Letters to the editor

Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Querido Gurudev comienzo mi reporte contestando lo que me pregunto con respecto al tratamiento con aceite de marihuana es efectivo este tratamiento considerando dos puntos

1, que sean aceite sin thc y sean bien preparada

2 qué estén supervisado por el doctor tratante en mi caso tomo por mucho años medicamentos por eso yo debo tomar aceite y pastillas a la vez e ir bajando la dosis de pastillas de a poco.

La madre que necesita de esta información me puede llamar o hablar directamente mi número es+51912457926

Con respeto a mi sadhana esta muy bien cada dia perfeccionando en ello, leyendo cada día a las devotas y en nuestra casa, adorando a nuestras deidades, decorando, haciendo joyas, comprando bhoga,una vez a la semana regalamos bolitas en Chosica, también en el templo de Chosica a veces me piden dar clases así que muy feliz por siempre mejorar lo que hago.

Estoy con trabajo independiente, haciendo clases de natación, fisioterapia, acá en Perú además de lo hago para Chile

En la fiesta de Nityananda Trayodasi estuvo muy bello ofreciendo hermosas preparaciones, linda decoración y repartiendo el prasadam a familia y personas

Mi familia esta muy bien hablo dos veces a la semana por video llamada

Muchas gracias a Srila Prabhupada y a usted por inspirarme cada día a mejorar mi servicio y ser una buena representante de la conciencia de krishna se despide su sirviente Raman Reti Devi Dasi

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All glories to Guru Nitay

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Dear Gurudev, I begin my report by answering your question regarding the marijuana oil treatment. Is this treatment effective? Considering two points:

1. That the oil is THC-free and well-prepared.

2. That it is supervised by the treating physician. In my case, I have been taking medication for many years, so I have to take the oil and pills at the same time and gradually reduce the dose.

Any mother who needs this information can call me or speak directly. My number is +51912457926.

HpS/ASA - This is for traumatic electrical brain storms?

With respect to my sadhana, it is going very well. I am perfecting it every day, reading to the devotees every day and at our house, worshiping our deities, decorating, making jewelry, buying bhoga. Once a week we give away little prasadam balls in Chosica. Also, at the Chosica temple, I am sometimes asked to teach classes. So, I am very happy to always improve what I do.

I'm self-employed, teaching swimming and physical therapy here in Peru, and I also travel to Chile.

At the Nityananda Trayodasi festival, it was beautiful, offering beautiful preparations, lovely decorations, and distributing prasadam to family and friends.

My family is doing very well. I talk twice a week via video call.

Thank you very much to Srila Prabhupada and you for inspiring me every day to improve my service and be a good representative of Krishna consciousness. Farewell, your servant Raman Reti Devi Dasi.

HpS/ASA - Thank you! This movement has so many different kinds of people in all different kinds of positions and people can see that it is effective.

We can go on more and more improving. Of course, some people have attachments outside of the four principles so that cannot live on Srila Prabhupada's land, but by his direction we can make arrangements for everyone.

Querido Gurumaharaja 

Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Todas las glorias al movimiento de sankirtana de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu y sus devotos! 

Tenemos la confianza y agradecimiento de que el Señor Nrisimhadeva lo proteje en su sankirtana. 

Preferimos no escribir para no saturar su correspondencia y valioso tiempo, tenemos algunos desafíos en cuanto a la salud que podrían mentalmente volvernos inestables sin embargo estamos entendiendo que conforme pasan los años naturalmente tendremos que aprender a usar más la sabiduría que otras habilidades de la juventud, es difícil, sin embargo Krsna tiene Sus planes supremos...

Usualmente leemos Twitter/X, parece que el 90% les parece práctico el grupo de WhatsApp, lo que sea más útil para su sankirtana está bien para nosotros, estamos para intentar servirle.

Cada aplicación tiene ventajas y desventajas, si la decisión es WhatsApp por favor tomenos en cuenta para esta maravillosa asociación. 

En WhatsApp hay grupos interactivos y también grupos configurados para que sean informativos en donde únicamente el/ los administradores pueden enviar mensajes y material con la finalidad de evitar saturar el almacenamiento del equipo, esto es útil cuando hay un foro grande y mucho entusiasmo en la comunicación.

Nos gustaría conocer un poco más de estas propuestas por favor y ser parte. 

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente 

Asta Sakhi dd 

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Dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to the sankirtana movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and his devotees!

We are confident and grateful that Lord Nrisimhadeva is protecting you in your sankirtana.

We prefer not to write so as not to overwhelm your correspondence and valuable time.

HpS/ASA - Thank you! We are all trying to accommodate each others limitations, no?

We have some health challenges that could make us mentally unstable. However, we understand that as the years go by, we will naturally have to learn to use wisdom more than other skills of youth. It is difficult, however, Krsna has His supreme plans...

HpS/ASA - Old age is a good friend for a devotee. We are learning to live without food, water, air, thoughts... these will gradually and completely go away soon, no? Yet, Buddhi is more permanent, and even though that may be carried to the next life, if we must, want to leave the Bahiranga shakti, then we must give up Buddhi and Ahankara also!

Jaya!

We usually read Twitter/X, and it seems that 90% of them find the WhatsApp group useful. Whatever is most helpful for your sankirtana is fine with us; we are here to try to serve you.

Each app has advantages and disadvantages. If you choose WhatsApp, please consider us for this wonderful partnership.

On WhatsApp, there are interactive groups and also groups configured for informational purposes where only the administrator(s) can send messages and material, in order to avoid overloading the device's storage. This is useful when there is a large forum and a lot of enthusiasm for communication.

We would like to learn a little more about these proposals, please, and be a part of it.

Your eternal aspiring servant

Asta Sakhi dd

HpS/ASA - Karuna shakti D D also wrote about this and we gave more details in that letter. Is O.K.?

Maybe Mexico is going to be next World Super Power with ASA Group and a transcontinental canal? 😃

So, nice to hear from you.

God intoxicated Mad women!!!

9.30PM.

Moderate headache.

One more letter!

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaja 🙏🏻

Por favor acepte mis reverencias 🙏🏻

Jay Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻

Dear Gurumaharaja, the reason for my letter is because our stay in New Vrajamandala is becoming increasingly difficult. The phrase the authorities always tell us, "THERE IS NO PLACE FOR GRIHASTRAS HERE," is becoming more and more true in our daily lives. I struggled and endured until I couldn't take it anymore. We wrote a letter to the community, formalizing what everyone in NVM knows: that we live in a space that is too small (we have to take out the mattress to open the door) and that it used to be a garbage dump. We cleaned it up.

I am the daughter of a lawyer; I explained my case and supported it. Beforehand, I asked seven brahmanas, as you once told me; I asked seven families who lived and still live here. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that it's best to leave this place.

I'm already married; I can't always live in the house of my spiritual family. Prabhupada says that the grihastras should contribute to the temple, .. my husband and I should not continue living off Iskcon.

We do not want to be a burden or a nuisance to anyone (although the letter affected several of the administrative board) I repeat: I am the daughter of a good lawyer, my father taught me to tell the truth to defend what is right.

The administration no longer has normal spaces for us to live, and we accept it. It is time to go out into the world and work.

My husband and I are grateful but it is now necessary to leave.

HOWEVER I made it very clear that our commitment to supporting the hostel service is to maintain the only source of income for NVM and my husband maintains his service taking care of the 92-year-old devotee who gave and gives everything to the NVM rural project.

In short, WE WILL NOT LEAVE THE SERVICE BUT WE WILL LOOK FOR A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE OUTSIDE OF NVM 🙏🏻

**Le envío una copia de la carta que envié a la comunidad

En medio de Troya, su discípula de tercera clase Yasoda Devi Dasi

** Espero poder volver a verlo en NVM...yo no dejo de pensar en usted siempre es mi refugio espiritual Gurumaharaja 🙏🏻

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna. Thank you for this news. We guess you are back in NVM from India.

What you describe sounds accurate. We guess your husband is of the same mind.

We talked with the Brahmana leaders of the Houston community, Temple President and authorities, State and Federal government and now we plan to be based in Houston until Janmastami.

If things really fall apart the railroad track in one block away and we can just leave all shelter and start walking East along the track toward Braja!

Thank you!!

Hare Krishna, Siksha Gurudeva, please kindly accept my most humble obeisances; all glories to Srila Prabhupada;

all glories to your good self for your own devotion to Prabhupada and Krishna;

all glories to all the devotees of Lord Chaitanya's Sankirtana Movement!🙏

HpS - We always consider you our Siksa guru also!

I trust that all is going well for you in your devotional service: all things considered. Many things come to my mind that I would like to share with someone, but I don't want to be stopping my chanting just to ventilate my thoughts.

But be it suffice to say that I find so much shelter in my japa. There was a time in my life when I was afraid to live and afraid to die, both at the same time. That was how I first took shelter of chanting the Holy Names. Srila Prabhupada is so amazing; his character and level of compassion are so far beyond my scope of appreciation and understanding. He gave us this chanting of the Holy Names on the order of his spiritual master, just to fulfill the desire of Lord Chaitanya. In one famous purport Srila Prabhupada instructed that "our chanting Hare Krishna should be exactly like a small child crying out for its mother." When I reflect on this instruction I can appreciate that the fears and anxieties of my life are like hidden gems and blessings in disguise. I find that my chanting is most meaningful when those fears and anxieties are strong in my mind and heart.

I just had to share some of these thoughts, which come to me during my japa. How will I ever chant nicely when so much comes to my mind? And then I have some compelling need to share them with someone. Thank you, as always, for taking time out of your own spiritual life to to hear me rant on. And thank you for being such an inspiration to so many of us in our devotional service.

Yls, Bbd 🙏

HpS - Chant! Chant! ... can't can't! Rant Rant!! 😆 I had a dream of Srila Prabhupada once and his personality, presence was so, so, so personal. He was conscious, and understanding so much more deeply of everything that was happening in our situation. Like adults with children at a party.

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja, please accept our obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

Thank you so much for this wonderful letter and these illustrations. The Alfred North Whitehead quote is something I want to remember everyday. So grateful to have you in our lives. And we feel very fortunate to have you approve/bless Madhavi’s name as well and to read your kind words for her in the letter. 

HpS/ASA - Tom Brown, Monkey, agtSP, does most of the handwritten letters! 🐵

The grand plan is to keep Radha Bankibhihari happy and taken care of. Make friends and good association here. Do this and do it fully until another opportunity comes on its own accord. And then someday maybe go on tour again but this time with devotees and yes bring the Lordships with us! 

HpS - Super! Prabhupada recommended Gaura Nitai for traveling.

Anadi will be home schooling Yamuna and Madhavi with Mother Arudha’s books and her personal guidance. 

HpS - Super. If it happens, a nice step is Collective Home Schooling, where up to five families work together to have one or people be full time teachers.

I’ve been asked to take over the temple president role here and have been talking with Radhika Ramana Prabhu quite a bit. Not a huge change because Anadi and I have essentially been sharing that responsibility for a few years now but still it feels like a big weight and a great challenge. I’ve been laughing with Krishna about it and have had some arguments too. I just never could imagine that I would have a responsibility like this. 

HpS/ASA - Get everything written down by the principal participants. Fix it for a certain time eg. six months, one year, then review the contract after that time? Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

Going to have our second movie night at the temple in March. Going to show Brother Sun Sister Moon a movie about Saint Francis. Then we will start showing the Diary of A Traveling Creature movies each month starting in April. 

HpS/ASA - What night? Friday night?

I would like to visit you in Houston in the Spring. Is that okay?

HpS - Our plan is to get ready to board the airplane to Vaikuntha (hell) with notice of one breath. 78-year old body!!! but general consensus is that is practical to plan being based in Houston ISKCON until Janmasatami = August.

11-18 March = Nashville. Especially talking about visiting again around Janmastami time for a big North American festival in Nashville ISKCON.

Always happy to have your corporal association.

Been listening to the SB classes in Houston almost everyday and corresponding with Jaya Hari Prabhu so I’ve been receiving lots of mercy in that regard and it’s been empowering projects here in Boise. I eagerly await your classes each week and they inspire our Krishna Lounge talks and everything else. 

Thank you, Gurumaharaja! Oh and thank you for the donation🙏🏻

Your aspiring servant, 

Nitisara Das 

P.S. here is an animation/puppet show that someone made for a song of mine. The song is about Love in separation with God. He wants to keep working with me so as I develop my own Sankirtan I can engage him in more krishna consciousness subject matter.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2OcZTmB2zwI&pp=ygULbmljayBkZWxmZnM%3D

HpS - We will look at it a little later!!!

Now... 4.10PM... and packing up to go to the Temple by 4.30PM to be available for and Sadhu sanga, then 6-6.40PM make the Sunday Love Feast lecture presentation.

As usual, www.youtube.com (ISKCON Houston).

Thank you!!!

Respects to everyone!!

Krsna has a career plan for all of us, no?

Maybe over several lifetimes!

Who might you be in the Mahabharata in you next life???

PAMHO AGTSP! All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!!

HK Maharaj how are you!?

hps - asa - apparently, more blind and deaf each week.

heart is o. k.

dementia is not too bad.

self realization is going nicely. more and more chance to directly purify our self, atma, by japa, vaidhi bhakti.

Where are you? how’s your health doing? I’m sorry to ask this, I haven’t been reading any news about you lately.

hps - are posting here on the blog, twitter, gotomeeting.com, youtube.com [iskcon-houston].

maybe asa-carnaval?

i think you may be the third biggest fool in the universe, no? 😆😆😆😆😆

Here I’ve been experiencing certain difficulties in my spiritual life,

hps/asa - same here. same for radharani. 👍

having trouble with the 4 principles, and well my health hasn’t been going all that well, I’m getting this feeling of like pre nausea regularly. It’s more of an emotional thing caused by this situation with my daughter I’m dealing with. My ex partner blocked all communications with my family so we couldn’t talked to my daughter in months, and now it’s going to be 4 months since I don’t see her. I’m so sad some times.

hps - try nicely, not dog hard, then take it as KRSNA's arrangement and be assured that He is a better friend and criminal court judge than us.

I’m kind of tired of feeling this way. At least I’ve kept my rounds almost alive, couldn’t continue chanting the 16 because of my health condition, but at least I chant a minimum of 6.

I trying to do my best in other areas of my life, such as in playing sports or workout, I kept doing Hatha Yoga almost every day and started freestyle roller skating, which is helping me on losing weight.

I’m now in Buenos Aires, here I began attending to an English conversation club, where I can talk to English native speakers regularly and locals as well, and I’ve done some friends there, which I find to be a great thing.

I would really love to get my life back to normal, or better than normal.

Could you please give me any advice on this?

hps//asa - above... smile...

we put the japa as priority. KRSNA never punishes us for the time it takes for 16 sincere rounds.

Well thank you Maharaj for being there for me!

HK!

Federico

hps - send some pictures [of your self]