Letters to the editor

PAMHO

AGTSP

My dear Guruji, please accept my humble obeisances.

HpS - ASA -  Paoho.....   AgtSP!    Thank you for your letter! 

I just want to thank you for your association and of the devotees in Japa Joe. It is very inspiring for me to chant in your association.

I thank Astasakhi and Adi Badri, who were inviting me to participate in Japa Joe.

 I hope your health be better now.

In relation with the words we were trying to rhyme today, Syama, dhama, dharma and Rama, I was playing with them and this is the result

To worship Syama

Hare Krsna Hare Rama

No matter in which dhama

That’s the jiva’s dharma

I want you to know that my sadhana has decreasing these days because my grandson was in the hospital for a week and I could not go to mangala aratik or chant gayatri mantras properly, I was running every day going to Mathura to the hospital and coming back to Radha kunda, then when the kid was out of the hospital, my family and I stayed for some days in Vrndavan cause here is very hot, there I was going to Krsna Balarama Mandir for mangala aratik every day and now, back in Radha-kund I am doing mangala aratik here at home, in our mandir, cause I have to do puja, cook and everything for our takhurjis while my family is back from Vrndavan and I am really exhausted.

 Is it ok if I keep on doing mangala aratik here at home?

I am sending a picture of our deities Radha Giridhari Madana Gopal and Nitai Goura Sundar.

While in Vrndavan, Radha Carana invited a group of devotees to a kirtan partyat her home, it was very beautiful.

Please give me your blessings to keep on chanting hare krsna with more enthusiasm every day.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

HpS - !!!!!      If you eat the leaves on the ground in Vrndavana, its O.K. with us.  Just never leave there and never go to any other forest.  (O.K.  Every corner of our ISKCON temples are Vaikuntha!)    But please don't forget us all. Pray that one day we shall also reach the very difficult to obtain, Sri Vrndavana Dhama.

Srila Gurumaharaja, por favor  acepte mis humildes reverencias. Todas las glorias sean a Sri sri Jagannatha-Baladeva-Srimati Subhadraji. Todas las glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada!

Disculpas por no escribir en los dos últimos meses. No tenia nada de nuevo... solamente verguenza.

ASA - TlgaSP!    El mejor razon escribir mas!

Mi sadhana se mantiene igual, despertando no muy temprano, adorando a Sri Sri Jagannatha-Baladeva-Subhadra en las mañanas, leyendo el Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, trabajando en BBT… Cantando mis rondas al longo del día (los mismos problemas con concentración). Tengo vergüenza por no hacer muchos esfuerzos en avanzar espiritualmente.

ASA - Tiene que hacer algo, pero no tiene ser como Hercules.   A que hora levanta?   Puede fijar una hora poco mas temprano, mas cerca a Brahma-muhurta?   Y entonces mantiene esta estadard de levantar para dos semanas.  Temprano por Ekadasi...

En este mes tuve la misericordia de servir personalmente a Srila Jayadvaita Swami, en las fincas Nueva Gokula y Vrajabhumi.  Buena experiencia, así tuve un sadhana mejor, pero ya regresé y ya no mantengo el bueno sadhana. 

Otros tópicos.

En São Paulo tenemos dos centros de predica. Adi-Templo (el primer templo de Brasil, pero aún con casa alquilada) y el Centro Cultural Vila Prudente. El Adi-Templo está en crisis, pues por problemas financieros quieren llevar las deidades para Nueva Gokula y mantener un pequeño programa de predica hasta que puedan comprar una casa para el Señor Jagannatha. Muchos devotos no aceptan esta idea y comenzaron peleas…  Hoy no tenemos un buen clima devocional y así muchos devotos están afectados. Hay mucha pelea de devotos en internet. Yo no quiero envolverme, pero eso es muy triste y quita la inspiración.

Que puedo hacer en esta situación? Cómo ayudar y como no ser influenciado por este Tama-guna? Que Krishna quiere enseñar para nosotros?

:(

Mis reverencias a sus pies de loto.

Su sirviente;
Gopavrndapala dasa

HpS - ASA -  Es como Arjuna y los Pandavas?   Guerra fratricidal?          Basicamente tenemos que aplicar Textos 4-6 de Upadesamrta. Requiere esfuerza distinguir con quien asociarse de cual quiere modo.  Yo  ha pasado experiencias casi la misma con describa, la unica cosas es hacer algo bueno, pero no esper va a resolver todos las problemas en un esfuerza.   Entonces trabajar, bailar y cantar bien, y despues toma Prasadam.  Es listo!

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva

TLGASP, PAMHO,

Dear Gurudeva, deseando siempre que se encuentre bien con la Misercordia del Señor Sri Krishna, como le escribimos en una carta anterior ya somos pápá por segunda u última vez, ahora afrontaremos un camino muy dificil con mucho sufrimiento pero con mucha satisfacción ya ello nos empuja a mejorar cada vez con nuestro sadhana, la lucha con mi mente esta declarada y tenemos mucha fe en salir bien de todo esto,

ASA - TlgaSP!    Pfanrh   Aparece que esta entrenando ser un segundo Julius Caesar of Napolean Bonaparte!

muchas gracias por su misericordia Dear Gurudeva. Le comento que el programa en el templo cambio el horario ahora el Goura Arati empiexa a las 6:30 pm al nivel de otros Templos poco a poco los devotos están tomando un servicio, Jagadisvara, Yogamajin, B. Johan, B. Marco, etc, Yogamajin, B. Johan estan haciendo el curso de BS diridos por Gds, que miedo...todo está saliendo bien hasta en momento, siguen los retos para ser firmes... Nosotros humildemente hemos aprendido que la única forma de hacer devotos es volviendose uno un devoto, una Mataji me comento algo que no quiero detallar, que hace falta a una organización, pero le falta algo al programa??, nosostros creemos que no, el único problemna es que algunas personas no quieren comprometerse no quieren dar el paso, solo es por el apego y solo tratan de ver lo malo, pero solo si seguimos empujando el carro de SP, el señor Krishna hará los arreglos para que más personas sigan ayudando. Por favor Dear Gurudeva disculpe si cometo ofensas, pero a veces no sabemos como reacionar con ese tipo de argumentos, pero tratamos de ver como que eso viene de Sri Krishna, y que debemos mejorar más personalmente, mejorar para poder servir mejor a UD y a Srila Prabhupada. Dear Gurudeva le agradezco nuevamente por su tiempo, le agradezco por sus instrucciones, su misericordia y agradecerle por su programa de Japa Joe que en realidad es un nectar aunque no pueda conecatrme frecuentemente pero ya estamos hacindo los arreglos. Por favor acepte las reverencias de mi famulia y de todos los devotos del Yatra Cusco. Que la Misericordia de Sri Krishna se derrame siempre sobre UD, lo llevamos siemore en nuestros corazones.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva

Su sirviente

Govardhana das

HpS -  Jaya!   Tan, super bueno, oir de Vd.            Pero que pasa con Raghu y otros?   Como esta su familia?             Como esta Cuzco El Gran.        Si, es un hecho. Podemos entender logicamente algo de la filosofia, pero eso tiene nada en terminos del fureze que viene de aplicar el BG, Upadesamrta!

         Z s s s oo o oo   o        o                     o m! ! !

Mas noticias.

Dear gurudev, 

please accept my humble obeisenses. All glories to srila prabhupada.

hope  your health is much better  and in that way you can get much strength in all your sankirtan efforts.

ASA - Jaya.  AGTSP   paoho.  Yes, seems to be getting "normal". We write more in the DTC today!  Nice to hear from you all!!!

It s like more than  3 months not reporting in the blog, last time i wrote from in india, i m back in the buenos aires city since 2 months. it was a big shock  coming back after 6 month in the holy dham. Now we are almost re adapted?

ASA -  Oink!   Oink!            Whoop!       Whoop!

trying out  to restablish in work, and  all material reincertion stuff. Restarting giving some yoga and meditation classes, with mt wife cooking and selling prasad to yogic and naturist people and starting also selling prasad to some natural food stores. Also giving some meditation and mantras, ayurved and cooking,kirtan courses for non devotees in yoga centers.

Helping with the bhakti vriksa devolpment here in bs as. Now prepearing for next month to give the sri isopanishad in the bhakti sastri course at the bs as mandir. And also a mantra meditation course for new devotees at the temple also.

ASA - Super!      People need to learn how to meditate. Of course, the only really practical course in meditation from Bhakti-yoga, but they can get a taste from techniques guided by devotees and then progress, no?

Sadhana: Allways chanting 16 rounds and gayatris, sometimes forget some gayatri and  with some difficulties to wake up early. Following 4 principle strictly. Nice relationship with all temple people and authorities. Some  extra, mental and material problems that I have fixed faith that with mangalartik every day, they can be solved.

Also planing maybe to start studying some psycology,counseling, starting in agoust.

Do you have some plans to come and visit buenos aires??when???

ASA = You must have been a Yogi in your previous life.    Respects to Vrsabhanu-nandini Devi Dasi.  Our plans are in the Kapi Dhvaja calendar, no?   We will be in Chile in November, and after that I don't know.  The price of fuel is going up. (Has esoteric meaning also, no?). But we are always here in the Blog!.

What about rural development with your and others???

Big Big separation from the holy dham and from your personal asosiation thats not different form the dham.Hare Krishna!!!!

ys,

Madhavendra Puri Das

Hare Krisna dear Maharaja,

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

I hope you feel better.

I'm sorry i haven't written to You for a long time but i couldn't write too much things.
Actually a lot of things happened to us, but i didn't want to bother You with every little detail.

ASA -   AGTSP!  (Tom Brown here)/    thank you for not bothering us with every detail!
 

Our life is very adventurous nowdays.
Our motto is: Man proposes God disposes.
 

ASA - That's Lord Siva, no?

We had to move from the sublet 1 month ago and it seems we have to move from this flat also soon. Some unexpected thing always comes up.
We wanted to invest in an embroidery machine but due to technical problems we couldn't buy it and after it happened 2 times :)
It seemed we have good opportunities to move from Hungary but in the last minute also something has come up.
So now we try to don't hold on to anything except japa, reading, Mangala arti, just wait and pray and try to understand what is Krisna's plan.
We have one fix thing in our life the morning program, we take part on it everyday and i distribute books once a week for 2-3 hours. I don't distribute too much 3-4 books (Bhagavad Gita and medium books) and preach to the people. Hungary has a special karma, here almost everybody interested in Krisna consciousness. But unfortunately the Hungarian yatra is not so good condition now. They need helping hands but there are special conditions.
I really don't understand few things here but i can't ask it publicly. I thought i write my questions and my husband sends them to the blog. Is it possible to not publish them just the answers?

Thank you very much for everything.
Best wishes!

Your useless servant,
Sri Radhe devi dasi

ASA -  Yeah!    If it is letters from girls, but with cool association like the Mataji's husband, brother et al, then for sure we can edit stuff and give a general reponse. 87% of this stuff is of interest to MANY people, so it behoves us to write our questions and answers in a general way so that others can also benefit!