Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I am writing to you hoping you're in good health and that your sankirtan is thriving. During the last two weeks, we have not been very active. We have been sending invitation letters and talking to exhibitors about the topics they will develop.This Sunday we will meet a second time with young people who collaborate with us in the organization. After this meeting some points will be defined .

I have a question for you, concerning to our responsabilities beyond the congress:

Should NIMSAR take responsibility for overseeing initiatives during the event? Or should we limit ourselves to promote these programs apart from keeping the results?

HpS - AGTSP. We don't understand the question so well.  I guess anyone can make an initiative but then it should be co-ordinated with the local authorities and once there is a clear letter from the local authorities about NIMSAR's position in the Yatra then it can also oversee, evaluate etc. the initiatives that different people present from the administrative side.
So very nice to get letters each two weeks from you. Always be enthusiastic.

I say goodbye to you, Gurudeva.

your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP  paoho.   We couldn't answer much mail while we were in India and Europe for one month so now we have these two reports and the latest one.           Oh, goody, goody, goody!       Just like unopened birthday presents.

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I tell you that we move forward in organizing the August event. Laksmana Prabhu-agraja  will be showing the progress these days. The work is progressing quite well, we have reached important agreements and we are engaging some young devotees in the organizational part and for the development of the congress. We are excited to conduct an event that has an effect on the the community. It is very important to design the post-conference activities so that this project has a real effect on the future. NIMSAR think it plays an important role in monitoring the agreements obtained. We must be very focused on that.

ASA - AGTSP!!      Yes, pre-event, event, post-event work, but we still don't have any letter from the Peruvian National Junta accepting NIMSAR as an official ISKCON preaching organization in Peru. Did you send it to us? Without their approval we really can't do anything there. We mentioned this before, no?

Moreover, Gura Gadadhra dasi begins the worship seminar this Saturday at the temple of Lima,  devotees and authorities are awaiting our actions as a result of the conversations we had with them. We have to support this in the best possible way. I will send you details in the coming weeks.

I hope all is well with you and your sankirtan, Gurudeva.

Saying goodbye with affection

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - O.K. We look at the next two letters.

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja, Pamho,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and you!

I hope you're well and your sankirtan for Srila Prabhupada is going fine.

2:38 in the morning. Rounds almost done. Best ones before mangalartik.

I'm very excited and happy. Yesterday, Panihati festival was great. Then we went to the city and chanted for 2 hours,

I'm sorry I didn't write before. I'm helping again in temple administration. I'll be secretary for a while until they find another one. I hope soon, cause my main service is education. Now, I'm teaching 3 courses and studying 2. Giving class in the temple, etc. My health still needs improvement, but I feel great inside.

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP paoho....    We are so happy to hear from you.   We all thought you might have been eaten by the great snake of time. Your Sadhana sounds enviable!

NIMSAR Congress for August is taking shape. Many details giving by our fine secretary Gandharva Prabhu.

We need to get together soon to talk about your participation in the Congress. We need your kindly help to invite people to participate with us in this great experience. We already talked to Mathuresh Prabhu and Baladeva Prabhu. They are very excited about their participation, other people as well.

ASA - Because of the one month of travel we did not read his Reports. It seems we should read them all today.

We need to talk about your peruvian tour also in order to allow us to help you a little bit.

It's a great honor working with you and other fine devotees like NIMSAR People and others.

Thank you very much for your advice and mercy to your humble (no much) servant

Laksmana-agraja das.

ASA - But you wanted to fix a time for a meeting, no????    We heard from Daffy Duck that you were considering Wednesday morning. Is that correct?  Seems good for us. Shall we include others, like Swami Sattva???  Who else wants to join?   ASA is a Funcional Family (Ie. nobody is in jail and everybody is talking to everybody else).

HpS - ASA -   AGTSP.  paoho.   We are sorry that we were not able to answer this letter earlier. It came just as we were leaving on this intense India, Europe tour.

Dear Gurudeva.

Accept my humble obeisances, All the glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We moved from Chosica, now we are living in Chaclacayo in a house that bought the parents in-law, last year. There they have offered us the airs (???) in the second floor, but they have to build… Karuna mayi has always desired to have something own, and Krsna Balaram have blessed her… I don’t know if we are going to stay there in the future, because Sita and Arjuna will study in Lima. So, at least, we will stay here all 2015…

HpS - Sounds very nice. Seems like it is a place with more trees and gardens. You can meet some neighbors and share your knowledge with them, no?

We are fine, getting used, we get up at 3 am, and we are doing mangal aratik with you in japa Joe and Mayapur Tv, Houston class, from 4:30 am, …

I have to keep traveling to Lima for work, everyday like 5:15 am, and I return between 5:30 and 7 pm…

Karuna and the guys, go to the temple because of their BS classes on Tuesday, with Lakshman Prabhu. And the same day Sita and Karuna do wreaths [garlands]… Sita is still in English, and with Arjuna have retaken to their classes of Violin (Sita) and Guitar (Arjuna). Also we go to the temple on Sundays, since Govinda and then we stay to help in what we can, especially in the kirtans, Bhajans, preaching and sometimes with Srimad Bhagavatam class.

Here we have internet (at home), so we will communicate with you more often.

Thank you so much for your association, we love you so much Gurudeva…

Your foolish disciple Anandamaya das

(Traducción Sita Lalita d.d.)

HpS - ASA ----  Such nice news. We hope that you can find a way to form a Hare Krsna co-operative for transportation to Lima, riding with other devotees, civilized people.   How is Krsna Consciousness changing the heart. That is the real thing. Revolution in our heart means revolution in the world.

Respected Guru Maharaj, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad. Just now I read that you have expressed your appreciations for the services offered by the different devotees in Delhi, thank you so much for that, it would act like a big booster in their devotional enthusiasm.

HpS - Hmmm!   AGTSP.  We did not express enough our gratitude for their contribution. I think their enthusiasm comes more from their Prabhupada Krpa than our efforts.
 

Guruji! is it possible that can you kindly put in your newsletter or in this monkey warrior blog about your movements in Delhi, how many professors came,

HpS - About 25. Several retired and active Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors from Varanasi, Delhi, Simhla etc. We paid air fares for seven from Kolkata.

Where did they stay and what was their overall thought about ISKCON, did they get any prasad-

HpS - They stayed in the ISKCON Guest house. Several were already ISKCON Life Members. Many first time at ISKCON Project in Delhi. They all found the accomodations, dinning in Govinda's Restaurant, Campus, Devotees very nice. The ISKCON devotee: Mohan rupa, Vrajendranandana, Yuddhisthira Govinda, found them very intense schilars. They said that their evaluation for our NIOS preaching programs went up by 400%.

how was Doctor Samresh Bandopadhyaya

HpS - He is very intelligent. Practical. Of course we were all a little passoinate at times. As usually he worked harder than anyone, but like us he had serious energy loss by the end of the program. He came with his good wife, Nandini Bandyppadhyaya and it we here first time in Vrndavana.

and did you actually get the opportunity to see the President of India,

HpS - No. We had to organize the program on very, very, very short term notice, but it did stimulate us to see all of our contacts with Pranabha Mukherjee, Radhanatha Singh (Home Minister), President of ICCR, USA Ambassador et al. In the end Mukundakam Sharma, former Justice Supreme Court, released the book.
Almost nobody from outside came. It was Monday at 4.30PM.  No other hall was available at that time. We advertised as best we could. Temple expected better crowd from our efforts, but is very special subject and short notice etc. I was very happy. We did your best and hall had nice decorations, boquets and nice souvenirs for all, nice Progamme and pamphlet. Everyone was very, very impressed with the book and made nice academic presentations.

Did you give any Bhagvatam class in Delhi or Vrindavan

HpS - Class in Delhi first day we arrived. They asked us later but it was just too much. Every minute was needed to organize the Release.

And where did you stay in Vrindavan. I saw one photo of yours with Dr.Samresh, and I think it is Radha Kund.

HpS - ASA - Cakori Radha, Radha-carana and Tunga-vidya Devi Dasis and Sri Hari Das arranged for us to stay in the MVT rooms. SHD daughter, Sataksi, arrange a quick but very, very professional Odissa dance program in the Temple that night. It was hot but so, so nice to be in Vraja. We read Vrndavana dhama mahimamrta to Professor and his wife and everyone on the way to Vraja. Left Delhi at 3PM and got to Vraja by 5.30PM. New superfast road.
Next morning we left for Radha-kunda by 6AM and had very nice tour led by Giri-dhari Das. The back to Delhi.
There is nothing more merciful than the dust of Vrndavana Dhama.....

Thanks a lot. yours servant, Raktak Das

HpS - Thank you. Excellent questions. You should really start working as a Journalist immediately. I think everyone agrees. Do five interviews with devotees and send the news here to the Blog. Start with the Radha-Gopinatha Pujari in Sydney(?).