Letters to the editor

Please adored Gurudeva, accept my obeisances at Your beautiful Lotus feet.

All Glories to Srila PRABHUPADA and His wonderful Sankirtan movement!

I wanted to tell him that I never thought that Franco could be his disciple. .. I always wanted it but I saw it as impossible ... I thought that maybe, sometime .., Franco would start with a teacher who can replace a little in His heart, Bhakti Thirta Swami .. so I saw that day very far away . ... And when you gave me this wonderful possibility and Franco was happy and surprised when I told him ... I just couldn't believe it ... I still can't believe it ... I'm very happy ... and I owe it again to You my beloved Gurudev.

HpS - ASA --- AgtSP!!... 🙏

Franquito told me a long time ago that he used to sing 20 rounds and more. .. but you can have some tests and he stopped his singing ... I always told him to sing today! It's janmastami !! ..or another party .. and He told me: when I start to sing I will not sing a round, I will sing at 16 or more !! I was happy and waited asking Our Krsna that the day would come soon. ..Yesterday Saturday May 1 He told me that on Monday May 3 He will begin His song !!! I always wanted to sing rounds together and do service together. .. I am very grateful to you. The last janmastami surprised me by saying: let's dance !!! Then he took my arm and we danced in front of the Gaura Nitay😅-style deities holding one arm and the other arm raised! How the devotees dance in the temple. I felt that I was dancing with a Krsna cowboy ... I felt that energy in Franco ... It was a short, too happy experience. Gopalito got jealous and asked us to stop ..😊

On the other hand, My sadhana has been good, but not as good as I would like. In answer to your question, I am meeting very good girls with girlish souls like me :-) Also when I see my students trying to do the steps ... I see souls that Krsnita puts me to help and I ask for intelligence to do it well. Gurudev ask for Your prayers so that I can preach in a way that can reach Their hearts.

I took Jaganatha Baladeva Subhadra to my classes, offered incense and told my students that he is worshiped in India in large floats and many dancers. They greeted Him and asked to improve their dance. I saw an open mind in them.

I would like Radha Dance Academy to be a twig .. of ASA and thus serve with the dance under Her protection always. I read in the blog that you have a staff of dancers .. hopefully we could be part of it. I am not a professional dancer .. I hope we can study in India sometime. .

I did a dance for Nityananda and Gauranga..we have to edit

We can keep rehearsing: Das avatar Stotra .. it's wonderful!

Please forgive any offense in this letter;

Trying to serve and please your heart: J.P. Radha dd.

Greetings from Franco and Gopal

!! P.D. Franco loved the photo of Srila Prabhupada with the japa, which you sent him. Many thanks!!! I have so much to tell you ... but I stop here ... forgive me for my always long letters ...

HpS - Thank you all for your letter... Parama karuna das in Peru is dancer and Sataksi in India. She is trying to teach Odissi dance. How can she write to you about your experiences teaching in the West?

Por favor adorado Gurudeva , acepte mis reverencias a Sus bellos pies de Loto.

Todas las Glorias a Srila PRABHUPADA y a Su maravilloso movimiento de Sankirtan!

Quería contarle que jamás pensé que Franco podría ser su discípulo. .. siempre lo deseé pero lo veía imposible...pensé que tal vez , alguna vez.., Franco se iniciaría con algún maestro que pueda reemplazar un poco en Su corazón, a Bhakti Thirta Swami.. así que veía muy lejano ese día. ...Y cuando Usted me dió esta maravillosa posibilidad y Franco se puso feliz y sorprendido cuando le conte... simplemente no lo podía a creer.. aún no puedo creerlo.. estoy muy feliz.. y se lo debo otra vez a Usted mi adorado Gurudev.

Franquito me contó hace tiempo que antes cantaba 20 rondas y más. .. pero tuvo algunas pruebas y dejó su canto... siempre le dije hoy puedes cantar ! Es janmastami!! ..u otra fiesta.. y El me decía: cuando empiece a cantar no voya cantar una ronda , voya cantar las 16 o más!! Yo me ponía contenta y esperaba pidiéndole a Nuestro Krsna que llegará pronto el día.

..Ayer sabado 1 de Mayo me dijo que el Lunes 3 de Mayo comenzará Su canto!!! Siempre deseé cantar rondas juntos y hacer servicio juntos. ..

Estoy muy agradecida con Usted..

El último janmastami me sorprendió diciendome: vamos a bailar !!! Entonces tomó mi brazo y bailamos frente a las deidades al estilo Gaura Nitay😅 tomados con un brazo y el otro brazo en alto! Como bailan los devotos en el templo . Sentí que bailaba con un vaquerito de Krsna.. sentí esa energía en Franco...Fue una cortita experiencia demasiado feliz. Gopalito se puso celoso y pidió que pararamos ..😊

Por otro lado, Mi sadhana ha estado bien, pero no tan bien como me gustaria.

En respuesta su pregunta, estoy conociendo chicas muy buenas con almas de niñas como yo:-)

También cuando veo a mis alumnas intentar hacer los pasos.. veo almas que Krsnita me pone para ayudar y le pido inteligencia para hacerlo bien. Gurudev le pido Sus oraciones para poder predicar de una manera que pueda llegar a Sus corazones.

Lleve a mis clases a Jaganatha Baladeva Subhadra, ofrecí incienso y les conté a mis alumnas que se lo adora en India en grandes carrozas y muchos bailarines. Ellas hicieron saludo hacia El y pidieron mejorar su danza.. Vi en ellas mente abierta.

Me gustaría que Radha Dance Academy sea una ramita.. de ASA y así servir con la danza bajo Su protección siempre.

Leí en El blog que Usted tiene un staff de bailarines.. ojala pudieramos ser parte de El.No soy bailarina profesional.. Ojalá podamos estudiar en India alguna vez. .

Hice una danza para Nityananda y Gauranga..tenemos que editar

Podemos seguir ensayando : Das avatar Stotra.. es maravillosa!

Por favor perdone cualquier ofensa en esta carta;

Intentando servir y complacer su corazón : J.P.Radha dd.

Reverencias de Franco y Gopal!!

P.D. A Franco le encantó la foto de Srila Prabhupada con la japa, que Usted le envió. Muchísimas gracias!!!

Tengo tanto que contarle... pero paro aquí... perdóneme por mis cartas siempre largas...

          .~.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our most humble obeisances! All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada!

Little Arjun made his swift entrance into this world 18 minutes after being checked into the hospital at 11:58 pm, making a last minute Mother’s Day appearance (Hare....KRSna!). He arrived after Ashrita mata, a wonderful Sunday school attendee mother tapped on our door and told us that we should eat pineapple...! We ate a cup of it at 9 pm and shortly after (9 days past the due date) we had intense contractions.

We were off to another realm, purpose, vortex!

Dharmic prayers regularly given.

Hopefully we can discover who we really are...!

Keep our ear to the ground, monkey warrior blog and Prabhupada-vani audio, and a prayer books in tow (no atheists in Fox holes as you say) We really never wanted to be a soccer mom with a mini van, but we hope something higher may manifest through all of this. 🙏 

ASA - No atheists in delivery rooms? Ha! Ha! Thank you Mataji!

There are sporadic cries of other new souls reverberating the walls.  Guru Maharaj, would you bless our family by blessing Arjun with a middle name??? 🙏 We pray for a simpler life a this with lots of garden boxes, and to increase our home deity worship standard in Idaho city. Little house on the prairie the Hare Krsna way!

ASA - Middle name?? ?? !! Arjuna Krsna!!

1. We reflect on our quiet and thoughtful brahman by varna 2 year old (Sita Sundari),
2. our toddler Kshatriya princess (who just asked why we can’t eat demons that Krsna kills??😂)
3. vaishya sensitive artist Aja and now a calm baby peaceful warrior.

If we want to cry from all of the service we have to do for them, we end with hot milk bottles, Krsna book, and feel Krsna “save” us. We finish rounds in silence with our Spotify ambient playlist. sometimes want sweets and movies at night but if we finish rounds in a concentrated way this desire 70-80 percent of the time will go away (some teenage escapism tendencies still manifest. We are working on it).

During the day with our toddler girls we play with Krsna dolls,  act out pastimes, watch British baby Bhagavatam narrator/YouTuber Vrinda Kishori. 

We take off two afternoons a week to homeschool Aja: the K12 curriculum allows him to pick topics on Peter the Great, Karl Marx and write a research paper on how he can prove the existence of God (his choice!).

On Mother’s Day we realized while watching home videos that helping Krsna’s children has given us a type of moment-to-moment, ever-changing, walking-improvisational-performance-‘ART’ to always react and respond to.

It stomps out (or messes with) our false ego every day. We are not Van Gogh and lost in solitude but we have our own mom solitude to contend with. How can we do better ???? How can kids and activities with them not be extended sense gratification? Is that ok sometimes as long as we have a FMP and chant our rounds??

ASA - You have to gratify your senses the same way you put gas in your auto's tank. They it shows you it's happy with the fuel gage going up. [Burp !]

 We go to work to see clients with adult attachment issues and see what a mess it is to unravel the psychy without a daily shelter, an ideal father and mother (you Guru Maharaj, Srila Prabhupada, Krsna and Radha??) principles (the foundation of the house) chanting (the walls??) and NOI, BG, NOD, SB part one two three (the 5 floors of the house) . A relationship guru/writer (who’s Jewish and been married to his therapist wife for 34 years) describes a similar metaphor called the Sound relationship house that should be manifest with a partner(Trust is the walls, how well you know each other the foundation, conflict resolution is the main floor, letting one another influence each other is floor 2, shared values and goals floor 3, etc). Of course what is missing is the simultaneous access (at least within walking distance) to the first house or temple we described which seems to give us the ideal parent/friend/partner (and how to manifest this with scriptural instructions).

Perhaps both houses described could be introduced to a client or even a devotee struggling with childhood wounds and current relationships.

I think of couples like Mother Uttama dasi and Partha das who figured out how to maintain both an ideal relationship with Krsna and with each other.

How can we present some key communication and relationship building principles to devotees  (I would like to ask Uttama and Partha how they have done this) without leaving out spiritual principles when helping devotees

Also how can I introduce some spiritual principles to clients without just introducing them to relationship building techniques?

ASA - All relationships are relationship with KRSNA, I have a relationship with the King [of the family?] but Krsna explains in BG, among men I am the monarch. We have to see Krsna in things before we can show them to others. Of course, again, we may not be conscious we are showing Krsna. We may just be showing someone the taste in water! For the rest of their life they appreciate good water.

We have discovered groups such as the International Association of Near Death Studies and Association of Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC). We hope through attending their webinars and becoming members leaders like you Maharaj could have a platform to introduce our philosophy. We’re hoping these groups could be great ways to inadvertently preach and bring spirituality into our practice. https://aservic.org.

ASA - Lord Caitanya joined the Sankara sannyasa sampradaya!

 I pray that I can continue to put my rounds first and foremost as our main service. We are continuing with serving the deities 4 nights a week, cooking and doing daily puja to our Saligrams. I am still serving as a secretary on the Board and Sunday school teacher. I pray I can come to your lotus feet and Srila Prabhupada’s to sing prayers/read for 30 minutes and offer the service to our children and to you. Is it ok to move this time to later (6 am?) and do family kirtan and reading at 9 am? 

ASA - Don't understand the question exactly, but ask the Boss, and if he thinks it's also o.k. then guess it is. B. muhurta is a specfic time. We should be chanting Holy Names then, no fail.

Your ashram and life is a prime example of a divine standard. Your example, and writings are our compass as always. We are so excited about your upcoming visit to Boise!

ASA - Still tentative but would like to. Balarama purnima!!!

Your servant,

Kamagayatri dasi

ASA - HpS ... Next letter, tell us about Murari Das. Who is he?

Congratulations on having such nice preaching programs. Whatever skills you acquire are eternal.

:>:>> Next Blog Post.

Queridos devotos:Pamho. Toda gloria a Srila Prabphupada.

El siguiente mensaje es para actualizar el estado de salud de Avesa Rupa prabhu. Han pasado varios días desde la ultima información y ahora estoy con él en Nueva Vrajamandala y quiero informar de lo siguiente:

Avesa Rupa prabhu llegó el lunes pasado a Nueva Vrajamandala desde Oviedo con Jara Mara prabhu, donde fue recibido con un gran kirtan .Tanto las autoridades como los devotos de la granja (NVM) lo han recibido con mucho cariño y están proporcionando todas las facilidades posibles. Por ello les estamos muy agradecidos tanto a ellos como a Jara Mara que lo trajo.

  Estamos también agradecidos a los devotos que, preocupados por su salud, han propuesto tratamientos alternativos de diversa índole. Le hemos planteado a Avesa estas opciones de salud pero él ha decidido no luchar contra la enfermedad sino prepararse para su partida en la asociación de los devotos. Nosotros estamos respetando esta decisión y ayudando, en la medida de lo posible, a que su partida sea tranquila.

A pesar de que ha perdido movilidad en una pierna debido a la metástasis , en estos momentos podemos decir que su situación es estable dentro de la gravedad. Está tomando un tratamiento paliativo contra el dolor que le permite descansar y al mismo tiempo interactuar con los devotos. Esta mañana ha bajado sólo al templo a las 5am y se ha quedado en el programa hasta la clase. Por supuesto hay algunos altibajos en sus fuérzas para moverse, pero su estado anímico es bastante bueno y objetivo.

Adiras duerme con él en la misma habitación y dispone de todo el apoyo de los devotos de la granja. Así que pensamos que su situación es la mejor posible en estos momentos.

Gracias a todos por vuestra preocupación y oraciones para que el futuro inmediato de Avesa sea el mejor posible.

Jayanta Das. Pte de ISKCON Navalakunda y miembro del equipo de cuidado a Avesa Rupa

ABC writes:

Dear Maharaj, I also wanted to share something. In the recent past i have experienced twice forseeing someone passing away. Within 2-3 weeks of me experiencing this, that person does pass away. But I can see this for only few people, not everyone. What am I supposed to do with this knowledge? Do I caution the person so they can prepare themselves? I'm very confused about what is the purpose of me knowing this if I'm not to help in some way? 🙏

Your aspiring servant,

TB/BW write:

Hare Krsna. AgtSP. We don't know? Have to ask the person who sent the knowledge, no? Carl Jung says he saw that is physician was might die and tried to convince him of his danger, be careful, but his doctor just "Poo, Pooed", him and said, "Now, there, there, Carl. You have been in a lot of stress with this heart attack, so you might have these halluciations". Then like two weeks later his doctor died.

Hmmmf. Hare Krsna. I don't know? Try to give some advice. Preparation. CMDD has a similar comment in here letter today.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I have a doubt about the moment near leaving the body.

In my Ledesma's family whenever one relative is about to leave the body all of them said that one of their closest relatives come to say that they are about to leave the planet soon, or came to say goodbye.

So my query is. If it is supposed that all the Ledesma's who had left their bodies are probably in other bodies now, why them came to say goodbye or something? The subtle body remains with some samskaras? This happens generation after generation.

My cousin Raquel who lives in Florida has delivered a cut little baby girl. Her name is Gabrielle due to she was born on MAy 13th ( Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe) in honor to Arcangel Gabriel.

Thanks Gurudeva

I am attaching a picture of my niece

HpS - I don't know. Can give so many logical speculations, but don't know. 🙄

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I hope this meets you better. We can see how Kali Yuga is advancing something this is horrifying ¡¡¡ All the deaths in India, violence in Colombia, Peru in risk of becoming a dictatorship. I want to run away but in this world is any place is safe. Only the holy names gives us shelter. We are in Fall and sometimes is really depressing. Nevertheless, the light comes from inside. And we just need to move on.

I am attaching some pictures that you requested about my deities (Krsna Balaram are from Sarvani dd but when she travels I take care of Them), She will pick them up soon :(

cats, Ulysses and my sister.

Hope you like them

See you in Cyberspace

Trying to be your disciple

CMDD

HpS - Prasadam and Tilak for everyone!