Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP

PAMHO

Thank U GM for all iur effort,inspiration and association.. FMP, Twiteer, blog, etc.

GM Ramvijaya is comming and I have 2 doubts:

Which topics a person who is going to give the class that day may discuss? What should we read, sing?

And Putana represents false guru, so ravana what represents. When we throw rocks to Ravana what are we actually doing?  Thank u in advance

GM this is not related to the topic but I was looking my pictures and I found some of ulyses when he was a baby.. and i thought when is this ulyses now.. jaja.. I realized that we are changing bodies within this life also. I am attaching some pictures.

Thanks in advance

Iur eternal servant 

Cmdd

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!!   Paoho.  Thank you for your Bhakti!         I think there are some Rama-vijaya, Lanka-vijaya verses in the Ramayan section of the Ninth Canto. Also, Krsna-dharma's Ramayana is in English at vedabase.com.

All the deomons and what they represent are by Bh.Vinode Th. and are from Krsna lila.   I don't know how Ravana "represents" any thing.   Throwing rocks is just to help Rama defeat Ravana. Of course, we think of our own demoniac desires, deep in our hearts, and throwing rocks at Ravana is aiming to destroy them!

Cute pictures!     I guess if puppies weren't cute then their parents would eat them.   Ha!   Ha!   Ha!

Have you done a bio-graphy with your mother yet?     Ask her about here life, how things were growing up.  Good for her to look at her life and judge it.  Good for us to see how the world has developed.

From: Mukta Okram
To: HpSwami - yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2015 5:10 AM
Subject: Fwd: Correspondence with Guruji

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Maha Prabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Brndiki Jay

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji's padmacharan that I so happy that I could not express by words after getting Gurujis Amtabani through email. Even now we the initiated bhaktas did not go to the Mandir, because the new committee's moth of arrangement is based on the earning and not in the way of spiritual activities. But shortly we will try to modify the present system and will start mangal aarati daily. Now adays there is the Pujari to do Mangal aarati  in the morning, without a pujari to do aarati is not possible that is why we did not go to the mandir.

The aarati which I had mentioned in my previous letter is a programme organised in the house of a bhakta. Such type of programme (Ahorarati 24 hrs narration of Gouranga Mahaprabhu's past times) are special. They invited different Manipuri Goudiya Beisnavas from different localities, the ages above 70 yrs. They all spent the whole night along with us. And during the narration we did aaratis (astakala) eight times with different songs.

To day I had downloaded the topics discussed in the Kapidhaja about Guru Tattva.

Every Sunday from 2-5 pm we did narration of Radha Tattva through the Book Radha hrdaya taken from Brahma Beibarta Puran  of Brahma Sanghita. Some songs, slokas and Shiksha Astakama of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and time to time topics we discuss. All were possible with the blessings of Guruji. 

After getting Gurujis tour programme with tentative dates we will chock out different programmes of our Mandir.

Yours fallen Servant

Yamunesvara Das

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All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!    H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami, Ki JI!

Thank you for your letter, Yamunesvara Das.  We extend our respects to you and all the devotees of Thoubal yatra.

1. We cannot get to this e-mail sources easily. So receiving and responding to your letters is greatly delayed.  I think there are earlier letters from you and also one from Dasa Hari.   Can you please arrange to send those to the Blog!!!

2. We don't exactly understand your comments about not going to the Mandir.  Is that the Thoubal mandir or the Imphal Mandir?  They require a certain economic contribution before allowing anyone to enter? Of course, you can do Srila Prabhupada's mangala arati in your homes, but we should certainly seek adjustment to any wrong doings in any of our ISKCON temples!

3. The all night observances with Gaudiya vaisnavas that you describe seem potential of great spiritual satisfaction and opportunity for purification and empowerment in the cause of Lord Caitanya but ...   do you also include the books of Srila Prabhupada in your recitations and contemplations?  His Caitanya-caritamrta and Srimad Bhagavatam include wonderful potency to adjust all dangerous, subtle mistakes in our offers to Krsna and Gauranga.

4. We are working now on our visit to the East and Manipur and should have more news after the next week or two, even buy tickets.

Again, please have all correspondences to the Blog, so we can get contact with all of you in a practical fashion!!!  Also, for urgent communication our USA mobile phone is 209 505 3219.

Thank you,

HpSwami
 

HARE!

Hare Krsna Senor Maharaj
Pamho, AGTSP..
Jaya Rama !!!!!
The list is reaching is about to get completed need to do some final checks/verification.
Who will make the flyer, How will we do it ? 

ASA - Thank you!!!    We will talk to Dr. (with you?!!) and see that list is O.K. with him.  Then we can engage Gauranga-tech, Rama-giridhari Das et al, to work with us on the marketing, promo-letter, method of approach.  We will call soon.

Do you think its better to talk about these over skype ? i think 930 am 10 oct , lima time is fine.

ASA - Here is very, very good for as much as we can do, because we need the collective ASA intelligence to help. Oink!    Oink!    WHoop!   WHooop!
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My wife is helping child a lot. she make sure he does not watch any screen!!! she reads him Panch-Tantra stories..
the back ground of Panch Tantra is - king had sons , he was disappinted that sons are neither devotees nor materially astute. So he send hims to teacher who tell him stories like bhagvatam (story inside a story) to be materially astute

ASA - Yes, we know Pancha​-tantra stories!  There are some excellent audio dramas of them that we heard in English by some Yoga group. Where??   What is Hitopadesa?

We see our son as political leader not as engineer or  doctor ot teacher....

SP says "We want that the mass shall support us, but we want that the class shall preach for us, that is the distinction."  ...http://prabhupadaletters1972.blogspot.in/2007/12/27-december-1972.html

is it okay if we see him like that

ASA - Seems fine to me!    There is children's Srimad Bhagavatam also, no?   Pioneer work. Looking for material for active mind.   We will try to find more for you.  Sunday school program.     Especially can you integrate with Ram-giridhari and Prana et al?  They are not perfect, but you can make them better for your personal benefit and the whole world.  Achintya bheda abheda tattva.   If you fail to save your kid, the whole world will go to hell.
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sadhana is still sine wave but mean is not zero, and freq is decreasing...

ASA - Yessss, to us it seems your mean has really gone up.
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any other service ?

reagards,
horse

HpS - Just struggle, struggle, struggle to pronounce clearly.  With your help we will contact Dr. and go ahead in this line.  Everything you are doing seems to be moving in the right direction. Don't change the direction, just improve the efficiency.

Offer our respects and hello to your good wife!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, por favor reciba mis respetuosas reverencias. 

Estuvimos de Sankirtan viajero, fuimos a la Marathon de Sankirtan realizada en Bolivia - Cochabamba, en asociación con Prabhu Jagat Bhandu, Prabhu Tattva Vit, Bhakta Victor, Bhakta Alex, Prabhu Nilacala, Prabhu Adveita, Madre Nadiya, Madre Madhumati y Bhaktin Karina. 

Luego viaje a la ciudad de Oruro con Prabhu Tattva vit y Bhakta Victor, los 3 estuvimos una semana en esa ciudad y distribuimos muchos libros. Luego fuimos a La Paz por unos 3  dias. Ahora estamos Puno - Perú haciendo Sankirtan con Prabhu Tattva Vit y  Bhakta Victor.

El Sadhana esta muy bien, Mangal Artik, 16 rondas de yapa, 4 principios, lectura de Nityananda Caritamrta y Bhagavad - Gita.  Pronto le escribire con nuevas noticias de sankirtan. Seguimos en busqueda de una autoridad de Sankirtan, esperamos encontrarla pronto.

Bueno Guru Maharaj me despido y  deseo que su salud se mejore .....Hare Krsna!!!

Gadai Gauranga Das

Hare Krishna GuruMaharaj! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my humble obeisances.

Sorry for not writing you before, here in Madrid all is Ok, now the autumn and the weather is a lot more comfortable than some months ago.

I went to do the “Camino de Santiago (camino del norte… there are different routes to arrive to Santiago the north way is one of the most old and beautiful also one of the most difficult)” with one of my best friends (from my childhood) we walked around 300 km in ten days. The experiences was nice and I hope to finish the pilgrim to Santiago the next year. I chant many rounds, share many good moments with different people, etc… Also some days before to start the Camino of Santiago the uncle of my friend (the uncle of my friend was my friend also I knew him when I was 13-14 years) committed suicide and this experience was hard for my friend (also for me) but the trip help him to think about transcendental topics.

I returned to Madrid to start the service in the temple, after some days Jaramara officially left all his services in the temple. This new situation caused a new restructuration of my services and now I take the responsibility with the president about the organization of the services, take care of the devotees from the ashram  and also I continue like head pujari. The way that I usually try to work is the next: I do a list of all the services temple and pujari and I review all the Mondays with the devotees.

I would like to increment the standard of the deity but with this new situation now its not possible, but im happy cause the devotee that is learning pujari is developing good and we are supporting nice the actual standard. In addition, Im starting to take care of Tulasi, we had a plague but now its better.

In some days I will have the Bhakti Sastri exam and also we are going to start a program call “Kirtan Pizza” all Fridays evenings, the idea is to chant Mahamantra Hare Krishna around one hour and half and take a piece of pizza. If its possible I would like to give little seminars of vegetarian cook in November… lets see.

Mathura Mani is in the hospital, she has a problem with her pancreas, the doctors don’t give the results yet. We are expecting.

That’s all I will try to write you with a little more frequency. Thanks for your time and energy.

Your servant Mantri Rama Das.

HpS - Hare Krsna. Swami Oscar!!!     Ooof!   When we got back from the whole tour, we were almost dead. Medical diagnosis is that we just exhausted our liver, and if you are 37-years old it recovers, but at 67-years old we had been living a very dangerous life. We rested and now we are back to a pretty sane level of energy. Of course, we had to minimize our mail and really were not able to get to your letter until now.   We really had to just put all money, and plans aside.
What do we want to do in life?   We only have 9-years left in this body as far as a very good estimate goes, so we are really working on our own plan of work and investigation.  Personally I consider you one of my best friends, and I hope you are also merciful to have some care for me.

Your fast, in the 'Bhagavad Gita' Arjuna asks about someone who does austerities for a good purpose but is not able to be 100% successful. Then Krsna gives him some details but in general says, "One who does good, my friend, is never overcome by evil".

As far as helping with finances, we have to look toward what is left to pay for the 'Bharata-samskrit' book, what Ramon is expecting from us in terms of the proposed "Psychology of the Sacred" symposium in June and then, I would say, that of course, we always want to help you and Integro.

As always, we cannot send money overseas for programs, but have to have some tangible product, like a book, or movie etc.

What kind of sponsorship were you thinking NIOS might be able to make?

Our phone is 209 505-3219, and just for practical purposes we do 90% of our mail through our Blog: Letters to the Editor  It is a great system and then puts all the stuff we are discussing in front of our whole community so they can also get involved!

Hope to hear from you as soon as you can!!!

HpS

From: oscar naters <[email protected]>
To: HpS HHR <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 6:29 PM
Subject: oscar naters

Hare Krsna!

are you receiving my mails?

Oscar

El Lunes, 28 de septiembre, 2015 19:02:17, oscar naters <[email protected]> escribió:
 

Hare Krsna!

Dear Maharaj,how are you? Still in Mexico?

Now I am home again. I couldn t finish the 9 days at the mountain, I did 4 days because my kidneys got swelled. Anyway in these matters there is no defeat. There is a sentence that say:"You do everything right and everything goes wrong".That is a good medicine also.

I will try ir again next year.

Maharaj I wonder if it is possible a NIOS sponsoring for our next INO MOXO season, as you remember I have been recognized as best theatre director of the year with this work, and also received 7 nominations, best lights, dance performance, singer, scenic design, best musin , best director and best ouvre.We just presented it 4 days at the Teatro Municipal de Lima. Now we will do a short season at Teatro Britanico from March 31th till April 11th.

We really need some help because the peace has some complex  technical necesities.

Hope you give us a positive answer.

I am reading Jung books, and I am sure next time the program will be better. I am planning to call Eduardo Gastelumendi very soon to prepare something new.Thank you very much.

Oscar