Letters to the editor

ASA[E] Guru-tattva.. Diksa guru retires.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to your enormous service.

I hope you get much better health.

HpS - Our donkey's health is pretty good for 75-years old.

Had littel fever, probably just like you, but recovered quickly.

Hearing, sight, memory are like 40% gone. That won't come back in this life time. It is good. We want to stop watching the movie of mangos and pick real mangos for Krsna!

Would be nice if we died right after sending this letter and you died right after reading it and then we both took birth in Nabadvipa with Nimai, no!!!

We remain firm with all our vows and also with the service in the initiation committee, I wanted to apologize for my mistake in misunderstanding the words in English, I will strive to improve, in fact I am practicing English with a devotee of the Indian community 🙏.

HpS - Your English is better than my Spanish! 😄

In December we helped aspiring devotees for Hari nama initiation and brahminical initiation of Jayapataka Maharaja, we had a very good association with older devotees.

HpS/ASA - Such a nice service!

My letter is mainly addressed to you to tell you about Bhakta Carlos Rold, a devotee of many years who has always felt very enthusiastic about everything related to making your sankirtan grow.

I am a witness of how he has made an effort to qualify and prepare himself.

For a year now, he has been following the four regulative principles, maintaining his sadhana, connecting to FMP, doing practical service in the Iskcon Chile temple, singing its 16 rounds (he tells me that when he cannot finish them, he sings them the next day, adding to the corresponding ones),

he has also approved [passed] the Disciples course and is about to finish the Introduction to Bhakti yoga course.

Also Bhakta Lucciano Macchiavello would also like to formalize his entire process in a certain way, he tells me that he has known you for more than 17 years and that no one like you has understood it, he has never stopped following your institution of donating milk and butter for the deity.

Gurudeva an important question, do you think in the future granting formal Refuge and possible initiation to Bhakta Carlos Rold and perhaps formal refuge to Bhakta Lucciano Macchiavello?, Both devotees have been following his instructions for years.

Your would-be servant

Manjuali Devi Dasi

Santiago de Chile

HpS - Maybe even more than a year ago we decided that we are too old to give any more 1st initiation. The Diksa guru takes Karma. It is a job, and it is a job for a young man. Last time we did it. Few months ago. We felt really crushed.

🙂

However, that does not mean that we cannot be Guru's for Carlitos or Machaivelli.

In Srila Bhaktivinode's 'Jaiva Dharma' one fictional Sannyasi, saint, Babba Mahasai, is preaching, teaching, guiding a young man from Kolkata when he visits Nabadvipa.

Then Bobba Mahasaya tells him that he is ready for initiation, but that he, Bobba Mahasaya is 90-years old and that if he initiates him, he will die, so they should go and see Vaisnava Thakura Bobba who is only 75-years old.

Young man. 😃

VTB says that it is an honor to do the ritual if BM recommends The Young Man (35-years old).

So, that is what we feel.

Carlos and Machiavelli are our friends!

What more can we want!!?

It is an honor if we can be their friends and counselors always.

We are recommending Yadunandana Swami in Spain as a very nice Diksa guru. Radha Krsna Das in Houston.

O.K.

Querido Gurudev: Pamho. Toda gloria a Srila Prabhupada y sus seguidores fieles.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias. También mis reverencias a todos mis hermanos blogueros.

No le pregunto por su salud porque leo el blog de forma regular. Tampoco le deseo nada que no sea aumentar su relación con Krishna más y más.

La carta anterior parece ser que fue absorbida por la magia de internet. ¿fue un arreglo de Krishna para que nadie leyera lo que escribí? No lo sé, pero voy a volver a poner las cosas que recuerde.

En primer lugar, quería decir que cuando leo las cartas de mis hermanos espirituales, observo que la gran mayoría tienen un gran avance y entrega al guru. También veo que tienen cualidades devocionales de las que yo carezco y tengo que desarrollar. Gracias a todos por la inspiración.

También quiero decir que el blog es una gran aportación a la comunicación entre guru y discípulos y a la forma de desarrollar una familia espiritual con personalidad propia (aunque la familia “ISKCON” es muy grande y todos pertenecemos a ella); en el blog se desarrolla un humor especifico interesante.

He observado, posiblemente de forma subjetiva (u objetiva), que algunos temas desentonan un poco en el blog y deberían ser tratados en otros foros:

-. Los problemas mundanos matrimoniales o de pareja deberían tratarse en un foro exclusivamente de grihastas (o vanaprasthas ex grihastas). No es un tema para sannyasis ni brahmacaris. Tampoco es necesario debatirlos en foros amplios.

-. Los temas administrativos también pienso que se podrían tratar en otro foro, sobre todo cuando la pasión es muy resaltante y se acerca a la ignorancia. No aportan mucho al grupo de blogueros y generan mas ansiedad que paz, o más pasión que bondad.

Por supuesto que todos los temas deben ser abordados de alguna manera, pero en mi opinión, cada tema en su foro. El sannyasa (brahmana) debería centrarse mas en los temas puramente filosóficos y espirituales y dejar las cuestiones que son puramente administrativas a devotos con un nivel de pasión y de educación relevantes.

 En cuanto a mi persona, solo puedo decir que mantengo intacto el deseo de volverme devoto y que sigo luchando (cada día) por permanecer a flote cantando las rondas mínimas prescritas por el acarya y siguiendo los principios básicos de la vida humana tal como él lo pidió. En Kali yuga nada es sencillo si no se está bien asociado y ese es nuestro reto: mantener un equilibrio entre la vida familiar responsable y buscar la asociación de buenos devotos que nos inspiren en la lucha por acabar con los deseos materiales para servir con pureza a Dios.

Sin mas y esperando las bendiciones de todos los blogueros para seguir avanzando en el camino de vuelta a Dios se despide

Vuestro sirviente

Jayanta das.

P.D. Espero que esta carta no sea anulada por la magia de internet.

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Dear Gurudev, Pamho. All glory to Srila Prabhupada and his faithful followers.

ASA - 👍

Please accept my humble obeisances. Also my bows to all my blogging brothers.

ASA - 🐸 🐶 . . .😺 🐕 ... 👳

I don't ask about your health because I read the blog regularly. I also do not wish you anything other than to increase your relationship with Krishna more and more.

ASA - 🙏 📿

The previous letter seems to have been absorbed by the magic of the internet. Was it Krishna's arrangement so that no one would read what I wrote? I don't know, but I'm going to put back the things I remember.

First of all, I wanted to say that when I read the letters of my godbrothers, I observe that the vast majority have a great breakthrough and surrender to the guru. I also see that they have devotional qualities that I lack and have to develop. Thank you all for the inspiration.

I also want to say that the blog is a great contribution to the communication between guru and disciples and to the way of developing a spiritual family with its own personality (although the “ISKCON” family is very large and we all belong to it); An interesting specific humor develops in the blog.

ASA - 🐸 🌴 🌴

I have observed, possibly subjectively (or objectively), that some topics are a bit out of place on the blog and should be discussed in other forums:

-. Worldly marital or relationship problems should be discussed in a forum exclusively for grihastas (or ex-grihastas vanaprasthas). It is not a topic for sannyasis or brahmacaris. Nor is it necessary to debate them in broad forums.

ASA - Super! Thank you. We, HpS et al, try to follow the guidelines Srila Prabhupada uses in the pages of SB for these Grhastha and political issues as a Sannyasis. We try to follow his standard, no more, no less, but we need the perspective of Brahmanas from cultured places like Spain to refine our standard. Thank you.

-. I also think that administrative issues could be discussed in another forum, especially when the passion is very prominent and approaches ignorance. They do not contribute much to the group of bloggers and generate more anxiety than peace, or more passion than kindness.

ASA - Yes, again. We tried to transfer the Grhastha issues and Peru political issues to proper subgroups as much as possible. About 80% of the those discussions were in subgroups.

We hope our readers use your comments and skip over certain streams. Otherwise, some of our ASA community involved in the Peru issues felt relieved that the topics were dealt with in this forum in a public and much, much less passionate way.

Of course all topics must be addressed in some way, but in my opinion, each topic has its own forum. The sannyasa (brahmana) should focus more on purely philosophical and spiritual issues and leave matters that are purely administrative to devotees with a relevant level of passion and education.

HpS - So, so, nice. So nice. Thank you. We try to deal with politics like a Sannyasi. When dhanam, janam and sundarim are discussed it is always open for publich scrutiny. For example, Vidura gave straight political, family advice to Dhrtarastra even though he had taken sannyasa.

Pariravaka acharya should talk about these things from one level and a paramahamsa sannyasi from another level.

Basically we are 99.999% finished with politics and administration in ISKCON, after 10-years on the LA Regional GBC et al.

Hari bolo!

 As for myself, I can only say that I keep the desire to become a devotee intact and that I continue to fight (every day) to stay afloat by chanting the minimum rounds prescribed by the acharya and following the basic principles of human life as he said.

he asked. In Kali yuga nothing is simple if one is not well associated and that is our challenge: maintaining a balance between responsible family life and seeking the association of good devotees who inspire us in the struggle to end material desires to serve with purity. God.

Without further ado and waiting for the blessings of all the bloggers to continue advancing on the path back to God, he says goodbye

Your servant

Jayanta das.

P.S. I hope this letter is not canceled by the magic of the internet.

HpS/ASA - We see it very fine. 🔬

Thank you. We hope others make their comments on these topics also.

All glories. ALL GLORIES to Sri Sri Radha Govinda-candra!

Yadubara Das, Prabhupada movie is available for you and your people at:

https://harekrishnathefilm.com/digital/

¡Hare Krsna! Querido Gurudeva, Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias

Todas las Glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada y a su trascendental Biblioteca Bhaktivedanta

Orando para que la energía de su cuerpo se restablezca y favorezca al incansable Sankirtan que usted ofrece a nuestro Divino Acarya y agradeciendo todos los esfuerzos que usted realiza para involucrarnos en su servicio.🙇

Escribo como parte del equipo de ASA Carnaval, en relación a ASA-Encyclopedia:

Luego de su respuesta a nuestra carta reciente, descargamos el archivo, lo revisamos y tuvimos una pequeña reunión.

Comprensión general

*De manera general, observamos que el contenido es claro y accesible.

*El prefacio fue de especial ayuda, para comprender -hasta cierto punto- la estructura de análisis de esta ASA Enciclopedia. Aunque a lo largo del contenido, no observamos la clasificación de los artículos, que se menciona en este prefacio.

*De acuerdo con el documento, la última revisión es febrero 2021, así que hicimos una búsqueda rápida en el blog y observamos que varias publicaciones no han sido incluidas.

Dudas

Por otra parte, surgieron algunas dudas como: ¿a qué público está dirigida esta ASA – Enciclopedia? Lo que nos ayudaría a comprender ¿Cuál es la finalidad? Asimismo, tenemos entendido que además de SS Hanumatpresaka Swami, Tom Brown, Buck White, Guy Gismo, hay otros colaboradores, de ser así ¿En qué casos participan? y ¿Cuáles son las directrices para hacerlo?

Sugerencias

Desde nuestra perspectiva, detectamos algunas posibilidades de mejora (Como aclarar los detalles antes mencionados) o aspectos a tener en consideración (como la vigencia de los vínculos a plataformas externas) y también identificamos algunas posibilidades en las que su equipo ASA Carnaval, podría contribuir (como la actualización del documento).

Concluimos que tenemos algunas dudas generales del enfoque (la dirección) que usted desea dar a esta ASA Enciclopedia, por lo que; si a usted le parece bien, quizá podríamos tener un encuentro en línea con Usted, para despejar estas dudas de manera que nosotros podamos intentar contribuir, siguiendo claramente el mismo enfoque. 

Sin más por el momento, quedamos atentos agradeciendo su misericordiosa instrucción y guía.

¡Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

Siempre a sus órdenes, su aspirante a discípula

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

ASA Carnaval

PD- En la reunión podríamos participar los tres coordinadores de ASA Carnaval - Abhinanda Das - Isvari Radha DD y Karuna-Sakti DD.

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Hare Krishna! Dear Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances.

All Glories be to Srila Prabhupada and his transcendental Bhaktivedanta Library.

Praying that the energy of your body is restored and favors the tireless Sankirtan that you offer to our Divine Acarya and thanking you for all the efforts you make to involve us in his service.🙇

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!! Paoh... every day we see newer and newer failures in the body, but newer and newer eternal advances in our humble intelligence.

The same for you?

I write as part of the ASA Carnaval team, in relation to ASA-Encyclopedia:

Following your response to our recent letter, we downloaded the file, reviewed it, and had a small meeting.

 General understanding

*In general, we observe that the content is clear and accessible.

*The preface was especially helpful to understand - to a certain extent - the analysis structure of this ASA Encyclopedia. Although throughout the content, we do not observe the classification of articles, which is mentioned in this preface.

*According to the document, the last revision is February 2021, so we did a quick search on the blog and noticed that several posts have not been included.

Doubts

On the other hand, some doubts arose such as: to whom is this ASA – Encyclopedia aimed? What would help us understand: What is the purpose? Likewise, we understand that in addition to H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami, Tom Brown, Buck White, Guy Gismo, there are other collaborators, if so, in which cases are they involved? And what are the guidelines for doing so?

ASA = Very nice.

Suggestions

From our perspective, we detected some possibilities for improvement (such as clarifying the aforementioned details) or aspects to take into consideration (such as the validity of links to external platforms) and we also identified some possibilities in which your ASA Carnaval team could contribute ( such as updating the document).

We conclude that we have some general doubts about the approach (direction) you wish to give to this ASA Encyclopedia, so; If it seems good to you, perhaps we could have an online meeting with you, to clear up these doubts so that we can try to contribute, clearly following the same approach.

Without further ado for the moment, we remain attentive and grateful for your merciful instruction and guidance.

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

Always at his command, his aspiring disciple

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

ASA Carnival

PS- The three coordinators of ASA Carnaval could participate in the meeting - Abhinanda Das - Isvari Radha DD and Karuna-Sakti DD.

asa[e] tom brown

AgtSP

Tom brown is Monkey, from Journey to the West, as incarnate in the ASA.

He is Secretary for ASA.

Buck White, Piggy is Treasurer.

Monkey has a Bachelor's Diploma and is a candidate for PhD (Doctor of Phalocracia) under the Mentorship of Uncle Gismo. Science Officer for NIOS.

Hare Krsna Gurudev 

Dandavat pranam at your lotus feet.

Gurudev kindly accept my request in your Twitter account.

As ur Twitter seems to be protected .

I lost access to my old account, so I have sent through a new account.

I hope to follow ur tweets.

Hare krishna.

Agtsp

HpS/ASA - Thank, agtSP, you! We don't get any notification when someone applies. We blocked it because we were afraid that someone was hacking the links.

We looked and found abount five applications.

We approved you and Lalita Gopi [?] and Lalita madhava and disapproved, Satan [no joke] and on Sunil who we didn't recognize. Hope tells us who he is and trys again.