Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna ....Please accept my respectful humble obeisance unto your Lotus Feet , Guru Maharaj! All Glories to Srilla Prabupad. All glories to Guru and Gouranga.

HpS//ASA --- I guess, Hare Krsna, that I you, everyone has Lotus Feet, but now they are covered for us i the material world. So agty lotus feet also!!

We are couple completing? Chanting 16 rounds regularly and maintain 4 principles.

ASA -- 💪 💪🐵 You, agtSP, will change the world

Please mercy us Guru Maharaj because we are very innocent. We have 2 (two) kids need your mercy and blessing to became devotee . Our devotional life is futile without your grace and blessing Guru Maharaj. We are so missing you Guru Maharaj.

We wish you good health and a long life.

Yours servants...

Kapidhvaja Das

Kaimyaban Dasi

from India , Tripura ,Ananda Bazar.

Date-20/12/2024

HpS - Hare Krsna. We bless you to ask Srila Prabhupada for his blessings!!! Do it. Also, ask other devotees who are participating in his ISKCON.

Meet him personally in his books!!

Thank you!!!!

Hare Krsna 💐 querido Gurumaharaja.

Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

En honor a su pronta y auspiciosa aparición trascendental tenemos la fortuna de expresarle nuestro profundo agradecimiento por su guia e inspiración, cuando conocimos a Gurumaharaja hace varios años, al ver un océano de cualidades en él pensamos que nunca alcanzaríamos una pequeña calificación para ser iniciados, así que entre muchas cualidades sublimes este año especialmente queremos destacar y agradecer una y otra vez su infinita paciencia y tolerancia con nosotros, su misericordia a través de su vida transparente que nos enseña y permite ver tantos esfuerzos y entrega al servicio de su amado Śrīla Prabhupāda a través de su sankirtana particular.

Gurumaharaja mencionó que mientras vemos los planes prácticos de nuestro sankirtana todos debemos estar listos para atrapar la alfombra mágica que pasa mientras estamos temporalmente en este mundo, en relación a ello, este año ha sido reflexivo: nos hacemos viejos, la salud se deteriora con prisa y nos está costando mucho asimilar los cambios en la relación vapuh... auto analizamos nuestra vida y decidimos empezar a preparar nuestro equipaje, usualmente nos toma más tiempo decidir que debemos dejar en relación a lo que esencialmente necesitaremos en el viaje, descubrimos que sucede lo mismo con el equipaje de vida, no es fácil dejar tantos anarthas pero no los queremos en nuestro equipaje. Querido Gurumaharaja oramos por sus bendiciones por favor para que nos alcance el tiempo en esta vida para arrancar la maleza que obstruye lo verdaderamente importante: servicio con devoción, asociación y gusto por las 16 buenas rondas. Que sus instrucciones sean ese único equipaje al tomar el avión que nos espera a todos.

Hace algunos años tuve un sueño, Gurumaharaja anunció la decisión de profundizar su práctica espiritual mediante un retiro, no deseaba algún prestigio o renombre.

No pude asimilar esa separación y empecé a buscarlo, inicie un largo viaje, atravesé algunas dimensiones que nunca había visto, al fin llegué a una aldea, un grupo de muchos sannyasis caminaban con la cabeza cubierta, totalmente desapegados del mundo material, los ví de espalda, entre muchos y a distancia de inmediato pude reconocerlo, grite "¡Gurumaharaja! Lo encontré" Gurumaharaja recíproco moviendo el hombro ligeramente, continuo su caminata... posiblemente no tenga una interpretación pero a partir de allí tengo la confianza que en cualquier vida o dimensión espiritual lo buscaré, él reconocerá a este sirviente caído y con su misericordia infinita nos unirá a su sankirtana, porsupuesto tenemos que merecer esas facilidades, "primero merece después desea", sin embargo apelamos a vuestra compasión.

Somos sus sirvientes vida tras vida, suplicamos que nos acepte por favor y nos bendiga para eternamente caminar siguiendo sus pasos en el sendero camino a Krsna.

¡Todas las glorias al Guru parampara!

¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

¡Todas las glorias al Sri Vyasa-puja de nuestro amado maestro espiritual SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami!

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente

Asta Sakhi dd

Su servidor Manash Ranjan Das le envía sus reverencias y eterna gratitud, continuamos en el equipo de pujaris de Sus Señorías Radha Madana Gopal.

HpS - !!! AgtSP Can you please send this with English translation???? We can't get Google to translate it. Thank you!!

HK Maharaj! PAMHO AGTSP! All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!!!

How are you??

HpS // ASA - Body, agtSP, is in a lot of pain: Tooth, eyes, heart, but spiritual drive is great.

in reply to your last words: Yes I’ve seen the pictures and some videos of you at Radha Kunda, how was that experience Maharaj??

HpS - Our experience was that whatever we were experiencing on the ordinary level was real. there was no feeling of temporary existence or confusion. the people, the trash, the mud, the falling down buildings, were all sat cit. Cool.

How is your health doing? I’m still participating of one of your disciples’ WhatsApp group where they share all that kind of pictures and video material and some other interesting things, so I follow you digitally.

Thank you very much for your advice, I really felt really excited whilst reading your letter, I found it really inspiring. I do clean the altar from time to time and offer flowers to Krishna daily, and I will pay more attention to that.

I finally asked Dhanvantari Swami for shelter, from whom I got a lot of inspiration, and well thanks to Krishna he accepted.

I cherish in my heart your words and teachings Maharaj, I always tried to learn from you and everything you once told me it’s been of awesome help. I wish I could serve you in some way.

Well, I was remembering lately your advice on opening myself confidently to others, so well, I’m still trying to put it on practice.

I’m still going through a legal situation in which we reciprocally sued ourselves with the mother of my child for some personal things regarding my child, and this last month it’s been a bit difficult, I had a hard time waking up early in the morning and have had a difficult digestion. And well a devotee advice me on sleeping at least 7 hours a day, and I usually sleep less, wake up automatically and perform well during the day and week, so I spoke to a senior devotee who finally told me I should rest as much as I really need. I bought a course on Ayurveda and I learned that if a person’s health is in balance, he wakes up naturally between 3 and 6 am. I’m finding it quite inspiring and already waking up earlier.

I saw your preaching about journaling, and a time ago after seeing some YouTube videos about the subject, I began doing it, and I’m feeling fine with it. I’m doing it consistently, and well it helps me in two different ways: the first, well lets me reflect on the things I’m currently thinking and doing, and the second is, well since I ‘m writing it in English it helps me advance in my vocabulary and in written expression.

There's a situation I been going through some time ago, I tried to make friends among local Iskcon devotees, and I really didn't have any luck, every one of them just refused my friendship, I really would like to understand how come in Buenos Aires devotees are so friendly and in Cordoba are really the opposite.

hps//asa --- don't know. is indeed a great mystery. 🙂 maybe just fewer devotees in cordoba.

There's another devotee with which I do some service, and well, even though I went through different difficult situations he just texts me only when he needs something and just tells me profusely about himself avoiding asking how am I doing with all the things that have been happening. I had a close friend there in Cordoba, and every time I have legal issues with my child's mother, he always does the same thing, keeps sending me communist propaganda, and if I just dare to tell him I don't like receiving all that stuff, he just tells me that he doesn't like to hear about my problems with my child's mother, and ends all kind of communication. So I was remembering the words of Chanakya Pandit: "test a friend during adversity", when things turns bad, he always disappears, so I thought of taking serious distance from that devotee. What do you think Maharaj? What do you think about local devotees??

HpS - Don't worry about it too much. just deal with in informally, like looking at the weather and making a decision to take an umbrella or not.

🙂 🙂 🐵

Well I decided some days ago to start associating with devotees from other Yatra's, and at the Ratha Yatra I met the other day some devotee who invited me to a Mar del Plata on line program, so well I just thought I could pretend I have no local temple at Cordoba, and try to make at least on line friends. I met another devotee from that Yatra and she was really enthusiastic, I felt instantly comfortable in her company.

Maharaj I have a little question, I’ve hard from several sources, incluiding Maharaj Dhanvantari, that Prabhupada had set a goal of turning the whole world into Vaishnavism by year 2000. And well one devotee said the we had failed on that, we hadn’t pleased Srila Prabhupada’s desire, so a question arose in my mind: shouldn’t we at ISKCON set another due date for we to accomplish that? I mean if I determine myself to loose 10 pounds of weight by the end of this year and I can’t make it, the natural thing I see responsible people do is setting a new due date. What do you think??

HpS

1. Have never, never, never heard that. 😧 Amazing! Maharaja said that? When? Were? I get the impression from Srila Prabhupada that all goals in Sankirtan are subject to the free will of the conditioned souls. If they want to remain in Maya even Krsna Himself cannot touch them. Doesn't mean he stops trying.
2. Understand that Srila Prabhupada is kind of saying the same, the making everyone on the planet KC is kind of like impossible. Again this is the material world.
3. Yes, he did say things like 'double the book distribution from last month'.

thank you very much in advance!

please accept my obeisances,

Federico Molnar

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

I am sorry I didn’t get to see you when you visited Rich”mound”. Thank you for signing the BG.

Rounds are not going well. I often times don’t even remember where my beadbag is and use a clicker (so not doing too great there). I’ve been doing kirtan more though which has been nice. Yoga is going well and attempting to teach elements of bhakti. The prasadam food truck has been featured in a documentary and we’re hoping it’ll help raise more funds. I’m just trying to find peace in the unknown and trust Krishna’s plans.

Nothing else too exciting. Taking a break from the Tulsi jewelry line. Working in corporate America to keep serving comfortably.

Thank you for keeping me engaged and sheltered gurudev. AGTSP. All glories to you <3 

YAS,

Sugopi devi dasi

HpS/ASA - Yam yam vapi... agtSP... whatever is our attitude toward life at the time of death. that will be our next destination.

🙂

please help me see things as a servant of nimai in nadia.

Thank you!!!

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias Guru Maharaj, desde Nueva Govardhan le reportamos una vez más y compartir algunas novedades.

El proyecto Nueva Govardhan se encuentra muy bien, ahora tenemos más habitantes en el santuario como Kurma una tortuga gopeherus🐢, Beethoven un pato que tiene unos meses viviendo aquí, Nrisimhananda y Conet mis conejos🐇.

Mis hijos se encargan de alimentar a los animales del santuario. Nandita la vaca se encuentra muy bien🐄gracias a Krishna se siente un hogar muy lindo de convivencia entre los habitantes de NG.

Yo me encuentro bien estos últimos meses no he logrado mantener mi sadhana estable para ser honesta Gurudev mi energía diaria a disminuido, estoy tratando de mantener mi cerebro sin crisis de epilepsia bajando el estrés y suplementando mi dieta por ahora no descarto la posibilidad de visitar un nuevo neurólogo en Monterrey en fin so temas complejos pero no de preocupación.

💙Realizamos festivales como Balaram, Janmastami y Prabhupada en casa con la familia💙

Mis hijos realizaron un pequeño teatro de los pasatiempos de Krishna y Balaram, nuestro hijo mayor Jay Govinda realizó su primer kirtan y artik.

Ofrecimos lasagna al horno, fruta, samosas, postre de dátil con semillas, pakoras, pizza y pastel, para mi esposo y para mi fue muy emocionante convivir en familia con nuestros hijos y verlos despertar el amor por servir a Krishna de una manera natural y simple, además vivir en el campo conocen experiencias muy agradables con la naturaleza.

Gadadhar Gosai comenzó a estudiar un curso de Bhaktivaibhava online con un devoto de Sridam Mayapur, sabe mi esposo suele estar ocupado y no suele reportarse en el blog pero le ofrece sus regencias y pronto le escribirá por aquí. Bueno entonces tratamos de mantenernos ocupados en servicio, mantener buena asociación y amistad.

El restaurante Hare Krishna en Monterrey se encuentra muy bien, todos los días se ofrece la comida a Krishna, parece una buena temporada y el hostal también se encuentra activo para hospedaje.

No deseo quitar mas de su valioso tiempo Gurudeva sabemos que pronto viaja y anhelamos trasladarnos para verle en persona pero ahora la vida y responsabilidades nos tienen en México, nos mantenemos entusiastas lo más que podemos sería muy ingrato no sentirme más afortunada después de su última visita a Monterrey, atesoro con mi corazón cada instrucción y enseñanza que me ha dado Guru Maharaj durante de estos 12 años de conocerlo espero en Krishna que su Sankirtan continue permitiéndole buena salud.

Todas nuestras humildes oraciones por su bienestar.

Tu sirviente Anandamaya Devi Dasi

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my humble obeisances Guru Maharaj, from New Govardhan we report to you once again and share some news.

The New Govardhan project is doing very well, now we have more inhabitants in the sanctuary like Kurma, a gopeherus turtle🐢, Beethoven, a duck that has been living here for a few months, Nrisimhananda and Conet my rabbits🐇.

My children are in charge of feeding the sanctuary animals. Nandita the cow is feeling very well🐄thanks to Krishna there is a very nice home of coexistence among the inhabitants of NG.

I feel well in recent months, I have not been able to keep my sadhana stable. To be honest, Gurudev, my daily energy has decreased. I am trying to keep my brain free of epileptic seizures by lowering stress and supplementing my diet. For now, I do not rule out the possibility of visiting a new neurologist in Monterrey in short, complex issues but not of concern.

💙We perform festivals like Balaram, Janmastami and Prabhupada at home with family💙

My children performed a small theater of the pastimes of Krishna and Balaram, our eldest son Jay Govinda performed his first kirtan and artik.

HpS - Record them and edit them into a movie.

We offered baked lasagna, fruit, samosas, date dessert with seeds, pakoras, pizza and cake, for my husband and I it was very exciting to live as a family with our children and see them awaken the love for serving Krishna in a natural and Simple, besides living in the countryside they have very pleasant experiences with nature.

.... ASA - 🐵This is all that Google would translate. Rest was too long!!! Send again!

Your servant Anandamaya Devi Dasi🙏

HpS - Just put chanting Hare Krsna first.

When I am chanting I sometimes feel that if I give my full effort to the chanting, it will exhaust my last little bit energy, that the demand it makes from my heart will kill me, but that is the greates thing.

What better thing to show your children, family, the whole world, that there is no better service to them than giving you life to chanting the Maha mantra 1,728 times each day.

If you do that, then KRSNA will personally take respojnsiblity of all your other responsibilities.

Thank you! Wonderful news!

Fotos family.

HpS//ASA - What is more beautiful than the family of devotees!!! Yet, Kapila reminded Devahuti not to forget the Sankhya with the natural affection for devotional family relations.

After all, we are all just bags of internal biological machinery!

Lungs,

Stomach,

Kidneys,

Intestines,

Liver,

Brains,

Eyes,

Nerves,

Veins,

Generatals... fat... muscle... teeth.. 😄

Silly people forget to love the soul within and only love the skin!!