Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja, please receive my humble obeisance, all the glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope that when you receive this letter you are well and receiving all the blessings of Krishna.
Here I'm fine and trying to make my rounds every day with enthusiasm with the help of Krishna. Yesterday I was in a class in Dandava´s house, the next friday we will go to a village near Aranjuez for a Bhakti Vriksha meeting and on Saturday I´ll go to Ciudad Real which is to 150 km from here, with Dandava, Carcika and maybe more devotees because Dandava is going to give a conference there to people that we still don´t know but sure it will be great. So this week is being very intensive.

A few weeks ago Dandava Prabhu told me about buying a japa mala and send it to you to Tennessee. Please forgive me because I still haven´t sent it. I thought it would be easy to get a Japa Mala Japa here in Madrid but in the temple there are only very small Malas so I bought one online at an internet shop called Krishna Store. I'm still waiting it because shipping is shipped from India and takes a time. I hope it gets soon and as soon as it gets i´ll send it to you by express mail.

I´d like to ask you a question. May I chant please your Pranama Mantra before the rounds. If you give me permission I would like to do it.

Is Japajoe working in this moment? Sometimes I use to connect but there are not devotees connected. Please let me know when I can enjoy Japajoe.

Thank you very much in advance. Please forgive me for my English. Greetings from Madrid.

Your servant

Jacobo.

HpS - AGTSP - paoho. Your position seems wonderful. Anyone who can follow these four regulative principles is going to have a life 40-times better than the common modern man. Then you are chanting Hari-nam. This will remove sinful reactions from the core of your heart and lead you to have good vision of Krsna and His abode.

We have a long way to go to get out of the material world completely and ... then... we can progress more and more to Vaikuntha, Ayodhya, Dvaraka, Vrndavan, Rasa-lila...

You standard from you last letter seemed ALMOST perfect.

1) Yes, if we fall behind in our 16-rounds then we can make them up the next day. You have to be completely strict about this. Of course, if you are in a hospital in a coma then we will accept that you don't have to chant 16-rounds on that day.

2) In the Nectar of Instruction, Upadesamrta, and other places Srila Prabhupada, makes it clear, the Parampara makes it clear, that getting up for Brahma-muhurta is a REQUIREMENT for being in this movement. Did not The Dandva Das or Yadu Swami or others tel you this? Hmmmmm. Maybe the devil has established a beach-head in Madrid!

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Next he will be promoting chocolate!

Solve this problem, soldier! Even Krsna, would leave Rukmni in bed and get up for Mangala-arati, Brahma-muhurta (1-1/2 hours to 45 minutes before dawn). This world has been created by God so that we can use it for self realization. If sleep during Brahma-muhurta we will realize a consciousness that will make us take birth as rats in Vrndavana in our next life. Yes, we will be in Vrndavana but we won't be ready for Hari-nama diksa yet.

Send us a report on you fight with the Witch.

Hare Krishna Maharaja, please receive my humble obeisance, all the glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Dear Maharaja I hope when you receive this letter you are well and receiving all the blessings of Krishna.

First I will like to apologize for not writing before. I wrote a letter to Monkey Warrior on May this year. On that letter I shared my desire of seeking refugee on you as my Guru and if it is the desire of Krishna to receive Initiation.

HpS - AGTSP - Paoho. Sorry it has taken us 2-weeks to answer this letter! You have another so we will look at this one and get to the other. After our North America trip and three festivals here one after another we are pretty much back tto a sane work load so we should be able to answer letters more rapidly.

You recommended for me to read the Guru Tattva and give you my opinion about it. I had read the Guru Tattva and I will like to share with you some things.

Last weekend I met with my two Siksa Gurus, Yadunandana Swami and Dandava Prabhu. They told me about the possibility of receiving Initiation from you through the person of Yadunandana Swami. I am not sure if this will happen; since it is a matter that Krishna and you will decide.  In any case, it is something that has gave me a lot of happiness and has fulfilled me with motivation and strength to continue developing my sadhana. Thank you very much.

Three weeks ago I had the mercy of participating in the course for disciples imparted by Yadunandana Swami. It was a very important course for me since it made me realize about the importance and the seriousness of take refuge in a Guru. It also helped me to develop more attachment and admiration towards Srila Prabhupada. I have no doubts to recognize Srila Prabhupada like the Founder Acarya of ISCKON and the main Siksa guru. I had read his books and currently I am still reading the Bhagavad Gita when I go to classes with Dandava Prabhu, almost every week. I also accept the GBC like the most important authority in ISCKON.

I have been following the four regulative principles for some years and I have been chanting the 16 rounds since November 2013. Before this date I was chanting rounds daily but not always  16. I am currently singing at least 16 rounds a day and still following the four regulative principles but, in some occcasions during this year (maybe 4 or 5 times) I have not been able to reach the 16 rounds during some days (3, 4 ó 5). Nevertheless in other occasions I have chanted more than 20 rounds a day. I had shared this matter with Yadunandana Swami, he said that the days I completed more rounds can be considered for those days that I was no able to finish my rounds.

Regards to the Brahma muhurta, currently I wake up at 7:30 am, I chant some rounds and I offer breakfast to the Deities before going to work. I know I should be able to wake up before; at the moment it is my objective. I know I need to change some of my daily routines and go to bed earlier.  At home I do not do the Mangal Artik.  However I always participat in the Mangal Artik when I visit Nueva Vrajamandala. I enjoyed it very.

Two weeks ago I went to Nueva Vrajamandala to do service in the meeting of ISCKON leaders and I felt very lucky to be there next to big personalities. I was very much thankful to Krishna for the opportunity.

Last week I also went to Nueva Vrajamandala for the Course of Devotte Care that was imparted by Yadunandana Swami and Partha Prabhu. It was a very interesting course and I hope to put what I learned into practice.

Currently I´m still collaborating with the Bhaktivedanta Studies Institute and the Temple of Madrid doing the advertising and designs.  I'm also going practically every Sunday at Temple Madrid where I participate whenever I can in the Harinam and do the cleaning of the Temple after the program.

I would like to thank you with all my heart for your interest in my Initiation. In the future, I hope to hold firm in the service to Krishna through the service to my Guru and to Srila Prabhupada and be an instrument to expand Krishna consciousness.

I hope to have the mercy of chanting rounds soon with you and the devotees in the Japajoe.

Thank you very much. Greetings

HpS - o.k let's look at your more recent letter.

Hare Krsna dear gurudeva,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to you
Please accept my humble obeisances

How is your health?

HpS - AGTSP paoho. For 66-years in an USA body it is good. Old machine so we have to spend more time tuning it, and if we are excessive with it then it falls apart or can even die! Our vision is getting weak. Our feet and legs are swollen a lot, our resporation can be deeper. Old-age is a good friend for a devotee. It pushes him onto becoming a pure devotee.

About me... Everything keeps on very well. I'm working with projects of H.G. Mahatma Prabhu by his mercy and I feel very very happy for to be part of them. A lot of thing to do! I still go to the temple not very often as before, only to do my fixed service.. I'm trying to keep my sadhana with fixed schedules and this became a bit difficult to me because I've never could to adapt the routine in my life. I want/need to change all the time because I get bored. Is it normal?

HpS - ASA -- Yes, for some people, but the nature of spiritual life is nava-nava-yauvana, always fresh, like we hear that Srimati Radha-rani never cooks the same thing twice for Krsna, but Srila Prabhupada wrote in my initiation letter that our American disease is that we always want to change things. The idea is not to tear down the old building, but to improve it. We don't give up any service, we just improve it. We are making tighter and tighter concentric circles, not moving forward on a line.

Got it?

Change means to improve what we have, not replace it.

Psycho-physically I am 70% fire. Maybe you are too. Have ever seen a fire with "gravity"? No, earth has gravity and water has some. So, fire people are always moving and imvestigating. An engineer sees the problem and solves it. A phsicist sees the problem, isolates it so it won't expand and watches it. A mathematicion sees the problem, sees that it is possible to solve and loses interest in it.

Anyway I do it but it's hard for me. I would like also to travel soon... I always think about what you have said me about my woman designation related with my last life. Maybe is not bad to have this body, because bhakti comes from deep feelings and the women are be able to connect more with their feelings. Isn't it? Anyway designations are not already important to me. It's only a thinking.

HpS - Yes, ladies sentiment can be good Bhakti but has to be kept pure by some masculine intelligence. Like kids, they can follow without stupid intelligence getting in their way, but like you say, once you become a devotee andy machine can be used to get a perfect result.

About study... Whatever I've studied doesn't matter if I can't practice it yet. So, I will tell you only that I try to be more humble, don't see faults of others, appreciate others and to understand that absolutely everyone have something to teach me even I although think they are wrong.

HpS - Santa Belena!

My japa... This is the most important and even as I think now it's better because I take 2 hours only for chant, my mind is very negative and it doesn't allow me to focus in the holy name. I always pray to the Lord for the taste comes someday. So, please give me your blessings for improve my japa!

HpS - You should see some progress. Smile! That will trick your mind into being positive. In the beginning your progress may be from mechanical tricks as much as from sincere devotion. Find ways to control the Mind Ape!

Hope you have a great Kartik's month!
My respectful obeisances!

Hare Krsna!

HpS - ASA - Thank you for your letter. Please give our respects to The Mahatma. What kind of service are you doing with His Grace?

Got any pictures of him?

TGSSGN!

TGSP!!

Guru Maharaja:

 Le escribo para hacerle llegar noticias sobre como estoy y sadhana.

Hace 6 meses que estoy viviendo en el templo, todavia sigo aqui, con entusiasmo en el servicio y cuando no tengo demasiado entusiasmo, trato de encontrarlo de alguna manera sobre todo buscando asociacion con devotos mayores. Me encuentro bien aqui. Sigo cantando 16 rondas a la mañana y los 4 principios.
Su sirviente, Luis.

HpS - TlgaSP!!!    Y ya que pasa? En el Templo? Cual ciudad? Si perdimos nuestra entusiasmo siempre podemos encontrar en nuestra inteligencia. BG es el cultivo de la intelligencia y cuando eso es animado, utashan (NOI 3) entonces podemos comenzar Bhakti puro! Si, super metodo purificar la inteligencia, buscar devotos mayores, y claro Srila Prabhupada es disponible en sus libros.

Ya que pasa? Uno fotos de Vds!!

All glories to Sri Sri Gaura nitai

tlgsp, my respectful obeisances to you gm!

I saw that you answered two old letters! Haha the question about the Ashrama  i did i do wrong, I asked if he could sing my rounds in my Ashrama in the morning ... i live in the temple and i am very very very happy, but I can't sing my rounds in the temple a lot of noise! I am very intolerant But I pray to our beloved Lord for giving me patience and tolerance...In the last letter you asked me if I read alone or with someone, now I am reading NOI,c.cariritamrta..and SB every morning ... i read alone gm i prefer hahaha...i studied sri isopanisad...

I am very happy to service all the days in the pujari ... clean the bathroom of the Ashrama  and took classes with a devout mrdanga very patient of Peru ...

GM i say that I am happy but at some point feel doubt from what I do, I wonder if I truly believe in God?

Much back pain and stomach i am weak haha ...

t            Once more my respectful obeisances to you.

                                                   your small disciple ter kadamba devi dasi..hare krsna!

HpS - ASA - AGTSP> PAOHO. Sorry it has taken 3-weeks to answer this letter. We are pretty much caught up on our letters now, and trying to avoid getting behind in the future. Tolerance comes when we see the benefit of doing the austerity. Like you like to read alone because there are disturbances reading with others, but then you see that there are also very nice benefits, so you "tolerate" the disturbances! Patience is another kind of enthusiasm, no? (NOI 3).
Doubts are normal. They are health if they are honest. BH 4.34 says that blind faith is CONDEMNED. So bring up your doubts and try to removes them by direct effort if you need to, but most of them we have confidence that the process will removes them: "sraddha sabde..." Look in the indes in the NOI. It's quoted there!

News!

Hare Krisna beloved Gurudev,
Please acept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Here we are at Eseiza airport, soon mangala aratik in SM, we are heading to Pay Roo, meet with CMDD and her family, devotees , Rupanuga das, and of course Sri Sri Radha Madhan Bihari.

I want to ask you about your current sankirtan work in education and with Carl Jung. What is the purpose of both programs? What is your goal with them?

What kind of programs are more suitable to accomplish your goals?

What we should do in order to help you better?

Shall we read Carl Jung biography? Is this program only to psychologist? or more like a bridge to bring people in general to KC?

Shall we make research about education in our local countries? I found out that Peru is number one in education with the 79% of his population finishing high school. Of course we aim to another type of education.

How important is for us to study Bhakti Sastri and Bhakti vaibhava in order to push education in ISKCON?

We are in good communication with our gothbrothers/sisters in order to organize your south american tour. I'm trying to cooperate with everybody, cordoba, bs as, chile, peru.

Our plan is to make a short visit to cordoba, very very short to bs as so we can go to chile for the symposium.

Please enlighten us so we can help you better.

Trying to serve you.

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - AGTSP!  Paoho. Are you still in Peru? How was the visit with everyone?
You have asked many questions. Would take a long time to answer in some ways. In general the answer is there in the INtroduction to the Upadesamrta: We want to study the literature left by the Six Goswamis (Srila Prabhuapda's Purports) so that we can help Lord Caitanya in His mission of giving the Science of Krsna to the world.
In that respect we have to understand our spiritual level and our material nature. Carl Jung is a good area for us to work. Srila Prabhupada appreciated him. The practical results just go on leading us forward and help us to refine how we want to approach him.

Lord Caitnya took Sannyasa from Mayavadi sampradaya to reach a certain audience.

If your nature reacts then yes, read Jung's biography. Is nice perspective for a devotee. Abhirama Das in Lima has good copy.

Our approach is to re-read the biography, Tavistock lectures and now we have found some of the Jung Journals and some good articles there. We had so much to do with these other education programs in ISKCON such as primary school, but we are reducing that and also the administrative work in Bhakti Vaibhava etc. We now have time to start reading the Journal article. One we read introduces a very nice scholar and he gives references to other Jung works on Oriental psychology and how to realate to it.

So, that is how we shall go ahead.

Main thing is to meet the people, meet the people, meet the people. As we learn about Jung and his followers lets meet with them. That's all:

We remain pure by our Sadhana
Krsna sends innocent people (Jungians et al)
They remain patiente  to understand the actual situation of this material world.

SANKIRTAN