Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna maharaja, please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

By the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu I still here. Many things happened and still happening all the time but I can realise that I dont want to come back to this world. 

My father left his body 2 months ago, so please I beg you to pray for him. I just write this and it's like it had not really happened. I dont know. It was unexpected and still being difficult to digest when I think about it. I was in Argentina for one month. I had gotten the ticket and I've spent all the money for that and hoping see my father before he passed away but I was late. He left some hours before I arrived. Anyway I could see him for a while.  Then It was hard for me even to decide what to do whether staying in Mayapur or Argentina accompany my mother and sisters. But when I came back to Mayapur I decided that whatever I can do here even if they are not agree, is more powerful and helpful for them than coming back but I need to take advantage for being in the Dham. So now I'm working here in the Goshala by doing Visual Communication and in ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry as Video maker. I'm also translating books about Cows and Enviroment but I'm not sure If I will be able to continue with that service, because I don't have enough time to do everything although I would love to. 

So my mind is busy now and quiet. I started to work in a video to promote "Holy Jail" a book of HH Chandramauli Maharaja and I saw you in some pictures inside the book. So I wanted to ask you if you have videos or pictures from you preaching in jails that I can use. It would be very useful for me to make a good video. I can't believe that ISKCON is preaching in jails. I didn't know that. That's wonderful!

Please if you have any advise for me, let me know. Whatever. I don't know what else I can write you. Actually I can write a book about my life since I'm in Mayapur. Lol!

I miss Vrndavan a lot and  I have a very strong desire to come back but I just try to think that because there's no difference between Mayapur and Vrndavan I beg you to pray for me so One day I will be able to see Vrndavan here and everywhere! 

Thank you so much dear maharaja,

and please give me your blessings to come back to Godhead in this life and If it's not possible, give me your blessings to never turn away from Radha Krishna and his devotees and to develeop the greed to become a pure devotee of the Lord wherever it is that I'll be 

Hoping Lord Nrsimha protects you.

Trying to serve,

Syamasundari devi dasi.

HpS - AgtSP.

You took initiation from Mahatma Das?

We would also like to stay in Vrndavan, do something unique for Radha Krsna.

As long as we are chanting from our heart at the feet of Srila Prabhupada were are making progress out of illusion.

If an ISKCON devotee is thinking of us at our death then our future will be up in the greatest possible way.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All Glories tu Guru Param Para!

Esteemed Gurudeva,  

Please accept my obeisanses. Hope your health is fine, Recently i saw many news about what was happenin in Peru with the psychology and the sacred , it was incredible, very strong.

There have been like 6 months not reporting my self here, sorry for my incomunication. I m in times of many changes, i have moved from Buenos Aires to Villa Allende, Cordoba, pretty close to Cordoba city. Settling in new place, new people, also settling my way of working here, proyecting to start a yoga/therapies studio in a nice place nearby very soon. 

Also last december i think i told you i get some lands here, since may we are builing a house, these experience have been wearisome, many many obstacles. But we continue, now becoming more fluid. 

Also with my wife YasodaMayi we are pregnant,very happy after 13 years together ,  so many changes at this time, like a waterfall of grihasta ashrama. 

ASA - Ah, Daddy-puri! Maybe Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati will become your son. Then you will have no rest at all.

Learning to be patient at this time, willing to improve my sadhana. Chanting my 16 rounds the better way i m beeing able to, but very far from the best way. Much  neurosis anxiety and fear many times. Insomniac make it difficult to take the mangalaratik medicine. Loosing many gayatris. Following  vows/principles. Worshiping Deities in a very basic Standar but is very nice. Reading Prabhupada Lilamrita and Radhanatha Swamis Autobiography. 

ASA - Very nice. Reading with Mataji?

Thank you so much Gurudeva for your devoteed life to Srila Prabhupadas mission and the welfare of all.

aspiring to become a servant,

Madhavendra Puri DasA

ASA - So your house, land is near the city where you live? You are near devotees?

Thank you for the news. We hope to talk with Ambarisha soon.

Pamho, AgtSP, Agt harinam sktn.

Hare Krishna Gurudev, I wish you are very well and extatic in service....

Things are going very nice here in Nova Gokula,Brasil....This weekend  we are comemorating 50 years aniversary of ISKCON. SRILA PRABHUPADAS LOTUS FEET.

Bhaktas program is going very well. There is 5 bhaktas already in the asram, full sadhana, Upadesamrta study and learning book distribution. This service is helping me a lot to get fixed, am learning so much and is helping me a lot to work my false ego and anarthas... 

Personaly Im very satisfy with this service, I have good sadhana worship Radha Gokulananda once a week and cooking for deity...Im taking some instruccioons from Maharaja Danwantary and Maharaja Kesava Swami...Posible in october we do a sankirtan trip with Kesava Maharaja to Argentina...for 1 month..

Radharani, is giving us a lot of mercy and sometimes it looks like She's acepting our poor service..

I been talking with Nandanadana das about your possible visit to Brasil..planing to serve you..And we wanted to invite you to spend one more week so you can do some preaching programs in Sao Paolo, Nova Gokula and San Jose dos Campos if it is possible I could perchase your ticket from Sao Paulo airport to Rio de Janeiro for your departure or when you get your ticket you can arrive to Rio and departure from Sao Paulo. 

Ammmm very sorry not to write you so offten and ask you to spend more time in Brasil..

Thank you for every thing you do for us and to accept our poor service.

Please pray  for this poor servant...

HARE KRISHNA!!!!!

HpS - Highly Esteemed Poor Servant et al

Hare Krsna! Being a teacher forces you to show what you are talking about. Who benefits more, students our teacher.

I think we will do fast tour of Houston, Mexico City, Guayaquil, Lima (Arrequipa), Santiago, Buenos Aires (Mar de Plata), Symposium in Brazil, Houston.

Hmmm?

Then die.

Actually go to new body.

Send some Sankirtan news if you can.

Hare Krishna Beloved and esteemed Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada 

Feeling Sad for seeing so much suffering, knowing that people around us will suffer. Push me to pull this KC cart, Prabhupada Yatra!!

Had three hours meeting with His Grace Virabahu Prabhu, super good and practical advices about grihastha ashram life. Something happened after that meeting, it was mystical but upastha vegam decreased like 95%. Now i see things much more clearer. 4 principles strictly ok. 

HpS - Wonderful. Wonderful. I would like such mercy.

I'm doing mangal aratik once a week at el loft, FMP, then at home. 16 R ok. Still i have big debt from previous hellish tours!!A

Building "my " house at Sri Govardhan farm, hope i can move next october. Really i want to gradually abandon this urban lifestyle to shift to a more plain and simple rural life. I'm doing big research about cow grazing and varnasrama. I'm sure being around cows is the best sadhu sanga, I experienced that at Bhakti Raghava Maharaja's farm in south india near Udupi.

Monkey-Piggy. - Yeah, why hang out with girls when you can hang out with cows!

On the other hand I was selected to be a Profesor at Med School University. Mdp National University is opening med school next year. Is a very interesting project,and now I'm making a course about pedagogy which is a sine qua non for being a profesor at the university. Of course the main reason I want to be there is for preaching, but i wonder wether is worthy the sacrifice. The environment is full of atheism, feminism and supporters of evolution theory. What do you think Gurudev?

ASA - Try it out.

Last week we have the first Trascendental film festival at El Loft, the entrance fee was bhoga for our Ffl program, we presented a documentary about our community which was made by local cinema students. We are preparing a play for janmastammi, Gita Concise, very nice.

Local preaching is super, programs every day at el loft, harinam, book and prasadam distribution, columns in local newspapers every week and in radio show twice a week.  Now we go for a Gurukula at our farm.

Hope you can visit us in your next South America tour, you can stay at "my" cave at Sri Govardhan.

Thank you Gurudev, you have parah budhi, super inspiring,

Your little bit less fallen servant,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - Join the Symposium on education in Brazil end of January. Full primary school support.

Our respects to Maha-Jana et al. Thanks for photos!

Hello dear Gurudeva Please accept my humble obeisances. I hope you feel well

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

I am in Buenos Aires, finished study two subjects, Filosofia passed with 9 and Society 7, is a course compulsory leveling before entering college in the next part of the year course introduction thought scientific, and next year three other subjects.

Studying these thinkers, really helping me to glorify Srila Prabhupada and appreciate the true knowledge of his books. I'm reading every day Srimad Bhagavatam, got a new collection, I want to have the habit of reading the SB as eating, and college'm very cautious, good relationship with my classmates and teachers, my colleagues see me as a old, something very good for a brahamacari.Krishna give me the tuch to reconcile knowledge and understand where they see things, as I realize I'm a little strange for them.Yo use civilian clothes, but I wear my sika and sometimes shave.

With my family personally well, I can see your problems and even understand something but is very complex Kali Yuga, we want and hurt us both, very confusing, the distance been healthy not to increase the differences. With Bharata we say hello, only, that the difference was by Guru Tattva, it is that he is finishing his studies, but nothing more.

spend a month of tests mahamaya very difficult, but Krishna gave me the intelligence to mature what was happening and many personal accomplishments, I think I now know more myself and material nature, and understand, in greater detail, my condicionamiento.Muy happy with the devotees at the ashram Brahmacaris, I see that life pushes me towards renunciation, but for now I'm very immature and have some attachments to work and vivir.asi that to be patient and cleanse the heart

Thank you for accepting me as his disciple, thanks for being my spiritual master.

Please, pray for me, I want Krishna Prema

his Servant

Adi Yajña Das

HpS - Hare Krsna. I hope you read the DTCs. They give the news of the Sankirtan in Peru, Texas etc. So nice to hear your news. A lot of time we have to go through death and rebirth for the contact we have had with Krsna to manifest. It may be that way with our family relations.

If you can communicate with Guna-grahi Swami, please send our respects and appreciation for all the service he has done and ask him if there is anything we can do for him.

Some news of the Temple? President? Sankirtan?

Krsna prema is just the change in desire to serve Radha Krsna instead of this world, no?

Hola querido Gurudeva por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias. Espero Usted se encuentre bien

Toda gloria a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Yo me encuentro en Buenos Aires, termine de cursar dos materias, Filosofia aprobe con 9 y Sociedad con 7, es un curso de nivelacion obligatorio antes de entrar a la universidad, en la proxima parte del año curso introduccion al pensamiento cientifico, y el proximo año otras tres asignaturas.

Estudiar a estos pensadores, realmente me esta ayudando a glorificar a Srila Prabhupada y apreciar el verdadero conocimineto de sus libros. Estoy leyendo todos los dias El Srimad Bhagavatam, consegui una coleccion nueva, quiero tener el habito de leer el SB como el de comer, y en la universidad soy muy cauteloso, buena relacion con mis compañeros y profesores, mis compañeros me ven como un viejo, algo muy bueno para un brahamacari.Krishna me da el tacto para poder conciliar el conocimiento y entender desde donde se paran  y entienden las cosas las personas, igual me doy cuenta que soy un poco extraño para las personas.Voy con ropa civil, pero llevo mi sika  y aveces afeitado, es un look mas de todos los que hay en la clase

Con Mi famila en lo personal bien, puedo ver sus problemas e incluso entiendo algo pero es muy conplejo Kali Yuga, Nos queremos y nos lastimamos a la vez, muy confuso, la distancia a sido sana en no incrementar las diferencias. Con Bharata solo nos saludamos, por que la diferencia fue por Guru Tattva, se que el esta terminando sus estudios, pero nada mas.

Tube un mes de pruebas con mahamaya muy dificiles, pero Krishna me dio la inteligencia para madurar lo que ocurria y muchas realizaciones personales, pienso ahora me conozco mas a mi mismo y a la naturaleza material, y entiendo en mayor detalle mi condicionamiento.Muy feliz con los devotos en el ashram de Brahmacaris, veo que la vida me empuja hacia la renuncia, pero por ahora soy muy inmaduro y tengo algunos apegos que trabajar y realizar.asi que a  ser paciente y limpiar el corazón

Gracias por aceptarme como su discipulo, gracias por ser mi Maestro.

Su Sirviente

Adi Yajña Das 

AGTSP and U!!!!    ____0_

pamho...

How are U Dear Gurudeva??? 

ASA - We are immortal but our donkey was bitten by wasps and is swelling up.

We are still alive!!!

Our sadhana is low again... usually we preach everybody to prioritize things and put rounds first, but we failed in that... our rounds are not in the first place... we try to finish 16 rounds everyday some times we get them done but other not, so we have some rounds behind plus the ones from 1st and 2nd transplant ( it means a lot!!!) ... we are looking for a reasonable agreement so we can complete 16 and some more ... we know it's gonna take some time and it's gonna be difficult but we still want to do it... Our dear family is helping us with deities and other services...

The body is still having some problems specially with the stomach, we are now trying to eat more properly and food the body can resist. It's becoming simpler food each time... in some way we are pushed to eat simple food... we want to enjoy good food but sometimes body can not accept it... we have to learn to control our food desires.... and get some weight too!

Our studies are going well... we finished our 7th cycle at university in Education and 2nd cycle of specialization in Waldorf Pedagogy.... we are back to work at "Das GoetheHaus" Waldorf school with new projects and challenges and continue giving Spanish classes to indian workers in the Embassy of India in Peru... We are also working a lot on our Thesis for Education degree, hope next year we can finish it.

We are sad to say that we don't see devotees nor go to temple... we can give you many excuses but the truth is that some times we don't want to see them... that is not good and we pray so we can change that...we really need them…

we apologize for the news, no good news of services, sankirtana, etc.

Yours in service

Patrak Das

ASA - Any connection with His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami is super, no? Deities, KRSNA book. That will keep the Witch from putting us to sleep. Of course the first step may be Maya in the mode of goodness, but then it means we get big deviation, lifetimes as puppies, piggies, princesses, potatoes.

Chant five rounds early. Then three more before you go out. Then...

... The Waldorf school is great. We need to have a dialog with them. That's Sankirtan.