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All Glories to A.C. Prabhupada, Sripada Maharaja

All Glories to Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay!

Guru Maharaja! Dandavat Pranam,

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that after the completion of Guruji's N.E. Tour programme from 1st to 4th Nov. 2017 I want to know what is Guruji's impression? I am so sorry that I could not organised collectively in Thoubal because from the begining there is two groups. I alone manage in my level best but it is not satisfactoraly. What are the ideas to improve our Mandir and the management?

HpS - Hare Krsna. The program was satisfactory. We felt that there was much room for improvement, but also many very nice things. I have also, and even now, am faced with what seem to be mismanagement by my Godbrothers and other ISKCON associates.

Sometimes they are just as sincere as we are or even more sincere but their situation is just as difficult as ours and they cannot make things better.

In all situations we try our best. At every moment try to reduce our own stupidity and make our contribution better.

All efforto for Krsna has an eternal result and our situation, purity, strength will increase, life after life. We will be able to do more and more for Radha-Krsna, ISKCON.

You are doing very well. Just keep on the same path. Keep up with your personal reading. Write to the Blog and send your management suggestions here. Don't change your path just improve how you. are doing it. For example, how many rounds do you have done by 10AM each day?  Thank you for your help. Thanks to all the devotees in Manipur Yatra.

Hare Krsna, Guruji Maharaja!

We are so sorry that we left airport without asking flight positon. I get the news of Guruji's flight was late  for 3 three hours. Again I came to know that Rituraj is going Guwahati by another flight.

Always we need Guruji's advice, today and in future.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamunesvara Das

Querido guru-maharaj, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.
Todas las glorias a Sri Sri Jagannatha-Baladeva-Subhadraji
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Hace mucho tiempo que no escribo a usted, perdoneme por favor.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. Posible. Vamos a leer un poco mas decidir como relacionar con Vd. Ha! Ha! Hare!

Mi vida cambió mucho desde la ultima vez que le mande mi reporte. Después de 11 años con una devota (7 años casados), hoy estamos en un proceso de divorcio, una situación que me dejó muy malo, pero estoy tratando de estar bien. Estabamos viviendo en Florianópolis, sur de Brasil y ahora regresé a São Paulo para la casa de mis padres. En este momento necesito un trabajo para organizarme y despues seguiré mi camino. Todavia sigo cantando mis rondas diarias.

HpS - Desculpa no communicar, pero era estupido.

Pido humildemente para que deme tus bendiciones, para que mi mente sea fuerte, para que yo pueda estar siempre con los devotos, y también para que yo pueda un dia tener una buena esposa y una familia consiente de Krishna.

Espero que estés bien y que Sri Narasimhadeva protéjalo siempre.

Mis reverencias. Hare Krishna!

Gopavrindapala dasa
 

HpS - Hare Krsna. No puedo recordar nada de Vd!!!!   Poco mas detalles!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS. PAOHO at Your Lotus feet.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

We regret that Prof. Samaresh is not making it, we had already distributed the invitations ...trying to make some adjustments with the program. We had sent the attached programmes at the email address of Guru Maharaj and Prof Samresh.  We are so sorry. We seek forgiveness.

Had been very busy Guru Maharaj....almost every evening we go house to house program and sing Damodara Astakam ...we cover about 4 to 7 houses a day. We come back from work late in the evening and go with senior devotees....today we will cover 4 houses....

We need Your mercy Guru Maharaj. Silchar devotees arriving today...Sending the program once again....we are keeping the inaugural function as simple as possible. We would request Guru Maharaj to speak for about 5mins at the brief Inaugural function. The main Talk for Guru Maharaj has been kept at 1455hrs. This would include interactive session of about 25mins.

Waiting eagerly for Guru Maharaj.....its been raining for the last couple of days....

Your most fallen servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS_COMPUTER_FAILURE_KRSNA KNOWS SINCERE AND LAZY EFFORTS_SEE YOU IN A FEW HOURS! WILL BE WONDERFUL PROGRAM>!!!!

Jaya Gurudeva!

Toda Gloria a Sri Sri Adi Goura Nitay!

Toda Gloria a Srila Prabhupada!

Toda Gloria a Usted! 

 Por favor acepte mis respetos y reverencias a Sus Santos Pies. 

Guru Maharaja cómo se encuentra usted?

HpS - Almost dead body with Sankirtan and Gaura-Kishore Ekadasi, but spiritually making real progress! Thank you.

  Esta carta es inesperada incluso para mí, y tiene el propósito de pedirle un favor a usted y una bendición. Una amiga muy querida por mi, la madre Delia, ella participa de las actividades de Iskcon hace un año y medio aproximadamente, y ayer a las 12.40 pm, dió a luz una bebé muy hermosa y ella le pide, si es posible, que usted le de un nombre para esta almita y una bendición para que siempre pueda estar en asociación con los devotos.

ASA - We don't know but "Radha" is a nice name.

 No quiero robarle mas tiempo Guru Maharaja y personalmete pronto le enviaré mi reporte anual. 

 Muchas, muchas, muchas gracias por su valioso tiempo. 

 Espero que usted se encuentre muy bien. 

 Siempre recordandolo en mi corazón. Disculpe por favor cualquier ofensa.

 Jahnava Devi dasi, su sirvienta.

 Hare Krishna!!!!

PD: le adjunto una foto de la bebé.

ASA - Ha!  Ha!  Es un robot. La persona es lejos con Krsna in Goloka.

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja

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

Thanks to Dhruva prabhu, we were able to get your lectures and photos from Australia on Facebook. Hope you are getting some rest in India after the busy schedule down under.

I am travelling to India in December to get my work visa stamped. My mother has been wanting to go to Vrindavan for some time now and I have never been there either as I have never felt qualified enough to go to Vraj alone. Radhika Raman prabhu is also there in India during that time and said he can take us to Vrindavan. I wanted to request your blessings and shelter for our visit to Vrindavan so that we may go to the Dham in the proper mood.

My company's facility in SLC is shutting down in June 2018 and they laid off many people. Fortunately by Krishna's mercy, I have been offered relocation to Richardson, TX. It is about 20 minutes from Dallas. On one hand I feel relieved that I still have a job and on the other, I want to look for a job in SLC as I have very nice association here. Radhika Raman prabhu is only a 1.5 hours away and Boise is 4.5 hrs from here. Moving to Richardson seems the logical choice career wise as I like the work I am doing in my company and they value me a lot, but I am not able to make that decision easily.

Gurudev, please guide me on how I should proceed. 

I have also uploaded lectures of yours that I had and most of them from IDT to a common soundcloud account - https://soundcloud.com/user-938973912

I request all my godbrothers and godsisters to send the lectures they have to [email protected] so that I can upload them to the soundcloud account and have all the lectures at the one place.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

HpS - Hare Krsna. AGTSP Paoho. Thank you for the letter. Best wishes for visiting Vraja. It is very covered by the bright glare of Kali-yuga, Bollywood, materialism, but with some mercy from Srila Prabhupada you can see behind that.

Richardson sounds nice if it is just twenty minutes from Dallas ISKCON. Nice devotees there. Also taking association of Radhika-Ramona Das can be nice also. Read the Damodara lila story in the 10th cannot of whether M. Yasoda should have stopped giving her milk to Krsna or let the pot of milk boil over.

All Glories to A.C. Prabhupada, Sripada Maharaja All Glories to Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay! Guru Maharaja! Dandavat Pranam, Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that I am continuing the reading of Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu 2:2:70. The sangskrit words used here, the meaning and the translation into English are very tough and difficult to graps the idea. For example “ Raga, Raganuga-Bhakti, Ragatmika-Bhakti, Vaidhi-Bhakti etc.” In Gita 2.56 the word Raga is translated as attachment and in Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu and other related books it is the process of thinking in the spiritual life. The Ragatmika is related only the inhabitants of Vraja. Please explain the differences between Bhakti and Vaidhi Bhakti, Seva and Bhakti. Guruji, please explain in a simpler way or form of expression of the above mentioned sangskrit words.

HpS - AGTSP!!  Paoho. It is such an inspiration to get you association. For a simple answer to your question as we understand Rupa Goswami: Raga means attachment or taste. Bhakti is the general process it has three categories: Sadhana bhakti, bhava bhakti and prema bhakti. Sadhana bhakti can be divided into Vaidhi bhakti and Raganuga bhakti. In Vaidhi bhakti we do our Seva, service, Bhakti, according to rules given by an Acharya. The prophet Mohammad tells his followers they must bow down several times (5?) a day to Mecca, fast for Ramadan etc. These rules have the potency of waking up our spontaneous, Bhava bhakti. Bhakti, love for Krsna, which is always manifest with Seva, service to Krsna, and is an eternal aspect of the soul: 'nitya siddha Krsna prema...' (quotes in Nectar of Instruction). When that Bhava is a little bit awake we can start to do our service not just according to external rules for the mind, speech, body, but with feeling if we have the association of a Raga-atmica devotee, a devotee whose soul (atma), is fully awake to its natural attachment (raga) to Krsna.

You practice the piano in a very mechanical way following the written notes, but your teacher comes and says,"You play on the piano, I will play on the violin". In his association you can play with feeling. You are above plain Vaidhi bhakti and can do Raga anu ga bhakti. A raganuga bhakta follows a ragatmica bhakta. When the soul itself begins to express its natural rasa, raga, with Krsna that is Bhava bhakti. It is like a green mango, and when it is fully ripe, awake in its seva, bhakti, then it is prema bhakti.

O.K?

See you in a few days.

We try calling but there is no good connection with Manipur. Tell the Gaurangi that Dr. Samaresh is not coming. Things were not organized well enough so for his necessities so he will be going to Delhi for work then. Our apologizes. We suspect she has been doing the best that anyone can do. 

The regular Sunday Bhagavatam Patha is also continuing and as a part of it I will narrate the portion of 9:10.4 and will continu further. In the meantime, we are planning for the Guruji’s Manipur visit programme from 1-4 Nov. 2017. We will finalise the exact number of Prasadam and books required for the function with Banamali Prabhu, Ekanatha Prabhu and Sadhubhusan Das shortly in Imphal and the amounts to be deposited. How was Australia tour completed?

HpS - Australia tour was very, very, very hard work with very, very, very good results. We will talk about it when we arrive.

We are eagerly waiting Guruji Maharaja's arrival on the 1st Nov. 2017 at 10.00 a.m.,

HpS - Indigo 523 arriving 10.30AM.

. . . though our service (seva) will not be satisfactorily. Please bear the troubles of inconveniences cause from our side. What types of prasad will be arranged and who are accompanying this time excluding Dr. Samaresh and family? Yours fallen servant; Yamunesvara Das

HpS - From Kolkata only myself but from other states others are coming. Some pasta is good for our body - macaroni, spaghetti, simple Dahl.

See you very, very soon.