Letters to the editor

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All Glories to Sripada!! All Glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!!

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your Lotus feet.

The ISKCON cart has come all the way from Mumbai , by the divine mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Sripad Maharaj.  Here, Rath Yaatra is celebrated as a local festival Kaang,   the Manipuri word for 'cart'. It is a great event. Right from Snan yatra , each locality prepares for the 9 day festival of Rath yaatra. The biggest one is of course, the Govindajee Kaang. The rest of the carts start the yaatra only after Govindajee Deities have moved on to the cart.Vaishnava devotees offer fruits  (especially pineapples, figs, pears and mangoes),vegetables (especially cucumber and maize),Sweets ( made of puffed rice and Jaggery, laaloo is considered to be a favourite item....). When the yaatra is just about to start,  the items are lined up just in front of the cart and devotees loved to watch the offerings going just right under the wheels to be run over...and then partaking the run over Prasadam. The cart is stopped every now and then , devotees making their offerings to the sweet Lord with the arti. The traffic is a real problem on this day as carts from various localities go for the yaatra on the main road....but no one complains...we are all happy with it. The Sankirtana is simply amazing....the chants of Harinama....Hari haraye.....Dasa Avatara ...with the sounds of kartala , Mridanga, Drums..clarinet....is indescribable.The Sankirtana goes on and on....non stop . Rath Yaatra day is a state holiday here.

The evening programmes are carried out in most of the local temples....again Sankirtans...Hari Katha...Manohar Sai....followed by 'choidep chongba', dancing in front of the Lordships at aarti . This is followed by Khichri and Ooti ...Pakora...subjee prasadam. This goes on for 9 days...till Purna Yaatra. On dwadasi we have 'Ningol Paali', special khichri prasadam for Matajis.I have just highlighted the little I know. The festival has a great asthetic fervour which is hard for me to describe, I am so sorry for my limitations Guru Maharaj, please forgive me. I wish someday we would be able to invite you here during the Rath Yaatra.

HpS - You manipuris are very big misers!   You have the greatest thing in the world but your are keeping it to yourselves. I have not heard of such a wonderful Rathayatra even in Puri.

I am sending you just few photos....the White cart is that of Govindajee temple. The rest small ones are the local temple carts.

HpS - So, just Jagannatha, Jagat-Gandhi, goes on the cart, not Baladeva nor Subhadra. Also, we can see that the cart does not have to be big to be beautiful.

We have constructed a simple kirtan hall at Serou, the land donated by a Mataji. Registration has been completed ...we had a wonderful nagar kirtan there on 2nd of July. We had kirtan at the hall. And distributed Khichri prasadam .I shall send the photos for Serou in my next letter. My letter is too long.....I know you are so busy Guru Maharaj but I feel so good when I share our little, little activities with you. Thank you so much.

Your most fallen servant, forever craving for Your mercy,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS-ASA --  When we hear from you and Yamunesvara Das we are all so enlivened. We hope to see you soon.

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Sril Prabhupada

We have been working on the agenda for the meeting on Friday the 14th, and the purposes are basically the following:

• Receive the report of the programs in progress, both in Chosica and Lima and what are their doubts, difficulties and achievements to date.
• Know the new educational proposals and what are their expectations and objectives.
• Know your opinion about it.

We also suggest the following program:

4:30 - 4:40 Purposes of the meeting (Karuna Krsna dasa)
4:40 - 5.00 Presentation by SS Hanumatpresaka Swami on MOE and ASA
5:00 - 5:10 Jagat Pavitram dasa program summary reading.
5:10 - 5:25 Exposition by Laksmana-agraja dasa
5:25 - 5:40 Exhibition by Isvari dd. and Candramukhi dd.
5:40 - 5:55 Exhibition by Abhirama dasa
5:55 - 6:10 Exhibition by Yugala Kisora dasi
6:10 - 6:25 Exhibition by Jiva Sakti dasa
6:25 - 6:45 Conclusions by Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja and Karuna Krsna dasa

(Sorry for the germanic structure but it's only a point of reference, It coud be a liitle bit more flexible).

We'll be waiting for your kind answer and suggestions

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS-ASA - Es ist sehr gut, mein herr! !     !
ISKCON Peru Uber Alles!

We want to go to the Arati!  That is at 6.30PM, no?

Then, we have public program at 7.00PM to 8.00PM, so we can have a general discussion with us, KKD, BhBhusana Swami? He will be there we can invite him to join as he likes, no???

All Glory to Srila Prabhupada

All Glory to the Sankirtan movement by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

And All Glory to the sincerely devotees

Please accept my humbles obeisances

Dear Guru Deva

On these days I visited more places making some programs with new people and chanting Hare Krishna.

HpS ---- Haaaaa.  Ray!

I hope that you are in good health, I am very inspiring by your visit so I just can saw you short time.

Thanks for all your activities.

Your crew member Aniruddha Krishna Das

HpS - We will meet you 26th July, 6.30AM when we get to Mexico? We will be there until 3.00PM

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad and NIOS.

Can we finalize a date for the University Lecture? Then I will start designing a poster to promote it. I will advertise it on Texas A&M University Indian Association Facebook page and and message all my Facebook contacts. 

I can arrange for the Indian Students with me here to prepare some prasadam and we can book the library hall or ballroom. 

If you have multimedia presentation or movie, we will arrange a projector.

Athato brahma jijnasa. No time to be idle. I have to do this in service to Prabhupad and Guru Gauranga.

Yhs,

Aja

HpS - ASA ----- Ha!   Ha!    Hare!     I meant that YOU should arrange a lecture. That you should give one.  You just be honest and present yourself in terms of what you are trying to do... Trying to offer people somethings which you think they might find very useful. Of course, there will be envious people but we just ignore them.

Don't have to present yourself as a big dude, just as you are and see who comes. One person is O.K.    Then later we might be able to come also or other devotees also.    Have fun.

...Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Querido Guru Maharaja

Acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto (loco)

Gracias Guru Maharaja,  por darnos la misericordia de su asociación, estamos contando los días para su llegada.

ASA - Mas practice es hacer arregla como todo el mundo puede evacuate La ciudad.

En el templo de  Arequipa  mantenemos programas todos los días, pero a los devotos aun se les hace muy difícil llegar porque es un poco alejado  del centro de la ciudad.

Hace poco tuvimos una reunión con las autoridades de la junta nacional, ya contamos con la autorización para sacar nuestra persona jurídica y el trámite ya está en curso. Después de sacar nuestra persona jurídica la junta nacional nos devolverá el  laksmi para nuestro  nuevo  templo, mientras tanto el templo sigue en mi casa.

Gracias a la misericordia de prabhu Laksmi kanta de EEUU que nos ha donado $ 1000.00 en libros, estamos haciendo Sankirtan en Arequipa , con la ayuda de prabhu Advaita Takur  Das y Nila Cala Candra Das.

Esperamos sus bendiciones para  que todo esto se pueda concretar rápidamente.

Que el señor Nrisimha lo proteja siempre

A su servicio Ramalila d.d.

HpS-ASA - Somos sus servientes humildes. Realmente falta poco ir a Arrequipa. Si podemos ayudar en su sankirtan es nuestra Unica ambition. Esperamos encontrar a Su's asociados. Hablar de Bhakti yoga. Somos integrates eternos de ISKCON.

.Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaj

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

I have been chanting 16 rounds everyday (Most of the rounds in the morning). After initiation, I feel it has gotten a bit easier to chant rounds with more focus. Although I still have a long way to go, it is all because of your causeless mercy. I am following the four regulative principles strictly.

When I met Caru Prabhu after my initiation, he was fondly remembering the Berkeley days when he was the temple president and you were the treasurer. He was telling me that you would walk to the bank everyday with a bag of money and would carry a gun along with you.

HpS - Someone would do that only on the days when he had a lot of money!

He was thinking why it never occured to anybody to drive you to the bank instead of letting you walk.

HpS - There was no one around and it was only 1-1/2 blocks.

Sankirtan wise, I join the FMP whenever possible. It is really enriching to join my godbrothers and godsisters and see their loving exchanges with you. I try to meditate on your short talks during the FMP when I chant.

We also have a conference call with devotees in SLC at 5.00 am during weekdays and 6 .00 a.m during weekends, where we read scriptures for 30 mins and chant together. We finished Bhagavad Gita and are currently reading Isopanisad. I also attend Friday home programs and Saturday temple feast program.

I have been doing book distribution. I have taken the responsibility in SLC temple to facilitate book distribution by maintaining the inventory and accounts. The reception to Prabhupad's books has been amazing. In our 4 outings so far, we have distributed 314 books, mainly BG and SSR. The accounting part is difficult for me. I need to streamline the process.

We also started a Bhakti Yoga Club in University of Utah last semester. We are now updating the facebook pages, websites and completing paperwork in the university to get ready for the fall semester.

HH Bhaktimarga Swami and Madhava Prabhu are coming to SLC next weekend. All of us are trying to invite as many people as we can for the program on Saturday.

I have created a soundcloud account to collate all your lectures in one place (https://soundcloud.com/user-938973912). I have uploaded a couple of your lectures from Boise there to start with. I would like to do this service and need your blessings for me to go ahead with it.

Your Servant

Srinatha Krsna Das

HpS - ASA - Your report and news are so inspiring. You can see from the DTC that we are running through the jungle with monkeys trying to through coconuts at us. We are just hoping to meet someone who understands our deep desires.

Very, very, very best wishes for you Sankirtan. Ask us if we can be of service. Back in USA in a few weeks.