Letters to the editor

Querido Gurudeva, espero que se encuentre bien al recibir esta carta. Por favor, acepte mis más humildes reverencias. TLGSP.

     Solo quería volver a agradecerle todo lo que hace por mi y la oportunidad que me da al iniciarme en esta próxima visita suya.

HpS - ASA -- Srila Prabhupada, Ki Jai!

Voy contando los días que quedan no solo para mi iniciación, si no también para que usted venga y poder disfrutar de su compañía. Tantas veces deseo que esté usted cerca de mi y por fin eso se va a hacer realidad. 

     Estoy encargandome de la organización del Harinam que se hará el viernes con ayuda de Dandava y Jayanta Prabhú. Esto es una de las cosas que más ilusión me hace poder hacer con usted. Adoro cantar el nombre de Krisna porque cuando lo hago, siento (o por lo menos me imagino intensamente) que Prabhupada y S. Caitanya M. están a mi lado cantando conmigo. Y solo de imaginármelo, siento gran placer trascendental en intimidad con Ellos. Creo que cuando salga con usted a cantar, sentiré como si Ellos estuvieran mucho más cerca de mi.

HpS - Hay realidad en estas meditationes. Especialmente para devotos que mantener su pureza abajo un gran Acharya como Srila Prabhupada.   Tiene Banderas en el Harinama!   Hace un gran diferencia.  Si puede, puede tener dramas cortas: El escolar y el barquero, pajaro en la jaula.
Alguine tiene un loro?  Puede alquilar para Harinam y animar cantar Hare Krsna con abono de uvas. Puede obtener TODO exito solamente para Harinama.

     Le envío todo mi Divino amor y mis deseos de servirle. Hare Krisna.

HpS - Hare Krsna, nos vemos en tres dias!

Apegando tres photos de Sankirtan!

Hare Krishna Maharaj, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

I had sent this letter on you Vyasa Puja day but I think you were very busy and were not able to read it.

HpS - ASA -- Yes, that is probably a fact, 23-cities in 42-days!

We had a very nice celebration of Vyasa puja on December 30, 2016. It was nice to have all the devotees, namely Anantarupa Prabhu and Family, Murari prabhu and family, Balabhadra Prabhu and family, Amrta Mataji and family, Acyuta Mataji and family, Upendra prabhu and Family, Premalila Mataji and family and Anahi Radha Mataji. I have attached a link to some pictures and videos. Thank you so much Maharaj for your  mercy. My offering is below.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwQZrILjA5BFQ0t1XzFXalAyOHc

HpS -- Thank you. Nice pictures.   Was there a pie with sliced bananas on it?

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Hare Krishna Maharaj, please accept my humble obeseinces all glories to Srila Prabhupad. All glories to you. On this auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja I would like to thank you for everything you do for us .You are like a grandfather to me and bring gifts for me. This time I was very fortunate to receive your boarding pass on which you drew Radha and Krishna. Thank you Maharaj for tolerating me in Bhakti Shastri class even though sometimes I don't mute  my microphone and talk to my parents, don't pay enough attention to what you are saying or don't know an answer that I'm supposed to know to a question you ask, you  take no offense and continue to encourage me. It was very nice to take your association this year when you came to Boise in May. I was very happy that you stayed for ten days this time instead of one week. The  morning programs were very blissful and I look forward to them every year. By your mercy, this year we did four Kirtan programs in Idaho. Three of them were in Yoga centers and the fourth one was at a farmers market in Eagle. We sang there for 4 hours in shifts, each devotee singing for a little bit. Thank you Maharaj for visiting Boise every year just to check on the devotees and give them strength to continue for the rest of the year when you are not here. We are eagerly looking forward to your next visit. Please bless me that I improve in my sadhana and serve the Vaishnavas nicely. 

Your insignificant servant,
Sugopi.

HpS - Thank you.  We hope we can share more generous gifts for people than just used Boarding Passes. We habe the picture of Radharani that you colored on the wall of our Office/Ashrama here and see it daily. We hope that you have very good results from going to the Sadhu-sanga!  Be careful, be enthusiastic, like a tree that's four feet tall, any twists or bends that it gets now will probably stay with it for the rest of its life, even when it is 30-feet tall.

Who was Dushala?

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

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

Summary of last week’s Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.12 to 1.2.21 :

Verses 1-5 : Suta  goswami’s reply with obeisances.

Verse 6 -7 – Answers to Questions 1 and 2

Verses 8-15 : Only Bhakti should be the goal of any activity we do.

Verses 16-21 The progression in Bhagavatam– Suta Shiksha

Details of the verses:

V13: VAD for smoother  functioning of the society not for oppressing the weaker sections.  The ultimate goal of VAD is Hari tosanam. Pleasing the Supreme Lord.

V14: 4 processes of obtaining the absolute truth Srotavya – hear about Kirtitavya – glorify dhyeyah – remember, pujya – worship.

V15:  We can get liberated from knots of reactionary work by remembering Krishna constantly.

V16:

Mahatsevaya – service to pure devotees.  This is stage 2 . Before that we need the mercy of those devotees whom we want to serve. So

1. Mercy of the pure devotees

2. Service to pure devotees

3. Faith – Shradha. This is not blind faith. The faith we developed by serving the pure devotees.

4. Punya tirtha. Tirtha means guru. Then we take shelter of Guru.

5. Eagerness to worship: Vasudeva katha ruci. We develop taste for hearing the messages of Krishna.

V17:

For the devotee who has developed the urge to hear the messages of Krishna, He personally cleanses the desire for material enjoyment from the devotees’ heart.

V18: Nasta prayesu

6. Bhakti – bhaktir bhavati . Devotional service to the Supreme Lord.

7, Disappearance of obstacles:  nasta prayesu abhadresu. Inauspicious things like nama aparadas disappear.

8. nishta : then steadiness achieved. Naishtiki.

HpS - ASA -- We remember hear Srila Prabhupada comment on this and say that this "steadiness" was always chanting our rounds, always getting up in the morning, not sometimes yes, and sometimes, no. Then he said that this was (!) 80% Krsna conscious.

V19:

Once we achieve steadiness in devotional service modes of passion and ignorance disappear. Lust, hankering, desire will no longer bother us. Devotee will be situated in the mode of goodness and will be happy.

9. ruci : Spiritual taste: Aruchi for the sense objects results in actual spiritual taste anavidham rajas tamah. No affected by passion and ignorance.

10. Asakti – Sthitam – firmly attached.

V20:

11. Rati: Fondness.  Prasanna manasa  Enlivened mind. When fondness for the Lord arises, mind is enlivened.

12.  Prema : Devotional love.  Bhagavat bhakti yogatah.

13: Vision or audience : Bhagavt tattva vijananam. Experience of Krishna form , pastimes etc.

14. Direct experience of the Lord’s sweetness. Bhagavat tattva vijananam.

V21:

Once we see the Lord, we can see ourselves also in proper perspective.

Next week’s syllabus is 1.2.22 to 1.2.29.

Thank you.

Your servant,

Sundari Radhika dd.

HpS - ASA -- Thank you!  We are getting more and more educated by these classes. When does Ananta-rupa Das get back?

Hare krishna Guru Maharaj! !!!

 TlgaSP!!!!! Todas las glorias a usted!!!!!

 He deseado ser un buen discípulo, nunca lo he logrado.

HpS - Me, too! 

 Me esfuerzo por participar del Harinam cada semana. Así ocurre!  Vamos junto a esos maravillosos seguidores de Sri Caitanya!  Llevamos 1.500 galletas!!!

HpS - Hare Krsna!  !

Bailamos y tratamos de hacerlo para el placer de krishna! Tratamos de cantar y escuchar. 

 Por otro lado he vivido una dolorosa telenovela , de esas que influencia  cupido y solo vemos lagrimas y desolación!  Mi corazón y el de otros está roto! !!! He cometido errores,   he luchado para no sucumbir . Ha sido mi más feroz batalla.

 Quedaré con cicatrices profundas. Me refugio en usted,  con la esperanza de que no me abandone. Deseo seguir en el movimiento de Sankirtan! !! Deseo complacerlo a usted . Nos vemos en Santiago! !!

Madhu, tiene un tienda en un lindo barrio en santiago. Distribuimos mucho Prasadam !!!!

HpS - Claro, espero que pasa todos sus desafios bien!  Si, no la primera vez, esforzar para segunda vez. Nuestra principio fundamental es distinguir la realidad de la ilusion para la bienestar de todos. Vd, mi, familia, comunidad y KRSNA.  Es posible!

Va a ser exitoso satasfer a todos.

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaj. Pamho, AGTSP!

I'm in Chosica again doing my service on education.

I wrote to you before asking for permition to continue my service under ASA due to the necesity of helping devotees in that area and you asnwered "cool". So I started several study groups. I think you forgot due to your several services etc.

HpS - ASA --- I remember in general and I think I indicated that it was O.K. to work as a member of ASA BUT if there were going to be specific details we had to work those out. We don't even have those for Nimsar to this point. The money we gave for legalizing Nimsar went to Baladeva's visit, no? We never got system worked out for even the Bh.Sastri diplomas with the National Council, but, to quote Bh. Vijna Swami of Russia, we are not fruitive workers. We want to teach even if there is not a formal system.

Some people got upset when you ask if I'm teaching despite NIMSAR suspension. I'm teaching as ASA teacher. Please, write about it, and confirm that if necesary, or tell me stop the programs. I'm just trying to cover a lackness in the area. I'm doing it for service. This makes me look that I'm cheating. Well. may be I'm. I think you know me well enough. If I don't do this I'll probably be watching movies and having chocote icecream all day long and eventually acompany that with some pot cause I'm a rascal.

I'm sorry for these stupid commentaries.

My paper work went wrong so I'll probably start my master degree in Agost if I still have the enthusiasm.

your stupid disciple.

(I don't know why I'm getting touchy lately).

LAD

HpS -  Again, we certainly agree that anyone can teach from Srila Prabhupada's books, especially if they are an ISKCON Brahmana.  So, I don't see that you are doing anything wrong in doing that, go ahead!   But, and also again, if we want to give formal diplomas: Guru-disciple, Bh. Sastri, Bh. Vaibhava, then we have to work those out with the Ministry of Education according to their rules. Nimsar was never approved for the Bh. Vaibhava diplomas, we all know that, and told everyone very clearly that I was stopping to be the Examiner for the Bh. Sastri diplomas.
What do you want to do?
What is your service to Krsna and Prabhupada even if everyone else falls away?
I want to join you in that!    I hope we are finding the answers to the above two questions for ourself and communicating it here in the Blog, Kapi-dhvaja, person contact, Twitter, etc.

If you want to give ASA approved courses, O.K.   Present them to us and we will work on it.  We are doing TLC now and maybe give and ASA certificate in the end. It would not be a Ministry certificate.  If you want to do the Bh. Vai./ Bh.Sastri then like Nimsar, it has to be approved.

Do you want to do that??    It would be very nice.  I am struggling to continue and advance those certificates and programs in both North American [and South America [and India [and everywhere]]].

What do you say?

Go ahead teaching the subject matter for sure if you can!  ASA approves that as we always have.

For Ministry approved certificates we will have to make some plan, work?   Maybe Bolivia could become an approved Bh. Vaibhava Center????
Eagerly awaiting your replies, even though you are "touched" (Means Crazy in American English).

Todas las glorias a sri sri gaura nitay

todas las glorias a srila prabhupada y a su sankirtana

Hare Krsna querido gurudeva, porfavor acepte mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Espero ésta carta le llegue, aquí reportándome; 4 principios regulativos, 16 rondas y 9 extras luchando para que sigamos nuestro voto de cantar más maha mantra, sadhana a las 5:00 am, adorando a las deidades JBS, silas ( tenemos una más es una krsna balaram), gaura nitay y krsna balaram, 3 gayatris, lectura del SB Canto 1 cap.15, todo gracias a seguir los estudios del bhakti vaivaba con p. Laksmana.

Aquí muchas cosas han cambiado; estámos viviendo en el centro cultural "Bhaktivedanta", los programas son miercóles y viernes y alquilamos  el primer piso para seguir con el restaurante llamado ahora Jaganata's hay de 20 a 30 personas en el almuerzo, distribuyendo también algunos extras, todo lo que se le cocina se le ofrece a las silas, la cocina es un pequeño puyari. El día es agotador pero tratamos de mantenernos en nuestro sadhana y rondas, aqui vivimos con p. Hari un devoto muy antiguo y su hijo p. Deva Deva Vyasa, agradecemos a krsna por permitirno asociarnos con devotos mayores que nos ayudan en nuestro avance espiritual.

Con los devotos de aquí Huancayo tratamos de mantener la casa alquilada que es el templo y el restaurante Jaganat's [Jagannatha's].

También sembramos choclo, habas, arverjas, calabazas en los terrenos,  hemos cosechado algunos productos y lo cocinamos en el restaurante para las deidades, tenemos un perro llamado kirtan es de raza peruano tiene ya un año

Gurudeva en cuanto al sankirtana de libros le diré que en mayo p. gadai y p. bhakta Percy van a organizar una marathon por Nrisinja y yo deseo apoyar con el prasadam de los devotos sankirtaneros en Huancayo, estámos muy felices porque en verdad no hay otra cosa que satisfaga más a Srila Prabhupada, yo siempre voy a estar muy felíz si mi esposo dedica su vida a la distribución de libros y al sankirtana de Prabhupada.

P. gadai le está escribiendo una carta invitándolo para que pueda venir a Huancayo en junio o julio, aquí hay vuelos en avión, ojalá se dé, lo extrañamos mucho y quisiéramos que venga a huancayo para que muchos jóvenes se entusiasmen más y la prédica se fortalezca en Huancayo

Hare krsna

su hija Nadiya Nivasi Dasi 

HpS - HAre Krsna. TlgaSP   Muchas, muchas, muchas gracias para su carta y noticias. Reverencias a todos los devotos. Aparece que Vds. son bien situado en Sri Dhama Mayapura con Senor Caitanya y Senor Nityananda. Solamente tiene que ver como los nuevos devotos convierten en Sankirtaneros como Vds.

Fotos, del edificio, cuartas, comunidad, Hari Das...

No se si podemos ir a Huancayo!  Ya tenemos Callao, Wilson, Chosica, Arrequipa, Santiago, Chocabamba. Pero podemos adjustar detalles en los siguiente dias.
Sankirtan...  Sankirtan... Sankirtan
Vamanos a los demas cartas juntos!!!!
Sankirtan.
Mas noticias. Ha ido a India, no??