Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Guru maharaja,

AGTSP!

We hope you feel better from pain GM,

HpS - ASA -  AGTSP!!!!    Paoho...    "Pain is fear escaping from the body" - Marine Corp

We are improving little in Japa, but we keep chanting too fast maybe, like the world is going to end...

ASA - Are you trying to finish your rounds quickly???

Nice to have all this asociation from all spiritual family.

HpS - ISKCON, ISKCON, ISKCON - Founder Acharya, Ki Jai!​

Our husband is out of the country working for the past 3 months, coming back in 3 months more, really hoping less!

HpS - Please!! Give your regards to him and tell him that whatever little association we have had with him has always been wonderful.

All children homeschooling, which is a little of a nightmare sometimes. working from home (2 jobs), we are improving programs at the temple. all principles ok, but we drank chai couple of times, we really needed de energy. most of the day we are like zombies rooming around. and we felt really bad about it, because we liked it.

Guru Maharaja, we had a meeting on sunday with temple authorities and finally after years of talk, we are ready to set an all girl gurukul in vrindavan (i would prefered to be mix) and we are in charge of investigating and try to put togheter the curricular program. so we have a degree in education, but is most reserch than field.      so our experience is inclining us to try to use a gideline in a more "unconventional" way... we studied professor Paulo Freire's work, madam Montessori and A. S. Neill... and a whole lot of Noam chomsky and Humberto Maturana.  We need to talk with some teachers of succesfull Gurukulas and Curricular professional. because this need to work, yes or yes.  and it better be good, because im about to dedicate my life for this mission, wich we have always run away from, but Radharani keeps puting it in front of our face, over and over.

they (authorities) are telling us that boy Gurukula is moving to a different location soon, new buildings are to be finish soon, and they will give us some place in the old gurukula.

any suggestions?

we have a meeting this sunday 5pm we are prepering Powerpoint of our ideas.

Please Guru Maharaja, give us blessings so this works, so i can work... this has to hapen (we think)

on another subject:

question:

so in college we studie some theater. we liked the work of konstantin stanislavski. we always had a thought.... and in his books, his metodology he talks so much about emotional memory. we read the NOD and we think it is somewhat alike... to feel what we can't remember or what we are not feeling in the moment. and how to get in touch with them... also the mood (as we think) of Bhaktivinod Thakur?... are we  crazy to think that its alright to try to "feel" certain "devotional" emotions thru internally  focus  in the emotions portraited by great devotees (example, their songs and poetry?)

Hoping we can become better instruments,

Cakori Radha Devi dasi (sahajiya)

HpS - You need to get Danudhara Swami's, "Waves of Devotion" and Viola Spolins, "Improvisation for the Theater". You can contact Prana Das with Goloka Education in Mumbai. His Skype name is "Prana o'Sullivan".

They can help a lot. Devotees there might know him and Rama giridhari Das.    What you are describing in Raga-anuga Bhakti.  In a liberated state, trying to follow, imitate the emotions of the Ragatmika devotees.  Our whole yoga is Gandharva Veda, no?

Hare Krsna Senor Maharaj
Pamho, AGTSP..
Jaya Rama !!!!!
The list is reaching is about to get completed need to do some final checks/verification.
Who will make the flyer, How will we do it ? 

ASA - Thank you!!!    We will talk to Dr. (with you?!!) and see that list is O.K. with him.  Then we can engage Gauranga-tech, Rama-giridhari Das et al, to work with us on the marketing, promo-letter, method of approach.  We will call soon.

Do you think its better to talk about these over skype ? i think 930 am 10 oct , lima time is fine.

ASA - Here is very, very good for as much as we can do, because we need the collective ASA intelligence to help. Oink!    Oink!    WHoop!   WHooop!
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My wife is helping child a lot. she make sure he does not watch any screen!!! she reads him Panch-Tantra stories..
the back ground of Panch Tantra is - king had sons , he was disappinted that sons are neither devotees nor materially astute. So he send hims to teacher who tell him stories like bhagvatam (story inside a story) to be materially astute

ASA - Yes, we know Pancha​-tantra stories!  There are some excellent audio dramas of them that we heard in English by some Yoga group. Where??   What is Hitopadesa?

We see our son as political leader not as engineer or  doctor ot teacher....

SP says "We want that the mass shall support us, but we want that the class shall preach for us, that is the distinction."  ...http://prabhupadaletters1972.blogspot.in/2007/12/27-december-1972.html

is it okay if we see him like that

ASA - Seems fine to me!    There is children's Srimad Bhagavatam also, no?   Pioneer work. Looking for material for active mind.   We will try to find more for you.  Sunday school program.     Especially can you integrate with Ram-giridhari and Prana et al?  They are not perfect, but you can make them better for your personal benefit and the whole world.  Achintya bheda abheda tattva.   If you fail to save your kid, the whole world will go to hell.
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sadhana is still sine wave but mean is not zero, and freq is decreasing...

ASA - Yessss, to us it seems your mean has really gone up.
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any other service ?

reagards,
horse

HpS - Just struggle, struggle, struggle to pronounce clearly.  With your help we will contact Dr. and go ahead in this line.  Everything you are doing seems to be moving in the right direction. Don't change the direction, just improve the efficiency.

Offer our respects and hello to your good wife!

Hare Krishna Maharaja

PAMHO   All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

I'm reading a small book titled Swamiji.  In it Bramananda explains what it meant to him to be given Sannyasa.  "After the sannyasa cerermony there was a prasadam feast.  Sannyasa, we were told was social suiside.  No more society, frendship, and love.  Total dedication to Krishna, without any distractions."   Prabhupada sent him (and three others) off with only 25 cents in his pocket.  He slept in construction sites and showered in colleges.  "In fact, they were being trained in the school of real life, so that their newfound renunciation would have depth and legitamacy. "  In my ignorance, I have been being too familiar with you.  I have been a distraction and have not been treating you with the proper respect that should be given a pure devotee of Krishna.   We hope you can fit Sacramento into your schedule next year.

I remain your humble servant,   David, the fool on the hill

HpS - Hare Krsna.     Thank you so much for your letter.   I think you have been treating us rather well. Another definition of Sannyasa is eating good food and not having to work to hard.  Ha!   Ha!  Ha!         Actually, we have slept under trees sometimes.  Bathed in public beach showers.  I don't think it is much for tough than being a married guy for Krsna if you are doing either ashram with sincerity.   A lot of the real austerity for me is passing hours standing in airport lines, and sitting in transit lounges.

Maybe we are 87% pure, by Srila Prabhupada's EXTREME austerity.  Lot more to go.

I have clipped, filed and am trying to get to your paper letter again and again!

Hope you get a chance to get some of your wisdom out to others on your hill!!!!

Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 4:47 AM
Subject: BhVai - where we are at?

Dear Guru Maharaja and devotees, please accept my humble obeisances. 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please excuse me for disturbing your bhajan. 

If you allow, I would like to ask where we are at in our BhVai study program?

Also, am I expected to do something about the situation in which the program is now?

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya das, from Yahoo.

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ASA - 2014 Oct 8

Hare Krsna!     AGTSP.     Paoho.   Please write to the Blog with all this.
From my perspective we are right at the Lotus Feet of Srila Prabhupada, doing Nama-kirtan, with this program (barely).     We still have the Saturday morning meetings on line, and I send the links to the recordings by Twitter.

We tried our best, which is very tiny, to get the record keeping stuff arranged but:

After about four requests to complete the document list, not all the testing for the last canto done, no report of progress on correcting the examinations, no progress in efforts to involve the temple managements in the administration and development of the program after repeated efforts, then:

We are taking another approach.

We are pretty much waiting for the next step in systematic progress to come from the formal ISV side.
We have looked back at our own heart in terms of this systematic relations with Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet, study of his books, and we recommended that everyone should do that, often!

Our conclusion is that we need to:

1. Have regular Pada-padma Study every Saturday morning, and we will continue it with SM now.
2. We need a general Spanish class at SM every Saturday evening.
3. We have a BhS program going with NGD, we are joining the Boise, Anantarupa Lilamrta class Friday evening and that is about it.
4. All this is in intense perspective with the Ministry of Education etc.
5. We will post this letter on the Blog!
6. So....    please Chant Nitai-Gaura, HK/HR and join us Saturday. This week we will do our overview of the First Two Cantos, then some one else can do something that tickles their fancy the following week.

Let's all go to Goloka!  Let's all stay in the very same boat!   Let's all stay in the Sankirtan movement, ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, will keep us all afloat (with the words he wrote)!

CHAPTER NINE – Billy Brine

Billy Brine, cousin to our Rat,

Was distinguished by a Bolivian, felt, simpleton’s hat.

151007

3.25AM - R[5]
We just started Chapter 17 of the TLC. We learned one new detail after another: Chapter 17 so far is a summary study of CC 1.7, Lord Caitanya in Five Features. The dialog with Prakasananda Sarasvati that starts in Chapter 18 also starts in CC 1.7. The assignations of the verse, “Pancha tattva makam krsnam…”, now seems clearer to us. We see Prabhupada talking about both Confidential and Internal devotees when he is talking about Gadadhara Pandita, as contrasted with Srivasa Pandita who is the marginal potency. This seems to clarify our questions of whether Jiva souls become internal potency when they become attracted to conjugal love. Seems that some are Jiva and some are Hladini Shakti.

We develop a hypothesis. Then we read with that attitude and see confirmation or rejection.

Next, we see Prabhupada emphasizes learning from the Six Goswamis, but here we see him emphasizing especially following the path chalked out by Srila Jiva Goswami!

3.34AM – Time for bath, Puja, FMP. See you after that.

7.05AM – FMP, Japa to R[16], Krsna-katha with Bk. Daniel. Now let’s read and write and honor Banana, P-nut butter and Jam Prasadam.

Monkey: Well, Mr. Wizard, what should you write?     You have BhSastri, BG class, to give later.

HpS: Well, Bhakta Tom, at this point I guess we should write lyrical fiction. It’s the only thing that seems to take us out of the work-a-day world of dollars and incensed people.

Deely’s Day

Once there was a goat named Deely, who was standing on the seeding machine out back of the barn. It put him about 30-inches up in the sky, so he had a pretty good view of the barn-yard around him. It was a little before 7AM and the October frost was just starting to dust the pumpkins. The smell of the sage from the desert was especially intoxicating, and Deely just stood there feeling the strong rays of the rising sun warming him. Eventually he even let out a loud bleat, feeling so animated.

A few hours later he was headed up the path to Clear Mountain Spring with Barney, the farm owner’s son, and Buitch, Barney’s collie. Barney had strung a pair of shoulder packs on Deely’s back and he was actually feeling quite useful. He also knew that unless he was able to contribute with cargo like this he probably would not have been brought along. Barney liked him, and so did Buitch [and Tasco, the Myna bird] but the extra care for a non-contributing team member would have been a real liability on a trip like this.

Deely rolled his shoulders a little to adjust the pack and then even took the lead some times since he was actually the oldest there by body years.

When they got to their destination, it was cold and crisp. It was the Ashrama of Leeky-pal Muni and the Ambarisa Bhu, Camp-park.
Some campfires had already been set in the fire rings and the smoke of burning pine and people huddling around fires in thick wool coats filled the air.

Barney, Buitch and Deely, set up their little tents by one open section next to the Great Stream and then went to see Leeky-pal Muni.

“How many times does the work, “hate” appear in the Krsna book, and does it mention Krsna ever hating anyone.

Leeky-pal went into trances and responded, “As far as I can tell, two times, and it is demons hating Krsna or Krsna not hating anyone.”

We will go back to the world and quite reading pamphlets from “The Hindu Heavenly Hate Society”.
“Good idea”, said, Leekey-pal Muni, "Better to go for a bike ride and dress like a Yogi so people ask you about the “Happy Heavenly Hindo Society”".

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