Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you Guru Maharaja.

First of all, I am humbly seeking your forgiveness for not writing to you for a long time.

His Holiness Bhakti Ananda Haridasa Goswami is from our village, but later on Maharaja had settled at Guwahati, the capital city of Assam. He is a very good friend of my father who passed away in 2010. When my father was alive, Maharaja used to visit our home from Guwahati and do preaching. While leaving his body, my father requested His Holiness to keep on visiting our home and do more and more preaching at Cachar (a district of Assam). Maharaja has made many devotees from that preaching till date. Maharaja is not yet an initiating Guru of ISKCON, but it is under process.

Guru Maharaja, I am renting one room at Lakhipur and staying there for my job which is little far away from my home village, Kaptanpur. Here at Lakhipur, preaching of ISKCON is almost none. During the last visit of Haridasa Maharaja, I had invited him and organized one preaching program. Around 70 people attended the program. It was very nice and a successful program with nice prasadam distribution. Everyone was happy. They all appreciated the program and they are asking for more in the future.

During the Ratha Yatra of ISKCON Silchar, I did book distribution along with few devotees. One Bengali Bhagavad-gita and other 26 Srila Prabhupada books were distributed in that. Because of the summer’s scorching heat, I am unable to go out for book distribution, regularly. But sometimes I am doing it. Kindly forgive me Guru Maharaja for this irregularity.

Guru Maharaja, my sister in Vrindavan – Kalpalatika Devi Dasi, your disciple is pregnant for her second child. In the last week of August, she may deliver a baby. Kindly bless her and her baby in the womb. By your blessings, let she and her family be able to render more and more sevas for Srila Prabhupada and your satisfaction.

Guru Maharaja, I regularly read monkey warrior blog posts, your twits in the X and regularly attend your online classes. We are eagerly waiting for your arrival in India. Myself and few other devotees are arriving at Radhakund on 14 September and we are eagerly waiting to get your divine association at Radhakund. If Guru Maharaja is going to Manipur, we also will accompany you there. Thank you Guru Maharaja. Some photos of the program are attached here.

Your servant

Manjuali Devi Das

Silchar, Cachar, Assam

HpS/ASA - Thank you! AgtSP.

Paoho.

Please read the two posts from today. One from Sadhu in Manipur and one from 'Rose of the East'.

We will win.

The "Black Witch" cannot keep everyone.

We will learn how to do Sankirtan better and better.

We are sitting in the "Sannyasi Room" in the old Temple in New Jersey.

It is big, big, building. Very nice, but collapsing.

They have new, big marble, place ready to open.

Yet the biggest temple in the world is an open heart, no?

In one hour we go with Subal Das to pick up renta car, then go to Nama-rasa Das' podcast. Tomorrow we go to Spain with Yadu' Swami.

22-hours of travel!

Very tough for our old donkey.

Maybe we get drone bombed or Maharaja go crazy.

Maybe we make it to Radha kunda!

Hari Bolo.

Hare Krsna!

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Maharaj, we really love you and we have a lot of appreciation for you. You are the only person among the godbrothers of Guru Maharaja who is genuinely helping the devotees of Manipur after Guru Maharaja’s departure from this material world. Even if we did commit many mistakes to you, please kindly forgive all of us considering that we are fools. We love to see you as many times as possible in Manipur. This time also during your India visit, we want to see you in Manipur and get the opportunity to serve you.

I have been closely monitoring the situation of Manipur since long time ago to invite you Maharaj and His Holiness Yadunandan Swami. It was quite normal till Janmastami festival. There was huge turn up from the public for the festival. Huge crowd was there. The festival was a grand success. We were expecting good number of visitors for Radhastami too which falls on 11 September. But the situation of Manipur has changed suddenly into worse. There were bombings by using drones and rocket bomb attacks, escalating the violence in Manipur further. Now also, strikes and agitations are going on in manywhere demanding government’s proper and swift action to control the situation immediately. From the last 3-4 days, public curfew has been imposed by one civil society organization. Schools, colleges and all educational institutes are closed. We have regular visitors of 250-300 congregation devotees for Sunday programs. But yesterday’s Sunday program was less than 100 congregations. The current situation impacted the devotees too.

Now is really a hard time in Manipur. In this current scenario, we are unable to decide whether it is good time to invite or not to invite you to Manipur along with HH Yadunandan Swami. Maharaj, please you decide. Temple is not much affected by the current situation even though the number of visitors is very less. We can have nice programs inside the temple campus. I had spoken to many professors of Manipur University to organize a seminar during your visit to Manipur. But the situation is not conducive for such programs now. Everyone is in tension in Manipur except the devotees.

Maharaj, preaching is growing in Manipur amidst the ongoing crisis, Namhatta program has started. Our target is, by the end of this year, to open at least 20 Namhatta centers. I am sending herewith some pictures from the Janmastami Festival.

Eagerly waiting for your reply Maharaj. Hare Krishna.

Your humble servant

Sadhubhusan Das

ISKCON Imphal, Manipur

HpS - So, very nice to hear from you. AgtSP. We love Manipur.

Sarad bhari Devi Dasi said that in her opinion and ofter consulting with devotees and Haridas Swami it was too dangerous to visit.

That was few months ago.

She said devotees would be coming to Radha-kunda to visit us.

"We're all going to die.

It's how you live that counts!", Conan the Barbarian 😆

With the above news, many devotees will come to visit us in Radha-kunda.

Yet, again, we all love Manipur.

We hope that Krsna-kirtan and keep it safe.

Maybe we could visit before we leave India from Delhi on the 9th of October?

Hare Krishna Gurudev;

Please accept our humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

We got the link for the 5th movie.

Thank you.

Your servant.

Nikunja bihari das.

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja,

please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We are very excited to see the 5th movie. And show it along with the other four at our monthly movie night program starting this Fall.

We understand that there are some copyright issues. May we have the secret link?

So sorry to miss your call on Janmashtami. The work load at the temple and trying to finish a fence for a client before leaving for tour was almost too much to handle.

Been having nice morning programs on the road and good rounds and classes with Anadi and Yamuna over the phone. Shows have been good. Been distributing lots of CDs and vinyl records and talking with many inquisitive, vegetarian, open minded..people. I’m understanding more and more, deeper and deeper that I can only give to others if I am filled up myself. So the goal is to get filled up to the brim every morning and stay in association with devotees. This is the only way for us to survive! This world is such a dangerous place on many levels.

Gonna listen to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and think of you and all the nice devotees in Richmond right now:)

Thank you, Maharaja. I’m glad you are able to decompress a little.

your aspiring servant,

Nitisara das

HpS / ASA --- Thank you for the news and update! We sent the movie link. Did you get it???

Thank you. Best wishes for the forthcoming progeny.

Hare Krisna Gurudev!!

Please accept our humble obeisances!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

A very Dear friend of us (We can not disclose his name 🙄) is asking for the secret link to watch the 5th movie from ASA.

Can You please send it here?

Thank you!!

At your service.

Nikunja bihari das.

HpS / ASA --- We sent it. Did you get it???

Hare Krishna!

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obessiances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to you!

Guru Maharaja, I appreciated very much your point if we do FMP then why wouldn't we want to share it with others. It got me thinking quite a bit.

It got me thinking about my current service and if I should be asking the current devotees I lead to come to 4:30 managala arati with me. We currently make 5:50am the "mandatory". It was quite interesting that the next day we had a meeting where they said they want to come to 4:30 managla arati and it should be mandatory for them and something that new Bhaktas work towards. I was so happy, amazed and full of gratitude.

Gurudeva, I talked to Nityananda Prabhu about morning program. I expressed how important FMP is to us. You have always been clear in our wanting us to do FMP and it has penitrated my heart also. I asked him if I was to go to India with him what would our morning program look like. He is committed to 5am - 7:30am FMP. He understood and was appreciative of our communication.

What do you think Guru Maharaja?

Your servant,

Nanda-braja das

HpS - Is, agtSP, a big topic.

On this traveling partys as we have heard Srila Prabhupada was very very heavy about devotees not getting up by about 6.30AM. For that delay he was The Great Destructor.

When I was with H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami, my esteemed Sannyasa Guru, Siksa guru... !

He would not be up and in Mangala arati at times during our program organization.

His disciples, others in the Ashrama would often follow this program.

He was a more action oriented person than myself. We both knew this.

He got stuff done.

Yet, we would do our Dharma, he did not object.

We and our Lord Nrsmha deva would be up and chanting and dancing even though we were like 20% less weight from the heat etc of Calcutta.

He looked hot.

We learned so much about Prana and Yoga then.

Then, it gave us strength the whole day 💪

We will always be stronger in some sense than other devotees and weaker in others.

We should not focus on criticizing others because it will only agitate their mnds.

Out of maybe 9 devotees in the Ashrama in Calcutta in 1987, preparing for the BI congress about three more would get up and join us for the Mangala arati.

Maharaja appreciated our persepective. Thanked us.

Maybe same arrangement for you in India.