Update from Pune on August 12, 2016

8 years, 10 months ago by Gopal C Biswas in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

ASA - Apple, peach, apricot feet.


    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

HpS - ASA - Jaya!

    Gurudev, Thank you so much.

    After 3 month of backup seva (service) finally, yesterday (on August 11, 2016), i
    have involved for 'Utsav deity sayan' seva, was sooo happy and thankful to you
    while entering the altar.

HpS - Haaaare!!!   So, nice.  Just like going to Vrndavana for a few days..

   Now, I have three below seva in deity department:
    1. Syan dressing seva of 'Utsav deity' on Friday evening.
    2. Raj Bhog seva on Saturday noon.
    3. Backup seva on Sunday evening.

   Then slowly will get chance to move for other deity worship seva.

   Now you could edit the disciple list with my second initiation details, if you feel so.

HpS - Awwwk!   We didn't do it.  What was the exact date we gave you Second Initiation.

   Continuing with BG now a days - two classes.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA --- How is your preaching at work???   It may be slow but it can also be very profound. Are you thinking of going directly into Sannyasa life, no Grhastha life.

REPORTE CUSCO MANDIR

8 years, 10 months ago by Govardhana das in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

HARE KRISHNA DEAR GURUDEVA

TLGASP

PAMHO

Dear Gurudeva, le agradezco por su pronta respuesta, le envío el reporte sobre la situación del Yatra. Antes de su visita las cosas estaban un poco confusas, nada estaba claro de como estaba siendo dirigido el Yatra, muchos problemas, en casa donde se encontraban las Deidades. Pero al final se llevaron las Deidades a Casa de P. Goura Rupa, quien estaba manteniendo un programa estable con ayuda de P Rohini y Ananda Maya, entonces Purusam Bhusana, presisente aún, conversó con P. Goura Rupa a quien le pidió acoger a sus Señorías en su casa, con la autorización y bendiciones  de Srila Virabahu Prabhu Maharaja y P. Mathures se llevaron a sus Señorías a la casa de P. Goura Rupa. Poco despues de su visita, pasó algo, P Purususam renunció a su cargo y pidió a P Mathuresh conversar con P . Goura Rupa para que asumiera la Presidencia del Yatra, el mismo que aceptó ya que todo el programa ocurría en su casa. Ahora se estpa procediendo con la devolución de los enseres del Templo, solo hay un problema con las cosas del Restaurant, pues los enseres se enontraban en la casa de B. Marco pero al parecer los llevo a otro lugar sin autorización, pero estamos de tratar de resilver eso, aunque no pertenezco a la junta, tengo cierto grado de responsabilidad sobre esto, pero creemos que eso se resolvera de buena manera. Ahora se esta organizando un Yatra Yatra para setiembre y la visita de Madhava Prabhu, esto lo están organizando Goura Rupa y Rohini Kumar Prabhu, nosotros estamos apoyando con lo que podemos. Creemos que despues de la tormenta viene la calma, se ve que se está iendo por buen puerto, organizar todo, como le comenté en el correo anterior nos vamos a hacer responsables de algunos programas, con las bendiciones de P. Gaura Rupa, nada separada del Templo. Si mantenemos los programas, nuestro sadana y nuestras rondas, satisfaciendolo a UD Dear Gurudeva, vamos a tener sus bendiciones para seguir empujando este barco de nuestro amado Srila Prabhupada. Dear Gurudeva, le seguiré informando sobre la situación del Templo, se ve que los devotos están entusuiastas en levantar y mejorar el Programa en el Templo, con la misma visión. Muchas gracias por su misericordia Dear Gurudeva, que la Misericordia de Sri Krishna se derrame siempre sobre UD. 

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva.

su inutil aspirante a sirviente.

GD's

HpS - ASA -  -   Hare Krsna,   We responded to this report before, no?   Hmmm?   Maybe it didn't get posted, but thank you. Keep trying to work with the ISKCON institution. Become the leader of the whole institution if necessary. It is your responsibility to Srila Prabhupada, but also remember that besides the formalities of administration in the Institution we also have our circle of friends in ISKCON and then we also have our own direct experience of Krsna and Srila Prabhupada! More Sankirtan in Cusco, center of the world!

Postponement

8 years, 10 months ago by Janard1108 in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Maharaj

PAMHO. AGTSP!

Its complicated, but due to XXX [the enthusiasm of the senior devotees here], I have had to postpone my initiation. It appears as though Srila Prabhupada's appearance day (26/08 Aust. time) will be the most auspicious and probable date for the initiation.

I beg your blessings in this regard.

Please accept my apologies for the lateness of this communique.

Your servant,

Jay.

HpS - ASA --  Jaya!  Jaya!   Jaya!      Yes, we were wondering what had happened, but this letter is pretty fast news. Yes again, Srila Prabhupada's appearance day would be a very asupicious day to take initiation. You can always remember it and take a look each year on that date how your service is growing!

DTC 20(Sa)

8 years, 10 months ago by hps in DTC

Oink! Oink!     Whoop!  WHooP!    '@'     'g'         8.11PM. We just finished "Noche Sabado Directo". "Saturday Night Live", on Start Meeting. About 11-devotees in thre groups. Is getting better and better.

For us it was almost impossible in the beginning because it comes at the end of Saturday which is a very full day, and so we were exhausted, but now we are getting our rhythm and planning our energy.

We were doing the Blog mail and then the connection collapsed!   So, we did as much as we can. We seem to be getting our senses under control more and more.   I guess and ordinary person is addicted to Peparoni Pizza and Beer and Hot DVDs with his friends Saturday night, although Sunday morning he feels like hell. So we may have problems with chocolate cake or condensed milk, or too much fruit, but still these are obstacles to doing better and better service.

Krsna loves to dance with pretty girls!!!   But you have to be a good dancer to do this with Him.  We HOPE we are progressing.  Seems that we are getting a practical rhythm here so that we can get a lot of work done in the next four months: End of August to End of December.

Our focus has been Art and the Sacred, 2018, but Ramon has been approved by the Congress in Peru as Minister for the 200th anniversary of Peru's independence celebration. So, we are suggesting Dr. Sameresh and Kalyankumar can write about this very, very strongly from the perspective of India's experience of Colonialism and the aftermanth.

This can also be done in art. If our world is dominated by this European colonial consciousness what will we have?  War?  Animal slaughter?

Is Indian and Peruvian traditional consciousness a good step toward Krsna consciousness?  Prabhupada established the "Sunday Feast". That is not a Vedic festival. He catered to his best customers, Hippies.

Art, like Ekasma Das and others can do is the way to create traveling shows that go on large scale form town to town to educate the people. Then the government will be good!!

Projects

8 years, 10 months ago by Bhakta Eric in Personal Sadhana Reports

Dear Guru Maharaj,

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

I have heard you've been doing quite a bit of traveling. Is it true that you will be reducing your travel before long and staying in India?

It's been very busy around here with Rathayatra going on, so it's been difficult for me to really do much else. Then, I was maybe a little too excited to get back to normal over here and I woke up with a killer toothache. I couldn't eat or sleep and I've been going all over town trying to sort it out and just this morning someone finally yanked out my wisdom tooth. I feel a little more wise now about this material world. Maybe next time I won't neglect to write Lord Jagannath a get well card.

ASA - We are all sinners in the hands of an angry God!

About your proposal I would be thrilled and honored to contribute to your project. I actually went through art therapy for about a year with one psychologist who studied Carl Jung, it really changed my life because I could tell she really cared about me. She told me nothing could help unless I found spiritual meaning in life. At the end of our time together she told me "I don't usually say this to patients but actually there's nothing wrong with you. It's everybody else that's crazy." Then she retired and went back to teaching art to kids.

ASA - Wow!!

Maybe we can discuss the details of my involvement when I come in the fall. In the meantime, there's a great opportunity to get the community in LA fired up for preaching and cultivation projects.

There is one group trying to bring the Gurukulis together, there's another group interested in art, another group restarted a weekly meeting for young people, there's a few interested in doing home programs or Bhakti Vrksha and there's one new sannyasi (H.H. B.R. Sagara Maharaj) who has ambitious plans for a huge interfaith festival here. So I'm involved in all of these things on some level, so I'm trying to organize some kind of grassroots co-op to bring all these devotees together so that we have a team in place to collate all these different kinds of outreach. So far local management seems agreeable so long as we don't make extra work for them.

Right now I'm trying to be as productive as possible while working over the phone to curate this group exhibition I have planned on the east coast in November. I'm going to try selling art in a few flea markets to buy time and make money until I can get in with local galleries. The temple is making me a great offer on a fully outfitted sankirtan van they're not using so I want to buy it ASAP and use it as my urban cottage on wheels. That will be of great use for transporting work, engaging in different areas etc etc etc. I'm just going to stay here, but it will be great to have my own space so I can put all my time and energy into making some real progress on these projects.

If you could pass along any more info about your project I would be excited to see it. Hare Krishna!

your servant,

Ekāśma Dās

HpS - We are always doing updates in the DTC and other notes. Look at the DTC today with something just for you!!

URGENTE MANUEL ALMENDRO

8 years, 10 months ago by Sananda in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

                 HARE KRSNA GURUDEVA,

                 PAOHO, AGTSP!

                 YES!! , PREMA MURTI EVERY YEAR DOES A NICE GARDEN WITH MANY FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES

                FOR SRI SRI RADHA GOVINDA CANDRA (G&N, L&N AND SP). WE GET PUMPKINS ALL WINTER  THANKS TO HIS WORK,

                HE IS  AMAZING.  ALSO SOME DEVOTEES WORK IN LITTLE PIECES OF LAND.

                WE ARE NOT SO GOOD AT TAKING CARE OF PLANTS. CITY RATS, WE ARE STILL...MAYBE WE LEARN AT SOME POINT.

ASA - We will go to the local garden store, run by Amish people, Monday and see what we can plant. We are thinking of gardening in pots, because we are traveling.

                ALMENDRO´S E-MAIL: xxx

                AND SKYPE: xxx

ASA - Aaaah!    Thank you!  What shall be the content of the next Solaris, so that you can give it to a lot of people???

                THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING

                ASPIRING TO SERVE YOU

                SANANDA DD AND BHADRA VD