Letters to the editor

Dear gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

First of all i wish to express my developing sense of gratitude for initiating me into Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON and the guru parampara. Yuktasya bhaktams ca niyunjato pi, vande guroh sri-caranaravindam. Along with it came a deeper sense of responsibility towards you, SP, Krishna, and also all people who came after me to temples, who i can serve by helping and sharing what i've learned.

Besides this i still look to fix my service. I'm still engaged in helping putting out Dutch content on the Benelux website and magazine, but recently i was also investigating Dhanesvara's book. That didn't work out, and i was actually relieved about it. Now i focus on seeing if i can help BBT by putting out the Dutch BG in ebook format, along with some other publications. It shouldn't be too hard, i guess, but i yet have to delve into the technicalities. I've got four weeks of time available to work it out. See what Krishna decides.

The family had a grain ceremony at friends house which was fun. The little girl took the book, and everybody was happy. Also, this week we had a meeting with a traveling sorcerer of some sorts, from South Indian brahmin ancestry. Good siksa came out of his reading, especially the tips on how to smoothen our family life in KC. These were cooling rays of Lord Nityananda's mercy. I still need to find shelter of a good grihasta couple, where i can inquire on the matters that i have.

Basically there is still so much more scope for delving deeper into the inner realm, chanting better rounds, and such. Anarta nivrti is very intense these last few days, very sad and ugly things coming up intensely. There is a mercury retrograde until july 20th i learned, adding to this. I have to laugh about it every time i think of a description i heard you give, that after cleansing finding that whats there is basically a big mess.

Still finding solace and learning opportunities in your online classes from Hawaii, and it's fun following whats happening with the travelling creature. So happy that things are moving forward for you with the publishing, and i wish you find the help you need with the promotion and beneficial circumstances for your writing.

About the MED website, looks good so far. I haven't got any background in this kind of content, but it seems there is so much data that has to be added. Are schools gonna be able to login and update things themselves, besides a webmaster running the site?

               HpS - AGTSP.        Jaya!          Thank you the news!!!   Yes, there are a lot of questions.    One basic thing I am is that people should pay to be Members. Then there will be money to pay people to do the Web-master work, write good articles for the newsletter.  Then people will get good information for their investment.   If it is basically O.K.   then we can run it and learn by doing.

Looking forward to joining in at Japa Joe's den whenever i can. My obeisances unto you maharaja.

Raghava Pandit das

              HpS - ASA -  The sister of Raghava Pandit is very famous, no?   She made unimagineable bags of Bhoga for Lord Caitanya in Puri that Raghava carried to the Lord.  Please send us news of your Yatra!!!

HARE RAMA! SS

PAMHO

TLGASP

GRACIAS SS,  ENTONCES CUIDARE MI SADDHANA MATUTINO PARA REGULAR MI PASION.

ME ESTA COSTANDO LEVANTARME TEMPRANO Y ACABAR MIS RONDAS ANTES DE MANGALA COMO FUE SU INSTRUCCION :( .

            HpS - ASA -   TlgaSP.     No es nuestra instuccion acabar sus rondas antes de mangla arati!   Si es buen para Vd., muy bien, pero todos antes de desayuno, 10AM, o solamente todos cada dia es bien.  Lo mas posible lo mas temprano posible.

SS, HACE POCO SALIMOS A MAHA SANKIRTANA, NUESTRO GRUPO DISTRIBUYO

560 PEQUEÑOS, 56 GRANDES Y 13 BG

EN TOTAL TODO EL CURSO DE CUERAMARO EN UN SABADO FUERON 1630 PEQUEÑOS, 120 GRANDES Y 30 BG

       ASA - Quienes su integrantes de su grupo?

GRACIAS POR SUS BENDICIONES :), PORFAVOR DEME LA BENDICION DE PODER SER UN INSTRUMENTO Y PODER AYUDARLO A COMPLACER A SRLA PRABHUPADA, HABER SI ALGUN DIA TOMO GUSTO POR ESCUCHAR EL SB.

            ASA - Claro, esperamos que Vd. puede obtener un sitio eterno en el Sankirtana de Srila Prabhupada!!!!

COMO ESTA SU SALUD SU SANTIDAD?

          ASA - Bien

DONDE ANDA AHORA? CUAL ES EL SIGUIENTE PLAN ?

          ASA -  Ha!   Ha!      Ho!  Ho!               Todas estas noticias son en el 'Kapi Dhvaja'.    Estamos en Martes y estamos contruyendo un Rocket para ir para predicar en Mahar loka a los Dragons.   Ha!      HAW!     Hare!..................K R S N A !      (Va a ser bueno volver a Vrndavana, no?)                 Buena, buena, buena suerte en mejorando su Sankirtan, aprendiendo mejor bailar por Krsna!

___'O_

SU SIRVIENTE B. BRIAN TELLEZ

<cite>All Glory to Srila Prabhupad and all glory to the followers of him, involved on this sankirtan movement!</cite>

<cite>Pleace acept my respectfull obeisances</cite>

<cite>             ASA -AGTSP!   O.K.   Please accept ours!</cite>

<cite>Dear Gurudeva now I working on the program of cultivation and contacting new sadhakas with the help and guide of ISKCON ministry of congregation on Guadalajara city, and Aguascalientes city. similary keep the job of Rathayatra comitee, on cultural area and comunication area.  and about New Nilacala Mandira, we are making a new administrative commitee, because there are many challenges. Guru Prasada swami wants to we make a new cometee, to relegate of his position to Adoksaja Prabhu. </cite>

<cite>I help on the cultivation, and visit and try to inviting more people to chant hare Krishna and that any people to wants chant together study and try the better way to keep chanting and server until the Prabhupada program</cite>

<cite>is very evident that me have no any qualification but I want to try the better, and if you like I can do the better that you say me</cite>

<cite>please give me your opinion, many devotees are help me like kaunteya prabhu, Radhika Matta, Madhavi kirti Devi Dasi, Manohara Syam prabhu, and more local devotees.</cite>

<cite>Bhakti Sundara Gosuami visited Aguascalientes and Guadalajara, and give'us many ideas, so finally he concludes that every body to like he can guide their. </cite>

<cite>I'm try to invite more senior devotees to help'us, may be you can come or you can sayme whats it's better to me.</cite>

<cite>I chant every day the rounds (16), follow ekadasis, mangalaratik, and tryng to serving to the servants. thaks a lot for your mercy, that is on your example of sadhana and good attitudes. </cite>

<cite>your crew member Aniruddha Krishna Das</cite>

<cite>PDT there are many services thath i try to help (since I take part of tryng program) like kids, and parents program, Bhakty Vriksa program, counseling, harinam, Sankirtan, on Aguascalientes on Bhakti Vriksa Program we celebrated the past festivals (Advaitya,Nityananda, Bhaktisiddhanta, Goura Purnima, Rama Navami, Varhadeva, Nrisimha). on New Nilacala Mandira we have a job team, to make more Sankirtan on Schools (like cultural programs).</cite>

<cite>                     HpS - ASA -  Hari Bolo!    Hari Bolo!                You sound like you are  going out every day with Krsna to take care of the cows!!!   Moooo!                Yes, making small groups to chant Hare Krsna is very nice...</cite>

<cite>          ....  then they can read Caitanya caritamrta, no??????</cite>

Hare Krsna, AGTSP, PAMHO

Dear Gurudeva!

I hope you are very  well.

         HPS - ASA -  AGTSP..  paoho.   Suffering like you in this material world and from our lust and pride, but shamelessly taking as much mercy as we can get from Srila Prabhupada!!

After five month in Bs As mandir,  I'm in the temple of Chicago now! Sri Sri Kishor Kishori are beautiful.

             ASA - Jaya!!

There is a good group of devotees here. My sadhana is good as in BsAs. I'm studying deeply the Bhagavad Gita again. In July I will start Bhakti Vaibhava course.

             ASA - Who is teaching it?

We have, with Gokulananda Prabhu, two months and a half before the summer ends for connecting all the latin people in the neighborhood and establish programs as bhakti-vrksas and namahattas. Then we will open a school of bhakti where they will be educated in the principles of bhakti and Vaishnava lifestyle. Afterwards we want to expand to other areas. So we are trying to work nicely.
Any chance to seeing you here in the U.S.? Although I can't travel now because I just arrived, I don’t know if they going to give me the permission to do it, but, may be the next year. Well, that's all for now.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva!!!

ys etasa krsna das

            ASA - YOu can call us...  209 505-3219.     Our USA calendar is always in the Kapi Dhvaja.   www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.txt    Also, Nitai-gaurasundara's Daughter is starting her Internship, actual doctor work in Chicago so she will probably see you.   We could meet you many places in USA!          Waiting your answer.

Querido Gurudev: Pamho. TgSP y anugas.

Sí, ésta conversación puede ser interesante para muchos devotos. Llevo casi 14 años en administración España (Nacional y Local). Pienso que tenemos buenas normas (democracia).

Todos los devotos pueden participar en las decisiones si reúnen estos requisitos:

.- 16 rondas hare Krisna hare rama

.- 4 principios regulativos ( no carne, no pescado, no juegos, no drogas, etc)

.- Aceptar autoridad GBC

.- Leer los libros de Bhaktivedanta Swami

.- Hacer algún servicio en armonía con autoridades locales (Templo) o tener un Centro de Predica propio.

Todos los devotos que hagan esto pueden elegir y ser elegidos cargos. (Los cargos se renuevan a los 4 años normalmente). Así que todos pueden participar de la dirección del Yatra. No hay ningún tipo de exclusión.

Los devotos que no se  ajustan a esto pueden participar con sus opiniones pero no pueden decidir (votar). Pienso que es un sistema bueno, aunque también puede mejorar.

Estoy de acuerdo con usted que primero son las relaciones vaisnavas y después  los arreglos administrativos. Para tener relaciones vaisnavas buenas tenemos que volvernos buenos vaisnavas (no es tan fácil): Buen Japa, 4 principios estrictos, mucha lectura vedas (libros de Prabhupada), mucho sacrificio, mucha obediencia  a devotos expertos ( gurus o prabhus), etiqueta vaisnava, etc.

Los maha-bhagavatas tienen relaciones muy amorosas y entre ellos  ( con lagrimas y muchas emociones), y relaciones muy misericordiosas con los demás; los devotos buenos (madhyama) tienen relaciones muy buenas entre ellos, son muy correctos y ayudan mucho a las personas y devotos sinceros, y a los envidiosos procuran evitarlos ( a veces echarlos). Los devotos neófitos no sabemos relacionarnos bien ni entre nosotros ni con los demás, no podemos distinguir quien es devoto y quien no lo es y vemos muchos errores en todo.

Los arreglos administrativos nos pueden ayudar a situarnos en un sistema social para que vayamos progresando en nuestro desarrollo vaisnava, forzándonos a permanecer en nuestra posición natural y circunstancial. Nuestro bhajan ( rondas, principios, etc) define nuestro compromiso con Prabhupada  y su Misión Misericordiosa (ISKCON). Si nuestro bhajan es de mucha calidad lo normal es que nuestro compromiso sea muy fuerte, porque nos volvemos mas humildes, mas agradecidos y también mas misericordiosos.

Esta es mi propia experiencia (no es absoluta) en los años que llevo practicando y haciendo servicio administrativo en iskcon.

No quiero hacer las cartas muy largas. Dejo esta reflexión aquí. En la próxima hablaré del amor desde la perspectiva administrativa (que también la hay). Cuando considere que mis intervenciones son muy largas o muy continuas  me lo dice y rectifico.

Gracias Gurudev por la ayuda que nos presta inspirándonos, desde su posición, a tomarnos en serio este maravilloso proceso.

Ss

Jayanta das

              HpS - ASA -  Jaya!    La presencia de Srila Prabhupada como persona en ISKCON es algo que podemos sentir personalmente, no?       Pienso su carta es muy informativa para los leyentes.    Que pasa con du salud, columna dorsal!!!??

Hare Krsna Maharaj, PAMHO, AGTSP,
Hari Bol to  TB and BW.
hi to UG.
we hope that all four of your are at comfort in USA, after long tour. Maharaj, we like your new apperance with beard.
                HpS - ASA - AG AG To SP....  Thank you.   We just had time to get emergency repairs while we were in Tennessee for one week.  But six times better than last year. We are like 90% recovered after two weeks whereas it took three months last year.

...there are many things to write to you all, but we write only a few.
i. We bought "True Psychology, by Swami Abhedananda, Pub. by Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 1965." It gives a very nice summary of contemporary pyschology. This time when you will come we will give it to you.

ii. in node 3054, ur grace wrote we are getting ideas all the time. from where does these ideas come from? we r asking them because we can many ideas and dreams, they are mostly anti bhakti.

            HpS - This is a question?   Your grammar is not quite clear. "we can many ideas". Do you mean, "to us come many ideas"?          They are coming from Maya.  "mattah smrter jnanam apo..". We want to forget Krsna so that we can think of ourselves as the Big Doer, so Krsna supplys these anti-bhakti ideas.  Maybe we want to become devotees, but a lot of our desire is that we will be the Greatest Devotee and get all the fame of Radharani.  In Vrndavana they will chant our name, "Jaya, Dasa!".

iii. we met anant rupa prabhu in delhi this May. there is some change in plan for phd.

iv. maharaj, gradually we are realizing it is our mind which creates most of the problem.
as we remember u said "if person in wrong sociological environment-- he will have pyscho problems." we are struggling with anger/violence a lot though frequency has decreased. but still not zero... we have gone to 4 counsellor/pysch in 7 years one of the basic problem which is highlighted "we dont mix along with people easily" and"we dont have friends". i dont understand, in such condition should we ever think of getting initiateted.

            HpS - Certainly. Vibhisan and Prahlad were Raksasas, man-eaters, by birth, Karma...  but they became great devotees. This is your problem. Somebody else mixes with people VERY easily. He is a natural leader, inspires people, but he is so lusty that he is not even satisfiec with hetersex and has homosexual catastrophys about every five years also!       We all have our Karma. It is good that you are identifying it and then you can purify it to serve Krsna.  Go ahead.  All your problems can become big assets. You can become a famous Sannyasis who is feared for his anger by the Mayavadis... Ha!    Ha!    Ha!.........    (After 25-years)...

v. Nandsuta pr from Thoubal will be needing help to contact Juhu, ISK to register Thoubal as a centre.

----it feels disgusting some times, even having such nice philosophy with us, we feel stressed out.  [ what a mind we have]-- thank all for reading letter.. we hope we can serve all 4 of u more.

Regards,
bhakta harsh

            HpS - Wow, your grammar is like a zebra trying to hide on a green golf course. I think one of your Karma's is that you are influenced by ignorance, sleep, so you have to focus on doing at one thing right. Can you chant four rounds with full attention and concentration?   Whatever it takes.     Of course this is like lifting heavy weights, hard, hard work, but can you do that?        No, two rounds???     What?          Thank you so much for your association.     Honestly, I am very impressed with your determination...