Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to you. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Guru Maharaj, hope your health is fine...wish to see you soon in Dallas and get an opportunity to serve you one more time.

Guru Maharaj please forgive me for not writing to you for the last two months...

I have been following four regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds and by your causeless mercy doing some sewa in the temple. We have sewa every wednesday and thursday. So we are lucky enough that we get chance to take darshan twice a week. It has been a year now I have been doing tulasi sewa in the temple. Despite the flaws in me she is so so merciful and it feels as if she is reciprocating.

Tulasi Maharani at our house is also doing well, hope we take good care of her in winter. Now we have two tulasi pots and few small ones are comming up. We try to take good care of her.

HpS - We hear She likes

1. Association
2. Warmth
3. Sunlight
4. Water.

Guru Maharaj thank you for the reply of the previous letter. In the previous letter (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11471/) you had asked me my Civil name and date of birth. My Civil Name is Divya Iyer and my date of birth is 26th September 1989.

HpS - We found them, but still have not posted them because we are evil! (and old (and stupid [but pretty happy with association of devotees like you all])) 😎

Guru Maharaj we got the DTC Book and the Prasadam which you had sent for us. I felt so fortunate and happy that my spiritual master is so merciful that he remembers and sends somethings to his disciples. Many devotees here share their experiences with their spiritual masters and relish...i was not able to understand their feelings... But when I got the parcel from you...i was on cloud nine and still relish what you had sent. Thank you so much for so much mercy upon us Guru Maharaj. It is so nice to feel that we are always under the protection of such merciful spiritual master.

We have finished studying 19 chapters of Nectar of Devotion for Bhakti Shastri course, and soon in couple of weeks we will be having our exam. After completing Nectar of Devotion we will be doing last book Bhagavad Gita.

HpS - It is just our personal taste, but we like doing NIO, ISO, BG, then NOD. For BhVai we can do NOD Southern section! Really is practical development for our service.

We are also regularly reading Bhagavatam Canto 4, and we have completed Chapter 12 and will be starting Chapter 13. We have started reading Bhagavad Gita second time, though not on regular basis.

ASA - SB 4.12. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgY0guoO-h4 Is interesting seeing how Producer, Director understand Dhruva Maharaja.

Dhruva!!!

Guru Maharaj, please let me know if I could be of any help for you in editing "Japa Joe". I would be fortunate to do it and be of some help to you.

HpS - Aaaah! We thought you had already started. Please think about how it can be edited as a little book to help Lord Caitanya's Sankirtan. We can adjust it a lot. We could do other books:

1. Return of Japa Joe.
2. Japa Joe Goes to Harvard.
3. Japa Joes Last Japa.
4. Son of Japa Joe.

Please always keep me in your service Guru Maharaj.

Yours eternal servant

Divya Sri Devi Dasi.

HpS - Thank you. Our respects to Their Lordships!

Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay

Todas las gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Hare krishna, Gurudev, comienzo este reporta contándole que estoy bien regule mi sueño. hace un tiempo comenze hacer yoga para este burro débil con el tema de la pandemia no he hecho natación lo extraño mucho pero ya vendrá, así que el yoga ha sido un aliado para fortalecer mi cuerpo. Además de esto sigo con mi predica por teléfono leyendo la biografía de Srila Prabhupada y el upadesambrta a 7 chicas muy contenta resolviendo sus dudas y preguntado como están dos veces por semana, sigo trabajando con tres pequeños lecto escritura con pawerpoint a travez de zoom, mi familia muy bien todos muy favorables para hacer mi programa en casa con mis deidades. En este mes de Damodar con p Lakshman comenzamos hacer nuestro programa levantandonos como siempre a las tres de la mañana para cantar nuestras rondas, lectura del CC leo yo p. Laksmana escucha, luego Magalarati con usted en la tarde seis treinta mechita con la canción luego p Lakshman lee traducción, Bg antes de descansar (nueve de noche mía) leo el krishna book y el prabhu escucha. a pesar de la distancia tenemos un buen programa diario a través del teléfono

muchas gracias por su atención espero estar haciendo una buena predica por Srila Prabhupada, con sus bendiciones todo mejorará se despide su humilde sirviente Raman Reti devi dasi

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All glories to Goura Nitay

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna, Gurudev, I begin this report by telling you that I am fine with regulating my sleep.

Some time ago I started doing yoga for this weak donkey with the theme of the pandemic I have not done swimming I miss it a lot but it will come, so yoga has been an ally to strengthen my body.

In addition to this, I continue with my preaching by phone reading the biography of Srila Prabhupada and the NoI to 7 girls, very happy, solving their doubts and asked how they are twice a week, I continue working with three small reading writing with powerpoint through zoom, my family very well all very favorable to do my program at home with my deities. In this month of Damodar with p Lakshman we started doing our program by getting up as usual at three in the morning to sing our rounds, CC reading .I read I p. Laksmana listen, then Mangalarati with you, in the afternoon, six thirty, Mechita with the song then p Lakshman reads translation, Bg before resting (nine at night of mine) I read the krishna book and the prabhu listens. despite the distance we have a good daily program over the phone

Thank you very much for your attention, I hope I am doing a good preaching for Srila Prabhupada, with your blessings everything will improve.

your humble servant, Raman Reti devi dasi, says goodbye.

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AGTSP p a o h o ...... There cannot be any better program! Krsna will do the magic. Of course, it may be something very private or public. We hear that Srila Bh. Vinod. Th. said that if you can do your service your whole life and no one even notices what you are doing, that pure devotional service.

Who are the Seven Ladies? Can we see a little bio-data from them? What is the goal of life?

Hare Krsna Maharaja. Please forgive my arrogance in the last letter! I was obviously under a spell of false pride trying to display my erudition before others! I beg your forgiveness and for that of all the esteemed devotees on this blog. o/ \_

Your aspiring servant,

Bhakti Sastra Das

HpS-ASA - Did not seem that way to us. Your letters seem very cultivated. What about VDM 15.73? P'pada, Radha-8 lecture, London, "Radha! Hare! No difference" Compare Sarva bhauma Das Translation with Kusakratha Das (http://www.jayarama.us/archives/vdm.docx)...

Dear Guru Maharaja, PAMHO. AGTSP!

How have you been dear Gurudeva? I hope you are fine and in good health. I am just fine, trying to listen to your classes and being more enthused and inspired by your shelter. How is Lord Nrisinhadeva + Prahlad and Lord Hanuman?

HpS - AGTSP!!! Paoho. They are fine!! Every day we do Puja for them before Mangala arati. Put Them to rest in the afternoon, wake up later and rest again at night... Our health is O.K. Is old vehicle. Don't trust it on the freeway anymore, but good for getting around town.

I am thinking about traveling abroad in a near future. Life gives changes to our lives, I hope Krishna has good results for me, who knows?

HpS - Only if it helps you go inside also. You have great interior resources to awaken.

I hope this locked down let me approach more to Krishna.

your servant,

Jagat Bandhu Jagannatha Swami dasa

HpS - A technical thing. Sometimes devotees send us "Private Messages" on GoToMeeting. We can't read them!!! Another letter from you to look at! :>>

Dear Guru Maharaja PAMHO AGTSP! How are you doing? regarding your last question, well I can´t relate my teaching to Krishna, I wish I could, but I continue doing my work and maybe parents can perceive something different.

HpS - In BG, Chapter Ten, Arjuna asks Krsna how ordinary man can know God. He is the taste in water, the light of the sun, the shark, the lion. You can give stories about lions to your students etc.!

Baladeva and Subhadra are living with me, both are studying high school, Subhadra is learning how to play the piano and violin and Baladeva is drawing and learning how to tattoo. I may associate with somebody else, who knows, that may help my Krishna conciousness or it could send me to hell!

HpS - ISKCON Hell. Temple President JB JSWD, Vice-President - Baladeva, Treasurer -Subhadra!

Prabhu Urjesvara used to tell me the great things Hamsadutta did in San Francisco because he was serving him personally, so he said he had such a great power!

I attached some photos I took in 1995 and another you gave me from Raktak prabhu and others.

your servant,

Jagat Bandhu Jagannatha Swami dasa

HpS -- Thank you!!! Hello, to Bala and Subhadra. We still have Baladeva's Dragon Picture.

Hare Krishna Maharaja

Todas las glorias a Srila Prahupada.

Todas las glorias a Usted.

Por favor acepte mis mas humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto.

HpS - ASA -- Pies de lobo, pies de loco. TlgaSP!

Anteriormente me había presentado con usted pero no como se debía y le ofrezco una enorme disculpa. Me llamo Manyari Devidasi de nacimiento, ya que soy hija de devotos. Aún no he sido iniciada. Actualmente me encuentro como residente en el templo de RADHA MADAN GOPAL_ISKCON Ciudad de México. Me estoy encargando de coordinar los servicios del cuarto de flores, tengo el dulce del dia los dias domingos, también hago preparaciones para que se vendan en el restaurante. Llevo un aproximado de 6 meses como residente en el templo, y anteriormente me quedé un poco después de su visita el año pasado. Me he esfprzado desde hace aproximadamente cuatro años por cantar dieciseis rondas, y siempre he seguido los cuatro principíos regulativos.

Tengo 17 años, ya terminé la preparatoria con una carrera técnica en arquitectura y quiero estudiar una licenciatura en pedagogía para algun dia empezar un Gurukula en el templo, solo que este año por los arreglos que se dieron no ingresé a la universidad, pero pienso estudiar en linea en cuanto tenga la oportunidad.

Me gustaría poder seguir con mis estudios y residir aquí mínimo un año pero si yo me quedo mas tiempo como encargada en el cuarto de flores yo estaría más tiempo aquí.

Si bien había escuchado hablar de usted, bastó mas que esta visita para poder estar segura que quiero tomar refugio a sus pies. Tan solo le ruego un poco de su misericordia para que me pueda aceptar si es que usted asi lo considera.

¡Jay Srila Prahupada!

¡¡¡jay Maharaja!!!

Con deseos de servirle, Manyari Devidasi

HpS - ASA -- Thank you for this nice letter! Who are your parents? As I understand Srila Prabhupada you did not take birth in that family by chance. Architecture is the most artistic of all the science and the most scientific of all the arts?

We hope the initiation process gets adjusted.

If you are follow me, Srila Prabhupad, Guru-prasada Swami's discipline, you are our, their disicples. Krsna knows what is our heart and actions. Yet, yes, the formality of initiation is important, just like the marriage ceremony. The boy and girl are dedicate to each other. Completely fixed in no adulteries, but the wedding ceremony is essential. It is a formality byt not a meaningless formality.

So many nice plans... That is like Karma yoga if you have them in proportion to the ultimate goal, WAKE UP! Return to your service in Goloka. Everything here is just a cinema.