Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

As you may have noticed, I did not attend the FMP this week.

It has been a very intense week, I teach in 4 different places. 2 virtual, 2 in person. This year my job search was a little complicated. I am in the Saturn period and on top of that, being retrograde, everything is slower for me. I have to struggle a lot during this period.

Ulysses' recovery has been slow and stressful. Being so strong and intelligent, he managed to get the cure and ate it. It could have given him intestinal obstruction. My character is more irritable than usual. I do not have time for anything. I have to make a change for next year.

My Sadhana has been affected. I lead the FMP 3-Sundays in a row and my brother Parasurama Das, the last Sunday of the month, I would like to leave a request on the Blog. Is there any devotee who would like to take a Sunday to lead the morning program? Directing 3-Sundays in a row for me is a lot because I also teach classes on Sundays. I work from Monday to Sunday.

I feel ashamed for not being able to do more for my spiritual life right now.

I missed the all days when I just work four hours because my father supported me. Ja Ja Ja!

I had a photo of that.

Gurudeva this week I will join the FMP, I promise

So, see you tomorrow

Thanks for all your support and inspiration

Trying to be your disciple

CMDD

HpS/ASA - Thank you. AgtSP.

I cannot give advice to the Pandavas, "Oh, just chant 'Hare Krsna', and be happy". 😐

Yet, I always remember that Srila Prabhupada said, 'Engage full time in hearing and chanting, Srimad Bhagavatam, Sri Isopanisad, Brahma-samhita. We will supply the Prasada, but ... you can't do it. So engage in hearing and chanting as much as you can, then do whatever you can do for Krsna. Not dog hard, nicely'.

So, try to catch hold of Captain Krsna's direction and move into cooler professional work?

Specifically, Mitravinda Devi Dasi has been organizing the Kirtan Leader list, so we hope she see this and can help.

You do it once a month?

Respects to your Sister and your Dog!!

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Thank you!

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"It was of course very difficult to reach the palaces of the kings of the Yadu dynasty, but brāhmaṇas were allowed to visit. When the brāhmaṇa friend of Lord Kṛṣṇa went there, he, along with other brāhmaṇas, had to pass through three military encampments. In each camp there were very big gates, and he also had to pass through them. After the gates and the camps, there were sixteen thousand big palaces, the residential quarters of the sixteen thousand queens of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The brāhmaṇa entered one palace which was very gorgeously decorated. When he entered this beautiful palace, he felt that he was swimming in the ocean of transcendental pleasure. He felt himself constantly diving and surfacing in that transcendental ocean", https://vedabase.io/en/library/kb/80/#bb92328.

ASA

• Difficult, but even ordinary people could see the King, Queen, Ministers when the King sat in 'darbha', no?
• '...swimming in the ocean of transcendental pleasure...' means that there, agtSP, he was experiencing the opportunity for so many kinds of service, no?

[10/19/2023 8:23 PM] Trivikrama Das:

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I was not able to attend Tuesday’s NoI session. I had to help our neighbor’s daughter with her college essays. I will watch the recording.

I have throat pain since Monday. It is not getting better. I am hoping it’ll be better in the next few days. Everyone here near the temple has been going through the same symptoms.

HH Hrdayananda Maharaja was here in Dallas. We met him and gave him a copy of TPP. He very fondly remembered you as his old friend 😲

[10/20/2023 10:38 AM] ASA-TB/BW:

Ayurvedic doctor said: Throat pain means acceptance ie. There is something that you can't swallow??? 🤔

Thank you so much for passing the TPP to him. We hope it finds its place in ISKCON Education.

Thank you for the news!

[10/20/2023 10:43 AM] TVKDas: I have never thought of it that way.. We are not sure what we are not able to swallow.. I am usually able to get over things.

[10/20/2023 10:46 AM] ASA-Ape/Pig: Now is time to "get over this material existence"? 🙂

TVKDas: Yes Guru Maharaja 🙂 I am at a point where I can clearly realize the Dhukalayam and Asasvatam aspects that Krishna mentions. But we are still no where close to sustained spontaneous devotional service. At times I am spontaneous about my service but most of the time, I have to force my mind to do things. Especially in situations like now, where the body is weak and only wants to rest... I have to force myself to chant!

ASA-M/P: Yes, but the little man, the homunculous, under all the garments likes to chant. Disease is an opportunity to chant from the soul. NoI 7 in the beginning, but quickly becomes NoI 8! Don't miss this opportunity! Disease doesn't come everyday!

"Hola, Maestro!! Alejandro mentioned that you've found the appropriate land for your community. Congratulations!! Are you considering a space for a Content Creation Department? It should include editorial printing, audio podcast, photography/film/video production."

HpS - ASA: No, no, n o! There is only little interest in the project here. 😕 Some preliminary investigation was done, but no one thinks it too important yet. We keep adding what we can to the equation. Will pass your comment along! I agree, but I don't have a family to feed etc. 🙂

(Translated by Google)

Hare Krsna, Gurudev.

Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all glories to you.

Here Deva Vrata [Daaas] 🙂

writes to you from the mountains of Córdoba, Argentina.

How are you?

HpS - jivera svarupa haya, krsnera nitya das. 🐵

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If you are with Krsna and taking refuge in Srila Prabhupada you can never be wrong... so... it is a fact that you are fine.

HpS/ASA - KK//HH . . . '@'pop~

You are an example for me.

HpS - Of evil, vanity, sloth, arrogance, conceit, cunning?

An example that is too high, that sometimes even overwhelms me, that you are someone so pure, generous, kind, funny, honest, determined, dedicated, etc. etc etc....

and me, 1% of all that and 99% of everything opposite...

HpS - AgtSP!!

I hope it is not too pessimistic a letter. I'm going to try to make it realistic.

I'm sorry to say (and sometimes I even repress saying it), that I feel unmotivated in life. It's somewhat repetitive. I have even told you a little about it in previous letters.

Sometimes, I lack drive and enthusiasm to live. I don't know where to get it from.

Daily practice, philosophy, preaching, everything I do, is not enough for me to feel happy. Why is this happening?

HpS/ASA - Following 4-principles? That should eliminate 90% of your distress. Of course, we take too much sugar and that turns to wine in the blood, no? So have to follow four principles strrrrict-ly.

We are making progress.

I am just the same.

Unmotivated. . .

... but in some respects we must just make our own choices. Am I going to turn to Gopal and His friends?

This is our situation: https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/8/#bb6003 ?

Have you come to the neutral stage where you are no longer seduced by The Black Witch, but not yet come to Spontaneous Raga anuga Bhakti?

NoI 7?

. . . You are not motivated any time in the day?

We are motivated at 2AM in the morning after a good sleep, and other times. Some other times we can barely move... 😞

Sometimes it is not that we are tired, we are thirsty, or suffocating. Just a biological reaction of depressed senses, mind, and we identify with it.

Get up!

Wash your clothes!

Trim your garden!

Hari Bolo! Chant One Mantra out loud with your arms raised.

Without living with you in your specific situation I can't give too much specific advice. Get local advisors, friends.

Yet above are some general thoughts, and specific things we do.

We are motivated to read this letter and write, because you WhatsApped us and we see you daily iin the FMS!

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/antya/20/47/

"Iskcon is an uninspiring institution, but all the others are so much worse", Bhakta Abraham.

I am very sorry to tell you this Gurudev. I know that your wish is for us all to be happy. You are a Vaisnava and even an ant matters to you.

HpS - Well actually I usually don't care too much about most people's depression or enthusiasm, because I don't know their details. I try to go out and make myself available and then as I get to know people, then their emotions and attitudes become real to me.

Yes, agtSP, I do care about the ants in my house. Try to facilitate their lives.

It is Srila Prabhupada whom you want to ask these questions of. We can just give a little help like above, and direct you to him!

AgtSP.

When I slow down and focus on one paragraph from the second KRSNA book, it makes me motivated.

Eg. How must chipped, flat, rice did Sudama Vipra take to KRSNA? Was it enough for one lunch?

O.K. Let's look at some other posts.

We're all crazy here.

You're not going to be fully motivated until you kiss Krsna's lotus foot prints in Vrndavana, and get the shelter of the Gopis, and they are not hard to approach, because they are looking for more, and more, and more people to do practical work in their efforts.

How can I feel the drive to live?

HpS - By seeing Srila Prabhupad smile at you.

Where does the enthusiasm to live day to day come from?

HpS - Sankirtan with Srila Prabhuapda and then peanut butter and jam on rye bread sandwich prasadam when you are tired!

I am unfortunate to be so absorbed in my misfortune. I should be absorbed in trying to serve you and Iskcon.

HpS - Maybe our depression is just result of material associaiton, but also just our offensive, greedy and selfish faults! We take a deep breath and chant two Maha-mantras. As long as can breath you can chant. That is your option. Enthusiasm is not something you get (get, get, get) but some way to act (give, give, give). You have to have unlimited determination to serve Krsna, hari kirtan. How much...? Unlimited?

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/antya/20/47/

That's my reality. Anyway, I do the best I can with what I have.

HpS - 😠

Well why didn't you say that in the beginning! That's all we can suggest! 😄

Thanks Gurudev. please give me some advice.

HpS - Just did. 🐈

Eternally indebted to you.

HpS - Good, that will help us pay off our debt to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you for accepting me into your entourage, even though I am the most insignificant.

Bows to your feet.

Hare Krishna

ASA - Pictures cats and dog pictures attached. Thank you for yours. From them it seems that maybe your are not tasting the mystical poetry in the books and sharing that with others.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/5/12/

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(Traducida por google)

Hare Krsna Gurudev.

Por favor, acepte mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada y todas las glorias a ti.

Aquí te escribe Deva Vrata das de las sierras de Córdoba, Argentina.

¿Cómo estás? 

Si estás con Krsna y refugiado en Srila Prabhupada nunca puedes estar mal... así que... es un hecho que estás bien.

Eres un ejemplo para mí. 

Un ejemplo demasiado elevado, que incluso a veces hasta me agobia, que seas alguien tan puro, generoso, amable, divertido, honesto, determinado, entregado, etc. etc. etc....

y yo, un 1% de todo eso y un 99% de todo lo contrario...

Espero que no sea una carta demasiado pesimista. Voy a intentar hacerla realista. 

Lamento decirlo (y a veces incluso reprimo decirlo), de que me siento desmotivado en la vida. Es algo repetitivo. incluso en cartas anteriores te lo he contado un poco.

Algunas veces, me falta ímpetu y entusiasmo para vivir. No sé de dónde sacarlo. 

La práctica diaria, la filosofía, la prédica, todo lo que hago no me alcanza para sentirme feliz. ¿por qué me sucede esto?

Lamento mucho contarte esto Gurudev. Sé que tu deseo es que todos seamos felices. Eres un vaisnava y hasta una hormiga te importa.

Cómo puedo sentir el impulso para vivir? 

de dónde sale el entusiasmo para vivir el día a día? 

Soy desafortunado por estar tan absorto en mi infortunio. Debería estar absorto en tratar de servirte a tí y a Iskcon.

Esa es mi realidad. De todos modos, hago lo mejor que puedo con lo que tengo.

gracias Gurudev. por favor dame un consejo.

Eternamente endeudado contigo. 

gracias por haberme aceptado en tu séquito, aunque yo sea el más insignificante.

Reverencias a tus pies.

Hare Krsna 

Hare Krishna, Dear Guru maharaja!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and All glories to you.

Please accept our humble obeisances. (PAOHO)

As of every two weeks:

* Bulletin is now upload on Facebook (English & Spanish), it is also in Google Groups (English & Spanish) as listed at: http://www.jayarama.us/hello.htm

Hare Krishna!!! I hope You are doing ok. Thanks a lof for your words in the bulletin. They give us a lot of strength.

I just came from Huancaya some hours ago. It was a very interesting trip. Many strange things happened. My only conclusion is that Krsna controls everything for good.

Despite everything, we can still maintain a decent sadhana.

My aunt is in very serious health, she will probably leave her body between today and tomorrow.

Thank you so much.

ASA - We think that some people read it besides you and me. 😆 Hope it inspires comments, questions or complaints in the Blog!

HpS - Send her picture ASAP!!

Your aspirant servants

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette)