Letters to the editor

PAMHO AGTSP

      ASA - Jaya!   AGTSP!!!!   We had a dream last night with you in it!  Can't remember the content!

Dear GM Thank you for your reply. I do not have much to say about myself that is new or interesting or worthwhile for this blog audience to hear about. My sadhana is not as strong as it probably should be and I'm not fully up to the iskcon standard, but that does not mean I am not Krishna consciousness. Of course, I am still wrapped up in body consciousness to a degree. This seems to go with household life to some extent. I do some reading and listening to lectures most every day. I am currently reading the nectar of devotion.

ASA -  Do you have Waves of Devotion by Dhanurdhara Swami?   Availbable on internet.  He gives fantastic expalation of the Sanskrita words tat Prabhupada is translating so quickly.  Puts in grafic charts they show what Prabhupada roughly describes.  The NOD is an EXTREMELY analytical book.  Without Waves of Devotion I think only an advanced Paramatma realized person could get a lot a benefit from the whole book!

I listen to your lectures and some from a few of the other devotees in iskcon. I have been watching the memories of Srila Prabhupada on YouTube recently. The issue for me over the years have been to develop the intelligence to have proper faith. It is a very large world out there and there are many things which test our faith. So sravanam and kirtanam are important and I am hoping will develop more steady smaranam. I haven't any association to speak of here so I rely on lectures through the Internet and reading. Although I'm not a fan of speaking about myself (I am self-absorbed enough as it is), please feel free to ask me any other questions. I have a few questions: Is there a good site for accessing your more recent lectures over the last few years? Is it correct that there is not a reply button on this blog site and that in order to reply or respond to a letter or comment, I have to post a new letter? What is your current email address? By the way, if my English seems rather colloquial that is because I'm using Siri. YHS tcsd

            HpS - Jaya!     Yeah, I think the way it's set up you have to post a new letter.          We don't answer letters besides the Blog currently, except for specific things, like Itenarary, Bhakti vedanta College, etc.   If you'd like to write about a more confidential topic then you could write to Monkey's Mail Bag at [email protected] we usually get all the mail from him after he "chews it over".     He is a very tight lipped guy.

We are running to the airport now!        I have to aske Srinivasa Das if he has more current lectures.  Right now we are working on a serious book for San Marcos University....  See you in Chile!

Hare krisna!!
Pamho, agtSP,

Dear gurudeva, your intelligence is far far beyond our comprehension, connected to paramatma, pure, so i feell little aukward giving you this advice.
i read in your last Kdh that poison ivy is gone but now you have allergic reaction, all of this seeems to have same origin.  Ama in bowels increasing pitta in body.
My advice is take only raw food as breakfast, take prasadam in a strict schedule everyday at the same time, avoiding to skip meals or changing times (uff, with your travelling schedule this seems almost impossible, so drink lot of water if it is time for a meal and you can not have it), and drink plenty of  fresh water along the day between meals. Of course diminishing traveling would be good but i think that is a matter far beyond body affairs.

One question what is the meaning of this entry in your calendar?

I will be there then.
Aspiring to become your servant,
Bhakta Nicasio.
 

HpS - Jaya!    Rupanuga Das has given us practically speaking the same analysis with a diet including aloevar and perihil and ghee massage and regular sleeping schedule.    We are 70% pitta, at least.  This means that unless we have fire in the body it doesn't exist.  O.K.  but the problem is that fire has to flow.  If it accumulates, in the skin for example, then the skin burns up.  So th answer is not to reduce the fire in the body too much unless you want to die, rather to keep it down, but to keep it flowing, like you both suggest.  Thing is that Ayurvedic people seem to not contemplate chanting and dancing as part of the regulation.  it;s a fact, no?   Dancing in love of God will keep the fire moving in the right direction, right throught the skin also, no!   SMILE!     Smile!   smILE!

                       This body does not get diseases, this body is a disease.

                        No more disease  ....  !!!   no more body  !!!              Your body is NOT your Buddy!        See you this Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hare Krsna Maharaja Pamho, AGTSP,

We are writing to you because you talk in terms in which we understand. We again feel sorry to distrub you with a non-sankirtana perspective. we need your help to be a sane human being, and moreover we think our question may help some body. 

1.In reply to one letter[1815] you wrote " The Temple is for b'cari training.  We should get a little bit of religious training, how to pray effectively, and how to live a simple civilized life - celibate, single or with children and wife.      But after that training unless we are Brahmanas we move out and serve in the community"

Maharaj you mentioned four things [1] religious training [2] how to live simple civilized life with wife and children [3] how to pray effectively  [4] serve the community.

Our concern now how to learn these 4 things when we are not in temple, esp in our condition...we are having big probelm with live with wife and children,( other three are also required)...
we attended some training sessions in Chowpatty, and they were talking of emotions, respect, care etc....

Maharaj can you cognitvely/sankhya explain/define of these words [emotions/respect/care] to us. We are getting hampered by this a lot we think in making relation with atleast devotees..---unfrotunately we grew up as loner worked as a loner so we are more of impersonalist---but i think which is not for householder life. now we need to work on our subtle body.. which section of scripture we should read more to work on our abilities....
 

We contacted mother Umila on Facebook. and got guidance from her she recommended two books [1] man of steel and velvet [2] men are mars and women are from venus..

we never knew that we would be non-sastric books... but seems there is no other alteranitve---we dont exepct u to solve our household life , but as sannyasi we expect that u will ahve better knowlege,realization and application of scripture...
we will keep it short -- we will try to make everything we ahve krsna sambanhe under ur guidance --NOI 3.

regards,
caballo tryint to be human

            HpS - ASA -   Hmmf!      AGTSP    paoho.      We had the same problem.  In the 1st level, 1st grade, report to our parents the teacher said, "Huber can accomplish huge quantities of work when he works alone".    Hmmm.  It's always been that way.   We have heavy Sannyasa karma.   It was stooooooooooopid for us to get married, but there was no option within the parameters of this Western industrialized life. Now we see B'cari and Sannyasa life can also be a part of culture.  Have you read "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"?  As I remember it is very, very nice.  It is the ideas of SB but in modern perspective, easier to apply.
          Report on the book but I think you and your good wife, family, will have to put up with a son, husband, who by nature is a civil deadman. Of course, the good aspect of this is that such people don't become adulterers.

Hare Krsna Maharaj,PAMHO,AGTSP

we have seen your red color casio digital watch you wear generally. We were thinking to gift you a watch with a stopwatch in it, so that you can also keep track how much any activity involves. It may happen your astute self ,may not need it, but we are finding it really helpful esp in our rounds seeing how much time every rounds takes. and other activities. its only $10.
regards,
buffalo

            HpS - ASA -  AGTSP!   Watch has stop watch in it.  We use it some times. Uncle Gismo!!!

Dear GM, PAMHO AGTYH

Hare Krsna This blog is a very busy place for preaching so I will not waste your time.

I miss you and I listen to you almost every day through your lectures. Life here is going on as usual with family maintenance and crawling through spiritual life.

Please take good care of yourself because many of us need you and I hope you slow down like you have been promising for many years. I know your mission is more than I can understand but I hope you can maintain yourself for many more years. Thank you for your mercy.

Yhs Tcsd

                HpS - Jaya Srila Prabhupada!   Well, Mr. Tulasi carana sevita Das, Number Four Son...    Ha!    Ha!     Send some more details of the "family maintenance and crawling through spiritual life".

      How is your marriage, children, land, job, country?

      What is your spiritual life?

Thank you.  We will stay to read your answer!

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!!!