Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada!

Espero que se encuentre muy bien de salud.

HpS - 67 anos!  Bajo energia por la predica pero bien. Espamos descansar un poco la proxima semana.

Le escribo para reportar mi servicio.

Terminamos el estudio del Bhagavad Gita, y realizaremos un exámen de todo el libro, antes de comenzar con Néctar de la Devoción y demás libros. Terminamos en octubre con éste curso, y luego de ello pienso retomar el proyecto de  escuela para los niños.

HpS - Vd es profesor, no?

Continúo con la organización de Talleres y cursos en el templo. En breve comenzaremos con 2 talleres para niños. Uno de música; canto coral y mantras con Madre Cynthia Farias, y un taller de Yoga con Madre Gandharvika Radhika.

HpS - ASA - Super!  Pienso estas cursos cortas son los mejores.

Quiero además contarle que estamos esperando un nuevo bebé. Ya tiene 3 semanas 1/2, y estamos muy felices. Esperamos que crezca sano (a) y sea un devoto (a). Continuaré con el Instructorado de Yoga.

HpS - Bien. Mucha austeridad para Vd. como Madre!

Una de mis profesoras está muy cercana a los devotos de Krishna, y otro compañero muy interesado siempre en la filosofía y nuestra cultura..

La familia está bien. 

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También quiero hacerle una consulta.

¿Cuál es Su opinión acerca de dejar de consumir lácteos que no vengan de una vaca feliz (vaca que no es maltratada en las industrias)?

Escucho de muchos devotos decir que no se deben consumir lácteos ya que el maltrato que sufren las vacas en la industria lechera es horrible. Y he sabido que algunos Maestros Espirituales no consumen lácteos, pero hasta ahora no he escuchado a ninguno "predicar" el "Veganismo", o decir algo en cuánto a éste tema. Si, me interesa mucho saber qué piensa usted.

HpS - ASA - [translate.google.com].  Our understanding is that the treatment of animals in the USA has improved since the time of Prabhupada because of the efforts of several groups. In Chile it may be worse. Prabhupada knew of some of these problems but promoted the use of milk in offering to Krsna and consuming the results. Meat eaters need milk products to give up meat. If we live in the forest then maybe Brahmanas don't need milk, but for mental strength to advise the King and preach then seems the brain needs milk.

Of course we look for the best milk. In California there is a big difference in the way th cows are treated and the quality of the milk from different companies.

The best way to help the cows is Sankirtan Yajna. For that we need brain power, so we use their mik to help them.

O.K?

Esperando que ésta carta lo encuentre bien.

Su sirviente 

Priya Sakhi DD

HpS - Gracias!   Reverencias a todos lo devotos. Pienso venimos a Chile en Enero!

Respected Guru Maharaj,

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

I went to twitter and listened the lecture on start meeting with Nitai Gaur prabhu, it was so nice.  I was going to ask you that you should also put this link in your Monkeywarrior home page and it is already there, Jaya. Guruji! kindly do this every time, that you also put the link on this website, since someone may not have the twitter acct and thus, they would be bereft of the opportunity to listen.

Guruji! have your chalked out your indian program, any rough sketch? In one of your news letter you mentioned that you would be going to Manipur, would you also be going to your usual places of pilgrimage like Naimisharanya and Lucknow etc. and Vrindavan/Mayapur or would you like to go to Punjab?

Here in Brisbane, everything is OK, my job is always up and down, but my chanting 16 rounds good quality, now-a-days I m reading Bhagvad Gita As It Is and sometimes, I go online and see the commentaries of different Acharayas on the same verse, it is really interesting.

Priya and children are excited to join you next year during your Indian journey, hope Krishna provides enough by that time.

Thanks and HARE KRISHNA.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP...  paoho...  We hope you are making nice progress in all of the basic principles of Sadhana, no?       For example, if someone is attached to sports activities, like gambling, then he is lacking part of the foundation to his Bhakti-lata and it will grow, but slowly and even with distortion, so we all have to understand these priority items of Sadhana Bhakti: Sixteen enthusiastic rounds minimum, four-principles strictly, a full Brahma-muhurta, morning program . . .   Sankirtan!

Then from Vaidhi-bhakti we can progress to Raga-anuga Bhakti very naturally (BG 4.10 Purport!).

First is am I?      Guess we are a mostly a writer at this point in life.   Who is the Raktaka Das?

Second is who are we?      For India we have Dr. Samaresh, Rama-giri-dhari Das, Yamuna in Manipur, Indian disciples and friends (Eg. Vasu Gosh), other Yatris like yourself and the Gopinatha Pujari. . . .

Third we make some plan where to go when....

Who are you?!

- espero que se encuentre bien,donde este usted. siempre recordandolo en todo momento y pidiendo sus bendiciones para poder  prestar mejor servicio al projimo en todo momento y la verdad que funciona ,solo por meditar en su forma la deidad me otorga la oportunidad de poder estar en asociacion con vaishanavas y asi junto a ellos hacer sadhu-sanga todas las semanas ininterrumpidamente.esta practica en el bhajan despierta mi memoria dia a dia de entender que soy un eterno sirviente y amante de la divina pareja sri sri radha syama sundara.

- ofresco ante todo mis respetuosas reverencias a los pies de loto de mi maestro espiritual iniciador y

de todos mis maestros espirituales instructores. - 

- el veredicto de todas las escrituras reveladas es que por asociarse aunque sea un instante con un devoto puro,

se puede alcanzar el exito espiritual completo. -

- todas las escrituras proclaman que sri gurudeva es sakstahari-tva, esta dotado con la potencia de sri hari y ,segun todos los grandes santos,es tambien su representante directo.sri gurudeva Le es muy querido al señor por ser su sirviente confidencial.yo ofrezco reverencias a sus pies de loto. -

-Aunque se que mi maestro espiritual es un sirviente de sri chaitanya,tambien se que es la manifestacion directa del señor.-

- el señor krishna disfruta manifestandose como los maestros espirituales, los devotos,las diversas energias,las encarnaciones y las porciones plenarias.todo ellos son seis en uno. -

-segun el dictamen de todas las escrituras reveladas, el maestro espiritual no es diferente de krishna.El señor krishna en la forma del maestro espiritual libera a sus devotos. -

-toda gloria a chintamani y a somagiri,mi maestro espiritual iniciador.Toda gloria a mi maestro espiritual instructor,la suprema personalidad de Dios,que lleva pluma de pavo real en su corona.bajo la sombra de sus pies de loto,que son como arboles de los deseos,jayasri (Radharani) disfruta de la melosidad trascendental de una consorte eterna.-

-Si alguien desea seriamente verdadera felicidad,debe buscar a un maestro espiritual genuino y rendirse a el por medio de la iniciacion.el maestro espiritual debe haber comprendido profundamente la conclusion de las escrituras mediantes deliberacion y razonamientos,y debe poder  convencer a otros de esas conclusiones.esas grandes personalidades que se han refugiados completamente en el señor supremo y han dejado atras todas las consideraciones materiales son maestros espirituales genuinos.

- se debe saber que el maestro espiritual instructor es la personalidas de krishna.El señor krishna se manifiesta como el alma suprema y como el devoto mas grande del señor. -

jay sri hanumat presak swami maharaj ki jay !!!

feliz guru purnima !!!

HpS - ASA

Jaya!   We are in Mexico. Thak you for the catalog of Spiritual Master quotes.

Fill you heart with the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada!

​Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a su sankirtana eterno.
Hare krsna querido Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba mis humildes reverencias a sus pies de" LOTO" muchas vracias por contestarme usted tiene mucha razon en todo lo que me dijo,todo es cierto mi mente todo esto pasa por mi mente y la verdad desde que me enferme solo e pensado en mi como cuerpo ,como me.voy a ver como.voy a estar sere fea? Por eso tiene toda la razon en todas las cosas que me escribio,converse con prabhu amala todo ya bien y le pedi perdon porque en este tiempo de enfermedad jamas le pregunte amala cantaste tus rondas? me concentre solo en lo que mi mente queria creer ....gracias GURUDEVA POR DESPEJARME MI CABEZA ,MIS DUDAS Y COMO.SIEMPRE DEVOLVERME AL.CAMINO CORRECTO Y HACERME PENSAR CON SENSATES.........TODO ES SIMPLE CANTAR BUENAS RONDAS Y SER FELIZ .......GRACIAS GURUDEVA POR ENTENDERME Y ESTAR SIEMPRE AHY CUANDO ME SIENTO PERDIDA O DESORIENTADA ....SE DESPIDE ALGUIEN QUE ESPERA PODER SERVIRLO AMPARO HERNANDEZ

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!!!!
Super buena suerte en Sankirtan y relacion ETERNO con Srila Prabhupada!

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​All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his eternal sankirtana. "" Hare krsna dear Guru Maharaja, please receive my humble obeisances at his feet of "loto" good GURUDEVA news actually important, know for GURUDEVA you in the. AIRPORT I SAID "EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE, EVERYTHING."

Would come out good, that was well who we MARRY, one helps the other ".. .the to my me helps a lot, however I feel that the solo.le I give problems and more problems and harm you, marrying a woman sick., with children, when you could go to Mathura which was his desire, COMETI knows the. WORST mistake that a woman and was say a lie, maybe white although not exist the lies white now knows GURUDEVA PRABHU AMALA ME says that NO longer wants to be with me, which does not want a life with me than I will to hate is that was by the lie that you. SAID that neither is serious is the fact of the lie, GURUDEVA not is if by the stress of the LAKSHMI which is needed for my operation, by medicines or disappointment that I have menrido know that I I feel helpless and without knowing that do, leave my work and life that I lived in lime, leave my things the REGALE the sold and I came , BRINGING MY SMALL CHILDREN WITH ME, NOW DO NOT WORK BECAUSE I'M SICK AND THAT I CAUSES MOST IT ANGUISH AND DESPAIR, BECAUSE HERE I HAVE FAMILY ALL MY. FAMILY. ERA. AND IS MY. HUSBAND, even at home when he came to ACA family me Hill all the puertad and all that... LEAVE EVERYTHING IN THE HANDS OF. KRSHNA AND CONTINUE WITH 24 ROUNDS AND 4 STRICT PRINCIPLES, IS AN ADVICE NOT ME. DARA BUT IF THE WORDS TO GUIDE ME AND KNOWING WHAT TO DO TELL YOU MY DESIRE IS TO LEARN ENGLISH WELL E GO TO VRINDAVANA AS PROFESSOR I AND MY SMALL STUDY AHY AND PARBHU AMALA WOULD MAYBE NOT BE TEACHER BUT IF THE SAME COOK ETC, IS MY DESIRE THE MORE LARGE I HAVE... THANKS GURU MAHARAJA FOR BEING ALWAYS AHY, THANK YOU FOR ESCICHARME AND READ ME HOPE TO SEE IT SOON YOU IS MY GUIDE, MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WISE ADVICE... SOMEONE THAT ASPIRES TO BE HIS SERVANT AMPARO HERNANDEZ
 

HpS - AGTSP Utiliza translate.google.com. This is not urgent news. That is your confusion. This is news that we have all the time. We have no source of wealth in this world or the spiritual world other than from Krsna and His devotees like Srila Prabhupada and Nanda Maharaja. Breath regularly and chant Hare Krsna until you can see who is Krsna and what He wants you to do. If he wants you to die today, then O.K.

The Robot translation is not good. You have to use simple clear words for the robot to translate them clearly.

Am I cheating you?

Are you cheating Amala?

Is Amala cheating you? All this is not clear. Just go on chanting and be happy. As you read this I may be dead. We are all connected by our service to our Guru, Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you very much for all you austerity. We hope your kids and husband are happy!!!

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Sorry for the delayed reply. In regards to my question about gay marriage, I appreciated very much your reference to SB 1.17.38. Some points that stuck out to me here were "One man's food is another man's poison", and that in some cases, "regulation of adharma is necessary to bring people to the path of dharma."

I had a long conversation about this recently with my old Bhakta leader, and he was saying that the reason for my confusion here was because I was equating two different vows. In others words, marriage is a vow of monogamy, but it doesn't necessarily require 4 regs. As you pointed out, in some cases even animals mate for life. Omkara prabhu said that to ban people from marriage because they don't follow garbadhana samskara would diminish protection of women and other virtues, and would be like "throwing the baby out with the bathwater?" Would gay marriage also fall into the category of adharma which may help vikarmis approach dharma through pravrtti marga? I suppose the key point here is that initiation vows are the same for everybody.

Certainly this is not the highest topic, but I only ask because I feel like I should be competent to give scientific answers on sankirtana. To feel inspired, it's important to me to be able to picture people in Krsna consciousness.

HpS - AGTSP.   Seems like a very broad topic to us. In India for example there has been a class of eunichs that were placed in a certain social situation. Traditionally India, Bharata varsa seems broad enough to fit everyone. In SB 1.9.26-28 Prabhupada gives a fantastic summary of our political science. He recomends Parasara dharma sastra. Researching it we found that Parasara gives details fo what is Adharma and what is Adharma. This is like saying what are the laws of gravity or optics. He gives details of differences of adharma in Kali yuga and says that Kali yuga is so confused that he can't possibly give rules for everything so you can ask one sadhaka totally dedicated to spiritual life for instructions about specific situations, eg. Gay marriage. If you haven't access to such a person then he says a synod of six brahmanas can arrive at the same insight.

So about things that are not detailed in Prabhupada's books and other books, then ask six nice devotees.

In general us it seems that homosexual relations can be regulated on a level below the four principles, but why call it marriage. That seems strange to us. Use the word marriage for heterosexual relation in God's sight to get nice sons.

Rama and Sugriva made a vow of friendship that was just as binding as marriage, no? But it has a differnce name because it is a different relationship.

Hare Krsna!!  Jaya!

I was also wondering if there is some standard conduct for sannyasa? Bathing 3 times daily? Sleeping 3 hours? One meal? I'm curious because such practices may help me get a taste for devotional service sooner than otherwise, and may enable me to, at least, establish a deeper foundation for grhasta ashram if it doesn't allow me to circumvent grhasta life altogether.

HpS - BG 16.1-3... One Paragraph on the basics of sannyasa. Other instructions throughout Prabhupada's books. Associate with nice devotees. They may only be 80% perfect but use your intelligence to separate the wheat from the chaff and get to Prabhupada('s books) through them. Read his books directly.

I guess you should focus on the practices for 1st initation, 2nd initiation ... in order more, no? Of course, yes it is important to have a general view, view by mercy, all the way to Goloka, no.

I passed the initiation test since last we spoke, so you should be receiving my recommendation from Svavasa prabhu shortly. Mukunda Datta das Thakur has given his permission and blessings for me to become your disciple. I hope your travels are going nicely, Maharaj. Hare Krsna!

Your aspiring servant,

Bhakta Eric

AGTSP.  We have to run to the Temple!  More in the DTC. Thank you!