Letters to the editor

From: HpS (HHR) 
To: Badrinarayan Swami ; 'Vaisesika Prabhu' ; Boise Temple; Sesa Das 
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent Good News

AGTSP

Thank you for your letter, Maharaja, GBC Secretary,

Paoho.

Hp Swami, the situation in ISKCON Boise, Ministry of Education, GBC College, ISKCON Srila Prabhupada: We are looking at this from specific example to broad, grave impact.

We are dealing with this personally, we hope well, but we have to have institutional help to get institutional results at this point. As best we can understand how to move forward we should make a:

FORMAL COMPLAINT to you as GBC Secretary that the Temple in Boise is not maintaining regular Srimad Bhagavatam classes for its members and should be put on probation as an ISKCON Temple.

We are making this complaint for what we see as the welfare of all concerned. We hope to learn from this situation. Our complaint may be wrong. We hope everyone takes this in a friendly capacity, and we hope working on this situation will have waves all across ISKCON.

We don't expect any quick results. If you can respond that as GBC Secretary for ISKCON Boise, you have received our Complaint and have asked the Temple President to Respond within 30-days that is fine for us. Very fine. Then we have a practical basis for institutional discussion of the matter.

We want a healthy institution, we want friendly dealings, we want to face our Guru Maharaja at the end of the day and say that we are trying to work properly in his institution and Sanga.

Again, as a Sannyasi, we try to only deal in these administrative matters in a general sense, so we are publishing all these communications on our Blog so our Students can hopefully how to deal with our very, very, very glorious institution ISKCON and deepen their relations as a Sadhu sanga also.

HpSwami

Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!

2017 dec 6
ASA-Encyclopedia; Guru-tattva, Confessions of an ISKCON Guru

We must confess that we have had a very deep rooted attachment to vanill ice cream. That is the kind of 'guru' that we are. No meant, no fish, no eggs, [maybe chocolate coated peanuts while starving while traveling], but vanilla ice-cream at times. That is a Madhyama-adhikari, no? He s(he)it has material attachments, but they are under some regulation and they are diminishing.

In the beginning when we were Brahmacaris, treasurer of the San Francisco Temple, we explained our problem to Bhakta Das, the Temple President and he said that it was nothing in comparison to the service we were able to give him and the Temple. Control our lust as much as we could.

O.K. but still we felt guilty. Under great pressure we could even honor quarts of the evil white stuff. Then a few years ago we heard H. H. Bhakti-caru Swami say that he had one time come into Srila Prabhupada's room crying, and Srila Prabhupada asked with some shock. "What is wrong"?

He replied, "Srila Prabhupada, I am so sinful"!

"What did you do"? !

"Srila Prabhupada, you are sending me to Calcutta for work and I am again and again falling in Maya and buying milk sweets, Rasagullas"!

He said, Srila Prabhupada laughed and said, "Don't worry, it will go away!"

We felt relieved that the situation was so similar to ours.

They say that Srila Prabhupada said that a B'cari should eat cheese only once a week, but then seeing how we Western buffalos were so weak without it he even permitted it daily. Of course, that does not mean it is good for your health and it will shorten your life, but cats and dogs will be cats and dogs, even for Krsna.

O.K. That's our greatest gross sin. We may all have deep seated addictions. They may not be so sinful but just need to be purified. We need to eat late at night, so we have to learn to eat potatoes late at night instead of pizza.

Any comments?

Hare Krsna! Hare Krsna!

HpS -----    Is little Audi!     Hey, we just noticed, "NIOS" is not mentioned like in old page

I wrote you email some time ago about it. Devotee from BBT Copyrights contacted me with strange email and one point was complaining NIOS is mentioned there. So to avoid any problems I changed message to their liking. Didn't get any reply after that.

HpS - Aaach!  Thank you.

So you are right on the border with Austria, no?    SANKIRTAN!

Yes, suppose to be few kilometers from Austria. But we are not going there as without car is impractical to travel to Austria for us.

HpS - Thank you! Please engage us in your wonderful service.

Dear Hanumat Presaka Maharaj:

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I received the pin drive [With Oscar's LOB Movie etc]. Thank you very much for making this effort. The movie is a thing of beauty with a critique of modern times / Kali Yuga as well. I am sorting through the Power Points—I have already found some items I can use.

Thanks again and I hope this finds you well wherever you are traveling / preaching.

Your servant,
Badrinarayan Swami

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja.
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

PND - Director of Vedabase.io,
How are you??  Where are you??

We are ok, plus minus, and are in Slovakia (Bratislava city).

Can you erase all old Disciple Reports?  

Done. All are erased now.

There is still no Search Engine at the New Vedabase, no?

Unfortunately not yet, it is already started but will be finishing it right after synonyms indexes will be ready.

It looks very nice.

Generally I am very critical, but I like this new version very much. I feel Krishna is behind it. Once there will be synonyms indexes, search and all remaining books it will be amazing.

Can you use help migrating the Spanish language stuff?

Definitely!

If you know somebody who would help I can show them how to do. They don't need to be computer wizzards, anybody who can manage send email will be able to do it. It will be great help. 

We will import 11 books which are ready into new version tomorrow (Gita Jayanti), one of them will be Spanish Sri Isopanisad.

I have already started Spanish SB, but dropped it due to tasks which others cannot do.

How long it take you to buy Audi??

It takes me 20 minutes to go to shop and buy this one: https://www.dracik.sk/auticko-audi-r8/
:)

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

HpS -----    Is little Audi!     Hey, we just noticed, "NIOS" is not mentioned like in old page

 <img alt="crying" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/cry_smile.png" title="crying" width="23" />  <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" /> <img alt="devil" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/devil_smile.png" title="devil" width="23" />     Esperamos que unos devotos lean esta y ofrecen ayudar!!!  Some day, maybe, we can add the KRSNA book in Spanish. Our humble respects to your better half. We hope she and your family are well.

So you are right on the border with Austria, no?    SANKIRTAN!

Hare Krsna!

The second edition of Viplavah, a journal of the ISKCON Ministry of Education, is now available through ASA release at:  www.jayarama.us/archives/viplavah2-171129.docx.

Read it and tremble all you Great Ones.