Letters to the editor

Greetings Gurudeva, I hope you are well. I’m writing you this letter to tell you a little about my current life.

I’m living in the south of Chile, a few days ago I turned 31 years old. For quite some time I have been working with jyotish, psychotherapy and tarot through zoom. Last November I married Gabriela, which formalized our 2-year relationship.

A little more than three months ago we both found ourselves leading a preaching and study group of the Bhagavad Gita, this group consists of 16 people, although more continue to be added. Our idea is that at the end of the course, we can continue cultivating the people who participated with other levels of depth about Bhakti Yoga, and at the same time reopen the same course for another group of people, and thus reach more and more people.

After many months of doubts and internal fears, we are already with this project underway, and now that we have started it, I feel that I could dedicate my whole life to it.

A few days ago we moved to a new house, we intend to do programs with people in the area, and continue to share Krishna consciousness. So far we have received visits from some devotees and we have performed kirtan, we have shared pastimes of Krishna and his devotees, as well as prasada...

This is my gurudeva offering. I always try to make my life a constant offering to Krishna. We have imperfections but we still continue with our service, we are already on the way back home...

Thank you for your time in reading this letter, I only hope that I can continue to perform service, being a good instrument of Krishna to be remembered ...

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Saludos gurudeva, espero que se encuentre bien. Le escribo esta carta para comentarle un poco de mi vida actual.

Me encuentro viviendo en el sur de chile, hace pocos días cumplí 31 años. Hace bastante tiempo estoy trabajando con jyotish, psicoterapia y tarot a través de zoom. El pasado mes de noviembre contraje matrimonio con Gabriela, con lo que formalizamos nuestra relación de 2 años.

Hace un poco más de tres meses ambos nos encontramos liderando un grupo de prédica y de estudio del Bhagavad Gita. Este grupo consta de 16 personas, aunque se siguen sumando más. Nuestra idea es que al terminar el curso, podamos seguir cultivando a las personas que participaron con otros niveles de profundidad sobre el Bhakti Yoga, y a la vez volver a abrir el mismo curso para otro grupo de personas, y así llegar a más y más personas.

Después de muchos meses de dudas y miedos internos, ya estamos con este proyecto en marcha, y ahora que ya lo comenzamos, siento que podría dedicarme toda la vida a ello.

Hace unos días nos mudamos de casa, tenemos la intención de hacer programas con personas de la zona, y seguir compartiendo la conciencia de krishna. Hasta ahora hemos recibido visitas de algunos devotos y hemos realizado kirtan, hemos compartido pasatiempos de Krishna y sus devotos, así como también prasada…

Esta es mi ofrenda Gurudeva. Siempre intento que mi vida sea una ofrenda constante a Krishna. Tenemos imperfecciones pero aún así continuaremos haciendo servicio, ya estamos en el camino de vuelta al hogar…

Gracias por su tiempo al leer esta carta, solo espero poder seguir realizando servicio, siendo un buen instrumento de Krishna para que le recuerden…

Hare krishna gurudeva!! mis humildes reverencias y todas las glorias a srila prabhupada.

No se por donde empezar a contarle, primero pedirle disculpas por estar tanto tiempo sin reportarme , ser mama no es tarea facil pero tampoco escusa. Desde que nació Govinda, ha sido complicado para mi sacar tiempo para algo mas que no sea ser mama, mi marido no ayuda mucho con esa tarea.

No le voy a mentir diciendo que canto todas las rondas, ni que hago bien mi sadhana, porque la realidad es que no he estado organizandome bien, ya que he estado intentando que mi matrimonio funcione, aunque creo eso no va a ser posible, ( mi ignorancia al pensar que una persona karmi cambiaria, pero intento aceptar mi error).

Poco a poco intento hacer todo como antes e inculcarle a govinda todas las enseñanzas de srila prabhupada, muchas veces es complicado que un bebe haga caso en eso jajaja.

Que sepa que gracias a mis queridos hermanos, estoy al tanto de su salud y de todo lo que hace, le prometo y me prometo a mi misma ,volver a hacer toda mi sadhana bien y organizarme mejor. L e pido me mande sus bendiciones y le ofezco mis respetuosas reverencias . ( le adjunto una foto de govinda para que lo conozca)

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Hare krishna gurudeva!! mis humildes reverencias y todas las glorias a srila prabhupada.

No se por donde empezar a contarle, primero pedirle disculpas por estar tanto tiempo sin reportarme , ser mama no es tarea facil pero tampoco escusa. Desde que nació Govinda, ha sido complicado para mi sacar tiempo para algo mas que no sea ser mama, mi marido no ayuda mucho con esa tarea.

No le voy a mentir diciendo que canto todas las rondas, ni que hago bien mi sadhana, porque la realidad es que no he estado organizandome bien, ya que he estado intentando que mi matrimonio funcione, aunque creo eso no va a ser posible, ( mi ignorancia al pensar que una persona karmi cambiaria, pero intento aceptar mi error).

Poco a poco intento hacer todo como antes e inculcarle a govinda todas las enseñanzas de srila prabhupada, muchas veces es complicado que un bebe haga caso en eso jajaja.

Que sepa que gracias a mis queridos hermanos, estoy al tanto de su salud y de todo lo que hace, le prometo y me prometo a mi misma ,volver a hacer toda mi sadhana bien y organizarme mejor. le mando mis mas sinceras reverencias a sus pies .

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Hare Krishna...Hare Rama...

Thank you very much for your letter!!!

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Hare Krishna...Hare Rama...

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

por favor acepte mis humildes obediencias

todas las Glorias para Srila Prabhupada

un año más sobreviviendo en conciencia de Krishna

solo por su misericordia e ilimitada paciencia

Siguiendo los cuatro principios y cantando las 16 rondas como buenamente puedo . Pero el burro es puesto al límite cada día

espero que un día pueda sentirse orgulloso de mi

su discípulo

Murari das

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Hare Krishna...Hare Rama...

Dear Esteemed Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and your glorious service unto him.

Dear Esteemed Guru Maharaj, this year 2021 brought about big changes for me, the birth of my two children. I have also realized the sacrifices in raising children crying in the middle of the night and upsetting my schedule. I am indebted to my mother and father for helping me when we needed them after the pregnancy, for supporting me, and for improving my spiritual life under your guidance.

Esteemed Maharaj, from my small realizations I obtained in my spiritual and material life, I have now learned the importance of hearing the words of the guru carefully and following the words of the guru carefully, including the siksha gurus and vartmapradarsaka gurus, my parents. I have begun to realize more deeply how their guidance and your guidance was always for helping me and supporting me to maintain my spiritual life.

I have also made a change on this auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja, holy appearance day. I was chanting my rounds in the daytime but now I have started chanting my rounds before mangal aarti around 3:30 am in the morning. Sometimes some deadline comes around and messes up my schedule but I have learned that I need to get up and try again. I need to keep trying to further improve my sadhana. I hope to keep improving myself and to try to keep improving my sadhana in following your instructions.

On a separate note, I am most appreciative and grateful for your guiding me towards the Bhaktivedanta Institute, a way for me to utilize my Ph.D. and academic position in service to Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON mission. I was fortunate to humbly serve in the Bhaktivedanta Institute this year 2021 in two ways: 1) as a Guest Speaker in the panel session “Celebrating Life and Works of Dr. T. D. Singh - Pioneer of Science-Spirituality Dialogue” symposium on 9th December 2021 on the occasion of the 84th Birth Anniversary of Founding Director Dr. T. D. Singh (Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami Maharaja). 2) as a chair of the Music, Attention, Meditation session of the Neuro Conference at the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies. We are trying to work with the BI scientists Drutakarma Prabhu, Brahmatirtha Prabhu, and Akhandadhi Prabhu to build a scientific model of the subtle body and use that to explain anomalous phenomena in modern science. There is now a growing interest in consciousness by neurologists and neuroscientists. What I heard from your lectures since childhood has inspired me to delve into this field of presenting Vedic and Bhagavata models in scientific jargon.

You are my source of inspiration and my ideal Guru Maharaj in scientific preaching. Your books, articles, your work, NIOS, your mission in scientific preaching is so great and glorious! Your eloquence and elocution of clearly explaining Vedic and Bhagavata philosophy in modern scientific terminology and your easily answering my questions about Vedic and Bhagavata philosophy is what pulled me from my childhood towards the scientific exploration of Vedic and Bhagavata philosophy. I hope to keep learning from your Holiness and to offer my little service in this scientific preaching mission of Srila Prabhupada.

Your humble aspiring servant,

Aja Govinda dasa

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