Letters to the editor

Dear Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeissances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Happy to write you.I really hope things are doing well with your preaching. We miss you.

ASA - AGTSP http://vedabase.com/es/cc/madhya/13/149

Hopefully we have news from you very often. It has been a very intense period in my life, full of activities and a few realizations. My spiritual life is going ok, since you left Lima I have continued waking up at 3:30 and now is a good habit. Rounds are done by 6:30 and since then some ancient fears are gone and It's a strange feeling, a comfortable but weird sensation of confidence. Some anxieties endure, but they are harmless.Japa is good, is fantastic, japa is the best use of breathing, by far. Sometimes I feel that this is a very difficult process because we have to be focused every second. Selfishness is relentless. But Is the most important thing I've done in my life. I don't know what is going to happen with my life, but something is happening, something that can transform smoke into gold, and It's good. I'm working hard for being your disciple, with your blessings and the blessings of Krishna.

As you should already know we are studying the Goloka educational material every saturday, is a small but enthusiastic group, there have been some problems with punctuality because we peruvians have a genetic problem with these point, but things have been improving.We have improved the methodology and we are looking for support material to enhance the didactic aspects, such as audible pronunciation guides. Laksmana Agraja Prabhu will tell you soon some details.

I was doing quite a lot of seva: Isabelle and I are in charge of the communications committee of the temple, we are also participating in Bhakti-vrksa meetings but I prefer to step aside from these responsabilities. I had a conversation with my wife and we concluded that is better for me to become fully engaged in NIMSAR and my readings because I teach for 33 hours per week. Do you think is ok?

    ASA - Yes it seems good.. 

Oh!I have not thanked you for letting me be part of NIMSAR. I'll Do my best to serve the devotees and you.Lord Jagannatha is being very generous to me. 

See you soon Gurudeva.
I wish you very good health.

ASA - SOo nice to hear from you. So, nice. Draupadi went through so many problems, but she was sure that Krsna had a great plan for all these conflicts. GREAT PLAN. Who knows what plan He has for us?

Come with us as we answer some more letters.

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami:

PAMHO AGTSP

Here we are In Madrid.

Very stable Sadana program (Mangala arati, 16 good rounds before guru puja, some extra rounds if posible with japa joe)

Attending to the bhakti sastri course but I am not able to study enough so probably I will not pass the exams.

                 HpS - AGTSP paoho. Study some. Don't have to pass with 100%. 75% is fine. Sastra is dressing the Deities also. Arjuna had a Bhakti Astri degree, no?

Very happy and stable with my good wife Bhaktin Marta, She is helping a lot and is a constant inspiritation.

               HpS - Our respects to her!

By krisnas mercy, She got a wonderfull job athe flower shop in the same espiritu santo street, 1/2 minute walking from the temple.

Going to the street for sankirtan book distribution regularly as much as my service as a temple comander allow me.

              HpS - Meet a lot of nice people?

We are living a basic, simple living "vanaprastha live" she is attending regularlly Mangala arati, Guru puja et all.

My older son Mario,s 24th birthday was last march and Vrindavan 12 and marta and me got a Birthday Icecream party.

             HpS - What does Mario do? Carpenter?

Mario finished succsesfully his university Mayor degree in Computing enginiering and Mayor degree in Math, He is actually working in the largest consultan in the world Deloite here in Madrid.

                  HpS - Immediate answer. Accountant for the Empire!

Madrid temple is developing really nicelly and older devotees (yadunandana Swamy, Jiva Tattva, Hridaya Caitania, etc) are very happy and suporting and visiting regularly.

Lunch program is developing really nicelly and ve are offering many new options to buy like samosas, cookies, cakes, and also products from new vrajamandala like mahaprasadam, berfis from protected cows, etc.

Any devoty can cook or make products (Bhakti rasa is making soap, toothpaste, and some other things) the devotees stablish the seling price and the temple takes a 25 % comition and the rest goes to the devotee.

Jiva goswamy is cooking 5 days a week and yasodanandana prabhu cooks sundays and mondays.

We are trying to develope a team to serve the hindu comunity and I hope that soon will have good news in ralation with this.

Sananda DD is hardly working ("working hard". "Hardly working" means she is almost doing nothing. Ja! Ja!)  in the development of a devotte care ministery, she is hardly working in cooperation with akrura prabhu who is also helping in the development of the master plan for the temple.

Bhadra vardana and my self are very enthusiathic about the development of a bhakti vriksha program that will start soon.

Bhaktin Ana a great russian devote is helping a lot in this area, actually she is the bhakti vriksha manager for Madrid.

Yadu is trying to center his preching efforts in Spain and we are trying to assist him as much as possible.

Markandeya and Sveta are pussing with the harinam programs and we finally got the flags you have allways demand.

Bhaktin marisol is helping the temple in so many ways and she is really involve in the flower and gardland departmen and in the Rata Yatra festival 2014 (Bhaktin Mercedes is assisting a lot with the garlands, cleanning the plates for sunday feast and making sweets for harinam)

Marisol is planning to move to the temple for some time and help with the pujari service.

Jharikanda is doing a great job with the deities and he has a compromise to stay till augost 2015.

We are very happy of sharing our days with him and he is improving amacingly in his relations with the devottes and in his mood of serving and assisting the rest of the devotees.

Jharikanda and yasoda are developing a fantastic latin Jazz proyect and a lisened two thems and are great songs.

All the Bhaktas in the temple, Petre, Alejandro, Kike, and specially Marcos are developing really nicelly and they are and will be for sure great soldiers for the sankirtan army in the future.

I am specially concern in the development of proper relation among other temples, Devotees, and hindu comunity.

The only way we can grow as individuals and as a comunity is learnig the art of working togheter and assisting one to each other.

I thing that bhakti vriksha, devotee care minister and the proper aproach to the hindu comunity will help a lot in this mater.

We all hope that you recover as soon as posible of your body pastimes.

Every body is really exited about your visit to Spain.

Will be in October?

will be in July?

Will be this year?

Will be next?

             HpS - ASA - Now I am not sure. We are not releasing the book in India in October, so seems we will not come until next year, but then we should stay for a long time, no??

I personally fell always your presence in the temple, trough your teachings, your requests, japa joe, and all your other iniciatives.

I fell really glad of trying every day of becoming a better servant of Srila Prabhupada andd you good self.

Hope to see you soon in Madrid

thank you very much for your Sankirtana service and for your causeless mercy onto this little fallen soul.

Please pray to lord Nrisimhadeva for the improvement of loving relations of all the devotees in Madrid, Navalakunda, New Vrajamandala y rest of Spain.

Ysv JMHD

HpS - We certainly hope Lord Nrsmhadeva makes everyone feel happy.
http://vedabase.com/es/sb/5/18/9

Thank you for all the news!!!! Thank you! We can smell Espiritu Santu. Kirtan.

Toda gloria a Hanumatpresaka Svami

Tod gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencia

Hare Krishna Gurudev espero se encuentre bien, no estoy usando mucho Internet, Le cuento que:estuve en Chile tres meses de sankirtan , despues me fui a visitar a mis padres aqui en Argentina . hicimos un programa con los devotos de Bahi Blanca en Rio Negro, un amigo mio se hizo devoto y esta cantando las 16 rondas al dia y toma prasada,  ahora hace unos 10 dias que me encuentro en el templo de Buenos Aires, el cual extrañaba,  siempre me asocio com los brahmacaris,  y estoy haciendo Sankirtana, estoy estudiando  Mantras de La Bhagavad gita, termine de leer la vida de Srila Gour Kishor das babaji y Srila Jaganath das babaji, Me gustaria familiarizarme mas con el Nectar de la devoción, lei algunos textos del Doctor Kapoor, yde Satya Raja Prabhu, tambien termine filokalia cristiana(resumen). Estube leyendo  la primer parte del Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya lila hasta el capitulo 13, pienso retomarlo desde el Adi Lila cuando pueda, por que todavia no me da para entenderlo o aprenderlo, necesito tener mas Bondad, 

Pienso que mi deuda es el estudio con el Srimad Bhagavatam el cual pienso dedicar los años proximos

El viaje a India sigue en mis planes,  tengo que terminar de hacer toda la legalidad, pienso que mañana ya voy a estar haciendolo, solo me falta enviar dos emails,  en Julio es muy probable que viaje con Panca Tattva a Brasil para hacer Sankirtan por dos meses.

Disculpe mis ofensas querido Guru Maharaja,  por favor ore por mí.

Su aspirante a sirviente adiYajna Dasa

Siempre tengo con migo elNoI y por su misericordia puedo entender algo mas. Espero verlo antes de viajar a India

  HpS - ASA --- Super. TlgaSP. Paoho. Estamos pensando en que pasa con Vd. ayer. Todo su reportaje y planes son super. Solamente tiene que cantar japa sincero y Krsna en su corazon con confirmacion exterior va a comunicar Su opinion de cosas a Vd.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Beloved Guru Maharaj

I hope excuse my late report about  my travel for India. Acctually, is so late that i went to Chile and come back now.

I don't want take your valuable time guru maharaj.

In simple words my itinerary was like following:

00) Buenos Aires (January First Days) personally with you in the your Vyasa Puja. Very Happy was start the year like this.  Programs in CHILE

01) Hyderabad (Jan-March): First days, very concern about the programs not finished in Chile. 2 month Course about Promotion of Micro Enterprises (NIMSME India). More than 150 people from 42 different countries. Great experience. How India is superpass the poverty problem, and i visited a lot of micro enterprises in the last part of the course.

It was a good opportunity to Share the vaisnavism values with Muslims (a lot of), first time in my life. I changed completely my opinion about them. They're Very friendly. Still, Afghan, Niger, Nigeria are more extreme in their ideas,  a lot of fear of God. We can to know how is he because is sooo great. But, in general opened and interested about that idea of only one supreme God according the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, etc.

Invite to the temple to more enthusiastic twice. First Time, christian Brazilian lady, Buddhist Myanmar (my roomate), a polland and a nepali ... all together see the deities and take prasadam with their hands. Exotic experience. Second time: Budhist myanmar and two ladies from Mauritios Islands. With them visti the Govinda's Restaurant. I that moment a realize also that prasadam in Restaurant in this cities is very good preaching.

02) Chile (March-April) . Big FIRE disaster in Valparaiso. Authorities said that the 10% of the city was loose. Wonderfull program of FOOD FOR LIFE against the time. We distributed 600 plates of kitri... and A.Vardhana made 10.000 cookies! It was impossible distribute all cookies.  Students of Alternatives Therapies went with us in a bus gotten by Vrinda Mission devotees. David Abrigo, my classmate and friend from the university times, who attend some of your conferences, went also and helped the devotees in prasadam distribution.

03) Fly Stops (Last days April) : Come back to India AGAIN... the stops were London and Madrid, this time not alone, rather Carolina came as well. We discovering the important work of the devotees there. Taking utsaha from them. We had interviews with Dandava prabhu and  Jara Mara In Madrid. Too much learning of his experience in Madrid. Very useful for us in Chile .We spend one night with Bhadra Vardhana and Sananda devi dasi.

In London with Gandaki prabhu (Uruguayan devotee) and his wife were our hosts.

Harinama in both places. Harinama is still stronger there. In London sometimes THEY went twice in a day in the supossed most important street in the world, New Oxford Street.

04) Mumbai (May)

The Yoga Institute of Santa Cruz, established in 1918 was our home in the entire month. Curiously, Our best (and very strict) two teacher appreciate a lot ISKCON, even one of them have the membership card. Very impersonal philosophy behind everything so preach to classmate was very funny because all people is very atractive to Krsna naturally there and accept the Sri Caitanya philosphy.

I distributed some 3-4 Bhagavad Gita. I invite all my western friends, students in the Institute also, to the restaurant buffet, and they were very happy. The Irani guy bought the B.G and Islam and The Vedas, a very christian girl from US, after to see the deities, decided get the BG also, and a very special indian young (19 years) bought me other, and other young lady get it also.

Visiting every sunday and Nrisimha Caturdasi and other days the ISKCON Temples. We are very impressed with the dedication of Radhanath Swami, Giriraj Swami, Sridhar Swami and others there. They have an hospital in Mira Road where every doctor and employee is devotee, actually, our dermatorlogist there is very enthusiastic. They have a big auditorium in Juhu, and media center in Chowpaty. It was a very good experience, taking pictures and ideas all the time. Three hours from Mumbai we visited for special program the Govardhana Eco Village, an interested program developed by ISKCON also. 

05) Vrindavan (Now!). I just arrive a few hours and after to read your Kapi Dhvaja i felt very bad for not write to you, because I promise to you, so ... i should to do it. Now, if is possible to you, i feel that I need some practical advises to live the next days here. I like so much, despite the HOT, but i feel like a fool trying understand them.

In this Dropbox link you can see pictures with the respective numbers.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jd3fla23x0krhmc/AAAI8xt8Moh6MRHFvr6wkfHLa

Excuse for the extension again. Same problem with my reports for you. The ayurvedic doctor in Mumbai said me again that i have serious problems with the times and with to execute ideas for my AIR - FIRE convination.
 

Thank you a lot Guru Maharaj. You are so tolerant with me always... I can't understand it. I want to be someone useful for you soon.
 

Hare Krsna.--

Javier Armijo Allendes
Periodista
09-66539565
 

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HpS - ASA - AGTSP paoho. Wonderful report. Mas vale tarde que nunca. Just live in Vrndavana like you are an insane madman and let Radharani take care of you and engage you in service to Her boyfriend in some way or other by the mercy of the Manjaris.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva:

AGTSP

PAMHO

HOpe this meets U in really good health 

Please consider me in order to participate to NAS.. So then I can pay for the registration. I have a friend in HOuston Umada dd so maybe she can help me with the pay of the fee.

Thank U in advance

Always trying to be iur disciple

Candramukhi dd

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. We will have here send an E-mail too you. You can make a donation to us when we get to Lima like Feb 15th!

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

AGTU

PAMHO

Thank U for being always so merciful and inspiring us to continue in our journey back home back to Godhead¡¡¡

Thank U for ur daily association at Japa Joe ¡¡¡ and for taking care of us being a transparent representative of Srila Prabhupada and Krsna

We just feel as Krsna tools and a puppet in Krsna's hands.

Narayani dd (HH Bhakti busan Swami Maharaja 'disciple ) is organizing this Ratha Yatra and she mercifully asked us to be part of the organization of this GREAT EVENT ¡¡ I feel so much energized and happy for this because despite all my faults, proud, lusty etc the Lord is so merciful that is always giving me service and I feel very much protected at His Lotus feet ...

This Thursday we are organizing The  Snana Yatra Festival ¡¡¡ in wilson Mandir I read the pastime and I cried jeje well almost cried I was in class it was so beautiful. I could realize that the Lord is very merciful with us, because we sometimes are too spoiled like me jaja and He just please us it is very nice ¡¡¡

We are going to have the first official meeting on Friday in order to start the organization 

So please we humbly ask for ur blessigns and also advice and inspiration as always please tell us what to do in order to please our Beloved Lord Jagannatha

Thank U very much for everything we deeply can not retribute all the care that U give to us

Always trying to be iur disciple

Candramukhi dd

HpS - Jaya! Srila Prabhupada was on the back of the Rathyatra cart at the start of the parade in San Francisco and made a small speech with live Television cameras.

He said, "So, all you people of San Franciso, come once a year and join this festival and join the devotees in chanting in emotional love of God and your entire city will become Vaikuntha, the Kingdom of God!"