Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Srila Gurudev

Dandavat pranam at your lotus feet [lettuce feet].

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna,

Hope you are in good health and spirit.

HpS - Ha! Ha! Hare! A doctor asking if we are in good health. Body always has some ache, no?

This year we are missing your physical association in India. Every year since last few years it was a routine to travel with you and learn, but due to covid pandemic we are missing your vapu.

HpS - It has e-vapu-rated, no? Krsna is pushing us to another level. You need to become a Big Professor, Doctor, with a Big House et al.

On the sadhana front . My Kartik vrat was very nice . 16 rounds , 4 regulative principles intact with mangal aarti on regular basis ( lots of improvement needed ) , hearing classes on internet .

HpS - ! ! ! We are embarrassed by your sincerity. We will try to be as sincere as you. Eg. lot for a five year old to do 16-rounds. So, when they do, we feel he is much better devotee than us.

I took a 4 hours seminar on deity worship rituals and Pancha- anga puja on a day before Kartik rasa .Also did the Practical demonstration and vaishnava homa on rasa purnima for satisfaction of Nitai and Nimai as taught by H.G.Mukunda Datta Prabhu during my stay in vrindavan .

HpS - Soooooo o o o ! Nice. You purify the three worlds.

Need to read the Bhagawatam properly now .

Sri Narasimha Dev installation and Nitai Nimai birthday was done with great joy and very nice prasadam on Rasa purnima . It was a nice program and opportunity to preach . I have noticed that I am good in preaching through deity worship and related samskaras .

At one time I can preach /talk only to two or three people that also in more conservative lines. That keeps my own self also in line .

When I try to do it for larger groups I exhaust myself and it affects me negatively .I am better with few people only.

HpS - So was Karl Marx. He was good writer but not good in big groups, but he became rather famous, no?

In this regard I will also like to request you for re - initiation into gayatri mantra diksha , if you allow .This time the mood is suitable , I have given it a lot of thought before requesting this time .

HpS - Following everything for one year? All the Japa? Would be super for you if you can keep the work.

My preaching efforts as I have noticed are more on brahminical lines in the place that I currently stay.

I need to work on my self confidence . I feel like I have underestimated my abilities to change myself and also influence like minded people . With chanting good rounds I feel like I can help myself and also others .

HpS - Yes, confidence comes from hearing evaluation of other: Krsna, Guru and innocent people who hear us.

All in all everything is very positive currently by Krsna's mercy on both material and spiritual life .

Next month I plan to go to Sridham Mayapur and puri dham.

On mokshada ekadasi I have been invited to do a small puja and preaching in a local family home .

HpS - !!

On material academic front my masters program is going good .

My parents are also chanting little bit.

Back home ----Father is retiring from job next month . He had a stent put in his heart .They convey their pranams at your lotus feet.

HpS - My respects to them!!! A photo of them attached?

Hopefully if they become devotees then they can receive initiation someday .Main problem I feel is the fish :( being Bengali they find it difficult to leave it .

They have reduced eating fish but still they do eat .

HpS - Learn to cook "somebody" else, no?

Srila Gurudev , hope you visit India soon . Missing the mangal aarti with you in Mayapur .

Hare krsna

Rturaj Krsna Das

Shillong , meghalaya

P.S. pictures attached

HpS - We miss India also. It is India. It is more alive. The West is very mechanical. Every thing is so "lifelike". Let's answer some more letters. Come with us.

Your situation seems very nice. As long as you are chanting HK you are making progress and little by little you become transcendentally fixed.

Let's do it in one lifetime Don't come back again as a beautiful woman, and become a famous European opera star.

previous letter node: 11878

Hare Krsna Maharaj, PAMHO, AGTSP

thank for your reply.

"Four principles strictly and 16-enthusiastic rounds and basic standard"

till now we had issue with fourth rule strictly, but we think we come to that level now.

16 enthusiastic rounds, we are working on this, but we get 16 rounds done ( v r [v r = ???] demon)

basic standard-- improving on this also.

getting up early/morning program.

we get up in the range of (0130 am - 0330 am 85%) (0330am-400am 14%).

our [and?] then we hear BG all slokas with translation from one chapter at least two times, this from application on the phone.

ASA - Very nice.

then if there is some interesting verse, we read it or hear some gita . We thank your grace to let us stick to BG, it is helping a lot, v r able to connect to them.

V [V = ?] make sure we see run [Sun] rising from our window. the orange sun reminds us of Krsna's love and grace.

HpS - 😊

other things bath/ chanting /exercise --is little fickle esp it depends on our health, environment etc.

we have 75% times attended virtual mangal arti on mayapur.tv.

HpS - It is not virtual for Radha Madhava, no? They know you are there.

we are trying to get Arti/ chanting , done before sun rise... this has been struggle. but primarily its not due to get connection with Deity/chanting.

but we will get to it we are sure in short time.

so we are are up before sun rise, but activities are little varying.

regards,

suicide bomber

HpS - Sounds very nice. Six months like this and you can be a formal Candidate. We need recommendation from an administrative authority in ISKCON. Any people you know??? Very nice.

Please accept my humble reverencias, remembered Gurudev. I wish that this letter finds you happy and in good health in your marvelous conscience of Krsna. All the glories to Srila Prabhupada! Thank you very much for your questions and for your answers.

In my previous letter, the word to which I was referring was Sri Damodara and I was requesting your blessings to advance in His conscience.

HpS - I don't understand? Have to cite the previous letter for us monkey brains.

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Thank you for asking about Franco. He is very much engaged working in the orchard and other things. Therefore he is not carving any sculpture though he is willing to do it. He had kept some trunks for this. And Gopal has requested him to sculpt Baladeva with elephant trunk and Subhadra with elephant trunk so that together with Jagannath elephant trunk all them will be complete.

ASA - Interesting.

Last time Sara´s son who helped her sending the photos could not do it as the first time. So she was worried because it would be uncomfortable for you to open them. We apologize for the inconveniences and hope that you have been able to look at them.

HpS - No problem opening attached photos. We like them.

On page 435 of the "Nectar of Srila Prabhupada" there is a letter which says:

"... with respect to the instructions of the spiritual teacher, there is no need to take his instructions received in a dream while the teacher is still present..." When I read this I thought that I was wrong in taking your instructions in my dreams Gurumaharaja.

Please could you instruct me on this?

HpS - Prabhupada says that dreams of the Guru and Krsna are not ordinary. If we get some instructions in dreams we should of course confirm it with Sastra. Physically present Guru, and devotees. 💪

I thank you very much for your merciful answer to this question. I have read that after the last Ekadashi of these holly months of Purusottama and Kartika and in the last five days of Purosottama and Kartika it is possible to keep on fasting as much as possible. Then, is it necessary to eat grains in order to break the Ekadashi if during those five days no grains have been eaten?

HpS - I think you need to take a little halavah, chapati, to break it on Dvadasi. I don't know.

Franco prepares for Ekadashi and together with Gopalito both follow it strictly. Therefore my concern when there are two Ekadashis so that they do it correctly. Thank you very much for your answer. Thank you for taking your valuable time for reading this letter.

HpS - What do you mean Two Ekadasis? Yes some times it happens but we just act as if there was one. In the Vaisnava Calendar it gives instructions which to follow. We publish it in the Calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja. Happy Hari Calendar.

With your blessings I will be able to use what I learned as a child and a teenage, my university career, the dance, etc. all of which I dedicate to your divine feet. You teach us with your perfect humbleness how to use our studies on the service of the preaching of His Divine Grace, so that everything can serve to support the movement of sankirtan! As an atom in front of your feet I wish to be always! All the knowledge given by Krsna let it return to Krsna! We only beg to have a small service which can please your lotus feet.

Honestly I had almost forgotten these studies, my title of graduate in Communication Sciences and my theater studies. All I only remembered was dancing. Thanks to my mom who send me photos and made me remember! The dancing school will start for now only through my youtube channel.

Kindly forgive any offense committed unintentionally. Please accept our humble and respectful reverences to your lovely dancing lotus feet in the eternal sankirtan of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada whose books are now our only association, our only comfort.

Missing a lot your Association we stay at your feet: Franco, Gopal and Radha japa pratija devi dasi.

HpS - Hope you meet nice partner for you School and can teach a few students physically. Maybe you can all live together in the forest.

RNPD Wrote:

Hare Krishna!

Pamho. Agtsp!

Raghunatha Puri checking in. All is well. Still liking Butte [Montana]. Thank you for giving Jagat Bandhu Das my phone number. We've been chatting regularly. Nice to have a little devotee association.

The people in the hotel are nice, but they're not devotees yet. I give them Rams prasad (trail mix) so at least they're getting a chance to become purified. So how are you? Hope all is well. Jai Hanuman!

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HpS - ASA -- You can see that we are moving slow. Taken so long to answer this letter. It happens with the Whatsapp mail especially. So, I will open an account for you here in The Blog, and Whatsapp you the Secret Codes. We publish our news in the Kapi Dhvaja. We should have it out before Sunrise tomorrow.

We are struggling to engage our sense in the service of Krsna. We must have been big yogis in our last lifetimes to be so attracted to ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, but are we making progress or just drifting through on our previous credits.

Your association is big part of our life.

Thank you.

Got a Rat?

Hare Krsna Maharaja!!

Agt SP !!!

Agt Nimai and Nitai !!!

I hope you do very well.

ASA - In hell! 😉

Material world.

Thank you very much for your answers. It is very nice to be able to talk to someone about these things, with someone sensible.

You asked me “What are Siva and Parvati called in the spiritual world” in my opinion? I dont know really, but, i simply can imaginate that Siva And Parvati are a singular part of the mitologycal adventures of the kids of Vraja. The Gods of Their adventures...I dont think possible Vraja without they.

ASA - In Vaikuntha they are Sada siva and Parvati, as I know. They are more like in Santa rasa as far as I know, and then They project them selves in to the material world to help people. Very much like Maha-visnu et al. I think there is more about them in the CC. If we have a certain kind of consciousness then these things are practical.

Remember, in Braja, Lord Siva wants to enter but he will scare baby Krsna, mother Yasoda thinks, with all the snakes, so she asks him to guard the door. So he is Gopisvara Maha deva. Four forms, Siva lingas guard the four directions of entrance into Braja, and then four other forms within Braja to specifically guard Mathura etc. etc. etc.

Today I have remembered the Vrajamandala parikrama, and the Chira Ghata especially. This has been funny, because I remembered a photo that I have of you under that tree or another, I don't remember exactly now. I will try for the next moon to be able to send it to you.

HpS - 🙄

I have to let you know that lately, my meditation is getting much deeper. I can only summarize it, as if Krsna, Balarama, Visnu surely, Siva-Visnu, blinked in many places on a daily basis, and it is as if those blinks reset the time value.

I remember Gaurakisora Das Babaji a lot, for some reason, I always felt a lot of closeness or affection towards him. I love his samadhi in Radha Kunda. Surely, along with the Samadhi of Haridas Thakura in Nilacala, Jagannatha Puri, are the sites that most enchanted my mind.

I always remember those places a lot thanks to your taste for Vrndavan Mahimamrta. Who knows why?

And I am always envious of those who can eat the Maha prasadam of Krsna Balarama Mandir in Vrndavan, especially sweets. And the Maha prasadam of Mayapur. I love pizza. I hate I can't eat them every day.

HpS - Next life. Very soon! Packages in the mail.

I have to admit that over the years, among so many devotional impressions, some have been disappearing, and others remain as Meru mountains. Many are book covers, such as the Prarthana painting of Narottama das thakura. Deluxe version.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva.

Have a good days.

HpS - Thank you. Have you tried, drawing, painting. Look at different kinds of art. Surrealist art?? For Krsna?

HpS - Aaaah! I don't see the attachments until I 'save' the file. Your attachments are great!! Did you do those??

Por favor acepte mis más humildes reverencias. TLGASP.

Espero que este bien de salud y Krishna y Radha siempre lo protejan.

16 rondas por día, 4 principios ok. Estoy estudiando para poder en un año o dos poder emprender un negocio y financiar el poder alquilar una casa para vivir.

Espero que antes de 2 años pueda realizar esto. Lo que estoy estudiando tiene que ver con los negocios, liderazgo, marketing... Todo se puede aplicar también para predicar.

También estoy haciendo 3 horas de bicicleta a la semana, 1 hora cada día 3 veces por semana. No somos el cuerpo pero hay que cuidarlo.

Algún día llegaré a GOLOKA VRINDAVANA...

Gracias Guru Deva por su misericordia. Y perdone las ofensas de este pobre tonto ignorante.

Jharikhanda-gaura Das.

HpS - Un devoto muy agradable, nuestro amigo, Atreya rsi Das, fue a la Escuela de Administración de Empresas de Harvard. Dijo que realmente todo lo que aprendió allí fue básicamente: comprar barato, vender caro.😂

I hope you sell very high!