Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Guru maharaja

AGTSP

PAMHO

How is the health?

asa- agtSP, 60%

How is the rain?

ASA - occasional. sufficient, Jaya Sri Krsna.

How are the devoties?

ASA - 75-95%

Here in Chile the sankirtan is really nice (in comparison whit Argentina) now the number of books disteibuted is close to 60 (for the moment is 54 medium and 4 little Gitas) and now I'm treating to make every day, so I hope at the end of the next 4 or 5 months have the enough money to travel with you.

ASA - Do you know where we are traveling? 🙂 🚀🚀🚀

For the moment chanting all my rounds (sometimes with a lot of effort and other times in a very simple way) But at the end of the day I finish all of them, also I'm following the 4 principles and also (Since I start reading Tava Pache Pache [TPP] I'm also eating less and less of the things that are not necesary for this body and that is helping me very much in Sankirtan).

ASA - 🐵... 🐖 🐖 🐖 we follow your path!!

Also in sankirtan i meet many diferent people, sometimes I simply go to a couple (that from a distance seems to be a really happy one) but when i go closer enough I can see how they were not happy but crying. Also I have meet very nice people, the other day maybe 2 or 3 day ago I meet a brittish man from yorkshire he was really nice and was in the search for something spiritual and he was tired of material life (he was really joung maybe like 26)

we talk and make a good frienship but he just speak inglish so he wasin't able to buy a book,

that I like the 3rd person from other lenguaje that get interested in a book or the filosofy but for language barrier I'm not able to give them a book (because the book is in spanish)

maybe i should try to get some inglish and portuges books also y notice that my sankirtan works better in inglish,

ASA - 👍 Even print some nice purports from VedaBase.Io in the language you need.

Is kinda funny that im my mother language is not so effective jajaja.

Also as a last thing I will like to ask if i can take second iniciation, because I have now the bhakti shastri and also I will really like to take it and be able to to adore deities.

HpS - How strict is your Morning Program? Does you Temple President think you are ready.

Does your Father think you are ready?

Dog.

Uncle?

Now, whit little to few to add I say good bye Guru Maharaja.

(The pictutes will go in less than 3 days if this page alows it)

Thank you for your kind words. We are collecting all the Annual Reports etc. in one file and then will read and appreciate them!

Hare Krishna Maharaja!

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Here in Dallas at RADHA KALACHANDJI DHAMA we just celebrated Kirtan 50!!

Every year it just seems to get sweeter!!

The kirtaniyas are amazing!

Gaura Vani, Kalindi DD, Akincana Krishna, Amala Harinama, Achyuta Gopi, BB Govinda Swami , and more!!

And every day the feasts are spectacular:

Quesadillas, Chinese noodles, Momo's, Waffles, and the normal Indian cuisine.

Devotees come from all over the world for this... 50 hours of kirtan spanning over three days and it ends with a puspanjali flower shower for Radha Kalachandji.

There is no better way to start off a new Year!!

The temple is not so big, but hundreds of devotees attend... So just trying to get a spot in the temple is a job in itself... I usually try to climb up on a pillar and kind of half-way hang there... But this year I barely got a spot.

I saw Yasodanandana Prabhu!! As you probably know, he designed and installed most of the beautiful stained glass installations here at Radha Kalachandji's.

It's always been one of my dreams to make stained glass art for Krishna!

I've connected with this Prabhu many times and he said he will take me as an apprentice, but he has no money to start the projects at the moment. It's fun to hear and talk about future projects though. He's a very talented artist.

And of course the Prasad is overflowing, not all of it gets served...On the waffle day (I ate my waffles plain with butter only), there were so many waffles left over. So Achyuta Govinda prabhu and I took a tray of waffles, cranberry sauce, maple syrup and butter and went door to door offering them to the local families.

It was a good chance for me to practice my Spanish and we distributed about 13 plates of double-stacked and fully loaded waffles!

Oh on Friday before the festival, Daruka Prabhu held a massive pizza party for all the devotees and visiting musicians!

He and Mother Sweta (the head cook for Kalachandji's restaurant) normally cook an offering for Radha Kalachandji every year for Sadhu Sanga that's big enough to serve the Prasad to about 3,000 devotees!! So a pizza party for 300 devotees seems like a cake walk.

Daruka had just built the wood fired pizza oven and deck. ... I'm sure this is just as good as Panca Tattva Prabhu's pizza!

They also had cauliflower pakoras with parmesan cheese, salad, and a bean soup.

It was amazing and the whole community came to party in the back yard.

There was a book distributor there needing Spanish books, so I gave him 40 small books... I'm not sure if this counts as distribution??

HpS - Una eslabon en la cadena!

On New Year's Eve, the kirtan really started to get intense and Achyuta Gopi sang sweetly for Lord Jagannatha. Kalindi Mataji prepared everyone for midnight, and then the incense started billowing as the curtains opened for Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji!!

We were so so happy to see Radha Kalachandji for the new year.

His Holiness BB Govinda Swami lead a raging kirtan until about 1:30 in the morning. He grew up with Elvis, or had some connection with him. During one of the previous years he was dancing like Elvis and doing push-ups during the kirtan.

So hilarious!!

(We made it to the mangal next day! By his mercy)

Then the kirtan was winding down on New Years Day until the flower shower for Radha Kalachandji!!

And by his mercy Maharaja I was able to sneak up there are throw some rose petals for Radha Kalachandji!! I'm eternally grateful !!!

After Radha Kalachandji and all of the other presiding deities are up to Their neck in multi-colored rose petals, then boxes and boxes of the Maha Prasad are offered to Srila Prabhupada and all of the devotees!

The crowd goes wild and prasad for everyone!!

It's a flower fight!!!

Below is a link for the kirtan!

Exactly at 1 hr : 48 minutes : 45 seconds is when HH BB Govinda Swami tells everyone that has a phone to look up the Radha Krpa (Katasksa ?) Stotram.

It's so good!!

Your aspiring servant,

Jaya Hari das

https://www.youtube.com/live/FMqamennpNU?si=4Jb0YF3bCxStF56J

And here is a link for Yasomatinandana Prabhu's video....

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1lEjmyu0cpBAXeLMCvXZ6CrOMgWRrOT7rtCJM0/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

HpS - Thank you! Such nice report!!! We can also report that it was so ecstatic that several of the devotees from Houston who went for the festival brought some of the participants back with them.

They came back with three day flu virus. 😅

Docotoress, Mother, Guru-bhati Devi Dasi is almost recovered.

I guess the Bacteria also benefits from the Prasadam!!! 💪🙂

Our Light of the Bhagavata Symposium was great and now we're headed for Vyasapuja and DTC-Spain release.!

ASA[E] Guru-tattva.. Diksa guru retires.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to your enormous service.

I hope you get much better health.

HpS - Our donkey's health is pretty good for 75-years old.

Had littel fever, probably just like you, but recovered quickly.

Hearing, sight, memory are like 40% gone. That won't come back in this life time. It is good. We want to stop watching the movie of mangos and pick real mangos for Krsna!

Would be nice if we died right after sending this letter and you died right after reading it and then we both took birth in Nabadvipa with Nimai, no!!!

We remain firm with all our vows and also with the service in the initiation committee, I wanted to apologize for my mistake in misunderstanding the words in English, I will strive to improve, in fact I am practicing English with a devotee of the Indian community 🙏.

HpS - Your English is better than my Spanish! 😄

In December we helped aspiring devotees for Hari nama initiation and brahminical initiation of Jayapataka Maharaja, we had a very good association with older devotees.

HpS/ASA - Such a nice service!

My letter is mainly addressed to you to tell you about Bhakta Carlos Rold, a devotee of many years who has always felt very enthusiastic about everything related to making your sankirtan grow.

I am a witness of how he has made an effort to qualify and prepare himself.

For a year now, he has been following the four regulative principles, maintaining his sadhana, connecting to FMP, doing practical service in the Iskcon Chile temple, singing its 16 rounds (he tells me that when he cannot finish them, he sings them the next day, adding to the corresponding ones),

he has also approved [passed] the Disciples course and is about to finish the Introduction to Bhakti yoga course.

Also Bhakta Lucciano Macchiavello would also like to formalize his entire process in a certain way, he tells me that he has known you for more than 17 years and that no one like you has understood it, he has never stopped following your institution of donating milk and butter for the deity.

Gurudeva an important question, do you think in the future granting formal Refuge and possible initiation to Bhakta Carlos Rold and perhaps formal refuge to Bhakta Lucciano Macchiavello?, Both devotees have been following his instructions for years.

Your would-be servant

Manjuali Devi Dasi

Santiago de Chile

HpS - Maybe even more than a year ago we decided that we are too old to give any more 1st initiation. The Diksa guru takes Karma. It is a job, and it is a job for a young man. Last time we did it. Few months ago. We felt really crushed.

🙂

However, that does not mean that we cannot be Guru's for Carlitos or Machaivelli.

In Srila Bhaktivinode's 'Jaiva Dharma' one fictional Sannyasi, saint, Babba Mahasai, is preaching, teaching, guiding a young man from Kolkata when he visits Nabadvipa.

Then Bobba Mahasaya tells him that he is ready for initiation, but that he, Bobba Mahasaya is 90-years old and that if he initiates him, he will die, so they should go and see Vaisnava Thakura Bobba who is only 75-years old.

Young man. 😃

VTB says that it is an honor to do the ritual if BM recommends The Young Man (35-years old).

So, that is what we feel.

Carlos and Machiavelli are our friends!

What more can we want!!?

It is an honor if we can be their friends and counselors always.

We are recommending Yadunandana Swami in Spain as a very nice Diksa guru. Radha Krsna Das in Houston.

O.K.

Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Querido Gurudev después de un tiempo le escribo para reportar mis actividades Hace una semana estoy en Chile visitando a mi familia después de 3 años que no los veía, . Toda una osadía llegar acá pero lo logre, tuve un pequeño problema en migración que solucionamos además de esto mis rondas cada día mejor siempre debo mejorar buscando técnicas para que sean buenas (postura, dicción, no dormir) lo estoy logrando y eso me gusta

Mi lectura esta muy bien con el LAD leímos todo el año cada día Bg, cc, Sb y la lectura que hago a las devotas a las que les leo en este momento pare porque estoy haciendo tramites acá renovación de documentos que son necesarios, pero les avise que retomaré cuando llegue.

Con respeto a la adoración de mis deidades esta muy bien lo hacemos con mucho cariño me preocupo por su ropa, collares de hecho compre hilo y mostacillas para llevar. Limpieza del lugar etc... También estoy haciendo un jardín que de apoco va creciendo he sacado flores para el altar y eso es maravilloso. Estamos distribuyendo dulce pasadam los días martes a las personas y nos gusta mucho hemos visto la evolución de como el prasadam hace su efecto

Espero mejorar este año con las bendiciones Srila Prabhupada, sus bendiciones, mi esfuerzo diario y así lograr un gran servicio se despide su humilde sirviente Raman reti Devi dasi

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All glories to Goura Nitay. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Dear Gurudev, after a while I am writing to you to report my activities. A week ago I am in Chile visiting my family after not seeing them for 3 years.

ASA - 😲

Three years. Sobrinos de 4 ya son 7!

It was quite daring to get here but I did it, I had a small problem in migration that we solved. In addition to this my rounds get better every day I always have to improve by looking for techniques to be good (posture, diction, not sleeping) I am achieving it and I like that

ASA - HpS --- Us also!!! Our chanting may be mechanical but it allows us to see that in the future it may be actual association with Radhika and Gopal.

My reading is very good with the LAD, we read all year every day Bg, cc, Sb and the reading that I do to the devotees to whom I read at this moment stop because I am doing procedures here renewal of documents that are necessary, but they Let me know that I will resume when I arrive.

With respect to the worship of my deities, it is very good, we do it with great affection. I worry about their clothes, necklaces, in fact, I bought thread and beads to wear. Cleaning the place, etc... I am also making a garden that is slowly growing. I have grown flowers for the altar and that is wonderful. We are distributing sweet Prasadam on Tuesdays to people and we really like it. We have seen the evolution of how Prasadam has its effect.

HpS - Even Tiger likes Burfi if made and offered with love! 🐯

I hope to improve this year with Srila Prabhupada's blessings, his blessings, my daily effort and thus achieve great service. Says goodbye to your humble servant Raman reti Devi dasi

HpS/ASA - Who are your family in Chile? What are they like? How is the Yatra, Temple??? Nation?

Your photos - Garden, Prasadam look like your mind!

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

As I promise to you in the Class to Cuzco, I want to provide here the original quote from Srila Prabhupada when he said that the original form of the spiritual soul is human-like.

Here it is. Is a section of questions and answers in a class in Melbourne.

"Devotee (1): Would the spirit soul that is within, say, a cow's body, is in a different shape?

Prabhupāda: Yes. It has got also legs. But the shape has taken according to his desire. Every animal has got these four things. Just like bird, it has got two wings, two legs. The animal has got four legs. And the man has got two hands, two legs. So the same parts of the body, they are appearing in a different type. But the four limbs of the body are there. Hm?

Devotee (2): Is the original body of the spirit soul a human form?

Madhudviṣa: The question is that whether the eternal form of the spirit soul is a human form or is it...

Prabhupāda: Yes, human form. God is also human form. "Man is made after the shape of God." I think there is in the Bible. Is it not? So God is also like human form. Here you see Kṛṣṇa, two hands, two legs.

Hari-śauri: How do we understand, then, that there are peacocks and flowers and trees in the spiritual world? Are these not eternal forms?

Prabhupāda: Yes. They are more covered. Just like if you cover your body with blanket, the hands and legs are invisible. But you are not the blanket. So the trees and plants, they are more covered. They are not in full manifestation. The human form is the full manifestation of the soul.

Hari-śauri: They are covered in the spiritual world?

Madhudviṣa: He is asking if they were actually covered in the spiritual world as well.

Prabhupāda: Not in the spiritual world. There that is voluntary. Some devotee wants to serve Kṛṣṇa as flower; they become flower there. If I want that "As a flower I shall lie down at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa," he becomes flower, voluntarily. And he can change his..., from flower to human body. That is spiritual life. There is no restriction. If some devotee wants to serve Kṛṣṇa as cow, he serves Kṛṣṇa as cow, as calf, as flower, as plant, as water, as ground, field, or as father, as mother, as friend, as beloved, anything. Ye yathā mām prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham (BG 4.11). That is Kṛṣṇa's all-powerfulness, spiritual life."

Source: Lecture Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 6. Chapter 1. Slokas from 1st to 4th - Melbourne, 1975, 20th May.

My comment is that is good that so many devotees took the opportunity to present deep-thought questions to Srila Prabhupada, and he gave clear answers without hesitation. Clearly, his knowledge is not from this world.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Thank you for still giving us this opportunity to communicate with you where we have the chance to make our own questions.

HpS - Thank you!!!! Sudama carrys Krsna on his shouders in Goloka and then he expands as Garuda in Vaikuntha!!