Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Dear Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you… infinite Thank you

PAMHO

Beyond philosophical speculation and human verbal expression...

 poetry… the one that knows nothing of prose.

The one that is not illuminated by the light

Of any sun

Nor of any shooting star

Its heartbeat is composed...

infinite poetry that never arrives

The one that has never gone

The one that does not hide

The one that hides from sight

The one that returns intact from its destiny

Illuminated and constant… active

Spear of the warrior in its shelter

The sheet that covers the disappeared bodies

That never carries

That change and age

That live dead for having been born

With the brilliant poetry

That knows nothing of prose nor of letters

Nor of so many words that describe and name it

The one reviewed by crows with mirrored plumage

The one in whose bubbles

Millions of universes

Peopled with shadows that it illuminates

Sometimes…

Over anguishes that have no name.

Impeccable swans travel its course

The waves of a transparent pond accumulating

Its passing through the waters… leaves no tracks

They leave its mirror… the clarity of the soul

Accusing the arrival…

The bearers of the Name

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare

All glories to Your Feet

ENC das.

HpS - All glories to Your Feet.

Can you read the Krsna book in English with 100% comprehension?

110%?

80%?

Your English is super, super inspiring, for us.

Maybe others post response, comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hinduism/comments/1jjmxd/brahma_poem_by_ralph_waldo_emerson/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Hare Krishna Querido Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

¡Gracias… infinitas ¡Gracias ¡

PAMHO

Más allá de la especulación filosófica y la expresión verbal humana

 la poesía… la que no sabe de prosas.

La que no se ilumina con la luz

De ningún sol

Ni de ninguna estrella fugaz

Su latido es compuesto

 poesía infinita que no llega nunca

La que nunca se ha ido

La que no se esconde

La que se oculta a la vista

La que regresa intacta de su destino

Iluminada y constante… activa

Lanza del guerrero en su cobijo

La sabana que cubre los cuerpos desaparecidos

Que nunca lleva

Que cambian y avejentan

Que viven muertos por haber nacido

Con la poesía brillante

Que no sabe de prosas ni de letras

Ni de tantas palabras que la describen y nombran

La que revisan los cuervos de plumaje espejado

La que en sus burbujas se cuentan

Millones de universos

Poblados de sombras que alumbra

A veces…

Sobre las angustias que no tienen nombre.

cisnes impecables transitan su cauce

Acumulándose las olas de un transparente estanque

Su paso por las aguas… no dejan hullas

Dejan su espejo… la claridad del alma

Anunciando la llegada…

Los portadores del Nombre     

Hare Krisna Hare Krisna

Krisna Krisna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare

Todas las glorias a Tus Pies

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Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

En mi carta anterior usted me dice lo siguiente:

HpS - Thank you!!! I think I may have met Maharaja and know him by his Brahmacari name.

Are you going to take Sannyasa? 🙂

Es una pregunta muy complicada de responder, yo diría muy, pero muy complicada de responder, pienso que solo los valientes podrían tomar Sannyasa.

A lo largo del tiempo hubo Sannyasis que no se cayeron y otros si. Uff Dificil. Maya es muy poderosa.

Otro factor es que tienes que tener mucho conocimiento, saber muchos versos de memoria, ser practicamente un erudito, cosas que yo no tengo.

ISKCON y el GBC siempre te observan. Que dificil.

Si tan solo fuera para viajar y hacer sankirtan y armar programas de distribución de libros, sería muy bueno para los valientes devotos que desean Sannyasa.

Tengo 46 años y quiza ya sea hora de morir, pero soy tan cobarde ante la muerte.

La Brahmacarya es más facil, creo yo, al menos no tan complicado.

Tengo muchos deseos y lucho con ellos todos los días.

Es la segunda ves que me preguntas sobre tomar Sannyasi, a veces pienso que es alguna broma tuya Guru Maharaja. Claro lo digo con todo respeto 😊

No se que más decir,,

HpS - We just checked and sixteen devotees have filed Reports. Considering our incompetence that is nice. If we only have sixteen disciples to serve following Srila Prabhupada in Disciplic succession we might be able to do the job properly.

Thank you so much.

More News of your developing Sadhana and Sankirtan as it develops.

Mi Sadhana marcha muy bien, me levanto a las 4 am, Mangal artik 5 y 30 am conectandome con usted Guru Maharaja, canto 16 rondas de Japa y algo más, sigo los 4 principios regulativos, estudiando el Bhakti Vaibhava con Prabhu Laksmana Agraha. Atendiendo a mis Salagrama Silas.

¿Guru Maharaja para usted fue facil tomar Sannyasi?

Bueno Guru Maharaja me despido y que el Señor Nrsimha lo proteja siempre.

Gadai Gauranga Das

HpSwami - AgtSP.

It is a good question to contemplate right up to the time of death.

Yes, it has so many formalities in ISKCON as an institution.

If it practical to take it formally in ISKCON that is great.

If not, then one might take formal vows in front of devotee friends and goswamis to give up physical and social intercourse with the opposite sex.

Use a saffron colored bead bag.

Within the institution, with our friends, in our direct contact with Srila Prabhupada, we can, must, find ways to advance in the rules and regulations if Bhakti yoga.

💪💪💪🐒

In many ways, I think many Bloggers take you as their inspiration.

hare krsna, agtSP, paoho/bw!!!

As we announced before, and every year, Annual Disciple Reports, must be posted under the "Reports" tab above, by 19th December, if we, Hp Swami, initiated you with Harinama or Gayatri mantras on behalf of Srila Prabhupada and his ISKCON.

So far there are only about 30-reports posted.

Of course, that is a relief for us 😎 . We only have to take responsibility for thirty people under Srila Prabhupada's glance.

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Hare Krishna Gurudev. Pamho. AgtSP. Agtyou.

How are you, Gurudev? This is Deva-Vrata das, currently living in Córdoba, Argentina (we don't know about tomorrow).

Today, November 30th, my mind is focused on trying to have a good distribution of books during this marathon. With a clear conscience, for my own spiritual benefit, the benefit of others, and to please you and Srila Prabhupāda with this transcendental activity.

Today on the "Japa Joe" program, I asked for your blessings for this endeavor, because without your blessings and those of the paramparā, I am powerless in every aspect.

A year ago, I was with you, Gurudev, in Spain... what a privilege and undeserved gift of life... thank you for everything once again...

What else can I do in life besides distribute Srila Prabhupāda's books? I'm useless, I'm not even good at it, I have no talent, but I do have a bit of stubbornness...

Besides, my faith is weak... but, I ask again, what else can I do?

I know your way of thinking a little... this isn't about selling books... It's about trying to give Krishna to people and encouraging others to do this... And I know you're not interested in numbers... but I need to motivate myself, haha.

I'm recording Vaisesika das's book, "Our Family Business," to motivate myself and the devotees... https://t.me/SankirtanaSrilaPrabhupada

We'll be together in December in the streets of Traslasierra, Córdoba—you, me, and Srila Prabhupada.

Hare Krishna Gurudev

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna. AgtSP. Paoho. Thank you for this news. Numbers aren't bad. Our only Karma is to think about how to distribute books in anyway possible, but especially by making people into book distibutors.

Offer people five books instead of one. Ask them if they think these might be really useful for some of their friends. Then they are in the Sankirtan mood. Buy a book to learn, is like Jnana, no? Most people cannot do Jnana yoga in Kali yuga. Yet, joining the Sankirtan movement. Learning to teach. Is the Yuga dharma.

Then we have our technique.

SP said, Every salesman has his own technique.

We are worse than you, but we also try.

We bought books, got books from the library. Read books mentioned in other books we had read.

Bought a KRSNA book. Big hardcover from maybe Buddhimanta Das when we was in a dhoti and kirta at the Whole Earth Day festival at our university campus.

Best of wishes for a very pure Marathon!

Hare Krsna Gurudev. Pamho. AgtSP. Agtyou.

¿Cómo está Gurudev?

Aquí Deva-Vrata das, actualmemte viviendo en Córdoba, Argentina (mañana no sabemos)

Hoy 30 de noviembre tengo mi mente enfocada en tratar de tener una buena distribución de libros esta maratón. Con buena conciencia, para beneficio espiritual personal, beneficio de la gente y para complacerte a ti y a Srila Prabhupāda, con esta actividad trascendental.

Hoy en el programa "Japa Joe" pedía tus bendiciones para esta empresa, ya que sin tus bendiciones y las del paramparā soy impotente en todo aspecto.

Hace un año estaba contigo Gurudev, en España... qué privilegio y regalo de la vida inmerecido... gracias por todo una vez más...

¿qué otra cosa puedo hacer en la vida que no sea distribuir libros de Śrīla Prabhupāda? Soy un inútil, ni siquiera soy bueno haciéndolo, no tengo talento, pero si un poco de obstinación...

Además, mi fe es endeble... pero, vuelvo a decir ¿qué otra cosa puedo hacer?

Conozco un poco tu pensamiento... esto no se trata de vender libros...

Sino de tratar de dar a Krishna a la gente y de incentivar que otros hagan esta actividad...

Y sé a tí los números no te interesan... pero necesito motivarme jajaja

Estoy grabando el libro de Vaisesika das "Nuestra empresa familiar", para incentivarme a mi mismo y a los devotos...

https://t.me/SankirtanaSrilaPrabhupada

Estaremos juntos en diciembre en la calles de Traslasierra Córdoba, tú yo y Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Hare Krsna Gurudev

Hare Krishna Dear Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are preparing to publish the corresponding Annual Report, with deep appreciation and gratitude for Srila Prabhupada, who lives in his books and in the steady correspondence of His pure devotee. Thanks to Krishna we are able to do so once again, responding to the request of His Holiness HPS. So… all glories to You.

We have important news. During these months we have lived attentive to the constant revelations that Providence brings to us… despite the condition allotted to us. Our donkey has been greatly benefited through the experience of unwanted, yet unavoidable, amputations.

We felt the grief of losing the index area of the left hoof, cut off by a wood-cutting saw.

Then, experiencing what is known as the “phantom limb syndrome”… we deduced that, during the critical moment of death, something similar might be felt—only due to the complete absence of Platero.

The attachment to “I” and “mine”… appearing as a sort of ghostly state of consciousness, in which one confronts the electric impulses of the mind that create the illusion of feeling pain in what is no longer there. https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/4/28/17/#bb34314

On the other hand… during those days, when our enthusiasm was shaken by trauma, willpower arose, making it possible to continue as best as we could with the implicit commitment: +16/4. In that process, we concluded that the ever-present causeless mercy allows us to understand that the only real possibility of chanting without offenses appears when one simply does not stop chanting for as long as possible.

Also… that the most advisable way not to dream is to sleep as little as possible… and that yawning, being an indication of anubhāva, may well be used by Maya as a palliative for day-dreaming.

In short, dear Maharaja… We must already be exceeding 200 words, so all that remains is to offer thanks—since it is never out of place—and to take our leave until soon. HK. TGSP. And all glories to You.

E.N.C. das

HpS/ASA - Thank you E. N. Candra Das. What about your poetry? Any publications?

We have had two pairs of teeth amputated.

Our ears are at 25% functioning.

When the first tooth was pulled, the dentist, India congregation member in Miami. Very nice person.

Asked if we wanted to see the tooth.

We said yes and it was interesting to look at it.

We laughed and said that it appeared we were going to go back home, back to Godhead, one piece at a time.

He laughed and said that in 20 years as a dentists most people did not even want to look at the extracted tooth, and that we were the first ones who had laughed about it.

Same thing happening to you.

One piece at a time?

Hare Krishna Querido Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Nos disponemos a publicar el correspondiente informe anual, con sumo aprecio y gratitud por Srila Prabhupada que vive en sus libros y en la correspondencia estática de Su devoto puro. Gracias a Krisna podemos hacerlo ahora, una vez más… atendiendo el pedido de Su Santidad HPS. Así que… Todas las glorias a Ti.

Tenemos novedades importantes. Hemos vivido estos meses atentos a las constantes revelaciones que la Providencia nos acerca… pese a la condición que nos toca. Nuestro asno se ha visto grandemente beneficiado al experimentar amputaciones no deseadas pero sucedidas.

 Hemos sentido el duelo por la perdida en la zona índice de la pesuña izquierda, amputada por la cierra de corte para madera.

Experimentando luego, lo conocido como: “Síndrome de ausencia por el miembro amputado”

… Deducimos que durante el crítico momento de la muerte… Podría sentirse lo mismo: solo que por la ausencia completa de Platero.

El “apego al -yo- y lo mío-” …como cierto estado de conciencia fantasmagórico… en que uno se enfrenta a los impulsos eléctricos de la mente, que crean la ilusión de sentir dolor en lo que ya no está. https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/4/28/17/#bb34314

Por otro lado… durante esos días: cuando el entusiasmo se vio atacado por el trauma… apareció la voluntad haciendo posible continuar lo mejor que se pueda con el compromiso tácito: +16/4… En ese trajín… concluimos que la misericordia sin causa siempre presente… nos permite comprender que la única posibilidad real de cantar sin ofensas… se presenta ante el hecho de no dejar de cantar durante todo el tiempo posible.

También… que lo mas recomendable para no soñar, es dormir lo menos que se pueda… y que el bostezar, siendo un indicativo de anubhāva … bien puede ser utilizarlo por Maya como paliativo para soñar despierto.

En fin, querido Maharaja… Estaríamos ya excediendo las 200 palabras, así que solo resta agradecer por que nunca está de mas hacerlo. Y despedirnos hasta pronto. HK. TGSP. Y todas las glorias a Ti.

E.N.C. das

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, por favor recibe mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

En mi carta anterior me preguntas lo siguiente:

HpS - ¡Jaya! Nunca había oído el nombre ni los pasatiempos de Maharaja. ¿De dónde es? ¿Es sannyasi de ISKCON?

Gracias por la noticia. En cualquier caso, Srila Prabhupada dedicó toda su vida a la preparación, así que quizá tengamos que dedicar veinte vidas a prepararnos, pero en cualquier caso, ya estamos experimentando el desarrollo en Bhakti Yoga que se promete.

Maharaja Bhakti Arjava Priti Vardhana Swami, es de Republica checa.

Es discipulo de SS. Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami y tomo sannyasa con SS. Jayapataka Swami.

La siguiente información es de Iskcondesiretree:

https://audio.iskcondesiretree.com/index.php?q=f&f=%2F02_-_ISKCON_Swamis%2FISKCON_Swamis_-_A_to_C%2FHis_Holiness_Bhakti_Arjava_Priti_Vardhana_Swami

Prithi Vardhana Dasa es uno de los administradores de la escuela gurukula de la Academia Bhaktivedanta. Es conocido por ser un devoto cualificado y erudito, un ejemplo de vida sencilla y pensamiento elevado. Lleva casi 30 años sirviendo en el gurukula. Predica regularmente en diferentes países de Europa y también viaja con Su Santidad Bhakti Purusottama Swami para apoyar la predicación de Cuidado Tribal en las zonas rurales tribales de la India. En la auspiciosa ocasión de aceptar sannyasa, recibió el nombre de Bhakti Arjava Prithi Vardhana Swami.

Guru Maharaja le escribí mi reporte anual en Reports.

Bueno Guru Maharaja, me despido, que el Señor Nrsimha lo proteja siempre.

Gadai Gauranga Das

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All Glory to Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja, please accept my most humble and respectful obeisances.

In my previous letter, you asked me the following:

HpS - Jaya! I've never heard of Maharaja's name or pastimes. Where is he from? Is he an ISKCON sannyasi?

Thank you for the information. In any case, Srila Prabhupada dedicated his entire life to preparation, so perhaps we will have to dedicate twenty lifetimes to preparing ourselves, but in any case, we are already experiencing the promised development in Bhakti Yoga.

Maharaja Bhakti Arjava Priti Vardhana Swami is from the Czech Republic.

He is a disciple of His Holiness Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami and took sannyasa with His Holiness Jayapataka Swami.

The following information is from ISKCON Desiretree:

Prithi Vardhana Dasa is one of the administrators of the Bhaktivedanta Academy's gurukula school. He is known as a skilled and learned devotee, an example of simple living and elevated thought. He has been serving in the gurukula for almost 30 years. He preaches regularly in various European countries and also travels with His Holiness Bhakti Purusottama Swami to support Tribal Care preaching in rural tribal areas of India. On the auspicious occasion of accepting sannyasa, he received the name Bhakti Arjava Prithi Vardhana Swami.

HpS - Thank you!!! I think I may have met Maharaja and know him by his Brahmacari name.

Are you going to take Sannyasa? 🙂

Guru Maharaja, I wrote my Annual Report to you in the Reports section.

HpS - We just checked and sixteen devotees have filed Reports. Considering our incompetence that is nice. If we only have sixteen disciples to serve following Srila Prabhupada in Disciplic succession we might be able to do the job properly.

Well, Guru Maharaja, I bid you farewell. May Lord Nrsimha always protect you.

Gadai Gauranga Das

HpS - Thank you so much.

More News of your developing Sadhana and Sankirtan as it develops.