Letters to the editor

Hare Krihsna Guru Maharaj , porfavor acepte mis respetos , todas la glorias a SP!

Como se encuentra Gurudev?

HpS - Feliz porque puedo morir, sufrir, convierto viejo para KRSNA!!!

Supe que quisas vendria en julio , agosto por argentina, que linda noticia , espero podamos ir a verlo.

HpS - Las fechas son en el calendario en la Kapi Dhvaja.

Nosotros ahora estaremos un tiempo en santiago del estero capital (norte), aqui tenemos un lugar y estamos haciendo una casa de adobe ( barro) .Las personas por aca ( el norte y esta zona) se sienten muy atraidas por lo mistico, pienso que las ceremonias y rituales vedicos son una linda forma de acercamiento.

HpS - Svaha!!!!

En respuesta a su respuesta ; Usted es muy amable , gracias por confiar . Le cuento un poco mas , sobre sus preguntas.

Luis - (mi compañero), es una persona muy dulce , amable , piadosa, gentil. El es de aqui Santiago capital , nos conocimos en la universidad. Es agradable compartir con el , siempre me concidera , es una persona simple .El es compone musica, principalmente, le gusta relizar intrumentales para documentales , peliculas , su vision al respecto es un todo ..la puesta en escena, la atmósfera a interpretar, mucho que ver con la arquitectura , esa busqueda por distinguir el espiritu de la materia. Tenemos mucho en comun le agrada que le lea el SB ,es conciderado, respeta. De todas formas soy muy cuidadosa con los procesos de las personas.

Sobre el bebe- Su llegada no fue un accidente Gurudev , fue decidido, quisas no parece el momento indicado pero creo que lo es .. En respuesta su aparicion : sera a finales de abril, con forma de varon jeje , y ya elegimos un nombre cada uno "Nimay Amouq" ;amouq significa en la lengua nativa quichua de esta zona,Santiago del estero, "el que viene". Esperamos que salga todo bien en el parto y su salud este bien .

Bueno querido Gurudev espero poder escribirle seguido, me es dificil. Espero podamos acercarnos siempre a usted y que luis y Nimay lo puedan ver , seria fantastico.

Muchas gracias , Hare krihsna GM!!

No puede adjuntar una foto nuestra para usted. Tambein habiamos realizado un video para su VP ...Probare en la proxima o aparte :)

yamuna tiravana dd

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna. Tiene que ser cuidado de 'accidentes'. A veces hay grandes problemas resultando de ellos! Ayudanos idotas Krsna!!! Rondas? 16, 75, 7, yo-yo???? Respectos a Luis. Nos gustaria mucho encontrar a el. Unas noticias antes de Julio y esperamos mas detalles de nuestra pasas entre Argentina pronto!!!

Please accept my apologies. My phone # is . . .

HpS - ASA - Thank you. I just texted you to confirm and ask your apartment number. SOrry little slow in answering. On the road!!! Was so nice meeting you in Boise.

I've recently talked to Hari valise (Hari vilas) he wants me to donate 600.00 a month for a year before he gives me a letter of recommendation. i would much rather do Seva for you, any where you choose, so that you can get to Know me. I'd also rather give you the money.

This is all vary discouraging, awaiting your advice.

HpS - NOI text three. Don't become discouraged. There is not problem that we can't solve if we want to serve Lord Rama! Look at example of Hanuman. Look at example of Gopis running to Krsna! My first suggestion is you make a counter offer. 😀

Say, $50/month? You can say that HpSwami is not such an exalted Guru so he should not charge so much.

Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm 87% serious. Hari-vilasa Das is a practical guy. Second suggestion is to offer to do service with your body, mind or words. Third suggestion is to complain to the GBC. Oink! WHoof! Bark! Honk. In any case if you are doing everything for six months he should be willing to tell the Temple President to give you letter of recommendation as an Refugee, after six months more the formal initiation.

O.K. Let us talk about this. We shall give a good lesson the the teachers. You can share this letter as you like.

My picture is loading I hope. A friend found out I was going to see you,and he has so much admiration for you,he has to come, I'm the older one on the left.

Your servant Mike Jarvis

All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Guru Maharaj !! Please accept our humble obeisances at Your lotus feet. Hare Krishna Maharaj

We thank you so much for awakening us. We seek forgiveness for all the inconveniences that have bothered Guru Maharaj. We are sorry. Please forgive us.

HpS - AGTSP. Was it you who was causing the smoke, pollution in the air! That was really only irritation. Was great visit. Great results.

A lot of devotees were inspired by Guru maharaj. Some of them felt shy to openly express their happiness and their desire to take shelter at Your lotus feet....especially the Physics teacher from Toubul. He attends mangal arti daily , chants and has been a vegetarian for a long time now. The Toubul devotees celebrated Holi with great fervour, the celebration was covered by a local TV channel.

The crowd is crazy...in fact...everybody seems to be crazy.....dances...sankirtan...colours....sports....drum beats...goes on and on....till the wee hours of morning.......and nobody seems to be complaining... today the Sankirtan party is coming to our house late evening....we will dance and sing and have prasadam together.

Guru Maharaj, its really a very , very nice time of the year and we keep thanking Srila Prabhupada for His mercy , sending us a spiritual master who care for us so much. Thank you Guru Maharaj. We keep thinking how the Sankirtan will be like this evening.

Next time round, may we invite Guru Maharaj to our humble house for a programme ?

Thank you once again Guru Maharaj,

Your ignorant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Hare Krsna. We have been back in our Base Camp for some times and getting more work done than on the road, but still challenges. Sorry that it has taken so long to answer this letter. Such nice news from Manipura. You can see the Calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja about our travels. We will be in India only for the Govardhana Eco Village of Radha-natha Swami and NOID (Delhi) for the BOEX work. At least we can talk by phone, teleconference, with everyone. Maybe event Speed Post laddus!

What about printing books in local languages with the Rupees that we left?

How is The Hari-das Swami?

The University of Bhagavata Culture?

Hare Krishna Gurudeva. Pamho!! AgtSP!!

Divya-drsti d.d asked me to send you this letter :

Hare Krishna Guru Majaraja, please Receive my Respectull and Humble Obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Gurumajaraja, thank you very much for your last answer, well here in Mayapur everyday the weather is getting more and more hot, maybe in june and july it Will arrive until 47 or 48, so at night Im not sleeping well, actually Im sleeping bad, I asked about the posibility to go to Rishikesh but there isn't an ISKCON Temple there and there will be hot as well soon I can't go there, so Im looking for the posibility to go to Spain maybe to the Temple of Málaga and stay in the Temple and do any service or in any other Temple in Europe Just for 3 months maybe june, juli, August but because I have a few health problems its no so good idea but I think I could do service like garlands, cleaning help at pujary, traslation etc, maybe the association of devotees and discipline in Temple would be good for me as well. It is One big dream for me to go to Europe : the art, the arquitecture maybe in my free time I could do a few visitings of museums etc.

Then come back to India, go to Vrindavan for maybe september and october to be in kartika, then come back to Perú. 

Other option is directly come back to Cusco now, but Ill feel that mi misión of healing myself won't be acomplish if I come back to Perú now.

So I have this two posibilities, please could you give me any sugestión?  

Sorry to write you again and PUT urgent in my letter but if I travel I have to do the arrangements. 

Thank you very much for your answer. 

Your Servant :

Divya Dristi DD

Pd: of course if I would come back to Cusco now I'll do the wokshops of puppets and rent an apartment to live with matajis and continue working as a tour guide.

thank you very much Gurudeva!!!

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. It is NEVER any problem for you to write to us. How is The Gaura-gadadhara Devi Dasi? Yes, can be tough in India, but if you happen to die there that is O.K. too. Learn to chant even in an oven. Chant in the oven and die quickly. Then come back with the body of a baker. Ha! Ha! Hare!

We will be in India, October 1-15th and Spain September 15th-30th. See our Calendar in the Kapi Dhavaja.

The main thing is the contact with the devotees. If you can contact someone in Malaga that would be nice. Just pray to Krsna and see if there are any devotees with contacts where you could stay during the hot months. Many people leave India then and them come back during September, October!

HpS - Thank you for the letter. We could not read it because we have been traveling. Please summarize and send us another letter!!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please accept my humble obeisances!

I haven't written to you in a long time..

HpS - We are slow to answer this letter! AGTSP.

Sorry Maharaj. We just came back from India around 3 days ago. All of us got sick within the one week that we were there. I myself am still recovering a little bit. Pity that we got sick there so we couldn't enjoy as much. We were in Vrndavan for 3 days and before that in Ludhiana, Punjab. All of papa's relatives wanted to meet us.

HpS - Yes, people were talking about your visit.

Vrndavan is always nice. Even in 3 days, you can fall in love. I would love to spend more time there but we always have these short trips. Perhaps in the future I may go myself or with some friends and stay in India longer, do some tapasya.

In Azerbaijan, the temple is also very nice. The devotees are very welcoming and everyone is so ecstatic. The mood is quite different there. I can see. Here in Brisbane, the devotees seem dull in comparison. I mean everyone meditates differently so I can't really speak on behalf of anyone but when I saw basically the entire temple jumping up and down during Arati in Azerbaijan, I thought there is something different here. Kirtan should be most jubilant experience, no? Why just stand when you can dance? It really is so nice when you see other devotees dancing in ecstacy.

My mother's family is beyond loving. They're so sweet and kind. We had quite a nice time in Azerbaijan. We spent 3 weeks there. We even drove up to some mountains where it was snowing because all of us kids had a burning desire to see snow. It was soo fun.

Anyways, I hope your birthday/ Vyasapuja was spent nicely with LOTS of Prasadam and wonderful Kirtan. One day, we would all like to attend personally. Hopefully your health is in best condition, Maharaj. We are waiting for your visit to Australia again, please. It will be so nice. We need some awesomeness :) That has been lacking lately!

I am now high school free. Well I have been for more than 2 months now. But it doesn't end there :( I am forced to go to uni and study more. yay. Uni will start in less than a month and my course will go for 3 years - Business. I actually got accepted into a double degree with Business and Arts. But now, I really don't see the point. In fact, I don't even see the point in studying business because it all seems to be basic knowledge and common sense. But, I have to study something at least and Business seems an easy route. I hope that I can achieve something fruitful with this. And somehow dovetail it to Krsna Consciousness... I really need to get my sadhana in check. Right now, I am chanting 12 rounds a day. I'm not sure about the quality but I'm trying to improve. And the timing.... Definitely not in the early morning XD. I need to start rising early. Soon hopefully I'll be chanting 16 rounds Maharaj. Please bless this fool and give her some intelligence so that she may know what is good for her actually.

As usual Maharaj, I have some questions ;)

1. What happens to the animals that pass in Vrndavan? Are they reborn or do they go to the higher planets?
2. Also, the Brijbasis? Do they go to the same Goloka Vrndavan that ISKCON devotees go to? Becuase their love for Radharani and the Holy Dham is unmatched. Perhaps even greater than some of us, due to their simplicity and generosity.

I had so many questions in mind but that is all I can remember at present XD. Sorry for the trouble. I know I can be very annoying at times (if not always lol).

I wish your health and well-being is in the best condition always. Hopefully your stay in India is pleasant and uplifting :) GAURANGA!

Please accept my most humble obeisances.

Your most fallen servant,

Lakshmi

Hare Krishna Maharaja! Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

Please forgive my consistent inadequacies and forgetfulness.

Maharaja I felt I had really fallen off the path and hit rock bottom recently. My mentality had almost entirely shifted back to before I associated with devotees, but somehow from within my heart I began to cry a little bit for Krishna. My attraction and aspirations are returning. Due to my own foolishness I have been dragged around everywhere, usually wasting a lot of time, but somehow the "hard way" is the only way I seem to learn. I do feel that I am waking up and starting to see how I can develop my own life and be in connection with Guru and Krishna. I am writing you to touch base, let you know I am still alive and also that I miss you so much. Thank you for the numerous times you allowed me to stay in Murphreesboro with you. I will always cherish those memories. I am desperately hoping to establish sadhana in my life again. I have started to chant on beads a little bit and reading sashtra. Presently I am living with my parents on their farm in Illinois, working a little doing odd jobs and trying to save up a little money and move on from here. I have no real goal or set vision yet. It would be nice find a good sangha where I fit in nicely. One thing my parents have offered is to pay for me to go to massage school, is this an acceptable profession for Krishna devotees, or is it not favorable to touch the bodies of non-devotees?

ASA - Sounds little gross. I don't think you would like it. You are too mental. In some ways, Grhastha ashrama seems like a necessity. Of course, must pray to Krsna to send a proper partner. Then in that relationship, career is more obvious. If it takes a couple of lifetimes, don't worry. We come to this human form of life after hundreds of millions of other births. If we see we are making substantial progress at each step, then two lifetimes are SHORT. Take birth in Nabadvipa in your next life time as Nimai's puppy?

You are so special Maharaja and I wish I could be by your side, I hope someday soon we can cross paths again.

Hare Krishna

HpS - Sorry it took so long to answer this letter. If you read the Kapi Dhvaja you can see why. NGD asks about you all the time. It will tell him tonight! More news. The adventures of a wandering miscreant.