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Hare Krsna Gurudeva, PAMHO, agTSP..

Bhaktivinod Thakur speaks about regret and repentance for chanting the holy names with offenses.

One of the meanings of the maha‑mantra, or one of the ways in which we can chant, is to ask Krishna for forgiveness for having committed offenses to His holy name.

We have committed many offenses in our distracted, apathetic, lazy chanting of the holy names. Krishna is so kind and merciful that He personally comes to us in the form of His holy name. Yet we are so ungrateful that we neglect Him. We neglect His personal presence in His name, and we often chant just out of duty — merely to finish our rounds and move on to something else.

It is as if Krishna has come to our home and we are neglecting Him, turning our backs towards Him.

So, as we chant now, we are going to pray from our hearts. We are going to feel from our hearts: “Krishna, please forgive me for all those offenses I have made.” And the mood is that I will never make them again. I will never take Your holy name for granted. I will never be apathetic when approaching Your holy name.

I admit my guilt in offending Your name — through inattention, through negligence, through treating Your holy name as an impersonal sound vibration, as a ritual practice, as something that I have to do rather than something I want to do.

I ask Your forgiveness. In my remorse, I pray to rectify myself and always chant Your name with devotion.

Regret | Japa Guided Meditation | Mahatma Das

feels so sad. so impersonalists, yet inconceivable.

can you help/ guide us to realize how sound of holy name is non different from Krsna..its inconceivable ..or may b v r giving excuse.

but above text made us realize our guilt.

Hp Swami - You are already doing the right things.

You are on the right path.

It is the greatest battle in the world.

More than these wars being conducted by great powers around the world.

Chant, follow four principles, keep full morning program, meet with your Sankirtan partners after breakfast to make plans, apply them to your best ability during the day.

Have a bath a beautiful arati, kirtan, reading together in the evening.

Send the demons off to the Maya.

🙂

Hare Krishna.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

AGTSP. All glories to you, Guru Dev.

Here in Córdoba, Argentina, I have spent these past few months in lumberjack mode, cutting firewood to maintain some warmth in the forest tower.

At the same time, with our very limited resources, we are trying to make progress with the construction of the house.

Together with Vrsabhanu Nandini, we are teaching photography classes at Hari’s Waldorf school.

We have started meeting every two weeks for devotee children at “the Forest Tower,” with playful activities such as art, theater, and games, with the idea of cultivating bonds among them and sharing Krishna consciousness.

As for our work, we continue working remotely in video and photo editing, but we are going through a period of economic hardship and need more or better work opportunities. This situation affects various matters and decisions that one may have to face.

I have written letters for the blog, and I have always felt that they revolve around the same topics—a routine that has continued for years.

I know that internally one matures and learns, even when external circumstances remain repetitive. That is why, sometimes, I do not know what to tell you or share on the blog. Nevertheless, I am sending you this kind of report.

Regarding my sadhana:

I am following the four principles.

Sixteen rounds, irregularly (I am not completing them every day).

We continue to attend to our altar, perhaps at a lower standard, but it remains the center of our home.

We regularly connect to Asa’s programs.

From our side, we are always available to serve you and the sankirtan movement.

Thank you very much, Guru Dev, for your example and guidance.

Your servant,

Ambarisa Maharaja Das.

Hare Krsna 

Por favor acepte mis reverencias.

AgtSP todas las glorias a usted Guru Dev.

 Aqui desde Cordoba Argentina, Ambarisa das.

En estos meses en modo leñador cortando leña para mantener cierto calor en la torre del bosque.

Tambien con lo limitadisimos recursos tratando de abanzar con la construccion de la casa. 

Estamos dando clases de fotografia junto a Vrsabhanu nandini en la escuela Waldorf de Hari. 

Empezamos una reunion cada 15 dias para niños devotos en "la torre del Bosque" con actividades ludicas como arte, teatro y pasatiempos, con la idea de cultivar lazos y el compartir conciencia de Krsna entre ellos.  

En cuanto a nuestro trabajo seguimos trabajando a distancia en edicion de video y fotos, pero estamos en un periodo de precariedad economica necesitando mas o mejores trabajos. esta situacion afecta varias cuestiones y deciciones que uno pueda afrontar.

He escrito cartas para el Blog y siempre senti que se repetian en los mismos temas. Una rutina que se prolonga en años. 

Se que internamente uno madura, aprende, aunque los hechos externos sean repetidos. Por eso a veces no se que contarle o compartir en el blog. Sin embargo le envio esta especie de reporte.

En cuanto a mi sadhana: 

Siguiendo 4 principios

16 rondas irregulares ( no estoy terminandolas todos los dias)

Atendemos nuestro altar tal vez en un menor estandar pero sigue siendo el centro del hogar. 

Nos conectamos regularmentre a los programas de Asa. 

Desde nuestra parte siempre disponible para servirlo austed y al moviemiento de sankirtan.

muchas gracias Guru Dev por su ejemplo y Guia. 

su sirviente Ambarisa Maharaja Das

HpSwami ASA - Krsna is trying to help us. By sixteen rounds we make ourselves accessible to Him.

We may be poor or rich but internally we will have strength and happiness.

These reports are super.

Send more.

Send details.

We are thinking of service you can do for NIOS but depends on Krsna engaging us also.

Success or failure we plan to give our life to Radha Krsna and Rama at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet.

Okay?

Respects to everyone.

Hare Krishna

AgtSP

PAMHO

How are you? I hope health is still a word in your dictionary specially at that age that your body has.

Hp Swami ASA - AgtSP we have returned to our Base Camp at ISKCON Houston.

Setting up camp

I have a little question about chanting rounds and practicing spiritual life, does it really make you more sensible?

Because I fell the more I chant and the more I read I become to some extent more sensitive and cry-full I don`t bad or anything but makes me wonder if it really is because of that or is just the time of the year.

Hp Swami - Some times we wonder if we are making advancement in spiritual life then Krsna puts us in contact with someone we new in college for example and we see the difference.

We should be able to see tangible results externally and internally.

I`m fighting to wake up more early but some times this young body is fighting back and some days I even don´t finish all my rounds due to my own stupidity, I know what I have to do and I will do it, I think is just a part of the process to make mistakes and learn about them. But we will see each other more often in mangal arati :D

As always hope your health is betttter than before and that old rust little car still has some oil to work properly with not many problems.

HpSwami - Wars are not won by unwounded soldiers who march into battle with new handsome uniforms. They are won by wounded soldiers who get up, use what resources they have and go on fighting.

Thank you.

All glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Guru Maharaj. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaj. Please accept our humble obeisances at Your sweet lotus feet.

HpS, ASA - AgtSP!

Our obeisances to the Siddha-svarupa and lotus feet of your self and all of our readers!

We are like drunken elephants with the Rath yatra fever. Dear Guru Maharaj, I bow my head at your lotus feet again and again....You are so merciful. You give us so much joy in serving Srila Prabhupada.

The yatra was mind blowing...never have I witnessed such a crowd here...

His leela is amazing....and thank you Guru Maharaj....om ajnana timirandhasya.....Indeed I am so blind...yet so fortunate to have you as my spiritual master...opening my eyes...wide enough to feel the love of Sri Jagannath...premanjana churita bhakti vilocanena...

By your mercy, we are conducting daily house programme with ecstatic kirtan by HG Gadadhara Prabhu...

Some programmes are conducted at local temples....what great fortune you have bestowed upon us dear Guru Maharaj...

We danced for Sri Jagannath, Sri Baladev and Subhadra Ma....few professional dancers were there but most of us were not...we just loved to dance for Sri Jagannath....

Read Madhya lila CC....Guru Maharaj...no woman here give class...but with Your divine kripa....your poor and insignificant seevant has been doing this service....and all glories from Manipur to you dear Guru Maharaj.

Should I send an abstract or a short report or a paper on the work that I am doing here in the hospital? ( About the article to be published in Solaris). Recently a dialogue on Science and spirituality appeared in our Institute's Magazine. All glories to Guru Maharaj

Sending you some pics....dear Maharaj...

Your insignificant servant,

Sarad Gaurangi DD

HpS - We are faced with massive violence in this world. How can we stop it?

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/9/10/20/#bb54499

diary of a traveled creature.

we, hps/asa 🐵 🐖 🔭 are in Seattle, Issaquah, Washington, USA.

the sun is at 12.44am local time.

hare krsna.

we are chanting more and more.

we are praying to radharani, hare, to pray to rama/krsna to push us to chant more.

tonight see harivilasa das, temple program, tomorrow ekadasi, program in Lynnwood, like 1-hour driving.

Saturday at 5.30Am we fly ✈to Houston ISKCON!

How is your Sankirtan?

We are just trying to be a little part of Srila Prabhupada's band!

So much to do. Chant Hare Krsna, not for liberation,k but also what service can we do in the liberated stage.

After the battle of Kurukstra started, it was a chaos at many times.

The enemy attacks, the Black Witch, our Captains and General call to us to reorganize, but often we are fighting with another soldier by our side and no one else, and making local decisions about what is best for us to contribute something to win the war.

Just bought the tickets for Anantesvara Das and HpS to go to India, Ayurvedic Ashrama, from Madrid 26th September. Then return 12th October.

A.I. Das may stay a little longer or leave even the next day, but HpS will stay until like 21st October!

Calendar is external manifestation of the Super Soul.

Sankirtan. Sankirtan.

Sankirtan Partners.

'o'0' (Subhadra and her little brother, Krsna)!

'O'o' (Subhadra and her brother big brother, Rama)!

Hare Krsna///Hare Rama.

Will rest now and work on the ASA Encyclopedia asa[e].

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, pamho

I hope that this meets you in good health.

HpS - Old but still working!

Eyes are burning.

Digestion little cramped.

Always struggle to sit properly.

Little cold in Seattle.

Forty percent deaf (maybe by yoga we can do some recovery).

Back to Houston, back to Base Camp, day after tomorrow!

etc. 😆

Yesterday it was the presentation of Parama Karuna, Sri Sri Gaura Nitai in Wilson, Lima, Peru. I can not upload videos here but we can tell that the devotees were very pleased.

I want to give my gratitude to Isvari Radha dd and her daughters (Rayani and Sarasvati) they are an example of top-notch children raised by good devotees

To Meghapuspa Prabhu who is in charge of the pujari in Wilson and to Kavi caitanya das

But most importantly I want to thank your very good self for your blessings. I keep all your words, jokes, etc within my heart

HpS/ASA - Buck White, Librarian, for ASA, sympathizes with you. What a chaos your heart must be.

Hope to see you soon

Your eternal servant

CMDD

HpS - Pictures are wonderful. Makes us feel that there are heroes who are struggling for ISKCON in Peru! Is there any nation in ISKCON more essential for the Sankirtan of the movement than Peru?

We don't think so!

Get to work!

Draupadi was the cause of the whole Kuruksetra war.