Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja. Pamho. AGTSP!

This one just to invite you to spend Rama navami Festival in Chosica.

We will prepare a very nice festival since we have Sita-ram-laksmana-hanuman here. Seems appropriate, right? And weekends in Chosica are nice as well. Even you can stay the first part of your tour in Chosica. I mean, you arrive and stay in Callao and next day you go to Chosica like in the afternoon when we usually celebrate Rama Navami festival (from 4.15 onwards)

Then you can stay, if you want, from thursday to sunday 3pm more or less. I think is more healthy for you than running around for Lima, at least this first part of your trip. Then, next weekend you can visit the other centers, Wilson, San Borja, Miraflores, etc. That's my suggestion. Please consider it. If you agreed, we can do nice programs. Maybe a seminar on VAD on friday (Very appropriate since we just celebrated Lord Ramacandra as ideal king and ideal husband), and an education thing on saturday, and Fiesta de Domingo. I think is a nice idea. We'll work hard to do a nice weekend program. That's my humble suggestion. Please, it will be nice for your health and for our benefit.

Your servant,

Laksmana-agraja das

HpS - ASA ...We have been discussing this with other devotees also! Yes, we should show our Rama-raja, the government of Rama to the world!

Thurday is for the whole world!! Yet, not to many people can come on Thursday, no? So we can celebrate Thursday at home, (your home, Sita Rama especially at home in Chosika) and then M. Kausalya can bring the "baby' out on Sunday!??

ie. Work in in Lima Th, Fri, Sat and then spend Sunday early morning until night in Chosika.?

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaj. Pamho, AGTSP!

I am a bit slow for communications, but I like to have something solid to say.

ASA - AGTSP!!!! paoho. Then this biography might interest you.

Two points:

1.- Education.

I liked your idea of ​​three levels of Pada Padma students. It's natural. Let's see if it works. I'm starting soon.

Some questions about it. According to what I understand, then, it will be an exam as you have described it. I guess students will be have a bank of questions beforehand so they can be trained, right?

ASA - Yes, that is our idea. Many short answer closed book questions and open book essay questions that are subject to oral presentation for evaluation. Dharma for ladies in Canto One. Examples and principles of reception in Canto One...

So, the old ASA system of one essay per chapter is abolished? I think tpp are still good. I may make some notes with the documents you sent.

ASA - We are thinking of a system where people can get certified by Canto and then take up the next Canto when it is convention.

Apart from a Bhakti sastri and a Disciples Course, soon to start, I will also give some (4) seminars throughout the year. It will be on Sundays immediately after Srimad Bhagavatam's class in Chosica. I have proposed that the first two be about communications in ISKCON.

The first on internal communication and another on external communication, that is, the local community, institutions, etc. These two points seem vital to me. Many times the lack of good internal communication, and therefore relationships, generates misunderstanding that does not allow us to grow. Likewise, due to poor external communication we have lost our influence in the community. Of course, as a devotee commented to me, without a solid spiritual foundation, a solid sadhana, these issues would only be inconsequential rhetoric.

HpS - Sounds very nice!!!

The third and fourth seminar would be about Srila Prabhupada. One about his position in ISKCON and another about the importance of reading and studying his books. I believe that all these seminars will be of benefit to all.

ASA - Super!

2.- VAD

My relationship with Raman reti mataji is very solid. We get up (each one is his house, of course) at 3 am to chant our rounds. It gives me time to do some readings and then connect to the FMP. We also read the Krsna book together (by phone) at night.

Our plan, with the blessings of you and the devotees, is to go to Chile at the end of July to bring her to Peru to prepare our home and get married in November, settle down and start our life together. It is very clear to us that the reason for getting married is to help us be better devotees, better people and make our sankirtan together. We have several plans about it.

ASA - HpS - Santa Rosa of Lima - Confucious --- Hare Krsna. God Bless you! Plan for eternity, but also realize that you are both individuals and that marriage is just one part of your reality.

Thank you for being so understanding and tolerant of me.

Your eternal servant

Laksmana-agraja DAS

ASA - Rama Das!!!!! See you in one month! So much we can do, no?

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva AGTSP PAMHO

It is superb to have your association everyday at FMP.

ASA - Oh, no! It is superb to have yours!

I just asked for some mercy during the Gaura Purnima festival in Chosica I will help in Pujari. I am over the 🌕.

HpS - Nothing destroys ignorance like humility.

I was accepted in another University. They sent me an invitation to teach in there due to my professional experience. Besides I continue in Jaime Bausate y Meza University. I am not a full time professor. So as U said I can be involved in more brahminical activities. I do not have a hefty schedule.

Regarding the New Center in Lima that I put in the title Jaya Laksmi dd will send you a letter with deep explanations. Neverheless, I will give you a summary.

The New center is located in Miraflores, it is modern, big, well located. In the center we do yoga, Bharatanatyam, Holistic therapies, mantra meditation. We perform mangal Artik on Saturdays we have Gaura Nitai deities, Yoga Nrismha. Namahatta programs. We distribute prasadam. We are really looking forward to invitating you when you came in April. On Sunday we have a meeting in Callao in order to plan your visit. In this center we are trying to avoid Vaisnava aparadha, and try to enthuse the devotees to continue firmly in Krsna consiousness. I am overjoyed to have the opportunity to work with such top notch devotees. Please your blessings to continue with this project. I did not tell you this in advance due to I did not anything about that in advance and I just collaborate there giving gem therapy.

I am attaching some pictures. Nevertheless Jaya Laksmi dd will send you a letter with more details.

Thank you all so much Gurudeva

Trying to be your disciple

Cmdd

HpS - This news of "The New Center" is very nice. Yes, we need to fix the Calendar for Peru, Chile, Argentina ASAP. Maybe

Arrive April 1st (10.45PM)

2nd - Rama-navami (where?).

3rd-4th - Friday Night, Saturday (Where? Wilson, San Borges, Miraflores).

5th - Chosika! ???

15th :>> BsAs - Chile.

13th May :>> LIma

28th :>> Houston.(12.10AM)

Hare Krishna Gurudeva!

Please, accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Thank you Gurudeva for your reply to my last letter, it was a very precise answer! 🙏

I meant to write you again a long time ago, but I could not find the right time to do it..

Maybe for my mind this moment is not appropriate either, but if I wait for the "right moment" I am going to take too long to write....so I do it now!

HpS - AGTSP!!! One man was in his chair, sofa, at the beach reading a book, and he notice another man step into the water at the edge of the ocean with his bathing suit on and stand there, but the first man went back to reading his book. Then after about ten minutes he looked up and saw that the second man was still standing in the water of the ocean up to his ankles and had not gone any more into the water. So the first man, with a smile asked, "Are you going into the water or not?". The second answered very seriously, "Oh, yes, but I am just waiting for the waves to stop before I go in."

Gurudeva, I wanted to sent you a report about our progress in Vedabase service, but I saw that Prahlada Nrsimha prabhu already did it.

HpS - It is worth reporting many times. Such great Sankirtan. He had cards to hand out to people.

Anyway, I want to inform you that we were waiting for books from BBT to continue with importing. The Books are being sent and now we have started with "Teachings of Queen Kunti".

ASA - Oh, yes! Reina Kunti, prima de Isabella!

Also we have already corrected the typing mistakes that LOB had. As I once told you...Importing is usually about copy and paste paragraphs and not necessarily reading the paragraphs completely, but then I noticed that some words in the paragraphs were misspelled. The original versión in Spanish which we were working had these mistakes, so it was necessary to check all the text and re-edit it. We will check the other books to see if there are those errors to correct them.

HpS - French poet: Nobody ever finished a poem, they just stopped working on it. Nobody ever finished correcting all the mistakes in a book, they just stopped looking.

Gurudeva, by your desire we want to complete all the Bhaktivedanta library in Spanish!!

HpS - Then Santa Rosa of Lima will take birth in Lima again to read them!

I like to do this service, I think it fits my nature. I like to do things in detail, writing, editing, etc, and I have time to do it.

On the other hand I want to talk about my sadhana...

Gurudeva, for a long time I have been feeling dissatisfied with my sadhana..

It is like...lately...I have been making the minimum effort to do it. Not trying my best to do my best...as other times I did. I know that I can give more, do it better, but my mind, lazyness...tama guna?? are like a constant obstacle....Gurudeva, please...what is the cause of it??

I know that I can give much more to Krishna and I do not do it. I am like a miser who have a 100 dollar bill in my pocket and only gives Krishna two dollars. 😭 Gurudeva, what is the cure for this??

HpS - I do not know. I have the same problem. We have our Karma, which is now being controlled by Radharani not Durga, but still it is there. Now it is being used for our purification and service. So, some times we are in Tama guna and because we are not pure devotees it has some influence. It hurts us!!! We decide to become pure devotees. In the ultimate issue, our Sadhana is a very, very personal relationship with your old friend, Krsna, and how we are being His friends or not.

I wanted to talk to you about one more topic but I better leave it for the next letter..

Please, forgive me if I have been a little complaining in this letter..😥

Thank you very much for your causeless mercy!!!

HARE KRISHNA !!!!

Your aspiring servant : Mitravinda dd.

HpS - Thank you so much for your letter. Many subtle things in spiritual life. Many are very funny. Is God a joker? You seem to be on the right path. Maybe you were a Monk in your last life. Maybe you were Santa Rosa of Lima. Look at your resources, association, and do the best you can.

More news!

Dear Gurudeva Pamho Agtsp

Because of Tulasi's miscericity, and because of your mercy we are in the Holy Dham today we leave Vrndavan to Mayapur. 

HpS - Krsna, must love you! Write all the time of what happens. Even simple things. Years from now you will read them with great joy.

Gurudeva came some shilas to me and wanted to ask if I could worship them. I am always in Sankirtan and Harinama but since I do not stay in any temple I have not been able to exercise my deity worship, I really wish I could do it, with its authorization.

HpS - I think that the Shilas are too advanced for us. They are for someone with very Brahminical culture. Bhima carried Deities of Sita Rama that he got from Hanuman around his neck. Little Gaura Nitai dieties seem very, very, wonderful. They would love to travel with you! 

I'm going to travel with Harinama ruci through India and then maybe Europe.

(This is private please don't published). ASA - O.K. but only because you are in male body but in summary you have sent explanation of personal and social Ashrama situation.

Krsna is certainly working with all His power to help you, so do not be discouraged. Any distress is minimized from what we deserve, maybe we were Bank Robbers etc in our last life, and... Krsna is using the bad reactions for our ETERNAL progress. Go ahead with your Sankirtan first and give some interest in your Ashrama situation. 

please allow me to keep myself busy day and night in the devotional service at your lotus feet, excuse all my shortcomings I try to do my best.

Trying my best to be servent of your servers Vrajendra Kumara Das

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, reciba mis respetuosas reverencias, gracias por responderme a mi carta anterior.

Sigo aquí en Huancayo, y, también siguen habiendo cambios, pero bueno, seguimos en sankirtan "distribuyendo los libros de Srila Prabhupada".

HpS - TlgaSP!!! Pfanrh...

Ahora mi padre esta enfermo, tiene neumonía, fue internado en un hospital de Lima, bueno, este mundo es así, mi padre respeta la Conciencia de Krsna. Estoy predicando a mi familia, por teléfono.

Mi madre se volvió vegetariana cuando comencé a conocer la Conciencia de Krsna, en el año 2003, también canta una ronda del Maha mantra Hare Krsna por las mañanas 7 am.

HpS - Prabhupada dijo que la mayoria de la gente a quien estamos predicando no va a convertir en devotos en esta vida. Pero proxima vida, si. Posible eso es nuestra hostoria, no?

Mi padre tiene 70 años y mi madre 75, entiendo que en un momento de sus vidas dejaran el cuerpo,

HpS - Ja! Ja! Yo 72! y todos

. . . nosotros también dejaremos el cuerpo, cada instante de nuestras vidas es importante para seguir desarrollando Conciencia de Krsna y no desaprovechar la misericordia de Srila Prabhupada.

Bueno le comento que un tío materno nos quiso estafar con un dinero que le dimos para los tramites de la embajada italiana, nos dimos cuenta a tiempo, estamos recuperando el dinero de a pocos, bueno, lo lamentable es que tendremos que empezar de nuevo pero con otro familiar que es mas responsable y serio. Bueno, si las cosas no se dan, entenderemos que es voluntad del Señor Supremo.

En mi carta anterior le comente sobre comprar un auto y trabajar para comprar libros, hacer programas de predica, etc. Bueno, son solo ideas, no es algo que sea definitivo o que ya este decidido, veremos que pasa y como se den las cosas (TENGO QUE ANALIZAR DETALLADAMENTE ESTE PLAN).

HpS - Canakhya Pandita dijo ... Exito proviene de buen consejo, y buen consejo proviene de muchos consejeros.!

Guru Maharaja tengo 3 preguntas:

¿Usted que opina de la Astrología Vedica?

HpS - Es la ciences ... ayurveda, vastu veda.... mas sutil, y entonces es el mas deficil. Es mejor obtener opinion de seis astrolgos en algo muy fina, pero para modo de trabajo, profesion.., matrimonio, momento de muerte, puede ser bien. Tambien tiempos bueno para vijar.

Hay devotos que han aprendido la Astrología vedica pero no lo utilizan para predicar sino para ganar dinero

Encontré una publicación en el Internet donde Srila Prabhupada le dice a su discípulo Sanatana Dasa lo siguiente:

Mi Guru Mahārāja era un gran astrólogo y astrónomo, pero lo abandonó todo. Eso es para los karmīs. A nosotros no nos interesan esas cosas.

Carta de Ś. P. a Sanātana dāsa (3 junio 1975)

¿como entender adecuadamente lo que Srila prabhupada nos enseña?

¿Se puede estudiar Astrología vedica y utilizarlo adecuadamente para el Sankirtan?

HpS ... Otra vez, es dificl relacionar on KC, pero posible. Usualmente Krsna da buen inteligencia a nosotros como relacionar con el mundo material. Prahlada ananda Swami y Bhanu Swami utilizan. Subhaga Swami me dijo que Prabhupada utiliza en forma simple para adjustar sus viajes.

Bueno con respecto al Sankirtan viajero, hay un grupo de devotos serios que quieren viajar en Sankirtan y por ahí algunos devotos independientes que viajan solos. Nos preguntamos ¿con quien viajar???

HpS --- No, se los detalles. Con buen devotos.

Bueno Guru Maharaja, que Nrsimha lo proteja y guíe sus pasos, que tenga un bonito festival de Sri Nityananda. Hare Krsna.

HpS - Hare Krsna. Siempre muchas gracias por su asociation. Cuales libros esta Vd distribuyendo????