Letters to the editor

Dear Esteemed Maharaja

PAMHO   All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

The devotees are making plans to have instructional activities for children at our weekly programs.  They already have one source for materials/outlines, but would greatly appreciate your recommendations for what/where to find more information.

HpS - I will text you Subhra and Caitanya's phone number in  Houston. They have a very detailed program!!!    Very, very important service.   Could argue without a doubt that there is none more important.

We are doing fairly well considering what we have to work with.  Kalindi Devi Dasi is recovering very well from her surgery.  We resumed our neighborhood walks.   I don't have much to report, just wanted to say howdy.  Sorry to hear the govmint revenuers are complicating your day.

HpS - Well, it is not the IRS.  That is pretty simple.  It seems that maybe we are over-extended because there is no one to do a lot of the work that a Corporation requires, such as IRS reports, so we are considering the resources and moving ahead.

Just finished reading the Quran.  Very interesting, I will give you my impressions the next time I see you.   The writer of this translation was assassinated in a mosque in Pheonix in 1990.  It is speculated that his was the first al qaeda murder in the U.S.    Kali yuga, tsk,tsk.

HpS - Wow!   There is a version called "The Koran Interpreted", older, little classical. The author's thesis as we understand, was that it is correct, as the Koran says, the Koran not in Arabic is not the Koran. He explains that the potency of the Koran is not in the intellectual content, which might be translated, but in the emotional potency, that of course depends upon the original language of the writer. So he tries to communicate the emotion before precise detail of the intellectual content, which he doesn't fault, but makes the emotional impact the greatest. It was written for simple people in the desert, no?

Share food, don't have sex with your Mother, love God who is the most kind and sees us and cares for us.

We will be on the lookout for postings of your trip to Seattle.  I don't remember if I told you this, but we cannot take a long train ride.  We would have to fly to Seattle.  We look forward to taking shelter of your association.  Until that time I remain,

Your humble servant,  Dave prabhu

HpS - Jaya! Always nice to hear from you. The more the better. We have a regular communication with Srivasa Pandita Das now.  He told us of his visit to Sacramento and starting to establish more relations there.
Our respects to the Kalindi!  We Text phone numbers.

Jay Guru Maharaj Acepte mis reverencias una y otra vez y que todas las Glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada 

Paramakaruna, Sri Sri Gaura Nitay ki jaya !

Hare Krishna Guru-Maharaj por favor acepte mis mas respetuosas reverencias a ud .Aun  me encuentro en Santiago de Chile, primero que nada quiero disculparme por ser tan negligente de no hacer reportes mas seguidos , y gracias a su misericordia siempre me eh mantenido ocupado en servicio siempre creciente . Entonces desde que me dio diksha empece a adorar a sus señorias aqui en el templo como servicio fijo todos los fines de semana desde el sabado al domingo a la noche programa completo . mientras que vivia arrendando con mi esposa y haciendo Sankyrtana . Luego en el mes de julio el pujari que estaba de lunes a viernes . tuvo algunas complicaciones , por lo cual el gbc pidio que se retire del servicio inmediatamente.. siendo esa la situacion y no habiendo realmente nadie que quiera o pueda adorar a sus señorias . tome el servicio temporalmente por dos semanas hasta que encontraran a alguien fijo , pasaron las dos semanas se hizo un mes... y con mi esposa decidimos hacernos cargo del servicio de pujari hasta el mes de enero. Cubriendo la Adoracion a la deidad de todos los dias en todos los turnos ya que realmente no hay nadie dispuesto... para todo esto dejamos el arriendo y nos vinimos a vivir al templo . lo cual es muy nectareo para nuestra vida espiritual . ( la idea es que algunos devotos hace poco tomaron segunda iniciacion entre ellos mi esposa Nitya Siddha Devi Dasi . para formar un grupo de devotos de la comunidad que se haga cargo cada uno un dia completo a la semana , para de esta manera no tener que estar contando con alguien fijo... ) hasta el dia de hoy eso no ah funcionado muy bien . Para todo esto en el templo hay tres Brahmacaris (dos son bhaktas) y dos madres (entre ellas mi esposa y una bhaktina) entonces el precidente del templo prabhu Amara viendo mi trato hacia ellos y encontrandoce en la situacion de que el comandante del templo tuvo tambien que dejar el servicio por diferentes razones . Me pidio si podia ser tambien el comandante del templo mientras estuviece aqui .. a lo cual acepte.. ( hace 1 semanas) Por otro lado nunca deje de pensar en ud ni un dia ademas de poder asistirlo mientras estoy ocupado en la adoracion.. estoy profundamente agradecido de todo lo que hace para ayudarnos a avanzar siendo que espiritualmente soy muy debil , hizo los arreglos para que hoy me encuentre ocupado todo el dia en un ambito de amoroso servio a los devotos y Srla Prabhupada. mi deuda hacia ud es eterna por lo cual oro de que cada dia me siga ocupando en asistir a los devotos y sirviendo a Paramakaruna Sri Sri Gaura Nitay !! asique mi saddhana es de mangalarati todos los dias pero mis rondas son siempre por la tarde ... Esperando ud este cada vez mas cerca de su maestro espiritual y orando por tener su asociacion personal lo mas pronto posible me despido . 

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare .
 
Su eterno y agradecido Sirviente Garga-acarya Das 

HpS - ASA -  Wow!   Super-hombre del mundo espiritual. Haz lo que puede bien! Por el fin, Gaura Nitai no son incapaz y pueden hacer cual quiere arregla que quieren.   Muy intenso su carta. Aparece algo desordanado en la Yatra si no hay devotos para tomar cargo de algo de la adoracion de los deidades.
Esperamos mejorando, y si podemos ayhudar nos ocupa.
Hare Krsna!!

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

I'm glad to tell you we're fine, generally speaking, light and dark situations appear and disappear that unsettles us a bit. Happily, we are learning to understand the nature of this world and our karmic relationship with it. Our japa has slightly improved , especially in quality,  , a pinch of taste sweetens our heart during the chanting. Our sadhana is maintained, it is sometimes difficult by the fact of coming home late a few days a week, but we attended Mangalaratik 5 times a week.

Indira Sakti and I are both studying the Srimad Bhagavatam, making summaries separately and individually reading other texts. We are collecting money to take the Bhakti Sastri course with Prabhu Param-padam, meanwhile, we study on our own.

I'm a little disappointed, I was in charge of communications in the temple, but they have rejected the work plan, the projects that I have been developing were rejected by the authorities. I tried to concentrate my efforts on communication between devotees (as you suggested) but they understand this as suspicious acts that promotes a plot. They strive to organize many festivals, but do not promote Saddhana or educational programs at all.

ASA - Interesting.

On the other hand, I told you before in a previous message that I had in mind to work on a modular education system for the yatra, but the devotee who promised to do it with me never replied to the mail. These things discourage me but I'm trying to make an effort to see Krsna's hand behind all this. Sometimes it is confusing because I lack the ability to know what He wants from me in these circumstances.

ASA - It is the same with us, but we are sure He wants us to chant as much as possible in any situation and at least 1728 good Maha-mantras on beads. When we do that we can see little by little what is the truth of our mind, body and association. We see that many times we don't get reciprocation from our authorities because they are doing so many things and we are a strange, new project to them, but after two weeks and pushing from a few different angles we finally got in touch with Anuttama Das, a very big and well related to us, GBC Secretary, and our friend. So we have scheduled a long talk on Thursday.

For now, we study, learn songs, serve the deity at home and work to make the japa and sadhana the center of our lives. You said that cleaning the temple can make a sincere devotee to  reach Goloka, we are taking this literally. I can not understand what my service to the temple is, nor how I can serve you, this doubt sometimes causes affliction, Gurudeva.

Finally Gurumaharaja, three devotees do not appear in the list of your disciples in the Jayarama website. I already made the comment a while ago, but it seems that there has been no opportunity todo it. I know that a list does not determine the sincere discipleship of a devotee but it would be very nice to be part of this group photo, as your disciples. We are the ones who were initiated on February 4, 2015 at ISKCON Lima: Tarangaksi devi dasi (Tania Chamilco, January 13, 1975), Gauri Devi Dasi (Gumercinda Miranda, January 13, 1950) and Gandharva dasa (Germán Vegas, June 28, 1967). I hope this does not cause a nuisance, Gurudeva.

HpS - Aieeee, Chihuahua!   I did not notice you mentioned this before. We will send a letter to Nama-acharya to make the update!!!   Thank you!!!

Hope yu're doing well Gurumaharaja

Thank you for your kind attention

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - Develope your personal relationship with Srila Prabhupada through his many means of access. Develope you relationships with your friends in ISKCON. Work with the institutional structure of ISKCON to make improvements. 1. 2. 3. O.K?

Thank you so, so, so much for your austerities.  They are real and lasting.

Todas las Glorias a Sri Sri Goura Nitay!!!

Todas Las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Todas Las Glorias sean a Usted!!!

   Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja, por favor acepte mis más humildes reverencias a Sus pies, Muchas gracias por Su respuesta. Continuo cantando las 16 rondas gracias a Su misericordia, de a poco organizandome más, ha sido un período difícil, de muchas pruebas. Tengo la idea de participar regularmente en el programa de Harinam, ahora que mi hijo, Abhay está más grande. Aquí le adjunto las fotos, Abhay va a cumplir 2 años y le gusta colgar su bolsa de japa en su cuello y ofrecer flores para Krishna, por favor disculpe la demora.

  Su Sirvienta,

  Dhanistha devi dasi.

HpS - ASA -- Muy bien. Mangala arati?   Amigos en la Yatra??

Hare Krishna
All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Maharaj Please accept my most humble obeisances

(This report is of a personal nature, so I ask discretion. Thank you)

ASA - O.K.  Unless you are reporting for example that you are Chileno serial killer and you want to remain anonymous, right?

By Lalita Madhava Prabhu advice, I decided to write in English, so do not take more work to respond in Spanish. I'm glad immensely to write again, after almost three months of absence from my last report, I'm here. And it is that during the last time I have gone through ups and downs.
Sankirtan I had to stop because of professional projects, so the time I had to divide it into equal sectors for both sadhana, photography, study and family. I felt little motivation because of all this scheme to develop the best song of my rounds, but reading Srila Prabhupada always constantly going to my side.

Professionally, I am developing a photographic project with other photographers colleagues, focused on documentary photography; so I it has had me hopeful of being a participant in calls related to the topic.

The family is a Russian roulette, so you rises and falls are quite noticeable, in a hostile environment.

Although not everything is going in the best way, image, memories of his visit to Chile, and his preaching through his disciples, were able to steady myself in times of instability. My question, very respectfully, is how to carry out a Krishna conscious life, where an obstacle, one after another appears in most cases; how we can cling to an inner Krishna, as support for the chanting of His holy names, because life in conditions like that, is too difficult to carry. I felt very sorry, I content tears more I could not get them because of the shell being generated in kali yuga.
How to shake up intolerance and try to live more simply, both devotees and nondevotees.

HpS - ASA --  We have been crying several times in ISKCON. The pressure from friends, family, authorities gets so great, but we have always found that if we just adopt Draupadi's solution, put both hands in the air and cry for Krsna. Of course, with us we can put one hand in the air with our beads.   Then go on chanting, chanting, (crying), chanting and Krsna gives intelligence.  He did not give Arjuna a SUPER-WEAPON. He gave him intelligence. Once we have that we can understand what is what and act properly. Separate from some, closer to others, new way of associating with some...  Many things.   Of course, caught in the river, in the beginning the current is very strong, but when we take the rope (Japa..) then we get pulled toward the shore and the current gets less and we can feel the solid ground under our feet more and more.
So, chant Hare Krsna and be happy. You will make lasting progress.

By the grace of Srimati Radharani, the taste for playing mrdanga was a beautiful service and my heart is soaked air of Vrindavan, and visualize the cowherd while I hear her sweet rhythm.

Daily thank the Lord for his service, guide his disciples, and for which we are not decision from Him, we also feel very fortunate.

I hope to serve you soon. My heart feels ready to make the move to shelter, but also, I see that quite lacking in my spiritual growth for you to accept me as your aspiring servant.

Krishna bless you even more.

His servant

Bhakta Miguel Ángel.

HpS - ASA --- We cannot quite remember your divine form or occupation?  Your name strikes a bell in our dull brain, but no more!   Please remind us.

Todas las Glorias a Sri Sri Gaura Nitay todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Querido Gurudeva,por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

Espero que se encuentre muy bien en su servicio a Srila Prabhupada.

Le escribo para decirle que en este tiempo que llevo estudiando aqui en bhakti sastri conoci a un discipulo de S.S Guru Prasad Swami que es parte del grupo de sankirtana de Aravinda prabhu de Mexico su nombre es Jala Dharaka das y comence a relacionarme con el con el permiso de S.S Dhanvantari y tenemos la invitacion para ir aMexico a hacer el maraton de diciembre .

Vamos a estar bajo el cuidado de Aravinda prabhu haciendo servicio para el colegio, quisiera saber cual es su opinion y pedir sus bendiciones para continuar mis estudios y  mejorar mi servicio a usted y mi conciencia. 

Hare krsna.  

María Bernarda

HpS - ASA ---- Hare Krsna. Del contenido de su carta, todo aparece bien, muy bien. 16-rondas entusiastas, 4-principios estrictos .... happy life.   Usualmente es bueno esperar para nivel de segunda iniciacion para entrar en Grhastha Ashrama. Primero --- yo soy serviente de Krsna. El banco paga yo trabjo.   Segunda --- Yo soy guardiano, administrativo, cajero ...  Nuestra naturaleza de Varna ashrama dharma es mas claro.  Soy mujer ksatriya, tengo que ser casado con un Varon Ksatriya.

He oido que Prabhupada dijo si la chica es mas mayor que la chica es guarantizado ser un fracaso.

Pero somos por distancia. Tiene buen consejeros por alla!!   Hare Krsna!!