Letters to the editor

      Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj, por favor acepte mis reverencias, todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada y Usted.

                   HpS -   !!!!!  Jaya!!!!!     Anandavardhana Das!!!             99.999% a Srila Prabhupada.

  Por acá estamos casi como siempre pero un poco mas feliz cada vez y eso ocurre por sus bendiciones.

Perdón por no escribir tan seguido, es que mi vida cambia poco, de la ultima vez que escribí lo mas importante es el HARINAM que organiza la madre Fernanda ( aspirante a dicipula suyo) cada 15 días es MARAVILLOSO, son 8 horas de Harinam y Sankirtan como con 20 devotos, gracias a Srila Prabhupada, cada vez llevo esas 2.000 galletitas Prasadam que parece me arrastran al mundo del SANKIRTAN, estamos distribuyendo ese pan integral cada vez en mas lugares ahora se llaman "MADHU", son como 3.000 cada mes, con un vendedor " no devoto" que sale a vender y así estoy todo el día en casa haciendo pan, leyendo los libros de Srila Prabhupada, cantando rondas y asociandome con la familia, estoy feliz de poder verlo a Usted ahora con su cuerpo burdo en chile, mis reverencias  una y mil veces a usted que es muy bueno con el mundo entero. La familia está bien con Narotam la Maha anandini y todo el resto....

                  HpS -   Nos vemos en 6-dias!!!!    Distribuir tan mucho Prasadam, como puede ser un "no devoto".  Ha!    Ha!      Ha!!   Adelantamos.  Nos vemos pronto!!!!!!

DEAR GURUDEVA,

PAMHO ,AGTSP, AGTHPS!!,

I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER.

WE WERE TALKING, JAYANTA, POURNAMASI, BHADRA AND I ABOUT YOUR TRIP.

JAYANTA SAID, AND WE AGREE, THAT IF YOU WISH TO JUST TO COME TO MADRID AND SPEND YOUR TIME RESTING, OR WRITTING, WE WOULD  BE HAPPY.

BUT IF YOU LIKE WE CAN ORGANIZE SOME EVENTS, PURNAMASI GAVE ME THE SERVICE TO CONTACT "LA CASA DE ASIA" FOR A SIMPOSIUM, DO YOU ALLREADY KNOW THE DATES YOU WILL BE IN MADRID?.

         HpS - ASA -  We have suggested:
          May
          1-8  Mad(rid)  y Madre Tierra.
          8-15   NVM!!!
          15-22   Barcelona
          22-28   Radhadesa....

I BELIEVE JAYANTA WAS GOING TO CONTACT YADUNANDA SWAMI TO TRY AND DO SOMETHING AT THE UNIVERSITY( DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS) AS WELL OR INSTEAD(AS YOU WISH).

              ASA -  We can do both if they are effective programs.  Light of the Bhagavata is such a good platform!    But watch the Blog and Kapi Dhvaja for other projects.   Looks like this year was Socrates but next year will be the Song of Songs by Solomon in the Bible and the Light of the Bhagavata!   O.K?

JAPA JOE IS FANTASTIC!!!, NOW THAT FINALLY SHARAD HELPED ME TO START, I WILL JOIN  MORE OFTEN, AND BHADRA TOO.

           HpS - ASA -  You translated the book!

BHADRA IS GIVING SUPPER BG CLASSES,HE IS STARTING TO DO  THEM WITH WONDERFUL POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS.

THE GURUKULA IS ALSO WORKING SOOO NICELLY, THANKS TO PURNAMASI´S AND EVA´S EFFORT.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR CAUSELESS MERCY.

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SANANDA DD

               ASA - Are you and Bhadra going to contribute a few children to the Gurukula or live a merry Vanaprastha life?  ?   ?       Have a plan for your life/Sankirtana?   Go to India?   Bhadra go to school and get a PhD in Education?
           Please let us know of any ideas for programs in Spain.  Can do a co-ordinated event between all three centers!     We have contact with Pedro Riba   www.puntoradio.com   Que piensas??

TLGASP!!! TLGAHPS!!!

           ASA - HpS - Algunos pequenos a HpS.

Jay Gurudeva Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias a sus pies de loto...

             ASA - Aun no son loto pero limpio.

...Teniamos planeado con mi esposa viajar a Ecuador para finales de Noviembre, para poder servirlo personalmente en los dias de su visita...

      ASA -  Bueno.   Bueno.  Bueno.  Si no es austeridad demasiado fuerte!   Visita su familia tambien???

.. . mas hace una semana recibi mis documentos de permanencia y encontre un mejor empleo, entonces decidimos quedarnos en São Paulo; aprovechar la oportunidad.

       asa -  por un rato, no?  vamos a dejar el cuerpo casi pronto.

   ...quedamos un poco tristes por no viajar y poderlo servir,

     ASA - Aahh!  Solamente un PLAN ir a Ecuador, pero va a quedar en Sao Paulo.  Si es bueno..    podemos encontrar pronto de otro modo, proxima visita!

...mas creo que vani es mucho mas importante que vapu. entonces tomanos esa decision basandonos en eso.

        asa - claro vani es japa y 4-principios.  entonces todo siguien naturalment para buen sankirtan y regresa a casa!

...seguimos levantando temprano cantando nuestras rondas (japa joe) casi todas en la mañana sigo intentando llegar a las 20 -los Buses de São Paulo ayudan en eso- todo es lejos en esta ciudad,entonces conseguimos terminar las rondas camino al trabajo. en la noche un pequeño arati y SB antes de descansar. los fines de semana iendo al templo de suzano para hacer un poco de servicio para JBS, nos sentimos bien y creemos que asi estamos fuertes. siempre intentando mejorar nuestro sankirtan.

Muchas gracias por su asociación de todos los dias, nos mantiene fijos y entusiastas en nuestra vida espiritual.

se despide un vulgar holgazan disfrazado de buenas intenciones

Radhika Pashad das

São Paulo - Brasil

        asa -  como se llama su esposa?  tiene cuatro brazos? Buen foto!!!   Tiene Jagannatha en su altar?  Lleva al templo cuando realiza servicio alla??

                 Hare Krsna Gurudeva Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada We are in El Salvador.

     ASA --  Jaya!   AGTSP    paoho...  And we expect some exciting news!

The street is hard for book distribution, so we are doing universities. The devotees are very nice, we can learn many things from them. We are going to sankirtan with two devotees: Syama and Tulsi, both daughters of devotees. Before coming to El Salvador Prabhu Aravinda organised a marathon for m. Jambhavati's health.

        HpS -  Jaya..........................     We have been  so, so, so worried about that!  We have terrible communication with both Maitreya Das and Aravinda Prabhu...  Thank you so much for the news.   I guess Aravinda Das is a person who does a lot and talks little.  We want to help if we can.   Her Papa came to the temple in a nice suit and we all discussed BG.  He is such a nice person.    We get back to Lima on the 5th and the 6th is his birthday.  Ha!   Ha!   What a "coincidence", so we hope to have a birthday party for him.

I also know there is a devotee in Mexico df who is helping an other devotee to get medical treatment, I heard she was willing to help in m.Jambhavati's case. This is what I know in general, no details... I don't know if I can be of any help? Thanking your attention Your servant, Nitya Kisori dd

          ASA -- Hey..  No more Sankirtana news!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, Please accept my obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to you.
   im so  sorry write about these issues,  but i feel the need  to tell that 2 weeks ago I'm in the  worst moment that my body has suffered physically, with headaches, dizziness and  constant severe fatigue , i  went to the doctor ,but  she didnt say anything to me I will take  some blood tests ,i speculated that is  stress ,i took  several stress tests, and they all said that i have a big case of stress . O n the other hand the place wich mangalananda  was working close , so we are out of work just when we must renew our residency, many things happened this year , but still singing  16 rounds each day ,thanks to your  mercy, japa joe has helped me tremendously, and we continue the service  with the deities in the temple  once a week.
Hopefully we can be here when you come, we are beginning to organize your  coming  here ,little by little, we have seen several places where maybe you can  give  your  lectures, I hope your physical health is improving, again I thank you so much all the mercy that you give to us , who want serve you , Sarad Bihari Dasi.

                HpS - ASA -   AGTSP...    Thank you so much for writing with this news.  I think you can see that it is so common.  People with marriage problems, health problems, church problems.      This world is designed to...... Kill Us!         O.K.   Best use of a bad bargain.  Kill the demon in my heart the same time.   Hearing all this we feel that the biggest enemy is the advertisements on Television,  etc.   They all paint this picture that there is so much happiness in this world and if your not happy you should be ashamed and hide it.

     This world can be O.K.  like some one recovering from an auto accident in the hospital with tube in their arms, but if we are going to die that's O.K.   Krsna will take care of Mangala ananda and Radhe 16 times better than you ever could.  Uf we get news of your demise we will be happy!    "She's gone to Goloka!   She's getting things ready for all of us!"      Our respects for MADas....   Look for Krsna sending a better job or maybe pushing you to return to your home land!

HpS - ASA -  Jaya!  Now things are so much more clear in our stupid brain. So, if you want to get re-initiated we could take that service. Some devotees want it some don't.  We don't feel it is so necessary if the Diksa guru was properly representing Srila Prabhupada at the time of initiation.     Beyond the super important instruction of following our ISKCON vows and keeping full morning and evening program, we would certainly hope that you can send us news of your situation, Yatra, your Sankirtan with devotees and out in the public!  Thank you very, very much.
For Europe, it is getting fixed. We will be in Radha-desa from February 6-16th, then from April 30th to May 27th

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

Sorry for the late answer, this is my 10th attempt to compose a letter. I wanted to write positive things but i couldn't word few things positively :(

Thanks for your kind answer and the opportunity for initiation but i'm not a good candidate.
I have written You previously i'm just a fallen and in the past i gave up my japa for a while but due to the huge ammount of letters what You get daily maybe You don't remember it.

My short story: My spiritual master preached in Scotland and i was there also for 1,5 years. It was years ago. We served a lot there and usually slept less than 6 hours daily. There was serious psychoterror there. I was sick at that time so i couldn't tolerate less sleep and after 1,5 years i had just one meditation: sleeping. I chanted extremely bad rounds and i was weak both spiritually and bodily. I said to my GM i would like to come home but He didn't allow me, You know i hadn't ID (i wrote You previously few details about it) but i decided autonomous and came back to Hungary. I needed to rest but i continued chanting. The devotees pushed me here to move back to the ashram but i was like half dead. Few weeks later i wanted to clear up my situation with my GM i wrote him but He didn't reply me approx 15 times. I wrote to the GBC but He said i don't follow my GM therefore He can't help me.

    HpS - ASA -   AGTSP   pamho... Wow!  Sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel or something.  At this point you deserve to do whatever you want to do (within a little reason. :o))  and think that Krsna is completely happy with you.

At that time the devotees started to spread that i'm a fallen demon and not so good to associate me. I wanted to do sankirtana but it wasn't allow me also. Due to my bad japa i failed this test and became weaker day by day and i felt this is the end of my spiritual life. Everybody rejected me. I prayed to Lord Nrsmhadeva everyday but gave up chanting for a while.

I saw to be karmi also not so easy. Krsna showed me this world is very dangerous and without chanting we can become crazy.  So i started to chant again and i decided i don't mind what others think.  I was convinced i do everything for myself i have to get square with Krsna and no one else so i didn't deal with what others talked about me.
In the meantime i started to associate my husband an we got married and my spiritual master left the movement but this is a very long story...

This period of my life was very heavy but I learnt from this case so many things.
1. Without good japa we cant make progress
Nowadays i want to cry when i chant inattentively and i feel this is just waste of time and energy!
2. It's my road and mine alone. Others may walk it with me but no one can walk it for me! I found this sentence in the internet but it mirrors my realization.
3. Spiritual master is very important but we need an uttama adhikari. I'm on kanistha level and i can't see others level but have to cry and pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krisna and if i cry sincerely Krisna will send me a Guru who helps me to reach Krsna prema.
I cried a lot in Mayapur and finally met You. And without your help i would be crazy already.
So thats my story, Maharaja. I pray to Krsna everyday for being able to attach to my sadhana but You can see i'm just a fallen. You wrote me so many times it's not necessary to get reinitiation and now i don' t know what i want. Sometimes i want to get initiation sometimes not. I'm sure i still need time. I have to understand things deeply.

About my yatra:
In one word the situation is chaos. There are big fight for the positions and money, so much politics but there are no harinama, no university preaching, no intensive book distribution just money collecting because the church has financial problems at the moment.

My situation: Nowadays i don't have too much time but i distribute books once a week, just 2-3 hours. I can give 4-5 big and mahabooks for the people. My plan is to distribute minimum 7 books (altogether one per day). I know it's not too much and i hope i can offer more service in the future.
If i meet interesting people i preach them in person or by e-mail so i keep in touch with them.

My sankirtana inside of the community: I 'm in the background i don't like to be in the center and there are lot of directors here they can help to the devotees.
I just set an example to the matajis and try to serve everybody. There are matajis in the ashram who usually get up at 7 am. The prevoius mataji leader taught to them they have to take rest enough. That's why if they attend Mangala arti after 2 yawns they go back to the sleepingbag. I just tell them stories about the spiritual power what they will get if stay in the temple room and chant their rounds early. They are grateful for the stories and if they have problem with sankirtana i try to help them also and give them useful guidance what i also got from somebody else in my past.

These are not so big things but until this management supervises the yatra we can't do big things. Due to this situtation there are devotees who want to open a new center in the city and the old devotees lost their faith in the process. Painful to see it but the solution is the Holy Name and Krsna katha. I'm sure we get what we deserve and all of us have to learn from this situation.
I just pray to Krsna for giving to the yatra what is the best for the devotees progress.
I feel myself badly when i write negative news to You because Your attitude is always so kind and positive.
This blog is very useful. Thanks for the answers, guidance and advices what You write to me and others because i can learn from it so much.

I hope we can meet in person next year. My plan is to go to Radhadesh in February and to Spain in May. I hope i will have enough money.
Thank you very much for your association, dear Maharaja and sorry for the complain and the long letter.

Your insignificant servant, Sri Radhe devi dasi

              HpS - ASA - Jaya!   AGTSP....  Please continue just as you are doing.  You seem to be a Saint amongst people.   If we belong to a healthy spiritual institution and have a nice Madhyama adhikari Guru who is helping us relate to the Uttama adhikari Acharya we go on. But if the institution is in chaos and the Madhyama adhikari guru falls down, there is just no choice, we still have to go on.  That's a quote from Srila Prabhupada's Godbrothre Sridhara Swami, but seems 100% Srila Prabhupada also.  Also his life.  We lived through such stuff in Berkeley Temple also.  Ooof.  We learned: If you chant 16 nice rounds a day and follow the four principles strictly and keep a full morning and evening program ans see that everyone under your authoroity does the same thing you will have NO PROBLEMS.   That is a quote from Srila Prabhupada to Nava yogendra Swami that we heard from NYS and we took it to heart like 20 years ago and it is a fact!
Srila Prabhupada is building heros and heroines who can live through

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