Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Gurudeva , paoho , agtSP agty. Finally i get to write here , thanks to you and prabhu Prahlada; We are travelling on Monday ( Radhe and i ) Mangalananda will try to go next month .last month was full of service it was the best way to say goodbye to Barcelona , i been chanting my rounds , following principals , reading Srimad Bhagavatam and trying to finish the 3 canto , so we can start the Bhakti Vaibhava study when we settle down , but our mind was agitated , stress full , i did my best to calm it , thinking that Krsna will be there and will help as, like he always does . I spoke to gandarvika , she has a Sunday school in the temple for the kids and i want to help her like you told me , i always remember your instructions even do I'm such a full that i can do it so far , i know Krsna will help us fulfill it on time , hope you have a great festival today! , who wants to serve you , Sarad Bihari Dasi

HpS - ASA.  AGTSP.  paoho... So now you are there!  How is your father? How is the Temple? Where are you staying?

todas las glorias a srila Prabhupada!!

Bueno estamos aqui en Caruaru en el restoran de Sri Sri Radha Govinda haciendo un servicio que muchos devotos han rechasado,..... Limpiar ollas y platos !!! es muy purificante , cansador y nectario!! El seminario ya llego a su fin y tenemos nuestro titulo Bhakti sastri por fin despues de muchos anios de lucha!! Maharaja Dhamvantari es ahora nuestra autoridad (muuuuuuy inspirador) Maharaja me conto de su carta y mi respuesta es esta:

Estoy dispuesto a seguir las isntrucciones de Srila Prabhupada TODA LA VIDA y ayudarlo en el movimiento de sankirtana TODA LA VIDA! y ayudarlo a Usted en su servicio a Srila Prabhupada TODA LA VIDA! 

mis humildes reverencias syama kunda bhakta tortuga

HpS - TlgaSP  Pfanrh.  Recibimos una carta de Yemila tambien. Es companera de estudios para Vds, no? Si esta siguiendo todo para un ano primero iniacion es bueno. PERO aun no tengo las carta de Maharaja. Buscamos en Hotmail y no hay. Puede llamar por telefono a nosotro, Maharaja?

+1 209-505 3219.

Muy, muy bien su sendero! Va a quedar en Brazil!

TLGSP. ALL GLORIES TO YOU GM!

Thank you for your letter gm. ... i always liked architecture, i like looking at the layout of the job. But I feel it is a long time of study and that I need something more important in my spiritual life more, live with Gaura nitai in the temple, offer service and start my sadhana correct, Gurumaharaja, i need you tell me an instruction, and thank you for all the instructions that is making me!

You are a sannyasi guru with great mercy, and i am many respects and each instruction that you me i'm going to do with it all my effort because i'm a person ignorant, I am still your example you are my guru maharaja guide ... i am grateful my whole life his stupid servant bna teresa..

4 principios it´s okayyy!

16 rondas!

HARI BOLO!

HpS - ASA - Jaya Santa Tersa de la Conciencia de Krsna!   translate.google.com You should get local Siksa-gurus. You should develop a nice collection of devotees, men, women, who see you on a daily basis, frequently, and can then give you advice on seeing the details of your character.

Other than that what about reading Caitanya-caritamrta? We will be in BsAs on New Year's day! How is Maha-hari Das?

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj, todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a Sri Guru y Gouranga.

Estoy  muy contenta de poder escribirle.Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.Espero usted este muy bien de salud , listo para los viajes .

Querido Gurudev Le envio mi reporte .. Mi japa , 4 principios y mangala aratik estan muy bien . El seminário ya termino ; fue muy  completo, uma experiência muy marcante em mi vida o en mis vidas .Estoy muy agradecida por La misericórdia de Sri Guru y de Srimate Radharani..La asociacion com Maharaj Dhanvantari y otros lideres  fue muy maravillosa y tambein  la experiencia que vivimos com las devotas .

Gurudev,  yo Le pregunte a Maharaj como me veia para iniciarme y me dijo que El me veia lista,y que podria mandarle uma carta a usted describiendo mi estado. No se que opina Usted? Yo canto mis rondas hace 1 anio y médio y mis princípios estan bien fijos.

HpS - ASA - USE translate.google.com .   We didn't get Maharaja's letters!!! If you have been following nicely for one year and you are honestly convinced that you can do this for your whole life under normal circumstances as an austerity for your purification so that you can return to your normal position in Goloka, then O.K. take first initiation! !   Back Home!      Back to Godhead!

Outro tema es que ya le envie la carta con la invitacion cerca Del 10 de sept. Espero llegue antes de que usted se vaya , ya que El correo es  bien lento...

ASA - Yes, we got it. It was very beautiful and we showed it to many people! That was yesterday. Congratulations! Austerity for Krsna! Austerity for your Father and Mother!

Ahora voy a volver a Argentina el 15 de octubre, pienso volver a Córdoba , organizarme con La congregacion ( córdoba capital y tras la sierra); continuar los estúdios personalmente como sadhana y tambein en cursos con los devotos;levantarme temprano a cantar mi japa y adorar las deidades ; estudiar en La facultad (arquitectura )

   HpS - Ahhh!  This could be nice, but look for good professors. Your training may make you and architect or lead you to some related field. One year after first initiation you may have a clear idea about Grhastha ashrama.

; voy a pasar um tiempo com mi madre y hermano viviendo ya que voy a estar em un cuarto separado de la casa donde estare sola  y va a ser bueno para ellos ayudarlos . Mi madre esta muy a fin a La filosofia vaisnava y esta muy agradecida   .. igual sera como Krishna  desee.Tambien pretendo  predicar dentro de lo que sepa , con sankirtan y vere como puedo hacer com los devotos ; córdoba es uma ciudad universitaria y hay tambien  mucho movimiento, diversos temas, tampoco hay templo o algun centro cultural (en La capital).. entonces pienso se puede hacer bastante por encuanto este ahi.

HpS - And I think there is good devotee association there. Param-padam does not live too far away, no?

Entonces espero poder servir lo cual es un desafio constante.Vamos a ver que pasa, pero mi parte va a estar con seguridad.

Tambien le cuento que aprove el examen internacional com 85, era fácil  , solo que en esos momentos decisivos me agarra inseguridad.. pero esto me esta pasando ahora , no se porque... Um gran obstáculo  pero tiene solucion,em este momento para mi todo tiene mucho peso. Pero estoy mejorando Gurudev .Ahora cuando llegue voy a poder asistir a japa Joe ,una gran misericórdia, y la culminacion de todos los seminarios..  este fue el comienzo.     ..   Aqui le envio una foto del Guru puja que hice el dia de Janmastami, no pude colocar otra de las deidades...

 Muchas gracias por SUS instrucciones ,su ejemplo, por acompañarnos , por conectarnos a Krishna y por darle todo a Krishna.Su aspirante Yemila.

HpS - So, so, so, so, so nice to hear from you Srta. Yemila. I hope we see you when we are in Argentina. You could take initiation then.

Hare Krishna Hanumatpresaka Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhuada.

I have several questions that I am curious about.

If a fallen dog were aspiring for some time, following your instruction, 4-regs strictly, 16 rounds, mangala, etc., then either has sex with their wife not for procreation or -messes around in self-abuse- but afterward continue following, have they fallen down completely or is there still hope for them?  Does the 6 months until being a formal aspirant start from when they started following, or from after they fell down and continued following?

If a fallen dog was once renounced, in this life or previously, and they decide to marry, can they still attain the favor of Guru and Gauranga after falling down?  If someone could be renounced, but they have a desire to marry, are they foolish and fallen?  If someone has attachment to women, are they too fallen for initiation?  Any advice for thinking of Krishna 100% so that thoughts of women do not occur and attachment to them can go away?

If someone has severe pain or surgery or similar, is it a fall down to take pain medicine because it is also an intoxicant?

Many things are said about chanting while driving or in a car.  Is it okay to chant in a car, or are their circumstances where it is okay?

Any advice to help with thinking of others in a service mood instead of thinking selfishly?  Sometimes even we can do service for Krishna for our own benefit, with thoughts like "I will go to mangala arati for Guru Maharaja, because he instructed me to and to please him.  And because I very much want initiation so that I can begin spiritual life and begin trying to love Krishna and His servants."  That desire could be selfish, thinking of ourselves, our benefit, our purification, our advancement in Krishna consciousness, our relationship with Krishna, our ability to love Krishna due to having the seed of bhakti lata.  But I feel it may be bad to think of ourselves in that way.  Please give instruction on this point, is it better to approach all service thinking "I will go to mangala arati for Guru Maharaja, to please him and Gauranga in the association of His devotees." and not for ourselves as above?

How can we center our thoughts on serving others instead of ourselves?  I feel like my desire to serve Krishna and have a relationship with Him could be selfish and greedy.  Who am I to say I am qualified to serve Krishna, or His servant or even the servant of His servant?  How could I ever expect to please Him when no matter what I do is tiny compared to His reciprocation?  Anything I do feels insignificant, and I lament that I have material desires and do not feel qualified to serve.

"In the course of traversing the universal creation of Brahmā, some fortunate soul may receive the seed of bhakti-latā, the creeper of devotional service. This is all by the grace of guru and Kṛṣṇa." (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya 19.151)

From this text we see that it is only by the grace of Guru and Krishna that we can receive the seed of bhakti-lata.  Not by our own efforts or desires.  Please kindly instruct and correct us so that we may have your grace, and so that we refrain from thinking it is by some effort of our own that we could possibly receive such mercy.

"Kṛṣṇa will surely protect me and give me help for the successful execution of devotional service."

Yes, as much as I am in anxiety that I cannot be qualified to serve, I do not doubt that Krishna will protect me and give me help to serve Him.  I feel enthusiastic to serve Him, but I am a fallen dog.

"Devotional service is so pure and perfect that once having begun, one is forcibly dragged to ultimate success. Sometimes a person will give up his ordinary material engagements and out of sentiment take shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord and thus begin the preliminary execution of devotional service. Even if such an immature devotee falls down, there is no loss on his part. On the other hand, what is the gain of one who executes the prescribed duties according to his varṇa and āśrama but does not take to devotional service? Although a fallen devotee may take his next birth in a low family, his devotional service will nonetheless resume from where it left off."

This exerpt from NOI 3 is one I have refered to several times for solace.  We may have taken birth in a low family this time, we may have fallen down, but our service will resume.  It answers many of my questions above, but hearing submissively from Guru is also encouraging.  Please kindly instruct and correct our misconceptions.

I am also trying to be patient, but I struggle with patience.  Krishna seems so far away, even though He is so close.  I have not entered into His family yet.

Aspiring to be your servant,
Captain Blue Dog

ASA (Buck White) - AGTSP.  paoho.  Honey-chil' you got too many questions on yur scrambled brain!!!!   We just started scann'n them after numbr' six!

1) Yes, six months of following strictly you can be a FORMAL ASPIRANT.

Six months more first initiation.

ONe year more minimum mum mum and you can go on the altar and touch the Lord. . . Smoke a joint! Go to jail!... . .  Or at least you must follow the process for one year before you go back on the altar and touch the Deity.

This has practical effect.

If you get initiated, touch the Deities, and you are not ready then. Zing!   BiNg!!  Zong... Your material desires will INCREASE!   And you will go down in a ball of fire!
   So, fix you mind upon following.
And then send in shorter reports with a question for each one report!

O.K?      Colonel Pink Pig! !!!       YOur fallen servant.