Letters to the editor

Querido Gurumaharaja! 

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias! 

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Talves sea mi descuido, pero aún no he visto Su ofrenda de Vyasa-Puja 2019 a Srila Prabhupada. 

Por favor me puede compartir para poder leer en el templo de México mandir ese día? 

Muchas gracias por su misericordiosa atención.

Su eterna aspirante a sirviente 

Asta Sakhi dd

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Vyasa-puja 2019

“…according to the Vedic system, on the birthday of the spiritual master the disciples conduct the ceremony called Vyāsa-pūjā.” BG 18.75. Esteemed reader, do you also turn to this purport every year during Srila Prabhupada, Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami’s Vyasa-puja?

Our offering to His Divine Grace’s Vyasa-puja, in this little essay, is an effort to illuminate a little bit of the glories of Srila Prabhupada, Founder Acharya of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness, and author of the book KRSNA, The Supreme Personality of Godhead. We are like weak sighted men, standing in the dark, trying, with our candle, to illuminate the Royal Elephant. We do this for our benefit and the benefit of others.

Thus we work to hear other articles in this Vyasa-puja book that make their own attempts to illuminate Srila Prabhupada, and maybe in choir we can get some little, but practical glimpse of His Divine Grace: No one can take everything that the spiritual master is offering. No one can know the Acharya completely.

“The transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, are so powerful that simply by hearing, reading and memorizing this book, Krsna, one is sure to be transferred to the spiritual world, which is ordinarily very difficult to achieve.”, Krsna, Chapter 90. Our first real contact with Srila Prabhupada was this Krsna book. One of his disciples, maybe Sriman Buddhimanta Das, was distributing books at the Davis Campus of the Universsity of California about 1972 and he convinced us to donate $10 and take one. This Krsna book seems complete in every way but to gain more and more access to it Srila Prabhupada has given Srimad Bhagavatam, The Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Caitanya-Caritamrta, Upadesamrta, Nectar of Devotion, Isopanisad etc.

“The main business of human society is to think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead at all times, to become His devotees, to worship the Supreme Lord and to bow down before Him. The ācārya, the authorized representative of the Supreme Lord, establishes these principles, but when he disappears, things once again become disordered. The perfect disciples of the ācārya try to relieve the situation by sincerely following the instructions of the spiritual master.” SB 4.28.48. When Srila Prabhupada disappeared from our physical vision in 1977 we experienced just what he describes here and took shelter of the remedy that he describes here also. Now we seem to see in 2019 that our Acharya is beginning to disappear again. This time from the natural passing of the years - Disappearing from the rituals of his society, from the recollections of his disciples as they grow old and pass away. This is quite natural but the remedy is still the same, follow the instructions of the Acharya: Chant 16-nice rounds daily on beads and follow the 4-regulative principles strictly. Then, intelligence (Brahminical culture), and organization  (Ksatriya culture), can be cultivated from that root.

What we have been able to take from our little connection with Srila Prabhupada is that the whole process can be boiled down into eight words: Get up early and get your rounds done. Done with enthusiasm. Then your day will be play. Management will be at your fingers end, there will be no question of shortage of funds, people will respect your preaching.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada for giving us this orchard of fruits, roots and flowers in the form of the wisdom and culture in your books. Thank you for giving us a connection to you through the Lord in the heart. Thank you for ISKCON and all its venerable members. We will try to be more sincere disciples and we hope to find some eternal place in your traveling Sankirtan.

One of your most insignificant servants,

Hanumatpresaka Swami

2019 Mar 08

Hare Krsna maharaj

Pamho

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to You

How are you ?

Maharaj I was curious to know about your schedule in India , like which all temple you would be visiting . I am from delhi temple so we thought if you could grace us with your presence it would be wonderful.

Your servant always

Duti Gopi Devi Dāsi

HpS - AGTSP paoho We land in Delhi 8.30AM, 2nd October, fly to Mumbai at 3PM and go to Govardhana Eco-village. 5th we go to Noida and then 12th back to Madrid. Maybe we can see you all in Noida. We will be working with the Board of Examiners but giving classes in the morning and evening.

Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada

Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay

Haré krishna maharaj

Por favor acepte mis reverencias, soy Richard Cifuentes de Santiago de Chile, tengo 36 años y conocí a los devotos hace mucho tiempo atrás. Hace algunos años comencé a asistir regularmente al templo de iskcon Chile en Santiago y en su última visita escuché sus clases y realmente sentí una inspiración profunda en mi corazón. Soy estilista pero actualmente me ocupo en distribuir inciensos y libros de Srila Prabhupada.

Maharaj realmente espero poder interactuar con usted y poder conocerlo más.

Se despide

Su sirviente

HpS - Hare Krsna. Desculpa tan mucho tiempo responder!! Estuvimos en Gira de Sud America etc. Ooooof! Estuvimos entrando en contacto con tan mucho gente que es imposible responder a cartas. Todos los desafillos son oportunidades de Krsna purificarnos del diferente apegos, vanidades. Adelante! Espero podemos ser util por Vd! Vamos a visit a Chile mes del Noviembre.

Dear Gurudeva:

Please, accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Today is Ekadasi. I read some days ago that you consider a good communication routine, writing in the blog every Ekadasi or skipping one.

Tomorrow, I am flying to Slovenia with the Spanish youth devotees. We are going to celebrate Balarama there. During 8 days, youths from different European countries will have the opportunity to have fun together, in a devotional environment.

We will return on August 20th and the 23rd, we will go to NVM to crelebrate Janmastami and Srila Prabhupada’s appearance. After this, we will go back home to get ready for back to school.

I am in contact with Abhyram prabhu, who, very kindly, informs me of everything we can do here to serve you better. Now, we are a group of devotees searching for academics to contact to.

Hoping I can serve you with this little capacity .

Your servant,

Purnamasi devi dasi

HpS - Thank you. In peace we can find ourselves. and when we find ourselves we can wake up!!! You seem to be on the right path. Just go on. A little bit longer and you will discover very interesting things about yourself and the people who have always lived around you.

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

  Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

  All glories to Guru parampara.

  This is Jibesh Das from Malda, am writing with the help of HG Girivaradhari-Gopal Das.

  Hope you are good in health and doing well.

  Sorry for posting letter late, actually doing book distribution village-to-village so 

  less contact with connectivity so could not able to reach Girivaradhari-Gopal Das.

  while, will try to write as much as possible.

  Maharaj, following 4x16 for many years. i was working as goldsmith for many years and 

  left this job around 2 and half years back after that doing book distribution in 

  villages of bengal.

  am 35 years old and elder son. we are 4 members in our family. Mother, 

  younger brother, sister-in-law and me. we have our home in Malda city ( near ISKCON

  temple ). Mother is also follower of ISKCON.

  Leading a bachelor life and will continue so.

  Please accept me in your shelter for to serve Srila Prabhupada.

your aspiring servant,

Jibesh Das

HpS - Very nice to hear from you! AGTSP. paoho. Your service is great inspiration to us. Sorry we are slow answering! Also going village to village.

What about taking Diksa from more local ISKCON guru and let us be a Siksa guru with his approval? In any case we just want to be of service to you.

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Let me tell you about my (or as you like to say „our” which I also like and feel appropriate) last wanderings and some thoughts.

In Serbia for the last 15 years there is summer Hare Krsna camp. I was never able to go there because I always work during summer „day in and day out” every day. This year my sister joined our rental business and in the calendar I saw a „hole”, a possibility to go to the camp. It is 800km away from Pula, it meant 10 hours drive in one way. And I could go for only four days. That is, one day going there, be there for the whole two days, and go back to Pula on fourth day. So, we went. Met friends after 15 years, their children grew up in fresh, tall, youthful bodies. It was nice. Spent a lot of time catching up with friends. There is something when meeting devotees after 15 years and reflection that „we are still here”. We had fun, wisdom, kirtanas, scrubbing big pots and oven casseroles after night pizzas together, one toilet and bathroom per 10 persons, and it was all - sweet. Kindness is an impression of those days with devotees.

There was an idea of meeting with Indradyumna das, as he has a home 20 km from that camp. But he is working in Germany and could not make it to come.

Moreover, we had people going with us in the car up and down. Found them on the website where car rides can be offered and shared. At the end of the ride, they offered an appreciation of our yogic perspective on life.

HpS - Wow! AgtSP. Paoho. Sorry so slow to answer. You can see we have heavy travel schedule. On the road we meet many people every day, so there is no time for letters!!

How did you know these devotees from before? I only know that you visited Spain and Croatia?

Back in Pula, activities go as usual with apartments, tourists, challenges, headaches, etc. It is so busy in the summer. Because not only tourists come to Croatia for a swim in the Adriatic Sea, but also our friends come to visit us. So, we have many things going on.

I do not have many things to write as I do not travel often. Of course, I travel a lot on the chariot of the mind in the hope that these travels would bring me closer to the charioteer of Arjuna.

Your servant Namacarya das

PS: what would be a proper way to write “das” ? Is it “Das” or “das” ?

HpS - I don't know. I this Das is better. It is like a title, Nama-charya, PhD.

PS 2: when writing a title for this letter I understood that my last letter was precisely one month before this one.

HpS - There is a God and His Name is Urukrama! Please write again. Look for the preaching opportunities that Krsna is sending. The rest will follow like your shadow.