Letters to the editor

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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!!

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.