Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna querido Guru Maharaj, pamho,agtSp.Espero su salud se encuentre bien en este momento.

Nosotros estamos en Buenos Aires ,seguimos haciendo servicio en la cocina para la fiesta de domingo . Seguido los devotos vienen a casa y eso me hace feliz ,darles prasadam. Mis rondas ,los 4 principios están cumpliendose, Krishna y la misericordia del ME nos brindan siempre ayuda y tratamos de responder a ello. El sábado pasado instalamos en casa las deidades y fue una experiencia muy fuerte,se llaman Sri Natavara Nitay ,Gunagrahi Pb les dio el nombre a pedido de Sridama.

Estoy volviendo a estudiar mantras del srimad bhagavatam y repasando los que ya sabía del BG, y seleccionando nuevos. Empecé a trabajar  con prasadam para un resto y eso sirve de mucho también para lo económico .

En fin mi única dificultad que sea importante ahora es son mis estudios. Las equivalencias son nulas prácticamente y empezaría  de cero, y eso me cuesta aceptar. es una carrera densa arquitectura y realmente quiero terminarla,es apasionante para mi. Necesito su consejo Gurudev, porque la posibilidad de seguir estudiando más rápida es en Córdoba ,allá me quedan sólo 3 años y acá debo empezar de cero ósea 6 años. No se que hacer.. pienso es irresponsable dejar asi a mi pareja acá , por otro lado no puedo dejar ese servicio.Se me ocurren estas soluciones ,usted dira ,no quiero especular mas.1. Me vuelvo a Córdoba ,sigo a la distancia con mi compañero ,3  años,  término lo antes posible. 2. Me quedo acá y busco otra carrera universitaria . Ahora me doi cuenta de muchas cosas que al principio no supe ,por ejemplo, no es compatible formar grihasta asrama bien sin haber terminado mi etapa de estudios . La vida grihasta te lleva a otras tareas y responsabilidades y aún no termine esto que es muy importante. estoy como una nube que se discipa.no puedo hacer bien ni un servicio ni el otro :(.Mi dificultad en Córdoba es estar lejos de los devotos, eso allá me desmoralizaba mucho. Disculpame Gurudeva si estoy desubicada en hacerle este tipo de pregunta. Nosotros ya hablamos de esto con nuestro líder congregacional Maha Hari das. Pero necesito aún así su palabra . Disculpe mis ofensas porfavor.Todas las glorias sean a su sankirtan ,a Sri Gurú y Gauranga.Gracias por sus clases los sábados me llenan el corazón.Reverencias a sus pies.

HpS - Para una Chica mucho de su carrera es "love her daddy, husband, sons".  Entonces, no se de 8,000 miles de distancia que recomendar, pero matrimonio de distancia aparece como un fracaso guarantizado.

Habla con los devotos que conocen Vd. Orar a Krsna con su Japa. Y hablar con su esposo como el piensa es mejor para ayudar el en su carrera. Entonces va a ser bien.
Pienso no necesita aquitecura. Puede utilizar en entrenemiento que tiene y busca como relacionar bien con se esposo.

Va  a tener hijos?

Entonces que tiempo tiene para ser aquitecta?

Claro puede trabajar en esta area como artista, vendadora, muchs cosas. Cual es la mision de su esposa, su family?

Hare Krisna Por Favor Acepte mis humildes reverencias mi querido Guru Deva TLGASP.

Muchas Gracias.

Jagamohan Das

HpS - Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias!   Tiene unas votas para Kartika eg. va a comer solament una vez cada dia. Distibuir tres literaturas cada dia...

All Glories to A.C. Prabhupada and Guruji Maharaja,

Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay and Radha Krsna Ki Jay 

Dandavat Pranam,

Please accept my humble obeisanses unto Guruji Maharaja’s padmacharan that after getting Gurujis reply (Aamrtabani) all my eagerness and problems seems to be solved, but enven now Gurji Maharaja did not reply or order me to go and join the mandir activities or not to go. What will be our next steps?

HpS - Hare Krsna. So, nice to hear from you. You wrote this 1 week and 5 days ago. We are a little slow in answering the mail. There has been a lot of work organizing our Kartika travel.

We don't know enough about the details of the Mandir in Thoubal to give detailed instructions. Only someone who lives there can do that. Of course Krsna lives there, so you should ask Him. Do that by good Japa, readin from Prabhupada's books, talking with several good local devotees and of course always working with ISKCON Managers. Is that O.K?  You can make some practical decision based upon those sources??

Yamunesvara Das - Yes, I will remind Guruji Maharaja in December about the Cemera but I want to know the actual price in America and India Rupees. Preferably (i) Canon – Power Shot SX400 IS (20 MP Resolution)

HpS - We just went to www.amazon.com and they show it for $230. You can do the same research. Amazon has good prices.

Yamunesvara Das - ....or, (ii) Sony Cyber Shot DSC-H300 Point and short Cemera or (iii) Nikon-Coolpix B-500.

Now a days, my house construction work also continuing. In the mean time, my I am performing my routine chanting, mangal aarati, Bhagavatam and Gita path, Ten Nama Aparadha, Siksha Astakama and 5 slokas of Brahma Samhita. To remember the eight Goswamis, eight Mahantas, eight shakhis, eight manjuris, eight times (asta kala), eight sevas of Sakhis, eight gates of Navadwip and Vrndaban, eight dreses of Sannyas. 

Frequently not regularly I am listioning Gurujis lectures and other religious topics from the website when I am in the office and free time. These are my present activities. In these days I stopped sadhu sangha with local or initiated bhaktas of ISKCON.

Please suggest me further activities to improve my bhakti marga.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Keep writing to this Blog (Web-log) and take some notes on your reading and write about that. If you don't go to Mandir programs then for sure invite people to your house and discuss SB and share Prasadam. Then you will advnce very well in your return to Krsna seva!!  Thank you.

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.