Letters to the editor

HARE KRISHNA GURUMAHARAJji,

Dandawat Pranam.

Please accept my most humble obesence. All glories to GURU and GAURANGA.

Dearest GURUMAHARAJji, I am Bishambhar Gauranga Das from Silchar (India). I wish You can recall me! {Your Superman das}

Hope You are fit and fine and have reached to USA nicely.

A year back on this very day I was given the great privilege to take initiation under You as Yours disciple. I still recall that day as the most memorable day of my life. So remembering that day, today I am mailing You. In this one year I found many love and affections from KRISHNA. I whole heartedly thank KRISHNA to allow me to serve You when You came (last month) at Silchar. Is Your new walking stick comfortable, as because it was a bit longer than Your previous stick. Hope to meet and serve You more and more as soon as possible.

Thaaaaaank Youuuu GURUMAHARAJji for allowing me to be Yours disciple and also to serve You.

Please forgive me if I am disturbing You by sending this mail.

In India a professor can register only 8 students under his/her guidance and I was the 9^th student under my supervisor. Since 2015, I was not yet registered. It was this February (27^th) that I was supposed to occupy one recently vacant seat. But my supervisor denied taking me as his PhD scholar. According to him my work on meteorite study was completely experimental and for these experiments I would need machines for analysis which he could not access me (as because no machines are available in my department)!! So, now I am stuck. Now I feel that I am dame big looser. I don’t know what to do. I am even confused that why KRISHNA gifted me the meteorite!

Please forgive me for sharing my materialist sorrows with You.

Yours obedient das,

Bishambhar Gauranga Das

HpS - Thank you!   I also don't know. We should be checking on the utility of our path at every step, no?  This material world is crazy and always changing. We come to this human form of life after many millions of births, so any progress we make as devotees as eternal. What ever problems you have Lord Caitanya can turn them into BIG assets. So go ahead with your attempts to connect you life with Krsna's service. Talk with local devotees and send us more news.  The cane is very , very nice!

HARE KRISHNA DEAR GURUDEVA, AGTSP, AGTYOU!

I HOPE THAT WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS EMAIL, YOU ARE HEALTHY.

ASA - Could be better, could be worse. We have to conquer our senses more!

I WRITE IN ENGLISH LIKE A CHILD, BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS BETTER FOR YOU.

I´M VERY HAPPY TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE COMING TO SPAIN AND AT THE SAME TIME, I FEEL PAIN, BECAUSE MAYBE, I AM NOT ABLE TO GO TO MADRID,  BUT I HOPE I CAN ARRANGE IT!

HpS - I think you should be able too do it!  God helps those who help themselves.  You see the Calendar we are discussing with Jayanta Das. 3-6 morning in NVM. Then 6-12th in Espiritu Santo. Maybe go back to NVM a little more if that is convenient for devotees who want to come to visit with us, no?

DURING ALL THIS TIME, I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO LISTEN TO MY HEART TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT MY NATURE AND WITH THE HELP OF KRISHNA AND A BOOK (ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH ) NOW I CAN KNOW WHO I AM.

HpS - Wonderful!  Yet, even Krsna does not always know who He is!

DUE TO THIS I AM NOW STUDYING COUNSELLING IN THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF THERAPY CENTERED IN THE PERSON AND COUSELLING (CARL ROGERS) THIS ASSOCIATION HAS VERY GOOD TEACHERS, THE DIRECTOR ACADEMY HAS A VERY NICE CURRICULUM. WHEN I READ ABOUT HIM, I IMMEDITALY I THOUGHT OF YOU, " I AM SURE THAT GURUDEVA WOULD LIKE TO MEET HIM" I HAVE SPOKEN WITH HIM ON THE PHONE, HE LOOKS LIKE A GOOD PERSON TO ME. SO IF YOU WANT I CAN ASK HIM.

ALSO I AM LEARNING TO DEVELOPE WEB AN DESING, WITH THE  LANGUAGES OF PROGRAMATION  HTML Y CSS. (INTENERT TATTVA) 

ON THE OTHER SIDE, WE ARE TRYING TO HAVE A MONTHLY  PREACHING PROGRAM,  ARROUND THIS AREA.

 THERE ARE SOME GROUPS OF YOGA, THEY ARE IMPERSONALIST BUT AT SAME TIME THEY ARE QUIET OPEN.

SO THE IDEA IS TO BE ABLE TO FIND OUR SPACE  BETEWEN THIS GROUPS, PRESENTING THE MAHA MANTRA WITH A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH, AS A MEANS TO DEVELOPE THE CONSCIOUSSNES AND THE SELF-HEALLING. 

WE ARE PREPARING OUR FIRST PRESENTATION, ALTHOUGH, WE DONT HAVE A DATE STILL.

SO WE ARE VERY HAPPY WITH OUR NEW LIFE, OUR RELATIONSHIP AS A COUPLE IS MORE MATURE, SO THERE IS A BALANCE AND I THINK THAT THIS IS POSITIVE FOR OUR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSSNES. I AM STILL TRYING TO TRANSFORM  MY LUST IN LOVE. 

THAK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR GUIDE Y COMPASSION, I HOPE, SOME DAY, I CAN BECOME YOUR DISCIPLE.

I TAKE YOU ALWAYS IN MY HAERT,

BHADRA V.

HpS - Very, very nice. Carl Rogers was a nice person when we read his books. They are dealing with reality so it is the same no matter what name it has, but some are Mayavadis and some are Brahmavadis.  They both are transcendental in a general sense but one set is envious of Krsna as a person and the other just doesn't know about him. Go ahead with full enthusiasm!  See you soon.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva, AGTSP, PAMHO,

I sent him my monthly report, for work and other subjects, but he did not regularly attend the Temple since his last visit to Cusco, but at the beginning of this year we began with force to resume service in the Temple, we have been giving BG classes in Sunday parties and we also did it in Nityananda Trayodasi which was a great success. I commented that I was offered a job in Puerto Maldonado 9 hours from Cusco, is another city, Puerto Maldonado, the jungle part of Peru, a good place to start the preaching here, I saw several Gnostic centers you see that there are people with a degree Of philisophy. We will accept this work because the pay will help me with my personal issues. This already informed Goura Rupa Prabhu and gave me his blessings, the days that I will be in Cusco I committed to give classes in the Temple. I will be alone, my family will stay in Cusco in the house of my father, we will see how it goes, if we stand firm in our faith and shadana and with his blessings of hechi that our life will be arranged and our destiny too.

ASA - Hare Krsna!!!  Is the work permanent or temporary?    Have you promised to work there for some time, like one year???   Maybe your family can come some weeks and be there also.

From the programs I spoke to you were stanby, but you can start here in this place, Sri Krishna will give us some intelligence to act, we need it, we have to improve our actions. The relationship with the family is fine, we must be the example for them, the relationship with the devotees is also very good, we are happy about it. Dear Gurudeva, I would like to fulfill the promise I made to a devotee, he wants to know: "If a devotee who for years would secure his human birth for his next life, he has still left his service, shadana, no rounds, etc. ??" He explains the example that you once told us "of the tortoise and the log with a hole floating in the sea", but he wants you to send him the answer, he appreciates it very much. Dear Gurudeva, thank you very much for your time, I will ask Sri Nrishimha to always protect you, we owe you a lot that we will be eternally indebted to you. May Sri Krishna always pour His blessings on His Lotus Feet.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva

HpS - Not sure of the question by the devotee. He is doing some 'service' but not chanting his rounds???   It depends on our Bhava at the time of death: yam yam vapi smaran bhavam...

More news.

Please accept my humble obeisances and all glories to Srila Prabhupad! 

Thank you very much Maharaj for taking the time to reply to me. My counselor has stopped responding to me, it's been almost a year and he did not tell me why. He recommended one boy for me with whom he communicates with about me. None of these messages I ever see and I feel misrepresented by this boy to our counselor and when the counselor makes sharp comments about me I cannot help but feel misrepresented, hurt and sometimes like I should leave. I don't know how to deal with such a complex relationship. I'm not sure if I should end this entire scenario of relationships. I was happily following my counselor until he distanced himself and started communicating only through this boy who barely tells me anything. The process of Krsna consciousness our counselor prescribed to us is very nice, but with difficult feelings like this it's really difficult to progress. I have been trying to pray to Krsna for some help, so I can hold on. But I wonder if I should, in my situation, continue to hold on or leave and seek guidance from someone else and get married to someone else. I seek your guidance. Everything has become very difficult...

Yes the counselor is Radhanath Maharaj's disciple. I still listen to his lectures, still trying to chant and get up early in the morning (still failing) and sing morning prayers (though daily failing to get up early enough). But I haven't given up on striving to do sadhana. I heard that sadhana is to actually please the guru, but when you have no communication with your siksha guru for such a long time, the lack of clarity is dulling. I wonder if this is his way of telling me to go away or testing me. Just heard a lecture by him in which he said lack of clarity can be a test also. When he accepted me as a counselee he told me he will never leave me even if one day I want to. But this complete cut off is becoming daily more unbearable and I am scared of developing negative feelings for him, very harmful for my spiritual life :(. I am eager to hear from you on how to go through this phase.

Your aspiring servant,
Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna. We initiated wife of Ambarisa Das in Argentina as Vrsabhanu-nandini DD, but your good self, you are disiple of Radha-natha Swami, no? To many aunts and uncles in ISKCON.  We should all live in a village and know each other. Ja!   Ja!   Ja!
Maybe your Counselor was eaten by a lion. Maybe he, she, is in Maya.  Seems like it was not a very practical relationship unless you know the associates of your Counselor and can ask them for advice.

Is true?

hare krsna 

agtsp all glories to you guru dev

pamho

hope you recover the full energy.

HpS - ASA - Hope you are dancing with Krsna each night in a Sari! <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />

I'm surviving in Cordoba establishing our Asrama and building ourself the house for the family ( it s our choise but also no other choise for help us)

struggling with my mind to improve my sadhana.

Hari vamsi dhari the next 13 of march will be a year, he s very well and happy. he like bhajans and he like very much the deitys and want to go infront of themm regularly.  also vrsabhanu nandini dd is fine with a litlle stress for the house.

we do some service for the devotees in cordoba but we need our own place for local programs, we are waiting and working for that.

Guru dev we know that Beverly Zabriskie will go to BS As   this year to participate and give lectures with the jung foundation  there, she said that have contact with the director of the natiobnal librery in Bs as and she want to help by giving us her contacts, like others profesors and jungians 

there some profesionals  and psychologist devotees who can help and receive Beverly, we also can go to that date to bs as and help to orgineze.

she also can be invited to cordoba and  to the university of psychology , we have the solaris magazine and we can organize a presentation for the magazine.

you are going to come to Argentina at that time?

HpS - No, we have to go to the Rasa Lila.  Ja!  Ha!  Ga!      Please write to her. We can't come then. We will be in Santiago in July. We hope we can see you then. We can send our Donkey to pick you up. La Familia Semi-sagrado. I think she said her visit would be in June. We can write, call Skype.
We still are reading Jung.  We are also surviving here, but that is enough. Things keep getting better. Send pictures of your house. Father in-law.

what do you think?

we write before some letters i dont know if you received them,

HpS - We saw at least one. We are getting more energy. We are answering now that we don't have 25-interviews and plane/car rides with devotees daily!

thank you guru dev 

your servent Ambarisa Das

HpS - Become Guru for your circle.

Hare Krishna Gurudev!!

Pamho agtSP,

This last two weeks has been very intense, teaching at the university, moving to SRI Govardhan (today), pushing FFl, teaching at the yoga Course, being a father, fiance, ayurvedic doctor. It is too much. My mind is so passionate I cannot Chant, i can not Focus in the mahamantra. I have been chanting like 6 rounds a day. Again im falling behind and that terrifies me. I dont want to lose my already tiny spiritual Life.

I think i have a psichological issue that makes me be always busy. 

Tonight it Will be my first night at my new home at the devotees community. Urban Life and my mind are killing me. I hope that helps me fix this problem.

Please help me Gurudev!!
Your fallen servant,
Nikunja bihari das.

HpS - Jaya. We have faced the same problem over and over again and each time we made a little progress in understanding that EVERYTHING ELSE DEPENDS ON HARI-NAMA and HARI-NAMA MUST INCLUDE JAPA VRATA.

Use all your talent and inteligence on how to chant the best 16+ rounds you can, even if they are terrible.

Report to the Blog (URGENT) tomorrow with the results!