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Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja por favor reciba nuestras respetuosas reverencias.

Seguimos acá en Huancayo - Perú, por la pandemia no estoy saliendo a distribuir los libros de Srila Prabhupada, espero salir en los proximos días. Es muy riesgoso pero más riesgoso es no salir a distribuir este mensaje trascendental.

Mi esposa Nadiya esta trabajando en oficina, hace bonitos turbantes a Gaura Nitay y Govardhan Sila, haremos una super fiesta de Gaura Purnima con los devotos de Huancayo.

Mi esposa y yo nos contagiamos del Covid19, tres semanas muy difíciles, ahora ya estamos mejor. CDS y la Ivermectina nos ayudo a mejorar la salud.

Por otro lado estamos cosechando zanahorias y en estos días algunas papas, no mucho por la sequía. Dentro de tres semanas cosecharemos habas y alberjitas. Germinando Maní ,limón, lucuma y pacay.

Anteriormente le habia comentado que estabamos viendo la posibilidad de adquirir un terreno con riego, bueno las posibilidades estan aumentando. Quizá Chiclayo - Ferreñafe podría ser una buena opción.

Acá el clima nos afecta por la altura y el frío, también por que el clima es muy extremo y por la falta de agua.

Ojalá el plan se concrete si Krsna lo permite.

Por otro lado estamos llevando estudios del canto tres, primera parte con Prabhu Laksmana Agraha, los días jueves.

Bueno Guru Maharaja nos despedimos, que Nrsimha siempre lo proteja.

Hare Krsna.

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi

Gadai Gauranga Dasa

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All Glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja please take our respectful obeisances.

We are still here in Huancayo - Peru, due to the pandemic I am not going out to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books, I hope to leave in the next few days. It is very risky but it is more risky not to go out and distribute this transcendental message.

ASA - Entusiasmo con paciencia!

My wife Nadiya is working in the office, she makes beautiful turbans for Gaura Nitay and Govardhan Sila, we will have a super Gaura Purnima party with the Huancayo devotees.

My wife and I caught Covid19, three very difficult weeks, now we are better. CDS and Ivermectin helped us improve health.

ASA - 👍

On the other hand we are harvesting carrots and some potatoes these days. Not much due to the drought. In three weeks we will harvest broad beans and alberjitas. Germinating peanuts, lemon, lucuma and pacay.

ASA - Fiesta para sus deidades.

I had previously commented that we were looking at the possibility of acquiring an irrigated land, well the possibilities are increasing. Maybe Chiclayo - Ferreñafe could be a good option.

ASA - Donde otros devotos puede comprar tambien.

Here the climate affects us because of the altitude and the cold, also because the climate is very extreme and because of the lack of water.

May the plan come to fruition if Krsna allows it.

ASA - Vida simple, pensamiento elevado!

On the other hand we are conducting studies of song three, first part with Prabhu Laksmana Agraha, on Thursdays.

ASA - Hijas de Daksa y Akuti se caso con Ruci?

Well Guru Maharaja we say goodbye, may Nrsimha always protect you.

ASA - Tambien tenemos que protejer El!

Esforzando predicar a los vecinos. Desarrollar nuestros propios aldeas. Modelos para cultivar la conciencia de Krsna.

Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva. Pamho, AGTSP!

Here is a translation of thie poem. Based on a previous one with some arrangements.

El hipopótamo

T.S. Eliot

El hipopótamo de gran lomo

reposa sobre su panza en el fango.

Si bien parece muy sólido

es meramente carne y sangre.

La carne y la sangre son débiles y frágiles,

y susceptibles a tener ataques de nervios;

mientras la Verdadera Iglesia no caerá jamás

porque se yergue sobre una roca.

Los ligeros pasos del hipopótamo pueden errar

al perseguir fines materiales,

mientras que la Verdadera Iglesia no debe incomodarse

para recoger sus dividendos.

El hipopótamo nunca puede alcanzar

el fruto del mango en el mango:

pero los frutos del granado y del duraznero

sacian a la Iglesia viniendo de ultramar.

En la época de apareamiento la voz del hipopótamo

revela roncas y extrañas inflexiones;

pero cada semana oímos a la Iglesia alegrarse

de ser una sola con Dios.

El día del hipopótamo transcurre

en el sueño; por la noche va a cazar.

Dios opera en forma misteriosa: La Iglesia

puede dormir y nutrirse al mismo tiempo.

Vi al hipopótamo echarse a volar

ascendiendo desde las húmedas sabanas,

y coros de ángeles en torno a él cantando

la alabanza de Dios, en sonoras hosannas.

Será lavado con la sangre del Cordero

y será rodeado por brazos celestiales.

Lo podremos ver en medio de los santos

tocar un arpa de oro.

Quedará lavado y blanco como la nieve

besado por todas las vírgenes mártires,

mientras la Verdadera Iglesia permanecerá acá abajo

envuelta en las miasmas de la antigua niebla.

I'm sending the annoucement of my civil wedding [attached as a photo]. I ill be something simple due to the circunstances.

Please, gurudev and dear devotees send us, kindly, your blessings so we, LAD and RR dd, can do a nice sankirtan for Srila Prabhupada. That's the hole point to get married, right? And for some couples, have children. We don't want to get there.

Thanks for your support and advice.

your servants,

LAD & RR dd

ASA - When is the Wed Ding?

Where is the Wed Ding?

[Google/Tran Slate] back to you.

The hippo

T.S. Eliot

The great-backed hippo

it rests on its belly in the mud.

While it seems very solid

it is merely flesh and blood.

Flesh and blood are weak and fragile,

and susceptible to having nervous attacks;

while the True Church will never fall

because it stands on a rock.

The light steps of the hippopotamus can miss

by pursuing material ends,

while the True Church shouldn't bother

to collect your dividends.

The hippo can never reach

the fruit of the mango in the mango:

but the fruits of the pomegranate and the peach tree

they satiate the Church coming from overseas.

In the mating season the voice of the hippopotamus

reveals hoarse and strange inflections;

but every week we hear the church rejoice

to be one with God.

The day of the hippo passes in dream;

at night he goes hunting.

God operates in a mysterious way:

The Church you can sleep

and nourish yourself at the same time.

I saw the hippo fly away

rising from the damp savannas,

and choirs of angels around him singing

the praise of God, in sonorous hosannas.

He will be washed with the blood of the Lamb

and he will be surrounded by heavenly arms.

We can see it in the midst of the saints

play a golden harp.

It will be washed and white as snow

kissed by all the virgin martyrs,

while the true church will remain here below

shrouded in the miasmas of the ancient mist.

TB - A few mistakes here and there, no? Write a new poem in Spanish based upon this one??? With rhyme and meter. Better things to do?

World needs poetry and the company of gentlemen.

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Hare Krishna, Beloved and esteemed Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet,

HpS - Lettuce feet.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

HpS - Lotus feet!

Bg. 18.75

vyāsa-prasādāc chrutavān

etad guhyam ahaṁ param

yogaṁ yogeśvarāt kṛṣṇāt

sākṣāt kathayataḥ svayam

In this most auspicious day I am feeling completely grateful for having the opportunity to Glorify the Guru-parampara and being proud of my spiritual ancestors!!

• Lord Caitanya, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, appeared in Kali yuga with the heart of Srimati Radharani, the best servant of Sri Krishna, as a mother who gives shelter with the Holy Names, helped by our great grand uncle, the Glorious Nityananda Prabhu, showering the mercy without discrimination.
• The Six Goswamis wrote everything, witnessing the most intimate pastimes as Manjaris, little girls willing to serve. Presented the complete science of Krishna Consciousness, for us fallen souls, instruction manuals to go back home!!
• Krisnadas Kaviraj, presented the mood, so we can understand the Acaryas!!
• And Narottama das Thakur sang it everything, so we fall in love with them!!
• Visvanath Cakravarti Thakur, studied and commented on the Srimad Bhagavatam, sowing the seeds for next generations!!
• Baladeva Vidya Bhusana expanded his work, ASA - And wrote Govinda Bhasya!
• And Jagannatha das Babaji gave us the Yoga pita [Place of Lord Caitanya's birth], so we can remember the unlimited mercy.
• Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur, knew that the mercy must expand throughout the world, so he saw it, he wrote the instructions, to show the way!!
• Gaurakisora das Babji didnt know how to read, but he was full of Prema Bhakti!! He gave it to his disciple
• Simha Guru Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, who defeated big scholars at an early age, with his Nadia Prakash he inaugurated the Brihat mridanga, giving the tools and guidance to his magnanimous son,
• His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who with unlimited mercy, left Vrindavan at sixty nine years old to come and preach to Pashchatya desa tarine,

Where he met and robbed the heart of a Chinese monk, born in Guam, disguised as a Super clever Californian student, seeking the ultimate truth,

HpS - Well M A Y B E ! 😏

...while dancing and playing the flute, helped by Tom Brown, Uncle Gismo, Monkey and Piggy, His Holiness Hanumatpresaka Swami,

Who wrapped everything and pass it away in such an avant garde way that it becomes super tasty and funny. Easy to digest and explain!!

So ladies and gentleman, watch the flags, hear the music, feel the scents of Golokera Prema dhana, listen carefully, this message will go on forever, nigama kalpa taror… Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

Thank you Gurudev!!

Your insignificant disciple,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - Thank you for nice offering to Guru param para. We can really suspect that we have very little Bhakti, and because of that we are eating too much, and suffering the results. We have many faults, but with the mercy of Srila Prabhupada !!! we, all, are able to stay in His ISKCON and do some service that is slowly defeating our bad qualities and augmenting our good qualities. Even getting a little taste of the substantial nature of the Holy Names.

Of course, we can only write nice Vyasa-puja offerings by the mercy of other devotees, so thanks to them also, eternally.

Now it is 9.42AM.

Was a good day with Mangala arati etc. Class by LaD, then 45" discussion of plans etc. with Srinivasa. News from Abhirama thakura Das.

Going for walk in the strange pathway along the river with Vijaya.

Friday program with Radha Natabara,

but we get headaches and eyestrain so we have to quit now.

We can be more and more filled with youthful energy if we reside in Dvaraka and daily see Sri Krsna as He goes to the Yadu dynasty assembly house or while doing other things with His motherly queens, brave sons, and wise ministers.

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Nitay-Goura premanande!!

Querido y siempre recordado Gurudev,

por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias!!

TODAS LAS GLORIAS A SRILA PRABHUPADA!!

Sufrí un accidente, que me fracturó la mano derecha, ando enyesada, ...

No podía escribirle pues, mis dedos estaban adoloridos, ...

gracias a krishna ya estoy mejor, .....

La situación de mi padre, es delicada, ...

su Alzheimer le avanzó más, se volvió más agresivo por mí mentos noy con alucinaciones de que le roban sus pocas cosas que tiene, llegó al punto de agredirme y casi me mata con su bastón,

HpS - ASA --- 😮 Hare Krsna!!

Tuve que pedir auxilio a los vecinos...

Los Asilos son caros, en esta situación de pandemia no me alcanza para pagar la mitad que me corresponde, a los Asilos públicos no lo aceptan porque solo internan a viejitos en estado de abandono, ....

mi hermana le alquila un pequeño cuarto y lo lleva a su casa de 3 a 4 días por semana, los otros días, yo le llevó sus alimentos y hago la la limpieza,

estoy con él acompañándolo y, luego me retiro, es muy triste ver el deterioro mental producido por la enfermedad, ...

varias veces se escapó a la calle, y, la policía me llamaba para que vaya por él,

se desorienta y, se pierde.....

en noviembre hablé con mi hermana, y, le plantee de forma pacífica y educada que iba a ir al Instituto de la mujer para solicitar ayuda, pues mi vida corría peligro y no tenía los recursos suficientes para cuidar de mi padre, ....

ella como es abogada, sabe que la Institución iniciaría un proceso d investigación, que no le digas va a convenir ...

así, que le alquiló un cuarto a mi padre, y, unos días lo lleva a su casa para cuidarlo,

mi hermano me dió su n depósito de muebles para que me quede ahí provisionalmente, todos esos cambios, me han ayudado a estar más tranquila,...

mi padre, la mayor parte del tiempo se comporta bien, sólo tiene algunos momentos de irá,

apesar de que su memoria le ha disminuido terriblemente, no se olvida de leer el Bhagavad Gita, agradecer por sus alimentos a Krishna y siempre me pregunta por ud. (lo quiere mucho)...

HpS - TlgaSP, quien usa a sus seguidores como marionetas. Nuestros respetos para él y esperamos que pueda escuchar el libro de KRSNA.

En mi Sankirtan, en este último pedido que hice al BBT , los titulares s fueron:

meditación,

• Karma, problemas materiales,
• 8 fases del yoga y
• BG grandes, ...

he podido observar que por la pandemia la gente está más abierta a saber de Dios!! están más sensibles a qué la muerte les puede tocar en cualquier momento (pandemia ki, Jay) .....

Eternamente agradecida a ud.

Querido Gurudev, que por sus Oraciones está persona torpe e inútil, pueda seguir haciendo servicio a Dios!!

Radhe, Radhe, Radhe..

Su inútil y torpe sirvienta

M. Jambavati d.d.

HpS - ASA - Gracias. Ciertamente, Krishna nos está enviando lo que necesitamos, y debemos tratar de cooperar cada vez mejor con Sus esfuerzos.

Damos la Luz del Bhagavata a las personas a medida que las conocemos, y nos inspira escuchar cómo das un ejemplo de ser una buena persona para Krsna, como Arjuna, ¡y un Sankirtanero!

Por favor, por favor, escriba lo que pueda.

Mitad de nuestra altar son de Vd.

Here Acharya das

I am preaching in India for over 10 years,and my spiritual master and myself have decided to look what are the possibilities for preaching in Latin America.

HpS - Who is your "spiritual master"?

I took birth in Colombia but do not speak Spanish anymore, however I can take the language up within one year.

With all Your experience what can be a good country for preaching?

HpS - I have focused on Peru, Chile, Argentina and Mexico. We have visited others. We have some experience, but from our perspective. Generally speaking they can all be fine. There are individual differences. If you like potatoes you will like Peru. If you like feminist movement you will like Chile, if your like European classical culture - more for Argentina. You should ask local devotees, visit, travel, join programs on line.

Of course, none of them are good like anywhere because of the pandemic. Preaching more and more may be within local village.

Also a question, Krishna West can they give difficulties?

HpS - No more than Krsna North, or Krsna South or Hari-nama-ruci or the Bhaktivedanta Institute et al.

Also we have to look for papers to stay in a country, we are looking for dual citizenship in Colombia, according law I have right on this.

Your servant

Acharya das

HpS - Thank you. Please join our Blog and send questions and comments here. We just haven't strength to do much in the way of particular comment unless it is presented in general perspective like this.

Hari Bolo!!

Thank you again.

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AGTSP!!! Paoho... Sorry if we lost any of your letters!! We had too, too, many at our birthday anniversary and for the end of the year, so we had to glance at them and erase most of them!! Please send again any mail that we missed. That is the best way.

We saw the following in Whataspp!

[9:09 PM, 3/9/2021] Yamunesvar Das Mukta Okram Singh:

11.23.51 Bhagavatam: Purport; ...... Bodily happiness and distress are administered by the demigods, who can never be brought under our control;

What it really meant, I can't understand. Please hightlight me.

HpS - When we look at the translation and purport, https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/11/23/51/, it seems very much like the same idea that we first learned in Isopanishad: https://vedabase.io/en/library/iso/6/, "He who systematically sees everything in relation to the Supreme Lord, who sees all living entities as His parts and parcels, and who sees the Supreme Lord within everything never hates anything or any being."

From a spiritual perspective we are all Krsna's fingers - fingers with free will and creativity, but naturally in harmony, never bothering each other.

In material Bhava there is conflict, I want your samosa, but that is to create the variety in the material world. As soon as we turn away from Krsna then there is NOTHING, so Krsna creates this world of duality. I suffer because I do not have the samosa. The only pleasure I get is in comparison to not having the samosa. Unless I can remember not having he samosa there is no real meaning to having it.

O.K.? It is all dualiti

es. The demigods are administering this according to the laws of Krsna, nature, and are as helpless as us. It is like the Sun. It is very powerful but does not deviate from its orbit.

O.K.? Little more clear?

[11:51 PM, 3/15/2021] Yamunesvar Das Mukta Okram Singh: Dandavat Pranam, H H HpS Maharaja!

How is Guruji's health?

HpS - If you had a 73-year old car, how would you expect it to be? Our health is like that. If are careful with it, it is excellent, very intelligent vehicle.

Are You coming Goura Goura Purnima at Mayapur? Some bhaktas are also going Mayapurfrom Thoubal. This time I will participate Goura Purnima here in Manipur.

HpS - Plan now is to maybe go to South America for one year, back to USA for three months, then Spain for three months, then go to Radha kund and leave body there 2024. Is not fixed but gives idea of how we think we might travel. We see that more and more people will have to return to village life with Krsna to be happy.

No communication with Guruji. I am so sorry.

HpS - Yes, it is like we said above. We had so many messages at new year and tried to answer them but in the end only solution was to look at them little bit and then erase and ask people to write again.

What is the name of the Bhakta who gave us the Tilak clay laddu??

Yours fallen servant,

Yamuneswar Das

Your fallen servant,

HpS

AgtSP.... Bh. Svarupa Damodara Swami!!

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