Letters to the editor

On Sat, 11/14/15, Mishra Illo, Misra Bhagavan Das,  wrote:

 Subject: Re: Kapi Dhavja 
 Gauranga. I am in Mayapur by the mercy of Lord
 Nityananda..  After mangal arotik I took the local bus
 down to the Yoga Pitha and walked the rest of the way to the
 village where I get my milk. The people live there self
 sufficiently in family harmony. 
 This  evening I went to Prabhupada's samadhi to finish my
 rounds. After they were done I felt like I should try and do
 some sankirtan. A devotee was on the top level trying to
 distribute books to the many .visitors that came up
 the stairs. I was surprised on how tough of a crowd they
 were. They came to enjoy a day at the theme park, not
 inquire into transcendental knowledge.
 I tried to use my being a foreigner to
 get them to halt and take the book. We got one family to
 almost buy, but they said that they don't speak Bengali
 and we did not have any hindi books. Then three young guys
 together came along and 2 of them bought. 
 I hope this meets you well. Mishra
 Bhagavan
 Dasa

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HpS - ASA --- Hare Krsna!
We posted this to the Blog!   Very inspiring. How is your wife and stepson??????
You can see our howling and growling in the Kapi-dhvaja, no?

Sankirtan, Sankirtan, Sankirtan!!!

Hare Krishna Maharaja, Pamho, AgtSP.

Yes; to go to Vrindavan.
Maha-bhavi Manager temple; he went to Vrindavan for two weeks.
Murari-caytania is my faithful companion;
He is Lithuanian; He is married, and his son Arjuna.
He is good; chants the holy name. he has 30 years and is a carpenter; his family is in Lithuania.
just us two here.
Yesterday at the party on Sunday; Marga-mana gave the class; Yudistira cook; I clean the bathrooms.
Sanatani and Yudistira are married and two children; kamala-gopi, and Noah, he has another mother.
Marga-mana is married; two children.
His guru fell down.

HpS - Let's hope he gets back up (In a wonderful way!)

Many more details! Gustav is a bhakta with enthusiasm.
ISKCON norway ... the lotus feet of Prabhupada!

-First pure knowledge.
-Come up to the eternal platform.
- .........
jaya Rama ekadasi!

Well, time flew.
the new year is almost here.
Krishna consciousness, such an interesting thing.
we do this because we think it is good; and we will not go to hell.
but the Cowherd Boys do not know "who is God"
umm ...
that's a little strange ...

HpS - Are you sure Krsna is God?   Hmmmmm?    Or would you just love Him because you love Him, even if you might go to hell. Of course, Hell is forgeting Krsna, no?

and what is the name of the mother of Krishna's flute ???
This seems more complicated than I thought.
And what about Putana?

HpS - ASA -  She is the sister of ....(?).
Prabhupada: This movement is for the first class of men.
but that kind of intelligence is that???

HpS - Even if has third or fifth class habits, cow killer, when he hears to Message from the Messenger, Prabhupada, then he is honest with himself, admits his problem. Trys to change, and then P'pada, ISKCON, give him, us, 1st class habits. O.K???
We are looking for 1st class men (at heart) and giving them 1st class habits.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
hare hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Maharaj muchas gracias - Thank you very much for your support!

HpS - Thank you very much for your leadership. Sounds like you have a good team there. Get to work! Make it a great team. Do something in the time you have.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

ASA - Lettuce feet. Of course, we hope to aspire that Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet are our lotus feet (possession).

    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, Hope you are good in Health.

    As i had Visited 4 small city - Chilfilly, Ambikapur, Bilaspur and Raipur. Basic objective of the visit was to check scope for us (ISKCON).

    City 1 : Chilfilly - Many 'Sahajiya' sampradaya are preaching on this area. They don't follow any rules. They preach like, they are in Vraja or Gopi-bhava. They say, they can show the 'swarup' to anyone. Even they offered me to show the 'swarup'. But i did not responded. They all have big big and beautiful diets ("diets" or "dieties") at their home. They have made their own rules of bhakti, sadna and worship.

    City 2 : Bilaspur - Good city. Engineering, Medical College, High Court is there. i was success to develop a relationship with two lawyer of high court for preaching purpose.

    City 3 : Raipur - Capital of Chhattisgarh state. Scope is good. Already an ISKCON Temple is there but very less preaching.

    City 4 : Amibkapur - Nice city, growing city. Good Agriculture College is there. Scope for ISKCON is good.

    It was my first visit for these place so need more visit before making any decision.

    Why i had chosen these place : Because 'Sahajiya' preachers are there. They are misguiding people.

    Please let me know if you have any thing for me.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA -- It sounds like you are moving toward Sannyasa dharma, traveling and preaching, not having a private family, but loving all people as your family.
When we get telephone and give you Gayatri Mantras???

Dear Hanumapresaka Swami

PAMHO  All Glories to Srila Prabhupada !

I'm going to try to send some photos for the first time to see how it works.  These are the only photos I could find that are less than 2MB  This is a photo of the going away party for a delightful devotee couple who had to move to up state New York for his work as a college economics professor.  With Bahushira and Paradeya.  The tears were flowing that day.  The other is a picture of Paradeya,  his wife Caitanya Dasi and me at home.

Your humble servant

HpS - Hare Krsna. Sorry a little slow reading this wonderful letter. Reflects our lack of taste for spiritual life and continued interest in World War II. By your association and all the devotees in this world AND Srila Prabhupada AND Jesus and Mohamad and...   Confuscious and...  we might make some progress. We only see one photo!  If you get the time, save the file with a descriptive name, then I think that will show up. I only see a small version of it at this point. I will post it and look at the large version. Then I think this letter to this point will go. . . .

O.K. We looked at it after it was Posted and the Photo is much bigger, but only one. Are you getting this Edit comment?

Boy, I really like working with you. Always have. You are a professional, sudra like me. I think there must be some German in your family tree somewhere.

Hare Krsna!

Esteemed Professor et al,

We are writing from Franklin, Tennessee. As usual our energy is a little delicate. Death is only about 9-years away and we should be expecting more and more debilitation of the gross body as it approaches, be we hope to have a harmonious departure, having all our accounts in order.

CALENDAR

We have our tickets:

We arrive 10.45PM, February 18th, in Delhi on Jet Airways 229

We leave March 30th, 2.45AM on Jet Airways 230

What shall we do in between times? The ISKCON programs in Mayapura formally begin the 24th, but we may be expected to arrive before that to help set up things. You and Mrs. Bandyopadhyaya can come to visit the project?
After that we should make some effort to visit the North-east, Manipur, although it is mostly a personal obligation to our disciple Yamunesvara Das.

Beyone that we have invitations to visit Mumbhai and Pune and Baroda and of course we would like to visit Vrndavana, but these are more optional until we get your opinion.

BHARATA-SAMSKRITI

We are working on the brochure, we had to drive over to Ravi's home, 45-minutes each way to get the books and dust covers. Today, Friday, we hope to take the information and put it into a flyer. We also go to his house today for regular Friday program and at the same time look for our copy of Abhivadana (spelling [?]).
 

EDUCATION IN CLASSICAL INDIA

We looked at the Program for the Delhi book release and we did not see any more details of our Welcome Address and after a second review do not see an older version of it on our computer memory. I guess we can go over it by phone at some point.

CORPORATION

We will visit Texas next weekend and hope to meet with the Accountant then about the details of Incorporation. We are waiting for Rama-giri-dhari Das to approve or edit the Mission Statement, but even if he does not get back to us soon we will send it to you for your opinions.

PERU SYMPOSIUM

Ramon was exhausted after his business trip to Spain, but has pushed to organize a meeting with Ravi next Wednesday during business hours to establish personal committments for the projects and then detailed contracts. If this doesn't happen then I think we should reconsider the project.

OTHER DETAILS

Are always there and are coming along slowly but steadily. We are getting a more and more efficient work schedule. Usually we have 1-3 hours of class programs daily and about 15-letters to answer daily. We started the Sanskrit vocabulary course with Goloka Education: balukah vane vasati. It is at www.loftylearning.com and looks to be a good start for a very practical course. We are promoting it. The more the merrier.

We will call on Sunday and hope to have the Bh-Skrti flyer off to you before that.

Your very incompetent servant,

HpSwami et al.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

HpS - Lettuce feet.

    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, Hope you are good in Health.

HpS - Eyes are failing, respiration is little depressed, memory is failing, two teeth gone...  and you?

    i came back in Pune, today morning at 7:30 AM.

    Visited 4 small city in Chhattisgarh - Chilfilly, Ambikapur, Bilaspur and Raipur. While visiting the place
    got to know the place, environment, Vaisanava and "Apsampradaya"s preaching activity in those
    area and scope for us.

    Due to different weather in these places, my donkey is affected badly. But joined office today.

HpS - Ahaaa!   Everyone is suffering. These diseases are so personal that they must be reflections of different Sattivaka Bhavas, no??

    i will brief you again on the same in a day to two. while i am happy to see your India
    schedule. Please let me know, how we can assist you. And where we can reach you most,
    according to that, will have to book tickets.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - We will send our schedule to Dr. Samaresh right now with a copy to you!