Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja!

Jay Radha Krishna!
Jay Giri Govardan! (today we celebrate in Arg)
Jay Patita Pavana Srila Prabhupada
Jay Guru Maharaja

Accept my humble obeisances to your Holy lotus feet.

HpS - ASA - Homely feet.

Dear Gurudev, Thanks for answering my annual report, thanks for your blessings and here we go with my answers.
This topic of Grihasta Asrama is a very huge thing! I can see that we do not receive the proper education about that, many ideas about what it is or what it is supposed to be. I see that I must have more consciousness in less free time. We are in the phase of Artha, economic development, many austerities and anxieties.
With my husband things go well both got same vision, I think it makes things easier to make choices.
I kept my job, 12 hours outside home (travel + work). Sometimes more time.
Next year we hope to visit Holy Dham to get the blessings of the Dham to be more enthusiastic and develop more inspiration. After this trip we will reconfigure our way of action. More risks to keep our family and individual spiritual life.
Few months ago Srila Virabahu Maharaja (Father-in-law Guru. He refers to himself in this way, because I get married w / His disciple) visit Buenos Aires and we serve Him and talk some times.
I doing a Bach flowers course, to be flower therapist. Keep on in Ratha Yatra, I think it´s my last year in organization. 
Gurudev i´ve realize that’s my more important service is maintain myself Krishna Consciusness, devotional service, association and many other thing are the way to keep involved in this issues, but my real service is maintain my vote and serve my family. 
 

Hope my letter find you in a really good energy. You´re my reason to stay inspired, like i always say thanks for be my Spiritual Master and Thanks for be an example of disciple.
My obeisances to your holy lotus feet.

Thanks for your time and for your patience.
your servant.
Rati-Mañjari DD.

HpS - Hare Krsna!   AGTSP paoho.   So nice to hear from you Rati-manjari Devi Dasi.  You are married?  You are in Argentina?   Ha!   Ha!     We have hard time keeping track of people as we get older, but we can remember you very well. Did you go to India since this letter?   We think there is another letter within the last three days.

Do you have your own Deities? Do you serve them with your husband?   Is Krsna, the ultimate husband and others are His representatives?

These are some of the intricate questions that only you, someone from Argentina ISKCON can answer!

We all wait with baited breath for your answers!!!!

Hare Krishna !  TLGSP 

I respond is letter, with many questions. my intelligence is not pure, and i have very little time by work now, but we always try to sing japa, i dont forget krishna and let´s  get better this. Actually my plans to serve in the temple need enthusiasm. This year i have worked cities different, and i have had many positive vision from those experiences.

The subject of the thesis was very the importance of singing in children for development of early musicality, benefits and application.  A very simple research from psychology to practice and we trust a book of Arnold Bentley, and other investigations. We write and musicalize part of works for childrens theather very scarce. 

I am very grateful for mercy de Srila Prabhupada, and sometime when i travel i read his biography and his mission with his bhaktisidanta spiritual master, understanding this point ...  also, i met a disciple of Srila Prabhupada which began in iskcon and is now is disciple of Atulananda Maharaja... other disciples of Vana goswami maharaja disciple de Narayana Maharaja, etc, etc. This very confusing but i appreciate the details.  ¿How do we know  our destiny?

HpS - First, by asking the Creator of Destiny, Karma. He answers in BG etc, in a general way. Your Destiny is to get sick, grow, old and die, or to chant HK more, listen to Srila Prabhupada more (even a little, little more) and go back to heaven with your friends where Krsna, who really misses you a lot, is waiting for you with everyone. Your ways of knowing will get better as you wake up more and more.

We have the book by Carl Jung , is very valuable in Chile, and there is a monopoly of the books, then  we have it pdf , and we will begin to read. I want to write your carl jung classes, by my memory is fragile and sudra,  and the only way  is to shape in the mind writing to learn. .. Thank you very much. 

I hope i do not offend ... my reverences ...excuse my english,  i am at your dispose. ..

HpS - ASA --- Hey have you got a little daughter?

Hare Krishna dear Gurudev Please accept my humble obeissances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

I hope that you are well, and that you can rest in USA.

HpS - ASA --- Actually we feel really sick at the current moment. We feel like we are suffocating, no full respiration. How about you? If we do Pranayana, take full breath in, hold it and then blow it all out and hold it out, as Srila Prabhupada mentions in SB, then we can see that as we hold it out we get demand for air, deeper and deeper. If we can satisify that little man within we are still alive and hope to expand to to the gross body.

about me, everything's it's better...
i am studying english in an institute since 2 weeks, (so i still have to use the google translate hehe)

HpS - Yes, but you can start to recoginze what Spanish words to give the Translator so he has an easy job!

i am also going to sankirtan 2 or 3 times a week, but the books distribution in universities its finish for now, back to "person to person" mood. A few weeks ago we had the visit of Aravinda Prabhu (from mexico), and he was so kind with us (priya sakhi, gokulesvari and i... my  "sankirtan team" for now) we had a sankirtan meeting and he inspired us so much. He also give a seminar called "sastra seva" with prabhu Govinda Damodar. 

With my husband, we are still working in prasadam, everythings its going better, your advice help me a lot, for the mercy of Lord Jagannatha my husband will paint the ratha yatra´s chariot, and he is very enthusiastic with that, tomorrow he start. He is really trying to correct his mistake, as you said, so i am giving him a chance.

From tomorrow i will join again to fmp, its been dificult to me chant my rounds in the morning, because of my job, i have to start to cook at  6 o clock and because the sankirtan in universities was in the afternoon I arrived late at my house, 10 pm approx, then my sadhana has been very messy this last time, I sing the 16 rounds during the day, I'm sorry, I know you are very emphatic in the sadhana , but from now on I hope to improve this.

HpS - Krsna NEVER suggests anything impractical. If you make 16-nice rounds your priority then EVERYTHING will improve in the fastests way possible.

thanks for everything dear gurumaharaja and please excuse my faults

always yearning to be able to become a better disciple

Indu Lekha devi dasi

HpS - You are doing pretty good, Mama!

Todas las glorias sean a Sri Sri Gaura Nitay
Todas las glorias sean a A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Todas las glorias sean a los Vaisnavas del Señor

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias querido guru maharaj, espero que se encuentre bien, por ahí me comentaron que estuvo delicado de salud, asi que oramos por usted, o lo intentamos sinceramente. esperamos que visite buenos aires en algun momento, aquí estamos con adi yajña, gopal govinda, parama karuna, maha hari, carudesna, nanda, vasudeva, bhakta nehuen, bhakta ignacio, bhakta anthony y bhakta alex. estamos tratando de limpiar el corazón, limpiando los baños y las ollas también.. estamos tratando de mejorar la calidad de los servicios para agradar a krsna!

HpS-ASA -- Hare Krsna!!  AGTSP.   Somos sus servientes muy, muy, pequenos. Gracias su carta. Esperamos visitar a BsAs en Feb-Marzo!

Fuimos a un lugar campestre a distribuir libros y fue muy bueno! gradualmente se comprende aun mas la importancia de dar a krsna en forma de libros... ante eso me surge una pregunta, si damos libros para complacer a krsna, a prabhupada y a usted, pero no nos agrada hacerlo, eso se considera bhakti?

HpS - Upadesamrta-7, no? En la comenza no hay gusto pero estamos ocupado por razones basicas, como esperamos escapar de sufrimento, liberacion. Y tambien posible estuvimos experimentado un poco de servicio devocional puro, una Bhakti-lata-bija, https://www.vedabase.com/es/cc/madhya/19/151, y por medio de hacer Sankirtan estamos agotando nuestra pequena semilla, planta. Entonces puede ser servicio devocional en diferentes etapas.

O si uno realiza cualquier tipo de servicio para agradarle a krsna pero sin el gusto por realizarlo, se considera bhakti?

HpS - Diferentes niveles de Bhakti, no? 18,000 verso en SB para explicar los detalles. Kanistha, Madhyama, Uttama Bhakti. Hay gusto de devoto buscando liberation de sufriemento, gusto, los Gopis.

Por ahora estuvimos viendo un verso del srimad bhagavatam junto los devotos, donde el señor kapiladeva le dice a devahuti que sus devotos dan su vida por él, y que el unico interes que tienen es el interes del señor, y lo desarrollan sin interrupción. wow! muy lejano estamos de eso, pero hacia allá vamos --->  \ ° 0 ° /
 

Solo le escribo para contarle un poco del insignificante servicio que realizamos, que esperamos sea aceptado, para irnos de este mundo lleno de drama.
Danzando sobre nuestros propios demonios como krsna sobre la serpiente kaliya
Cultivando el deseo para algun lejano día nadar en los lilas asta-kaliya
su aspirante a sirviente mandara sakha das.

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!   AGTSP. Paoho. Servicio devocional es muy divertido. Esforzamos hacer el correcto. Evitar las trampas de La Bruja. Y jugar con Gopal. Siempre es una nueva dia para ir al bosque con el y los demas y pastorear vacas, Sankirtan. Siempre nuevo.

Dear Gurudeva:

All glories to Sri Sri Radha Krishna

All glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you

Please accept my most humble obeisances

Guru Maharaja I have been making friends, studying BG, I continue sewing clothes for Radha Krishna, they will be installed on 2019, and going to the Temple´s kitchen on sundays, keeping 16 stusiastic rounds and following principles. I always pray for your health and wellness.

Last week I went to the doctor to consulte about my sleeping problem, the doctor diagnostied a insomnia type, I need to do some tests and take some medicine.

I want to talk about some topics, one of them is veganism, iwanted to ask what do you think about this, first I searched vegan in the blog because I thought that I am not the first devotee who ask, I found some results, I read those letters and it seems clear to me. I consume dairy and it´s ok for me if others dont, I understand, and respect it. Although another thought came in to my mind, the continued debate about this between devotees who consumed diary and devotees who not, I see the devotees try to convince each other, sometimes I dont feel comfortable with this.

HpS-ASA - Hare Krsna. AGTSP. Thank you for such a nice letter. Basic thing is Srila Prabhupada took milk in then same circumstances as we now have so we also take it. Maybe some details for different people. Can look at the logic if we need to look! O.K?

In a different subject, I always have the dubt of why woman cannot take sannyasa, I thought: Are we not spiritually able? Then I read this quote:

"The spirit soul is equal in either a man or woman. In the Bhagavad-gita, 6th Chapter, 1st Verse it is stated "anasritah karma..." One who is actually engaged in the service of Krishna, there is no such distinction... phalam karijam karma karoti yah/ sa sannyasi ca yogi ca na niragnir na cakriyah. Anyone acting for Krishna, he is a sannyasi or sannyasini. So spiritually everyone is equal. But materially a woman cannot be given Sannyasa. But you should not be bothered because you are serving on the spiritual platform. "

{Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Aditya, Mayapur, 4 February 1976}

Why if men and women are spiritually equal, women cannot take sannyasa?

HpS - We could look at it in a gross sense, "If men and women are sp. equal why men cannot have babies"? Of course, the reason is physical, not spiritual. Of course there may be very specific cases where a "man" can have a baby and a "woman" can take Sannyasa. The material distinction about Sannyasa is not gross. The Varnas and Ashramas are a part of the Virata-rupa, just like earth, water, fire ... space, so normally a human female gross and subtle body cannot function safely without guidance by an adult male. Just like three year old children cannot functionw without a Mother.
We have to breath air, we have to have a husband, brother, father, grown up son. If no one is qualified then Krsna, the Deity, can do the work!

I have another question, I have been worshiping Gopal for a while, I started sometime before to take shelter I didn't ask you if I can do it, I dont want to do it without your blessings, Can I continue to worshiping Gopal??? The relationship we have means a lot for me, He's so kind with me, he is giving me so much spiritual strengh, and I´m trying he felt loved.

HpS - As far as I know it is O.K. Love Him, keep Him clean and do your service regularly.

I remember that in some occasions your answers to my questions were directing me to Srila Prabhupada, to take his asociation and his example to have realizations, I think about him everyday and I would like to share with you my thoughts and feelings. I am dreamer, and I used to dream with the day when I met the love of my life, I was eager for this so hard. Prabhupada introduced me to Radha Krishna, the love of my life, and this love is completely reciprocal.

I´m not afraid to death, I´m chanting the Holy Names, I´m writing you, my beloved spiritual father and all is for him, I feel He is teaching me personaly through his books.

For you my relationship with Srila Prabhupada is closer, I´m so grateful, a way to thank doesn´t exist.

Always thinking on your lotus feet.

Thanks Maharaja for your mercy

To serve you

Bhaktin Carol

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!    Lord Caitanya reveals the eternal truth in the Vedas: In the is age of Kali chanting the Holy Names is best process. As we do that we get so much more general and then very personal education about how to chant properly. All these relations will be revealed. Thank you so much for your association. It is very purifying for us. All of us.
You are in BsAs, no?   We hope to visit in Feb, Mar! !!

All Glories to A.C. Prabhupada, Sripada Maharajam,

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  getting Guruji’s reply for the first time after the programme I am so happy and think that Guruji had excuse me for the mistakes I  had committed in connection with the programme. About the time of Mangalarati, vehicle arrangement for going RIMS on 2^nd Nov. so Guruji could not reach in time.  I will try to execute in action whatever Guruji’s instructions in future.

As I had already mentioned in my previous letters that we 10-15 devotees are planning to participate Navadwip Parikrama this time before Goura Purnima at Mayapur. Goura Purnima falls on the 3^rd March, 2018. Actualy we will arrange air tickets after getting exact information from Mayapur or Haridas Swami Maharaja. Please try to inform me Guruji’s participation well in time so as to enable us to inform other bhaktas and matajis of other states initiated under Gurujis padamacharan. I heard that ISKCON GBC Meeting will begin from February 3, 2018. If Guruji came for the ISKCON GBC Meeting at Mayapur it will be more advantages for our programme. May God bless You and all of us.

HpS - Hare Krsna!   I think now that it is going to be too much work for us to come back to India in January, February. We will probably go to South America then. We are very little person. Krsna is very big person. He can arrange all the facilities we need for advancing our service.

I am now continuing reading BRS 1:2: 126 it is more more interested and new things and ideas about the spiritual backgrounds of Goloka.

HpS - Of course it is very nice if you can match it with the translation that Prabhupada gives of this in his Nectar of Devotion!

If we go to mandir for mangalarati, it is hardly three rounds compulsory. Actually, I went mandir after completion of my pujah then chanting. After returning reading books then office. So after sandhya arati started my full changing to complete 16 rounds or more.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

 * I have read Sarda D D's  letter and Gurujis reply also.

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!!     Hare Krsna.   Send more news as you see Krsna making arrangments for your Sankirtan!