Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva 

Please accept my obeisances 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada 

We have completed one year with the attempt to preach through WhatsApp. When starting out I created a broadcast list of the most interested people I met in sankirtan. A few weeks later the idea came up to make a new list for people who were at zero, and so I kept messaging them. From Monday to Saturday I send a daily message, alternating between each group, every other day. 

I also maintain a WhatsApp group where I take advantage of sharing excerpts from my readings of Prabhupada's books, both Bhagavad gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. This group is geared towards devotees. Also public from Monday to Saturday, alternating between each book. 

A few months ago I kept eating only prasadam (98%), and in extreme cases when I haven't had anything to eat, I have bought industrialized foods. But avoid it even in those cases, it is better to eat fruit, nuts and dairy. This has helped me a lot to be able to maintain a clearer conscience. 

I have some questions: 

1.- Are the planets living entities? As I understand the planets, they are ruled by a demigod, the personification of the planet, or the representative, but the planets themselves are not living entities, since they were manifested before the secondary creation of Brahma. What is your understanding of the topic?

HpS - ASA - Yes, as far as we understand, the planets are made of matter, but a demigod predominates, yet some are made of subtle matter eg. only mental matter.

2.- I remember that in a class you indicated that one should learn to serve Krishna in different modalities. How to understand this if one understands that one must situate oneself in goodness, and then in pure goodness to serve Krishna?

HpS - Lord Siva serves in the Mode of Ignorance but he is no in the mode. Prison guard serves in the prison but he is not (exactly) a prisoner.

3.- Is sankhya part of Jnana Yoga?

4.- What is your opinion about Aindra Prabhu? It is the kirtaniya that I listen to the most, but there are devotees who have recommended that I not listen to it.

HpS - I don't know details of his internal consciousness. I met him in 1978. I've never heard anything bad about him or his Kirtan.

Thank you Gurudeva 

your servant 

Piyari Mohan das

HpS - Thank you. Will WhatsApp you.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I wanted to tell you about my japa chanting. 98% of the time I sing my rounds after getting up for the MA. Sometimes I finish them during the morning when I have to travel early to another city. 

The truth is that lately it has taken me a long time to finish them, sometimes 3 hours or more. In a previous letter I mentioned the same thing, but there are periods when I can sing it in 2 hours or 2 hours 15 minutes. 

My singing is not very attentive, maybe 10% attention, but I am making progress in paying more attention to the sound day by day, sometimes more, sometimes less, but at least I sing the rounds.

Regarding your question from the previous letter (How are your relationships with everyone in the Temple and the community in terms of the violence and chaos that your mind created a few months ago???) My relationship with authority and devotees is of respect, but I do not pressure the situation to be resolved. Last year they told me that probably in March 2024 I would be able to visit the temple, but I don't know what happened to that. I try not to bother.

HpS - Text us on Whatsapp, please.

SOME QUESTIONS: 

What will the FMS be like when you are no longer in your current body? I would love to continue having the association of devotees at Mangala Arati. 

ASA - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/28/48/ and surrounding verses. We are small acarya, srila prabhupada is big acharya. he will be here without much change when we go.

There are different theories regarding whether the soul falls, where the soul comes from, etc. My question is: We as a soul are in the spiritual world and the atomic particle present in the heart of the body is only our consciousness?

HpS - Is the star in the sky in the mirror?

If the Utama Adhikari (like Srila Prabhupada) refers to himself as a Madhyama, then does the Madhyama refer to himself as Kanishta?

ASA - Higher can come down and act like lower. teacher can act like child to show example for children how to read.

Thank you very much Gurudeva

Now that I can be in the FMS my spiritual life has become more stable.

asa - us also.

his servant 

Piyari Mohan das

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

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

Maharaja, it is our extreme good fortune to serve you, your care taker and H. H. Yadunandana Swami in Manipur. Please kindly let me know the details of the trip – when all of you want to come to Manipur and leave, and the details of the devotees, etc., etc. Accordingly, we will buy the tickets and send you Maharaja.

political situation is manageable?

Nectar Of Devotion seminar?

He wants some place to write essays from the SB.

Is Manipura good for that?

He would naturally be fantastic cultural ambassador of Manipur in the West.

Stay one/two weeks?

Then back to Spain for Rama vijayotsava on October 12th.

What do you think?

Political situation is ok Maharaja. We can have Nectar of Devotion seminar with good number of participants during your stay. Yes, Manipur is a good place for HH Yadunandana Swami to write essays. Two weeks stay is ok Maharaja or forever also ok. Everything is all ok Maharaja. Or, we together can have Rama Vijayotsava festival in Manipur too. That day is our Guru Maharaja’s Tirobhava Utsav. Rama Vijayotsava is on October 13th in India.

Maharaja, Manipuris are little racial nowadays with strong anti-Indian feeling. Indian preachers are not much successful in Manipur. We are always thinking to have very good connection with western devotees to preach here in Manipur. Guru Maharaja wanted to have many nice things of ISKCON Manipur. This would be possible only by your blessings, Maharaja. We are really very happy to hear that you are going to bring HH Yadunandana Swami also. All glories to you Maharaja.

Thank you once again for your love for Manipuri devotees and Manipur.

Maharaja, first floor rooms are ok for yourself and HH Yadunandana Swami? Can we have some seminars in Manipur University during your visit? If so, please kindly suggest some topics, Maharaja.

Your humble servant

Sadhubhusan Das

ISKCON Manipur

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. Was waiting a little to answer until things are little fixed. Maharaja is trying to buy tickets right now. Madrid to India on the 18th of September, then he teaches for one week in Braja, and after that we can go to Manipuri. He is young man 😃 only like 65 years old. He can become great lover of Manipuri culture and maybe very strong link with Spanish culture of Spain.

Read all your news very carefully.

Think can give details soon.

Hope we can make cultural presentation that will reach people beyond Manomaya platform. Eg. I am this nation or that and nothing more.

Thank you.

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaj :

PAMHO ,AGTSP !!

Dandavats pranams at your feet .

I would like to inform you about some important decisions that I m taking for my near future ,but at this stage are not to share with the participants of ASA ‘s blog ,so I need to ask You if it’s possible to facilitate me an email address of yours ??

I used to have one before ,but I m not sure if it’s still the same .

It is not urgent but I think ,I should communicate stuff that involves life changing decisions to You .

Also I wrote my annual report before ,hope you got the time to read it .

Thank you in advance for your kind attention.

yhs .

Madhvacharya das .

CBR-AU

HpS - We are, agtSP, using WhatsApp. Send us your WhatsApp phone number here and we will contact you. We will not share it here.

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Hare krishna Gurudev. Dandavat pranam. In SB 1.9.9. sloka's meaning Prabhupada wrote (Bhismadev was the greatest among eight Basu's). Gurudev my prayer is that till date I have not found the name of these eight Basu's. Kindly enlighten me about these eight Basu's. Dandavat pranam. AGTSP and Gurudev.

HpS - AgtSP!!!! I have had the same question for a long time.

Here is the link to an article in the Wikipedia that seems to be rather good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasu

Does that help?

We hope to have more news for you soon.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

Please Accept my Humble Obeisances

I hope our health will be good and if that is not posible at leats leave this body in a good way, in sarkitan or with the chanting of the holly names of Krsna.

How are you?

hps/asa - immortal, alert, ecstatic!

just

like

you!!

😃

The notice of you going to Spain make me feel very happy, because now I will se you again, now I'm making some plans to be able to work there (in europe) and I think that is goig to be nice for me, I hope for your blessing in that matter, also I want to say sorry for not sending a letter in such a long time, this months for me have being really hard, but for now I feel very better, I'm chanting and dancing, also now my sankirtan is not as good as at it was a few months ago, but now I'm foccus on make every person that I make true sankirtan a devotee or close the way for that, I'm also reeding al most every dat the Srimad Bhagavatam (and sometimes the Bible) and I'm really enjoying that, is crazy how everythig that you put along with Krsna makes you feel more plesure or a strange gratification for do in it, now my target is that, make everything conected with Krsna in some way, I think also the bad time that I was having was for that, for forget that every action that one have to do have to be for and with Krsna, otherwise is just a lost of time, sorry for not being able to conect to your morning program, this fool can't go to bed before 11 pm, now we are workig to change that but for the moment is a problem that my family don't help much to solve.

Also I will start the Spiritual Warrior of his holliness Bhakti Tirtha Swami my dad give to me in one night along with some pizza and a few Popcorn made with Ghee, a very strange desition of making it but ended up tasting very nice hahaha.

A last thing to add, I still think about the pictures that I promise to you of the travel of Argentina, but I don't know way in this app is super complicated to send, once I almost loose the letter that I was trying to send, so If we meet in Spain and if I have the oportunity I think will be a best time to show you that.

Now with little to few to add, I say good bye and Hare Krsna :D

ASA/tb - agtsp!!!!! thank you for news... ours is about the same.

is this a good documentary?

from ww 2 we see how hard it was to win even one little fight on this planet, what to speak of conquering durga devi!!!

maybe we should expect many battles!!!!!

but see lasting progress each time!!!