Letters to the editor

All Glory to Srila Prabhupad

All Glorory to Movement of SANKIRTAN by Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Ntiananda Prabhu And the follower of them

All Glory to the Vaisnava's Merciful

On a day like this Vyasapuja's day 

I offer my humble obeisances to Srila HANNUMAT PRESAK SWAMI

who following Prabhupada's desires works tirelessly for give to us the message of hope about the spiritual realization.

Every time you're thinking how we can perform the Krsna's consciousness

and deploy this task without doubt, instructing us about the true educated people.

you' are giving to us the chance to learn easy how work together without complaints and misgivings.

I just can try to help following tha chanting of Krsna's name and developing a character based on religious principles.

I pray to any day we can be useful to you and Srila Prabhupada.

your simple crew member Aniruddha Krsna Das

Thank you AKD.   You have sacrificed big position in the material world to be a begger in Krsna conscousness.  Maybe you will get a prize for your love for Krsna that is so big and so eternal that you can never imagine what is coming for you.

But then you will just put it aside and go back to begging for Krsna.

Dearest Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our most humble obeisances Guru Maharaj and All Glories to your divine service and all glories His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.

During moments of each day your words and instructions are always there.  You’ve asked during your classes: Do you speak, think, act from the heart? Do you even know if you have a heart?  Honestly Guru Maharaj, to understand how to truly give from the heart we have an amazing example that follows in the footsteps of Srila Prabhupada to such a great length.  A monk as you have called yourself, by the name of Hanumat Presak Swami has been an exemplary example since I was 18 of a servant of Krsna that truly knows how to give from the heart.  Somehow this amazing monk even chose to see a small spiritual spark, a rough microscopic diamond in the rough when encouraging an aspiring prasadam cookie solicitor to keep engaging in Krsna’s service :o). 

I remember during the first few sessions of  the Wednesday Bhakti Sastri class this fall after being on a heitous I could do nothing more than burry my head under my shawl.  Of course no one can see me at my house but this is how I feel in just hearing your words: completely humbled in the presence of a great soul that truly relishes and lives the scriptures, and that there is only one true shelter in this world when I am able to hear the realizations and guidance from you, Srila Prabhupada and shastras.  This has always been my favorite time of the week Guru Maharaj, and without your weekly classes and your merciful association I think so many of us would be eaten by Maya the witch.  Your educational programs and how you conduct them yourself, single handedly, have given us a true direction in our Krsna consciousness.  And really there is no other direction: it leads us to be inspired in our services and association and chanting.  It’s a wonderful spiral as you say, where we perform these activities and revisit these scriptures again and again and find new relishment.  Its ingenious and important.  I hope we can offer to you this year a humble Sunday school curriculum we are starting up this New Year, and in the future with your mercy so much more.

Early January before your last Vyasa Puja, your talk about what a real marriage means.  Without your advice coming directly from Krsna and scriptures, no blessing or auspiciousness would have been there Guru Maharaj.  We did not even know how to go about obtaining such blessings.  You told us with marriage a whole village is involved.  And in this way you connected us to getting the blessings of the Vaisnavas and other significant others.  Being so merciful to see that yes, your spiritual children are, well, still children and need to hear the advice of their father is a true blessing.  You could have decided  we are too fallen or a lost cause or that you have other important matters to deal with.  Instead you tolerated us and guided us during our attempts to dovetail our karma and desires and in this way through your mercy we can swim through these incessant waves by helping us understand how to serve and dovetail everything to Krsna while in this ashram.  If we didn’t have this, I can see by so many examples around me that married life can be truly unsuccessful materially and spiritually in Kali Yuga. We hope to someday please you as your spiritual daughter and son by our service not to our own desires but to you, Srila Prabhupada, and Radha Bunkabihari eternally.

Guru Maharaj, the lowest point of this last year in March I was truly stunned by your mercy.  There I was, with Aja who had horrible asthmatic pneumonia and was completely beside myself trying to single handedly pack and move out of the preschool we were staying at to get further care from my family in Idaho.  The first time you ever directly called was at this time to get a teacher’s contact number. During this low point  you were genuinely concerned about Aja but reassured us that Krsna has plans for us in Boise.  Your compassion to us when I was so mentally weak  helped me through such a tough time letting us know Krsna’s hand is behind everything.  In the Isopanisad it says “He who sees everything in relation to the Supreme Lord, who sees all entities as His parts and parcels, and who sees the Supreme Lord within everything never hates anything, nor any being.”

Thank you Guru Maharaj on this auspicious Vyasa Puja Day. 

Your aspiring servants,

Kamagayatri and Aja

HpS - Thank you.  Just chant Hare Krsna and be happy, Mataji.   Krsna and Radha love you more than you can imagine.  They are planning Aja's life more than you!  They love you all very much. Any time, just chant Hare Krsna and be happy.

Plans, plans, they come from God,

When we chant His Names, He gives His nod.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our most humble obeisances from your aspring servants from the Boise Temple.

All glories to you Guru Maharaj and Srila Prabhupada.

On behalf of the Boise devotees we wanted to offer you a very Happy Vyasa Puja.  We had a very nice gathering in your honor with the small, but joyous Boise crew!  Ananta Rupa, Mark, Ingard and Juniper, Prema Lila, Sri Hari's Bhakti Sastri Anjana Suta study group Mother Sakshi, Aja, and more! Ohe Vaisnava Thakur was sung, offerings from Sri Radhika glorifying your service reminisce of Sri Hanuman and Lord Rama, samosas, apple chutney, vegetable soup with chickpeas, rolls, split pea kitchari, and peanut butter burfi was a grand feast for not 14 but maybe a 144! Pushpanjali and Birthday Cards from the devotees and kids are below, they offered with love to what you have given us dear Guru Maharaj now and forever, access to Srila Prabhupada's instructions and teachings in such a way to captures our attentions and leaves our hair standing on end.  Thank you on this auspicous day for your continued seeds of bhakti you sow, now time to go to bed and look forward to Japa Joe!

Your servants,

The Boise Bhakti Crew

HpS - AGTSP

paoho

Thank you. We are in Cordoba, Argentina. We have a material body, but we hope to make it dance for Krsna until it diassappears.  Then another one or a spiritual body. All the same we try to do our best for Krsna, by   SRILA PRABHUPADA'S MERCY and don't abuse that mercy!!!!

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale 

śrīmate hanumatpreśaka-svāmin iti nāmine

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine

namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ 

titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām

ajāta-śatravaḥ śāntāḥ sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇāḥ

The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime. (SB 3.25.21)

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim

yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande paramānanda-mādhavam

I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, the deliverer of the fallen souls. His mercy turns the dumb into eloquent speakers and enables the lame to cross mountains. (CC Madhya 17.80)

Dhyana Mulam Guru Murti Puja Mulam Gurur Padam

Mantra Mulam Gurur Vakyam Moksha Mulam Guru Kripa

The Guru's form is the best to meditate upon; the Guru's feet are the best for worship; the Guru's word is the mantra; the Guru's Grace is the root of liberation.     [Guru Gita - Skanda Purana Dialogue between Shiva and Uma (Shakti)]

Dear Gurumaharaja Please accept my humble obeisances. 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you on this auspicious day of your vyasapuja.

The time of year has come when have to write a vyasa puja offering.  The words and sentences just stop.  How difficult it becomes to put the thoughts into words? ‘cakṣu-dāna dila yei, janme janme prabhu sei’, You are my master, birth after birth. still We are unable to glorify you. Each and every moment of your life, you teach us by example. You never lose a single moment to glorify your spiritual master A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Anytime anyone credits you with the wonderful service you are doing, you attribute it to Srila Prabhupada’s mercy.

GuruMaharaja, you have made all arrangements not only for your disciples but for humanity at large through your many innovative ways of getting your association through your lectures, live internet broadcasts, activity reports, DTC, KDh  etc. In every activity of yours, you never fail to strengthen our commitment and conviction to Srila Prabhupada and his ISKCON. In a very exemplary way, you teach us the mood of becoming an eternal disciple by displaying your unconditional pure love for Srila Prabhupada. Please GuruMaharaja, instill in our hearts a drop of that mood of servitorship for your divine grace as you have for Srila Prabhupada.

Since, we have initiated we have been tried to follow your instruction to the best extend. Srila Gurudeva, as you mention preaching is the mood of spiritual master we try our best to preach every chance we get. I have completely depended on your mercy on this. By your mercy only we can perform devotional service without any difficulties and can be success also.

Your most valuable guidance has given us great courage and enthusiasm to manage our spiritual life. Your blessing and encouragement has given us great strength to render devotional service and to serve the mission of Sri Caitanya Maha Prabhu by spreading the holy name and message of the supreme lord. Please accept our heartily gratitude by accepting and guiding us by taking us through the path of divine knowledge (Krishna Consciousness).

Last but not the least; your health is very important for our tender spiritual life. We beg the mercy of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krsna and Sri Sri Krsna Balaram to keep you in best health for preaching KC all over the world – apratihata.

For now We pray at your divine lotus feet to always have your shelter despite my entire shortfall. Thank you for being there when We need you. Thank you for always answering questions and clearing my doubts. Thank you for everything you gave us this year. We look forward to serve you more and more. Please bless us so that We can follow your instructions and become a worthy servant of yours.

A.S.N.F. (A Son Never Forgets)

Your eternal servant 

Patrak Das

HpS - ASA ==  Thank you for using your very, very disturbed body to serve Krsna! We hope to see you in Lima, Chosica, in a few days!!!

The threefold miseries are not fun

I fought the mind and the mind won

Working hard in the hot sun

I fought the mind and the mind won

The best Krishna seva I ever had

We ate pakoras cooked in ghee

Giving up that sanga, I must have been mad

Now what can be said about me

I fought the mind and the mind won

I fought the mind and the mind won

ASA - See music at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsS0cvTxU-8

Good poem!!!!
Back to the fight!!!!

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.
    
    All glories to you on the auspicious occasion of Vyasa Puja.

    You live as your realize for Krsna. Never seen you, without Krsna. You always obliged to Krsna
    for everything on your way. You accept Krsna in everything. You appreciate Krsna in everything.
    whether he makes you without food for many days.
    
    You are always in Vrndavana, serving, playing with Krsna and the cowherd boys in the deep
    beautiful forest....serving, teasing boys, chasing Krsna, calling Krsna. You feel Krsna in your
    heart....giving everything to Krsna.

    You float with two stream, one - always in Krsna. Second, you come down to enlighten us for Krsna.
    Very perfect balance, like - Parsurama, you personally very deep in spiritual level for Krsna and
    for other, perform duty by cultivating, for Krsna. Your stage is so high that material things do
    not affect your spiritual level. You float with both the level frequently and easily. You are perfect
    balance of both the level. This shows you are at very high level of Satva.

    When you are in very deep level, you don't want to continue with this material world and
    want to...back to be with Krsna and cowherd boys in the beautiful forest, near the river.

    You are always pass in Krsna's plan, even though he makes you to do a big battle of Kurukestra.

    You as example allows us no excuse for weakness. On the occasion of Vyasa Puja, we beg for the
    strength to become steady in sadhana and service. We are not able to do it without your blessings.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA - Well, your glorifications apply mostly to Srila Prabhupada. We seem to get some taste sometime, but not always in Goloka internally!!     Thank you for your association and example. It gives us impetus.  Aren't we very fortunate to get Srila Prabhupada's association!!!!