Hare Krishna Gurudeva
Please accept my obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
After reading your last response I realize that it is true, I do not read the other letters on the blog, I must make an effort to do so, since your responses are also addressed to other devotees.
I have been quite disconnected from classes, Twitter, etc. My apologies for that. I remember those mornings in the temple when I ate breakfast while listening to his classes.
My sadhana has been stable, except for getting out of bed, I am still struggling with ignorance.
16 rounds with 30% enthusiasm and 4 strict principles, trying to be cleaner.
ASA - 🐒 🐷 👍
- I'm singing all my rounds in the morning.
- I do a little worship at my altar with Govinda, a flower and incense.
- I read the scriptures personally daily and every night I study the sastra with other devotees
- Studying at the institute is going perfectly, the course is easy and I am ready to finish.
- The preaching is going very well, I always leave home with books and when the opportunity arises, I distribute some. I made a bookmark with the Maha Mantra and my contact.
I want to sell books online, I already have the planning to start, but I am waiting to regularize my situation in ISKCON Chile to take that step, so as not to bother anyone.
HpS - We hope, agtSP, that you can do that. We always remember that Rama told Laksmana that there is no mistake we can make that we cannot rectify.
Yet, we have to do the work.
Eg. Allow our victims a few good kicks in our backside etc if they are desirous.
After having collected a list of Sankirtan contacts and talking to those most interested, at the beginning of this year I have been creating short Krishna consciousness content that I send to them privately on WhatsApp periodically.
I extended an invitation to those same people to meet via Zoom and thus study the scriptures together with the study group to which I belong. Two of those souls were enthusiastic and we have already had 3 satisfactory sessions (October 20, 2023).
I have also created a WhatsApp group in which I publish daily small excerpts from Srila Prabhupada's books. This content is aimed at devotees who are already practicing Krishna consciousness.
These internet facilities allow us to preach in an interesting way. For example, in my "down time" traveling, etc., I can dedicate myself to writing and planning.
As for preaching in the arts, I have been working on new musical compositions, lately of social criticism based on the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. For example, the last song talks about industrialization and the damage it has caused, this is also motivated by the classes I have heard from you.
I have already finished my first draft of a novel of what I call "Veda Fiction", since it is like science fiction, but based on Vedic knowledge. You have several times spoken of the coming of a soul similar to Maharaja Parikshit who will stabilize the situation of the planet. Well, this novel places the planet in a dystopian, Matrix-like future where Kali has completely enslaved humanity. In the midst of that horrific scene, Maharaja Parikshit takes birth again on this planet to fight against the dark side.
I have been lazy in composing the songs of the Acaryas. Taking the advice of a devoted friend, I am going to use the temple songbook and start composing based on those songs, I got stuck in wanting to be very exquisite with the songs.
I promise to start making Mangala Arati next year. I also want to take an English course and I wanted to tell you that I intend to start studying another degree next year, I want to study musical production, so I'm happy, it's not sound engineering like you advised me, but it has something to it.
Hare Krishna Gurudeva
My obeisances
Your servant
Piyari Mohan das
HpS - So much content that we had to start skimming near the end. Sounds very nice. Are you still with bi-polar personality?
This letter sounds like someone in the active rather than the depressed stage.
On the other hand.
Maybe you have become stable this level of energy.
There is another letter by your good self below.
We really hope to get to it.
Thank you!!!