Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

In the last letter you told me:

Hope this year of the 10,000 is a very good year for you to pay your debts to anyone.

I also wish the same, but I will have to be patient, to be able to do something does not depend only on me, but also on the authorities and the people affected.

HpS/ASA - Yes!

My sadhana has been maintained: 16x4 - personal reading - sastra study with other vaisnavas 5 days a week - arcana (flower and incense) - prasadam (even falling into eating bhoga, now I have been diagnosed with pre diabetes. I see this as the mercy of Krishna to eat less and give up sugar) - struggling with the pillow, I would love to be able to do Mangala Arati again without affecting my emotional health from not getting enough sleep.

HpS - Have to go to bed early?

My spiritual life is up and down, currently I am well situated in my Krishna consciousness, but I know that it will not always be. I go through cycles, just like in my illness. For periods I really like spiritual life, I do the practice with joy, but after a while my awareness towards sense enjoyment increases, I do not stop the practice of the process, but my awareness is not adequate.

HpS - Sometimes the river is rough, sometimes it is peaceful. The closer we get to the shore and getting out, the more we are free from the changes.

Although I am not qualified, I have an intense desire to preach. On Fridays I have a window at the institute, and I found out that it was a good time to do sankirtan, so I go for a walk and distribute some books. Now I am organizing myself to do the same on Tuesdays, before entering the first class of the week.

HpS - There must be some personal motivation within the spiritual motivation eg. desire to become famous as a religious preacher. Is that true?

A few years ago, a devotee recommended me to take the contacts of the people who did sankirtan for them, and thanks to this, now I ventured to talk to those most interested to send them a daily verse from the BG with a short explanation, explanatory videos, songs, etc. Now I started to do something similar but with devotees, since while I read the scriptures I keep excerpts that I find interesting and I have the desire to share them. I also want to apply my studies and sell books online.

HpS - Who are your Sankirtan partners? If you rely too much on your own management it can be dangerous, no?

I work daily on my musical compositions, I already have a proposal of 9 songs for the first album. The central theme is the basis of philosophy: we are not the body. I also write poetry on a daily basis and am working on a science fiction novel.

I have an idea that preaching programs can be made for every type of person who approaches Krishna: suffering, wealth seeker, inquisitive and God seeker.

I wish he is ecstatic in his service to Srila Prabhupada

My obeisances Gurudeva

Your servant: Piyari Mohan das

HpS - UP ... down... UP .... down. Is natural, no? Learning how to deal with the body. Othewise it can drive ANY of us to madness.

This world is mad!

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/17/ especially starting with Text 4? Useful?



Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada! 🙏

I hope all is well with you Maharaja.

I just wanted to write something, and to have your association and to hear from you.. and maybe this post could be useful for others too?…

ASA - fIVE gOOD rEASONS tO wRITE! 🐵

I’ve had the good fortune to hear some of your classes and kirtans on YouTube lately, it has been very inspiring. Also I’ve read back through a lot of your DTC posts.. there are many gems of wisdom there. Thank you.. 🙏

Just to share some background, and thoughts I’ve had lately, if I may..

I am a practicing Brahmacari, and overall my experience has been quite nice. Asrama life seems to make following Srila Prabhupada’s program quite easy-chanting 16 rounds, following the 4 regs, etc… it is just nice to be in a place where devotional service is always flowing.. one can take shelter simply by showing up to the programs.. quite a blessing really.

HpS - One time Jayananda Das said to us that Krsna consciousness was eating and sleeping in the best of company, only eat Prasadam and sleep in the Brahmacari Ashrama and you will have no problems!

I really like to give Srila Prabhupada’s books to people face to face, on streets, campuses or whatever. But aside from that initial contact it is hard to connect with people and help them along; I don’t feel so capable of doing that in my current state.

Maintaining relationships with people can honestly be quite difficult, even with others in the asrama, who we’re supposed to be close to and friendly with. Sometimes things feel competitive. Maybe that’s just normal for us in Kali-yuga?.. Would you have any advice how to improve our relationships/behavior/attitudes with other devotees?

ASA/HpS - The answer to that question really seems to be a vast majority of the content of SB, CC etc! When the NoI came out I read Text Five and it helped so, so much. I could then begin to see that there are different kinds of devotees and we talk in intimacy with them differently.

Then of course, Text 10 talks about all kinds of people from Vikarmis to Srimati Radha and gives us hints how to deal with them.

Beyond that, again, Hansadutta told us that SP said that every psychological circumstance that you can encounter is in SB.

Take the stories to heart.

Put them in modern dress.

Do dramas out of them.

Then you will relate to people as expertly as Narada Muni! 😯

I read in a recent blog post, one devotee said something about feeling lonely as ever, even in the community of other devotees and your response was very interesting:

“From reports that I get, most

American devotees feel the same. Once a crocodile, a crocodile until death.”

It made me wonder if it’s just part of the karma of being born American to have trouble getting along with others and wanting to dominate everything.

HpS - Hmmm. Lot of variety in Americans, but I would say that seems we will have a lot of that mentality.

Maybe horses instead of crocodiles.

Just have to learn how to use it in Krsna service.

We really, all, only have one Best Friend, and until we get His association we will feel lonely.

Anyways, I hope I’m not rambling on too much, but thank you for your time! I don’t know if I’ve made any sense here.. but I would be glad to hear anything you have in response..

I feel like a little ant that is just starting to realize the fact that I am only a little ant, with a lot of work to do (to return to Krishna)!

Hare Krishna, thank you again Maharaja. 🙏

Your servant, Abhaya dasa

HpS/ASA - 🐜 . . . 🐒 You are in Chicago Temple, no? Respects to Kishor Kishori.

Hare Krishna, guru maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Maharaja, we are very excited to hear that you will be visiting us in September. Anantarupa prabhu has bought my ticket to fly with you back to Tennessee and I was hoping to stay for a few days. So can I be there from Wednesday the 27th to the evening of Saturday the 30th of September. Is that okay with you?

HpS - Seems fine with us. Your mercy! Whole week of festivals. We can develop a lot of Sankirtan.

I like to sleep on the floor and I can cook, clean and do any other menial services.

HpS - How about Brahminical services!? 😄

We want to thank you again for giving Yamuna her middle name. ~Tarangita~ It very much suits her so far. Waves of the Yamuna river. Fresh. Not stagnant. Anantarupa Prabhu says that she will bring waves of bhakti to the Boise temple and the astrologer says she will start preaching very successfully at age 15.

HpS/ASA - Jaya!

Also, I wanted to let you know that we have a wonderful new pujari from Nepal named Madhava prabhu. It was a long process getting him here but thanks to Radhika Raman Prabhu and Anadi’s strong and diligent effort he is now taking very good care of Radha Bankebihari. I also really like him. His association has been a very good thing.

HpS - So, nice!!!

I hope this finds you very well.

Your aspiring servant,

Nitisara das

HpS - Look for the internal intelligence that Bankibihari gives you to find the internal thread to reach your neighbors in Boise for the Sankirtan of Lord Caitanya!

Hope our Kapi Dhvaja and this Blog and Twitter are useful!!!

My obeisances dear gurudeva. 

I don't have a USA phone number, I send you my number (Mexico) +52 55 [.... ]

Maybe we can communicate by WhatsApp or have contact with mother Subra on Whatsapp.

 I read your post on Kaphi Dvaja and the project in Nashville has become clearer to me. You have always emphasized teacher training and now the education experts could come together and work together. I think it's wonderful. We hope to hear more about the project in Nashville, maybe more devotees are interested in joining.  

Thank you very much for your constant efforts.

 Your servant Gopi Radha DD.

HpS/ASA - Thank you!

Pasted your number "Vidagdha - Gopi-radha Devi Dasi" in ASA Elite S23 Samsong cell phone. It will show up if we all need to discuss particular details by Whatsapp with you and the Vidagdha!

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Please accept my humble obeisances to your feet of lotus dear Guru maha raja!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All glories to you!

This is the ultimate art of franco bone! Jay jagannatha Jay baladeva Jay subhadra!!!

franco is writing him a letter.. months ago😊.

He told me to tell you that he doesn't like to write very much and that's why he takes time. but he will send his letter soon.

This photograph reveals a smile and great satisfaction from Franco that he achieved after much disappointment, heartache and disenchantment (due to what happened to the first deities he carved). please Gurudeva bless him so that he remains enthusiastic and advances in his spiritual life.

please Gurudeva accept we obeisances from franco and gopal

his eternal servant aspirant: Radha jpj dd.

AgtSP! paoho. We add photo of Simha-dvara in Jagannatha Puri, maybe 150-years ago, and one picture of Jagannatha that we like.

We will go to the Rathayatra festival in Boise, Idaho.

You should also come.

TB.

Krsna Krsna

Hare Hare

Had very nice discussion with H. G. Mathuresa Das.

Nitai is professional cyclist, and oldest daughter is a Mother in Oregon.

Talked a little about the administrative conflicts in Peru, and we commented that for us:

first is our personal relationship with Srila Prabhupada,

second that ISKCON is meant for cultivating our frienships

third is dealing with each other institutionally.

He said, "Certainly".

So, many managment details have passed. We see that very nice people have rather different ideas of what the political reality has been.

Getting some resolution on those requires professional work, but Mathuresa Prabhu says that the GBC appointee, Hansarupa Das, comments that he has too much to do, so he does not know how long it will be before he can visit.

Talking with Mathuresa Das,

everyone is welcome at Mangala arati, Japa, SB Class in the Miraflores Temple.

Gita-govinda Das, Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi, ArtD et al.

Why not start going?

• Together.
• Individually.
• Every day, once a month.

Rama Rama

Hare Hare

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