Letters to the editor

All Glories too Srila Prabhupada !!!

Please acept my humble obeisences!!!

Thank you very much gurudeva.

I hope you are very well. It is very impressive and motivating to hear your classes and your complete dedication to serve the devotees through the study of the scriptures, your wise advice and your way of seeing the absolute truth. I try to listen to the classes online by GoToMeeting from our Asram but it is almost impossible due to the poor internet connection and the program is very heavy, it takes up a lot of data so we listen to the classes online by facebook when possible.

HpS - It is our loss!!

I am dying of shame not being able to assist you in the translations and see the effort you make in the classes ... I apologize !!! Please excuse my failures and my lack of dedication ..

ASA - ! ! ! Hare Krsna!!!! This pandemic is a wonderful opportunity for all of to discover a new world and new resources.

When the pandemic started here in Argentina, roughly the beginning of March, I was on a sankirtan trip with our small motor home van with a lot of books and I was eager to distribute them ... and I was heading to Santiago de Chile to receive you and try to serve you or assist. ..By arrangement of providence I was forced to return to the Sri Govardhana asrama !!! to wait for the pandemic to pass and continue with the traveling Sankirtana ... but the quarantine was extended and we got focus on the SB Study, Bg, etc. So since March I'm trying to get deeper into the SB...

... we have a very nice study group here at the farm and we are finishing the study of Canto 4 and I was also leading a study group for brahmacaris for 3 or 4 months for brahmacaris from chile and others based on the study of Bhakti Vikas Swami's book ... (it was very good and I think it helped the devotees a lot and obviously me).

HpS - Yes, it is very interesting. Now Spring is coming, so you will have more work with agriculture, no? Lord Balarama's gardens.

Also, by the grace of Krishna and Guru, I have a very good study partner and we studied canto 6 complete with 4 more devotees per zoom..now we finish the canto and go on to prepare canto 1 to do the Bhakti Vaibhava online ...

...not yet we are sure where or Mayapur institute or eco.village govardhana .. but well the important thing is that I have a very good friend who likes to study a lot and is very enthusiastic ..

HpS - ASA -- To me the Eco.village program seems the best!

I remember when you said that when you lived in the temple you were looking for someone to study with systematically ... I think it was at Berkeley ... very good ...

ASA - At one point we decided that study partner was as important as teacher!!

My Japa vrata is regular and 80% mangala aratik and full program ... the monotony of staying in one place for so many months I think it has affected the sadhana a bit but we are following the regulative principles very well ... I don't see karmis movies, I don't waste time with news and politics ... I am also spending part of my time in the orchard and garden.

HpS - Super. Staying one place. You can move from one chair to another. Then back to the desk, then to the patio!! Ha! Ha! HAre! yet that is just as valid for people in the mode of goodness. Travel to the different planestary systems on your magic carpet.

Well I do not want to bore yo more with this letter ..

I ask you please not to forget about this servant who is trying to do something without personal interest and who wants to satisfy you and our dear Srila Prabhupada.

If you have any instructions or advice I would accept it with my heart ... and soul.

Your servant trying to get to your feet, panca tattva das

HpS - Writing every day? If you preach to five people that is a full time engagement!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you are in good health.

HpS - The same to you.

In response to the previous letter, I had always associated the word 'sublime' with happiness or ecstasy. I find it very interesting to also take into account the scientific meaning of this word. I think it allows me to have a better understanding of the process that I have had. When I started devotional practices, I felt a sense of bliss (from solid to gaseous, or from gross to subtle). However, as time went by, I realized that I had to work more on the gross and psychic levels (reverse sublimation). Thanks so much for the explanation. On the other hand, I have always followed the 4 principles throughout my life (with one or another stumble). However, chanting the 16 rounds has been the most difficult for me. I have been doing it out of obligation and I don't find meaning in it. I have read literature that devotees recommended to me, but still, I honestly cannot understand how chanting can help in spiritual development.

Finally, I would like to comment on some academic plans. At university, I have started the path towards my thesis. I am doing a state of the art on the conceptions of culture that educators and anthropologists have. Based on this, I will carry out a study of how interculturalism is promoted at Peruvians schools.

I can see that college graduation is closer. For this reason, I am also preparing to take an international English exam, which is a requirement to study a master's degree abroad. However, this test is not available in Peru and its availability is highly uncertain. Therefore, I am planning to travel to London (the main venue for all international exams). Because the borders will open soon, I think there would be no problem in traveling to London for academic purposes. This trip would be taking place in the holidays of January and February. I consider it to be an appropriate date, as later, I will be more absorbed in my research and pre-professional practices.

That's all for now. Thanks a lot for reading this letter.

Rukmini dd

HpS - ASA -- AgtSP!!! Thank you for your very lucid letter. What kind of morning program were you able to keep??? That's part of the scientific prescription, no?

16-en-thus-i-astic rounds for guaranteed progress, but w/o Brahma-muhurta, Mangala arati, Kirtan, Japa, SB, Prasadam. . .

Awk!

It becomes a big burden, golograh not vigrah.

Of course,

we have to adjust the Sadhana to our other activities to some degree eg. class right after M-arati and 4-rounds on the bus.... but Krsna will never punish us for chanting 16-nice rounds in nice environtmetnt.

That is our understanding, but.... it is presented as a science, so you have to make the experiment. Was the Morning program at a healthy level? Up by 1-1/2 hours before sunrise? Of course in London there is no sun for weeks some times!! (Ha! Ha! Hare!!), but try fixing some number of rounds for two weeks or so with the FMP if it was not there and then see the results.

Hoping to be of use!!

HpS - ASA (Tom Brown, Buck White et al).... Your career sounds interesting. I think people must find you a good, sober friend. They are hard to find.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!

PAMHO!!!

Hare Krishna dear Gurudeva!

I write after 5 months ago,

ASA - Selfish demon!

Coronavirus has brought us a new opportunity to do new kind of service, now I´m learning to play harmonium in my free time, I already learned two melodies of the Maha Mantra and I am studying to play a little less worst than the day before.

Please give me your blessings for not committing offenses during my learning.

HpS-ASA -- May God bless you. '@'pop~

I also stared to study Bhagavad Gita with the support of a manual from Mayapur Institute, seriously thinking on enroll up for Bhakti Sastri course soon.

The new way to work at home gave me the opportunity to do some certifications of exponential education and industry 4.0 and spend more time with my daughter Jahnavi, she are also learning to play harmonium and my mom is teaching her to embroider fabrics for the deities, she really love it.

Something I'm grateful for with the pandemic is I have had the opportunity to learn a little more about cooking and preformance for the festivals and perform all the Ekadasi fasting without problems. 😅

This year in Monterrey yatra: The Jala Yatra Festival could not perform on the Santa Lucía River as in previous years, so the administration decided to do it in the Bhakti Center in a small pool at the style of the kalachandjis temple.

A live broadcast was made with the participation of H.H. Jayapataka Swami, H.H. Guru Prasad Swami, H.G. Sankarshan Das Adhikari, H.G. Malati Prabhu, S.G. Mahatma Prabhu and H.H. Bhakti Sundar Swami. My family and I had the opportunity to help with the offerings and the prasadam, as well as the decorations for the festival.

I have felt very calm in the last months despite the current health situation in the world, I know that everything is by the mercy of Sri Krishna and every day I try to improve my japa a little more and I pray that I have a little more intelligence and be able to serve you properly.

HpS - In your next life your will be Bhismadeva???

We hope that in December they will open the border for the opportunity to travel to Houston and recharge our bhakti with the mercy of Sri Sri Radha Nila-Madhava.✨

Forgive me for not being in contact with you more frequently through the Blog,

ASA - O. K. but don't do it again! At least every three months.

I don't want to be a burden to you, we try to do our best. 4 principles and japa every day. We pray that you are in good health and we can see you soon.

Also Forgive my mistakes trying to write this letter, I keep trying to improve my English.🙏

Your eternal and humble servant.

Lalita-radha devi dasi.

HpS -ASA --- Super, super, super, become continuously KC, then make it more intense and then all pervading!!!!!!

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Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay

Todas las gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Hare krishna Gurudev,

disculpe por reportarme tan tarde

no pude hacerlo la plataforma

no lo permitía comienzo mi reporte respondiendo lo que pregunto, mi familia bien, están esparcidos por varios lugares del país, Valdivia al sur de chile mi hermano Javier con Julieta mi sobrina y en Valparaíso mi hermana Francisca con Ignacio son buenas personas trabajan cada uno en sus respectivos ámbitos completame diferentes

uno es muralista mosaico, y ahora experimenta con escultura de arcilla(artista) trabaja en proyectos con la municipalidad de La region, para hacer murales en las escuelas,

Francisca, trabaja en un laboratorio y mi hermano menor Felipe también es muralista (artístita), pero trabaja en construcción,

mis padres estan juntos hace 42 años son unas bellas personas

Krsna me dio un gran fortuna al tenerlos. mi madre está pensando dejar la carne, es de apoco su avance pero es sincero, en algún momento fue al templo le emociona mucho estar en Govinda se sabe la traducción tiene una foto de Govinda en su oficina cada mañana ponía esta canción ,

hoy está en casa por el tema de la pandemia junto a mi padre, a sido un tiempo maravilloso para conocernos,

ella es la jefa de hogar mi padre siempre tuvo problemas de salud así trabajaba esporádicamente nos cuido cuando pequeños lo agradezco mucho

me enseño muchas cosas.

además de esta biografía familiar le cuento que comenzaré hacer lecto escritura a pequeños de 5 años por zoom, es algo nuevo para mi lo experimente y me gustó espero hacer un buen trabajo y siempre progresar en mi servicio,

ademas de esto continúo predicando a travez del teléfono comenze a leer el upadesamrta como un servicio extra para ellas y mejorar mi lectura en voz alta estoy contenta y veo como ellas se entusiasman al leerles,

muchas gracias Gurudev por toda la inspiración que da para siempre mejorar mi servicio se despide su humilde sirviente Raman Reti devi dasi

hps - asa --- TlgaSP!!! Tiene un vision salvar todo el mundo si KRSNA su desea?

Todas las glorias al sankirtana de Gauranga y Nityananda

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna querido Gurudeva, le vuelvo a escribir para responder la carta anterior:

Estoy leyendo el Néctar de la devoción cap. 19, es uno de los libros de Prabhupada que más me gusta lo volveré a leer una y otra vez cuando termine.

HpS - "Waves of Devotion" by Dhanurdara Swami is super commentary. Super, but... is in English. Anybody translate it?

En mi carta anterior le mencioné que estaba haciendo algunos votos espirituales me siento bien y feliz hacerlos pero cuando mi mente cae viene la depresión, es una frustración, infelicidad y tristeza conmigo misma. En verdad pienso que estoy luchando como todos.

Pude recordar algo que cuando estaba de sankirtana viajero distribuyendo los libros de Srila Prabhupada me sentía más protegida, creo que jamás habrá como el sankirtana, espero con muchas ansias salir de vacaciones y darme un viaje a Bolivia o por Perú, la vida es muy austera para un sankirtanero pero como dice el dicho “Se sufre pero se goza” y creo que no hay mejor avance, austeridad o votos espirituales en esta era de kali que el sankirtana.

ASA - !!!👍!!!

Un tema que he estado escuchando es sobre los problemas en Iskcon y pienso que la solución es el desarrollo interno de cada uno de nosotros, de adentro hacia afuera, si hacemos un buen servicio a Krsna y cantamos buenas rondas todo irá bien y vendrán soluciones que no nos imaginábamos, creo que he experimentado un poco de esto.

ASA - Si... !

En la clase de domingo de P. Jayanta dijo algo muy bonito que todos somos hermanos, una familia y debemos aprender a tolerarnos unos a otros y aprender a hacer servicio juntos para beneficio de la suprema personalidad de Dios.

Gracias por su asociación

Atte.

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi

HpS - Gracias a Vd. Donya N. N. Dasi. Uno foto de su papa?????

Hare Krna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our humble obeisances

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

I am writing to ask you a question regarding the worship service. In SB 4.27.24, Srila Prabhupada mentions: "A devotee follows the principles of pāñcarātrika-vidhi as well as bhāgavata-vidhi. Bhāgavata-vidhi includes preaching work - śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ - the hearing and chanting of the glories of the Lord Viṣṇu, the Lord Viṣṇu Supreme Personality of Godhead. The pāñcarātrika-vidhi includes arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam. " In his commentary, the process of pāda-sevanam is not mentioned. I have heard from you that a neophyte devotee performs the first three processes, the madhyama devotee the next three, and the first-class devotee the last three.

Is the worship service (at home or temple) whether puja, Salagram Silas bath or other seva, considered pāda-sevanam or arcanaṁ?

HpS - AGTSP paoho. Our knowledge in these areas is not so great. You can ask other devotees! In general if they are installed dieties and saligrama sila we would understand it to be arcana, but if they are just your own unistalled statues or pictures, then I would inderstand it to be Pada sevanam. Of course, the relationship with a pictures eg. Lord Nrsmhadeva by your door to whom you pray upon coming and going, can be more intense than someone may have through the formal externally satvik procedures of workshipping installed deities.

Being a neophyte devotee, should I perform my worship service emphasizing meditation (smaranam) because I am at that level?

HpS - Technically if we have taken second initiation we are Madhyama adhikaris. The worship of the deity as described above is a specific process. I can be, and is, combined with other processes eg. you have to kirtanam, chant, prayers while you are doing it. Of course, smaranam is very natural for the prayers, Holy Names and, and, and, the Form of the deity.

What is the difference between pāda-sevanam and arcanaṁ?

HpS - As dscribed above, as we understand, PS is doing service for Krsna eg. buy things. cleaning His house. Making money for Him, going to His temple, but arcanam is the formal ritualistic diety worship.

Do the processes of pāñcarātrika-vidhi require higher qualifications than a brahmana?

HpS - As far as I know some of them can be performed by non-intiated people who might be helping or becoming Second Diksa devotees, and others would be aimed at Goswami level devotees.

Thank you very much in advance

Your servant Gandharva das

HpS - Hare Krsna.