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Todas las glorias a Sri Caitanya y Nityananda

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Gurudeva por favor acepte mis reverencias.

Quisiera comenzar pidiendo una disculpa a usted y a los devotos que puse en ansiedad con mi Situacion personal,

ASA - HpS -- Es un honor ser occupado con su situacion personal. Vd es una buena persona.

. . . es cierto que he tolerado muchas situaciones pero pienso que Krishna me ha puesto aqui por una razon. Mi poca inteligencia me hace dudar cual es mi utilidad. Gurudeva, Solo pido su bendicion para poder rendir mis sentidos y deseos a su servicio. Mi intento por protegerme a mi misma  de las garras de mis deseos es una guerra perdida. Quisiera poder entender cual es el significado real de rendicion al Guru, rendicion a los deseos de Krishna.

Disculpe mi egoismo al tratar de terminar mi servicio en la escuela. He decidido continuar; cancelé mi ticket a India por ahora. Fue una decision impulsiva.  Mi deseo de visitar el Santo Dham sigue vivo, pero quiero hacer lo correcto, estar preparada para ello.

Esta experiencia me mostró que soy muy debil sin Sādhana y el santo nombre. Mi canto de japa ha sido muy desatento ultimamente, estoy regresando a intensificarlo,  tambien mis oraciones.

Gurudeva, perdone a este discipulo que aun no puede levantar los brazos hacia Krishna

solo nos queda la esperanza de que al final Draupadi levanto los brazos

Mis humildes reverencias Guru Maharaja.

Su sirviente,

Govinda Pramodini DD
HpS - ASA -- Eso es su servicio. Cantar 16-rondas entusiastas cada dia y seguir los cuatro principios fuerta mente.  Entonces va a ser tan glorificado como Reina Kunti, Draupadi, Rukmini.....    Todo esta movimiento depende y su fuerza. Con buen Japa y 4-principios es claro, su inteligencia va a ser claro, buen indicacions de libros y consejo de otros, y va a ser bien clar que hacer!​

I think you have been doing well in all your decisions.

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories For you maharaj!

I'm David Leyton, I'm writing you from Santiago de Chile. how are you and your health Maharaj?

HpS - ASA - Normal

Thanks for your aswers. In the last letter, you told me i should talk to Madan mohan Das about my therapies but i haven't seen him yet.

Sorry maharaj, but i would like to ask you a last question about it. My last therapy was Biosintesis, in this session two therapists analised my inner energy and they look back and interpreted my past lives. One of them told me that i was a Franciscan monk and i took a poverty vow that it is still in effect. How could i know if this is true?, if it was true, How could i finish this vow?

ASA - I don't know. Personally I would be very, very doubtful of such claimed powers as to see into previous lives.   Chant Hare Krsna under Srila Prabhupada's protection and everything nice will follow.

About service, Gita devi dasi is a Bhakti Vriksa Leader and she wants me to run a new Bhakti Vriksa group. We are very happy (My bride-to-be and I) about it because i feel that it is a very important experience to give all that i've learnt to others. Please give me your bleasing for my new step. What would you recommend me to do?

ASA - I don't know what are the requierments to be a Leader, but it sounds O.K. in general. Try it with a clear understanding of the responsibilities between her and a few others and then judge by the results.

Thanks for your patience and for reading my letter.

Haribol!

 ASA - Jaya!!!      Let us​ the results of your Bhakti-vrksa work.

hare krishna Maharaj pamho agtsp.

Maharaj thank you very much for all your support, it is very important to me.
I'm ashamed to say; but really I do not want to force me to make a vow. what else can I say. just please be merciful with me; so I can understand how you are engaged in devotional service.

I read the verses; I really understand that all my misfortune is the material attachment. attachment to my mother and my sister. but it's like a reflection of my desire to enjoy. I'm really suffering but with her there is nothing to do; one thing Harer Nama.
but I'm like a cloud just hope not disappear.

I think I should go to India and forget all this material world; no matter die by starvation in a forest. actually that would be the goal. but then what about the sankirtan ISKCON. it seems that everyone has a way. either way I think the best is the sankirtan. This blog is a therapy.

well I'll keep resisting somehow; and perhaps to-morrow the sun shine with such force that mowed my materialistic vision. Here's hoping.  

Now my days in Scandinavia almost ending for now. I hope to travel to Barcelona in two or three weeks.

Maharaj thank you

HpS -  Jaya!   No force! ​ Just suggestion, from Rupa Goswami in Bhakti rasamrta sindhu.  In the beginning it is Vaidhi bhakti.  By rules and regulations.     So, if we can make some standard for our selves, that we know is good.  That we know we can do, then we can defeat the crazy mind.   Can be to chant one round every Sunday no matter what.  What is good for us.   One round every Sunday for one month.  Then exam the results.

Of course, maybe the Karma is still to strong for that, then yes, try to chant as much as possible whenever you can. Read SB (to others (Krsna)), make You Tube movies for Krsna.

Hope you have a lot of devotee friends.

Hope for lots of news from you when you get to Barcelona.  Nimai and Gundica never write to us!!!!

Todas las glorias a su divina gracia A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

​Hare Krishna Muy querido y siempre siempre recordado maestro espiritual

Gurudeva!   Hariboooool.     Le escribo muy feliz! Porque acabo de salir de atender a la deidad del templo de Wilson Gauranitay!!!!

Dejé. De ir a Isev porque entendí que es mejor estar en donde me formaron. No sé si cometi una ofensa al decir que no era de Iskcon....  perdone si es así.pero siempre dije q usted es mi maestro espiritual. Ahora mis rondas con mejor canto sadhana y usando sari.

ASA - Bueno!   Prabhupada dijo que la chica comun no va ser satisfecha sin al minimo 24-36 Saris.

Siento que vuelvo a nacer como el hijo pródigo.

​tengo que contarle algo...en diciembre Jesús, el chico con el que salía terminó la relación conmigo y fue lo mejor para ambos. ambos estamos tranquilos y yo me estoy acercando más a Krishna. Ahora estoy trabajando en el colegio de isev en una zona de muy bajos recursos con niños en riesgo de delincuencia. es una misericordia que ellos tomen prasadam y vean a la deidad.

​Gurumaharaja.....mmmm.....hay un devoto que se llama hari gobinda que fue brahmachari por 6 años y presidente de dos templos de isev. Pero ahora el decoro ha decidido abandonar la institución isev. se formó cuatro años en iskcon y siente que irse a isev no fue la mejor decisión. Y....él quiere escribirle algo sobre mi....porque....mmmm el prabhu Hari Govinda tiene intenciones de asociarse conmigo y desea escribirle a usted....

​Hare Krishna Maharaj Reverencias todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada. Como ya le escribió la Madre Yasoda me llamo Hari Govinda das.

ASA - HpS -  Wow!  Pronto, nuestra deseos realizados!  Hola, Hari!!

Le escribo a su digna persona para expresar mi admiración y respeto que tengo hacia madre Yasoda y pedir su consentimiento para poder asociarme con la madre. Estamos en una etapa de conocernos. Pido a usted sus Bendiciones. Hare Krishna.

HpS - ASA -- Claro es una tema muy amplio.  Pienso es super si todo es en la asociacion de ambos de sus familias, los autoridades religiosos como el Yamunesvara Das en Wilson, entonces va a pasara muy bien.

En nuestra cultural el matrimonio no es entre dos personas, es entre dos "familias".   Ahhh!  Entonces es muy pacifico, dulce, productiva.   Buena suerte.    Cual es su trabajo???​

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisance’s.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

From Bhakta Luciano Macchiavelo Chile

I think this is the second time I send a message to the Blog, your nicknamed me Bhakta Lucifer (whick I find so funny). Luciano + Macchiavello =Lucifer 

A lot has passed since I asked to be your disciple like 4 years ago and formally asked for refugee a little under 2 years back. But I am slowly advancing as a devotee, maybe to slowly but I do feel at heart that I am advance. But I have kept going regularly to the temple.

At this moment I have no formal service, but I do a few things:

1: help in harinam.

2: Community Data Base.  Me and another Bhakta under the guidance of the temple president will be building a database of ALL Iskcon devotes in Chile.

3: Milk products for temple Deities. This service sprang  out of nowhere…  I buy countryside milk products for temple deities and deliver it to the Deity kitchen.  I collect money from devotes, but I end up financing most of this service from my own pocket.

ASA -   Excellent. Krsna loves you!

2 months ago I started working for a  USA company called Troll and Toad  which area  of business is collectable games, my job is basically buy collectable cards in Chile and send them to the company in USA, and help them in events in America Latina, I am traveling each weekend and in November I go to Puerto Alegre brazil fro an international Magic Game event.

Its strange that Krisna is pushing me to administrating Money, for my company (they sent me us$6000 last month), for the Milk for the Temple  Deities and a devotee that I will not mention has a family member deposit money in my account, I keep that money safe and when he needs me to from abroad he sends me a message to hand it over to another devotee.

ASA - -  Karma, karma, karma - Men, money, women.

The temple President Prabhu Amara Gouranga has been giving me space to sit in at his new administration meetings, he is in dire need of devotes who can and want to administrate and he is slowly giving me space to try and see where I can be useful.

Also  I do informal service of administrating 3 Facebook groups:

1: Lacto vegetarians in Chile 460 members

2: harinam Saknirtan Iskcon Chile

3 Congregacion Iskcon Chile. This has been very nice it started off with no members and I started adding devotees and Bhaktas, under the permision of the temple Presidente. It now hs 266 memebrs.  It’s a closed group so it’s a online space where devotes can post stuff more internal issues and share devote stuff for Chile. I see a lot of potential here. It has been conflict free upto now. I have a bit of a reputation as a heavy facebook argumentor… so the trouble makers avoid me ( I was participating a lot on vegan vegetarian  facegroups and gave the Vegans that offended devotes a hard time and gained the respect of a few of their leaders always a gentle man).

My relationship with the devotees has not been easy. I am a gentle man but very critical, not in an offensive way but because I want to help develop a strong community for preaching. Thus my neophyte stage always clashes with a few devotes. But I feel I have gained the respect of many due to my sincerity.

Today I went to temple and gave my respects top Srila Prabhupada and he looked at me grave, too serious, almost angry. My first thought was “Guru” You.  I need to develop a relationship with Guru.

“ 3weeks ago I was given Goura Nitay Dieties from the Chilean Brhamchari called Hari Das Chaitanya (personal assistant of Jayapataka Swami), he brought them from Mayapur.

I should have then asked you permsion to worship them but never got around to doing it.

My Sadhana is below par.

I have problem with my rounds, for that I am trying to get up very early to do at leastt 4 rounds around 5:30. A.m. and during the day fill in the rest.

I have no attraction for meat  and have not eaten meat/eggs etc for more than 10 years

I have no attraction for alcohol and not drank for more than 10 years

I have never done drugs.

I once smoked for 2 weeks (to try and fit in but that was stupid of me)

I do not gamble and the lst time I played a lottery ticket was like 3 years ago.

I tend to have a regular fall down in illicit sex, every few months someone appears to seem like the perfect wife… but not work….

Please guide and advise me.

With  your permission can I worship Guora Nitay?

Is there anything I can do for you?

Your aspiring servant

Bhakta Luciano

Trying to be the servant of the servant

My respects

HpS - ASA -- It is so, nice to hear from you!    We walked in talking circles in the pavillion back of the Temple, no?  All of your activities seem very nice.   Of course, the essence is to bath your self in the Holy Names.

Get up early and get your rounds done!

AgtSP

Pamho Maharaja, Hare Krsna.

I regret the delay, I had my head in a thousand places (mental). I had not sung my rounds (16) a few days, but I have targeted.

Sometimes I can hardly write, although I love, becouse my level is not very high, and only I have very normal questions I´ve heard many times but I exceed either. Or are incorrect questions or stories to a Vaisnava Sannyasi.

You know I am a very ordinary person with a good heart, no more.

These days I have had a personal realization. The other day I woke up at 7:30 to sing my rounds, I was very tired, and singing rounds I located what I felt like my union with atma, my atma and Atma(paramatma or spiritual platform, I think). I feltn the change in the circulation of energi, and I felt one individual consciusness, my self, and felt attached to a river of life. The energi going from the inside out, all around, a union like flowers and roots.

I was very happy becouse I felt that that was the same as over the death, or that I thought.

As always, thanks for everything Maharaja, for the blog, etc. Nectar.

Hare Krsna.

Budanath

ASA - Wow!    Sounds like something out of Herman Hesse and "Siddhartha". Super. From previous lives, no?    In the middle of all these esoteric realities Srila Prabhupada's books seem more and more potent, no?  Long way to go!!!   Please go ahead!!!