Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna GuruMaharaj! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my humble obeisances.

I continue in Madrid now is summer!! Very hot!!

I have different news.

I went to communication congress of ISKCON in Vila Vrindavan Italy. The experience was very good (4 days) and I learned a lot from the different devotees. Many people from all Europe and a few from North America.

 I was talking with two very seniors devotees about the situation in Mayapur (one of them couldn’t speak Spanish this is why I was in the conversation, I was helping to translate). One of these devotees is one of the main GBC in ISKCON, with the information that I know now of Mayapur I think that it’s not a good idea to try to go now, maybe it’s better in the future. I hope that they can solve the problems but under my very little understanding will be very very very difficult. I would like a lot to go in the future to pass the course of brahminical culture in Mayapur Academy.

In Madrid there is one of the two Master diploma of all Spain about “ciencias de la religiones” I started some days ago to compile all the documents that are necessary to enter in the master. The master is one year and after of that you can start to do a doctorate. My parents are very happy with the idea of return to the university. The temple will help me with the payment of the studies. If I pass the selection of the university I will start the master in October, I could continue without problem with the service in the temple because the classes would be in the afternoon.

Two days ago we started to worship Tulsi Devi again, we have been caring the seed from the begging and now it’s enough big to worship, all the devotees in the temple are very happy with Tulsi Devi.

There are daily classes in the temple, today I had the exam of Sri Upadesamrita (only nectar of devotion and I will finish bhakti sastri). I hope to start soon to learn word by word the Gurvastak. In a few weeks, we will close the ashram because we are going to do reforms, in the finals days of August we are going to open again, Ratha Yatra will be the first or second week of September.

My mother returns from India (She was there 3 months) a few days ago, she loves the experience. She was visiting different temples (also ISKCON temples), touristic spots and helping to some catholic nuns to take care of children from the street.

Thanks for your instructions and advices.

Your servant Mantri Rama Das.

HpS - Wow! You have a very interesting life! Any news of Jara Mara Hari Das? How is Dandava Das and others.

Can you teach in public schools with the Masters degree?

Tulasi! SB classes! Just go ahead.

We are all waiting for more news.

                   HARE KRSNA GURUDEVA,

                   PAOHO,AGTSP!!

                    WE HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER ,THAT THE RASH IS FINALLY HEALED BY THE TIME

                    YOU READ THIS WORDS.

                    WE JUST WANTED TO WISH YOU GOOD LUCK WITH THE SIMPOSIUM AND LET YOU

                    KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US.

                    WE STAYED IN ALMERIA FOR ONE MONTH, IT WAS NICE, WE TOOK REST, STUDIED,

                    DID BHAJANS, ARGUED,LAUGH...ETC

                    WE ARE MOVING TO NVM, WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE THERE BEGGINING OF JULY,

                    WE WILL SHARE A HOUSE WITH SITA AND PREMA, WE THINK THEY ARE VERY

                    NICE.

                    BHADRA HAS BEEN GOING OUT ON BOOK DISTRIBUITON, HE PLANS TO CONTINUE LIKE THAT...

                    THERE ARE A FEW JOBS I (SANANDA) AM GOING TO PUT MY NAME DOWN FOR, IN BRIHUEGA

                    (SEVERAL DEVOTEES ARE ENCOURAGING ME). I WILL STUDY ENGLISH DURING THE SUMMER

                    TO PREPARE FOR ONE OFF THEM.

                    SHORT TERM GOAL- SAVE LAKSMI

                   MIDDLE TERM GOAL- DO SOMETHING TO PLEASE YOU WITH THAT LAKSMI (IN ALMERÍA MAYBE)

                   LONG TERM GOAL (HOPEFULLY NOT TOO LONG)- GO BACK HOME, BACK TO GODHEAD

                   WE MISS ASSOCIATING WITH YOU PERSONALLY...

                   YOUR ASPIRING SERVANTS

                   BHADRA VARDHANA DAS & SANANDA DEVI DASI

HpS. - ASA. -- AgtSP. We made it to the glorious Nila-Madhva Dhama. Rash it's still there. Steroids are tough but treatment has not yet finished.

Your news is nice. Hope the arguing is going well. Such an exalted state can be obeying in married life.

Plans sound fine. Please please please send us depth reports of NVM and Swami Bhadra's Sankirtan.

We hope to send news of our Peru effort.

If it is not fun, why do it?

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna Gurudev, porfavor acepte mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Gurudeva voy a serle sincera en el reporte del sadhana de este mes, hemos tenido altibajos al levantarnos temprano, acabamos de abrir  un pequeño Restaurante snak vegetariano llamado "Mukunda", mucho trabajo estas semanas que no hicimos mangala artik pero si cantamos nuestras 25 rondas aunque malas, 4 principios bien y poca lectura.

HpS ASA. - Hare Krsna. Prioridades, no? Desarrolla de un Centro o restaurants es super, pero sin Brahma muhurta convierta modalidad de bondad y no transcendental pronto. Jaya.

Vi a mi padre hace unos dias, viajamos juntos, como extrañaba su compañía, y quisiera estar más tiempo con mi familia. Por ahí mi padre me dijo que estudie educación más adelante.

ASA - Puede ser util, no?

En agosoto P. gadai está viajando de sankirtana viajero, algo que yo estoy de acuerdo, yo entiendo que él es un predicador y por tal siempre voy a apoyarlo y yo me quedaré por Huancayo en el negocio y estudiando.

Estamos muy tristes porque nuestro avance espiritual no esta hiendo bien con las rondas y el sadhana pero el trabajo no es pretexto para no hacer vida espiritual.

Gurudeva, perdone mis ofensas, voy a mejorar el sadhana y leer más, el sankirtana de libros ahora no lo estoy haciendo, no estoy cualificada espero pulir mis ofensas al hablar para algun dia ser merecedora de este servicio y  espero al menos un dia a la semana hacerlo

Hare Krsna

Nadiya nivasi Dasi

ASA - Adelantar es establecer amistad eterno con diferente devotos. Amistad es hacer yoga juntos.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my humble obeisances at His lotus feet

Dear Gurudeva, I do not write much that he does, I hope is well.
Here things right, and everything is calmer, I have written several times with Gunagrahi Prabhu, and my relationship with him is good, I dolio that has agreed to be guru with this mental illness, I understand that all conditioned living entities have that shackle, and I understand that the practice of celibacy is 100% grace (mercy), I wanted to tell you that in my practice celibacy one of the principles I try to follow is not to mention the conditioning of others. I tell Gurudev this because Prema Rasarnava told me that Him spoke with You.

I'm teaching the Nectar of instruction, and also the Bhagavad Gita residents of the temple.
And I began to study at university.
Sadhana well, it will improve more as this college is a bit new for me and it will stabilize better.

With Bharata I'm not talking since March, because we do not talk Well. We will take time

Here the  temple improved and two months is here Srila Virabahu Maharaja, He has much respect for you ago.

My 4 principles and 16 rounds well, good relationship with the authorities, and especially my service to the deities.

Please give me your mercy, and pray for me spitritual relation of love for Krishna

Thank you!!

His servant Adi Yajña Das

HpS - Very nice to hear from you.  Write your letters in simple Spanish first that you know www.translate.google.com can translate well. Then use the translator and edit it if necessary.  Your writing frequency is fine. More would be O.K.   We think of you. We have heard different things about Guna-grahi Swam and are not exactly sure what happened to him. He confessed some mental or verbal or physical attachments illicit sex, no???   I want to write to him to say that there may be negative things, but we have so much affection for him and appreciation of his positive service.

If there are faults in devotees and we are good, we can avoid those and get the positive aspect of their service, no?

What are you studying?

If you happen to see Bharata in the street (Ha!  Ha!  Ha!)  please offer our respects to him. We also like him very much.   Actually feeling a lot of separation from BsAs thinking of all of you now.  KC is so much fun. Everybody should be joining the Temple is Ciudad de la Paz!

Hare Krishna Beloved and esteemed Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

What a beautiful time to be in. So much creativity, i sense there is a shifting within ISKCON. Seeing how wonderfully devotees are preaching enlives me up. The Journey Within by Hh Radhanath Swami, Hiding in Unnatural Happiness by Hh Devamrita Swami, Our family business by H Grace Vaisesika Prabhu, Psychology and the sacred by Nios. The new wave is coming! UTSAHA!! 

In the other hand i feel awful cause i feel I'm doing nothing for this movement. Or much less i could do if i were focused.

Preaching is growing nicely here in MDP, we are going out of our centers to different places, schools, clubs, homeless shelters, etc. Many people are coming and programs are growing. We are penetrating more and more into MDP's society, media, governors start noticing our work.

My life is ok for kali yuga in the material world, Manu and Benji are growing nicely healthy and have some sense of KC. Work is fine, i can not find the right pace yet but struggling for that.

I'm chanting 16 rounds, probably 25% acceptable. Little by little I'm catching up with my vrata debt. I'm having problems with illicit sex. We keep with this karma misra bhakti yoga process and We started a strict diet to try to control this. 48 hs of juices, then only 2 meals a week with grains and only ghee as dairy products. The rest just salad and steamed vegetables!!

HpS - For whom are you cooking?

I'm reading Pada padma of SB! Leading BG discussion at El Loft and I'm in charge of book distribution and now Food for life program. I tend to keep busy in the service but sometimes i dont know whether to quit that services and focus only in 4p and 16r. What do you think gurudev?

HpS - If you look at the revised www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt there is a wonderful citation by Srila Prabhupada. He says that like all the other services are choked or illusory unless we are 16/4.    Nothing else will suffer if we focus on 16/4 ... money, fame, entertainment, sankirtan, family, administration...

Thank you so much for always be there for us Gurudev and make huge endeavor for pushing this wonderful movement foward. I really know that purity is the strenght and that is the real mean of conquer. I feel that the only thing i can do is keep trying my best to overcome this anarthas!

I hope you dont kick me off from the shelter of your lotus feet!!!

Trying to purify my service,

Your fallen servant,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - In our current circumstances we get bored and lonely sometimes, so we read stuff from Gutenberg.org, take too much fruit juice and condensed milk...   Somebody else can't stop a heroin addiction. Room for improvement at every level.  Usually there is a good reason why be a subject to greed, lust. What is it?  Probably many valid reasons.  Investigate.Chant HK all the time we are attracted and engaged in our greedy things.

Thank you so much for your association!!!   Respects to everyone.

Your news from MDP is very inspiring.   Who else is there now???

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaj.

Please accept my respectful obeisances to you. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

A mental projection, of simple servant holding a straw with its teeth walking toward you;  in a sincere attempt to do the right thing. Out of love, devotion, faith, knowledge all them partially developed and fully manifestation of need, desperation, fear, delusion and hope. It is his dragging big baggage of good and bad qualities. That is my personal presentation unto you.

It is karma-misra-bhakti, pushing us to turn toward you and cry out for your forgiveness, mercy, blessings.. there is no other way to keep alive in this spiritual path.. i have been trying serving you just at vani level (initiation vows), and honoring you whenever we do try to do devotional service to Krsna, but yet there is not full peace of mind as somehow and other we know that we are offending you simultaneously. we do not seek that Sir..

consciously i had never envied you Sir, ..  i just can not understand you, but  covered by pride and false ego, i try to justify my possition, and keep distance from you. 'The blog blocks me'..  public communication.  revealing mind, is that not supposed to be confidential?

I am hesitating to continue.. (writing).. doubting of the efficacy and clarity of this via of communication. does this can really convey the message that we are trying to say?. or is it possible to say it after all?.  Guess it sounds sahajjiya.. (deceiving perhaps).. but i have the push in my heart to do it. Paramatma?. .. just send it .. It says.. just do it.

we just want to let you know that we are still alive,.. continuing  walking, no, . we are crawling!!!. 

I remember you quoting Srila Prabhupada saying if guru wants to know how his disciple is doing.. Krsna, Paramatma makes the arrangement .. that guru get the news. .  ..  yeah!.. but it is not enough, we should not make Krsna to work for us.!!

HpS - Hare Krsna, Madhumanjari Devi Dasi.   Such a long time we do not hear from you!    "Guhyam akyati prcchati...".    This Blog is like the people that come up after a big class and carry on the discussions. It is automatically a little bit more confidential. Reading the letters we can see what kind of things go on here.  Devotees can even use different names. Of course, if there is something more confidential then it can just be mentioned and then we can arrange to discuss things more privately.
Especially with a very nice pujari, psychologist, soon to be famous author, it is very nice to have some letters about important topics so that some other sankirtan devotees, land owners, big managers can benefit.
We often think about what is happening with your good self!
We ge news from others.

Today SB class, eight canto, ch.16, text 23. Kasyapa muni instructing Aditi.. it helped me to remember you, moreover to strongly realise that i can not continue anymore in this way..  Aditi accepted her husband not just like a caste wife serves and respects her husband, this time she accepted him as guru.. shelter, with full trust. Accordingly, Kasyapa muni, in compassionate way, engaged and instructed her in direct devotional service but subtlely covered, in order to pacify her mind.. Payo-vrata!!!.. wow!!.. but actually it is vadhi bhakti, as we all are trying to follow everyday..  the point is that he, Kasyapa treated her with compassion, kindness, intelligence, pointing out even  her degraded stage of conscioness calling her grhamedhini.!!..  the expertise of advance devotee!!!!. It reminds me Srila Prabhupada and you..   I remember, long ago..  like a fooling child, i told you that i wanted to have mystic powers.. and you, kindly, in a compassionate way gave the secret to get it.. three important vratas!!!.. they are very powerful and effective, you said. then you told me: first get up early in the morning and attend mangalartik everyday; second, workship Tulsi devi.. and finally chant 16 good rounds of Hare Krsna maha mantra every day..  then.. you will see. the real mystic power manifested..   wow!!. got it!!

HpS - I heard that from Bhadra-vardana Das many years ago, then I remember I read it from Srila Prabhupada also.

Thank you, Sir.. .. thank you very much..

This is becoming to long now.. and there are much more to say..  as you say, the limitation is on the device that you are using.. ( your reply to another disciple message about his long letter).

Anyway.. time to go.

My respectful obeisances to you, Sir (father, mother, master, Guru.. is that right, to see you in that way?).

am i allow to call myself  as your disciple?,  is that appropriate?. we did not please you much.. perhaps even we could be call rebel, black sheep, disrespectful..?.  are you upset with me, Sir.?.    Sorry!!..  i am sorry!!. 

in service

Madhumanjari dd

HpS - ASA ---   I guess everything is kind of O.K. in any respects. We would certainly like to hear news from you about your position in ISKCON now. Are you still living in the Temple as Pujari?   How are your University studies?  Are you planning on staying in Australia.