Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Guruji,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Please Accept my Humble Obeisances.

Thank you again for your reply. As you know, I am always so excited to see what you reply. Thank you for your wisdom always.

HpS - Thank you for your association. What do you think of the Kapi Dhvaja? How can we improve it??

I believe I have finally come the conclusion to study a Bachelor of Design.

HpS - Yes, we have heard of many Designing Women! Now you can perfect the art!

Although I'm not 10000% certain but I will be making the changes to transfer unis. Just DO IT, as NIKE says. I think this is a good choice. And there are always elective subjects I can take, and as you suggested, psychology. From next semester I will start and we will see how things go from there.

HpS - Again history can be good. Thing is to look for good teachers and learn from them, not so important the subject. Dovetail the subject to some diploma but ask who are the inspiring teachers!!

I always wanted a part time job. And last Ekadasi I was asked to make the notice board for Govindas as service. Janardan (temple president now) was there and I was working. And at the end of the day he offered for me to work on Saturday. Krsna responded. I did not expect this at all, but it was a great opportunity. Some extra pocket money for travel, etc. JAI. I did apply to quite a few jobs. Of course I think it may be better, professionally speaking, to get a job elsewhere, but I am still happy. Actually, I was called for an interview a while back to Fotofast (a film developing shop) and since I love film I thought it'd be perfect. Anyway, they never called back. I guess it was the plan.

Now, I have 2 questions he he:

1. When I asked about chanting while driving, what about clickers? Are they okay? Bonafide?

ASA - We should do minimum 16-good rounds on beads, but we should chant as much as we can anyway. Clickers help. Little malas of 18-beads help... Krsna will never punish us for chanting 16-nice rounds on beads. He will always reward us with a beautiful, spectacular, family, motorcycles, Potbelly pigs etc.

1. During the break-fast time on Dvadasi, sometimes they are quite early and us children sleep too much XD. SO then mother puts some grain in our mouth. Does it matter if our teeth have not been brushed? Sorry if this is a very silly question. If I don't know the answer now, it will eat at me.

HpS - It's O.K.!!

Thank you in advance for reading and answering this fools questions. I appreciate your time. I know you have a very busy schedule.

The rules are easing here in Australia actually. I hope that once quarantine is over, we may meet again. Haribooolll!!

HpS - Some opinions that this is just the beginning of the end of the Industrial Age. Krsna is beginning to force us to move back to a nice village and grow apples and make Deisigner apple pies.

Your servant,

Lakshmi

HpS - How is The Bhima? The Aunt's husband?

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj! Please accept our humble obeisances at Your glorious, sweet lotus feet!!

HpS - Still aspiring for lettuce feet. AgtSP!!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

Very very sorry for this late, late reply!

Last time we wrote about a certain mataji...Surjalata mataji who is so full of energy that we get immediately charged when she is with us! She also wrote to you Guru Maharaj. Maharaj has asked her where is her physical body located. Then on....with Your sweet mercy....things happened so fast ..that its so hard for the feelings to sink in!! Let me start the details....

One fine late evening....Mataji Surjalata called....crying...."help me"...."help me"....."you said you love me....then why is it that you don't pray to Krishna enough for me ..that I can't come out of my house to get darshan of Shri RadhaKrishnachandra? My entire family is all up against my going to the temple.....I want to get initiated"....then ...more tears!!

In despair..in happiness ..You are my only refuge dear Guru Maharaj...so You came to my mind....and You helped me always....so told Mataji Surjalata....lets us offer our obeisances to HH Bhakti Vyasa Teertha Maharaj. So next day we offered our obeisances to Maharaj....and miracles came flying....Maharaj gave initiation on that very day....in the first encounter....Maharaj gave the beads and gave her the name Sushila Sakhi Devi Dasi. The Yagya will be in Gaura purnima. Thank you Guru Maharaj.....Guru Maharaj once wrote to us that we will have many nice neighbours.....we can feel the magic.....

ASA - Very interesting!! AgtSP!!!!

With our biological father....we are in BG Chapter 5. Father says he has a fascinating impression on Karma Yoga. Says its so practical that he can relate to his life experiences. Father is running 90 years....today he said....we should continue this satsanga till the day he leaves his physical body....thank you Guru Maharaj for this amazing mercy.....

We continue attending mangalarati. We are in SB 3.22.36

ASA - More father and daughter.

Last time Guru Maharaj asked...how does Manipura smell?....Smells of lotus and fresh earth just after the rains....as of now...lots of fragrant tube roses.....magnolias

HpS - Here we also have lots of Magnolia. Very tall. Whole forest for Krsna!

...honeysuckles.....pagoda trees.....mogra....

It is liberating to make garlands for Krishna's bansuri everyday...Mataji Kunti DD gives me this service...and Radharani's floral hair band....too..

HpS - Wow! Just like Braja.

Every Sunday we visit few houses with Prasadam and NOI (manipuri) .

We wait for Guru Maharaj's sweet reply eagerly

Your insignificant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Thank you for nice letter. I am sure all of our readers want to hear more and more about the Manipuri Vaisnava culture. What kind of Prasadam do you deliver? Here people are afraid of home cooked food, especially from an Oriental monk.

So, we get boxes of 100 1-ounce packages of Planter's Peanuts and offer them to our Lord. He seems like He might like them!

Their mascot is Mr. Peanut. He is maybe 100 years old in American culture. He has a graceful threefold bending posture, a third eye, and a danda!

We can leave a few package in the mail box for the mail man with a letter, a few packs to our bank...

Prasadam!!!!

More news of ISKCON Manipur. Manipuri Vaisnavism.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, reciba nuestras humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Guru Maharaja, tuvimos unas conversaciones con Maharaja Yadunandana Swami y le pedimos que sea nuestro Siksa Guru, a lo cual Maharaja muy amablemente acepto.

Estamos alegres que Maharaja haya aceptado, pero Maharaja Yadunanda Swami nos pidió que le informemos a usted para obtener su autorización y bendiciones, ya que es muy importante tener su permiso.

Esperamos su respuesta Guru Maharaja..

Bueno Guru Maharaja, muchas Gracias, discúlpenos cualquier ofensa que hayamos cometido, que Nrsimha lo proteja mucho.

Hare Krsna!!!

Gadai Gauranga Dasa

Nadiya Nivasi DasiAll Glory to Srila Prabhupada !!!

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Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, receive our humble and respectful obeisances.

Guru Maharaja, we had some conversations with Maharaja Yadunandana Swami and we ask him to be our Siksa Guru, to which Maharaja very kindly accept.

HpS/ASA - Super. One of the nicest people in

We are glad that Maharaja has accepted, but Maharaja Yadunanda Swami asked us to inform you to obtain your authorization and blessings, since it is very important to have your permission.

HpS - Yes

We await your response Guru Maharaja ..

Well Guru Maharaja, thank you very much, excuse us for any offense we have committed, may Nrsimha protect you very much.

I will do Krsna !!!

Gadai Gauranga Dasa

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi

HpS - Nice if we can drag Maharaja to South America.

El Aguila - Avíseme, hay preocupación por su salud entre los discípulos, Muchas gracias por todo GURUDEVA, HARIBOL!!

HpS - TlgaSP. Pfanrh. Somos bien. TlgaSP, pero Hermano Burro es muy bajo de energía. Garganta, estómago.

Y hay tendencia del Alma des asociar con el cuerpo y inteligencia. 🚀🚀🚀

En ISKCON, ASA, posible otras están en situación similar.

Hare Krsna. 🙂🦍🙂

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja 🙏

Please, accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!!

HpS - Wooof! Woof! More likely pies de lobo que pies de loto.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

HpS - !

I am here, trying to make a little report about my activities.

Thank you very much for your sacrifice, austerity and patience in order to help us to get free from this material illusión. 🙏

HpS - 99.999% of our contribution is done by Srila Prabhupada.

Vedabase.io service: We just finished to correct the typing mistakes that Néctar of Devotión had. It had many many misspelled words, you have noticed some of them during our reading on FMP. Prahlada Nrsimha prabhu told me that I could fix the errors while NOD was already on line, because fix errors would take me more time.

HpS - Also some punctuation errors, no? Also, the original English had mistakes in the verses cited. Sometimes they were not the right verse number. Hmmm? Such nice, nice, nice service. Maybe you will be correcting the spelling mistakes of the gopis in Vraja!

My brother, Jorge (musician) helped me a lot to correct the text. He studied written journalism and he has a good knowledge of orthography and words. He really likes Srila Prabhupada's books.

HpS - We were wondering about him!!! Please say hello.

I hope NOD is properly corrected, in any case, the reading that you are doing on FMP every day will be the last filter to notice if there are still some errors. It is always possible to go to the edit page and correct them.

SADHANA: Since the last time that I wrote to you about this topic, by your mercy and Krishna's mercy my sadhana has improved by 20%.

HpS - Ours is about the same! Maybe it is a general effort by God and the Gopis!

Gurudeva, I have realized that CHANTING ROUNDS BEFORE MANGALA ARTIK is the BEST THING I CAN EVER DO ! Even 4 enthusiastic rounds before mangala artik turns it into a very different experience.....in comparison with mangala artik without chanting any round. I realized that this time of day (sadhana-Brahma muhurta) is the time that I am happiest. It is the time of day that I can be really happy. I want to internalize this realization so that it can be part of myself in order to be able to do it every day, always!! Please, bless me!! 🙏

ASA - Guru-mukha Swam told us that SP said four times in one lecture that the best time to chant your rounds is before Mangala-arati! Of course, we also heard him say that for Grhastha this might not be practical.

Gurudeva, I want to improve! Still I am struggling with "ilicit eating" (grains made by non devotees), but those falls are less and less frequent. I am just learning to eat in a proper way, to take care of my body, to have a proper rest, so that I can perform a nice and healthy vaidhi sadhana bhakti.

ASA - It is related to cooking grains for Krsna, no? You can do the austerity of cooking cakes, pies, cookies, laddus, bread for Krsna and then there is room for EVIL KARMI GRAINS.

Every day, I am attending Srimad Bhagavatam class on GoToMeeting or/and I am reading one or two verses of Srimad Bhagavatam in the morning.

Yesterday at night I started to read KRISHNA BOOK before go to sleep. I am going to keep this reading every night.

HpS - Read it and Tweet our questions of comments?

By your mercy I am understanding a little more that this life is actually an OPPORTUNITY that KRISHNA is giving me to purify myself, that is the only reason of my existence, not to gratify my senses.

Thank you very much for your patience and mercy!

Your aspiring servant: Mitravinda dd.

ASA - Is Jorge playing guitar in public? On line? Heavy metal!?

Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you for your thoughtful response to my previous letter.

If it is at all possible to keep the next section private, may I humbly ask that it not be posted to the blog? If you think it is important for others to hear the issue and see your response however, please publicly respond.

I also understand that these topics are not necessarily appropriate for a sannyasi. If they are, would it be possible for you to direct me towards a person with whom I can discuss these issues and then report back to you?

ASA - Censored by ASA Board of Confidentiality (PG-13)

Thus ends the confidential portion of my letter.

There is a general lack of guidance throughout the movement on how to negotiate ashrama dharma with the added complication of same-sex attraction (none of the four ashrams, except perhaps vanaprasta, seem to be acceptable). Would it be possible to find a way to either ask you for guidance in negotiating these difficulties or to be referred to someone with whom I can have a mature conversation about this matter and receive sound guidance?

I apologize for the nature of my inquiries. As this has all been a major barrier to my spiritual life, especially to my association with the devotees, I feel a desperate need to find some way forward.

Your servant,

Nityananda-rama dasa

HpS-ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. The 'Confidential' part of this nice letter was not anything that I can give much detailed advice about. !!! We are all in strange situations in Kali-yuga.

"Kalau dose nidhe rajan...", this Kali-yuga is an OCEAN of faults.

How many?

An OCEAN!

The weather is bad, the society is bad, the mind and body are bad....

So, there is not too much detailed knowledge about Varna-ashrama-dharma because it is not possible. It is like there is not detailed knowledge about Astanga-yoga, because it is not possible etc.

So... please send me a phone number where I can text you and I will try to give a few details. I won't publish your phone number so that unwanted swimming pool salesmen are not bothering you.

Of course, there is lots of info on VAD in the SB etc. eg Preganancy of Diti in the Evening, but these are all in co-operation with VAD! Other than that, with the direct help of Vaisnava neighbors, non-devotees can make progress. Gotta have friends in San Diego Temple community to help you.

Daya-nidhi Das?

Sugar and Sexual Relations in Grhastha Ashrama are considered manageable for initiated devotees,

but heroine and necrophilia are not.

In any circumstance if chant Sri Krsna Caitanya, Prabhu Nitayananda... and follow it with HK/HR will will make progess... (to becoming an initiated devotee)!!!

Get to work! You have plenty of opportunity to advance.

Thank you!