Letters to the editor

All glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to You

My dear Srila Gurudev please accept my humble obeisances, hope you are in good health, and I imagine you must be  very busy due to you are always pretty busy in expanding this movement. I'm studying in chile a lot  to get good grades. My report is as follows beloved Gurudeva, I had problems this year with my chanting but I have managed to keep and   get it  more stable I want to enhance  my japa, the 4 regulative principles are equally well, and my service to krishna is very big in different subjects, first my university, we already have 3 new fellow devotees and secondly we are doing a lot of preaching and music with a group called '' Krishna Sambandha "this year we played almost every week on huge festivals like yoga exp. I will give you the  link. It was so beautiful, and many people are listening to the holy name through this preaches, also recorded an album and when we have it I will give you a CD, and finally'm also doing some services in the altar with the deities, I was living in the temple for one month and a half worshiping deities every morning. Now I'm calmer leveraging my time to work on my new home where I am living alone I am working and wanted to tell you that  I'm starting a relationship with "Soledad" she is a great devotee of Krishna, she is just starting but she is very  enthusiastic but does not like the institutional problems that exist in ISKCON, and we're trying to do everything right in the path of Krishna consciousness, she's my companion college too, and knows a lot of psychology. This coming year will be the 4th year of college and I have to look for my thesis project even we do not have decided to do with my teammates but clearly it will be at the service of Krishna.

That is all that I can tell, I am very eager to be see U on January 17th here in chile and I miss you very much and I am  looking forward to talk with you, and  serve you.

Your servant Abhimanyu das who loves U so much

HpS - Jaya!!!!! So we see you in Chile in a few days!!  Very nice news. Thank you so much...! ...  See you in just a few days, by Krsna's arrangement...

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Querido Gurudeva

por favor acepte mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias

Acá le escribe bhakta Rodrigo de Santiago de Chile.  Espero que usted se encuentre muy bien.

HpS - ASA -  We also hope you are well!

Ayer sábado celebramos su Vyasa Puja en el Templo de Santiago.  Fue una bonita fiesta. Entendemos que por calendario védico su Vyasa Puja fue este martes 23 de diciembre.

Ese día fue muy especial para mí, porque ese día Biblioteca Nacional me dijo que SÍ podemos hacer conferencia de Usted sobre Carl Jung en la sala más importante de la Biblioteca. Todo esto fue un arreglo de Krishna, porque ellos ya tenían completo ese día con actividades.

Hace 5 años intenté hacer conferencia de usted en Biblioteca Nacional, pero NO fue posible.

HpS - Esforzamoz pero Krsna realiza la magia, no??!!

AHORA Krishna hizo el arreglo: Nosotros trabajamos meses y meses en una exposición con la Biblioteca Nacional y Embajada de Portugal. El resultado es una exposición muy bella e importante. Nosotros como Dharma quedamos muy bien evaluados en la Biblioteca y ellos confían en nosotros.

Entonces al conversar sobre la Conferencia de JUNG cambiaron programa para dar a usted esa fecha y hora: Jueves 22 de enero, 19:00 hrs

Esto me tiene contento porque llevamos 7 años practicando Conciencia de Krishna y todo este tiempo pensamos en una conferencia de Usted en la Biblioteca Nacional y AHORA  gracias a Krishna es posible.

¡Nuestra ofrenda de Vyasa Puja es esta buena noticia!

En otra carta espero hablar de reporte personal: En último tiempo mucho surrealismo en nuestra mente y corazón. Escribiendo mucha poesía surrealista, pero viviendo como un loco.

Con mis reverencias

Su aspirante a sirviente,

Bhakta Rodrigo Hernández Piceros

HpS - Hari bolo. See attached photo.

Hare Krsna

All glories to Srila Prabhupada in this beautiful marathon! All glories to you Gurumaharaja and his beautiful personality!

Please excuse my negligence of not write in two months. Many things happen so quickly, but I appreciate things that happen to this Jiva and the fall that is also.

With difficulties some not so serious, we continue chanting 16 rounds daily and 4 principles, the hardest thing in this time has been sleep early and get up early, had never been so hard for me, the alarm sounds and the body not respond. I live with girls devotees also, learning a lot from them, they are a great example, we worship the deity in the morning and afternoon reading Krsna Book, doing several events where we invite the temple devotees. It is so beautiful to remember the great family that  you Guru Maharaj gave me.

Guru Maharaj want to thank you deeply for the support that you provide me in the project to partner with Prabhu Marco, despite their blessings, read the third canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, wonderful courses of holiness Mahatma Prabhu and great tips of grihastha, it was not possible complete this project. The good thing is that he remained in sankirtan near the devotees and I too, we had nine months to get to know and recognize that our time and projects were different.

I for one feel that I should wait longer and finish college before undertaking such an ambitious project as the Grihastha Ashram. Although I would not want discard the project because Krishna consciousness and the refuge guru taught me that everything is eternal commitment, but in this case my opinion was not the only that important. Between many changes as initiation, live with devotees away from my parents, Sankirtan and University, meet a devotee was very difficult because it required time and dedication. So please excuse me for all offenses Gurudeva that I made to tell and do this.

Thanks for all, always you have been there for me in dreams and awake. I hope someday achieve with everything I'm learning, be more patient and prepared for the services they arrive.

P.d. the pictures are of the house party, birthday celebration and the altar home:)

His slow servant Satyabhama dd

HpS - AGTSP. Even if we don't get everythiing perfect in this lifetime we can get ourselves in a better birth next lifetime. You can be in Nadadvipa with Lord Caitanya, but.....  why not become perfect servants now!

  AGTSP !!!

  Please acept my humble obeisances

 Dear Maharaja

In this your Vyasa-puja many memories come to mind, like those days back in Lima when I used to tranlate conferences for you, then the Hanuman Express Dispactch into spanish,  all the association you were kindly giving 16 years ago.  Now this blog,  all your guidance, inspiration, all going back to your Spiritual Master Srila Prabhupada to whom you've dedicated your every moment, eight fold?   Activities of Uttama Adikaries like you are glimpses from the spiritual wolrd and the Nitya-lilas of Krishna and Gaurachandra.   Thank you for bringing the Paranpara and its river of ectasy closer !  dandavats !  juste a verse from today's Srila Prabhupada's mp3 purport on.. Manasa deha geha arpilum tua pade nanda Kishor !!!  when will that day be mine ?????  jiv jago !! jiv jago !!   Tomorrow I'll meet the bramacharies and distribute 10 books in your name  hari !  

You were right on the essay synopsis, I already see it with different eyes, may be Jung's individuation process translates as discovering your real spiritual identity as an eternal servant and associate of Krishna (for some),

HpS - Seems the same to us, but have to know him more to see how he corresponds, no?

  how can we measure  the transcendental pleasure of reading about Gauranga's Nitya Lila in Navadvipa ??  off the charts !     Got Henry Bergson's L'evolution Creatrice, wow, changes the whole game, theory of knowledge - theory of life-consciousness-evolution.   I have a question Maharaja, it is mention in NOD and other sources that pranayama in meditacion on Vishnu is an accepted process, I personally used it months ago during morning japa in meditation of Hladini Shakti and ...that's when I called you urgent etc, a glimpse of Cintamani-dhama.  etc    I feel attracted to Gauranga  and Krishna Nitya Lila meditation, seems spontaneous to me,  would like to further on, also memories of Vasudeva stage sometimes come to mind and I hanker for it...does it sound too greedy?  individualist?

     HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!!!!    Thank you your letter. We are just trying to represent the Madhyama-adhikari stage. That is sufficient to represent Parampara. Engage people in worshipping the Deity. This comes to your question. Are we experiencing Vasudeva sattva, Goloka vrndavana? It is hard for us to give even an opinion from 1,000 miles away and not having a lot of personal association with your good self. Prabhupada warns that sometimes our affective hallucinations are taken as spiritual experiences. Jung thought Nietszche was on the right path, looking for God within, not just in rituals, but that he didn't have proper guidance, didn't take proper caution and went mad. Jung would do his introspective yoga daily and have his regular psychiatric practice and family relations in the afternoon and he felt that was essential to groud him.

In the age of Kali the process is Sankirtan, no? So if we are having intense esoteric spiritual realizations, experiences, then we should really see how it is coming from Sankirtan and is for Sankirtan. The Pranayama is natural by chanting on beads, dancing, but surely we can add some conscious spiritual though mechanical tricks to control the mind eg. sit-properly.

So, we would say, don't eliminate trying for the highest state of consciousness, but keep it confidential, well certified by nice association and manifestation of high moral standard, detachment from sense gratification and Srila Prabhupada's books.

When Srila Prabhupada begins the second chapter of NOD saying that Rupa Goswami classifies devotees according to their taste what exactly is He refering to?  Like my taste is in meditation on Vishnu, means that's my way in bhakti?   if I chant 16 rounds, meditate on Vishnu, perfect that, I'm ok?      You can see I'm studying NOD, began as part of the research for the essay and now it's a whole full thing on it's own,  I wonder where Rupa Goswami got the soources for defining and explaining rasa, other than his full qualification and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, I'll re read your essay on the matter, related to theatrical studies in India.  May need the entire Bhakti rasamrita Sindhu to fully comprehend fully, after full comprehension of NOD, I'm hooked.  may be that's why  Krishna allowed halidini shakti to visit, so my intellect would be baffled for ages !   Hari !   Hari !  Govinda !  

your servant

Raul

ASA - We looked at Chapter two on the vedabase and also Dh'dara Swami's Waves of Devotion. He is translating "taste" as atttraction. Which is how we understood it. If we have got the mercy/done the work then we have a strang attaction to service or a weak attraction and then we are qualified for the Sadhana, Bhava, or Prema Bhakti stages diferentially as he is describing!

Hari Bolo! More news. Good luck with your Sankirtan. Thank you for you intense association.

todas las glorias a srila prabhupàda!!

todas las glorias a sri guru y gouranga!!!!

reciba usted mis humildes reverencias hare krsna querido gurudev aca le escribo mi carta de reporte de este añoo , este año tuvo muchas pruebas que superamos gracias a su misericordia y por refugiarnos en los devotos.

seguimos los cuatro principios estrictamente y en cuanto a las rondas en su momento fue dificultoso mantenerlas sin embargo ahora estoy estable estoy cumpliendo con mis 16 rondas, no son buenas rondas eso es lo que me preocupa pero sigo esforzandome para que en algun momento sean 16 buenas rondas.

ahora estamos en maraton de diciembre a causa del trabajo solo puedo salir en la mañana , salimos un grupo de 3 matajis a sankirtan de 9 de la mañana a 12:00 del dia distribuimos y predicamos poco pero en verdad nos esforzamos por dar un libro de srila prabhupada de todo corazon y con conocimiento,

estamos haciendo sankirtan persona a persona y en buses es un total nectar. estoy muy feliz por que usted vendra a bolivia estoy contando los segundo para poder verlo pronto.

tambien queria contarle que tengo un profundo deseo de poder tomar segunda inciacion claro si usted y las autoridades del yatra lo permiten espero estar cualificada para asumir mas responsabilidades.

es por eso que muy humildemente le pido si usted podria considerar concederme segunda iniciacion pase clases de BS y ahora estoy en BVB , tengo el servicio de pujari en el templo fijo casi 2 años y el grupo de cosina el mismo tiempo. sin mas que decir espero mi señor nrshimha lo proteja y cuide gurudev siempre a su servicio

apsara gopi dd.

HpS - ASA - TlgaSP.   Pfanrh. Super noticias. Misericordia de Srila Prabhupada, no? Aun los perros pueden unirse con esta movimiento y bailar in ecstasis!

Si, no esta fijado en mantener sus rondas... segunda iniciacion...   Hmmmm???

Pues podemos hablar despues de como 168-horas mas!   Claro es super si puede tomar 2-iniciacion, y entonces tercero, entonces .... .

Hare Krishna. Perdone Gurudev olvidé ponerlo en la carta anterior,  Feliz Vyasa Puja! Best wishes.

HpS - ASA - Thank you. Really we felt very happy hearted after all the programs online and with Dr. Desai and NGD and everyone here. Thank you.