Letters to the editor

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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!!

More news!

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HpS - ASA: We could not respond to all the mail from our birthday, so we looked at it as best we could. Extracted some which follows, often with no reason, and then ask devotees to write again.

Namacharya Das wrote: First, thank you for sharing these beautiful songs. I would not listen to them so attentively without your mind provoking inputs. Until today, I knew only the Hotel California. In all the songs I liked the lyrics, musical compositions, and performance. I noticed you put the links to the live versions, which again, I prefer to the studio ones.

• Gaura Vani's Compass - Mantra is mellow and soft and the lyrics are deep. The whole musical arrangement is very soothing. I could listen all the time to different maha-mantra melodies in this kind of arrangement (acoustic instruments, soft playing).
• The Band - Somebody is missing from the going to war. Or? Such a nice performance by the musicians. Never before heard this song. 

HpS - It is about the end of the Civil War and what happened in the states and city near where we live. It very much catches the mood of the local experience. There are still many, many monuments and a cemetary with 10,000 body very near to where we live. Prabhupada was willing to go into the mode of passion to preach. He said the Mayapura project was in the mode of passion.

• Eagles - This song I know from before. There is a contrast between lyrics and music. It is deceiving. Music is soft but the words are hard. In lyrics - Deep magnetic feeling of entrapment. I take out one line from it: "We are all just prisoners here of our own device". Device - yantra BG 18.61. Prisoners of the material body and consciousness (and modern gadgets).

HpS - Yes, seems some realization of entering into the world of Maya and how we are making our selves our own prisoners.

Written by Namacarya Das with a help from my-better -half Nirgata Devi Dasi (photo attached - native Istrian [part of Croatia] donkeys)

HpS - We missed the photo!  AS devotees we can see how it is Krsna that is attracting people. He is the fragrance of the earth. That is how 'Hotel California" starts.

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Hare Krsna querido Gurumaharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

!Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Somos muy afortunados de tener su maravillosa asociación, muchas gracias por su ejemplo incansable.

HpS - TlgaSP!! Sentimos afortunado tener la asociacion de tantos muchos buen devotos como Vd. Cansamos bastante!! 😎

Respecto al tema de su viaje a Perú ha surgido inquietudes entre los discípulos desde hace algunas semanas así como también lo ha manifestado prabhu Laksman agraha recientemente y le agradecemos a Usted por su gentil atención de compartir con nosotros el objetivo de este sankirtana, Usted es un ejemplo de sannyasi al mostrarnos siempre su vida de forma muy transparente al servicio de Srila Prabhupada, nosotros somos muy afortunados. 

Si existe la posibilidad nos gustaría que espere un poco más por favor, Perú siempre se ha recuperado de las pruebas y seguramente por su sankirtana muy pronto estará más fuerte y más confiable para los predicadores, la pandemia está siendo un seminario intenso de la temporalidad del cuerpo, de las 3 miserias que caracterizan al mundo material, de buscar una relación con Dios y de buscar un mejor modo de vida con metas elevadas como es el objetivo del viaje, en ese sentido entendemos su determinación.

Un punto importante que he estado conversando con algunos hermanos espirituales desde hace varios días atrás es el pedido de la CUARENTENA a los VISITANTES y le agradezco mucho lo haya mencionado. 

Es una gran responsabilidad de amor para mis hermanos espirituales de Perú organizar una visita en pandemia por la lista de protocolos que se deben observar y por la gran espectativa de los demás, no es fácil! Lo entiendo perfectamente, pero un gran esfuerzo con comunicación puede hacerlo posible.

Recordamos como SS. Jayapataka Swami fue contagiado este año por miembros de su equipo de servicio por algunos descuidos de extremo cuidado, por esta razón y nuestra naturaleza de organización como discipula es inevitable que tantos detalles pasen de forma desapercibida, dísculpen por favor.

Hasta el momento las vacunas han demostrado que no inmunizan al 100% pero podrían aligerar el cuadro clínico reduciendo la tasa de mortalidad, sin embargo cada organismo reaccionará de forma distinta al contagio de acuerdo a su historial clínico de vida y porsupuesto de acuerdo a los planes de Krsna.

Deseamos que la segunda dosis sea más suave con sus efectos secundarios pero más fuerte en inmunidad. 

Gurumaharaja cuánto tiempo sería su estancia en Perú ?

HpS - Jaya! Puede ver en los otras cartas, como la anterior al la Yugala K D, nuestra perspectivo. Esta semana, no se la proxima, la ideas es ir a un sitio, para funar un Nuevo Asokavan. No viajando, personas visitando pasand por cuarantina como necessary. Possible un anyo en un sitio. Depues regresa a EEUU por ultima vez, despues Espanya, despues Radha-kunda (total tres anyos) y entonces.

Claro eso puede ser ultima carta o podemos tener esta cuerpo para 20 anyos mas, pero ese un plan practico para Sankirtan.

En algunas clases Usted mencionó que podemos unirnos en este viaje , al respecto surgió la pregunta si la invitación significa literalmente hacerlo de forma física ? 

Los discípulos tendrían que evaluar en mudarse lo más pronto con Usted?

HpS - Literalmente y intellectualmente, por facebook mente, ambos.

Disculpe las preguntas por favor, pero estás y otras son inquietudes que he estado recibiendo pero no había podido escribirle. 

Leí que SS Jayapataka Swami dijo que los brahmanas nunca deben hablar negativamente, siempre debe ser de forma positiva. A pesar de ello por favor permítanos expresar nuestra preocupación porque somos sus hijos espirituales, al mismo tiempo nos motiva a ser más serios en nuestra vida espiritual e intentar hacer más por ISKCON y aligerar de ser posible sus responsabilidades. 

Muchas gracias por su misericordiosa atención y disculpe por favor nuestros sentimientos y cualquier ofensa. 

Vuestra servidora

Asta Sakhi dd.

HpS - We are very motivated that everyone is thinking about how to organize the ASA Sankirtan party. Traveling circus.

Querdo Gurudev

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias a Sus pies de loto.

Estaba preocupada por el ekadasi de ayer lunes 8 marzo. En el calendario vaisnava que siguen casi todos los devotos, está por zonas y para cordoba argentina, el ekadasi , que en realidad dice maha dvadasi, sería hoy martes 9.

Ya que en El querido kapi Dvaja está el calendario vaisnava, es el que estoy siguiendo con todo mi corazón.

Tal vez mi preocupación es tonta porque si Usted lo pone ahí, supongo que es para todos los países en que estamos sus discípulos,

Sólo pensé en los devotos que están haciendolo hoy .

Y también

me acordé cuando.. hace un tiempo atrás, cuando le pregunté sobre esos días del año que son :

ekadasi, maha dvadasi y al día siguiente recien romper ayuno. Usted me dijo como hacerlo. Me preguntaba si está vez era uno de esas veces... Y quería pedirle que cuando así sea, pueda ponerlo en Su inspirante Boletín.

Por favor perdone cualquier ofensa cometida sin querer.

Intentando avanzar en este difícil Kali Yuga,

su intento de discípula:

J. P. Radha

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Dear Gurudev

Please accept my respectful obeisances at His lotus feet.

I was worried about the ekadasi yesterday, Monday March 8th. In the Vaisnava calendar that almost all devotees follow, it is by zones and for Argentine Cordoba, the ekadasi, which actually says maha dvadasi, would be today Tuesday the 9th.

Since in dear Kapi Dvaja there is the Vaisnava calendar, it is the one that I am following with all my heart.

HpS - Jaya! It is calculated for Nashville, Tennesee. When I calculated for Lima the Ekadasi was a Dvadasi fast, the next day, so you may have to adjust for local differences.

Perhaps my concern is silly because if you put it there, I suppose it is for all the countries where your disciples are, I only thought of the devotees who are doing it today.

HpS - Yes, it is for where we are camping, so you have to adjust for local times

And also I remembered when .. a while ago, when I asked him about those days of the year that are: ekadasi, maha dvadasi and the next day they just break a fast. You told me how to do it. I was wondering if this time was one of those times ... And I wanted to ask that when it is, I can put it in his inspiring Newsletter.

Please forgive any offense committed inadvertently.

Trying to advance in this difficult Kali Yuga,

An attempt as a disciple:

J. P. Radha Devi Dasi

HpS - ASA === The Kapi Dhvaja has a link to the full ASA Calendar and there you can see that it is calculated for our local time. Try to follow the Vaisnava calendar as best as you can. It helps. Srila Prabhupada did it, and Krsna will adjust for any mistakes we make!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Gurudev, sé que Su salud ha estado un poco inestable, y entiendo que entiendes que esto va ocurriendo cuando el cuerpo ha envejecido. Mi cuerpo de casi 41 años, está perdiendo también la capacidad visual, las articulaciones duelen, y la energía es menor. Como soy una madre de 2 hijos, pienso en cómo organizar la vida para cumplir con mi deber, material, emocional y espiritual con ellos, pensando que en 20 o 25 años más tendré que comenzar a prepararme para dejar éste cuerpo, y que ellos puedan continuar sus vidas de adultos.

Actualmente estoy cantando mis rondas temprano, luego empiezo a trabajar (desde la casa). Jagannatha se ocupa las tareas de los niños, desayuno y almuerzo para todos. Luego me ocupo de mis hijos y de descansar o avanzar en los cursos que estoy tomando. Por la tarde salimos al parque con los niños y después nos vamos a dormir.

Sigo con el curso de Bhakti vaibhava (1er canto capítulo 16). Comencé otro curso que se llama "Gestión de conflictos en Organizaciones" (muy útil).

Y comencé con un curso de inglés para ver si algún día puedo aprender tu idioma😃

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Con el equipo de Vaishnava CARE Chile, estamos haciendo y transmitiendo clases diarias de Srimad Bhagavatam (canto 1).

También quiero comentarle que algunos días vamos a cocinar y atender a las deidades del templo, y quisimos ir un día la familia completa. Fue muy lindo compartir el servicio con ellos. Le comparto unas fotografías.

Sé que está recibiendo muchas cartas y no ha podido responder otras cartas que he enviado. Pero espero que pueda leer ésta, para que sepa que sigo viva material y espiritualmente, unto a mi familia.

Mis eternas reverencias Guru Maharaja👏

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Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaja.

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

Gurudev, I know that Your health has been a bit unstable, and I understand that you understand that this happens as the body has aged. My body, which is almost 41 years old, is also losing its visual capacity, the joints hurt, and the energy is lower. As I am a mother of 2 children, I think about how to organize life to fulfill my duty, material, emotional and spiritual with them, thinking that in 20 or 25 more years I will have to start preparing to leave this body, and that they can continue their adult lives.

HpS - ASA - Maha dhi. Very intelligent.

I am currently singing my rounds early, then I start working (from home). Jagannatha takes care of the children's chores, breakfast and lunch for everyone. Then I take care of my children and rest or advance in the courses that I am taking. In the afternoon we go out to the park with the children and then we go to sleep.

ASA - 😴 and dream of Krsna?

I continue with the course of Bhakti vaibhava (1st canto chapter 16). I started another course called "Conflict Management in Organizations" (very useful).

And I started with an English course to see if one day I can learn your language😃

HpS - I think it will be our language for only three more years. Then we may be speaking Vrajavasi Pig language, if we are fortunate.

.With the Vaishnava CARE Chile team, we are doing and broadcasting daily Srimad Bhagavatam classes (song 1).

I also want to tell you that some days we are going to cook and serve the deities of the temple, and we wanted to go one day as a whole family. It was very nice to share the service with them. I share some photographs with you.

ASA - Super. A different family, cooks, cleans, sings, worships, each day!

I know that he is receiving many letters and has not been able to answer other letters that I have sent. But I hope he can read this one, so that he knows that I am still alive materially and spiritually, together with my family.

ASA - Lazy Monkey, lazy Pig, do not write letters big. 🙊 🐖

My eternal obeisances Guru Maharaja👏

ASA: abhīkṣṇaśaḥ. https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/10/47/63/. The Evil One is always trying to catch us the moment we forget Krsna, but if we chant 16-nice rounds everyday we will always remember Krsna (sometimes with a good kick in the posterior).

Hare Krishna, Gurudev, please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope this letter find you well

First of all, I want to apologize for my lack of communication on this blog. Its been so much time from the last report so i am going to make a summary

ASA - We also apologize for not communicating more on this Blog. Thank you for only making a summary, but hop it is good window into your Sankirtan.

• We are living in Laguna Verde, (V region), its a rural zone of Valparaiso (forest and sea, nice landscape)
• We are in the process of building a house, and we dream in a future receiving Srila Prabhupada´s guests here.
• We are homeschooling our kids, they are my best asocciation in this moment that i live far away from devotees
• I am in lecture groups with another moms and vaishnavis, when we read every day at least 5 minutes and comment our reflection and doubts each other, through whatsapp, in one group we are in second canto of srimad bhagavatam by this method, in another one we are reading first canto again, and in other group we read Bhagavad Gita.
• In this moment of my life, its been hard for me getting up at Bhrama Muhurta as other years, because working in the house with shovel, hammer, and all this construction things make feel so tired, but i chant my minimun 16 rounds as early as i can every days and i really really want to improve this because i love mangala arati time.

HpS - ASA --- You just have to learn how to do it properly. Then you will get more hammer and and shovel work done better. "Slow down. Get more work done!", Old Carpenter.

• We follow 4 principles

ASA - So do we (but too many sweets sometimes!).

• i am learning a lot about orchards and composting, its been very interesting

Thank you very much for all the inspiration in FMP and Srimad bhagavatam class, i pray for being a better disciple. Please forgive my negligence

your aspirant servant

Indu lekha devi dasi

HpS - What are the names of your family and families, family members?? The Gopis in Vraja are not really married (?) they just think they have husbands, but they never quite appear? Mad women.