Hare Krishna Gurudeva!

Please, accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Thank you Gurudeva for your reply to my last letter, it was a very precise answer! 🙏

I meant to write you again a long time ago, but I could not find the right time to do it..

Maybe for my mind this moment is not appropriate either, but if I wait for the "right moment" I am going to take too long to write....so I do it now!

HpS - AGTSP!!! One man was in his chair, sofa, at the beach reading a book, and he notice another man step into the water at the edge of the ocean with his bathing suit on and stand there, but the first man went back to reading his book. Then after about ten minutes he looked up and saw that the second man was still standing in the water of the ocean up to his ankles and had not gone any more into the water. So the first man, with a smile asked, "Are you going into the water or not?". The second answered very seriously, "Oh, yes, but I am just waiting for the waves to stop before I go in."

Gurudeva, I wanted to sent you a report about our progress in Vedabase service, but I saw that Prahlada Nrsimha prabhu already did it.

HpS - It is worth reporting many times. Such great Sankirtan. He had cards to hand out to people.

Anyway, I want to inform you that we were waiting for books from BBT to continue with importing. The Books are being sent and now we have started with "Teachings of Queen Kunti".

ASA - Oh, yes! Reina Kunti, prima de Isabella!

Also we have already corrected the typing mistakes that LOB had. As I once told you...Importing is usually about copy and paste paragraphs and not necessarily reading the paragraphs completely, but then I noticed that some words in the paragraphs were misspelled. The original versión in Spanish which we were working had these mistakes, so it was necessary to check all the text and re-edit it. We will check the other books to see if there are those errors to correct them.

HpS - French poet: Nobody ever finished a poem, they just stopped working on it. Nobody ever finished correcting all the mistakes in a book, they just stopped looking.

Gurudeva, by your desire we want to complete all the Bhaktivedanta library in Spanish!!

HpS - Then Santa Rosa of Lima will take birth in Lima again to read them!

I like to do this service, I think it fits my nature. I like to do things in detail, writing, editing, etc, and I have time to do it.

On the other hand I want to talk about my sadhana...

Gurudeva, for a long time I have been feeling dissatisfied with my sadhana..

It is like...lately...I have been making the minimum effort to do it. Not trying my best to do my best...as other times I did. I know that I can give more, do it better, but my mind, lazyness...tama guna?? are like a constant obstacle....Gurudeva, please...what is the cause of it??

I know that I can give much more to Krishna and I do not do it. I am like a miser who have a 100 dollar bill in my pocket and only gives Krishna two dollars. 😭 Gurudeva, what is the cure for this??

HpS - I do not know. I have the same problem. We have our Karma, which is now being controlled by Radharani not Durga, but still it is there. Now it is being used for our purification and service. So, some times we are in Tama guna and because we are not pure devotees it has some influence. It hurts us!!! We decide to become pure devotees. In the ultimate issue, our Sadhana is a very, very personal relationship with your old friend, Krsna, and how we are being His friends or not.

I wanted to talk to you about one more topic but I better leave it for the next letter..

Please, forgive me if I have been a little complaining in this letter..😥

Thank you very much for your causeless mercy!!!

HARE KRISHNA !!!!

Your aspiring servant : Mitravinda dd.

HpS - Thank you so much for your letter. Many subtle things in spiritual life. Many are very funny. Is God a joker? You seem to be on the right path. Maybe you were a Monk in your last life. Maybe you were Santa Rosa of Lima. Look at your resources, association, and do the best you can.

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