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Dear guru naharaja:

I hope your health us ok now.

I have read that you are coming to India on September 11, which is a very good news for all of us in this part of the world.

I need to know if you already have a plan for your visit, when will you stay in each place.

I am asking since as you know Radhakunda is a very little place and we need to know who is coming and when, so we can help them to book some ashrams to stay.

Pls let us know what else we can help you with so you can relish your trip to this holy place.

I am sending a picture of Radha Syamasundara and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu who will be, along with Nrsimha Bhagavan, the presiding deities in your ashram while you are here.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

HpS - Hare Krsna. So sorry that we looked at your letter but could not answer. I think if your use the "Calendar" filter for the Subjects it might give our proposed India calendar.

Arrive Delhi about 7.30AM on Etihad, September 12th. Go straight to Braja, Radha-kunda, and stay for about five days. then... Kolkata, Mayapura, Manipura, (Delhi)Braja within three weeks and then sit in Radha kunda until 4th January trying to do practical service.

Do you have a phone number? Can you send it here and we will share it with the travel organizers, but not publish it. They are very nice devotees. Married couple. They will love to have any advice and help that you can give.

I will stay with one or two devotees in Divya svarupa Das' Ashrama if Srila Prabhupada permits.

Thank you.

So nice to hear from you!!

Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to Sri Gauranga and Nityananda! 🙏

After so long without writing or connecting to your classes due to my lack of internet, I'm here again… Material life is very hard for a woman these days... The supposed liberation of women has brought with it other problems Fortunately I have had the advantage over many others, to meet you and Prabhupada and that has given me a strength and inner happiness that many do not understand... Thank you for it.

HpS - ASA - Jaya! We look at this: Men, women, children, black, white... who is suffering more and how, and our honest conclusion is that anybody in the material world is suffering and the real concern is to get out of the material world with maybe a little back handed work to adjust our gender, race, wealth situation.

Maybe a will be a rich beautiful black women in my next life!

I had written you a letter before this one, but it was very long, so I erased it and decided to write you another… Actually I always write you letters in my mind telling you so many things that happen to me and that has helped me reflect through all those times that I had the fortune to speak with you personally... I believe that your words have been buried like precious stones in my heart and have illuminated my path when darkness has flooded me...

HpS/ ASa - 🐒 !

In general, what I wanted to tell you is about 1) why I did not accept the recommendation for my initiation the previous time, 2) about my painful decision to leave my services in the Mexico City temple, 3) a little about my life family, 4) a rough encounter with the ritvik movement, 5) news of the forthcoming arrival of a jiva in our care 6) my soul cries out for guidance from a spiritual master.

If I broke down all the points I would make a giant letter again, please, I ask you that if you want to know more details about any topic, I am here to fulfill it... For now I will only cover 1, 5 and 6 in broad strokes, please excuse me.

I respect you a lot… I know that it is your request that we be clear about our asram at the time of initiation… At the very moment that they were making the recommendations, my husband and I had separated (physically, not formally) and I didn't know what would happen or what was happening… Some older devotees told me to leave him (my husband)… But how could I do such a thing if you had given us the instruction to get married? Your words resonate in my mind: "Marriage as well as initiation is a formality... but not without meaning". To hurry up and surrender to separation to take initiation? In the temple several devotees were being recommended and initiated even though they had little time in the movement and I was going to stay behind them?... From the first moment I read Prabhupada I knew that I had to find a spiritual teacher, and that it would be specialI couldn't initiate myself into these situations and make fun of what my heart knew was wrong...

My heart has remained faithful thanks to Krishna despite various adverse situations… My ashram is stable thanks to your teachings and recommendations on following (not imitating) the example of great devotees like Kunti, Devaki, Draupadi, Gandari etc, and reading their pastimes , my problems, my efforts and my tolerance seem insignificant… Now my husband and I are waiting for a new jiva under our care and I ask you to please give us your blessings so that he may be a devotee of Krishna and help us in our spiritual life.

HpS/ASA - Jaya! Congratulations to both of you! Let us see who comes... what comes. YOu know there are so many dangers in carry a baby to birth!

Very nice news!

Tad viddhi praṇipātena, paripraśnena sevayā, upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ, jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ

Please, I ask you to forgive my offenses and accept me as your disciple... It is not only about sentimentality, because I believe that feelings can change, but if the mind is fixed on the objective through knowledge, the emotion can be steady.

Your humble servant and forever well-wisher

Marina Rendon

HpS - So, nice Bh. Rendon!! Are you formally married???

Our discipline is chanting Hare Krsna under the shelter of Srila Prabhupada's feet. If that is your discipline, you are our disciple.

Congratutions!

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Después de tanto tiempo sin escribir o conectarme a tus clases por mi falta de internet, estoy aquí de nuevo…La vida material es muy dura para una mujer en estos tiempos… La supuesta liberación de la mujer ha acarreado con ello otros problemas… Afortunadamente he tenido la ventaja sobre muchas otras, de conocerte a ti y a Prabhupada y eso me ha dado una fuerza y felicidad interna que muchos no entienden… Gracias por ello.

Te había escrito una carta antes que ésta, pero era muy larga, entonces la borré y decidí hacerte otra… En realidad siempre te escribo cartas en mi mente contándote tantas cosas que me pasan y que me has ayudado a reflexionar a través de todas esas veces que tuve la fortuna de conversar contigo personalmente… Creo que tus palabras se han enterrado como piedras preciosas en mi corazón y han iluminado mi camino cuando me han inundado las tinieblas...

A grandes rasgos, lo que quería decirte es sobre 1) por qué no acepté la recomendación para mi iniciación la ocasión anterior, 2) sobre mi dolorosa decisión de dejar mis servicios en el templo de ciudad de México, 3) un poco de mi vida familiar, 4) un duro encuentro con el movimiento ritvik, 5) la noticia de la próxima llegada de un jiva bajo nuestro cuidado 6) mi alma me exige a gritos tener la guía de un maestro espiritual.

Si desglosara todos los puntos haría nuevamente una carta gigante, por favor te pido que si deseas saber más detalles sobre algún tema, estoy para cumplirlo… Por ahora sólo trataré a grandes rasgos el 1, 5 y 6 por favor discúlpame.

Yo te respeto mucho… Sé que es una petición tuya que tengamos claro nuestro asram al momento de iniciarnos… En el momento justamente que estaban haciendo las recomendaciones, mi esposo y yo nos habíamos separado (físicamente no formalmente) y no sabía que era lo que pasaría… Algunos devotos mayores me dijeron que lo dejara (a mi esposo)… Pero cómo podía hacer tal cosa si tú nos habías dado la instrucción de casarnos? Tus palabras resuenan en mi mente: “El matrimonio así como la iniciación son una formalidad… pero no sin significado”… Apresurarme y rendirme a la separación para tomar así iniciación? En el templo estaban siendo recomendados e iniciados varios devotos aunque tuvieran poco tiempo en el movimiento y yo iba a quedarme atrás de ellos?... Desde el primer momento que leí a Prabhupada supe que debía encontrar un maestro espiritual, y que sería especial… No podía iniciarme bajo estas situaciones y burlarme a escondidas de lo que mi corazón sabía que estaba mal…

Mi corazón ha permanecido fiel gracias a Krishna a pesar de varias situaciones adversas… Mi asram es estable gracias a tus enseñanzas y recomendaciones sobre seguir (no imitar) el ejemplo de grandes devotas como Kunti, Devaki, Draupadi, Gandari etc, y leyendo sus pasatiempos, mis problemas, mis esfuerzos y mi tolerancia parecen insignificantes… Ahora mi esposo y yo estamos en espera de una nueva jiva bajo nuestro cuidado y te pido por favor que nos des tus bendiciones para que sea un(a) devoto(a) de Krishna y nos ayude en nuestra vida espiritual.

Tad viddhi praṇipātena, paripraśnena sevayā, upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ ,jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ

Por favor te pido disculpes mis ofensas y me aceptes como tu discípula... No sólo se trata de sentimentalismo, pues creo que los sentimientos pueden cambiar, pero si la mente está fija en el objetivo a través del conocimiento, la emoción puede lograr ser estable.

Tu humilde sirviente y por siempre bienqueriente

Marina Réndón

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaja and ASA team.

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to your sankirtana!

I hope your health is improving.

The trip to Spain is very close and I have two query, due to the time change.

1.-how will we do with the SBG classes?

2.-The FMP in Spain will be at 9.30pm Peru and Mexico time and a little later for Chile and Argentina, however we can still be,For this reason, I ask you to please continue transmitting your stay in Spain through gotomeeting or another, and so ASA Carnaval transmits it on Facebook and it is recorded for those who cannot be there due to the schedule.

You are very blessed by Narada muni as you follow in his footsteps and thus you are bestowing mercy across oceans and different continents.

The inspiration you give us will live forever in our hearts.

Thank you very much for all your effort.

whit gratitude and appreciation

ys Isvari R dd

HpS - Thank you for your effort! You bring a connection to Srila Prabhupada into this Sanga that is very eternal. How is your family? How is there journey in life? Do they have goals?

Hare Krishna, Dear Gurudeva!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada & All glories to you.

Please accept our humble obeisances. (PAOHO)

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Hare Krishna. How are YOU?

HpS - Alive in spiritual activity. A little above Karma misra bhakti yoga.

Body is suffering from old age.

Haw! Haw! Before it suffered from stomach aches in childhood. I would lie on our aching stomach and suffer while the rest watched one of the three television chanels.

We are ok. the Lord is very merciful with us.

Our sadhana is ok. Still working on finishing 16 rounds and reading SB before classes. Some days we make it. My mother and sister are helping a lot in the altar. They offered fruits everyday.

HpS - Krsna and the gopis will offer them fruit from Braja every day.

Things at school are pretty good. We learn a lot from kids and young boys and girls.

We talked a lot with Danistha dd. from Chile about Waldorf Pedagogy. We saw that many things from Waldorf come from vedic culture. We both agreed that thanks to this approach in Waldorf point of view, make us more aware of krsna consciousness.

HpS - Write a learned article for Solaris? Interview some of the prominent Waldorf people? Were founders contemporarys of Jung?

Thanks a lot for your infinite mercy

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette)

Good Night!!!!!!! See you soon. Thank you all. You are veyr kiond!!

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva 🙏🏻

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

Gurudeva, here is a brief report about the progress in "Waves of Devotion" translation..

Regarding the Eastern Ocean of the book already translated into Spanish that we got from Param Padam prabhu:

Apsara Gopi dd is doing a review of it.

Comparing with the original book we saw that the preface by Satyaraja Dasa is missing.

Some footnotes were missing also. We are adding them.

We are doing a review of the Sanskrit with proper directions given by BBT.

Reviews and corrections are going to take some time. There are 144 sheets currently in review.

Southern Ocean of the book is 90 % translated and we already started with the West Ocean. Apsara Gopi dd, Candramukhi dd, Isvari Radha dd, Rohini dd and Sita Lalita dd are working on it.

Waiting for your comments and suggestions..

Thank you very much, Gurudeva 🙏🏻

HARE KRISHNA!!

Mitravinda dd.

Apsara Gopi dd.

HpS - We have a copy of David Haberman's translation of the Bh. Rasam. Sindhu. It is great. https://www.amazon.com/Bhaktirasamrtasindhu-Rupa-Gosvamin-2vol/dp/812081861X Is anyone in Spain working with you???

This is super classical work. Work for the ages.

Translate the meaning of the book, not just the words, no?

Maestro Oscar Natars Whatsapps:

A recuperar el espíritu!

https://victorvich.lamula.pe/2022/06/19/el-deterioro-del-espiritu-y-la-fantasia-del-futbol/victorvich/