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TLGASP,POR FAVOR ACEPTE MIS REVERENCIAS A SUS PIES; ROGANDO SIEMPRE EL SEÑOR LO TENGA EN BUENA SALUD, ACA ESTAMOS TRATANDO DE SEGUIR  EL CAMINO, EN LA DIRECCION QUE KRISHNA NOS INDICA BAJO SU MISERICORDIOSA GUIA AMADO GURUDEV.

SIGO LOS 4 PRINCIPIOS, LAS 16 RONDAS, MANGALA ARATI, TENEMOS EL PROGRAMA DIARIO EN ESTE ASHRAM, CONTINUAMOS CON LOS RETIROS ESPIRITUALES OCASIONALMENTE.

EMPECE MIS ESTUDIOS DE INTRODUCCION AL BHAKTI YOGA PARA INICIACION, MI TUTOR ES PRABHU LAKSMANA-AGRAJA Y MI COACH ES MI ESPOSO PRABHU YADU, EL SANKIRTANA AHORA MEJOR EN CHICLAYO PORQUE TENEMOS LA GRATA COMPAÑIA DE DOS DEVOTOS SANKIRTANEROS, PRABHU EKACHACRA Y SU ESPOSA MADRE GOURA . NO MAS VIAJES A ESTADOS UNIDOS POR AHORA, DEPENDIENDO AHORA DE LA MISERICORDIA DE KRISHNA QUE NO NOS HACE FALTAR LO NECESARIO PARA MANTENER EL CUERPO Y SOBRE TODO AGRADECIDOS CON KRISHNA QUE NOS HA PERMITIDO VIVIR EN ESTE ASHRAM, ESTA CASITA-TEMPLO EN EL CAMPO DONDE TRATAMOS DE SERVIRLO, ME PUSE FELIZ DESDE QUE CONOCI ESTE MOVIMIENTO DE CONCIENCIA DE KRISHNA, HA SIDO UN PROCESO, A VECES MUY DOLOROSO, COMO CUANDO KRISHNA ME AYUDO A QUITARME EL APEGO QUE TENIA A LA PERRITA QUE ENVENENARON, LE MANDO LA FOTO DONDE ESTA ELLA, CUANDO DISFRUTABA DE SU SANTA ASOCIACION Y DE LOS DEVOTOS. CUANDO EN MIS MOMENTOS DIFICILES LE DECIA A PRABHU YADU, QUE ESTO ME PARECIA UN REGIMIENTO MILITAR<img alt="indecision" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/whatchutalkingabout_smile.png" title="indecision" width="23" />, MAS AHORA COMPRENDO Y LO VIVO QUE ES UN REGIMIENTO ESPIRITUAL<img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />, EL ME ENSEÑA CON EL CONOCIMIENTO QUE KRISHNA LE HA CONCEDIDO Y SU EJEMPLO, LOS LIBROS SAGRADOS DE KRISHNA QUE GRACIAS A LA MISERICORDIA DE SU DEVOTO PRABHUPADA LLEGAN A NOSOTROS, TENER SU SANTA ASOCIACION ES DIVINO, LE PEDIMOS SUS BENDICIONES PARA SEGUIR EN ESTE CAMINO Y POR LA SALUD DE PRABHU YADU, LO ESTRAÑAMOS POR AQUI, YA DIOS MEDIANTE LO VOLVAMOS A VER.

SU ASPIRANTE A SIRVIENTE:ANKA

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TLGASP , PLEASE accept my obeisances YOUR FEET ; PRAYING THE LORD ALWAYS BE IN GOOD HEALTH , ACA ARE TRYING TO FOLLOW THE ROAD , KRISHNA IN THE ADDRESS INDICATES YOUR GUIDE AMADO GURUDEV MERCIFUL .

STILL THE 4 PRINCIPLES , THE 16 ROUNDS , Mangala Arati , WE HAVE THE DAILY PROGRAM IN THIS ASHRAM , CONTINUE WITH SPIRITUAL RETREATS AT TIMES .

I STARTED MY STUDIES INTRODUCTION TO BHAKTI YOGA FOR INITIATION , Laksmana PRABHU IS MY TUTOR - Agraja AND MY HUSBAND IS MY COACH YADU PRABHU , THE BEST IN TRUJILLO SANKIRTANA NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE TWO PLEASANT COMPANY DEVOTED sankirtan , PRABHU EKACHACRA GOURA MOTHER AND HIS WIFE . NO MORE TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES FOR NOW , NOW DEPENDING OF MERCY OF KRISHNA MUST NOT MAKES YOU NEED TO KEEP THE BODY AND ESPECIALLY WITH KRISHNA THANKFUL THAT HAS ALLOWED TO LIVE IN THIS ASHRAM , THIS HOUSE , TEMPLE IN THE FIELD WHERE TRY TO SERVE , PUT ME HAPPY THAT KNEW THIS FROM KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT HAS BEEN A PROCESS , SOMETIMES VERY pAINFUL AS HELPED ME WHEN KRISHNA aTTACHMENT TO STRIP THAT WAS POISONED TO PERRITA THAT , WHERE YOU DRIVE THIS PHOTO HER WHEN SANTA enjoyed her ASSOCIATION AND dEVOTEES . WHEN YOU SAID MY HARD TIMES A PRABHU YADU , ME THIS SEEMED A REGIMENT MILITARindecision , BUT NOW I UNDERSTAND AND I LIVE IS A REGIMENT ESPIRITUALsmiley , TEACHES ME WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HAS MADE KRISHNA AND HIS EXAMPLE, THE SACRED BOOKS KRISHNA THANKS TO THE MERCY OF YOUR DEVOTO Prabhupada COME TO U.S. , HAVE YOUR SANTA ASSOCIATION IS DIVINE , WE ASK YOUR BLESSINGS TO CONTINUE ON THIS ROAD AND HEALTH PRABHU YADU , LO ESTRAÑAMOS FOR hERE , AND GOD THROUGH see him again .

Your aspiring servant : ANKA

HpS - Jaya! Very good. You are going to make rapid progress. It is good that you are taking the course by Laksmana. That should be enough for 1st initiation. How are the other devotees in Chiclayo.

Hare Krsna Maharaja!
 

AgtSP!
 

AgtGuru y Gauranga!
 

Mis reverencias Gurudeva!
 

Soy Bhakta Pablo del Parikrama, de España.
 

I wish You are very well in health, and all aspects also.
 

Always is a nectar read DTC , Japa Joe and the cites of Japa Joe ( i think it can be Japa Joe Meditations-The Way of Japa Joe )
 

I want to say You, that by the grace of Krsna, Hari, You and devoties, I can go to India this 29. I arrived to India the 1, becouse I must stay 16 hours in Istambul...i expect see Mezquites, others places and...eat sooo much Maha-prasadam from Govinda Restaurant.  I arrived to Bombay 4:30 am of 1 May.

I think I will go to stay little days in the begining in Bombay, becouse I want stay the last  5 or 7 days of my pilgrimage month. I fly came back through Bombay again.

I want hear Radhanath Clases, eat sooo much Maha-prasadam of Radha-Gopinath, Govardhana-natha, and meet Govadhana Eco Village with Sri Radha Vrndavana Bihari.
Then I go by train to Kalkata, and Mayapur!!!!! I wish do some service for the Dham and Sadhus....Nrsimha Caturdasi!!!! Years dreaming seeee!!! NRSIMHA NRSIMHA NRSIMHA!!!!!!
And again by train to Bombay at the end.
 

Varuna had been with me 6 days in holidays. He is growing, and I can see is better for all. For He, and for me. He say that do Yoga all days...he say to boy Jesus and Boy Krsna, that want a old car...and all nigths want her " Hanuman tale ". I mix all I know for the tale. He want ear how Krsna, Hanuman kill the demons...Is all that I can do with my little qualities. Also, we bath together the Deaties, and that time he was doing the kirtana, chanting Hare Krsna , while I was doing the abhisek. His first time. The autentic spirituality let him not close his mind, and this make me very very happy. He have future, real future.
 

I dream with the day You give me initation. A lot of years dreaming. I am very gratefull and debt with You for allll Your mercy all this years. For show me the hand of Prabhupada, Krsna( God ), Devotial Services...
 

Forbide my long letter, I am little in pasion for all the news and events.
 

When I came back I must saving and saving for could do sankirtana and pay me debts.

Now is the first time that I have one spiritual desire. And I want make that desire.
 

The poem " The kiss of the sun for warmth..." is yours??

Yours, at Your feet Guru Maharaja.
 

Bhakta Pablo
Hare Krsna.

HpS - Jaya!  We hope you have very nice visit to India. Yes, you can take initiation. Just keep getting good rounds done or what is the use of your visit to India.

Hare Krisna Gurumaharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

How are you gurudeva?

             HpS - ASA -- AGTSP  paoho. Got a headache started. 8.41PM.

You make so easy for us to become Krisna conscious, so much mercy, so many oportunities, but still somehow deep in our heart we think there is something worthy about this material world. Thanks to Krisna he has sent Srila Prabhupada with his books. 

Thank you Gurudeva for making Srila Prabhupada accesible for us.

16  rounds ok, but we have to improve a lot a looot in quality. some days we had to finish rounds next day. It is so hard for us to fix in sadhana, some weeks are suuper smooth, but then collapse, unsteady. we are making arrangments in our life to change this. This is first priority.

4 principles ok. we were very agitated in the mind, many many lusty thoughts. but since two weeks ago we are experiencing peace of mind tranquil. Your post about advice to romeos and juliets was very helpful in this regard. yesterday i was reading in the ramayana "One who ignores the good advice of wise well-wishers always comes to grief." about ravana ignoring the advice of his brother vibhishana.

So we are still on the fight.

Preaching, we continue with ayurvedic counselling, bhakti vriksa (BV) program, last week it was first anniversary. I give a BG course for the devotees of the BV every tuesday. There is a BG study guide for BV programs, it is very nice. We have programs almost every day at El Loft, we started a yoga school and I'm in charge of the anatomophisiology subject. Govardhan farm also is expanding, building of a new house will start next month. Mahajan prabhu and his wife along with the bramacharis are living there.

I was in cordoba for a week, vacations, i went there to rest my mind, silence, hills environment, rivers flowing. Devotees there are very nice, i met prabhu premarnava, param padam, yamuna tira vana, et al.

I started Bhakti Sastri with Nimsar, Mother Yugala Kishora is my mentor. Hope Nimsar can expand in the future to others countries in South America.

Family life is ok, I'm with my children three days a week, they look and seem to be happy, like they had overcome and accepted the situation with their parents. I have a very good relation with their mother. She is still with her boyfriend.

I feel happy gurumaharaj for belonging to ISKCON life. I understood that this material mud is only for austerities, so it is ok i have to struggle everyday as long i can take part in the sankirtan movement.

I feel blessed,

Postrated in dandavats pranam at your lotus feet,

Nikuñja Bihari das.

               HpS - Such nice letter. I guess Pancha tattva is in Chile headed to India, no?  Our respects to the Maha-jana!  Maybe Yugala can come and visit. She might do well in Mar??

Hare Krsna Gurudeva:

AGTSP 

PAMHO

Gurudeva I forgot to tell U I feel really happy about being a devotee. I teach Spanish to one mataji her name is chetalli and we talk about India, and she told me what she know about Krsna, visnu, it is really nice,

For instance her grandmother worships tulasi, and cetalli sometimes told me about Lord Rama, and she says and all their background are not fairy tales they are  REAL

Today she showed me one Mahabharata version that is in HIndi the resolution is so good 

We can read a summary about the episode, Here is the link

HpS - I think I have a copy. It is cartoon, no? It is really super!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjNLSLf_Ezw&list=TLnfgFlhBGZzIfCyOo3OBkNiRi-PCy9YIf

Thank U again

ys

CMDD

HpS - The link is blocked in USA and says Mahabharata!

Todas las Glorias a Su Santidad Sri Sri Goura Nitay

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Porfavor acepte mis más respetuosas reverencias a usted

Hare Krishna Maharaja:

Le escribo para contarle que hace un par de días comencé a dirigir un taller de teatro para niños en mi antiguo colegio, lo cual me tiene bastante entusiasmada, sobre todo porque hace poco me recomendaron que leyera el libro "En la búsqueda de un guru", y me gusto tanto que tengo pensado en modificarlo para hacer una obra con los estudiantes del taller con ese tema; por otra parte intento llevarles prasadam cada vez que los veo; y  ya la mayoría de las personas con las que me relaciono dentro del colegio sabe que soy devota, incluso algunos han mostrado interés por el templo y los he invitado a que asistan a los programas.

Me encuentro siguiendo los cuatro principios y cantando 16 rondas, pero el último tiempo me ha costado más cantarlas, porque me desconcentro fácilmente, ¿ qué puedo hacer para cantarlas mejor?

         HpS - How many rounds you hav done before breakfast? That is a good way to increase, no?

También me he dado cuenta que desde que comencé a tomar más seriedad y responsabilidad en mi vida espiritual, varias de mis amistades se han alejado de mi, yo dejé que algunas se fueran porque no estaban siendo un aporte para mi vida, pero hay otras pocas personas por las que aun siento apego y no son mayor intervención dentro de mi vida espiritual, pero aun asi tengo la duda si debo cortar de raíz toda asosiación con no devotos? ¿cómo puedo complementar mejor consiencia de Krishna con la vida diaria?

     HpS - All these things are nicely answered in Upadesamrta, no? We have civil dealings with people we work with, but if they don't want to hear about Krsna, then we don't talk to closely with them. Of course, we are always looking for ways to interest them in spiritual life.

Esperando se encuentre muy bien en todo ámbito de cosas y sin querer quitarle más de su valioso tiempo, se despide su aspirante a sirviente Bhaktin Valentina Cortés

PD: Adjunte una foto mía por si no recuerda mi cara.

          HpS - ASA -- Thank you  for the foto. You can share Prasadam with your friends!!!
Upadesamrta text 4,5,6 are good to read.

Todas las Glorias a Sri Sri GouraNitay!!!!!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!!!

Todas las Glorias y mis respetuosas reverencias a ud querido Gurudeva!!!!

Espero se encuentre muy bien. Disculpe no haber escrito antes…sé que no hay excusas….después de la iniciación todo ha sido como estar corriendo una maratón, no he tenido descanso ni pausas, han sucedido muchas cosas, ahora podemos ver un poco las pruebas reales a las que nos enfrentamos siendo devotos, principalmente siempre estoy como en una cuerda floja entre la vida material y espiritual, tratando de buscar un equilibrio, ya que aunque muchas veces quisiéramos dejarlo todo y correr detrás de RadhaKrishna, no es nuestra posición en estos momentos. Nos mantenemos cantando las 16 rondas,  siguiendo los 4 principios estrictamente, cocinando a las deidades los viernes, y atendiendo a las deidades en casa, y claro cumpliendo con nuestros deberes como madre. En marzo entre a la universidad, he pensado tanto en esto, siento que si no lo hago me quedare estancada en eso, y también pienso en que hay tanta gente educada, pero que en realidad tienen una conciencia muy baja de la vida, me quedo muy grabado algo que dijo en su visita a Chile PROFESIONALIZAR EL SERVICIO, asi que se nos han presentado todas las facilidades para estudiar, y estamos utilizándolas, espero contar con sus bendiciones.

              HpS - ASA -- You can try it and see what the result is, no?

Quisiera contarle un sueño especial que tuve hace algunas semanas….estaba en Vrindavan, veía el RadhaKunda, la colina Govardhana, los bosques, las vacas era todo tan hermoso, yo era una niña pequeña, y las gopis mayores entre ellas Madre Yasoda, me pedían que fuera a buscar a Krishna, porque estaba atardeciendo y debía volver a casa junto a todos los pastorcillos....camine hasta una pequeña colina desde donde se veían los pastorcillos y a Krishna en medio de ellos, grite : Gopal!!!!! Gopal!!!!! Krishna al escucharme arrancaba de mi y todos sus amigos le habrían el paso para que corriera, yo seguía gritando con todas mis fuerzas Gopal!!! Podía ver sus pies rojizos, su piel, sus cabellos negros, llevaba un turbante que al correr se movia, sus dothi amarillo…pensé Krishna siempre hace lo que quiere, y si Él no quiere venir no lo hará, me dio pena pensar en no poder cumplir el servicio que las gopis me habían dado y grite por última vez con toda mi fuerza y corazón Gopal!!!! Krishna se detuvo, se dio la vuelta y me sonrío muy traviesamente, mientras caminaba junto a Sus amigos de vuelta a casa.

Muchas gracias Gurudeva por todo, ud es una inspiración constante para nosotros!!!

Se despide eternamente agradecida

Alankrti Devi Dasi

Y sus monitos Manjari y Giridhari

( las fotos son de RamaNavami :)

HpS - Jaya Gopal. Jaya, Gopal. Adelante. You are on the right path, just go ahead with a little caution.