Letters to the editor

Dear Hanumatpresāka Swami, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am now back in the USA working very hard to buy a new sankirtana van for book distribution and have better sadhana and relationships with devotees.

I am writing to beg you and the Vaisnavas’ blessings and well wishes in this regard.

Thank you for your encouragement and inspiration. 

Hare Krishna.

Your servants,
Prahlāda-Nrsiṁha das and Chandrānanā devi dasi

HpS-ASA - Hare Krsna! It is very nice to hear from you all. We are still in India. Maybe Krsna will send you a used ice cream trick with super mileage and a loud speaker. SANKIRTAN

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja.

Pamho, AGTSP!

I hope you're OK . I wish I had the strenght you have. I'm lazy and self indulgent, but I'm doing something for Srila Prabhupada and you.

After Chile we had 2 courses with Aravinda Prabhu: FacilitationI and Management and Lidership. 10 intense days. After that we went to Huancayo (central sierra) for a weekend. Gave 2 seminars along with Abhinanda das. One about Srila Prabhupada as founder-acharya of ISKCON and the other one about Filosophy of Education based on your papers and conferences. Right after that we went to Arequipa for a week to give disciples course. 10 new graduates. 

Now, We've just started a new semestre. 10 estudents for bhakta course, Introducción al Bhakti-yoga, presencial and on-line. People from Chosica, Cuzco and Arequipa.

Lots of opportunities on Education. M. Govindanandini in Bolivia is now a NIMSAR member giving the bhakta course. We are helping her and P. Karunya Nitay from Ecuador to get the qualification to teach disciples course in their own area. We are going soon to Ecuador and Bolivia to help them. Then Cuzco and Tarapoto. Maybe Chiclayo.

NIMSAR is progressing. We are very excited. We are trying to get a proyector, etc. Always politics bothering...but we are doing our job.

We are trying to work on BVB as well. M. Candra mukhi and I. She's researching about application and I just started revising all the study guides. 

The idea is presenting BVB by modules. First Pada padma, etc. Our goal is to start all over again by August, with your blessing and actual help.

Please, again, we need your blessings to advance. I thing NIMSAR and I are working with sincerity and comittement for the sake of ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada and you.

your servant,

LAD

Question: The guides on the archives are the updated? We are starting from scratch.

A favor, please send the slokas review on Cantos 1 and 2. You never posted it.

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Thank you excellent report. Did you discuss new members with Mathuresa Das et al? Gotta do that, no? You mean the Start Meeting Mantra Review? Lets Skype! You will save the world if you go on like this.

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

    Gurudev, There is youth festival happening on 20th march for the ISKCON 50th celebrations.
    so local authority requesting you to make your holy presence at the venue stage if you are OK.
    Timing of Program is 5:00 PM.

    Please let me know your input.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - AgtSP. We discussed this by phone also, no? Seems o.k!

hare krishna querido guruji 

por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias 

todas las glorias a srila prabhupada 

despues del congreso de educacion en chile candramukha swami nos trajo a brazil para ayudar en el proyecto de vrajabhumi dham 

en el servicio de organizar programas eventos etc etc ... asi que despues de 3 dias del congreso ya llegamos a brazil ... aqui es muy bueno para nosotros harini esta absorta en krishna y balarama igual que nosotros en servicio .. todo es muy tranquilo ...

vivimos con candra mukha maharaja y viajamos con el a los programas manhana yo viajo con el a predicar durante una semana.... es una bendicion pensamos quedarnos aqui .

24 de abril invitamos a jagad guru prabhu y carolina para reunion sobre congreso de educacion 3 en teresopolis , rio de janeiro , brazi. 

para presentar las dependencias que pueden ser usadas para nuestro proximo encuentro  educativo.  

abril voy a chile a sankirtana viajero y vuelvo aqui a continuar con nuestros programas 

;... su sirviente en la separacion nanda nandana dasa

pd> more news in the future and here our website

http://www.retirovraja.com.br/

HpS - But what about your and protect in Chile? Baladeva had great meetings with Rama giridhari Das in Mayapura

DIARY OF A TRAVELING CREATURE January – March 2016 By Tom Brown (Monkey) and Buck White (Piggy) ANJANA SUTA ACADEMY www.JayaRama.us Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Here we are, Tom Brown and Buck White (more graphically know as Monkey and Piggy), with Hanumatpresaka Swami at the ISKCON Kolkata, Albert Road Temple. It is about 83⁰ F here at 5AM and by 5.30AM the sky is just becoming light, the mosquitos begin to gently search for blood and the jungle flowers secrete intoxicating perfumes. During January we trans-versed South America and then reloaded in the USA for this Asia trek. This involved 36-hours from: Murfreesboro, Tennessee to, Nashville, Tennessee to, Newark, New Jersey (where we were in transit for 6-hours and met a retired Sea Captain of the big international oil tankers) to, Brussels (where we met a Catholic Priest) to, Delhi where we rested for 2.25 very nights and did 5-lecture/cultural programs with 200-600 people each. Our driver one evening was a very nice gentleman with a very nice car with nice A/C whom Uncle Gismo harassed until he explained the difference between cellular 3G and 4G connections. He managed about 500 Erickson Engineers who developed the towers and all else for about one third of the world. Back in the aluminum Wiener. One night in Dr. Samaresh’s house in Kolkatta and the next day sharing a taxi from Kolkata airport to Mayapura with two ladies, sisters, from Peru, living in Australia, HpSwami’s disciples. Mayapura is the birthplace of Sri Krsna Caitanya about 1486 AD. Many Bengali organizations have Temples and Cultural Complexes there and the ISKCON one stands like a Tyrannosaurus amongst smaller dinosaurs. It is jungle, farms along the banks of the Ganga, four hours from Kolkata. Oink! Oink! Whoop! Whoop! We really hope The Rooster of Peru is appreciating all the purposeful, though possibly mad, austerity. For ten daze we were in Mayapura ISKCON. There was a mass conflict between different administrative divisions a week before and one of HpSwami’s students was pummeled unconscious. We were there for the ILS meeting (ISKCON Leadership Sanga). About 1,200 ISKCON second level leaders from around the world were there. The last three days we got sick - cold and fever. Our room-mate was our old friend Sukadeva Swami, formerly a doctor, from South India. We were representing the ISKCON Ministry of Education. HpS gave one presentation during three different slots on “Harvard, Oxford and the Bhagavat in Dialog”. It was sold-out every time. The MOE did nine more presentations in the over 240-other slots. Lot of work. We also had to organize and attend MOE administrative meetings, Spanish language lectures and meetings, feed the elephants, visit Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi Mandir, check-in with people left and right, coming and going, that we haven’t seen for months, days, years, decades. HpSwami is a fanatic: Up by 2AM, chanting rosary, reading esoteric classics, writing, bath, barefoot to the Samadhi arati at 4.30AM. The Security Guards and street dogs stand sleepily to salute him and Rtu-raja as they passed by. A loving mother and father, a dutiful king, they can protect you, but the Holy Dhama, She never sleeps. (I guess you get the idea about our life for the past ten weeks. (Reading this, we start to get the idea.)) After Mayapur: Four hours with Hari Das Das back to the Kolkata airport. Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! Kolkata to Imphal and Thoubal, Manipur. Now we are in the North East. This makes the jungles of Mayaura look like a Beverly Hills Country Club. Simple villages in the foothills of the Himalayas. Have to shoo the cows off the runway to land. Soldiers with machine guns every quarter mile in the tougher areas. Feelings of love and communal wisdom that bring you to your knees, and remind you of Jung’s words to the scientific elite during the Tavistock lectures: You think that these ancient Indian and Chinese cultures were fools. They aren’t the fools. We are the fools. They have a realization of introspective life that is simply marvelous. In terms introspective psychology Europe is just a peninsula of Asia. HpSwami has been trying to help there for 10-years, after his Sannyasa Guru, B. S. Damodara Swami died as a result of a bomb blast. HpS is obviously a stupid white-man but the people were traveling by bus, car, buffalo for even three days to join the festivals and in the end they donated 100,000 Rupees, even 10 at a time, for the progress of this Peru-Manipur dialog, and pledged there intellects and talents to the effort. All this has been in a foreground of our background of Professor Samaresh and Dr. Kalyankumar. During the 36-hours in Delhi, when we first landed, we were able to meet with Dr. Kalyan. He was in charge of the administration of all the primary schools in Uttar Pradesh, about 800,000 children, National Education Development Institute and National Fine Art’s Academy. His view has been so parallel to ours, Hector Behar and Ramon’s et al in Peru and the drift that we profoundly feel in Prof. C. G. Jung’s perspective, that unless we nurture, serve, these traditional cultures, then we have a funeral waiting for our souls and the existence of human life on the planet. So here, we let our borrowed ASUS Net book take rest. It is 3.15 PM. We spent one hour with one of the Temple Brahmacaris tranfering Light of the Bhagavata files and our old but happy eyes are about to collapse. Enough work for one day. We will send this report and in the next week we hope to have substantial progress on our written contribution to the Symposium in Peru in June, Miguel’s magazine and our other ASA and NIOS efforts. We are still planning to leave this body (through the mouth?) November 2024. Please write to us. We cannot live without your mercy. Tom Brown and Buck White et al ANJANA SUTA ACADEMY NIOS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies)

All Gloris to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Sri Guruji Maharaja’s padmacharan that I want to know Guruji’s observation (impression) of Manipur visit specially Thoubal. It is the human nature that happiness of meeting and sadness of separation though it may be short or long.

Impression of Thoubal Bhaktas :

1.      Though Gurujis time is short for one night only, it is our golden opportunity that our Guruji came and hold in Guruji’s Aashrm at Thoubal.

2.      Our poor bhaktas who could not go and take darshan our Guruji at Mayapur or the nearest ISKON centre outside Manipur take the opportunity.

3.      Though our Thoubal Mandir is not yet a fully fledged ISKCON Centre, our Guruji visited frequently from far far country for the interest of our poor bhaktas.

4.      We can participate Nagar Kirtan with our Guruji personally around the Mandir.

Inconveniences of arrangement :

1.      We could not arrange separate room arrangement of Haridas Prabhu that is why he did not hold that night with us so we could not get enough time to accompany and communicate with Guruji.

2.      No bhaktas from Imphal ISKCON Mandir including Bonomali Prabhu, Sadhubhusan Das and Nabadwipchandra Das did not hold that night with us and participated mangal aarati.

3.      We could not arrange separate discussion with Guruji and initiated bhaktas of Thoubal

4.      We could not arrange separate discussion with Guruji and Brahma Diksa bhaktas about personal advantages and disadvantages in our spiritual life.

5.      Our Thoubal bhaktas are almost came from poor families so we could not present good dakshinas. Not only that some members including the senior most and brahma diksha Nanda Gopa Das did not turn in the Guru Pujah. It is so unfortunate for us.

6.      None of our Bhaktas from Thoubal except my family could not join at the time of Gurujis departure in the Airport.

Guruji, please guide us in the right direction of our gold and excuse us from all inconveniences caused by our mismanagement and facilities which we could not provided.

I will send the video recording of Guruji's activities during Guruji's visit at Manipur specilly at Thoubal. 

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das.

HpS - All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It is so nice we solved this Blog problem and now we can communicate here. Our visit to Thoboul was very nice. You have such a very rich Vaisnava culture in Manipura. You are very fortunate to live there. Must be because of your previous good activities. It seems to us that all the devotees from Thoubal, Imphal, are sincere enough that we can give them our association and engage in service together. If we do that then our bad qualities will be destroyed at the root. So far the results of our visit are very nice. Let us see if people fulfil their promises. In any case we will make progress in expanding Lord Caitanya mission.