Letters to the editor

Esteemed Professor Samaresh Bandyopadhyay et el,

This is your wayward servant, Hanumatpresaka Swami reporting, Thursday, 6th March.

After we talked from Vrndavana we finished our intensely refreshing visit to the Pandits and places of the Holy Dhama. It was very, very cold there and even the entire three weeks in India so our body was exhausted from fighting with the cold alone.

We went to Delhi at 1.30PM on 28th February with Sriman Harsh Pradhana and had excellent reception by the ISKCON Temple.

We rested very little and said, 'Good-bye' to Harsh and then joined a 1-1/2 hour presentation and discussion on presenting Bhagavata philosophy and cosmology in the formal science areas. There were about 15-professors and professionals present.

After that one hour rest and up at 11:15 PM to go to the airport. One man was killed on a scooter two cars in front of us and then it took 2-hours of standing in lines to get to the Boarding Gate for Brussels.

7-hours in the dark in a tine seat we arrived in Brussels.

We found some clean cheese and offered it to Lord Madan-gopal and then honored the remnants.

We were about to die then of exhaustion, but got in the Boarding Line for the all night flight to New York like good soldiers. When we got to the counter the girl accepted our Boading Pass and smiled at us and tore it into pieces.

Our beffuddled, exhausted mind was about to panic and jump over the guard rail fearing that we had broken some rule and Armed Security Forces would seizes us in a moment, but before we could act on that hysteria, she smiled and handed us another Boarding Pass saying, "You have been upgraded to First Class".

We smiled and said, "Oh, thank you", wondering, "Why us, Lord?".

Arriving on-board we discovered we had a persona servant, a seat and little cabinet that fully reclined to a bed and a white table cloth for each meal, although we declined the pig, chicken and beef and took only fruit milk and nuts.

Honestly without that we could have died of heart failure.

In any case, there were more rigors after that and in all it took 28-hours of hard travel to get back to Franklin, Tennessee. We were COMPLETELY exhausted and barely capable of moving for several days, but it is testament to our Yoga that we are beginning to move again.

We have made great personal and social advancement in the last few months by all these efforts, and specifically we have a a very clear method of fulfilling what seems to be our main responsibility in these last few years or even days of writing.

We, and everyone else, are accepting that we cannot travel like before or even handle so many projects, so a lot of our work now is seeing who we can inspire to continue with this work. It is a very happy project.

This weekend we will be staying at Ravi's home. It is about 45-minutes from here. He was also exhausted by the return journey.

Frankly speaking we consider it a great honor to be able to associate with you in all these personal and professional efforts and if you let us we will continue with this work although in this less physical and more inspirational aspect.

We hope things are super successful at your end also.

Some snow and sunshine here.

Your fallen servant,

HpSwami

Dear Gurudeva:

Please, accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

How are you? I just want to thank you for your  advices. I will try to follow them.

Thank you also for your patience and your mercy.

Wishing to be your humble servant.

Purnamasi devi dasi

            AGTSP - We hope our advice is of some value. We follow it. We put fun before politics, having fun with devotees, friends, but sincere devotees like you all take the very, very, important work of politics seriously. Thank you! Do it like Arjuna and Draupadi!

Hare Krsna Querido Y Recordado GURUDEVA

Porfavor Acepte mis Humildes Reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srla Prabhupada

Espero q esta carta lo encuentre en buen estado de salud.

HpS - O.K. pero tenemos 66-anos en esta cuerpo y los ojos, por ejemplo, no pueden funcionar tan fuerte para interenet como antes.

Gurudeva gracias a su miscericordia y a las bendiciones de nuestras autoridades directas P Aravinda, Guruprasad Swami y Bhakti Busana Swami, los libros pudieron ser traidos de venezuela a Colombia, pues por la dificil situacion de Venezuela amenazaban con quemar los libros, pero gracias a Goura y  a Nitay todas las 51 cajas de libros ya estan a salvo y estan siendo distribuidas en una marato que estamos llevando acabo aqui en colombia. Hay dos grupos de sankirtan de devotos y devotas nosotros estamos en la zona norte de colombia y las devotas en la zona sur, parece que los libros tenian mucho desceo de ser distribuidos porque pudimos cubrir la cuota de toda la semana que perdimos intentando recuperarlos en tan solo 3 dias, Krsna es muy miscericordioso.

                  HpS - ASA - Senor Caitanya es TAN BONDADOSO....

Gurudeva me he enterado que estara en Mexico DF en  GOURA PURNIMA :(  me alegra mucho por los devotos del df, pero esos dias nosotros estaremos a mitad de la maraton aqui en colombia, y desafortunadamente no podre estar en su visita, sin emvargo mi corazon esta a sus pies intentando seguir su intruccion y la de Srla Prabhupada, seguimos  en la calle distribuyendo esta filosofia trascendental, aumentando la cantidad de rondas diaras a 20 min, 4 principios, mangala y gurupuja Diario.

                    HpS - Super Hombre!

Querido Gurumaharaja, porfavor expliqueme como puedo avanzar en mi servicio devocional a la suprema personalidad de Dios, pues aun no he podido controlar los seis impuldos, y me cuesta mucho trabajo tener intercambios amorosos con los devotos, soy como una oveja en la calle pero un leon con los devotos, las austeridades del habla siguen siendo mi gran debilidad y no siento apego aun por cantar el santo nombre de manera entusiasta, debo seguir cortando las malas hiervas de mi corazon.

gracias por su miscericorda para conmigo Gurudeva, cada vez que medito en Ud la alegria viene a mi servicio devocional y la calle se vuelve como un templo.

Su Sirviente

b. Burro (Vrajendra kumara das)

                        HpS - Pues Vd. conocen MUY BIEN todo las requisitos por que esta citando las faltas de una manera muy experto. Un tonto no conocen cuales son los faltas. Esta indica bastante advanza. Pienso es claro Vd. estuva un monje, devoto, en su vida anterior.

Pienso tiene que adelantar en la linea que sigue, eso es el mejor, afilando, no cambiando.
Voy a quedar en Sankirtan viajero para mas tiempo?
Voy a seguir Kardama Muni y ser casado con "Devahuti" y tener Senor Kapila para Hijo? O va a seguir sendero de Narada Muni? Indicacion?

hare krisna beloved gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to srila prabhupada,

here we are in mar del plata, living in the association of devotees struggling to take shelter in the internal potency of the lord. harinama.

gurudeva you are the greatest benediction in my life,

      HpS - ASA - AGTSP we are making a very small effort. Some sincerity. The benediction comes because Krsna is using us!

...a living proof of sastra, a secure shelter for fallen souls. You possess the qualities of an exalted vaisnava and your example is a huuuge source of inspiration for myself and im sure so many many other devotees.

. . . after initiation sadhana fell apart, a waterfall of material desires drawned my regulation, had to finish rounds the next day. but

16 rounds ok 4 principles ok. preaching fine and growing, real life.

. . . arrows of lusty desires struck me very often. longing of family life. we seek intelligence in the mahamantra. No plans but chant and survive.

i feel tremendous gratitude of being aware of my possition, my weakness, makes me staying alert.

We are so fortunate, here at sama our health center we receive the visit of senior devotees very often, two weeks ago SS bhakti sundar maharaj was here for a week. we felt like narada muni serving the sadhus as the son of a sudrani.

i stopped  worshipping the little gaura nitai deities and im helping in adorarion of the big one. im focusing in japa.

Since a week ago we restablished our sadhana and we are having morning program finishing rounds before starting to work. i realized everything expands from there. aiming mode of goodness for further advance.

Gurudeva your mercy is unlimited,

seeking your lotus feet,

Nikunja Bihari das.

            HpS - Jaya! AGTSP! I think we could say the exact same thing as you. We follow 16/4 and more but also things like this trip to India, etc. They confuse us. We read in Hari nama Cintamani that if a devotee is dexterous in Sadhana he can wake up his natural love for Krsna and take up his service in Vaikuntha again very quickly, even a few days, but if he does not do it so expertly it can take several life times.

Maybe you and I are products of this several life time path.

We have to get good at Sadhana in a very simple practical way, use lots of mechanical though transcendental tricks eg. stop and chant one-round each hour.

So, news from Mar de Plata.

We HOPE news from education soon.

We write a DTC in a few moments with you all in mind. Thank you. Respects to all.

pamhr tlgSP

Hare Krishna gurudev espero que siga bien de salud estable,

HpS - ASA - TlgaSP. Pfanrh. Actually we are at death's door, but should recover if we act properly.

. . .hemos tenido un hermoso festival para la celebracion del Sr. Nityananda gracias a krishna pude prepararle al Sr. arroz dulce y compartir con devotos. Gracias a Ud soy parte de esta familia de srila prabhupada y festejar estas fiestas maravillosas.Yo estube recordandolo mucho en este dia como mi guru y como un gran sirviente de su maestro perdone mis ofensas su santidad espero que mi poco servicio logre complacerlo algun dia, espero tambien que la hallava que prepare para su programa en el derrama magisterial haya sido de su agrado....

su sirviente parama karuna das....

          HpS - ASA -- Gracias. Super Nityananda festival in India tambien! Como diksa guru comunica de sus desafillos y exitos en la Sadhana basica! Estamos aqui para ayudar. Somos todos un pueblos pequeno pero saludable en esta mundo grande.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO
 

Gurudeva we have been following your activities through twitter and the photos from the devotees who are india (they share them on facebook), we feel really happy to have iur association in that way… but we miss Japa joe :(

Our Nityananda Trayodasi festival was so so nice extremely nice.. we had the opportunity to share the service with so many people … as U told us once the position of the person in charge is to occupy others devotees in service… Personally this year Nitai gave me another service Madhumati dd and me prepared the sweets for the festival at home ¡¡ we finished at midnight and with the salty preparations and sweets  we had more than 108 preparations ¡¡¡ Wilson was full, the program was complete, abhishek, maha prasadam, kirtan, class, concert, dance theater ¡¡¡¡ the whole atmosphere was so nice ¡¡¡¡¡ 

CMDD is still alive fixed on her sadhana,rounds, principles, study, etc but but but maya is so strong gives a good fight and whenever I feel a kind of weakness I asked for good advice from Madhumanjari dd she is really helpful I trust her very much ¡¡¡ I write to her in order not to bother U.

THis sunday I am going to sing with some devotees in one festival in wilson in order to collect for Gaura Nitai ¡¡¡ Gaura purnima is comming soon ¡¡¡ JAYA  

Please give me iur blessings in order not to be an embarrassment for U and to continue with my journey going back home ¡¡¡

Thank U all so much for all iur inspiration and blessings

always trying to be iur disciple

Candramukhi dd 

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HpS - AGTSP! paoho. We are REALLY exhausted from this/these trips. For three weeks in India it was cold and we didn't have warm closthes. Every day there was so much emotional pressure from Administration, meeting with Students, Friends. One morning 35-people approached us before class.

Ha!    Ha!  Hare!

All we can all do is chant as much as possible and then follow the good advice that comes from that chanting.

Now we do some rounds and Kirtan and Reading.

Thank you for your association!!!