Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you Guru dev

Here we are, still alive. Now more than ever it is a relief to know that Krsna says that any progress one makes on the path of bhakti is not lost.

I am a bit shocked at how the world has changed in a short time due to the pandemic (the social situation). I realize that for me the Kali Yuga advance existed as an idea. I also realized that I still have "faith" in the material world as a refuge ... I see things differently now, although sometimes it is a bit depressing.

HpS - Only depressing if you don't accept that you and Radharani (Hara! Hare!) are not going to let Krsna's birth day party stop. O.K. Radha, I have an idea for the menu. Is it good?

Reading prayers of Queen Kunti attentively helped me a lot. Thank you and the devotees who invite me to give a lectures about this topic.

HpS - Thank you!

Hari Vamsi is very well. As you mentioned in the previous letter: Yes, helping him teaches me to understand my mind. For me, the experience of motherhood is an opportunity to improve my character, develop humility and patience very fast… Although many times I feel that lack of tools to help him.

He is going to a Montessori kinder garden, he is happy and now he asks us to teach letters because he wants to read and write. His curiosity is intense, and so is his energy.

He likes Kirtan, he is enthusiastic about offering a wick to Damodar (maybe 50% attraction to fire- 50% bhakti). He likes to listen Krsna's pastimes and he has quite a few questions about demons and details. He is also have atraction for the Monster Trucks, dinosaurs, speed and power.

HpS - He can fly on Garuda some times.

I have improved the rounds, but I still cannot go back to the standard of 16. Many times I feel helpless in the face of laziness, poor time management and lack of focus ...

HpS - Srila Prabhupada says in one letter, that that is O.K. but don't stop trying, and, yes, eventually you will succeed. Then .... next challenge!

About my work, I am working as a freelance for clients in the USA, retouching and cleaning their photographs.

Also in our house and in the garden. Some days ago four cows and two calves came to our garden and ate some things, but most of them survived (They left some compost in return). Hari helps me and already recognizes the plants, insects and removes the leaves that have fungi.

HpS - Wow! Should have collected some of their milk as a tax also.

You also asked me about my father, Ekachacra Nitai Candra das. He is very well, he attends the FMP every day and he is happy with it. He and two of my brothers live in the north of Argentina. I hope we can meet this summer.

HpS - Ahhhh! That is Ek Ch. Nitai! I was thinking it was maybe our disciple from Peru!! Big administrative progress today.

About ASA Audivisual. We download almost all the Twitter links that you posted, some are lost because our internet service is sometimes suspended and the links are only available for a few days. But we can recover those recordings from the recordings that devotees broadcast on Facebook.

I'm really happy with the service, but unhappy with me because I perform the service with interruptions. I really hope I can improve and be of useful to your Sankirtan. 

HpS - See! This is exactly what we heard from conversation with Prabhupada. As our 16/4 is steady, then our other services are just as steady. So, put effort into the better rounds because (also telling myself this) then being:

1. Mother
2. Wife
3. Citizen
4. Cook
5. Gardener
6. Photo artist
7. Channel Manager
8. Sankirtan Devotee

will all improve in the fastest and most efficient way.

I think of the channel (asa audiovisual) as a library of your classes, to keep them in an orderly manner and to be able to share with whoever is interested. We have invited more devotees to the work in a team, to translate, upload or edit more classes. Still no one joined, probably due to our faults.

HpS - Hector et al say. Ask six times and then you will get practical results.

We are working on the missing classes and the illustrated FMP. Time management is the challenge.

Please let me know what we can improve and how to be really useful.

Thank you very much Gurudev for your inspiration and constant care. Your effort in maintaining the FMP, classes, and programs. Your loving way of always finding a way to engage us in service.

your aspirant to servant

Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

These are the links of the last videos uploaded

Cosmologia Védica

https://youtu.be/tR8YIz6WHTM

Festival por la aparición de Srila Prabhupada

https://youtu.be/MYhMXPBAWT0

SB 2.7.8

https://youtu.be/JqI33mflZm0

Radhastami

https://youtu.be/LPmd5lf6mEM

Desaparición Haridas Takura

https://youtu.be/oCDg5DV2-wU

SB 2.7.7 (by Sugopi Radha)

https://youtu.be/dmVxg91nuAg

SB 2.1.5

https://youtu.be/vy3pcKdEjgQ

SB 3.2 Uddhava Siksa

https://youtu.be/w0R_Ob21Nyw

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

Here the playlist of your seminars on GBC-College Latam:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmEzpAHxy_wcE-igofwx33QmY61uRZeh3

Your servant.

Devaki-nandana das.

HpS - ASA -- Thank you. AgtSP!

Ambarisa/Vrsabhanu-nandinid Devi Das' - Can these be referenced, included in our Youtube, ASA-Audio Visual Channel. We were trying to consolidate our final knowledge on ISKCON management in these presentations.

We liked them.

Harsh - They could be posted in the ASA-enc under VAD, Ksatriya, Management in ISKCON, no?

"Managing in ISKCON is like herding cats", Bh. Vatsala Das, big medical industry manager.

A possible essay topic (PET) for the ASA-Encyclopedia is - The History of Music.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=history+of+music

Srila Prabhupada wrote and we made a note, that the devotee can write articles and poetry for Krsna. We can research different communities and then write articles that will bridge the gap between their community and Lord Caitanya's community.

You can write for the ASA-Enc. Edit article.

Put it online? Look out Wikipedia here comes The Bhaktivedanta Monkey Pedia!!

 Hare Krsna Guru Dev

AGTSP

All Glories to you

Sorry, sorry, sorry for the delay in writing to the blog or not having more communication through this media.

HpS -ASA - 'O'ink! We are worse than you are.

Regarding the Asa Audiovisual service, Vrsabhanu Nandini wrote a letter to the blog commenting on that. My opinion is of gratitude for engage us in service, which has to improve from our part since we must be able to make it more effective by finding a way for more devotees to join and be more effective in uploading the videos to the channel.

I know that our internet often affects the efficiency of uploading videos.

HpS - Can ASA give funding for better connection?

We have already downloaded the links that he shared by tweeter and we will upload them.

Not only we think that your classes are very valuable, many people have benefited and opted for devotional practice thanks to the inspiration that you have given them through these audiovisual records.

The idea of ​​the channel is to organize a video library of your classes and content that we can be developed. (everyone is invited to collaborate) we are only administrators.

This is the ASA channel.

HpS - We don't send the link to all the classes. Seems maybe some special ones are best. So many other classes also available. Find our place in the choir.

There are devotees who manage the ASA social networks such as instagram and Facebook, so we can share the contents of YouTube, tweeter, etc.

thank you Guru Dev for your patience, love, example and inspiration.

your attempt as a servant Ambarisa Das

HpS - Can you send a note to the Blog on Ekadasi's about what has happened in the ASA-audio visual? Is the download system O.K.? We can try again to get you direct access to the server. Looking at the Channel, it is very attractive. In the future can we organize the videos into different topics? Or should we do that else where and then just use YouTube as an unsorted archive.?

Hare Krsna Guru Dev

AGTSP

All Glories to you

Disculpa, disculpa, disculpa por la demora en escribir al blog o de no tener mas comunicación por este medio.

En cuanto a el servicio de Asa Audiovisual, Vrsabhanu Nandini escribió una carta al blog comentando sobre eso. Mi opinión es de agradecimiento por ocuparnos en servicio, que ha de mejorar desde nuestra parte ya que debemos poder hacerlo mas efectivo encontrando la manera de que mas devotos se unan y ser mas eficaces en la subida de los videos al canal.

Se que nuestro internet muchas veces afecta la eficacia en los tiempos de subir los videos.

ya hemos bajado los links que compartio por tweeter y los iremos subiendo.

Desde ya no solo nosotros pensamos que sus clases son muy valiosas, muchas gente se ha beneficiado y optado la practica devocional gracias a la inspiración que usted les ha dado por medio de estos registros audiovisuales.

La idea del canal es organizar una videoteca de sus clases y contenido que se pueda ir desarrollando. (todos están invitados a colaborar) nosotros solo somos administradores. Este es el canal de ASA.

Hay devotos que administran las redes sociales de Asa como instagram y Facebook entonces podemos compartir el contenido de youtube, tweeter, etc.

Gracias Guru dev por su paciencia, amor, ejemplo e inspiracion.

su intento de sirviente Ambarisa DaS

Beloved Guru Maharaja. PAMHO. AGTSP! How are you doing?

I´ve been thinking about your lotus feet quite a lot! I´d like to see you soon. I can see you telephatically perhaps.

HpS - I have been thinking about my "Lotus Feet" occasionally and wondering when I will get them back again? Now I have white ape feet!!

I want to continue serving you as many years back, I´ve remembered those first days when I was being train by you personally, so much mercy from Srila Prabhupada. We are about to celebrate your vyasa puja soon, I hope we can have a great festival for you, we always ought to desire to serve your lotus feet.

HpS - Lettuce feet! 😎 We are just like monkeys collecting p-nuts at the feet of Srila Prabhupada and then he calls us and ties a message in a cloth around our neck and says: Lalita, Jagat bandhu, Bhakta Fred!!! We say: Krsna, Krsna, Krsna and rush off through the forest!!

I miss some of my godbrothers like Jananivas prabhu, Tulasi Carana Sevita Dasa and Raghunatha Puri Dasa, from whom I had a nice friendships and they were my pals.

HpS - Jananvasa Das has

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peared!!!! ?

Raghunatha puri Das is doing well in Montana. Whatsapp me and I can give you his address!

TCSD is doing well in Thailand!!

I conveyed your greetings to Baladeva and Subhadra and they offer you their obeisanses, I attach some photos, your servant,

Jagat Bandhu Jagannatha Swami dasa

HpS - Thank you!!! What do you do each day? What association do you have?

Hare krishna, Guru Maharaja, PAMHO. AGTSP!

How have you been doing? I hope you are fine and with good health.

HpS - Struggling with our lower modes to be fixed in the mode of pure goodness. Don't eat at night.

I´m fine, I´ve been listening to some of your classes, not all because of my work schedule. The other day you said that Socrates, Plato, and Shakespeare would be happy to read Srila Prabhupada´s Books.

But he´s got some ideas from them, for example the allegory of the cave and the enlightenment, the allegory of the horses and the senses, those ideas are from Socrates. Besides that they were big scholars and philosophers, so, What would make them happy?

HpS - I don't know the details of the history of these allegories but I have read that Aesops Fables are a collection of previous Fables and that, yes, some probably came from the East. The senses as five horses I think is in the Vedas before Socrates. They could appreciate the clarity of the logic in the Bhagavatam, and how it presents a mono-theistic culture, God, is a very logical and poetical way if they want to go from Jnanis, Yogis, to Bhaktas.

How does a link with the guru is broken and who decides that bound to be broken? God, the guru or the disciple? Did you ever broke the link to Hamsadutta prabhu? I mean, after his fall from sannyas? Just wandering. Because if the guru fall one should take shelter or reinforce the sannyas vows right? It must be debastating but, life must continues, and there are many good devotees surrendered to the Acharya. I just have those questions in mind, nothing useful to say. Life is full of challenges, sometimes even god-brothers or god-sisters envy is dangerous.

HpS - First thing is my relationship with Srila Prabhupada. I can judge different people as Sannyasa guru, Siksa gurus, now they increase my relationship with Srila Prabhupada, through people, books. rituals, dreams. So, ISKCON GBC rule was to take shelter of another ISKCON Sannyasa Guru if you wanted to stay in Sannysa ashrama. I really didn't want to take Sannyasa in the beginning. Too many formalities, but Hansadutta Swami was pushing us and he was a very advanced person and ISKCON was pushing it. Then when his problems became manifest I was thinking, "Oh, chance to return to simple B'cari life but B. S. Damodara Swami, Trivikrama Swami, Ramesvara Swami, Tripurari Swami, Atreya-rsi Das all said, that no, you took the vows and you will be a good Sannyasi so stay in the Ashrama.

Hmmf. I did it. I don't have any less love for Hansadutta Das. He is very much in my heart. The relationship just increases. I don't think Srila Prabhupada has rejected him. He is still offering him opportunity to come to him. Probably even in the next life.

How is Hanuman and Nrisinhadeva + Prahlad?

HpS - They just went to sleep. They both have shoes and Hanuman is beside them. They are so beautiful!!

Your foolish servant,

Jagat Bandhu Jagannatha Swami dasa

HpS - Are you teaching? How is it related to spiritual life? What is going on with the Baladeva, Subhadra et al?