Letters to the editor

Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,

Please accept my humble obeisances  All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Was a great Gaura-Prnima  at ISV and we even got to help Hamsa-Priya dd in her new ashram.

A frantic note of thanks for the Prabhupada Journal book, apologies for rabid gratitude, getting closer to closing out Modesto and it’s getting to my tiny brain.

Have even been getting strange dreams, believe some of the gates to this vehicle have been compromised, regardless keep on chanting and practicing the principles. Just have to be even more aware of sense gratifications, seems the mind wants more while I need less. Years of work seem violated in some aspects.

 Anyway, steady as she goes and keep on course!

All glories to your service. Your servant in training,

ccd

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP paoho. Yes, because of the birth we have taken and the lives we have lived we will not be able to stop thinking about sense gratification and sometimes, that may spill into bad dreams. Of course, we can agitate that Karma by lots of vegetarian tacos and carmel burfi late at night, but even without that we may get night pollution.

Boing!

Even more strange Prabhupada says that a devotee should not be too worried by inauspicious dreams because sometimes Krsna sees that we have material desires (have sex with your mother), but rather than having us take a gross birth to experience this (a bull) then he lets us experience it in a dream and we can reject the experience righ there without having to take another birth.

In any case, lets go forward.

Deal with moving like dealing with dying.

Take what you can, need, and leave the rest.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

Reciba mis humildes reberencias y mi cordial saludo 

Todas las glorias a Srla Prabhupada

Espero q esta carta lo encuentre mejor de salud, gracias por sacrificar tanto por las almas condicionadas.

Gracias por los cuestionamientos que me permitio hacerme Gurudeva sobre:

Voy a quedar en Sankirtan viajero para mas tiempo?
Voy a seguir Kardama Muni y ser casado con "Devahuti" y tener Senor Kapila para Hijo? O va a seguir sendero de Narada Muni? Indicacion?

He estado reflexionando por varios dias buscando una respuesta analizandome interiormente, disculpe la demora para responderle pero no deseaba escribir algo a la ligera, sobre estas preguntas tan determinantes en mi servicio devocional.

OK ahora llevo ya tres años y medio haciendo sankirtan de maraton en maraton, y me siento feliz me gusta mucho este  servicio, digamos que no he parado desde que comence,solo en junio y julio q nos internamos  a estudiar en cueramaro mexico, el varna y asrama actual al q pertenesco es śūdrá, brahmacari y estoy feliz asi.

Internamente Gurudeva, se que ud me conoce mejor que yo mismo, analizandome veo que tengo mucha pasion,

el sankirtan es mi servicio favorito porque me mantiene en constante oracion y me hace sentirme cerca de Ud, mi mente es bastante lujuriosa y esta muy apegada a la vida sexual, externamente por su miscericordia no he caido en relaciones sexuales ilicitas desde q comence a hacer servicio, pero internamente las tengo constantemente, me siento naturalmente atraido a contemplar los objeros de los sentidos y la lujuria me arrastra a hacerlo sin que pueda controlarlo, de ahi me doy cuenta q se genera el apego por seguir contemplando , luego se intencifica mi lujuria, y como externamente no deseo satisfacer esos impulsos entonces nace la ira, que es una mala hierba q debo erradicar (con su mescericordia) porque esta creciendo y creciendo al lado de la semillita de Bhakti q planto en mi corazon Gurudeva.

conquistar el deseo sexual no es una cosa pequeña, segun SS B. Vikasa Swami es el logro mas grande obtenible en el mundo material, y en una clase sobre el Upadesambrta Ud menciono q aspirando a controlar la lengua, lo que hablamos y lo que comemos, entonces podremos tolerar los Udara upasta vegam , la lujuria el fuego q todo lo devora.

Partiendo de este punto mi respuesta Gurudeva es que si aun siendo Brahmacari no he logrado avanzar ni siquiera en Vacah Vegam, y eso que estoy solo sin mas responsabilidad que salir a sankirtan y cumplir mi saddhana diario, como podre entonces controlar Udara upasta vegam estando asociado con una madre que es la idea del curso, si la meta es transformar la lujuria en amor se me hace mas posible en el ashrama en el q me encuentro ahora. 

pienso que debo trabajar mas interna e intensamente en mi proceso de servicio devocional amoroso desmotivado, por un periodo mayor al de estos 3 años que vamos, de una manera mas sincera, para ver si por su miscericordia puedo obtener la miscericordia de el Sr Gouranga para cualificarme con la fuerza espiritual adecuada y seguir sirviendolo de corazon  en el futuro si Ud desea que  cambie de ashrama, pues Gurudeva mi desceo mas intenso no es ser un devoto serio comprometico con la predica digno de ser llamado discipulo de Su Santidad Hanumatpresaka Swami, y poder presentar ante ud lo que mas satisface al maestro espiritual, que sus discipulos sean cualificados y atraigan mas discipulos al movimiento de Srla prabhupada.

Sin envargo gurudeva yo quiero rendirme a su desceo condicionado como soy no se lo que es mejor para mi porfavor instruyame.

su eterno sirviente

B. Burro

Vrajrndra Kumara das

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Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Receive my humble and cordial greeting reberencias

All glories to Prabhupada SRLA

Q I hope this letter finds you in better health , thanks for sacrificing so conditioned souls.

Thanks for the questions that allowed me Gurudeva me on :

I 'm staying in Sankirtan traveler for longer?
I will continue Kardama Muni and be married " Devahuti " and having Lord Kapila to Son? Or will he follow the path of Narada Muni ? Indication ?

I've been pondering for several days looking for an answer internally analyzing me , excuse the delay to answer but did not want to write something light on these as crucial in my devotional service questions.

OK now take three and a half years doing sankirtan marathon in marathon , and I'm happy I really like this service , say I have not stopped since I started only in June and July q we penetrate to study in mexico Cueramaro the varna now the q pertenesco asrama is sudra , and I'm happy so brahmacari .

Internally Gurudeva, is that ud knows me better than myself, analyzing me see that I have a lot of passion ,

Sankirtan is my favorite service because it keeps me in constant prayer and makes me feel close to you , my mind is quite lush and is very attached to sex life , externally by its miscericordia have not fallen into illicit sex since I started making q service, but internally always have, I am naturally attracted to contemplate the objeros senses and lust drags me to do so without being able to control it , hence I realize q attachment is generated to continue watching , then my lust intencifica , and externally and do not want to meet these impulses then anger, which is a weed eradication q I (with mescericordia ) that is growing and growing beside the seed of Bhakti q planted in my heart Gurudeva born.

conquer sexual desire is not a small thing , according to SS B. Vikasa Swami is the greatest achievement obtainable in the material world , and a class on Upadesambrta q I mention you aspiring to control the tongue , what we talked about and what we eat , then we can tolerate Udara upasta vegam , lust q fire devours everything .

From this point my answer Gurudeva is that if even being Brahmacari have not made ​​progress even in vacaḥ Vegam , and that I'm just no more responsibility to go out sankirtan and do my sadhana journal as Podre then control Udara upasta vegam being associated with a mother that is the idea of ​​course , if the goal is to transform lust into love becomes more possible to me in the Ashram in the q I am now .

I think I should work more internal and intensely in my process unmotivated loving devotional service for a greater than these 3 years we go, in a more sincere way period , to see if their miscericordia I can get miscericordia of Mr Gouranga for qualify me with the proper spiritual strength of heart and continue serving him in the future if you want to change the ashram , as my most intense desceo Gurudeva is not a serious devotee to preach comprometico worthy to be called a disciple of His Holiness Swami Hanumatpresaka and ud to submit to what most satisfies the spiritual master, his disciples are qualified and attract more disciples to move SRLA Prabhupada .

No Gurudeva envargo I want to give up their desceo conditioned as I am not what is best for me please enlighten me .

Your eternal servant

B. Burro

Vrajrndra Kumara das

                HpS - AGTSP Thank you. Very nice effort. Seems you should continue as you are for some time more and then your situation will become clear.

Agt Guru y Gauranga !

Agt Srila Prabhupada!

Pamho Maharaja!

Hare Krsna. Soy Bhakta Pablo del Parikrama, de españa.

Perdone que le escriba otra vez tan rapido.

About be a formal aspirant, the autorities of Madrid Mandir said that is no problem give the letter. They don´t have any drawback.

Then, now I say; " Please Maharaja, give refuge. I want be Your disciple. I want serve You, and learn from You. Please, be my Gurumahaja and connect me with Srila Prabhupada, Parampara and Sri Radha Krsna. With all my being I request this to You. At your fee. Always Yours and of Prabhupada, of Radha Krsda. Dandavats. "

HpS - AGTSP Have you been following 4 principles and chant 16 nice rounds for six months?

We so often hear about men and women who get into an informal, accidental relation and then get abandoned and don't know what to do.

Here are some ideas.

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AGTSP paoho I guess the basic principle is that this is Kali-yuga. We are all alone, but we take some kind of artificial, cheating shelter by political co-operation with others sometimes and feel protected.

When we formally took Sannyasa then the real situation actually hit us. At first I was just staying and working in my little cave in the Berkeley Temple, but I could feel the subtle politics, so we started to travel and stay with different devotees around the Bay Area. This is Kuticak and then Bahudak. The stages of Sannyasa were so natural.

Then even that was not full surrender to Krsna so in ~January 1990 we took off on Parivrajack. We had just enough money to go and no more. It was frightening, but we were pretty convinced that Krsna was there. This was our duty. So we did it and one thing after another worked out and we have been traveling all over the world since then, ~1990, with no money or shelter except from Krsna.

At one point we arrived in New York in the snows of Winter and could stay with Professor Sankar Sastri for a few days but we really had no place to go after that. We did not agree with the way the BI or other Temples were doing things and we refused to compromise our principles. We finally decided that if there was no option we would just go sit behind some hand-ball board in a public park and freeze to death in the snow and let our body be found in the Spring.

Then, we got invitation to come again to Peru and it was not a long-term solution but it was a wholesome thing to do and then we expected that Krsna would arrange another engagement after that, but... the basic principle is that we have to be ready to leave our body if there is no service for us here. 

Read the verses about when the Pandavas leave:

http://vedabase.com/en/sb/1/15

So that is the real principle. Unless you are ready to give up your body for Krsna you will always have to make compromises with the Witch and She is delegated with the task of causing your trouble.

As a Sannyasi, yes, we can't get into all the details of this, but a general principle is that a lady or gentlemand only has intimate relations with their husband or wife. If one has intimate relations with someone he is she is his or her husband or wife.

You can think like that. Then the embecile left you to look for some other associate, O.K. She's an embecile, doesn't understand what a great person you are (Ha! Ha!).

And your attachment, lamentation etc. is natural, but what can you do? What can you do when your mother dies?

Well, you can do a lot... your mother is not dead, your "wife" is not dead. You can try to understand what to do for the welfare of all, not just your self, given the current situation.

O.K?

Don't try to be patient more than enthusiastic. Do something nice for everyone.

Hare Krishna Maharaj, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to Lord Caytania and Lord Nytiananda!

All glories to you Maharaj Hanumatpresaka Swami!

Please accept my humble obeisances. I have been trying to write but I am not sure if I did it right. My name is Marco from Monterrey and I have very little in the Hare Krishna Movement (10 months). I am living in the Monterrey Temple and try to chant 16 rounds every day and to follow the 4 principles but Maya is always seducing me with lustful desires, anger and lack of enthusiasm to perform devotional service.

I had the fortune of doing Sankirtan marathon last december in Mexico City. I survived. After that, January was the best month. I was enthusiastic, getting up early, doing extra service, not complaining...I felt great but this eagerness has been diminising little by little. In the last couple weeks I've failed to get up early, finish rounds, etc.

I have to admit my attention is more focused in a mataji I met and I've been making all sorts of plans to be near her. (Move to DF, etc). Maha Sankarsan invited me to work with him at the farm and I asked him if I can do Sankirtan also. We are still adjusting details. 

Please tell me what you think. 

Please excuse my offenses.

Your humble aspirant,

Marco 

HpS - AGTSP paoho. I think it's nice to hear from you. In general, your devitional career is normal, but of course also very individual. We cannot give detailed advice from such a separation in distance etc, but in general we can suggest what Canakhya Pandit says:

Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from many counselors.

1. So, keep a collection of good advisors who know you, the local situation, your associates.

2. Chant Hare Krsna to get Krsna's advice.

3. Read, read, read Prabhupada's books for general and even detailed advice!

1, 2, 3 you will be successful.

In general, you will not be able to understand what marriage is until you are at the level of second initiation. That takes three years normally. Before that if you experiment before that you will generally all survive alive with no fatal burns if you are all strict with the four principles.

If you break the four principles you can create a situation that can ruin your entire life.

Keep your romance within the associacion of a broader family.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP 

PAMHO

Hope this meets U in really good health ¡¡¡¡

Yesterday we had a very nice meeting with NIMSAR and its directory 

Gaura Gadadhara dasi joined us ¡¡¡ JAYA she is going to give the Deity Worship Course with NIMSAR in MAy and she is also presented the possibility of a Yoga Course ¡¡¡

Isvari dd will take charge of the coordination of the Sanscrit course along with Patraka das... LAD is the link with Goloka Education we will study and see in which way we can develop that ...

B German was selected to be in charge of communication in NIMSAR ¡¡¡¡ he also mentioned a very nice tool for preaching little clips from 3 minutes  for example a clip of 3 minutes explainning Who is Lord Jagannatha ¡¡¡¡ We will ask help from Guruvrata das ¡¡¡ B German has already talk with him today ¡¡¡ 

We are just one week from the openning course from Bhakti Sastri and Bhakti Vaibhava

We are really happy to help a little bit in the eternal Sankirtan of Srila Prabhupada and U

At the end we had a very nice prasadam ¡¡¡ in the meetings we laughed and have a very nice talks...

Thank U Gurudeva for your guidance and inspiration

At your lotus feet always

NIMSAR

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HpS - Jaya! AGTSP. Paoho. Very nice report. We heard that Mother Yugala was traveling on Sankirtan and could not attend and Mother Rohini wants more to do simple administrative work, the testing for Bhakti-sastri.

We answered the Letter to Tutors from LAD.

Seems like NIMSAR is going in the right direction, of course many problems, so we all have to take care of our own spiritual life, sankirtan, individually as well.

1) We are in Jaya-pataka Swami's Zone and he is looking forward to a lot of help in education from us. Ekanatha gaura Das is our link to him. We will meet with Rama-giri-dhari Das in Texas in two days, so we can discuss this, he is Executive Director of Ministry of  Education (MOE) and work on Regional Representative for South America for MOE etc.

2) You are collecting money? In whose name, ASA? What happens to this money? What is the exact detailed agreement? This should be publicly available for comment.

Thank you so much!

"Bg 18.70 — And I declare that he who studies this sacred conversation of ours worships Me by his intelligence."