Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear SS Hanumat Presaka Swami, 

PAMHO. AGTSP

I hope your health is much better.

Here a brief report:

1.-Disciples of SSJPS say ,"That probability that Maharaja will  come is 15 to 20 December". Maharaja woul be here for 7 days.

HpS - AGTSP!   We have heard that he will attend Bhadra rupa Das' Award Ceremony that time also.

2.-This sunday,  I talked to Omkara d, about Education. He gave his opinions, mainly for him is very important the attitude and behavior of the educator and with respect to this he has observations for some members (NIMSAR).

In Chosica temple  autohorities need teacher like coaches, for devotees care and training (same in Wilson). 

In this moment Authorities need a staff to take care of devotees, and they think that teachers have the ability to do this function (teacher-coaches).

3.-In this moment, we  still continuos  with Bhakti Yoga Introducction in Chosica. And there are probabilities to give seminars and courses in Wilson (Devotees authorities of Wilson accept to recive our propossal, soon we send this).

4.-For mercy of Krsna in December some members will  giving class of Bhagavad gita ( Wilson Temple) : Abhinanda d and Gandharva d (4th sunday of each month),  Tarangaksi dd (2do tuesday), Isvari dd ( 1 st tuesday and 2do wednesday). In Febraury Nitya kisori will also give classes.

In support of wilson Temple, Tarangaksi dd,Indira dd , Isvari dd , we will do 2 friday a month Mangalarati  here .

5.-  Abhinanda d will be sending a economic report with more details on YOUTUBE.

HpS-ASA - The Google.docs and Youtube are not practical for us. We need 1. Where every penny came from where every penney went to for year 2016, and 2. Starting an closing balances in different accounts. Not a Spread Sheet, a simple report posted here.  O.K?

6.-Most of us know each other and know who we can work with. we need to be people  that want to be will well-wisher all devotees. SS Prahladananda Swami said me: "It is not enough to read or study to teach, there must be a great desire to cleanse the heart".

We are understanding that our mission is broad and deep, for it, this year we will try to be more introspective, improve sadhana, improve relationship, to be dasanudas and so we will improve service.

7.- My Spiritual Master is well, (he had a dieta, sight problems, high pressure, sometimes forget things) but he said: "everybody all go through  this, to you will also reach that".

He is now at El Salvador, in December he will be at Colombia and Chile, India in March.

The last thing my GM said me : "In Perú there are no leaders, all are very immature". When I speak to him about Education, he say nothing.

(I think he is testing my sincerity).

The past year, he said me: " I dislike mediocre, I want not seat philosophers." I write to him each 3 months.

Thank you very much for your effort to become conscious of Krsna.

Nrsimhadeva protect you.

with affection

ys and spiritual niece

Isvari dd

HpS - So please send us the Financial Report as soon as possible. I hope you saw the letter from the National Council that Karuna Ji sent and our answer. We hope to talk with Karuna and Abhirama tommorrow by telephone. We hope that we can clarify many things with that conversation.

We also think it would help a lot if Mathuresa Das was Regional GBC Secretary for Peru like Jagajivana Das was doing, but we need to hear what others have to say about this.

In a few more years we will be dead.
There may be a global plague  or nuclear war.
In any case, we should do things from an immediate and long-range perspective.
Today we have Bh Sastri Workshop at 7PM on Start Meeting!

                     HARE KRSNA, DEAR GURUDEVA,

                     PAOHO, AGTSP!!

                     HOW ARE YOU?

HpS - ASA -  Aaaaaaa!   Suffering like anything.   I guess anyone in this world in suffering. Maybe some think that things aren't so bad because they have very limited vision, but then when the enevitable destructions (of work, wife, family, society) happen they suffer much, much more than we are suffering.
Also, we are reducing our suffering at the root. We learn better and better how to deal with the problems. We guess this will develop into skills that will go to our next lifetime. Same for you?

                      WE HAVE MOVED LIKE FIVE TIMES SINCE BHADRA QUITTED HIS JOB, NOW WE ARE FINALLY STAYING HERE.

                      THE IDEA HERE IN ALMERÍA IS TO FIND A PLACE TO HOLD A MONTHLY PROGRAM, SIMPLE,

                       SOMETHING WE CAN KEEP UP WITH OVER MONTHS, YEARS MAYBE.

HpS - That is nice.  We have little bit of a Monthly program, but our stonger rhythm is our bi-monthly program with the Kapi Dhvaja at the heart. Then we have some pretty regular weekly program and of course daily program.

                      AT THE MOMENT WE ARE CHECKING DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES.

                      NARANJO RECEIVED SOLARIS MAGAZINE FROM HECTOR, RODRIGO´S FRIEND. WE JUST SEND

                      ONE TO MANUEL ALMENDRO AND ANOTHER TO ENRIQUE GALÁN.

                      GANDHA MANJARI AND ALFONSO WILL CONTACT NACHO BAÑERAS AND GIVE IT TO HIM ALSO.

                      I ASKED ALMENDRO WHAT  HAPPENED ABOUT THE INTERVIEW YOU WERE SUPPOSED

                      TO HAVE, HE SAID HE IS BUSY AT THE MOMENT WRITTING A BOOK. HE ALSO SENT

                      ME AN ARTICLE I JUST SHARED WITH KALYAN CHAKRAVARTY, TO WHICH E-MAIL  ADDRESS CAN

                      I SEND IT TO YOU?

HpS - [email protected]

                      I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE BRIDGE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST AND I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION

                      THAT MY BRIDGE IT´S BEING MYSELF, DOING WHAT I LOVE ACCORDING TO MY NATURE AND SHARE.

HpS - !!!!!!

                      KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THERE (I AM A THERASPIST, I CAN´T HELP IT).  

                      I BELIEVE NIOS AND SOLARIS INCLUDES THERAPY SO I FEEL IT COULD ALSO BE MY BRIDGE, IF

                      YOU AGREE, OF COURSE. I HAVE FOUND A NEW THERAPY I WISH TO STUDY  FOR MENTAL AND

                      EMOTIONAL HEALTH "DECODIFICACIÓN BIOLÓGICA ", I HAVE EXPERIENCE IT AND IT HAS BEEN HELP-FULL.

HpS - Yes, yes, yes.... we are always looking for new places to do Sankirtan and how to improve the old one is exciting new ways as we have them!!   That is what Goloka means.    Keep your feet on the ground with Brahma-muhurta, Mangala-arati, Kirtan, SB, Good Early Rounds, Strong Four Principles, Good Association, and then go Hog-wild in looking for new preaching areas where you can "be your self".   Everyone is SUFFERING. Share your medicine.

                      I WAS ALSO THINKING A LOT ABOUT STUDYING IN USA WITH YOU, BUT FOUND NO REALISTIC WAY TO

                      DO IT (BHADRA CAN´T LEAVE SPAIN AT THE MOMENT AND I CAN´T LEAVE ON MY OWN), SNIFF!!!

HpS - The Tirupati conference was just cancelled. Maybe we stop over in Spain from 31st Dec - 4th January? We want to teach someplace. We only plan on two more years based in USA, then three in South America, then Three in India, then >>>>  Next Body (Buddy).

We are trying, trying, trying to get English Solaris out. Making progress. Is difficult to do something good, but when you do it it lasts.

                      I AM SORRY TO MAKE THIS LETTER SO LONG, I WANTED TO WRITTE YOU FROM SOME TIME AGO...

                      WE THANK YOU FOR MAKING YOUR ASSOCIATION AVAILABLE EVERYDAY.

                     ASPIRING TO SERVE YOU BHADRA VARDHANA DAS AND SANANDA DEVI DASI

HpS - What happened to Yasodananadana and family??   Your letter is very nice!!!   What is Bhadra-vardhana Das' Mission in Life (which of course will drag in his wife)

 Paoho.  We are giving classes every Thursday for the Hawaii Temple at e-sanga.org. It is a very interesting arrangment. There are many senior devotees there, so it is good peer association for us. They make it accesible for anyone from around the world and I think archive them well.

Here is a letter from Ramananda Das, Director, and our answer:

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From: Ramananda ACBSP
To: HpSwami
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 10:53 AM
Subject: lots of verses

Maharaja,
I hope you don't mind me giving you a lot of verses.  None of them have a purport that is more than one or two sentences if any.

Hare Krsna.

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HpS - AGTSP.

Hare Krsna!!!

Before we got the link to the verse. Now your letter just has an unopenable file.    Hmmmm???    We like getting your association in any way.   We just go to the e-sang.org page and then look up what you have posted for us.

Then we plop the basics into a pptx.,post it to our cell-phone calendar and work on it through the week.

I hope that our classes are contributing to the Sankirtan of Srila Prabhupada and specifically your Hawaii Temple.

What is the demographics of the Hawaii Yatra?  Where are the ISKCON Temples?  Is there a Temple on the Big Island?   Do you live there?    Do you live next to a volcanoe???

Can you join our Blog and put our letters there?!!!   That would broadcast these classes 600-times more effectively - www.hps.monkeywarrior.com

In con't from here http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/7161

Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

You wrote: “We investigate Srila Prabhupada. He is the current link in the Parampara. If we are satisfied that his extreme insistence on speaking and acting in the Paramapara is something that he requires from disciples and the Guru he accepted, then the series of links goes back quickely to Krsna.  That is the test, no? Do we actually have a direct experience of Krsna!?

http://www.vedabase.com/en/bg/18/75

Does our compound telescope give us a better view of the same God that we see with our naked eyes.”

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Guru Maharaja, I do not understand the above paragraph (specifically the highlighted text). Please, can you explain?

About your question of test, if I have a direct experience of Krsna? Hm,… it is a kind of difficult question. I could say I have a little bit of direct logic about Krsna. I see His hand around, hopefully. I read His words.

About BG 18.75 Sanjaya could hear Krsna talking. Question would be what is the difference of my hearing BG and Sanjaya's hearing Krsna? Or better question is what am I doing after hearing?

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In the purport it says: BG 18.75 p Nārada is the direct disciple of Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master of Vyāsa.

And in next SB citations it says:

SB 1.6.29 p Therefore, according to authorized opinion, the birth of Nārada as the son of Brahmā is also a transcendental pastime. His appearance and disappearance are practically on the same level as that of the Lord. The Lord and His devotees are therefore simultaneously one and different as spiritual entities. They belong to the same category of transcendence.

SB 2.9.43 p Brahmājī, as a disciple of the Supreme Lord, received the real knowledge and imparted it to his dear disciple Nārada,…

SB Lord B6.5.22 p Lord Brahmā is the guru of Nārada Muni , who is the guru of Vyāsadeva,…

How to understand these statements of guru and disciple relationship between Krsna, Brahma and Narada? Is this the example of transparent medium and direct experience?

Thank you.

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - You really have to investigate Srila Prabhupada. I investigated Hansadutta Prabhu for years and when he said, "Prabhupada said...", I knew how to take it. I heard from Prabhupada's lips that he would never die but live forever in his books. I tried it and experienced it.

Ultimately we can't understand anything unless the Paramatma enlivens us to do so. The soul has an innate ability to know. Sat CIT Ananda. So when hear more and more from the right source we can experience Krsna directly, like seeing better through a pair of glasses over our eyes.

Red highlight: Prabhupada is SO, SO, insistent that we speak in Parampara, no? It occurs again and again and again in his books, no?     So, if we know him and know that he does not concoct things then the conclusion is that he received this from Bhakti-siddhanta Sarasvati and that BSS received it from GKDB and ... Krsna. Is O.K.?

A lot of citations above. To our limited brain we have to take them one at a time and in priority. Do you get tangible result from your morning service? Getting up for Brahma-muhurta?    If yes, then that is a gift from Srila Prabhupada, no?

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, reciba mis respetuosas reverencias una y otra vez.

HpS - ASA --- Hare Krsna.  Please accept ours even more.

Estuvimos de viaje por Arequipa, Puno y Lima, aconpañando en Sankirtan a Maharaj Maha Vishnu y los Harinan Ruci, tuvimos una bonita experiencia con la asosiación de estas grandes almas.

HpS - Jaya!

Nuestro Sankirtan fue de 287 libros distribuidos entre grandes y pequeños. Esperamos aumentar nuestra distribución de libros y poder participar de la maratón de diciembre en Perú.

ASA - Libros, libros, libros.

Nuestro Sadhana marcha regular, Mangal Artik 5 am, 16 rondas de Japa, 4 principios, claro como siempre luchando con nuestra asquerosa mente, lectura de Bhagavad - Gita.

Bueno Guru Maharaj me despido Hare Krsna!!!

Gadai Gauranga Das

ASA - Esperamos La Marathon estaba un oportunidad encontrar muchas nuevas personas quien puede ayudar incrementar su distribuccion de libros!  Por favor unas noticias durante del Marathon de personas quien encuentran, tipo de libros estaba distribuyendo.

Hare Krsna,

Thank you for your response to our letter, but we are a little unclear? Do you mean that the development of the Bhakti-sastri and Bhakti-vaibhava programs should be curtailed by NIMSAR?  Should Nimsar work on development of specific seminars with ISKCON such as "Rupa Siksa, CC 2.19" for the Temple community?

We have another letter from Karuna Prabhu and hope to talk with him by telephone soon, as well as anyone else who wants to discuss things.

Thank you!   We are working on our tickets for South America now.

From: Carlos Figueroa, Karuna- krishna Das
To: Anjana Suta Academy, HpSwami

Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 11:42 PM
Subject: Letter from the National Board of the ISKCON Peru

Letter of response to His Holiness Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja

His Holiness Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja

Please accept our respectful obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

We have read and carefully analyzed the letter you kindly sent to me and the members of the National Board. With respect to the points and proposals in the educational area that you develop in that letter, our answer is the following one:

First of all we would like to thank you for the interest and effort you have placed in the educational area in Peru during the last years. Specifically in the case of NIMSAR, and as you well point out in your letter, that institution is a branch of the Anjana Suta Academy, which offers courses and seminars, such as the Bhakti Shastri, courses for TTC facilitators, leadership, administration, initial education , Primary, secondary, film production, etc., etc.

Undoubtedly, within the broad field of preaching and education of Krishna consciousness for society, NIMSAR has a fertile field of action where it can be fully developed. We think that especially in preaching to universities, colleges, institutes of higher education, cultural associations, municipal premises, etc, etc., NIMSAR can develop multiple initiatives to spread awareness of Krishna and for that can count on our authorization and Our support.

The National Board of ISKCON Peru is currently working on the development of an educational plan aimed at the formation of exemplary devotees in their behavior, connoisseurs of the Vaisnava behavior, skilled in the philosophy dissertation for Krishna consciousness and who can teach With arguments, logic and analysis of concepts, and above all with Brahminic qualities, because we observe with concern that in the last years almost no devout preachers nor Pujaris inclined to the adoration have formed. For that educational plan The National Board has called for experienced and trained ashram devotees.

On the other hand, NIMSAR can coordinate with us, all the academic and cultural activities that they intend to carry out. It is our intention to work harmoniously with NIMSAR, especially since we are aware of the broad vision that Srila Prabhupada had in ISKCON's preaching, both towards society in general and within temples.

In summary and to summarize it clearly, we agree that NIMSAR can work academically in colleges, universities, etc. But as far as the internal formation of the devotees of the temples is concerned, we prefer to do so.

Without further ado, please accept our humble and respectful obeisances.

Your servants

Caitanya Candra das President of the National Board

Karuna Krishna das Secretary of the National Board