Letters to the editor

07/24/15    Hare Krsna Esteemed Guru Maharaja    please accept my dandavats and pranams.

Haven't written since your helpful and wonderful visit in June.  Thank you so very much for staying in our new home and blessing us with your presence, your example.   i do not write more often because i do not want to take your valuable time.   Please know i am always praying for you and taking the dust of your lotus feet within my heart.

The ISKON Sac devotees expressed how much they benefitted from your visit.  They thought you so very humble and approachable, with the ability to illuminate sastra in a clear and unique manner.  They have asked me to ask you to put us on your calendar twice next year.   So please visit us next year twice and advise me how I may help with scheduling in advance.

We were (Dave too) out on book distribution at lg. apt. complex in Sac a couple of weeks ago.   By Krsna's mercy, we were invited to return and do home program for a group of residents!  It is this Sun.  How wonderful it is to preach this sublime and helpful philosophy of Krsna Consciousness.  Also, our group attended International Yoga Day in June by the state capital bldg.  Fortunately, I got to lead kirtan though I am always unworthy.  Also, me and Vikasananda Krsna Das were interviewed by Indian Television news so it was really so much mercy to be able to serve Srila Praphupada and this Sankirtan Movement and let the Indian population know more about our ctr!  Our group will also be at India Day and we are hoping to have an even better Janmastami celebration this year.  So lots of opportunities for service right now.  Jaya!!!

My dear Radha-Gopinatha are now in Their puja room.  I don't think our home is ready for Them to be in the front of the house;there was not a consensus about it.  Perhaps it's what they wanted.  I hope so.

Shoes ?:   So, recently Govinda Priya Dasi, who teaches deity worship in Mayapur each year, showed me how to put Their Lordships to rest at night.  Their bed is on the right side of Their altar on a table along with a brass vyasasan.  The vyasasan is too small for the murti of Prabhupada.  So i am using it to put his shoes on at night.  Then I take your shoes and put them on the table at the foot of Prabhupada's "bed"   and pray for your safety that night.  Anyway, may I continue to put your shoes like that?  Some how it occured to me to ask you if that's ok with you.

Continuing as your unworthy servant,

Kalindi Devi dasi

HpS - ASA -  Gosh!  AGTSP.  Paoho.   Yes, this pace of letters we can handle. We have noted all your content with great attention. Krsna is giving you so, so, so much chance to preach!!  Our respects to The David Prestha (which rhymes with Pasta) and all the Sacramento ISKCON Yatra. Of course we will try to visit again. We form the Calendar here.

I guess you can put our shoes some place. Off the floor I don't know. For sure lower, lower, lower thatn Srila Prabhupada's paraphernalia. We still have material desires but they are under control (now) and diminishing!

O.K. DTC>

From: Mukta Okram , Jamunesvara Das, Manipur

To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 

Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 1:49 AM
Subject: Personal sadhana report

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 could not  write further letters due to law and order situation in Manipur. Now in Manipur, a big issue of Inner Line Permit System is going on demanding a law through Legislation Assembly.

 In the month of September to Oct. I am planning to go Nabadwip, Mayapur, Brindavan and Bangalore with my wife and a friend. 

From 21st Sept Imphal to Kolkata by flight and stay at Dabadwip and Mayapur upto 24th Sept.

25th Sept Koktata to Delhi by Train for Brindaban and Radha Kunda and stay upto 29th Sept.

29th Sept evening Delhi to Bangalore by train and stay there for 5 days and

on the 5th Oct. Bangalore to Kolkata by Train one day hold at Kolkota then

on the 8th Oct. Kolkata to Imphal by flight and reaching home.

I have gone through the journal Kapidhaja and know Guruji's time table and other activities.

My daughter is in Thoubal who was working at Bangalore as Computer Engineer in a Multi National Companany. She will go back to Bangalaore on the 2nd Oct. 2015

My son has got appointment letter and will submit his offer form shortly.

Tomorrow we will go to Imphal ISKCON Temble and will participath the Ratha Jatra of Bhagavan Jaganath, Brother Balabhadra and Sister Subhadra.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Jaya!!! So nice to hear from you. We are very, very, very busy with four education conferences. I guess you can see the work in the Kapi-Dhvaja. So busy. We are barely keeping up with the letters at the Blog. Excuse us, but this e-mail is much harder for us, so we sometimes are slow in answering your excellent, excellent letters.

What will you do in the Holy Dhamas?

All respects to your good wife and Sankirtan partner.

Who is the other devotee who will go with you?

What is the Inner Line situation?

Your children do some ISKCON chanting or reading?

Haré krsna!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to sankirtana movement of Caitanya.

All glories to your lotus feet Gurudeva [Lettuce feet, AgtSP], thank you for always showing us with your example that everyone who takes sincere shelter of the Holy name can keep on his service to the spiritual master and also help others to reach that platform.

We have a lot of mercy from the devotees here, last month we received H.H. Dhanvantari Swami, many guest came to see and hear Maharaja, I spoke with him a little bit with him, he told me I have to work more on my self-esteem! Any advice there?

HpS - ASA - I think he gives good advice. Basic principle is self-realization. As we become more Krsna conscious, we become more self conscious and then we can have an accurate estimate of our body, mind and soul!

Also last week Hanuman Prabhu came to Queretaro, he stayed for the weekend and said that he was very happy that finally there are more places to visit in this country; many many guest came to hear the preaching of Hanuman Prabhu. I really try to keep up to the ritm with all our programs here in the preaching center and restaurant, even though I think I would ask for 26 hours day je je. I have to recognize that this last month i haven't read enough for my personal reading, and further more, the last days I haven't had enough space to complete all my rounds, even if I try to chant at every free moment, even without attention, I just don't get them done.

HpS - "sraddha sabde...". Look for this verse cited in NoI and then look for the context and purports in the original location. If you chant 16-nice rounds ALL you other service and sense gratification will improve in the maximum possible way. Get up early and get your rounds done!

Gurudeva please pray for me so I can detach from sense gratification at least enough time to get my rounds done. Your always aspiring to disciple Krsna-kirtana Dasa

HpS - Hey!   To be our "Disciple" you gotta follow our discipline. It has some advantages, like getting our rounds done and 4-principles etc. but also must be a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, follow his disicipline. He is the Acharya for all of us, no?

ALL GLORIES TO SRI SRI GAURANGA NITYANANDA

ALL GLORIES TO HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA
ALL GLORIES TO YOU

Please accept my most humble obeisance to your holy lotus feet.

ASA - Lettuce feet.

Dear Guru Maharaja:

How are you?

HpS - ASA - Aaaaaaaaaa!   Drowning in this ISKCON Sankirtan!

4 principles ok, and 16 rounds and improving!! :)

HpS - Krsna never instructs anything impractical. All your desires will be fulfilled if you work on these two things as central.

We start a monthly program in my neighborhood of KIRTAN, I has mention to you about that, it's in a Yoga center. The last week was the first one and 5 new people has come, they was so inspire, chant holy names, take prasadam and we talk shortly with them, distribute books, was so great, PREACH IS THE ESSENCE (Jay SP!!!) photos attached. Really auspicios in Purusottama these people can chant!! Kirtan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=53&v=QafDDcu87NY (short video)

HpS - Teach them to dance, clap!

This week I have my Bhakti Sastri Exam 1st module. BG. OH KRSNA!

HpS - Kuruksetra, dharmaksetra!

Next month I start again to give the course "The Spiritual Scientist" with 2 great  Senior devotees. I'm so happy because of that.

HpS - "Give"?  You teach???

My job in the architectural estudio is well, I bring Maha Prasadam always I can, and they get mad! They love it!!! :D (some of them...)

Please bless me to be intelligent in choose always the better option for developing myself in KC. Protect me from myself and my selfish desires, with your blessing I can transcend my false ego. Any effort I make any goal I "get" is because of you, eternally thankful. I cannot express my gratefulness with words.

who always want to improve, your eternal SERVANT.

rati manjari dd

HpS - Watch for Tweets on the conference. et al!!   Japa - 4 principles.

Hare Krsna!!

Esteemed Professor Samaresh Bandyopadhyay,

We continue in a delightful battle with our energy resources and try to establish priorities very well.

Now that the Houston Education Conference is so close we are basically giving up on organizing anything and letting it go ahead now under its own steam.

This is practical too because this Peru Jung/India symposium is coming up very quickly.

After considering everything I have suggested to the scholars participating that we read the Jung-Kundalini Lectures as a basis for dialog and discussion. Here is the first letter we have sent to them:

Hare Krsna!

[2:39:01 PM] hp swami: We have just finished re-reading the Preface and Introduction to the Kundalini Lectures by Jung up to the section on Willhelm Hauer. Again, they are so stimulating for us.

[2:41:21 PM] hp swami: 1. I feel that we are very fortunate to have the scholarship of Shonu Shyamdasi and that he echoes what to us is one Jung's greatest gifts: Rigorous, thorough scholarship, combined with practical investigation, moral values and a good sense of humour and passion for one's own views without becoming proud and arrogant.

[2:42:35 PM] hp swami: 2. The content included in the Preface and Introduction so far is enormous. So many things upon with we could comment from our experiences and investigation. This brings us to the question why are we organizing these Seminars?

[2:44:07 PM] hp swami: We would say one principle reason is to free people from lust, anger, greed, fear, death, to let them taste immortality and investigate aspects of their immortal nature that are not even mentioned in their common education.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a su sankirtana eterno.

Hare krsna querido Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba nuestras humildes reverencias.

Hemos estado como pujaris en el templo de Cusco durante 3 meses y a la vez haciendo sankirtana en las mañanas al rededor de 3 a 4 horas.

Nosotros hemos tratado de ayudarles en la adoración manteniendo el orden, la puntualidad y la limpieza, lo que podemos observar es que las deidades de cusco - mandir necesitan tener su propio local (casa), no compartimos la idea de  que a las Deidades le cocinen Karmis y le ofrescan el alimento, sabiendo muy bien las autoridades que son Deidades instaladas.

Como sugerencia seria bueno que las Deidades de Gaura Nitay sean cambiadas, pues estan muy dañadas (estan rajadas, las piernas y los brazos, casi rotas), hasta donde sabemos no se pueden adorar Deidades en esas condiciones. Esto es con respecto al pujari del templo de Cusco.

Ahora con respecto a nosotros estamos de sankirtana viajero, estuvimos 3 dias en Puno, ahora estamos en la ciudad de la Paz - Bolivia con 1000 libros, estaremos de 15 a 20 días, y de ahí estaremos viajando a Puno por una semana despúes estamos pensando ir a Arequipa por unos 5 días si es que se puede.

Probablemente iremos a Tarapoto a verlo y si no se pudiera lo veremos en Chosica  para Janmastami.

Nuestro sadhana es de mangala artik 4:30 am, 4 principios, 16 rondas de japa y un poquito más, lectura del S.B., Venu Gita, B.G. cap. 18, atendiendo a nuestras silas, ofrenciendoles dulces y frutas en la mañana y bañándolas con agua ganga.

Con respecto a nuestro deseo de ir a India aún seguimos teniendo el deseo, estamos juntando de a poco para nuestro pasaje, esperamos ir en febrero, ojalá se pueda si Krsna lo permite.

Lamentablemente no tenemos autoridad, esperamos encontrar una autoridad que sea para reportar nuestro sankirtana.

Visitamnos a M. Amparo, está muy mal la madre, es aveces muy difícil de entender que estámos en Martyaloka (el lugar de la muerte).

Nos damos cuenta que para mantener buenas relaciones con los devotos y con las personas que nos rodean es mejor estar en una ciudad sólo 2 semanas como máximo.

bueno Guru Maharaja muchas gracias por todo, en otra carta vamos a enviar las cantidades de libros que estámos distribuyendo y de nuestros amigos que nos están ayudando a distribuir los libros de Srila Prabhupada.

Hare Krsna.

Gadai Gauranga Das.

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi

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HpS - ASA - AGTSP Paoho.   Muchas gracias para sus noticias!!!   Mas, mas..  BG 10.9-11 para Vds.