Letters to the editor

Todas las gloria a Goura Nitay

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Querido Gurudev, En estas semanas he estado muy contenta, mis rondas han mejorado en todo los aspecto donde puedo ver que mi esfuerzo, determinación paciencia y entusiasmo son muy importantes como usted me dijo alguna vez cada día es una nueva oportunidad para mejorar, siempre estoy pensando en que mejorar hay aspectos más arraigados que otros donde requieren más estrategias para cambiarlo pero en eso estoy.

Mi sadhana muy bien, lectura diaria Con Lad y las devotas qué han aumentado. siempre con entusiasmo tratando que se sientan acogidas y resolviendo sus dudas, lectura especial en fiestas y recordando los Ekadasi. distribuyendo bolitas una vez la semana. Mi servicio con la deidades es muy especial siempre pensando como decorar diferente en casa fiesta, sus joyas como mejorar o hacer alguna creacion nueva, pensar junto a LAD qué hacer de prepararacion para que ellos coman,es un hermoso servicio.Estamos haciendo algunos arreglos en el templo de casa para que estén felices en su hogar, la última fiesta fue muy hermosa el señor Nrsimhadeva y Sita devi muy contentos.

Estuvimos en Cusco junto a los devotos y ese hermoso paisaje que krishna creó.

Estoy bien de salud, nadando dos veces a la semana, saludando a mis padres, hermanos cada día y video llamada una vez por semana, por último trabajando cuatro veces a la semana haciendo fisioterapia, y clases de natación.

Sin la inspiración de Srila Prabhupada y la suya esto no sería posible. Muchas gracias querido Gurudev. Se despide su humilde sirviente Raman Reti Devi Dasi

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All glories to Guru Nitay.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Dear Gurudev, I've been very happy these past few weeks. My rounds have improved in every way. I can see that my effort, determination, patience, and enthusiasm are very important.

As you once told me, every day is a new opportunity to improve. I'm always thinking about improving some aspects that are more deeply rooted than others, which require more strategies to change, but I'm working on it.

ASA - 🏅

Marvelous! This is an example of the life of a General!

My sadhana is going very well. I'm reading daily with Lad and the devotees, which has increased. I'm always enthusiastically trying to make them feel welcome and answering their questions.

I'm reading especially during festivals and remembering the Ekadasi events.

I'm distributing little sweet balls once a week.

My service to the deities is very special. I'm always thinking about how to decorate each celebration differently, how to improve their jewelry or make a new creation, and how to think with LAD about what to prepare for them to eat. It's a beautiful service.

We're making some arrangements at the temple at home so they're happy in their homes. The last celebration was very beautiful, and Lord Nrsimhadeva and Sita Devi were very happy.

We were in Cusco with the devotees and that beautiful landscape that Krishna created.

I'm in good health, swimming twice a week, greeting my parents and siblings every day, and video calling once a week. Finally, I'm working four times a week doing physical therapy and swimming classes.

Without Srila Prabhupada's inspiration and yours, this wouldn't be possible. Thank you very much, dear Gurudev. Your humble servant, Raman Reti Devi Dasi, says goodbye.

ASA - 😢

Krsna has been so kind to you! SP says that as we become more advanced we begin to live in this world as a replica of Vaikuntha.

Of course, one of the perfections of this world is that it is always imperfect so that we can never be perfectly satisfied here and always want to go back to help Radha and Krsna in Vrndavana.

How is the Catholic church in Chosika?

Where do you distribute Prasadam?

How is LaD's mother sister and her children et al?

What is happening in the first photo? Men stacking rocks?

Gaura and Nitai get half of the Bhoga Offering plate each? Seems nice. 🙂

🌹🙇🏻‍♀️🌷🎶 Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva. Please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you remembered Gurumaharaja🙏🌷🌻🌹.

I wanted to tell you that I am really missing listening to you online, your classes, FMP. At the moment I am disconnected from cyberspace. Reflecting on many things. Please pray for me. Gopalito turned 13 on May 15th. Please I ask for your blessings for him.

ASA - Gopal's pictures are great!!!!! Best wishes for him finding his service in Sri Gauranga's traveling Sankirtan party.! .

I am extremely grateful to you for one of your last kapi Dvaja.. I felt completely inside of Him. I felt like he was speaking to me. I needed to hear those words so much. I never knew that holy names attract people.. etc. Thank you for always being with us. You are truly our life Gurudev. Please allow me to become more and more attached to Govinda. I have that laulyam lalasamayi... which is in the nectar of devotion... I have this very intense longing to regain my royal position... although I'm not there yet, and I intensely pray to the dust of your feet to fully recover my spiritual health.

Thank you for tolerating being my guru and letting us know that you are the representative of our best friend.

Regarding what you asked for in Anvesaka: I'm also not stable in my prasadam hours. I make an offering in the morning and at dusk. I would like to be stable, but apparently my body is very emotional, and that also affects it... sometimes, even though it's time, I don't want to eat anything, and sometimes I do. It also happens to me that sometimes I get home late, around 3 or 4 pm, and I always remember you: Don't eat grains after 4 pm... sometimes I have no choice. Always wanting to follow Your instructions to the letter,

I want to ask Your permission to start reading Srimad Bhagavatam from canto 3 to 10. For all these years I have read only canto 1 and 2. Also under Your protection I have started reading Caitanya Caritamrita before Mangalartik.

HpS - AgtSP. Yes, go ahead, but look for a reading partner(s) if you can!!

Here I'm sending you some photos that Gopal took when he was 4 years old after we returned from Peru... it's like he drew what he perceived from his trip❤

Always trying to please You: a girl who dreamed of being a mother..?! 😅 or a tree that wished to be a duck?!! 😅😂 Your eternal well-wisher:

J.P.Radha dd🎶💃❤💙❤

HpS/ASA - Thank you esteemed duck. hope our answers to other letters helps and hope you can read Texts here and in anVesaka.

We listen to Srila Prabhupada's dictation of KRSNA book at www.prabhupadavani.org.

Let us look at another Post!

Travel with us.

All glories to Sri Sri Gurú and Gauranga!

PAMHO AGTSP!

HK Maharaj How are you?? How’s been your health?

Well in reply to your last email, I think you forgot to recommend me some ISKCON friends to discuss topics related to digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and social media content creation. May you please help me out?

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. I don't really know anyone who could help except maybe his grace jagad guru das in chile.

he might have time for some personal comments and then direct you to more resources.

if you send me your whatsapp number i will not publish it but will send you his contact information by whatsa app. hare krsna...... hare krsna!!!

So I was asking that question related to communism because I have a devotee friend who proclaims himself to follow that doctrine.

So he says that considering that many devotees don’t follow some devotional principles or everything Prabhupada says, he has some right to follow the communist doctrine, even he theoretically understands Prabhupada is against it.

He states that material communism is the most similar thing to spiritual communism.

ASA - Just like iron is the most similar thing to gold??? or would it be more accurate to say that fresh supply of cows milk is the more similar to gold.

I’m trying to give him some piece of advice regarding this, what do you think might be a good one to give??

hps/asa - we can't know him well enough to give details, but noi 2 is nice. it links to isopanisad which is also nice!!! professors of economics like it.

thank you very much :),

hope you are always well,

Federico Molnár

Hare Krsna, Gurudeva

My respected Gurudeva, please accept my most humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Gurudeva, thank you very much for FMP AGTSP!

HpS - AgtSP. NoI. ISKCON Bhakta vrnda.

Rounds, principles, they are simple but sometimes difficult. They require great effort, but there we go. Doing them, I feel greater enjoyment, conscious, in these latter times.

I am still here, in the material world; now I am a curious old woman.

hps - it is easy or difficult depending on KRSNA, no? it is not just physical challenge like the gymnasium, but moral and spiritual. very personal dialog with KRSNA through Srila Prabhupada.

Gurudeva, perhaps reaching a higher level of consciousness, has to do with a "quantum leap."

HpS - quantum leap means it cannot go in infintesimal, continous steps. it was a debate about the orbital states of electrons, no?

yet, our progress can be one syllable at a time... haw ... ray ... krs ... na! its eternal.

Krsna is unlimited and magnanimous; He is the Supreme.

Does this great number of expansions or cows have to do with the idea of quantum physics of the "possibilities of existence that a thing has"?

hps - I studied quantum physics at U. C. Berkeley with good scores, and our professor commented that many times people use the example of billard balls to explain the action of atoms and molecules, but personally he had never seen a billard ball and his own knowledge of billard balls was from his knowledge of atoms and molecules!

So, I don't know too much of the philosophical ideas imbedded in quantum physics, but I have seen that some of them are very deep ideas about ontology. Wave or Particle is very much like achintya bheda a bheda tattva.

Does spiritual power allow one to see all possibilities?

HpS - Well, we do not become Paramatma, but we have all the power we need to understand things for our service.

Purity gives us access to the Absolute Truth, things as they are. The key to the Absolute Truth today is the Maha Mantra, right?

HpS - At the current moment chanting the Names of God is the best yajna. Maybe the only one.

Allah.

Jehovah.

God.

Krsna.

Narayana.

!

Perhaps a comic could be made with this; and "enjoying life."

Thank you very much for your attention Gurudeva, your time and mercy.

Your disciple

Rohini dd

HpS - What do you mean about "enjoying life"?

Sometimes Krsna shows marvelous things to the Brijavasis. Mother Yasoda saw all the universe, pastpresentfuture, when She looked into Krsna's little mouth. She thought she was having a psychotic break down.

Many big physicists had very philosophical questions, realizations.

Go ahead!

Next life you may be a powerful Brahmana in Nabadvipa!!??

Hare Krishna

Querido y recordado Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias

TLGASP!

No se cómo explicar ni defender mi mal comportamiento, sólo quiero decirle que estoy tratando de salir adelante en mi vida espiritual, con muchos tropiezos, muchos anarthas, algunos pocos avances pero también retrocesos, esa es la verdad.

Actualmente mi servicio en el Templo de Arequipa es administrativo, y gracias a las madres y devotos que realizan su servicio devocional de forma satisfactoria, las actividades son relativamente buenas, ha crecido la comunidad de devotos, la prédica a los nuevos amigos de Krishna es diaria y constante; cada cierto tiempo salimos a las calles a hacer Harinam Sankirtan y Food For Life. La concurrencia del público al Templo es buena en las fiestas devocionales. Pensamos realizar un ratha yatra este año en el Corso de la Amistad por las principales calles de la ciudad, pero aun es solo un proyecto (seria el 15 de agosto 2025).

En lo personal, he vuelto nuevamente a estudiar el Srimad Bhagavatam todos los miércoles con el grupo de estudio de prabhu Laksman Agraja das. Eso ha despertado mucho entusiasmo en mi y también me sirve de repaso, como también la lectura del Bhagavad Gita y Néctar de la Instrucción entre otras obras.

Mi sadhana todavía es muy debil, a veces no llego a cantar todas mis rondas, con la promesa de recuperarlas al día siguiente, algo que no logro cumplir; pero aun así trato de seguir cantando como sea y donde pueda sin perder la atención en el canto. No logro despertarme más temprano de mi horario habitual, soy un tanto perezoso debo confesar. A pesar de ser vegetariano desde hace muchos años, no siempre me alimento de Krishna prasada. Por lo demás, sigo los 4 principios regulativos de manera formal.

Le debo confesar algo, si no le he escrito anteriormente es porque me he sentido avergonzado de no ser un buen discípulo, ni siquiera un candidato de discípulo para usted, a quien considero un fidedigno representante de Dios en la tierra. Pero le estoy profundamente agradecido por su infinita misericordia y por darme la oportunidad de poder mejorar y ser un digno representante del movimiento Hare Krishna de ISKCON.

Su insignificante seguidor,

Raya Ramananda das

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Hare Krishna,

Dear and remembered Gurudeva

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

TLGASP!

ASA - AGTSP!!!!!!!! !!!

I don't know how to explain or defend my bad behavior. I just want to tell you that I'm trying to move forward in my spiritual life, with many setbacks, many anarthas, some small advances, but also setbacks. That's the truth.

Currently, my service at the Arequipa Temple is administrative, and thanks to the mothers and devotees who perform their devotional service satisfactorily, the activities are relatively good.

The community of devotees has grown.

Sermons to new friends of Krishna are daily and constant.

Every so often, we go out into the streets to perform Harinam Sankirtan and Food for Life.

Public attendance at the Temple is good during devotional festivals. We plan to hold a ratha yatra this year on the Corso de la Amistad (Friendship Parade) through the main streets of the city, but it is still only a project (it would be on August 15, 2025).

HpS - Do it!!

Personally, I've returned to studying Srimad Bhagavatam every Wednesday with Prabhu Laksman Agraja das's study group. This has sparked a lot of enthusiasm in me and also serves as a review, as does reading the Bhagavad Gita and Nectar of Instruction, among other works.

My sadhana is still very weak; sometimes I don't manage to chant all my rounds, promising to make them up the next day, something I fail to do. But I still try to keep chanting however and wherever I can without losing my focus on the chanting.

I can't seem to wake up earlier than my usual schedule; I'm a bit lazy, I must confess. Despite being a vegetarian for many years, I don't always eat Krishna prasada. Otherwise, I follow the four regulative principles formally.

I must confess something: if I haven't written to you before, it's because I felt ashamed of not being a good disciple, or even a candidate for one, for you, whom I consider a true representative of God on earth. But I am deeply grateful for your infinite mercy and for giving me the opportunity to improve and become a worthy representative of ISKCON's Hare Krishna movement.

Your insignificant follower,

Raya Ramananda das

HpS/ASA - You, me, are better than some, worse than others.

NoD/Rupa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada, says that if we cannot chant our 16-rounds, then fix a number that we know we can chant for a fixed number of days eg. I know I can chant 9-rounds/day until the next Ekadasi.

Then don't accept excuses from your mind. Do it!

Then judge by the results and take the next vow of number and days.

It works, you will be fixed in doing it, because it works!!!

Thanks for your report.

Your association is always desireable.

So much respects to everyone in Hari Kripa.

Hope to see you soon.

All Glories To Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

PAMHO AGSTP!

HK MAHARAJ! how are you???

HpS / ASA - AgtSP. Died and gone back to heaven.

well in response to your letter I would really like to discuss with my new devotee friends topics related to digital marketing, advertising and ayurveda within ISKCON. Also would love to meet entrepreneurs if possible.

Maharaj I would like to please ask you about some other topic which is communism. I know Srila Prabhupada had a standpoint very against it (https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/8/20), yet some devotees proclaim themselves as communists.

What is your opinion about this matter?

HpS - In my opinion he is against Materialistic Communism and in favor Spiritual Communism. To our mind it is not a very well defined terms and people use it in very different ways.

Prof. Hector Behar has commented that as far as he knows there is not a major political movement in the world today that declares itself Marxist which Marx himself would accept as Marist!

Thank you once again :))

please accept my obeisances,

Federico Molnár

HpS - Hari bol from Heaven!

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