Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja

PAMHO     All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

So happy to hear about your succsseful presentations in Mexico and Peru.  Getting ready to drive to San Francisco for Ratha Yatra tomorrow.  ISKCON Sacramento is preparing a nice Janmashtami celebration for the community.  They rented a large meeting room (the cafeteria of a closed junior high school).  We are distributing flyers and reaching out to the large local Indian population. I am curious to see what the response will be. I distributed some flyers in Auburn and Nevada City.  We are all working nicely to produce a quality program that will inspire the local Hindues to embrace Krishna Conciousness.

Am really enjoying The Science of Self-Realization.  I might have read it 20 years ago but I don't remember.  Now that I am retired and my mind is less cluttered and I am getting much more out of the book.  I have a one track mind with very strong gestalts - thank God I lived long enough and was blessed with this wonderful opportunity to refocus my life onto a meaningful path.  Before I met the devotees I was basically a jnani (not totally) in that "the jnani wants salvation from the miseries of life".  As you know, I have a good sense of service and duty.  The devotees have helped me to focus those natural tendancies into devotional service to Krishna (as well as my fellow earthlings).  I clearly remember the basic understanding of service you taught me years ago.  What book should I read next?  Do I have your permission to tell people you are my Spiritual Master?  I would ask you to be initiated but cannot promise you I would chant 16 rounds a day.  That would be a sacred promise I cannot make in good concience.

Your humble servant

David Presta

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, reciba mis humildes reverencias.

Actualmente estamos en la ciudad de Puno - Perú, estuvimos por 2 semanas en la ciudad de La Paz - Bolivia, también unos 4 dias en la isla del sol en el lago titicaca - Bolivia. 

Nuestro Sankirtan desde el 30 de enero del 2015 hasta la fecha es el siguiente:

Madre Nadiya Nivasi 1610 libros. (Sankirtan en Arequipa, Puno, Cusco - Perú) también en (La Paz - Bolivia)

Madre Apsara Gopi 26 libros. (Sankirtan en Cusco y La Paz - Bolivia)

Bhaktin Noemi 70 libros. (Sankirtan en Puno - Perú)

Bhakta Percy  20 libros  y  3 colecciones de Srimad - Bhagavatam. (Sankirtan en Puno)

Mamá de Bhakta Percy 2 libros. (Sankirtan Puno - Perú)

Cuatro madres de Puno 27 libros. (Sankirtan Puno - Perú)

Gadai Gauranga 1588 libros. (sankirtan en Arequipa, Puno, Cusco - Perú) también en (La Paz - Bolivia).

Hace un total de 3346 libros distribuidos.

En la ciudad del Cusco - Perú hicimos Sankirtan 2 meses y  solo en las mañanas por el pujari. También mencionamos a nuestros amigos que también fueron ocupados en Sankirtan.

Bueno Guru Maharaj me despido y seguimos con el plan de ir a India, bueno ojalá se pueda.

Hare Krsna!!!

Gadai Gauranga Das

HpS - Su, su, super!!!!!    We saw you in Chosika and was great honor for us. Now we are drowning is these programs in Lima!!!  More news as it happens.

Hare Krsna, Bwanas and Bwanis!
AGTSP!!!!!  Paoho...    Follows our letter to the Jung, Kundalini Yoga, Peru Symposium, circle:

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya!

Esteemed Psychologists, Philosophers, Psychiatrists, Historians et al.
We salute you from Monterrey, Mexico. We came here for a traditional boat festival, Jala-yatra, and we are leaving for a mountain excursion with about 45-members in 1-1/2 hours. It is 6.310AM.

We were contemplating Dr. Eduardo's comments after the 1st Jung lecture, about the necessity of not dumping our human habits such as smoking and becoming too spiritual.

Then we did our regulated reading, this 2nd lecture on Kundalini Yoga, and it seems to address very much Dr. Eduardo's concern.

We have to translate some of the terms that Jung uses, such as impersonal consciousness, free from ego, to match our Bhagavata model, but he seems to be talking about the same levels of evolution of consciousness.

Earlier he was talking about sthula, suksma and para bodies, and said the sthula and suksma were understandable to him, but the para was a 'mist'. We would feel that by a little effort in this Bhagavata tradition, yoga, under able guidance we can have some experience of these higher chakras and the mist would begin to disappear. Of course this para plane can be experienced by so many methods.

Who agrees with Dr. Jung's realization of what is happening as described in the evolution of Kundalini to different levels?

As I said above, his realization seems to be pretty much direct experience of what he is describing so far if looked at from the Bhagavata description.

I would try to give a simple response to Dr. Eduardo's comments that seem to be discussed here by Dr. Jung's also, that we should not artificially try to jump up, but experience properly why we smoke at our level, but as we evolve, then the smoking is seen in it's subtle, more pure, more delightful, less contaminating form.

What are contaminations? The first I would say is death. Death is an unnatural thing for us. We should not lose consciousness when we are in the state between bodies, and in the next physical body we should have access to previous projects, knowledge, associates.

I would say that the Kundalini Yoga Sutras that Jung was dealing with, were probably not practical for Europeans at that time and neither now, but it is possible to develop a Yoga or Religion which would allow the Nation of Peru to progressively rise up, for the 'gods' to again become active.

Of course, we write this with a lot of smiles and hope for responses from a lot of people.

We are humbly including Prof. Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay in this dialog. He is our old friend, adviser and very senior professor from Calcutta University. I would also suggest that at some point we can try to get in contact with Shonu Shyamdasani. He has such a ton of Jung's letters, writings etc. like these Kundalini lectures and related documents, that can each be researched and published. Specifically, for us Jung's trip to India seems of the most value for our efforts to create a bridge between the Orient and the Occident, and so I would hope to influence him to turn his considerable academic attention those days rather than many other topics.

Thank you.

See you in a few days.

Respected Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

I went to twitter and listened the lecture on start meeting with Nitai Gaur prabhu, it was so nice.  I was going to ask you that you should also put this link in your Monkeywarrior home page and it is already there, Jaya. Guruji! kindly do this every time, that you also put the link on this website, since someone may not have the twitter acct and thus, they would be bereft of the opportunity to listen.

Guruji! have your chalked out your indian program, any rough sketch? In one of your news letter you mentioned that you would be going to Manipur, would you also be going to your usual places of pilgrimage like Naimisharanya and Lucknow etc. and Vrindavan/Mayapur or would you like to go to Punjab?

Here in Brisbane, everything is OK, my job is always up and down, but my chanting 16 rounds good quality, now-a-days I m reading Bhagvad Gita As It Is and sometimes, I go online and see the commentaries of different Acharayas on the same verse, it is really interesting.

Priya and children are excited to join you next year during your Indian journey, hope Krishna provides enough by that time.

Thanks and HARE KRISHNA.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP...  paoho...  We hope you are making nice progress in all of the basic principles of Sadhana, no?       For example, if someone is attached to sports activities, like gambling, then he is lacking part of the foundation to his Bhakti-lata and it will grow, but slowly and even with distortion, so we all have to understand these priority items of Sadhana Bhakti: Sixteen enthusiastic rounds minimum, four-principles strictly, a full Brahma-muhurta, morning program . . .   Sankirtan!

Then from Vaidhi-bhakti we can progress to Raga-anuga Bhakti very naturally (BG 4.10 Purport!).

First is am I?      Guess we are a mostly a writer at this point in life.   Who is the Raktaka Das?

Second is who are we?      For India we have Dr. Samaresh, Rama-giri-dhari Das, Yamuna in Manipur, Indian disciples and friends (Eg. Vasu Gosh), other Yatris like yourself and the Gopinatha Pujari. . . .

Third we make some plan where to go when....

Who are you?!

Hk guruji

Pamho agstp

El festival para niños es en iskcon santiago

Ahi estamos apoyando el programa del templo

Nos veremos viernes.

14 creo

Como es que mi esposa es el 77%de nuestro exito ?? Su felicidad?? Su apoyo??

Ss nanda nandana dasa

HpS - Detras de cual gran hombre es una gran mujer: Paciencia, austeridad, amor para Dios.      Claro detras de cual gran demonio...