Letters to the editor

AGTSP

Pamho,

Hare Krsna gurudev,

Like I told you, this is the information that I promise one weeks later maybe. Im completly incompetent.

HpS - AGTSP.  Only Krsna is completely incompetent. You are about 75% competent!

I have not ask tou much help in this step, the next one organizing, yes, but plannig im little alone because bad time managment. Im working now and is completly different.

ASA - More fun!

All the information about the congress is here available to the world: www.iskcon.cl/educacion

The form is in www.iskcon.cl/congreso

Our request from you will be

1) Little talk at opening celebration and introduce the program and Ram Giridhari / 28th January

2) A 30 min. conference about the sastric education apply South American reality. / 29th January

3) A workshop in the afternoon about The Integrity of the Preacher. This is one option but, the other option is Grhasta, because this field empty because Mahajana didn't attend because his wife is in the last step of her pregnancy. / 30 th January

This is the detailed program of the congress, but you're the first we ask the opinion:

http://bit.ly/programacongresoiskcon

The devotees are waiting for this program to get ready.

Hare Krsna.

HpS - Of course, we talked about this when we met yesterday. Some Grhastha should do the Grahastha workshop, but we could join with a Sannyasi perspective.
We accept what you have done and what we have heard so far. We can even change it after we get there just by asking everyone if it is alright. I need to see printed copy with you present to make good comments now.

\'o'/  Hare Krsna.  Should be lots of fun!!!!!
Fun produces results!

Hare Krishna Esteemed and beloved Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

We are still on the run, struggling to be a sane Iskcon member!! reach the standard, join the two parts of the elephants.

We began this harinam / sankirtan program during the marathon and it was so extatic that we are going to continue it during january!! We go out chanting and distributing books before the sunday feast. Very nice program, kids like it a lot.

HpS - Invite nice people.

16 R 4 P ok, very little Fmp and no Fep. A little bit of reading. Bg, Sb, Cc, Kb, what is the difficulty by Srutakirti prabhu.

ASA - Early to bed and early to rise and Maya goes hunting for other guys.

We will be in bs as from 15 to 18 of january and in cordoba from 22 to 25 january to have your glorious association. Hope we can be of any use for your Sankirtan!!

ASA - Jaya.

We are trying to simplify our life to focus more and more in devotional service!

Thank you Gurudeva, you are like an utsaha booster, feeling your kindness and love increase our faith in the process, rasa!!

Trying to become your disciple,

Nikunja Bihari das.

Hare Krsna!   Catching the airplane.

hare Krsna Gurudeva, pamho, jay Srila Prabhupada! _o^__.
 This is the link to the short version of the video of the symposium in Lima. This version has subtitles in English. Abhiram was supervising and we made several changes according to the precise details he did. What do you think? I hope to be useful in his sankirtan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smE_l_o9vX4

Thank you so much for everything.

Your Servant, Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

HpS -ASA   --  O.K. we try to see it very soon!
 

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, por favor reciba mis humildes reverencias, nuevamente seguimos en la ciudad de Puno - Perú, haciendo Sankirtan y practicamente culminando la Maratón de diciembre 2015.

En mi carta anterior le mencione que en el mes de febrero del 2016 me iría a Huancayo, pero la realidad es algo que vengo pensando, SI IR  Ó   NO IR, pues mi interes es más seguir viajando y distribuyendo los libros de Srila Prabhupada, pienso que lo mejor que funciona es la distribución de libros y el ocupar a otros en SANKIRTAN, espero el proximo año ir a hacer Sankirtan a Brasil, Paraguay, Uruguay, espero poder viajar por esas zonas.

Mi esposa, madre Nadiya Nivasi Dasi, va a viajar a Chile con Madre Anadi Adi Govinda, hacer Sankirtan y para su Vyasa Puja, espero en un futuro más adelante ella pueda estar en un templo con madres y yo poder seguir viajando con devotos varones.

Por otro lado queria pedirle disculpas, pues a veces ó casi siempre especulo cuando usted nos da instrucciones ó nos aconseja, perdoneme.

Seguimos luchando para seguir cumpliendo los 4 principios, mi mente es muy lujuriosa, también seguimos leyendo el Srimad - Bhagavatam canto 1, cap.9 "La Muerte de Bhismadeva", Nityananda Caritamrta y Krsna Book por las noches. Mangal Artik 5 am, 16 rondas de Japa y un poquito más. Gaura Artik con Prabhu Percy, su sobrino Alejandro y madre Nadiya Nivasi.

Bueno Guru Maharaj, me despido, espero que su salud esté bien, yo sigo mejorando de a pocos, de  la gastritis. Un abrazo Hare Krsna!!!

HpS - ASA --- Aparece bastante bien, como vida de Vanaprastha, pero piensa un poco mas en como Nadia va ser bien situado tambien. Krsna va a compartir la inteligencia! 

Gadai Gauranga Das

Gauranga! Every day is a festival in Sridam Mayapura, West bengal. Today is especially festive as it is the celebration of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati's Dissapearnce day.

In December 1974  Dina Bandhu Prabhu the Portland temple president announced that we were going to Vancouver, Canada for this festival. Devarsi Dasa explained to me that in Hare Krishna we celebrate a death day as much as a birthday because that is when a devotee goes back to godhead. It was a new concept. We loaded into a couple of vans, picked up a few more in Seattle, another carload in Northern Washington at a little farm, and the devotees from New Saranagati. We were greated by Bahudaka Prabhu and a roaring Hare Krishna kirtan as we pulled up the driveway into ISKCON Vancouver. The next day we had mangals, Tulsis and a class by Srila Prabhupada about his Guru maharaj.

That  morning we fasted and cut up for the feast that was supposed to be served at noon thirty.  Instead the 12:00 arotik was so ecstatic that Sukadeva led Hare Krishna kirtan through the 4:00 arotik. Fianally the prasadam came out in 50 gallon drums. Three Subjis, rice, chutley, pakoras, puris, sweet rice, gulabjamins, and more. In those days there was no oil in Krishna's kitchen in North America, everything was cooked in ghee and other dairy products. The strawberry halavah had so much butter you could have floated a boat. Aw memories, memories.

41 years later I am still feasting with the first class prsadam made by Bhakt Vidya Purna Swami's boys at the Gurukula Brahmana school. They produce their own ghee, from their own cream, from their own cows. It is a good meal. Maharaj said that "The rules of Bhakti Yoga should be presented at different levels so that a person can accept them. All the rules are there so that we can remember Krishna. The principle is the idea to think of Krishna." 

One hundred and one thousand visitors came to Sridam Mayapur Chandrodaya mandir on Christmas weekend. To engage them in Krishna Conciousness as Gita Mela was constructed. This was a themepark with many booths. Visitors poured through a big golden and white archway with releifs ofdemigods and clubs guarding it.

The first thing the folks see is a wax museum type diorama exhibit of various pictures from the Bhagavad Gita. The three modes of nature, changing bodies, the senses as horses carrying away the souls, a man eating like a pig becoming one, naked lady into a tree, and a starving bird in the cage getting the cage cleaned.  Other booths were for japa, kids corner, books, questions and answers, and more. A main stage had rotating show of Indian dance, Hare Krishna kirtan, and Bengali lectures on the Bhagavad Gita. 

Sri Mayapur International School had their own Hari Nama sankirtan party and an art exhibition. There were many Hari Nama Naga sankritan parties all over ISKCON Mayapur. Along with them are dozens of sankirtan devotees ditributing Srila Prabhupada's books to the crowd. Laxmi Moni Devi Dasi spoke about Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati opening temples all over India and preaching in Burma, England, and Germany. Srila Saraswati said "We should call at the door of each and every seeker of the truth. Bearing on our head the baggage of reak truth for them."

I hope this meets you well, Your servant, Mishra Bhagavan Dasa

ASA - Jaya!!  Incredible!!!   Now, please try to write some poetry for the next letter also!!!!   Thank you so much!     We have one foot on airplane for South America.