Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Jay!

Bhakta Adrian here. Just starting to get more established here in Denver. Started a job with the Department Of Revenue, helping people with their taxes. On the up-side, they allow me to decorate my desk at my leisure, soon to have nice pictures of Radha and Krishna to help keep my mind on them as much as possible. Going to try to go to at least part of morning programs at the temple twice a week. Going to try this new schedule for a little while and adjust as needed

HpS - AGTSP!   Whatever you do regularly every day, at that you will become perfect.​

I have yet to have an in-person conversation with the Temple President here. However, he did call me, and we spoke briefly on how I can move forward and get integrated nicely into this community (starting with morning sanga). I also reached out to the Ashram leader here to see if there is some service I can do on the weekends. I am just waiting to hear back from him.

ASA - Great!

I finally finished reading Mahabharata! I'm so excited! I am almost ready to read it again. Trying to decide on which book to read next.

ASA - Krsna Dharma's?   It is on-line at Vedabase.com. Also his Ramayan. Read the regular SB class verses that they have in the Temple and discuss them with a study partner. Read several books at the same time. Mahabharata and Ramayan are kind of like restful reading, no? 

Divorce is getting finalized. I met another devotee girl, a bit older than me, Russian girl. We are currently living together.

ASA - Adrian!!!    You can't be a member of ISKCON if you live with girls un-married. Rule from Prabhupada in the very first days. Is animal life!     Whoop!     Whoop!     WHoop!    Of course, we all got our attachements, problems, BUT, we have to be progressive and solve them. Also, the choice of Maya: Prabhupada said (They say) that a younger man can NEVER control and older woman. She will always have a false ego of superiority. I have seen this as true, true, true over and over and over again during 40-years as a devotee.  Several times I thought, O.K. in this case it might work, but ploop!   Divorce, separation. Only candidates so far are one Latin American Temple President and his wife who may even have joined together. They have been hanging in ther for many years.

She is favorable towards Krishna Consciousness, but is a little more open minded and into astrology/mystic yoga/ demi-god worship. At least I am able to stay strong in my own sadhana. Feeling nervous if you might disapprove of this situation.

HpS - We disapprove of the situation but not you.   One man's food is another man's poison. If we are going to go out and have illicit sex with dead bodies or donkeys then it is BETTER to live with a living human girlfriend. Progress is first, not our level of elevation, but the standard of ISKCON life is there.  Jaya Srila Prabhupada, and he and Krsna will let us solve these problems for EVERYBODIES benefit.  Go on chanting and see!   You are a Mahatma

Maybe I should see if the temple has an extra room for me to live in? Maybe I can move forward nicely in my devotion with the new girl? 

I want to take initiation as seriously as possible. Still chanting! Any news or advise or instruction you feel inspired to share?

Your Aspiring Servant,

Bhakta Adrian

HpS - Try and act for everybodies benefit. Then life is simple!!    More news of your Tapasya.

Dear Gurudeva, Please accept my respectful obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sankirtan movement.

I feel so lucky to write you, since a time ago that I did not but  assure you that every day I receive the fortune to think you.

HpS -  Well,    AGTSP!      Paoho...     it is so nice to hear from you also, and it is nice to think of your dog every day it is also nice to feed him!

After 5 month trip to Europe where I was studying at the University of fine Art in Austria, Vienna. I finish a good academic exchange with a project that speaks to Migration, Movement and Destiny. Use my line hands with landscape to the city Vienna, creating an analogy with tram in the city. Migration now is the topic in Europe and in specific Vienna with full of immigrants from many countries, paint the lines of my hands with henna to speak also of the migration of soul, the eternal soul migration. The project was very well received at the University and the Embassy of Mexico in Austria.

HPS = ASA ----   Sankirtan!    Showing people how to get direction from Krsna!​

During my stay I lived with 3 Russian matayis really beautiful and loving, I visited temples as Simhashalam in Germany, Villa Vrindavan in Florence, the Temple of Madrid and Radhadesa in Belgium, I consider that the best of this trip was see you and realized the great effort that made to travel of place to place, you has such precise observations of each situation and place. Without his company it would not have been the same. Thanks for the blessings and protection given to me all the time, you are who connects me with God supremely attractive personality.

HpS - Was big surprise to see you also. Like seeing a vase full of nice flowers in a room. You consciousness is what you have to share!

After researching and thinking it over, I understand that the plan to live for a year in Madrid needed to think better with more time. Finally I returned to Mexico and feeling very happy, I could have your association 2 times!!! , but I dont have the opportunity to talk to you personally, but when I look around me and see that I am surrounded by devotees, hearing your classes and make service sankirtan I can see that all is well and I just have to increasingly take refuge in their instructions to someday aspire to a deeper advance. Education seminars have been very inspiring, thank you Gurudeva!

HpS - Haraye namah Krsna, Yadavaya namah...   Srila Prabhupada quotes so often from the song the line, Yanhara carana sevi, bhakti sani vas...  Serve the lotus feet of the Six Goswamis in the association of devotees.

I have done a year living with [room]mates in a [apartment] department where we worship the deity every day, go Mangalartik the temple regularly and have services in the kitchen or Sankirtan. Some matayis working in office, other study and others are dedicated to sankirtan, some finally travel to other countries, or marry but always come new matayis. Thanks for the blessings that once gave u, I hope this apartment help this most matayis who want to live near the temple at a [cheap] ship price.

Currently studying my last year of University of Art and do Sankirtan weekends, I have a week offering to the temple and do Mangalartik 5 days a week. 16 rounds and 4 principles. I read SB in the mornings and in my free time Mahabharata. Before the trip to Europe I was full of desire, desire to travel, learn more, study abroad, etc. I was too absorbed in the academic and not in the transcendental :( But by the grace of Krishna everything has come true and now I feel with calm, with no plans, just with focus on my spiritual life and energy to learn more about Krishna consciousness, but now finish the carrier its so hard,  I try to see it as a service but I can´t.

HpS - Yes, we are faced with newer and newer challenges. Arjuna lost his enthusiasm to kill the Kurus, but Krsna convinced him to do it.   On the other hand maybe you should not do it.  Seems like just one more year, then do it but in a very simple direct way. Relate it all to Krsna even if you don't get highest scores, and even if it shocks your professors a little.  Sankirtan Girl at the University!

Excuse me the long letter Gurudeva, I needed so much write all this. I wish that you return to North America well and much much care of Krishna.

You and Srila Prabhupada live in my heart.

Your aspiring servant Satyabhama dd

HpS - ASA -- Satyabhama is a very Cuban minded girl friend, wife, of Krsna, no?

Hare Krsna Maharaja! AGTSP! Please accept my obeisance. 

After your stay in august it's been more dificult for me to chant my rounds clearly because of the festivals and the intense service.

HpS - Ha!    Ha!    Hare!      That is the only reason for doing festivals. SB 1.2.18, by helping Srila Prabhupada organize festivals, we should have MORE taste for chanting.  Krsna will arrange the BIG PROJECTS. We are little dancing mice in the show [with red hats].

At the moment I have been thinking about taking Bhakti Sastri because I can't listen to the SB classes due to my service; but I talked with the authorities and they told me to wait because there aren't many devotees at the moment living in the temple, so maybe next year :/

I'm very grateful with mataji asta sakhi for letting me try to serve you this last time you came and I hope I will be able to do it again in your next visit. please give me your blessing to do my service with the right consciousness because sometimes it's difficult. 

oh! could you please explain me this: coarse objects can not exist without subtle objects.

I will keep in touch.

Your aspiring servant Bhaktin Fernanda.

Please write more of your fantastic life.

HARE KRISHNA Maharaja, is it possible to come visit you in Tennessee and stay at the farm?

HpS -  Farm is very distant from here.   Call us at 209 505-3219.  We can discuss visiting here, but really best is to ask your questions in general here and then work our details with your natural physical association [which maybe in Tennessee].

hare krishna s.s. hanumatpresaka swami

por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias,  le saluda bhakta victor de lima del templo de wilson.

Queria saludarle y agradecerle por su trascendental visita a peru. ha sido muy inspirador para nosotros, ahora estamos  tratando de leer el libro de krishna todas las noches.

HpS - ASA --- Muy inspirador (y mucho trabajo) para nosotros tambien. Ya estamkos 80% recuperado del estress del viaje, y ya esperamos adelantar, expandir, profudizar, nuestra servicio mas!  Aspiramos siempre ser en los pies de loto de Srila Prabhupada en la assemblea de devotos, de ISKCON.

. . . bueno ahora estamos llendo a sankirtan viajero a cochabamba, bolivia. junto con prabhu tattva-vid goura y bhakta adrian. estaremos 20 dias y al regresar nos quedamos 15 dias mas en cuzco.

HpS - Associacion de Mathuresa Das!

...tambien queria preguntarle acerca del [S]srimad [B]bhagavtam, ya que en el 2.2.35 se traduce a bhagavan como la personalidad de dios y en el verso anterior se traduce bhagavan como el señor brahma, como entender ello?

HpS - No puede comentar como Jiva Goswami, pero como yo entiendo, Prabhupada es traduciendo fuertement sigiendo nuestras Acharyas previos, aqui ellos esta eligiendo el traduccion basado en el contexto. "El Presidente" puede ser traducido como "Barrack Obama" o "Evon Morales" dependiendo en las circumstancias, no?
 

. . .luego en el verso 2.9.31 sig. se menciona los 5 principios fundamentales para alcanzar la perfeccion en el servicio devocional, de los cuales el quinto es adorar a la deidad del señor con devocion. entonces mi pregunta es si esto significa que todos debemos ocuparnos en adorar, ya sea la deidad del templo o unas deidades pequeñas, o adorar los libros?

HpS - En sus ensanzas a Sanatana Goswami, como hoy dia estamos leyendo en "Las Ensenansa de Senor Caitanya", hay como 64-principios regulativas mencionada, y es la misma en NdlD, pero entre ellos estas cinco son la mad fuerte. "Nectar de la Devocion", Capitulo 13. All dice solamente unos de ellos es bueno, or 2 or tres. Esforsamos realizar todos. Vivimos en Templo de ISKCON, levantamos y participamos Mangala arati de los Deidades, oimos SB, Devoto Sanga, Kirtan....   Realiza las mismas cosas mietras en Sankirtan Vijero. Deidades puede ser pequenos de Gaura Nita o si, ofreciendo Mangala arati a los Libros!

bueno reciba nuevamente mis respetuosas reverencias. todas las glorias sean a srila prabhupada.

HpS - ASA --- Jaya, sea feliz en su Sankirtan!  Ke, Krsna esta feliz en su Sankirtan.