Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna!!!!

AgtSP!!!

Agt Guru y Gauranga!!

And Gaura bhakta vrnda!

Hare Krsna Maharaja, I´m Budanath from the little mountain.

I´m ok, but I've been better…Ha ha ha, in any case, death can come at any time.

I wish You are ok in all aspects, I'm so busy, that I have not been able to look a lot at the blog.

I just hope that someday people will want to take care of themselves and be happy, so that they can look inside and start their spiritual life, whatever.

I try to be as aware as I can that I am not this body, I try to let my spiritual aspect be the owner of my time and space, my future ... I just try it, nothing else.

Sometimes I am very tired, and sometimes I am very enthusiastic. It's hard to fight almost everything, but without a doubt, it's something that I carry inside, which is part of me.

The winter advances, and here it already begins to be cold of truth. I like sunlight and its warmth, and the long days on the street.

What I miss most is the flowering of the flowers, and their smells. The small streams of the mountains, and play among the orchards. That was my childhood. When I think of vrindavan, in my rounds, I feel that it is that pure memory without a return. With our best friends, reflections of our best friend, Krsna. Our natural friend.

This world is so cold that only the sun in the hearts of people can give us heat, and we live so alone, so pending our future, our life. It's sad to see it, and to live it too.

Many greetings and obeisances.

Hare Krsna.

HpS - Ha!   Ha!    The Little Mountain is in the Northern Hemisphere!   Your accent...   Hmm...    yet, why alone unless it is to meet your Lover alone?  Without our personal relation with Krsna how can friends or society have any meaning?   Thank you for your association. We will be in Europe soon.

Hare krsna Gurudev

Vijaya Govinda Das es bhakta victor que tomo iniciacion hace poco con usted el vivia en el templo de wilson.

HpS - Aaaah!  Yes!

Y va estar en ciudad del este por un año.

HpS - Es nuevo noticia para nosotros. Es bueno si el puede escribir de sus planes aqui tambien! ..

Ademas hay mas devotos la encargada del templo es m. Godhavari y seguro hay mas devotos yo le informare en cuanto llegue .

Gracias por sus buenos deseos .

HpS - ASA -  Grrrrrr acias!!!    Mantener su pureza y sea alerta a los candidatos quien Qrsna envia a Uds!!  Crea un revolucion cultural.

Hare Krsna gurudev

 please accept my humble pranam at your lotus feet.

ASA - Lettuce feet.

all glories to srila Prabhupada

ASA - !

I just read your calender for india tour. Really excited to meet you again. My sadhana is good( mangal aarti regular - missed one day because i was very tired after seva previous day , 16 rounds ok...i need to keep the quality better and constant, regulated prasadam...govardhan puja day i ate too much cake but now again in control and mind control is ok i guess  ) Mercy is flowing :) now i stay with H.G.Mukunda dutta prabhu in his house. its wonderful association. He is extremely kind to me. our fire yajya seminar is going great. Asssisted him and ragunath prabhu in few yagyas. Bhaktisastri is done (have to submit some essasys.)  temple programs in kartik is so so so nice and enthusiastic. all senior devotees. I feel more closer to you and Srila prabhupada here.

Nitai and nimai are waiting for their adivas ceremony which includes a fire sacrifice and maha abhishek which is on 13 and 14 november. After that they might go to the holy name retreat and stay there for 6 days and then they go to their new home( in assam ) and they will meet you in january :) 

i so much wish to stay in vrindavan my whole life. Wish i had so much firm conviction from inside . I am praying to srimati radharani to allow me to stay here if not now then in future.( still have a desire to study further and then join ashram).

HpS - We would think it is INCREDIBLE mercy to be staying in Mukunda's house!   It must be disentegrating your personality.   Seems you may have two life long friends from now on, Gaura Nitai.     If you stay in Vrndavana how will others know about it?    If you go out for sharing and just keep some kind of Krsna consicousness then the Gopis can keep in connection with you like the control tower in the airport. Then you can come back later again and again, no?

Gurudev i have a sincere request at your lotus feet. [Lettuce Feet] Please can you accept me as your "gayatri mantra " diskha disciple when you come to india this time. By mercy of H.G.Mukunda dutta prabhu I have an intense desire to worship silas ( giriraj ji especially and salagram sila if possible) .I asked him if i am ready . He adviced me to request you if you can accept me. I feel i  can serve nimai and nitai better.

ASA - It is a big step, burden, responsibility. Are you a Brahmana? How long have you been steady in your Morning Sadhana?  Under varied circumstances?     Mukunda will send us a letter here about his opinion?

waiting to see you in 2·5 months.

ASA - We land in Bharata-varsa in 1-1/2 months.

hare krsna.

your trying to be disciple.

rturaj krsna dasa 

vrindavan.

Hare Rama, trying to be your guru in representation of Srila Prabhupada.  Thank you so, so, much for your austerities!!!  So, much.  Enthusiasm is more important than patience, but without patience it becomes passion. Then the "Bhakti yo yo".  UP & down.

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja
Please, accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Gurudeva last time you ask me this  : about the temple programs and the growth over here in Iskcon panama 

HpS - Jaya!  Yes, it is very sad for us when we don't hear from people for a long time.   Who are your associates in Panama?  What are they like???
Temple program, any program, can be Kirtan, Lecture, Kirtan, Prasad!!!  >>>>>  Goloka!!!

My associated in Panama are Prabhu Durmada damana das he is a disciple of HH Guru Prasadad Swami , Palaka Gouranga das he is a disciple of HH Jayapataka swami disciple , Kancani devi dasi  she is a disciple of HH Bhakti Bhusana Swami and few more non devotees or not iniciated devotees .

They are very entusiastic. Palaka gouranga, he lives at the temple always eager to help out, his is a pujari and excellent chef,  Prabhu Durmada damana, he is also a pujari but he is married and he does service 2 o 3 times a week , he likes to give lectures and share krishna conciousness with others. he has hardcore band with krishna conciousness lyrics. thats how i got attracted to the knowledge ,also he likes to coordinate a lot of Harinam .

Kancani devi dasi she studies medicine ,likes a lot of kirtan and is  a strong person with a lot devotion, she also was taking the Bhaktri sastri couse with me  besides them i have more friends .Also i have a few friends Guredeva that arent living here anymore.

Temple program yes there on Saturday there are programs and fridays , i believe on saturday is day of Srimad Bhagavatam , twice a month we have food life its coordinate by Jitu and Manish Prabhu  depending on the localation diferent devotees will help  out. 

Other programs like Conference with univesities is with Prabhu Syama candra he the leader of the conference programs we had 2 or 3 the past 7 months , Lousville university ,FSU , Universidad Nacional de Panama and Ganexa university where the main points for this time .

all of the programs included kirtan , lecture and prasadam  .

Gurudeva the past sunday i was speaking with a devotee from the temple he lives at the temple he the one in charge of saturday program , very wise with chastras , he said he wanted to help me out with the coordination of a future art envolved krishna program that got me really pumped up , i am so glad you are at Washington - Virginia ,i hope i was of service with the art for the poster , i humbly put my all to them .

if can serve you in anything else Guredeva please let me know .

Your humble servant

Japa Nama Rama Das 

HpS - Wow!   Wonderful news.   We see the Shakti of Prabhupada!    No reason your community can't grow to enormous proportions!    You are at the door-way between the worlds!!   Every passenger that passes thorugh the canal should get a laddu!

Yes, the poster was extremely effective. It gave the impression of extreme professionalism. I hope you all can be on the team more and more. Dates are aligning for next program in Peru, in end of June. PSCHOLOGY AND THE SACRED ---- ART AND THE SACRED.   Ekasma Das is doing very practical work in developing KC art exhibitions and new productions.  I hope that he writes of his results and then you catch his posts and start exchanging ideas.  A picture is worth a thousand words.

Dear Swamiji,,

PAMHO, AGTSP. I have been writing to Bhakti Raghava Swami because I am interested in possibly helping with his centre in Cambodia. I speak fairly good Cambodian. He has expressed interest in my he, but he asks that you send him a letter of recommendation about me. Would you be able to write him? 

HpS - Hare Krsna. I don't really know too much about you in this administrative sense. I always find it enlivening corresponding with you and hearing about your pastimes. Devotees there will be able to give better letter about administrative nature of your good self, no?  You were a little bit involved in marriages etc in the past in Thailand or Cambodia, so I can mention that, and the extent to which you were involved in the Indian Jones Rasa before and you can comment how much you are within a regulated standard of Brahminical life now. Shall we do that? His address?

Also Abhimanyu and I realize that as a sansasi [sannyasi] you have many preaching commitments, but we were wondering if you could come to Bali on one of your trips to India or Australia. Devotees here keep asking when you will visit and give us your association.

Your servant

Ken

HpS - With every mention it is becoming more of a possibility. Present to like August 2017 is kind of fixed, but after that maybe we could de an Island tour through Hawaii and Australia and Bali etc.  The real thing is if we can really add something by dragging our Donkey there.

Hare Krishna respected Gurumaharaja!

PAMHO

AGTSP!

Sorry for the lack of communication. 

We have moved to Thailand with my family, and I'm working as a teacher. We have opened a small restaurant Govinda where we live. We are all very busy and transitions are always tough, but we have the company of devotees so everything is ok.

my chanting is not attentive these lasts months, and reading is not so good either. Please bless with more enthusiasm to improve my self and service.

your insignificant servant

Sudama Sakha dasa

HpS - ASA ---  Yes, is good to hear from you!   Your situation sounds encouraging. The 'blessings' of a Sannyasi, Brahmana are not some kind of magic pill. Rather the mercy of Srila Prabhupada is his instructions, no?    Then we have to do our part.

Maybe you are an insincere rascal who knows what he should do but would rather take te easier, grey service, of Karma yoga. Focus on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it.

Or maybe you are a very sincere soul who is just in a difficult situation and so the little chanting and reading that you can do are quite exemplary.

We don't know. You have always impressed us as a very sincere person, I would opt to think that you are in a difficult situation and thus offer the advice to not kick yourself too hard for you failings in the basic regulative principles of Bhakti-yoga (sravanam kirtanam visnoh), but rather see all the good things you are doing and then make little, but enthusiastic, changes to your Bhakti-yoga, even daily, to refine your Sravanam, Kirtanam. Get Study Partner(s) and read and discuss one of Prabhupada's books.

Eg., start reading 'Your Ever Well Wisher' for 10-minutes every day before lunch and discuss it with another reader and...

O.K?  What do you serve in the restaurant?   Do you get leads for catering from it?   That's usually much more effective!!