Letters to the editor

Hare krishna Maharaj !!

Please accept my humble obiansces, all the glories to Srila prabhupada!

Maharaj remember  I told you in my first letters that I was taking care and worshipping Tulasi devi ? 

I wanted to ask you, since Iam travellng for one month , is  it posible that a non devotee takes care of tulasi Devi? By taking care i also mean cutting the manjaris .  Can she tell the mantras in spanish when she takes the manjaris? 

HpS - AGTSP paoho. I don't think so!

Ive heard that it is not convenient but this person takes care of our house when we are not here and she comes now three times a week to help me preparing the prasadam i have tought her how to make prasadam , i have told her who is tulasi devi ! She is a devotee of jesus christ, she is a religiuos person. The problem is that she eats meat. 

What would you suggest Maharaj? I would love to take her with me because my sadhana is complete when i chant my sounds with tulasi devi but i cannot take her in the plane sadly. 

My devotees friends will be aways in the summer also , wont be able to take care of her.

thank you Maharaj ! I hope you are very well ! 

My sadhana is going good! Looking forward to see you in peru in the summer! 

Hare krishna!!

HpS - Ask other devotees, but to me it would seem, by the mercy of Guru-Gauranga,  that if there is no one else to take care of Her then, yes, your house-keeper could cut the Manjari's to keep Her healthy.

All glories to sri sri gaura nitai
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

P.A.M.H.O
Dear gurudeva

First of all my letter, I hope you're much better health.

My report is rather short, I'm chant my 16 rounds daily, I am following my 4 regulative principles, attend the temple regularly.
My material and spiritual life are finally balancing. little time finish to read the Bhagavad Gita ago and started reading the nectar of devotion, in which the first chapter of my book, I have a important question I'm thinking and trying to understand.

so, Srila Rupa Goswami explains that took several tests of different scripts 6 characteristics of pure devotional service.

1.pure devotional service immediately produces relief from all kinds of material distress.

2.pure devotional service is the beginning of all auspiciousness.

3.Pure devotional service automatically puts one in a state of transcendental pleasure

4.Pure devotional service is rarely obtained

5.those who practice pure devotional service, even despise the concept of liberation

6.pure devotional service is the only means by which you can attract Krishna.

so my question is
If devotional service is rarely achieved, as we attract Krishna, if pure devotional service is the one who attract to krsna?

as I can understand these two points in this material life? or is totally transcendental?

Gurudeva thank you very much for reading my letter and for your time.
Please accept my humble obeisances again, and please too sorry for my bad english, I'm studying a little every day to improve my English<img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />

you have a good and beautiful week.

your humble and eternal servant 

Candrarekha devi dasi (Santiago/Chile)

HpS - AGTSP!  <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" /> Paoho.    I can't understand your question. Partly it is because the questions seems to be a little fine, so fine language is required.  Can you please ask again in Spanish with an English translation. Please, it seems like a question I also have!

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Maharaja

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

I am submitting my humble obeisances unto Guruji’s padmacharan and asking two questions for my personal advance knowledge.

Eka-kundalah : (Meaning) wearing only one earing.

Translation : Sukadeva Gosvami Continued ……. He pleases His personal associates, the heads of the demigods, by the sweet vibrations emanating from His mouth. Dressed in bluish garments and weariang a single earring, He holds a plow on His back with His two beautiful and well-constructed hands.

Guruji Maharaja, what it really meant? Please high light the underlying.

HpS - ASA - Very nice to hear from you, Manipur vaisnavas. I don't know. I read a few other places also that Lord Sankarsana, Balarama only wears one earring. Maybe somebody who reads this letter and answer knows and can tell us. Lord Balarama also likes blue cloth. I don't know why He has that preverence either??

Vaisnavanam yatha sambhuh: Sambhu, or Lord Siva, in the ideal Vaisnava. He constantly meditates upon Lord Rama and chants Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare Hare. Bhagavatam     3.23.1.

In this quotation  why Lord Siva as an ideal Vaisnava worships and meditates upon Lord Rama but not Bhagavan Krsna and chants Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare Hare not the complete solah nama : Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna, Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare. 

HpS - I have had the same question before. I looked some places in the SB and could not find any more information. I think the "Rama" upon whom he meditates is Lord Sankarana. We chant Hare Krsna and let Krsna send the news if he wants to.

What are the differences between a Banaprastha and a Sanyas? Please clear my darkness.

HpS - ASA - First is Brahmacari, the Grhastha, then Vanaprastha. In this stage one goes to the "Vana" forest, to live a life close to God and increase his Japa etc. He may keep his own house and wife with him, but completely celibate. Then in San-nyasa, complete "nyasa", reunciation. The wife goes home to offer leadership to family and now man depends completely on God and travels and preaches and now no contact with wife, not even talking. Or couse, we adjust this in ISKCON to Kali-yuga, West, but is very powerful tool for helping us become fully sirrendered, efficiatnt tools.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

hare krsna maharaj,pamho,
IIT B did not access to the journal, but a friend of ours in LOUISIANA STATE university, got it for us.
paper sent to you NIOS id

http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/4640

do u have gmail id?, by that (drive.google.com) you can easily just write Articles you need for you research.
regards,
horse

HpS - AGTSP! Thank you so much! We got the article in our Yahoo account. It will help so, so much! Thank you. We answered with copy to your friend.
Why not just write on our computer?

AGTSP
Paoho

Our brother in Seattle sent this too us. It's very sweet.

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I want this back. It DOES work.
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The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. 

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Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. 



Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. 

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill ... His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill 

Someone once said: 
What goes around comes around.  
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

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On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 3:04 AM, Mukta Okram from Thoubal, Manipur Mandir wrote:

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Ki Jay

I am submitting my humble obeisances unto Guru Maharaja's padmacharan that if any ISKCON bhaktas can not go to Mandir daily but following strictly the four principles, chanting complete 16 rounds, rising up early morning and reading one or more religious books  and someone is going in the nearest mandir daily but doing nothing of ISKCON rules and systems. Which one is better?

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!  Paoho. Seems that the first one is better but you should look at Srila Prabhupada's Purport to Madhya 15.108 of the Caitanya-caritamrta.

If an initiated devotee following all the rules externally, but has offensive mind toward Krsna or devotees then his service is bad and he is falling away, but if a simple person who does not know what the good activities, four principles, are or because of the reactions of his Karma is still forced to do bad things, but sincerely WANTS to change and has humble attitude to Krsna and devotees then his position is better, no? He is coming closer and Krsna likes His service. He washes off the external dirt and eats the offering.

So each case is individual, but in general we should see the external character is good as well as the heart!

To follow and perform some duties is far far easier then to collect bhaktas and run a mandir. But, if the systems are not in the pattern of ISKCON, then What is the  spiritual development of going to such mandirs run by non vegitarians? 

The traditional goudiya veisnaba bhaktas who have taken initiated in a local Brahmana Guru and going Sundays in the Mandir, but the Guru and the bhakta is a non vegitarian    and not  following the four principles of ISKCON.  Which is better for such bhaktas and ISKCON bhaktas who had taken initiated and following the four principles strictly but not going to above such mandir regularly?

HpS - As you are describing it then the ISKCON devotees are doing very well. Yes, we should try to preach to the non-veg Bhaktas to change their habits. See SB 1.17.38. If such an ISKCON Bhakta has an altar in his home we should consider that is probably a better Temple than a Temple where the Bhaktas are still doing these Kali-karma things described in 1.17.38, no?
Preach to them.

Get them to understand and change. Then let Manipur help the whole world!!!!

Thank you so much for you letters and association. Dandavats to all the devotees. Thank you even for your Tilak Laddus!

PLEASE WRITE TO THE BLOG!!
Yours fallen servant
Yamunesvara Das