Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

PAMHO

AGTSP

A few days ago I was thinking write to you and just this afternoon Candra Muki told me that you were requesting recipes for cookies and banana cake. So I immediately thought it was the best time to do it! 😁

Gratitude

Maharaja, the trip we made to Peru touched our hearts! I feel very, very grateful that you've allowed us to share with you in Santa Eulalia.

Were enriching days that renewed and recharged us spiritually. It was also like that for my husband, Jagad Guru, I know!

HpS/ASA - AGTSP!!! Who puts us little beings in situations where we can be of real use to each other. Everyone was very, very, very happy to have your whole family there. Rasarani's war with the Evil Rooster will forever be known of the property.

I'm very grateful to your disciples for allowing me to serve in any way possible. My spiritual family and my Guru Maharaj Radhanath Swami are far away so serving in vapu is something I really miss. It feels very good. I really hope to be able to increase my desire to serve day by day and that little by little any contamination that can dirty it, stay aside.

Rasarani keeps talking about Peru. She said that she just missed her books and toys here in Chile.

She doesn't separate from her flute and every day she "sings" her melody.

I'm giving her massages almost every night, as you recommended. She loves and asks me to do it.

Madhavi just wants to walk, dance, take the books, babble and now she's smiling a lot.

HpS/ASA - Not ordinary people!

Yvonne Laborda from Spain

I resumed my training certification in Conscious Parenting and Emotional Education by the renowned human therapist and author from Spain, Yvonne Laborda, as soon as I returned from Peru, since both girls keep me in a very active service, and they push me to want to improve day by day.

https://yvonnelaborda.com/ have trained more than 5000 people (mainly mothers). Now, only in her online plataform, we are 2500. She's is vegan, have practiced homeschooling and unschooling with to her three children; her daughter wrote her own book already with 15 years old. She beleives that we are souls, and in the reencarnation. She lives nearby Barcelona. I think that a meeting between both of you could be Super wonderful for your respective communities.

HpS/ASA - You can see that we just bought the ticket for Spain.

Anyway, I hope I can become the mom that each of them needs, and maybe, in the future, I can support other mothers in conscious parenting.

Farewell

Maharaja I don't want to take more of your valuable time., I just want to express my gratitude.

I'm truly grateful for your kind and gestures. It has been very important to me.

Please excuse any offense.

Your servant.

Carolina Ortiz

ISKCON Chile

HpS/ASA - I hope Krsna regulates your life enough so you can take initiation soon!

Recipes

Below I share these two recipes: Banana Cookies (the ones I made there) and Banana Cake. I hope are useful to you in pleasing Lord Nrsmha Deva.

Banana Cake

4 medium bananas, sliced

Juice of 1 lemon

2 1/2 cups self-raising flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 cup yoghurt

3/4 cup milk

1/2 cup oil

2 medium bananas, chopped

1 tablespoon sugar, mixed with 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

In a small mixing bowl, toss the banana slices and the lemon juice. Set aside. In a bigger mixing bowl, sift the flour and the baking powder. Stir in the sugar, cinnamon and yoghurt, Gradually, add the milk and the oil and beat with a spoon. Mix in the chopped bananas. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Arrange the banana slices on top and sprinkle with the sugar and cinnamon mixture. Bake the cake for 25 to 30 minutes

Oven temperature 180°C

Banana Cookies

125 gr unsalted butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 chopped banana

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups plain flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 tablespoon boiling water

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

Optional 1/2 cup chopped nuts

In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar. Add the chopped banana and beat.

Dissolve the baking soda in the boiling water and add to the mixture, beating.

Add flour, ground cinnamon and salt until incorporated and finally the chopped nuts if you want.

Place in a greased baking tin, o with paper and bake for 12 min or until edges are lightly golden.

Oven temperature 180°C 

(One pictures attached with Madhavi first birthday celebration with distribution of prasadam to the Whole family)

HpS/ASA - We will see if anymore recipes come in inspired by these from you three devotees.

Madhavi has enough followers become Mayor of Santiago.

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Querido Gurumaharaja

Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Deseando que el Señor Nrisimhadeva siempre le proteja y bendiga su Sankirtana. 

Atendiendo el pedido de ASA prabhu Manash Ranjan le envía sus reverencias y una receta, ojalá sea de utilidad. 

Pastel banana 

INGREDIENTES

125 grs harina blanca

125 grs harina integral 

12 grs de polvo de hornear

10 grs de canela en polvo

150 grs de azúcar

50 grs de arándano

130 ML de leche entera

125 ML de mantequilla

100 ML de agua de linaza (opcional) 

5 plátanos maduros (Tabasco en México/seda en Perú) 

PREPARACIÓN

Previamente engrasar y enharinar el molde para hornear. 

En un recipiente colocar el azúcar, leche entera, mantequilla y canela para batir perfectamente. Agregar harina blanca, integral y el polvo de hornear, mezclar todo muy bien sin dejar grumos.

Aparte, en un recipiente aplastar los plátanos hasta lograr un puré, ahora agregar el puré de plátano y los arándanos a la mezcla de harina e integrar perfectamente. 

Precalentar y hornear a 160 °C por 50 minutos. 

Ofrecer al Señor Nrisimhadeva

TIPS

*Para evitar que los arándanos se asienten en el fondo del molde durante el proceso de hornear se sugiere espolvorear los arándanos con harina blanca antes de integrar a la mezcla. 

* También se puede integrar nuez y/o cacahuate. 

* Se puede reducir la cantidad de azúcar si desea.

*Sustituto de huevo - agua de linaza: Hervir 2 cucharadas soperas de linaza en 1 taza de agua hasta llegar a ebullición. Se puede colar o usar con las semillas una vez que enfríe. Agregar a la mezcla junto con la leche.

Disculpe cualquier ofensa

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente

Asta Sakhi dd

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Dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Wishing that Lord Nrisimhadeva always protect you and bless your Sankirtana.

Heeding ASA, Prabhu Manash Ranjan's request, he sends his obeisances and a recipe, hopefully it will be useful.

Banana Cake

INGREDIENTS

125 g white flour

125 grams wholemeal flour

150 grams of sugar

10 grams of baking powder

10 grams of cinnamon powder

125 ml of whole milk

125 ml of butter

100 ml of flaxseed water (optional)

50 grams of blueberry

5 ripe bananas (Tabasco in Mexico/silk in Peru)

PREPARATION

Previously grease and flour the baking pan.

In a container place the sugar, whole milk, butter and cinnamon to beat perfectly. Add white, wholemeal flour and baking powder, mix everything very well without leaving lumps.

Separately, in a bowl, mash the bananas until you get a puree, now add the banana puree and the blueberries to the flour mixture and integrate perfectly.

Preheat and bake at 160°C for 50 minutes.

Offering to Lord Nrsimhadeva

TIPS

*To prevent the blueberries from settling to the bottom of the pan during the baking process, it is suggested to dust the blueberries with white flour before incorporating them into the mixture.

* Nuts and/or peanuts can also be integrated.

* You can reduce the amount of sugar if you want.

*Egg substitute - flaxseed water: Boil 2 tablespoons of flaxseed in 1 cup of water until it reaches a boil. It can be strained or used with the seeds once cool. Add to the mixture along with the milk.

Excuse any offense

Your eternal would-be servant

Asta Sakhi dd

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ASA - AgtSP!! Paoho. Wonderful. Did you see the other recipes. In translation you can see we changed the quantities a little, little of some of the ingredients.

How many grams of rope bananas?



Hare Krishna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our humble obeisances

Here is my Banana Bread recipe, is the same Lord Nrisimhadeva was offered in Santa Eulalia, i hope he enjoys it again

• 1 and 1/4 Cups of White Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp of Salt
• 3 Ripe medium bananas (1 and 1/4 Cups)
• 3/4 Cup of Sugar
• 1/2 Cup of Milk or Yogurt
• 1/2 Cup of Vegetable Oil
• 1 tsp of Vanilla essence

Smash the bananas, add the liquids (oil, milk, vanilla), add the sugar and salt, mix until both are dissolved. Sieve the flour and baking soda and add them to the mix. Add mix to a pan of 35x25cm (mix can about 1 inch deep) or make them as muffins of 1 scoop.

Preheat oven to 350F, bake for about 30min until the surface looks really brown but moist, (check with a toothpick if the center is cooked).

Offer them to Lord Nrishimhadeva and take them as Prasadam.

Your servant

Govinda Pramodini Dasi

ASA - What about this??

• 1 Cup Ripe bananas
• 1 Cup of White Flour
• 1/2 Cup of Sugar
• 1/2 Cup of Milk or Yogurt
• 1/4 Cup of Vegetable Oil
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp of Salt
• 1 tsp of Vanilla essence

Hare Krishna, Maharaja!

This is Nandalal Das. I was going through "Tava Pache Pache."

Confusion...

Can the senses enjoy without the mind? If they can't, isn't mind the actual enjoyer? If so, do the senses dictate what to enjoy or mind directs the senses to the objects that it wants to enjoy?

If the latter is the case, do senses really have any control over what they can/cannot do, independent of mind?

If they don't, then how can we make any sense to do what it should? For example, how do we make the tongue to only take prasadam or chant the names of the Lord? How can the senses that are to be used to get the mind under control, be used effectively when they are controlled by the mind?

Hare Krishna!

Nandalal Das

HpS - I think I am probably more confused than you. There were no elephants in the town where I grew up, so did not get their sagacious association, but what comes to mind is that the only thing there is, is Radha Krsna rasa lila. They are just dancing and dancing... Then to expand the joy They expand.... even into the material world... to even understanding how material nature works, what moves it etc, is not a slight task.

We like our mind. It dresses up like a polar bear in a candy store and attracts it.

Then it gives "freedom" to the senses to do what they want.

We pretend our dolly, the mind is alive, and the dolly, the mind, pretends that the senses are alive. So, the senses and mind mutually influence each other.

In other Yogas you have to renounce the sense object, then the senses, then the mind, then the intelligence and then you come to the supersoul, and if you slip on any step you have to start all over,

but in Bhakti yoga, because we more or less pray to Krsna, the SUPER SOUL from the very beginning, then He arranges sensuous activities that touch our heart.

So the acts of using our mind to try to control our senses heart touching.

I paint the Rathayatra cart and freak out when I make a mistake!

Does this give some perspective??

Hare Krishna, Dear Guru Maharaja!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada & All glories to you.

Please accept my humble obeisances. (PAMHO)

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Here we are... We thank you for allowing us to join the online FMP. It help us a lot to be more fixed on our sadhana.

We continue with classes at school... It's a new world to teach children. But I like it a lot.

Family is ok. We celebrated Goura Purnima at home... some offerings and Abhishek.

Today we received NOI TPP... Thank U so much for that. It's an amazing project. It will help us a lot in our studies.

Note: Apologies for translating this bulletin some days after... we just realised it was in the Blog.

Thanks a lot for your patience and mercy

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HpS - ASA --- Thank you!!! We still don't have Word, so we can't post it to the web page yet.... but expect to get it by this weekend!

We are struggling to get settled into our base camp. Fighting with our selfish nature!!!

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The ASA Supreme Undifferentiated Absolute Comando (SUACOM) is asking for all good hearted people to submit recipes for banana cake-cookie recipes.

Thank you.

Recipes will be tried and offered to Lord Nrsmha Deva.

🐒🐒🦍 🐷 🤖

Again many, many thanks.