Letters to the editor

The inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya marks a historic moment in the religious and cultural tapestry of India. The temple, dedicated to Lord Ram, has a rich history rooted in the ancient epic, Ramayana.

The dispute over the site dates back several centuries, with tension escalating in the modern era. The Babri Masjid, built in the 16th century, became a focal point of contention as some believed it was constructed on the ruins of a temple that marked the birthplace of Lord Ram.

The dispute reached its peak in 1992 when the Babri Masjid was demolished by a group of activists, leading to widespread communal tensions. Legal battles ensued, and the case eventually reached the Supreme Court of India. In a landmark judgment in 2019, the court paved the way for the construction of the Ram Temple, acknowledging the historical and cultural significance of the site for Hindus.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place in August 2020, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone for the temple. The construction process was carried out with meticulous attention to detail, incorporating traditional architectural styles and techniques.

After a wait of 500 Years, the grand inauguration ceremony took place on January 22nd, 2023 marking the completion of this monumental project, attended by dignitaries and devotees from across the nation.

ISKCON joined in the global celebration of the honor given to Lord Sri Rama on Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi Temple for the installation of the Ram Lala deity.

ISKCON temples in India will participate in a special month-long celebration in Ayodhya,

During the celebration, ISKCON plans to feed 10,000 pilgrims daily, and hold festivals

promoting the chanting of Hare Krishna mahamantra. ISKCON will also set up a medical camp and distribute large quantities of Srila Prabhupada Books.

Many of ISKCON’s 800 temple communities around the world also participated in the

festivities in various ways—from live telecasts of the Ayodhya inauguration, offerings of sacred lamps, special worship services, extended kirtan ceremonies, and other events.

“Ramayana” written by the sage Valmiki, contains nearly 24,000 verses. The Ramayana epic is revered in cultures around the world---including Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines, and more—and celebrated through traditional and contemporary art, dance, drama, music.

“We hope that this inaugural festival marking the legacy of Sri Rama and His teachings on dharma, righteousness, spiritual truth, and morality will inspire people around the world to practice selfless, compassionate acts for the benefit of all people and our entire planet,” said Anuttama Dasa, Minister of ISKCON Communications.

Some of the gifts given by devotees to Lord Ram in this grand celebration were:

*600 Kgs of Ghee from Rajasthan.

*The temple construction materials were brought from all over India.

*108-foot-long incense that was lit for the ceremony that came from devotees in Gujarat.

*Multiple helicopters showered flowers during the Pran-pratistha Muhurta which lasted 84 seconds.

*The world's Largest Lamp 300 feet in diameter made with 1008 tons of clay and 21,000 liters of oil was lit.

*And many other opulent offerings.

Summary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48BxGwB87D0 (Ayodya is immersed in celebration)

Full Ceremony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxyqZEW43UE (5:00:00 Darshan of Lord Rama)

Others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tKFq6jnew8 (ISKCON Devotees feeding +10K devotees)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ36-t8qGz8. (108 feet incense)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymgkncf-h-w ( Ayordhya Lights up)

Jay Sri Ram!!

Ranchor Krishna Das

HpS - Thank you, RkD Swami! Hope to see you soon!!!

Hope your Sacred Tours is going well if you are so inclined.

Please send any news about your Sankirtan idea!

Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept my obeisances dearmost Gurudeva, all the glories to the devotees!

This is bhakta Guimo, Guna Vira Das, which Initiation Ceremony was on Sunday 14th January on:

“Makara-saṅkrānti [the day when the sun begins to move north]” as stated on SB 7.14.20-23.

You can see a humble video here: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02aMwnbrNgbTAYModzPzKSnFH6kdRXmqVfs2tb9kHerR6xPk9AAcxc3AjeqPahFA7sl&id=100063970476616&sfnsn=scwspwa&mibextid=VhDh1V

Guru Maharaja informed us that this holy name means:

“Servant of the husband of the sister of the grandfather of KRSNA”.

And later He allowed this servant to research about that illustrious personality. I searched on the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase 2003 software, as well as the online version. Also, on vanipedia.org and on: names.iskcondesiretree.com and finally asked beloved and saavy Harilila Das Prabhú in order to verify the sources.

Currently, we know pretty much the same, just expanding the names… That Gunavira Maharaja is the husband of the sister (Mother Suverjana) of the father (Parjanya Maharaja) of the father (Nanda Maharaja) of Sri KRSNA. Both Gunavira and Suverjana, the expert hdancer, resi

e(d?) at Surya-kunda.

Life perspective starts to flourish!

At Your service and of all the devotees!

HpS - Thank you!

We just updated our list on the webpage to include your initiation: https://jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt

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Hare Krishna. Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada. ¡Por favor acepte mis reverencias, querido Gurudeva, todas las glorias a los devotos!

Este es bhakta Guimo, Guna Vira Das, cuya ceremonia de iniciación tuvo lugar el domingo 14 de enero en:

“Makara-saṅkrānti [el día en que el sol comienza a moverse hacia el norte]”, como se indica en SB 7.14.20-23.

Se puede ver un sencillo video aquí: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02aMwnbrNgbTAYModzPzKSnFH6kdRXmqVfs2tb9kHerR6xPk9AAcxc3AjeqPahFA7sl&id=100063970476616&sfnsn=scwspwa&mibextid=VhDh1V

¡La perspectiva de vida comienza a florecer!

Guru Maharaja nos informó que este santo nombre significa: “Siervo del marido de la hermana del abuelo de KRSNA”.

Y luego Él permitió que este siervo investigara sobre aquella ilustre personalidad. Busqué en el software Bhaktivedanta VedaBase 2003, así como en la versión en línea. También en vanipedia.org y en: names.iskcondesiretree.com y finalmente le pregunté al querido y sabio Harilila Das Prabhú para verificar las fuentes.

Actualmente, sabemos más o menos lo mismo, sólo ampliando los nombres… Que Gunavira Maharaja es el esposo de la hermana (Madre Suverjana) del padre (Parjanya Maharaja) del padre (Nanda Maharaja) de Sri KRSNA. Tanto Gunavira como Suverjana, la bailarina experta, residen(¿residían?) en Surya-kunda.

¡La perspectiva de vida comienza a florecer!

¡A Su servicio y el de los/las devotos/as!

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Mother Kunti from Radha Kalachandji dhama requested that I share her offering to you here in the Blog.

His Holiness Hanumat Presaka Maharaja illuminates anyone who hears his classes.

His presence is as brilliant as the Sun.

His fierce intellect drives away the ignorance in our hearts and helps us make room for the Supreme Personality of Godhead in a most powerful and beautiful way.

Today is the most blessed event of his Holy Appearance.

Quoting Srila Prabhupada’s offering to his beloved Gurudeva:

“Adore adore ye all this day. Blessed than heaven, sweeter than May”…

Let’s join prayers together today and every day to beg His Holiness Hanumat Presaka Maharaja to please give us a tiny drop of his great mercy to re dedicate ourselves to the mission of ISKCON with patience, enthusiasm and determination remembering his fully surrendered example.

Servant of your servant,

Mother Kunti (TKG) and family, ISKCON Dallas

HpS - AgtSP. Mataji, you know. 99%+++ of what we accomplish is because we are joining the fight from behind Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet. Otherwise, what to speak of not doing anything, we would have again joined The Black Witch's enjoyments.

😥

Thank you.

Hope to see you in Nabadvipa with Nimai soon.

A requirement, agtSP, for anyone taking Diksa from us, under the authority of Srila Prabhupada and his ISKCON, is that they file an Annual Report. Basically this has to be filed at the Reports link listed in this Blog.

An annual report to the Add Letter link is not sufficient.

These are formalities, but not meaningless formalities.

This is how we take this job.

🙂

Reports were due on January 9th 2024.

This is the list of Reports we have now on 2024 January 19th:

1. Divya Dristi DD 
2. Parasurama Avatar Das 
3. Priyasakhi Devi Dasi 
4. Vrsabhanu Nandini Devi Dasi 
5. Sarad Gaurangi DD 
6. Jaya Prema Sakhi DD 
7. Murari dasa 
8. Indu Lekha dd from Chile 
9. Jiva-Sakti dasa 
10. Madhvacharya das 
11. Nanda-braja das 
12. Aja Govinda das 
13. Aristasena 
14. Ekangi dd 
15. [email protected] 
16. Karuna Mayi devi dasi 
17. Anandamaya das 
18. Tarangaksi Devi Dasi 
19. Subhadra Mayi DD 
20. Campaka Lata dd 
21. Gopi Radha DD 
22. Rukmini Devi Dasi 
23. Citrasakhi Devi Dasi 
24. Sacinandan Das 
25. Mani Kundali Devi Dasi 
26. Mandali bhadra das 
27. Bhakta Guimo 
28. Nikunja Bihari das 
29. Palika devi dasi 
30. Abhirama Thakura dasa 
31. Indu Lekha dd desde Chile 
32. Ramakrishnananda Das 
33. Satyabhama dd 
34. Srinatha Krsna dasa 
35. Braja Raja Krsna Dasa 
36. Srinivasacarya Dasa 
37. Annual Report 2023 
38. Sudama sakha dasa 
39. Asta Sakhi dd 
40. Radhika Ramana dasa 
41. Dhanistha Devi Dasi 
42. Rukmini Sundari-Arequipa 
43. Krishna Pramodini Devi Dasi 
44. Srinivasa Muktipaty (Subala Sakha Das) 
45. Prahlad-nrsmha das 
46. MANYARI DEVIDASI 
47. Rtu-raj Krsna Das 
48. Sri Rama Krishna Das 
49. Tungavidya devi dasi 
50. Candramukhi dd 
51. Parama Karuna das 
52. Aniruddhakrsna Das 
53. Nadiya Nivasi Dasi 
54. Deva Vrata das 
55. Jaya-hari das 
56. Divya Sri Devi Dasi 
57. Nilachala Chandra Das 
58. Indira-Sakti Devi dasi 
59. Mitravinda devi dasi 
60. Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi 2023 
61. Laksmana-agraja das 
62. Patrak das 
63. Govinda Pramodini Dasi 
64. Namacarya Das 
65. Loka Bandhu Rama Dasa 
66. Hayagriva Avatar Das 
67. Jayanta das (Madrid) 
68. Purnamasi devi dasi 
69. Jayanta das 
70. Jana-pavana das 
71. Adi Yajña Das 
72. Radha Japa prati Jalpa Devi Dasi 
73. Sugopi Radha dd 
74. Gadai Gauranga Dasa
75. VISALA DAS 

So, basically we will only send reports to Srila Prabhupada and claim responsibility as his Diksa guru for these 75-disciples.

😃 Makes our life manageable.

Every body else - we'll give you another month maximum.

We will post the notification in the Kapi Dhvaja... AGAIN 😦

asa[e].. ug.. ai

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja,

PAMHO, AGTSP.

Just wanted to share below insights of experts into the future world of Artificial Intelligence.

From a Linkedin Post:

Adolph Hitlers propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels purportedly said: “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” Gary Smith finds that “[large language models] can generate falsehoods faster than humans can correct them.”

Gary has been reporting on his humorous exchanges with ChatGPT for more than a year, sometimes asking the same questions to see if ChatGPT’s answers get better; they don’t. One of those questions involves how many bears the Russians have sent into space (correct answer is none) in which he shows that the answers are not getting logically better, but funnier.

Main article: https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/internet-pollution-if-you-tell-a-lie-long-enough/?

Your servant

Srinivasacarya Dasa

HpS/ASA[UG] - Thank you!!! 🐻 We have learned how to do keystrokes to get the Emojis into the page. You know? .... you type ":" and then put the proper keyword afterwards eg ":bear" and you get the bear emoji.

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We remember how Srila Prabhupada was saying that all these televisions were not useful. (We understand that traveling Puppet shows and local Puppet shows are better).

He said that in the whole world maybe two, three dozen televisions were needed.

One in Moscow. One in Beijing. One in the Vatican. One in...

... people develop memories! People talk with their neighbors. Brahmanas like Vyasa deva can give people like Sanjaya TV in their hearts.

WHTSTSPS (we heard they say that srila prabhupada said) that if you follow strictly and your children follow strictly then your grandchildren will be traveling on flying carpets.



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Hare Krsna! Thank you for your kind words. Receiving so many messages around our Vyasa Puja Festival that we are cutting them, pasting them into one Word file, and then later hope to read and appreciate and publish the file.

Thank you.