Vrindavan Gurukula

9 years, 8 months ago by Cakori Radha in Hot Topics

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

PAMO

We hope your liver feels better,

ASA - Yes, long time ago it has recovered. Now we have stomach problem and of course going blind and deaf and losing teeth!   Very nice!

We write to tell you of project in Vrindavana, Yesterday we had a very nice and productive meeting. in 2 weeks things have fly almost, its subreal

we have a name, V.E.D.A (Vraja educational and Devotional Academy) kids can be vedantas? They accept a co-ed education, but boys upto 10 only, meybe they will be ready to go to Gurukula?

so we are starting collecting different models of curricular programs from all over the world (many devotee friends are helping) and we have to start a fundraising... we think we will be needing 40 thousand dollars to start... maybe, by Radharanis mercy the Goshala will give us a little space to make some buildings. we could pay them rent? theres another plot Iskcon is not using, no project coming for it nothing, maybe that could be a permanet spot.  we need to have the funds to ask for the land, because right now all we have are dreams and a bunch of parents in passion.  this week we are prepering a brochure, the funraising strategy  and we are taking some pictures next sunday of the children (to put in the brochure)

Please Guru Maharaja give us blessing so we can become good instruments of the lords will.

Hoping for some tips too   '@'

Thank you for your nice letter to all of us, we read them all, most of them at least... so nice, so many nice comments and instructions.

Trying to serve at all,

Cakori Radha Devi dasi (donkey)

HpS - Who are like three of the other principal participants?  Who are they?

Hare Krishna Dear Maharaj!!

9 years, 8 months ago by Kristina Donoso in Special Category A

Hare Krishna Dear Maharaj!! reciba mis mas humildes reverencias, todas las glorias a A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Antes que nada quiero contarle que estamos viviendo mi hijo Gabriel (Krishna Das) y Yo (Kristina Donoso) en el Santo Dam Mayapur,

ASA - AGTSP Paoho.  You have been for some time, no?  Architect with the TOVP.

intente hacerlo como me dijo en Madrid vinimos por tres meses, pero como todo se dio muy facil como para quedarnos nos quedamos.

A Krisna Das lo acetaron en la escuela de Mayapur SMIS esta estudiando muy feliz y le gusta mucho ir al templo tocar kartals, mirdanga.  Yo empece a trabajar nuevamente con Vaikunta Nitai en el MDS (Mayapur Design). Estoy feliz con te servicio!

Este servicio de trabajar como arquitecto en Mayapur, me lo instruyo Guru  Maharaj Jayapataka Swami hace 4 anios en Cochabamba Bolivia. Estoy siguendo los pasos necesarios para tomar iniciacion con Gurudeva Majaraj Jayapataka.

HpS - Muy bien..

Por eso le pido que me autorice a pedir Refugio con Guru Maharaj Jayapataka Swami , me de su bendicion y usted Mahraj siga siendo mi Siksha Guru .

Tuve un suenio muy bello con Gurudeva M. Jayapataka: me pedia que apoyara mi cabeza en su hombro, me tomaba de la mano y me decia "yo te voy a cuidar y a proteger, no temas apoyate en mi". Luego se levantaba y jugaba a dar patadas muy altas a los devotos, y jugaba muy feliz!

reciba mis reverencias.

Su sirviente

Kristina Donoso

HpS - ASA ---- Jaya!   Very interesting dream.   Hope we see you in Mayapura.   We should be there in February.   We hope Gabriel finds good examples to follow also!!!

Hare Krsna Gurudev - Sankirtan Report

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

ASA - Locust feet.


    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - ASA --- !!

    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, Hope you are good in Health.

    will start on October 16, 2015 for to visit a place (Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh) to check whether we can open an ISKCON base there or not.
    and other preaching activities.....for this, taking 6 day leaves. Local temple councilor and Vrndavan councilor are in Sync on the same.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA ----  Aaaah!   Krsna is looking for Doobraj rice!     Why you select this place!??

DTC Th(19)

9 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP

Paoho​

5.36 PM here.  Got all the mail answered to 3-days ago.   Had super class today to Hawaii. Bhakta Daniel es still staying with us. He goes to the MTSU campus like daily and just met with the traveling Sankirtan Party from Denver there.   They are coming right now.

Tomorrow we go to Raleigh for the Rathyatra.

At ~6.15PM we go to NGD house.

Hare Krsna!

We still have a lot of paper work to do for the Ministry, Peru, NIOS. It is hard to see how it relates to immediate Sankirtan, selling books person to person!

We, all of us, need to be on Srila Prabhupada's personal Sankirtan team, always, no?

Ministry should at least fight to have regular morning and evening classes, ecstatic, useful classes. We hear of many Temples now with no SB classes or no organized structure of learning.

O.K. Hare Krsna!

We are supposed to post drawings of ASA members etc!   Daily duty(?)

LAD continues discution

9 years, 8 months ago by laksmana-agraja in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank for answering my letter.

I should have explained mysef better

HpS - ASA --   AGTSP   paoho...   We have been wondering what has happened to you!    Several days with no communication.     First decision is:

Am I going to serve God or the Devil. 

God.

The devil has faster parties and better whiskey but in the long run prospects don't look so good.

I’ve been there. No more, enough.

Second decision is which Acharya am I going to select to approach God?    Jesus, Mohammad, Caitanya? 

Lord Caitanya

Are you fixed in staying under Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet eternally? 

Definitly

His ISKCON?

Yes, indeed

Next we got GBC details etc.    Varna-ashrama details.   These are still part of our transcendental service.  This is where things can start to get very practical and very detailed.

I would suggest first thing is your Ashrama.  There really are only four: B'cari, Grhasta, V'prastha and Sannyasa.   If you start inventing Brahmastra, Grhacari etc you are an easy target for Maya. 

Right! I was wondering…I felt that my mind was trying to decive me.

You don't have Sastra to tell you what to do.  Good people don't know how to relate to you.
No bona fide ISKCON organization is going to suggest something other than Varna ashrama Dharma.

The junta agreed when I brought up the white issue…Maybe they don’t know either. Here you turn white as to say: girls, watch, I’m available.

This is one dis-accord [amongst the many more accords] that we may have with Hrdayananda Maharaja.  We remember him saying that there is no such thing as "Vedic Culture" in Vedic tradition, but then next day we saw in Prabhupada's books the statement, "Vedic culture, Varna-ashrama-dharma". We did not want to bring it up, so as not to create a polemic, argument, over a more minor point, but there it is.

I just say that I like Krishna west, I don’t endorse everything they say.

We are b'cari, grhasta, vanaprastha or sannyasa, or sastric approved subdivision. Yes, we can take to some mixed, mental concoction for illusiory sense gratification,

Yes, I was suspicious of myself…trying to enjoy out of frustration.

but we will only get mixed clarity of intelligence and a mixed chance of human body in this life or the next.  Of course, Krsna, Guru, will still try to help us and engage us in pure devotional service and get us back on the track.

So, now you are a B'cari. Dress in peach colored clothes in the temple, and as much as possible outside. Dress in secular dress as needed for Sankirtan, but for short term contact for preaching purposes only.

Still not sure about wearing ropes [robes?]. For me are not comfortable, and it’s kind of unnatural to me… Definitly for giving class, altar service, festivals…but those dipers [diapers?] I don’t like, really.

ASA - Not sure about what are "diapers". Wear peach colored yogi pants and a kurta?

Who is experience great succes in the modern world? Russia, China, USA?   Krsna West or some other entity is designed to connect with the successful material culture?    No, that is not the idea. There is no, "Main Stream Successful Culture".  Are we right?

There is only a "Main Swamp Confused Culture", and yes, Lord Caitanya shaved off his Sikha, but he didn't take a Sannyasa name, so we have to adjust but with intelligence.

Yes, That’s pretty clear to me. Mingle with people for preaching, to enrich human culture, no play their games.

We offer our advice to you and others.   It is very nice discussing with you, but victory, rather than seeing your life becoming a defeat,

I consider myself a winner. I’m a warrior of Lord Caitanya’s sankirtan movement!

depends on good advice, and good advice comes from many counselors. Talk with Mathuresa Das, Omkara Das. . .

I’m gonna talk to more people…already to junta as I mentioned.

The Peru yatra, to our vision, is a mess in terms of administration. The USA is a mess.

I sadly agreed. That frustrate me again and again. That’s when NIMSAR comes as a sane (more or less) proposal to change things.

Men can marry men and give each other a big lusty good-by kiss in the airport and the Supreme Court agrees!

1. In any case don't deviate from ISKCON management structure. If it comes to the fact that the ultimate managing authority, the GBC, is itself fallen, then we can go directly to Prabhupada for adminitrative solutions.

No problem with that. You’ve been by my side in my worse moments in ISKCON. You know that. I’ll never quit ISKCON and Prabhupada or deviate.

They told me that Daru Krishna is leaving Narayana’s maharaja group ‘cause he wants to do things in his own way…No surprise. He always wanted that.

2. Always be a part of the solution. Always think how I can improve the situation, help others, rather than run away and get my own benefit.

Yes, sir, I’m still helping in Chosica but from education perspective, with NIMSAR, etc. (despite that faultfinding and back stabbing continues, I don’ mind)

3. Always keep your Sadhana. FMP.

No problem with that.

4. Wear orange as a B'cari. Consult with Guru, Brahmanas et al, about changing Ashrama and then if you are going to go into Vanaprastha Ashrama, then wait until reasonable arrangments have been made by sane family (ISKCON) memebers and formal aggreements made, even signed documents, fire sacrifice, then change color.

 OK

The Witch will howl and gnash Her teeth in dismay but you will be safe and strong. Your wife will be safe and strong (She may even have a little mustache). Your nation will be safe and when you die they will make a tomb for you in central Lima and write on it: He was a Cool Dude, and people will come to offer flowers at your tomb and pray for benedictions (and unless there is a proper roof, pigeons will also drop splendid offerings on your monument).

And by the way...   Where is our Word Doc for the NIMSAR Regional Encounter and we know about the Youtube posting.  Ambo/Vrsa have been pretty professional to tell us where it is.
I’ll tell to our president Gandharva prabhu
HpS - We noted it on our response to the Ekadasi report.

You are one of our ASA Main Guys.  Monkey and Piggy et al, don't care really what you do, too much, as long as you keep making these great blog posts.

Yes, GM, I’m getting excited about write here.

I have more hot topics related to my ISKCON perspective!

Thank you very much. I was going through a bad moment. But still, I think a have to consider my ashrama. I’m contemplating Karuna krisna and Patraka examples. They both went home and authorities suggest wearing white. I’m not sure if it applies in my case.   

HpS - Yes, that's another thing. Some temples have a standard that only B'caris living in the Ashrama can wear Saffron.  Main thing is to dress so that people know that you are in B'cari ashrama. Change to Vanaprastha in a sane way and don't spend too much time worrying about it. Sankirtan!!!

See you soon.

The LAD

HpS - Yes, we will be in Peru in January!    Also, we have lots more work to do with ISKCON Education Ministry.    We are doing a lot here.

NOw to the DTC.

Hare Krishna

9 years, 8 months ago by purnamasidevidasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Purn  Dear Gurudeva:

Please, accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Sorry, I don't write you more often. I have to improve.

ASA(Monkey Piggy) - Yeah!

I am working as a school teacher after two years of taking care of Sarasvati at home. So, I am adjusting schedules. I get up at 5:15 am, chant 4 round and Gayatri, and then I wake up the children (during breakfast, we read pastimes of Krishna. I chant the other 12 round during the children play time and at my 1 hour lunch time (and in the afternoon if I couldn't finished them all). 

At school, I have got 14 children (4-5 years old). every morning, we wake up Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra doll Deities and offered them the flowers or leaves that the children bring from their gardens. while they are working or playing, the mana mantra is playing and before lunch and at the end of the day, we dance with some devotional music. We enjoy these moments a lot. It is very curious, that every year, when the children listen the "Govinda" song, at least one of them, tell me that his or her mother, has got that song in the car. they love this song. Every week, we watch a chapter of the Little Krishna movie and they like it a lot. This is all I humbly can do at school, thanks to Krishna's mercy.

At home, Nimai and Sarasvati are growing well. I'm trying to give them a good example but my husband's is much better than mine.

About the Gurukula, I organize it every Friday afternoon, after school. By the moment, since the weathers is still good, we meet at a nice rural property where the children have planted flowers and vegetables for Krishna. every session consist of greeting, chanting Japa, Bhajan and aratic, reading of Srimad Bhagavatam for kids, craft and gardening. The number of children is increasing, so my house is getting insufficient speaking about space. But that is what we have. In two weeks, we will be meeting at my house Friday afternoons. I am considering about extending the meetings to Saturday mornings too, when we could do more activities, specifically, thhe ones that need to be don in an open area. Could you, please, give me your advice and blessings to do things right and with humility?

Thank you for everything.

hoping you are doing fine when reading this message. 

Your humble servant,

Purnamasi devi dasi

HpS - AGTSP ---   This is a pubic school?  You can include so much ISKCON activities!   Sounds very, very nice.   We have noted every point.   Do you have Mother Tapasvini's Sunday School Curriculum and School Organization materials?