Letters to the editor

All glories to Sri Sru Gaura Nitay

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my respectful obeisances to you and to all your service for the propagation of Krishna consciousness

Dear Guru Maharaj, it has been several months since our trip to Buenos Aires (ARG) to receive initiation and as you also remember receiving the news of my father who left his body, very shocking news that without His shelter and support we do not have it over.

On the other hand, also the support of Prabhu Lalita Madhava Das that has been a fundamental pillar to achieve little by little to confront so great news and desist a little to the firm attachment of the father, we pray always for the soul of him. I lost an earthly father and received a spiritual father.

HpS - ASA --- You have not lost him!!   You will see him again.

I have been an ungrateful daughter for not writing my report,

HpS - Traveling we have not been able to deal with our mail, but, yes, it is very nice to hear from you more often.  We will see you in Chile is a few days!

. . . but now I have more peace of mind to do it.

I give thanks to Krishna for his unlimited mercy and pour it on this humble maid, I feel blessed to have his beloved association Guru Deva.

I tell you that along with Prabhu Lalita Madhava Das we continue with the distribution of prasadam, we continue in temple restorant service and once a week we cook their lordships, Prabhu Lalita is in charge of the kitchen of his lordships Sri Sri Gaura Nitay, cook the offering of raj bhoga daily and bid twice a week.

HpS - Super.  Good food and good music.

Returning to the conversation he had with Prabhu Lalita regarding the meaning of the name you gave me and at his request I publish in the blog the rectification of my name.

His eternal servant Manjulali Devi Dasi

HpS - Thank you so much for the news, and again, we don't answer the mail when we are traveling but then we see people in person. See you in a few days.   Also, we changed your name on the web page and our records. We have not been co-ordinating well with Namacharya Das and there are about four or five names to post: Eg. Loka-bandhu-rama Das, Pandaveya Prsna Das, Nitisara Das.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!!

Radha Krsna Ki Jay, Gourananga Mahaprabhu Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay.

Dandavat Pranam Guruji Maharaj!

HpS - It is such a grand pleasure to hear from you. We are just returning to Lima from La Paz. In La Paz it is 4km altitude and no air. Wonderful preaching programs. Look at the letter we just posted about India tour!  When shall we go to Manipur and the rest?

Please accept our humble obeisances ontu Guruji’s padmacharan that I am continuing reading of Bhagavatam Tenth Canto 2^nd Chapter. In the purport of sloka 31 of this chapter it is clearly mentioned that after wandering throughout the universe, a fortunate person within this material  world seeks shelter of such a Guru, or acarya, who trains the devotee in the suitable ways to render service according to the circumstances so that the Supreme Personality of Godhead will accept the service. This makes it easier for the candidate to reach the ultimate destination.

Likewise, a neofide bhakta needs Diksa Guruji’s or Shiksha Gurui’s guidance. Our main objective is to serve Sri Krsna after taking permission of Gouranga Mahaprabhu but without the help of Nityananda Prabhu we could not approach directly Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu and without the help of Srimati Radha Thakurani we could not directly approach Sri Krsna. One more important thing is that without getting personal Sakhi, Manjari we could not enter Brindavan. Then how we will serve Sri Krsna? It is my strong eagerness. Guruji please highlight me in this confusion.

HpS - We personally heard from the lips of Srila Prabhupada when one reporter asked him, "Swamiji, what will happen to your movement when you die", and Srila Prabhupada answered firmly, "I will never die. I will live forever in my books!".  So, if you are sincere you can get personal instruction from Srila Prabhupada's books and that will tell you how to get Lord Nityananda, the ant and me as Gurus.

In the song, "Gauranga bolite habe...", CC Adi 7.17, it explains that we can enter Vraja by the mercy of Lord Nityananda but to enter the confidential pastimes of Radha and Krsna within Vraja, more than relations to Gopas or Mother Yasoda, we need the mercy of the Manjaris. We can get thatn through Rupa and Raghunatha and then the same thing is there. We can get that mercy through service to Nectar of Instruction or Nectar of Devotion. Read the books with sincere desire to apply them.

Jitatmana prasantasya... BG ...  when we become even Goswami's, control the six pushes, then we get solid inspiration from the Paramatma how to advance.

So, please look at the India Tour post here in the Blog and give us your suggestions. Maybe we pass Gaura-purnima in Manipura.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamunesvara Das

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

Very nice class in our workshop today

Gurudeva I was wondering if U may be so kind and send your offering to Srila Prabhupada. I am going to lead the Abhishek in Wilson so I would like to read your offering as well

Thanks in advance

See U soon

Your eternal servant

Cmdd

HpS - Hare Krsna. Incredible Janmastami festival here with Yadu Swami and Bh. Gaura vani Swami et al.  Radha Govinda candra.     We just sent the offer to Nikunja in his Blog post. Got it??   We will be in Peru in a few moments!

Hare Krisna!! Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

I want to ask you if you can send here your offering to Srila Prabhupada in occasion of his Vyasa Puja. 

Reading it is very inspiring for me and I guess for many devotees.

I apologize for taking little bit of your precious time.

Adi Yajña Prabhu send his humble obeisances,

Thank you Gurudev,

At your service,

Nikunja Bihari das.

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Dear Maharaja,

pamho agtsp

Apologies for not replying earlier to your last reply. We received immediately and took note of the contents, but have been slow to reply. I declined the speaking invitation on your behalf. No issues there at all. We look forward to doing what we can to assist once your calendar is set.

HpS - Any attention from you all is wonderful.    We are waiting until 20th August for Bhag bazaar Gaudiya Matha to make any final decision on the symposium at the end of November, but really looks like it will not happen.  Then we are thinking of coming to India from 15 January to 30 March. O.K.??

We have had a challenging few weeks. My better half, Dhanesvari DD, has spent time in hospital and has been on a lot of antibiotics for a mother related health issue. Thank Krishna we have reached stability again now and her health has improved.

HpS - All this is education from Krsna. If we are 16/4 then Krsna can arrange everything!  Hope she benefited very well.

I am currently working on several essays for university. Oh, I didn’t tell you yet.  I transferred into a philosophy/theology degree. There are two main reasons for this. The first being that the amount of austerity required to complete the computer science degree I was enrolled in (too much general IT stuff) was not justifiable considering the role I have in the sankirtan movement and in career also (which to me is the same thing), the role as an educator.

ASA - That sure seems O.K. to us!

The second, and more deeply rooted reason, being somehow I have cursed myself to approach Krishna through jnana-mishra-bhakti. This is obviously a result of my impersonalism towards Krishna. Anyway, one essay I am currently working on is challenging John Paul Sartre’s 'Nothingness’ that is consciousness, which his whole materialistic existentialism is built upon and which he denies, without good argument, has any non-material foundation or any links to God. I will point out that it’s still a dualism and calling something ‘nothing’ simply shows you don’t understand it. I will present this in a concealed, detached and “academic” way of course. Another essay I am working on is an investigation into Socrates’ relationship with his daemon, his inner voice, his conscience or even possibly the paramatma, who was his guide in his decision making and without whom, according to Plato, Socrates would not have become Socrates.

ASA - Wow!

Although the aforementioned writing tasks are taking my attention, my wife and I are still enthusitaicglly working on the Sacred Art of Indigenous Australians article for Solaris and the presentation for October. We will forward the article to Sriman Abhirama Prabhu on completion. I will most certainly incorporate the Bhagavatam verse you kindly forwarded. https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/8/5/33

Hope this meets you in good health.

We are chanting Hare Krishna and meditation on how to serve better.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Dhruvananda D

Dhanesvari DD

HpS - And the kids and mothers and fathers and....    !       We are working to assemble Solaris so an article by the end of this month for the magazine is great. Not the finished presentation. Just a presentation of your results so far and where your investigation is taking youi.

Hare Krishna, dear gurudev, Pamho, AGTSP!

The title and first paragraph were like talking to myself, trying to draw attention to an issue that I considere real. At least for the people like me, kanistha adikari. After my rounds and readings, the thought was the same, the feeling was the same. Discourage, desapointment, frustrations is an issue that is real in ISKCON andino. 

Of course, I will never leave ISKCON. I was just quoting what you said not long ago. That you were about to leave ISKCON, not Srila Prabhupada, two times. May be I miss understood. The point is that it is very difficult to do my service here. Many problems. So I stopped trying. I don't see how can It changes. 15 years experiencing the same. 

So I´m focunsing in my personal development.

I understand very clear what you said about living in ISKCON and I follow all of that. No problem in that department. No 100% percent, but a decent amount.

So, I don´t have much else to say.

Please forgive my lack of intelligence.

your usseles servant,

the LAD

(I hope I can talk to you soon. There are another details, more personal. Thank you very much)

HpS - ASA - Yes, let us talk by Skype etc some time.

We may take charge of the institution if it is too corrupted and work to reform it for the welfare of all. We felt the GBC body was too corrupted to times. Many people felt that, so we went to Srila Prabhupada directly, but in the end the institutional problems were resolved. We could and are making the same mistakes.

Good luck in serving Srila Prabhupada and his expansions. Strangely I received idential letter from Cusco the same day, and here in Houston the night before. I don't think it is necessarily an Andean problem only. It is the nature of things in the material world. Peru has its style..