Hare Krsna.
Looking at all the factors, consulting as much as we could, we have bought the following ticket:
Kolkata to Imphal, 1st Nov, 9.10AM to 10.30AM,
Imphal to Kolkata, 4th Nov, 11AM to 12.15AM,
On Indigo Airlines!
JayaRama!!!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!!
Hare Krishna. PAMHO at your lotus feet Guru Maharaj.
Guru Maharaj,
Can we book the tickets from Kolkata to Imphal for 1st Nov ?(......I hope its a typing mistake....Aug....in the last letter). If yes, would do that ASAP. And the return ticket for 4th Nov morning.
Everything about NOI seminar and workshop is just wonderful ! Am working in a hospital and my field is Physiology. I train medical students, Dental students and Nursing students. Will take leave on those 4 days.....please...please...please ....instruct us, your fallen servants here. We will arrange for the deliberations and other programmes here at Radha Krishnachandra mandir, Imphal.
Your most fallen servant,
Sarada Gaurangi Devi Dasi
HpS ASA -- AGTSP. When I look at Expedia.com it says, "Buy Right Away. Only one ticket left at this price!!", but when I went to Indigo directly it showed many seats to chose from still. Yamunesvara says that Haridas Swami will be in Manipur 28th and we can fix things then but that is too long to wait, no? Also, considering Australia, Calcutta, Manipur (Silchar), Mayapura, USA, we don't have much other choice. So we will go ahead and book now and post the details here.
What e-mail address is good for your good self. Dr. Samaresh wanted to contact you about arranging programs.
Thank you all.
Anjana-suta-academy
American Bhagavata Curriculum
[ASA – ABC]
Saturday Morning Workshop
AGTSP! Paoho.
Prabhus, Maharajas, Matajis et al,
Starting 26th August, next Saturday, we will be meeting at www.startmeeting.com or telephone at +1 701 801 1220, [Meeting # 992 055 489], at:
This is an experiment to make the class late enough so that San Jose devotees can finish their Japa etc.
On the 26th we will do:
We are trying our very best to accommodate everyone with these schedules and contents. The program will be recorded and available on line and there will also be a review for European devotees, in English, at 1.30PM Monday’s, Nashville time.
Please adjust your service to join us for the benefit of Srila Prabhupada’s whole Sankirtan movement.
Thank you so very much,
HpS - ASA
All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja, Sripada Maharaja and A.C. Prabhupada
All Grories to Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay
Radha Krsna Ki Jay,
Dandavat Pranam Guruji Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances unto Sri Guruji's Padamacharan that when I read the 9:24:45 of Bhagavatam Devaki, Pauravi, Rohini, Bhadra, Madira, Rocava, Ila and others were all wives of Anakadundubhi (Vasudeva). Among them all, Devaki was the chief.
46. Vasudeva, by the womb of his wife Rohini, begot sons such as Bala, Gada, Sarana, Durmada, Vipula, Dhruva, Krta and others.
47-48. From the womb of Pauravi came twelve sons, including Bhuta, Subhadra, Bhadrabahu, Durmada and Bhadra. Nanda, Upananda, Krtaka, Sura and others were born from the womb of Madira. Bhadra [ Kausalya] gave birth to only one son, named Kesi.
HpS - Uuuuuuf! I don't know. I thought Nanda and Upananda of Vrndavana were so sons of a Vaisya wife of Surasena, father of Vasudeva? I am not so sure of this genealogy, but think I think, "Yes, the Bala is Baladeva, brother of Krsna".
ASA-Encyclopedia; Epistemology; Blind Faith
In BG 4.34 Srila Prabhupada says that blind faith and absurd enquirer are condemned. Krsna always gives us enough information to act. Whether we chose to act on what we know or don’t know, that is being faithful or unfaithful.
We have had experience of Srila Prabhupada through many media. Especially we have applied his instructions, world-view, many times and it is always true. We especially remember one time we were in a Kirtan after the Sunday Feast in the San Francisco Temple. We were guests, visiting from Sacramento and not yet initiated or even knowing much of anything,but we had purchased a pair of Kartals, hand cymbals, from the Gift Store and were trying to play then, 1,2,3 and; 1,2,3 and… and dance and chant along with the Brahmacaris. It was taking all of our attention: Spatial orientation, Temporal Discrimination, Tonal Discriminatin, Meaning; and then suddenly we realized that our mind and senses were completely under control. We could see that we were not our body or mind. We saw ourselves as master as it says in SB 1.2.
Then our mind asked, “If we are not this body, or mind, then who are we?” We were standing in front of Radha Gokulananda, Their Dieties, and we spontaneously could see Them as people, though in a statue form, and we responded that we are Your servants. Then our mind asked, “How can we learn to serve you, more”? The answer was that you have made progress by this process, ISKCON Yoga, so if you continue you will gradually understand everything just you have understood this.
Reminds us of the verse where Rama says “sakrd eva prapananam…”, if even once in clear consciousness we say that we are surrendered to you please save me, I give that person all protection to come to Me, this is my eternal vow.
So that was essentially my Diksa, initiation, by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada’s process.
Thus we have faith in what he says, trying to understand it properly, because if his process can put us beyond the body and mind then he and his activities and words must also be beyond them. He is not bewildered by his mind with blind spots and personal grievances against this person or that person. He is criticizing them out of the anger of love.