Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Without a doubt, this mistake I made has brought me a lot of suffering, distance from the association, among other things, but now I can see the good side, the blessings, I have been able to mature a lot.

My nature and what my service in the Sankirtan movement is is becoming clearer.

I consider my role to be, to present Krishna consciousness in an attractive way, also using my organizational skills.

I do not have enough intelligence and memory to quote the sastras and convince people in that way, but I can help them in their first steps with the basic concepts.

I am reading your TPP and in it I found something I was looking for, the list of the verses cited in the NOI, since you instruct that if one learns all those verses, it is not necessary to memorize more.

HpS - AgtSP. Certainly seems so. The battle of Kuruksetra was about to start and Bhisma and Drona acharya were on the opposite side. Before things started, Arjuna shot an arrow that landed at the feet of both of them, and they responded by saying that if he had not done that then they would each have cursed him.

A lot of etiquette to understand in correcting offenses that we have made.

We hope that the result of these conflicts in ISKCON make us all very, very close to the people with whom we were engaged in these problems and that ISKCON emerges with internal purity and a well seen lighthouse in this Kali yuga.

In fact, at this moment I come from a meeting with devotees in which we did a seminar on the Upadesamrta and studied your TPP and other comments of the Acaryas.

ASA - 🐒

I have two questions:

1.- What do you mean by having a relationship as an institution with ISKCON?

HpS - We take that, agtSP, from KRSNA book [https://vedabase.io/en/library/kb/21/#bb91143], "After hearing the vibration of the flute of Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs in Vṛndāvana remembered Him and began to..."

First they are engaged like good members of Nanda Maharaja's village. They sell milk products, they pay their taxes.

So, we should be good members of ISKCON as a public institution. We should understand and serve the GBC et al.

Second, they would talk with their friends, so we should understand that more intimately ISKCON is community of friends, the GBC are people and they have their friends.

Third, through different transparent via media we should be having a direct experience of SP and developing our eternal relationship with him as our Sankirtan leader.

O.K.?

2.- When you talk about ISKCON transcendental, is it the one who is in the spiritual world?

HpS = Just like Prasadam and the Deities are transcendental, ISKCON even in this world is transcendental. Of course, some people like Maharaja Paundraka try to present a false ISKCON for their own satisfaction, and just like Prasadam and the Deities, we appreciate the transcendence of ISKCON in terms of our personal conciousness.

Thank you Gurudeva

Your servant

Piyari Mohan das

HpS - AgtSP. Thank you for our association. Best wishes for you and your guitar, and news from the Institution and other Friends.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Accept my respectful obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I am happy to be able to find you in this ocean of death and that by your mercy I now have the fortune to be in line to enter the spiritual world.

Of course, it is up to me to make the desire to serve Krishna become stronger and stronger, to become cleaner and cleaner.

A few days ago a group of devoted friends gave me a collection of Srimad Bhagavatam while we were sharing at a gathering. But not only that, but one of those devotees gave me some deities of Radha and Krishna.

I told him that he would receive them but would not worship them until you give me authorization.

They are small, the height of 4 fingers.

I have daily worship at home to my pictures of the Panca Tattva and the disciplic succession. I offer the basics, an incense and a flower.

The deities come in the form of clothing, I am ignorant regarding these issues of worship, I don't know if they should be put on clothes or not, what would be the standard to worship them, etc.

What do you say? Is it good that I adore them? What would be the type of worship that should follow?

Thank you

Your servant

Piyari Mohan das

HpS - Hare Krsna. Hope our news here as DTC is useful. Very nice to hear from you. Hope your relations with Temple and such are becoming clarified also.

As we have heard from Jayananda Das and Tamal krsna Goswami, quoting Srila Prabhupada in the BG As It is, it is okay for most anyone who is following Srila Prabhupada to have pictures, statues, of Radha Krsna in their home.

It is not to worship them as installed deities, but keep them clean and can be on your altar of Prabhupada and pancha tattva and receive Bhoga offers and Arati like them.

O.K.?

...

I know this post is not going to get published so i will write everything. i want to deliver all truth to Maharaj ji.

HpS - Hare Krsna! Thank you for this "Un Postable" letter. 🙂

We have already responded to your other post in a previous post before we opened this.

Yet, we will look at this and maybe share it with a responsible Grhastha devotee.

"Maharaj ji, sastang dandwat. I am Milan. I previously reached out to you, but my issue was not properly resolved.

You only approved this letter: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14403/

HpS - Esteemd Milan, I have read the letter and I think the other post to you indicates the next step in anything we can do to resolve this situation.

We wait for a response to that letter.

Unless I have this attitude: https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/antya/20/21/. Looking the good qualities in others and not expecting others to see mine, then we can only expected mixed resolution of any problems that we are feeling.

If you we do not become our enemies enemy but always try to serve Krsna and everyone, then we will become happy.

Of course, violence, although never good, is sometimes necessary to defend the weak against the strong, but it must be applied expertly or otherwise there will be be a bad taste afterwards for everyone.

This is what we have heard from Prabhupada, no? It is the lesson for the BG, no?

Thank you!

Haribolo!

Jay Maharaj! PAMHO AGSTP!!!!

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!!!

How r u Maharaj??? How’s your health going?? Are you following any Ayurvedic o Naturopathic doctor??

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!! Just posted about our bodily, brother ass, condition of life! -[;0]]/\___

We follow Jayananda Das, Rupanuga Das Dr. Singh's adivce.

Well here I’m fine, trying to effort myself and chant better rounds.

Maharaj I wanted to ask you some

questions, I heard you saying that professional gamblers have certain type of connection with Paramatma, and I read that with non devotees He acts as a witness and sanctioner, and with devotees the friendship relationship is added, so my question is what is the relationship gamblers do have with Paramatma, and up to what Rasa one can relate with Him under that category of tattva.

ASA - We are always guided by the Paramatma. Soul is resting on the nine or so types of life airs, and we desire and the P'atma 'smells' the fragrance of our desires and directs the car.

Like three year old sitting on daddy's lap thinking he is driving the car.

O.K.

Don't know what kind of Rasa it is. Somebody may be a neophyte pure devotee. Have made some progress in last life to even Nistha, no? Yet, stumbled into Tamasic Karma so s[he]it is riding along on this professional gambler's trail but internally has some Buddhi, Bhava, background sense that there is a Goddess of Fortune and that she does have a Lord (??!) and she favors people who do progressive things with the profit?

O.K.??

Well regarding the shelter request, well I asked you some months before and you said I had to wait until 6 months have elapsed since I started chanting the 16 rounds and following the regulative principles, and I did so, that’s why I asked for shelter once again.

HpS - We really liked being ISKCON Diksa guru for nice people, especially if we were very much in a Siksa relationship, but even now we are struggling with a headache. Trying to squeeze through simple Siksa duties of few nice Posts to the Blog, DTC(UT)Spain production meeting, BOEX Bhakti vedanta standards, quick meeting with Abiseka Das...

... so, we have to give up some of these services to younger men, like you!

Become ISKCON Diksa guru!

Well hope you are well!!!

Hare Krishna :)

your servant,

Federico :))

Hare Krishna dear Gurudeva,

AGTSP PAMHO

I hope you're well and in good health. I read that you'll soon go to Houston and stay for 3 months. Jaya! AGTSP! I also read that you watch videos on YouTube about the life of Salvador Dalí, he's a fascinating artist, very special, he was an idol and source of inspiration for Rodrigo and his mystical surrealistic poetry.

I'm writing to inform you that the musical project SIT PROPERLY 108 was already released on October 10 through the digital distributor and the first single “Soy uno de Verdad” (I'm a real one) will soon be available on all platforms, currently it's available on Instagram, Facebook , Tik Tok, Youtube Music, Amazon, Apple Music, iTunes, Jaxsta, and many other digital stores, Spotify is the last to publish or the one that takes the longest between 5 and 7 days from the release date. I send to you a link to listen to the song on Youtube Music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6XVeblRyS8

The artist's review is as follows: SIT PROPERLY 108 is a Hare Krishna Emcee. A conscious and spiritual message predominates in his songs with mixtures of rhythms inspired by Hip Hop culture, including sounds of Trap, Afrobeat, Reggaeton, Dancehall, Funk, Gospel, Rock, Pop, musical instruments from India, mantras and voice samples of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the leading spiritual master of the Krishna consciousness movement all over the world.

It has all been very complex, but thank God we can move forward little by little. The plan is that from now on there will be a monthly release, the next 3 songs are almost finished and their respective releases are already scheduled, which will be during November, December and January. There are 6 more songs in production stage and I continue writing, reading, researching, experimenting and seeking inspiration from Srila Prabhupada to carry out this project that is very important to me.

Simultaneously, I'm studying the current functioning of the music industry, copyright, related rights, discovering my own communication marketing strategy, to execute everything professionally, I have everything registered and verified in the official institutions in charge, intellectual property and rights author societies, always prioritizing the quality of the message and the sound quality in my songs. Of course keep working on my personal vocal practice and with my teacher, advancing in the development of my technique, polishing my style, improving the flow.

The promotions and all the new material, songs, video clips, events, etc., that will be published can be reviewed at any of the following links:

https://www.facebook.com/sitproperly108

https://www.instagram.com/sitproperly108/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkFN1Xz3RHZP7eJrC3Sj4ZA

On Tik Tok Spotify and on all social networks and digital stores SIT PROPERLY 108

I want to offer you my musical and audiovisual production services. Here I can entrust work to those friends who make up my team in this project; if you were in Chile we can record you reading a book or giving a class, for example, with first class audiovisual equipment high quality microphones and nice people working and helping (we are using Neumann, an old German specialized brand); but what we can do right now is that if, for example, you send us the audios with your voice, here we can edit them and refine the sound quality, we can also mix audio with video or pictures and edit.

Would you be willing to come to Chile during January, February or March? Here at Iskcon Chile there is a lot of enthusiasm and we can do a campaign to pay for your tickets and stay, it will be a success, here they always ask “when will Maharaja come again?” I ask you to please forgive me if my proposal does not apply, it's just an idea and a strong desire to see you again and be able to do a little more Vapu-seva.

Thank you very much for everything Gurudeva, in my next reports I'll tell you about the service I do in the temple, about the bhakta and disciple courses and a general report.

Please accept my respectful obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

HARE KRISHNA!!!

Your aspiring servant,

Carlos Rold.

HpS//ASA - AgtSP!!!

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We mention our calendar in the last and every 'Kapi Dhvaja'.

Travel to foreign countries is very hard.

Maybe we find some studio in Houston. We need to drink more water and dance, physical work. We have to dissolve this body so that KRSNA can use it for other bodies.

We make note to review URL above.

Send more Sankirtan news and watch ours and then we can link as our inspiration crosses paths in Srila Prabhupada's Sankirtan.

DTC - UT series is coming into the final editing stages.

Of course, there are INTENSE discussions of artistic style etc.

Here are the posts we made to the Directors, Producers et al on WhatsApp:

[9/20/2023 5:02 PM] : Gracias Senyor! We have been struggling to survive the last few days. We are doing programs every two months with NIOS Nashville, but that means that people are coming from Florida, California, renting houses, and so we have intense activity as hosts.

[9/20/2023 5:03 PM] : Then, we were not doing anymore travel, DTC, <<ULTIMATE TRIP>>, after we got back from India but were getting so, so, many requests to travel and visit people.

[9/20/2023 5:06 PM] : Finally, we got our feet on the ground, after like two, three months in our Base Camp, Nashville, and #1) We realized that we cannot travel alone anymore. Those days are done. The travel exhausts us and we get disorientation, vertigo, to even the point that we could black out. So we agreed to visit Richmond (East Coast) and Boise (West Coast) for like aweek each if some one would pick us up and drop us off.

[9/20/2023 5:06 PM] : Did Richmond. Was a killer but so, so productive.

[9/20/2023 5:10 PM] : Now we have been in Boise for 48-hours after an 8-hour, four-airport journey. They have planned a strong cultural program, and people are flying in from Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta et al to see us. Just spent 1-hour with Lokannatha Das. We worked together with a fantastic traveling puppet theater, "Purnima Puppet Theater", for like four years, and this is first chance we have had to consolidate everything with him. He still has the marionettes in boxes, and has pretty solid Parkinson's disease, but he is a transcendentalists, so he understands that even though his normal bodily functions are disturbed, he can find ways to still use his body to create and communicate by using innovative methods.

[9/20/2023 5:12 PM] : What really, really is happening is that I am staying in touch, building my understanding or our audience for DTC-UT. So I feel that my opinion of winding up the production of the videos and heading into the distribution stage is well informed.

[9/20/2023 5:13 PM] : I think I have one perspective on our audience, one part of our audience. I think Raoul, Pablo, Abhirama have other audience they know.

[9/20/2023 5:14 PM] : Now I have been motivated to show the movies to others and get their unprompted opinions. You saw the strong, favorable review that Gopinatha Das (HP Exec) gave.

[9/20/2023 5:15 PM] : Now I would like to download DTC-India here, and work out a Critic's Screening. Then, for me, I think my perspective on uploading to Vimeo and public marketing would be done.

[9/20/2023 5:19 PM] : Also, in perspective of the whole series, I wanted to see the second half of DTC Spain before forming more ideas and criticisms. Again, I see many options. One that half the studio world has seemed to use is: Studio Cut and Director's Cut. I may not be the best. I think we have some funds to cover our costs for some more editing, but for me and everyone, I think that it is not just money (money is Radha) but also how people see the personal value of investing more time in the series, the project.

[9/20/2023 5:23 PM] : I like criticism from sincere people. It is tough but I like it. I am eternal and maybe my efforts don't deserve a documentary consolidating what I have done in this lifetime. O.K. Jesus and Maria like my efforts 🙂 and are always giving criticism motivated and taking what I have done, we have done, and making eternal improvements. At some point we WILL achieve Escape Velocity and then the whole cosmos opens up to our space ship.

[9/20/2023 5:23 PM] : 💪💪💪🐮

[9/20/2023 5:24 PM] : 🤖

[9/20/2023 5:25 PM] : So... ArtDas... we need another link to download DTC-India. The one you sent has appeared to have expired. We want to show it here. Radhika Raman Das arrives tomorrow or Friday and stays until late Sunday or early monday.

[9/20/2023 5:26 PM] : Then we want to look at DTC-3.