Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

Some years ago I created a fan page dedicated to you on Facebook. The main reason was to prevent that somebody else registered it with your name. It works.

The word "officiall" is not there. And despite that people write often to you.

Always, I explain to them that is just me and to the direct communication the blog is the best.

However, this message I think is different:

"Hare Krishna, dear devotees. Please accept my obeisances. Jaya Prabhupada! My name is Mayapureshvari Radha devi dasi. I'm writing on behalf of AsiaVayragi sanga representing Iskcon devotees from Central Asia and Russia. We would like to invite HH Hanumatpresaka Swami to deliver a Bhagavatam class for the Russian speaking devotees. Do you think this is something Maharaj would be willing to take part in? We have been arranging classes with Prabhupada disciples every Sunday at 7.30 am, IST, for over three years now. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you!

Please, tell me how to proceeds.

Hare Krishna.

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. Where have you been! No Urgent posts here or Whatsapp, Heads Ups!

🙂

You can see that for one week before we left Radha kunda we did not even have a minute breath.

Then the Mumbai, deep North East tour was also out of this world.

24-hours travel in the dark to Spain and digging out a radio transmitter and shelter in the snow has taken about two weeks.

Now...

NOW.....

N O W ......

We can start to amswer regular Blog Posts!

Hope all is well with your family, soul, ISKCON work!!!

So much to do.

7.30IST is 3PM here in Madrid. Sunday 12th we will be in Madrid temple at that noon so don't think that it is possible.

19th is possible.

26th we will be in Houston. That will be like Sunday morning. Also possible.

After that we have to coordinate with Mexico program.

We would like to do the program.

We would like to hear from other ISKCON devotees and give our ideas.

Thank you.

Finally saw the Minutes of the Board Meeting and will help with the proposed project of developing NIOS internet activity!!

At your service.

Hare Krishna, Maharaj Ji. Dandavat pranam. Agtsp and all the vaishnavas and vaishnavis.

Yesterday I got a call from my followers in Assam that they want to donate a small area of LAND where we can create a namhatta project.

Please advise me shall I accept this proposal or what shall I do ?

ASA - We would suggest that the land, money etc are the fourth consideration. First is your personal motivation in the project. Then personal motivation of others. Eg. Who is committed and why? Third is to make a plan based on these clear personal committments. Then the type of land, buildings, money becomes clear.

O.K. Some help?

Second thing is ASA Sri Radha kunda center need a little bigger area where we can hear Hari Katha from Maharaj and we can perform kirtan , take prasadam together with all the devotees who visit Radha kunda. Spend some time in Radhakunda. As I got experience in last 4 month, everyone were not in comfortable position. So the idea 💡 comes to my mind as it has written in ekadasi song , bhakta seva parama siddhi prema latikar mulla. Means serving devotees is the root of receiving krishna prema. If everyone agree with this please join hand.

HpS - Our visit to Radha-kunda and the assembly of devotees may have been an unique experience. I don't think we could live through another one with our present body. I think we are really using up our present body as planned and it will dis-integrate in September 2024.

Of course, that is our best guess.

If others want to continue developing the "Anjana Suta Acadamy" is Radha kunda that seems to be very nice. It is the conclusion of the Nectar of Instruction.

Did you get a chance to send the TPP and NoI to Dr. Samaresha? He says he did not get it.

Also, can you send us the inventory and report for the TPP distribution?

Your service ability is very amazing. We think Mother Yasoda or Vrndadevi will give you a lot of work to do yourself and with your associates.

With regards

Your servant

Vipina vihari dasa.

Hare Krishna!

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obescances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to you!

I'm currently in Gainesville on a trip to observe the Krishna House here. To observe the mood and bring it back to Dallas Krishna House in our own unique way. It is very exciting here. 25 young people (college student aged), nearly all westerners, living together hyped up on Krishna Conciousness. It's a wonderful family atmosphere to.

To my suprise I have met a godsister here, your disciple Laxsmi Radha Mataji. She is doing LOTS of service and loves it here. Our conversation, although broke up a bit by language barriers, was wonderful. She is so nice. She really wants to come see you in Houston when you visit.

Ok Guru Maharaja thank you so much for your association.

Your disciple,

Nanda-braja das

Pictured below

- Laxsmi-Radha Mataji

- Nitai Bramachari with maha sweet

- Janardana the Tea Maker

- Kevin Bramachari playing Harmonium

- Sham (Laxsmi-Radhas husband) in the Krishna Lunch kitchen

- Guara-Nitai with Guru Prampara dieities

- Krishna Lunch

- Srila Prabhupada!

HpS - Jaya! AgtSP! Paoho. Thank you. We hope to talk with you more in the flesh about your Sankirtan when we reach Houston, but these reports are so important to us and I guess the other members of The Academy.

Hari Bolo!

HAPPY VYASA PUJA GURUDEVA!!! 🙏

AND HAPPY BIRTHAY!!! 🙏

Report month Narayana

Dear Gurudeva! Please accept our obeisances to Your merciful lotus feet! All glories be to Srila Prabhupada!!! and to you adored Gurudeva!!!

Please ask your lotus feet for forgiveness for the delay in my offering. I wanted to offer you a nice video. I thought it was better to give you what you asked for than my foolish words. It didn't turn out as well as I wanted but I tried my best. Apparently I have to schedule his "gifts" with more time and if I leave the body before. they are there ready.

thanks to our krishna I have recovered from the pain in my leg and arm and I can continue dancing for my lords Radha Govinda!!!

This is my little offering for you:

DANCE THEATER:

RADHA AND THE BEE:

https://youtu.be/Gnjj2gRdpV4

I recorded this dance at the end of November. The day of his vyasa Puja I spent editing this video and still couldn't finish it on time.

I learned that it takes time to edit and I have to do things with more time. I was just able to finish on his birthday, January 12. but I couldn't connect or go out because it rained the whole day! I uploaded it the day after his birthday and the signal was cut so I can only send these lines today.

I hope you like it Gurudev! I am ready to listen to any mistake. I would have liked to do it with a voiceover explaining some things before the dances. I am learning to edit.

The moment of dancing this Dance was so beautiful that when I finished... I said to myself... I'm done?? So fast??😆 I couldn't believe that something that seemed so difficult to do, could have felt so ecstatic! I am praying to have those feelings again.. to live that way..all the time.. I know that they are His blessings and I ask you to please pray for me to live giving the best of myself to others.

We read that you wished to offer Mr. Nrishimha noodles with sauce and beans on the day of His Vyasa puja, So Franco himself kneaded the noodles and we offered them to his team. As you know, frankly, there are few photos. So I couldn't take pictures of his ofrenda, but I wanted to tell him about it so he would know about Franco's service. His offering was: Noodles with sauce and pancakes with milk sweet.

I was thinking if at some point I could personally make an offering to you...but from the way I see our situation it seems that it is impossible for us to go to India...so I am going to take refuge ardently in your instructions, classes...and the wonderful memories with your association vapu. I don't want to dream anymore that we'll go because that's doing me wrong.

I always read your twitter messages by email and listen to your classes.

Thank you for being my beloved Gurumaharaja!!!

Please forgive any offense inadvertently committed in this letter.



His attempt of a disciple who wishes to please his lotus heart:

Radha Japa Prati Jalpa Devi Dasi

P.D : previous month summary:

We are very sorry to read that your body is bothering you so much... I think how I can help?...

I forgot to thank you for your beautiful photo that you sent me in a previous letter where you can see a beautiful sunrise in Vrndavan... very beautiful!!! Thanks a lot. I edited a video that dances 2020 and put that beautiful photo at the end:

https://youtu.be/UN5ukcORBfw I

I would like these photos of my attempted mother katyayani to be just for you, frank and gopal. Please

2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

His classes are the water of my life and they ALWAYS help me a lot.

We keep reciting the entire Sanskrit bhagavad Gita on the auspicious day of Gita jayanti!!! Very Preety!!!

I still have mother katyayani there. (2021 2022). Please tell me if I should disarm them or leave them there under the trees😊

We went to the Adi Sakhi event.

I send you photos. And some videos:

https://youtu.be/d0yZAFmjRHA

https://youtu.be/05eJ-z2ubXs

Gopalito and I continue our association with japa together in the afternoon. I tell him to concentrate on his friends in Krsna's pictures: Krsba balarama subala madhumangala!! Let him think that he is playing with them... and he closes his little eyes and chants the holy name like this.

please accept obeisances of Franco and Gopal.

P.D. should i send the photos again? or could you see them? Gurudev? thank you adored Gurudeva eternally

HpS-ASA - Very long letter for us to read! Struggling with gorillas in the jungles of Tripura, India, but we went through it and got most of the content. Now we will look at the first dance link.

It is very nice that you are learning video editing!

. . . .

Awwk! The link won't open here in the jungle. We try later!!

Hari Bolo.

🦆🦆🌴🦆

Maharaj

PAMHO AGTSP!

Govinda Mataji and I have been discussing an ICCR sponsorship from Indian embassy in Mexico for an evening length production (tentatively for August) (14 artists 45min) collaboration with Manipuri dancers on the topic of reuniting Sita Ram. Here are some tentative scene ideas we are brainstorming to convey the mood of our film nicely and promote it (we are trying to collaborate with the Manipuri group as in your film)? 

1) Sita Ram wedding celebration (invocation, mangalacharan)

2) Vanvas (pure dance, Pallavi)

3) Sita kidnapped, Jatayu slayed (emotive piece, Abhinaya)

4) Ravana slayed (emotive/pure dance)

5) Sita Agni Pariksha leading to Ram and Sita reuniting in end (intense pure dance or Moksa)

We are reaching out to the Manipuri school to discuss if they are open to collaborate like this.

Ys,

SM DD

HpS - AgtSP!!!!! paoho. Of course, we discussed this yesterday or the day before and it seems like a very big project.

It seems different from our current effort if you want to take advantage of that and the resouces, audience and staff that it is developing.

As we discussed, it seems that classical dance from Orissa or Manipur would be to esoteric for world or Western audience.

You would need dances gestures etc. that would communicate to them.

One thing we suggested was look at the Sundar Kanda of the Ramayana, Hanumatpresaka, and then think about breaking that into pieces that lend themselves to dance drama.

Then organize one eg. Hanuma flys to Lanka, and then circulate it amongst your audience and possible collaborators in USA or Imphal.

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Dear Maharaja,

We just had a fantastic kirtan 50 festival in Dallas. Devotees were chanting for three days straight, and then it all ended with showering about 3,000? 10,000? Different colored rose petals onto Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji!! They were up to Their necks in beautiful petals.

And as usual the Maha Prasad was distributed to everyone in the temple and we all had a flower fight! Flower shower.

Then the day after that I joined Paramesvara Prabhu in Sankirtan van!

I'm slowly learning what to say, but today I was distributing books and chanting the Maha mantra with new people. It's pretty blissful!

Thank you for everything, MaHarRaja!!!

Also I'm still okay with the sadhana.

Looking forward to seeing you in Houston!

Your servant,

Jaya-hari Das

HpS - Really super! Yet, we did not see any reason for the FESTIVAL!

Super!

You are leading us all to Srila Prabhupada!

Hope our news is also coming through!