Letters to the editor

TLGASP.  Querido Guru Maharaj ,por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias, a sus pies. Gracias una y otra vez, por su misericordia de aceptarme como su discipula, se que no puede haber avance en la vida espiritual sin la misericordia de Krishna y sus representantes, los amados maestros espirituales que van por el mundo dando misericordia, en respuesta a los deseos sinceros de querer regresar a Goloka, cuando realizamos nuestra verdadera constitucion y felicidad de eternos sirvientes de Krishna, gracias Gurumaharaj, por aceptarme subir a su barca que nos ayuda a cruzar este turbulento Oceano de nescencia, llevo en mi corazon sus instrucciones dadas en mi Iniciacion como la mas importante Guia para el resto de mi vida, los 4 principios, las 16 rondas y seguir a mi esposo, que es un devoto de tantas cualidades.

HpS - Jaya, Yadu-nandana!

Seguimos fijos todo el Sadhana, programa completo 16 rondas ,Mangala arati, clase del Srimad Bhagavatam, Govinda, Gaura Arati, clase del Bhagavad Gita.... estoy estudiando Bhakti Sastri con Prabhu Laksmana, nos asociamos con los devotos de Tarapoto, seguimos con los Retiros Espirituales en Conciencia de Krishna, que esperamos sea mas fuerte, luego que construyamos la casa Templo en las montañas verdes , que ya estan creciendo y produciendo la tierra, que hemos puesto por nombre Vrindhavam y Nueva Govardham, estamos trabajando en este projecto, estos ultimos 3 años, pedimos sus bendiciones, para terminar este nuevo hermoso hogar de sus Señorias Krishna y Balaram, sin ellas no podremos lograrlo, aca donde abunda el agua,rios, los manantiales de agua pura y la tierra ofrece en abundancia sus frutos, tal vez para el proximo año, tengamos la bendicion de su  santa Asociacion, habra un lugar especial para su descanso, como sabe tuvimos que mudarnos por aca , ya que aqui la delicada salud de Prabhu Yadu se estabiliza. quien intenta servirlo de corazon... Apurva Sundari devi dasi

HpS - ASA --- Fotos, fotos!    Good fotos.  Un Power point with map of where you are in Peru. Who is there with you? What you are growing for your Deities?  Map of our land and neighborhood.    Nice Bhajan, Kirtan.

Thank you all for your association, determination!!!    Now Second Initiation (3rd (4th...)))

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja

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

I hope you are getting some rest and recovering from your hectic sankirtan in South America.

HpS - We are, AGTSP!!!    Paoho...  but we also have to deal with the hectic Sankirtan in Murfreesboro, USA.  Ha!   Ha!   Hare!

It is so inspirational to read about your travel and preaching in the blog. I visit the blog everyday to see if you have posted.

HpS - Goodness!!!    Puts more pressure on us to post decent things!!!!

Last month has been very inspirational as well as challenging.

I went to Boise in the beginning of July to take darshan of HH Gopal Krishna Maharaja. This was my first time meeting Maharaja. It was a very nice experience.

HpS - We had a very wonderful dream of him. He was very affectionate to us but we felt that our birth and early culture has given us very dirty character.

Then a couple of weeks back, I got somehow pulled into a dispute between two devotees when I had been consciously trying to avoid getting involved. It was really bad. My chanting suffered a bit. I always considered ISKCON my happy place. It broke my thinking that nothing could go wrong in Prabhupada's institution. I didn't know what to do but in hindsight I think it was orchestrated by Krishna to force me to take more shelter of your lotus feet and demostrate that it is the material world and there is no happy place here.

HpS - In 1974 when we moved into the Temple these things were very tough to deal with, problems in ISKCON. ISKCON San Francisco and ISKCON KRSNA book. Then the Upadesamrta was published and it helped SO MUCH!!   Texts 4, 5, 6 make it clear that there are different levels of devotees and how to deal with them. Of course, there are more and more details as we read P'pada's books.   Avoid the material attachments in other Second Class devotees like us.  Make frienship with them in their purified aspects and preach to their innocent side.  Duck, smile, pat on the back.

What you wrote in the previous Kapidhvaja gave me lots of inspiration to chant with focus after being disturbed - Hold the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada in your heart and chant the maha-mantras there for his satisfaction. I have been chanting 16 rounds everyday and following the four regulative principles strictly.

HpS - You are an inspiration for all of us.

Sankirtan wise, we distributed 49 Bhagavad Gitas last month. Our monthly goal was 45. We have been reading Srimad Bhagavatam in the morning call and are in the second chapter of the first canto now. I gave my first Saturday feast talk too. I think it went ok.

We distributed 10 NOI's by mail and one in Kroegers.

My yonger brother got an admit to do his Masters in University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and he came to the US last week. I am going to the east coast during the labor day weekend to meet him. Since it is 1 hr ahead of Tennessee time, I should be able to attend the FMP during my stay there.

HpS - Great. We will have a big online program that weekend.

Yesterday we celebrated Balarama Purnima in the temple and had Julhan yatra. I was remembering how you asked me in Chennai, if I knew who the author of Jaya Radhe Jaya Krishna song was and when I guessed it was Narottam Das Thakur, you corrected me saying it was Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami.

Thank you so much Guru Maharaja for your causeless mercy and for inspiring me everyday by your example.

Your Servant

Srinatha Krsna Dasa

HpS - Tell us about your parents!!!   Family!

Adorado Gurumaharaja: Please accept my obeisances a your feet of lotus!

HpS - ASA - Carrot feet?!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories a Sri Sri Radha Madhana Vihari!

My sadhana report: I had a hard time getting up early. As almost for two months I did not get up and was worried, but I think if I try to do the best I can, at least I leave the conscience somewhat quiet. Again I am putting all my effort into doing so and there is always a taste and that makes you try the next day. The good memories that remained in me of the devotees like prabhu kanupandit, p Natabara, so many mothers who inspired me with their example as mother Jambabati, mother Mdhumanyari, mother Astasaki, make me stay and of course his inspiration.

I remember the service of my mothers to you. The Magalartiks in Chosica and everything I lived and learned. All this makes me stay enthusiastic in krsna consciousness. I am very grateful to all the devotees who helped in my spiritual life. I am following sadhana morning and evening.

As always fulfilling the number that I proposed of rounds and readings. After time I went to the preaching center to see M bbs and I was very happy to see that four people from those invited in the street went to the program. Them in some way.

Gopalito has had some friends but always temporary for the changes. I was very worried about him and his association in the colegio.pero understood that really I can do nothing but give the best of me and I pray to krsna to protect a lot gopalito and us to take care of him, since he does not have anyone else Than to us.

I'm still working on selling handicrafts and I'm getting used to working freelance. I walk about five hours a day and I get used to it. I return tired but happy, because I can also preach.

Thank you for your blessings Gurumaharaja!

It is also my wish and wish of Franco to go to Manipur.

He likes to tell me a lot because he sees a calmer atmosphere, less people than in other places in India.

Thanks for all Gurudev, please forgive any offense in this letter .. trying to serve you: Japa prati jalpa Radha dd.

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna!!!  Here is wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipuri_dance   Maybe in Spanish and seems could be translated very easily. 

If you go to YouTube and look for "Manipuri Dance" you will find incredible things. Maybe you can pick out some of the best. Send us the links. If you get early you will chant better rounds. If you chant better rounds you will have more intense intelligence how to serve Krsna by ... organizing a Manipuri Dance school in South America ... getting a grant for studying Manipuri dance, music, art for 6-months with your family in India. . . 

 All glories to Srila Prabhupada, my humble obeisances maharaja,  i do not caculate how much time i have not written here,

HpS - Lonnnnng time.  AGTSP!!!  Very nice to see you in Chile and here.

. . . but i hope in a practical way to continue learning from his preaching, thanks to sri isopanisad of bhaktivedanta swami i am vegetarian, and we know about vedic culture.

Sometimes listen his class, i understand very well his position as representative of krishna and how cautious we should be in taking the initiation.  Actually my position is not to take siksaguru-diksaguru, of any sampradaya vaishnava until i get to be really sincere in my appreciation in this part. It would be very useful for fallen souls like us to have their lectures translated into a book, in order to appreciatte more their preaching from perspective of psychology. There is really a lot of information, i wanted  to tell him that in the end we graduated with a university degree,

HpS - Jaya !    Very well done.

. . . and we  hope to study later a magister in art and musicology, or perhaps another study related to educational philosophy and vaishnava.  I hope to  keep in touch with  you for mercy of Sri  Nitay, write letters to learn from your perspective. Regarding my daughter Mikaela, she is five years old and i am working on our eating habits. She apparently  has two civil nationalities, of  spanish nationality and chile. Thanks to the astrologist  vedic Nilton dhanatha  of Perú we understand your natal chart...

Excuse the english, ...  excuse my offensses ... i hope continue appreciate  the books the Srila Prabhupada in my life. I have the srimad bhagavatam and bhagavad gita and i still can not pass the first song. 

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!  Do you chant "Hare Krsna" mantra with faith some time each day?   Do some regular prayer?

Hare Krishna

Dear Guru Maharaj,please accept my humble obeisances

It's a long time ago I wrote to you.

Please forgive me my laziness.

HpS - Please also forgive our laziness.  AGTSP

I am ok, following four regulativ principle ,chanting japa every day 16 rounds .But trying my best to chant good rounds

We are living in Serbia work hard,life is not easy in Serbia.

HpS - May be worse in hell: 

I'm still married, no children.

HpS - How old? Are you?  Take to Vanaprastha ashrama. What is your good wife's name?

Please forgive me my offences and mistakes,I am so sorry for  I was not wrote to you and informed you about my life and progress in Krishna consciousness.Please accept me back ,like your servant and disciple.

Hare Krishna

Indradyumna das

HpS - We thought about you many times but had no strength or ability to connect with you. Your sister is Esther, was wife of Namacharya Das, how is she?

Totally spectacular program

Hare krishna Gururmaharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances.

I had the opportunity to get a glance of your preaching in south america, thanks to the live videos on Social media. The contact point of east-- west philosophy through poetry ( hamlet & Arjuna) is totally inspiring as well psycology and the sacred. You mention that the deepness of the lenguage  can 'touch the heart', that the plot is the essence of drama.

HpS - According to Aristotle, in the Western tradition of drama.

The essence of drama is bhaba [bhava], based on that attitude we think, we act.
How to touch the heart and change it ?
How to Development of Isavasya counciusness.?
How are we changing our Consciousness individually and Collectively 
Gathering of very important personalities , Zurita and his passionate poetry. 

:)

I was thinking and thinking for days of how to write to you, but now i see my situation as a amateur school drama . How to transform our life in a drama dedicated to lord caitanya?

My drama is still in the chapter of separation from which holds me. separation from family , separation from husband, separation from you and in a deeper level separation from the holy name; even when im physically present i feel overwhelmed and in tears. Krishna try to keep me busy as a answer to my  japa full of threnody, and as you advice us many times in Houston we will keep fighting in the kruksetra war, and even if need to fight this insignificant Alamo , from failure and challenge we will learn. But i need to be honest and say that I'm been struggling facing the result of my decisions. 

When i see your example of enthusiasm and determination lift me up, i just pray that the Lord keeps your physical and spiritual strength and open more doors of preaching as these in south america.

Please don't forget us, even though i neglect you and don't write too often. We are still learning how to act, how to care and interact with you and all.

We ask your permission to place your photo on the altar during my services to sri sri Radha Natavara, jaganatha baladeva shubadra, sri Goura Nitai ( some services now: cooking, aratika, putting them to rest sometimes), we ask for strength to keep engaging kids in krishna Consciousness ( preparing janmastami drama using sri krishna lila stava ) and mainly bless us to engage our noty mind in the chanting of Krishna's name ( as your firm but kind instruction to us).

Your servant 
Govinda Pramodini  dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna!   So lucky to take birth in such a nice family. Nice parents. Nice sister. Maybe you were a Sannyasi in your last life.  Of course, we saw you in Houston after this letter and had chance to communicate.  Now I think you are translator for Vrajendra kumar Das.  Again, get your PhD in Following Husband. 

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/9/3/ is story of Sukanya and Cyavana Muni. Maybe you get some inspiration in this for your drama!  I am not saying that there is some "mystical" connection between your situation and your husband's but in general maybe some good points to discuss.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/9/3/10/ is especially interesting ideas for a lady. Again, not saying that you married an old irritable fellow, but many good ideas.

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