Letters to the editor

asa[e]

sankirtan

23 01 09

during our stay in rAdha kunda, after gaura arati in the evenings, we have recited for the devotees over 700-verses (seven zatAkas) from zrIla prabhodananda sarasvati's "vRNdAvana dhAma mahimAMRta".

we find it very inspirational.

we pray to lAlita devi to understand our relation to author and article.

we have noticed that it provokes excellent introspection to substitute the word "iskcon" or "chanting the maha-mantra" for the word "vRNdavana".

Eg. only blind fools see faults in iskcon. iskcon is perfect in every way. does not everyone laugh at them. i only pray that i not see their faces at the time of death.

immediately i think of the repulsion i have for such iskcon entitites as arrogant aggressive, violent temple presidents or other administrators, and then i realize that all this time i could have had a different attitude to them. Eg. i could have fought back or better called out to krsna and balarama for help when attacked us, like bakasura attacking the cowherd boys.

Another example: even though i am arrogant, deceitful, lusty, greedy, offensive and a thief; i still somehow or other pray to the maha-mantra to never leave my tongue and heart and purify all of my bad qualities.

-=HK//HR=-

asa(e):guru-tattva

agtsp

paoho

we are looking forward to h. p. swami's, in vrndavana, vyasapuja with confusion, interest, hope and anxiety.

"We know that our honest attempt to present this great literature [event] conveying transcendental messages for reviving the God consciousness of the people in general and respiritualizing the world atmosphere is fraught with many difficulties. Our presenting this matter in adequate language, especially a foreign language, will certainly fail, and there will be so many literary discrepancies despite our honest attempt to present it in the proper way. But we are sure that with all our faults in this connection the seriousness of the subject matter will be taken into consideration, and the leaders of society will still accept this due to its being an honest attempt to glorify the almighty God."

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/5/11/#bb14232

Yet there are those who we respect followers of Srila Prabhupada, but have terrible and even apparently very selfish arguments about how to respect him and understand guru and guru-puja in iskcon. how to relate to them?

noi 5 seems to answer that question in detail.

at some point you have make a decision to go ahead with some conviction in your understanding of KRSNA and Guru and not be paralyzed by the opinion of others.

In any public assembly there will be different classes of people and whenever you are put in a prominent position you will be envied.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/21/21/

The more advanced we are, the more we can go ahead with some authority and at the same time consider it just an arrangement of Krsna, not our personal qualification, and become more and more adept in seeking the feedback and inspiration of others while we act.

Arjuna had to take an extreme authority, he had to decide who to kill, but even to the end he was willing to consider criticism of his position, while duryodana was convinced of his opinion of things and not being a gentlemen.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/1/advanced-view/

What shall we offer for Bhoga for Guru and Krsna.

For Radha Krsna, your understanding is as good as mine.

For our Istadevata, Lord Nrsmhadeva, there should at least be pasta and beans!

Good American food!

Tamales etc. O.K.

Hare Krsna. Find your place in the choir and promote leadership from your unique position.

AGTSP.

As you may have heard, Brother Ass's Belly Button is bright red and producing a little oozing for maybe two weeks now.

We agree with Prabhodananda Sarasvati that it is better to die of starvation, exposure, or rot from innumerable diseases than teave Vrndavana Dhama (ISKCON [stop chanting Holy Names]), yet without giving up our worship of the Holy Dhama, and accepting Krsna's decision to kill us and send us to another body, we should try to deal with these problems of the body within our medical capacity.

1. Arun Chakraborty, highly decorated Ayurvedic doctor and very nice Krsna devotee, diagnosed the problem as fungal infection and first put us on an anti-fungal cream. It apparently did nothing. - Round One to the Invader.
2. He then suggested going on ten days of anti-biotic which did nothing but seemed to give us expected stomach pains and general weakness. - Round Two to the invader.
3. Vipin suggest Detol (?) regular Indian antibiotic soap, which we would have taken as first treatment, but now because the inflamation is chronic, we will adopt it casually along with other medical advice.
4. We sent the case study to our Primary Care Physician, Dr. Amit Singh, who he says, we met as a Gurukula boy in Vancouver Temple, but is now adult with two daughters, and he agreed that a lab test might be in order and it was probably bacteria. We also have some inflamation in one point n the mouth which is recurrent, but seems a little more vigorous, and in general we wonder if this is a result of constant submission to the AQI of 150+ in India, Radha-kunda coupled with our 70% Pitta nature.
5. Majority decision of local devotees was to visit Dr. Anil Agrawaal in Mathura at his very robust dermatology clinic. It was a three hour excursion with Ranchor and Krsna Swarupa Das (how is Krsna Loka??) and he put us infront of 20-other paitents waiting for the days interviews and promptly diagnosed our red Belly-button as allergic reaction. He gave us after-breakfast and lunch tablets, and morning and evening topical creams and said come back in 15-days.

There is no pain or itching, but it does look little frightful, like something from an Alien sci-fi movie.

So, that's the news on our Buddy, Body, Burro. We hope this satisfys the many enquiries, and the satisfaction that we feel in Vrndavana Dhama is so substantial that we can realize that if we use too much energy trying to perfect our body, which is designed of recycleable material, and don't use it to wake up to Gokula. Goloka then we are silly asses.

• Vrndavana Dhama Ki Jai!
• IKSCON, Ki Jay!
• Yuga-dharma, Nama-Sankirtan, Ki Jai!

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[12/9, 3:39 PM] sriman trsna krsna: Your Divine personality always comes in my mind that Krishna is so kind that he has given us Divine personality like yourself to follow...What a examplary glorious life !

Please keeo me always dust of your Divine lotus feet...

[12/9, 4:53 PM] HPSwami - ProfHHR: 🐄🐄🙂🐄 this is for us, HpSwami, et al?

Maybe following us like a cowherd boy with stick in hand. 

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We read "Vrndavana Dhama Mahima-amrta" each night with devotees.

Is interesting if we substitute "iskcon" for "Vrndavana" in his glorification. 

Maybe even more potent to substitute "Maha-mantra".

Rama is the source of the Dhamas where Hara and Krsna play.

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Hare Krsna Maharaj, PAMHO, AGTSP

How can I get rid of pride of austerities or not smoking or getting up early ?

HpS - By considering that only by Srila Prabhupada's austerity have we been able to follow the regulative principles.

Left to our own free will we would be trying to enjoy all manner of demonic delights.

How can I engage pride for KC ?

ASA - https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/14/140/

🦍 ??? Useful?

Is "being proud and being" egoistic according to language used by Prabhupada?

how are pride and presitge related ?

can your grace elaborate on these or mention some sections of Shastra to read.

regards,

Harsh

HpS - Think we can be very proud that we have done something nice for Krsna. That we did some real sacrifice for His satisfaction, but acknowledging that we are like little children and need a lot of help to make our little offers useful.

Small but with help, very real!

[11/28, 3:25 PM] HPSwami - ProfHHR: $1,000,000 management questions:

1. Who am I?

Ie. what are my passions and motivating duties in this specific management situation?

2. Who are we?

Ie. After answering one then you can find Sankirtan partners who have also answered 1.

3. Whats the Plan?Ie. Based on two, then we make a plan. Not based so much on goals but personal character and team character.

3. What Resources to we need?

Ie. Answering all three, then you think about resources. Not that you start making your plans based in your resources, and then try to force people to fit the plan.

[11/28, 3:26 PM]

\HPSwami - ProfHHR: So, have you answered 1?  Then, do you have anybody else to work with?

Really you can't work closely with more than five people.