Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

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

Following is the summary of 1.2.30 and 1.2.34 as discussed last Sunday. Sorry for being Late Maharaj.

Verse summaries:

V30:

• He is all-spiritual and has nothing to do with the qualities of the material world, which are qualitatively distinct from the spiritual qualities of the Lord.

V31:

• In the Vedic literatures it is said that there are two birds in one a tree. One of them is eating the fruit of the tree, while the other is witnessing the actions. The witness is the Lord, and the fruit-eater is the living entity.

V32:

• One is required to approach the proper spiritual master with receptive ears only, and thus divine existence is gradually realized.

V33:

• The gross material body is based on the conditions of the subtle mind, and the senses are created according to the desire of the living being. 
• He is so kind that He constantly remains with the living being as Paramatma and always tries to convert the living being towards the real happiness.

V34:

• The Lord Visnu incarnates Himself in each and every one of the universes, planets and the society of living entities. He manifests His transcendental pastimes amongst them just to create the desire to go back to Godhead.

Your servant,

Sundari Radhika dd.

HpS - Thank you, thank you!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj

Dandavat Pranaam unto your lotus feet.

ASA - Lettuce feet. 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu.

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Myself, son of your disciple Krsna Swarup Das, from Assam, North East India.

HpS - Jaya!!!  So, nice to hear from you and everyone there!

I offer a prayer unto your lotus feet to kindly me give some advice regarding misunderstandings among devotees.  Supposedly, if there were two groups of devotees who have some misunderstanding among themselves; (as Prabhupada used to say whenever there are 2 people there will be misunderstandings) as we are not pure souls we often tend to criticise one another, find out faults and dont try to forgive and forget any past issues easily. Due to harbouring such feelings internally, lets say both the parties tend to avoid each other while externally behaving in a opposite way. Every party thinks "I am right" and also there is no intermediary or neutral person whom both parties see as trustworthy or impartial.What could be the best possible way to bring harmony among such devotees and how one should respond if one is in such a situation (say one of the parties). Please be merciful to enlighten me in this regard.

Dandavat Pranaam unto your lotus feet.

Your ignorant servant

Bishal

HpS - Well,   the first principle is that we cannot give detailed advice unless we know the situation in detail, and that would be impossible for us 12,000 miles away and connected only by internet. So, first principle is from Chanakya Pandita: Victory comes from good advice and good advice comes from many counselors.  Talk to a lot of good people about the situation. We can give general view from a long distance. That is important element, so broad perspective. Then talk to people who are involve in the details.

In one Ramayana movie Hanuman was sent by Rama to try to mitigate the feud between Vali and Sugriva. He reported that Vali was going to give up his anger only when he was dead.

So, sometimes people have personal motives for which they don't want to forgive and there is nothing we, and even God to some degree, can do about it.

Read Nectar of Instruction Texts 4 and 5.

http://www.vedabase.com/en/noi/4

They give SUPER explanation of how to relate to these situation. They arise all the time and it is a big situation that we can only start to discuss. The complete answer is in Srimad Bhagavatam. Of course, that is 18,000 verses.

Basically, try to distinguish reality from illusion for the welfare of all. Try to look for the best solutions for EVERYONE's benefit and then you will feel happy.

Gloria in excelsis Deo

Esteemed Prof. Juan Dejo, Swami Yadunandana
By this letter let us introduce you too each other and introduce the idea for an excellent project.

Prof. Dejo, Yadu Swami has been a very good friend of ours, and the whole world, for many years. He is Spanish and became involved with ISKCON and this tradition of Bengali, Caitanya, Vaisnavism many years ago. He has been very actively involved with education in ISKCON and a celibate monk for about 40-years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadunandana_Swami

He recently published an excellent academic study on monastic tradition in our Bengali heritage and now it has been suggested by some very senior academics that a super excellent book would be a study on the contrasts and comparisons between Bengali (Caitanya) Vaisnava and Jesuit Monastic Traditions.

The very strong consensus has been that this would be enthusiastically received by academics but maybe even more so by many common people.

To our understanding the natural human situation is for a substantial number of men not to marry. This has been evidenced in European Christian heritage and of course in Asia.

Happy life, and very useful life.

I could write about this a great deal but here would just like to offer this suggestion and see what you all think about this.

Yadu Swami, We had the honor of meeting Prof. Juan Dejo S.J., Director de la Escuela de Posgrado de la Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, through the 2016 conference on Psychology and the Sacred that we co-sposored in Peru. I understand that he is very respected educator and administrator in the Peruvian community.

How many young men would decide to pass their lives as Monastics after reading such a book of history and modern reality!

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

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

Following is the summary of 1.3.6-1.3.8 as discussed on Sunday.

V6:

This example suggests that one must first acquire the qualifications of a brahmaṇa, not simply by birth but also by quality, and then one can undergo the process of Brahman realization.

V7:

The incarnation of the boar was to take the earth out of Pluto’s region of filthy matter. Picking up something from a filthy place is done by a boar, and the all-powerful Personality of Godhead displayed this wonder to the asuras, who had hidden the earth in such a filthy place.

V8:

The great Ṛṣi Narada, who is an empowered incarnation of the Personality of Godhead, propagates devotional service all over the universe. 

Your servant,

Sundari Radhika dd.

HpS - ASA --- Thank you.   Are there daily classes on these verses still???   Guess they stopped while ARD was traveling?   Tonight is the BhVai workshop.   He was also making the point that book knowledge is not sufficient to be a Brahman. That would be a Pandita as the way we heard. SB 3.29.31-32 are very nice in describing these relations.

This is our means of conquest. Please lead us!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!!

Querido Gurudeva por favor acepte Usted mis humildes reverencias.

Hoy conversé con M.Yugala K, sobre las acciones que está realizando para el desarrollo educativo en ISKCON Perú. En especial se refirió al Bhakti Sastri. Gurudeva, usted dejó las funciones de Examinador Bhakti Sastri? y este cargo ha sido propuesto a P. Maturesh, quien ha aceptado. Mataji está tratando de integrar a los devotos que podrían promover el tema educativo y entonces me convoca a continuar en la Administración del Bhakti Sastri. 

Gurudeva, siempre he estado en la disposición de realizar este servicio de administración bajo Su autoridad y ahora me preguntan si tengo la disposición de hacerlo bajo la autoridad de P. Maturesh. Gurumaharaja, por favor, podría usted darme su opinión al respecto? sólo después de oir su opinión podré de palabra y acción responder a M. Yugala.

Siempre estoy conversando con usted en mi corazón, y hoy estoy feliz de hacerlo también.

Hare Krsna Rama.

Su discípula Rohini dd.

HpS - TlgaSP!    pfanrh.   Hace mucho tiempo no oir de Vd!     Yes, I am no longer the Examiner for the Bh. Sastri diploma en Peru. I sent a letter to the Board of Examiners, Bhakta Rupa Das with a copy to everyone.

As I understand, Maturesa Das has agreed to be the Official in Peru or Bolivia, but this has not been submitted to the Board of Examiners.  Bhakta-rupa Das wrote to me that they only had you listed as an official in Peru and the Program Administrator.

So, as far as I know, there is no one in Peru now authorized to submit requests for Diplomas from the Baord of Examiners, but the local authorities can fix someone who will be integrated with their perspectives. In any case we love to hear of peoples realizations from the Sastras here in this Blog.

Thank you.

Dear maharaja
PAMHO AGTSP

In Mayapur (Feb) you asked me how was the youth program here at New Govadhan. I had no reply because I couldn’t recall one, which was silly because in 2011 (Vrindavan) I had asked you for advice on running a youth program. I was driving on to New Govardhan farm a few weeks ago and I saw the place what once was Hanuman House and I remembered. We did have a youth program! I just forgot about it. It was called "Hanuman House". A team of my generation would get together once ever couple of months and take the local youth camping on the Krishna farm, do archery, swimming and cooking the Sunday feast. We did this 2012-2014 and even built a club house. After leaving Murwillumbah for 2.5 years I forgot about it. It went well but was hard for us to find the time to maintain with our busy grihasta lives. Also the club house blew down in a storm and was recycled.

HpS - Probably was extremely effective!

Australia Visit September 2017:
Sorry if I’ve missed any details on the blog.

Please, when you are ready, tell me the day and city you want to arrive along with your personal details to this email [email protected]. We will arrange your ticket. I will make arrangements as you wish for Brisbane/Gold Coast/Murwillumbah, Sydney and Melbourne.

HpS - Wow!    This Calendar stuff is intense: Half the time planning the travel, other half traveling and then tryin to preach.  O.K.   Here is the progress.   We finaly looked at it and we get back from Boise, Sacramento, San Jose, Seattle, Houston, Mexico, Lima, Santiago, Lima, Chosica, Cusco, La Paz, Lima, Arequipa, Houston .....  on the 26th July.  Gonna be a little exhausted, Ei, Mate!!!   So, it seems sane that we rest our Ass for two months before we start off again.  That would mean heading for Boise, Hawaii, India .. about the 26th Sept.  O.K. with Hawaii,    BUT     .heavy pressure to go to the Interim GBC Meeting on the 9-17th of October (We've been researching tickets carefully also).   So, that would mean that it would be best to go to India first then Australia then...

What do you think of that!???    I guess something like:

27 Sept - 18 Oct -- India (3 weeks)
18 Oct - 1 Nov -- Australia (2 weeks)
1 Nov - 8th Nov -- Hawaii (1 week)

Yesterday I listened to your lecture on SB 5.18.12 (2012-05-05 Radhadesh) with pastime of HG Jayananda.

Ratha Yatra in Brisbane CBD, May 6^th. I’ve been called to guard His chariot. Jai Jaganatha!!!
Your servant
Dhruva

HpS - Wow!  Right at the beginning of the Vancover Rathyatra I saw the cart run right over the foot of a 75 year old India lady. She fell unconscious and went to the hospital!   Good luck!!

What do you think of this new calendar proposal?   It would be good for us also in a few other ways.