Letters to the editor

Querido Gurumaharaja: 

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias!

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Gurumaharaja, nosotros no merecemos,  pero si necesitamos muchísimo Su asociación vapuh. 

Entendemos que hubo una gran diferencia de $$$ en los precios de ticket para el viaje a India y surgieron cambios de fecha para México. 

Seremos muy afortunados si aún existe la posibilidad de tomar su asociación vapuh en las fechas de Navidad de este año. 

Prabhu Radhika Raman también vendría con Usted a México ? 

Esto sería increíble, porque de esa manera podriamos hacer el reporte oficial de " Psicología y lo Sagrado" junto con madre Lalita Gopi y podemos hacer algo de tours por Tulansingo también.

Marathon termina 31 de Diciembre y la mayoría de sankirtaneros regresan la primera semana de Enero para hacer la fiesta de Sankirtana. 

Muchas gracias Gurumaharaja, porsupuesto,  primeramente deseamos no sobrecargar Su agenda de viajes dando prioridad a Su importante prédica. 

Por favor disculpe que recién escribo, gracias a Srila Prabhupada estamos bien. Si estuvimos un poco  ocupados con algunos servicios regulares de pujari, (puja y snana) 

En los festivales también nos permiten poner el vestido de flores a Sri Sri Radha y Krsna chota, tratamos de esforzarnos, entiendo que las Deidades son las principales predicadores. 

 Producciones Artísticas Natabara ( Lavanga dd, Karuna sakti dd y Asta Sakhi dd) presentó la obra " El malvado  Kamsa" en Janmahstami, enfocando básicamente el lado de la irreligiosidad y los motivos principales por lo que el Mismo Señor Supremo desciende a ejecutar Sus lilas. Parece que fue buena prédica. 

Adjunto algunas fotos. 

Por favor disculpe nuestras ofensas. 

Su eterna aspirante a sirviente 

Asta Sakhi dd

HpS - ASA --- Jaya!   Nuestra vuelo a India (como llegar para el simposio en Tirupati 2 Enero) es 30 Deciembre a las 4PM de Houston.
Entonces, vamos a ir a Mexico como 25 Deciembre, Navidad?  Va a ser un disturbio para la marathon?  Hay muchos modos distribuir libros.   Posible podemos relacionar esta visita mas de esta manera.  Otro opcion es pasar por Mexico cuando regresamos de India como 15 febero.

Gracias noticias de sus Dramas, todo!   Super.  !SANKIRTAN!

Esperamos su respuesta y commentarios de otros.

Letter to Prahlad-ananda Swami

Hare Krsna, Maharaja,

AGTSP paoho.

We hope this meets you in the best of Sankirtan spirits!    We have a ticket for India from 1st Jan to 15th Feb.

First is Vaisnava-Christian Dialog and then a Symposium on the Bhagavata that Radhika-ramana Das and Krsna-ksetra are organizing.

The conclusion is the GBC, Guru, Sannyasi Sanga in Mayapura.  I hope to sit with Braja-bihari Das in November and discuss the program, but I also wanted to discuss it with you.

I asked him if you were on the Organizing Committee but he said no, but you attended.  Why is that?   Hmmmm?       It seems as Minister of Sannyasa Services you should be intimately involved with the project.

We have some very poignant thoughts on this topic: GBC Sannyasa relations, that we really feel are essential at this point in ISKCON's development.

What about you?

What about Bhakti Purna Vidya Swami's ideas?

Maybe we could even write small paper and present some ideas at the Sanga.

Bhakti rasa amrta Swami made the point that in Buddhism there is the Sanga and the Sangha. The Sanga is the association of devotees and the Sangha is the organizational institution and the relation between these is clarified.

Thank you

HpS

We would like to circulate all these ideas amongst our little Sankirtan team.

Hare Krsna!  "Monkey", Bhakta Tom, asked us to post the following for comments:

VAISNAVI
We have been little confused by what seems to be the introduction of the term “Vaisnavi” into our ISKCON culture. We never heard it much and then it was becoming very prominent and a political slogan.

The position of women, the position of Sannyasis, the position of chocolate, in ISKCON are all topics that are important for creating the proper ambience for Bhagavata Dharma, sravanam, kirtanam et al and we are certainly willing to discuss our opinions on the topics as it is profitable.

Our primary discomfort with the term Vaisnavi has been that it seems to put a bodily conception on the Vaisnava. It seems to be degrading the Vaisnava from pure spirit soul using a material designation, to one actually determined by that designation. It is offensive to see the Spiritual Master, the Deity in the Temple or a Devotee from a materialistic point of view, no?

We have been sitting on these inquietudes with our tail tucked away for a long time trying to understand them, and have seen very exalted Matajis have the same comprehension that they also feel that the term puts a material conception on their right to be Vaisnavas, as if we would say Atma and Atmi.

Well, by golly, we looked up the term on Vedabase.com and it is cited variously in Prabhupada’s books, but the majority of cases it comes back as a name for goddess Durga.

There seem to be only three other cases where Prabhupada uses it: For the prostitute who tried to seduce Hari Dasa Thakura and then became a Vaisnavi, for Diti who tried to murder her sister’s babies and them became a Vaisnavi and Prabhupada’s own sister.

These are all elevated souls. We should be so lucky to achieve their positions, but is there some material conception still lingering in their realization? Maybe yes, maybe no.

Prabhupada appears to have unlimited affection for his very, very esteemed sister, but the general ambience is there that other family members still retained some flavor of material conception in their worship of Visnu, and therefore do we think of them as mildly materially tinged Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis such as Maitreya Muni before he met Krsna with Uddhava et al.

Well, we asked HpSwami to post this so that people could give us there opinions. There are like 9-more things that we could say about this but then we would not be able to get to Sannyasa and Chocolate, so we will stop here.

Jack London: Before you can write even 100-words worth publishing, you have to write 100,000 words of trash, so start writing trash.

Monkey/Piggy - I think we are up to about 45,000 now so guess we have to put our nose to the grind stone and push on.   Go and do thou like wise:

The Devil's Lawyer: Well, why do you want to write anyway?     Why don't you just to some serious work?

M/P: Because we only have so much material, linear, serious, strength. It seems that we have a lot more spontaneous strength, non-linear, as Hari-lila Das describes it, Free Association.

WE WANT TO write for Radharani who has been kidnapped by Raw Vana and hankers to be with Ram.

He inspires Her to service all the live day long.

Writing books, building dams in the Yamuna so that there are ponds of water where the cows and calves can have a drink and the boys and us can swim and dink.

Life is simple in Vrndavana Dham. People forget the outside world of Bing!  and  Bam!   Kamsa killed his donkey who was a rat who killed a crow, who was a snake who ate a mouse, and where this all started is something we don't know.
News from 'thura, News from Spain, News from Russia, News fills our brain.
In Vraja people forget what's News,
And people outside want no News of Vraja because it's not filled with golden hues. Just fruits and flowers, cows and figs, and in the evening puppets and music with local kids.

Oink!   Oink!!!

Querido Gurumaharaja: 

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias!

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhuada! 

Hemos leído el Kapi Dhvaja . 

Respecto a las noticias sobre la distribución de la revista Solaris , justamente estamos en plática con madre Lalita Gopi, analizando las estrategias para este fin. Hemos entregado algunas revistas a Prabhu Gadhadara Gosai de Monterrey y a Krsna Kirtana para Uruapan.  Disculpe por favor el retraso . Enviaremos más noticias prontamente. 

Por otro lado , queremos decirle que estamos muy emocionados y muy felices que Ud mencione a México como la propuesta del lugar  para la celebración del auspicioso Sri Vyasa puja, 30 de Diciembre .  Es una gran bendición !!!   En medio de las tinieblas,  aparece un enorme rayo de luz  iluminado por Sus bendiciones e infinita misericordia que nos acerca más a Srila Prabhupada y a Sri Krsna. Millones de gracias querido Gurumaharaja!!!! Estaremos atentos a Sus instrucciones. 

Disculpe nuestras ofensas por favor. 

Su eterna aspirante a sirviente 

Asta Sakhi dd. 

HpS - Es 30 Deciembre. Cuando termina el Marathon? Podemos celebrar in Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexico, Pueblo Aravinda, no?  Depende en cual comunidad gana el Marathon.  Ha!  Ha!  Hare!     O podemos utilizar otra criteria.

Gracias!  Esperando su respuesta.

Guru-Lila (Part 5)

[HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!   Paoho.  Guru-lila or Animal Kirtan?]

In part 4, we talked about how guruji was engaged fully as usual in devotional service to Guru and Gauranga and it was Ekadashi and we were in Mumbai and it was on 19th March 2016.  Now let us take a next step and see what is happening on 20th March, Sunday:-

In the morning, we did Mangal Arti.  All the disciples of His Holiness Hanumat Preshak Swami Maharaj should understand this thing very clearly that he never misses mangal arti, it does not matter if there is no temple around, he would place a picture of Radha-Krishna, Prabhupad etc. on any elevated place and start singing sansar davanal in front of Them, if there is no musical instrument, that is also not a problem for him, he would use his lotta or kamandalu or his eating spoon to make some sweet sound and would start glorifying the Lord, well, Utility is the principle.

After Mangal Arti, we went to ISKCON Temple in Navi Mumbai, the suburb is called 'Khargar'. Big, beautiful temple, I was quite excited.  In the past, I have been to Mumbai with guruji  many years ago and we had visited Juhu and Chaupati temple and Mira Road temple, that time Khargar temple was not existing, so this was the first visit of guruji there and he gave Bhagvatam class there on 'Dhruv Maharaj returning Home' (4.9.9) and you know, the devotees there,  just loved it.  We also met Shriman Soor Das Prabhu, President of ISKCON Navi Mumbai. After the Bhagvatam Pravachan, We went to one very nice South Indian devotee's house and he fed us traditional prasad, so delicious, I wish I can get that prasad again.  After that, we came back to our base, packed-up and start traveling to Pune, Harsh Prabhu was driving us, only three of us, Guruji and Harsh and myself.

Photo 1-Guruji in Navi Mumbai temple

Photo 2 and 3-Guruji with Soor Das prabhu

Photo4-Guruji with South Indian devotee family

HpS - ASA - Aaaah!  We remember that. It is so nice when Krsna gives us one thing after another that we can do. Being engaged in any service is so nice.  Navi mumbai Temple is very nice and little frightening becaus so many culturally elevated people there, devotees of Krsna by birth. Learned Sanskrit in public school sometimes.  Will Raktak Ji recount what happened in Pune next???

Thank you for reminding us of this Sankirtan, mercy of Srila Prabhupada.