Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Beloved Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

ASA/HpS - Jaya!

Here we are in an Ecovillage in Brazil, studying Ayurveda.

Is it worth it? We don't know!!

These last two months were very tough!! It was difficult for me to chant my rounds. Although many times I woke up at 4 am, my mind was wandering everywhere, sometimes it took half an hour to chant one round.

ASA 😲

Some days I can finish 16 rounds, some days not.

I feel panic, depression, like Arjuna in BG 6.38. I can die at any moment and what did I do with my life?

I can not yet understand what is the cause of it!

Whether it is:

• an emotional issue,
• family attachment,
• too much entanglement in administrative affairs,
• so many suffering stories at work on a daily basis,
• aparadhas,
• lack of sincerity or surrender,
• pride,
• little bit of everything?

Not much is going on at Sri Govardhan. Although we are advancing in the administrative field, spiritual programs are scarce. Only the morning program and some visits of Senior Vaisnavas.

Material life is ok, family, work, health. 

Yesterday I read SB canto 4 chapters 25 to 29, preaching of Narada Muni to king Pracinabarhisat and the allegory of Puranjana. So I can remember the situation I am in.

One thing is sure, that my faith in Srila Prabhupada and Iskcon is unchanged, and I feel gratitude for the friendship of devotees.

I see yourself as a great example, a case of success, of course Srila Prabhupada is the Gold Standard of success.

Dedicated your life to your Guru-maharaja, developed a strong and steady sadhana, did tons of service, helped a lot of people and now you are retiring to focus on your inner bhajana. 

HpS - It is bizarre! We are in the closet, material world, and we think that returning to the rest of the house, patio, park, forest, with the rest of the people for Krsna's week of festivities for His birthday party is going "inside". Is funny, no?

I already purchased DTC 1 and 2 from vimeo (waiting for 3 y 4), and distributed 10 TPP Spanish edition. One to H. H. Dhanvantari Swami. He was very impressed by the book. He wants to speak with you to translate it in Portuguese.

HpS - We have not heard from him. Of course, he can do it. It is designed for Bhakti-vaibhava level of diploma studies.

In this letter https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/13631/ you told me: “Hopefully we are at least 77% clear pathway to Srila Prabhupada and we certainly beg you to find other ways to reach him also Eg. Books, Other ISKCON devotees”.

Thank you so much for this instruction, I feel very much protected and cared for by you. I’m feeling very inspired by these devotees, Bhakti Dhira Damodar Swami, Navina Nirada Prabhu, S. B. Keshava Swami from Bhaktivedanta manor and Aravinda Prabhu. I listen to their lectures. I feel like it is the next wave in iskcon. So much power in their preaching, it gives me huge hope!!

In my next letter I will tell you about our projects, and share some thoughts about the GBC. But nothing is worth it, if I can not chant good rounds, so now I want to ask you for help and some advice, how can I improve my japa? (probably you will say by chanting japa), how can I pacify my mind while I’m chanting?

Thank you Gurudeva, you showed me that this process is first class spiritual science.

I’m sorry that I’m more a burden than a help,

Endeavoring to follow your example,

A stubborn fool conditioned soul,

Nikunja bihari das.

HpS//ASA - Nice news in many ways. We hope many other Bloggies make comments on your ideas.

We have Karma, Vasanas, Individual archetypes. They kick-in in certain situations, in certain arrangements of the planets.

We feel life and low, agitated or peaceful mind, even during different parts of the day.

Every morning from 1.00-5.30AM I am a saint, then by 6PM I start to turn into a demo. [Civilized Demon].

I have developed certain techniques, systems to control our mind after many years of working on it.

You will develop yours also.

There is just no doubt about. Every time you take a deep breath and chant three, four, five.. mantras you have made eternal progress.

Tell us all some of the techniques you use now?

Jay Guru Maharaj, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias, todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

 Guru Maharaj Estoy cantando 16 rondas, voy a Srila Prabhupada samadhi para Mangal Aarti todos los días. También estoy cantando en Hari Nama y Tengo una buena asociación con Gaura Gadadhara y su esposo Vira Gopal.

 Guru Maharaj ya tengo boleto para volver a España el 29 de septiembre, pero antes de irme me gustaría visitar Sri Vrindavan Dham por primera vez,

 Guru Maharaj por favor busco sus bendiciones para poder hacer este viaje a Sri Vrindavan Dham.

 Gracias por toda su misericordia 

 Su aspirante a servienta

 Ratna Lekha Devi Dasi

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Jay Guru Maharaj, please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 Guru Maharaj I am chanting 16 rounds, I go to Srila Prabhupada samadhi for Mangal Aarti every day. I am also chanting in Hari Nama and I have a good association with Gaura Gadadhara and her husband Vira Gopal.

HpS/ASA - Amazing! 😯 Your next birth will be in Nabadvipa with Nimai and Saccimata?

 Guru Maharaj I already have a ticket to return to Spain on September 29, but before I leave I would like to visit Sri Vrindavan Dham for the first time,

 Guru Maharaj please I seek your blessings to be able to make this trip to Sri Vrindavan Dham.

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna! Hare Krsna!

We hope you can get some confidential experience of Vrndavana. We hope your Divya svarupa is waking up.

We hope our news in the Kapi Dhvaja is useful

Please write to us all about what happens while you are there!

 Thank you for all your mercy

 Your would-be servant

 Ratna Lekha Devi Dasi

Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

Please receive my most humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you.

HpS - AgtSP!!!! ! ! ! ! ! paoho...

How are you doing? I hope your health is fine 🙏

ASA - This body does not get diseases, this body is a disease!

We got bug bites on our ankle, shoulder and too much fat on our stomach... but ... for a 75-years old American we are in the top 15%! AgtSP!. Agt Bhakti Yoga!

Thank you.

How are you? How is Campaka lata Devi Dasi's health?

The other day, in a class you gave, (after a question I asked about austerities, etc...) you said: "in the next life he may be born as Hiranyakasipu..."

And I kept thinking... because you could detect that sometimes I feel like a demon, who has anger and resentment against Krsna, (like Hiranyakasipu who hated Krsna)...

How can I get out of that immature position of being angry with God? How can I become a friend of God like Arjuna or Sudama brahmana?

Thank you Gurudev.

With your blessings I can become a vaisnava aspirant.

My eternal obeisances.

Thank you for accepting me as your would-be disciple.

Deva-Vrata das. cordoba Argentina

HpS - It's a very deep question. I don't even know the answer well enough for myself to try and give you a deep answer for yourself, but. . . what about NoI 7?

https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/7/

After working, we hope, with some tiny, tiny, sincerity, at Srila Prabhupada's yoga for over 40-years, we seem to think that Text 7 is completely true. It's a big deal to get those deep roots out of the heart, but each time we chant, "Hare Krsna" we are destroying the roots.

What do you think?

Sometimes do you see how nice is Goloka, and how we have to be different beings to live there?

We can get free from this envy because Krsna is such a nice friend!

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Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

Reciba mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a usted.

¿Cómo está? 

Espero que su salud esté bien 🙏

El otro día, en una clase que diste, (luego de una prengunta que hice sobre las austeridades, etc...)

dijiste: "en la próxima vida puede nacer como Hiranyakasipu..."

Y quedé pensando... porque pudiste detectar que a veces me siento como un demonio, que tiene enojo y resentimiento contra Krsna, (como Hiranyakasipu que odiaba a Krsna)...

¿Cómo puedo salir de esa posición inmadura de estar enojado con Dios? ¿Cómo puedo convertirme en un amigo de Dios como Arjuna o Sudama brahmana?

Gracias Gurudev.

Con tus bendiciones puedo convertirme en un aspirante a vaisnava.

Mis reverencias eternas. Gracias por aceptarme como tu aspirante a discípulo.

Deva-Vrata das. Córdoba, Argentina

Hare Krsna, Gurudeva, AGTSP, PAMHO,

As your grace [holiness 😄] wrote in 14190 --"we need pictures of you!"

We have only two pictures of ourself, one before going in operation theatre and one after coming out...

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Secondly we think our great/only fortune is that you wanted to give initiation to us, even we are not qualified at all.

HpS - You were, we are, by His Divine Grace!

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while discussing our progress with HG Parth Pratim Prabhu,

from

animal birth in bharat --- human birth( manusya janam) --- janam sarthak kori --- karo paropkar....

it was found ..

our desire to be exceptional interfers with our following small things... though we know in this effort we might compete with Krsna, but i think effort to acheive pure devotional service is itself exceptional,

ASA 🦁 Damn right it is!

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anyways-- we know we want to approach you as pyschologist, father, spiritual master, friend..

we have approached to you earlier as either of these, and you have reciprocated perfectly..

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as there many letters/instructions/advices by you given to us in this blog, hence we are not writing as much as earlier to this blog.....

though we actually want to write ...

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trying to becoming Hayagriva Avatar Das

small but eternal progress

ASA - 🐵. . . 🐖 Hey! What about your surgery. How big is the scar? Did you see the gunk they cut out? Was the doctor feel'n good about the shop work?

How many more miles you got on your present kindeys? Did they give you a warranty?

Hare Krishna, my apologies Maharaja for the lack of context..

In a previous letter I had written to you about how it seems difficult to have relationships in this world, and also with devotees in the setting of a Brahmacari asrama, and you responded by mentioning text 5 of the NOI, and how it helped you see and deal with different devotees accordingly.

You also wrote later in your message that,

“We really, all, only have one Best Friend, and until we get His association we will feel lonely.”

So I was just appreciating that.. that Krishna is our best friend actually and until we reawaken that relationship, we will always feel like something or someone is missing..

And I will attach a picture below so you might recognize me, and a couple other pictures of our sankirtan here! I am one of five of the Brahmacaris here in the Houston asrama.

Hare Krishna Maharaja! Thank you. 🙏

Your servant, Abhaya dasa

HpS - Hare Krsna. AgtSP!

Paoho...

Thanks for the clarification.

We are also looking for closer association.

It is 181% our lack of love for Krsna. We are selfish, greedy, vain and so we don't want any friends. We want servants. People who will gratify our egoistic vanities.

Ooof! What a mess.

If Krsna gives us His association, then it naturally purifies our hearts and is established as a habit naturally.

Let us just love Krsna.

Play with Him.

Play with Him and His, our, friends.

Sometimes there are are many people in our material society.

Sometimes there are only a few.

It is impossible to find a simple external reason why.

Our aglomeration is decided by subtle forces projecting over lifetimes.

Hmmm. Hari Bolo!

🙂

5.51PM - join the MOE education symposium!

See you in just a few minutes.

Hope some of Sankirtan is useful to you, and you will engage us in some of yours.

HpS/ASA

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Hare Krsna, Dandavat Pranam

All glories to HpS Guru Maharaj, Gouranga Mahaprabhu, and Radha Krsna ki jay.

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja padamacharan that our senior bhakta Dr. Leisangthem Nandalal Singh, Retd. Joint Director, Health Services, Govt. of Manipur (Nanda Sutta Das), initiated Nama diksa under the Padmacharan of Hanumat Presaka Swami Guru Maharaj) in the year 2013 and Brahma Diksa took this year Jan 12, 2023. He expired on 25th July 2023 at Delhi Hospital at around 8.00 a.m. and as he desired his body was cremated at Radha Kunda (U.P) on the same evening.

His condolence meeting was held yesterday, the 26th of July 2023 at 8.00 a.m. in the Thoubal Tomjing Mandir by observing 2 mines silence prayer to God for kiping his soul peace in the Goloka Vrindaban by the bhaktas and matajis of the mandir.

Other ritualistic functions will be performed in his original home, Thoubal Wangmataba in the near days.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Thank you. Super! Please also send pictures of him so we can chant some Maha-mantra with good meditation on him! Offer our help in orienting himself as he leaves this body.

Thank you!