Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva. Pamho AGTSP!

While you are in Spain and India, it will be very difficult for me to follow the programs. I will be able to see the classes at ASA Carnaval. With Raman Reti, we are doing our program personally. She is still in Chile until her return on January 12th.

My leg and hip are ok. I almost walk with no help.

HpS - You can kick small dogs? (Of course, you should not, only threaten them if they are threatening!)

What happened to the MOE website project? I am waiting to be able to help spread the word about MOE's activities in Spanish. Frankly, the information and dissemination is almost nonexistent, and there isn't much interest in education here. We are focused on festivals and deities, not much on preaching and education. There are attempts, but not enough. We must ask ourselves why this is happening, what the mission of ISKCON, of Srila Prabhupada, really is. Perhaps I am wrong in my perception, I don't know. But that's how I feel. I spent your Vyasa Puja at home. I offered blueberry ice cream and carrot cake and meditated a lot on your instructions. My wife gave the main class at the Santiago temple and spent it with the devotees.

I hope to continue improving in my studies and my classes. For now, I've had all the Bhakti Sastri classes in PowerPoint format. I also have the Bhaktas course, which we call Introduction to Bhakti Yoga. I also have all of Cantos 1 and 2 of the SB in PowerPoint format. We are progressing with Bhakti Vaibhava. We are about to finish Canto 2. Next year we will begin Canto 3. your study guides have been fundamental to my classes.

I think we should review the Bhakti Vaibhava questions. I feel that the questions focus on details that aren't very relevant, for example, some Sanskrit terms that we don't usually use. I think the questions get lost in the details and don't address the fundamental and commonly used issues as Srila Prabhupada demonstrated. Again, perhaps I'm wrong.

We hope to see you in Peru and share a little with you in the form of vapu. I think we are doing the vani quite well.

Thank you very much for your patience with me, and I hope to one day please you with my service.

ssLAD

HpS - Jaya!!! Hope you can see some of the severe austerities that our body, buddy, donkey is faced with in this travel. Almost as bad as you are facing!

Makes us love Krsna, no?

Yes, education in ISKCON is in diapers, no? Yet, Harvard and Oxford are worse, no? They are not even teaching people which hand to eat with, what to speak of other bodily functions. IN general they are teaching the mind is the product of the brain and they we actually don't exist.

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I am trying to continue with Atul and the Summative examinations for Bhakti sarva bhauma. The have adopted many strategies in trying to develop education in ISKCON and now it is to get the leaders involved with study, testing, diplomated, then the followers will follow.

Formal education through Srila Prabhupada's books actually works! You can teach.

Then, also, there is the Third Hispanomerican Congress on Education scheduled for Santiago and on line.

After that we will come to Lima with Radhika raman Das so we can do whatever is possible to spark interest in reading books and writing dramas!

Peru is such an artistic place. It should lead the world.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru Maharaj, H. H. Hanumat Presaka Swami Guru Maharaj. Please accept our humble obeisances at Your sweet lotus feet.

HpS/ASA - ... and our obeisances at your sweet lotus feet. I think in this world neither of us have sweet lotus feet. Especially after walking in socks for a few hours!!!

Yet in the spiritual world we must have sweet lotus feet or hooves or roots, no?

Hare Krishna, dear Guru Maharaj,

What a relief to find our name in the corrected second list....never really aspired to be first in anything in my life.....

ASA - Just checking to see if anyone is reading our Blog posts! 😃

Thank you Guru Maharaj, being in a female body, oftentimes, sentiments take over , time and again logic brings me back to my senses and for this please accept my humble obeisances unto Your lotus feet again and again.

Matajis are giving their best for the Raas offering. How would Guru Maharaj wish this offering to be presented? At the Sri RadhaKrishnachandra temple or elsewhere? The matajis are aspiring devotees...we have never had this kind of group, our only desire is that Srila Prabhupada, Sripad Maharaj our dear Guru Maharaj and all the devotees are pleased with our little humble effort. Except for our teacher, Mataji Romila none of them are expert , professional dancers. All of them simply want to perform Vasanta Raas as an offering to Gurudev. Everyday we share few mins of video recording of the dance practice and we have been doing this for the past 4months. Kindly give us the courage and strength to please you dear Guru Maharaj.

HpS/ASA - We don't have female bodies but reading the above emotions, are taking over our mind. So many thanks.

Maybe we can talk on phone when we arrive in Mumbai. Just two days now. Seems Mani mandir is the best????

Audience will be many devotees from Spain. They have one of the best dance traditions in Europe.

We are eagerly waiting to serve Guru Maharaj and everyone accompanying Guru Maharaj to Manipur.

We wish to serve Guru Maharaj at Sri Radha Kund too. Merciful Guru Maharaj, we feel Your divine presence and love, I am least qualified to receive such guidance, protection and love.

Giving my presentation for TTC 1 and 2. Choosing the topic " Genesis of Karmic reactions" for my presentation. Seeking your blessings always.

HpS - Kuta, Bija, Phalam???

I remain,

Your unqualified, insignificant servant,

Sarad Gaurangi DD.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!!!! Vasanta gi purnima ooooo ooooo oooo oooo!!! ... Lakpishi...

Querido Gurumaharaja

Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Gaura bhakta vrnda!

Leímos el blog y estamos muy felices de saber que existe la posibilidad de su visita a Ciudad de México el 27 de Marzo y pasar el fin de semana con nosotros, he conversado con prabhu Janardana, con algunos hermanos espirituales y devotos del Yatra, por supuesto todos estamos muy felices con la noticia de esta posibilidad. Prabhu Vanamali le extiende la bienvenida al templo de Sus Señorías Radha Madana Gopal y la comunidad que lo tiene muy presente. Esperamos que se logre la compra del ticket, nosotros también podemos apoyar en todo lo necesario. No queremos ser una carga sino ofrecerle una calida y amena bienvenida, porsupuesto podemos continuar afinando los detalles.

Muchas gracias por esta consideración, la misericordia no la merecemos pero si la necesitamos.

Muchas gracias!

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente

Asta

Sakhi dd

HpS / ASA - Hare Krsna. You can see that we just posted the ticket information here on the Blog. Zoom! ZOOM! Z O O M ! 🛫

Krsna is Urukrama, the big actor, no? What do we have to offer anybody! If we are inspired by the Parampara we can do something!!! They are so merciful that maybe we can all engage in Sankirtan those days.

Let us see if any plans arise.

It is three months from now!!

Thank you all.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope your trip to Spain was comfortable and the yatra there is going well.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP! Still alive!!

We are planning to move to Radha Kalachandji Dham next month Guru Maharaj. We always had a plan to move to Dallas in a few years, but we advanced the timeline. My company (Starr Insurance) has an office here in downtown Dallas and i just got approval to move to Dallas and work from the local office here.

We are planning to list our house in Atlanta around January 20th and move to Dallas and stay with Srinath until the house sells and then we will try to find a house for rent near the temple.

We want to move so that Dhaasharathi and Chandranana could grow together and we wanted to be closer to a temple and live in a devotee community. Although the Atlanta sanga is very nice, it was very isolating and i feel staying closer to the temple and near devotees would help us in our sadhana and progress better.

Praying to You and Krishna for guidance and support during this transition and hoping that Radha Kalachandji will engage us in their service.

Your humble servant

Sri Rama Krishna Das

HpS - Considering the housing situation in Dallas, it seems like it will take the special mercy of God to get what you are looking for, but that seems to be quite a practical hope for devotees.

I hope the ladies don't go mad being so much packed in together!!!

Radha Kala Chandji

kiu

HpS/ASA - Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! 🐵

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaja

AgtSP

PAMHO

I`m very happy, I fell that this year that is coming to an end was more than beneficial fro my spiritual life and my material life, at the start in January I was quite exciting for my new life in Germany, I got a work in a honey company called "Madhu" and I lived with a devotee called "Ananda Vardhana" which is very funny once you realize that both my dad and the company of my dad have the same name.

But that emotion went away fast and very quickly, one of the first things that I discovered was that for me is very important to have family or people "like" family around me, otherwise I fall in a a sort of depression, and those three months working under that company and living (by that time I was renting another place just living with non-devotees) alone was hard, German winter is not famous for being kind to human beings, In April my happiness came back with Sun and the cold winter was over.

After that I also started to realize more deeply what is my Varna, that realization came when I discovered that I can`t work or put myself under someone that I don`t respect or appreciate,

and the owner of that company was neither of those and therefore working there was exceptionally hard for me.

I keep that job till legal end that I was allowed to work (six months) and right after that I went to a Ratha Yatra in Berlin, was amazing I love Lord Jagannatha, he always is with me and he always take care of me, he is my best friend and the most dear person in my life, after that I traveled to Portugal with an Erasmus program funded by the European Union. (Basically that Union pays to young people to travel free to many places that the program covers.)

The wife of Ananda (her name is Kanu Priya) is directing and organizing some of those projects and she kindly invited me to travel there. There I meet Lalita and all the drama after wards.

And after everything naturally ended I went to live in a temple in the south of Germany, close to the border with France Goloka Dhama, they have a wonderful place there, with beautiful deities and excellent devotees. I`m still in love with that holy place but now the separation is stronger. that happened in the month of September. I made a lot of devotee friends there and my devotion was renewed after having some devotees of my age around. That experience made me wonder why there is so few devotees of my age in general. During that time also I discovered more about my Varna while i was having a conversation with a Brahmacari, to not make it too long basically I was telling the problems in certain aspects of ISKCON and how to solve them, I asked him "you never thought how to solve this and that?" thing that he asked "Never usually I think on them and I just pray" for what I remember and well also other realizations but they can wait in another letter, but in a short resume I discovered that most likely I have some strong Ksatrya nature.

After it I went to live in a temple in France, New Mayapur, also a very nice place but organize by French people, so as you can imagine every thing is open to debate. The deities are wonderful, the people and the place also, is actually a Castle and use to be a medieval one till the family of knights that lived there made some heavy remodulations and after was sold to the devotees. I stayed there till the first or so of November.

Then Spain and Back to Chie were I'm staying at the moment with my family, I'm doing Sankirtan to maintaining myself and giving some of the most needed literature in this planet and this time.

I`m quite happy now seeing in which aspects I improved from last year and having more clear which ones I can improve now, also de idea and opportunity is for taking second, and I'm also seeing the chance of being a online teacher of languages.

I discovered an attraction that I have for photography and writing, I hope you could read what I have done till now. I will try to attach some pictures.

I'm very happy to be able to see you soon.

Hoping that your body is in good shape I hope to see you soon Narottama Dvija Das.

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Is long but nice.

Srila Prabhupada is making us heros.

Hare Krsna.

Very interesting to hear your news.

Is 12.45am here in Tennessee. Must start 16 rounds before Mangala arati.

Every day is battle to serve Krsna, no?