Letter from Lima

8 years, 11 months ago by Germán Vegas in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Dear Gurumaharaja, I want to tell you that I'm moving up with Isabelle to Chosica, two blocks from the temple, the same house where Anandamaya prabhu lived. He has gone to Lima with his family . We're happy because we need to surround ourselves with a quieter atmosphere conducive to the study and service in a calmer mode.

My sadhana is fine, doing Mangala-aratik and chanting my rounds in the morning. I read for an hour and a half at nightfall, I am very focused on the Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi Lila. I am still so far from the complex feelings that the devotees of the Lord develop . How Krsna dasa Kaviraja Goswami raises the mysteries of Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga dissertations with mayavadis reveals a deep and unconditional love for Krsna, how Srila Prabhupada explains these verses is also different, in another mood, with a greater share of intensity, I think. So many questions, so many realizations. But I feel my heart very hard because of my selfishness, far from my devotional goals. I'm a sick person, trying to abandon his lunacy and dilussions.

My service in NIMSAR is demanding but is also a great opportunity to learn about how to differentiate the interests of my mind and my intelligence, it is sometimes difficult to make a difference but  I'm learning something to do it, Gurudeva.
Krishna is being very kind to me, I thank him for the wife who has given me, the association of NIMSAR and other devotees, the service that I am constantly learning and, above all, you, my spiritual master from wich I have so much things to learn.
I hope to be prudent In this new service in Chosica, I just ask Govinda to keep up my enthusiasm and give me a shred of intelligence.

Hope to hear from you soon.

With great affection

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP paho. We are working with Abhirama Das, Rohini kumar Das, LAD et al to fix a calendar for visiting Peru and Tarapota. Also hope to have some academic things published soon that may interest you. If you chant 1728 times the Mahamantra for Krsna to engage you in His service, then certainly He will, no? That is very interesting, useful to everyone.

What are you doing at work?