Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

Thank you very much for your answer to the last report. Your message was very inspiring. Now, I'm in vacations. My classes at Catolica University starts in March 12th. I will make friends there and listen to them. But, I have a little doubt. What means to be a good friend? Who is a real friend?

HpS - See picture below. A real friend is someone who gives us to Krsna.

We were on a mini tour with m. Gauri for almost a month. We travelled to Cusco, Puno, La Paz (Bolivia) and Arequipa. In each place we arrived, we had the merciful association of great vaisnavas. We learnt how to improve our sadhana and devotional service.

HpS - Wow!!!

After one year of trying harder, I'm finally chanting 16 rounds everyday, very early at the morning. Now I'm working on chanting GOOD rounds.

ASA - Yes.....   even chanting 16-O.K. rounds is quite an accomplishment.  The 16-enthusiastic rounds.   Then. . . .

Also, I'm doing Mangala Aratik at Wilson Temple once a week. And the other days, we are trying to connect to FMP. 

At house, we have Gaura Nitay deities and we'd recently started to worship them again. Two weeks ago, we went to a Worshiping Seminary by p. Anandamaya Das. Due of this, we decided to establish a standard for the deities. We are doing Govinda Aratik and Bhoga Aratik.

HpS - ... and take them to the beach sometimes? Temple? 

Everyone here in Peru are anxious of your arriving. We hope have your holy association in the days you come. 

Thank you so much for reading this letter. Thank you so much for your mercy, association and inspiration.

Trying to serve,

Bhaktin Rukmini.

HpS - You should visit Laksmi, Raktaka Das's daughter, and her family, in Australia.

What do you think of the story of Krsna Kidnaps Rukmini?   Do you do powerpoint shows?

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you are in good health, I hope you are resting as necessary and feeding ['feeding' would be for a donkey, 'eating' for a 'gorilla'] correctly.

HpS - So sorry not to answer sooner. We have been rushing, pushing, whinning, to get everything done for this 10-week tour. Now it is Friday and basically we just have to accept whatever we have arranged.  Whew!!   It is good to die....    Our body is just like your body.     '@'pop~
 

Little is missing for your visit to Lima and I could have expected to tell you some things personally but I prefer to do it this way. I have started an intense psychological therapy that will help me overcome some emotional slopes that have prevented me from doing many things in recent years. These emotions have to do with a turbulent enough past and an exemplarily dysfunctional family. I do not want to continue dragging conflicts, so I am taking this decision. I have clung to the Mahamantra and the process, however, there are some impediments that make it difficult for me to relate well with my wife, my family and the devotees. This has produced a state of deep melancholy that I have always known to disguise, however, in the last year, the issue became unmanageable, sometimes. At first I thought that any extra attention to the affairs of the mind and emotions was a way of identifying with them but they do not allow me to unwrap as I need to, sometimes I feel a heavy stone in my chest as I stretch my limbs to fly. What can you recommend me, Gurudeva? What readings can serve me as a tool to turn this healing process into an offering for Lord Jagannatha?

I'm very excited to serve you again.

Your little servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - I would suggest talking with The Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi and her Sister. She is a psychologist and maybe could recommend some help.

Not wrong to get help from a psychologist like getting help from a doctor for your gross body, but a devotee psychologist, Catholic, Mormon, Hare Krsna. They all will tell you that our process is very good tool. In the end it will solve all your problems, but if the Maha-mantra recomends you see a doctor to fix a broken bone, then why not accept that it is telling you to see a psychologist to deal with covered mental fractures?

Have you read Jung's biography?  That is nice. He looks at his own problems and of course we can apply it in our lives.

Yes, talk when we are in Lima.

Hare Krishna querido Gurudeva

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Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Espero se encuentre muy bien de salud y tambien en su sankirtan. Siempre estoy tratando de leer su publicaciones en el blog, sus tweets y tambien sus charlas en StartMeeting, solo que a veces muy tarde para mi por el uso horario.

Yo ahora me encuentro en Asuncion, Paraguay. viviendo en el templo de Iskcon. realizando FMP rondas, servicio de pujari y distribucion de libros. Tambien estare facilitando para la comunidad aqui un seminario de Kirtan, enfocado en la practica de instrumentos clasicos como mrdanga, kartalas y harmonio. 

Estare en Iskcon Asuncion por 2 mes aprox. luego viajar a Brasil, campina grande. Ya que fui aceptado de participar en seminario Gbc college . La idea de pasar estudios en buena asociacion con uds me convencio.  Luego posible viajando a Mar de Plata 9 abril y Buenos Aires para visitar templos y obtener mas su asociacion, ya que segun su calendario ud estara esas fechas. Despues de estos viajes aun no tengo claro a donde ir. Pero pensando en Lima para terminar estudios, ya que he estado viajando un tiempo ya fuera de Peru (2 años) y volver para termimar estudios no estaria mal creo. 

Bueno muy contento entonces de escribirle y por esta oportunidad de tener su asociacion en su siguiente visita a sudamerica. Muchas gracias por todo. acepte por favor mis mas humildes  reverencias.

su aspirante a sirviente. Vijaya Govinda Das.

HpS - Jaya. AGTSP paoho!!!  Muchas gracias para su carta y su vida. Adelante. Adelante. No hay mas hacer. En la comenza es mas Brahman, pero mas adelante es eligir de diferente servicios.

Dear Guruji,

Please accept my most humble obeisances and all glory to Srila Prabhupada.

I have realized that my chanting is largely ineffective because of my inattentive nature. I find that probably my biggest offense while chanting is not having faith. I am always worrying about my job, my family, my problems, my expenses, the future, and on and on.

I realized that if I had true and complete faith in the Lord then I would not be stressed out and worried all the time and I would be calm and peaceful while I was chanting.

So I realized that the cause of my grief is my lack of faith in God. I find myself chained in a box of my own creation and I miss the freedom I experienced while being a brahmacari, distributing books while living in San Jose or Los Angeles temples, or traveling and distributing Prabhupada’s books while living in San Jose or Los Angeles temples, or traveling with sannyasis and gurus.

My only hope for redemption is association (sat-sanga). We are starting again our weekly programs for our Vedanta student club (here at Texas A&M University Kingsville) in which we read the Bhagavad-Gita as it is and we do Kirtan, Aarthi, and Prasad.

In this program my main focus will be on chanting because I need to improve my chanting of the holy name and I need to learn to have faith in God. Though trying to finish chanting 16 rounds, I often have Japa left over and this is building up. I need to catch up on my leftover rounds accumulated due to my schedule and time mismanagement. 

I can come to Houston any time before March because March is when my sister’s wedding will happen in India.

YAS,

Aja govinda dasa

HpS - No one told us about Satakshi's wedding!   What date is it? Dr. Bandyopadhaya said any one who gets her for a wife will be a very lucky person.

On the way to Krsna.

Maya comes in waves. Each time we learn a new skill. eternally. Join us online everyday for Full Morning Program 4.30-5.30AM. It is not great but it is workeable. You can lean Spanish.

Make a report of things you read that surprise you. Even just 10-minutes before breakfast or lunch. Little snacks like that. You will get addicted.

HARE KRISHNA Dear Guru Maharaja !!
AGTSP
PAMHO 

This morning you told us through Startmeeting that you had a 99,9% health crisis yesterday, but I didn't understand what happened to you...

I'm writing to let you know the new plans of my first travel out this country, titled: "Bracing myself to get out of this world". 

Until now, the hardest task have been to find the vaccine against yellow fever (in India they will ask us for it because of an outbreak in the north of Argentina and due to on a short scale that we have to do there). There is a psychosis here in Chile due to a supposed massive outbreak in Brazil and everyone is traveling for the Rio carnival. The vaccine is expensive here in Chile, good bussines...

I have a travelling partner ! Your disciple, Ananda Vardhana Da !  

Finally, I will not be in India for two months as I had thought, I will be back in Chile on March 10 and I wanna visit you in Lima and be there between April 20 and 25, as long as you agree, please... and as long as that is God's will. Any way, all this is my desire, so I really hope so.

So,  if everything goes well, this is our plan: we will arrived in Bombay at february 16, inmediatly take another plane to Calcuta, go the Iskcon temple and later take the train to Mayapur and spend down there 5 or 7 days. February 23 or 24 we'll take the train to Mathura and there take a rickshaw directly to Krishna Balarama Mandir. We will spend 2 weeks in Vrindavana Dham. March 1 (Gaura Purnima Ki Jay!) my brother in law, Vishvanatha CT Das,  will come to Vrindavana  with his yoga tour team and since then we will be all together, but not all the time, Ananda and me have another plans and we are not part of that yoga team... March 7 or 8 we will take a train to Dheli and there a plane to Bombay, our come back flight will take off March 9 to Santiago de Chile. Please, let us know what do you think Guru Maharaja...

In your answer to my previous letter you said that you can give us some help... What that is meant (you are always helping us) or what kind of help? Please Guru Maharaja, I ask you to forgive me in advance if my question is imprudent ... if it was, please teach me how I must to relate myself with you. 

In our previous letter, at the end of your replies, you posted a picture of Kusakratha Dasa. So, I read about his life and he was an amazing devotee !! Is he your friend ?

Very many much thanks for everything, Dear Guru Maharaja... 

HARE KRISHNA !!!

Your aspirant to disciple and servant,
Carlos Rold.

HpS - Sorry this letter took a week to answer!    We are just drowning with packing for these ten weeks of travel. Your letter is very nice. Is first time traveling in India for you two? Can be little difficult but your itenarary sounds great. Write down everythhing. Five years later every detail will be nectar.

Hare Krsna!

NitayGouraPremanande!!!

Querido y siempre recordado Gurudev, 

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TODAS LAS GLORIAS A SRILA PRABHUPADA!!!

                                                         Estos últimos meses fueron muy intensos, por su gran misericordia pude participar en la gloriosa Maratón de Srila  prabhupada, aunque con el cuidado de mi salud solo pude participar 2 semanas , la experiencia fue maravillosa, siempre en asociacion con devotos extáticos, como M. Radhika y su esposo p. Premananda en aguas calientes, M. Saradha en Guadalajara aprendiendo mucho de ellos,..  mis resultados de esta Maraton fueron de 635 libros chicos y 6 BG  Maha grandes, ...  asi mismo, estuve bastante ocupada en los preparativos de mi viaje a Perú ,finalmente ya me encuentro en Lima, y muy feliz de ver a mi Padre, y a la vez de saber que ud. estara dandonos su bendita asociación , eternamente agradecida a ud. de permitirme estar en su servicio...

                                                                     Radhe, Radhe, Radhe.....

su inútil y torpe sirvienta

m. Jambavati d.d. 

HpS - Hare Krsna. Desculpa la demurra responder. La causa central es como la misma de Vd. Bastante preparacion para esta viaje intenso de 15 Feb - 30 April, diez semanas.

Estamos oyendo de Candramukhi Devi Dasi que Vd es esfuerzando mucho para ayudar su Padre.

Esperamos que puede ayudar espiritualmente y entonces guarda del cuerpo a la larga como es posible va a ser natural. No se convierte como Jada-bharata para su venado. Krsna es el mejor amigo, no nosotros, pero tambien no podemos ser negligente en realizar los asuntos delegado a nosotros.

Toma consejo de Abhirama, Jiva, todos. Espero hay sitio disponible cerca o en la casa de unos devotos.

Espero que Vd. puede quedar en Peru y encontrar a una situacin economica practico y ayuda la Sankirtan de Radha madan bihari.