Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Guru Maharaj,

  Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus [lettuce] feet.

  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

  All glories to Guru parampara.

  Am very happy and grateful to Gaura-Nitai for two bags of groceries there at your porch.

  You are witness of such many many reciprocation of Lord.

  If you still remember the airplane incident. Where airplane went up slowly after your japa.

your fallen servant,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Do not remember 'airplane incident'. The presence of death is very apparent when we are flying, no?? Every bead a Gopi, who wants to dance with Shyama! Knead them and rub them and feed them as they dance along! What amazing plan does Krsna have for your life????

Hare Krishna

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to Sri Gaura Nitai

Please Maharaja, accept my most humble obeisances

Its been a while since i last wrote you,

ASA - Us also!!

but i´ve been keeping track of your wherebouts thanks to Parasurama Prabhu and Bhakta Hector Prabhu, thanks to them that also have helped me so much thru my process.

i hope you are in good health and doing good.

HpS - Like yours!

As for me i´m still in Panama, its been 2 years and a half now and im amazed how fast time is going!

As my mind got trouble and rebelious i took a step back (again) and i feel like everytime im close to start doing things right i bounce back to my worst behaviors. I also feel very tired most of the times , in general, i can call it laziness, and i feel in ignorance, i wasnt following any principles for the last 6 months...i also stopped going to the temple...

HpS - The Evil One got you!!

... but around two weeks ago something [God] shook me out and started chanting again, and back in order to start following principles again.. i dont feel completly guilty, its like an internal battle between i know what i should do and why i dont do it the right way. Im tired of being tired, lazy and mediocre...

why is it easier for certain people and for others is so hard?

HpS - The same reason it will be easy for you in the next lifetime, because whatever progress you do you take with you!

can all this tireness and laziness come from also being supressing a depression?

HpS - Maybe!

thank you Maharaja for the precious time you take to read all this that i put out about my troubled mind.

ASA - Sorry so slow to answer. We are lazy, but also can't answer while traveling. Too many personal consultations! Read the Kapi Dhvaja. www.JayaRama.US!! You are way ahead of many people on the planet! Become better. Become a Doctor.

Hare Krsna Querido Gurudeva....

Todas las glorias Srila Prabhupada y a Usted!!!! PAMHO

Estamos en el dia 25 de cuarentena obligatoria ( y nos han ampliado a dos semanas mas)... Estamos dando las clases virtuales a nuestros estudiantes todos los dias en las mañanas...

HpS - Super. Con ayuda de sus Mamas!

El boletín ya esta disponible en ingles y en español en:

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

Gracias por su paciencia y gran apoyo

YS.

Equipo de Traductores

HpS - Your effort pushes us to try and be more serious. We hope you make all your students love Krsna.

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaj,

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada.

ASA - Jaya!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Thank you for replying to my last message Maharaj. I was scared you had not received it. As soon as I saw the email of your reply, I was very happy. Thank you Maharaj. I really wish your health is in the best condition.

HpS - Material world! This is material world, EVERYONE gets diseases, even just as an example to others.

I'm sorry again, I haven't updated you recently. My last message I believe I mentioned to you that I went to India. I didn't really discuss in detail what I did. Anyway, I went for a month and we first went to Vrndavan for 10 days.

HpS - Did you die? That would have been very fortunate!!

This was my favourite part of the trip. Then we went to Bangalore for a friend's wedding. Actually this is the reason I got a ticket to India in the first place haha. The wedding was nice. And then to Punjab for my cousin's (Surbhi) wedding. My mum came for this one as they were begging our whole family to come. So i met her in Delhi, after Bangalore, and from there we went to Punjab. VERY VERY FANCY. Too fancy, in fact. For me it was too much. But in India, it is still considered barely anything.

If i get married in the future, I want a very simple wedding. Similar to the ones my parents had, just with more family and friends.

HpS - I was there. It was magical. I did the fire sacrifice. The Gurukula boys chanted mantras, Headmaster's wife rushed Acyuta priya Devi Dasi off and they decorated her very nicely. Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadyay was there. Then as we were rushing back to Lucknow from Naimisaranya, your mother asked what day it was and when we told her she started to laugh like a mad girl, and then explained that her sister, your esteemed aunt, had been married on exactly the same day one year earlier!

Anyway, I feel a connection when I'm Vrndavan and I love the environment there. I hope I can go back every year. I really need to get a job here so I can properly save up money. I also need to buy a car over here.

HpS - Maybe Krsna will send you something were you meet people.

Another thing, as you know I'm very confused and indecisive and still am not sure about what I want to do yet. I already finished 1 year of Business and this year began and I just thought I can't continue studying this if I don't enjoy it... I've thought about doing a degree in Creative Industries or Design. Something like this. But also there is the notion that these kind of careers will have no jobs and are not in high demand. Too much confusion. Please bless me to figure this out. So for the time being, it happened that I'm not studying this semester. I was planning to do simple electives and nothing major but the style of teaching at uni doesn't appeal to me. It was too boring. I love to learn. but not the way that is done here... With this quarantine anyway, perhaps it was a good pause. I'm trying to engage myself in as much art at home as I can. I'm painting, sewing, and trying other things. I painted Baladev on a t shirt for one.

HpS - Jaya. Harer nama eva kevalau. Chant for an answer!

Yesterday I saw your interview in Manipur with a lady from Impact TV. It was seriously SO AWESOME. I loved it. The way you speak is so humble and genuine. And I learnt so many things. I'm not sure if I mentioned this before but I've always wanted to make a documentary of devotees. I wanted to interview them and ask how they came to Krsna Consciousness and what inpsired them to join, etc. I think it'd be a gem for future generations. I need to get to this. Too many ideas. Too much laziness.

HpS - Become a Journalist! Learn that!

My chanting hasn't been the best lately Maharaj. At some point I wasn't really chanting properly. I feel guilty but I didn't have enough of a drive to do it. I'm very sorry. Anyway, Sakhi Rai prabhu (you may know him) tries to inspire and engage me so he kind of gave me the idea to be strong. So I'm now just trying to do 4 a day. It's nice. I'm re-building that shakti. My father was best teacher in these things. I miss him in these regards. He always gave me so much spiritual knowledge. I wish I was more inquisitive and interested before. I could've learned so much. I'm happy that you have this forum where I can keep in touch with you. It's perfect. Please bless me to be a better devotee and person Maharaj. And after this Corona Virus is over, I hope you can visit Brisbane soon.

HpS - Ha, Ha, Ha... It will never be over. It will just change its name. Sometimes it is called "Snake Bird", etc. Krsna pushes and Krsna pulls!

We were actually planning to go to Baku in July, for my grandfather's 70'th birthday. But this whole virus has changed the plan of everything. Who would've guessed that 2020 will end up like this. I realised that it's better to just go out and do things. Travel. Everything. Because we never know when there is zero opportunity to do it.

Wow. Ended up to be quite a long message haha. Thank you Maharaj for reading and caring always.

HARE KRISHNA

Yours servant,

Lakshmi

HpS - Respects to Bhima, YOur mother, sister, uncle, aunt!! Chant for what you want. Krsna will answer. Do you want become very, very, very rich?? Beautiful as the Goddesses in heaven???

Hare Krsna Dear Guru Maharaj,

  Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

  All glories to Guru parampara.

  How is your health ?

HpS - O.K. considering time, place and circumstance. Probably like yours!!

No temple services for last 14 days. Working from Home.

Rest as usual, no change in life.

  Don't browse internet now a day. Just focused on office

  Work and spiritual activities only. ASA - Ahhh! Arjuna learned how to make killing people his spiritual activity. If he can so that I guess we can connect less violent things with Krsna eg. cooking for Krsna!

  There are many thoughts, how can serve Krsna more better

  way so that i can get more closeness.

  Nothing much to write, re-planning for BG, SB, Kirtan.

  HG Jibesh Das is doing well, studies going on. He 

  remembers you a lot.  

your fallen servant,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - With whom do you work? ?

Dear HH Hanuman Presaka Swami Maharaj, 

Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your divine lotus feet.

I’ve been thinking a lot about your character and your unassuming nature lately. While I’ve been contemplating my place in the world of ISKCON and even my place in this world in general, it is challenging to understand how to stay sincere while sharing/preaching Bhaktivedanta philosophy; how to relate with another without falling prey to their doubts; or even how to convince a person without religious connotations or pressures. To be able to preach effectively is a deep skill I have yet to have, and I hope to learn this and so much more from you.

HpS - AGTSP paoho sorry it has taken so long to answer!!! Even now we can't read everything, so best just to read what we can now and maybe read it later!!! So sorry!!! But was so nice to see you all in Boise. Our heart is still full with all the association, thank you.

This past spring, as we attended your Jung Philosophy lecture at the Boise State University, I was really appreciating your “Teacher’s Hat”. I could see you as, not an ISKCON sannyasi, but rather, a learned college professor who had ACTUAL experience in the world and of what you spoke. You did mention you were a part of a religion, but your depth of character showed me that, you were much, much more than just a member at a church. You were a professor, a lover of psychology, some could call you a jnana yogi, some a Jung enthusiast. And with all these different facets of character, and the depth that comes with, people become attracted. Not superficially, but deeply. Deeply they become attracted to their own true characters, to their own completely beautiful and pure personalities they know very well, but which have been covered by ignorance, sleep, and dust of material nature.

You specifically have helped many grow to understand who they are, and that depth of character does not come easily. It doesn’t just take becoming attracted, becoming Harinama initiated, Brahman initiated, Sannyasi initiated. It comes from true-life experiences, or some may call it, the ‘hard knocks’ of life. Knowledge needs to be realized and Maharaj you know that. You know that although the process is blissful, the likelihood for the majority of us to come out from these battles with maya, free of wars scars, is actually pretty unlikely. And you have given shelter to so many who have had the pious credit, the courage, the open heart and the humility to do so. Personalities such as Radhika Raman Prabhu, Murari Prabhu, Kamagayatri Devi, the Palakalas, Nitisara Prabhu and those who have taken guidance from you such as Ananta Rupa Prabhu, Gopal Hari Prabhu, Balabhadra Prabhu, Upendra Prabhu and his family. Because of these devotees, I, a “free, American girl” could come to Krishna Consciousness and be inspired. Because, although very sound and soul jerking, Krishna Consciousness is not just the philosophy. Krishna Consciousness is about character, it’s about sincerity, and purity. It’s about being honest with yourself, seeing where you are at, striving to feel and know your relationship with Krishna, and maintaining good thoughts of and for other devotees.

So, I am inspired by your character, Maharaj, and I feel blessed by you for I suppose so many reasons. I hope to continue learning from you and your devotees. I aspire to be a good devotee to help represent your work. I’m inspired to lead a good example, maintain my vows and fulfill the yoga system as thoroughly as possible with Krishna in sight and mind. Please bless us here in Boise. May your great work and the works of your devotees continue throughout the world as long as possible. 

Your aspiring servant,

Anadi Radha dasi