Letters to the editor

Respected Guru Maharaj,

Please acccept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

I wish I could be there in Delhi with you to serve you, lucky are those people-who have the chance.

I always read that how much hard work you do, preaching/traveling and as a result, sometimes, you have so many physical problems like headache and swelling etc. I was talking to Priya and she said that why guru maharaj does not come to Brisbane and stay with us, and I told her that if guruji can't stay with an advanced grihastha like Nitai-Gaur Sunder Prabhu, what about us-the fallen ones.

I am just imagining how you are giving lecture in Delhi temple and Jitamitra Prabhu would be translating, so wonderful.

I would try my best to join you for your next Indian yatra during Feb 2016, especially to Manipur.  I met with Dhaneshwari and Dhruvananda-they also want to be with you in Manipur. Guruji! I do remember you had a plan to come to Australia after India during Kartik 2015, but now there is a change, any other plan in future for Australia?

My chanting is going on very well, I get up 4 'o' clock and finish my 16 rounds.  Today I finished reading Gopiprandhan Prabhu's Tattva Sandarbha translation by Jiva Goswami and just started reading Mathura meets Vrindavan by Gaur Govind maharaj.

Priya and children doing well, I hope to improve quality of my chanting by your blessings, thanks a lot.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

HpS - Jaya! AGTSP paoho.   Thank you for the news.   We only hope that you get all the fundamental principles of our yoga very solid in your life. Of course, everyone is very different. Some one is attached to gambling, another to marijuana, another to expensive clothes...    so it may be quick or slow depending how deep these attachments are BUT we can always see how we are progressing by making little steps and rules to advance our sense control.
Guess won't be able to visit Australia in Fall 2015. Guess we won't be able to travel as much as before. Becoming very painful to travel on airplanes for like six hours.  You have to become Guru.
 

Hare Krsna Maharaj,
Pamho, Agtsp

Hello to UG, TB and  BW

ASA -  E=M*C*C, Whoop! Whoop!,  Oink!   Oink!

We hope you all are progressing in Lord Chaitanya Sankirtana.

We deliberatlely did not write to you {HpS and ASA associates] as most our issues are related to dark well and perennial challenges related to it.  there was no relevant news of sankirtana. we are working on it. we are trying to chant 16 rounds daily, morning prayers, reading, 4 rounds and house holder duties in balance way (krsna is helping us a lot)

we are reporting this to  Professor Huber Robinson as there is no better person than him in matter of psychology.
Professor , we went pillbuster and clinical pscychologist  {CP} regarding our anger and controlling problem.

they have diagnosed us  Obsessive complusion disorder [OCD] and problem due to emotion injuries. (on the basis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ® -2 (MMPI ® -2))

ASA - Wow!     When I took a test like that I would feel very proud: Look, I am crazy! I need special attention. (Of course, some of this stuff is actually true and helpful (but also sometimes devotees can surpass all this easily, no?))

they say our sub-conscious is craving for affection (inference from Online  Rorschach  Test http://theinkblot.com/ ). Harsh says his conscious mind says he does not need affection. CP says thats the struggle b/w sub conscious and conscious mind.

HpS - Jung, Prabhupada, both say that your sub-conscious mind is very accessible during Brahma muhurta and you can make it more conscious. Sounds like a good analysis, but I would confirm it by our Yoga of B-muhurta, Japa.

due  [OCD]  to we got finicky about things.

we are going to continue treatment optimize the problme of OCD and emotional injuries
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we also met a nice devotee [vrindavan das [email protected] ) who works on temperament identification (on basis of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_temperaments)  since  september. he also identified our temperament (based on observation not any test) as majorily as Melancholy perfectionist (64%) , Powerful choleric (26%) and peaceful Phlegmatic(10%).

we applied this perfectionist and powerful temperament in our married life. and have crushed emotions of our wife who is having different temparament ratios.

he asked us to relax our standards, increase our indulgence in sense gratification ( resorts, food, sex etc) to satisfy/ heal our relationship with wife.

because his finding is that Harsh is not peaceful when there is unrest in home.

HpS - God!  Illicit sex!!???       That's only, always, going to increase the hell.   Of course, SB 1.11.31-32, type Grhasta "sex" is O.K. Nice.  Buy your wife candy or flowers, no?   Prabhupada says that embracing between husband and wife is natural. But illict sex only makes everyone feel dirty and cheated afterwords.   We don't have a sub-conscious desire to become meat, fish or eggs. We have a sub-conscious desire to become immortal energy angels!
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practically we see we are tied up in battle between cognition v/s affect. should be v/s want to be.
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our only hope is NOI preface
""In all spiritual affairs, one’s first duty is to control his mind and senses. Unless one controls his mind and senses, one cannot make any advancement in spiritual life. Everyone within this material world is engrossed in the modes of passion and ignorance. One must promote himself to the platform of goodness, sattva-guṇa, by following the instructions of Rūpa Gosvāmī, and then everything concerning how to make further progress will be revealed.""

till we reach sattva guna we would be needing your help a lot esp in matter of satisfying the SPOG.

regards,

Harsh born in In India with 

human body  & ( monkey and horse mind)

HpS - My experience is that it always helps to chant Hare Krsna right in the middle of the strange problems. Then Krsna can give a little good intelligence and we can move up.
One VERY good psychological survey showed that Hare Krsna males are 100 times more likely to be Compulsive personalities that normal people. Do you fold your shirts and sort them into different categories?

We do.

But we want pharmacists, doctors others to be compulsive personalities. O.K. Is not a bad trait. Just have to purify it. Learn when to relax. We still have to struggle with this at 67 years old. Ha!  Ha!   Ha!    Expect rapid progress but be patient that if this is a deep root it may take even more than one life to extract it.   ....  but....   the effort is eternal!

In general, sounds great you psycho-therapy if you just keep a perspective of Srila Prabhupada's lessons. See you in a few days.

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Grouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji's padmacharan that I could not understand the 

" One man is in Manipur and that is all he sees. Another man is in Manipur and he sees it in terms of very practical relationship with India, Earth, Brahmanda!"

Please instruct us the minimum requirements of a beisnava and daily duties for all of us. We the initiated bhaktas a group is doing weekly programe of Satsanga-namasankirtana, Krsna Katha and day to day discussion of a particular topics. All our programe are started after Guru Bandana. Please aasirbad us from the  distance so as to enable us to continue regularly and more better performance and to increase our spiritual knowledge.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara 

<img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" />HpS - ASA - Jaya!   AGTSP paoho.      We were so busy in Houston Temple for one week. They are starting a Pre-school and Primary school. We helped with that. We gave four Bhakti-vaibhava classes (Canto One - Six Diploma) and several Temple and outside preaching programs. We have changed our ticket. Now we arrive in India on Monday, 4th May, Delhi.

Look at posting here in the Blog for India Calendar.

Priorities are:

1. Chant Hare Krsna as much as you can. At least 16 enthusiastic rounds on beads.

2. Follow four principles strictly.

3. Brahma-muhurta, Mangala-arati, Kirtan, Srimad Bhagavatam

4. Evening Arati, Kirtan, Reading (with others).

5. Help Lord Caitanya in His Sankirtan movement by preaching, distribution of books, giving donations, cleaning temple, dressing deity, distribution of prasadam .....

Hare Krsna!
Who else is there with you in Thoubal?

Thank you.

We won't be able to answer letters from 3rd-27th of May. We will put the details in the Kapi Dhavja.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and U   ____'0_ 

pamho

Here we are! Alive!  

KAPI DHVAJA IS TRANSLATED AND POSTED!!!

We finished our 6th cicle at university and now VACATIONS!!! at least until new cicle opens so we have to wait. In the meantime we are going to travel.

However our true mission remains; 16R,4P,MA with enthusiasm, patience and intelligence. Be useful  in some way in your Sankirtan dear Gurudeva.

regarding your questions...

HpS - How is your family? What are they doing? How is the Yatra? Are you doing Pujari work? What do you learn of practical value in school? Any nice people at school? How are you kidneys...

Family is ok. My dad is 88 years old, so he is very weak now. Mom is taking care of him. they basically are at home... My mom got crazy by reading Teachings of Queen Kuntī, she felt so identified with some prayers.

Unfortunately now i have no direct service in temple but i hope back to do some service in pujari. 

As you told me before we can always learn from others, for example something i like is that at school i learn from a lot of strategies to teach. All my classmates are very nice... They dont call me as my civil name but as Patrak das, they are teachers from diferent schools and methodologies so i learn a lot. I have one friend who teaches in Waldorf schools, i love that kind of teaching.

Kidneys are very very well. But i still have to take a lot of pills. it doesnt matter if i can get up and chant my rounds and read Srimad Bhagavatam... Its so excited!

Thanks a lot for being such an inspiration for me.

yours in service

Patraka Das

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP    paoho.  Thank you for your news!      It is all very inspiring for us.     Are you developing internally?   Then it will begin to show, shine, externally as it gets stronger. If Krsna wants you can be a great leader for many people, by example, preaching, writing, singing, teaching.

Please send us a Krsna Conscious review of some of the preaching strategies.

AGTSP paoho

We received a message from a devotee in the ABC Temple, but it is a comment that we get often, so we thought we would answer here. If you have a confidential letter then 1) You can just talk about the general princples and not name specific people, 2) You can even open a different account and post it there. Pretty much if you can discuss it wih us privately you can at leaset discuss it in general terms here. Then we can give out opinion and sixteen more devotees will get the same question answered.

The problem is that the atmosphere in the Temple seems to have changed a lot. Devotees are doing things superficially. They criticize each other frequently, so the devotee then feels depressed about going to Festivals, regular Temple programs and visits sometimes privately and ocassionally with a few devotees, but doesn't discuss this problem with others so as not to contaminate their consciousness.

1) One reporter asked Prabhupada if there were problems in his Temples. Prabhupada answere, "This is the material world. There are problems everywhere."

Even when Krsna was personally present in Vrndavana there were demons causing mis-carriages for the girls.

So, we never expect the ISKCON Temples to be free from problems. Maharaja Pariksit was unfairly cursed by a Brahmana boy, but he took it as impetous to get free from his attachment. So the problems are good.

2) Sometimes the Temple is super enthusiastic, some times it is not. Sometimes our Madhyama adhikari guru falls down, some times our movment is divided into political factions, but in all cases we have only one choice, take shelter of Srila Prabhupada and go on.

3) Prabhupada told devotees that even if they felt they were the most advanced devotees in the Temple still they shold go to class. If they gave all the classes that was still O.K.

So, basic principle is we should go to the Temple and give our association to the devotees. Yes, we can look for more advanced devotees there and spend more time with them at the Temple or individually.
The very fact that there are some ISKCON rituals and ISKCON Festivals means that there is some association. At least they will benefit from our advanced position.

You may say, "Oh, no! I am worse than others!"

No, if we can see the problem and want to give positive energy to the situation then at least we are more advanced than those who can't see it or just want to exploit it.
4) Krsna sends the association. We are getting what we need right now.

So please, Monkey Warriors contribute your perspectives and questions here.

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

Thank You so so much for Guruji's quick reply. This time I will drop Guruji's meeting at Vrndavana. Of the previous chart this quotation makes more confusion that "The residents of the upper planetary systems, beginning from Brahmaloka ( the Svargaloka (the heavenly planet of Indra) are so advanced in spiritual life that, when they come to visit this or similar other lower planetary systems, they keep their weightlessness. 4.20.22. Just today I read this sloka and the purport.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP paoho. Sorry little slow answering here. Much Sankirtan here in Texas. Lot of work planning our visit to Delhi.     Demigods adopt gross forms. It is like a man who has a dog, no? The dog smells other dogs lower parts, urinates where other dogs have urinated, so when the rich man goes for a walk with his dog he does not adopt the same habits, no? He relates to his dog through a lease, a cord or chain, but he maintains his level of consciousness mostly. Yes, his dog pulls him. His dog may bark at someone and he is responsible.

So Indra, others, their bodies have different combination of "bhumir apo 'nala vayu...", (BG7.4) than your bodies. As you go on with Bhakti yoga you will realize this aspect of the cosmos. You will become master of these mystic yogic (for Krsna).

My family members are alright. My wife had retired from the State Government service on the 28th Feb. of this year. My youngest daughter, who is working in the Sonata Software M.N Company at Hyderabad had transferred at Bangalore in this week and my son's appointment letter is not yet received.

Please give advice if any for the upliftment in the spiritual world.

HpS - Keep writing to the Blog and let people know about the Vaisnava culture of Manipur.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das