Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna gurudev 

Dandavat pranam at your lotus feet.

All glories to Srila prabhupada and acharyas

As to the last letter you had asked me few things.

HpS - ASA - Sorry it has taken to so long to respond. Traveling we meet hundreds of people with whom we talk.  Very nice, but limits the chance to respond of Blog posts.

Well I was working in a rural hospital in West Bengal but I submitted my resignation on 30 July

.I stay alone in Siliguri and plan to stay here for few more months .Going through depression and trying to control my emotions. I will be going to Delhi on 21st august for  health check-up and medication and plan to visit vrindavan for 2 days as it happens to be Rupa goswami disappearance festival. I always liked Ter kadamba environment. I had a strange dream 2days back about vrindavan. I am strangely happy that I got Krsna related dream after so many months.

You adviced me to do some sadhana as much as necessary and I can do..I feel I will try to chant 4 rounds till Rupa goswami disappearance day and see if I can do it .

HpS - Did you????   Answer with URGENT in the Title field. 

I have a doubt .

1) why after chanting and following for whatever little that I did, still I am suffering. Believe me when I say I did pray when I was in vrindavan but it seems nothing is being heard. How do I continue feeling like I don't belong anywhere. I don't belong with devotees as I am not pure and other nondevotee people dont understand me.what is he trying to teach ?

You mercifully accepted me and now due to me you too are suffering too.  Sorry again .

Rturaj krsna das

HpS - I don't know the internal details of your situtation enough to give a specific answer. Krsna arranged for Draupadi to get sexually harassed. Restrained Bhisma deva from protecting her. He didn't agree to Kubja's request to stay at here house always.  These situations have explanations. If you, we, look at people who are materially similar to us. Even old friends from school days then we can see that Krsna really is helping. I look at them and see that they have sometimes fallen into alcoholism or have Parkinson's disease etc. At 70-years old with the kind of wild American youth we had, our health is splendid. Doctor certified.

I want to get free from attachments, and I do, but others are still there. We may go from pints of Burfi to pints of sherbet. That is real progress. 

Some of these attachments are very, very, deep. Some though appearing strong are very shallow.

Let's here the results of your 4-rounds a day.

All glories to hh hunmatpresaka before I ramble on.these are somethings you requested.

Ys mj

HpS - Hare Krsna. We are in Boise with very bad fever in our divine body, buddy. It is purifying. Thank you Krsna.   Thank you for the notice about disciples course!      Seems you are like 97.335% ready for initiation.  As we mentioned in the Kapi Dhvaja and even in the DTCs here, while traveling it is too hard for us to answer all the letters. We have too many dialogs with people in transit, so unless you put, "URGENT" in the Title field it may slip past our radar.  Thank you.

Waiting for any URGENT news.

All Glories to A. C. Prabhupada, Sripada and Sri Guruji Maharaja.

Guruji Maharaja, Dandabat Pranam,

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that I had written several letters but no answer. At first I thought that Guruji might be busy, so no answer. I daily open this blog and see Gurujis reply of other Bhaktas. Mostly all letters are written URJENT but I had never written URJENT in my previous letters.

Today I honestly asking unto Gurujis padmacharan that whether Guruji never get my previous letters or not.

I thought that one day Guruji will reply my letter so I am waiting. It is only my duty.

Excuse me for any mistakes if I had committed.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Hare Krsna. AGTSP. Paolo. We are traveling now and we talk with maybe 10, 15, 25 or more devotees daily, so we can only answer letters marked, URGENT, for certain. Others we try to answer as our ability permits. We explained this the Kapi Dhvaja and in the DTCs.

It makes us sad that we cannot communicate better. When we get a chance like this to think of you and Manipur, Thoubal, Tasha Govinda-candra we become even more sad. We hope Krsna makes an arrangement that we have time to write more soon.

If there are any URGENT news or questions then do write them to us with URGENT in the Subject Field.

Hare Krsna,

Pamho: mis reverencias maharaja.

El motivo de esta carta es a causa de ABC DAS. El se a estado comportando muy mal hace ya mucho tiempo que a estado molestando a XYZ Devi Dasi. ABC DAS acosa a XYZ Devi Dasi las autoridades an querido hablar con el y se a portado irrespetuoso con ellos. ABC DAS quiere estar con XYZ Devi Dasi el mismo lo a dicho pero XYZ Devi Dasi hace años le a hecho saber que no quiere nada con el y el no entiende, busca a familiares y amigas de XYZ Devi Dasi para molestarla. El me dijo que estaba enamorado de XYZ Devi Dasi pero no es asi el esta obsecionado con XYZ Devi Dasi ella no quiere nada con el. Hemos llegado al extremo de taparla en el templo porque ABC DAS se para al fondo del templo a molestarla . Ella ya ni quiere bailar en el templo ya que se siente incomoda. El dijo que solo su guru podia quitarle el discipulo es por eso que le escribo a usted, el no debe comportarse asi, no solo a molestado a XYZ Devi Dasi a otras madres tambien pero no quieren que se diga su nombre de las otras madres pidieron discrecion pero en este caso si hablo por XYZ Devi Dasi a quien queremos proteger. Hay muchos otros detalles sobre este tema que creo que se debe de solucionar. ABC DAS no a sido sincero.  Esperamos que esto se pueda hablar. XYZ Devi Dasi esta dispuesta a hablar sobre este tema. Disculpe por hablarle de este tema, pero es el unico que puede hablarle a ABC DAS . A los demas no quiere hacer caso . Esperamos que XYZ Devi Dasi se sienta proteguida y pueda estar tranquila. Mis reverencias maharaja , muchas gracias.

HpS - ASA -- TLGASP. Muchas gracias su carta. Hemos cambiado los nombres de los involucrados porque esta Blog no es sitio para hablar de detalles tan confidencial. Pienso el manera adelantar esta tema para la bienestar de todo es que Vd. habla con el Presidente del Templo como el puede comunicar junta con Vd a nuestra direction de Yahoo particular. El lo tiene.

Si hay cualquiere obstaculo realizar esta sendero escriba otra vez aqui.

Otra vez, muchas gracias su carta.

Por gracia de Krsna vamos a resolver esta problema como todos pueden ser tranquilo en la conciencia de Krsna juntos.

Hare Krishna, dear gurudev, Pamho, AGTSP!

The title and first paragraph were like talking to myself, trying to draw attention to an issue that I considere real. At least for the people like me, kanistha adikari. After my rounds and readings, the thought was the same, the feeling was the same. Discourage, desapointment, frustrations is an issue that is real in ISKCON andino. 

Of course, I will never leave ISKCON. I was just quoting what you said not long ago. That you were about to leave ISKCON, not Srila Prabhupada, two times. May be I miss understood. The point is that it is very difficult to do my service here. Many problems. So I stopped trying. I don't see how can It changes. 15 years experiencing the same. 

So I´m focunsing in my personal development.

I understand very clear what you said about living in ISKCON and I follow all of that. No problem in that department. No 100% percent, but a decent amount.

So, I don´t have much else to say.

Please forgive my lack of intelligence.

your usseles servant,

the LAD

(I hope I can talk to you soon. There are another details, more personal. Thank you very much)

HpS - ASA - Yes, let us talk by Skype etc some time.

We may take charge of the institution if it is too corrupted and work to reform it for the welfare of all. We felt the GBC body was too corrupted to times. Many people felt that, so we went to Srila Prabhupada directly, but in the end the institutional problems were resolved. We could and are making the same mistakes.

Good luck in serving Srila Prabhupada and his expansions. Strangely I received idential letter from Cusco the same day, and here in Houston the night before. I don't think it is necessarily an Andean problem only. It is the nature of things in the material world. Peru has its style..

Hare Krishna,

Dear Gurumaharaja

TLGASP, PAMHO

Thank you very much for your merciful response, we will do what you instructed us. A few days ago I talked with Prabhu Raghuvaram das, we talked about many things and one about a subject in parricular, a Report of the National Board of Isckon Peru in which a program was canceled in a city, Huánuco, and that was not authorized . On the occasion of that report many commentaries came out of devotees in favor and found, in our opinion the Board acted well, but for some it will not always please them. The point is that there is a problem, that goes back many years even the time that I knew this Srila Prabhupada's Glorious Movement, situations that never changed and instead that helps us grow as an Institution, it makes us go back. Then, with all this, you see that there is a vacuum, a bottleneck, that does not let things flow. we come to a conclusion that there is a broken relationship between Authority and Community, there is no good communication, which causes many problems and disorganization. Then we thought, in my last one of my functions was to be the lasso between the Management and the Personnel, I listened to problems, doubts and solved them, and everything started to improve, there was an adequate work environment, the impasses resolved and everyone was calm making their service. So we keep thinking, what is needed is a Human Resources office, where there is a devotee responsible for organizing and joining this bridge between the Authority and the Community. I do not know if this is already done, but I think it can be improved. There are devotees who for some reason have moved away, temples without devotees and the few do not get along at times. It is necessary to look for that conciliation, the solution is not to move away but to change the mentality. There are many devotees who feed the ego to other devotees, many times oneself, and when they see their reality, they realize that everything is false, fallen free. Dear Gurumaharaja, we know the area, I have been part of a problem, we understood it and we feel that we have the solution to this, so please pray, allow me to be able to take care of this service, it will be gradual, we will start in Cusco later in other cities, the intention is not to cause problems to the authorities, but to support channeling these bottlenecks, everyone must speak the same language, DEVOTIONAL SERVICE. For this we want to talk with the devotees of the National Board and talk about this service, which will try to enumerate the devotees, current situation, service, temple to which you belong, etc. We do not want to be part of the board, we do not want power, fame, what we want is to serve the devotees. Dear Gurudeva, I thank you again for your merciful time, we hope you can give us your permission for this service, we have the experience, if so, we will also beg for your blessings. May the mercy of Sri Krishna always be poured out on you.

Your foolish sinviente

Govardhana das

HpS - ASA - You see the letter from Laksmana agra ja Das? It is really strange, divine, that you both are talking about the same situation, but independently.

I was in a similar situation once, even now we remember, twice. I was feeling frustrated with my administrative authorities, associates, and my GBC Secretary , Sesa Das, said, "They are people, Hp Swami!"    "Hummmf!" thought I.  I had forgotten that. They are just as sincere as am I but in a different service with different personal resources.   The more cruel they are the more it means they are suffering and need our mercy. Cruel husbands, wives, mothers, presidents, followers.

Chant Hare Krsna and you will get intelligence.

I think if you can talk with a few local presidents etc and work with them as consultants that will help. Of course, we can always talk personally to anyon. You can call yourself an ISKCON Human Resource Officer, no? That is on the order of Lord Caitanya, no?