Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hoping You are well. I read your blog almost everyday and try to follow your activity.
We are still alive.
Sorry i didn't get back to You sooner but i didn't know what can i write because everything changed in our life everyday.

               HpS - AGTSP.  paoho.  Then I guess you have to write every day. <img alt="smiley" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.gif" title="smiley" />
We wanted to arrange our book distribution in Hungary but we were unsuccessful. There are strict rules there and still not allowed for the grihasthas to do books and maintain themselves from it.

             HpS - Oooof! Don't know the details, but P'pada had arrangement in L.A. for Temple Grhasthas living in Ashrama to get 15% of their collection.

But we would like to do it because it helps us a lot. Due to the sankirtana i can be better person and once hopefully better devotee as well so i want to take part in it.
So finally we came back to England, we are in Manchester right now.
The devotees are very kind and helpful here so we like to be with them but not so easy to get used to their programs.
Every week there are 4 or more programs (many times in other village) and the program finished by 10-11pm or sometimes later and usually we go to the bed between 11-12 pm.
We are very tired and nowadays we can't get up at 3 am and we suffer from the bad and nonregular sadhana. We got accustomed to the early wake up and morning chant and reading in Hungary and we got lot of strength from it.
Nowadays due to our random life i feel myself weaker.
We try to not attend every program but the devotees doesn't like it because they think we are unsocial and weirdo.
Maharaja, how can we find the balance between the sadhana and the association? We don't want to hurt anybody but we need privacy, seclusion and proper rest also otherwise we can't do books and can't make progress.
Thanks very much for your answer.

Your servant,
Sri Radhe devi dasi

                         HpS - AGTSP...   Oooof.   Sadhana means association, no? Sadhana is how we associate. Not Sadhana and association, but who and how to associate.

Japa.

Kirtan.

Sankirtan.

What is the difference between these three? Prabhupada explains. Of course, always problem avoiding demonic association, and of course, ISKCON devotees are usually not going to be Pure Devotees so our association will also not be pure. What to do?

Learn to avoid the demonic aspect of our society. Be like a tongue surrounded by sharp teeth.

Hare Krisna, Dear Gurudeva. These are my personakl reflexion from Mayapur:

Que diferentes pueden ser las cosas dentro de un mismo planeta!!!!. Salimos hace mas de una semana de Madrid con destino Mayapur (India) y pasamos de la ignorancia y la pasion mas absolutas a Sattva Guna y aun mas alla. Levantarse cada dia a las 3:30 AM para ir al programa espiritual por espacio de 4 horas y media es sin duda lo mejor que me ha ocurrido en mis 41 anos de vida. Las Deidades estan vivas!!!!!!!, danzan y cantan al son del ritmo de mrdangas, karatalas y 400 o 500 devotos. Luego las clases de Bhagvatam con eruditos vaisnavas, y donde el sonido del Krisna Kata supera la barrera de mi rudimnentario ingles ..... Que pasara cuando el viernes que viene abandonemos este santo lugar para regresar a las agitadas calles del Kalkuta y regresemos a Madrid?. Son dias de reflexion para afrontar nuevos retos espirituales y personales, sobre todo en el templo de Madrid, con la congregacion de Madrid, con mis queridos hermanos de Aranjuez, con mis queridos hermanos de Valls y aquellos que andan dispersos por Espana. Nuevos retos: Desarrollo Congregacional, expansion, amor, mas humildad, mas humildad, mas humildad, mas humildad, , mas humildad, , mas humildad, servicio devocional ..... "trinad api sunicena taror api sahisnuna amanina manadena kirtaniyah sada harih : Uno debe cantar el Santo Nombre del Senor en un estado mental humilde, considerandose mas bajo que la hojarasca de la calle. Uno debe ser mas tolerante que un arbol y estar dispuesto a ofrecer pleno respeto a los demas. En semejante estado mental uno puede cantar el santo nombre del Senor constantemente"

Please, let me keep at your Lotus Feet.
Your servant, Dandava Das.

                HpS - ASA -- TlgaSP....  Pfanrh...  Increible, no?!   Y el Templo de Entendimiento tiene que ser casi listo para abrir. Eso como 12-piso de alta!

Elefantes!

Samadhi de Prabhupada!

Ganga!

Gurukulas!

Asta sakhi, 24-hour kirtan, invitadossss, Bengalis, parikrama's...  Ooof.  Y va a ampliar. Tiene que vovler a Espana con la conciencia de compartir con otros, appreciando que ISKCON, Gaura-Nitai son mucho, mucho mas grande que ISKCON Espana (pero ISKCON Espana es lo mas importante). <img alt="smiley" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.gif" title="smiley" />

Hare Krisna Dear Gurudeva. Please, accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope your are fine.

Carcika and me are fine, we can't groan, we must not groan.

The last Sunday we had a General Assembly to vote the members of the Temple's Committee. The members are:

• Jiva Tattva Das (He was elected by active members no in Governing Council)
• Jaganmohan Das (He was elected by member in Governing Council)
• Jharikhanda Goura Das (He was elected by active members no in Governing Council).
• Carcika Devi Dasi (She was elected by member in Governing Council. She's my wife).
• And me (I was elected by active members no in Governing Council)

We had our first meeting on this day and it was very positive.

Now Carcika dd and me have a lot of service: Madrid's Temple, Bhaktivedanta Institute under Yadunandana Swami direction. Seems to Krisna wants give us more and more service, problems, etc. Sometimes I tell Krisna: "Please, Don't love me so much". But I tell Him very low and He doesn't listen me. Seems it's our play. No, It's him play. He's so Merciful.

Next Sunday Carcika and me will fly to Mayapur. We'll be there during 2 weeks.

Well, now I must go because I’m working.

Thank you for all.

Please, keep me at your service under your Lotus Feet.

                HpS - ASA -  AGTSP  paoho Thank you so much for the news. We will also look at your other letters. We send the Kapi Dhvaja today. We need a little more service than we can handle, no? Then we stay with some pushing!

All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gouranga
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami

Please accept my most humble obeisance

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, I hope that everything is nice and the body doesn´t interfere so strongly in your plans. My name is Ignacio González, from Valparaíso, Chile.

All my family is all right… Goura-kunda mumbles some kind of maha-mantra in the kirtans, and sometimes alone. Even the cat is all right… he is a very bad person but a very good cat.

             HpS - AGTSP   paoho.  I guess we can't expect him to give up meat, fish and rats!

All principles, 16 rounds per day, sadhana lost! But always trying to get new strategies to re-establish the standard. Our service it has been going for a year and a half, good projects:

1. We are focus to rise the japa standard for myself and the community.
2. Getting a Web page for the nama-hatta (is a surprise for the community).
3. Working in doing some infographics about the chapters of the Bhagavad-gita.
4. Organizing a  cycle of conferences here to preach (we will do it at our level)

It´s going to be hard, but with your blessings and your teachings we will be able to pull this off.

About your visit this January, we have been talking with the Santa María University (Juan Ayala and Carlos Bustamante) to do a program with them about epistemology. The idea of the program is to have a gathering only of teachers and thesis students, but the specific format we have to re-discuss it.

Eternally your lousy servant

Ignacio

P.S: Someone told me that you were searching for the Professor Bustamante to do something in your book and that you need the data to reach him. I ask him about it, and he was very excited so here is his e-mail and phone...

               HpS - AGTSP.   So, nice to hear from you. Basic principle is to get up early and get your rounds, done.   Start with a vow you know you can do, like 4-rounds/day until the next Ekadasi. Then DO it!

After that re-evaluate and make another vow.

Rupa Goswami and Srila Prabhupada's advice.

Santa Maria is fine. We are doing, Carl Jung and Education in ISKCON so we could do epistemology very well.

What is an Educated Man: Technology, Stanislavskii, Jung and India.

Querido Guru Maharaja.

Por favor si, asi lo desea, acepte mis respetuosas reverencias postrado a sus divinos Pies de Loto.

                 HpS - ASA - Ha!  Ha!   Hare!   TlgaSP!   We are still with material desires but they are under control and diminishing. So, we are Madhyama-adhikari, but advancing. We don't have divine lotus feet. We are trying to fill a position designated by Srila Prabhupada and the GBC properly. 

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Todas las Glorias a Usted Guru Maharaja.

Disculpe por usar su valioso tiempo , es para contarle que por su misericordia sigo tratando de servir  a los devotos del Señor todos las fiestas , sigo cantando diariamente un poco mas de 16 rondas y siguiendo los 4 principios , hago ayuno completo los dias de Ekadasi y sigo disfrutando del Srimad Bhagavatam .Ayer hizo un año del inolvidable dia en que usted me bautizo en conciencia de Krishna, pido sus bendiciones para poder serle util.

Esperando el año nuevo para poder tomar su Santa asociacion y Orando por Su salud y su bienestar su inutil aspirante a sirviente Nanda raja das

                   HpS - AGTSP  Estamos pensando en Vd. Que pasa con Vd. Y aqui es una carta. Utiliza translate.google.com para traducir de Ingles a Espanol. Claro estamos en Argentina falta menos que seis semanas!             Oooof!  Muy bien su Sadhana, tiene que buscar modos entrar la filosofia de SB entre  sus relaciones con otros durante la dia!!

Todas las Glorias a Sri Sri Goura Nitay!!!!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!!