We are Nuts.
YOu are Nuts
Lord Caitanya is the Supreme, transcendental Nut!
(We are not as transcendental in our Nuttiness!)
(TB/BW here. HpS has gone for a walk (He is doing pretty good. Considering the fact that he only has contact with one other human being for about 44-minutes daily and that is a Director of a Mental Hospital. He is terrified of the ... [the DIRECTOR just called {We MUST GO, 6.28PM}])
Hare Krishna Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
First of all i would like to say that i hope you are fine. Things seems intense, when looking at the agenda.
ASA - When we look at it, it does seem that way. We picked this font and color and size for this letter. Pick your own!
The thing with the phone didn't work out, basically because of my misunderstanding your intent, so that i was too late with my message and missed you. Or so it seems to me. Then i couldn't get hold of a European number. But anyway, i resolved to call to the US, in the hope to catch you there. I hope that is okay with you. I don't like to be a mosquito. Time is a great teacher; it shows us many things about ourselves. What we are and what we are not.
ASA - Huh!? We don't understand? You were trying to hack Tom Brown's cell phone! Very ambitious!!! They could put you in a special Intelligence Unit in the UNESCO Peace Keepers for that.
Here things are going better. I'm switching jobs. Our company lost its contract for the city's transport so me and pretty much everyone else has to go. No problem, this time we were equipoised about the thing; Krishna gave and Krishna took away. In the meantime i'm reading Yamuna's book. It is the best book from an ISKCON disciple ever! Beautiful descriptions of Srila Prabhupada and the wonderful Yamuna. She is truly special. And lastly, the most positive thing, is that there is a little taste for chanting again, by Good Grace.
ASA - How did you get it!!???
Anyway, i'm very happy for you, engaged in the mission of Srila Prabhupada.
Your aspiring servant,
Raghava-pandita dasa
ASA - Yes!!!! Krsna is certainly taking a personal interest in your job, wife, kid(s), friends . . . He wants you back to your real job!!
Tell us a very nice Krsna conscios citation! Do you know "Nanuk"?
Hare Krishna Gurudeva !
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet !!!
ASA - Lettuce feet!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!
ASA - Lotus feet!
Gurudeva, as I told you in my last two letters…my spiritual life is getting better....
ASA - So is ours!!! We hope to keep up with you! AGTSP!
...if I compare it with previous years. I am steady with my sadhana; mangala artik every day, 16 rounds, 4 principles strictly, etc.
I am always focusing on doing a good sadhana; trying to chant my rounds well….as you always tell us: “is the base of everything”.
Even though there are days that I feel good and enthusiastic…..there are others that I feel with little motivation, discourage and tired, almost like I do not have any direction in my life….in the sense of what are my plans for the future? ( If I still have a “future”, we do not really know when we will leave this body ), sometimes I was wondering: what is my path ?, what can I do to serve Krishna ? What is my service to Krishna ?
HpS - Chant Hare Krsna!!!!
In my moments of discouragement and lack of motivation…I have been trying to discover HOW to feel alive or how to be alive in this bhakti-yoga process…in other words I mean: how to stay enthusiastic and happy in my spiritual life…
ASA - Yell! Hare Krsna!!! Loudly one time and the Witch will flee far, far away!
...besides practicing my daily sadhana; chanting my rounds, doing mangala artik, etc. I would like to know what else I can do in terms of devotional service to Krishna and at the same time keep the enthusiasm and motivation.
ASA - Hey! That's like asking, "Besides tending the root of my mango tree what can I do to make better mangos". There is nothing "differnent" form Daily Sadhana. Different projects and communities, friends, Sankirtan partners, emerge as a result of Daily Sadhana Bhakti!
One result of DSB is to realize that it is eternal. As we wake up the "Days" become an eternal Yantra. We step back, back, back and it remains a part of our spiritual world. Maya is in the spiritual world just like the City Prison is a part of Lima, but little part if you are alive to the greater Lima.
I have been wondering in regards to my guna and karma what is it that I like to do ? or what would I like to do in the future?
ASA - We are looking into our Crystal Ball (TB/BW) we see that in the future you will be a ... H J S M (exchange each letter for the previous one in the alphabet and get the mystical answer form TB!). That's a good basis for a lot of work, no? We have a lot to do in this perspective just being Sanyasis.
Ayuveda helps. Six astrologers might help. Asking friends will help determine this stuff . Then it has major changes every 14-years! Hare Krsna!
A few days ago while I was singing Guru-astaka in Chosica…all of the sudden it came to my mind one “Idea” or “inspiratión” where I realized that what I would love to really do is to travel….travel constantly, see new and different places, meet new people, new devotees, make new friends, have new friends and stay for a short period of time in each place. Then, after that “idea” another one came to my mind: that if I want to travel this way…..what I could do is to teach “Bhakti Yoga” or “Bhakti Sastri” courses in different places.
ASA - Jaya! Do it! With a friend!! ! Teach Bhakti yoga by smiling at people.
Gurudeva, I did Sankirtana, book distribution out in the streets, in public buses for several years, but now it is difficult for me to do that, because as I told you before I have a difficult time walking due to an issue with my leg, so I am not suited to do Sankirtana in public buses the way I did in the past, I can not be standing up or walk for longer periods of time and besides Lima is increasingly hectic these days.
So, I was thinking lately about this “idea”….this “plan” of consciously study Srila Prabhupada´s books, train myself to be able to teach this philosophy. There is an organization called “Cultura del Bhakti” that is directed by P. Param Padam from Argentina…you know him. His institution gives on-line classes to become teacher of the Vedic scriptures, I was checking their page on Facebook and this institution gives these courses: TT1 ( Teacher training 1 ), TT2 ( Teacher training 2 ), and the course to become a Bhakti Sastri teacher, when you finish these courses they give you teacher official credentials, so you can teach in different places.
ASA - Might work. Maybe you can give it a try, but with a friend!!
Actually… Gurudeva, more than teaching “Bhakti Yoga” or “Bhakti Sastri” from a technical point of view.…what I would like more than anything is being a kind of counselor, to give advice, to guide, to encourage and support other people, I like to be connected to people, the human connection, to be a “friend” to others.
ASA - Exactly. The money will come. Do you need a title? We can give you an examination and a title from ASA. What is a good title.
I know that to do all this I will have to train myself and get qualified….not only in the scriptures knowledge but in my own purification.…and as you said: “build our character”.
What do you think Gurudeva ?
Do you think it is a good idea for me? in a short-term?, med-term?, long-term?
I am experiencing a planetary tamasic phase (long Rahu period) where I have a hard time studying Srila Prabhupada books although I feel that my sadhana is helping me a lot I still find it difficult to concentrate on reading for long periods of time. To be very honest….I have been reading very little each day. What do you recommend about this?
ASA - Read a little from a lot of different books during the day. Read books by devotees. Satsvarupa Goswami. Go go many events in Lima. Go to smile at people!
Thank you, Gurudeva !!! for all your patience and causeless mercy upon me !!!!!!
Trying to be your servant !!!
Mitravinda d. d.
ASA - Trying to be the flea on your flea!! We are following your example! Send us a story about your Deities!!
I forgot from last letter that Ter Kadamba as was terrified as some of my friends realized after moving in with this "disciple". I don't want to whine, just want to thank as a man would, that it all starts to make much more sense. I don't use opiates at all, but I have some kind of smoking habbit problem, but haven't drank alcohol, is it for 6 years now, at all. Maharaja, I don't expect you to answer to these, this is just to inform you, like you know. I have quite firm understanding already and faith that you know. You know <3 Hare Krishna I would like to get my faith perfect, so I can feel the material world again diminishing Yours sincerely Nanuk Henrichs
ASA - Most reverend Nanuk. I think that we would also be terrified after moving in with some of your friends, no? I think that you would be also, no?
Yet, it is very big house ...
http://www.vedabase.com/en/kb/63
The Śiva-jvara thus understood that without Kṛṣṇa, or Nārāyaṇa, no one could help him. He therefore rightly took shelter of Lord Kṛṣṇa and, with folded hands, began to pray as follows. ...
How can it be that in ISKCON some members with Diksha teaches that women would like smooth rapings,
ASA - http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/4/25/41 ?
...and that same disciple is been spoken to rape at least two women in Turku, Finland and using oxyconts(strong opiates)?
ASA - Doesn't sound very competent, expert.
Those women speak about him also. I can say, only that your disciple Ter Kadamba had very , very bad feelings for all of that. I started speaking to her two years ago and one month over, or something like that. I don't know what I have done Maharaja. She started speaking with me in facebook with your photo as her profile picture, and then I couldn't stop speaking with her. Thank you Maharaja P.S. I guess we are the blue birds then :)
ASA - Hare Krsna! This is Tom Brown. HpS went for a walk in the forest.
Everything in your answers is perfect. Krishna. You know we were just thinking about our friend's dj name which is dj Gismo from Bomfunk Mc.. :) , yes we were talking about Gremlins, and my friend said we should watch it again maybe one day :) . You certainly have it!! HARE KRISHNA
HpS - ASA -- AgtSP!!!!!
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