Letters to the editor

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?

Hare Krishna Gurudev;

Please accept our humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

We got the link for the 5th movie.

Thank you.

Your servant.

Nikunja bihari das.

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja,

please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We are very excited to see the 5th movie. And show it along with the other four at our monthly movie night program starting this Fall.

We understand that there are some copyright issues. May we have the secret link?

So sorry to miss your call on Janmashtami. The work load at the temple and trying to finish a fence for a client before leaving for tour was almost too much to handle.

Been having nice morning programs on the road and good rounds and classes with Anadi and Yamuna over the phone. Shows have been good. Been distributing lots of CDs and vinyl records and talking with many inquisitive, vegetarian, open minded..people. I’m understanding more and more, deeper and deeper that I can only give to others if I am filled up myself. So the goal is to get filled up to the brim every morning and stay in association with devotees. This is the only way for us to survive! This world is such a dangerous place on many levels.

Gonna listen to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and think of you and all the nice devotees in Richmond right now:)

Thank you, Maharaja. I’m glad you are able to decompress a little.

your aspiring servant,

Nitisara das

HpS / ASA --- Thank you for the news and update! We sent the movie link. Did you get it???

Thank you. Best wishes for the forthcoming progeny.

Hare Krisna Gurudev!!

Please accept our humble obeisances!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

A very Dear friend of us (We can not disclose his name 🙄) is asking for the secret link to watch the 5th movie from ASA.

Can You please send it here?

Thank you!!

At your service.

Nikunja bihari das.

HpS / ASA --- We sent it. Did you get it???

Hare Krishna!

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obessiances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to you!

Guru Maharaja, I appreciated very much your point if we do FMP then why wouldn't we want to share it with others. It got me thinking quite a bit.

It got me thinking about my current service and if I should be asking the current devotees I lead to come to 4:30 managala arati with me. We currently make 5:50am the "mandatory". It was quite interesting that the next day we had a meeting where they said they want to come to 4:30 managla arati and it should be mandatory for them and something that new Bhaktas work towards. I was so happy, amazed and full of gratitude.

Gurudeva, I talked to Nityananda Prabhu about morning program. I expressed how important FMP is to us. You have always been clear in our wanting us to do FMP and it has penitrated my heart also. I asked him if I was to go to India with him what would our morning program look like. He is committed to 5am - 7:30am FMP. He understood and was appreciative of our communication.

What do you think Guru Maharaja?

Your servant,

Nanda-braja das

HpS - Is, agtSP, a big topic.

On this traveling partys as we have heard Srila Prabhupada was very very heavy about devotees not getting up by about 6.30AM. For that delay he was The Great Destructor.

When I was with H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami, my esteemed Sannyasa Guru, Siksa guru... !

He would not be up and in Mangala arati at times during our program organization.

His disciples, others in the Ashrama would often follow this program.

He was a more action oriented person than myself. We both knew this.

He got stuff done.

Yet, we would do our Dharma, he did not object.

We and our Lord Nrsmha deva would be up and chanting and dancing even though we were like 20% less weight from the heat etc of Calcutta.

He looked hot.

We learned so much about Prana and Yoga then.

Then, it gave us strength the whole day 💪

We will always be stronger in some sense than other devotees and weaker in others.

We should not focus on criticizing others because it will only agitate their mnds.

Out of maybe 9 devotees in the Ashrama in Calcutta in 1987, preparing for the BI congress about three more would get up and join us for the Mangala arati.

Maharaja appreciated our persepective. Thanked us.

Maybe same arrangement for you in India.

Hare Krishna Maharaja

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I have thought about what we have been talking about and my decision is to continue as a “house brahmacari” for a while longer.

Since my mind is very lustful (as if I had a demon inside), I tell her that in the future we can get married.

You ordered me that at the end of this period I should make the decision to either get married or continue as a brahmacari.

If I can remain in this condition of “house monk” all my life, I think it will be most beneficial, both spiritually (particularly in preaching) and also materially, as it would save me a lot of trouble.

Thank you Maharaja

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna. This is excellent topic.

I don't remember and specific instruction on the matter, but the general principles are the same, no?

This is not the age of:

• Meditation.
• Fire Sacrifice.
• Deity Worship.
• Varana ashrama Dharma.

It is the Age of Sankirtan, Congregational Singing of the Name, Fame, Pastimes of Krsna.

Jaya!

So, engage as much as you can in Sankirtan, Japa, and that will give you intelligence how to develope VAD, Deity Worship etc.

Married our B'cari.

Living with family or alone or with wife an children. Which will help our Sankirtan. Specifically 16-rounds and 4-principles under the authority of Srila Prabhupada!

Ideal is to make the decision by 25-years old (SB 1.17.38) but some of us come from barbaric families, so adjustment is necessary.

I know big leaders in ISKCON who stayed B'cari until 30-years old and then went directly into Vanprastha with a like minded lady devotee.

Emotional association but no gross.

Chant and pray for you position.

Try out things in a sane fashion.

Talk with nice advisors.

Read Srila Prabhupada's book for help!