Letters to the editor

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Thank you. We will read it for Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Srila Gurudev

Dandavat pranam at your lotus feet

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I am writing to seek your blessings to have darshan of Sri Venkateshwara Balaji at tirupati. I had read that your holiness had accepted Sanyasa at Tirupati dhama.

Please bless that I can have the consciousness to have darshan of Lord.

Sadhana wise I am doing ok. Trying to improve more. I am trying to wake up for mangala aarti more.

I have started reading Isopanisad with Ras Bihari prabhu from Peru. We are trying to fix a proper time.

I am based in Pondicherry India and working as senior resident In anatomy department. The duty needs lot of reading as there are multiple courses to teach.

Happy vyasa puja Srila Gurudev. I am selfishly requesting Narasimha deva and Prabhupada that you stay in ur earthly pastimes few more years beyond 2024. And we physically celebrate with you for more years on earthly planet.

Hare Krsna Srila Gurudev

Rturaja Krsna Das

Pondicherry, India

HpS - Always very, very nice to hear from you. You are pretty, darn, nice person! 🙂👍👍

We took Sannyasa from H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami in Hyderbad and then went to Tirupatti with him and the party.

God bless your visit with happy advancement in self realization.

Hare Krishna, Respected Maharaj,

Please accept our humble and respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to your holiness!!

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Paoho..... !. .. We feel like 'our holocastness'. 🐵

Trying to not eat peanut butter and bananas late at night.

We are writing to inform you that in our Richmond Yatra, Priya Mataji (wife of Braja Raja Krishna Prabhu) recently shared her desire and aspiration to take shelter of your Holiness. She is a sincere Vaishnavi practicing for a few years now and is serious about her spiritual life.

We would like to ask you Maharaj, what would be her next steps? Thank you very much.

We beg at your lotus feet to remain your servant, to develop taste in Chanting Holy Names, and to be protected from Vaishnava aparadha.

Your servant,

Divyanam Das

HpS - Very nice letter, thank you. We are remembering meeting at Radha kunda while you all were taking bath!!

About us acting as Diksa guru, we wrote out our perspective in a letter yesterday:

https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14617/

In summary, we are too old to do the job.

We can act as Siksa guru, also in terms of our capacity, and we are seeing very nice devotees like Radha Krsna Das here in Houston who are taking up the work as Diksa guru very well.

Of course, the main thing is how we see everyone as Guru: trnad api sahisnuna... that is the spiritual world, and then Diksa guru, Vartmana pradarshika guru, Kula guru are all specific aspects of that.

O.K.??

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj.

Please accept our humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you very much for coming to Houston and staying here and giving your association to community.

Me and wife is very thankful to you that since you gave us Brahmin diksha we are able to serve lordship more.

Now we can cook for deity we do more then couple of times in week, also we are dressing Gaur Nitaya and Radha Giridhari and Girirajji, because of your mercy and lord blessings we got opportunity to do abhishek of Radha Giridhari on Janmastami, my wife Sumitra Radha got opportunity to Aartik on Goverdhan Pooja day.

HpS/ASA - We, agtSP, feel very fortunate to be in NMDh. We are trying to contribute!

You are already in Goloka, Nabadvipa, no? You just have to wake up!!!

We are trying to keep ourselves engage in more and more active devotional service.

Both Kids also help us in serving Radha Neela Madhav.

I am planning to visit my parent in India last week of Jan.

Please always keep us in your shelter.

Your Aspiring Servant

Devendra Krishna Das

Sumitra Radha

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Thank you!!! What are exact dates of your visit to India?

ASA[E] Guru-tattva.. Diksa guru retires.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to your enormous service.

I hope you get much better health.

HpS - Our donkey's health is pretty good for 75-years old.

Had littel fever, probably just like you, but recovered quickly.

Hearing, sight, memory are like 40% gone. That won't come back in this life time. It is good. We want to stop watching the movie of mangos and pick real mangos for Krsna!

Would be nice if we died right after sending this letter and you died right after reading it and then we both took birth in Nabadvipa with Nimai, no!!!

We remain firm with all our vows and also with the service in the initiation committee, I wanted to apologize for my mistake in misunderstanding the words in English, I will strive to improve, in fact I am practicing English with a devotee of the Indian community 🙏.

HpS - Your English is better than my Spanish! 😄

In December we helped aspiring devotees for Hari nama initiation and brahminical initiation of Jayapataka Maharaja, we had a very good association with older devotees.

HpS/ASA - Such a nice service!

My letter is mainly addressed to you to tell you about Bhakta Carlos Rold, a devotee of many years who has always felt very enthusiastic about everything related to making your sankirtan grow.

I am a witness of how he has made an effort to qualify and prepare himself.

For a year now, he has been following the four regulative principles, maintaining his sadhana, connecting to FMP, doing practical service in the Iskcon Chile temple, singing its 16 rounds (he tells me that when he cannot finish them, he sings them the next day, adding to the corresponding ones),

he has also approved [passed] the Disciples course and is about to finish the Introduction to Bhakti yoga course.

Also Bhakta Lucciano Macchiavello would also like to formalize his entire process in a certain way, he tells me that he has known you for more than 17 years and that no one like you has understood it, he has never stopped following your institution of donating milk and butter for the deity.

Gurudeva an important question, do you think in the future granting formal Refuge and possible initiation to Bhakta Carlos Rold and perhaps formal refuge to Bhakta Lucciano Macchiavello?, Both devotees have been following his instructions for years.

Your would-be servant

Manjuali Devi Dasi

Santiago de Chile

HpS - Maybe even more than a year ago we decided that we are too old to give any more 1st initiation. The Diksa guru takes Karma. It is a job, and it is a job for a young man. Last time we did it. Few months ago. We felt really crushed.

🙂

However, that does not mean that we cannot be Guru's for Carlitos or Machaivelli.

In Srila Bhaktivinode's 'Jaiva Dharma' one fictional Sannyasi, saint, Babba Mahasai, is preaching, teaching, guiding a young man from Kolkata when he visits Nabadvipa.

Then Bobba Mahasaya tells him that he is ready for initiation, but that he, Bobba Mahasaya is 90-years old and that if he initiates him, he will die, so they should go and see Vaisnava Thakura Bobba who is only 75-years old.

Young man. 😃

VTB says that it is an honor to do the ritual if BM recommends The Young Man (35-years old).

So, that is what we feel.

Carlos and Machiavelli are our friends!

What more can we want!!?

It is an honor if we can be their friends and counselors always.

We are recommending Yadunandana Swami in Spain as a very nice Diksa guru. Radha Krsna Das in Houston.

O.K.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I am a little concerned about your health. So I hope this meets you in really good health.

This is letter is going to be brief.

On January 9th we will arrive to Houston along with Palika dd.

We kindly ask for your blessings so that we can see your very good self again

C U soon Gurudeva

Trying to be your disciple

CMDD

HpS/ASA - AgtSP.

Monkey and Piggy want to know if you are bringing Ulysses? ???

Mahaprasada of Radha Madana-bihari?

Alfahores?

Think Radha and Nila madhava will be ecstatic to see you.

Visiting 16,108 houses of Krsna.