Letters to the editor

Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances, and all glories unto Srila Prabhupada and the guru parampara!

Today i was reading your kapi dhvaja report with your considerations for this year. I figure it is quite sentimental to say, "great, you'll be focussing yourself more on this and less on that," but what do i know? It is virtually impossible for me to understand your reasons, and that is good, for a frog in the well should realize he is a frog in a well, and not able to fathom an ocean. One other thought is that i don't like to read how you are losing time and energy with things a secretary could do for you, but that you do yourself, for probably good reasons.

This year was a really intense year for me, and lots of personal changes happened. What helped me through was our meeting last may, and the short talk we had. How things unfolded since made me realize that my expecations and reality can be / are different, and that what lays before me is what i need to surrender to. Simple, no? I sometimes ask myself, "Am i doing the right thing, following Hanumatpresaka Maharaja?" But when i think deeper, i always come to the same conclusion. It is spiritual life in full effect. Bhajana kriya, anartha nivrti, not some made up ideas about them, but for real, dealing with the cards life deals. And having to handle my particular psychological disorders, which i'm sure you see quite well, with your degree in psychology. Now all i need is your mercy to come naked before you. Not crooked, but simple.

Yes it would be wonderful to be back on the list officially and receive formal initiation on Lord Narasimha's appearance. It is a great opportunity and prospect. The world needs it's dr Frogs to come out of their well, and join the dance! I have not understood my real value very well yet, so i need time to be fully usefull as a soldier. But i feel all works out in time. You must have seen this in ISKCON yourself, after almost forty years.

There is one thing i'd like to propose to Uncle Gismo, please consider. Your blog is wonderful, always to look out for, but i miss to hear from you. Therefore, would you consider purchasing a recorder with which you record your classes? There are only a few recordings available online, while recording is pretty easy and iskcondesiretree can host practically for free for everyone to listen. I'm sure that if you make a purchase and post the cost in the next kapi dhvaja, that many are happy to help fund it, me included. It's a bit of a lousy request, to suggest this way, but i'm not affluent enough to just wire you money so you can buy one. Anyway, i hope you feel for the idea. I would be glad to be the one who polishes the classes and uploads them on desiretree, if you upload them unpolished on, let's say, Mediafire, a free online storage site, or i can fund an online personal storage space as an alternative. That is a simple solution with relatively little requirement from you, and i'm enthusiastic to do it.

          HpS - ASA -  jaya.   maybe you have more mental problems than us, or we have more mental problems than you, but the conclusion is that it would be hard to live off the difference!     AGTSP!!!      Are you getting 16-4    done daily?   That's the standard.  Then after one year you can become formal Student, first initiated, in Lord Gauranga's School for Wayward Boys and Girls!!
We got an Olympus something somthing, so we could record some lectures that we give, but then how do we send them to you?    We have Yahoo.com account but that is like 20MB limit???

So, i'm looking forward to keep following you and see what's next on this journey. I feel there's perhaps too little glorification in this letter, but rather this than being overly sentimental. I'm learning the art. Thank you for picking me up from my cesspool maharaja. Please accept me.

An aspiring servant,

Richard van Dijck.

          HpS - NIce letter!          But main thing we want to know is about you.  Are you in the basic sadhana groove and going to complete six months by May?

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale

srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine

All glories to Srila Prabhupada .

Please accept my most respectful obeisance into you lotus feet.

Dear Gurudeva... I want to apologize with you because i didn't send you my sadhana's report   but i will do my best and again start to do it.

Happy vyasa-puja!!! Happy birthday!!! Feliz cunpleanhos!!! Jay Srila prabhupada ki jay!! I’m very fortune to have such a spiritual master and by Krishna’s mercy i got you and i am so happy for that.

 By your mercy i will advance in the science of Krishna consciousness because you are very expert and advance. I want to learn how to serve Krishna and his devotees and you are the best example. That’s why I took shelter in you lotus feet because you are already with Krishna. You know this science perfectly and you are very dear to Him.

Now by you mercy I’m doing this bhakti sastri’s course and i like so much because I’m learning a little bit about the supreme personality of godhead, Krishna and by the mercy of Srila prabhupada and his books we can learn and advance in devotional service very easily and by practicing devotional service gradually as you say we can get prema-bhakti. I always remember when I asked you for blessing for study bhakti sastri you told do it for Krishna. “Krishna is so merciful.”

I want to be sincere with you. I’m very fallen and I don’t understand so much the science of Krishna consciousness but i just need take you instruction for develop my practice in Krishna consciousness but I need you because I need to qualified myself by your instruction.

When I’m in difficulty… i just think in you and automatically Radha and krishna picture come to my mind. Please Dear Gurudeva forgives me for commit so many offends to you and I’m not good disciple. ..Sometimes i don’t write to you frequently but I want to let you know that you are very special for me and i remember you all the time because i feel a little bit love for you.

I have picture of Radha Madhana bihari, Radha Madhava, Panca tattva and Nrisimha deva and also I have your pictures and my family’s pictures posted on the wall of my room. I pray every day for Krishna’s mercy and Krishna’s protection.  All of you are my inspiration for keep in Krishna’s consciousness.

I always remember that you say to your disciples “Wake up for mangala artik and chants your 16 rounds”, I still working in that and one day i will get a perfect sadhana and I have so much desire for get it.

For speak about your qualities there is not end.

Thank you for give your time for all you disciples and take care of them.

Jay krishna-prema!!

Vanca kalpa…….!!

                HpS -  Jaya!    You are still in Mayapura?           So nice!            Is great mercy to see Radha and Madhva and all the Gopis in Their night dresses.  Sets a very intimate relation for service the whole day.  Thank you very much for writing.  We will be in Maypur soon. See Calendar link.  www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.txt

Dear Gurudeva

On the auspicious day of your Vyasapuja I remember deeper  these prayers and thank you sincerely for your mercy and hope one day to be his dignified disciple

The lotus feet of the spiritual master are the abode of pure devotional service. I bow down to those lotus feet with great care and attention. My dear brother (my dear mind)! It is through the grace of the spiritual master that we cross over this material existence and obtain Krsna.

 Make the teachings from the lotus mouth of the spiritual master one with your heart, and do not desire anything else. Attachment to the lotus feet of the spiritual master is the best means of spiritual advancement. By his mercy all desires for spiritual perfection are fulfilled.

 He who has given me the gift of transcendental vision is my lord, birth after birth. By his mercy divine knowledge is revealed within the heart, bestowing prema-bhakti and destroying ignorance. The Vedic scriptures sing of his character.

O spiritual master, ocean of mercy, and friend of the fallen souls, you are the teacher of everyone and the life of all people. O master! Be merciful unto me, and give me the shade of your lotus feet. May your glories now be proclaimed throughout the three worlds.

HpS -  AGTSP!!!  We try to follow your example and be better servants.  Less lazy...

from last KD: "We are focusing on making NIOS legitimate if someone wants to use it when were gone. So please let us know what you think."

Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

As you asked what we think, I will submit humble thougths...

Maybe it is enough and more proper to work through ISKCON organization than to register another association. Is ISKCON not an organisation through which such kind of activities NIOS performs could be performed. Of course, I do not know all the details. Maybe thorugh ISKCON that cannot be done.
But if it can, then way spend time and in registering another organisation  ?

~~~

Your servant Namacarya das

     AGTSP   paoho.   Well, there is the general ISKCON which is a movement like the communist movement or the ecology movement, and of course we would feel that any sane person could work through that movement. Then there are the institutional ISKCON organizations. The majority are local ISKCON temples in USA, India and other parts of the world. Specifically the USA ISKCON Temples are all IRS tax exempt 501(c)3 tax exempt Church corporations. So, practically speaking immediately they can have no deep relation with any university because they are churches. For this reason Srila Prabhupada started such groups as the Bhaktivedanta Insitute which is educational and not religious in both form and substance. We would be glad to work with the BI, but for one thing is is hard science focused and we are more cultural and literary. So we registered NIOS in January 2004 following in Srila Prabhupada's footsteps for this kind of educational work.

O.K?

Pamho agtsp haribol gurumaharaja Reporting from mexico still alive doing sankirtan and food for life. Reading, chanting,dancing, eating prasadam and being happy. Asociating with sital Tulsi dd jps very nice mataji i join in India . I met very nice godbrothers in bolivia foutains of inspiration advaita thakur p and yugal kishor mataji . Hope to see you soon . Jay srila prabhupada

HpS - ASA -  Jaya!  TlgaSP.  Pfanrh...     Muy bien oir se Vd.    Vd. es nuestra discipulo de Argentina?????