Update from Pune on October 5, 2016

8 years, 8 months ago by Gopal C Biswas in Calendar Development

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, for next three weeks, we won't be able to access the blog as going to travel.
    Purpose of the travel is the find preaching scope in Chhattisgarh state, would travel village, small town and city.
    would meet students, teachers and other favorable people and try to seek understanding about preaching scope,
    in respective areas.

    We have to away from deity seva for next three weeks, feeling a bit sad. Actually after starting deity seva,
    feel a bit attached to Sri Sri Radha Kunj Bihari, now the sight has changed, earlier view and current view of
    the same thing is different. Now i don't want to away from him. Earlier he was / is God only but i was not in
    service but now i am in service!!

    we would be able to know your reply after October 23, 2016. Hope by that time, your India schedule / program would be fixed,
    and we would have a clear dates.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS -Thank you for this letter and the previous. Very best wishes for your Sankirtan reconisance. We are discussing coordination of the Pune visit with the Navi Mumbai. Dr Samaresh said he would be able to talk with his contracts right after Durga puja.

Let's pray to Krsna to engage us in His service. It it's fun, meaningful, significant eternally expanding.

Hare Krsna Gurudev - update about book release Photos

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, in my previous letter, URL : http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6975
    you have asked, Do you have any photos from the book-release in Delhi?

    Yes, we have. we also shared all the photos with Sri Hari Prabhuji, who is a profession, stay in Mathura, we think.

    Please let me know if we need to upload those in any location so that you can access.

    Please advise.

    We are also waiting for your clear program dates in India. Then would beg for dates for Pune for Programs and then  
    will discuss with HG Radheshyam Prabhuji for same.
    
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Yes, Dr. Samaresh needs them desperately. Do you have his phone number? We will send it to your email address. We see another letter from you so we will read that and put all of our answers there.

Thank you.

Meeting sunday URGENT

8 years, 8 months ago by candra108_mukhi in Calendar Development

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

Pamho

Yesssss sunday 9:30am is perfect

Thank U for all iur mercy

Through U we can feel how SP and Krsna really cares about us.

Your fallen daughter

Cmdd

ASA - TB/BW --- Posted on to the Calendar. Pictures attached

DTC 6(Th)

8 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

If a six-month sick dog had then been run over by a truck and still could move, that might resemble our body at this moment.

Hare Krsna. AGTSP.

Paoho.

When we write this we smile. It is a fact. We fight, fight, fight, every day.   Do you do the same?    I think that you may even fight more bravely than we do. We did FMP today. Read before it for the NOD class. We wrote in the CB. We did a Calendar Session and cleaned up many details. Then we answered Urgent letters and there was one that took a lot of effort.

It was useful, we hope. Such a thing can make your whole day worthwhile. Then we gave the Hawaii class. It also was nice. Then cooked for the Lord, offered Bhoga, Gayatri, honored Prasad. Looked at Ajata's NOI transcriptions. Extracted them. Edited the first one for like an hour. Then the whole file just disappeared even though we were saving it from time to time. Looked, Looked, Looked, blamed Krsna for not taking care of us, but came to the conclusion that He was taking care of what we asked to be cared for.

O.K.

Found our notes on Vais. last BhVai class. They were too detailed to even begin working on them. All the time our senses weak, eyes dying.
Then looked at two more of the Solaris English article translations hoping that the articles might be more simple and better translated, but the translation is barely, barely comprehensible. It is very strange that anyone could speak English so un-naturally. Maybe the translators was only used to converstional English. She seems like a nice person. Maybe she can translate conversations, but this academic stuff seems like it was run through www.translate.google.com.

Hmmmm?    NoI, Vais, Solaris..  also talked with Srivasa Pandita and after some struggle sent a file to him with our effort to track down who has what records from our BhVai. group.

So, this diseased, run-over dog read some historical fiction and sees that we may have 20% success today, but at least we know the condition of these different projects now and thus we can make practical decison about how to use our limited strength to achieve practical results.

First, priority: Always chant Hare Krsna!!!       We always fall away from that, but there is no other priority for us to try for.  It has wonderful results, no?

Very specifically that means to chant 16-good rounds, follow four principles, get up early...

Is there anyone else who holds these principles the same as we do, amongst our God-brothers?

One of our greatest concerns in that ISKCON Sannyasis become pets kept by pious ISKCON householders to satisfy the Grhastha's sentiments: Here is my parrot, here is my cook, here is my Guru.

If you are a Sannyasi you should have a passion to do something new, no?  Then, how can the Institution support you, because it is something new, so the Institution has no existence there yet.

None of the instruments we have in ISKCON now will let us move forward.
We try to contact senior men A...,   N....,   P.....,   T.... about their projects and their vision. We try to contact R.... in Peru.

No one seems alive on this level, so the only solution is to go back to the roots of our life in Krsna consciousness.   Hmmm.  Does God have a plan?   Does He know the future?  Is a war coming, that will break all the rules and leave us only the inspiration of the Paramatma to do anything in this comedy?

Ekasma Das left last evening, back for Nashville, with Bhakta Jesse. He is a very nice artist. It seems like we had about 3-hours association each day he was here. As you get older you collect your experiences into structures, like houses or machines. These you can show to younger people.

Any obstacles we face are Krsna's efforts to put us on better and better paths.

URGENT: Marriage Serious Situation

8 years, 8 months ago by servant-of-servants in Personal Sadhana Reports

Please Maharaja, change the name of the real people here and delete the too much personal things, or if you prefer don’t post this letter at all and just reply to my email: XXX@ ABC.COM

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

All glories to you,

Im ABC Devi Dasi, the XYZ Dasa's wife, regrettably is not nice write you this mail. I ask you forgive me for touch topics of this kind but I don’t have anyone more to resort to, I see myself with the hands tied, and my faith for Krishna tremble due this situation, really surpasses me.

XYZ is going through a very bad time. I asked to a lady devotee who make astral chart and she says me that he is selfish now and in a very bad astrological period, with desires of sense gratification so much, everything too much rajasic… he appears in my astrological chart like Rahu, and in the last time he have told me that he doesn’t love me, that he want the divorce, even communicated for receive your approbation, something that don´t happened.

The worst of everything is that he has commented to the children about this separation, and them have fallen in a great sadness, but he not seeing it like that. Yesterday, I discovered with an enormous pain in my heart, that he has been writing with  DEF Devi Dasi your disciple. Talking about to be together and all this things… She was considered for me like one of my best friends… I have suffered enormously… ABC have given turn everything, blaming me like responsible.

Now he’s hypocrite, hurtful, offensive, violent with his words, is another person, different from whom I married. I joined him at  young age, I left the house of my parents, I don’t know anyone more like my half, and he is strongly discarding me.

Painfully, he doesn’t want that anyone know all of this because his ego. Even, he has told me that Krsna understand him and that is motiving him to separate, and that is difficult for me to accept it because for me and our children is enormous pain.

He says me that he performs Sankirtan and that he’s ecstatic and that I am the big problems if his life.

Maharaja, really, I don´t know what can I do… he is not in his right mind… Acts in a strange way. He has threatened that if I tell something about this, he will leave everything apart, company, family, etc. and he will go to maya. I have could tell about this situation only to UVW, due that I have felt harried and alone, and I don’t want that anyone know yet, and not offend him and he feel bad.

Excuse me, please, for this mail, but I’m alone, and I don’t want to ruin my spiritual life, that is the only real is being left me. I pray for your mercy, to bless me and know accept the things… For me the marriage is something sacred and used to saw it for so many years more. Now I don’t know what will happen, but I don’t want degrade myself.

Please accept my humble obeisances, again and again, forgive me and please, help me, your eternal servant XYZ DD.  

HpS - ASA  ---   First thing is just to pray to God. Some one may be nice Muslem girl and know Him very practically as Allah.  You have a practical relationship with Srila Prabhupada? If you met him you could talk with him? Do you find practical relationship with reading and discussing his books some times?   How is your relation with your ISKCON Diksa Guru?  Are you following the instructions of Srila Prabhupada (and his disciples) to engage in serivce to God?
Maybe ABC has been possessed by the Devil.  He and I talked for a long time about these things, but that was several months ago.  There may be deep psychological connection between people, Karmic connection, we were married in previous life. These are very strong things. They are more powerful than we can control unless we are on the spiritual platform. They attack the current marriage with someone else.

We must be aware of our best friend, the rascal Krsna!  He will always be our best friend. That is the nature of the Spiritual World. It is different than the Material World. Krsna is everybodies best friend. He doesn't feel that He is worthy of such affection. Everybody is trying to get everybody else closer to Krsna than themselves.  The Mothers want that their sons advance their relationship with Krsna more than they want to advance their own relationship. They feel their own relationship becoming closer in the fastest way when they advance the relationship of others.

I can't tell you that you won't die.

I can't tell you that there won't be a nuclear war or global plague.

I can't tell you that your husband won't go crazy and run off with another woman and go to Monte Carlo and become a big gambler and be killed by local criminals.

All these things are possible in this world. The Pandavas tried to avoid war with Duryodhana for years and years and years, but in the end it was Krsna's arrangement.

This is all because Krsna wants us back and now, unfortunately, you have made some advances to a very jealous lover, Krsna, and the fact is that He makes a lot of personal arrangements for His own happiness.
 

Love your husband as a person, as representative of God. Talk about these things with several good friends, intelligent enemies, family, in detail, or in general, like here in this Blog. Draupadi had to go through so much, but she always chanted her sixteen rounds a day and was sure that in the end she would understand why Krsna was putting her through so much pain. In the end she understood and was happy to have been so honored to take maybe the most important part in the whole Sankirtan of Krsnq, the Maha-bharata.

So, maybe send some more questions as they come. We feel that we are not giving such perfect advice, but we hope it helps.
 

Do not think that what you are going through is unique.  We all need to talk about these things. If a husband or wife has gone mad. O.K. Thay have gone mad. That does not mean that they are not our husband or wife.

I feel very respectful to my wife in my former Ashrama. In the end everything that happened was according to Dharma Sastras as described by Srila Prabhupada.
 

Action Item: Are you chanting 16-nice rounds with best effort, good effort, daily? Four principles?     If not, can you start now?  If not do you want to start and need advice about how to do it?

URGENTE INTERVIEW WITH NACHO BAÑERAS

                  HARE KRSNA GURUDEVA,

                  PAOHO,AGTSP!

                  HOW ARE YOU?

                    -NACHO BAÑERAS COULD MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR SUNDAY THE 9TH (THIS WEEK)

                     AT 11:00 AM (IN TENNESSE), IS THAT OK WITH YOU?

HpA - We just put it on our Calendar. We talk by Skype or telephone???

                     NACHO IS A FRIEND OF MIGUEL POLO, HE HAS A PHD ON PHYLOSOPHY, GRADUATED IN PSYCHOLOGY,

                     IN LAW, GESTALD,YOGA AND MEDITATION TEACHER..AND QUITE A LONG ETC.

                     HE BELIEVES THAT PHYLOSOPHY CAN CHANGE LIFE AND HE HAS  REVIVED  A GREEK TRADITION

                     CALLED "CURA SUI", IT IS LIKE PRACTICAL PHYLOSOPHY, AS I UNDERSTAND IT.

                     HE LIVES IN BARCELONA.

                     https://mimesisblogagenda.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/nacho-baneras-assessor-filosofic-de-lafpc-a-tv2/

                     http://www.curasui.es/cv-nacho-baeras

HpS - We will look at these and prepar notes for the meeting. All of these people can write for Solaris if it is appropriate.

                     - DR CHAKRAVARTY WROTTE US TOO, HE MEET WITH MANUEL ALMENDRO AND HAD A FEW  PRODUCTIVE.

ASA - Super!  This has always been what ISKCON, Bhakti-vedanta Institute does, we don't have the depth or potency that many of these nice people do in many areas, but we have a VERY broad perspective from your movement, so we can see how they can be connected with each other in very exciting and useful ways. You all should get get an Insitutional Name for your efforts.

                      MEETINGS MORE  IN ALICANTE AND VALENCIA AT THE UNIVERSITIES, HE WAS HAPPY I BELIEVE AND WE WILL

                      KEEP IN TOUCH.

                      - YADUNANDANA SWAMI ASKED IF WE COULD SHARED THIS CONTACTS (THE ONES THAT WE HAVE UP UNTIL NOW) WITH HIM, SO THAT HE COULD ALSO START A RELATION-SHIP WITH THEM.

HpS - ASA -- Would be super if Maharaja could join this work. Only thing is to co-cordinate the effort. Can he write to the Blog about co-operating on all of his and our projects????  We mail him with this and you also.

                       - OUR PLANS CHANGED...WE ARE MOVING TO ALMERÍA...WE WILL WRITTE YOU ABOUT IT SOON, AND ALSO

ASA - Wow!  There is a gigantic crystal there. Is is the Syamantaka Jewel??

                         ABOUT WHAT YOU ASKED US TO THINK ABOUT ( ON HOW TO BUILD A BRIDGE BETWEEN SB AND THE WEST)

HpS - Yes, your bridge.  The world needs help! You can also use other peoples bridges and open your own Donkey trade for transporting things across the bridge.

                        THANK YOU FOR ENGAGING US.

                          YOUR SERVANTS BHADRA VD & SANANDA DD

ASA - Thank you for being engaging. We hope your marriage is very fruitful. We hope your individual spiritual advancement goes on and on.