Letters to the editor

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!!!!

AGTSP !!

Please accept our humble obeisances

Dear Maharaja

It's that time of the year when we realize how much you signify and mean to us, how much we've being walking the long way home following your marks in the forest, traces, memories, inspiration, how mamy times we've been lost but found in a whisper coming through you from Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - ASA -  Yeah!   That's thing.   Coming through us FROM PRABHUPADA... and we are messing up the message to some degree, so always good to have other connections also.

 How things unsaid and beyond prakriti between us are as real as the temple walls I've walked by throrugh the years.  In this time of the year we wish we could make visible in a verse the dept and the impact your siksa and association has had in us.  Today my offering is my stead fast commitment to never give up no matter how though the circumstances are or will be.

ASA - Oink!!!  Undeviating, like a boar with his nose in the ground!

And here we are  once more knocking on your door like beggars.  We have a bramachari friend who is doing tremendous preaching in Canada and Cuba and he needs preaching, educational tools in spanish language. If you so kindly could point the way on where or how to get them so we can serve and improve this preaching program in Cuba then our service to Srila Prabhupada's mission could improve much.  

Dandavats dear Maharaja 

forever at your serice

Raul GC   

PS   we may be travelling to Vrindavana, Mathura, Naimisaranya, Kuruksetra this year.  

HpS - ASA -  Wow!  India trip.  Why not check at Krsna.com for resources. If they don't list them on line then contact their Contact adddresses!!!    AgtSP!!!!!

VYASA PUJA OFFERING

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet

Another year here we are trying to glorify U ¡¡

Each year I discover new things in the developing of our relationship Guru – Disciple

Besides your humility, intelligence, renunciation, etc

I have realized that one of the most relevants thing that I admire U is that even if U are an already liberated soul, at the same time U are very human very real ¡¡¡ It comes to my memory when U mention Partha Sarati in your classes that he said that he had the compromise that every single mom must have their sons tonight after the fight ¡¡¡ and as  soon as u said that your eyes started to become full of tears ¡¡¡

HpS - Who wouldn't.  War is terrible, no?

Last year when U were giving initiation to Syamakunda and U remember his father, the situation became too emotional . I was not there but later I got the video ¡¡ It was really amazing ¡¡¡ The way You remember your friend.

I can cite more examples but I do not want to make U uncomfortable.

The only thing that I want to convey is that I admire the way U are your determination, the purity of your soul , a child’s soul. It came to my memory also when U commented in one class that one Maharaja in India told U: “Hanuman Swami U did not grow up ? did you?,” U are like peter pan ¡¡

Radharani refuses to grow ¡

Radharani refuses to know ¡

U are always fresh, happy, pure, and that is why U follow faithfully what your very dear Gurumaharaja asks, your beloved and respected Srila Prabhupada ¡¡¡

You are transparent, authentic, u taught me to continue no matter happens, I have to confess that last year many times I wanted to drift apart ISKCON, but each time I tried, I remember U, your words, classes, gifts and I just couldn’t because honestly I just can not imagine my life without HH Hanumatpresaka Swami on it ¡¡¡¡

I am happy and sad at the same time, because even  though I write in all my letters BELOVED GM, if u were really beloved to me I wouldn’t have failed U the way I did many times ¡¡¡ So

My only desire is next year have the fortune to be in front of You and tell U I love U Beloved Gurudeva

Trying always to be iur disciple again

Candramukhi dd

HpS - Your dog will always love you also (if you feed him). AGTSP!

All glories to Rai and kanai

All glories to Srila prabhupada

All glories to you Pamho Dear gm.

Sorry that I don't write ofthen,

ASA - You are like Clint Eastwood also, you don't talk much, but when you talk, your paint brush talks for you.  -[;o)

I try my best to get in fmp with my bad internet. This year was very good full on changes, thanks for your guidance we are following the 4 principles , japa but not much into the temple .....so much work to do, and the crowd its hard for us to deal means we have to develop more tolerance:) we go to other temple and parikram.

HpS - ASA --- Its a fact. It is nice during the afternoon when the Temple is closed to outside people, then at 4.30PM

By the time we are working in cow projects to protect the and regular basis (food and medicines). It's amazing how wonderful and mistreated they are of course in the streets. Also we joined the sublime foundation (its a NGO that is focused in to green transition and selsuficiency working together with Bliss in iskcon ) so if radharani allow us we will start preaching soon in a small level to create awareness about the situation in imfia.

And give easy and useful solution we are invited for ELS meetings its only one week. I want to ask you so may things but I will. ask when you come :0). By the way we spoke with prasanta mataji about any seminar that you could give so we need dates to arrange the programs, everything according to what you prefer to teach. I'm been lit bit sad because I'm leaving soon so I'm trying to keep my mind full busy even if I know I will take vraj with me.

HpS - Afects a lot!  Hmmm.  It can make you go mad.  Better to never leave Braja, just go disappear in the forest and die of exposure, than leave Braja, but....  if you don't go out, how will other people learn of the wonderful land of Vrndavan???  As long as you have any little thought of Braja while traveling outside, the Gopis can keep you on the remote control and you will be connected with Braja.

It's affects a lot, so I'm learning acupressure and biomagnetism to help other. It's not easy so much to study and I have memory deficiency. Please take care I heard your health its not good so I will try to look afther you from far maybe some reiki will be good if you allow me Ys Vraja bhandar Rcd

HpS - ASA - We are posting the details here in the Blog, but we arrive in Delhi roughly the 18th night and leave for Kolkatta the 21st morning. So I guess we will stay in Delhi or maybe squeeze in a trip to Vraja.

Later, the, 25th - 29th we will be in Braja!