Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Dear Gurudeva!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and All glories to you.

Please accept our humble obeisances. (PAOHO)

As of every two weeks:

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Hare Krishna. I hope U are doing well

ASA - It's the Battle of Kuruksetra for you and me.

We are hit by Maya, and we stand up to fight,

And enter the again into the melee.

!! Boop! !

.. . ! Bop! ..**

BING

We are ok. Trying to survive in this material world. Thanks to Ur mercy, we can have hope we can be better each day.

ASA - NoI 3: Enthusiasm is more important than patience. Ie. Understand the purpose of struggle in this world. It is opportunity to undergo austerity to achieve divine life, which is eternal an ever increasing in harmony and happiness (for Gopal [Who is completely egoistic]).

We are following a sadhana everyday. Sometimes we enjoy it (16R, 5AM, 4P). Worshipping our deities. Then reading SB everyday. We are on Canto 1, Chapter 13: Dhrtarastra quits home. (pdp: "Etiquette for men and so much for ladies also, Gandhari, biographies."

some days we feel that we do it just to perform. Please forgive for that.

ASA - For us, it is becoming always relishable after some effort at purification from our falling into NoI-2. Forward!!! Return to the fight. Become a parama-hamsa soon. Next breath.

Things at school are ok. I was invited to represent the school for a conference on "Kids with Special abilities".

With my 8th grade group, We will begin to carry out social work in low-income schools

My family is ok. My niece (Aitana) is now 5 months old. My sister is doing very well teaching English for kids at school. My mom and my cousin take care of my niece while my sister is at work.

Thanks a lot for all your support.

Your aspirant servants

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette)

HpS - Please give us feedback on the Kapi Dhvajas. Hari Bolo!!!!

Find newer and newer ways to implement BG, SB, CC etc into your teaching. Eg. have your students describe the taste of different waters.

Thank you all!!

See you soon...

Dear Guru Maharaja, Hare Krishna.

PAMHO AGTSP

In my regular reading, i.e. I was not searching for a quote on the topic, I read this:

The executive head must always be alert to the safety of the prajās, both man and animal, and inquire whether a particular living being is harassed at any place by another living being. The harassing living being must at once be caught and put to death, as shown by Mahārāja Parīkṣit. >>> SB 1.17.10-11, from the purport

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[Not advocating death sentence here, and not against it, according to time, place and circumstances.]

Food for thought. Replace ‘executive head’ for ‘GBC’ / leader, and ‘prajas’ for ‘all devotees serving under GBC / leader’.

In my arrogant understanding, harassment is one of the easy-to-detect symptom of a materially conditioned consciousness, personally and socially.

There is harassment everywhere, however as, a hopefully progressive, bhakti yoga sadhakas, the idea is to curb it down, personally and socially.

It fascinates me how Srila Prabhupada is uncompromising, direct and strict about how to deal with a person who is harassing someone else.

Any leader who has “prajas” should carefully attend to and be aware that there is no harassment in his community, or if there is, act accordingly / firmly.

More could be said, there are different aspects.

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS/ASA - Thank you for this comment. Sorry took us almost two weeks to answer. Kapi Dhvaja, Blog posts, ASA Carnival on Face book etc, hope give some idea of the intense programs and travel last few weeks!

Am hoping it will get lighter when we get back to Nashville, but thinking that it may not. Now we have to learn to be continually absorbed in the association of devotees.

That is Vaikuntha, no? The ground, trees, everything is Krsna's devotees.

Jaya Jaya Harinama.

I think that replacing King for GBC is stimulating. I do it, but also we must see that the protection that a Brahmana gives is different than the protection that a Ksatriya gives, no?

GBC is Ksatriya spirited Brahmanas?

Also, kind of harassment ... Kali was cutting of the legs of the bull and beating them. Emotional abuse may require a different punishment than death, no?

Punishing devotees, Brahmanas is a very fine service! Yet, it is something someone who takes the power of GBC must do.

More.. !!

Hare Krishna, Dear Gurudeva!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and All glories to you.

Please accept our humble obeisances. (PAOHO)

As of every two weeks:

* Bulletin is now upload on Facebook (English & Spanish), it is also in Google Groups (English & Spanish) as listed at: http://www.jayarama.us/hello.htm

Hare Krishna. How r U?

HpS - Awwww! We have been pushed left right and center for the last few days. Went from Monte morellos to Monte rey and had programs/programs/programs. just go to the Blog. Thank you all so much. hope you niece (nephew?) is growing well. now we are in mexico city. because of your work we take the time to develop the kapi dhavja. one of srila prabhupada's kartals.

This was a hard week for me and my family.

On Thursday my sister ate something (plums). This caused an allergy and we had to take her to the emergency room. Thanks to Radha and Krsna this wasn't that bad. But she is on bland diet for a week.

On Saturday, my mom was feeling dizzy. Since she is a diabetic, we thought that maybe her sugar went up. So we had to take her to the emergency room. She received some injections and improved. She has to be more careful with her diet.

Some weeks ago, my brother told us he has cancer. He has decided to continue his treatment away from us. He says that he is fine and that they are going to operate on him soon. I try to keep communication with him.

Despite of all these events, we are trying to keep a sane sadhana 16R, 5AM, 4P. Reading SB everyday.

We learnt that Krsna controls everything... We are very grateful that HE always keep us in mind.

Things at school are ok. We are preparing everything for Easter holiday. According to Waldorf Pedagogy, we take this celebration to talk about a new beginning , transformation and revival.

Thanks a lot for all your support.

Your aspirant servants

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette)

HpS - We can only do austerities here! We are not born to be happy. No rest here, just austerities.... for Maya or for connecting with Krsna!!

Hare Krsna.

Hare Krsna.

We can't die. Even if we try. Can't be done.

O.K. Chant Hare Krsna and see who wants to join Krsna and all of us in His fun!! Now Japa.

ASA-e -- Yoga Ladder, False Ciriticsm

Dear Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

I have been contemplating on SP’s instruction to Yamuna Mataji to share so that it doesn’t cause envy, psychotic enemies, insecurity and thus obstacles in service (show-stealer, receiving ‘more’ mercy, getting more attention from teachers, stealing husband from his guru and parents and illicit gf). I am seriously baffled by how such wonderful people can become so insecure by someone as insignificant as me!? I really try to stay low, dim down. I guess I can take it as a compliment that they see so much potential in me. However it leads to a lot of obstacles in service as well. Trying to learn ways to preempt these feelings in other’s hearts and promote friendship. Not ruffle their feathers, but also not disrespect myself (which sometimes is the expectation). I try to share whatever I have to dissolve it, but it doesn’t always work. Ive been contemplating how to better respond to such situations 🙏.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Paoho. In The Forest of Material Enjoyment, Canto Five, we remember there is the example of the cricket. He is making noise so that one cannot even sleep properly, but no matter how hard we look we cannot find him.

Is explained that this represents character assasination, false criticism, to which everyone in the material world is object and the source of which cannot be discovered.

Eg, "S(He)It eats fruit in bed!"

We ask a friend where they heard that and they cannot tell us. "It is going around"

I get criticized in so many aspects: HpS is a ritvic, closet Christian, mental speculator, has had his problems with woman etc.

Everyone will have.

It is a an irritation built in by God to keep us from becoming happy in this nasty place.

So, in one aspect, when it happens, we just say, "THANK YOU, KRSNA! Got the message, gonna pick the pace again".

Usually, that is the only response we make to these false criticisms, but if the critic is a disernible entity and we can make some simple adjustment then we do it.

Other wise, The Witch, (Black one, not white one) will always come up with more and more problems so that we cannot focus on doing our service to the best of our ability and then letting Krsna and Balarama see to the results!

🦍 🦍🐒 🦧 Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!!!

O.K.?

YAS

Yajnaseni DD

JAYA SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA !!

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !! And his dedicated disciples, like you, who carry his message of Krishna consciousness to all parts of this world.

By the mercy of Sri Nityananda, we are with ARTd, since March 10, in Monterrey-Mexico. Then, from the 24th, we will be in Mexico City for a few more days. We hope to be useful to the devotees and contribute to the academic sankirtana of NIOS.

Here is our report:

1.     The DTC-UT/USA edition is over, the final version of the film is already on VIMEO. Now we are focused on the details for the Avant Premier, in April, in Houston.

2.     DTC-UT/Peru is also being subtitled in Spanish, we hope to have it ready as an offering for the appearance of Sri Ramanuja-acarya on March 25.

3.     SOLARIS 7 has already entered its final stage, only the edition of the Cultural Portal is missing, this time it is dedicated to Dr Samaresh Bandyopadhyay and its content is based on the tribute paid to him in Calcutta-India, in September 2022.

HpS - ASA - The editing of this Asiatic Award Ceremony Article has been great, great, stress for all of us and is still not done. Thanks to everyone involved.

4.     We have participated with ARTd in the academic programs that were carried out at the TEC de Monterrey, on the 15th and the Universidad de Monterrey-UDEM, on the 16th. These programs turned out quite well, especially due to the contacts that are beginning to be cultivated.

Also Dr. Valencia is connecting ARTd with important people from the government, all these seeds are growing by the inspiration of HpS and show the potential that there is in Mexico for the development of the academic sankirtana of NIOS.

That's all for now, thank you very much for everything, HARIBOL!!

Bh. Manuel

Hare Krsna, Gurumaharaja

PAOHO

AGTSP!

I hope that you are in good health and that your sankirtan is flowing smoothly over the rough surface of these bewildering times.

HpS - At best our health, energy, bodily operation is manageable, for producing some results.

We feel our Sankirtan is like throwing rocks at the Raksasas who have all military equipment but have some real confidence that the little we do will have a practical effect by Krsna's mercy!

As I told you before, I was given the service of proofreading the Waves of Devotion (WOD), so I am giving you this technical report:

• As it was done by five different devotees, the translation results differ greatly from each other, which is why we are doing a scrupulous job of syntax to homologate the text in Spanish in the best possible way.

• Most of the devotees involved have delivered the assigned chapters with the exception of one that did not and also cut off all communication with the coordinator, which has stalled the flow of the service.

• This devotee should have used a previous translation of the first 19 chapters, but when reviewing it, I realized that it is an earlier edition than the one given to us by Maharaja, so the texts do not completely match. In addition, the previous translator allowed himself many licenses by altering the structure of some chapters. In this case, I will translate them again personally.

HpS - Super, super, super service. Really feel that this book has the chance of making extreme progress in the KC of the Hispanic community.

We all thank you and have nothing we can offer you for this great selfless service!

• A not minor difficulty is that the PDF that was given to us does not allow the direct copy (copy/paste) of the Sanskrit words, which would have greatly lightened the work (there are almost 500 pages!!). The coordinator contacted the disciple of Dhanurdhara Swami requesting the original file and the fonts used in the book, but unfortunately they replied that the original was lost.

The solution is to copy and paste from the vedabase each word with diacritics in the translated text and, in case of not finding them (as has already happened), build them using the Windows Character Map. This process is long and practically handmade.

HpS - Incredible. I will forward the report to H. H. Danurdhara Swami

• Finally, let me tell you that Indira Sakti dd will be in charge of the layout of the book and the elaboration of the graphics. My communication with her is better than with any other devotee who could do the same service. Artd have accepted in giving technical support and a final review of the book previous to its printing and publication.

• Despite the afore mentioned difficulties, I am enthusiastic about doing this service. I am glad to serve you directly and through a lonely academic seva (🙃!!!). But it's going to take me time to finish it, because of the issues I'm telling you about and because I divide my time between some other quite demanding activities. I will keep you informed about the service process.

On the other hand, I would like to tell you that I am still studying Bhakti Vaibhava finishing the third Canto. The course is demanding but the partnership with fellow students and our instructor is top notch. Smart people, receptive to the book, but also with a critical sense. I'm happy. It is wonderful that a text like the Bhagavatam has such a sounding board, this class is like a well tuned guitar.

HpS - Who are these students and teacher(s)?

Seems you are very fixed in chanting enthusiatic Japa and must have good association?

Wh are they?

Thanks for everything Gurudeva

Your servant

Gandharva das