Letters to the editor

April 28, 2024

Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,

Pamho, AGtSP!

As requested, the short review of “Acara O Acarya,” a book by Sri Cakravarti, translated by Bhumipati Dasa, completed earlier this year in time for Maharaja Bhaktisiddhanta Swami’s 150th anniversary, a perfect time to reflect.

This subtle, enlivening book contains 30 questions on the Science and Art of Bhakti Yoga, applied with bonafide Vaishnavas, three actual Goswamis, and a couple of advisors, who separately correspond and comment on all of the queries. It is quite a voracious dialogue humbly submitted with Sastric references.

The questions are designed to eradicate misconceptions among devotees and posers. They reveal minute faults hidden in flowery words and popular misbeliefs and reinforce proper practices. All in all, the book shares the accomplishments of empathy versus strict sadhana practices, creating some forethought for advanced devotees and piquing the minds of neophyte devotees for aspiration.

The mood of gracious critique is not always quickly comprehended, so it is a volume that more mature devotees will appreciate and sincere, competent theists may also absorb.

Knowledge is power, and understanding it is perfection.

Thank you for your valuable time.

ASA - Great, but where is it available? How did you get it???

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Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva AGTSP PAMHO ☺️

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Tava pache pache

ASA - Wonderful! This should go into the Guinness Book of Records!

Wonderful!! You life is 97% perfect, no?

previous letter:https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14836/

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,

AGTSP, PAMHO,

Rounds have improved, back to chanting 16 rounds per day, keeping tracl of backlog, 4 rules super strict.

digital mangal artik on mayapur.tv

trying to practice/live https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/8/7/.

how can dual life , one in externa world and one in internal world... i think thats what we have to practice?

the youtube link on Sikshaastakm is not by Vrindavan Japa Preacher, but famous Late MS Subhalaxmi Carnatic singer

Obeisances,

trying to be Das of Hayagriva Avatar

hps - so nice, agtSP, to get your association. your mercy has always been big, big, thing for us. we have big debt to you, that we try to repay.

arjuna, bg, is this question.

he has dual, triune, quartenary, lives to lead:

• serve wife
• big brother
• family/dynasty
• laws of renunciation, don't kill for kingdom.

how does he do it? fight, not fight...? how? 🙂

she is famous lady. she performed in berkeley temple ⛪

ASA[e] Guru-tattva; Death of Guru

"Dear Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

In exchange for my Tapasya, I ask Krsna today for more years in your life Guru Maharaj. If Krsna has brought Pralaya in my life, and I must save and bring everything good from this land of India, and cross the oceans and settle a new land, a new age, He has to give me the sages to help. Without you, I’m clueless 🙏🏻. I would like to bring you with me as well back from India this year 🙏🏻. This is what I ask Krsna in return for everything He has taken, Guru Maharaj. 

YAS,

TN D

HpS/ASA --- AgtSP. Paoho. You should read the "Phaedo". Socrates discusses the same points.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1658/pg1658-images.html

Also, in the Chapter, 'Puranjana Becomes A Woman' there is great discussion of death of guru when Vidarbi's (?) husband leaves his body.

Brother Ass was 40% deaf in August 2023. I think he is at least 50% deaf now in May 2024. So, planning for his complete failure by December 2024 is not impractical. Weather man says 85% chance of rain starting at 1PM so we carry an umbrella.

Maybe we will be in this body until we are 200-years old.

Maybe by the wishes of pious good ladies we will recover our hearing.

I don't know.

Yet, in general, there will always be someone 35 when the elder dies at 75 but he will leave books, etc, and then if the relationship is spiritual then it can go to the immortal level.

When there is Vapu we take advantage of it.

When there is not we focus on Vani.

Many more aspects to this but have to deal with NIOS letter for all of our benefit now.

Will look at the Blog posts later.

Thank you! More Blog-blog-dialog to come!

asa[e] vad; female guru ... guru-tattva; female guru

ASA - Sriman Basu Gosh Das, thank you for the letter:

One point that really grounds us in the discussions of racism, feminism, nationalism in ISKCON is that first we want to distinguish who is Kanistha, Madhyama or Uttama Adhikari in the discussion. If we are talking with/about an Indian, black, woman devotee then we want to know if s(he)it is Kanistha, Madhyama or Uttama Adhikari.

Other point is that Diksa is for us a very [Daivi] Varna-ashrama Dharma position, so if a woman is doing it, then it must be under the protection of her father, husband, grown up son.

Especially for such a role, the Guru must be proper example of an initiated devotee.

When a we think of her in a public relation, it must be obvious to us who is her protector.

For example, Mother Urmilla Devi Dasi, Mother Narayani Devi Dasi, Mother Rukmini Devi Das, are all Gurus to us.

Yet it is not obvious to us under whose protection they are acting in our institution. As a Sannyasi we would really only want to communicate with them under the glance of their protectors. ... Mother Uttama Devi Dasi of the Grhasta Vision team is so much under the protection of my friend, her husband, Partha Das, that I feel communicating with one is communicating with the other... Make any sense?

asa[e] sankirtan; jung

From professor Hayagriva:

Hare Krishna Maharaja, Dandavat Pranam. 🙏🏾Thought you might find this interesting…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/carl-jung-pillars-life-happiness/678009/