Letters to the editor

Vyasa Puja Offering 2014

His Holiness Hanumat Presaka Swami

Please accept my humble obeisances on this auspicious day,  All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

So much to say on your appearance day, yet words just evaporate

Salutations and venerations await, lacking purpose to elaborate

Sincerity stifled while this feeble mind is trifled, missing pure devotion

While grasping for a phrase or something to say in deep emotion

Realizing all I can do is share Love you have given with care

and hope to do the same with others wandering out there

To summarize, the bliss of the Holy Names cured this soul once

insane and your mercy has kept it contained. Bringing the potency

of His Divine Grace you keep sanity in its place and I am eternally

grateful to you and hope others may also learn too.

All Glories to your service!

Your servant in training,

caitanya caritamrta das anu das

HpS - ASA
AGTSP Paoho
Your poetry is really quite good.
Pray when you chant to get some themes from Krsna to illuminate with poems for specific audiences.
But as some of our friends say, "Even though your poetry is pretty good, right now, Brother, if you got a day-job, better keep it."

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AgtSP, AgtHPS, Pamho...Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja!!!! I hope you are fine under SP lotus feet.. Here we are back in Bs As, we been three months in Brasil with very good asosiation: Yadunandana Swami, Rupa Ragunath bramacari, Danwantari Maharaja, etc..lots of book distribution every day, pujari service in Rio de Janeiro for 5 weeks (Goura Nitay and Jaganath, Baladeva, Subhadra, bathing, changing clothes and ornamating them),  for last 2 months get up at 2 or 2.30 am for chanting round (we can experience very good results in ower day by day) mangala arati becomes like nectar and we wait with ansious for next day....Reading gets dificult some times any way we get some speare time for SB 4,17, some BG ,NOi, SP letters, reading monkey warrior, writing in our daily notebook realitations some times...I need to work in dicipline...

We are waiting ansious to have your asosiation in South America....Always trying our best to improve in service quality and satisfy you and SP...And always praying for Goura Nitays and HPS's causless mercy!!!!

Your eternal servant..Panca tattva das

HpS - ASA - Hare Krsna. All the reports we are receiving are of intense work for Srila Prabhupada. You can't pay people to work like this, and the work is not just humanitarian, animal mercy, but spiritual.

Todas las Glorias a Sri Sri GouraNitay!!!!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!!

Todas las Glorias y mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias a sus pies de loto en el día de su auspiciosa aparación  querido Guru Maharaja!!!

Este año ha sido maratónico, muchas cosas, y muy poco tiempo, disculpe mi negligencia por no  haber escrito antes, esta semana he terminado las clases en la universidad  con excelentes notas y todos los ramos aprobados, ha sido un gran esfuerzo en todo sentido, ya que debo organizar mis tiempo entre las rondas, los niños, las deidades, mi servicio en el templo, y estudiar, gracias a Krishna tengo mucho apoyo de mi familia y de todos los que me rodean, en especial de mis hijos, que siempre desean verme feliz, a ellos también les ha ido muy bien en sus estudios son los primeros en sus cursos y los profesores siempre me dicen que son unos lideres positivos para los demás niños.

Realmente siento que todo va avanzando, pero también que debemos mejorar muchas cosas, nuestro sadhana, el canto de nuestras rondas, el leer y estudiar los libros de Srila Prabhupada, el ser más constante en mis reportes mensuales en el blog, en apreciarlo más a usted y esforzarme de todo corazón en seguir sus valiosas instrucciones y consejos, sé que aun soy una discípula muy neófita, pero espero realmente ser digna de toda la misericordia y cuidado que ud entrega a cada uno de sus discípulos y bienquerientes aunque voy poco a poco estoy esforzándome por mejorar.

Muchas gracias por todo Gurudeva, muchas gracias por inspirarnos cada día con su sencillez y profunda sabiduría, Nrsimhadeva lo proteja en todo momento.

Mis reverencias eternas a sus pies de loto

Alankrti Devi Dasi 

HpS - Jaya!!   Es asombraso cuantos buen devotos hay en el mundo! Milagro de esfuerza constante de Srila Prabhupada. Aun que no esta presente fisicalmente pienso es conciente de nostros y ayudando muy personalmente. Como el mundo no puede cambiar!?

  AGTSP !!!

  Please accept our humble obeisances

  Dear Maharaja

  We are finally on twitter !  dont have a cell phone, net at home  and really dont trust technology much but it seems pretty useful when used for devotional purposes.     Also we found the Philemon.org   ... outstanding work,  hope to follow your future collaboration with them.  As you say it's a vast area to share with interested people who understand what cross-interdisciplinary  work is,  so much common ground, terminology, categories, paradigms  can be expressed differently at times but on the surface only, esoterically the link is strong.  We believe that Jungs process of individuation is the key word and hinge where all roads finally meet.

First and foremost spirituality  it's a science that has to be experienced -  "before it's systematyzed and defined"  this was Jung's process,  then find reference points to build a paradigm,  the careful balance between insight and a priory principles. This in a way is  our primary epicenter of metaphysical search,  as saddhana bhakti normally works with a descending process, but eventually has to reconcile identity to paradigm.  Would this theme work well for an essay ?  

    HpS - Jaya!  AGTSP. Paoho. You already have just done a synopsis of an essay. It might be nice to write it and share it with others, even yourself after afew days as it will look completely different when you re-read it, no?

But of course appropriate techniques such as japa, sravanam, kirtanam vishnu, smaranan are essential to even reach a minimun platform of qualification,   so the descending process  is essential even at earlier phases of spiritual search. Eventually though the resistance to a new identity could become a stumblin block  if the individuation process has suffred a disociation from awareness and has fallen into a neurotic fantasy.   I think there is some little useful stuff here, rest is useless, forgive my sillyness Maharaja.   Night !  is the finest moments in Vraja and Navadvipa !!!!  

your servant

Raul

HpS - Thank you for your comments. We are reading Sonu Shamdasani's "Carl Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology...". It is a big book, but we are not losing interest. It is like a very purposeful history of modern psychology from the best Western perspective. I am getting precise summaries of Kant, Henri Bergsen et al. Prabhupada said of honest intellectuals that they may be slow to come but they would also be slow to go.
In all this Essay Writing etc. We are really looking for an active audience, people who are talking honestly and then we can all advance in purification and potency to again help the Gopis!

Hare Krsna Guru-maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to Sri Caitanya's Harinama Sankirtana movement

Its nice for me to say im working really nice on my sadhana, waking up earlier when im in traveling sankirtan than when im in the temple... more motivation?

It has been 2 months full of adventure since the last letter... after you responded me, i got my visa aproved, still i was not so animated due to your words, i spoke with mother jambhavati and she told me your answer wasn't a complete no... that i just needed to prepare myself with a good plan of what was i going to do there... still i felt discoraged, so i spoke with Vanamali Prabhu and we thought it was better if i concentrate fully in SP marathon in order to collect a little laksmi to start my life program in Queretaro city, you remember in Gaura Purnime i told you we had 2 nama hatta programs per month in that city? now Guru Prasad Maharaja gave his blessings to start a congregational developmet program there, i will be supported and guided by Sinior devotees to serve in that issue and at the same time i start building my griha... i have a few projects wich will be acompanied with sankirtan as much as possible.

if its ok for you, we thought that could be nice to visit you next year when you go to somewhere in texas...

HpS - AGTSP - - -  We would like to be in Mexico right now. If you can avoid the bullets, it is a wonderful place. Everyone are natural devotees of Jagannatha....  In general, I guess we will be in Texas at the end of July for the North American Symposium on Education!  Krsna met the Brajavasis at Kuruksetra during the solar eclipse.

Gurudeva... there is also one question i need to know the answer, because my mind is very very offensive, how can i come to understand the position of an ISKCON guru who is accepting to initiate devotees who are not COMPLETELY recomended by the local authorities, and further more... proving that they dont know even how to put tilaka on themselves?

HpS - Hmmm.  As you are describing, would not be an ISKCON Guru. Sometimes ISKCON Gurus, like Prabhupada, accept people on the recomendation of others, older disciples without personally knowing the devotees. Prabhupada did that and also chastised the Temple Presidents for recommending people who weren't ready. Try to deal with it enthusiastically and correct the situation.

Just based in the authority they are following 4 principles and chanting 16 rounds by now...?

i fear for that question on my mind to be offensive towards a great devotee of The Lord.

Thank you for all your kindness Gurudeva.

Yours in service

Krsna-Kirtana Das

HpS - Yes, is difficult situation, and again, the exact same problem was there when Prabhupada was managing things also. Talk with local GBC Secretary. Talk with other administrative authorities. Try to arrange better situation. Sometimes it is also a fact that ISKCON "Gurus" deviate. Maharaja Bharata deviated!

You will be and ISKCON guru very soon.