Letters to the editor

 Bhaktin Mary of Angels  Posted.

HpS - ASA -- Thank you!!

Dear Guru Maharaj PAMHO AGTSP

Dandavat Pranam

I'm okay ,very happy and exciting to meet you soon.

HpS - ASA -- Well I hope it won't be a disappointment. We are generally just an ISKCON devotee. AGTSP.

Start Meeting is work perfectly, inspiring and making me happy every day.It's a Krishna's mercy to hear your voice every day.

HpS - You are just like Lord Siva. You see bad qualities as good qualities.

Hare Krishna.

Dear Gurudev, maybe is the best if I meet you on the airport when you landing in Delhi,and together go to the Temple?

HpS - When do you arrive? Have you arranged for accomodations at the Temple? We should be Camped there from 28th Sep - 1 Oct nights. Then go to Indoor/Ujjain. Probably better to meet at Temple.

Hare Krishna

Your servant

Indradyumna das

Por favor acepte mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias 

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a Sri Guru y Gauranga

Es un placer para mí enviarle esta carta de recomendación para refugio formal de Bhaktin María de los Ángeles

su aspirante a sirviente 

Jagannatha caran das

HpS - Muchas gracias Prabhu!    We hope to get lots of communication from her and then after six months she can take first initiation!!   Thank you!!

Por favor escribanos con mas noticias de Sri Sri ISKCON Santiago.!

Hare Krishna Maharaj!

Pamho! AgtSP!

Thank you for your response on the last letter. I’m engaging in war with my mind every day to get some discipline established. Its tough but doable [to some degree.] Trying to not eat at night so I can wake up in the mornings. Morning programs are nice (best on the rainy days). Will also try to make more FEPS (the notifications are so short notice!)

Somehow managed to get accommodations in Vraja—close to ISKCON temple. I will be splitting the room with another nice girl from the UK.  Krishna is kind. Any recommendations of things to do that aren’t mainstream (of course govardhan, Parikrama, offering ghee lamps, etc…but anything off the beaten path …that Brajvasis do?)

ASA - When you get their just look for new friends at the Temple. When two thieves meet upon the road they need no introduction, they know each other by sight.

Go to the English Gita class in the evenings.

Get some one to take you to the "Old" Radha Govinda Temple. It is the one Rupa Goswami built.  Just sit in a corner and chant and try to imagine what is was like at Janmaastami 500-years ago.
Chant Hare Krsna and wander around with a girl friend. You might meet a Gopi. You might not come back.

Get vdm.docx from our ASA Archives. It is worth $25,000,000. Read it slowly while you are in Vraja.

You asked about father’s spiritual purification. I’m not sure if you’ve known, but my dad’s a Shiva devotee… he still worships Krishna and Vishnu and everything…and he’s encouraging about my spiritual practice but often sees it as a ‘diluted’ version as compared to traditional Hinduism (then again he doesn’t read  so I can’t hold his opinions in high regard) …and he also has been chewing tobacco since his days in the air force and it’s a habit he’s tried to quit so many times but now just accepted it and basically justifies it saying Shiva does it so it’s okay (which is total hogwash in my opinion). He also fasts on Ekadasis and Mondays (yet still chews the tobacco so I doubt there’s progress there…)

So I can’t really gauge his spiritual trajectory. But it is because of him that I had an ‘inkling’ of spiritual practice from a young age. He’d encourage my sister and I to fast and participate in aarti  early mornings and make offerings to the Lord. The tobacco issue is something we’ve beaten to a pulp. No change. I honestly don’t have any expectations either. I just need to be grateful for what’s been provided to me by them. I have friends whose families are very discouraging about Krishna consciousness and am fortunate not to be on that boat.

I doubt I willl cross paths with you in India, but I do wish you the smoothest journey, free of complications.

Please keep shining your grace and mercy Gurudev.

Thank you for your mercy.

Your struggling servant,

Sugopi dd

(P.S. Purnima darshan attached!) 

HpS - Well, get an India SIM card after you arrive and maybe we will see each other. Best preaching is example.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva, AGTSP paoho.

You can call us at +1 209-505-3219. what time i should call you ? where are you now ?

Have you learned from your slip? Yes i have learned and i want to keep doing devotional service , preaching and kirtan forever. 

Will you adjust you life to have the strength to do the Nama and Gayatri Japa?  Yes i will. I feel so bless and fortune to have good association, family and i feel so bless to have you as my Guru. All of you give me the strength to continute in this procces of devotional service and i wish to serve Guru and Gouranga. I know what to do but lamentably sometimes i have to learn by the worst way. i´m sorry Gurudeva, i´m so stupit and unqualified but i know that the only way to get purified is by practicing  Bhakti YOGA. 

Vanca kalpa.

Y/s CCD.

HpS - Try calling anytime except 6-8pm. FE Program then. Thank you so many.

Pamho,AgtSP

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

How are you??

HpS - ASA - Pretty good.

How is Sankirtana??

HpS - We struggle to get the books out according to our nature of preaching: Movies, symposia. People we meet while traveling.

Very nice seeing you today at mayapur.tv in Huston.. Always inspiring our spiritual life..

HpS - We wish we could see you-all in Brazil on Mayapura TV.

This opportunity to thank you for the opportunity to have your asosiation [association] in Santiago de Chile...I know and always try to imagine the big effort you are doing to manteing this Sankirtana Program...The Programs in Santiago were amazing.. All of them!!!

HpS - We were amazed. It was really amazing being in Parasurama Das' Dojo facing all their uniformed B'caris in our uniforms.

Krishna is giving me a lot of Mercy, cause your Mercy....

I'm in Campina Grande, Danwantari Swami Jaladuta Institute wright now!!!

Asosiation with Devakinanda das very favorable...Helping me a lot to grow in my personal caracter and my service of lidership...

Starting with bhakti Vaibhaba Study...1.2

Every thing I study takes me to Siksastaka...So I'm preparing PowerPoint of "the 7 stages of purifation and transcendental elevation"....ohhhh is Nectar every thing I study is in the Siksastaka...Is like Nectar of Instruction...Every thing is there...

Serving Maharaja with students...lots of service!!

Mharaja is very merciful with us...

Thanks again for your help....

Next year I would like to travel with you maybe Peru and Chile, or India...if you give me the opportunity to help you with anything I can...

Hare Krishna...

This poor servant

Panca tattva dasa

HpS - Thank you so much for Jaladutta news. Send us more. Respects to Maharaja and Devaki et al. Seven stages of Bhakti is from first verse of Siksastakam? They seem to match the six levels of Bhakti that Rupa Goswami describes in beginning of BRS: Freedom from distress, harmony... songs by Bh. Vinode Th. based upon Siksastakam, no?

Maybe we go to India again in the Spring?

Jaladutta news!