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URGENTE

7 years, 9 months ago by Jiyada Nrsmha in Personal Sadhana Reports

T.L.G.A.S.P.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto

mediante la presente me permito contestar las interrogantes que me hizo

Has atravesado Grhastha ashrama?

Respuesta.- Querido Guru Maharaja, ya atravece el Ashrama de Grhastha y no tengo hijos, mi ex esposa no era devota, motivo por el cual jamas podria estar de Vanaprastha con la ex-esposa, ademas cabe señalar que no tengo ningun tipo de comunicacion con ella, ya que las cosas terminaron muy mal.

Vistiendo el azafrán es mucho más dependiente en la comunidad local estándar

Respuesta.- El estandar dentro del yatra de Cochabamba, es que no contamos con un templo, y pese a no tener templo hubieron muchos devotos que usaron azafran viviendo en sus casa y llevando una vida normal ya sea con estudio o trabajo, como por ejemplo: el hijo de prabhu Mathuresh Nitaysanga dasa, Prabhu Dharmaraja dasa, y Prabhu Deva Deva dasa. al contar con estos antecedentes me permiti consultar a Usted si seria correcto usar azafran dentro del yatra de Cochabamba.

Oficiosamente Goswami

A fin de cumplir su instruccion y tomando en cuenta que pasaran unos años de preparacion para tomar Sannyasa, ya que segun nuestra sociedad ISKCON, existen requisitos que se deben cumplir y mi persona esta dispuesta a ir cumpliendo todos esos requisitos, formalmente ya estoy pasando mi curso de Bhakti Sastri online y recien acabo al año.

¿Cuál es su Ashrama historia?

hice un voto de celibato por un año mientras vivia en el templo de Costa Rica, luego Grhastha ashrama, y ahora Brahmacari.

Atte. su eterno y neofito sirviente  Jiyada Nrsmha dasa.

HpS-In airport in Brisbane. To me it seems fine you start wearing saffron but what does Mathuresa das think. A letter from him to this blog?

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Man Making

7 years, 9 months ago by hps in Special Category B
Hare Krsna!!
Esteemed Prana Das,
Thank you for the extremely stimulating and informative time while here in Australia.
1. Our Hamlet and Arjuna word document and power point show for your school are in our archives at our web site, www.jayarama.us. Look for "wcl-2princes...". "wcl" is an abbreviation we use for "world classical literature".
2. I was going to record an interview with you to get an easy article for this wonderful book NIOS is producing, "Education in Ancient India and Man Making in Modern Times, Siksa-drsa", but the work we did was more fundamental and I think I now have a better perspective on you contribution. Can you answer the following questions in a format that we can publish in the book?
a) What has been your life in education, both formal, external degrees, work experience; and internal motivation, realization. How do these relate to the title of the book? Brief.
b) What have been the principles and practical advice in terms of the title of the book that you can extract from your above mentioned experience for developing man making in modern times, specifically how your ISKCON as both an institution and community of collegues would fit into this.
Thank you. Even a draft would be helpful. We can work on it together and use it for the book and also other efforts.
HpS
Hare Krsna!!
Esteemed Prana Das,
Thank you for the extremely stimulating and informative time while here in Australia.
1. Our Hamlet and Arjuna word document and power point show for your school are in our archives at our web site, www.jayarama.us. Look for "wcl-2princes...". "wcl" is an abbreviation we use for "world classical literature".
2. I was going to record an interview with you to get an easy article for this wonderful book NIOS is producing, "Education in Ancient India and Man Making in Modern Times, Siksa-drsa", but the work we did was more fundamental and I think I now have a better perspective on you contribution. Can you answer the following questions in a format that we can publish in the book?
a) What has been your life in education, both formal, external degrees, work experience; and internal motivation, realization. How do these relate to the title of the book? Brief.
b) What have been the principles and practical advice in terms of the title of the book that you can extract from your above mentioned experience for developing man making in modern times, specifically how your ISKCON as both an institution and community of collegues would fit into this.
Thank you. Even a draft would be helpful. We can work on it together and use it for the book and also other efforts.
HpS

Art and the Sacred

7 years, 9 months ago by hps in Special Category B, Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports
“Art and the Sacred, Bighting Beans”
HpSwami – We would say that the following dialog between Albert and Bosco would be stimulating for a Tibetan Buddhist concerned wth sacred art as well as we Bengali Vaisnavas.
We would see at least three kinds of sacred art: That which is a sacred object in and of itself, like sacred calligraphy; sacred art that is an iconografic or symbolic representation of the sacred and finally, sacred art that takes us to the sacred. Below we ask if you agree is the first basis for sacred art of the third category.
From the Bible we hear, “Fear of God is the beginning of knowledge”.
So, is fear of God the beginning of art?
We didn’t eliminate God from the  equation, we just marginalized him.
What do you mean, asked Bosco?
I mean that we wanted to continue to enjoy this bodily existence.
The body doesn’t get diseases, the body is a disease, replied Albert with disgust.
Are you sure of that said Bosco.
Yes, said Albert. Bob Bickford who was a tender of a wine bar in Sausalito told us that his body had never done anything nice for him so why should he do anything nice for his body.
Albert, Hmmm!
Bosco, https://www.vedabase.com/en/bg/13/8-12, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-
duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; “One should try to understand the distress of accepting birth, death, old age and disease. There are descriptions in various Vedic literatures of birth. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam the world of the unborn, the child’s stay in the womb of the mother, its suffering, etc., are all very graphically described. It should be thoroughly understood that birth is distressful. Because we forget how much distress we have suffered within the womb of the mother, we do not make any solution to the repetition of birth and death. Similarly at the time of death there are all kinds of sufferings, and they are also mentioned in the authoritative scriptures. These should be discussed. And as far as disease and old age are concerned, everyone gets practical experience. No one wants to be diseased, and no one wants to become old, but there is no avoiding these. Unless we have a pessimistic view of this material life, considering the distresses of birth, death, old age and disease, there is no impetus for our making advancement in spiritual life.”

DTC Tu(21)

7 years, 9 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna.

FMP & FEP

Tiro-bhava mahotsava Srila Prabhupada.

1-hour with Prana Das, MOE.

Rest. Light work. 23-hours travel tomorrow.

 Learned lot today.

 You?

URGENTE

7 years, 9 months ago by Jiyada Nrsmha in Personal Sadhana Reports

T.L.G.A.S.P.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto.

HpS - ASA -- Pies de loco.

Mi muy querido Gurudeva:

El dia que me dio segunda iniciacion, usted me dio una instruccion: "que me preparara para mi tercera iniciacion", y apartir de ese dia usted sembro en mi corazon el desapego por este mundo material, y por mas que mi mente buscaba refugio en la gratificacion sensorial, mi alma jamas encontro placer en todo lo que realizaba, es por eso que seguiendo sus sabias instrucciones, resolvi prepararme para la tercera iniciacion, en este proceso de preparacion tengo una duda que quisiera que usted me la despeje, tomando en cuenta que no vivo en un templo, pero me mantengo fijo con mis rondas, los principios regulativos y levantandome temprano.

Seria correcto usar azafran ?

Atte. su eterno sirviente y discipulo mas neofito Jiyada Nrsmha dasa

HpS - Posible. Sannyasa, formalmente tercero initiation is directly from Brahmacari or after Grhastha. Have you gone through Grhastha ashrama? Then comes Vanaprastha with the wife in some degree or separately, then Sannyasa. Wearing saffron is very much dependent on the local community standard.

Informally Goswami, Third Initiation, is described in NOI 1. Externally we have our ISKCON society under Srila Prabhupada's direction.

What is your Ashrama history?

DTC 21 Sun

7 years, 9 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna.

We just Tweeted.

It is not just that we are doing three programs a day with 100 intense people at each one and driving for two-three hours a day and taking some individual crisis. We also got a snappy virus, but... all this seems within the plan of Sri Krsna Sankirtan, and it is without a doubt that there are devotees doing more sincere service than us. Maybe we are the second most fallen person in ISKCON.

Now in New Govardhana the weather is 90% fine with fresh air, space, sunshine. True we have no hot water but PLD got some laundry soap for us immediately and our traveling crew is a great, great help!! Madhumanjari, Adi adri, Jitendriya, DHRUVA.....

Now we go to the Temple and chant our rounds. Was only able to  get up and get there for Srngara-arati today. For emergencies of pain or happiness you can call our keeper, Dhruva Das at +61 434 629 587.

At 70-years old with the early days of a Berekey Hippy how we are working is a God sent miracle.

We recommend our path to everyone. Hopefully some more light days here and get some strong work done for 'Art and the Sacred' and Viplavah and ABC.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. AGTSP!!!     Paoho.....  TB/BW...