Letters to the editor

Hare Krisna, Dear Gurudeva. Please, accept my humble obeisances. AGTOP.

Two days ago I wrote you an email with your defintive dates, but your email returned an error like if it doesn't exist your mailbox.

Then, yesterday in the morning I saw a message by you saying you don't have any notice from Spain so you'll buy the tickets.

Please, confirm me next flying:

• 13th May Brussels (main airport) to Madrid
• 15th May Madrid to Florence or Pisa (taking land at noon)
• 18th May Florence or Pisa to Madrid
• 22th May Madrid to Brussels (early in the morning) 

Please, send me your personal information of your Passport (1st and surename, passport number and date of expiratión) to [email protected].

I'll buy your tickets and I'll send them at your email adress, but please, send me a sure email adress. 

Thank you so much.

Your humble servant.

Dandava Das

HpS - ASA - AGTSP Thank you so much. We bought them yesterday. You may have seen that notice. The details are also at www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.htm

What do we do while we are there?

First few days in Madrid, no?    Then weekend to Italy.   Then when we return we have a Monday through Friday.  Suggested one lecture on Jung - Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encounter of Carl Jung with the Ancient Mysticism of India at Complutense University. We could invite Salvador Dali (and all other surrealists) et al.

Sananda Devi Das is working on it??!

Get her four little trotters [little pig's feet] back into the Holy Spirit [Espiritu Santo].

Jasoda . . .

Va http://jayarama.us/archives/jung-miraflores.pptx

HpS - ASA... Sankirtan.

Dear Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Happy to hear that you fixed your European trip's date.

There will be lot of programs here in the UK in May but between 13 -15 we can travel to somewhere and we would be happy if we could see/listen to You. What about your Spanish trip? Will you go first to Barcelona or to Madrid?

HpS - ASA - AGTSP paoho. I think you can see that in the other letters. Seems we land in Madrid on the 13th and should stay there until Friday when we go to Italy, Piza.

When we com back on Munday, we have to decide.

In the Kapi Dhvaja you mentioned that you needed help with the inside European tickets.

Just let us know how can we help you, Maharaja!

HpS - ASA - You already did!  We will buy the tickets you suggested.

Thanks for your association.

I wish you all the best!

Your servant, Sri Radhe devi dasi

HpS - ASA -- Hey, that's all the news???    What's happening with your good husband, temple, sastra, sankirtan, the world as you see it, Sister Ass?

Dear Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I read your answer to Dandava Prabhu about your European tour dates.

Maybe the Spanish devotees have more experience and knowledge about the Spanish airlines but i also tried to find tickets for you.

It seems that Iberia has the cheapest tickets from BRU to MAD.

    Brussels – Madrid
    Wednesday 13-May-15
    11:55 - 14:20
    Duration: 2h: 25m

    Flight operated by Iberia
    Iberia
    Without stopovers - BRU,MAD

    Madrid – Brussels
    Friday 22-May-15
    8:50 - 11:10 (this is the earliest one)
    Duration: 2h: 20m

    Flight operated by Iberia
    Iberia
    Without stopovers - MAD,BRU

 Total price: £ 125.70 (It gave the price in GBP not EUR)

And from Madrid to Pisa the Ryanair is the cheapest.

      Madrid T1 → Pisa

    Friday, 15 May 2015
    09:35 - 11:50 (it arrives before noon. But maybe you want to arrive to Villa Vrindavan by noon <img alt="frown" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/confused_smile.png" title="frown" width="23" /> I don't know...)
    1 Adult, 80.99 EUR
    1 x Adult Fare    80.99 EUR
    
    Pisa → Madrid T1
    Monday, 18 May 2015
    06:30 - 09:00 (maybe it's too early but this is the only one)
    1 Adult, 39.99 EUR
    1 x Adult Fare    39.99 EUR

TOTAL: 120.98 EUR

To Florence there is a direct flight operated by Iberia but it's price is double and it arrives after 12pm.

I hope i could help something.

I just read this article: http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/mar/16/ryanair-plans-to-offer-flights-between-europe-and-america

It's a good news. In four or five years you can travel to Europe by Ryanair for Ł10 <img alt="wink" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/wink_smile.png" title="wink" width="23" />

Best wishes always!

Your servant, Sri Radhe devi dasi

HpS - ASA ---- Thank you so much... AGTSP... We had not heard from you for some time and we were in some anxiety. So Iberia and then Ryan.  Also a letter from Dandava, so we look at that.  Thank you!!

Hare krsna maharaj.

All glories to srila Prabhupada

All glories to you H.H.Hanumatpresaka swami maharaj.

please accept my humble dandavat pranam at your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA - Potato feet.

Respected maharaj

Hope you are in good health.   I am very sorry that i had not written to you for so many days. I always remembered you in my mind .Thank you for the letter that you wrote to me in email. I am eternally gratefull that you have decided to take me as a future disciple knowing my problems.

I didnt want to write because i couldn't keep up to the standards . Few days i didnt chant my rounds .

HpS - Then keep track of your debt and begin to pay it back. Chant an extra round each day. We only neglect chanting because we are stupid, no? It will give us all kinds of benefits!

But now i am back on track. Did my rounds and trying to wake up for mangal aarti . Recently i saw your kapi dwaja and ABC Curriculam . I made a time table for myself keeping mangal aaarti , tulsi aarti etc and the books you mentioned in the ABC curriculum in my daily schedule. I am so gratefull to you  maharaj for making it so easy for me and others.

Since i last wrote to you i went to mayapur dham twice. It was blissfull expirience. So many wonderfull things happened there with me. Second time i went during kirtan mela . I  got to see H.H.Radhanath maharaj , H.H.Sacinandana maharaj , H.H.prahaladananda maharaj, H.H. Candramauli maharaj etc .didnt talk with them as i didn't know what i could say . Just paid my pranam and heard there classes. During sivaratri night H.H.Candramauli maharaj gave me his maha Garland iN Jagannath mandir. I also attended the kirtan mela but couldn't see the the panch tatva deities crying ( i went outside ISKCON to take darshan of radha gopinath and get maha garland in gopinath gauriya math....i was greedy for the garland so i missed the mercy of mahaprabhu... should have stayed in ISKCON only, sorry maharaj).

regarding my service . I did book distribution in train while going and coming back from mayapur dham. during nityananda trayodasi and gaura purniima cooked for the deities and also prepared fruit juices for abhishek. by the mercy of pujari pabhu he allowed me to do abhishek of gaura nitai during gaura purnima. About regular service in temple i mostly do cooking when i go as there . Once i got chance to cook for giriraj ji also. 

Recently i heard a lecture that you gave on JAPA from youtube. It was so inspiring . I could really connect with the concept of homunculus and also how we can worship our japa beads and consider them as like massaging krsna's toes. Thats like we are getting to touch krsna even though we are not brahmin . It was such a awesome lecture maharaj. Thank you.

I saw in your calander that you will be comming to india on 6th of may and visiting sri vrindavan dham. Maharaj please allow me to come with you and be with you during that time . Please maharaj allow me to stay in your association. Out of excitement i already booked my train tickets to mathura on 1st may. Maharaj how can i contact you when you arrive at delhi.

HpS - ASA - I guess we can burden Harsh with job of communication secretary. 919910579879, 919930034241. Se you there!!

I have never been to delhi before alone . Will you be having any phone number that i can call and meet you in delhi and vrindavan or your personal helper's number that i can call . 

I am so excited to meet and visit sri  vrindavan dham with you. It was a dream that i aspired for in my heart to visit vrindavan with you maharaj . With your and srimati radharani's grace i might be allowed to enter Vrindavan and that too with you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Maharaj i have a request . Can i call you Gurudev from now ?

HpS - ASA - No..... ISKCON rule is only when one is a Formal Refugee. That means following for 6-months and get letter of Recomendation from Temple President. O.K?  Maharaja is fine!!!

Sorry for the long letter . I just couldnt stop writing .

Dandavat pranam maharaj. ALL glories to you .

your aspiring servant.

rituraj majumder

shillong

p.s. photos of bhoga offering from nityananda trayodasi.

HpS - ASA - You news is so inspiring. You are on the correct path. You only have to proceed further!!!!

Hare Krisna Gurudeva. Please, accept my humble oberisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you're fine.

We just arrived from our program in Tarragona, Catalonia. A very nice program on last Saturday and Sunday: We had a workshop about Karma, other one about Kirtan Yoga, other one about Forgiveness, other one about Japa, Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda: Pindas. I'm going to upload some pictures. Some devotees came from Barcelona, and it was wonderful.

It's fantastic you come to Spain end of May. Do you know the dates exactly?

     HpS - ASA - It is updated on the ASA calendar: www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.htm

But details:

We arrive in Brussels 7.50AM May 7th. Then we need a flight to Spain, [from that big airport (BRU). The Charlet airport with Ryan air is like 20 miles away and difficult to get to!] with return to BRU on Friday the 22nd, early.

Then we can stay in Spain, Madrid...   until 15th, Friday, then we need a ticket to Florence or Pizza, Italy to arrive by noon time on the 15th of May. Returning to Spain on the 18th Monday.

O.K?  Can you look?

It would be fine to know when for preparing some programm in the University, if it's possible or in other places. How long you will be in Madrid? Do you have already your route in Spain? How can I help you about this?

I'm waiting your answers and comments.

Thank you.

Your humble aspiring to servant.

Dandava Das

HpS - Sri Sri Sri Radha Govinda Candra, Ki Jai!!!

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 2:26 AM, Mukta Okram <[email protected]> wrote:

All Glories to Sri Gujuji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Groura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Sri Juru Maharaja’s padmacharan that after a long gaps I got Gurujis reply of my letters. I am so happy to get Gurujis reply as asirbad and amrtabani. I will try to upload in the blog at my level best but sometimes I could not open and sometimes the message could not send properly. That is why I send the letter through the email.

I am regularly reading Srimad Bhagavatam one or more slokas now it reach upto 4.11.30-32 Svayambhu Manu’s advice to his grand son Dhruba Maharaja not to kill Yaksas who killed his stepbrother Uttama by one of the Yaksas.

     HpS - ASA -  AGTSP     Yes, if you can work through the Blog it is so much more efficient, but it is our love for Manipur that makes us try to communicate anyway.

Seems that Dhruva Maharaja let himself go a little crazy, passionate, in his war with the Yaksa, thinking that since he is a Ksatriya, then one of his Ministers or family members will pull him back to goodness.

 According to astronomical calculation, along with the polestar there is another star, which is called Sisumara, where Lord Visnu, who is in charge of the maintenance of this material world, resides. Sisumara or Dhruvaloka can never be reached by anyone but the Vaisnavas, as will be described by the following sloka. Srimad-bhagavatama 4.12.27 and

As Sisumara, Visnuloka or Dhruvaloka are completely different from this material world, so a Visnu temple within this world is also completely different from this material world. 4.12.29

In these two quotations, there is a confusion that is the three names Sisumara, Dhrubaloka and Beikuntha or Visnuloka are the same loka? And we simply heard that any living entities who climbed up to the Veikuntha loka will automatically return and get the birth and death bodies but here Dhruva Maharaja get the Dhrubaloka and mentioned by Narada that he will never return and the birth and death life. Please clarify the truth.

              HpS - Yes, no one is forced to return from Vaikuntha. Is a thief is being chased by the police for stealing a woman's purse, and he runs into the French Embassy in Delhi, the Delhi police cannot follow him. Legally, the French embassy is NOT a part of India. Iindian laws, police, military have no authority there.

So, like that, no? Dhruva loka (which it seems is also called Sisumara) is an Embassy of the Vaikuntha world.

We the bhaktas of Thoubal celebrated Goura Purnima (appearance day) of Gouranga Mahaprabhu on the 5th of March in the evening (Sandhya) with abhisek and change of dresses with arati and other sankritans along with brata. And in the next day we invite some local people and arranged prasadam for about 35 members. For about 2 hours we performed nama sankritana and different bhajans.

   HpS - Super!!!

Please let us know   the timing of Guruji’s visit India and Manipur, especially for Thoubal unprotected neophyte devotees. No one is taking care from the ISKCON so the bhaktas and beisnabis of Thoubal  are waiting like orphan. But one day or other, some one or other will send any guide for us to guide in the way of spiritual life, in this hope we are chanting his holy names. 

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - AGTSP - Paoho. We are in Houston, Texas for 12-days, working very hard with Primary School, Internation Education Projects and with disciples. By Krsna's arrangement we will be in Delhi (Vraja) from the 7th-12th of May. After that it looks like we will go to India in Februrary of 2016 and stay for a few months!