Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaja,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

I inform you of the following:

1.-The chairman of National Council is: Caitanya Candra db, su mail :[email protected]

Vice president o Vicechairman: Caturatma d ([email protected])

Secretary: Karuna krsna db: [email protected]

 Natioanal Council have a 3 year period. They have too your mail.

2.-With respect to compile the Actas it will make Yamunesvara d (he was secretary before Jivasakti d), he has recordings of meetings and will transcribe.

There are a lot of homework for Yamunesvara p.
HpS - Thank you. Seems nice. B'cari for President and Grhastha for Vice President.  We are concerned about reconstructing the previous decisions, because we must all know what are the rules, but right now hoping that the current Secretary can publish the results. We will put a little of this in the DTC now.

3.-I had a brief conversation with Caitanya Candra db and he said to seek a devotee who communicate agreements meetings.
HpS - AGTSP!   Paoho...  Do you mean he will seek someone can who can communicate the agreements from the meetings?

4.-NIMSAR report latest, I forgot write in the title "little urgent", excuse me.

Pray of the health of your body are is better.

5.-2 consults? 

_Most students of Berkeley University are revolutionaries, this is due to its education system?

HpS - I don't know so much since we are not there so much, but I think that now they are no longer revolutionarys. Chinese are more prominent and so is kind of Artha, Economic Development, focus.

I think it is because incentivize to sutends to investigate. You know anything about this?

_What difference betwen Special Category A and B? 
Piggy: Category A is like non-Calendar, Personal Sadhana, Sankirtan Reports etc. Discussion of certain themes like Education in ISKCON etc.
Category B is same thing but more permanent topics, more conclusions of Category A

With affection

ys and spiritual niece

Isvari dd
HpS - ASA -  Thank you very much for your efforts!!

Hare Krsna!
Need description of your 2015 July to 2016 June NIOS branch Income, Expenses and Balances by Saturday.
Emergency Annual Board Meeting.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, in my previous letter, URL : http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6949
    we had asked, can we perform "Agnihotra"?

    we means to say, can we learn & perform "Agnihotra", other then what we (ISKCON temples)
    do Agnihotra for Initiations, Weddings etc. Except these, can we learn & perform other
    Agnihotra  also? If so what those should be?
    
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA --- Ahhh!   I don't know much about this. It is not the work of a Sannyasi, more for Grhastha.  There are devotees in ISKCON who do this for these different Sanskaras.  I think Mukunda Das, the Head Pujari in Vrndavana would know about this and of course there must be Brahmanas in your Yatra who do this. For example there is the Hari Cutting Ceremony and others, no?

Do you have any photos from the book-release in Delhi??? Or do you know anyone who does?   We are planning on fixing our India schedule three months in advance. We arrive 31st December so we will start buying the tickets 31st September. Actually we have the tickets and program up until the 10th of January with Delhi, Tirupati, Madras.

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP

Esteemed Bhakta-rupa Das,
Paoho.   We hope this meets you well and in the best of spirits!    By this letter let us formally end our position as the Bhakti-sastri Examiner in Peru. Rohini Devi Das is still officially the Administrator for the Diploma in Peru, and as far as I know has been very careful to keep the Records for the Diplomas.
A copy of this letter is sent to the President and Secretary of the Peru National Council and I expect they will contact you to see about the new Officials for the Diplomas. Their Candidates for Examiners etc are also receiving a copy of this letter.

If you write in simple English, www.translate.google.com can make the shift from English to Spanish pretty well.

Thank you so much. We will be in India from 1st January to 15th February and hope to see you then.
Your very fallen servant,
Hanumatpresaka Swami

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj.

Dandavat Pranaam unto your lotus feet.

HpS - All glories to Srila Prabhupada (AGTSP!). We feel that we still have like "lettuce" feet. We still have material desires mixed with our desires to serve Krsna.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

PAMHO.

Guru Maharaj, I am inspired by your kind reply and spiritual instruction. As material profession, I am Divisional forest officer and I work in Guwahati. I have to be in this stupid profession every week Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.

Although  few, I have got the association of some disciples of His Holiness Bhaktiswarupa Damodar Maharaj and His Holiness Subhag Swami Maharaj, at Guwahati. We have regular Bhagavad Gita discussions on Sunday evenings where we exchange thoughts and concepts on Vedanta.

HpS - Very, very, very nice!  Expand it to include new people. Expand it to once more a week like Wednesday evening. It does not have to be everyone, maybe just one or two people who live closer to you during the week. Sunday and then once during the week makes a very strong program. Then Krsna can inform us how to make more adjustments (BG 10.10-11)

Guru Maharaj, please grace me to make myself render unalloyed service to your lotus feet through Kapi Dhvaja this  time onwards.

I am very pleased to learn about your kind India visit. I am eagerly waiting to have the darshan of your lotus feet. Therefore, I shall certainly come to Mayapur during your period of stay there. So kindly let me know. Also, Guru Maharaj, we have most humbly requested Haridas prabhu to make arrangements for your North East visit.

Again Dandavat Pranam unto your lotus feet.

Your most fallen servant

Krsna Swarup Das

Silchar

HpS - What are you discussing in your Sunday programs?    We mentioned to Yamunesvara Das in another Blog letter answered today that we are going to fix start fixing our India tickets with the next few weeks.  We have exchanged two letters recently with Hari das Das from Nigeria.

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay, Goura Bhakta Ki Jay,

Dandavat Pranam,

Please accept my humble obeisanses unto Sri Guruji's padmacharan that in checking in the block (Blog) recently I found one letter heading After India written by Abhimanu Prabhu who is working in Bali in the  Bhaktivedanta Academy and Bhaktivedanta Dharma School.  I had met one Abhimanu Prabhu who is also an Amirican during my Bali tour. He knew Guruji also very well. Is this the same Abhimanu or another one? I had written letters and send some photos also but he did not communicate me in future. In future, if Guruji reply his letter please mentioned my name as reminder. His mail address also might change or not, but no reply.

HpS - Yes, he is the same person. We were serving together in San Francisco and on many projects for B. S. Damodara Maharaja. We will tell him to contact you as we are in contact with him.

Guruji, I had already mentioned that we are eagerly waiting  Guruji's tentative time table of North East India, specially for Silchar, Agartala, Guwahati and Imphal for taking arrangement and air tickets. I think, now Haridas Prabhu also might be  in Nigeria so no telephonic conversation and mail.

Not only that,  I am eagerly waiting Guruji's final suggestion for going to our Mandir or Not. After Guruji's reply I would arrange a meeting for all the initiated bhaktas for discussion and taking final decision about the  modalities Gurujis visit in Manipur.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - I answered two letters from Haridas Das that he sent from Nigeria. He suggested a schedule that did not leave any time for visits to Bombay, Kolkatta or Vraja. We are taking little time to get opinion of Bombay (Rama-giri-dhari Das), ISKCON Ministry of Education, Kolkatta devotees, so that we can do the best during our six weeks in India.

It is three months until we arrive in India, so it seems that we still have a little time to hear from anybody about their requests, but yes, we should start buying tickets within the next few weeks.

About going to the Mandir, do you mean Thoubal Mandir? As I understand they are keeping an old standard that is not inline with Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON method. Is that correct?

Of course, we would want to ask Banamali Das about his opinion. If he says it is alright and gives suggestions about how to adjust the details, that would be alright. Other wise you can origanize your own programs in your own homes to start with, no?

In any case you can invite people to your home and accept invitations from them and have Kirtan, Lecture (Reading and Discussion), Kirtan, Prasad. Then BG 10.10-11, Krsna will give  us intelligence how to expand more and more.

In NOI Text Seven, in the paragraph beginning, "The conclusion is...", Srila Prabhupada paraphrases the Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu verse, "Adau sraddha...". The exact Sanskrit is in BG As It Is Purport to Text 4.10.

This verse describes the different levels of spiritual development. Look at the translation in BG and then the more detailed explanation in NOI and tell us where you see your level of development. Let us discuss this in some detail and you can also discuss it with the devotees there.

We need to become Uttama adhikari devotees as soon as possible so that we can help others!!!