Letters to the editor

Dear Swamiji,

PAMHO, AGTSP. I have been in Indonesia for over a year now. I have questioned a few of my Muslim friends about Islam. I repeated Srila Prabhupada’s words about reincarnation to a friend who denied the possibility of reincarnation and a week later she accepted reincarnation.

Muslims understand the Paramatma conception, but believe that God has no form because God is energy. Am I right to think that they worship the bhramajyoti? It seems like the analogy of worshipping the sunlight instead of the sun directly.
Your Servant,
Bhakta Ken

    HpS - ASA - AGTSP Thank you for the letter. There is a thing called "Mohamad's Mirage". Like the dream of Mohamad, may his name bless us. He goes all the way to heaven and sees Allah. Please find it and a link for us. It is common knowledge to most educated Muslims and accepted as a bona fide text.

Hare Krsna Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thanks for everything.

I must reply your kindness someday. Maybe i could make burfi for your Nrisimhadeva and gave it to Him at our next meeting :)

Does he like burfi?

HpS - ASA - He likes watermelon (in season, sweet).

Yes I already have Bhakti sastri diploma therefore I would like to start to study for Bhaktivaibhava.

Best wishes always!

Your servant, Sri Radhe devi dasi

HpS - Hmmm? Through the Bhaktivedanta College? Through ISKCON San Jose, California? What do you think? How can we help you in this??? Ask for the greatest thing, you may just get it!

Has the TPP-CB arrived. We sent then like two weeks ago. Maybe the CIA stole them.

AGTSP !!

Dear Maharaja

please accept my humble obeisances

Things here are going pretty nice.  I stay in the ashrama from Tuesday to Friday. Go out on harinama-sakirtan  book distribution every day with the bramacharis.  Also holding a program for junior devotees at home twice a week (with Brhadmirdanga das bramachari). I also keep editing the english translation to a book on leadership (orginal is in russian!).  We spent a nice week in Toronto in a seminar with Vaisesika prabhu and the bramacharis.  16 rounds daily, new readings: Nectarean Ocean of the Holy Name, the Art of Chanting, and got a copy of Waves of Devotion.  We are just missing your tpp cbs !!       my address is    ....    Health is ok, body still working good enough to serve Prabhupada's sankirtan and follow saddana.   We are also starting to reed and experience the Brahma samhita.  It seems there is no end to the quality and quantity of written material by the BBT and Prabhupada's disciples. We also got a copy of Vedic Astronomy and Cosmography bu Richard L. Thompson  (Satyaraj das - Sadaputa Das)   After the editing service we hope to write a proposal for a university program from selected  materials on your essays.   (Philosophy of nature, Jung in India, etc)  We also wrote small poems in the spirit of your earlier poems.  Will share them here soon.   

 Ohe Vaisnava Thakur !  receive my humble obeisances and gratitude

Raul

HpS - ASA - AgtSP. We talked with you thiso morning for about 20-minutes. Was very nice. We just go ahead. We are on the right path. Enthusiasm is more important than patience!

Querido GuruMaharaja mis masYu humildes reverencias

tgpSP

Respondiendo a su pedido paso a describir mi historial:

naci 14 de febrero de 1955 en Melgar de   Yuso provincia de Palencia España. 

Curse estudios basico en Valladolid obteniendo titulo de oficial soldador. 

Me canse a los 24 hasta los 27 1982 cuendo ingrese en la Conciencia de Krishna en Diciembre del 1982 (divorciado)

en 1983 recibi la primera iniciacion Hari Nama de Bhagavan prabhu y el 1985 la segunda

desempeñando servicios en la vaqueria, jardineria, cocina y con la segunda iniciacion pujari y cocinero en el 1994 me reinicie con Jagadhisa prabhu y despues  de unos años de su marcha tome refugio en sus pies de loto. . 

              HpS - ASA -- Pies de loco? TlgaSP!

...el dia 09 de diciembre 2006 (Carta de Aprobación Kadamba-kan. Swami) ud me acepto como su discipulo hasta la actualidad que sigo desempeñando el mismo servcio de pujari y cocinero

esperando que me conceda sus bendiciones a este su insignificante sirviente

venudhara das

    HpS - ASA -- Ummmmm! Muy bien! Su historia. Muy muy bien. y.  Ya su plan y expectativas. Eg. Cuantos anos mas piensa tiene en su cuerpo actual? Va a quedar siempre en NVM? Que servicio?
En la analysis adau sraddha, sadhu sanga, anartha nivrtii... mas on menos donde esta?

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

In last KD you wrote:

Guru-tattva

www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt

Sridhara Prabhu will take initiation June 28th and we are waiting for dates for Marco and Pablo for Spain. We are not managing the database so well. Maybe somebody can help us???

AND

“A Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti” by Tamal Krishna Goswami we will start reading and reviewing for Sankirtan. Get your copy at Amazon.com or ask us for a free copy. We have one extra.

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If that is practical considering time, place and circumstances, I am turning in for these. What is to be done for the disciple database? 

Your servant Namacarya das 

HpS - ASA - AGTSP! Thank you for your offer. I hope it we can use it. Next step is to send us your postal address so that we can mail TKG's book as soon as possible.

Then I will send you the password so that you can work on the guru-tattva.txt file.

hare Krsna Maharaj, Please accept my obeisances (not humble though), all glories to Srila Prabhupada, ASA Civil Dead Man Club.

glorious saint , you are the rare people on earth who is treading the path chalked by Acaryas seriously and is always looking to improve self.

            HpS - ASA - AGTSP paoho. We, Tom Brown, agree, but we are humble.

Your sincerity is undoubtable, it is corroborated when we noticed that you are preaching to walls at 5am. People of your intellect are very rare...

          ASA - Oink!
 

Hope we can just glorify you and then capacity to glorify the Parampars by purification.... All glories to Hanumantpresak Swami and his tradition/parampara.....

this letter is primarily on very broad topic of Guru-Tattva. We have some how decided to enroll ourself in of theological tradition..

though our mind once said us to direct ---i know there is god.. i have no problem with him.. i just want to enjoy sex life to the fullest..then if i can  serve god no problem.. he is my maintainer..... but i really want to enjoy...
at worst case....
let god be there where he is  and let me do my business ... this was shocking to us..
 

but we can not accept this plea/dictum of our mind[it will take us to hell definitely]. but we realize that we can not tame him without help of a guru. But we are really confused at position of guru and relation with disciple.
--- Who takes the sin of disciples ? If guru takes sin which all sins he takes--- before intiation or even after intiation.

     ASA - Anybody we give advice to, we take reaction for their Karma, no? As we follow Lord Caitanya's instructions, Srnvatam sva katha krsna (SB 1.2) then He burns up our reactions and then at the time of initiation the Diksa guru finishes off the last bit.

--- Is it possible that if guru takes the sins, he may not suffer ?

    HpS - He has to suffer, burn them up, but he doesn't do it until most of them are burnt up by the year of Japa etc by the candidate.
 

--- Is ritvik concept ok ? like in protestant christians Jesus is the ultimate guru (he takes the sin) , pastor (does not take your sin).....

        ASA - Problem with "ritivik concept" is that it is never stated in any kind of detail by Srila Prabhupada. It is just a word for "priest" that he uses. In general, no, there must be a priest. We must act as we hear from te lips of our spiritual master, but he can say with his lips, "Srila Prabhupada is in his books".
 

--- what is the difference between ISK ritivk and ISK non0ritvik disciple ? How they both have to relate to Srila Prabhupada ?

             ASA - As explained there is no standard meaning to Ritvik. Different guys use it generally, but in general it means that the "diksa guru" is just a priest, but in ISKCON the "diksa guru" is taking real responsibility on by authority of Prabhupada depending on his level of development.
--- what is the relation of ISK non ritvik disciple with intiating gurus ?

       ASA - It is individual. Depends on the personal nature, development, of the Iskcon Guru. Look at NOI 5 last paragraph. We present these things in www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt, no? They are all accepting Srila Prabhupada as the Samsthapaka acharya. He make the foundation for ISKCON we can only, must, build on that. 

we are asking this because of our mind. In FIRO-B test wefound we  were high on command and control (8 OUT OF 9).. We like to receive commands and we like to give commands...
but in the past we had some mistake, we took our counsellors as representative of god.. and followed some advices ...which lead us in troubles later..

at present we are cautious of  accpeting people as gurus--esp (guru mukha padam vakya-cittate na kariye ekya).. because of our high command and control nature..if we accept somebody as our guru, mostly we will be ready to die and kill for fulfilling his wish....
hence we need to clarify Guru-Tattva principles. we hope these question will also help all bloggers may be whole universe

regards,
trying to be sincere--bhakta harsh

           ASA - The guru-tattva.txt thing is complete. Krsna is guru. If you pray to Him, Japa. He WILL guide you.