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9 years, 1 month ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP

paoho & bw.

Well, answered a lot of letters. Sun was out today. Took a lot of time to sort out the accounting and letters and gift packages from the trip to South America etc. Then we drove to the post office. All the world was out just like us after the ice and snow. 95% successful at the post office. Lette off to the Personal Secretary of the Prime Minister of India.

Dr. Samaresh had a problem printing the Museum Book. One page with pictures came our distorted. Abhi said he had the same problem in Peru.

Nice Spanish Bhakti Vaibhava class today. We have changed to Monday 7-8AM and will post the link to the recorded discussion.

Now at NGD's ashrama. 8.02PM. -3degrees C. outside. Will send StartMeeting link do little Bhajan for Radha Natabara and have some Prasada with Prabhuji and back to  our cave.

Is a little depressing and lonely at times, but that is NOI 7.

Several phone calls for MOE, individuals. Calendar.

Hari Bolo!!!

Harii Bolo!

9 years, 1 month ago by yemila in Personal Sadhana Reports

  Hare Krishna Gurudeva, como esta? , Pamho; AGTSP

Queria contarle algunas novedades.

ASA - Oink!  Whoop!   TlgaSP!

Bueno por empezar me mude a Cordoba Capital , estoy viviendo sola , es bastante tranquilo y a 300 metros de la universidad..  Estoy desorganizada con mi situacion economica , pero mejorando, me mude hace poco.

Mi Sadhana mejoro automaticamente cuando me mude, estoy comenzando nuevamente a levantarme temprano y espero poder fijarlo.. eso es lo mas importante para mi. Estoy leyendo seguido SB, un poco todos los dias .

ASA - !!!

Ahora que tengo notbook puedo estar mas en contacto con Ustedes en los programas que de a la mañana.

ASA - Ah! Ha!! Estuvimos pensando por que Vd. era alla mas.  Bueno!

Gurudeva, el sabado pasado quise entrar a oir su clase por skype del SB, pero no supe como se manejan ustedes con el Skype.. yo tengo que llamarlo? o usted nos invita? seria muy bueno para mi poder oir sus clases.. si se puede?

HpS - Hemos cambiado a lunes 7-8AM (hora Nashville) y utlizando Start Meeting como decribido en Kapi Dhvaja!

Entonces 4 principios muy bien,  y mis 16 rondas tambien :), Mis Ekadasis vuelven a estar bien.. me siento mucho mejor  , porque tamebin estoy mas cerca de los devotos  que son divinos.. me tratan muy bien, y me llenan de entusiasmo, hacen lindos programas y voy seguido a lo de Sushila y ahi empece a practicar armonio. Siento mas confianza. De vez en cuando salgo a sankirtan en el parque de la universidad, ya me quedan muy poquitos libros.

En fin , comienzo otra vez las clases el 9 de marzo.. .. si no consigo estabilizar mis rondas bien  temprano.. mi fuerza ; mi servicio para los demas no es el mismo.. es como andar muerto vivo .. muy fea sensacion de anestesia y cansancio.. siento un poco de temor pero Krihsna me protege de este gran Brahmastra que es este nacimiento. Que Misericordia .. es como dijo Srila prabhupad , son petalos de  rosas para los chanchos.. Por favor necesito una verdadera humildad.. 

 Gurudeva me despido , muchas gracias por su asociacion, oro por poder seguirlo  ayudarlo en su servicio y en ser un instrumento de Krishna..  Gracias gracias gracias  .. escirbo poco porque estoy un poco trabada para escribir.. :) , ya pasara.. Hare Krishna!

OM/TAT/SAT

HpS - Esta estudiando arquitectura??????  Reverencias a todos las Cordobenos. Honestamente esperamos que Madre Sushila y su Esposo puede mejor su relacion!!!!!

Málaga Mandir, the leaf in the wind and the story of a rotten potato.

9 years, 1 month ago by bhaktajosemadrid in Personal Sadhana Reports

Pamho, TlgaSP.

   Querido Guru Maharaja, ha pasado más de doce años o más desde la última carta. Perdone por favor mis ofensas. Soy un pobre tonto ignorante.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP - But which ignorant fool? There are many of them writing to us. We are also ignorant fools. If someone cut our stomach open with a razor and robbed us, I don't know how transcendental we would be to the intense noise.

Aunque gracias a su misericordia infinita y nuestra relaccion eterna voy recobrando poco a poco el buen uso de mi pequeña independencia. Permitame ofrecerle un pequeño cuento.

    El cuento de la patata podrida. 

 Había una vez una patata que se llamaba Juana patata, estaba en una caja con muchas más patatas, y un día, algunas patatas estaban comentando que María patata había desaparecido junto con otras patatas y había un gran alboroto. Estaban hablando como todos los días desaparecía una o dos patatas y nunca se las volvía a ver. Decían que si te salia una mancha negra en el cuerpo desaparecerias. Un día a Juana patata le salió una pequeña mancha negra en el cuerpo, y con un a fuerte ansiedad pensó que esa era su perdición, ¿que ocurriría ahora?, así pasaban los días y la mancha se hacia más y más grande hasta que un día  vio como venia el cocinero vestido con una falda anaranjada y una extraña señal en la frente, y dijo eres una patata podrida te voy a sacar de la caja y te quitare la mancha, te cocinaré y pronto serás Prasadam, jajajajajajaj!!!! Juana patata quedo aterrorizada, se preguntaba que era todo eso de ser cocinada y la forma tan horrible de la que terminaría, Prasadam!!! ¿que sería eso?.....

  Entonces llego Bhakta Das con su Tilaka en la frente, su ropa naranja y cogió a Juana patata que estaba aterrorizada; pensó es mi perdición, adiós mundo cruel!!! dijo. Bhakta das la corto le quitó la parte podrida y la troceo, luego la baño en agua cliente con distintas hierbas y ricos condimentos, y entonces la puso en dos platos distintos; Juana patata pensaba: no ha estado tan mal, ¿que pasara ahora? que no había estado tan mal este proceso incluso disfrutó, y ademas no tenia esa pequeña mancha negra. Cerró los ojos y rápidamente escucho como sonaba una campanita, miró hacia arriba y entonces los vio, eran tan hermosos, con Sus largos cabellos y Sus ojos de loto, se quedo sin palabras, estaba en éxtasis; Escuchó: parece una buena preparación vamos a probarla, después pasaron cosas increíbles que Juana patata no podría contar en menos de un día de Brahma; cuando volvió a la cocina en un plato vio como decian ahora es Maha Prasadam. Pensaba en su pasado en la caja de patatas en Maria patata y en tantas cosas pero no podía describir la felicidad que sentía.  Estaba en un plato se sentía llena de dicha trascendental y fue eternamente feliz. Sin Fin.

     Perdóneme por tardar tanto en escribir. Han pasado muchas cosas en este tiempo. 2 meses en Barcelona: servicio intenso, resentimiento, limpieza y purificación, dificultades, realizaciones.etc... Celebramos su Vyasa Puja con Gadhadara gosai y Ganhda Manjari en Barcelona, fue muy bonito con una tarta grande y vinieron bastantes devotos. Nimai Pandit Raja Das nos ayudó, le manda reverencias. En mi oración comunique mi agradecimiento de poder ser discípulo suyo y mi poca cualificación, es usted muy misericordioso, y derrama misericordia como una nube que no diferencia donde cae el agua y la derrama sin discriminación. Mil gracias.

samurrara-davanala-lidha-loka
tranaya karunya-ghanaghanatvam
praptasya kalyana-gunarnavasya
vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

    Viajé a Nueva Vrajamandala en furgoneta con un discípulo de Paramadvaiti que colabora con Gundica Prabhu y es un buen chico, es amigo de hace tiempo. Toqué el bajo con Yadunandana Swami en 12 horas kirtan de fin de año, no ensayamos mucho pero no salió tan mal, mejor con más tiempo.

Ahora estoy en Málaga. En general seguimos con el programa matutino todos los dias, milagrosamente por su misericordia seguimos los 4 principios, (aunque seguimos teniendo dificultades, vamos notando una mejoria; cada vez menos identificación con la mente, aprendiendo nuevas cosas sobre esta situación y deseando poder mejorar) a nuestro entender siempre hay una mejor manera de seguir los cuatro principios, relacionados enteramente con los cuatro pilares de la religión, también siendo conscientes de que sin su misericordia no sería posible y tratando de esforzarnos en cantar, seguir un buen sadhana y no cometer ofensas. Sin su misericordia no podemos hacer nada por nuestro pobre esfuerzo.

Es necesario mejorar la organizacion y ser mas regulados con menos sobresaltos, innecesarios. Tratando de no escuchar las exigencias de la mente que son un 99.999999....innecesarias. Cuatro veces a la semana mínimo Gaura-arati y el viernes salimos a Harinama por la tarde. Aquí ayudo en la cocina a cortar vegetales y a veces ayudar a cocinar, siempre con la supervisión de un Brahmana. Pulir la parafernalia. Mañana empiezo a vestir a Srila Prabhupada que se viste dos veces por semana, para sustituir a un devoto que esta malo, pero quieren subir el estándar y vestirle cada dos dias, para luego subirlo a todos los dias y después vestirle antes del Mangala-arati, bueno vamos a ver. Tambien me encargo de los productos de limpieza, sirvo Prasadam a los devotos, y por la mañana media hora antes de el Mangala-arati preparo a tulasi y los platos de puja y flores. Tambien tocamos el bajo y intentamos acoplarlo a Bhajan. En general es todo bastante agradable, aunque necesito mas organización para poder tener también mas regulación con la lectura. Me siento cada vez más pequeño para poder comprender todo el conocimiento que nos trasmite Srila Prabhupada.

Perdón por una carta tan larga, aunque me dejo muchos sentimientos que me gustaría compartir.

Comparto dos enlaces que creo interesante sobre Psiquiatra que creo tiene mucho que aportar. Donde cuestionan tambien la espiritualidad, asi como la desmedicalizacion de casi todas las patologias. Creo interesante.

Curriculum vitae

El Dr. Javier Álvarez es médico psiquiatra con 37 años de ejercicio en el Sistema Nacional de Salud. Se licenció como médico y en 1976, tras tres años de formación en el Departamento de Psiquiatría de la Cátedra de Psiquiatría de Santiago de Compostela, bajo la dirección del Profesor Demetrio Barcia Salorio, obtuvo el Título de Especialista en Psiquiatría.

Desde entonces, y hasta el uno de junio de 2008, desarrolló su ejercicio profesional como psiquiatra clínico en el Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León.

Desde esa fecha es Jefe del Servicio de Psiquiatría en dicho Hospital. Han sido treinta y dos años dedicados, fundamentalmente, a atender enfermos psiquiátricos, y considera esta experiencia clínica como su principal acervo profesional: de nadie ha aprendido tanto como de sus pacientes, especialmente de los llamados “psicóticos”.


Más información

http://www.nuevapsiquiatria.es


 

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Gracias por todo. Tengo una deuda eterna con usted.

Jharikhanda-gaura Das.

HpS - ASA -- Gracias su carta. Si es poco larga para nostros, pero, muy bien. Pienso deficil mejorar. Podemos pasara un poco rapido, (scan it), y entender bien.

Pienso Vd. esta bien situado. Pienso va a desorollar muy bien su inteligencia de Daivi-varna-ashrama dharma. Va a ser como Arjuna despued de BG, puede intender utiliza su Karma para Krsna!!!

Mas noticias de Malaga!

Hare Krsna!!! for ever!!!!!

9 years, 1 month ago by Bhaktin Paula Quezada in Personal Sadhana Reports

PAMMHO

AGTSP

AGTSSGN

Hare Krsna beloved Gurudev!!

 Hope this report finds you in good health  and recovering from the exhausting trip to South America, in which I could realize your innumerable glories and enormous examples of humility and austerity.  That is so inspiring for a stone-heart like mine !!!

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP... paoho.... So, you have a stone heart too like me and Bh. Reilly (last letter).

I would like to begin by thanking you for your infinite mercy  upon  my soul , by accepting  me as your  disciple , as far as I 'm literally devoid of  any good qualification. As Srila Prabhupada said (imagine what is left for me..!!) “I have no devotion , nor any knowledge , but I have strong faith in the holy name of Krishna . " In this premise I´ll  begin to plant my field and try to realize the instruction I felt you gave me in the  Khapi Dvaja.

I thank Krsna, for having the tremendous fortune of being  guided under the glorious shade of your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA ---- Now that we started sitting and working on our desk our feet aren't swollen and more. They look reasonable well but lotus, I think we got some more distance to travel!

He is so kind with me that spite all my mistakes, again, He  gives me a huge opportunity to grow. And i'm sure that refugee under your instructions I will finally  cross the ocean of material suffering and attain pure love for Krsna.

Because during my initiation I was absorbed in thoughts of gratitude towards you., Srila Prabhupada, Krishna… and due to the nervousness of the moment, I could not retain and remember all what You  said, so i wanted to ask if You could  please tell me again the meaning of  my name Pundavanika Devi Dasi.

HpS - I think I gave you little piece of paper with the name, no? It has a reference to Radha-krsna-gana-desodipika. It is a book by Srila Rupa Goswami with the names and descriptions of the associates of R/K in Vraja. Punda' is one of Radharani's close friends, servants, I think. You can look at Spoken Sanskrit De and maybe find "punda". I think it means something like she is very beautifully decorated with the qualities of the forest.

Sadhana report : chanting  16 rounds ,as enthusiastic as I can ,in japa beads, always looking forward  to improve the quality of my chanting. 4 principles strictly (Trying to control my demonic impulses for  chocolate and peanut butter.

HpS - I guess the p-nut butter is O.K. Roasted Pnuts, but the chocolate is little harsh.

). Home mangala aratik and daily lecture of the scriptures.

Very enthusiastic about my services at the temple. I have a “need” to serve and  take care of our deities at the temple (jaja..mmmm…as if I can ..!!), so besides flowers and garlands, i´m cooking  for the Deities (one of the services  that  internally motivated me to take initiation) and also a class of BG a week, as part of my fixed services.

I´m organizing for the Bhakti Sastri studies  this year. Though I have the doubt between the difference of doing it with one facilitator or another (Escuela vaisnava or nimsar,for ex ).Could you please explain or recommend one  to me ??

HpS - You probably know as much as I do. If you have practical relation with Nimsar or Escuela Vaisnava them work with that group. Geographically I would suggest Param-padam. Nice to get a local partner!!!!!

Guru Maharaj, thanks for the good thoughts  and consideration that you kindly had with me. I know I'm not worthy of serving you, but with your blessings, I hope to someday make a quality service to you and somehow be able  to help in the mission of Srila Prabhupada.

Please forgive the offenses I am constantly committing in my attempt to learn and serve you and SP. I have so much to work on….

Jai Nimai!, Jay Nitay!, Jaya Srila Prabhupada!!!!!

Your insignificant aspiring for servant,

Pundavanika DD

P.D: here is a picture with the special guest that was in my initiation ceremony!

The other of family, trusting in the guiadance of Srila Prabhupada

HpS - ASA - Nice photos. All respects to your daughter also! We hope here life moves ahead in a very, very, very auspicious way!
Seems you are going ahead on the path very well. Next is second initiation and then third then... Please send us news of the Chile yatra. Our respects to all!!! We owe so much to everyone.   Especially Jagat guru Das!!

Ananda vardana. Bhadra vardana, Abhimanyu.........   !

corazon vacio

Haribol Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj,

Please accept my obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I apoligize for messaging you Maharaj as I know you have more important matters to attend to. I wanted to wait until I had my rounds straightened out to speak to you but I felt it still shouldn't stop me from communicating.

HpS - ASA --- A G T S P !    paoho.   Yes, we all need association to advance from level 127 to level 128, so please stay in touch so we, the ASA Blog Society, can all help each other advance our service to Lala and Lali!

I'm still here in Boise, writing papers for undergrad-college, getting braces to hopefully fix these raksasa-teeth and selling stuff at the counter.

ASA - What counter???

Thinking of moving to a more clean job at the end of this spring semester. Happy to still be alive and happier to be in association with Balabhadra dasa prabhu and his wife Lalita devi dasi mataji, through their shelter they help inspire me to stay conscious of devotional service and be able to learn to associate and serve Vaishnavas. But the reason I wanted to send a letter to you was to ask some questions.

I gave away these RK and JBS deitys and some others I have had in storage for a long time, along with some beautiful dolls I got from Mayapur all to the Boise temple, Sri Arjuna’s family and Balabhadra prabhu. I felt that they needed to be in qualified care, rather than letting them stay in dark boxes. It’s sort of an anxiety I guess I’ve had pent up that I hadn’t taken care of. My mother considers them “hers” but I want her to trust my judgment by putting them in the hands of more willing and qualified devotees. I try not to worry about my mother, but I guess I still consider it my duty to ensure she is safe and has money? I feel by giving her money much like my grandmother and my father used to, it enables her to be more co-dependent on me as a source of income. Although if I cold-shoulder her, I’m ignoring my duty to her as a son and being hard hearted?

HpS - We try to act in Varna-ashrama institution in a nice fashion. It is created by Krsna to create a nice psycho-social situation in which the dormant spiritual qualities of the spirit soul can develop. If this spiritual qualities are not developing much then we don't invest too much energy into it. Whatever ever we can easily do. Krsna will do any extra that is required.

In the Bhagavatam I believe it's explained we lose our memory after birth. Is it possible devotees can experience things that may relate to their past lives? Devotional images or Paraphernelia that may give them a sense of "familiarity"? Are feelings or voices experienced with it whether positive or negative - from the self, demons, ghosts possibly inhabiting the conditioned material mind/body?

HpS - You last sentence is not clear: Unclear pronoun reference and maybe a missing comma, but yes, as far as we know, even ordinary experiences from the last life are still available until about three years old. It is like when you wake up, you can remember dreams for some time and then the force of your current life pushes them back. For devotees, special situation.

Finally, I had a realization a few weeks ago thats been sitting deep in my mind every day since. I've felt it very rarely in the past few years and I admit I'm ashamed I never realized this years ago or even before that day I first set foot inside the Boise temple. Thats why it's given rise to the most important question I think I want to ask you. 

ASA - My God! The suspense is killing us!!!!

Maharaj, what can cause a living entity to have a heart so hard that it feels nothing?

HpS - Killing cows. Aborting babies in your womb... Super-bowl football.

A heart so silent and so empty for so long that they forget themself and even other living entities have a heart? How can we open that heart to feel with it again and then purify it from all these material desires? Most importantly, how can we listen to the holy name and hari-katha sincerely within our hearts?? 

Maharaj, how can I find a heart??

HpS - ASA - I have, had, the same problem. I think ....   The basic answer is "brahmanda brahmite kona ...", that it is Krsna who is going to make us feel different. Especially in His humour of Lord Caitanya. He comes. He smiles at us. He sits with us when we are sobbing in pain and gives us some help. Sooooo, we have to cultivate the mercy we have.

You were born in a Gaura family. You have contact with Gaura's devotees. You have some Gaura intelligence! You have to cultivate that with utsahan, niscayad, dhairyat (NOI 3).

It won't get soft, responsive to the Name of our beloved, immediately, but it will go from feeling like a rock to feeling like an auto mobile tire, little flexible but tough.

Adau sraddha... BG 4.10 purport... is Ruci we start to get a soft heart, no?


 

Please forgive my offenses,

Your aspiring fallen servant,

Reilly G.

Thank you so much for you association. Our respects to Balabhadra and Mataji and everyone. Looks like 97% confirmed we will be in Boise for Rathyatra! On to the next letter. Join us!!!

Manipuri Movements

Hare Krsna, AGTSP Paoho

Thank you for the below letter. From 11th February to yesterday we were very, very, very weak from the exhausting trip to South America. Then there was paralyzing cold for the same time. Some nights it was -20 degrees Celcius. It took us 30-minutes to get the ice off of our old car to visit Nitai-gaurasundara's home. After that we could not really travel at all.

Krsna arrangment. We slept a lot, but felt very refreshed and now feel with energy to work again.

Also, it is triple effort for us to handling letters not in the Blog. If you can write to the Blog, please do so. MANY other devotees will see your letters there with great joy. They all want to hear how you celebrate Gaura-purnima in Manipur!

Our travel plans are changing because of the Ministry of Education work.

Are you getting our Newsletter? It is always posted every Amavasya and Purnima at www.jayarama.us.

Of course, we are very, very happy for any news we can get from you.

What verses are you reading in the 4th Canto?

Our respected to our Sanskrit Pandita and congratulations on his book. We also hope devotees kidney transplant was useful.

Keep the daily Mandir programs as useful, but this is Kali-yuga, so home programs may be more effective. Srila Prabhupada spent a whole lifetime in preparation!!!

O.K. Waiting for your answers, news (we hope in the Blog).


 

On Monday, February 16, 2015 12:50 AM, Mukta Okram <[email protected]> wrote:



All Glories to Sri Hps Guruji Mahara Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha krsna Ki  Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

I am  submitting my humble obeisances unto Sri Guruji's padmacaran that Prabhu Nandagopa Das has produced a new book titled Saran Sanskrit Shiksha for the bigginers  of Sanskrit language. I also purchased a book and started reading the book. It is a very useful hand for learning Sanskrit language. It will be use a  text book in the UBC.

Another thing, Guruji might be in tour so that I could not get Guruji's reply in connection of the previous letters relating to Guruji's visit in India, Manipur and Thoubal. After knowing Gurujits timing we want to arrange and inform to all bhaktas who are interested to take initiation. So please communicate us for the time in advance.

Now I am reading regularly the 4th Canto 8th Chapter about Dhruba Maharaja's tapasya for getting Narayana.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das