Letters to the editor

Dear Guru Maharaja

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

Thank you for adding the link to the soundcloud account in the Kapi Dhvaja. I have now completed upload of all the lectures from IDT and e-sanga to the Soundcloud account. Dhruva prabhu and Mandara Sakha prabhu shared the lectures they recorded in Australia and Chile. Those have been uploaded as well. I thank them for sending the files.

I request all the devotees to send the lectures they have to [email protected]. I also request the devotees to record the lectures in the upcoming travel schedule and send them as well.

We now have 432 audio files. On an average there are 35 plays a week. This weekend, I think devotees from Russia have gotten to know about the account. I am seeing a massive increase in the number of plays. In the last 5 days alone there have been 345 plays!

HpS -  Hare Krsna!   We make mistakes. We learn and then correct them in later lectures. We can help to illuminate a path to Srila Prabhupada, but he is the Guru for everyone in ISKCON. You must have a personal relationship with him to really be in ISKCON.

There is a letter from TCSD thanking you for the lectures and asking for ability to download. He is one of the first devotees we initiated. Tulasi-carana-sevita Das. He grew up in California. His mothe is like 1/8th native American Indian as I remember. Graduate in Cultural Anthropology from UC. Went to Thailand. Married a nice Thai girl. Taught public school in the USA. Moved to Thailand and has taught there since then.

Sadhana wise, I have been chanting 16 rounds and following the principles strictly. I wake up between 5:30-6:00, complete at least 10 rounds, do a small arthi and read Srimad Bhagavatam before leaving to work. I completed Canto 1 Chapter 3 today. I hope to complete a first pass of the first 2 cantos this year and then use the PDP guides for a deep study. I also read The Six Goswamis of Vrindavan on the recommendation of Radhika Ramana prabhu. I wanted to know more about the Goswamis after visiting Vrindavan and it was a wonderful book. I couldn't put it down.

I have decided to move to Dallas. It was a very difficult decision to make because of my attachment to the devotees here. But I feel it is the right thing to do. I love the work I do (I published a paper and filed 2 patens last year) and don't have too much pressure at work. I have a good balance at work that gives me time for sadhana and service. I'll be moving to Dallas sometime in the end of June.

HpS - Also, very nice Temple there. Your Sadhana sounds wonderful. Are you up and chanting Hare Krsna during the Brahma muhurta?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhurta

https://www.vedabase.com/en/kb/70  (FIND: "muhurta") It says "three hours" but I think it is 1-1/2 hours.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

Can I send a message to Hps please? I'm from Brazil and I speak Portuguese. Forgive my bad english.

HpS - Sim. Basta escrever aqui. Você pode usar www.translate.google.com como estamos usando agora. Apenas mantenha a mensagem tão simples que um robô pode compreendê-la.
Bem vinda

PAMHO AGTSP Hare krsna dear Gurudev I am Trivikrama das, from chile, I hope your health is good, I continue in my service of the deities kitchen, as we talked about in your previous visit, I continue with my firm desire to be able to take second initiation, wait for the time that the authority local consider relevant and follow your instruction to develop or at least try, this awareness, through the worship of Sri Sri Gaura Nitay, are the deities of my house, I have a simple standard, but I keep it daily, I awake them I offer incense and I sleep them, that's basically every day. As for now you will not visit our yatra in Chile, I thought about being able to see us in Argentina in April, what do you think about seeing us there? and there to take second initiation? I await your comments your eternal servant Trivikrama das

HpS - AGTSP paoho. So long since we hear from you!!! If you are following a Brahminical standard in your devotional service then seems very proper to take second initiation. Regularly up for chanting and Puja during Mangala arati, SB?? Regular standard of cleanliness? How is your situation in Varna-ashrama-dharma? You got married????????? Of course, we have to have consideration and formal communication with the Temple administration. I think Bhakti sastri is required for Second initiation now. Is that true?

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!!

PAOHO dear Guru Maharaj. 

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

HpS - AGTSP....   ..

Awww....last Sunday the stalwarts of Sunday Nagarkirtan party had all gone to Mayapur to attend ILS meet. We were apprehensive that we might have to call it a day...we kept seeking Nityananda's mercy. Lo!! unexpectedly 3 senior devotees volunteered to join and together with 4 of us Matajis had a blast of a Nagarkirtan about 30kms from our temple. The lead  kirtan singer had to play the mridanga and carry the speaker on his back....besides being the driver!! We distributed prasadam and had a gala time . Thank you Guru Maharaj.

HpS - Harer Nama, Harer Nama, Harer nama eva...    wonderful...

Reached temple just in time for the Rajbhog Maha arti. During the arti as we were singing Yashomati nandana Vraj bara nagara....a flower fell down from Krishnachandra's well decked turban.....absolutely ecstatic!!!!

Sunday lunch prasadam, at the temple, is Rice, daal, subjee, Pakora, iromba and ooty ( local preparations). Guru Maharaj how do we politely refuse food offered by nondevotees without offending them? Sometimes we face awkward moments when we are not comfortable accepting food from just about anybody. Sometimes we develop angioneurotic oedema ......

HpS - It is essential part of our Yoga. Almost any yoga, religion. Tell people that you offer everything to Krsna-murti and the rules require all the cooks to be vegetarian. Then, for Sankirtan, purposes Krsna will accept it.

We pray to Krsna to help us avoid being killed by angry demons, but they crucified Lord Jesus, but He didn't suffer.

Whatever happens, we will eagerly wait for Your wonderful association dear Guru Maharaj. We will keep praying to Nityananda and Gauranga. 

We are in Second canto SB, end of chapter 3. 

Your ignorant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Hare Krsna!!   Pure devotional service, the Change in heart. Really it is only the last verse that directly deals with this topic, no? SB 1, 2, 3 ....  Sat, Cit, Ananda . . .  Brahman, Paramatma, Bhagavan . . .  Pantheism, Mysticism, Mono-theism.

Come with us to the next letter. Who were the "Senior Devotees".

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

I hope this meets U in really good health.

The day before yesterday I got all the information about what will be my responsabilties as a professor.. Pfff I almost fainted. I could not sleep. Nevetheless I remembered that I just have to use my intelligence. I left some hours in the other university and made a sane schedule so that I can go to bed early and keep my sadhana.. FMP KI JAYA

The director who hired me told me that he remembered my father when he made the decision at that moment I said OH MAY GOD He continues protecting and blessing me. I must be brave and try my best.

Regarding Bhaktivedanta workshop I would like to be like a free participant. I am not able to do study guides or present a chapter at least for some time in order to get used to this changes

It is weird m Jamvabati and I have to support our father and mother respectively. There is no comparison SHE IS THE QUEEN OF THE BEARS.

But we have that in common.. My sister and I have to support my mom. Three ladies a dog and one cat jaya !!!  STRI DHARMA

Nowadays I do not have time to think in nonesense. While doing administrative work I listen to some bhajam and a class. It is nice and relaxing.

Hope to see U the most as I can during this visit. If not U know that U are constantly in my smaranam and heart. 

This sunday we are going to have some sadhusanga in callao I will go with Jambavati mataji. We are going to fix some details for your visit then post it here

Thank U Gurudeva, please your blessings 

Your useless servant

Candramukhi dd

HpS - Hare Krsna!        Thank you for the [urgent] news. We are informed and waiting for further developments.  It seems you are right in the middle of Lord Nityananda's parade!!!  Our salutes to everyone.. . .   Wonder women!!

Dear Maharaja Accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet !!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

All glories to Sri Vijay Gauranga Nityananda Ram!

   Dear Maharaja, i hope you are doing well, in good health, and having everything in order.

My sadhana is pretty active, i attend to mangal aarti twice or three times a week, as much as it is possible for me to attend. chanting my 16 rounds daily as some more rounds. I'm attending to Sadhya aarti and Bhagavad Gita classes after that, I'm taking notes and trying to study every text from the chapter that is being exposed or explain, it's a good way for me to keep track. my principles are fine. I'm still dealing with anxiety and patience, as well as depression. i talked about it with a closed elder devotee friend and he told me that depression may come from the mind being scared of me focusing in pleasing Krishna instead of pleasing it (the mind), and that's why depression occurs.

HpS - Could be. Have to show the mind it is most happy pleasing Krsna!!.

I'm chanting and taking prasadam to keep strong in the process.  My services are good as well, washing Prabhupada's clothes, making garlands, and helping with the kitchen and the cleaning in the temple in general matters. 

 I'm still missing something, or maybe it's just anxiety wanting me to be worried about something to give something to the mind to play with.

HpS - Maybe!!   -[;0]/\___

  if there is any advice or instruction for me to follow to improve my sadhana I'll be happy to know dear Maharaja. 

HpS - Get association in what you do: Japa, Reading, Deity Worship, Sankirtan!!!       Who is in the Temple there?

 Hare Krishna