Letters to the editor

All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to Sri hanumatpresaka Swami<o:p></o:p>

Please accept my most humble obeisances

 Hare Krsna Gurudev; All glories to your preaching program, your health and futures trips around the world...

Every day trying to be at your lotus feet, material desires,sense gratification,pride,envy,etc make the possible to conquer my consciencie, it´s a daily fight. This senses are very contaminated with this material world,our mind some times  very disturbed but the inteligence hooked to Pd´s books and yours instructions (Our JAPA). Your mercy, Srila Prabhupad´s and devotes are my only nutritive diet for this spiritual life....

We are 95% sure of our bramacaria, sex desires are very strong in this last year, but bramacaris asociation is ours 5% missing. We hope to reach Sannyasa asram with Prabhu Adi yajna das SOON!!

In this very moment we are serving to Prabhu Mahajan das at the Loft, we moved to the new building 2 months ago programs are very nice, there is some new devoties asisting programs, we install new neem deitys of Sri GOURA NITAY with a very simple standar,they are ver nice and mercifullllll!!!

This week we are recibing the trascendental visit of his Holiness GGDGoswami and Premarasarnava Prabhu from Bs As.    Prema is teaching us practical yajna peforming sacrifices so we start to serve this yatra performing samskaras and diferents yajnas...

Starting with the project of bramacaris Asram in the farm at the Sierra de los Padres 20 minutes from MdP!!!

I hope to see you soon, I´m not going to be possible to take your association in Chile,,,I´m very sorry...

Thank you very much Gurudev!!!!

Your insignificant servant..Panca tattva das

                   ASA --   Jaya!!!   AGTSP   pamho.......   So nice to get you report!   But Nicasio is comoing to Chile, no?   Would be very nice to see you in Chile.  But  we will see you in the Spiritual world  PERFECTLY   very soon.  Krsna is the best friend of everybody.    We have just forgot that.    Sannyasa ashrama is very simple.    If you and Adi can develop together is very nice.   You will be 35 years old this month, no??  !     Can go on Sannyasa list in just five years.              Please keep on sending us news like this.   IS very nice!!!

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

[There are some good news on end of this letter]

AND   Happy Birthday.  Prahlada Nrsmha Das!   Skype says it's your birthday.   

My birthday is in June, maybe it was old message from Skype.

AND   we are starting to get a bunch of Spam postings to the Blog.  The addresses are different so it looks like a robot is registering different users and sending the letters

Yes, seems like spammers hoping we will publish their stuff. Some time ago you posted one part of spammer's letter. It looked as spam so I logged and delete like 6 spam letters. ANd after few days there were another few of them.

I wanted to avoid captcha (that annoying thing which asks you to write text in box), but after seeing so many spam letters in queue for answering we have to do some action (all spammers are blocked now and their letters removed). Seems like least hamrful for legitimate users will be to moderate new registrations, so spammers will not be able to post it and for all current users everything will stay same.

Good News: 

I didn't to write till my morning program will be stable. But now after strugle over strugle, I can tell you that my it is stable now. Mangala arati attendance is 92.85%. 4x per week seminar on Jaiva dharma in BVPS gurukula and rest days I go to the temple. Sridham Mayapur is very merciful.

Also joined kungfu training in gurukula, we started 3 days ago, have training 4x a week, teachers are very good. 

Also many many people visit http://vedabase.com to read. Last week Czech CC has been added. In between my 'karmi' project I am working to import Russian books now. And if everything will go nicely there will be some nice new features before Gaura Purnima.

Looking forward for your visit !

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha Das

                 ASA -  HpS ---  AGTSP   ...   paoho.   PNDas, Monkey Warrior, Ki Jai!   There are like six enemies.  One of them is our bed.   It steals so many years of our life!            When we see our bed we should point to it and say, "you are my ENEMY!    We are going to fight!"                   You have fought and won! (This Battle).              Big Hero!!!

           Yes,   we are looking forward to time in Kolkatta and Mayapura (and Manipur).  You coming to Manipur???  Could be nice trip.

          Your Blog ideas matches mine perfectly.  Like Yahoo Groups.  We just have to approve new members.

          After SPT meetings in Tirupathi we should be able to plan the visit to Mayapura more effectively.  We hope you get to meet Tandavika and Nitai gaurasundara when they are there!!!!   What is your cell phone.  We won't publish it!

             You can teach us Jaiva dharma....     Harer Nama Eva Kevalau.     Our respects to all of our MI   friends!!!!!!!!!!          See you in just a few moments!    Jaya Radha Madhava....   ....          ...        Jaya Radha Madhava!!

Me llamo Isaac, tengo 38 años y vivo en Barcelona.

Conozco el movimiento de Consciencia de Krishna desde hace 3 años. Y desde entonces estoy haciendo servicio en el templo Iskon de Barcelona.

Le conocí a usted en una de sus visitas a este templo, y desde que recibí su misericordia cuando al final de una clase me arrojó el collar de guirnaldas que llevaba puesto, he deseado recibir su refugio. Desde entonces, han pasado más cosas que han despertado ese deseo, pero no me voy a extender tanto ahora! :)

Algunos de sus discípulos, con los que he tenido la suerte de entablar una bonita amistad, me han recomendado expresarle este sentimiento y entablar una relación con usted escribiéndole aqui en este blog, como primer paso.

Y siguiendo su consejo aqui estoy, esperando que a usted le parezca bien y me permita poder seguir comunicándome y expresándole mis sentimientos, dudas, y con suerte, algún consejo o instrucción.

Esperando su respuesta, reciba mis más humildes reverencias. Hare Krsna.

              HpS - ASA -  Jaya!    TlgaSP.   Ud. es la misma Isaac quien es en nuestra taller de Japa cada manana???    Muy bien encontrar a Vd.  Que haces?   Cirugano, Brain Surgeon?????     Estamos fijand nuestra visita a Espana en dos cartas previos.

All Glories to Sri Sri Goura Nitai!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

P.A.M.H.O.

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami,

In this letter I would like to present myself, I'm Rafael Nitay, I'm 22 years old, from são paulo, Brasil. I was born a devotee, and grew up in sao paulo. I work in my family business, since I was 13 years old, and I use to go to the temple in Sao paulo before it closed, and New Gokula. I have association with devotees in namahattas that are a weekly appointment, and association with the devotees in BBT Brasil, where I attend most of the programs and classes.I follow the four principles and chant my rounds. I have family in USA where I know a few devotees as well, I usually go to NY, Alachua, Miami, and recently visiting my family in Santiago-Chile, got to know the temple and the devotees, and I have been in a relationship with one of your disciples(Candrarekha Devi Dasi). I'm really enthusiastic about the movement in Brasil and in the rest of the world as well. In Chile as well as Brasil I have been in association with disciples and well wishers of yours, and I have watched a few classes of you in internet as well, and they speak very good about you sir, and I’m very excited to meet you in Santiago Ratha Yatra, and attend your classes.

This would be a little about myself, I’m really thank full for you letting me write on your blog and for your time reading this letter. I would like if its ok for you to write more questions on your blog in other occasions. I really hope I can serve you in one opportunity.

Your well wisher and servant aspiring,

Rafael Nitay - São Paulo - Brasil

              ASA - HpS - Jaya!  AGTSP... Please accept our humble obeisances and thank you so much for speking Inglish!!!!            -{:O)+           Then we maybe will see you in like one week, no?   Are you one meter tall with bright red hair and weigh 80KG.  Ha!   Ha!   Ha!   Is so ridiculous to have personal relation with people without ever seeinng them.     !     Your Sankirtana sounds great  !          Hope to see everyone and try to remember everyones body, email, and diksa names and lilas.           Jaya Jagannatha!    Rafael Nitay!

(pasting the first letter, and for easier flow of dialoge, writing at the bottom)

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaja.
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

By some recent (and not se recent) circumstances happening in Pula Yatra, I am thinking about this instruction by Srila Prabhupada:
"Now we have got so many students and so many temples but I am fearful that if we expand too much in this way that we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will become lost. Just like milk. We may thin it more and more with water for cheating the customer, but in the end it will cease to be any longer milk. Better to boil the milk now very vigorously and make it thick and sweet, that is the best process. So let us concentrate on training our devotees very thoroughly in the knowledge of Krishna Consciousness from our books, from tapes, by discussing always, and in so many ways instruct them in the right propositions."  (Srila Prabhupada's letter June 22, 1972)

I wonder, when is proper time to "Boil the milk"? Should we stop trying to preach (doing public programs, prison programs and similar activities) and find out how to at least try to solve our inner problematics.
When I say "stop the preaching", I mean not in a rude way. Of course, we can try and will give Krsna to others, but for time being, concentrate in which way the yatra should function, and concentrate to develop programs (and do them) for training our devotees.

The idea behind the scene is that we, as devotees, associate seldom, and when together, try to fix the house for future temple, or discuss different preaching activities. That seems nice, but actually, there are misunderstandings, arguing on different points that we do not address, specially not in an organized and mature way. Also, what happens is that  new people come and after some time leave. There are many causes why they leave, but among them is the not-nice situation/relationship between devotees.

Guru Maharaja, I hope I succeed to convey my message. Surely, if needed, I will give more details.

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya das
 

HpS -  AGTSP   paoho.  This is very nice topic.  I think a  simple answer is that Srila Prabhupada set a standard of full morning and evening program for internal, milk boiling, and then we can go out with confidence.  Do you find this?  The lack of internal adjustment follows when there is no basic full moringnig and evening program (of course more basic 16 rounds and 4 principles with devotion).

Nd >>> Would that mean that without devotees following standard of full morning and evening program and specially if not following fully 16r & 4 regs, should not preach? I do not know details of every devotess home program, but I think that not everybody has the 2nd basic standard, and with some the 1 basic is also questionable (chanting 16 rounds everyday).

         HpS - Is very individual.  Look for Satyaraja Kahn in NOI. That leads to disucssion in CC of what is a "Neophyte pure devotee". He may have many faults, but he is sincere. He is usually carried away by bad associatioin and just hasn't heard well about what to do and not to do, but he is sincere and therefore he (and his preaching) are worth respecting.  Of course he may have eggs mixed in with his cake "Prasadam" and think that because they are "mixed in " it is not eating eggs.
So, some maybe should "preach". Especially if it is just passing the "letter" along, distributing books, but really should be careful to do preaching what you are not living.

* Do you mean to say that "full morning and evening program for internal, milk boiling, and then we can go out with confidence" should be in the temple (our temple is not functional in that way, only regular program is Sunday Feast)?

HpS -   No, no....  So many will have Temple with their family, Sankirtana partners.  Can do so much by staying in touch by phone etc. now.  Can call a friend after Mangala arati if you are alone and ask how was his Kirtana!

  HPS:   Lord Caitanya doesn't play Kartals or Mrdanga in His lila. Rama has a bow, Krsna has his flute.            Hmmm...   Thank you for the news.   We have some more ideas to send....    Soon!

Nad >>> In Deity worship - If Gauranga in His lila does not play karatals or mridanga, is it proper to decorate Him (and Nityananda) with these instruments?

                HpS >    ?????????????????????????????? AGTSP... Paoho.....???? ????  ??///   Oink!   Oink!   WHoop....  Whoop...       Uncle Gismo says that he has no scientific infomation on this topic, but the general principle is don't speculate, but GN are very merciful and may accept the Kartals.  He has heard that Prabhupada said, not to make Krsna in to a Hat Rack.  Hanging all kinds of stuff on Him   AND   that we could offer Lord Balarama a club, but we shouldn't FORCE Him to carry it.    Hmmmm?