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Start Meeting Recorded Classes

9 years, 4 months ago by hps in Special Category A

AGTSP paoho/bw. We just Tweeted the links for the Godfather Diploma classes 1.2-3, English and Spanish, recorded at Start Meeting and the Review of Isopanisad, that we did for Srinivasa Das's students. If you don't follow Brother Ass on Twitter.com, you life is 37% wasted.

On the ground in Mayapur

9 years, 4 months ago by Mishra Bhagavan Dasa in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Every day is a festival in Sridam Mayapura. Mangal arotik has no less then 2,000 people every day and up to 7,000 on gaura Purnima. There would be more except there is no room. When it is that full you could not get a cat in there. After the morning announcements the many new guests are rounded up and taught to chant the Hare Krishna maha mantra. Two words at a time then one full round together. The announcements are important because they give word of all the great events everyone can attend. As I am writing this the Hare Krishna naga sankirtan party is passing by, headed by Gita Nagari Prabhu and his Indonesian buddy Kamala Kantha Prabhu. It is Sunday, so there are tons of guests. The party with its Gaura Nitai murtis engages the crowd in chanting Hare Krishna and purifies the whole area with transcendental sound. A really good play of the Mahabharata was performed by the members of ISKCON's Mayapur International School. The game of dice was the theme. The story has one part performed every month. It was opened with a dance and a 12 year old girl singing the Vrndavane Ramyastana song. The song is about the divine couple Radha and Krishna in Vrndavan situated on a golden throne in the middle of a lotus flower. the petals of the lotus are none other than the 8 chief gopis surrounding Radha and Krishna. In that assembly of Radha Krishna and Their associates there is a flood of laughter and joke as they address one another. Yesterday I went to Kolkatta to attend Bhakti Charu Swami's seminar. Maharajah talked about how those who are ignorant are attached to the material world. "They think sense gratification brings happiness, but actually it brings misery. They come again and again into the the material world and suffer very much. Those who are intelligent and self realized properly apply the human form of life to get free from from material existence." This was translated to me from Bengali. The seminar was at the Govinda's restaurant a little ways from the Albert Road Sri Sri Radha Govinda Mandir. After telling the self realization message he told Krishna book stories from the last chapters of Krishna living in Dwaraka. Then the seminar finished and Maharajah invited me to take some prasadam. Great feast. Afterwards I went home on local bangala transportation. I took a taxi, a train, a riksha, a boat, and a bus. Under $2 dollars. The taxi got pulled over by the Kolkatta cops for running a red light. The driver had to give the hundred rupees he had just made from me to bribe the officer. Thus I had to walk the rest of the way to the train. Getting on the train to Krishna Nagar city was a brutal rush of humanity all trying to get a seat. Then people started stuffing in for the standing room. It was like a college prank of seeing how many guys can fit into a Volkswagen. Sardine fish in a tin have more space then there was between the people on that train. Arriving in Krishna Nagar I was directed to the motor riksha and squeezed onto that for 20 kilometers. Finally it stopped and the driver pointed down a path into the dark jungle that looked like it went nowhere. He simply said, "Mayapura." Chanting Hare Krishna I went down the dirt passageway for some time. Eventually it ended at the confluence of the Jalangi River going into the Ganga. I boarded a boat, for 1 rupee ($.06). The boat landed on the shore of Mayapura. Next was the local bus for 6 rupees. The adventure ended in front of the wonderful Mayapura Chandrodaya mandir. The city built by our illustrious founder acharya, his divine grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Sachinanada Maharaj came from Germany and delivered a knockout seminar on how to chant Krishna's holy names. He talked about how Krishna would sit in the pasture grounds of Vrndavan and the cowherd boys would perform kirtan for the Lord's pleasure. "We should think like this when we chant, to direct our kirtan towards Krishna's pleasure. The holy names needs to arise in the heart. You cannot isolate your devotional life from chanting Hare Krishna." I hope this meets you well. Yours, Mishra Bhagavan Das HpS-ASA - Welcome MBD! Misra is our associate since our Brahmacari life in Berkeley. The Mayapura report is off the chart. Thank you so much. Only one comment: More.

DTC Mo(21)

9 years, 4 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna! ÂgtSP. Sorry little delayed answering letters and posting Diaries. Too much work during this trip to Richmond. Today back to Tennessee. Hare Krsna!Vaisnava literature of published in a liberated state. Hare Rama!

Summary of visit to Chile - January 2015

9 years, 4 months ago by jagad.guru.das in Calendar Development

Dear Gurudev,

First of all Thank you very much for your visit to Chile. All the devotees are so enthusiastic about it. Spend the Vyasa Puja with you was just a dream for some of them.

Now, the program how is arranged until now:

Thursday 7
LIMA > SCL
03:50 AM

- Sri Mahesa Pandita
(Disappearance)

Friday 8
- Sri Uddharana Datta Thakura
(Disappearance)Fiesta de Prabhupada

Saturday 9
-Santiago Mandir Temple-Meeting with VIP people to create links:
Possible guests:
-Embajador de India
- Christian Warken
- Héctor Maturana
- Cristian Vittori
- Soledad Alvear (senator)
- Helen (Bussiness encharge on US Embassy)

Sunday 10

Sri Locana Dasa Thakura (Appearance)

Sunday Feast

-Santiago Mandir Temple-

Monday 11

Vyasa Puja
Hanumatpreaka Swami
-Santiago Mandir Temple-

Tuesday 12

Lunch for Birthday (not arranged yet)

Srila Jiva Gosvami
(Disappearance)

Jagad Guru Das Proposal:
Eveninig:

- Grhasta Seminar -
Who is the duty of a grhasta?
(Caitanya Caritamrta Extract)

Wednesday 13

Public Program:

1) Carl Jung y la Tradición Védica

- Biblioteca Nacional -

Thursday 14

SCL > EZE
10:45

Wednseday 27

COR > SCL
13:30

Triple Classe by Swamis inviting to the Congress

Thursday 28

II Congress on
Education - Day 1

19 hrs Congress Opening - Santiago Mandir Temple
- Presenting Speakers, Topics and Workshops
- Introduction to Hanumatpresaka Swami
- Tele Conference Rama Giridhari

-Sri Ramacandra Kaviraja (Disappearance )
-Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami (Appearance )

Friday 29

II Congress on
Education - Day 2

8 am Taking Bus to the place of the event from temple.

- In the Night: Drama

Sri Jayadeva Gosvami
(Disappearance)

Saturday 30

II Congress on

Education - Day 3

In the Night: Concert

Sunday 31

II Congress on
Education - Day 4

14 hrs. Taking Bus come back to the city

Sri Locana Dasa Thakura
(Disappearance )

February 1

SCL > LIMA
07:14

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Regarding this, a surpise: there is a little chance that Jayapataka Swami assit to the congress. Just a little bit chance. But tomorrow I will send the details about the congress tomorrow Gurudev. Is paradox that in my job Im writing nonsense all the time (maybe in this job not so much because a lot of things on enterpreneurship, innovation, happines and education) but and I don't gave myself time to write to you, the essentianl issue in my life.

Finally, Now Im confused about my service: I like the external preaching, make contacts but when I serve to the devotees, despite is more difficult, organize, etc is also good but i don't know if is useful, Maybe my field is the external preaching. Im confused.

Hare Krsna gurudev,

Thank you

HpS-ASA - AgtSP. Thank you for the letter and Calendar news. Who is coming to the Congress? We don't see the"tomorrow" letter. See DTC Mo(21) with our news!

DTC Wed(16)

9 years, 4 months ago by hps in DTC

AgtSP. Paoho. We made it to Richmond. Out was a long hard journey, 8-hours of travel in hellish boring, cramped planes, no one to talk to. Now we will have BG class in just few minutes.

HARE KRISHNA!

9 years, 4 months ago by Bhakta Jorge España in Special Category A

HARE KRISHNA Maharaj pamho agtsp.

whenever I sing the holy name; I meditate on the sexual life ...

but I still consider myself very advanced spiritually.

and when I tell you; I feel even more proud.

and a sense of false humility.

but I'll tell my dear friend; the holy name is my only hope.

if you do not have faith in the holy name eradicate all weeds ...

honestly, I'm sorry to tell you but you're lost friend.

He continued that way ...

when he gave a book ...
He saw a little cowboy in Vrindavan; he just went crazy and began to spin like crazy, for the joy he felt in the heart.

certainly it is very fortunate person that exceeds the attachment for sex life.

because then ...

the ocean of transcendental bliss is easily within reach.

the devotee never forgets sex life ...
but as you have to avoid.

It is boring so much about this.

I do not believe it.

For my part I enjoy a lot.

but I'll say it again ...
if I lose hope ...

simply by chanting the holy name; I will be immersed in a transcendental bliss.
lose all sense of time place and circumstance; and my only concern will be.
continue chanting the holy name.

better leave you.
And try to find pleasure in some other place.

Perhaps you my friend; you know where is that place?

Therefore…
do not tell me, because I know very well.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

please forgive this unfortunate and pretentious man submerged in the deepest darkness; and bless me with the holy name.

so that I can forget and remember…

check out my prize.

I deliver 13 small books and 3 bg

since the first of December till 12.

to the amount of 919 Norwegian Koronas

counting the passage in mentro every day.

and I'll tell friend; this is a real miracle.

not this cool?

HpS AgtSP. Paoho. Poem is a little hard to follow and that makes its sad because it seems so nice. Nobel laureate, Albert Camus, said that unless you rewrite six times you are a coward! Prabhupada said that he had sex desire but he had no time to do anything about it.

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