Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

This time I want to take of something that we talked about in my last letter.

This is what we talked about:

“One last thing to tell, important, a friend who is living in the Zurich temple introduced me to Philip, he also lives there. This friend said that we could get along and created a WhatsApp chat to introduce each other. Philip and me are making plans so that we can spend our lives together serving Krsna ... even though he and me are on different continents.

HpS - Do what you must do!!! 

Romeo and Juliet???

He is a serious and responsible devotee, I think he will take good care of me and the family that we want to have.

Was Kunti happy?

Gandhari, Radha, Darupadi, Juliet, Josephine? ? ? ?😎

Are you going to be happy??

Were they SUCCESSFUL?? Are you going to be SUCCESSFUL?”

Philip proposed to me, I said yes.

Part of our plan is to get married and live in Switzerland. He returned to his village, started working and is looking for a house for us. In addition, we began the long and difficult process to obtain my visa, we did all the corresponding procedures, now we are waiting for the migration response.

On the other hand, his questions made me think a lot. I can´t assure you that I will be happy because this world is not made for that, but I am sure that I have chosen a great partner to share my process in Krishna consciousness, I believe that our spiritual life can be successful.

HpS - If the attitude is that we are both in jail, insane asylum, and marriage means making a laboratory where we can learn how to become cured, then it is fine. It will be very satisfying.

I know that this new stage is going to be full of changes, that I will have to learn many things. There is something that particularly worries me as we decide that one day we will have children. I am concerned about not knowing how to raise a child, I am more concerned about not knowing how to raise a child in Krsna consciousness. They say that women have a motherly instinct, I hope this awakens when i need it.

Another thing that worries me is the language, in the village of my future husband they speak German. Philip says that most of the people speak English and that I won't have a problem communicating with them. I also started a German course, pronunciation is difficult for me and I don't like how it sounds.

I choose to see all this as a great adventure with Krsna in my heart accompanying me at every step. (Krsna, adventure partner)

I´m going to live in the Zurich temple until we get married, it would be about 2 months, I want to continue my service as a pujari in the temple for those two months and also after going to live with my husband. I would like to do it once a week since the temple isn´t near the village where we are going to live. We will live in Wängi, Philip grew up there, his family and friends are there too.

I´m thinking about how to continue my preaching in a country where I don´t know the language, perhaps prasadam distribution can be a good option while i´m learning the language. I think I could start a preaching program just like the one I did before the quarantine, maybe a Bhakti Vrksa, maybe a weekly online reading with the devotees in the congregation. The possibilities are limitless.

I hope I can go on with the morning program when I no longer live in the temple.

There will be a 7 hour time difference with FMP on gotomeeting, so I will have to do it without my dear Anjana Suta Academy devotees.

Gurudeva, even though we are far away, I feel close to you, and I thank you for the enormous effort you make to teach and give us your association every day. Thanks for the slides and tweets. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

One of my deepest wishes right now is that your instructions become my life.

Your aspirant servant

Panda Bear 🐼

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. We had to scan the last part of the letter because there is a Polar Bear trying to set fire to the tree in front of the house, but your plan seems basically sane. NOW.... 4-principles and 16-rounds under the authority of Srila Prabhupada! Do it or not do it, but make it the goal, then Mother Yasoda will give you all the help you need.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

Danadavat Pranams. Jai Srila Prabhupada.

This is in reply to your questions to this letter i sent: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12048/

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HpS/ASA - Of course, we talked about all this now that we are pushed to do these classes with MI, and decided to go to X-finity for one month for $75, to be installed next Monday, then we can see how it works.

Did an online connection speed test and it showed down load at 10MBPS and then 30MBPS and upload ad 2MBSP.

Your Servant

Shri Rama Krishna Das

ASA - What is your whatsapp number? 🙂 We wil send you his, and not publish yours.

All right! +51..... HpS - Thank you. We got your number from Abhirama Thakura das this morning and sent it with The Candra Mukhi Devi Dasi's information to The Atul Krsna Das. He already thanked us and guess he will contact you directly.

Without the Krsna book, who can escape from the endless darkness of Sansara?

Thank you very much for the opportunity 🙏

Trying to serve,

Rukmini dd

My dear Maharaja,

Namaste! Pranams!

Siya-Rama-maya sab jag jani karahu pranam jori jugpani

Knowing this world as manifestation of Lord Rama, I do pranams with both folded hands.

HpS - and march off to Lanka to fight.

Bhagavatam 12/5 chapter is titled as "Śukadeva Gosvāmī’s Final Instructions to Mahārāja Parīkṣit". Saintly teachers like Sukadeva give conclusions of their teachings in the end and also, summarize it in the end. So this chapter is very important as it is final teaching of Sukadeva. Parikshit attained the state described in Bhagavatam 12/5 after hearing the whole Bhagavatam. So as shrota (hearer) of Bhagavatam, it is important to understand what is our final goal which is described in this chapter.

For the pleasure of Lord Ram within and without, I am copy pasting this chapter. It is just 13 verses. If it is not inconvinient, please read them.

Text 1:

Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has elaborately described in various narrations the Supreme Soul of all that be — the Personality of Godhead, Hari — from whose satisfaction Brahmā is born and from whose anger Rudra takes birth.

Text 2:

O King, give up the animalistic mentality of thinking, “I am going to die.” Unlike the body, you have not taken birth. There was not a time in the past when you did not exist, and you are not about to be destroyed.

Text 3:

You will not take birth again in the form of your sons and grandsons, like a sprout taking birth from a seed and then generating a new seed. Rather, you are entirely distinct from the material body and its paraphernalia, in the same way that fire is distinct from its fuel.

Text 4:

In a dream one can see his own head being cut off and thus understand that his actual self is standing apart from the dream experience. Similarly, while awake one can see that his body is a product of the five material elements. Therefore it is to be understood that the actual self, the soul, is distinct from the body it observes and is unborn and immortal.

Text 5:

When a pot is broken, the portion of sky within the pot remains as the element sky, just as before. In the same way, when the gross and subtle bodies die, the living entity within resumes his spiritual identity.

Text 6:

The material bodies, qualities and activities of the spirit soul are created by the material mind. That mind is itself created by the illusory potency of the Supreme Lord, and thus the soul assumes material existence.

Text 7:

A lamp functions as such only by the combination of its fuel, vessel, wick and fire. Similarly, material life, based on the soul’s identification with the body, is developed and destroyed by the workings of material goodness, passion and ignorance, which are the constituent elements of the body.

Text 8:

The soul within the body is self-luminous and is separate from the visible gross body and invisible subtle body. It remains as the fixed basis of changing bodily existence, just as the ethereal sky is the unchanging background of material transformation. Therefore the soul is endless and without material comparison.

Text 9:

My dear King, by constantly meditating upon the Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva, and by applying clear and logical intelligence, you should carefully consider your true self and how it is situated within the material body.

Text 10:

The snake-bird Takṣaka, sent by the curse of the brāhmaṇa, will not burn your true self. The agents of death will never burn such a master of the self as you, for you have already conquered all dangers on your path back to Godhead.

Texts 11-12:

You should consider, “I am nondifferent from the Absolute Truth, the supreme abode, and that Absolute Truth, the supreme destination, is nondifferent from me.” Thus resigning yourself to the Supreme Soul, who is free from all material misidentifications, you will not even notice the snake-bird Takṣaka when he approaches with his poison-filled fangs and bites your foot. Nor will you see your dying body or the material world around you, because you will have realized yourself to be separate from them.

Text 13:

Beloved King Parīkṣit, I have narrated to you the topics you originally inquired about — the pastimes of Lord Hari, the Supreme Soul of the universe. Now, what more do you wish to hear?

Namaste and Pranams!

Gaurav Mittal

HpS - C. C. after liberation, revive our Svarup!

Writing here to express my deep gratitude to all devotees who organized the Vyasa-puja online program. I watched the recording of the first program (with Jayadvaita Swami and Krsna Ksetra Swami) and attended "in live" the second one. For sure there was a lot of effort put into the organization of many offerings (video and pictures) and keeping the sequence of events.

Such an inspiration to see the happy faces of devotees from around the globe. From my perspective, it was a heartfelt expression of affection for you and your activities.

The next morning I got up enthusiastic and more determined to continue on this devoted path of Krsna consciousness.

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - Thank you. Write to us with your news of your Sankirtan!!! ISKCON Crow Asia!!!! Our respects to Nir Gata Devi Dasi and your parents.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva!!!!!!!!!!!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to YOU.

Please accept our humble obeisances. PAMHO

Bulletin is now upload on Facebook (English & Spanish), this is the link:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/166681160058275/

Here We are, working on vacations...

-We finished our specialization studies (5 years) on Waldorf Pedagogy. Now We are working on our thesis project. It will be about literacy from the Waldorf point of view.

-We continue practicing flute and piano.

-We are preparing the material that we will use to teach 6th grade. We back to work at school in February.

VP was beautiful. Seeing You after a long of time was like medicine for us. Such a nice devotees from different places... I was able to talk a little with Radhika Prabhu.

NOW....answering your question.

How you translate "Urad Dahl" into Spanish? Is it available in Peru???

Here in Lima it is know as "Frejol chino", It can be green or yellow. the green one is easy to get. I eat that one almost every week.

HpS - That is Mung Dahl. Here is wikipedia link to Urad Dahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_mungo. Under nutrition you can see that it is HIGH in protein. We use it for festivals in Bharats etc. but Srila Prabhupada says that it is such high protein that on a regular basis it is not really 'vegetarian'. You can get it in Peru.

we read in the bulletin that Kapi-Dhvaja needs to be developed more systematically.

How WE (EDT) can help you to do that? please let us know.

HpS - I think it is just working on the Calendar.

I just discovered that Yahoo groups ceased to exist 15th December. So how can we make a distribution list? Your facebook account for English also?

Thank you so much. Hope your Japa etc. is going very well, then you will shine with KC to your students! Thanks to everyone.



Thanks a lot

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette )