Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada!

Espero se encuentre bien.

Nosotros (autoridades y familia) estamos bien.

Queremos agradecerle por facilitar las segundas iniciaciones de Manjuali DD y Raga Sindhu D.

También, por siempre estar atento a nuestro Yatra. Las cosas en el templo marchan bien.

*Creación de protocolos para situaciones de agresión dentro del templo (el GBC los está revisando).

*Instalación de cámaras de seguridad.

*Reparación de infraestructura general del templo.

*Entrega de reportes financieros mensuales a la congregación.

*Y otros.

Bueno, espero que este reporte Lo encuentre bien, si hay algo que Usted guste que implementemos, quedamos atentos.

Leímos en Su respuesta a Priya Sakhi:

We really miss walking to the Alamada in the afternoon sun or visiting Anandavaradhana Das' house of visiting Visvanatha's center.

El Yatra de Santiago tiene las puertas abiertas para recibirlo cuando Usted lo desee.

Tenemos un departamento frente al templo, disponible para Usted (fue usado por SS Bhakti Bhusana Swami).

¡¡¡Usted siempre es bienvenido!!!

Muchas gracias

Su aspirante a sirviente

Jagannatha Caran Das

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Hare Krsna Maharaja.

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories go to Srila Prabhupada!

HpS - ASA -- Please accept ours!! AgtSP!

I hope you are well.

HpS - By His Divine Grace we are in have good energy!

We (authorities and family) are fine.

We want to thank you for facilitating the second initiations of Manjuali DD and Raga Sindhu D.

HpS - 🙏 👍👍👍 It was an honor. Wonderful Yatra, wonderful devotees.

Also, always be attentive to our Yatra. Things in the temple are going well.

* Creation of protocols for situations of aggression within the temple (the GBC is reviewing them).

* Installation of security cameras.

* Repair of the general infrastructure of the temple.

* Delivery of monthly financial reports to the congregation.

*And others.

Well, I hope this report finds it well, if there is something that you like us to implement, we stay tuned.

We read in His reply to Priya Sakhi:

We really miss walking to the Alamada in the afternoon sun or visiting Anandavaradhana Das' house of visiting Visvanatha's center.

The Yatra de Santiago has its doors open to receive you whenever you want.

We have an apartment in front of the temple, available to you (it was used by HH Bhakti Bhusana Swami).

You are always welcome !!!

Thank you

Your would-be servant

Jagannatha Caran Das

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HpS/ASA - Sorry little slow in answering letters. Our donkey is getting old and our eyes and brain cannot handle so much without strain. You letters are very important to us!

Our Secretary, Tom Brown, looks at the letters with the FMP and Kapi Dhvaja Priority Codes first.

We see from the ASA Calendar:

http://www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.htm

That you and your esteemed family will be in Peru from 3rd to 15th of January. Seems we can have lot of time to work together then, no?

Very eager for your association.

Santiago Yatra's leadership is essential for world health. ESSENTIAL.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis reverencias

Todas las Glorias a nuestro muy Misericordioso Srila Prabhupada y

Todas las Glorias a Usted y su búsqueda de oportunidades para expandir el Sankirtan de Su Divino Maestro. 

Gurudeva, en el Kapi Dhvaja usted preguntó: "¿ustedes lo leen? ¿Vale la pena?"

Me permito responder desde mi perspectiva:

Sí, lo leemos y creemos que vale mucho la pena. 😃

Le agradezco de corazón su esfuerzo por mantenernos informados e involucrados en sus trascendentales esfuerzos. 🙏

Debido a su pregunta, he pensado que quizá, yo también podría tomarme un tiempo para recapitular y observar ¿Qué estoy haciendo? ¿Cuáles son mis prioridades? ¿Cuáles son los planes? ¿Cuáles son nuestros recursos y quiénes son nuestros asociados? 

Parece que eso podría ayudar a tener una mejor perspectiva y de ser necesario ajustar el enfoque.

Por ahora estoy trabajando sinceramente para re-construirme desde mi actual condición y aunque lo más difícil de este proceso es intentar perdonarme a mi misma, estoy trabajando sincera y pacientemente para enmendar mis errores, confiando en que nuestro Misericordioso Señor Hari se encargará del resto. 

Muchas gracias por su ejemplo, inspiración y guía Guru Maharaja.  

Su torpe aspirante a Sirviente

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

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Hare Krsna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All Glories to our most Merciful Srila Prabhupada and

All Glories to You and your search for opportunities to expand the Sankirtan of Your Divine Master.

Gurudeva, in the Kapi Dhvaja you asked, "Do you read it? Is it worth it?"

Let me answer from my perspective:

Yes, we read it and we think it is very worth it. 😃

I thank you from the bottom of your heart for your efforts to keep us informed and involved in your momentous endeavors. 🙏

Because of his question, I thought that maybe, I too could take some time to recap and observe what am I doing? What are my priorities? What are the plans? What are our resources and who are our partners?

It seems that this could help to get a better perspective and adjust the focus if necessary.

For now I am working sincerely to rebuild myself from my current condition and although the most difficult part of this process is trying to forgive myself, I am working sincerely and patiently to make amends for my mistakes, trusting that our Merciful Lord Hari will take care of the rest.

Thank you very much for your example, inspiration and guidance Guru Maharaja.

His clumsy would-be Servant

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

HpS - Thank you! We do not what has happened in your war against the Tiger, Maya, but one thing is for sure, the SB is full FULL F U L L of stories of the "fall-downs" of different aspiring devotees, yogis and Karmis. There are so many challenges we have to surpass but we have the association of Srila Prabhupada in his books and through our association in ISKCON!

So nice.

It is just a matter of waking up. Getting good association. Getting back to our normal condition and taking up our normal life again after this ridiculous adventure in the external energy!

Please understand who we are through all these online programs etc!!! and then give us the mercy of your association!

Jaya Radhe! Krsna, Krsna, Hare Hare!!!

Hare Krsna, querido Guru Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis rendidas reverencias

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada y Todas las Glorias a usted.

ASA - TlgaSP!!!!! pfanrh....🔬 🐷 🐵

Muchas gracias por permitirnos acompañarle (en linea) a lo largo de sus viajes, casi podemos sentirnos ahí 😊 Le agradezco con el alma su esfuerzo por llevarnos con usted.

ASA - Es el mejor manera morir, no?

En clases recientes ha hablado de las cualidades de nuestro muy misericordioso Señor Krsna... Quisiera preguntarle ¿El perdón puede entenderse como una manifestación de la misericordia?

HpS - Yes, I think so. Ultimately Krsna can forgive us or He can chose not to forgive us, but He is very, very kind person!

Por otra parte, alguna vez Usted me dijo "no se avergüence demasiado de sus errores porque ellos son la base de su éxito" pero, si esos errores lastimaron mucho a alguien más... ¿cómo transformar ese arrepentimiento o vergüenza en algo útil para ambas partes?

HpS - By understanding that there is no mistake that we can make that we cannot correct. Rama told that to Laksmana, but we have to do the work. The person we hurt will understand the whole situation, and if they are sincere they will forgive us. If they are crazy they may not, but after we have done our work, Krsna will do his work.

¿Es posible que después de haber cometido grandes errores en una relación entre devotos, podamos re-construir esa relación e incluso fortalecerla? ¿Cómo hacerlo aún cuando ambas partes fueron muy lastimadas? 

HpS - The same. Any mistake can be corrected. The best way is to understand what is the other devotees service and try to help them. Of course, just continuing our service to Srila Prabhupada and his ISKCON may be the best help we can do for them if we do not have a very specific relationship with them.

Por favor discúlpeme por ocupar su valioso tiempo con estos detalles, estamos intentando reparar nuestras faltas y continuar. Muchas gracias por sus instrucciones Guru Maharaja. 

Su inútil intento de sirviente

Karuna-Śakti Devi Dasi 

HpS - Gracias a Vd. Pienso translate.google.com puede traducir nuestra Ingles bien. Adelante, Mataji! Seguir el ejemplo de Radha, Kunti, Draupadi!!!!!!

Dear Gurudev,

 Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. 

HpS - ASA --- Lettuce feet! AGTSP!!!

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 All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru parampara.

 Gurudev, This letter is just to keep you updated:

1. All Brahamanical activity in place.

2. 16x4 in place.

3. There is no latency in practices.

4. Trying hard to finish basic material requirements so that we can 

  focus on atma-ram.

5. Staying at rented room so that we can think about practices

  and maintain the same.

6. Waiting for 2nd dose of vaccine.

 About HG Jibesh Probhuji:

1. He is doing good book distribution.

2. He discussed his sankirten plan with me. Sent you a letter to

  know your view and advise then he will proceed accordingly.

3. Basically, his plan to preach in village area. 

4. His spiritual practices are going good.

5. He got his both dose of vaccine.

Your dependent,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - I think we will have to look for Jibesha's letter. From the Kapi Dhvaja you can see our position, no?

Right now for example we are with very low energy. 4PM. In the country house in Peru.

Hare Krsna!!! Hare Krsna!!! Are you in Pune???????

Dear Esteemed Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and NIOS.

I was very enlivened and enlightened to talk with you today about philosophy. I was very glad to hear of your book club on Carl Jung's the Red Book. I am really fascinated and interested in this from the scientific perspective on the topic of consciousness.

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Sorry this has taken so long to answer. We don't really have a book club, but are putting out the reading materials we have taken up and looking to record comments and inspiration on The Monk's Podcast, with Chaitanya carana Das.

That is actually my deepest interest - the intersection of philosophy and science. I actually have taken philosophy courses while doing my D.Phil. (Ph.D.) at Oxford because it was a passion of mine (I have taken some online courses from Harvard back then also when I was a grad student and some philosophy course when I was an undergrad at BSU).

I was even an instructor at Bhaktivedanta College Finland and was teaching philosophy courses (but there are some details about Greek philosophers I certainly still need to learn :) But I got now more interested in material that cannot be obtained just from philosophy textbooks.

I got more interested now in something more practical and meaningful - bringing together concepts of philosophy and science. The majority of the world views the world through the eyes of modern scientific thought, which includes theories such as - string theory, parallel universes, the God particle, the God equation, extraterrestrial life, directed panspermia, but what are these all anyway - they are mathematical representations of concepts discussed in the Indian philosophies of Vedanta or Bhagavata.

That is what I am striving to work on - creating a local community of academicians to discuss these concepts in a book club and lecture series - the concepts of Vedanta and Bhagavata to modern science.

String theory (every subatomic particle being a wave / vibrations), parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, Fred Hoyle's panspermia (implanting of DNA of different species on earth - in Bhagavata, Daksha Prajapati) are mentioned in the Bhagavata.

I have had speakers from Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) in my Vedanta distinguished lecture series at my university Texas A&M University - Kingsville. I am now going to be creating more distinguished lecture series and webinars. Also, I am interested in getting some of these distinguished professors, especially from renowned world-class universities to join together for a refereed peer-reviewed special issue of papers in a journal, maybe Solaris.

This I hope would eventually branch off from the Vedanta lecture series. I strive for this effort because I feel that philosophers and scientists need to connect more. They were one and the same discipline in the past, only now has modern education divided them into different fields.

I believe that I as a scientist (having studied science at Oxford and also some philosophy), I can contribute to the interdisciplinary field of philosophy and science.

I am inspired by your holiness and hope I can learn from great and distinguished thinkers such as your holiness. Whenever I listened to your lectures, it always inspired me.

Sharing some of my personal thoughts,

YHS,

Aja Govinda dasa

HpS - AgtSP!!!!! Paoho. Your efforts sound very nice. If we can participate in some little way please let us know. We are trying to communicate our abilities and areas of expertise in the Kapi Dhvaja and then from there we are giving YouTube links and Monk's Podcast links and then links to representative programs we are presenting elsewise.

Science and the Vedas is one area listed on the YouTube Channel.

Thank you.