Letters to the editor

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" />

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?