Letters to the editor

AGTSP !!

Please accept my humble obeisances

Dear Maharaja

We are still in Wash DC, we had to cancel return trip to Montreal due to malfunctons on the train track central in NY caused by the unusual low temeratures and derivates, date of return now is Wed 15th, next week.  We thank you so so much for your words of encouragement to our little efforts here and there, thanks for your kindness and mercy.  On your question of diksa, and having our bond to Krishna formally brought to the altar,  yes, we have been thinking and wishing,   devotees in  Montreal have been asking about it also,  but we felt Krishna was making proper arrangements, now we know for certain.  We will take diksa with you Maharaja whenever you decide the right time is.  You set the time and date and we will be there.  As I said before thanks a thousand times for your kindness and mercy.   Sri Guru and Gauranga ki jaya !

your humble servant

bhakta Raul 

HpS - Hmmm!   Now is 28th. We have got slowed down by so many nice V'puja letters. Tommorrow we go back to Tennessee. Even there I hear it is Super Cold. Diksa... if we can be of service that is wonderful for us. Montreal has big Rathayatra?

Hare Krishna gurumaharaja!!! todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!! todas las glorias a usted!!!

Le escribo nuevamente para contarle que estamos muy felices debido a que vamos a ser padres!!!jay!, es un bebe muy deseado para nosotros, hemos orado mucho a las deidades desde antes de concebirlo para que sea un hijo devoto que tenga buena salud y larga vida .

  Despues de krishna, Giriraja y  el doctor, usted es el primero en saber esta noticia. Por favor necesitamos de sus bendiciones !!!

sus sirvientes gadadhara gosai======= das & pushpa priya devi dasi.

hare krishna!!!!

HpS - TlgaSP!   pfanrh. No es un ser humano ordinario. Krsna no envia ser humanos ordinarios ser hijos de devotos. Tiene gran responsibilidads protejer su hijo muy bien com puede crecer muy bien y hacer grandes cosas para la humanidad! Reverencias al Nimai, Gundica, todos!!!  Nitai-Gauranga!  Congratulations. Ya mucho austeridad para Mataji!

Reporte Anual

Devarsi Narada das (from Argentina)

Hare Krishna

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias al movimiento de Sankirtana de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu!!

1 - Fue capaz de seguir los 4 principios regulativos este año?

Este año intentamos mantenernos fijos en servicio al templo y combatir la lujuria, y lo estamos logrando!

Fue mas simple seguir los principios, porque me asocie con devotos muy favorables.

2- Fue capaz de cantar 16 buenas rondas diarias con entusiasmo?

Este año cante 16 rondas diarias, pero creo que tengo que mejorar mucho la meditación, para que realmente sean buenas y entusiastas rondas.

3- ¿Quién es su autoridad administrativa ISKCON en esta institución sankirtana de Srila Prabhupada ?

El presidente del templo de ISKCON Argentina Maha Hari das, y el secretario del GBC Gunagrahi das Goswami.

4- Algun otro comentario

Este  año estuve ayudando a prabhu Maha Hari y el templo con el festival de domingo, en le area de comunicaciones y diseño, y trabajando en el restaurante, ayudando a Gandharvika dd . Siento que estar plenamente en contacto con devotos y poder permitirme ayudar en algo es muy valioso para mi vida espiritual. Guru Maharaja, este año proximo deseo con intusiasmo ayudarlo  en su predica mas directamente. estoy a su disposición.

Muchas Gracias

Mis reverencias a ud

intentando servirlo

Devarsi Narada das

(Argentina)

HpS - ASA - Jaya! AGTSP. pfanrh. Gracias muchas por su asociacion durante nuestra visita y esperamos puede adjustar su situacion de ashrama como estuvimos hablando. Mejor esperanzas para la proxima ano.

PAMHO

AGTSP

My dear guruji:

This year has been full of service to Radha Kunda, specially during Kartika that we had a lot of vaisnava seva at home, serving a lot of groups of devotees that came home to see how we try to live, as Srila Prabhupada said, simple life with high thinking.

Personalities like Guru Prasad Swami, Sacinanda Maharaja and Bhurijan prabhu, among others, were at home sharing with us our deities' prasadam and doing a lot of kirtan, damodarastakam and katha. it was very nice for us.

Also, I was doing seva at the kunda, cleaning the banks of Radha Kunda every day, hoping that this vrata could help me to be more humble, but in the middle of the month I got sick and could not do it for some days, that was because instead of becoming more humble, I became very proud of doing this seva and Radharani kicked me off until I could realize that this seva is meant for satisfying her instead of satisfying my very big ego, finally she accepted me again and I could finish my vrata.

I also could chant more rounds and sing more prayers trying to satisfy Radhe Syam and doing parikramas to Govardhan and Radhakunda.

At the end of kartika, my dear Radha Carana from Vrindavan was here in RadhaKunda painting a very beautiful picture of Radharani at the banks of Radhakunda, I was helping her to chase the monkeys away so she could paint more peacefully. The prabhu who asked her to make this picture, told me that he was very impressed by her devotion and seriousness.

In relation to Radha Carana, she has been more and more engaged with the painting of deities not only personal deities but also some temples have asked her to paint their deities, I would like to humbly suggest, if you deem it convenient, to give her second initiation so that she be able to do it without anxiety, because when she is asked to paint temple deities, she is very concerned about not having brahmana initiation.

I think she has improved her sadhana, chants her rounds without problems, do Vrindavan parikrama every day, when I go to Vrndavan we do it together and comes to Radha Kunda very often.

Finally, I want to report you that last thursday we had a very beautiful vyasa puja for you here in Radha Kunda, Radha Carana, Lalita Gopi and myself were hosting this little event and did parikrama-harinama with your picture all around Radha Kunda, after we had the offerings, kirtan and a very nice prasadam.

This is my report, I hope it can satisfy you and Radha Krsna a little bit.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

HpS - ..0'.......   AGTSP. Anyone who reads your letter will see how kind is Radharani. We hope to see you all very soon. We arrive in Delhi at 2PM on the 25th of Feb. Maybe we can meet Harsh there and all come directly from the Airport. Then we will leave early the 28th morning.

Radha carana Dasi needs a letter of recomendation from ISKCON temple.

Hare Krsna Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you.

I was planning on having the letter come at the start of March based on the timeline for initiation.

On the 2nd, Mother Nidra, Abhay Prabhu and I celebrated your vyasapuja with a bhoga offering, puspanjali, arati performed by Mother Nidra while I led kirtan, and I shared some of my intentions for serving you and offered some promises I made to you and rememberances of when we were in Houston.  It was very nice.

On New Years Eve we had maybe 20 or so devotees chanting at an event downtown and the crowds that gathered around us to dance would get so large that police had to try to get them to make way for others to have room to get by.  It was ecstatic, I wish every day was like that.

Maharaja, I have big plans that I want to begin work on in 5 years that I am not at all qualified for.  My intention is to try to prepare myself for them from now until then, and to be brahmacari for around 3 years or so for intense purification and training starting shortly.  It seems the closer I get to Krishna, the more I think about falling back to a safer, less intense position and slowing or stagnating my advancement, and the more I think about that, the more I want to surrender fully to His instruction and never leave His lotus feet ever again.  I am just a rascal with no bhakti, but how could I deny myself to Him, and how could I live otherwise?  While I do not feel qualified to do anything good, I can not imagine turning back now.

I am looking forward to being purified by your presence again when you come to New Badarikashrama again!  We have 7 brahmacaris now, and could have 11 or 12 including myself by the time you are here again!

Hoping that somehow or other I can serve you well,
Bhakta David II

HpS - Jaya!  AGTSP paoho.  Thank you for the nice letter. Your life and journey are very  nice to hear about. We will be touring USA in the fall.

I hope the DTC gives enough news of us. You can see that we have little time for anything right now. In USA in four days.

Very late since I did not have a computer and in my beloved Radha Kunda there is not even one internet site, I send my offering.

om ajñana timirandhasya jñañjana salakaya

caksur unmilitan yena tasmai sri gurave namah

I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance, with the torchlight of knowledge.

My dear guruji:

I have confirmed again this year that everything, except for the relationship between the spiritual master and the disciple is temporary in the material world.

I have recently suffer the lost of one of my brothers, which is very painful, and once again, I asked Krsna why we have to get attachment to our family members, if there will be one day when we do not see them anymore, I think I will never understand this.

Although I have heard that beautiful verse 2.13 from Bhagavad Gita:

“dehino ‘smin yatha dehe

yaumaram yauvanam jara

Tatha dehantara praptir

Dhiras tatra na muhyati

As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self- realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.”

But I am not a self realized soul, so it has been very difficult for me to assimilate that I will never see him again or heard his voice or read his mails.

                     HpS - AGTSP. Paoho. Why not? Krsna is controlling everything. He can very easily have you meetin in dreams.

I have also heard this year about the falling down of one of my dearest and most admired guru in Iskcon and lived the suffering of all his disciples and I also asked Krsna why do things like this can happen, how can maya be so powerful, that even that kind of high devotees can fall down, and so, what can expect some little devotes like myself.

                    HpS - Is Maha-nidhi Swami??? I heard that he said that it was false propaganda from some mad disciples. In any case, the Srimad Bhagavatam is FULL of fall-downs (and get ups). So we learn from hearing and seeing and experiencing. But we learn and we go ahead and Krsna makes us more and more purified each day.

And for both subjects I have no answer yet, so please, my dear guruji, teach me how to manage this kind of things and be only engaged in serving Radha and Krsna, no matter that the world surrounding us is so flickering, like our own minds.

And finally, my computer got damaged, so I could not be able to be in contact with you almost all year long, which is something very important for me, and all my Srila Prabhupada´s library is gone so I will have to start again gathering all this information.

The only thing that maintains me with the feet on the earth is to know that you are always taking care of us, your disciples and that this relationship is eternal, as some scriptures states:

“… but the bona fide spiritual master, as the representative of the Lord, is the eternal father because the spiritual master has the responsibility to lead the disciple to spiritual salvation as the ultimate goal of life.

Srimad Bhagavatam, 3.5.7 purport”

“The guru disciple relationship is eternal. If both maintain their pure position and are bona fide, their eternal relationship is never jeopardized.

Sri Harinama cintamani. Chapter 6.”

No matter how many difficulties maya brings to us in this material world, I think that the only important thing is to be engaged in the service to Radhe  Syam, that is what I feel, but sometimes, very often, my mind goes mad and engages only in the problems of the material world, so please, my dear guruji,  help me to understand what is the real object of life and how I can achieve it, help me to be able to control my senses and my flickering mind and think only that our ultimate goal is to go back to life, back to Godhead and help me to get attachment to the holy name and to chant with more attention and devotion, I am very confident that only you can help me.

As Srila Prabhupada said in the purport of Cc Adi lila 2.5 “one who has faith in his spiritual master actually receives transcendental instruction and as his attachment for material life slackens, he is able to advance on the spiritual path”.

Please be merciful to me and help me to remember the beautiful names, forms and pastimes of Radha-Krsna all the time.

This is my humble request for you, I know that only you can help me to surpass all these material entanglements.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

HpS - Ha!  Ha!  Ha!   If you can live in Radha kunda for even one night you are wonderful. Why are you complaining. Krsna is doing all this so you can become detached. He will always make the material world a crazy thing until we are ready to serve Him. Then He will nake it Vaikuntha.

Just get even one of Prabhupada's books and read it again and again. All your answers will be there. We get to India the 11th and Vraja the 25th. We hope to go to Radha kunda. 28th we go to Dehli for short trip back to USA. We think of you often and are very happy when we can get any news.

Dead, Fall-down. All connected to Krsna.