Letters to the editor

Old Mail 2021 March 16

3 years, 9 months ago by hps in Personal Sadhana Reports

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HpS - ASA: We could not respond to all the mail from our birthday, so we looked at it as best we could. Extracted some which follows, often with no reason, and then ask devotees to write again.


Namacharya Das wrote: First, thank you for sharing these beautiful songs. I would not listen to them so attentively without your mind provoking inputs. Until today, I knew only the Hotel California. In all the songs I liked the lyrics, musical compositions, and performance. I noticed you put the links to the live versions, which again, I prefer to the studio ones.

  • Gaura Vani's Compass - Mantra is mellow and soft and the lyrics are deep. The whole musical arrangement is very soothing. I could listen all the time to different maha-mantra melodies in this kind of arrangement (acoustic instruments, soft playing).
  • The Band - Somebody is missing from the going to war. Or? Such a nice performance by the musicians. Never before heard this song. 

HpS - It is about the end of the Civil War and what happened in the states and city near where we live. It very much catches the mood of the local experience. There are still many, many monuments and a cemetary with 10,000 body very near to where we live. Prabhupada was willing to go into the mode of passion to preach. He said the Mayapura project was in the mode of passion.


  • Eagles - This song I know from before. There is a contrast between lyrics and music. It is deceiving. Music is soft but the words are hard. In lyrics - Deep magnetic feeling of entrapment. I take out one line from it: "We are all just prisoners here of our own device". Device - yantra BG 18.61. Prisoners of the material body and consciousness (and modern gadgets).

HpS - Yes, seems some realization of entering into the world of Maya and how we are making our selves our own prisoners.


Written by Namacarya Das with a help from my-better -half Nirgata Devi Dasi (photo attached - native Istrian [part of Croatia] donkeys)


HpS - We missed the photo!  AS devotees we can see how it is Krsna that is attracting people. He is the fragrance of the earth. That is how 'Hotel California" starts.


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