Letters to the editor

Filter by category:
All DTC Personal Sadhana Reports Special Category A Special Category B Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports Hot Topics Calendar Development Other

Synopsis of HpS Article for Solaris

9 years, 7 months ago by hps in Special Category B

A CERTAIN BAG OF BOOKS

Author considers in some depth, after sixty years of reading and practice, which books to put into a bag, to hang on the back of his donkey, upon receiving short-term notice to immediately leave his house, with a certain American friend:

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Nectar of Instruction (1993))

KRSNA - The Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970)

Edward T. Hall

The Silent Language (1959)

The Hidden Dimension (1966)

The Fourth Dimension In Architecture: The Impact of Building on Behavior (1975)

Beyond Culture (1976)

The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time (1983)

David Haberman

The Bhaktirasamritasindhu of Rupa Gosvamin (2003)

Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna (1994)

Viola Spolin

Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques (1999)

Constantin Stanislavski

My Life in Art (1987)

Dhanurdhara Swami

Waves of Devotion (2000)

C. G. Jung

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1989)

Analytical Psychology: Its Theory & Practice (The Tavistock Lectures) (1970)

The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga (1999)

Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science

Anthony C. Yu

The Journey to the West  (Revised Edition 2013)

Some news from Chicago.

9 years, 7 months ago by etasakrsnadas in Personal Sadhana Reports

HK, AGTSP, PAMHO

Dear Gurudeva,

It's been a long time since my last letter, my apologies for that.

  1. The temple is going through a transition because the BCARI asrama is colsed due to differences between Authorities and Senior Bcaris. But I am alowed to stay and work there.
  2. Could sound like a joke, but I will be running for Temple president of Iskcon Chicago. I told to the current president, "give me some time until I get my degree and some managment skills and after that you can consider me for the job". I would like to use the best years of my life taking care of the devotees at other level at least for a period of time. It is not an easy task though.
  3. I founded the Vamsi School of music, to teach kirtan, and also preach through music education to the general audiences and introduce  devotional instruments in the current and dominant western culture. Many talented people is working with me on this and I count with full souport from the temple. We are working to make of this the best option to learn kirtan in United States. http://www.iskconchicago.com/vamsi-school-of-music/
  4. Pujari services helped me to attain a strong sadhana, good rounds. SB class online on the train. Finally after a long day studying I finish by dressing their lordships at eve. The negative aspect of it is that there is not so much time left for sankirtana in any of its forms for now. I am completly thankful with you Gurudeva for allow me to intensify my relationship with Krsna through this service.
  5. By the end of 2016 I am getting my AA degree. By the end of 2018 I am getting my bachelors degree and Comumbia College Chicago. I changed the major from music to TV production and direction. After a deep meditation on it, I think that we need more devotees involved in media. Iskcon all ready has many ingeniers, many philosofers, many musicians. I hope to use those skills in the service of Prabhupada's movement and to mantain a Vaishnava Familly in the future.

That's all for now Dear Gurudeva.  There are many things to organize here. Would you be interested in visit Chicago on 2016? May be Fall semester or srimg 2017?

Thank you dear Gurudeva for give me shelter at your lotus feet. Always looking forward to get your transcendental association again.

ys Etasa Krsna Das  

Hp Swami Hare Krsna. Yes, we really miss new from Kishor Kishori, Thank you. Also very surprising senior brahmacari management can't get along. Your schedule sounds okay. Can't do everything in one step, but always remember the goal is prema. How is your family, associates in Argentina? Are you going to visit there, What are you reading studying now our Prabhupada books? Now we fly to Nashville.

gadadhara gosai das (barcelona)

9 years, 7 months ago by gadadhara gosai das in Personal Sadhana Reports

hare krishna gurumaharaja!! por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias! todas las glorias a srila prabhupada!

aqui estamos, sigo con mi servicio de los sabados y un domingo al mes en el templo, luego cada dia cantando 16 rondas, aveces son muy buenas. siguiendo los 4 principios regulativos, adoracion en casa, estoy escuchando clases de srila prabhupada con traduccion al español, muy inspirantes. estoy trabajando en una empresa de mantenimiento de lunes a viernes, el trabajo no es muy duro, hay compañeros que son muy favorables para hablar de temas "misticos" intento hablarles de krishna pero de una manera no tan directa para que no me vean como un loco, es un gran ejercicio para la mente.

nuestra bebe va creciendo bien y saludable, le gusta mucho ir al templo.

Estamos pensando en   tener otro bebe, le pedimos de sus bendiciones para que krishna nos mande  un hijo que sea buen devoto, con buena salud y larga vida.

En relacion a su pregunta acerca de que planes tenemos para el futuro, por el momento pensamos quedarnos por aqui y viajar al santo dham siempre que sea posible.

su sirviente eterno, gadadhara gosai das.

hare krishna!!!!!

HpS-ASA - Hare Krsna. Very nice letter. As soon as we get our external life organized, we should start to organize our internal life, no? Krsna will inspire us how to help Lord Chaitanya more and more, give people music.

Start Meeting Recorded Classes

9 years, 7 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.

donkey.jpg

On the ground in Mayapur

9 years, 7 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, 7 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!