Letters to the editor

Dear Maharaja,

pamho agtsp

HpS - Please accept ours! We are so, so, sad when we read this letter. We think of everyone in ISKCON Australia: You, Dhan., kids, parents, Laksmi, Raktaka family, MADHU-MANJARI DEVI DASI and so many more. We miss you.

It was so nice for me to hear your class on varnashram and Bhagavat dharma live today; a great refresher of your life’s work. I wish that you will empower me to carry at least one spec of sand for you. If I cannot do this, I do not deserve the kindness you have drowned me in.

ASA - 😳 We are just beasts that Srila Prabhupada has taught to dance.

Dr. Mabbett and I have been exchanging emails.

HpS - Wonderful!!!

The last six months in Australia have been fire, flood, and now pandemic. Dr. Mabbett and his good wife seam [seem] to be fairing well through it all. Although he has now fully retired from academic work, he is currently working on a book of his life’s philosophy. I will try to obtain a copy on completion as he is a very interesting teacher and he has a good heart.

HpS - Super... We can review it and sell it in Solaris (Viplavah).

Australia is gradually moving towards more strict lockdowns. Isolation is no stranger to us, as we like to be at home doing bhajan, puja, and study and we are used to spending a lot of time together. I am a full-time online student so these times are favorable to me, to us. My family is all well, due to Krsna’s mercy.

HpS - Radhika-ramana Das looked at all the rules and restrictions and realized that they already were doing all of them. We, devotees, are constantly in quarantine.

Current subjects I am taking at university: Freud and philosophy, 20th Century French philosophy, and Religion, Rights, and Governance. Only 6 subjects left (including the 3 that am currently enrolled in) to finish the bachelor's.

HpS - Can you wear a Black Robe with a Mortar Board hat, shake hands with the President (and use sterile wipe afterwards)! Bachelor (B'cari), Master (Swami), PhD/Doctor of Philosophy (Teacher of Love of Wisdom) = Bhakti- Veda-Anta

Just before the pandemic exploded, I completed 5 weeks teaching Bhakti Shastri and general Shastra Studies at the Gurukula here for the high school students — grades 7-12. For the Bhakti Shastri I chose to study with them the book you carry around your neck. They all wrote nice essays. It was a very informative experience for me — many insights about the state of education today.

We pray this meets you in good health, and we pray that you give us some shelter/service always.

ys

Dhruva

ps, the Freud lecture slide was unintentional but I can’t remove it. Anyways, that's an example of what I am studying at uni, I suppose. His conclusion are quite disturbing and unsatisfying, actually. Thank God for Jung and Prabhupada!.

Hare Krishna, Hare Rama.

HpS - Jung said that Freud was to obsessed with sex, no? Maybe one of us was Freud in our last lives????

Thank you so much for this report!!!!! Best of wishes for your Sankirtan.... Continental conquest!

Primero quiero partir disculpándome porque no le escribí hace varios meses, yo pensaba que no quería molestarlo con mis temas pero me di cuenta que fue un error, así que ahora le escribiré más seguido.

HpS - AGTSP.. And please forgive us for not answering. We are lazy and have more mail and personal consultations with devotees et al, than we can handle. And the letter is in Spanish so it is six times as hard for us to answer, but we try one paragraph more. 😀

Bueno guru maharaj este año ha sido para mi un año lleno de muchos cambios, en el que krishna me ha enseñado muchas cosas. Desde que regrese de argentina la vida me ha cambiado mucho, primero estuve 7 meses con kinesiólogo por dolencias en la espalda,

HpS - Fuerte, pero normal en esta mundo, no??

. . . hoy en día estoy mucho mejor pero pronto comenzaré un proceso con un quiropráctico, para cerrar eso y mejorar al 100%.

HpS - Ja Ja Jare. Nunca 100%, siempre nueva problemas, por la fin, la Muerte!

He aprendido que debo cuidar de mejor manera mi cuerpo para mantenerme estable emocionalmente y para poder predicar de mejor manera.

HpS - Super!!! Me gustaria MUCHO leer mas, pero..... cartas recien con El Codigo De Prioridad Del Kapi Dhvaja (KDPC) del seccion de Letters to the Editor para responder, entonces El Kapi Dhvaja misma. Aparece de sta karta que Vd es uno de los mas sanos, fuertes, personas en la planeta. No deja al lado ninguna oportunidad ser un leider, si unos quiere seguir Vd.

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Este año he estado cuidando a mi abuela junto a mi madre, mi abuela tiene 91 años de edad, tiene muchas dificultades para hacer sus actividades individualmente, por eso yo la cuido, le cocino, y mi madre se ocupa en cuestiones de su higiene personal. Estas experiencias me han llevado a vivir de cerca lo que es la vejez y como el cuerpo se va pudriendo cada vez más hasta que llega el momento en que hay que abandonarlo. Mi abuela ha tomado prasada, le he mostrado videos de vrindavan, tiene un kanthi mala en su cuello, y una imagen gigante de gopala en su habitación. A ella le gusta mucho radha y krishna, dice que radha es una mujer muy bella y se siente atraída hace ella.

Por este cuidado que le hacemos, no he podido llevar la vida de monje que llevaba antes, y me fui adaptando con el paso de los meses.

Este año también ha sido un año maravilloso junto a mi madre, quien cada vez está mas cerca de krishna, ella esta cantando rondas, y esta siguiendo los 4 principios regulativos, y ha cambiado totalmente su personalidad y su vida en general. Ahora ella fue aceptada como aspirante a discípula por su santidad jayapataka swami así que está muy feliz, y yo me siento enormemente bendecido.

Hace poco tiempo comencé a trabajar en lo que estudie antes de ser monje 3 años, que fue psicología, estuve en mucha ansiedad durante hartos meses porque no teniamos dinero, pero krishna hizo los arreglos en el momento indicado, lo que me llevó a comprender que hay que tener paciencia, krishna siempre nos está complaciendo, pero no debemos perder la calma. ahora trabajo con personas que viven en situación de calle, es una realidad muy dura. Esta experiencia me está purificando mucho, ya que debo ser tolerante, compasivo, y me hace ser consciente de los sufrimientos que tienen algunas personas en esta era de kali.

Algunas veces me quedo a dormir en el templo y asisto a mangal artik, pero en casa me levanto temprano, realizo un sadhana matutino y me voy al trabajo. Durante todo el dia me mantengo cantando hare krishna ya que el trabajo me hace caminar mucho. Durante la noche adoro a tulasi devi y la riego, ella ha sido muy misericordiosa conmigo. Mi madre le hizo un vestido muy bello.

Por otra parte, aprendí astrología védica y hace 1 año que estoy trabajando con eso, y por misericordia de krishna hemos podido ayudar a muchas personas. Hay personas que no conocen el templo pero les damos el maha mantra hare krishna porque en astrología se explica que el remedio astrológico más potente de todos, que purifica por completo, es el maha mantra hare krishna. Entonces les damos una japa mala de neem y les enseñamos a cantar, además de que usan ciertas gemas de los planetas.

finalmente me gustaria decirle que estoy agradecido con su visita a santiago de chile, estar con usted me da muchas fuerzas siempre. como soy un tonto, durante mucho tiempo estuve confundido por las politicas administrativas del templo, por maya, por muchas cosas. pero gracias a su agradable ayuda siempre hay un nuevo amanecer y una nueva oportunidad en la vida espiritual.

estoy adaptandome a la vida que tengo ahora, espero tomar mas servicios y seguir madurando en la consciencia de krishna. su agradecido discipulo, que espera algun dia ser realmente un vaishnava, mandara sakha dasa.

All glories to Srila Pravupad! Dear Guru Maharaj please accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet!!

Hare Krishna ! hope you are well dear GM. l am very grateful to you for what happened to me is by your great mercy .Everyday l wish you are guiding me so that l am able to continue loving devotional service to the Lord

After l have got initiation this year on Goura purnima we have completed Basic archana procedure under the guidance of Ramanujan pravu than we have done vaisnava sadacar .After that we are at Sri Navadvip Dham with HH Maharaja Vakti Anand Haridas Goswami .We have completed the entire Navadvip parikrama and at Sridham Mayapur also ,got darshan of Sri radha Madhava .Come back to Manipur than on the last day of kartika

we the devotees together performing the Maha-rasa-leela at Manimandir for the pleasure of Sri Radha Krishnachandra , at least l can serve as the part of Vishakha it was a great experience , whatever happened to me is by your mercy to this fallen soul dear GM! am attending morning SB class ,sunday nagar kirtan ,chanting fine sixteen rounds and four regulative principle but mangal arati at home as my home is not close to the temple .

Always remain at your lotus feet .Nicintya nityai devi dasi.

HpS - AGTSP paoho. Sorry has been a "little" slow in answering this wonderful letter. 1) We are lazy, 2) We have so much pressure from travel and so many people to relate too!

Is very, nice report. You are already in the Spiritual World. Yo just ahve to realize it. See you in the Kapi Dhvaja today.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.

Acepte por favor is respetuosas reverencias.

TLGASP!!

Gurudev adjunto fotos de las flores que tenemos en casa para ofrecer a Nrsimhadeva.

También tengo una foto de Tulasi Devi que llegó hace unas semanas a nuestra casa.

Para Rama Navami hicimos un abhiseka simple. Ayuno hasta las 14:00hrs. y rompiendo sin granos. Las fotos no son nítidas, pero todo estuvo muy lindo.

El curso de discípulos que está para el mes de mayo, probablemente lo hagamos online.

Gracias por todo Guru Maharaja.

Mis eternas reverencias.

Su apirante a sirviente

Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi

HpS - Gracias!!!! Vamos a mostrar los flores a El!

https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/5/18/8/

Hare Krsna dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

We hope you are in good health. We are well, confined, silent, studious and serene. Not surprisingly, there are not many possibilities to contact the devotees and continue with the educational projects underway, but the Pada Padma (LAD) and Bhakti Sastri (me) classes are being given online to a group of twenty-something enthusiast devotees.

HpS - Learning to live on the air! I have started to do gardening for one hour before sunset. I was so exhausted I could not lift my arms without them shaking but felt so good to have some exercise!

The classes I give at the Centro de la Imagen, being mainly theoretical, are perfectly adapted to virtual platforms. They even suggest me to continue with this modality even after the quarantine is over. This makes me very happy because I would not have to go to Lima to work, I would do everything from home.

HpS - EYE C U!

The temple has decreased its activity to a minimum. Three devotees are in charge of some programs. We did not leave the house which has allowed us to tighten the screws of our saddhana. For now, I am studying the Pada Padma course, preparing my Bhakti Sastri classes and adapting my academic research to the requirements of these technologies (virtual online education). We are also working in Vihari - arts and crafts, incorporating the floral designs of the folk art of the central Andes to the beautiful face of Jagannatha, Baladeva and the exquisite Srimati Subhadra. We will already show you our results, we are happy with them. Krishna is good, he lets himself be found in the little details and in the sweet words of the sastra.

We hope you are doing very well.

We will be attentive to all the online programs that you organize.

HpS - Prabhupada said (?) that we can maintain ourselves by selling devotional paraphernalia!

Dear Guru Maharaja

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

I was thinking how Krishna arranged things perfectly by sending you to Boise during these chaotic times. Such wonderful devotees there and always ready to serve you.

I am chanting my 16 rounds and following the principles. Initially I had problems doing my afternoon gayatri, but that has become regular now. We finished reading Devahuti and Kardamam muni's section in the third canto and are currently reading SB 3.26. We are reading Ramayna from Vedabase everynight before going to bed.

HpS - !!!

Because of the virus scare, the temple is now currently closed and only the devotees who are responsible for deity services are allowed into the temple. I did my first Raj bhoga arathi service on Sunday, before the temple closure.

I was dressing Gaura Nita on Thursday nights and now, they have stopped night dressing. Only time the deities are dressed is in the morning and that too in their night dresses. The garland services that Divya Sri was doing is also suspended. I still do Srila Prabhupada's Guru puja arthi on Wednesday and Thursday. Divya Sri has Tulasi seva at the Tulasi house on Wednesday. So we still have a chance of taking Darshan of Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji at least 2 days a week.

HpS - Jaya!

Dallas has a shelter in place order from today for 2 weeks. I have been working from home and contrary to what I thought, I have been working more that I would do when I go to the office.

My work visa is up for renewal and we filed extension a month back. At that time the processing times were 3-5 months. With the lockdowns that are happening, I don't know how long before I'll know if my visa is extended.

In the beginning of March, we signed a contract to buy a house close to the temple (2 mins walking, even closer than where we are currently). We are now very confused on how to proceed with the house. I have been praying to Kalachandji to give me a strong indication to back out, but everything has been in our favor. They agreed to the price we asked, agreed to all the major repairs we wanted, the bank approved the loan and the monthly principal and interest is 1108. We would like to ask your advise on whether we should proceed with the house in the current circumstances Gurudeva.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

HpS - I can't predict the future. Mode of ignorance is very prominent now. We try to make practical decisions. We try to all be friends in this world and Krsna will make enough problems to keep pushing us out, like M. Parishit, but we can do good service as He wants on the way out.

So, make a good estimate of the future. Look with some respect to the indications from Krsna and "yare deke tare kaha..", wherever you go, whomever you meet, tell them Krsna's instructions in BG, SB etc. and by L. C.'s order, become Guru.