Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP,PAMHO

I hope this letter meets You in good health.

HpS - Material body is a disease, so your statment is "I hope this letter meets you dead", but I am sorry. We are still holding on to sense gratification, but by His Divine Grace we seem to be becoming more and more detached!

I was meditating on my life and in something you told me in FMP when I said that SP in SB 1.8.20 in the purport said that the ladies are specially blessed by Krsna, because they believe immediately in the Supremacy of the Lord, that they do not need scientific facts, etc. Then you said "But you have to do something with that blessing". So I realized that I was not doing anything with that blessing, due to my work schedule I can not participate in most of the classes the way I used to do. So I asked Gandharva Prabhu if I can give some lectures for ISKCON CHOSICA and he kindly said yes..

ASA - Nothing can stop a devotee who wants to help preach!

So last Saturday I gave one class it was a verse from canto 3, pretty advanced canto. On Saturday's ladies gives lectures. I feel good, and some male devotees make some interesting questions. I also read SB 1.8.20 I really like that verse tatha paramahamsanam....

TB - katham pasyema hi striyah... !

Regarding to my classes, last week I was working in "Journalistic Products" (I teach English for Journalists) so one topic is "Food Journalism" ( You do not talk just about a recipe, you talk about the story behind it) So I play a youtube video in which a lady devotee was explaining why we offer food to Krsna.. It was top- notch.

BW - So may people are actually looking for Krsna. You probably made five devotees by doing that, no? May not manifest in this life but ... you can look at them from heaven and see how they take birth in ISKCON!

On July 13th, could have been my mother's birthday I offered her flowers and cake, prayers also.

UG - Any news from her???

I am studying also about more gems, and reading about angels in order to apply these on my therapies. People are more familiar with angels, then I have the opportunity to rise their consciousness a little bit.

BW - You can decorate Ulysses with diamonds and rubees.

I work first on me, then on the rest. It is pretty nice.

Thanks Gurudeva for your patience and inspiration

See you in FMP

Trying to be your disciple

Candramukhi dd

HpS - You don't have to take so much work that you can't keep a healty Sadhana. Is may be simple. You may have to adjust left and right, but God gives the right, wants, demands, that you keep basic human religious life. He will pay you.

UG - Post a little sumarry of gem therapy!

We have not been able to answer this letter because of our work shedule and because of our stupidity. Please send again following the protocol at www.JayaRama.US/kd/lte.htm HpS - ASA -0-0-0- No hemos podido responder esta carta por nuestra horario de trabajo y por nuestra estupidez. Por favor envíe nuevamente siguiendo el protocolo en www.JayaRama.US/kd/lte.htm HpS - ASA

HK pamho

Gurudeva me tomo algo de tiempo terminarlo. Su guía es estupenda, recuerdo las anteriores, ellas son como el vino con el paso del tiempo mejoran más y más. Como Ud. desea un banco de preguntas, hice muchas, espero sean de su agrado, lamento que no estén en Ingles. Si mi humilde intento de servirle está bien, hágamelo saber, tal vez puedo mejorarlo, presente dos partes en preguntas cerradas. Y de ser necesario puedo buscar traductor una vez corregido el documento. Igual todo esto me ayuda en mi estudio personal.

Cambiando de tema, estoy en Chosica el lunes se inicia el servicio de pujari, es una forma de reciprocar tanta misericordia, mis autoridades me ayudaron mucho para viajar a India, se los debía. Ayudaré también en la parte educativa, es mi área y no pienso salir de ella. Mis tendencias están muy claras y la pandemia me ayuda mucho y me permite leer y estudiar el sastra en una atmosfera tranquila, como una vida retirada, así me siento feliz. A los 40 años ya sabes lo que tienes que hacer, y nadie salvo Ud. o personas similares a Ud. podrían orientarme. Creo que a los 50 años estaremos como madre Tungavidya. Aun la recuerdo. La mujer de corazón blanco.

Mis compañeros de Sakti se resintieron mucho conmigo por dejarlos, pero mi compromiso es con Ud., Prabhupada e ISKCON, por encima de todos. El tiempo corre y lo aprovechamos lo mejor que podemos. Así podemos recordar Vrndavan, algunos devotos me cuentan que finalmente llegó les llego la pandemia, Vrndavan es zona roja, es triste para ellos estar por allá sin poder visitar los lujares sagrados. Lo maravilloso del Karuna virus, es que on line, tenemos clases con diversos devotos avanzados, full mercy, sólo así podemos tener buena asociación. Ahora ya no tengo que preocuparme por el dinero es un alivio, por lo menos por un tiempo. Sospecho cual es el plan de Krsna conmigo, lo que sí sé, es que siempre lo estaré sirviendo, lo mejor que pueda con las cualidades que Krsna me ha dado. Por favor bendígame para poder complacerlo.

Que el Sr. Nrsimha lo proteja hoy y siempre! Radhe Radheee!!!!

Su hija que lo Adora:

Yugala Kishora Dasi (La Surabhi Azul)

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

I would like to offer my translation service for your saturday morning lectures. Please kindly accept it. Although You don't need such a service, I would be the most benefited from it.

Thank you Gurudev, for making so much struggle to preach to us!! It melts our stone like heart, to see such an Endeavor in the service to Srila Prabhupada.

Your quarentined miscreant,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - ASA - Esteemed Quarantined Miscreant,

Paoho & Bw! AgtSP!!! Thank you for your offer, but it seems our Spanish is good enough that it can be pretty well understood. When we translate there is a delay by the internet and the ideas flow differently, so we were thinking of doing either Saturday or Sunday Spanish or English. Eg. if Saturday is Spanish then Sunday will be English and vice-a-versa? O.K.? Of course Upendra Das presentation on Saturday would need translation.

Any mystical experience at New Govardhana?

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a Srila Prabhupada y a Usted.

Estuve haciendo planes para poder hacer un Sankirtan viajero, lamentablemente la cuarentena se alargó en algunas ciudades del Perú, incluido Huancayo.

Estamos amablemente tratando de prédicar a los vecinos, cosa que es muy difícil pues tienen costumbres muy cerradas pero almenos siempre les damos algo de prasadhan y ellos corresponden con algo de bhoga (trueque).

HpS - This is a challenge from Krsna, no? How to preach to our neighbors. It is different than with meeting people for a short time. Aim is book distribution but now is different way, no? One book deeply to one person rathe than 50-books quickly to 50-people.

Estamos preparando la tierra para sembrar, abonando, deshierbando, etc.

Luchando con mi asquerosa mente...

También estoy haciendo una pintura para un devoto (una ventana espiritual), usar el arte en la prédica.

HpS - Super. To be an Acharya you must know how to preach with all modes, no?

Seguimos conectandonos en Mangal Artik con usted, 16 rondas de Japa y algo más, 4 principios, lectura Srimad-Bhagavatam, Tulasi la Amada de Krsna, atendiendo a las Deidades, Salagrama Sila y Govardhan Sila, también asistiendo a clases del NOI con Maharaja Yadunandana Swami.

HpS - What is the content of Maharaja's classes?

Bueno Guru me despido, que Nrsimha lo proteja siempre. Hare Krsna.

Gadai Gauranga Dasa.

HPS - ASA - !!!! Do you have animals???

Hare Krishna

Respected Hanumat Preshak Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances.

We are going on, facing some difficulty. Recently we talked to our superiors regarding problems. They heard us and instructed to accept whatever decision is taken by them. I think it to be right attitude for approaching Superiors.

Recently we attended Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama. It was amazing, meeting so many devotees, visiting so many places of pastimes, hearing from senior devotees. Of course, because of Corona virus, many devotees from China could not participate and all devotees prayed for their welfare. I felt so grateful that devotees have worked so hard to make this event a success. A very good news- now ISKCON has got land on all islands of Navadvipa and hence we can spend one night in each island on ISKCON's property. I got so much faith on eternity of this dham. And kirtan team of devotees was really enthusiastic throughout, making the Parikrama an unforgettable experience.

Pandavnath Prabhuji, a devotee from Argentina shared his experience in form of a poem.

We hope and pray for your good health.

Wish you a happy Gaur Purnima.

Your aspiring servant,

Purushottam Keshav Das

HpS - Sorry so slow to answer!!!! We are strugglingh with a lot of mail and a lot of personal stupidity. This letter is so, so enlivening to all of us. Keep sending news. ASA Foreign Correspondent!!!

Hare Krishna dear Maharaj! This is Vishvanath, from Chile.

ASA - AGTSP! Paoho.... This Brown from the Boro. You are very kind to write to us... 😐

I hope you're well and healthy.

ASA - Ha! Ha! This body IS a disease!

I´m sending you a report of the activities of our community, which thanks to the mercy of the devotees is growing and expanding.

A month+ ago we started a 2-time-a-week morning Japa program, which has been a beautiful success. Around 20 to 30 people enter at 7am, 80-90% non-devotees.

ASA - "Non-devotees"??! Hey! They must be devotees! Not initiated, like ISKCON, devotees, no? Of course, they could be Demons chanting Japa also. 🙄

It has been tremendously inspiring to see non-devotees fully committed to their practice, inspired and inspiring other people as well. Next week Nicole (whom I saw wrote you days ago :D) will start with an extra day, so we will have japa program 3 days per week. Nicole is helping a lot with the program, BTW.

In 2 weeks I'll start with open BG class in the evening, 1 per week. Many people are very interested, again, mostly non-devotees. Beside that, we held sporadic online talks about Bhakti and Yogic philosophy.

The internal Dhatri community is having 2 sanga-meeting each week, now studying the Nectar of devotion and organizing the programs for next months.

ASA - You use Danurdhara Swami's notes???? Helps SO much!!

Mahatma Prabhu is helping us a lot with his advices and inspiration. He has already given 2 classes to the internal community, and will give one to the open community in 1 week ahead.

Also, we are part now of Krishna West in the southern cone, so we are happy to get the support of a bigger community.

As for myself, I'm studying a full 1 year course on Sanskrit with Antonia Ruppel, who wrote "the Cambridge introduction to Sanskrit". It has been very heavy learning (as the course is in English, so I have to translate both from sanskrit and English!), but we are advancing pretty well. After the course we are supposed to read directly from Devanagari, understanding most of the grammatical complexities of it, and also to write in proper Sanskrit. I'm also giving many classes on Yoga and Ayurveda, with around 6-7 simultaneous courses.

Sorry for the long text. next ones will be shorter!

We hope to have your blessings in our programs, and maybe to have you giving a lecture in the near future :)

Your aspiring -Spanish donkey- servant

Vishvanath CT dasa

HpS - ASA --- Super, Super, Super!!! Have you seen God face to face yet??!!! Was He really a giant red hog with a bat???!!

Our respects to everyone.

It is so, so, nice to hear from you.

We miss the hot dry streets of Chile in the evening.

Walking from the Temple to Dhatri.

Singing and Dancing!!!

Nitai-Gauranga

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