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Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Todas las glorias a Usted gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis reverencias.

Soy Lila-sukhi dd, 28 años,.Bs As, Argentina.

Espero que esta carta lo encuentre bien.

HpS - TlgaSP!!! Pfanrh..... Muy bien oir de Vd. Tengo dolor del trasero, ojos, espalda, garganta, miedo de monstros.... y Vd??? Pero hay deleite (?) en la corazon! La unica felizidad en esta mundo es ser capaz hacer austeridades, morir, para KRSNA!!

Quiero empezar pidiéndole disculpas por haber demorado en contactarme, y tambien disculparme por mis fallas, que a veces son muchas.

HpS - Si, los hadas nos informan!

Mi hija Govinda ya esta por cumplir 3 años,

ASA - De Prasadam y sonido tracendental!

. . . es una nena muy saludable y me hace feliz dedicarle mi tiempo. Lilananda, su papá vive a 400 km de nosotras, suele viajar cada dos o tres meses a verla. Prácticamente la crío yo sola, repartiendo mi tiempo con ella y el trabajo. Le gusta ver las ilustraciones de luz del bhāgavata y pide que se lo lea. También hablamos de pasatiempos de Krsna book.

Mi sadhana ha mejorado mucho. Me conecto por las mañanas a cantar mis rondas y luego me quedo a la clase de SB que Madhu Mangala das brinda por zoom (hay que aprovechar los tiempos de cuarentena y aislamiento).

HPS - ASA -- Super!

Últimamente me sentía mal con mi vida espiritual, no estaba encontrando entusiasmo ni alegría, y eso me apenaba mucho guru maharaja. Sentía que estaba fallando como devota, como discípula.

HPS - No hay opcion. Bien o mal, tenemos que continuar como podemos, y paso por paso va a ser un resultado.

Hace un tiempo vengo siguiendo la prédica de Krsna west en buenos aires. Y me sume a los encuentros y programas (siempre por zoom) y de repente me vi tomando un rol activo, siendo parte de la prédica. Estoy muy feliz con ese servicio, y quiero pedirle sus bendiciones para poder seguir haciéndolo. Tenemos un grupo de gente nueva, unas 20 personas que se acercaron a conciencia de krishna y están cantando sus rondas con nosotros y asistiendo a clase de SB y de BG.

HpS - Muy bien! SS Hrdayananda Gos participa personalment a veces?

Me siento útil, siento que estoy siendo un instrumento en este camino, que mi vida espiritual está encontrando sentido.

Junto con otros devotos vamos a cursar bhakti sastri con Parampadam das y también tomar cursos de liderazgo con él, para poder mejorar y profundizar la prédica.

Mi mayor deseo es poder servirlo gurudeva, y quiero poder llevar conciencia de krishna a cada rincón, incluso en época de covid y aislamiento.

Nada puedo lograr sin sus bendiciones ni instrucciones gurudeva.

Gracias por las clases de la gira argentina, realmente sentí que Usted estaba acá.

su eterna sirviente y bienqueriente,

Lila-sukhi devi dasi.

HpS - No esta mencionando nombre de su hija! Pero cuidado tambien, por que hay cuentas en las Veda describiendo como nuestras peores enimigos llegan como nuestras hijos para causar pena a nosotros.

Eso es el mundo material!!!!

Tenemos que entender uno a otro profundo.

Please accept my humble obeisance, all glories to Srila prabhupada! Gurumaharaja, I just got the Whatsapp texts from yesterday. I sincerely hope that reaching out this way is appropriate.

HpS - Most of the discussions should be carried on in the Blog, because 90% of the dialog is something that 20% of the readers also are asking. So, if we discuss it one time here then, 5-more people get their basic answer and don't have to ask the detailed questions.

Beyond that, please use a pseudonym and open an account where these questions can be answered without stupid public focus on any individual! O.K? We just can't answer 500-letters a month. Oooof.

I am not certain if I am acting in a way that is appropriate for second initiation. I am unsure of what Ashrama I should be in or how to behave in that Ashram to be acting on a Diksha platform.

Brahmacari seemed inappropriate as it required close association with men and I have this same gender attraction!

I tried to minimize it, but keeping distance from the men while also keeping appropriate Bramacari relationships with Matajis which left me with no association at all. 😀 😯

Grihasta is problematic because a.) my understanding is that marriage is not appropriate for same sex couples and b.) my understanding is that Grihasta ashram is for producing and raising Krishna Conscious children, which is not possible. There is not a clear, distinct Vanaprasta ashram that I have seen.

HpS - I would say that a) and b) are true. C) might be in the relation with Rama and Sugriva. They swore a vow of friendship, I think even with a fire-sacrifice, which is just as binding as marriage.

Vanaprastha has just become a formal Ashrama in ISKCON as far as I know.

When asked by a homosexually inclined disciple what to do, Srila Prabhupada recommended to get married immediately. The enquirer was confused, but Srila Prabhupada was fixed in his second letter. Maybe the idea is that wife knows husbands situation, and they adjust there internal and external disparities and have kids and love them and get them on a simpler path and feel satisfaction.

Ultimately, and we want ultimate satisfaction, not just playing solitaire to pass the time, we already have a gender in Goloka and we have to act in terms of our lover, Krsna, in terms of that. The rest is just some way to make the best use of a bad bargain and create a rather peaceful situation in this world.

I have several disciples who are more or less in this situation. Other Gurus do to.

Basic principle is chant 16-enthusiastic rounds/day, follow four reg strictly and then Krsna will give you intelligence from within and without and then you have to share that with others.

Are you doing that? Can you do that???

In short, I do not know if I am acting at a Diksha level and I do not know what stage of life I should be acting in.

HpS - Yes, first have to answer the above 16/4 question. As Sannyasis 90% of our solution will be on that level and.... tell you to look for other devotees who have come to that platform from your situation.

One devotee who is now ISKCON Guru, Sannyasis, GBC, asked Srila Prabhupada when we was a Brahmacari in New York, "Srila Prabhupada, I cannot stop thinking about illicit sex!".

Srila Prabhupada answered that, Yes, because of the birth you have taken, you will not be able to stop thinking about it, but if you chant Hare Krsna it will become a peripheral thing and even a motivation for purification.

Tom Brown and Buck White will now tell you a confidential secret: They think that H. P Swami is actually Chinese monk trapped in a white man's body.

We all have problems!!! We have to solve them individually and then KRSNA will tell Radha, "Hey, just see our s(he)it solved this new problem! No one has ever done that before!! What a cool Dude(tte)!"

"Esteemed HpS

Please accept our humble obeisances and let us offer all respects to Srila Prabhupada!

We said that our marriage situation has become so crazy that we have been thinking of suicide, but you pointed out that we have died many times and that has not solved the problem, that our actual situation is the result of how we died in our last life.

Ha. ha. ha 😅🙏🏻. So true 😅😅😅. _/\o_ due to your prayers and my parent's affection, feeling physically less ill. Very fortunate Krsna is providing me help and support to go through this period in so many ways 🙏🏻.

You all are my lifelines. Everyday am trying a bit more to tell Krsna, He is my only shelter, even though everything is crumbling, I show my insignificant effort to prevent it. May He give me shelter. Whatever He likes He may do with us, we are at His mercy.

Trying to maintain mood of servant whenever we can remember (conditionings). Much much easier said than done."

ASA - We have heard from SP, our seniors and experienced, and first verse of SB, that if we approach any problem with the attitude that I am the servant of all. Let me try to help my husband, even if he is converting into a Kamsa, then we will be happy.

"But just when I think it can't get worse it does. With regulation, sleeping hours, video-gaming, other girls..no end."

ASA - Your only enemy is The Witch!!!! She will use everyone, everything to test you. To try to purify you so that you will get back to work! Goloka!

We were created to do a unique task!

Now we are not really doing it. What can KRSNA do??! He is by nature a complete egoist! Only thinks of Himself and He wants us, demands us to come, back and help with today's playing!?

Why are we staring at that stupid Bahiranga flower out in the field?!!

Well it is a little fun! ... but enough is enough! Sooo... The Witch and the Evil One will come up with unlimited different ways to frustrate your plans to be happy here.

H A P P Y!!😻

Hare Krsna!!!! Next episode in the Soap Opera!!! ....

Hare Krsna Gurudeva!

Agt SP!

Agt Nimai & Nitai!!!

I hope that you are very well, and that every day is a more beautiful day in Krsna consciousness.

I loved your response to my last letter ... incredible. The date is very nice ... THANK YOU GURUDEVA.

These past few days I have been quite introspective. Many accomplishments.

I truly believe that my spiritual advancement has reached a point, an important point in my destiny.

I am ashamed to talk about these things, because I am telling you about it, and it is not politically correct ... sorry Gurudeva.

HpS - For this purpose is Sadhu sanga. NOI 4, 5, 6!! This Blog is a Sanga like after the Sunday Feast public lecture some people come up to the Vyasa asana to talk a little more personally.

Yoga has made me grow incredibly in recent years.

I am sure that you could say many more things than I about all this, but for some reason (although perhaps I should not do it) I tell you about some of my personal achievements.

Lately, Krsna surprises me a lot. The layers of illusion between the mind and my own being, my soul, are like mental curtains, I could even take them with my hand ... And when I move away from them, each atom that surrounds me becomes a diode that emits a certain color, creating my environment. It's funny that when that happens, the mind becomes atoms too, showing me that the mind is no different from the matter I see, nothing different ...

When I want to see that state, I only look at the matter carefully; mind, senses and what surrounds me at the same time, without speculating or altering what I receive in body or mind, whatever it is (dreams, ideas, mental films ... etc etc). And so, I can perceive as matter, it is as spiritual as the spiritual world, but its inhabitants are people disconnected from everything by the false ego, and that is why everything is now done backwards ... and that Krsna did not build it , but us.

ASA - Monkey with a Mirror?

At that time, I feel like I'm in the wrong neighborhood.

Krsna always takes my Bhakti along the mystical paths ... which is actually the same as saying that it takes me on the scientific side ... I have always been very scientific, Krsna is very smart ... hahaha

What else can I tell you Gurudeva? The world becomes a shadow of the spiritual, but it is not a matter of the kind of matter from which it is built, but because it does not have that center which is for us by nature Krsna, and everyone else.

ASA - It is real. A real mirror?

It is as if a street full of wax lanterns, full of light and color, mystery, adventure, romanticism, and magic, were extinguished one by one, in a selfish way, and only afterwards was a space the same as the previous one, but empty of all that truly fills us souls, the only thing that actually exists with Krsna, with God.

Honestly Gurudeva, I don't know what I'm doing in this world ... hahaha ... I had to have been born into a lost Amazon tribe, this western society is much much more primitive than any hidden Amazon tribe.

May Gurudeva do well.

My humble obeisances.

Hare Krsna

HpS - Thank you! If you can start to find storys in the SB+ that illustrate your realizations, that is nice! Or explain SB+!

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Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay

ASA - Nityananda! 'nitai pada kamala...." buen cancion memorizar. tambien texto CC. Adi. 1.2. "Vande Sri Krsna Caitanya..."

Todas las gloria a Srila Prabhupada

ASA - !!!!!!!!

Hare krishna Guru.M comienzo mi reporte,

contando que comenzó el frío aquí en santiago de chile pero a pesar de esto hago todo mi SADHANA, mejorando cada día en cantar unas buenas rondas leer y estudiar a pesar de que hay temas que me cuestan me esfuerzo para lograr un buen entendimiento, preguntar hasta que quede claro. sigo hablando con las chicas por teléfono una vez a la semana riendo y preocupada por sus dudas ,(son las chicas del jardín) . también en casa comenze plantar en maceteros algunas plantas (orégano, romero, albahaca y otras.. para krishna están creciendo bastante bien. cada día medito en hacer un buen servicio y mejorar mi vida espiritual para ser un ejemplo, muchas gracias por su inspiración se despide su humilde sirvienta Raman Reti devi dasi

HpS -- Muy bien!!!!! A abajo orden de Sr. Chaitanya, "amar ajnay guru haya..." convierta Jagat Guru. Paso por paso.

All glories to sti sri gaura nitai, all glories to srila prabhupada, all glories to you.

yes, I do not sing japa, I do not feel the interest, I only read the new testament, or sometimes the nectar of the instruction, also some books of saints .. I am doing studies online because cannot travel because of the virus(lie).. In less than a year I will be taking medicine (if I don't die) I feel the need to help people, I don't know what I'm doing here, I feel useless and what am I going to do? talk about my good activities? I'm a mess, I don't like lying. I don't like lying to you and this is how I feel. Today I feel other needs and help people and do a job of introspection but I am not constant with my japa. I want to be consistent with helping others. thank you gurudeva for your letter and my obeissances to you.

Ys. Ter kadamba devi dasi

HpS - Thank you!! Very nice. Did you restring our beads one time?

"Debemos conocer la necesidad actual de la sociedad humana." https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/1/preface/

Eso es nuestra idea. Si, necesitamos ayudar todo el mundo vivir in tranquilidad. Pero no somos gorillas o gorillinis. En bondad materialment y entonces buscamos algo mas alto.

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