Letters to the editor

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a Usted

Hare Krishna Maharaja, he estado extrañándolo, deseo pronto servirle personalmente, gracias por su misericordia con todas las almas caídas.

Ya estoy caminando, tuvimos una celebración en nuestro templo, uniendo la cultura de Chile con la filosofía Védica, estuve cantando canciones con este objetivo. Muy buen prasadam.

Estoy ansioso por verle, gracias Maharaja. Hare Krishna!

Reverencias.

¡JAYA GURU MAHARAJA!

Bhakta Piero.

HpS - Once these trips start it is very difficult to communicate!! Now that we are in Madird for three nights we have brief rest from Temple activities and preaching work! Now we have a little time to answer letters. Are you still walking. For the first time, we experienced real weakness in our knees in ascending the five stories to our room in the Noida temple.

Old age seems to be just a collection of diseases that don´t go away. Then there is death and the body is recycled so that the elements can be used in new bodies.

We will see you in Lima??? For sure Chile! Yes, songs are insuperable way to spread Krsna consciousness.

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to Guru parampara.

Thank you so much for your acceptance (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10444/), would always grateful to you, would eagerly wait for your India trip in October.

Thank you so much Maharaj.

your aspiring servant,

Jibesh Das

HpS - Hare Krsna, did we see you while we were there? How are you? Your Sadhana and Sankirtan??

Hari bol, Sri Hanuman Pratseka (Preshaka) Swami

My name is Kunti Mohan. I believe I last ran into you at the Bhagavatam class you gave in Boise Idaho this past year. I thought it was really great. I just wanted to offer my sincere apologies if I came across arrogant in any way when I was wondering how psychologists and the field of psychology had to do with bhakti. I realize as you include in your posts, that many bhaktas have many different preaching engagements that reach out to different levels of people with different compositions. I sincerely apologize and I hope you are able to forgive me for my lack of understanding. I see the great benefit in reaching out to all types of intelligences and helping them to surrender by their intelligence to Sri Krishna, Guru ,Sadhu ,and Sastra. I also appreciated how you spoke in the class how the Bhagavatam details all the mental, mind ways people are entangled and the pathway out of that which is detailed in the Srimad Bhgavatam. Thank you so much for all your Inspiration and Seva to everyone. Most sincere all glories to you.

Haribol, Kunti Mohan

HpS - Thank you for your letter, Prabhu. We don´t remember the event, so I guess we can smile and say it was not a great trama for us. It is correct though that we have to be careful that we do not become like the people we reach out to if they are not pure devotees!

Please send us news of your Sankirtan!!!!!

Hare Krsna Dear Guru Maharaj,

  Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

HpS - My Lotus Feet are very covered. Now I have physical feet. They are clean but made of skin, bones, tendons. How are your feet¿

  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

  All glories to Guru parampara.

  Gurudev, i joined Triaksha Automation Technologies Pvt Ltd as a employee and  

  working for MPhasis. As per revised schedule i need to travel on October 1, 2019 and will

return on October 24, 2019 from UK, not sure if i would be able to meet you in India or not.

HpS - They are lucky to get you! When do you travel exactly? We get to Delhi on Oct 2nd and are there for five hours, then we go to Mumbai-GEV-

  Hope krsna will allow me to visit ISKCON London to see Srila Prabhupad stablished

  temple.

HpS - Yes, such and opportunity!! Read the Lila amrta?

  My Heart is full with sorrow as i am working materially. Time should have 

  been used for Krsna. Hope things will get settled soon as my heart doesn’t allow 

  working for material purpose but still doing.... 

HpS - Krsna is going to use you for His Sankirtana. At least you can distribute transcendental smiles. More than that you preach from Canto Two, Chapter One.

  My time is up, this life i spoiled without doing anything for krsna. But i am 

  committed to follow my vow till end of this life and life after lifes. i will

  live for Krsna's services only, can't live without him else die.

Committed vows are not enough for me to live, am not satisfied.

your fallen servant,

Girivara

HpS - Can be Niyama-agraha, no? NOI - 2. We have to purify WHY we are performing committed vows. Almost for certain it is from fear or desire in some degree. So that blocks our spontaneous relation with Krsna from manifesting, no?

Reading we see how to follow the rules spontaneously.

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to Guru parampara.

Please accept me in your shelter for to serve Srila Prabhupada. i can assure you for good seva,

good rounds, good 4 principles and even am happy if i meet you once in a life will be

sufficient for my rest of life.

Will keep following as it is till last day of my life. I am not a well qualified person but i can assure you for my life under your shelter will SP rules.

your aspiring servant,

Jibesh Das

HpS - Hare Krsna. Srila Prabhupada is guru for all of us. You are his disciple because you are following his discipline. Initiation. Name. Receiveing beads. These are all a formality, but not a meaningless formality. We hope very soon you can take initiation formally, but in any case you are making eternal progress now, now, now!

Hare Krishna Maharaja!

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Today in FMP you said the following instruction: "listen a class given by Srila Prabhupada and write to the blog about it". So, here we go.

I listened through youtube a class about SB 3.25.43

​jñāna-vairāgya-yuktena

bhakti-yogena yoginaḥ

kṣemāya pāda-mūlaṁ me

praviśanty akuto-bhayam

The yogīs, equipped with transcendental knowledge and renunciation and engaged in devotional service for their eternal benefit, take shelter of My lotus feet, and since I am the Lord, they are thus eligible to enter into the kingdom of Godhead without fear.

Now, I will share an abstract about what I understand in regard to what Srila Prabhupada said:

If you want to be not fearfulness, no more fear, you have to take shelter of the Lotus Feet of Krishna.

We are suffering because we forgot Krishna.

Srila Prabhupada talked about there are differents styles of gymnastic yoga that rascals like to practice. But the real procces is to concentrate the mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You can do it but meditation or do it 24 hours a day by practical application of your activities for Krishna. We just must to concentrate the mind on Krishna, and then naturally you become reluctant to the materials activities.

HpS - We must jump ahead here because so many more letters to answer. Your summary is very nice. Just a little more concentrated for this forum.

Srila Prabhupada also talked about every vaishnava must to become guru, and said that you become guru simply by advising everyone the instruction wich Krishna has given; and is not a difficult thing. Then you become fearless, "yes, I'm now under the protection of Krishna. I have no more fear."

Bhakti means surrender. Krishna is simple for the devotees, but not for the rascals.

Everybody is working day and night so hard only for obtain sense gratification. Finally their only happines is sexual intercourse. But, you can be free of this attachments only when you are perfectly Krishna conscious. Otherwise is not possible.

Woman is mad after man, and man is mad after woman. But when you really see Krishna, then there will be no more suffering of the piercing arrow of the cupid. And that is called Akuto-Bhayam, no more fear. And this way begins renunciation of the material world.

Finally, after listen this class I realized that I'm so fool, because after my last romantic relationship I was very hurt during a long time (even affects my relationship with Abhirama TD because I went to his home with this woman, so I know their don't like me anymore, and it's ok, I deserve this, it's my fault, but I'm still suffering because of this), and always it have been the same to me, but I still desiring women and sexual activity, even knowing that I will suffer, even knowing that one moment of material pleasure and that kind of sense gratification pays with a long time of suffering.

Please Maharaja, forgive me. I feel so tired of this. I've got less energy and less intelligence than before. Anyway, I keep trying to do my best and trying to follow you, because you are my only hope.

I read your letter to Srila Prabhupada on His Vyasapuja, and it's so beautiful, so inspiring.

Thank you very much for your words, each time you say some direct word to me, something magic happens. This is real.

Your aspiring servant,

Carlos Rold.

HpS - Why are we attracted to sexual relations? It must be the emotions mostly. What is the emotional attraction? It is perverted. While we are smoking Marajuana, engaging in sexual relations with donkeys or devatas, chant Hare Krsna, and with that little perspective we will see things as they are VERY quickly and move to the real life.

Thank you for your efforts.