Letters to the editor

AGTSP

paoho

Thursday, 10 June, the great pretender, H. P. Swami, will be giving a class (SB 4.26.4) at 11AM at www.e-sanga.org.

Join us and learn about being married to your mind.

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Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

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Maharaja, when I called you I could not leave a voice message for some reason. The Boise temple council and other devotees have asked me to call you and see if you are indeed planning to visit in August. There are a handful of new western devotees that would very much appreciate your in person classes and all of the devotees you know here are eager to see you.

I am confident that we can put together some nice home programs, temple programs and possibly an outreach program. We are ready to send you funds so you can buy your plane ticket. Please let us know what we can do.

Bhakta Reilly is living at the temple now and knows you from many years ago. I believe he was aspiring to take initiation from you at one point. He is on a break from his military duties and has been doing so much service at the temple, attending Mangala-arati and chanting consistent rounds. Working his way up. He is teaching me a lot about humility and service attitude.

We have started a new weekly program in Hari Nam park called Chi Gong and Kirtan. Bhakta Sparkle leads a nice Chi Gong exercise then we serve light PrasdaASm (tea and popcorn usually) then we have Kirtan with western instruments followed by a group Japa meditation. It’s a great entry level program it seems. Please give us your blessings for this.

ASA - Great! Great! You can even make the popcorn salty and then charge for the tea. ()

Also, do you have flags? Stick 'em in the ground and you got a carnival tent!

Altar.

Thank you for the link to Mahabharata and the link to BG verse. It seems like we have a long way to go before second initiation.

HpS - Basically it is this getting up early. It is a habit and that proves very happy and beneficial. Then you will keep it.

Also, thank you for the link to Janis Joplin interview. Pretty fascinating and funny to me on many personal levels. I was inspired by her urgency and the jadedness for the material world. Fame does not seem pleasant.

Very much enjoyed your class on Jayananda Prabhus disappearance. His pastimes told by you are like pure nectar to our ears. So inspiring and emotional.

Thank you Maharaja. Please instruct me.

Your aspiring servant,

-Nitisara das

ASA - We cawl-ed u thrice, but heard no mice. so we will buy tick-ettes [little ticks] to fly to Boise be Gin Ning Aww! Gust!!!

Awww!!! Gusts!!!! 😎

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... we just tawk-ed on the fone!! Awl kon firm-ed! In three weeks we will make a movie.

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AGTSP

PAOHO

We will join the attached Guru-tattva symposium, and then report the results in GoToMeeting directly after the event.

O.K.?

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Whatsapp, ASA Stri-sanga, writes:

Hare Krsna, Maharaja and devotees.

PAMHO. AGTSP!

Tomorrow Manasi Ganga D. D. will be giving the SB class:

• https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/14/18/
• https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/14/19/

Entitled: The best half of a man's body.

Thanks.

Dear Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!

I want to first apologize for not writing sooner.

ASA-HpS -- In harmony, we want to apo logize for not answering sooner!

You sent me the TPP edited document a couple of weeks back and I went through a little bit of the edited document only today.

Last couple of weeks have been crazy. My father in law got COVID in India. He lives in Nagpur and there was sever shortage of beds, oxygen cylinders and other medication. Divya Sri's cousin took him in a car at 5 am in the morning and after trying to get beds in several hospitals, finally got a bed at 8 pm. In the mean time we were calling people who were selling oxygen cylinders from here to get something. Thank fully by Krishna's mercy, he is discharged now and is doing fine.

HpS - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/15/41/#bb16816 . Why we have not learned to act like Maharaja Yuddhisthira?? In the paragraph it directly talks about "life breathing"! Amazing. Fly around in the sky without air. Learn to drink and eat a subtler fare!

We had several devotees from Krishna House visit us this week and a few of them tested positive for COVID. Now the temple is back to lockdown again for a week. I feel too much of my environment and mind space is occupied with COVID rather than Krishna katha. Thankfully, with the service of teaching the Bhakti Sastri course, where we are currently doing Chapters 7-12, the association with Bhagavad Gita and Srila Prabhupada's purports are at least helping me contemplate on Krishna rather than just COVID.

But I can definitely feel that my Sadhana standards have dropped over the last two months. I feel very fatigued both physically and mentally. We are somehow pushing through because of your mercy.

I think the TPP has come out really well. I like how you have changed the font size of the pull-in quotes. It is now very clear to differentiate/visualize your commentary from the quotes. I have some thoughts on the other steps that need to be taken to publish the book. I would like you feedback on them.

1. Can we forward this to Abhirama Prabhu so that he can start typesetting? That way he can show you samples and we can finalize the formatting and design in parallel and when you finish the rest of the editing, the typesetting will be done very quickly since we have finalized the design.
2. We also need to think about the front and back cover design. Should we ask devotees in the blog to send in their designs from which you can choose Guru Maharaja? If we can do these things in parallel, we can get the book out as soon as your editing is complete.

HpS - ASA - We just sent another copy with our new edits to you and Art Das and R. R. Das today. Largely so that it doesn't get lost. We've edited all the Texts and most of the Appendices. Need to finish our ASA index and the BhVai question bank. We did more format editing.

Any comments are very nice, but if no time then after we finish the Appendices we can talk with ArtDas about the format. He is professional.

We would also like to come and see you when you visit Houston. Srirama Krishna Das will also be with us and we are planning to come there on the weekend (22-23 May). We wanted to know if it is ok for us to come and see you in person?

HpS - We pub lished the current calendar for the visits. 19-23AM we are in Nila-madhava Dhama. Then we go about 10AM to Sugar Land. Hard to associate there, but in NMD we can chat outside with proper social dish stance, no?? Call us on the Tele Phone if needed!

Respects to the Sri Rama Krsna Das et al.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances.

All glories unto you, NIOS, Srila Prabhupada, and our Acharyas.

Though you are so busy in so many great projects, you still take time out to hear us and guide us!

ASA - Actually we are trying to focus on just one central projects now: DTC-UT movie. Categories:

1. Interfaith Dialog.
2. Science and the Vedas.
3. World Classical Literature.
4. The Bhaktivedanta Library.

We are very fortunate to have your holy association and your guidance and blessings to progress on the Seminar Series on Vedanta and Science. We will meet and discuss it and come back to you with a proposal on how to proceed.

Your aspiring to be humble servant,

Aja Govinda Dasa

HpS - Thank you!!