Letters to the editor

Dear Guru Maharaja, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories Srila Prabhupada! We would like to let you know that our daughter was born yesterday at 10:47 am and weighed 8lbs 5oz. Thankfully she appeared on the very last day of kartik which is auspicious. We ask for your blessings for this little girl to be a servant of Gaura Nitai. Your aspiring servants, Rasa mandali devi dasi and Yogendra dasa

HpS - Jaya! And the daughter of Jiva Goswami and Sri, in Houston also happened almost, maybe the exact, same time. She also was pounds.

Thank you so, so much for all your efforts. Your daughter is not an ordinary person. Krsna does not send ordinary people to be the children of devotees. Now you have big responsibility to see that she is well protected so that she can grow up well and do wonderful things for society!

Dear Guru maharaj

Please accept my dandavat pranams. All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

I wish you speedily recover from the spider bites maharaj. You might already know this, but I was thinking if applying coconut oil might help.

          HpS - Not sure what [AGTSP!] was the stimulous, but the more ultimate cause is that we are 70% pitta at least, and that was out of order because of too much psycho-social disorder, diet etc. When we changed that it started to reduce. Over our whole body.

I am progressivelly successfull in chanting my rounds and following all regulative principles.

Wishing you speedy recovery maharaj

your aspiring servant

Nataraj

HpS - Where are you? Dallas???     

"By bhajana-kriyā one attains freedom from the contamination of materialistic life. He no longer goes to a restaurant or hotel to taste so-called palatable dishes made with meat and onions, nor does he care to smoke or drink tea or coffee." NoI Seven.

Prabhupada makes a clear standard for us. Compared to other religions and yoga groups ISKCON, Prabhupada, Has a high standard, but we get the real result, no?

Also the regulative principles are not just something mechanical. We follow them because it makes Krsna happy.

There are three ways to do things:

The right way,

The wrong way and,

Krsna's way!    More news... your Yatra??...

Querido Gurudeva: Por favor, acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las glorias para Srila Prabhupada.

Cómo está? Se encuentra mejor?

              HpS - Jaya!  AGTSP.  pfanrh.   Muchas gracias su associacion cada manana en taller de Japa! Adelantando juntos guarantizado!!!    Nuestra salud, energia esta bien. Un diente necesita u x-ray, los pies poco hinchados pero mejor de antes. Vamos a morir, pero mantener el instrumento apto para predica del manera mejor hasta la fin, no?

Mi esposo Jayanta está bien. Trabajando aunque sigue teniendo algunos dolores. Gracias a la misericordia de Krisna, cuento en esta vida con su asociación y ejemplo; un ejemplo marcado, sobre todo por su gran fe en el proceso, en Srila Prabhupada, y por su capacidad de ver a Krisna en los momentos menos apacibles. A mí no me resulta tan fácil. El fin de semana pasado estuvimos disfrutando de la asociación de Avesa rupa prabhu y Adi Rasa Prabhu. Realmente me siento muy afortunada de poder asociarme con estos dos devotos. Pasamos tres días con ellos en la casa donde están ahora, en un pueblito de Cáceres, muy cerca del Parque Natural de Monfragüe. Dos ejemplos de sankirtan y servicio, para mi muy importantes. Este domingo iremos a la fiesta del Templo, donde tambien, gracias a Krisna, puedo asociarme con más devotos. Espero que se encuentre mejor cuando reciba este mensaje. Su aspirante a humilde sirvienta, Purnamasi devi dasi

             HpS - Reverencias al Adi y el Avesa!!!!    Y como estan sus hijos?  Cuales son sus cualidades?  Programa para ninos en el templo? Trabajando en escuela Vd? Buscando otro diploma?  -[;D]

Reverencias a Jayanta Das. Pide una carta con sus comprehensiones de Sankirtan ahora!

Respected Guru Maharaj,

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

Just came back from the temple after my weekly Friday afternoon cooking, Priya was helping me, we made like 08 items, and plenty.

                  HpS - AGTSP and the Kids? They didn't help!??

After offering, head pujari said that Gaur-Nitai are very happy with the offering.  I don't know about that, but whenever I enter the kitchen or do anything important or important, I alway say,"Jay Hanumat Preshak Swami Guru Maharaj, Jai Jagatguru Srila Prabhupad".

             HpS - Mukhan karoti vacalam... !

Yesterday, we had very sweet Prabhupad disappearance day festival, presided over by our local gbc man HH Ramai Swami, he gave a nice class sharing with us Prabhupada's life in a Chronological way.  Your God-brother Abhilash Prabhu came, he said that please apologize from Maharaj on his behalf that he could not come while you were here in Brisbane and then, he gave me a nice flute to give to you.

I am not happy to know that you have been biten by spiders, hope that now you are recovering.  Can you kindly use some kind of mosquito net etc?

             HpS - Hmmmm. We don't know what it was. Is gone now. Basically is like to much pitta and then it pops out some place. We have to  be more and more and more careful of honoring, prasadam, dancing and properly associating as we get older. Old age is a good friend for a devotee, pushes us to become pure devotees. We don't know how much more time we have left. If we don't artificially try to maintain body then it may go quickly, even in a few days! One day!
We have given up.
What Krsna wants, let it happen. We just do our transcendental eternal service to Him.
Who is a Abhilasa Das???  His name sounds so familiar.
This is last letter this evening and then we will write the Kapi dhvaja for you!
Please tell Priya and Kids that they are great heroes for loving you even though you are a Bufalo Headed Punjabi.
Respects to so many devotees in your Yatra. Was so nice to be there
Of course, we go to India 9th Feb - 1st March.

have chanted 12 rounds, still 4 more to go, jai Guruji, HARE KRISHNA.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada and Gurudev.

It’s been a while that I came on to the blog and my sadhana is going well. At least I become serious in my chanting (most of the time I’m completing all my rounds in the morning) and my reading become regular.

              HpS - ASA -  AGTSP!   paoho.  Wow!    In Kali-yuga this makes you a Saint!!!   AgtSP!

With your mercy and blessings, I took a small step towards preaching and working with SARITA mataji (who is a president of BHAKTI YOGA club in VCU in Richmond, VA) in the Yoga club. We gather every Thursday, chant a round (just started) and go over Bhagavad Gita (As it is)

At present, they don’t have a regular preacher, so I’m attending (our Bhakti Vriksh is providing the prasadam and I’m taking that to club every Thursday) and got an opportunity to talk to these kids and understand their view of life.

So far I gave three classes and attend two (one given by SarvDrik Prabhu)

1.    One is on Yoga (what is Yoga, why, different type of Yogas and what is Bhakti Yoga – touched briefly)

2.    Why do we need to study Bhagavad Gita  and little back ground about Krishna/Arjuna (Maha Bharat – a bit)

3.    What is that we are all seeking (Happiness) – a little bit about senses and their functions and Soul?

We recently conducted a musical concert (Sacred Sounds, different tunes of Hare Krishna and other Kirtans – by Gauravani’s team) in VCU and distributed “Journey of self-discovery and meditation kits (around 200 I believe may be more)

Yagna Sankirtana prabhu (from Potomac temple, DC), who is instrumental in starting this Bhakti yoga club, got the feedback from Sarita and the students and spoke to me and appears like everything is good so far, and discussed about further classes.

Maharaj, at present, they don’t have any particular agenda what to cover etc. in this semester.

Please advise or provide some suggestions (most of them are 1^st timers)?

Here is the list that I came up with, after discussing with couple of devotees and in other Yoga clubs etc (Touching on the practical side with Philosophy/spirituality as foundation)

1.    Nature and Modes of Nature

2.    Jiva tattva (self) and Vishnu tattva (supreme)

3.    Time and Karma

4.    Mantra Japa

Please correct or advise me, if I’m wrong or better way of go about this.

Waiting to hear from you…Maharaj.

Your Humble Servant

Subhala Sakha Das

Richmond, VA

..........  AGTSP.  So nice to hear from you!!!!  Was wondering what happened to all of you!!!!    Sankirtana result sounds very nice. What about just reading the Upadesamrta together? Going through a little bit each week. Little homeworkd assignment, and Srila Prabhupada's one volume bio-graphy. Those who are more serious can read in detail and then for others there can be a summary each week.

If you base it on those two books it seems it will be nice program.

Then you can also ask questions.

Kirtan, lecture, Kirtan, Prasadam!!

AGTSP

All glories to SS Guru Gauranga

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja!

I write because I have some questions; - if a devotee, a disciple of a spiritual master from another school, as Vrinda, can take siksa Guru in ISKCON spiritual master?  

- If these people can take siksa guru, then, does this person can actively participate in ISKCON, without any problem or not?