Letters to the editor

Hare krsna Gurudeva por favor acepte mis reverencias.

AGTSP

orando siempre por que se encuentre bien de salud en esta ocasión queremos invitarle a New Vrindaban a su regreso de España por el tiempo que usted desee. También podemos celebrar su Vyasapuja acá en NV .

le hago esta invitación a nombre de Gopi Radha DD , Saranagati y su sirviente Rohini kumar das.

HpS/ASA - We hope to hear the news that your Sankirtan, New Vrndavana Sankirtan, has achieved real intense spiritual clarity in its eternal participation in Srila Prabhupada's eternal Sankirtan.

https://vedabase.io/es/library/kb/

Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva AGTSP PAMHO

Today facebook remind me this

The Premier of the Universal Form Movie back to 2010

In the picture we are with Rodrigo Otero

I am not sure if I shared this photo before

Thanks for all these moments that I treasure within my heart

The Universal Form Ki Jay

Ya

CMDD

ASA - AgtSP. We are trying to start uploading these to Vimeo... Amazon Prime(?).

Good movies.

Interesting movies.

"tad vag visargo..."

🤔

All Glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Now, I came here, dear Guru Maharaja, just to tell you that we had a great accomplishment today in the SII (Servicio de Impuestos Internos) in Chile.

HpS - Like, agtSP, IRS in USA.

We get a tax debt write-off of 7.000 USD, that ISKCON generated since 2017 due the devotees`s repudiation of debt in the past.

After the good response after months of visits, hours invested, irritating Internet and physical red tape, today, in our happiness with the team, we discovered that our new and diligent accountant is a new devotee, who actually met the devotees along with her husband in their participation of several days of the "El Arte y Lo Sagrado" events in Las Condes and iF Chile.

ASA - 🐵 ❗❗❗Amazing. Even a gorilla can take part and dance in ecstacy. We just talked. You arranged the program.



So thank you Guru Maharaja. Thank you NIOS. We used to get in contact with different kind of people in NIOS events, like the psychologist and currently astrologer, your disciple, Mandara Sakha das.

Our accountant

Her name was shared with you privately.

Sometime ago, after staying boring in bed for 6 months because a complicated pregnancy, so she read the "Bhagavad Gita as it is" twice and start the Bhagavatam. 

Then she had an horrible miscarriage. Her child came with problems too. 

Afer they arrived to their home, in sad disappointment and sorrowful, and after the whole procedures that almost left her without uterus, inmediately she invited her husband, who has deep respect for Krishna due to a couple of intense experiences with him, to a read a random Bhagavad Gita sloka to get solace.

They opened the book randomly, and they open tbe book in the following three verses:

TEXT 20: For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

TEXT 21: O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?

TEXT 22: As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.

They encountered calm and even happiness after that.

Now, she's is a 6 months pregnant again but without any problem. The physician said.to them that is a regular pregnant woman now. She even came today to this government office to this last step of a process for ISKCON in this regard. And she's planning the next steps to get donations officially and under de ISKCON DNI in the country.

Please, bless the devotees in Chile who miss you so much. And the new bhaktas that didn't have the good fortune to know you better.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

HpS - Really, Chile is our Sankirtan base. All along the wall widows were pictures of Rama lila, Asoka van! Chile leads the world in so many ways.

All respects to the heroes there.

16/4 >>> pure servants of Krsna. The chariot driver of Arjuna.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisance

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

While we were traveling back to La Perla from Chosica you gave me one of your most beautiful instructions: “compose songs based on the songs of the Acaryas.” You said that this instruction was the instruction that Srila Prabhupada gave to George Harrison. Later in the Blog you guided me more on how to carry out this activity.

The detail you gave me is that you can change things like “a lotus flower” to “a rose” and not omit the details.

I shared with you two songs that I had created, but neither convinces me in terms of the type of music I compose. I also feel that for it to be musically attractive enough, it would need help from other musicians.

I feel that there are many things that people will not understand and on the other hand several poems are long and it is difficult to maintain that length for a pop song that is around 2 to 3 minutes, generally in a song like this the lyrics are short and a lot of repetition.

I honestly think it would be more attractive to take the essence of the poems and then adapt it into a song that is attractive to many people, both musically and poetically.

HpS-ASA = AgtSP!.... Seems that shorter songs with repetition of basic phrases is also something that the Acharay's do, no? Some of their songs are long Ballads eg. https://kksongs.org/songs/y/yaditeharipada.html

The shorter songs can fit together as a cycle, that deal with the different aspects of the same idea gradually. SB does that in 18,000 verses and many stories, no?

It is difficult to generate rhymes having already created lyrics. I think that if I compose a poem based on the poem and the Vedic conclusions it would be more effective, parts would be omitted but the central idea would be preserved.

ASA - Yes.

The core concepts are maintained, but it is presented in a way that is easy for most people to understand.

I know that this is distorting the instruction, but I have composed in this more simplified way that I propose and I consider that it can have a better effect for the preaching.

But to follow your instruction, I can do a side project in which I translate the songs in a literal, but musically attractive way with the help of other people.

Your servant

Piyari Mohan das

ASA - Hear their songs then write your own song. Of course, KRSNA is very involved with everybodies songs.

How are your relations with everyone in the Temple and community in terms of the violence and chaos that your mind created a few months ago???

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

Pamho

AGTSP,

I'm writing to you now as PR or Media Producer of "The Late Morning Program With Namarasa". In spanish is "Productor Periodístico". Getting interviews for the show.

The host is Namarasa Prabhu, a sincere ISKCON devotee who likes to cover interesting topics inside the Krishna Consciousness movement. 

He wants to invite you to his podcast "The Late Morning Program With Namarasa". So, of course, his question is what he needs to do to get you to his house in New Jersey (10 minutes from ISKCON Towaco, NJ temple) before you travel to Spain, in your stop in John F. Kennedy International Airport. 

Could we have a short online pre-interview to discuss what main topics can be covered in the conversation to broadcast? My first proposals have been Carl Jung and his contact points with our philosophy, your approaches to the Jungian community as an area to explore more for ISKCON devotees in the future of preaching, Psychology in our movement, etc. But it depends a lot on this first interview.

The show

This podcast program has over 150 episodes and is called the #1 Hare Krishna Podcast. His audience is probably the largest in its kind and is the most active in social media in years in a row.

For example, your disciple, Radhika Raman Das, was interviewed last month (picture attached, Namarasa is on the left there). 

His wife is the kirtaniya, Tulsi Harrison, his father-in-law is one ISKCON Guru, Kripamoya Maharaja, his sister-in-law is the kirtaniya Jahnavi Harrison. All of them appeared already in the show too.

Here you can find more about it:

[The Namarasa Podcast - https://namarasa.show/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@NamarasaPodcast

Facebook:

https://web.facebook.com/TheLateMorningProgramWithNamarasa

Thank you, Guru Maharaja. We await your response, and if is possible to you, to begin making arrangements for the logistics and other details.

Hare Krishna

HpS/ASA - He should talk with Subal sakha Das: I'll whatsapp his number, about a schedule or tele conference.

jung x bh, siddhanta!!!

Hare Krishna Maharaja, please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Jayananda Prabhu! All glories to you! 

Thank you so much for all of the links to the songs and the lyrics. It’s been a great source of inspiration and study. Deeper perspective and illuminations on songs I already knew(or thought I knew) and then songs I hadn’t heard before like PPM’s hymn and PS’s wedding song!!

Susan Boyle (bolo) was a real shocker and very inspired by her down to earth/realness and sincerity, particularly in that TV show setting. Reminds me that amazing artists and musicians are everywhere and connected to the source(Krsna). Also, you have inspired me to dive deeper into Phil Ochs. He definitely takes the observer roll in his writing to great heights and has so much sincerity/depth. 

Also, really appreciated the It’s a Beautiful Day song you played in class yesterday about Time. It was an exciting answer to prabhu’s question. Relating all of these songs to our teachings is very enlivening for us because I always knew there was something there in them before meeting devotees and now I am beginning to see more of the full picture as a listener but also as a writer my self.

Music and writing has always been a call and response type of thing for me. Hearing fully with one pointed attention then responding. Responding like it could be my last breath informed by the mood of the call. Kirtan. This is what I love and have always loved and you are helping me understand more and more. Got a long row to hoe though!

Maharaja, here is a link to a music video and song I wrote. It’s pretty silly but has some meaning perhaps. There is some really nice puppetry we got from Lokantha Prabhu that is featured. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IAsqxkXCz9I&pp=ygULbmljayBkZWxmZnM%3D

hps/asa - great/ like 7.5/10! hard to hear the lyrics. instru. loud for us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U93NR-t9ZH4&t=5s

abraham lincoln on power.

https://www.acton.org/research/lord-acton-quote-archive

lord acton.

run the quotes as visuals??

Actually Maharaja, this whole album that’s coming out in July is dedicated to you and is my offering to you. The music and the album art. Sound and form. But I would say it’s only 20 percent Krishna conscious maybe (lyrically and also Maha manta and Nitai Gauranga made it into a few songs).

60 percent spiritual preservative and maybe 20 percent just karmi music lol. Any amount of the depth in it is because of you and Parampara. I’m pretty happy with how it all came together.

About 4 years of writing, producing and praying to God to allow it to happen and that it may have some worth. Always a little nervous that it was “over-endeavoring for mundane things that are very difficult to obtain”.

Lastly, morning program is going very well.

Sometimes it’s just me and Madhava Prabhu but later in the week and weekends we’ve been having a couple new devotees and the new devotees who live here now. Dina Tarani and Dayalu Prabhus. They are in their early 20s but have so many talents and strengths to offer our community. Kalakantha Prabhu and Radhika Ramana Prabhu have both had instructed me to mentor Dayalu prabhu. It’s very challenging and purifying but have been having really good classes and discussions in the mornings. Class every morning! With rotating schedule thanks to Anadi TP. Also, I have been taking more and more guidance from Madhava Prabhu here(our head Pujari). That relationship is expanding with the help of your last letter guiding me to NOI text 5.

Thank you Maharaja, I could write you a novel but am trying to keep it short and more frequent. It’s so wonderful to hear your classes everyday (past and present). Thank you. 

Please pray that Aja doesn’t forget about Krishna in the onslaught of teenage years. He’s having a very rough time to say the least.

HpS - Canakhya Pandita writes like, every young man's years from 18-25 are his greatest battle with his senses, but whatever he can win from the war are his greatest assets for the rest of his life. 😄

Best wishes to him and hope we can even be of some inspiration.



All the best with your travels to Huston and celebrations of Jayananda Prabhu and Lord Nrsingha Dev installation !! 

Your aspiring servant, 

Nitisara das 

P.S. There will be vinyl records, tapes and CDs made and it will be available on all streaming platforms. When I get the physical copies we will be doing more of a formal offering to our deities, Prabhupada and you. In the liner note credits it is dedicated to you and an old songwriting friend that left his body last year. Here is the album art: 

asa- good art. a picture of you after biting a lemon?