Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna esteemed Guru Maharaj,

Please accept out most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!

Very happy to get up at 4, chant, and read monkey warrior!  Thankyou for the profound essay you posted called Brain One. It satisfies many, many silly but not so silly desires to read literature (We look up to the writing style of Dudes like Robert Bly and Brautigan, but their muses are not so great so it's best we stay away until we're more spiritually mature.)  Should we write or draw Maharaj even if we feel there are 10,000 pending tasks to do?

 ASA - AGTSP!     Paoho. Yes.

If it is our nature to make art, should we not suppress it since it might come out our ears or through bouts of frustration, etc?  Thankyou for your psychological and spiritual guidance on this.

Maharaj, you asked in the last letter how the school is! The school just recently re-located to their own building 10 minutes from the temple. Ms. Viji made the investment, it was an old Kindercare and it is very spacious. It's been a whirlwind trying to get a school permit, so at this point the school is half day at the new building and half day at the temple. It is a little hectic and chaotic and sometimes we feel like we're at Sandipani Muni school again since our roles are continuously changing and everyday brings a new surprise, challenge.

I guess we are an admin/secretary/computer lab coordinator/van driver/Values teacher! [Chipmunk Body Building Teacher] 

We are grateful. We are also realizing we are still under a huge learning curve and pray the Holy Names and your mercy and Prabhupada's will pull us through. Through the work we see a lot of things we'd like to work on. Maybe this is what we can write about??? :)) [Super Girl and the Mountain of Tasks]

We are very very happy that the values curriculum is coming along (we teach 6 half an hour classes a week). We are a big fan of a children's workbook called Values of Life which teaches values such as obedience and tolerance through awesome kids cartoons, BG quotes, and Srila Prabhupada's teachings. We also role play and read Vedic stories that teach values. I'm also developing a workbook for the text Nirmala gave you , The Rise of the Sun Prince. We'd like to send a .doc copy to you Maharaj and humbly ask for your suggestions if you will allow us to send!

ASA - Ummmp! Graff,,, Brank -*&*   Grink!    Best is to just give a summary and then a specific example here: Eg. We inspire kids to always plan on returning what they steal later and that way they know that they are not really stealing they are just borrowing.

We get up early and finish at least more than half of our rounds 5 out of 7 days...if we don't were in deep trouble and face anxiety trying to chant most of our rounds after school. We hope to improve upon this aspect by the end of Kartik. We have also been going out on Sankirtan every Saturday with Hari Vilas's wife and Vishvambhar (Aka Bryant). Sundays we attend Bhakti Sastri (they start with BG here) and thereafter teach Sunday School.

Hope your health is good Maharaj. We look forward to future prose works and essays. Thankyou thankyou.
Your aspiring and fallen servant, 
Kamagayatri dd

HpS - ASA -- We look at life this way (and write about it in our TPP-CBs). It is impossible to keep an actual honest standard of pure and ecstatic,   @#$%^&,   devotional service in the current world without really giving up our current body. Therefore, we expect that we are going to get "A Love Injection from God" quick or leave this body and go to Goloka. Of course, the association of other madmen like Lord Caitanya can make it reasonably possible in this material world.

Hmmmmmmrrrrrrrrrrf! We must all get eternal spiritual bodies so we can work together eternally under Srila Prabhupada's direct direction.

Srila Prabhupada standing up whipping the horses as they valiantly run across the massive war of Sankirtan with us and and Bhakti W. C. Fields thrown water melons on peoples heads.

(At 15-miles an hour watermelons can really knock somebody flat).

10/15/14

Esteemed Gurudeva  All Glories to Mighty Srila Prabhupada!  Please accept sincere dundavata and pranamas!  Hoping this find you well and having prosecuted a sucessful Sankirtan festival.  How many attended?  From where did they come?

   ASA - The Celebrate Nashville Festival can draw up to 40,000 people, but it was COLD that day so only about 10,000 came but they were serious. We had a general cultural booth in the Global Village with 40-minutes on Stage, chanting Bodies exhibit with Banners and flyers showing Shakespeare and BG both using the theme to show that we should look to spiritual life etc.

Then we had a Prasadam booth which distributed over 500 pakora and samosa plates.

Two Mantra Japa booths that got about 500 people to chant one round and 110 bought a kit with beads and books.

LOT of work, General Nashville people. Met some very nice community organizers, challenged and inspired the devotees to do more. Took five days to recover!

Re. Goswami training beginners requirements - I have prayed and thought and decided that for now, because the atmosphere in my home is extremely inauspicious for practicing Krsna Consciousness, there is no possibility of me being able to keep a fixed up schedule for my sadhanna.  I do 100% keep my vows.  However it is as I can fit it in throughout each day, not at any particular times.  Trying to keep a log of it would be extremely difficult. My day is filled with nothing but trying to prosecute Krsna Consciousness and moment to moment crying out to the Lord for help and mercy in order to stay focused and faithful when doing so.

Please accept this is the best I can do and show me mercy by allowing me your continued e-association, realistic opportunities to serve you and your ongoing prayers!  If there are any training requirements which match my situation,please advise; although i do not expect Monkey and Piggy to alter protocol for my needs.

Hope to hear from you soon with the mercy i need.

Your Worthless Servant,  Kalindi devi dasi

     HpS - ASA -- In the other letter we mentioned this. Your answer is just what we wanted to know by asking how you get your rounds done. As we said in the other letter, "As long as we can breath, we can chant!" So if we are chained to a wall in the fortress of Durga with our hands hanging from chains from the ceiling then we can't chant on beads.

But Prahlada Maharaja waited 'till the house managers were out to lunch and then called his associates together to hear about Krsna.

So, another plan.

Just keep a simple log of how many rounds you have done each day by sunrise, noon and sunset.

Is possible!! Then we use that to get our wagon rolling. [Later we get the Weiner dog Dancing.]

HpS - ASA - Jaya! AGTSP paoho.   It seems that we Edited this Letter but never Published it. Well better late [a little] than never.

10/2/14   Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja:  All Glories to Mighty Srila Prabhupada who circled the planet 13 times to bring to us fallen western souls the mercy of Sri Krsna Caitanya! 

pamho. 

So, "Want to start now" answer.  Other than being your disciple by Krsna's mercy, what are requirements for receiving Monkey and Piggy's Goswami Training for girls please?  YWS  Kalindi Devi dasi  (I will con't inquiring re. Auryvedic project as you requested)

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP! 1st thing is to keep track of your morning program. Note down when you get your 16 rounds done each day for the next 14-days and then send the average time to this Blog! We have just begun a wonderful journey. First we shall  become Goswamis, then pure devotees of the Lord!

Hare krishna maharaj !!

Pelase accept my humble obiansces [obeisances]. All the glories to srila prabhupada ! 

Maharaj I hope you are very well! [After lunch we always get sleepy, but try to stay awake by your enlivening letters!] I wanted to tell you that i had comunicated with the devotees in lima and in february hopefully i will be doing some service and atending your programs in the universities and elsewhere ! 

Maharaj i have been listening and reading , which had made me very sad that since next year you will not be giving more initiations?  Is this true ?  With all my heart i hope not and I have been praying to krishna that this is not truth . 

Maharaj i know with my heart and inteligence that you are my spiritual master and i want to serve you ! I have already chosen you as my guide because i know you can give me light and show me the way to grow in krishna conciusness. 

It is hard to me to think of another spiritual master to follow!!!   Iam doing my best to be your servant , please accept me as your servant and teach me to love krishna purely ! Iam just trying to develope true love for God and everyone .

trying to serve you properly 

alexa!

HpS - Aaaaacha! So we see you in Lima after visit to Santiago! Have you been following everything for 6-months? You can get a letter of recomendation for Refuge and then maybe even take Harinama diksa in February in Lima.
Hmmm. We said, no more initiations except in special cases. Guess we can initiate people who have formally taken Refuge by November 17th (or maybe 25th December (or maybe...)))).

How is your Sadhana and service now!!

Hare Krishna Maharaj !

Please accept my humble obeisansces.

All the glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you Maharaj, yes. I will do that, I will converse it with other devotees.

 I am trying to comunicate with some of your diciples in Peru, because when i lived in peru I didnt knew Krishna Conciousness , so Iam trying to comunicate with them to see if while you will be there Maharaj i can go and participate in any programme or class you will be doing , if any ! 

I think Maharaj that when I will meet you I will know what should I do !  I am sorry I will no be able to be here in Argentina when you come, is because of some familly duties I should be in Peru for those days. 

As I told you before Maharaj, I want to take refugee on you, I need your guiadance because Iam very very neophite but with so much energy to learn. Iam very greatfull for having find the devotees, Srila Prabhupada , You  Maharaj and Krishna !! please guide me in this path. 

One question Maharaj because I have read in some places that chanting is the most important service one should do, is it like this?  or sankirtan involving reading , chanting. studying, glorifyng is what it refers to ? is chanting the most importans service? 

HpS - ASA - So, for details read SB.7.5.23. The beginning Srila Prabhupada is especially emphasizing whatever we do it should be for Krsna directly. Not so good that I offer what I want to eat to Krsna and then take the Prasada. Better I offer waht Krsna wants to eat and take the Prasadam. Then he starts to discuss each process with a title. Maybe you want to jump to that section and read the Sravanam section.
"Therefore, even if one is able to perform other processes of devotional service, one must adopt the chanting of the holy name as the principal method of advancing in spiritual life. "
 

One more question Maharaj, where can I read about grhihasta ashram ? About the regulations etc? 

ASA - In the 3rd Canto, Marriage of Kardama and Devahuti.

thank you very much !

hoping I will be some day able to serve you

ASA - We also and we look for other letters by Alexandra Magna!

Alexa

 Swamiji,

AGTSP PAMHO! My service at BDS is going quite well. I've bee I've been put in charge of the school library, which I'm organizing. I try to show little Krishna, Bal Ganesha, and Ramayana cartoons to make the students, look forward to coming to the library. I'm also working on setting up weekend English classes for the kids. It is so nice to see all the children learning vedic culture, even the Christian and muslim kids are learning.