Letters to the editor

All Glory to Srila Prabhupada and All Glory to Sankirtan Movement by Sri Gaura Nitay, and All Glory to ISKCON.

Pleace accept my humble obeisances, Dear HPS, Gurudeva:

These days, once again circumstances make us beg to be able to surrender to Sri Nitay Gauranga, we can observe that old age and illnesses are there to make us stop boasting, death awaits us, many devotees have left, or are very sick, last Tuesday my mother left her body, and there are devotees who tell me that they already feel that they are in the final stretch, and even so the mind seeks distractions, and winning good companies is very difficult, material difficulties are undoubtedly allies when you can live simply. and you're the real example, thank you very much for accompanying us on this path, your attachment to Srila Prabhupada and the Sankirtan. I pray become a devotee to serve properly.

Your crew member Aniruddhakrsna Das.

HpS/ASA -AkogtSP! paOho. Was wondering how you were, and here is a lucid letter.

Most people identify with the boat and when they have to leaves they kick and scream and fight, and then demand to be put back into another boat.

It seems that you have come to the point where you can accept death, leaving your body, without undo violence, attachment, and then you can help others do the same.

Yet the next question is, "What do we do once we leave the body, buddy, boat"?

We have crossed the Atlantic, we have docked in New York, but what do we do now?

If we are living normally, we would have been communicating with our future employers, understanding our job, preparing for it and expecting to be met by a particular persona when we arrived.

So, we do Ekadasi vrata. We learn to live a little more in the spiritual world.

We actually begin to remember what is our job.

Then death is nice.

Giving up our handcuffs and chains!

Correct?

Are you a peanut?

Are you a cow?

Are you a potato?

How do you know how?

🐒🐒 .,🐒🦍🌴.. .

Thank you!

Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

I’ve been working on the following:

Chanting, Srimad Bhagavatam reading, cooking/cleaning, PhD Applications, Kalaripayattu Martial Art training, Mandi IIT Indian knowledge systems course teaching (Odissi) 🙏.

YAS,

SM DD

HpS//ASA - Super! Super!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndhidEmUbI

😎

Hope to hear more from you when you get to the [?] Devil Sea!

Hare Krsna!!! Hare Rama!!!

Where are you camping?

How is the Pappa and Brother and Mother?

Travel plans???

All joking aside. Watch out. Krsna is notorious for making strange plans with people's lives.

Hare Krishna, Beloved Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

ASA/HpS - Jaya!

Here we are in an Ecovillage in Brazil, studying Ayurveda.

Is it worth it? We don't know!!

These last two months were very tough!! It was difficult for me to chant my rounds. Although many times I woke up at 4 am, my mind was wandering everywhere, sometimes it took half an hour to chant one round.

ASA 😲

Some days I can finish 16 rounds, some days not.

I feel panic, depression, like Arjuna in BG 6.38. I can die at any moment and what did I do with my life?

I can not yet understand what is the cause of it!

Whether it is:

• an emotional issue,
• family attachment,
• too much entanglement in administrative affairs,
• so many suffering stories at work on a daily basis,
• aparadhas,
• lack of sincerity or surrender,
• pride,
• little bit of everything?

Not much is going on at Sri Govardhan. Although we are advancing in the administrative field, spiritual programs are scarce. Only the morning program and some visits of Senior Vaisnavas.

Material life is ok, family, work, health. 

Yesterday I read SB canto 4 chapters 25 to 29, preaching of Narada Muni to king Pracinabarhisat and the allegory of Puranjana. So I can remember the situation I am in.

One thing is sure, that my faith in Srila Prabhupada and Iskcon is unchanged, and I feel gratitude for the friendship of devotees.

I see yourself as a great example, a case of success, of course Srila Prabhupada is the Gold Standard of success.

Dedicated your life to your Guru-maharaja, developed a strong and steady sadhana, did tons of service, helped a lot of people and now you are retiring to focus on your inner bhajana. 

HpS - It is bizarre! We are in the closet, material world, and we think that returning to the rest of the house, patio, park, forest, with the rest of the people for Krsna's week of festivities for His birthday party is going "inside". Is funny, no?

I already purchased DTC 1 and 2 from vimeo (waiting for 3 y 4), and distributed 10 TPP Spanish edition. One to H. H. Dhanvantari Swami. He was very impressed by the book. He wants to speak with you to translate it in Portuguese.

HpS - We have not heard from him. Of course, he can do it. It is designed for Bhakti-vaibhava level of diploma studies.

In this letter https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/13631/ you told me: “Hopefully we are at least 77% clear pathway to Srila Prabhupada and we certainly beg you to find other ways to reach him also Eg. Books, Other ISKCON devotees”.

Thank you so much for this instruction, I feel very much protected and cared for by you. I’m feeling very inspired by these devotees, Bhakti Dhira Damodar Swami, Navina Nirada Prabhu, S. B. Keshava Swami from Bhaktivedanta manor and Aravinda Prabhu. I listen to their lectures. I feel like it is the next wave in iskcon. So much power in their preaching, it gives me huge hope!!

In my next letter I will tell you about our projects, and share some thoughts about the GBC. But nothing is worth it, if I can not chant good rounds, so now I want to ask you for help and some advice, how can I improve my japa? (probably you will say by chanting japa), how can I pacify my mind while I’m chanting?

Thank you Gurudeva, you showed me that this process is first class spiritual science.

I’m sorry that I’m more a burden than a help,

Endeavoring to follow your example,

A stubborn fool conditioned soul,

Nikunja bihari das.

HpS//ASA - Nice news in many ways. We hope many other Bloggies make comments on your ideas.

We have Karma, Vasanas, Individual archetypes. They kick-in in certain situations, in certain arrangements of the planets.

We feel life and low, agitated or peaceful mind, even during different parts of the day.

Every morning from 1.00-5.30AM I am a saint, then by 6PM I start to turn into a demo. [Civilized Demon].

I have developed certain techniques, systems to control our mind after many years of working on it.

You will develop yours also.

There is just no doubt about. Every time you take a deep breath and chant three, four, five.. mantras you have made eternal progress.

Tell us all some of the techniques you use now?

Jay Guru Maharaj, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias, todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

 Guru Maharaj Estoy cantando 16 rondas, voy a Srila Prabhupada samadhi para Mangal Aarti todos los días. También estoy cantando en Hari Nama y Tengo una buena asociación con Gaura Gadadhara y su esposo Vira Gopal.

 Guru Maharaj ya tengo boleto para volver a España el 29 de septiembre, pero antes de irme me gustaría visitar Sri Vrindavan Dham por primera vez,

 Guru Maharaj por favor busco sus bendiciones para poder hacer este viaje a Sri Vrindavan Dham.

 Gracias por toda su misericordia 

 Su aspirante a servienta

 Ratna Lekha Devi Dasi

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Jay Guru Maharaj, please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 Guru Maharaj I am chanting 16 rounds, I go to Srila Prabhupada samadhi for Mangal Aarti every day. I am also chanting in Hari Nama and I have a good association with Gaura Gadadhara and her husband Vira Gopal.

HpS/ASA - Amazing! 😯 Your next birth will be in Nabadvipa with Nimai and Saccimata?

 Guru Maharaj I already have a ticket to return to Spain on September 29, but before I leave I would like to visit Sri Vrindavan Dham for the first time,

 Guru Maharaj please I seek your blessings to be able to make this trip to Sri Vrindavan Dham.

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna! Hare Krsna!

We hope you can get some confidential experience of Vrndavana. We hope your Divya svarupa is waking up.

We hope our news in the Kapi Dhvaja is useful

Please write to us all about what happens while you are there!

 Thank you for all your mercy

 Your would-be servant

 Ratna Lekha Devi Dasi

Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

Please receive my most humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you.

HpS - AgtSP!!!! ! ! ! ! ! paoho...

How are you doing? I hope your health is fine 🙏

ASA - This body does not get diseases, this body is a disease!

We got bug bites on our ankle, shoulder and too much fat on our stomach... but ... for a 75-years old American we are in the top 15%! AgtSP!. Agt Bhakti Yoga!

Thank you.

How are you? How is Campaka lata Devi Dasi's health?

The other day, in a class you gave, (after a question I asked about austerities, etc...) you said: "in the next life he may be born as Hiranyakasipu..."

And I kept thinking... because you could detect that sometimes I feel like a demon, who has anger and resentment against Krsna, (like Hiranyakasipu who hated Krsna)...

How can I get out of that immature position of being angry with God? How can I become a friend of God like Arjuna or Sudama brahmana?

Thank you Gurudev.

With your blessings I can become a vaisnava aspirant.

My eternal obeisances.

Thank you for accepting me as your would-be disciple.

Deva-Vrata das. cordoba Argentina

HpS - It's a very deep question. I don't even know the answer well enough for myself to try and give you a deep answer for yourself, but. . . what about NoI 7?

https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/7/

After working, we hope, with some tiny, tiny, sincerity, at Srila Prabhupada's yoga for over 40-years, we seem to think that Text 7 is completely true. It's a big deal to get those deep roots out of the heart, but each time we chant, "Hare Krsna" we are destroying the roots.

What do you think?

Sometimes do you see how nice is Goloka, and how we have to be different beings to live there?

We can get free from this envy because Krsna is such a nice friend!

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Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

Reciba mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a usted.

¿Cómo está? 

Espero que su salud esté bien 🙏

El otro día, en una clase que diste, (luego de una prengunta que hice sobre las austeridades, etc...)

dijiste: "en la próxima vida puede nacer como Hiranyakasipu..."

Y quedé pensando... porque pudiste detectar que a veces me siento como un demonio, que tiene enojo y resentimiento contra Krsna, (como Hiranyakasipu que odiaba a Krsna)...

¿Cómo puedo salir de esa posición inmadura de estar enojado con Dios? ¿Cómo puedo convertirme en un amigo de Dios como Arjuna o Sudama brahmana?

Gracias Gurudev.

Con tus bendiciones puedo convertirme en un aspirante a vaisnava.

Mis reverencias eternas. Gracias por aceptarme como tu aspirante a discípulo.

Deva-Vrata das. Córdoba, Argentina

Hare Krsna, Gurudeva, AGTSP, PAMHO,

As your grace [holiness 😄] wrote in 14190 --"we need pictures of you!"

We have only two pictures of ourself, one before going in operation theatre and one after coming out...

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Secondly we think our great/only fortune is that you wanted to give initiation to us, even we are not qualified at all.

HpS - You were, we are, by His Divine Grace!

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while discussing our progress with HG Parth Pratim Prabhu,

from

animal birth in bharat --- human birth( manusya janam) --- janam sarthak kori --- karo paropkar....

it was found ..

our desire to be exceptional interfers with our following small things... though we know in this effort we might compete with Krsna, but i think effort to acheive pure devotional service is itself exceptional,

ASA 🦁 Damn right it is!

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anyways-- we know we want to approach you as pyschologist, father, spiritual master, friend..

we have approached to you earlier as either of these, and you have reciprocated perfectly..

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as there many letters/instructions/advices by you given to us in this blog, hence we are not writing as much as earlier to this blog.....

though we actually want to write ...

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trying to becoming Hayagriva Avatar Das

small but eternal progress

ASA - 🐵. . . 🐖 Hey! What about your surgery. How big is the scar? Did you see the gunk they cut out? Was the doctor feel'n good about the shop work?

How many more miles you got on your present kindeys? Did they give you a warranty?