Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna dear Gurudeva, hope you are really fine, pamho agtSP!! 

Last time I wrote, more than one month ago you asked me, HpS - How is your garden??????? Getting to know your neighbors more???

Relationship with neighbors is very little, just with one neighbor, having more exchanges, he take prasadam some times, we go to fly little kites with his sons and Lalita Gopi, nice guy, having more interchange with parents from the waldorf kindergarden where we are part, I already give some LOB in there, some interesting people, here all educational activities, and some more are completley stoped because of the quarantine or social distancing...They have nice community spirit in this waldorf enviorment, now participating in a online vegetarian food fair in the school, so giving out some prasadam there, its good at this strange period when the adaptation is a must. Still could not work in what I do, in face to face mood with courses, workshops, meditations, etc, trying to adapt to social media. Last week i give a lesson in the online iskcon disciples course, it was nice, despite i m not a very institutional guy, apreciatin more and more ISKCON and the great greatness of our Srila Prabhupada.

This world is increasingly unlivable, realizing this, allways really, but now a little bit more, that all my depresivness, loneliness, etc, is the forgetfullness of Krishna, to put him in the real center of my life. In this way life goes in the waves of conciousness, some times happy, sometimes sad, while being in illusion.

Thank you so much Gurudeva for all your efforts assisting us via online, with many lectures, FMP, it is very helpfull and nutritius for all.

ohh, the garden is developing fine, now the cold winter is very harsh for the plants, spring climate coming very soon, we were doing an orchard, getting some vegetables from there, fighting with the foxes and cats not to defecate there hah, also we put some flower plants, and fruit trees, slowly growing :)

ys, Madhavendra P.D

HpS - Thank you. AGTSP!!! We are surprised the foxs don't try to eat the cats??!! Biggest control of Maya is fear of death, no? Disease is a little death. Old age is a lot of diseases. Death is the sum-total of all possible bad experiences.

Yet, we cannot die. That is the problem in some ways. We cannot escape our responsibilities. O.K. Take responsibility for our actions. Ask Krsna to please help us to correct the mistakes we have made. If we have to change bodies.... today.... next week.... because of AIDs, Diptheria, Cholera, Coronary Infarcation...... Koruna virus, Robbers.... O.K. Always working on being devoteed ALL THE TIME!!!!

Thank you for your mercy.

Yare dekha... where ever we go just try to teach BG, SB, CC, NOD.....!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and U!!!

Please accept my (humble) obeisances

Hare Krsna dear Gurudeva.

After a long time I write about myself.

Social isolation has not affected us much, because we actually enjoy being at home. We don't have many friends, so in that sense we are fine.

HpS - Also, don't go to bars!! Many devotees find the lock down hasn't changed their life much!!!

The family is good. My sister is studying online to get a degree on British English.

We do not know how we are in health, but we feel good, always following the instructions of our doctor. It is almost 5 months without medical control. We cannot leave the house since our immune system always has low defenses.

We continue working in the school with ZOOM, giving classes in the mornings and in the afternoons.

We have the opportunity to perform our sadhana in the morning very calm and happy. We chant almost all rounds (16) in the morning. And we worship and care for our altar.

HpS - Your teaching is connected to Krsna!

Our life is a bit boring so we don't have much to say....

thanks a lot for all your help and patience.

YS

Patrak Das

HpS - If you concentrate just a -----little---- more on the Japa you will start to have PHENOMENAL experences!!! Maybe Raktaka will come and visit you!!

Dear Hanumat Presaka Sawmi:

PAMHO AGTSP

Hare Krishna from north Spain:

Answering questions from my last letter.

HpS - To whom do you offer it? Do They leave everything?

JMHD-We offer our vegetables to our dear Krishna Balarama deities.

ASA --- Moooo! Give the neighbor Prasada!!!!?????

JMHD- Yes we try to give them as much prasadham as possible

HpS - Zonal Supervisor?

Yes , whatever.

HpS - AGTSP! This is good enough! Send Quarterly letters!!! This is very nice! We think many, many devotees will benefit. How is Hanuman Das and the Spanish BBT??? We will visit Spain, maybe one more time, before we die.

JMHD-You never leave Spain as you are in hurt of your fallen disciples.

But is great to know that you will visit us one more time before going back to Prabhupadas Lotus feet.

Any service for us?!

Just take care of your good self and let us know if we can serve you in anyway.

Now news:

-Marta´s father was diagnosed with Brain cancer

-Marta had a surgery to arrange her uterus.

-Getting pregnant has being dismish.

-Marta is living in Barcelona for the past 3 months taking care of father.

-I visit them on regular basis.

-We had several youth meetings in New Vrajamandala, Shantipur(BCN) , New Mayapur (France), Youth from Sweeden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, France, Portugal meet in this places and had a lot of fun in KC.

This projects are developing more and more and is creating an amazing feeling of cooperation among the youth in all European yatras.

We are developing several projects in many EU countries.

-We also got some land by Krishna and Balaram´s mercy, we got 5 hectars of land and possibly a Youth hostel (Asram for 60 people)

We are still with the legal paperwork but the idea is to start a rural project for 15-20 families.

We have an amacing partner called Diego who is a very successful organic farmer.

He wants to train young vaisnavas in organic farming.

At the same time we will develop youth camps (for devotees and non devotees)

-My son Vrindavan passed 12 grade and the exam to access university.

-At the same time he is working at Diegos organic farm as summer job.

So basically we are all very happy about the idea of developing this rural project

At the same time we are developing a very profesional european youth workers team so we can get a lot of funding from EU and get a lot of support and training for our youth.

We are also trying to help as zonal supervisor in Spain.

You are always in our hurt (heart)

Hope to see you soon

Your fallen servant

JMHD

HpS -Jaya!!!! This news is so valuable. Please read the Kapi Dhvaja!!!!!! Chant more rounds better!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to Sripada Maharaj

All Glories to Hanumat Presaka Swami Guru Maharaj

Hare Krishna

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your Lotus feet. I hope this letter finds you in good health. I am also doing good due to your divine grace. I am your humble servant Nichintya Nityai Devidasi from Manipur. I apologize for not being able to write to you for a long time. Though we are afar, my Guru Maharaj, you are present every day in my day and night devotional services to the all attractive “Lord Krishna’ and our lovely Guru-disciple bond is strong as ever.

By your causeless mercy, I am able to continue my loving devotional services to the Lord. I am however, very sad since I cannot go and attend temple programs, SB classes and Sunday Kirtans and association with the devotees due to the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic situation. I hope for this to be over soon so that I can start attending temple programs, SB classes and Sunday Kirtans.

In the meantime, I am diligently continuing my 16 rounds of chanting and reading SB Canto 3, Chapter 1 “Questions by Vidura”. And I believe that my Dear Guru Maharaj is with me in spirit in my daily services to Lord Krishna.

Hare Krishna.

Your faithful servant,

Nichintya Nityai Devidasi

HpS - Thank you!!! Please read the News, Kapi Dhvaja!! Www.JayaRama.us Thank you!!

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada!! All Glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj!! Please accept our humble obeisances at Your sweet Lotus feet.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

My apologies for the delay in sending the list of devotees who got initiated last year...we miss your association so much dear Guru Maharaj. My apologies again....for the photos which somehow did not reach you...sending again.

Father and I continue with the BG in the evenings. We laugh a lot while reading the 14th chapter....bringing out the devil in each other!! Thank you for the wonderful mercy..thank you so much Guru Maharaj.

Guru Maharaj....don't know why ...but I like to sing Hanuman Chalisa... ! All glories to Anjani-nandana!! Is it forbidden ...being in ISKCON? Or should I continue?

HpS - I've never heard it being forbidden. I think it is 'forbidden' to chant it in ISKCON Temple pubic program or preach it to others, but??? I heard Prabhupada in one Ramanyana, Tulsi Das (?) symposium say that Rama carit manas is not exactly Ramayana. It is poet's poem about Ramanyana. It think (not sure) that P'pada's opinion was that Tulsi Das was nice person, devotee, but maybe influenced a little by passion and so let a little vanity slip into his poem, maybe adding pastimes not in the Ramayana.

Read it, write a commentary on it from perspective of Srila Prabhupada's books. We can see to publishing it!!

Still continuing with NOD . Getting some time off from material duty nowadays . Virus is benevolent. Last week ,finished a book by Dr Brian Weiss ..amazing work on Past life regression...

HpS - Have you heard of his work with "future life progression". Also interesting. We can use different subjis for Krsna, why not different philosophers?

Today planning to read The Journey within by HH Radhanath swami.

We hope and pray that we keep coming to you dear Guru Maharaj..

Your insignificant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

Thank you!!!! We have to rest our eyes now. We will go blind faster than we are! Respects to your esteemed father! Does he have name!!?!! Did he fight tigers with the King when he was a young man??

All glories to Radha Syamasundar

AGTSP

dandavats at your lotus feet

HpS - Lettuce Feet. AgtSP!!! Thank you for writing to us. We get lonely sometimes here in the prison. 

I wanted to thank you for your association in the FMP, it is very valuable for me, the quarantine has done a lot of introspective work, a lot of struggle with the mind, anyhow a great fall is followed by great happiness ,Shakespeare said it.

At the moment we are attached to the Sadhana and my dear Gopal, I am living in Brazil but I got stuck in Chile because I came to do a healing course, unfortunately i couldn't continue along the course because of the pandemic... ...lock up your body and open up our heart, I could not relax, but I started to take a Vedic healing training with Guru Govinda dd (tilak’s mother).

 HpS - Hey!!! Cross species marriages!! ??

At the moment I continue translating the books of H.H. bhakti ballabh tirtha maharaj, and I am starting a service for a vaisnavi comunity. it is called Project subhadra.

from time to time we do vrindavan parikram online there is a devotee who broadcasted it via you tube so it brings back nice memories to chant japa....maybe someday my bhajan will be better and become sincere.

I wanted to ask you if my name is Radha Carana dasi or Radha carana devi dasi I know this question it’s bit silly, but sometimes you call me both ways I think it is just dasi but I wanted to be sure.

HpS - Wow! Sure??? I guess that only comes when we see Krsna face to face through the transparent via-media of the Parampara. I would say that it is Radha-carana Dasi, because Her feet I don't think are Devis.  

Someone who aspires to have love for Kirshna someday !!!

ys

Prema bhikhari

Pd: some potos of my favorite place in Vraja (Radha Tilah) parrots come to take Radharani’s darsan at 4pm….

HpS - Hmmm! Very lucky fellows!!! Wish we had it so luck!!!! Tanslate translate. Send a little extract here!! Thank you again. 16-nice rounds under the authority of Srila Prabhupada! Thank you!!