2 hr 11 mn.

Depart: 4:00 p.m., Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental)

Arrive: 11:35 p.m., Mon., Jan. 4, 2016, Lima, PE (LIM), Flight Time:
6 hr 35 mn:  Total Travel Time: 12 hr 12 mn

Wed., Jan. 6, 2016 | Lima, PE (LIM) to Santiago, CL (SCL)

Depart: 10:15 p.m., Lima, PE (LIM)

Arrive: 3:50 a.m. +1 Day, Thu., Jan. 7, 2016, Santiago, CL (SCL), Travel Time: 4 hr 35 mn

Mon., Feb. 1, 2016 | Santiago, CL (SCL) to Lima, PE (LIM)

Depart: 7:14 a.m., Santiago, CL (SCL)

Arrive: 9:04 a.m., Lima, PE (LIM), Travel Time: 2 hr 50 mn, Flight:AV624

Wed., Feb. 3, 2016 | Lima, PE (LIM) to Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental)

Depart: 1:10 a.m., Lima, PE (LIM)

Arrive: 6:40 a.m., Houston, TX, US (IAH - Intercontinental), Travel Time: 6 hr 30 mn, Flight: UA855

AGTSP!    Paoho

Our Calendar is based upo​n our mobility.   Our mobility is based upon Brother As'ss strength, energy.  We have recoverd 90% from the stress of our Houston, Mexico, Peru trip, but that means we are about 40% of what we were at 35-years old (but smarter), and it will certainly get less (and really smart of we are careful to apply Srila Prabhupada's instructions) as we go to our death (new body).

Internally we are dedicated to Saturday morning Pada-padma classes: Canto One and Two of Srimad Bhagavatam, and evening class in Spanish.  Other things we are including as natural.

We have a lot of work daily by telephone with Boise, Ministry of Education, Texas - ASA Nashville Sankirtan Central.

We have very interesting, but not now very clear, invitations from Latin America, so we are thinking of making our own plans to visit there.   We suggest that we go to Santiago from Nashville on the  6th of January and return on the 3rd of February.   We can visit other places from there if important.  That will cost us $1,100.

We will buy this ticket on Wednesday unless we hear something else.

Speak now or forever hold your peace.

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We will be based here, Nashville, 16th to 20th we will go to the Raleigh Rathayatra. Very close.   Then probably go to Houston [Mexico?] after November 18th.

Maybe Houston [Mexico?] 3rd - 10th February.

Then India for a few months as necessary.

All plans subject to change as the mood strikes us (Monkey/Piggy).

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Planning Chile,  any Congress

Make the topics first and look for the speakers et al?       We think it is first understand what will motivate us, then find the speakers, and of course the topic will be related to the speakers.  It is like the person Bhagavat and the book Bhagavata.  Can't separate, but person first by a little bit.

Hare Krsna!