Letters to the editor

Devotee writes:

"Perdon me Gurudev. Your one disciple Smt Indumukhi devi dasi is not well in health for long three months as post covid suffrting. Kindly bless her for early recover."

HpS - Thank you for the news. Where is she? Which city, state. We just cannot remember everyone we initiate, especially when they don't keep much communication. 😕

Please convey our respects to her.

Draupadi had to be drug into the assembly of the game of dice and publicly humiliated, but it was part of a larger plan.

So, we pray that Mataji have great determination and enthusiasm to relate to her material situation and by engaging in devotional service: 16-nice rounds, 4-principles strictly, she understand what Krsna wants her to do in His ESSENTIAL Sankirtan movement.

If she is pure Krsna can and wants to use her to do great things.

HK Maharaj! Please accept my most humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupad!

How r you? Where are you? How’s ur health?

HpS - The three most asked questions: I am immortal, part and parcel of Krsna. I am in a mortal body. My health is eternally great. My body is dwindling. Eyes are going. Won't be able to drive too much more.

I’m still here, alive and trying to survive. Life has been a little difficult with my fianceé but we managed to get along, finally we will get married very very soon, we need to make a new id for her so we can have our legal address here in Cordoba and then we have to book an appointment for legal marriage, still she wants to wait for the yajña marriage.

Im doing well at work, still designing and performing my community management duties.

Im chanting more japa, and reading regularly, I recently finished the Venu Gita, really loved it.

Im trying to get up earlier in the morning and do more service for the Buenos Aires temple, I’m helping them out with designing tasks.

My little daughter is every day bigger, she’s such a joy! Always smiling and happy, barely cries.

She’s about to be 8 months old these days.

best regards Maharaj!!!

HK!!

Federico

HpS - Gosh. I cannot remember anything about you Federico!!! Have we talked? In BsAs temple? Are you two meters tall, 100Kg? Famous MMA fighter??

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In any case, you sound like a very, very, very, v e r y, fortunate person. In the present time, most people are suffering like ANYTHING! They have complete identity crisis. They think that they must serve their tongue, belly and genitals.

No, like you are learning!! We must serve.

Krsna.

Thank you.

Hope to remember who you are??/

Hare Krsna,

Dear Maharaja. OBEISANCES! 🙌

ASA - All glories to Srila Prabhupada who kindly gives us service in his Sankirtan band! Looks like a long letter. Let's go! !

What a pleasure to finally be able to sit down and write to you after such a long time. 😄

ASA - Ha! Ha! If you would write shorter letters more often it might be better, but maybe not. Good letters come in all sizes and frequencies.

I hope you are in good health; may your body and mind remain strong and enable you to continue your daily service. Jaya 🦁 Nrsimhadeva! 

HpS - Actually our body is becoming more and more weak each day. Our estimate of three more years to final dissolution seems pretty accurate, but... we, the passenger, seem to be getting stronger!!! Hope is same for you.

So so so many things have happened inside and outside of me. With me, with others, with the environment, with you, with Krsna, with Prabhupada. Phew! A whirlwind of emotions, sensations and thoughts for months now.

I feel like telling you so many things! I hope not to expand this letter too much and to keep it as short as possible.

First of all, I want to thank you for your constant presence. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to contact you and to have your association (It is a gift from Krsna).

HpS - It is kind of you to give us yours. ! !

My dream world is very particular. She teaches me many things... I believe and I feel that she has helped me to decipher many important things for my growth in these last years. Thank you for be part of it.

At work everything is going well. A lot of work and a lot of responsibility. I have had to take over an important part of the company and I have felt a lot of stress and pressure in this position. I think Krsna put me in this position for a reason. I have to learn something, don't I?

HpS - Or maybe it is The Witch and The Evil One trying to trick you with thinking that you are the controller and not live a simple life of high thinking. Either one is possible. Chant, read, associate with devotees and you will know!! Very fortunate we are.

I have already started my postgraduate studies. As I told you in my previous letter, I started a Masters in Environment and Sustainable Development. It is a very interesting topic to learn about, and I think it cuts across many areas, not only Engineering. 

It has been very hard, Maharaja. Working and studying is very tiring. My work itself is already demanding, and performing in my studies means more effort. I have been very tired lately, and it has been difficult for me to continue with my sadhana.

ASA - Ahh! Haaa! It is a trick from The Black Witch and The-Evil-One.

Even though I go to bed early so that I can get up and chant my rounds, I feel very tired mentally, and I need to sleep a little more (sometimes I don't manage to get into the FMP). When I get up early and chant my rounds, I feel that these are not good rounds 😔

I am very sorry, Maharaja. It has been difficult for me to get used to this rhythm of life, even though I like what I do. I understand that my sadhana is what gives me the strength to continue day by day. Please, give me your blessings to keep going and not keep falling.

HpS - Hare Krsna, but blessings are only part of success. The other one is acting.

I have done what you recommended; I keep a record of "rounds in debt", and when I can chant more than my 16 rounds, I cross them off my list. Sometimes I add more to the debt, and sometimes I subtract. I'm trying to improve every day 🙏

ASA - Super Good, but best is if we get them done daily. I also fall behind some times. I also my fighting with The Black Witch and The Evil One.

I'd like to tell you something very personal.... 

ASA - Here in the Blog!!!! O.K. Here it is, so I guess we can all look at it and Yoga Maya will cover those who should not see it.

For a while now I've been questioning a lot of things. Things related to how I can and want to relate to the devotees, to ISKCON, to Prabhupada, to the GBC.

ASA - I also question this. Radharani wonders if She should just give up on this unfaithful boy and be a Brahmacarini.

What happened with Lokanath Swami hit me very hard (I don't know if I should even call him Swami). It broke my heart how the ICC, GBC and great leaders reacted to that. 

ASA - It is a very tough situation. As far as I know there was no serious fault on his part. Any accidently mistake he made was corrected.

Yet, we live in a VERY big institution and can't know everything about it, so we have to cultivate a circle of close friends as well as be good citizens of the institution and.... keep our individual personal relationship with Srila Prabhupada.

Precisely in all this time of internal questioning, I did not know whether to write to you about it in the Blog. I did not dare. Many times I sat in front of the computer to write to you, but I didn't know if it was appropriate.... I asked Krsna for guidance.

ASA - It is fine. We can, should, deal with such events, but in the Blog we cannot go into great detail, because a variety of people are involved. It is in between friends and institution.

Recently I was reading the book "Twirl Your Beads" about your writings, poems and others. And as I was going through the pages having this questioning within me, whether to write to you or not about this topic, a picture of you with Lokanath Swami appeared. I felt within myself that it was time to write to you....

ASA - Aaaah! Maybe that was The White Witch (Radha) and The Good One (Gopal, who always takes care of His calves and cows).

Maharaja, I wonder how can I be part of an institution that supports and endorses a man accused of abuse an 11 year old girl, who is a spiritual master, Sannyasi, who speaks of Krsna, who represents Prabhupada, who preaches love?

ASA - You can't, I wouldn't.

1. We mentioned before that we heard from Srila Prabhupada's lips that this is the material world. There are problems everywhere, even in his temples.

Even in Braja when Krsna was personally present.

So, if we hear of problems in the institution, then we have to take action from our position.

I have seen some cover ups in ISKCON, but never anything that lasted or was too great. That is because the individual members have taken shelter of the Brahminical qualities and people that Srila Prabhupada has given us and acted to make corrections in the institution and its leadership.

Mother's Partys.

Zonal Gurus.

Rtivik.

There will be more and more. Srila Prabhupada says that it is a very old story, Deva/Asura, the gods versus the demons. In the material world it always goes on. In our institutional dealings we have to fight it as men, women, children, sudras, ksatriya, brahmanas... and keep a nice circle of friends.

There are many nice devotees in this institution.

You have to make friends and proper connections with them.

We can only help a little bit in institutional problems.

Take advantage of that.

Help us if we fall and you are standing,

but have a lot of nice friends in the institution and don't even hope that it will become perfect in Kali yuga (SD 1.17).

How can I continue to trust the preaching without questioning it, when some people who are in charge of it, are sexual harassers, abusers, violent?

Why, if we are not the body, if we are spiritual souls, do they give so much importance to being a woman, being homosexual, being black, white, Hindu, Christian?

I am in a woman's body and it is not easy.

HpS - No body is easy in the material world. Just different challenges.

It is not easy to accept some verses that talk about women in the scriptures. How in some classes they speak from racism, from homophobia, from misogyny. It is not easy to see how we are mistreated with words on a daily basis, with acts, with abuse.

HpS - Try being a Sannyasi for a few years and reading Prabhupada's books!! Ooof! He is always kicking, following the Acharya's, false Gurus, false Sannyasis.

They also kick False Women, False Homosexuals, False Black/White/Yellow people. Once we are devotees. We are real women, homosexuals, black/white/yellow people.

Just counting quickly I have five initiated disciples who are public or confidential homosexuals. O.K. It doesn't bother them or me any more than if they were heterosexuals.

Just have to adjust to the kind of body you have.

Radharani, Sita Devi, completely control There husbands, by love.

ASA - Regular Chilean society supports animal slaughter and divorce etc, no? So, I am ready to live my institutional life in any institutional religion which is better than the current ISKCON, but I have not found it. Send news, but really don't expect perfection from institutional religion. Expect it from practical perfection in the institution, based upon perfect personal relationships amongst the devotees who make it.

O.K. ?

It hurts me so much to see this in ISCKON. It hurts me so much to feel that we are no different than other institutions. I wonder what Srila Prabhupada would say, Maharaja. I wonder all these things because my heart feels sad. I feel really pain, Maharaja. And this pain hurts me deeply.

Please excuse me for writing these things to you. It may not be appropriate, and if so, I am sorry. I feel in my heart the need to express it to you, hoping that you can help me to understand all these questions; trusting in your wisdom, feelings, knowledge and being.

I am not trying to generate a controversy. I hope that those who read this blog will not feel offended 🙏. I express these questions from my heart so that you can help me to understand them, as I have not been able to do so myself.

ASA - Maybe ISKCON, the institution, GBC, is a bunch of pedo-homo-bestio-philes and I don't know it, but for 47-years now I have been working in the institution and two times ready to leave because of the problems that were supposed to be there. but after serious, serious, investigation I came to the conclusion that the administrators were just as sincere as was I and trying deal with their faults and the institutional faults.

Recently we went through accusations against a devotee in Peru. I spent hours, and hours, and hours, and suffered so much verbal violence to get to the bottom of the situation as a member of the GBC investigation committee.

We found out what we could as an institution.

We made recommendations.

We saw that so many people make accusations. Repeat descriptions of sins that they have heard, but very rare to find anyone who is willing to do the actual work of investigating things rather than just enjoying/suffering, the nectar of fault finding.

So, Hare Krsna.

Know the soldier next to you in the trench!

Look at the General from a distance, and do the best you can, and get a direct connection from Srila Prabhupada, and follow those directions.

The Witch, Putana, will try to kill our faith in the Institution, Our Friends, and Our Guru (Prabhupada), get past the witch by sincere love for Prabhupada and HIS Iskcon.

More than eternally grateful to you.

Your aspiring servant,

Bh. Nicole Silva

HpS - 🙂 👍

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna querido Guru Maharaja, acepte mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias, quiero darle mi siguiente informe;

Los meses anteriores he estado cantando 16 rondas, y siguiendo los 4 principios, este mes de junio tuve deficiencias en mis rondas que no llegué a 16 rondas, los gayatris estoy cantando una vez al día, los ekadasis si los he estado haciendo bien. No estoy adorando mucho a las silas por esta deficiencia, Prabhú Gadai es el que tiene este servicio más fijo.

También quería manifestarle un deseo a largo plazo, quizás de aquí a un año y medio o dos años de tener un hijo, siento en querer realizarme como mujer y madre en criar a un niño en conciencia de Krsna, he estado teniendo mucho contacto con mis sobrinos que ahora veo a los niños y me causa ternura.

Por otro lado no he estado bien de salud, mi sistema inmunológico está muy débil, los dolores de cabeza son fuertes aveces. Mi padre tuvo una discusión con su hermana, ella quiere apropiarse injustamente de la herencia que les dejó sus padres, así que salí en defensa de mi padre y les estoy ayudando a hacer respetar sus derechos. Mi padre es muy contemplativo y dadivoso con su hermana que ahora ella se quiere aprovechar de su nobleza, y mi hermano siempre fué una persona muy fácil de convencer y diplomático. Así que como mujer tengo que sacar carácter para hacer respetar a mi padre.

Por otro lado quería hacerle una pregunta, es sobre el karma, he estado muy mal emotivamente, ya que tengo un karma muy difícil, porfavor ayúdame:

1° Es verdad que las actividades espirituales que tenemos es sólo para nuestro avance espiritual y que el karma que tenemos tiene que seguir la función

2° Como devotos como podemos afrontar el karma negativo que traemos de vidas pasadas, a veces sentimos que teniendo tantos años de devotos no mejoramos

3° siendo devotos el karma no desaparece ¿Qué debemos hacer?

4° Cómo convivir en toda nuestra vida con nuestro karma negativo

Gracias querido Gurudev por su asociación, volveremos a conectarnos en mangala artik con Ud. necesitamos asociación de su persona y de los devotos. ¿Cuando viene a Perú?, me gustaría conversar con Ud. en persona.

PDT: VAMOS A MEJORAR Y LLEGAR A LAS 16 RONDAS ESTABLECIDAS Y CANTAR LOS GAYATRIS TRES VECES AL DÍA.

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All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna, dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my most humble and respectful obeisances, I want to give you my next report;

The previous months I have been singing 16 rounds, and following the 4 principles, this June I had deficiencies in my rounds that I did not reach 16 rounds, the gayatris I am singing once a day, the ekadasis if I have been doing them well. I am not worshiping the silas much for this deficiency, Prabhu Gadai is the one who has this more fixed service.

I also wanted to express a long-term wish to you, maybe a year and a half or two years from having a child, I feel like I want to fulfill myself as a woman and mother in raising a child in Krsna consciousness, I have been having a lot of contact with my children. nephews that now I see the children and it causes me tenderness.

On the other hand, I have not been in good health, my immune system is very weak, the headaches are sometimes severe. My father had an argument with his sister, she wants to unfairly appropriate the inheritance that her parents left them, so I came out in defense of my father and I am helping them to enforce her rights. My father is very contemplative and generous with his sister that now she wants to take advantage of her nobility, and my brother was always a very easy to convince and diplomatic person. So as a woman I have to draw character to make my father respect.

On the other hand I wanted to ask you a question, it is about karma, I have been very bad emotionally, since I have very difficult karma, please help me:

1 ° It is true that the spiritual activities that we have is only for our spiritual advancement and that the karma that we have has to follow the function

ASA - Yes, if we are initiated devotees and following the standard.

2 ° As devotees, how can we face the negative karma that we bring from past lives, sometimes we feel that having so many years of devotees we do not improve

ASA - We have to ask ourselves: Am I really taking shelter of Krsna? If I am a mixed devotee then He cannot really take full responsibility for my Karma. He will always try to help us become pure devotees.

3rd, being devotees, karma does not disappear. What should we do?

ASA - "diksa kale, bhakta kare..." cited in NoI. At the time of initiation (really 2nd) Durga passes the ropes of our Karma to Radha, and then She manipulates only for our purification and active service to Krsna.

4 ° How to live with our negative karma throughout our lives.

ASA - It is impossible. It is not our nature to be in the external energy. We can never learn to "live with" even after millions of lifetimes. Only solution is to become a parama-hamsa.

We can do it. Just have to decide (again and again) to do it. We are that powerful. If you can breath you can chant. Then 1,728 Mantras is done.

Thank you dear Gurudev for his association, we will reconnect in mangala artik with you. We need association of his person and of the devotees. When are you coming to Peru? I would like to talk with you in person.

HpS - Our schedule is in the Calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja each month. 🙂 🙂

 

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PDT: WE ARE GOING TO IMPROVE AND REACH THE 16 ESTABLISHED ROUNDS AND SING THE GAYATRIS THREE TIMES A DAY.

HpS - Perfect!!!!

Heroine.

Santa Nadia of Peru.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

This letter will be a report of my current situation. In the last letter i told you my visa is in process so that i can

• go to Switzerland,
• get married with my fiance and
• live there.

I thought it would be ready soon, so i sold all my things, now all my material possessions fit in two luggages,

i leave the temple and went to visit my parents a few weeks,

and after that i wanted to spend a few time alone,

so asked a friend if i can go to her apartment (no one is living there) for a few days.

We received news from migration office,

they think it's suspicious that two persons want to get married without to get to know each other in person first,

and it's very common people get married just because of the visa,

so we are under investigation and im still in this apartment.

TB/BW - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-rZxLQg3Io

I didn´t come back to the temple for many reasons: the room i was in is not available anymore, i decided to start a business project and wasn't feelling well at the temple for a long time. I wrote you about that a year ago, left the temple for almost two months and came back, gave it another chance, it didnt work. Temple's economic and administrative situation make living there very austere for me, i cant handle it. Accept this was very hard, i used to be pujari of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, went to them and said sorry because i cant stay, somehow i thought cant be there because i´m not good enough to receive that mercy. My heart is crushed because of it. Now my sadhana basically consists in fmp, rounds, manasa puja for my Ladhu Gopal, SB class, reading, two offerings a day. Sometimes it's very difficult to be alone so many days in a row, time to time i go to visit my parents or friends, i can't go to the temple because the idea to go there give me the bitter taste of bad memories, it's sad to connect bad moments to the temple, i´m trying to remember all the good things and to my beloved Sri Sri Gaura Nitai. By the way, i feel very very lucky for many things, Krsna is protecting me and maintining me through many ways, through you, Srila Prabhupada, friends, parents and my fiance. He's amazing, after one year of long distance relationship he still loves me, to this crazy lazy panda. Our backup plan it´s that he comes to my country and get married here. He will come on Kartik, i hope Krsna allow us to see each other soon.

I don´t want to leave without saiying this.

I love you as a person can love someone who gives life meaning and hope, as a person can love someone who teaches you to live, as a person can love someone who reminds you of Krsna every day, as a person can love someone who inspires you to chant the holy name.

Your aspiring servant

Key ear tea duh day v daw see.

TB/ BW - Cool!

The wind blows in the trees and someone on his doorstep he sees.

Krsna is a jealous lover.

Maybe He wants to be sure that you realize any husband in this world is just His representative.

In the beginning there is a tendency to impersonalism, but that is the basis for liberated Rasa, natural life.

News, news, of the days, eventually, in the village were Krsna plays.

From Whatsapp:

"Hare krishna Gurudev. Dandavat pranam unto your lovely feet. Hope by Gods grace you are fine in all respect. Gurudev please help me to get out of one doubt that some time i find and become suddenly angry when I see very very small ants are roaming inside deities aason although i do cleaning daily in the morning and evening before daities sleeping. Is it inexcusable sin? I am sorry to kill your valuable time. Again dandavat pranam unto your lotus feet."

HpS - AgtSP. paoho. Sorry slow to answer. Have fever from too much geriatric athletics in Ekadasi while fasting in very hot weather!

We have ants also. They do not bite unless they get trapped under our clothes and that is little irriation.

We are so, so clean. We try to find their tunnel doorways and put sealing paste on them, but then keep on finding new entrances.

Even there is sprinkling of mango drops on our sink they come in great crowds and devout it.

Also a mouse who eats things.

Krsna das Kapiraja, Srila Prabhupada, say that this is the material world. There are ants everywhere. They are to push us to more and more cleanliness. Deciding what things we can protect eg. putting saucers of water under the altar feet so they can't get in.

Yet, ultimately surrendering to the protection of the Hari nama Sankirtan.

Fight them to the best of your ability, but look at them like weeds that walk. They have no more intelligence, nor malicious intent.

O.K.??

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