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HpS - ASA --- AGTSP ... I guess the basic idea is whether Krsna was happy after the Battle of Kuruksetra or not, no?   Did Yuddhistira feel that he had eliminated a government and governors that weren't working?

In the end Bhisma convinced him that he had eliminate the right things.

What do you think of:

http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/1/9/12  ????

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Dear Guru Maharaj, PAMHO AGTSP

Here are my thoughts on the subject matter...

Krsna wanted to establish dharmic kingdom, so He was happy after the battle. From that point of view.

Yudhisthira was not happy, thinking that "so many killings are there just so I be the king." But Bhisma convinced him that it is how it had to happen. 

Then SB 1.9.12 says: "As long as a person is fully in cooperation with the wishes of the Lord, guided by the bona fide brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas and strictly following religious principles, one has no cause for despondency, however trying the circumstances of life." [side note: interesting how the robot put the word "brahmanas" in small letters].

Following that paragraph, I would say that:

1.whatever project works in cooperation with the Lord,
2. is guided by the bona fide brahmanas and Vaisnavas and
3.is strictly following religious principles, 
is pleasing to  Krsna. And that project WORKS.  

Now, the challenge is  to reassess the project by using these 3 points. <img alt="enlightened" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/lightbulb.png" title="enlightened" width="23" />  That is quiet enough of work! (For those who want to do it).

Guru Maharaja, do you want to add something more to this topic? Are my thoughts going in proper direction?

Your servant Namacarya das
 

HpS - AGTSP. Seems nice, no? Religious principles seems to be 16-nice rounds and 4-regulative principles, no? Of course, Morning Program, is 99.97% required for the rounds and principles, no?

God, the Brahmanas, and Vedic Scriptures.

Chant Hare Krsna properly: God

Brahmanas: 6-ISKCON devotees

Vedic Scriptures: P'pada's books!!

Even if you go to hell then for your choices you will have your bead bag, kartals, Krsna book and six ISKCON devotees with you.  ISKCON Hell, Ki Jai!

But the first one seems to be the basis. Without it 2 and 3 don't work so well.

Send 'em all Back to Godhead and let the Gopis sort 'em out.

Hare Krishna Maharaja, Pamho, AgtSP.

Yes; to go to Vrindavan.
Maha-bhavi Manager temple; he went to Vrindavan for two weeks.
Murari-caytania is my faithful companion;
He is Lithuanian; He is married, and his son Arjuna.
He is good; chants the holy name. he has 30 years and is a carpenter; his family is in Lithuania.
just us two here.
Yesterday at the party on Sunday; Marga-mana gave the class; Yudistira cook; I clean the bathrooms.
Sanatani and Yudistira are married and two children; kamala-gopi, and Noah, he has another mother.
Marga-mana is married; two children.
His guru fell down.

HpS - Let's hope he gets back up (In a wonderful way!)

Many more details! Gustav is a bhakta with enthusiasm.
ISKCON norway ... the lotus feet of Prabhupada!

-First pure knowledge.
-Come up to the eternal platform.
- .........
jaya Rama ekadasi!

Well, time flew.
the new year is almost here.
Krishna consciousness, such an interesting thing.
we do this because we think it is good; and we will not go to hell.
but the Cowherd Boys do not know "who is God"
umm ...
that's a little strange ...

HpS - Are you sure Krsna is God?   Hmmmmm?    Or would you just love Him because you love Him, even if you might go to hell. Of course, Hell is forgeting Krsna, no?

and what is the name of the mother of Krishna's flute ???
This seems more complicated than I thought.
And what about Putana?

HpS - ASA -  She is the sister of ....(?).
Prabhupada: This movement is for the first class of men.
but that kind of intelligence is that???

HpS - Even if has third or fifth class habits, cow killer, when he hears to Message from the Messenger, Prabhupada, then he is honest with himself, admits his problem. Trys to change, and then P'pada, ISKCON, give him, us, 1st class habits. O.K???
We are looking for 1st class men (at heart) and giving them 1st class habits.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
hare hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Maharaj muchas gracias - Thank you very much for your support!

HpS - Thank you very much for your leadership. Sounds like you have a good team there. Get to work! Make it a great team. Do something in the time you have.

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

ASA - Lettuce feet. Of course, we hope to aspire that Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet are our lotus feet (possession).

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

    Gurudev, Hope you are good in Health.

    As i had Visited 4 small city - Chilfilly, Ambikapur, Bilaspur and Raipur. Basic objective of the visit was to check scope for us (ISKCON).

    City 1 : Chilfilly - Many 'Sahajiya' sampradaya are preaching on this area. They don't follow any rules. They preach like, they are in Vraja or Gopi-bhava. They say, they can show the 'swarup' to anyone. Even they offered me to show the 'swarup'. But i did not responded. They all have big big and beautiful diets ("diets" or "dieties") at their home. They have made their own rules of bhakti, sadna and worship.

    City 2 : Bilaspur - Good city. Engineering, Medical College, High Court is there. i was success to develop a relationship with two lawyer of high court for preaching purpose.

    City 3 : Raipur - Capital of Chhattisgarh state. Scope is good. Already an ISKCON Temple is there but very less preaching.

    City 4 : Amibkapur - Nice city, growing city. Good Agriculture College is there. Scope for ISKCON is good.

    It was my first visit for these place so need more visit before making any decision.

    Why i had chosen these place : Because 'Sahajiya' preachers are there. They are misguiding people.

    Please let me know if you have any thing for me.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA -- It sounds like you are moving toward Sannyasa dharma, traveling and preaching, not having a private family, but loving all people as your family.
When we get telephone and give you Gayatri Mantras???

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I haven't written in a long while, Maharaja. Life as a mother of two has been very busy and fulfilling. We are happy. Although I do loose my patience with my oldest. I am definitely trying to be more gentle.

HpS - AGTSP. Enthusiasm is more important than patience. Yes, must have patience, but more important is enthusiams. What is that? How to keep it?  NOI-3 discusses. If you lose your patience enthusiasm, then stop and look: What am I trying to accomplish. More clean around the house?   Is this a good goal?    If it is not, then O.K. give it up. If it is then second, how can I make progress in towards this. If you have these two, then you will be enthusiastic and patience will be natural. A lot more details.  NOI 3 is good discussion.

I have so much to tell you but I will keep it brief. 

My husband and I started up our Bhkati Yoga club at school again and will be having kirtan nights on Fridays. We don't expect many people to come but we know that by persevearance and humility Krishna might bless us. We also ask for your blessings to make this our service while here in Calgary.

HpS - Ha!  Ha!    Shoot for the Rhinocerous!    Expect that many people will come. Sufficient. Maybe show part of the Maha-bharata by Peter Brook. Free popcorn (with a lot of salt) and $1.00 glass for lemonade!

I also ask for your blessings on me being able to teach our children how to speak Spanish. It might be silly to ask this, but for me it's a little difficult to do since my husband doesn't speak it. I realised it can be very beneficial to grow up speaking more than one language. So I will try my best to help my children that way. Of course, giving them Krishna is best!

HpS - What about www.loftylearning.com, you can teach them Sanskrit. You all can learn. If you want to teach them Spanish, you must get a few partners, no? Others with your mad mentality. Calgary, Home Spanish, Ladies Circle. Then there must be online courses you can all do together. Its a nice language.

My husband is almost finished school to be a teacher. Very happy forhim. Audharya and Arindama are both growing and getting along well. My family is very happy to have their grand children around so close. Everyone is happy for now. Our Calgary yatra is not quite the same as when we lived in Toronto but as long as people are worshiping Krishna and love Him we can adjust for the time we are here. 

I am chanting my 16 rounds consecutively now for a few months since the birth of my son. I am back on track with a lot to make up for. I don't know about other mothers, but for me chanting when I have avery young and demanding baby, japa is hard to do every day. I feel reluctant to tell you this but I hae a need for you to accept my inability finish sometimes. 4 regs: check.

HpS - Keep track of how many rounds you own Krsna. I was only chanting like 11-rounds a day for several weeks, maybe 6-8 when the GBC had me as Temple President, Head-Pujari, Rathayatra Organize, Treasurer Director in the Berkeley Temple.

Ooof!  I was exhausted. Could barely walk, but kept track and then at one point told them, just can't do this, and gradualy caught them all up.  I hear that 16-day day is hard with a small kid, but I suspect that it can be done. Kids sleep a lot. Just fit in four here, four there.  Pooop!  16!
If I give my opinion, for a young mother to have babies and chant 16-rounds is about the same as taking Sannyasa in ISKCON.
Rasa-mandali Dasi, Maharaja, Ki Jai!

Please forgive my offences, Maharaja. 

Your aspiring servant,

Rasa-mandali dasi

HpS - ASA -- So, so, nice to hear from you.  Please offer our respects to your family, and if you husband can send a little news about his Sankirtan, that would be nice.  Also, you can see that we are focusing on this Peru symposium, and so maybe you can get some inspiration to help also!  Psychology and the Sacred.

Thank you!

You are on the right path, just go ahead.

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Please accept these respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada, the previous acharyas

and His Holiness Hanumatpresaka Swami.

Because of you, these souls receive the great opportunity to rehabilitate themselves through the knowledge and devotional service to all of you, dear devotees of Sri Krishna.

This is the eleventh time I edit this letter, excuse my delay Guru Maharaja,<img alt="blush" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/embarrassed_smile.png" title="blush" width="23" /> it is because there have been many events, activities of family order, devotional service, etc. (Besides my bad english grammar) Google translate and Gandharva helped me. I’m learning so, I hope write you by myself  soon.

HpS - ASA --- Thank you very much!!!

I hope this letter find you recovered in your health.  How are you Gurudeva?

ASA - Well, we, like you, are Sat-Cit-Ananda, but Brother Ass, is Asat-Acit-Nirananda, mortal, stupid and miserable.  At 67 years old our eyes, memory, teeth, respiration, skin, heart, hearing are all starting to become weak and disappear. Is good thing, because then they will be useful in making a new body for someone.
Destruction, old age, death is just the other half of the cycle or growth, youth and birth, no.
O.K.   If it is for Krsna, then it becomes part of our ever growing life in the play of Goloka!

Thank you, thank you for your visit; every time you come we learn a lot, you give us many realizations.<img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />

I infinitely thank for your great mercy, Guru Maharaja, for giving me the diksha initiation. I am very happy and grateful.  Our immature desire to serve is being tested by Maya. It has not been easy during the last two months. We are fighting against our mind and ego in the fire of Grhastha asrama.  Is hard understand karma, specially when this show up strongly, and is harder to learn from it, because we need a lot of humility.  After all, albeit painfully, we’re learning a lot. We really want to clean and change our hearts Gurudeva, but sometimes this is so hard.  We know that Krishna put us together in this asrama so we can learn from each other.  Sometimes it is very hard and difficult; sometimes it's very sweet and fills us with strenght.

About this point, Gurudeva, some devotees say that relationships are like a mirror, so, if we see any mistake in the other, with a lot of humility we can see those mistakes is in ourselves. Please if this works this way, can you explain it (authoritatively) to me this Gurudeva? It has to do with consciousness? We attract what we think? Also, during your last visit, His Holiness said that we should not tangle with the external aspects of devotees, ie, with aspects of his personality (personality as a mask, right?). For me, this was a BIG lesson, because it's about quotidian relationships with devotees, and understand this authoritatively, would mean to be less offensive and learn more about me in aspects that I could not identify before because of my big ego.

LAD Prabhu told us, about anartha nivritti (we don’t know if we are in that level) but prabhu LAD said: first step: look for defects, second ACCEPT them, third step: WORK ON IT, all these tips are helping us, we do not know if one day we will not argue anymore, but we know that  we can learn through each person to understand what Krishna wants us to learn.

About Sadhanna:

Rounds & Principles: I have had difficult days Gurudeva, but despite the onslaught of Maya, I still struggling to keep up with 16 rounds daily, 3.5 Principles, 4 Mangalaratikas in the temple a week, minimum.

Readings:  Krishna Book, NOD (chapter 5), recently starting Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto1, with Gandharva.

About seva: I'm at that stage of looking at what service I must do Gurudeva,  education really inspires me.  What issues should I consider to know how to choose which service can please you and Krishna?

HpS - ASA --- Really the best way to know what your service in Varna-ashrama-dharma is, is to chant Hare Krsna.  Slowly, slowly, certainly, your Japa and other service in ISKCON, eg. Mangala arti, SB, will make it clearer to you what is your service, Varna-ashrama-dharma.

Just continue that way. Be a good girl!  Be a good wife. Love your husband, even if he is a crazy rat at times. Your love for him does not depend on his love for you. If you don't want kids, then you MUST adopt Gaura Nitai, your personal Deities (can also be Madan-bihari and Radharani) as you kids. They are very jealous and may make you miserable if you neglect their cookies and milk!!

Some Sankhya, but mostly try and see everyone but your husband as your children, sometimes naughty, sometimes nice. Bring them all to Radha-Krsna. Make Radha-Krsna your life. Pray for Their individual mercy on you alone. Of course, it comes through Lalita devi, but she just passes it along with a smile and no changes. You must taste it, bitter sweet.

For now:

Pujari On Friday:  at noon I help Prabhu Omkara in the pujari, serving lunch to their Lordships, washing bowls, cleaning etc.

ASA - You are very fortunate. Please!  Give our respects to him.

Garlands on Wednesday:  For the altar of Sita-Rama-Laksmana-Hanuman.

Congregational development: Omkara Prabhu asked for our help, so we are helping a little.

House: Puja, I am trying to strengthen my relationship with Sri Panca Tattva and Jagannatah, Baladeva & Subhadra and I'm being more careful in punctuality, cleanliness and more focus on worship, according to what Gaura Gadadhara mataji taught us.  The new deities (big ones) are now at home, Adi Lila mataji (prabhu Jiva-Sakti's wife) made them clothes.<img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />

Gurumaharaja I'm sorry, I did not accept the position of Nimsar treasury, because the present circumstances, if I assume a position of great responsibility, I could neglect other things, and because we are going through tests, I thought I had to be cautious. Meanwhile I'm helping Isvari mataji in communications and suggested my father to help us a little in strategic planning. This to improve NIMSAR management (Do you remember I told you about my father? I introduced him to you the day of my initiation, his name is Arturo, he is an economist, specializes in projects and has 15 years of experience in international cooperation, he have a MBA in business administration) The workshop is very interesting because it can be applied to any service.

My father is feeling very inspired by Srila Prabhupada purposes.  After a long time, I did not see so inspired and rejuvenated, he admires sincerity of devotees and each Sunday takes its association and prasadam.  On the other hand my mother has started making tapestry of Lord Jagannath, she respect our philosophy, she is catholic, is very faithful to Virgin Mary but, something happened the first time she saw a deity of Lord Syamasundara,  she even wanted to buy the bronze deity, but things happened that prevented it, she loves the form of Govinda. I just worry that she is not a vegetarian, Gurudeva, I have asked her to be very careful when making tapestries, so not to commit offenses, but I think it is a way to get closer to Krishna, what do you think about that?

Living near Radha Madana Bihari is not cheap, to serve a beloved devotee of Krishna, will change everything, but we are willing to sacrifice in order to purify and someday (I hope soon) be good servants.

May Lord Nrisimhadeva always take care of you.

Your neophyte servant

Indira-Sakti devi dasi 

HpS - Thank you.  I think everybody realizes what a lot of stress this is for you. You are not an ordinary girl. You are The Average Peruvian Girl.  (Ha! Ha! Hare!).    If you figure out how to use Srila Prabhupada's magical gifts, then Any Peruvian Girl, even you mother, can figure it out.

Chant Hare Krsna and be happy. Try your best but be patient, relaxed. First focus -- 16-nice rounds.

Dear Hanumapresaka Swami

PAMHO  All Glories to Srila Prabhupada !

I'm going to try to send some photos for the first time to see how it works.  These are the only photos I could find that are less than 2MB  This is a photo of the going away party for a delightful devotee couple who had to move to up state New York for his work as a college economics professor.  With Bahushira and Paradeya.  The tears were flowing that day.  The other is a picture of Paradeya,  his wife Caitanya Dasi and me at home.

Your humble servant

HpS - Hare Krsna. Sorry a little slow reading this wonderful letter. Reflects our lack of taste for spiritual life and continued interest in World War II. By your association and all the devotees in this world AND Srila Prabhupada AND Jesus and Mohamad and...   Confuscious and...  we might make some progress. We only see one photo!  If you get the time, save the file with a descriptive name, then I think that will show up. I only see a small version of it at this point. I will post it and look at the large version. Then I think this letter to this point will go. . . .

O.K. We looked at it after it was Posted and the Photo is much bigger, but only one. Are you getting this Edit comment?

Boy, I really like working with you. Always have. You are a professional, sudra like me. I think there must be some German in your family tree somewhere.