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Todas las Glorias a Sri Sri Goura Nitay!!!

Todas Las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Todas Las Glorias sean a Usted!!!

   Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja, por favor acepte mis más humildes reverencias a Sus pies, Muchas gracias por Su respuesta. Continuo cantando las 16 rondas gracias a Su misericordia, de a poco organizandome más, ha sido un período difícil, de muchas pruebas. Tengo la idea de participar regularmente en el programa de Harinam, ahora que mi hijo, Abhay está más grande. Aquí le adjunto las fotos, Abhay va a cumplir 2 años y le gusta colgar su bolsa de japa en su cuello y ofrecer flores para Krishna, por favor disculpe la demora.

  Su Sirvienta,

  Dhanistha devi dasi.

HpS - ASA -- Muy bien. Mangala arati?   Amigos en la Yatra??

PAMHO! Crystal radio is actually the most famous free-energy machine which was widely presented to public. I hope we'll soon get away from this Shiva's technology of heat..  and start to use the cold electricity or still better mantras...  hoping that the AI doesn't get the hold on humanity with the cold electricity. Like it sometimes seems when there is even indications of very time and history changing... and the holy books by the influence of the modes of nature.

The Mandela-effect is the most interesting psychological/quantum physical investigation that I would say the western world can give. In this video about Mandela-effect the bible change in text from lion with lamb to wolf with lamb (Isaiah 11:6)and was changed to a photo with wolf and lambs with all black eyes. It came in effect, according to my investigation about two years ago. There is many things in technology and science that will prove more subtle worlds coming. Still I'm very much attached to Gandharva Veda. All the glories to A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swamin Srila Prabhupada!!

HpS - Thank you. We built a Crystal radio in 7th grade in our school. Takes energy from the AM transmitted radio waves in the air!
By pranayama, chanting and dancing, we can influence so many sublte energies in the body. Are the pieziolectric crystals in the body?

Hare Krishna
All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Maharaj Please accept my most humble obeisances

(This report is of a personal nature, so I ask discretion. Thank you)

ASA - O.K.  Unless you are reporting for example that you are Chileno serial killer and you want to remain anonymous, right?

By Lalita Madhava Prabhu advice, I decided to write in English, so do not take more work to respond in Spanish. I'm glad immensely to write again, after almost three months of absence from my last report, I'm here. And it is that during the last time I have gone through ups and downs.
Sankirtan I had to stop because of professional projects, so the time I had to divide it into equal sectors for both sadhana, photography, study and family. I felt little motivation because of all this scheme to develop the best song of my rounds, but reading Srila Prabhupada always constantly going to my side.

Professionally, I am developing a photographic project with other photographers colleagues, focused on documentary photography; so I it has had me hopeful of being a participant in calls related to the topic.

The family is a Russian roulette, so you rises and falls are quite noticeable, in a hostile environment.

Although not everything is going in the best way, image, memories of his visit to Chile, and his preaching through his disciples, were able to steady myself in times of instability. My question, very respectfully, is how to carry out a Krishna conscious life, where an obstacle, one after another appears in most cases; how we can cling to an inner Krishna, as support for the chanting of His holy names, because life in conditions like that, is too difficult to carry. I felt very sorry, I content tears more I could not get them because of the shell being generated in kali yuga.
How to shake up intolerance and try to live more simply, both devotees and nondevotees.

HpS - ASA --  We have been crying several times in ISKCON. The pressure from friends, family, authorities gets so great, but we have always found that if we just adopt Draupadi's solution, put both hands in the air and cry for Krsna. Of course, with us we can put one hand in the air with our beads.   Then go on chanting, chanting, (crying), chanting and Krsna gives intelligence.  He did not give Arjuna a SUPER-WEAPON. He gave him intelligence. Once we have that we can understand what is what and act properly. Separate from some, closer to others, new way of associating with some...  Many things.   Of course, caught in the river, in the beginning the current is very strong, but when we take the rope (Japa..) then we get pulled toward the shore and the current gets less and we can feel the solid ground under our feet more and more.
So, chant Hare Krsna and be happy. You will make lasting progress.

By the grace of Srimati Radharani, the taste for playing mrdanga was a beautiful service and my heart is soaked air of Vrindavan, and visualize the cowherd while I hear her sweet rhythm.

Daily thank the Lord for his service, guide his disciples, and for which we are not decision from Him, we also feel very fortunate.

I hope to serve you soon. My heart feels ready to make the move to shelter, but also, I see that quite lacking in my spiritual growth for you to accept me as your aspiring servant.

Krishna bless you even more.

His servant

Bhakta Miguel Ángel.

HpS - ASA --- We cannot quite remember your divine form or occupation?  Your name strikes a bell in our dull brain, but no more!   Please remind us.

Toda gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Por favor, acepte mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias

Hare Krishna Maharaja Hanumatpresaka Swami:

Que placer recibir su carta e invitación a responder a este blog sobre su contribución para mejorar la administración en Perú.

Como me decía mi amigo Syamasundara muy acertadamente: “todos somos herramientas”. Será un placer poder ser útil de alguna manera con su asociación y experiencia.

No hay duda que necesitamos ayuda y contribuciones a base de discusiones sobre el tema. Tenemos muy buenos líderes, devotos y hay muy buenas ideas por concretar que ellos han expuesto que deberíamos ponerlas en acción.

Tenemos la experiencia vivida de usted y de los líderes que menciona en ISKCON y a muchos devotos actuales con ganas de ser parte de la historia de ISKCON que no quieren ser simples espectadores.

Estoy de acuerdo que sean públicas las ideas y que no se mantengan guardadas así muchos que lean podrán recogerlas y llevarlas a cabo.

Sabemos de su aprecio hacia todos los devotos de este Yatra. Nuestro aprecio es recíproco. Usted tiene toda la autoridad y la representación de Srila Prabhupada de corregirnos cuando crea necesario. Personalmente sus declaraciones para mí han sido aleccionadoras.

Uno sólo no podrá resolver los problemas . Necesitamos integración y trabajo en equipo formando departamentos de servicios. Es lo que enfatiza Jayapata Swami en sus reuniones. Conservo una carta  escrito a puño y letra que hace referencia a lo que digo.

Así es. El trabajo es pragmático, si se refiere a ejecutar acciones más que quedarnos enfrascados a lo teórico o  a meras palabras de reuniones.

La Junta Nacional necesita integrar a la nación vaisnava en Perú. Es una excelente creación dentro de la institución interna que como sabemos necesita aún mucho madurar.

Hemos tenido la primera reunión de junta Nacional hace unos días con el nuevo comité ejecutivo de la Junta Nacional cuyo chairman actual es Caitanya Candra Prabhu. El secretario ahora es Prabhu Karuna Krishna. Que Krishna los ilumine y bendiga. Se ha contado con un libro de actas y se hizo un acta. Como digo,  hay muchas cosas por mejorar, pero por eso no perdemos la esperanza de seguir avanzando y madurando.

El anterior secretario tiene el compromiso en breve plazo , de hacerle la transferencia del registro de actividades completa a Prabhu Karuna Krishna.

Están siendo corregidas y siendo recopiladas lo cual está tomando un tiempo en terminarlas. Se terminarán de hacer. Ese es el compromiso.

Considero que estos registros son necesarios para facilitar las acciones.

Gracias por su ayuda y contribución.

He escuchado mucho de su blog. Y es una herramienta gestora muy valiosa de grandes cambios. Recién pude entrar y escribir gracias a la ayuda de Palika.

Gracias por invitarme y animarme a participar en esta gran batalla de Kuruksetra del Señor Caitanya.

Espero que la presente lo encuentre muy bien.

Su sirviente

Caturatma das

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna, Cha. Das!!!  Desculpa poco demura responder!  Aqui en Tennessee con nuestra Non-profit, Educational, Corporation, NIOS, tuvimos mucho esfuerza para realizar todos los tramites necessario oficial. Realment solo yo trabajando en eso, y pensando en salir de NIOS y solamente ser un individual solo, pero hay esfuerza de otros para mejorar nuestra unidad.

Ha pasado solament un reunion de Junta Nacional?    Es posible leer los resultados?  Esta publicando para la comprehension de los otros Yatris como yo?

Jiva shakti Das era el Secretario anterior, no?   El mantuvo el Libro de Actos y ya esta pasando a Karuna Krsna?

Si, estamos enfocando en esta punto especifica pero pensamos es un punto clave donde trabajo puede resultar en un mucho progresso ampliio.

Basicamente identificarnos como miembro de la Yatra y esperamos noticias del Junta Nacional y mas!

No tenemos Face Book.
Por favor, escriba aqui de cualquiere tema de su interes.

Respected Gurumahārājā,

Hare Kṛṣṇa. Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srīla Prabhupāda.

I was reading how mother Yaśodā becomes struck with wonder when she sees the entire universe in baby Kṛṣṇa's mouth.  http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/10/8/43. Then I saw the word Vaiṣṇavīm in a later verse that was used to refer to yoga-māyā. That reminded me of Monkey/Bhakta Tom’s post here: http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6920 and thought I would share some of my findings on the topic.

Vaīṣṇava (masculine) and Vaiṣnavī(feminine)

The word Vaiṣṇava literally means one whose worshipable lord is Viṣṇu. Based on the sūtra sāsya devatā, the suffix a[ṇ] is applied after Viṣṇu which eventually gives the word Vaiṣṇava through various grammatical rules. This is a masculine word. By adding a suffix ī[p] we get Vaiṣṇavī the equivalent feminine word for Vaiṣṇava. Srīla Jīva Gosvāmī, in his grammar book, Harināmāmṛta Vyākaraṇa, uses the word Vaiṣṇavī a few times and he means a female Vaiṣṇava.

Some of the examples are:

1. Male and female who thinks he/she is a Vaiṣṇava
   1. Vaiṣṇavam <2.1, object form of Vaiṣṇava> + man eventually becomes Vaiṣṇava-mānī (“one who thinks himself a Vaiṣṇava”)
   2. Vaiṣṇavīm <2.1, object form of Vaiṣṇavī> + man enventually becomes Vaiṣṇava-māninī(“one who thinks herself a Vaiṣṇavī”)
2. In one of the compound word examples we find Vaiṣṇava-bhāryaḥ.  The commentator elaborates that the vigraha(separation of the constituent words) of Vaiṣṇava-bhāryaḥ is Vaiṣṇavī bhāryā yasya (“one whose wife is a Vaiṣṇavī”).
3. In another example we see atithir Vaiṣṇavī (“the female Vaiṣṇava guest”).
4. From a philosophical point of view, Jiva Gosvāmī doesn’t assume that everyone in their present condition is already a Vaiṣṇava. This I say because he gives examples such as vaiṣṇavī-kṛtya (“having made into a Vaiṣṇava). Other examples that show gradation among Vaiṣṇavas using the word vaiṣṇava in a compound are eka- vaiṣṇavaḥ (“the best Vaiṣṇava”), purāṇa- vaiṣṇavaḥ (“an old vaiṣṇava”), kevala- vaiṣṇavaḥ (“A pure vaiṣṇava”)

Ātman, a masculine word

However I didn’t find any examples for the masculine word ātman in feminine gender. Monier William’s dictionary says that the masculine word is used as a reflexive pronoun in all three genders and gives the example ātmānam(masculine object form) sā (feminine subject she) hanti (verb strikes).

One of the main things is that in Sanskrit, the gender doesn’t really mean the literal gender. For example tree (vṛkṣaḥ) is masculine and creeper(latā) is feminine. However when it comes to the names of humans and the pronouns used for them there are masculine and feminine words matching the genders. I find ātman an exception but there are feminine words like yoginī, brāhmanī, gopī whose masculine forms are yogī, brāhmaṇa and gopa. Vaiṣṇava and Vaiṣṇavī are in the similar category.

Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa

ASA - Tom Brown, PhD  ---  Thank you very much Srinivasa-acharya Das. We saw many cases of Vaisnavi in the Vedabase.com, and except for like three these refered to Durga, Yoga-maya, like the citation above. The others seem that may be coming from a little tinge of the bodily concept of life.
What is the Sanskrit for Canakhya Pandita's statement that one should see every woman except for his wife as Mataji?

Dear Maharaj:

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you´re very well. We are very happy, working in our projects;

HpS - Hare Krsna!   Was Arjuna happy in the Battle of Kuruksetra.  It is humorous, no? Lot of violence against us and even from us in this material world, but happy in some details and happy in the broad view! Thank you.

Visvanath is organizing the temple´s festival, which has been very beautiful.

Since 3 months ago, I started to use the sanskrit set with the kids in the temple here in Santiago, Chile.

Because I live too far and I haven´t had more time, we are doing it every 2 Sundays; the reception has been very enthusiastic even with non-devotees kids.

The program starts with chanting mantras and then I do a small yoga class so the kids can move some, also I teach them some pranayamas so they can be more receptive for the sanskrit class. We end with simple prasada (fruits, sandwich or what the parents brings).

I´ve adapted some activities so they can be funnier for the kids, because we have a large range of age, from 3 to 13 years old. Nevertheless, I always guide myself by the books. It has been a great challenge to do this service as it´s difficult to have all the kids attention for 1 ½ hrs, but they always seems very happy and anxious to learn more sanskrit, besides they love to write in devanagari!

Please Maharaj, we need your blessings so the program keeps working, improving and giving fruits. There´s a lot to do and learn!

Your aspiring servant

Gita Vali dasi

HpS - I think you sent this letter before, no?   Well, it is a very good letter and worth reading twice.  We are trying to start the Sanskirt studies here in Tennessee, but have been waiting for a lesson plan from India which gives some little more organization to the Teacher's Study Guide.

Mama nama Hanunat Swami. Bhavatiya nama kim?