Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!!

How are you?

    ASA - HpS  -  AGTSP!!!!           Hope YOU are with enthusiasm.   We are with enthusiasm but the poison ivy alergy is coming back.  Rash developing here and there on the legs.   Back to Steroids.

Since we decided to stay in Utah, things have now gone from one stage to the next. I think things are always progressing. Reb and I are both employed outside the temple, but are still living in the ashram, just paying a small amount of rent. I spend all day punching numbers in a computer. She is working at a kitchen store, which is great for her because she loves to cook. It has been good in some ways, bad in others. Two of the senior devotees are very bitter towards us now, although we have gone out of our way to try and mend things. I keep reflecting on your comment that there will always be social conflict. So staying separate has made it so there is less fault finding and offenses. I am also having to take public transportation to work (for hours) so I am always getting my rounds done, and reading by the time I get to work. I have been reading the book "Fortunate Souls," do you know it? It is very nice. It is nice to have that more regulated. We are doing more arati at home, because of our awkward schedule, but that is also nice, because we have very nice JBS deities from Vrndavan. 

I wrote to Sri Hari Prabhu and asked if we could get more formal guidance from him on our path to initiation. He is much more personable than Caru, although Caru is still in the loop. There is a lot of wonderful service here, but there is no Bhakta program to speak of for real spiritual training. 

I have seriously injured my right index finger from playing so much mrdanga. As soon as I finish paying off my debts, then I am saving up for an x-ray. I always had a tendency to play a bit aggressively, now I have to change my technique. We are saving more money for traveling in the future. Maybe we will go to LA again, or other nice temples. We will for sure save some money to visit Boise the next time you go. We were also thinking of Peru or India later on.

Your most fallen aspiring servant,

Bhakta Adrian

               ASA -  AGTSP!    Just keep your head down and avoid the bullets and keep on chanting Japa and it will change everything from the bottom up!    Eventually everything will become very, very clear.        We are in the same confused mess and that is what we are doing!!   Jaya!   See you in the light, and like this rather well even in the dark.

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Dear Maharaja, how are you? I hope you are getting better from your illness. I have not made myself aware of what it actually is. I'm sorry but I wish I could help somehow.

I started school and am learning on how to be a dental assistant. It's interesting but also not interesting. One thing though is that despite my very heavy course load I manage to chant my rounds every day. By your mercy only it happens. There have been times in the past though where I have left one or two to the next day. I feel like it's such a terrible thing to do but I just need to tell you. Please forgive me. Otherwise it has been a minimum of 16 rounds every day.

My reading has wanned a bit. It's not so consistent and I find myself not trying to make it consistent. I seem to be more concerned of Yogendra's reading than mine. It might just be a lack of enthusiasm although that enthusiasm come from reading. I'm not sure what to do about it. It wasn't like this at the beginning when I started to write to you.

Um, and one last thing. I know it's kind of late notice but Yogendra and I are getting married next week on the 29th of September. He came back from his trip and it was a surprise to me. He's a little grown up now. Please give us your blessings. Again I apologize for my lack of communication skills. Please forgive my ignorance.

your aspiring servant,

Rasa-mandali dd

         HpS - ASA -  AGTSP......   paoho.   So nice to hear from you!    We had the 15th for your wedding date.          He's be a fool not to marry such a nice girl as you, right!            -{:O)-                We think so....     Even Monkey...     It's tommorrow.  Wish we could call to congratulate you.        Marriage is not SO impotant.   The important thing is to have nice Deities and worship them together.     That's the  IMPORTANT thing in married life.  Very fun.

            Main thing is that even if it is small the reading should be regular.  EVERY day read the KRSNA book before going to sleep.   EVERY day read one page of Lila-amrta before beakfast.   Get association do it regularly with your father, mother, sisiter, husband, Jagannatha!                      O.K.              More news.       News of the Temple!

One wedding gift attached.

hare krsna Guru maharaj

Estamos aqui en el templo de Buenos Aires con los devotos...  faltan 2 para cumplir 16 rondas para hoy. hace un mes y 15 dias que las cumplo las 16 rondas y mangalaratik y 4 principios! estoy muy feliz otra vez!! el sabado distribui 15 libros!! mis reverecias tengo que ir a cocinar a los devotos pues parese que el concinero lo internaron y los devotos de sankirtana pasaron mil aventuras!!! hare krsna!! 

su sirviente Syama kunda das

                   HpS - ASA ---   TlgaSP     Mil veces, 10 mil veces, intentamos llegar a la plataforma de Japa y Principios eternos!       Entonces estamos util...!

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Guru Dev, In last letter, you have asked me to what i think about BG 17.15 and Puport and how it
    applys in my daily life.

    BG 17.15 Teaches, We should speak - truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others, and
    also in regularly reciting Vedic literature.

    Truthful : I am a strong believer and follower of this. Because without truthfulness we can not
                      approach Lord.

                      Chaitinya or Krsna is in our heart, he knows every thing very well that who is honest & who
                      is incorrect.

                      if we are cheating some one by telling lie, Means we  are actually cheating our own self,
                      not the person.

                      we impure our self by doing so. Whenever we speak lie, we pollute our self. And this
                      pollution drag away our self from Lord.

    Pleasing  : No, Have to work on it. I have to put lots of hard work for this. Because i speak very
                       straight.

                   ASA - Try to think how the person to whom you are speaking will perceive what you are saying.   Will they be able to understand what you are saying our will the violence of your words cover the message?

    Beneficial : Yes, we speak.

    Not agitating to others : Many time my words agitate others. Because i speak very strait. Which
                                                 people don't like.

ASA -  Krsna is not straight.  He wandering on the banks of the Yamuna.  Do you subtley enjoy hurting people with knife like words?   It is a question we ask our selves many times!!

    Regularly reciting Vedic literature : we always like to recite from scriptures.

    Please advice.

your servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

           ASA -  You are an extremely nice person....  but as you know you must purify, not abandon, your words.  It is better to have a wise man for an enemy than a fool for a friend, it is so nice to have one you doesn't flatter us.  Vibhisana was talking to Ravana giving straight advice.

PAMHO,AGTSP,
Jay Hanuman,  hello to TB, BW and UG who help you a lot in your activities.

              ASA - AgtSP   paoho....    Whoop!   Whoop!,  Oink!  Oink!, e=mc*2

Your glorious self are hard to found

                    ASA - Because by illusion we are bound,

, even if we spend every pound, vist the world all around, in our life which is time bound.

ASA - To mundane sound..

...you have appeared as sun in our life, otherwise we were living only in strife.

              ...with our kittens and wife.

you have given so much to this horse, even though it troubled you very coarse.
                            ..  neigh  nay..
we pray that your legs get treated finally, but seeing your sadhana level in such state, we find a soldier in you who continues fight even after serious injury. Hail HpS!!!!!!!! Here is our tiny report..
Sadhana
1. Attempting to apply the 130 am formula, and the 8 golden words. But finding practically difficult as horse likes to sleep. but struggle is going to apply this formula. 4 rules intact- we cant beleive it, but some how they are being followed without difficulty for a passionate creature like us.

                             ...   we could not get up in the morning early as long as we slept in our bed all comfy.  when we moved to a mat on the floor that became the morning time door.

2. We had domestic violence incident from horse's side, after which we went to pyschiatrist. He told us our brain is too taxed. He gave us dopamine and other happpy hormone, he also tried to reduce Adrelanine. by those pills we had heavy sleep demand by body 14-15 hrs a day for a week. in such time our eating was fine, but our chanting & reading was heavily effected, we got back log of around 72 rounds.
To cover them up we have increased rounds to 19 for 24 days [72/3]. I dont know if this would break our commitment for chanting daily 16 rounds. If yes please advise what can be done when we are under medication or surgery.
                            ... think you can find the same result in diet etc.that you get from the homones.   but take practice.   just chant as much as you can, all the time. chant during domestic violence.     should stop it quickly...  {:O)-
3. we are not able to chant good rounds in  morning, but we can chant good rounds in afternoon. so we have the dilemma [chant rounds early] versus [chant good rounds] , what should be the priority.

                     ...  good rounds.

Services:
1. we are thinking of making ppts and offer it to you as you can use them like. some of the titles could be what is time, what is dream,  etc. 

2. we were thinking to prepare a small write up on  your presentation on "philosophy of nature" and present to Former president of India who has worked Indian Defence Research centres. He would appreciate it but for this we need your permission.

3. we eagerly want to serve you btu we are such a quagmire that we can not commit any thing to you. But if there is some thing which is not time bound, please allow this horse to carry that.

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                     ... contact Dr. Samaresh  regularly and work with him.   working with people is like learning to work with the mind that Krsna has given us.   Look for the essential motivation for your PhD work or move to something else...   ...   adelante!!!   Jaya!       ...                  President of India is O.K.    Ask Dr. S.
we are reaching death gradually and we would die one day. we hope we can make tangible progress and can atleast serve as he desires, before that. please dont hesitate to use your whip, though we know you are merciful.

aspiring to be discplined by you
Horse>>>>

PS below is pciture of monkey and horse, in feng shui - the chinese system this piece is very auspicious and useful for victory. monkey also has a bowl.

          ...  thank you!    Hari Bowl?