Letters to the editor

Querido gurudev: Pamho. Toda gloria a SP y sus seguidores fieles.

Espero que se encuentre bien de salud y en la misión de Srila Prabhupada.

Yo sigo sin grandes cambios. Sadhana de lunes a viernes 5:00 am ( aseo, despertar Deidades, 4 rondas, un poco de lectura de Srila Prabhupada o sobre Srila Prabhupada, gayatri, desayuno y a trabajar). El resto de rondas las canto durante el dia.

Mi fe en el proceso y en Srila Prabhupada siguen sin ningún cambio. Mi experiencia en las relaciones con los demás sigue creciendo. Tambien aumenta mi convicción de que debo actuar según mi conciencia y en conexión con Paramatma.

En cuanto al Templo de Madrid, desde mi perspectiva, no hay cambios cualitativos importantes.

Los cambios cuantitativos son de dos clases:

  -Espóradicos- temporales-explosivos (cambios que suceden temporalmente y se diluyen en el tiempo).

- Los cambios producidos por la propia evolución del proyecto (devotos que, sin hacer ruido, se van uniendo al proyecto y permanecen en el tiempo aportando estabilidad a su propia vida espiritual y al proyecto de prédica.

El exito del proyecto debemos medirlo en función de la satisfacción de Guru (Srila Prabhupada) y de sus seguidores fieles (devotos sin duplicidad que no buscan prestigio falso).

Pienso que Madrid seguira creciendo cualitativamente si no adulteramos el proceso y somos honestos aceptando nuestra posición social y espiritual y aceptando la posición que tienen los demás.

Sin mas y esperando tener pronto su asociación se despide

su sirviente

Jayanta das

HpS - ASA - Jaya! TlgaSP. Reverencias a Vd! Hace basante tiempo no oir de Vd. Smt. Purnamasi Devi Dasi asistiendo bastante Japa Joe y tenemos pequeno oportunidad conversar durante Japa. Como entiendo es cierto aun poco desafilo con su cuerpo, no? Y tener nuevo bebe tambien es mucho servicio. Y tratando ayudar el templo con todo sus anos de experiencia!

Jaya!

Si, Prabhupada estaba emfatizando otra vez, otra vez: 16-rondas entusiastas y 4-principios estrictamente. El processo claro. Y tambien que no podemos ser entusiastos sin la sadhana regular de mangala arati, kirtan y clase que el nos di, do, da,de (??) 'gave'.

Entonces, adelatamos.

Por favor, entiedo que esta muy ocupada Vd, pero si puede enviar unas noticias de Madrid a veces vale mucho!

Hermoso foto!

QUERIDO GURUDEVA:

Acabamos de terminar 10 dias de sankirtan mi papel fuede lider y me di cuenta que se necesita de mucho entusiasmo para poder impulsar al grupo a sankirtana. nos dimos entre nuestro grupo 2800 libros pequeños, 300 libros grandes (colecciones de srmad bhagavatam y viajes y ciencias), y 50 BG. y entre todos los devotos que salimos a sankirtana nos dimos como 8000 libros.

                   HpS - ASA - Oooof!  Increible!!!  Super. Esperamos realizar nuestra papel en ISKCON bien como Vds!!

Ahora despues de la fiesta de Govardan y la triste partida de nuestro fundador Acaria estamos en cueramaro leyendo y tomando fuerza para la intenza maraton de Diciembre, querido Gurudeva porfavor deme sus bendiciones para poder ser un buen sirviente suyo  y de los vaisnavas,  porder tolerar todos estos anartas que surgen y tener la sabiduria para poder derrotarlos.

Muchas gracias por su constante dedicacion y esfuerzo por mantenernos entusiasmados en el servicio devocional.

Su Eterno sirviente Vrajendra Kumara das

               HpS - Tenemos 150 Isopanisad en ruta para Sankirtan aqui. Aun intentamo ayudar Madre Jambavati DD con sus dientes, oral surgery, con la ayuda de Arya y Karuna. Ya obstaculos pero vamos a superar!

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami:

PAMHO AGTSP

Hare Krisna from Madrid.

Many news, sorry about the delay of comunication.

I moved to The new apartment side by side with the temple.

Is a real mercy from Gaura Nitay to live so close to the temple.

Many devotees male and female are taking advantage of the new plot and thats really satisfactorie.

We pay quite a big laksmi 700 € but krisna is helping to get enough income.

I and Bhaktin Marta are engaged and plan to marry soon.

We already got benedictions from our parents and many devotees.

We will have a legal weading in Barcelona with family members and then a Vaisnava one in Madrid temple with all vaisnava family and friends.

             HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP.  So, nice to hear from you. ".. family members..", what about your son? He is integrating the situation well? Seems like he could understand.

August was a very succsesfull book distribution month with 935 bigs, 158 smalland 11 gitas.

september 441 bigs, 22 small 12 gitas

october was a very poor sankirtan month with all the work, relocation, weeding,etc.

           ASA - So nice! We can guess that you must have a personal relation with the people you meet. Do you distribute in one place? Near the Temple? What is your relation to these people? What chance to continue the relation?

I hope by your mercy increase my sankirtan in the coming months.

Bhakta Marcos is living in the temple and doing a very intense and wonderfull bramachari live.

Marta and my self atend everyday to the mangala arati and follow 16/4regs

Things in the temple are developing satisfactory slowly but shortly

Our GBC Hridaya Caytania Das and Yadunandana Swamy are taking care of us and supervising us wich give us a warm feeling of care.

The temple consell (Jayanta, Jagad Mohan, Avesa rupa, Adi Ras, Dandava, and jiva tatva)

want to stablis and executive comite to run the temple.

Non of them live in the temple or even in Madrid except Jagad Mohan that recently moved outside the temple so it seems logical that they delegate some of theirs dutties to other devotees that have more oportunitie of regular atendance to the temple.

Beside that many devotees feel an energy twist in Madrid comunity.

Bhadra vardana and shananda are promoting many new activities related with Sankirtana, Harinam, theater and devotee care.

Harinams are getting a very nice standar, ladies paint their faces with wonderfull flower paintings, we use plastic garlands that look very nice and real.

Book distribution is increasing and many devotees now are distributing books in their posibilities.

Dandava is playing a nice roll in comunication and as a link between consejo and devotees.

Jaricanda is getting a prominent roll in the temple as head-pujary and getting many devotees involve in the adoration of sri sri gaura nitay.

Devotees are helping a lot with the adoration, the flowers and also preaparing new clothes for deities.

A new devotee called, Janardana, is a great refresh also. He has been preaching in Cuba for the last 10 years. He is mathematic professor in La Habana University. And now he won a 2 year Master Sponsorship in Madrid.

He will start the 2 month introduction to Bhakti Yoga under the Bhaktivedanta institute and Yadunanda swami and Dandava.

There are more than 10 people allready signed and we expect more.

When this course finish we will continue with a regulae bhakti sastri course.

Classes are monday, tuesday and thoursday so from now on Madrid will offer filosophical clases at 19:00 from monday to fryday.

Bhakta Marcos is helping a lot and he has a very good friend from Italy, his name is Ramchor he was born in Vrindavan. and is taking a semester in the Madrid´s university.He is a very nice devotee and is developing a very nice friendship with Marcos.

Yagat mohan is very kindly leaving space to the new comers and developing his haribooguies carrier while developing as much service as usuall in the temple.

He will flight for 3 months to India from the end os febrary to the end of May.

       HpS - Yes, he wrote to us and we suggested we can meet there!

Isvara Das is also around. He is a Praladhananda sw bramachari disciple that use to live in Mayapur and will stay In Madrid till Febrery.

             HpS - I think I know him. He is very transcendental person.

He with Rupa Ragunath prabhu are helping a lot specially giving classes. and asociation.

In general the madrid devotee comunityis becoming bigger and stronger. Trying to develope a loving realation among vaisnavas trough the process of serving Srila Prabhupada.

Jayanta is very busy with the new baby, Back problems and work, But he is doing a nice effort of delegating in younger devotees.

Yasoda and family also working hard with sankirtan and preaching, deities etc

Caytania Caran and Mela DD very nice disciples of Guru prasad swami he is from Barcelona and she is from Mexico.They had being living in BArcelona and just moved to new vrajamandala and they are making a great job at the NVM but also involved with the care of deities in Madrid and in many other projects in Madrid Temple.

Prema Bhakti dd and old devotee moved to Madrid with her son Balarama(18) and she is stable in book distribution.around 200 books per week. She is also atending regularly to mangala arati.

Many other nice devotees are getting involved like Bhaktin Marisol, Bhaktin Sveta and many more

Ok thats all today 

Will inform you more soon.

Hope to get your blessings to mantain and improve my service to SP in Madrid.

I feell very fortunate of being your servant

Hope to see you soon

JMHD

                 ASA - Well, you don't write often but when you write, you write in great penetration and detail, and also in 85% correct English. WONDERFUL!   Thank you. Your letter will be inspiring to Madrid, Spain, and so many devotees.
But what about the dogs!!! [and cats]??? Have you abandon them?   Congratulations on the wedding. It seems like it has good possibilities.

Todas las glorias a Srila prabhupada y a su sankirtana eterno

Hare krsna querido Gurudeva, porfavor reciba mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias, estámos en huancayo distribuyendo alrededor de 100 libros por día con P. Gadai G D

          ASA - TlgaSP....    ..o'......   Esperamos seguir sus pasos en esta perspectivo!

y hay muchos pasatiempos hermosos que deseo de todo corazón escribirlo en un cuaderno, así puedo vivirlo y recordarlo cuando mi mente me predique.

Guru maharaja, he leido una carta del blog acerca de donde un devoto debe comer y en que circunstancias es algo que tengo muchas dudas, porque nosotros en algún momento cuando hemos hecho sankirtan hemos ido a comer al restaurante de un Chino taoista ovovegetariano, el señor no lo prueba, son alimentos que lo preparan al instante, pero lo que he notado es que no hay mucha higiene, nosotros tenemos tulasis y polvos de sal y pimienta de los remanentes de Radha Madhana Vihari, que deberíamos de hacer entonces.

         ASA - Claro, basicamente tenemos que evitar huevo, carne y pescado 100%. Despues granos llevan la conciencia del cocinero. Entonces apparece que va a ser contaminacion en la comida y tenemos que evitar comer en esta circumstancia. Si intenta cocinar kitri para vds. y toma sufficiente leche o queso sin cuajo va a tener energia para Sankirtan. Intenta lo y ver si Krsna ayuda les.

A tengo otra duda gurudev, cada vez que llego a un lugar para hacer sankirtana pasa 2 o 3 semanas empiezo a hacer sankirtan bien pero después empiezo a aburrime y quiero viajar a otra ciudad, eso aveces repercute mucho en mi sankirtana y en la relación con los devotos, como debería mejorar eso, quizá es mi mente tan estúpida.

              ASA - Hmmm. Eso es subtil. Pienso es falta de programa fuerte por la manana y tarde. Si haz los va a ver la novedad constantamente en la misma sitio. Pero no somos perfectos, entonces aveces necesitamos viajar, relacionar nuestra raja-guna con servicio devocional.

Un pasatiempo de sankirtana conmovedor:

Aquí en huancayo estaba con toda la pasión de dar libros cuando de pronto a una chica de 19 años que vende herbalife (productos naturales) la paré y le dije toma para ti un libro y ella vió los libros y me dijo que antes le habian dado unas revistas de estos temas y que nos estaba buscando, ella me dijo dame dos libros pero no tengo dinero, podemos hacer un cambio con mi producto te doy un batido que contiene muchas vitaminas y yo en mi dije pero voy a perder el tiempo pero dije ella se ve muy sincera y acepté. Pasé a su oficina conversamos y me mostró las revistas que le habian dado los devotos de ISEV, conversamos como se volvió vegetariana desde los 8 años porque a ésa edad observó que su mamá mató a su gallinita, ella no se intoxica, no participa de juegos de azar y estaba decidida a querer ser devota. Al día siguiente con P. Gadai le empezamos a dar más información de la conciencia de krsna y como nos la encontrabamos en la calle nos poniamos a conversar, le invitamos a que vaya al centro de prédica y vino y cuando escuchó a los devotos cantar se puso a llorar me dijo que nunca antes habia sentido ése sentimiento de separación por alguien era como si se reencontrara con algo desde hace mucho tiempo y que se swentía tan bien con los devotos. La presenté a la madre Laksmi para que cuando no estemos le dé más información. Guru maharaja éste es un pasatiempo que me ha inspirado mucho hay personas muy inocentes y sinceras.

Hare krsna Gurudev, su sirviente.

nadiya nivasi dasi. 

      ASA - Ella es como Sita devi, no? Raptado por Ravana por un rason a otro. Esperando Rama hasta dejar su cuerpo de separacion, y aquie viene Hanuman con esperanza! Ella va a convertir a una devota y distribuir mas libros y mas.

NIOS

Esteemed Professor,

Hare Krsna ! !!

We have not heard from you so we wonder if you have received our previous letters or your health is very restrictive? ?  We hope you have all facility for doing your teaching.

Here we still are in Tennessee - health, energy, is a better. We are following more sane regime.

BHARATIYA-SANSKRITI

We have read 37-pages of the Bharatiya-sanskriti and found a few small and grand errors. We are enjoying reading it.

SANSKRIT KITS

Ramgiridhari Das from Goloka Education (GE), Mumbai said that he has sent one copy of this Sanskrit learning kit to Nil-kamal. He showed me the shipping bill.

Have you received it?

What is your opinion of it?

Can you give a review for publication?

Can we use it to create a revolution in global Sanskrit learning?

On Thursday we wired $10,000 to GE for our second purchase of the kits. The first purchase was 20-sets and this purchase is ~150-sets. Marketing prices, warehousing, shipping and even first marketing work has been done.

It seems that this should be a major avenue for NIOS to develop.

CALENDAR

Let us confirm that we will buy a ticket from Delhi to Kolkatta on Saturday the 9th to arrive early in the morning. I guess we can camp at the ISKCON Kolkatta center and then we will be at your service until the following Saturday, 15th-February.

FELICITATIONS VOLUME

We have in our head to look at the Journals to which we sent the esteemed Felicitations Volume to see when they have reviewed it. Harsh has sent a report of their work which we confess we have been too weak to read yet,  but we are definitely moving forward.

GENERAL

We continue in the Ministry of Education for ISKCON, which is going through great improvements. NIOS has been asked to function as an adviser in this development.

We also continue writing our dialog between Professor C. G. Jung and the Bhagavata. We have read the first section of an excellent paper on 'Social Darwinism and the Roots of the NAZI Nation'. Darwinian philosophy is very rooted in even the most introspective modern Western philosophers such as Jung and the Bhagavata gives an excellent perspective on the ideas.

We will try to call at 9.30PM Monday evening, to take much needed advantage of your merciful association. Today, Sunday, we are joining a 4-hour Kirtan from 9.30AM - 1.30PM CCU hour.

We are doing our main communication through our regular ASA bulletin, 'Kapi-Dhvaja', and a Blog that our good disciple Prahlada-nrsmha Das set-up for us.

Sri Sri Kartika-rasa-purnima, Ki Jai!

Your fallen servants,

HpSwami - ASA

Dear Gurumaharaja,

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

I wish to report bookscores from last month. I went to the closest town some afternoons, and distributed 9 big, 10 med, 7 small and 1 dvd. No gita's, but had good meetings and inspired several people without them taking a book. It was a while ago since i went out, and it was great! Very enlivening and cleansing. I desire to go more often, perhaps in small groups with stationary harinam, and bookdistributors and prasadam. Nice idea, but so far i haven't been able to execute much of my sankirtan ideas. Perhaps when spring arrives this one can actualize.

Other than that, listening very inspiring and helpful classes from Vrindavan dham on the chapters of king Puranjana / Pracinabarhi. Practically they are my siksa shelter. Started working fulltime yesterday. My schedule is irregular, from very early till very late, but the work has its advantages. I feel enthusiastic about it.

Please forgive me for my kanistha shortcomings. All good fortune in your busy-ness.

Following in the back,
Raghava Pandita dasa

             HpS - ASA - Jaya! Hare Krsna!  "Nearest town" - where do you live? In the forest with Hansel and Gretel?  Yes, working is chance to meet people! I told you how Jayananda Das did Sankirtan as a Taxi walla!  Now, by the mercy of Srila Prabhupad and Lord Nityananda you can do more!!!