Australia September

8 years, 2 months ago by Dhruvānanda DAS in Calendar Development

Dear Maharaja,

PAMHO, AGTSP, All glories to your service.

HpS - AGTSP, Mate!!!    Paoho....    Thank you so much for the letter.  We have been looking for tickets. Seems best flight to Hawaii is from San Francisco and from Hawaii to Sidney via Jetstar.  Is it and O.K?  airlines?

Jetstar is fine. Quality budget airline. Please give us your desired flight details so we can arrange ticket for you.

HpS - Preaching programs will depend on our contacts there also. Like last time Dr. Samaresh arranged a strong program with Dr. Mabbett.

Great! I remember visiting Dr Mabbett at Monash University last time you came. Krishna willing, mercy will be distributed. 

While recollecting your recollection of Raktak prabhu I was walking down the street and caught myself as one of the young flag raisers. 

Ys

Dhruvananda Das

HpS - Jaya!   We are in the airport in Atlanta. They are starting to load Delta Flight 108!!   Guess this is an authorized trip.   We are moving ahead with the Sankirtan army!!!  India, Peru, Murfressboro, Hawaii, Kolkatta!!!!         Looking at the calendar again and again. We get back from Peru 26th July. Then we would be traveling again about one month or even three weeks later!    Ooof!        Food for thought!
We hope to refine more and more our Sankirtan focus so we can take a really effective place in this Orchestra. What is your position?  Position of your friends and family?

My second letter from Chile

8 years, 2 months ago by SoleOyarce in Personal Sadhana Reports
<pre data-fulltext="" data-placeholder="Traducción" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text"> All glories to Srila Prabhupada My obeisances Maharaja When I read the letters that I write I think that I must learn a lot of English, so that I can write something more coherent than what the translator translates to sometimes means, it gives me a lot of laughter. HpS - Hare Krsna! Yet, the translator is a good friend if just keep an eye on what it is saying. I thank you for your loving response, it made me wonder what that marriage party would be like with Silk Saree from India, 20-elephants, horses, etcetera, but we are in austerity plans, therefore we will have to leave the horses and castles for another chance hahaha <img alt="blush" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/embarrassed_smile.png" title="blush" width="23" /> HpS - Something nice!!!! I hope Maharaja can share that day with us even for a moment, so that he may give us his mercy and always have Krishna in our center. HpS - Maybe we can connect by tele-conference! On the other hand, I want to tell you that I have been practicing tolerance and abstinence from criticism, I have done well, it feels more liberating and I can be a little more loving with those around me. This, by the way that an earlier letter told you that I felt a bit unmotivated, but! HpS - Critic can be very great service. It is better to have an intelligent person for an enemy than a fool for a friend. Canakhya Pandit and Socrates both agree. Even better, criticise people so they can wake up and become your leader again. Children run into their parents bed-room, "Wake up Mommy, Daddy! There is a fire in the house! Help us, we need your leadership!". Criticize like that! Commence to do service in the temple, Wreaths of flowers to their lords Sri Sri Gaura Nitay next to a very loving devotee, who is delicately teaching me this beautiful service every Tuesday after our works offered to Krsna. After our marriage I hope to take more services to please Srila Prabhupada. Finally Maharaja, I thank you for your time to read and respond to my letters, here I am trying to be devout, to please Srila Prabhupada, drawing the attention of Sri Sri Goura Nitay to receive some of his mercy and to advance in my spiritual life, hoping that Maharaja Dhanvantari gave me a little of his mercy accepting me as his disciple and you as my siksa guru. Again sorry for this English machine Maharaja, I hope you understand what I meant. My reverence </pre>

Hare Krsna<img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />

P.D. : 

I send you photographs of our altar, and a very curious one of our cat called Goura sleeping always next to the painting of Nrsimhadeva

HpS - AGTSP!  Paoho.  They are starting loading now!  Delta 108 to Madrid.

Huancayo - Sankirtana

8 years, 2 months ago by Gadai in Personal Sadhana Reports

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, reciba mis respetuosas reverencias. Seguimos en Huancayo, le escribi tres cartas cuando usted estuvo en India, bueno al parecer no llegaron.

HPS - ASA -- Estuvimos notificando mucho que era casi imposible responder a cartas mientras viajando... Oooooof! (sino URGENTE), por que estamos en contacto con tan mucho discupulos, gente, mientras esta giras. Como Vd. cuando esta en la calle con la. gente.

Seguimos con nuestra rutina de Mangal Artik 5 am, lectura de el Srimad - Bhagavatam, canto 1, capitulo 16, siguiendo los cuatro principios y luchando con la pecaminosa mente, [la conosca!]

...16 rondas de Japa, estamos en el Templo Bhaktivedanta de Huancayo, dirigido por Prabhu Vyasa Deva, discipulo de Jayapataka Swami, perdimos comunicación con Prabhu Jagad Bandhu esperamos volver a comunicarnos con el Prabhu.

HPS - Jaya, Jagat-bandhu, eso es nombre para Senor Jagannatha!

Tenemos programas los días miercoles y sabados a las 7 pm.

Nuestro Sankirtana, distribuimos libros en el mes de enero y febrero, ahora con el restaurante, bueno por un tiempo.

Algunas cosas cambiaron, por parte mia,  pensando en más viajes más adelante. Queremos invitarlo a que venga a  Huancayo para esté año, con quien podriamos cordinar si asi fuera??

HpS - Estamos investigando eso. Lima, Arrequipa, Huancayo, Cusco, Chochabamba!  Quien ir con nostros?

Bueno Guru Maharaj me despido

HpS - Vamos a Espanya en en una hora! Esperamos distribuir Luz de la Bhagavata, Teachings of Lord Chaitanya. Esperamos convertir unos a distribuiradores de libros tambien!

Hare Krsna!!!

Gadai Gauranga Das

Preface notes (TLC) (little urgent)

8 years, 2 months ago by Isvari devi dasi in Special Category A

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaja.

PAMHO. AGTSP!.

All glories to your  mission of sankirtana.

Here my notes :

I.--Krsna  takes charge of the world but personally of its pure devotee. (This encourages us to become pure).
Characteristics of pure devotee: Handed over to Krsna as a child to the father or an animal to his owner.
II.-There are 6 points of the delivery process:
1-Accept all that is favorable for devotional service (SD) (NOD)
2.-Reject the unfavorable (NOD)
3.-Believe firmly in the protection of Krsna (BG 18.66)
4. To feel that we depend only on Krsna (BG 6.47)
5.-Not having interest apart from the interest of Krsna (Siksastaka 8)
6.- Be always meek and humble (Siksastka 3)

HpS-ASA -- Thank you for the references for each element! BG 18.66 has the Sanskrit. CC has the whole verse.

II.-It is also recommended:
_ Method of worship of gopis: without any material or spiritual motive. (Not seeking liberation, only wanting to be a servant in any circumstance).
_ SBG (Krsna expansion of transcendental knowledge.
_ Do not forget to make Krsna the ultimate goal of life. (Other goals will cause you to suffer frustrations and if you succeed, anxiety to maintain it)
 

IV.-Then the process of purifying the conscience is explained (objective of BG 2.39):
_ Purify the objective mind of yoga and BG: central mind that controls all the senses.
If the mind is occupied  SD, (it simultaneously does service and it is purifies ).
_SD helps to fix the mind in Krsna, performing activities without attachment to the result (SBG 1.5.
_ Sing Names of Krsna equal to Krsna (he is absolute) Acintya bedha abheda tattva.


V.- 3 stages of singing:
_Offensive (Kanistha): you want material happiness (getting out of this stage quickly is dangerous)
_Clarification (Madhyama): you cleanse yourself from all of the above.
_Transcendental (uttama): Love Krsna. (His love only for Krsna).
SP mentions that rules of yoga only for those who are immersed in the corporeal concept of life.
Once I asked SSBBS for hatha yoga and he said: "This is for people who are very worried about their body, mostly they are the women or the old people".
Now I have seen that this can be used as a bridge preacher.

Thank you very much for your mercy.

Note:_ Is it okay to send you my notes? Or do you prefer that I just send you my questions? 

          _I read your DTC 30, and you want Krsna books to be on the best-selling list; A while ago Abhinanda d has the same concern.

          _I think maybe we can get on that list if we publish thematic books for China. (In China there are 1 million 300 thousand inhabitants). I'm going to research what topics they prefer there.

HpS-ASA - It is nice to see your notes, but for next two weeks we may have to reduce mail because we will meet so many people. Finds hard more population than that, no? It is one nation or more like a subcontinent like Europe - different languages etc.

So far I have seen that books on health, science fiction and self-help have a great reception worldwide.
In SBG there are very good topics, I would like in future to sort by topics and publish this in a simple language.

Sri Nrsimhadeva protect you

with affection

ys and niece spiritual

Isvari dd

Thank you all! HP Swami

DTC 31(Fr)

8 years, 3 months ago by hps in DTC

Tom Brown (Kris Knox)  -  Ho! HO!  He! He!  Hari!  Hari!

It is 5.54PM.  All the mail is caught up to three days ago. Now we scoop for Spain.   Did Meta-soft work, and NIOS State filing requierements today. Had to go to Office Depot. Buy ink, and after two months got our printer working.

The roof on the porch blew off like 85% last night. It was coming off. We called Tandavika Das in Austin and he said he would get back by Sunday and call roofers by Monday or Tuesday. We sent the pictures and said that it might be more urgent than that.

Lot of Tweeting with poems pretty early.

All this administration gets boring to us. Some is a lot of fun. Then we want to take lots of Maha-prasada fruit and read some well written historical fiction. We have to purify our gross body so that we can read the Krsna book like that.

Is this true of you also?

Lot of things, but we chant Hare Krsna, take bath a few times a day and try to answer our mail. Calendars come from Friendships.

Tomorrow we write from Atlanta, then... New Vraja Mandala???