Letters to the editor

HpS - ASA  -  O.K. TlgaSP.   Si estamos oyendo de su Rathayatra aqui tambien. Quien es su familia? Que hacen? Son devocionales?

Hare Krishna  Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to your devotional service

Excuse me maharaja i hope you dont mind me speaking in english, My family is very small it consist of my Mom with whom i lived she is 62 years old she works at a national TV Channel in the area of publicity managment,she is faithful catholic but she respect a lot other faiths . She is really opened and respectful that i believe in Krishna conciousness.

HpS - Thank you!   AGTSP!    Has she read Thomas Akampis, "Imitation of Christ"? It is biggest selling Christian book after the Bible. Is nice. Is hundreds of years old.  You could read it together.

My dad he is 76 years old he is retired he was a University profesor in the field  of economy and statistics and lives at another city 5 hours from here ,he is not very devotional , he doenst believe in any especific area he is kinda like an agnostic. He believe in mother nature being respectful with nature and animals but he aint a vegetarian .
 

Besides them i have very close cousin who was raised by mom She is  42 and lives at Canada with her 2 children and her Husband she work in a area for walmart but the offices i think some area of managment i dont remember quite , she is also a catholic .

Also i have 2 cats Jabon and nintendo

haribol 
Bhakta Juan carlo 
 

AgtSP, plase accept my most humble obeisances.

Hare Krishna dear Guru-maharaja! Here Pratibhanu from Chile (currently living in Campina Grande-Brazil, with Maharaja Danvantari Swami)

I hope you are fin about health in these days. 

I wrote a very long report, I don´t know if you received it, if you don´t, I´ll write it again in my next letter.

HpS - AGTSP!!!! Paoho.   No, I don't have any old letters from you!

We are living in a comunity of devotees here, and here is a very good devotee -like all the devotees- : Atmanivedana prabhu, a Dhanvantari Swami´s disciple: he told me that he wants to give me one of his silas, a saligrama, because me and my wife want to workship silas. So, this prabhu wants to know if you agree with this. What do you think about this? Then I can give to him youranswer.

At your lotus feet, 

Pratibhanu das

HpS - ASA --- It is very serious thing, like having children. Have you been regular in chanting your rounds, mangala arati, gayatri's?

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AgtSP, pamho. Dear Gurudeva: 
A few minutes ago, I wrote a very long letter! then the page has an error, so:..

I need to know, how is your health? I´m very happy and grateful for your association those days in Santiago-Chile. I´m so sorry for not to be the lats day before your trip, Ananda Vardhana told me that you were asking for me.
With my wife, Radhika Ramana dd, we are living since March in Campina Grande with Dhanvantari Swami.
Oue sadhana: wake up 4:00 or 4:30 am; mangala arati in the temple; SB class; 16 rounds in the morning; every gayatri every day.

I´m pujari here and Radhika is my assistant. Maha Goura Nitay here are amazing!! I hope that you´ll be here one day.

What do you think about the sila?

I´m always remember you Gurudeva, I hope to be a good disciple and devotee some day.

At your lotus feet.
Pratibhanu das

HpS - AGTSP paoho.  If Maharaja thinks it is O.K. and you understand that is like taking responsibility for a real child, then I think it is very nice. As we understand, the Silas are not worshipped by big rituals or lots of paraphernalia. They are worshipped by the character of the devotee. So if you have good character then everything is very nice, but if you start becoming materialistic then there will be all kinds of bad reactions.

Like going from a bicycle to a Formula One car.  Zooooooooooom!

Hare Krishna Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Prabhupada! All glories to you. 

 Sorry I'm still getting the hang of this blog..

HpS - We also.   HpS - ASA - We also. 

I posted something a few days ago but it didn't show up.  It was a copy of the letter I emailed to you. I've been meaning to post for a  while but just got back from NYC Rath Yatra and the Radha Govind Mandir festival. And to add to the adventure, tomorrow I move to Houston, TX. I wish to hear from you soon. I was talking to Kishore Rico (from the Mayapuris) and his lovely wife Radha who were going on and on about you at the Panihati festival. Had I known- I would've definitely made my way down there. They told such nectarian stories from your time in South America. I cannot wait to one day have your mercy directly. Krishna willing - soon.

Just in case I need to post the letter again on the public form,  here it is below. 

Thank you so much maharaj for your every drop of mercy.  

Please keep me engaged in your service, please keep me sheltered at your divine feet, and thank you for your causeless mercy. 

Your aspiring servant, 

Sarita 

ASA - HpS -- No, the first letter was there. We try to answer within three days. That letter was running 4-days. We also try to put in the DTC how old are the letters that are waiting.

If it is Urgent, write that in the Subject Field.
Basically just look at www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt and it gives our basic undersanding of Guru.

O.K???    We wait to hear from you.  You seem like you are in an extremely auspicious position after millions of lives in the material world.

Hare Krishna Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami, Hare Krishna Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Prabhupada! All glories to you.

I hope this message finds you well. Please excuse the delay in posting the message on the blog as I've been traveling to NYC for annual rath yatra and just got back yesterday. I will be tomorrow moving to Houston! So crazy time.  

Attached below is the letter I sent to you via email.

Your aspiring servant, 
Sarita 

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Hare Krishna Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Prabhupada! All glories to you.

Please forgive me in advance as I am unaware of the correct etiquette for addressing your grace. 

In fact, I look back retrospectively and I still remember the first time I had the fortune of meeting 

you in Richmond, Virginia almost 3-4 years ago. I could not even pronounce your name. You 

were so merciful to come to the university in Richmond and give a lecture hosted by the Bhakti 

Club (I was the fool who introduced you and totally messed up the introduction as well). You 

very gracefully saved the evening by captivating the auditorium full of students and introducing 

the concept of bhakti to the student body. That was the real start of the bhakti yoga club at VCU. 

With your and Srila Prabupad’s mercy– the bhakti club has prospered immensely these last few 

years. It has been my central point of sadhana all throughout my college career.  Your disciple 

and my mentor – Subala Sakha Prabhu comes weekly with Prasadam and offers his insightful 

classes. His daughter, Chandana, will be taking over now that I have graduated. Their entire 

family has been essential to the foundation and flourishing of this club as well as expanding my 

personal sadhana in my time in Richmond. 

Maharaj, the reason I am writing to you now is that I am ready for the next step. I’ve been 

praying for a while to find my spiritual master. So many sanyasis have come through Richmond 

and DC yet there always remained that gap in guru-tattva connection. After long consideration 

(and quite a few “universal” signs) I would like to request to be your disciple. 

I watch and listen to your lectures frequently and it is not only satisfying but pacifies any doubts 

or questions I have. I’ve heard a fair share of classes from Subala Sakha Prabhu and hold so 

much reverence from him- who in turn accolades only you Maharaj. I constantly think of how 

ignorant, and frankly stupid I was when I first met you and wish I could go back and retract all 

those statement and offer all glories to you again and again. I am so embarrassed.

 Besides attempting to run  the bhakti club- my workload in college inhibited me from 

chanting 16 rounds. I chanted maybe 4-6 rounds daily but I did read and follow all regulative 

principles and attend the bhakti vriksha programs weekly. I understand the chanting is what was 

vital and I just couldn’t keep up. Since graduation however, I have been keeping up with 16 

rounds daily. I am serious now. I have finished whatever my “material” goals were but still feel 

unfulfilled. I know there is no other way and nothing else to aspire for. 

I moved back home to Washington DC and it’s taking some time to get used to not being as 

engaged as I was in Richmond.  Nonetheless, with great mercy, Krishna still keeps me engaged 

in Sadhu Sanga, Kirtan, or finding some service at the temple.  

I do know that I am serious now about my sadhana and have absolute faith in the next step. 

Please forgive me again as I do not know the protocol nor the etiquette but I am following what 

my hearts tell me Maharaj. 

So here goes….

I humbly request Maharaj, for you to allow me to accept you as my gurudev. Please accept me as 

your aspiring disciple. I have been going to the temple for as long as I can remember but am as 

lost as ever and ignorant, blind, illusional and conditioned. Please drag me out of this 

conditioned state and guide me towards Krishna. 

Please forgive any offensives I have committed

Your aspiring servant, 

Sarita

HpS - ASA - Jaya. I thin kwe answered this, no?      You have another letter. Let us look at that one.

¡Hare Krsna Maharaja! AgtSP.

I wish your health is good and don’t give to you problems.

Please, I want to ask some questions, but I see that here spoken generally about devotion, and I don’t know if to do mystical questions is correct. I think that mysticism is necessary when our heart don’t fell de devotion…like the science for the thinks that we don’t understand of the spirituality??? I´m in that situation a lot of times. I believe in God yet I don’t understand. I think about his omnipotence, omnipresence, and his powers, the gods, her potency reflection? And think that if we are not the body, her material powers work for us because Supreme God want, then we have a personal relationship with God directly or indirectly dependent of our capacity of see the powers or God in ours and in others…..is ok???

HpS - Jaya!  Vraja-mandala Parikrama, Ki Jai!   Yes, Krsna is everywhere directly or indirectly, but the more we can see Him directly then easier it becomes to see Him indirectly. If I have a personal talk with the artist, then I can really see his choices in the way he painted something.

Then, our reality is illusion if we don’t have one connection with the source of life…less if we have with the separates reflection of God in the material potencies, the gods, or any illusion if we have one personal relation with the master of the theaters …is ok??? My question is that, then, can we speak with God in the persons, or the gods, without the person in the body feel our relation with God or the potencies?

ASA - If we understand your question, yes. Duryodhana was trying to cause problems for Krsna, but he was actually engaged in his service. An enlightened person like Narada Muni or Vyasadeva might be able to see how Krsna was using someone as an instrument although the person did not know it.

When I try to see my days like that, I only see illusion, not real reality, I feel like one prisoner in one holographic world, where the deviated souls, ours, only live the film in one energetic platform, like the dreams, and we are waiting for the wake up, conscious that that vision make to us wake up when the false dead come to ask us about if we want wake up or not……are all that thinks corrects?

ASA - Again it is pretty esoteric, so it is hard for us to say precisely, Yes or No, but in general it seems pretty correct, and knowing you for a long time I would say that your existence on the yoga level is rather real, BUT it is usually contaminated with our own projections, desires, so the real thing is how it is taking us to Bhakti. Which in the befinning is Sadhana bhakti as disctated by an acharya like srila Prabhupada.

"Bahunam janmnam ante... " BG 7.19    .   Read the purport!!

For me are important that thinks because make me think about my ideas of life….HOW MAY I SPEAK WITH GOD DIRECTLY, IN PERSON, EVERY TIME, IN EVERY PERSON, IN EVERY THING, if not, what about my dream test, my real vision out of the corporal relations of man and women, with senses and wants, with material and spiritual….. If we are soooo fools, sooo poor of knowledge, of spiritual vision, if God save us, if we try to pray for our salvation of that false world…..is the way of devotion???...i am sooo fool, please, help me, save me, I can´t see You in any place, in any person….Can God, the Supreme God, pay our bill in the time of the dream test??? Like always, thanks you very much for all, I remember you soooo many times every day. Always trying to learnt more and more thanks of yours lessons. Your fool follower and friend, Pablo Parikrama. HARE KRSNA.

HpS - ASA - - - Write some poems in English.  Little ones.

Hare Krishna dear gurudeva! Please accept my humble obeisances.

 All glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you!

I hope you are doing well! I had written you some month ago but I don’t know if you read it, because you were already traveling.. 

 I was dealing with a great challenge and I was all the time thinking about you told me "If you are feeling big enthusiasm, don't be surprised to get big tests also.”  Anyway I’m back on track again. Because of this, I could realize how important is taking shelter of guru, sastra and sadhu specially when  our intelligence is covered. 

Well, Finally I took the decision to give up my job at september and go to Mayapur for living there for a time. As I told you before. My spiritual master His Grace Mahatma Prabhu wants me there because there are a lot of work to do for Soul Tools and he wants I work with him. I will go for studying also. So if Krishna allows me, I will be there on October  and the ideal is to stay there but Indian laws has changed some days ago and there’s no way to extend student visa in India. Once visa expired one have to come back to their country to get new visa or maybe by going to another country but not near to India though. So now we are waiting for lighting and trying to plan a way to extend the visa in some way in the future. 

About my sadhana, I was able to organize my schedule according to my nocturne work, of course. So, I’m still doing the complete morning program at home but at noon. Trying to keep 16 rounds done after the program and following 4 principles, studying bhakti sastri (now the other part: Bhagavad gita), worshiping deities very happily. A picture attachment.

Still very enthusiastic doing a lot of service. How can I develop goodness modality if I’m doing a lot of things all the time of course in the passion modality?

ASA - AGTSP.  Very nice to hear from you. I think you have to set priorities and then even though you do many things you will understand that you can't do all of them. Have full morning and evening program.

I like to have a balance between both. I think that maybe I have a nature mixed with both. I like to be busy all the time and thinking new things to do, i love challenges by doing different things all the time but sometimes these brings me a lot of anxiety. And on the other hand I love some bhraminical duties like studying and worship deities by which I feel more deeply connected to Krishna and with much more fixed consciousness.

Gurudeva, What happens when a devotee get a lot of knowledge about sastra by studying books and starts to feel pride for that

ASA - It is like a snake with a jewel on the head.  Ha!   Ha!   Ha!

How can one stay humble in that position?

ASA - By trying to teach all the knowledge you have. 

On the other hand, Is there something that you want that I do as a service for you dear gurudeva?

HpS - ASA -- 1. Give your regards to The Mahatma (Das),  2. Really focus on getting ready for first initiation.  3. Send us some news from time to time about your Yatra.  4. Tungavidya Devi Dasi was trying to renew her student visa while in India. Hmm.   Guess she can't do it now.   Generally speaking its good to come back to your country every year or so anyway, no?  Hare Krsna!

your servant and siksa disciple,

Bhaktin Belen