Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna remnbered and adored Sri Gurudeva!!!

please accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet🙏🙏🙏🙏💖🌼🌷🌻🌷🌼🌻🌼🌷🌹🌹🌹

All glorues To Srila Prabhupada!!!

All glories To Radha Govinda!!

Dear and Remembered Gurudev, please, could you tell me which style of dance our GOVINDA likes the most? I think He would like a dance done with love and devotion, but since He is a person and has His own tastes, I would very much like to know which style of dance He likes the most.

Many many many many thanks!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💖

Please forgive any offense in this letter.

her attempt at maid:

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha Devi Dasi

HpS - !!!! I have never heard from Prabhupada about a specific dance style that Krsna likes, from Prabhupada!!

Maybe others know.

He always says that best dance is by pure devotees.

Engage others in dancing for Krsna!!

All night!

HK GM PAMHO AGTSP

I see everyday the photos and videos that your disciples post on social media from Radha Kunda and I love it. I repost the material on the facebook and instagram account @anjana.suta.academy_chile 

I'm writing to you because I'm looking into my flight ticket. In the letter I sent you yesterday I mentioned the initiation and that it's necessary to wait a little longer, so the initiation ceremony is no longer within my objectives for which I want to visit you. I want to be with you once again so that I can serve you directly and support you in whatever you need and have some conversations with you that I will record and use this material to write and publish a book, as long as you are in agreement and available, this requires time and a little bit of your energy in form of words and thoughts.

I'm looking into the tickets and another option has occurred to me that I want to ask you about, because I think that another possibility could be that instead of going to Spain in November, I can go to the US in December when you return (or whenever you tell me), I can spend a month with you there to assist you in everything you need and take advantage of some time to recording some of our conversations that will become the book. For me it would be the best, a tremendous opportunity.

So I'm telling you this idea and desire that has arisen in me as a proposal, so depending on what you tell me and what you do prefer I will buy the ticket to the US (December or whenever you say) or to Madrid (November).

Whatever you prefer is fine to me, I don't want to bother you or inconvenience you, Gurudeva, I just want to be able to be with you one more time, serve you directly one more time and that we can do the book thing and I can also support you in your writing and translations and whatever you tell me, as long as this is useful and necessary for you, if it's not necessary, everything's fine, I'm at your disposal.

Thank you very much for everything, Gurudeva,

PAMHO AGTSP HK 

Your aspiring servant,

Carlos Rold

💪❤‍🔥🤓🔥💥🎤✈️

HpS - We, agtSP, are two steps from death.

The AQI has been 151 the last few days. So our vision, hearing, respiration etc have been 90% worse, but that is mercy of Radha-kunda.

I'm not sure of next breath, so Tomorrow, Spain, USA, are all like big fantasy stories to me.

They may happen, but I certainly cannot make materially detailed plans for me or you.

Hope other Bloggers can read your story and give more detailed advice.

You are definitely on the right path and making more progress than 99.999% of the world's common and elite population!!

O.K.

Thank you.

Hare Krsna.

Have to break. Screaming from eyes and sinus pretty intense.

😃

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, PAMHO AGTSP

How is your health?

How is Spain?

How you feel?

HpS/ASA - After, agtSP, 25-hours of hard travel with six devotees, we have reached Radha-kunda from Madrid.

Every place or cataracts, deafness, and dementia are increasing.

They are good friends.

Hope they push us to develop Radha Krsna Bhava.

Be with Nimai and Srila Prabhupada in Nadiya in our next body.

Sorry for being disapear this days, many stuff happend. Also I didn't pretend to annoy you with the not so important histories and little adventures of this little monkey.

HpS/ASA - 🐒

But the ones that are the most remarcable are this ones:

I have my tiket to Spain, I will travel there the 12 of November and I hope to bring some presents from a few brothers that can't travel there.

(I have worked a lot to get the money for all of that)

HpS - Seems like a very god investment!

I finally join in the moring program, I love to see you, and I feel very bad that in few or more time this bodly figure will no be able to see you any more.

Also I have one very strong experience with Jesus Christ, I even cry in that occasion, was... very strange, I usually don't have this tipe of experience with Jesus, maybe is because I have meet a few Mormons and seems to be that they are really nice people, also more they know about them I see that we have some things in common, what is your opinion about them????

HpS - Yes, of all the religions they seem the closest to K.C.

I also hope to do a working hollyday in Germany, I should get better at my german 😅 and with that I feel mych gratitude towards Krsna (as always one most do) but this time I think I could notice better his hand behind everything, since I arrive herr in Chile I have meet a lot of german people and many of them were very nice when I told them that I was traveling to there. I just need to make some adjusments to travel there and be able to get a job with devoties in the south of Germany, let's hope that the war don't go very far, I hope too for your blessings.

A few days ago I also got stolen in the store, nothing really serius but it's a crazy history to tell, Chile is turning a little bit more dangerous this days, maybe move to Scotland or something else will be very good for me.

Also I remenber one time that I tell you long time ago to send a few pictures from my Bhakti Shastri, I have not been able to send them, let's say that using a cellphone is not very good idea, spacially if the cellphone is not in a good condition.

(With the cellphone thing the last one broke very badly and now I'm with one that is not very good but I will love to show you the pictures in person if the oportunity is given)

And lastly I have not being very good with my rounds this lasts months, my own mind was my enemy for some time, now I think we make a truce or pact of peace, and chant while working is not also a very good idea, now I'm better but now I don't feel the "nice" experience while chanting probably I'm just thinking in other stuff, for now the only thing that really moves my hard heart is reading the Srimat Bhavagatam.

HpS/ASA - Seems are we go up everyday, more and more attachments come out.

So, we have to remove them eternally based upon our Japa work, illustrative stories from SB etc, no?

And yeah, I hope to see you in Spain, always I feel a little nervous while I writte you, I still remenber when I ask you why one feel like this with the spiritual master was something like "one still feels like a little demon" or at least somrthing close to that, is more present the felling of what you said rather than the actual quotas, one of the things that I more lament is lost the last phone, I haved tons of quotas of you, many of them I hope to get back.

I hope there they have a lot of phisical work to do (in Spain) I'm like Zhu Bajie, I usually enjoy good and abundant food before (or after) a good amount of work 😅😂

With few to nothing to add I say Hare Krsna and see you in Spain :D

HpS - 10:13AM in Radha-kunda. Our eyes have reached their computer quota.

Thank you, so much.

Hoping you see some strategy from Krsna for your part in this war with The Black Witch:

Reading step by step from the first to twelfth Canto

In the "Srimad Bhagavatam" Preface, Srila Prabhupada writes: The only qualification one needs to study this great book of transcendental knowledge is to proceed step by step cautiously and not jump forward haphazardly as with an ordinary book. It should be gone through chapter by chapter, one after another. The reading matter is so arranged with the original Sanskrit text, its English transliteration, synonyms, translation and purports so that one is sure to become a God-realized soul at the end of finishing the first nine cantos.

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please, if that is fine with you, have a look at my questions and observations. 

I understand that the single requirement needed to be able to scrutinize this superb book of spiritual lore is to go forward gradually, and carefully and not read hither and thither incidentally (as with a common book). 

Q1: Where in the sastra is said that SB (or BG, CC, or other) should be read in sequence from the beginning to the end? And why it is like that? Moreover, if a devotee is doing that (reading systematically), at what moment s/he is to go to the next verse? Is that in any way described somewhere in sastra?

 I finished reading the first nine cantos (maybe more than once). Kind of, I do not feel God-realized soul! Perhaps I just read and did not study it. I would like to know if there is a direct quote from sastra about going step by step and how. I am aware that there are verses that talk about doing it with attention, sincerity, etc. , but I would like some more elaboration on that. I ask for my personal bhajana, and also if at one point I will do a presentation of, that kind of, a system, I have sastric references at hand (as some bhakti yoga sadhakas will/may ask for it).

It's important to note the remarkable results of studying the Srimad Bhagavatam in the prescribed manner. Simply deeply engaging with the text, even without reading it in its entirety, can lead a person to God-realization.

HpS - AgtSP. Sorry it has taken so long to answer! Lots and lots of stress to finish the last DTC video...'Hanuman Reports to Rama".

Now we are in New Jersey on the way to Spain. Some real time to answer letters.

I wonder about your question also.

I do not know any specific answer from memory, but I think the second chapter has some comments on these concepts.

I think Srila Prabhupada is especially dealing with the Sahajiyas who jump to the Rasa lila chapters from zero and make movies about such stuff.

Also, comes to mind that self realized can mean different things.

Do you believe that you are your gross body and that all you need to become happy is to 'rethink your drink', meet the right woman...?

P'pada talks about Gopal Bhatta's recitation and 'nitya bhagavata seavaya' etc.

Even Sanskritist like Radha-ramana Das say that the depth of the poetry, grammar and philosophy in SB unfathomed by them.

Also, some one maybe on the level of Krsna's waiste from their previous religious work, so the teacher may take them pronto to the fifth canto.

Personally: https://vedabase.io/en/library/kb/90/#bb92801

and we chant Holy Names to get direction how to read from the BV Likrary etc.

Q2: I do not know what Srila Prahupada meant by “ordinary book”. He does not describe it, but usually, ordinary books are read from the beginning to the end, no? Sure some books can be read jumping all around, but those are less common. Am I wrong?

HpS - AgtSP. Same answer as above, no?

We see that people fast forward t 'juicey' parts of movies.

**Some more personal observations**

From my understanding, teaching in the past primarily involved oral transmission from teacher to student. During these interactions, students were encouraged to ask questions if they had any doubts. Once a student grasped one concept, the teacher would move on to the next. This approach represents simplified version of the teaching and learning process. For sure there are more details to it. 

Today, books play a significant role in education. Teachers often refer to their books (Srila Prabhupada's books) as comprehensive sources of knowledge. However, if students proceed through the material without thoroughly understanding each step, they risk misunderstanding key concepts. Some of us still have "living" gurus and associations with fellow devotees to discuss and clarify topics. This interaction can help us stay on the right path, though there's still a possibility that we might misunderstand things collectively.

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Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - Thank you! We also, never found good dscription of what Srila Prabhupada means by "Godhead", though he says in Preface to KRSNA book (?) that, 'those who know what we mean by 'godhead' '.

Yet, reading on we get some perspective at heart and going to library we got lots of understanding.

So, so, much fun reading Prabhupada's books, satisfaction, in association of devotees.

so many questions.

so much new solid information.

reading BG As It Is again is like nectar.

...

we will look for any more recent letters by you now.

3.45PM should go get read for Pod cast. Get properly dressed.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

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

First of all, I am humbly seeking your forgiveness for not writing to you for a long time.

His Holiness Bhakti Ananda Haridasa Goswami is from our village, but later on Maharaja had settled at Guwahati, the capital city of Assam. He is a very good friend of my father who passed away in 2010. When my father was alive, Maharaja used to visit our home from Guwahati and do preaching. While leaving his body, my father requested His Holiness to keep on visiting our home and do more and more preaching at Cachar (a district of Assam). Maharaja has made many devotees from that preaching till date. Maharaja is not yet an initiating Guru of ISKCON, but it is under process.

Guru Maharaja, I am renting one room at Lakhipur and staying there for my job which is little far away from my home village, Kaptanpur. Here at Lakhipur, preaching of ISKCON is almost none. During the last visit of Haridasa Maharaja, I had invited him and organized one preaching program. Around 70 people attended the program. It was very nice and a successful program with nice prasadam distribution. Everyone was happy. They all appreciated the program and they are asking for more in the future.

During the Ratha Yatra of ISKCON Silchar, I did book distribution along with few devotees. One Bengali Bhagavad-gita and other 26 Srila Prabhupada books were distributed in that. Because of the summer’s scorching heat, I am unable to go out for book distribution, regularly. But sometimes I am doing it. Kindly forgive me Guru Maharaja for this irregularity.

Guru Maharaja, my sister in Vrindavan – Kalpalatika Devi Dasi, your disciple is pregnant for her second child. In the last week of August, she may deliver a baby. Kindly bless her and her baby in the womb. By your blessings, let she and her family be able to render more and more sevas for Srila Prabhupada and your satisfaction.

Guru Maharaja, I regularly read monkey warrior blog posts, your twits in the X and regularly attend your online classes. We are eagerly waiting for your arrival in India. Myself and few other devotees are arriving at Radhakund on 14 September and we are eagerly waiting to get your divine association at Radhakund. If Guru Maharaja is going to Manipur, we also will accompany you there. Thank you Guru Maharaja. Some photos of the program are attached here.

Your servant

Manjuali Devi Das

Silchar, Cachar, Assam

HpS/ASA - Thank you! AgtSP.

Paoho.

Please read the two posts from today. One from Sadhu in Manipur and one from 'Rose of the East'.

We will win.

The "Black Witch" cannot keep everyone.

We will learn how to do Sankirtan better and better.

We are sitting in the "Sannyasi Room" in the old Temple in New Jersey.

It is big, big, building. Very nice, but collapsing.

They have new, big marble, place ready to open.

Yet the biggest temple in the world is an open heart, no?

In one hour we go with Subal Das to pick up renta car, then go to Nama-rasa Das' podcast. Tomorrow we go to Spain with Yadu' Swami.

22-hours of travel!

Very tough for our old donkey.

Maybe we get drone bombed or Maharaja go crazy.

Maybe we make it to Radha kunda!

Hari Bolo.

Hare Krsna!

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

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

Maharaj, we really love you and we have a lot of appreciation for you. You are the only person among the godbrothers of Guru Maharaja who is genuinely helping the devotees of Manipur after Guru Maharaja’s departure from this material world. Even if we did commit many mistakes to you, please kindly forgive all of us considering that we are fools. We love to see you as many times as possible in Manipur. This time also during your India visit, we want to see you in Manipur and get the opportunity to serve you.

I have been closely monitoring the situation of Manipur since long time ago to invite you Maharaj and His Holiness Yadunandan Swami. It was quite normal till Janmastami festival. There was huge turn up from the public for the festival. Huge crowd was there. The festival was a grand success. We were expecting good number of visitors for Radhastami too which falls on 11 September. But the situation of Manipur has changed suddenly into worse. There were bombings by using drones and rocket bomb attacks, escalating the violence in Manipur further. Now also, strikes and agitations are going on in manywhere demanding government’s proper and swift action to control the situation immediately. From the last 3-4 days, public curfew has been imposed by one civil society organization. Schools, colleges and all educational institutes are closed. We have regular visitors of 250-300 congregation devotees for Sunday programs. But yesterday’s Sunday program was less than 100 congregations. The current situation impacted the devotees too.

Now is really a hard time in Manipur. In this current scenario, we are unable to decide whether it is good time to invite or not to invite you to Manipur along with HH Yadunandan Swami. Maharaj, please you decide. Temple is not much affected by the current situation even though the number of visitors is very less. We can have nice programs inside the temple campus. I had spoken to many professors of Manipur University to organize a seminar during your visit to Manipur. But the situation is not conducive for such programs now. Everyone is in tension in Manipur except the devotees.

Maharaj, preaching is growing in Manipur amidst the ongoing crisis, Namhatta program has started. Our target is, by the end of this year, to open at least 20 Namhatta centers. I am sending herewith some pictures from the Janmastami Festival.

Eagerly waiting for your reply Maharaj. Hare Krishna.

Your humble servant

Sadhubhusan Das

ISKCON Imphal, Manipur

HpS - So, very nice to hear from you. AgtSP. We love Manipur.

Sarad bhari Devi Dasi said that in her opinion and ofter consulting with devotees and Haridas Swami it was too dangerous to visit.

That was few months ago.

She said devotees would be coming to Radha-kunda to visit us.

"We're all going to die.

It's how you live that counts!", Conan the Barbarian 😆

With the above news, many devotees will come to visit us in Radha-kunda.

Yet, again, we all love Manipur.

We hope that Krsna-kirtan and keep it safe.

Maybe we could visit before we leave India from Delhi on the 9th of October?