Rambhoru Dasi

[Guest guest]

Dear Vaishnava Community,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

As you must understand, my sons and I are experiencing a great deal of stress

associated with the admission of falldown, and resulting resignation of our

husband and father. In my last letter you must have gleaned a minute insight

into the financial and emotional difficulties we endured in support of Prithu

prabhu’s preaching. Now, to know that all of this suffering was for naught,

and to understand more specifically the emotional disturbance that was behind

my husband’s distant and cold-hearted nature – we are, to say the least,

shattered.

 

To help my family overcome the emotional trauma we are currently experiencing,

I am requesting financial relief so we may begin the process of healing our

lives.

 

My sons and I need the long-term support of a paid counselor experienced in

religious abuse and mental illness and its effects on us as family members.

Free or sliding-scale counseling offered by inexperienced Phd. students earning

internship hours is not sufficient to speak to our needs at this time. Any

therapy worth receiving costs a minimum of $150 per hour and more. For all of

us to receive appropriate counseling, it will cost a minimum of $1,000 per

month for at least 6 months, $6000 total.

 

Secondly, I need a minimum of 1 month respite to hear, chant, render emotional

support to my children and reevaluate my life. This is going to cost $2700.00

per month for me[1]; additional funds will be utilized by my sons for the same

purpose.

 

I know there is currently some negotiation going on regarding the Vrindavan

Prabhupada Vani Ashram. When (and if) these funds do become available, they

will be immediately consumed by the payment of long-standing debt (we have

truly been struggling) and my children’s much deserved education. That property

has been undergoing sales negotiations for over 5 years. It may require several

more years before funds are made accessible to us.

 

In all the years as an ISKCON devotee, nothing has prepared me for

the current unexpected turn of events my family and I are undergoing. Nor have

we ever asked for any help from the ISKCON for any of our personal needs. Now,

we really do need immediate financial assistance to derive some relief from the

combined mounting pressure of the upheaval of our lives along with the

increasing financial burden we presently face.

 

For this reason, I am respectfully requesting your thoughtful sympathies,

support and assistance. If you would like to have more information regarding

our situation please contact me either by phone or by email. (tel) 310-839-3685

or rambhoru .

 

Sincerely,

 

Rambhoru Dasi

 

PS It is very easy to send us funds from any part of the world. You only need

to go to www.paypal.com and request to send cash to my email address which is

rambhoru . The money will be placed in a paypal ‘holding tank’ which

will be transferred into my account when I sanction it. It only takes a few

minutes. If you would rather send funds by check, please make it payable to my

legal name, Robin Brinkmann, rather than Rambhoru Dasi.

 

 

 

Rambhoru Dasi’s monthly expenditures

 

 

 

$555.00_________Rent

 

150.00_________Water. Gas. Electricity and phone.

 

70.00_________Car insurance.

 

280.00_________Gas for car.

 

1,000.00_________Food and basic living needs for myself and my 2 sons, e.g.,

soap,

 

toothpaste, laundry soap, medications, washing

liquid, etc.

 

400.00_________Credit Card debts incurred while making the transition to CA

from

 

NC to recover my family (2001).

 

200.00_________miscellaneous expenses, e.g., clothes, car maintenance (smog

check,

 

DMV renewal, minor repairs, long distance phone

calls, internet

 

service, emergencies, etc.

 

25.00________ washing machine in temple laundry room.

 

 

 

 

$2680.00_________aproximate total expenses per month

 

-800.00_________Monies sent by Prithu Das monthly (until now)

 

 

$1880.00_________to be paid monthly by Rambhoru Dasi

 

 

 

**I earn between $1200.00 and $1800.00 maximum per month, working 40 hours per

week, depending on the substitute teaching jobs I get.

 

 

 

$2700.00 our family’s financial needs for one (1) month

 

+ 6,000.00 professional counseling for our family for 6 months

 

$8700.00 Total immediate financial assistance needed by us.

 

 

 

** Even if people only send us a few dollars per person, it will help ease the

pressure we are experiencing in our current crises. Little Drops of Water Wear

Away the Stone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] Please refer to page (3) of this document for a countdown of our monthly

expenditures.