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THE DREAM OF SRILA PRABHUPADA, CHAPTER 4

Words to my Lord: Sri Krsna, my heart is full of contradictory desires and my mind is full of suffering. I just cannot go out from this material entanglement that I've created for myself because of ignorance. Just only You, my Eternal Lord, can take me out of this miserable condition.

I wish with all my being that one day my Lord Krsna, through the mercy of the person whom I desire for spiritual instructor, allow me understand and make it real in my inner self this now I just wrote. 

My hope is that you, Guru Maharaj, teach me how can I get approach to Krsna and maybe someday I will be able to understand how to love and to serve the Supreme Being properly. Please, I beg you, remember about me through the coming time and, plaese, talk to Krsna about me and my family, we all here wanna be accepted for our Lord as His servants.

Everyday I think of Krsna and Srila Prabhupada. And everyday I think about your person, Guru Maharaj. Everyday I say your name in my prayers, I do this without your permission, it is ok ? please, forgive me, but it is one way that I can feel connected with you.

Infinite thanks to you. I'm deeply grateful for this opportunity that you have given me with your first instructions.

All blessings to you, your disciples and any people around you...

Your aspiring disciple and servant, 
Carlos Rold.

THE DREAM OF SRILA PRABHUPADA, CHAPTER 3

Personal conclusion statements

I am not this body, nor niether all the bodies where I lived once since immemorial time. 

I'm so tired of staying holed up in a house fighting with maya. Today I know my condition is due to karma I have accumulated in this life and past lives, are the consequences of so many mistakes I've made, also are product originated with actions through which so many people I damaged once. But I have to resolve this material entanglement where I am and thus set myself free of all death and birth. Some day I will can serve adequately my Lord, only thanks to His mercy.

Maya strength is such that can dominate the mind completely. The mind leads fake ego from illusion to illusion, that's why it is so important set the mind on the appropriate level of consciousness and this is the ultimate goal of any search, Krsna Consciousness; if we do not make the effort to set our mind on Krsna every time, we will falling again and again into the darkness of the material entanglement.

Our most important activity should be a constant practicing to train the mind. This is the ultimate goal of any attempt to dominate the mind, spoken by many yogis since the beginning of the ages and so fashionable today in mouths of so many fake prophets who speak of mastering the mind, but without indicating the suitable way to carry out the process, without indicating the right object of our attention. We must strive to work with our attentional energy so that we can make Krsna the object of our senses, the goal of all activity for small it could be, in the meaning of our lives, we must direct to Krsna each one of our actions, even getting up in the morning and at bedtime, showering, brushing teeth, drink water and eat, study and work, etc., all  our activities to be closer and more close of Krsna, trying hard always to respect at least the 4 regulative principles. Our routine should be taken as a way to restore the original position and transcendental activity of the living entity: serving eternally the Supreme Being.

If we do not connect with the appropriate level of consciousness is the fake ego who suffers and drag the soul into the darkness of transitory material life and may even lose the opportunity wich represents this human existence in particular.

If maya it ain't playing to my favor yet, is just because I keep dragging impurities in my mind and doing offenses and I do not realize.

"...mind is the cause of captivity and mind is the cause of liberation... the mirror of mind will be cleaned up..."

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now, will come the last one

All the glories to you, all the blessings to you, Guru Maharaj...

Many many thanks for your desire about the Nobel Prize... really you've done me laugh too much!!!!  was so funny!!!   I'm not a genius, but in fact the opposite...

So, as you asked me, I will send the letter in 3 smaller parts. Here I go with the firs one:

THE DREAM OF SRILA PRABHUPADA, CHAPTER 2

Then now I will share some of his teachings that have been very usefull to me over the past few months:

Once he told his disciples in San Francisco, while walking one morning by the Golden Gate Park: "...those who want to see God, must first have the qualities to can see Him. They must be purified. As the clouds covering the sun now, ordinary people think, 'oh! the sun has not come out'. But the sun is there, our eyes are covered..." Using the same metaphor of the sun, commenting on the teachings of Lord Kapiladeva, Srila Prabhupada states: "...the Absolute Truth is like the sun, which comes out for all to see. The sun does not hide, but we can try to hide ourselves from the sun closing the doors. To see the sun, we have to open the door. By the same way, Krsna is there, God is there..."

"...living entities are controlled by their previous actions ..."

"You can say who is God only in 5 words: Krsna is the Supreme Controller. If you are convinced of this and preach enthusiastically, success will be assured and you will be giving the greatest service to all living entities..." This is why a devotee has to understand vedic philosophy, he has to be prepared to answer any question.

With respect to some of his disciples had returned to their former way of life, materialistic, Prabhupada tries to find those sincere souls who would remain, that was the important thing, he said: "a moon worth more than many stars".

About the importance of practicing austerity: "...a devotee, accepting what nature provides, use his time and energy in spiritual life... the city is made by man and the field is made by God..."

Vairagya: bhakti-yoga is so strong that if we practice, we automatically refuse to serve maya.

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now, will come the next one

Respetado Maharaj Ji,
Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias. Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.
Gracias tanto por su asociación en el templo de Iskcon Pune, Sri Sri Radha Kunjabihari.
Maharaj Ji, hizo llegar el devoto disponible en línea - en el teléfono, por favor hágamelo saber, muchas gracias.
Voy a estar agradecido por el mismo, gracias
Su sirviente,
narayandas

Respetado Maharaj Ji,
Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias. Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.
Gracias tanto por su asociación en el templo de Iskcon Pune, Sri Sri Radha Kunjabihari.
Maharaj Ji, hizo llegar el devoto disponible en línea - en el teléfono, por favor hágamelo saber, muchas gracias.
Voy a estar agradecido por el mismo, gracias
Su sirviente,
narayandas

HpS - AGTSP. I cant understand what you are saying!!  Good English translation??

Ki

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,

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

Issues with editor (formating) should be fixed now. I updated all modules into latest version.

However if you will see any issues please let me know through the email as that is fastest and most reliable way how I will get info.

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

PS: We are back in Sridham Mayapur, will send letter about Thailand soon.

HpS - Hare Krsna! I am back in USA and starting to catch up on the mail. I hoped you might stay in the Dhama but wherever Krsna wants to send us.

Always we're thanking you for your help, especially the Blog. Yes, the format seems different and for our Windows Phone a little tougher in some ways, but we are adjusting.

YES, news of your Krsna conscious experiences in Thailand! ! !