Letters to the editor

AgtSP. Jay Goura Nitay. Vivan Radha y Krsna. Hare Krsna Gurudeva. I am Pablo of the Parikrama from spain. I wish You are ok in all aspects, Maharaja. I am in the farm. The winter is begining, but When dont rain is like spring. I am so happy for listen again in Japa Joe. Thanks you very much for the asociation, the mercy... All... Also all devotos. I continúe with My sadhana, more stronger. One time, i asked to you if the person that had realized Paramatma, see the personality of sin, directly, and, if i am not wrong, you saudades to me something like, not directly directly, (( the order send by he, directly, but indirectly becouse is one order, paper))... is ok????? How advance that visión at the same time that one go ahead? How one must act or think when one see that experiences? What other things, Gurudeva, you think are important about that? Thanks you very much Gurudeva, for all. We see You in Japa Joe. At Yours feet. HARE KRSNA

HpS - AGTSP. Our first experience of the Paramatma is good understanding. Paramatma comes to us through our intelligence. We understand things. To explain them may take time, like trying to describe a bicycle to someone who only knows Donkeys. But once you have seen one, seen someone ride it, then it is clear.

It is nice having you association in the morning. This is the correct path. It will get better!!!

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP

PAMHO

Hope this meet U in really Good Health ¡¡

HpS - ASA - AGTSP paoho.... Our health is probably about the same as your's will be when you're a 66 year old lady.

Gurudeva. It is possible to avoid our karma ?? I mean many many times I want to avoid one situation in particular... For instance.I have always problems with one godbrother we always have to be envolve in misunderstandings or kind of compete for one thing or another. I try my best to avoid this but it seems that the universe wants that we always compete...

We clarify things in the end ,, but then again bammmmmm another thing happens again again and again. Is it come for other lives??

He thinks, that I think, that I said ufffff is it going to end sometime?? It may sound maybe silly... But I have realized that always always I get involved with this particular person in these kinds of situations ¡¡¡ It is kind of uncomfortable really... How to understand this?? how to avoid this??

Anyway in my heart I keep your words to not become your enemies enemy but I do not feel that we are enemies¡¡ we share service ufff it is really overwhelming... My pride is terrible also ¡ And my dirty heart starts to feel like proud and then... I remember that I always  must be humble..

How to react about things we can not control?? 

Thank U and please forgive my stupidity

Trying to be sincere

Candramukhi dd

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. All I can really tell you is what you already know, "Diksa kale bhakta kare atma samarpan...". Cited in NOI. When you get initiated Radharana takes the ropes of your Karma from Durga. So how you have Karma but She is manipulating it for your Abhideya, spiritual development, until you are cooked just right (prayojana) for Krsna to eat. The Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi Pakora!

The only thing is to see how this "Krsna karma" is an opportunity to advance. I have discords with my Godbrothers after 40-years and of course, sometimes the Krsna karma makes harmony.

Is it Radharani's karma to be entangled with Candravali???

Good luck! <img alt="devil" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/devil_smile.png" title="devil" width="23" />

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Please accept our humble obeisances and well wishes.

Question is, can a girl get remarried?

"Actually the qualified brāhmaṇas are meant to give direction to the kings for proper administration in terms of the scriptures like the Manu-saṁhitā and Dharma-śāstras of Parāśara." [http://vedabase.com/en/sb/1/9/27]

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"Parasara Dharma Sastra - CHAPTER IV

28. When her husband is missing, or is dead, or has renounced the world, or is impotent, or has been degraded by sin, — on any of the said five calamities befalling a woman, law has ordained another husband for her. 

29. If a woman has led a continent life, after her lord 
departed this life, she wins a region of bliss after her death, 
like to the well-known male observers of a celebate life. 

30. If a woman follows her departed lord, by burning 
herself on the same funeral pile, she will 'dwell in heaven " for as many years as there are hairs on the human frame, —
which reach the number of three crores and a half. 
31. As a snake-catcher seizes a venomous serpent by 
force, and from within its hole lifts it up; so does a wife 
deliver her lord from the torments of hell, and then rejoices 
[in heaven] with him. "       [http://bhati.org/archives/nios-pds090904.pdf]

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We read another translation where is said that 1st class is to follow her departed husband in the same fire of sacrifice. If he takes Sannyasa she becomes a Sannyasini like Visnu-priya followed Lord Caitanya. This is like 30-31 in the translation above.

2nd class is like text 29. She doesn't take sannyasa or sati, but doesn't get remarried, follows Brahmacaria.

3rd class is that she gets remarried, but in the other translation it said six years.

We went through this in our life. In some ways we basically took Sannyasa. We became Hare Krsna's. Of course, our wife could have followed us more strictly and then it would have gradually adjusted, but she got remarried instead. I don't belittle her at all. She was a VERY, VERY nice person. It was just too tough for her or me to solve the problems. I never got remarried.
But she got remarried after like six years, and intuitively before I had read this it seemed correct.
 

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SB 7.11.25-27 Srila Prabhupada gives very detailed advice. Read it all! For example:
"If her husband is fallen, it is recommended that she give up his association. Giving up the association of her husband does not mean, however, that a woman should marry again and thus indulge in prostitution. If a chaste woman unfortunately marries a husband who is fallen, she should live separately from him. Similarly, a husband can separate himself from a woman who is not chaste according to the description of the śāstra. The conclusion is that a husband should be a pure Vaiṣṇava and that a woman should be a chaste wife with all the symptoms described in this regard. Then both of them will be happy and make spiritual progress in Kṛṣṇa consciousness."

                  So... it is a rather robust topic. The general principle is: Follow the four principles and chant 16 nice rounds daily in the association of devotees. Then practical details of Dharma will become clear.
How can we consider our actions good if they hurt anyone. We should try to do austerities for the benefit of everyone and Krsna will give a solution to our ashrama situation.

Whatever we do we should take some time to see the situtation clearly with good advice.

If a girl separates from her husband because he is chronically lax in the regulative principles, then at least give it a year of strict brahmacarini life in association of devotees before making any other decisions about looking for a new partner, no?

Any questions, comments complaints?

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP

PAMHO

I hope this meets U in really good health ¡¡¡

Gurudeva we want your advice and enlightment ¡¡

We are organizing Ratha Yatra 2014 and one devotee has said that our culture program is not suitable ¡¡

We include the following:

Exhibition of yoga (Gitagovinda das)

A rock band who sings covers from the beatles

A Peruvian rocker Rafo Raez his songs are related to nature etc

Obviously that we include Bhajams etc full maha mantra 

But this devotee says that SP did not want this in Ratha Yatra... I mean he says that we just to chant HK no more needs to be included ¡¡

Is that accurate ?? I was surprised because he find wrong the exhibition by GItagovinda ???

During the whole parade we will chant HK Maha mantra but when we arrive to the stage also HK MM but also culture program is that ok??

What should we do in order to please the Lord?? also Maha prasadam ... ROhini kumar das, Narayani dd (BBS) and me are working really hard alone just depending on the mercy of  Krsna our Gurus and SP, no support. so please tell us what is the most correct ¡¡¡

Thank U Gurudeva for all iur inspiration

Trying to be useful

Candramukhi dd

ASA (UG) - AGTSP!!!!     Paojo!!   ...      "In all phases of life one has to perform devotional activities under the direction of the spiritual master in order to attain perfection in bhakti-yoga. It is not that one has to confine or narrow one's activities. Kṛṣṇa is all-pervading. Therefore nothing is independent of Kṛṣṇa, as Kṛṣṇa Himself states in Bhagavad-gītā (9.4):

mayā tatam idaḿ sarvaḿ

jagad avyakta-mūrtinā-

mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni

na cāhaḿ teṣv avasthitaḥ

"By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them."

Under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master, one has to make everything favorable for Kṛṣṇa's service. For example, at present we are using a dictaphone. The materialist who invented this machine intended it for businessmen or writers of mundane subject matters. He certainly never thought of using the dictaphone in God's service, but we are using this dictaphone to write Kṛṣṇa conscious literature. Of course, the manufacture of the dictaphone is wholly within the energy of Kṛṣṇa. All the parts of the instrument, including the electronic functions, are made from different combinations and interactions of the five basic types of material energy — namely, bhūmi, jala, agni, vāyu and ākāśa. The inventor used his brain to make this complicated machine, and his brain, as well as the ingredients, were supplied by Kṛṣṇa.

According to the statement of Kṛṣṇa, mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni: "Everything is depending on My energy." Thus the devotee can understand that since nothing is independent of Kṛṣṇa's energy, everything should be dovetailed in His service."

Prabhupada had Radha-Damodara BUSES in the Rathyatra Parade in NYC. He also encouraged a devotee who was playing accordion. Real thing is how they attract people to Krsna. Some general stuff, like having a Feast on Sunday in the West.

Specific stuff like, "My Sweet Lord".
Specfic, specific, stuff like Kirtan, Lecture, Kirtan, Prasad.
Stuff you are doing seems O.K. I don't know the details.

Other than that, if there is no specific instruction from Srila Prabhupada then you need to discuss it with a few good devotees and their opinion should be pretty consenual.

Have a baby stroller, kid's dress up, competition. MOre toward including whatever enthuses the devotees, friends, than being traditional. Lord Jagannatha is 75% merciful. Radha and Krsna, more traditional, strict.

hare krsna 

agtsp

all glories to the sankirtan movement

all glories to the vaisnavas

all glories to you guru dev

we are living in huerta grande, cordoba planing and designing the house where we will and recibe devotees and organize some  programs there.  we dont know is this will we the place for long time to develop our life here but i im trying to live in the present and accept what krsna manifest.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP! Paoho. Then why not plan all your development so that it will also increase the sales value of the property. Then if you move you can sell it and take the value to the next ashrama.

 we are planing and doing open  programs for people of the area and planing cultural programs for october like LOB with the film. we are visiting devotees and helping to organize the activities of preaching here cultivating the love and trust among devotees. the devotees invited me to give lectures so i feel a big responsability and the oportunity to surrender to serve them in that way and strive to be a good instrument and representative of the guru and krsna, giving to other what they gived to me.

 i have to improve a lote to serve you well. my sadhana is not so fix some days mangala arati and good japa and other days just finishing my rounds. i still have a debt of rounds that have left me. 4 principles o.k 

some body problems, but since a remember there are problems. traying to help the "burro" to not bother much

we are talking with sarad bihari, nikunja bihari, param padam and rati manjari about the organization of your visit to argentina and with Jagad guru about the symposium of education in chile.

    ASA - We talked with Abhirama Th. Das for 1-1/4 hours yesterday.. With Peru et al we can co-ordinate a continetal event, such as doing the same programs in several countrys, sharing posters, even people participating in different countries.. He says Miguel Polo has got a newer more excellent translations of C. Jung's biography and is organizing a colloquia of four parts to cover the book and then have discussions amongst the participants.

the Ratha Yatra in Cordoba in Carlos paz will be the 10 of january not the 11. 

HpS - ASA - Noted! Brother Asses birthday is January 12th. Maybe he will help pull the cart back to Vrndavana and then stay there!

 here the link of "ciencia, psique y espiritualidad C.G jung y el yoga mistico de la india"

in Bs As argentina. january 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0xOlNQy0FQ

Vrsabhanu nandini send to you these link 

HpS - Thank you!!!

thank you guru dev for your tolerance, i miss you, hope to see you soon, be complety attach to be your disciple and your instruction, follow your example and Srila Prabhupada mission. thank you your servant Ambarisa das

some pictures added

HpS - ASA - We have a little dialog with Para and Uraguay. Trying to fit them in. Any more details of the travel program for Argentina?

We did 15-minute talks on the NOI after Mangala arati for a few weeks and covered the whole thing. They are on startmeeting.com as listed below and we also downloaded them to our own computer. They were very saisfying to us, that we have said 90% of what we can say about NOI to this point. Maybe we could take the audio and put it to video, no? Put in related images etc. What do you think?

Nice photos!

ASA Afterwords to the NOI
(rev. 140919)

Dial the USA Playback Phone Number:(530) 881-1219, and give the "Meeting#", 992 055 489, and "Ref#" listed below -or- access by the internet address listed below.

NOI-9.1  Ref# 18  http://stme.in/sgL7fApEr

NOI-9.2  Ref# 19  http://stme.in/8yResAHxg

NOI-10 Ref# 20 http://stme.in/gIsviToBz

NOI-10.2  Ref# 21  http://stme.in/Lg6OjmG34

NOI-10.3 Ref#23  http://stme.in/TKAoOQUpv

NOI-11 Ref# 24  http://stme.in/M4h9og1wq

NOI-Pref  Ref# 26  http://stme.in/AwBW2mYEZ

NOI-1.1 (Vegam) Ref# 28 http://stme.in/ZhGlsgMUJ

NOI-1.2 (Vaco Vegam) Ref# 29 http://stme.in/jQG2LEIVm

NOI-1.3 (Mind/Anger) Ref# 30  http://stme.in/ipw1sYIty

NOI-1.4 (Tongue, Belly) Ref# 31  http://stme.in/Isl2mHycE

NOI-1.5 (BSS-Vaco) Ref# 32 http://stme.in/AwEodVijL

NOI-1.6 (BSS-Genitals)  Ref# 33 http://stme.in/hwEAufzgH

NOI-1.7 (Conclusion) Ref# 34 http://stme.in/64nzBW3QT

Hare Krisna beloved Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

It is so nice to participate in MA on SM every morning with you and devotees.

As you already know i catched up my rounds and now we are ok with 16 rounds a day and 4 pples striclty. We are even chanting extra rounds.

Now for me is time to think about my asram service. I feel myself in a very dangerous position, as if i had a sign which says AVAILABLE AND SEEKING.

My life is intense Gurudev, i have about 1200 patients (80% are women), i have two little kids to raise and i'm alone.

Up to this point the only thing is very clear to me is that i want to be part of this SANKIRTAN movement, be part of ISKCON life and serve under your guidance through my whole life and beyond.

My doubt is how to accomplish this, wether to marry again or jump to vanaprastha and so on.

I remember you told me to wait until second initiation to make this decision. But i feel to make the final call i have to experience get into a relation again.

I have very clear in my mind that defining my asram wont solve any problem, that we didnt born to be happy but to make austerities, so i will have to make them wether grihastha or vanaprastha. duhkhalayam asasvatam.

To be honest with you i feel myself more as a grihastha than a vanaprastha, but i'm scared. Sastra is convincing :

" Highly advanced spiritualists therefore recommend that one should not enter the gṛhastha-āśrama. It is better to prepare oneself in the brahmacarya-āśrama for austerities and remain a pure brahmacārī throughout one’s life so that one will not feel the piercing thorns of material life in the gṛhastha-āśrama." (SB 5.14.18 purport).  Also i had a bad experience before.

Lately i started talking with your beloved daughter Candramukhi dd and we get along quite well. I see her as a serious and chaste lady who really wants to serve in this ISKCON Mission, so i feel we can make a good team to serve. She helped me a lot with my sadhana and i really feel inspired to protect her and her mother and sister.

An astrologer told me that we have very good compatibility like 70% and the spiritual aspect of both is good but there is a  nakshatra ( i think is a constelation) which makes that i will suffer a lot by her (ufff!!). Anyway Krisna is stronger than billions of Rahu so for me your opinion is the most important.

So Dear and Beloved Gurudev, I have already given my life to you, so whatever you tell me i will do.

Do i have your benediction to start a formal relation according four principles with Candramukhi dd or i should remain alone until i take second initiation?

Runing to reach your lotus feet

Nikunja Bihari Das.

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho - - Hare Krsna! I think that it might possibly, maybe, perhaps have a chance of working if you have the special mercy of the Supreme Master of all the gods, time, space and destiny in all the universes combined. <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />

With those reservations, "Yeah, why not!"

Talk with a few other people, both of you write down what you plan for/from the relationship for the next few months and then after that re-evaluate things.

In general it is not such a big deal. You seem to have already realized that to a large degree so do it and everybody go on with figuring out what is their Sankirtan.