Letters to the editor

Dear Maharaja,

please accept my humble obeisances, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Just needed to re-iterate my meager message and to reminisce in your appearence day. After all the request is out for offerings to be posted  with the Monkey warrior, it is the least I could do. The joy of your association makes this existence much more tolerable and in separation I do reflect well, but to see and hear your activities with all the devotee's truly completes the ecstasy of Bhakti. 

Tis’ a new day so bold, reviving wisdom of old,

enlivening the Soul while we’re striving for the Spiritual goal.

More time has passed and your Sadhana still lasts, another year up to task,

once again your tenacity wins, reining in sin and purifying the self within

As true to your heart of hearts, you know the dangers from the start,

still you carry on, delivering Srila Prabhupada’s message like a beautiful song,

dancing in levity with sober grace, bringing joy to those suffering ill-fate.

Such is our dilemma, disciples fumbling around, fools acting like clowns,

trying to understand Krsna’s knowledge so profound while stifling our ulterior demands,

with only the wise few sincerely hoping to be at your command .

It’s your example that’s shining through and keep’s your japa true,

and even when some are no longer calling or have fallen, you still

kindly offer that Sampradaya rope, giving them hope.

When His Divine Grace came to our Western World, He knew gentlemen were

needed in this place and as His training unfurled, you too filled that space.

Best thing for us is to do is follow your actions, to listen to your words and if surrender occurs

advancement is sure as scripture concurs, let us pray to  become that pure, then our Sadhana is secure.

All glories to your service!  All glories to your service!  All glories to your service!

your lowest servant, caitanya caritamrta das, das anu das

HpS - AgtSP.   Paoho.    Wow!    Even you seem to be advancing!   Ha!   Ha!    You are going to become a great, great saint, like the guys in the Old Testament.   Thank you so much for all your association and support, support, support for all these years. I think the same thing you and Subhra Ji are doing now you are going to be doing in Goloka soon!!!

OFRESCO MIS HUMILDES Y RESPETUOSAS REVERENCIAS A SU GRACIA HANUMATPRESAKA SWAMI QUE ES  MUY QUERIDO POR EL SEÑOR KRSNA, DEBIDO A QUE SE HA REFUGIADO EN SUS PIES DE LOTO....

!!TODAS LAS GLORIA A SRILA PRABHUPADA!!! QUE POR SU MISERICORDIA SIN CAUSA TENGO LA POSIBILIDAD DE PARTICIPAR EN ESTA VYASA PUYA UNA VEZ MAS...

HARE KRISHNA  QUERIDO GURUDEV...

UN AÑO MAS CON SU HERMOSA ASOSIACIÓN, UN AÑO MAS QUE PASA CON COSAS BUENAS Y MALAS QUE SOLO ME LLEVAN HACIA TUS PIES DE LOTO!!! SUS PIES DE LOTO SON EL UNICO REFUGIO QUE YO ANHELO..

SU MISERICORDIA SIN CAUSA PARA CON ESTA ALMA CAÍDA NO TIENE LIMITES.  GRACIAS A SU PODER DE TOMAR MI SERVICIO CONTAMINADO, LIMPIARLO Y ENTREGALSE LO A KRSNA YO SIGO EN ESTA POSICION DE BHAKTA, EN ESTE OCEANO DE BIENAVENTURANZA.....POR QUE DESDE QUE ME REFUGIE EN SUS PIES DE LOTO SOLO SE PUEDE SENTIR ESA BIENAVENTURANZA..

SU DEDICACIÓN COMPLETA, PUREZA, HUMILDAD, TOLERANCIA, MISERICORDIA, SU IMPECABILIDAD SON ALGUNAS DE TODAS LAS CUALIDADES QUE USTED DESARROLLA . Y QUE ESTE CORAZON SUCIO NO CONSIGUEN CONTEMPLAR COMPLETAMENTE.........ES TODO LO QUE ME DA ESPERANZAS Y FUERZA EN ESTE CAMINO DE VUELTA A CASA DEVUELTA A KRSNA...

GRACIAS GURUDEV POR ESTA NUEVA OPRTUNIDAD DE SATISFACERLO!!!!!!!! Y SERVIR A NUESTRO AMDO SRILA PRABHUPADA

ESTAMOS TRABAJANDO PARA MEJORAR LOS SERVICIOS

ME SIENTO MUY AGRADECIDO Y ETERNAMENTE EN DEUDA CON USTED, PESE A MIS GRANDES ESFUERZOS NO ME SIENTO CAPAZ DE PODER RETRIBUIRLE TODO LO QUE A ECHO POR ESTA ALMA CAÍDA...

!!!!!!!!!!! LE DESEO UN MUY BUEN AÑO EN CONCIENCIA DE KRISHNA !!!!!!

SU SIRVIENTE ETERNO E INSIGNIFICANTE 

PANCA TATTVA DAS

                     HpS -  Jaya!   Jaya!   Prabhupada!    Tan excitante oir de Vd!!!!!!       Espero todo super in Mar de Plata and sus esfuerzas esta pasando al nivel del Alcalde!!!

pamho dear maharaja!!!!!!! :  feliz vyasa puya .

krishna dice en el BG: 18.69

Dear Guru Maharaja!

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

It has been too long since the last letter. I keep putting it in my mind to write and now finally I have the opportunity. I hope you are in good health. I see that you are in Huston. I wish I could go and visit you again. Last year was very nice. Nila Madhava is very beautiful and doing service for him was splendid. I miss Him. And I miss your association very much. 

Here in Toronto there are many Grihastha couples but I just have a problem associating with people in general so getting advice from devotees I don't know very well is something I don't like to do. It's a little hard to have a couple to be guides for us. It seems like it can really help mys husband and I a lot since we need plenty of help. 

Yogendra and I- mainly I- would like to add some members to the family. I have been told that without your blessings, starting a family would not be possible. Of course we wouldn't start right away because we are definitely are not settled financially, mentally, etc. But sometime in the near future would be nice. I only ask for your blessings and permission, Maharaja.

We purchased the Bhagavatam set. Some of the books still have the plastic over them. They are nice to have although They are nicer to read I imagine. I am comfortably reading the Lilamrita. We still read it every morning before breakfast. Prabhupada is just about to take sannyasa!!! It's very exciting :)

My husband got a job at a bank as a teller. It's enough to survive is all I can say. And I was going to school to become a Deantal Assistant however I will no longer continue. I'm sorry if it sounds dissapointing that I dropped out but I realized I didn't like it very much. Luckily I found a job at the University's book store, but only part time. I am not meant to work that is for certain. 

I am going to the temple a bit more than I used to before. I'm starting to get some taste for service again. Slowly I might be back to my old self but I must take it slowly.  

16 rounds, 4 regs, some reading.

I hope you are in good health, Maharaja. 

Your aspiring servant,

Rasa-mandali dd

            HpS - Jaya!     Work on it!!!           This is reality, a girl must depend on her husband for children, house, vision in life. So do austerities for you husband's well being, that he can be inspired in Krsna consciousness. In any position we are Krsna can do the magic. He can meet someone at the bank that will give good advice.  Just chant all the time and Krsna will give intelligence. Don't give up on education but look for what you really need. Maybe being an editor for book publishing.

Toda gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a Sus pies de loto

Hare Krishna!!! querido Gurudeva,le escribo para agradecerle su misericordia de haberme aceptado como Su discipulo, Usted  es un gran ejemplo para todo la comunidad Vaishnava y no Vaishnava en todos los niveles, y me da mucha inspiración.Gracias por darnos los cuatro principios  y las 16 rondas, el prasada, y el sadhana, la ropa y  lo mas importante la asociacion con los Vaishnavas, queria decirle que estoy endeudado eternamente con Usted, ,disculpeme las ofensas a Sus pies de loto, y gracias por no enojarse conmigo por mis herrores.queria contarle que ahora me encuentro en Rio Negro, visitando a Mis familiares, estamos con Bharata y mañana vamos a cocinar  para Usted en Su Vyasa Puja. Aqui la conciencia de Krishna esta de una manera  inmanifieta,...Hace unos dias sali a dar libros por las calles de aqui en una hora salieron unos 20 libros,

            HpS - !!  TlgaSP!!!

... y hoy  cuando caminaba con Bharat frente a un hospital me cruze con una persona que habia adquirido un libro, y nos invito a Su casa para que hablemos con Su familia sobre la conciencia de Krishna.Vamos a cantar con Bharat y algunos amigos en estos dias y en la casa de esta gente.

Jaya Guru Maharaja!!!!

Gracias Guru Maharaja

Eternamente  su sirviente y discipulo Adi Yajña Das

                HpS - Jaya!  Adelante!   Que mas podemos hacer. Esperamos que su Sankirtan esta pasando a ente mas y mas elevada, como jueze, senadores, autores!!

Please accept our humble obeisances!! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga!!

Dearest Srila HanumatPresaka Swami,

I cherish the association where i could personally serve you for a week. I will pray to Krishna to further give more such rare oppportunities to be in your personal service.

tulayāma lavenāpi

na svargaḿ nāpunar-bhavam

bhagavat-sańgi-sańgasya

martyānāḿ kim utāśiṣaḥ

Bhagavatam describes,

The value of a moment's association with the devotee of the Lord cannot even be compared to the attainment of heavenly planets or liberation from matter, and what to speak of worldly benedictions in the form of material prosperity, which are for those who are meant for death.

I pray to you and Krishna that I relish and realize these words from Srimad Bhagavatam and progress along the spiritual path. For having such associations will bring one to complete satisfaction and realizations in KC. 

May this lead to following in your footsteps one day of performing "Kirtaniya Sada Hari", 24 Hr kirtan, which you perform with such intensity.You are always chanting Krishna's name and following our Founder Acharya and your Guru Maharaj Srila Prabhupada and his instructions.

As I remember many such moments where you display Yukta Vairagya, where your words display extreme detachment, based on Sastra, but your actions display the eagerness to engage all in Krishna Consciousness in line with the parampara.

We are improving our sadhana quite a bit. Last year our sadhana had improved for better compared to all the last years, for previously unaware of our best interests and now trying to take to heart and assimilate with your patient goading. 

There is a desire to see and get a glimpse in our inner heart of the splendor of the lotus feet of Krishna. May you purify our desire and bless us in our advancement in KC.

Prabhupada during his years of stay in Vrindavana I understand would cry and beg for the mercy of Srila Rupa/Sanatan Goswami, his Guru Maharaja, and from the Vaishnava lineage. This mercy he wanted was to fulfill the impossible task of preaching to the Western world.

May I get such intense desire to be able to serve the Vaishnavas and preach.

I had a short dream in which Prabhupada, had come, and told me to never leave ISKCON. 

Also I heard from Tamal Krishna Goswami personally in Houston, that during turbulent times in ISKCON, Maharaj remembered the instructions of Prabhupada. Prabhupada told to consider ISKCON as his physical body and to serve him thru this institution. I never intended to leave but this dream will keep me steady.

I tried to ramp up  to read up on scientific articles for a rounded presentation to such related audience. I had read some books from Svarup Damodar Maharaj and other devotees discussing scientific topics using the Vedic understanding.

Prabhupada emphasized preaching activity. It pleased him immensely when he heard any devotee giving his best efforts and having success. He recognized this more precious than any personal service and contributions to please him. The devotees recognized his intense desire to push the movement and were helping him. May Krishna give me the inspiration to remember these instructions and thus constantly updating you of any of my little efforts to please you and our devotee community here, along with Vaisesika Prabhu.

 Prabhupada always wanted to hear about the effors and successes of his followers, keep him updated constantly. So may I constantly update you of my personal sadhana with you following such footsteps.

Please further bless and purify our desires in service of Krishna.

Hare Krishna

your humble servant

Sridhar das

               HpS --  Jaya!   Go ahead, straight forward.  You are so fixed on the path that the only thing you have to do is accelerate with some caution.  Go ahead!!