Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaj

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Por favor acepte mis reverencias

La semana pasada comenzé dos grupos Bhakti vriksha. En el Callao, en casa de Prabhu Abhiram y en Chorrillos, en casa de Prabhu Gandharva. La intención es unir a los devotos y ver la manera de predicar Conciencia de Krishna. 

El curso de Introducción de Bhakti yoga esta planeado para que termine en Febrero, a la vez ellos también están realizando servicio de guirnaldas en el templo y tambien dos devotas desean aspirar a un maestro espiritual. Los alumnos que tengo son constantes y estoy tratando de acercarme más a ellos

Aprovechando mis vacaciones, estoy asistiendo 4 veces a la semana al templo de wilson para el mangala artik, a la vez que aprovecho la asociación de los devotos

Gracias por su constante inspiración

Jagat Pavitram Das

(LIMA - PERU)

HpS - Muy bien. Si, Bh. Vrksa es super sistema y por que no ampliando hasta hay seis Bh. Vrksa in Callao en entonces un Centro Permanente!

Haré Krishna dear gurudeva please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada

thank you very much for your answer

ASA - Two Months ago!   Sorry for delay. Traveling to India.

...is just  i needed, you are the main force for me, 

now I have been given the great opportunity to travel through South America doing Harinama and sankirtan with Mahavisnu Swami until December and the temple authorities agree

I feel that I am very white I need inspiration.

ASA - White???   Green, maybe?  Means fresh, new, inexperienced.

Please, I ask for your blessings in order to distribute thousands of books.

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!!!  It may help a little bit, but need blessing of other ISKCON members more.

you are my own life

HpS - You are very kind!  What has happened since this letter?  You had a big fall down and have been eating chocolate every month?  You have been instructed to take Sannyasa??

his servant Vrajndra kumara das

ASA - Your servants!!!!!   HpS, TB, BW et al. Try to make people ito book distributors.

From: Prahladananda Swami 
To: Hanumatpresaka Swami
Sent: Saturday, December 9, 2017 11:25 AM
Subject: Sannyasa Annual Service Report 2017
 

Hare Krsna, 
Esteemed Prahladananda Swami et al,
Is the following adequate?

________________________________________________

GBC - ANNUAL SANNYASA REPORT (2018)

Hanumatpresaka Swami

(This Report Can be Made Public except for the phone number)

www.jayarama.us

2129 Stratford Rd.; Murfreesboro, TN 37129; USA

Phone: X X X

We followed the four principles strictly and chanted a minimum of 16-enthusiastic rounds daily although there is plenty of room for improvement in not overeating and not letting the mind wander during Japa.

We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA with Nitai-gaura-sundara Das as President of our non-profit educational corporation, NIOS. Our GBC Secretary is H. G. Tamohara Das (who is of ripe old age enough to take Sannyasa, no)?

Traveled to India in January and October with a side trip to Australia. We have been doing academic programs with such agencies as the National Library of Peru and Chile, the Asiatic Society of Calcutta and others. We have been presenting Psychology and the Sacred with good response from many communities especially the Jungians.

You can see a sample of this if you go to YouTube.com and search for "psychology and the sacred 2016".

We also have been pushed to continue with "Hamlet and Arjuna", this has involved national poet laureates such as Raul Zurita and others.

In the USA we visit Houston, Seattle, San Francisco etc, and in South America Peru, Argentina, Chile.

We are members of the Latin American GBC, Executive Committee of the Ministry of Education. We are doing a lot of work with the MOE.

We find some things in ISKCON in a lot of chaos, but we find the same thing in our life, so we don't feel much inclined to be too critical of others. Our focus has been, "Get up early and get your rounds done". We have and on-line program when we are not traveling through our web-site: www.jayarama.us that has 10-18 devotees daily for Mangala-arati, NOD and 30-minutes of Japa and Chat.

Of course a lot more details but this is a good sample. We are very eager to assist any of our readers if we can, and if anyone has any interest in "Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encounter of C. G. Jung with the Ancient Mysticism India" then please contact us. Prabhupada commented in "Dialectical Spiritualism" that among all the Western philosophers Jung had the most sense.

Hanumatpresaka Swami

hare Krishna maharaj, pamho, AGTSP

i personally don't know how to say all this. But we were surprised that you said in DTC that you were working with us in India. We never felt that we are working with you. It seems we took much more from you, and even did not appreciate you in return.

we want to take intiation from you, but due to...

HpS - ASA - Ahhh!    This is the same as the other letter. Well, as we said, our situtation is just the same as yours and your honest and penetrating description of the situation has helped us clear our brains a lot. Thank you Dr. Pradhan.

As far as the ISKCON gurus and GBC Secretaries etc. etc. that I know, most of them are in the same situation as you and me.

For me I can start with what I personally heard from the lipz of my spiritual master. If you want to take me as a spiritual master in this aspect you can now hear it from my lipz (word processor). SP said, "I will never die. I will live forever in my books".

O.K.

DP - We can't interpret how to apply what he says.
ASA - Well, he says things to a lot of different people because people are on different levels and in different boats. He says things that ladies in the class can understand and you and I cannot understand and vice a versa, but some things are quite appropropriate for us all.
For example, there is no doubt that he wants us to chant Hare Krsna/Rama as much as possible.
O.K?  Now you have full engagement in ISKCON - Chant Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, as much as possible...
 

DP - But I can't chant all the time!
ASA - Don't say that, chant.

DP - I can't! I can't!

ASA - Well, then chant Kirtan morning and evening with your family and friends [as much as they will join you [and if they don't join you then let The Evil One take care of them]]. Read the KRSNA book and chant Jaw Pa Pa!

One rounds, two rounds ....    Make some vow of how many rounds you will chant a day for a certain number of days and declare your Vrata here in The Blog and then Report, here in The Blog.

We will chant 16-rounds per day for as long as we can breath and follow the 4-principles strictly (with the possible fall down into Illicit Vanilla Ice-cream Consumption though we hope to surpass even that by the mercy of Guru Prasad Swami).

Simple, no?    Even a Software Engineer could do it, what to speak of a Management Engineering Docent, no?    Other details will follow?
 

O.K? ?  ??   Koi prasna hai!?

        O.K.  with all of the guys who are in the same situation as Dr. Pradhana???      Come on!  I can think of at least two, three more immediately.

ASA Staff

Hare Krishna Maharaj, pamho, AGTSP

i personally don't know how to say all this. But we were surprised that you said in DTC that you were working with us in India. We never felt that we are working with you. It seems we took much more from you, and even did not appreciate you in return.

ASA - You put is in touch with Pankaj etc. How is he?? Anything we can dew four hymn?

. . . we want to take intiation from you, but due to inability to follow one of regulative principles according to NoI, we are not moving ahead.

ASA - Lottery is a terrible addiction.

...moreover most counsellor's are generally very busy. Also ,there is very less coherence in advice by them.

The formula of senate of six devotees is difficult, because I am not able to get them together in one place and time.

I don't find usage of reading SB because we don't know how to apply in our situation. Most of counsellor's even give up to help us apply them.

So in nut shell we can not even get a local authority. 

Your formula of village e.g. Houston temple is rare and now has become very costly.

We were adviced to have kid by ISKCON counsellor,  but in retrospect we think it was wrong. There were many advices like this.

I don't know how to serve Srila Prabhupada in current situation and in current Iskcon

HpS -- Your analysis is wonderful. It describes our situation perfectly. We will read your other letter and see if it makes things even clearer...

T.L.G.A.S.P.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto mi muy querido Gurudeva.

Con respecto a su pregunta si hay la posibilidad de viajar ???

Mande mi solicitud a fin de poder participar en un curso organizado por El GBC-College para el desarrollo del Liderazgo, es una escuela de liderazgo oficial de ISKCON donde candidatos potenciales seran entrenados para actuar en  servicios de liderazgo dentro de ISKCON.

Existen solo 30 cupos para este curso, espero calificar, de ser asi estare viajando a Brasil, para participar presencialmente en dicho curso.

Por el momento este seria el vieje mas sercano que tendria.

Es cuanto tengo a bien informarle mi querido GM.

Atte. su humilde servidor eterno Jiyada Nrsmha Dasa.

HpS - Jaya! Habla con el Mathuresa Das acerca del viaje a Campina Grande. Solamente 3-meces. Es bueno comprar tan pronto podemos.

Esta bien la siguente? Que piensa todo el mundo?

Mar

5-Mexico
6-Lima
19-Cuzco
20-Bolivia
23-Campina Grande
30-Argentina

Abril
20-Lima
25-Mexico
30-Houston.