Letters to the editor

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please accept my humble obeisances. 

Happy Birthday Guruji! All glories to your most graceful appearance! 

We would like to wish you good health and lots of energy (which we will transmit to you... just joking. Lord Krsna will help) so you can come and visit Brisbane again, or even perhaps we may visit you in the future. 

Today we celebrated your vyasapuja on a small, simple scale. I offerred flowers to you and my mother cooked some brown rice, turkish eggplant subji, paschet (kidney bean paste with walnuts - very tasty), and I prepared some salad, mango-strawberry lassi and some chopped, sweet, sweet papaya from our gardend (planted by me ;)). 

My mother would like to send her deepest gratitude for your visit to Brisbane and our home. Thank you for sharing your kindness, care and love for our family. We are forever indebted to you. 

I hope after my high school is completed, I may visit and travel with you for some time and even take your shelter after some time. 

Happy Appearance Day again! Hope you had a glorious day with all your disciples and fellow devotees. 

Hare Krsna :) 

Yours servant,

Lakshmi Devi Dasi 

HpS - ASA --  Esteemed prosperous farm family.  Thank you for your letter. Who, with pseudonyms, are some of the most miserable, worst kids in you Hight School, or they all pretty decent. How are the teachers??  Are ther many Muslim girls there?

Hare Krsna 

AGTSP

AGTHPS 

PAMHO

Hope you can celebreated a beautiful Vyasapuja.

HpS - Every day is a Vyasapuja in many aspects, no?? <img alt="wink" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/wink_smile.png" title="wink" width="23" />

Thank you for your mercy and compasion guru dev.

we were talking with devotees in Buenos Aires, Mar del plata,  Cordoba and Devakinandana prabhu in Brasil to coordinate your visit, sankirtan programs and meeting with interesting persons. we think that the date are fine so becouse the university and the general activities are open.

i told you in other letter  wrongly that my father follows the meditation of santa Ana (who is the mather [mother] of Virgin Mari) but he follow the meditation of Santa Teresa (Avila?) who is a mistic in cristian tradition. he born in 1948 and he is retired now but also attached to work, but also he try to go deeper in his cristian tradition.

ASA - Yes, she is very nice. The Crystal Palace, her book, no?

What is his birth day??   How to get from Campina Grande to Argentina March 30th???

Hope to to see you soon your servent ambarisa das

Dear Gurudeva:

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

Thank you so much for being such a great help and inspiration! On this day, I remember how fortunate I am, for having your merciful guide. I am nothing but a selfish and ignorant "person", trying to  feel some real attraction for chanting  and serving. I try but not so hard, because I feel like if I would walk very very slow.

 My daily life is very intense (wake up early for chanting some rounds, school, family, evening program, gurukula and youngs programs and CPO). I feel very tired sometimes, however, I consider myself  very fortunate to still being part of Iskcon.

ASA - You life is very much like ours.

I chant 16 rounds a day (some of them are not good, chanting in the car), the 3 Gayatri mantras and following the principles. At school, I try my kids to hear (and sometimes sing) as much as possible the Maha mantra and another vaishnava songs. They watch different Krishna cartoons and movies, and, whenever it is possible, I share some prasadam with them.

Every Friday, we celebrate a sat sanga at home. When the class starts, I have a "class" with the children.

In January, children under 13th but over 9 will meet in NVM for 3 days. They will learn about kirtan, theater, cooking, service... and they will have the opportunity to ask questions to Yadunanadana Maharaja and to share experiences with another devotees (now, in their 30's) who were raised in a devotee family.

And, finally, the International CPO came to Spain last November to implant the CPO in Spain. Yadunanadana maharaja asked me to be the director. I said that I wasn't sure about being able to do it properly since I have limited time, so I asked someone  else to work with me. Finally, Hanuman prabhu's daughter accepted it and we are trying to start.

HpS - Very, nice!  But there should also be a PPO, no?

I try to read whenever I can. I am reading Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 and "The Journey Home" (Radhanatha Swami). I hear 2 or 3 classes per week (iskcon desire tree audio). 

This is all I can say about my situation right now. I am pretty busy and I am always thinking that I would like not to work, but I know (theory) that everything is perfect as it is.

Happy Vyasapuja Gurudeva. I don't write letter to you very often. I have to improve. Sorry. But I can tell you that I remember you very often, usually for realizing that I should be a much better disciple of yours.

Hoping your health is good when you read this message.

Aspiring  to be your humble servant,

Purnamasi devi dasi

HpS - Wonderful letter. Everyone can be very inspired by you. A child chants the Maha-mantra and his life is changed for every. He influences others....

.... you are keeping good correspondences. Just a little, little more often. Keep some notes of things to write.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias querido Gurudeva.TLGASP

 Las aves Syena y Paramahamsas bendigan al mundo del peligro de la ilusión.

Los devotos del Señor Hari, quienes viajan a todas partes con el fin de liberar a las almas condicinadas del oceano de la existencia material, acepten mis reverencias siempre a sus gloriosos pies de lunas.

Al recordar, al Señor Hari, de ojos de loto en su maximo esplandor y esta en el corazón de todas las cosas, incluso del átomo, uno se purifica tanto interna como externamente.

Pranams Gurudeva, reportando que aún no hemos muerto, seguimos en lucha contra maya, estamos en la base vistiendo a sus Señorias Radha Madhana Gopal en mexico, haciendo casi todos los dias 3 aratik y ofrendas de bhoga, tambien distribuyendo algunos bhagavat gita para esta maraton,y participando de los programas de Harinam con los devotos del templo.

Siempre deseando el refugio de sus pies de loto su aspirante a sirviente Sacinandan das.

HpS - Gracias sus noticias.  Adelante, Adelante, Adelante, muy bien. Quien conoce cual va  a ser su serivcion en el futuro?   Krsna tiene un plan.

Jaya... Gurumaharaja.. Gurudeva... me rindo a sus pies de loto!

HpS - ASA -- Pies de loco, TLGASP!!

Por favor acepte las humildes reverencias de esta persona que ha estado un tanto alejado de la comunicación.

Gurudeva, muy contento de saludarle este día; como sabe en la distribución que realizo regularmente de mis propios libros de cultura general, incluyo invitaciones a los centros de prédica y restaurantes; predico el consumo de alimentos sanos vegetarianos, incluyo la recomendación de cantar los santos nombres de Krisna en esa literatura; además mis libros contienen recomendaciones para elevar al ser humano a una plataforma más humana.

Considero que la vida nos propone diariamente una lucha personal a cada uno, y el primer paso despues de las regulaciones y el canto de los santos nombres, es la ejecución de nuestros propios deberes, en los que varias veces negligencio también... Pienso que la vida es una lucha diaria.. y muchas veces me aliento a este logro diario, a través de la lectura del segundo capítulo del Bhagavad-Gita. "Si no peleas... los grandes generales sólo dirán que fuiste un cobarde"...

Por otro lado, pienso que estoy alejándome de la prédica sobre la Vyasasana, auque predico a las personas con las que me encuentro. A veces considero, que no es muy de mi agrado sentarme a la Vyasasana a dictar una clase de Bhagavad Gita. Tomo varios días para preparar una clase, ya que pienso que debe ser perfecta, eso me genera ansiedad, y trato de evadir ese momento o esa circunstancia de dar una clase... Sé que es un error... es timidez... es confort...

Esperando que el Señor Krisna y Prabhupada, le protejan... me despido.

Vrisabhanu das

su sirviente

HpS - Muchas gracias sus noticias.  Si, mas noticias de su vida, predica. Adelanta de cual quiere manera, en la calle, familia, en la Vyasa-asana y todos los demas senderos mejoran.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

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

I'm glad to write you. Thank you very much for your merciful asociation in FMP. My mother (Tarangaksi dd) and I are trying to connect everyday. Due of this, our chant is improving and we are being occupied in more service. In the last months, I was studying the first cycle of Education at Catolica University. I learnt a lot of interesting modern educational topics. In a final investigation work about "what means to be a good teacher?", I quoted Srila Prabhupada (Bg. 3.21). My teacher was interested in the quote. I hope, for the next year, have the oppotunity to quote Srila Prabhupada in other works. Also, I had a philosophy teacher that in some of his classes, he mentioned how hindu philosophy influenced at the greek religion...

I'm giving classes of Bhagavad Gita at Wilson temple and being assistant of pujari (twice a month). I participate in bhajans and kirtans, playing the harmonium and singing, in Namahattas or temple programs. In a few days, I will travel to Cusco with my grandmother Gauri Devi Dasi. At university, teachers recommended me to know the social and cultural aspects of the peruvian regions and the educational reality of their schools. At the same time, we will do sankirtan at the little villages and we want to have the association of the devotees. We will stay there almost a month. 

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

Trying to serve,

Bhaktin Rukmini.

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!!   Hare Krsna!    I hope you can make a lot of friends in the university and just listent to them. They will have problems and the innocent ones will accept the advice of you "Abuelito", Srila Prabhuapada.