Letters to the editor

09/08/2014  Esteemed Guru Maharaja:  AGTSP Dundavats and Pranamas from YWS, Kalindi Devi dasi.  Hare Krsna!  Thank you so very much for all the mercy in your last post!  Communicating with you once again is such a treasure.  You are correct that using up ones body in service is a higher principle than "knowing ones limitations."  While it is true i am most likely not at that platform, in this instance it is you i am thinking of.  It sort of goes like this: i have never been to Houston and may also be unfamiliar with other venues; other than cc, i don't know any of the disciples or supporters who i would be contacting; i think you said the dr, requires a translater;  our household has only one laptop which is frequently in use by others; i feel i would need a computer immediately available and at my fingertips many, many times a day as i would likely be co-ordinating often over many days with lotsoffolks.  To have to ask someone else to discontinue use of the computer that often over a period of time just wouldn't work here and would be unbelievably stressful; so far, i must create a new password each time i write to you, which i don't mind unless it is a hastle for you.  But, imagine I have to do that so many times a day after others discontine use of our computer so i can log on; for two weeks in Sept. i will be occupied so many hours a day caring for grandchildren, it will be a super human endeavor to get my 16 rounds done nicely (and i will get them done).  I have health needs which require a great deal of time each day as i explained to you when we met last. .......  If I artifically tell you, "sure I'll do this.  Thanks for the opportunity."  and then my health goes into a stall at a crucial time or times, which i can almost guarantee you it will because this will be very stressful for me, you will be in a pickle, others will have to pick up the pieces, if they can.  So as not to have to cause you this inevitable difficulty, I decline due to my limitations and do it with tears because I really do want to serve you.

     HpS - ASA -- Jaya!  This is what we understood from last letter. Is fine! Very good way to advance. Prabhupada wanted to do so much but he was happy with what he practically got done.

Perhaps I can help organize a skype presentation between you and the SAC Preaching Ctr.  Or perhaps Dave and I can help out on site in Berkely, San Jose, etc. if the good Dr. and you speak at a No. Ca venue.  Prabhupada's and your mercy, plus shelter of Krsna's holy names are all i am made of.  Thank you for your time which is yet another mercy!  Remaining YWS, Kalindi Devi dasi

HpS - ASA - Requires a basic devotee to organize the visit. We will look for such a person. You look too. Maybe someone you know in Sac, Berkeley, etc.

Try writing a post Titled "Help! Prahlada-nrsmha Das". and state your problem with the Blog!!!  Who is in Sacramento??

GM Pamho AGTSP
Por favor disculpe por no escribirle con tanta frecuencia.

Por favor dígame como está su salud y si necesita algún medicamento o algo que le pueda conseguir y enviar.

     ASA - AGTSP. Puede obtener polvo de cuerno de rinoceronte???  Claro, tiene que pedir permiso del rinoceronte primero!

Acabamos el curso de Bhakti sastri de este año en cueramaro exitosamente
Full servicio

Ahora estamos de camino a un tour bus por Centroamérica con el fin de hacer harinam sankirtan food for life obras de teatro bailé cine y sankirtan de libros en varios países de Centroamérica.
Nos ocurrió un accidente saliendo de México y estoy con otro devoto reparando la camioneta nada grabe.

rondas entusiastas un día y al otro me cuestan, estamos trabajando en interiorizar la rutina diaria de saddhana.

Los anartas son mi trabajo personal así q no quiero molestarlo con las malas noticias :)

Siempre lo recuerdo y lo extraño mucho GM he hablado con P Aravinda haber si puedo ir a visitarlo a USA el próximo año y me dice que si ud acepta esta bien. Por favor déme si misericordia sin causa __/\'o_

Gracias por ser mi maestro espiritual.

Su aspirante a sirviente 
Vrajendra kumara das.

HpS - O, puede ir a Argentina, Peru, Chile en Enero, no???   Muy buena suerte luchando con sus demonios personales. Krsna ayudarle mucho!!  Qu tipo de teatro????

08/31/14

Esteemed Gurumaharaja: AGTSP!  pamho 

What a wonderful visit Dave and I had with you. 

Thank you for all your mercy!!!

Thank you for suggesting a seva for me.  i.e. coordinating with Auruvedic practictioner devotee.  After discussing with Dave, we think this will be too much for me right now.  I will be helping daughter with grandchildren fo r2 weeks in september if health allows.  Also, health ups and downs could make executing this faithfully, staying on top of it on a regular day to day basis, very difficult and stressful. 

For example, I have had a migraine every day since returning from san fran; have no idea why.  Please know how much I want to be at your service but do not want to committ to something unless I feel confident I  can see it through to a successful completion.

    HpS - ASA - Jaya!  It was very, very nice for us also. Very nice. Yes, I understand. It is very nice that you have such a good realization of how much you can do! Of course, Srila Prabhupada showed us how to use this body to the very limit, even when it was just skin and bones. It is like not throwing a way a jacket until it is just thread-bare, no?!!

Dave wants to send you a letter via post.  what is your mailing address please?........

HpS - Hanumatpresaka Swami; 2129 Stratford Road; Murfreesboro, TN 37129

This correspondence is once again a one-time opportunity on your blog.  The system still doesn't recognize me and I have to change my password each time.  Not sure what we are doing wrong.  You are dear to us.  Hare Krsna   I remain YWS Kalindi dd

HpS - Hmmmmf!   Let's see if you can solve the problem or we will try to ask our Blog Manager, Prahlada-nrsmha Das to help!! Krsna is always testing to see how much determination we have to overcome obstacles.

How much do we have??

Unlimited!

If we have to log on 150 times to communicate,will we do it?

YES, SIR!! <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />

O.K. News from the Highliands!

Hare Krisna dear Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances. AGTSP.

I hope you’re fine.

We are well by Krisna’s mercy. Now we are preparing the next Ratha Yatra on September 6th, tomorrow.

I miss your Japa Joe and the sanga-chanting with de devotees.

By Krisna’s Mercy and His devotees we have opened the Temple during the August month. All year open!!!!!. Some devotees have been serving all month and the people have been very happy. We have done some new devotees during August, and Mani Manjari Devi Dasi (Marisol) has take Diksa of Bhakti Gauravani Goswami. She is the first devote from my old group (old school of yoga) taking Diksa. She’s a great value in Madrid’s temple. We have more devotees waiting to take initiation; some of them asked you shelter as bhakta Marcos or bhakta Jacobo some months ago.

Now we are beginning some new groups of Bhakti Vriksa en Madrid coordinated by Bhaktin Anna, and the leaders are: Jaramara Hari Das, Bhadra Vardhana Das and Bhaktin Anna. Carcika and me we are beginning a new group of Sattva in Toledo, and we are working with other group in Tarragona (Cataluña).

I’m very very busy with the service. There are many things to have in the mind, speaking and listening to devotees, their problems and disagreements, their projects, etc. Organizing the temple, services, saving costs, etc …

During August, we have done works in the temple (I’m attaching some pictures).

On other hand, Carcika and I are working spiritually and humanly very hard. In July Carcika was pregnant, but she lost the baby. Krisna gave us a child, but then He thought: “They aren’t ready to be parents”.

HpS - Hmmmmmm! Can be so sad! Yet, like you say Krsna has a plan. From what Srila Prabhupada wrote it maybe that some very advance Yogi, devotee, had just a little, little, Karma to finish off, so Krsna put him into the womb of a pure devotee so that he could here her Japa and and hear her heart beat and take Prasadam from her body and then. . . .  enough!  All finished. Back to Goloka. Prepare a place for my last mother also.

Gurudeva, I’m very fallen. I’m not merciful. Krishna tests me a lot, and I don’t exceed Him test. Sometimes the world seems insuperable, the devotees seem insuperable, the karmis seem insuperable, the principles are insuperable, all seem insuperable.

What can I do?

HpS - You can do what I do, pray to the Insuperable! "Hey, God that's it! Reached the limit! HELP!!! Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!".

Then someone comes in the door and says, "Of, Prabhu, don't worry about that problem between, XYZ and me, we talked about it. It's O.K. now!"

Well, thank you for all Gurudeva. I hope to see you soon.

Please, let me keep at your Lotus Feet.

Your humble servant, Dandava Das.
HpS - ASA --- It is so nice to hear from you. We hope you have a very nice Rathayatra that heals many hearts. We have our ticket for South America. It would seem that we would head for Spain and India like 2015 Fall unless something happens first [like a nuclear war between Putin and Obama].

Let's answer two more letters.

I just write you to make you know about how are things going here for me
I got almost a month living in the temple, is very nice, I feel like my taste is increasing, here the association of the vaishnavas is so pleasent to the heart.
But still if you don't work your own things, is a waste of time.
Well i wanted to tell you a bit about my weekly schedule, which consists on :
-4 days a week english classes in the university.( Im not sure if Im going to keep on with the this because, here at the temple i haven't time to study )

- 2 days of sankirtana, fri and sat. ( it may change due to the reason above mention. )
-3 days cleaning temple and toilets, corridors.
- Every evening i have to attend the shop.

Im feeling that Im purifying my heart slowly, and i feel that krishna is sending good signs to make me progress, sometimes i need like a shove coming from Him through devotees or situations, even though i know how things should be done, I think that I've that 3rd class intelligence, and that also Krishna is kindly making me pay my karma in a sweet way.
couple of days ago I completed the shelter form for Iskcon Gurus,temple president needs to sign, check and he"ll adress it to you, hopefully.
Im studying BG in bhakti sastri (bramacaris exclusive course)  , so we are studying from the first chapter.
I felt attracted to start reading NOD, maybe its just a tantrum, or I should read NOI a few more times and then ...
 what do you think ?

Igot some bramacari classes you gave last year, and that class about three minutes with a genius, is so good. Im trying to listen to them whenever I can.
Also Im doing questions on bhagavatam classes, it's very good.

Hare Krishna Maharaja AGTSP.

That is all for this time, i will try to ask you more profound questions, someone told me that you like that.
Hope you are okey, trying to be your servant, Camilo.

PD: Ive just sold a bhagavatam set from the shop, it was very nice and inspiring.

HpS - AGTSP! Thank you for you news. It is like visiting the Temple. NOD is had to understand without BhSastri study guide or Danudhara Swamis', "Waves of Devotion". We need both NOD and NOI. Try all the books and see which ones are for you!

Todas las Glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada !

 Todas Todas  las Glorias sean a Ud Guru Maharaj !!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj quiero contarle que me siento muy agradecido e inspirado de poder estar asociandome siempre con devotos..  Aun me encuentro viviendo en el asram de el Templo de Santiago- Chile . asistiendo siempre a Mangala-arati  haciendo todo el programa de corrido.  y cubriend0 todos los servicios necesarios , tambien  cocinando a las deidades con mi esposa.. como servicio fijo.   Continuamos saliendo de Sankyrtan todos los dias  minimo aunque sea un poco .. muchooo nectar . cada vez me doy cuenta de cuan afortunado somos de poder estar realizando este servicio para Srila Prabhupada , y no quiero dejarlo NUNCA. en Septiembre viajare de nuevo a Argentina para definir mi situacion alla. queremos realizar sankyrtan viajero , conocer nuevos templos y mas devotos. .  siguiendo principios y respectivas rondas =)  y durante sankyrtan cantandoo mass rondas,  tambien estamos tomando la asociacion  de Gunagragi Maharaj.. hace 2 semanas esta aqui.. y tomando ejemplos de Vijaya Prabhu. quien tambien  visito el Templo.. ayer me tope con un libro que me llamo la atencion "Garga-Samhita" .. ud considera que pueda leerlo ¿¿??

HPS - AGTSP! Paoho. I don't think there is anything bad in the "Garga-samhita". They use it on the Vraja mandala Parikrama to describe pastimes. I read it, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned by any of our Acharyas, so it is a little strange.

por otro lado  recuerdo que ud me dijo que definiera de que manera quiero desarrolar la forma de predicar... y ultimamente eh estado estudiando Etiqueta Vaisnava por Radanatha Swami ,y tengo una inclinacion de querer enseñar con el ejemploy  poder volver mi vida impecable para poder predicar y ayudar tanto a devotos como a persoonas que recien se acerquen al movimiento.. y simultaneamente me encontrado con situacion que confirman estos pensamientos.. ya que en el templo aqui escasean los devotos activos en servicio..

quisiera saber si es que sabe en que tiempo vendra aqui . por que deseo mucho su asociacion personal 

HpS - WWW.jayarama.us/kd/cal.htm .. 21 January to 7 February??

la deuda que tengo con ud y Srla Prabhupada es impagable asique por favor ocupeme en servicio constantemente.

le estoy muy agradecido por el tiempo que dispone en contestar estas cartas y en estar dandonos tantos buenos ejemplos con su vida propia.

 - Hare Krishna Hare Krishna - Krishna Krishna Hare Hare - Hare Rama Hare Rama - Rama Rama Hare Hare -

su eterno sirviente Garga-acarya Das

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!  Love exists because Krsna is so kind!