Letters to the editor

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.

asa(e) dvad,, grhastaha, modern m.d.

Hare Krishna Maharaja:

Here's a request from Dr N. L. today's host:

can Maharaja please lecture on how to balance work life and spiritual life. And why it is important. And how to incorporate spirituality in our homes with our children.  

I have invited about 8 physician families. 6 confirms so far. 

🙏🏽

asa[e] - piggy's parting pearls

Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva AGTSP PAMHO

I hope this meets You in very good health.

HpS - Actually we are, agtSP, probably just like you. Suffering from the waves of Maya and not yet strong enough to completely avoid being pulled by them, but does seem that every day we get better!

Thank you.

Gurudeva. I was recalling that once You said that You put one quite [quote] from TOM BROWN, and one of the participants said oh Tom Brown is SO quise [wise]

May You be so kind and share here with us some quotes from Tom Brown, Buck White and maybe Uncle Gismo?

Thanks in advance

Ys

CMDD

ASA - We think, agtSP, that Piggy has been collecting them in "Piggy's Parting Pearls". Some them are so fabulously outrageous that they really fit Abraham Lincoln's comment:

"If you remain silent people will think you are a fool, but if you speak you remove all doubt."

At the end of a PPTX presentation on 'Hamlet and Arjuna', maybe the first, at a university in Chile. We needed a citation to finish the show.

So, we included a slide with a quote from Tom Brown, "Those who do not hear the lessons of history will be forced to repeat them". One very respected professor noted down the quote and we were terrified that they would ask us who Tom Brown was. We were sure someone said, that but could not remember who.

Piggy as Treasurer, Administrator:

• What you don't know you cannot reveal under torture.
• Eliminate the middle man.
• Never wake up a big dog with a short stick.
• Ask people to write their name, not sign their name, because their signature will probably be incomprehensible.

TB:

Lord Acton said, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely", but even though that is a very, very, very respected phrase, most people don't know the next line he wrote, "Therefore almost all powerful men have been bad men".

See - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

asa(e) vad,, Sannyasa,, dress.

[12/10, 12:02 PM] Srinivasa Das Hou: Guru Maharaja, can you please tell me which store did you buy your dhoti cloth at? Is it online? I looked at Joan but no peach or apricot. They have orange which looks brighter than what you use.

Also what percentages are cotton and polyester?

[12/10, 12:52 PM] HP Swami - Prof HHR: It is 4-meters, yards (?), per set, top and bottom. 

I buy on line - cotton-polyester blend or 60/40 cloth ie 60% cotton and 40% polyester. 

It is called broadcloth sometimes. Look at comments to see if it is relatively thick.

Color is peach or something but usually not orange.

If you buy 20-meters at one time ie five sets you get it half price.

Comes by mail ok.

We don't keep shirts, just use same material chodar or long and short sleeve t-shirts.

Shirts without pockets are best if someone gives us one to use for a special event and then take it back.

We have several sets now. 

Will divest to b'caris and Sannyasa candidates soon.

Think we got some good quality set(s) for special events.

🙂🙂🙂

asa[e[; DVAD, Sannyasa Dharma, Politics

AGTSP. paoho.... this is an eternal story. how a sannyasi should relate to politics.

"To achieve the highest success in life by becoming a gosvāmī and then a pure devotee of the Lord, one must follow the instructions ... given by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has given many ... books ... One should follow these instructions very strictly. Then it will be easier to make one’s life successful. Hare Kṛṣṇa." https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/preface/#bb5772

"One who enters the householder's life can execute the duties of a family man because he has already been trained for this job in the brahmacarya-āśrama. And after fifty years of age the householder retires from family life and prepares for the life of sannyāsa.", https://vedabase.io/en/library/lob/32/#bb1582457

So, Goswami: man, woman, child; should reduce politics. yes, in kutichaka sannyasi lives alone near home. grand daughters may bring prasad daily. he may give political decisions for the family but but should turn the politics, business, work, more and more over to the next generation. otherwise it can become 'foul means of livelihood'. the 'next generation are not old fools like us'.

now [23 12 01] all HpS/HHR politics and $$$ based in the ASA Blog!

c u there! 😍

asa[e]; asa verse book

[12/1/2023 7:39 AM] anandana Swami: https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/6/37/

I chose this verse and purport because I like the freedom of devotional service and preaching

🙏🏼😊

asa - this verse is so key for us also. in the mode of goodness we have free will to chose between different material choices, no? and if we chose sattva guna and if we do it enough then KRSNA sees that and sends a guru?