Letters to the editor

08/31/14

Esteemed Gurumaharaja: AGTSP!  pamho 

What a wonderful visit Dave and I had with you. 

Thank you for all your mercy!!!

Thank you for suggesting a seva for me.  i.e. coordinating with Auruvedic practictioner devotee.  After discussing with Dave, we think this will be too much for me right now.  I will be helping daughter with grandchildren fo r2 weeks in september if health allows.  Also, health ups and downs could make executing this faithfully, staying on top of it on a regular day to day basis, very difficult and stressful. 

For example, I have had a migraine every day since returning from san fran; have no idea why.  Please know how much I want to be at your service but do not want to committ to something unless I feel confident I  can see it through to a successful completion.

    HpS - ASA - Jaya!  It was very, very nice for us also. Very nice. Yes, I understand. It is very nice that you have such a good realization of how much you can do! Of course, Srila Prabhupada showed us how to use this body to the very limit, even when it was just skin and bones. It is like not throwing a way a jacket until it is just thread-bare, no?!!

Dave wants to send you a letter via post.  what is your mailing address please?........

HpS - Hanumatpresaka Swami; 2129 Stratford Road; Murfreesboro, TN 37129

This correspondence is once again a one-time opportunity on your blog.  The system still doesn't recognize me and I have to change my password each time.  Not sure what we are doing wrong.  You are dear to us.  Hare Krsna   I remain YWS Kalindi dd

HpS - Hmmmmf!   Let's see if you can solve the problem or we will try to ask our Blog Manager, Prahlada-nrsmha Das to help!! Krsna is always testing to see how much determination we have to overcome obstacles.

How much do we have??

Unlimited!

If we have to log on 150 times to communicate,will we do it?

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O.K. News from the Highliands!

Dear Guru Maharaja Please if you want to accept my respectful and humble prostrate at his lotus feet divine reverence. 
I am not writing to not bother you, is how busy, but always think of you and I read all the letters that are published in the blog and also all twiters. 
I started courses disciples with Param Padam das, sing my 16 rounds as early as possible and follow the 4 principles. 
I look forward to his arrival in BS AS. 
Your aspiring servant Nanda raja das

HpS - AGTSP - We often think about you!!!  We will arrive in BsAs in 121 days. We will arrive in Goloka a little later!!! Let's go!

NICE Picture!

All Glories to Sri Sri Gour Nitay!
All Glories to Srila Prabhuada!
All Glories to you! 

How are you right now? I hope this take you in a veeery good health ! 

HpS - This body does not get diseases, this body is a disease. It is 8.15PM. Got 20-rounds done. Lots of news in th DTC. Fighting eye strain, little stomach upset, but we can write. Have a happy future!! Going to die for Krsna, and you?

Camila- 21 years old

My rounds are OK, not good, just O.K... some days i can't finish them, so in the next day i chant chant, and I chant. Sorry for that...Our stupidity increase every day <img alt="no" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_down.png" title="no" width="23" />.

   HpS - We also, but by practice we get better!
Well, i'm in Argentina, Buenos Aires! We had a VERY nice Radhastami! :) Beautiful!!!!!!  

I wanted to ask you, that if I can send you a private message through Abhimanyu Das (I talked with him, and he has no problem), because there are some things that I want to tell you not in this platform. It would be very nice and usefull for me to do that. So, please...can I do that?. 

Please accept my sincere obeisances at your lotus feet... !!!!!!!!! 

HpS - ASA - Pies de Loco. Try  [email protected], but remember, always do YOUR work and step back and think about your situation from a general perspective and write about it to the Blog. Then we can do OUR work and give a general answer. About 15-more people will get answer to their question and then we can anwer details in private if we have to. A full personal letter takes about 8-minutes and Monkey and Piggy charge about $600/hour lately (they are merciful) so a full personal letter will cost you 8/60 x $600 = $80. Of course, they accept Raisins and P-nuts also!

Hare Krisna dear Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances. AGTSP.

I hope you’re fine.

We are well by Krisna’s mercy. Now we are preparing the next Ratha Yatra on September 6th, tomorrow.

I miss your Japa Joe and the sanga-chanting with de devotees.

By Krisna’s Mercy and His devotees we have opened the Temple during the August month. All year open!!!!!. Some devotees have been serving all month and the people have been very happy. We have done some new devotees during August, and Mani Manjari Devi Dasi (Marisol) has take Diksa of Bhakti Gauravani Goswami. She is the first devote from my old group (old school of yoga) taking Diksa. She’s a great value in Madrid’s temple. We have more devotees waiting to take initiation; some of them asked you shelter as bhakta Marcos or bhakta Jacobo some months ago.

Now we are beginning some new groups of Bhakti Vriksa en Madrid coordinated by Bhaktin Anna, and the leaders are: Jaramara Hari Das, Bhadra Vardhana Das and Bhaktin Anna. Carcika and me we are beginning a new group of Sattva in Toledo, and we are working with other group in Tarragona (Cataluña).

I’m very very busy with the service. There are many things to have in the mind, speaking and listening to devotees, their problems and disagreements, their projects, etc. Organizing the temple, services, saving costs, etc …

During August, we have done works in the temple (I’m attaching some pictures).

On other hand, Carcika and I are working spiritually and humanly very hard. In July Carcika was pregnant, but she lost the baby. Krisna gave us a child, but then He thought: “They aren’t ready to be parents”.

HpS - Hmmmmmm! Can be so sad! Yet, like you say Krsna has a plan. From what Srila Prabhupada wrote it maybe that some very advance Yogi, devotee, had just a little, little, Karma to finish off, so Krsna put him into the womb of a pure devotee so that he could here her Japa and and hear her heart beat and take Prasadam from her body and then. . . .  enough!  All finished. Back to Goloka. Prepare a place for my last mother also.

Gurudeva, I’m very fallen. I’m not merciful. Krishna tests me a lot, and I don’t exceed Him test. Sometimes the world seems insuperable, the devotees seem insuperable, the karmis seem insuperable, the principles are insuperable, all seem insuperable.

What can I do?

HpS - You can do what I do, pray to the Insuperable! "Hey, God that's it! Reached the limit! HELP!!! Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!".

Then someone comes in the door and says, "Of, Prabhu, don't worry about that problem between, XYZ and me, we talked about it. It's O.K. now!"

Well, thank you for all Gurudeva. I hope to see you soon.

Please, let me keep at your Lotus Feet.

Your humble servant, Dandava Das.
HpS - ASA --- It is so nice to hear from you. We hope you have a very nice Rathayatra that heals many hearts. We have our ticket for South America. It would seem that we would head for Spain and India like 2015 Fall unless something happens first [like a nuclear war between Putin and Obama].

Let's answer two more letters.

Dear gurudeva,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to you
Please accept my humble obeisances.

Than you so much for your answer. I was reading SB and thinking a bit about it. I want to share you... 

So, from what I understand, the real spiritual master is just one: Krsna. But because we are conditional souls with lusty desires in our heart, we can not understand, love neither surrender to him. As he is so kind that help us sending pure devotees that represent him, for we can surrender to them. And in this way, surrendering to those souls is like surrender to Krsna himself, regardless the kind of guru (siksa, diksa, etc).

      HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!!    Yes, this is how we under stand the situtation. Very well expressed. You must have been a great Sannyasi last lifetime who was too much attached to a certain girl! This time you have to resolve the situation! Only thought is that we surrender to different kinds of Gurus differently.
 

So, disciple following Krishna's instructions through these souls. And technically the only difference between this devotees is that diksa-guru is who take our hand and bring us into the parampara. But as much diksa as and siksa gurus should be very important because by their mercy, they help us to return home, back to Godhead through their instructions. "The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth."

   ASA - Diksa guru is like a Monk who marries the boy and girl, Krsna and Jiva. Siksa gurus are like those who give advice. Of course, the Diksa guru is active the the relation after the ceremony. He is not just a Ritvik. He is the active link to the Parampara. Principle Siksa guru (Vartmana pradarshika guru) usually becomes the Diksa guru, but not always. Maybe he is too old, can't take the Karma. Maybe is a lady (http://vedabase.com/en/sb/4/12/32). So, usually Diksa guru is one of the Siksa gurus also. One of our disciples is a book distributor. She naturally tooks so much association from Bhakti Bhusan Swami but we were responsible for seeing that she didn't neglect her rounds.
Maybe you will decide that you actually should be a Mormon. Maybe you will take this person aor that person as Diksa guru. Basis is to advance in our service to Radha Krsna and the it will all be satisying to everyone!

Then, as you say, while in spiritual world someone follow Candravali or Radha and some are mixing both, something like this happens in this material world too. While I am accepting gurus who follow the path of instruction given by Lord Krsna to Arjuna, everything will be right. Is it? I mean "gurus" because I don't have only one. I already can see my Gurus clearly: SP, Mhtma and you. Then, I am not following just one... also I am mixing both relationships in the same direction: that of Srila Prabhupada =D Is it right?

HpS - If you are ready to accept Srila Prabhupada as your Sampradaya Acharya and not Lord Jesus Christ or Prophet Mohammed. I know very nice Sufi guy in Mar de Plata. He left Argentina looking for a Guru. Eventually in the Middle East he met a very nice person, Guru, and asked, "What are you?". Guru said, "I am Sufi". He said, "That's what I want to be."
If he had joined ISKCON he would have been a GBC Secretary by now. Very nice person.

On the other hand, another topic... A devotee that is living in the temple now, wants to give me her deities to take care. They are Gaura Nitai. Do you think that I am able to do it ? ... That it will be good for me to have them?

Hp S - ASA - I think so. Ask local Brahmanas what they think. She will be traveling and you will just care for them like an Aunt? 

Thank you for teach me always lovingly,
Mangala aratik with you by SM is such nice. Thank you for that.

Ys,
Bhktn Belén

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!  Paoho.    Oink!  Oink!!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my most humble obeisances :) . Now we are working and studying a lot about psychology, still in University. I feel that I don't have much to tell you, I don't want to waste your time, but also I wanted to write you, and tell you that we're trying to serve you in what we can.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP! Ha! Ha! Ha!  and we could have written exactly what you wrote above to us, to you. Our Carl Jung program is going ahead satisfactorily.

I would like to share with you one experience I had in january and february of this year. I was in a team of traveller sankirtan, with Panca Tattva Das, Oscar of Chile, Adi yajña Das, and Prema-rasarnava, in Viña del Mar and Pichilemu. Everything was so mistical, because Krsna send us many people who leter become devotee, also we've distributed many books, and also we celebrate Nityananda Trayodasi in Pichilemu (one city ..*****), were we did a jajña, a class, a beautiful kirtan and prasadam. I really felt that Srila Prabhupada and Nityananda prabhu felt satisfied with this service.

Another thing that I would like to say to you, is that in the University I'm going very well, thanks to Krishna, Prabhupada and his mercifull inspiration. I still maintein the best grades of my generation class. Also I had the opportunity to gave classes of Vedic Culture and Psychology as assistant proessor, in my university and in another. So in both universities the students of Psychology knew about Srila Prabhupada's teachings, and they had to explain in their exams...is such a nice thing the universitary preaching.

Finally, my spiritual life it's OK, with high and low, but always trying to do an effort with trust. I remembered that you told me that I should buy "covers" for the glasses of my Deities when you came to have lunch in my house. And now, they have so many things, and of course, their covers in their glasses! also beds, and necklaces. For my part, I'm living in a moment of changes, and to grown up like a person, I'm trying to be strong, for that I'm asking you for your blessings to become a better devotee.

I send you a hug, wishing you are well with your health and with your service to the Acarya, your ever well-wisher and servant Abhimanyu Das. 

HpS - AGTSP. Thank you so much. We are thinking about you also, and reading this letter calms our worrys. Again, we are also trying to do this Psychology Sankirtan for you and others. We are all very small compared to Srila Prabhupada.