Letters to the editor

Dear Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Siempre para un discípulo es incómodo que se den ciertas críticas a su Guru, a pesar de que al Guru no le afecten por estar en una plataforma trascendental, el discípulo es afectado en cierta medida… Recuerdo el pasatiempo del Mahabharatha y la actitud de los Pandavas cuando Sisupala insulto a Krsna…

El hecho de que Usted tenga su servicio más inclinado a la prédica, hace que pocos conozcan su sincero deseo e interés de que Iskcon mejore administrativamente, y que algunos conozcan las enormes destrezas que tiene Usted para poder apoyar a Iskcon en ese aspecto, y otros pocos saben lo respetuoso y caballero, que es como Usted siempre se ha presentado ante los lideres administrativos de Iskcon…

Aquí en Perú, algunos discípulos hemos tenido responsabilidades administrativas en Iskcon, pero los últimos años por diferentes razones, hemos ido dejando esos servicios para involucrarnos más en la predica, porque muchos de ellos también son profesores, y es más apropiado para su naturaleza…

El decir que nosotros (sus discípulos) no queremos asumir responsabilidades administrativas, en la misión de Srila Prabhupada, o que Usted no nos inspira o motiva para eso, es un juicio que carece de análisis.

Usted en el 2006 me sugirió que tal vez en el futuro, yo podría apoyar al GBC local… Después de 10 años, tengo sus palabras en el corazón, y aunque tengo muchas debilidades y anarthas, tal vez algunas de mis pocas habilidades puedan servir para el trabajo administrativo… Hay algo que me dijeron los astrólogos que leyeron mi carta, es que tengo una especie de estrella para sacar a flote aquello que se está hundiendo….

Si Usted me autoriza, quisiera escribirle a Jayapataka Swami Maharaj, una carta proponiéndole apoyarlo como Supervisor de GBC, que es el servicio que está faltando actualmente, con una serie de propuestas, que hemos ido evaluando en los años que estamos Iskcon… De hecho Maharaj debe tener mejores opciones, así que estaremos muy felices de haberlo intentado…

                      Esperamos su respuesta

                                       Su tonto discípulo AmD.

Dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

Always for a disciple is uncomfortable that certain criticisms are given to your Guru, despite the Guru does not be affected by being in a transcendental platform, the disciple is affected to some extent ... I remember the pastime of the Mahabharata and the attitude of the Pandavas when Krsna was insulted by Sisupala ...

The fact that You have your service more inclined to preaching, makes few know Your sincere desire and interest that Iskcon improves administratively, and that some are aware of the enormous skills You have to support Iskcon in that regard, and others few know how respectful and gentleman, that is how You  have always presented yourself before the administrative leaders of Iskcon ...

Here in Peru, some disciples have had administrative responsibilities in Iskcon, but in recent years for various reasons, have been leaving these services to get more involved in preaching, because many of them are also teachers, and is more appropriate for nature ...

Saying that we (Your disciples) dont want to assume administrative responsibilities, in the mission of Srila Prabhupada, or that You do not inspire or motivate for that, is a judgment that lacks of analysis.

You in 2006 suggested that perhaps in the future, I could support the local GBC ... After 10 years, I have Your words in the heart, and although I have many weaknesses and anarthas, maybe some of my few skills may serve the administrative work ... There's something astrologers told me they read in my letter, is that I have a kind of a star that brings out what is sinking ....

If you authorize me, I would write to Jayapataka Swami Maharaj, a letter proposing to support as a GBC Supervisor, which is the service that is currently lacking, with a series of proposals, that we have been evaluating in the years that we are in Iskcon ... In fact Maharaj, You may have better options, so we will be very glad we have tried ...

                      We will be waiting for your answer

                                       Your silly disciple Amd.

HpS - Hare Krsna. Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada. Estamos esforzando participar en ISKCON, ISKCON Peru, el major que podemos. We Love Peru, pero, claro, tenemos nuestras propio ideas como ayudar.  De una manera nuestra perspectivo, y eso es abierto para ideas de otros, es que Daru Krsna Prabhu creo (created) un Empiro, lo cual el mismo no pudio manejar (that he himself could not manage). Entonces es necesario readjustar la estructura general de ISKCON Peru.

Un idea.

Entonces estuvimos esforzando trabajar en la area de Educaion, incluyendo sankirtan en estas areas, universidades..., y adoracion de la deidad.  Eso aparece como un porcion manejable. Tenemos ideas como ayudar economicament Radha Madan Bihari, y esforzando implementar ellos.
Basicamente necisitamos un comunicacion poco mas fluido con la administracion para ser util. Y pienso con Karuna-krsna Das, todo, estaba adelantando.

Maharaja, Jayapataka, me dijo que bueno es communicar, coordinar con Atmarama Das y Madre Divya priya Devi Dasi. Entonces es bueno hablar, presentar sus ideas a ellos, antes de pasar ellos con ellos al Maharaja.

O.K?

Dear Gurudeva, pamho, TLGASP!!!

Le escribi tres reportes por esta via,

 llegaron a su carpeta de recibidos?

HpS - We received one and we just answered it. It was very nice.

A lo mejor no hice bien al enviarlos, podria volver a enviarlos....

Es eso necesario?

                                   Perdone hacerle perder su valioso tiempo de Sankirtan Gurudeva...

                                                                          Su tonto discipulo AmD

HpS - Aaaah!  Si, hay dos mas de cuatro dias.  Estamos esforsando responder entre tres dias, pero bastante estamos comentando en DTC cuantos dias falta de responder. Ya es tres dias. Hoy dia sus otros.
Gracias!!!!

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We are really missing the association of this blog and have been proliferating what to write, and decided to tell ourselves to keep it simple stupid or else we have the tendency to speculate and analyze an action for so long we don't do it. Thanks to Srinivas Prabhu for consulting to us junior leaguers to send a paragraph a month instead of a book to you. I think to be honest Guru Maharaj I deliberate because I always want to be doing better than I am and then give a sparkling report. Now I will be reporting As it is, the tale of Kamagayatri bafoonery once a month in 800 words or less. Then our procrastination tendencies (BG 18.28) can take a hitchhike, small obtainable goals, and the tortoise can win the race. Thankyou Guru Maharaj for listening to our babble.

Right now we do the peer support services, a type of social work I guess 4 to 5 days a week with clients in between service and 2 days we have off with Aja where we read SB, Ramayana, do homeschool, cook, etc. We hope to become more regulated and attend readings at the temple as well at 8 am before his Spanish kindergarten school days on Monday and Tuesday. Individual classes on BG with you and Ananta Rupa on Wednesday and Friday which requires an hour of studying on our own time, damodarastikam at the temple as well in the evenings. We do the cooking, offering, and Arati every Thursday since Murari left the beginning of September (he will be back November 13th), cooking Saturday morning, and Guru Puja every Sunday. With Arudha leaving and class ending we'll do the Arati on Wednesday night and Saturday until Murari returns.

Sunday school has been going on at a slow throttle speed after we wrapped up our week long Krsna camp using Arudha's SB comprehensive guide. The Krsna Janmastami camp was a great turn out of a dozen children ages 3 to 12, making paper mache dioramas, practicing there Damadarastikam pastime play, kids Kirtan and Krsna storytime with Mother Arudha, feasts cooked every day by the mothers, cupcakes, pizza and prasad junk food, water games in the afternoon. We also made a kids Rathayathra cart this last July...so activities have been steady.  Now interest is finally there and Krsna has sent volunteers so we can do a 6 week Sunday school session with the devotee kids and congregation kids. We will be starting after Diwali am with Ananta Rupa guiding/encouraging and some mother volunteers to help. Trying  to balance work, school, seva, Japa so our head does not fall off. We were supposed to study for a test to pass the national counselor exam and get licensed, but we may have to put this off until end of January since there are pressing services and it's hard to see prabhuji do so much at his age... Ananta Rupa says we have more determination now, but honestly Im working on consistency steadiness and confidence. We are getting high association from high places which helps with this, but we definitely need more confidence that we possess the maturity, faith, and intelligence to maintain this schedule.. we will very much miss the Wednseday classes. Guru Maharaj will there still be something digital we can attend?

Thankyou for saving us from the snake pit of maya and having mercy on a rascal like us, we can't imagine how miserable we would be without it. The snakes are still trying to charm us no doubt, but for now my only maya is 100 psychology, self help and contemporary fiction books we got through a going out of business sale and we Created a rule of reading after finishing our devotional daily tasks and usually we are too tired to be able to pursue it. Is this is ok, I'm not sure? Art sometimes reminds me too much of a past life worth forgetting about, but I am interested in studying Different styles of prose writing to get a grasp on how I would like to write. Let me know if you have some thoughts on how to study without taking in the association of the writer, if that's even possible ... Thankyou so much !!! For listening. 

Your aspiring servant,

Kamagayatri Dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna. Focus on chanting 16+ good rounds. Adjust everything to support, stimulate this, husband, Church, children, progression, recreation, etc. You will then discover your level of spiritual life. May be very impersonal. Chanting at its best may be based upon a series of transcendental though material tricks to engage the mind, but that's okay.

Otherwise where will the center of your life be with so many things happening?

We will try to work with Boise temple for nice class programs that you can join.

Your life seems such potentially wonderful! ! !

Dearest Esteemed Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am most humbled that you remembered a sinner like me. I feel that I am still very much a toddler in my spiritual life. I often try to walk, but fall again and again. Many a time, I have hurt myself from the fall. I am now trying to improve my sadhana. I am keeping a better track of how many rounds are remaining from my daily 16 rounds, and if some were left, I try to complete them the next day or before the end of the week. The one thing that I keep forgetting is the importance of taking shelter of you Guruji and taking your association. I get so involved and mentally insecure about my life, my job, my salary, my finances, my accounts, my taxes, on and on, etc..., that I forget to take shelter. I recently visited the church! It was the TAMUK BSM - Texas A&M University - Kingsville Baptist Student Ministry. One student invited me for a prayer session and so I went with him. I learned a lot and gained insight forcing me to reflect on my own faith from the prayers and sermon. The priest definitely put a lot of emphasis on the word of God and how the word became Jesus. I remember how you used to teach us about the Logos in your own lectures. I realized how much need there is for me to study the scriptures, both of my own Vaishnava tradition and the Christian faith, from which we can also learn a lot. I sometimes or often times feel bogged down by my corporeal desires, especially relating to material success. I think what life would have been like if I did not have those desires and if I led a much simpler life. The church sermon especially pointed out something that showed how shallow my relationship with God was. In John 4, Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman who accepts his word and spreads it to her townspeople. The woman was not a follower of Christ for any miracle or for any material gifts, but for his word. I realized how shallow my relationship with the Paramatma Shri Krishna was, wherein I ask him for material gains and don't ever think of worshipping Him only for His sake or knowing Him only for His sake. 

Maharaja, I have far to go on the spiritual path and am only an infant in wake of God's path.

Your aspiring servant,

Aja Govinda dasa

HPS -

silly disciple Amd

.HpS AgtSP! Paoho. Sita abandoned her program with the university in Cuzco?

 your news is very nice to hear. Pray chant, to get a deep program from Krsna. Who are you keeping for associates?

again, your program seems super. You seem to be making a very substantial contribution to the happiness of this world

Dear Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Seguimos esforzándonos para terminar nuestras 16 rondas diarias, y seguir los 4 principios… Maya es fuerte y siempre que encuentre hierba mala alrededor de nuestra plantita del Bhakti, las usara como instrumentos para tentarnos, así que vamos a trabajar en nuestro jardín…

En estos meses desde que Usted se fue de Perú, nos invitaron para apoyar a programas de predica a Huancayo y Cusco… Ahora estamos ya un par de semanas en nuestro cuarto en Chosica, con Karunamayi, Arjuna y Sita… Ellos vinieron del Cusco dejando sus planes, por 6 meses, con la esperanza de poder ir al Santo Dham… Ahora con Krsna Balaram, Lord Nrishimhadev y sus asociados, somos muchos para un cuarto… Intentaremos buscarnos un mejor lugar pronto, pero todos estaremos según lo programado hasta final de febrero en Chosica… Espero que ellos le manden su propio reporte….

Nos hemos involucrado en un programa de Harinam de tres horas diarias por 6 meses (ya llevamos un mes) y a lo mejor Guru y Gauranga puedan complacerse con nosotros y abrirnos las puertas del Santo Dham para Gaura Purnima 2017…. Aparte de este reporte le estoy enviando dos cartas más…. Si Usted necesita más detalles, estamos listos para responder… Estamos tratando de seguir sus instrucciones, que es donde residen las bendiciones del maestro espiritual… Que podríamos hacer sin ellas? Por favor bendíganos para poder seguir adelante en esta lucha…

                                                                   Su tonto discípulo AmD.

Dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

We are continuing striving to finish our 16 rounds daily, and following the 4 principles ... Maya is strong and always finds bad weed around our little plant of Bhakti, she will use as instruments to tempt us, so we will work on our garden ...

In these months since you left Peru, we were invited to support programs of preaches in Huancayo and Cusco ... Now we are already a couple of weeks in our room in Chosica, with Karunamayi, Arjuna and Sita ... They came from Cusco leaving their plans, for 6 months, with the hope to go to the Holy Dham ... Now with Krsna Balaram, Lord Nrishimhadev and Their associates, we are many for a room ... We will try to get us a better place soon, but we will all be, as scheduled, until the end of February in Chosica ... I hope they will send their own report ....

We have engaged in a Harinam program of three hours daily for 6 months (and we took one month) at best Guru and Gauranga can please with us and open the doors of the Holy Dham to Gaura Purnima 2017 .... Apart from this report I am sending two letters .... If you need more details, we are ready to respond ... We are trying to follow your instructions, where reside the blessings of the spiritual master ... what could we do without them? Please bless us to move forward in this fight ...

                                                                   His silly disciple Amd

.HpS AgtSP! Paoho. Sita abandoned her program with the university in Cuzco?

your news is very nice to hear. Pray chant, to get a deep program from Krsna. Who are you keeping for associates?

again, your program seems super. You seem to be making a very substantial contribution to the happiness of this world! !

Hare Krsna,

Sigue la respuesta de Mathuresa Das acerca de su situacion:

Estimado Maharaja:
Pamho, agtSP
Esta pareja ha tenido varias oportunidades para servir en Iskcon. Parece que sus problemas son muy graves y en esta situación no son aptos para servir en nuestra comunidad por el momento. Podríamos darles más posibilidades, pero creo que va a hacer más daño (a ellos ya Iskcon) que bien.
En este punto, si son bienvenidos en el programa de Vrinda, les diría que encontrar alguna asociación allí hasta que consiguen sus mentes y vidas personales juntos y tratar de nuevo con nosotros. Por supuesto, yo sugeriría que se mantienen en contacto con usted para los informes y asesoramiento espiritual.
Esa es mi humilde opinión.
Ys
Mathuresa dasa

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O.K. Una reportaje despues de una semana:

1. Cuantos rondas cada dia?

2. Cuatro principios?

3. Vrnda?

4. Buscando asociacion de unas buenas personas.

Krsna es su amigo ultimo. Nunca va a dejar Vd. si tratar tomar refugio de el.