Letters to the editor

12/16/14   ALL GLORIES TO MIGHTY SRILA PRABHUPADA WHO TOOK IN THE LOST, THE IMMATURE, THE DRUGGED AND OVER STIMULATED, THE UNWASHED, THE SEEKERS- WHOMEVER KRSNA SENT TO HIM, AS A POSSIBLE DISCIPLE, ALTHOUGH HE WAS AN ACARYA WORTHY TO HAVE KINGS AND QUEENS AS DISCIPLES.

Please accept my tearful dundavats and pranamas as the date for your vyasa puja draws nearer, my dear most Guru Maharaja.  How I wish I could celebrate it in person with you and your other disciples, my God-brothers and sisters.  But I am very fallen and do not deserve this priviledge so must accept this sorrow.  Still I hope you accept my sincere gratitude for your eternal frienship, your shelter and understanding and advice, your fixed and steady example, your faithfulness to HDG Srila Prabhupada; your faithfulness to all your disciples; your acceptance of Monkey and Piggy as your alter ego to the benefit of fallen souls.

Turns out Lila has early kidney disease.  She was on a regular diet which  included limited (but too much) salt and phosphate which caused a renal crisis.  Now she is on special renal diet; her health is normalizing.  Kidneys will continue to deteorate but correct diet will slow down that process.  Also has intestinal problems for which she is on medication; is improving.  I hope she can skip human birth; I personally recommend it!

HpS - Ha! Ha! Of course, someone might comment that taking birth in the West we may not have actually experienced "human birth".

Wow your schedule is ambitious!!  Whenever are you going to have time for Ayruvedic Conferences next year??  So, when you are in San Jose late July 2015 is the best time to approach you re. a possible darsana date with you at Sac preaching center?

HpS - Yes, seems like nice time to visit Sacramento! The Ayur vedic stuff seems like it won't happen. What we have to offer is mostly already available in USA, but we will see.

Re. Preaching Center:  Mahat Tattva Das (look up his web pages AND YOU TUBE STUFF) who is currently San Diego Temple President, publishes a magazine for the young beach crowd entitled 16 ROUNDS TO SAMHADI, scheduled to take sanyas 2016, very fixed up, excellent communicater, has been approved by GBC to be our "captain."  Before he can move here, we must be able to pay rent for a barely adequate brahmacari dwelling close to Sac State for him and other brahmacaris.  Now he is helping us in pledge drive so we can rent our own center building sometime next year.  For now, he drives to Sac from San Diego about every month and a half; will be here next Sat.  MEANWHILE, xxx, young, charismatic prabhus from Fiji, who have been part of this group of devotees for a long time, swayed about half the group to follow them to start up their own preaching - future temple - program elsewhere in Sac. We are all sad but Mahat Tattva Das said, though saddened, upon seeing our pledges and dedication, he is uplifted and hopeful we will be able to push forward Srila Prabhupada's mission as we all long to do.

OK,Wow, "Esteemed, Kalindi Devi Dasi Mataji, Prabhu"  Good ole' Monkey and Piggy, always able to instill wisdom by the use of exaggeration  and humor!!  Last Sat at the center Sangeeta Mataji came up to me and said, "You know of course that we all look to you as our mother...". So between your advice and her words I understand "Kalindi Mataji" is just fine, Krsna's arrangement and a responsibilty.

Please help me pray for larger home, closer to Sac, which we can afford.  I am not generally any more inclined to pray for material benefits, but in this case, it is absolutely mandatory for continuance of serving SSG, G and maintaining KC lifestyle until death.

HpS - ASA - - Maybe Krsna wants you to pray for facility for your service so that you will appreciate it.

Here's hoping your Vyasa Puja is all your disciples want it to be.  I have a picture of you bathed in God's glow taken at Ratha Yatra.  If D.P can help me, I will download it to your site for Vyasa Puja as I believe you and your disciples will be blessed by it.

Hare Krsna!   YWS,  Kalindi Mataji

HpS - Jaya! AGTSP! Lila has a very bright future. Keep some Prasdam going out always.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our most humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Maharaj, we feel very fortunate that you asked for more news.  More news from a devotee stunt lady who is now totally sick with a unending 2 week bronchital cough... possibly due to trying to perform too many 'show bottle' devotee type of stunts??

I really like Srila Prabhupada's show bottle analogy: we seem to have a recurring dialogue with our ego who needs to feel like a praised humanitarian and our spiritual intelligence that says we should work on gaining more sincerity and humility.  Please advice Guru Maharaj.

HpS - ASA - AgtSP!     paoho..... A "Praised humanitarian"?   Hmmm....  what about the cats and dogs?  We don't know details, but sounds like the Witch is torturing with the same magic she caught Adam (of Eve) and Bharata Maharaja. BG . 5.29. Not the Supreme Owner. Not the Supreme Enjoyer, but . . . Kama-gayatri Devi Dasi, the Supreme Friend!

If that is the disease, then the cure is to think that you are not the Supreme Friend. You have to get out of His way and let humans and animals and ... bask in His sun-shine. You have to direct to Him and act as a proper post-man!

We hope your health is doing well for travels.  Will we be celebrating your Vyasa Puja in Boise?  We were trying to look for a date.

HpS - ASA - We will be in Nashville. It will be 23rd December. On line 6.30 - 8.30PM. Look for details in the forthcoming Kapi Dhvaja ja ja!

Excerpts from last letter.  Thankyou for the reply!

I pray for it, but I am still so distracted.

   HpS - The Gopis didn't know how to read and write, Nanda Maharaja didn't know how. He would  hire some educated fool to do it for him. They would watch puppet shows about these things andd understand it all. Hour in the morning, hour in the evening. One standard. That can some with Aja, some with devotees. Some before breakfast.
How to eat better? Experiment with different diets.

>>>Our new update Maharaj is we are making some adjustments and definitely strive to be chanting, doing mangal for Brahma Muhurta time: 6:15 to 7:45 here.  Struggles on days we slack: sickness/toddler up all night coughing. Devotee classes starting at 7:45-8 daily and ending at 9.  We leave at 9 but it might be best to just listen to lecture at home.  Classes are very late here.

I am now about to start my internship as well as a class on Evidence based counseling to finish my degree. Part of me does not even want to finish school (Haha, silly, I know!!) because I am already very busy with teaching 25 hours a week and keeping up with my sadhana and Aja. I am incredibly scared that I will lose my sadhana and service if I take this on.  Let me know if you have any advice!

HpS - Everything you do, if you don't chant 16-enthusiastic rounds daily and follow the four principles strictly will just be a source of great wailing and lamentation at the time of your death. You were so close to going back to Krsna in your last lifetime, but you didn't follow these principles and you messed it all and took birth again . and again . and again. You were a great Baron in you last life and Nick was a rival Prince, and Aja his son. You were not fair with them and they have come back to get their revenge. We told you this last lifetime but you didn't take it seriously and made your own priorities for success rather than doing your part and messed up your own material and spiritual success as well as everybody elses, maybe.

HpS - Of course, don't do anything that doesn't first INCREASE your attachment to Japa-vraja and 4-principles and Full Morning Program. Krsna will send the Prasad if you do that. 

>>>Maybe Krsna is making arrangements for us to not do the internship (our internship just magically fell through the last minute).  We do have a HUMUNGOUS student loan though.  So trying to get this paid off and being able to make more lakshmi will enable us to work part time with a higher paying job and spend half of our time doing sankirtan activities (helping with the school, preaching center, etc.)  We are not sure if our logic is correct, but we hope that being materially better situated will increase our attachment.

HpS - Ask a lot of people for advice on how to make a practical balance. Rounds, principles first thennnnnn you will have gud inteligentz!

Another bit of news is we have been very involved in trying to resurrect, renovate, and now hold preaching programs at My Sweet Lord Cafe.  Lots of insightful dialogues with great devotees such as Sadhu and Sudhevi, Mahat Tattva in San Diego on how to run a preaching center that appeals to the 21st century American. Our team is composed of a lot of smart Microsoft Indian intellectual preachers, so a crash course from Mahat Tattva on how to preach logically and universally and NONJUDGMENTALLY has been very helpful.  Working with those senior to me and with the authorities here, I am trying to contantly reiterate your advice Maharaj of "understanding my position" so I do not step on any toes but also inspire.  We have our first kirtan, vegetarian feast this Saturday at MSL!  I made a flyer.  But so much coordination is needed so it doesnt look like a train wreck (nice kirtaniyas, nice 15 minute discussion, no in your face preacher fanatics).  Also, this is a big commitment since it should be a weekly program not just a monthly one.  Feeling like the lone Joan of Arc in the crowd!  I know my awkward ashram position may be a reason why trying to organize these programs with this team feels strange.  It most definitely is keeping my active mind very creatively engaged though.  Please let me know if you have any comments/advice.

My unending gratitude for the shelter you and Srila Prabhupada have given to us all.  I read some of my past letters from four years ago.  So, so much tolerance you have given.

Your aspring servant,

Kamagayatri dd

Get up early and get your rounds done (enthusiastically), then Krsna can do the magic!

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja, Pamho, AGTSP and you!

This one is to kindly ask you to sent me the ppt of Carl Yung to translate it into spanish for our program in La Cantuta University in Chosica. In a couple of days, I'll have a meeting with dean of Humanities to set our program for february 6th in the morning. We worked with him before, he's is a nice person and we already have a reputation at the University, so no problem to set the program along with Imagen Institutional with Haribhuddi prabhu and professor Durant.

I'm also asking for permission to translate into spanish your ppt of Filosophy of Education. This one is going to be used in Bolivia, actually both ppt's. I don't know if the people in Chile are translating these. So, if they want, they can use my translations. They just have to ask.

Thanks to allow me to help you in your sankirtana.  

Your servant 

Laksmana-agraja das (known as the LAD)

HpS - ASA - AgtSP!   Paoho and our humble bananas for the Blue Baboon.

You can download the Jung pptx that we used in Chicago Universities at:

http://www.jayarama.us/archives/cgj-sb-14-11-09.pptx

The original Philosophy of Education pptx is at:

http://www.jayarama.us/archives/MED-6May.pptx

But I think you have a more recent one.

Thank you.

hare krsna 

agtsp 

all glories to you guru dev

Guru Dev we want to know for publicity of the jung  s conference that quote of jung where he said same thing like this   that "the psychology in Europe is in diapers compare to the knowledge of the ancient sages of india and china" sorry for my bad memory to remember correctly, it s in the tavistoke lectures?

HpS - ASA = AgtSP! paoho. Sounds like a lot of fun! Go to the Jayaram.usm, archives, one of the first files is Carl Jung and India.docx. All the citations etc are there.

You have a digital book of the tavistoke lecture ? here there are some psychologyst and also the jung foundation in cordoba who want to read and have that material of lecture.

ASA - Harsh sent us a link to an on-line source, but I can't find it now?!! The auto-biography was available, no? That is excellent.

We have the idea to print drawings of Jung from the red book, Jung said that that drawn when he was with mistical expirience (some probably with drugs) and meditation, and some images from the bbt artist (who describe paramatma yogis, etc) and present in the conference of car jung because they have space for artist exhibition. what do you think? 

ASA - Sounds very nice. Some of  The Light of the Bhagavata would also be nice also, no?

thank you guru dev 

your servant Ambarisa das

ASA - Thank you. See you in ~3-weeks!

Hare Krsna Guru-maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to Sri Caitanya's Harinama Sankirtana movement

Its nice for me to say im working really nice on my sadhana, waking up earlier when im in traveling sankirtan than when im in the temple... more motivation?

It has been 2 months full of adventure since the last letter... after you responded me, i got my visa aproved, still i was not so animated due to your words, i spoke with mother jambhavati and she told me your answer wasn't a complete no... that i just needed to prepare myself with a good plan of what was i going to do there... still i felt discoraged, so i spoke with Vanamali Prabhu and we thought it was better if i concentrate fully in SP marathon in order to collect a little laksmi to start my life program in Queretaro city, you remember in Gaura Purnime i told you we had 2 nama hatta programs per month in that city? now Guru Prasad Maharaja gave his blessings to start a congregational developmet program there, i will be supported and guided by Sinior devotees to serve in that issue and at the same time i start building my griha... i have a few projects wich will be acompanied with sankirtan as much as possible.

if its ok for you, we thought that could be nice to visit you next year when you go to somewhere in texas...

HpS - AGTSP - - -  We would like to be in Mexico right now. If you can avoid the bullets, it is a wonderful place. Everyone are natural devotees of Jagannatha....  In general, I guess we will be in Texas at the end of July for the North American Symposium on Education!  Krsna met the Brajavasis at Kuruksetra during the solar eclipse.

Gurudeva... there is also one question i need to know the answer, because my mind is very very offensive, how can i come to understand the position of an ISKCON guru who is accepting to initiate devotees who are not COMPLETELY recomended by the local authorities, and further more... proving that they dont know even how to put tilaka on themselves?

HpS - Hmmm.  As you are describing, would not be an ISKCON Guru. Sometimes ISKCON Gurus, like Prabhupada, accept people on the recomendation of others, older disciples without personally knowing the devotees. Prabhupada did that and also chastised the Temple Presidents for recommending people who weren't ready. Try to deal with it enthusiastically and correct the situation.

Just based in the authority they are following 4 principles and chanting 16 rounds by now...?

i fear for that question on my mind to be offensive towards a great devotee of The Lord.

Thank you for all your kindness Gurudeva.

Yours in service

Krsna-Kirtana Das

HpS - Yes, is difficult situation, and again, the exact same problem was there when Prabhupada was managing things also. Talk with local GBC Secretary. Talk with other administrative authorities. Try to arrange better situation. Sometimes it is also a fact that ISKCON "Gurus" deviate. Maharaja Bharata deviated!

You will be and ISKCON guru very soon.

Hare Krisna!!     Beloved and esteemed Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Having met you and being able to associate with you make my life worthy. Your example, your qualities, are a huge shelter where many many many fallen souls like me can be safe. Your intelligence is so pure. You always push us beyond the limits. We only have to follow your example. So clear.

HpS - Srila Prabhupada made his generals out of mud. With us Monkeys worse than mud he has a harder time.

Here we are back in our ksetra, mar del plata city. Fighting with 16R/4P. LOVE WITHOUT LOVE, SADHANA VAIDHI BHAKTI. Hope one day we develop any taste for the holy name.

I made a vrata for kartik to chant 20 rounds but i couldnt accomplish it, so again I,m in debt, of course this brings me the realization that we will always be in debt with Guru and Krisna.

HpS - How big your debt? We got so many rounds behind from our 25/day because of that Conference in India some time ago. Still was doing 16/day but not 25. Now we have caught up to 92. We will follow your example and catch up.  Main thing is getting up early and then chant, read, write . . . Is nice. Peace comes and nice plans for service.

The visit to Peru was super, met with so many nice devotees, shared very nice moments with mother CMDD and of course Sri Sri Radha Madhan Bihari.

We met with mother and sister of CMDD, Ullyses who was always eager to knock me down, and felt very good, such nice people.

We have been in Patrak's prabhu Birthday and visited Ayurvedic doctor Rupanuga das. Then we were talking with LAD about expanding Nimsar to Argentina, and different devotees at Wilson Mandir.

We have improved a lot our deity worship thanks to the advices of mother CMDD.

OUR fixed services are Bhakti vriksa program on mondays, BG class for B vriksa students on wednesdays, Bhakti Sastri, now ISO, Memeber of the local comitee AND recently i'm in charge of the local BBT. I always attend our sunday feast at El Loft. Sadhu sanga ki jay!!

Two months ago i moved SAMA our health center, we are motivated with this new space.

My relationship with my kids is very good, they live with me three days a week, and also i have very polite relation with their mother, peace.

My biggest challenge is my work as a doctor. Balance it with devotional service. I often feel is too much, so many people demanding from me, and most of my patients are women which have a negative effect for my spiritual practice. It drags a lot of energy from me and then i can not have a good sadhana. Often i feel like Arjuna wanting to go to the forest to meditate. But i know i can not escape from my nature.

It is frustrating not to have the spiritual practice i would like to have.

I pray, i struggle to have a fixed sadhana like yours gurudev cause i'm sure that is the solution to every affliction.

I know it is a fact but i have so much material desires that my passionate mind is always pushing me away from that goal. 

I have already bought my tiket to chile, arrive friday january 30th in the morning and leave monday february 2nd in the afternoon.

kṛṣṇa se tomāra, kṛṣṇa dīte pāro,

tomāra śakati āche

āmi to' kāńgāla, 'kṛṣṇa' 'kṛṣṇa' boli',

dhāi tava pāche pāche

Running behind you, trying to reach your divine lotus feet.

Nikunja Bihari Das.

HpS - Talk with other devotees, take advantage of people like CMDD and figure out how to do your medical service. Maybe less patients. Train others. You have a unique challenge.

What was the result of your meeting with Rupanuga?

When do you get your rounds done each day?????