Letters to the editor

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" />

Respected Guru Maharaj,

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

As you have suggested, we would be celebrating your divine birth-day festival on 23rd Dec here in Brisbane, at our home.  Dhaneshvari is coming to join us with her parents. And there would be a few other devotees as well.

You have written to Kama-Gayatri Dasi that  your vyas-puja would be On line 6.30 - 8.30PM, it means Tenessee time? and which website? I would keep an eye on kapi-Dhvaja.

I would start program here at 10am, it means there would be-----, I just googled and discovered that Brisbane is 16 hours ahead of Nashville, TN, USA, it means it would be previous day in Tenessee 22nd Dec and time would be 6pm, may be we can have your darshan on SKYPE during that time, thanks a lot, HARE KRISHNA.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

-----on 24th Dec---i am going to mayapur for a week and back to brisbane on 31st Dec, please bless me that I do not commit any offense in holy dham------

HpS - AGTSP!  paoho. Hey, Mate, we did hear from you on Skype and now 8.23 AM the 24th in Brisbane! Well hope you realized our, Srila Prabhupada and your position in the Parampara, and can do something about it!  Of course, best of luck in the Dhama. Also, hope you don't commit and offenses anyplace. Time is running out. Your next body is being selected now. What do you want? 

Hare Krsna dear Hanumatpresaka Maharaja, please accept my respectful obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

A couple of days ago I read your question to write about my Sankirtana so I try to collect few things about it.

As Radhe wrote finally we moved from Manchester to Luton which is very near to Bhaktivedanta Manor. We can say that we are fortunate because we can attend the temple morning program and can hear from advanced devotees once a week. Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda are very very beautiful, so good to see Them and sing&dance before Them with the devotees! And we can chant japa in the presence of Tulasi devi as well.

In a smaller Sankirtana circle we are together with Radhe, daily we sing Mangala arati and chant japa. During last Kartik month we sang the Damodarastakam every day and we made a practice of doing it; nowadays we sing the Gaura arati song at evenings and it is a good experience.

In a point of view my wife is a guru for me, because she (or Krsna through her) teaches me how to be in a proper serving mood all the time continually.

Our common preaching is limited to the colleagues. We try to give them some prasadam and I think in this effort the upcoming festive season will help us.

And in the smallest Sankirtana circle there are two kind of activity. The first is to preach to the outside world. It means that I run a blog about chanting Japa and translate/managing the translating tasks of a book called 'When Good Fortune Arises' about Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja from His disciple Madhavananda prabhu.

The second is to preach to myself. Actually it means that I have to learn so many things about how to be a servant of Sri Krsna, study the sastra and learn how to chant properly. Sometimes I have to start from the very basics due to the forgetfulness, laziness, 'i do not know what else'-ness.

These were the small news from Luton with love! I hope your health is ok! Recently I have not read any bad news about it. And hope that your preaching plans are / will be successful!

Thank you for your valuable time, Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga! your servant, Kadamba Kanana dasa

HpS - ASA -- Sooooooooooo nice to hear from you. We met just a little bit somewhere in Europe. I cannot remember where, but always hoping to get more of your association.

We moved the Temple from San Francisco across the Bay to Berkeley where the big university is. Then Jayatirtha Das wrote to Prabhupada that we had discovered that the preaching was good there.

Prabhupada responded, "You have discovered that the preaching is good there because you have made the endeavor there. Wherever you make the endeavor you will discover that the preaching is good."
It's a fact, just preach, get across the idea, "Well, I don't know, but my old Grand Daddy used to say...", and then more and more preaching will come as Krsna desires! I have to learn this.

Madhavananda is such a nice devotee!

Querido Gurumaharaja,

Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias

¡Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Muchas gracias por su respuesta  respecto a la conexión  durante su Vyasa Puja.  El  horario que usted propone nos parece  bien Gurumaharaja. Por lo que esperamos enlazarnos el martes 23 después de las 6:30 pm a la hora que usted disponga, ¿a través de Star meeting?

Muchas gracias  querido Gurudeva, quedamos atentos.

Sus sirvientes

ASA  México

HpS - ASA ---- AGTSP!!!!!   paoho.  Hmmm.  Possible Start Meeting, pero possible Skype. No, camera en Start Meeting!

Hare Krsna dear <img alt="heart" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/heart.png" title="heart" width="23" /> Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

In last KD you wrote: "All the letters are answered on the Blog except for one two days ago. Very interesting. No new letters. Some technical problem? New letters aren’t coming? Candra-mukhi DD – Nikunja-bihari Das, Patraka, Namacharya Das???"

So, now I am checking out if all works nicely on the Blog. It looks it works. It is quiet on the blog with letters coming. Hmmm... Maybe it is the lull before the storm <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />
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My Annual Disciple Reports coming in next days. 

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Also, you wrote: "We will be in Murfreesboro for HpS Vyasapuja. We will make some Internet plan. Any suggestions?"  

Well, I am little apprehensive about programs over internet. So many technical details need to work properly to have a situation with proper audio and video, one that can be heard and seen.
So, whatever will be there, I'll try to join in <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" /> <img alt="yes" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_up.png" title="yes" width="23" />

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Thank you very much for your notes for BhVai. As your notes comes on time, Upendra and me can build our humble suggestions around your precious contribution.

Your servant Namacarya das

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HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP  paoho.  Yes, is working.     It is amazing how Srila Prabhupada, devotees can pick up the current technology and use it. Srila Bhaktsiddhanta had a wrist watch. Otherwise, I guess people would just tell time from the Temple bell.

Prabhupada used airplanes and movies.

Soooo o o o    we see what we can do for Vyasapuja. 24th December here in Nashville.

What is happening in Pulah?  (You know, in Spanish, Pulga is Flea).

HpS - The Comments can go just to the Reporting Disciple, not to everyone?

PND: Yes. Both comment and report is visible only to you, user who posted report. I have to have permissions also, but I am not/will not be looking.

If you post comment, message with link to the comment should come to that specific devotee email address (one they use for this site). They will have to be logged in under same user who posted report to be able to access it.

Our plan is to Monkey and Uncle Gismo's vote is to Drop the Ax on Christmas Day and anyone who hasn't Reported by then will be cast into the Outer Darkness where they must Wail and Gnash their Teeth Eternally.

Then we will gather the Good Disciples into our Fold and answer all the Reports before we shove off for Peru.

PND: It is possible to disable posting of reports at Christmas day, so no new reports will be possible to post till next year.

ASA  (Piggy of the Compassionate Heart) - Maybe we try to sneak a few late reporters into the caravan back to Godhead. (Maybe you and I also need a little extra mercy also!). <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />

This Blog is working so well, Thank you!

Srinivasa Das was looking at a Muslim site and they were talking about the confused Hindus and the were citing vedabase.com again and again as their source of True Hindu beliefs!

What about the Index and User Bookmarks etc?

Especially necessary is an Introduction page: 1) How to use the Vedabase technically, and 2) How to use understand the priority and how to read the books. Definitely should be big part of the ministry of education, no???  Your ideas now???