Letters to the editor

Haribol Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja,

Please accept my obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I apoligize Maharaj, the counter I meant was the one at the little Idaho gift shop I work at. Sometimes I meet interesting people, doctors, salesmen, travelers, teachers and traveling morman missionary sisters. I also meet lots of young great students with bright scholarships, education, future, 3.8-4.0 GPA's.. infinitely better potential servants of his divine graces blessings.  Funny though I made an agreement with these Morman missionary sisters that if I read a bit of the book of morman by Mr. Joseph Smith, then they'd investigate what Hare Krsna, ISKCON is. I think those who go out to teach and preach positively about God for service to their spiritual masters are the best and bravest people in the three worlds.. ... <img alt="laugh" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/teeth_smile.png" title="laugh" width="23" />

Killing cows, abortion and super-bowl football.. I can think of a hundred different things relating or like these, in a sense they all pollute the heart. It's funny how for years I've never personally understood what a heart is. In songs, poetry.. etc. No clue what Jesus spoke in the bible or our acharyas were writing, what sastra says about the heart. When I don't feel what everyone else is feeling, I just assumed its some deeper sentiment inside the mind, all emotions/desires are bottled in the mind. Reminds me of a nice test my Psych. 101 teacher gave our class last semester, a chart to color/write where you felt emotions all over your body, to get a better perspective of yourself through understanding where you feel all your emotions.

It seems there are, infact other human beings who have softer hearts that can feel + desire and some maybe like me who also do not (at all or sometimes) ? Thats probably why ruthless torturer/murders are often called heartless monsters. Perhaps Kali-Yuga is the age of real heart disease? Hardening or polluting the heart from sinful activites, thus forgetting it. Then becoming atheistic and eventually losing all compassion for others inside our minds?

I wanted to inquire, Maharaj, if learning sanskrit IS a good use of time in service? I've heard some devotee opinions that we are not meant to become sanskrit scholars, but I felt a pull in my mind that I want to be able to understand sanskrit. So far it's actually pretty easy to read (you can read some derivitaves like hindi/nepali too if you learn the devanagari alphabet). Understanding the meaning of every word and conjuction + grammar is tough though.

HpS - Its good for some devotees. Prabhupada says that Nanda Maharaja could not read nor write, what to speak of the girls. He would hire some educated fool to do it for him.

But the girls, the gopis, new everyitng about the cosmos etc because they went to classes by the Brahmanas, saw puppet shows etc. So it might be good for you. You can get nice study materials from krsnaculture.com. We are using them and starting next Sunday.

Bhakta Reilly

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

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Guru Maharaja, may I ask few questions with one common theme. It is about melodies for kirtan: Did Srila Prabhupada had favorite melodies for chanting in kirtan? Did Srila Prabhupada told about using different melodies (apart from know Mangala arati and Gaura arati melodies) for chanting? Did Srila prabhupada approved of some melodies and of some not? Is there anything else regarding this topic (rhythms, loudness, speed) ? 
To me is known that Srila Prabhupada was not favoriting musical expresion (artistry) over devotion.  
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By some unfathomable luck, I am following all your words  that you Tweet and on the Blog lush.

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Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - AGTSP. Paoho. We have arrived at Balarama puri in the remote desserts, jungles of Argentina. There are 50-devotees camping here. Looks like a secret enclave of revolutionaries hiding form the "evil government". Very friendly. We have been traveling like 10 hours a day for both the last two days.
As far as we know there are not melodys, but Ragas. Srila Prabhupada liked the Ragas that Hansadutta used, B S. Damodara, Jayananda, so we tend to end up with those.

Of course it should be to please Krsna, the instruments should not drown the Holy Names. That is about all we know.

Main thing is to please Krsna and some of the ISKCON devotees and not disturb the others to much, no?

Om ajnana-timirandhasya jñanaañjana-salakaya

caksur unmilitam yena tasmai namah sri-gurave

"I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge, to Him I offer my respectful obeisances"a

Dear Gurudeva;

              A day like today the universe was lucky that you came here, to enlighten us all. Recently I read the offering you make to your spiritual master, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada Abhaya Caranaravinda  and i dont know,what to say, from my dull position .
              Thank you, your causeless mercy and commitment to your spiritual master, I had a unique opportunity to approach God, You always encouraged me despite my shortage of qualities, you  always believed in me and encouraged me to move forward. I personally believe that love is shown with deeds and not just words, which makes me see the love that you have for your Guru Maharaja, you are the perfect example of devotion, dedication and discipline. I remember the day I first saw  you and without knowing you , and I felt that i did knew you, you were always special for me, I am always inspired to improve and you are  the only person in the universe who gets the bets of me. Thanks for your support, your constancy and personalism, nothing in my life would axle if you had not given me the key of knowledge. I always try to have my mind set on you, you raised me and coached by his flawless delivery to always do the best for the movement of Srila Prabhupada, beyond my selfish desires. You are an expert in occupy us all in the best way for us to add our bit to the mission of His Divine Grace's that is  why is  my desire that everyone can meet you and get involved to make this your  life and work.In  the purport of the BG. 2.41 says: "You have to act firmly and obey the representative of Krishna and one must accept the mission of his life the instruction that gives you the genuine spiritual master." And in the beginning of Srimad Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada dedicates the pubicación to  His spiritual master saying "He lives forever by his divine instructions and the one who follow it lives with him," I hope krishna bless me again, with this sacred realization , i want to live forever carrying out your Holy instructions.

Thanks for appearing in my life and for teaching me to respect myself, to not give up to follow this path with determination despite my disability. Excuse my mistakes and offenses at your holy feet.

ALL GLORIES TO CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU AND THE PARAMPARA  THANKS TO THEM THE HUMANITY HAS FOUND ITS WAY.

Your servant  who always wants to improve

Rati-Manjari Devi Dasi.

HpS-Hari Bolo!!!!!   See you in just a few days. As you go ahead it gets better and better.

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale

srimate Hanumat Preshak swamin iti namine

I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Holiness Hamumat Preshak swami, who is very dear to Lord Krsna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. 

Gurudev, when I first heard about celebrating your “Vayasa Puja” day on 23rd, first thing came to my mind, is it already a year. What do I write or what do I speak? The more I read, I came to know how little I understood about the whole process. And also realized that how merciful you are in accepting an un-worthy person like me as your disciple.

When I sit and meditate on your words, the first thing came my mind is your “simple living and high thinking”. And also with your mercy (when you are at our place), I am clearly able to see the difference between the “need” and “want”, and often times I confused with both of them.

And another greatest quality of you that I like is “remembering the lord all the time” ananya-cetah satatam yo mam smarati nityasah (the highest goal) Recognizing the lord everywhere and in everything (things that we see and use daily and ignoring lot of times)

Every single time I hear from you, what amazes me is the clarity and depth of knowledge on all the subjects and everything again connecting to Krishna naturally.

When I have a setback in my life, all I do is to mediate on your words “set Priorities and move forward”. That one line of “set Priorities” changed my whole life and motivating me to step towards “Krishna”.

There so many things that I want to write/speak, but unable to express in words (finding it is very difficult to understand what the heart felt with mind) Praying the Lord sincerely, that one day I can become worthy of your disciple, by following your footsteps.

Your Humble Servant

-Subala Sakha Das (from Richmond)

HpS - AGTS paoho....  Please write with some more news for this humble Blog!    How is your family, what is your service to Radha Gokulananda, how is Sankirtan, how is your Uncle...     Thank you so much for this letter.   Honestly we worry about you when we don't hear from you. This letter makes us happy because we see that you have such nice basis in BG and Krsna merciful speeches, you are looking for good qualities in people!

Dear guru maharaj

Please accept my dandavat pranams maharaj, all glories to srila prabhupad

I was seeing that your laptop is not able to handle the load maharaj.

I was wondering if this laptop will be usefull maharaj

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http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

Please let me know if any of this would be of service for you 

your servant

NC Das

HpS - ASA - AGTSP paoho.   Thank you, but our Acer-Aspire One is really hard to beat. It is little bit smaller processor, but that also comes with the small size and less price. Get a bigger machine its hard to carry. More expensive machine, it's easy to to break or get stolen, the way we travel.

Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
All glories to you on your appearance day!

yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado
   yasyaprasadan na gatih kuto 'pi
dhyayan stuvams tasya yashas trisandhyam
  vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

By the mercy of the spiritual master one receives the benediction of Krsna.
Without the grace of the spiritual master, one cannot make any advancement.
Therefore, I should always remember and praise the spiritual master.
At least three times a day I should offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master.

For me the mercy of the spiritual master means the words, the instructions, the good advice and the good example of him.
Thank you very much for your kindness, your inspiring words, your blog, your Kapi Dhvaja and your exemplary behaviour!
I hope You will stay with us for a long time.

I wish You all the best in your Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada service.

Your servant,
Sri Radhe devi dasi

HpS - Thank you. AGTSP. paoho. We have eternal home, eternal family, eternal work and as we begin to wake up to that we can all stay with each other eternally. That's a long time. <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />