letter from Sister Ass :)

10 years, 2 months ago by sriradhedd in Personal Sadhana Reports

Dear Maharaja,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Sorry for not writing nowadays i'm quite lazy and not a big writer :/ but i think about You lot of times and read your blog regularly.
Everything is ok with me and my husband. It seems we had grown up and after 12 years marriage we got used to each other's anarthas so we get along well.

HpS - ASA -- Two frogs in the same well. -[;0)---

In January we didn't have a car for a month so couldn't start the BhVai course in the Manor and i just procrastinate the Bhagavatam study but i don't work at this moment so i can start studying.
Nowadays i read Krsna book, CC and Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita.

We are very fortunate and happy to be here near to Bhaktivedanta Manor. Radha Gokulananda are very merciful. (pic attached) In the last 2 weekends Candramauli Swami gave classes and he will speak on Rama Navami as well. His classes make us inspired.

My chanting is a bit better. I still chant with offenses but by Radharani's and Srila Prabhupada's causless mercy i have a tiny taste from the Holy Name and i feel myself very happy about that. I try to insist on my chanting more and more and try to respect the Holy Name as i can.
The life is not easy with lot of anarthas that i have but by Krsna's mercy everything is possible. It would be nice to leave the anartha nivritti behind this life.
Please say a prayer for me, Maharaja so i want to surrender and give up my bad habits!

I'm waiting for your Spanish visit. We will arrive on the 13th late afternoon and hopefully we can talk a bit to you on the 13th or the 14th.
Thanks a lot for your association.

All the best!

Your servant, Sri Radhe devi dasi

HpS - Very nice. We also arrive a little late and 13th-14th are available. 15th we go to Pisa, and then back to Spain, and then to Radhadesa. All in the ASA Calendar.

We mailed a Tava pache pache journal to Sri Radha Dasi; Flat 5, 38 Clarendon Road; M16 8LD; Manchester U.K. and it came back to us. What is your current address?

We do whatever Sadhana we can when our anarthas are less and then hope the positive stuff will gradually chase away the negative stuff!  Hare Krsna. Well, we should engage in our Anarthas along with Krsna so that we can enjoy them and purifiy them.  SB 2.3.10!!!

Just fun!!!!!   SB.3.2.23

Praying for more mercy

10 years, 2 months ago by Christian in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Dear Gurudeva,
Pleas accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Sri Guru Parampara.
All glories to this Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Sankirtana Movement!!!
All glories to my spiritual master, a bonafide succesor of the Guru Parampara.

Constantly i remember how blessed i was to have been able to serve you in Bolivia's festival at Mathuresh prabhu's hose. Every time that remembrance come into my mind i feel like if it was yesterday that i heard the bhagavata philosophy from your own lips. I just find myself unable to thank you for so much mercy.
As you asked me and Sri Radha D.D. we went to another astrologer and he asked us to wait until November for attempting to marring because of some planets of me. For us it's ok, we still have so much things to work on our own consciousness, even though, we are very happy together.

Gurudeva, i also spoke to you about Queretaro's preaching center project, now i live in Queretaro city and next week i will sign the contract for the house we all (the devotees we are traning from the city) are going to rent for that purport. Im very happy Krsna is allowing me to do this wonderfull service. Yesterday ISKCON Queretaro participated into a local economy festival at the main plaza and even though i could not be there (because i came to my brother's wedding) devotees from Cueramaro helped us by going there and support with BBT table and also kirtan in the scenario. The congregation in Queretaro is very happy and thankfull towards Srila Prabhupada, they are very eager to expand this movement all over the city.

The last thing i want to thank you for, is all the inspiration i recieve every day through your words, acts and desires of pleasing Srila Prabhupada. As a result of that inspiration, now i engaged into a project of translating all the information from www.TOVP.org such as video-documentaries, video-interviews, written interviews and written news, so that the spanish speaker devotees can benefit by participating at that very wonderfull project in Sri Mayapur-Dhama. I have to admit that i'm very surprised of Krsna's ways... I started this all alone last month, translating the raising moon video, it took me the whole month, but suddently when i started to post it into Facebook and also admin a new FB page with the news and so on, more and more devotees started to ask: What can i do to help more devotees get benefited?.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Templo-del-Planetario-V%C3%A9dico-Latinoamerica/420021558175983?fref=ts

My heart is completely thankfull to you Gurudeva, for allowing me to participate into this transcendental pastime of Lord Gauranga manifest in this material world.

Your Forever aspirant servant,
Krishna-kirtana Dasa.

HpS - ASA ---   AGTSP. paoho.

Thank you so much for the news!!!   We hope to visit Bolivia again.
 

 There are some highly qualified persons who accept only the good qualities of others. Just as a bee is always interested in the honey in the flower and does not consider the thorns and colors, highly qualified persons, who are uncommon, accept only the good qualities of others, not considering their bad qualities, whereas the common man can judge what are good qualities and what are bad qualities.

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.12  .....   PURPORT: ...

There are some highly qualified persons who accept only the good qualities of others. Just as a bee is always interested in the honey in the flower and does not consider the thorns and colors, highly qualified persons, who are uncommon, accept only the good qualities of others, not considering their bad qualities, whereas the common man can judge what are good qualities and what are bad qualities.

Among the uncommonly good souls there are still gradations, and the best good soul is one who accepts an insignificant asset of a person and magnifies that good quality.

Even greater are those who see the BAD qualities of others as good qualities. 

Cuando va en Hari-nama Sankirtana siempre lleva banderas colorosos. Incluya dramas simples pero con mucho entusiasmo en su predica.

Mas noticias. Estamos siguendo sus pasos.

Correspondance and questions

10 years, 2 months ago by mukta singh in Personal Sadhana Reports, Special Category A

HpS - ASA   ---  Yamunesvara Das, We just answered this letter by e-mail. But it is super, super, super to see it here on the Blog also. Everyone should hear about Manipur. Everyone should help to spread K.C. in Manipur.

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All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsnaki Jay and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

Please accept my humble obeisances unto to Sri Guruji’s padmacharan that I am so happy after getting Gurujis reply. On the other hand we are very sorry to know that Guruji will not come to Manipur this year but we are eagerly waiting February, 2016. For our kind information is there any special programme during May 7-12, 2015 in Braja (Vrndavana)? If somebody comes to Braja for other purpose can we see Guruji there or not? If possible please give us the exact location? Is it ISKCON Temple of Vrndavan?

HpS – AGTSP. Paoho. It is always so nice to hear from you and any Manipuri Bhakta. Please be merciful to us. We are just now fixing our program for Delhi. We are trying to meet with Prime Minister to release our next NIOS book, so it depends on his schedule. I think mostly we will be in Delhi temple and then go to Vrndavana just for a day, but I don’t know.

Please highlight the following quotations and questions?

The fortunate inhabitants of Pitrloka, who preside over the funeral ceremonies, made Aryama into a calf Bhagavatam 4.18.18

There are so many lokas mentioned in the previous chapters e.g. Brahmaloka, Chandraloka, Suryaloka, Indraloka, Dhruvaloka, Sivaloka, Satyaloka etc. Again in the Brahma Samhita 43 sloka mentioned that Lowest of all is located Devi-dhama (mundane world),  next above it is Mahesa-dhama [abode of Mahesa], above Mahesa-dhma is placed Hari-dhama [abode of Hari] and above them all is located Krsna’s own realm named Goloka. Then the realm of Goloka stands highest above all other……….  the first in order is this mundane world called Devi-dhama consisting of the fourteen worlds, viz Satyaloka.

From the above statements quoted from Bhagavatam and Brahma Samhita where will be the different Lokas situated and in which levels? And what are the fourteen worlds? In which books and where we could find the fourteen levels including the planet Earth?

HpS – ASA – SB 2.5.38 +  ... there are details:

Below Bhu-mandala (~Earth) there are seven planetary systems: Vitala, Talatala, Atala... then bhur, bhuva, svarga, mahaloka, janaloka, tapaloka and jana-loka. Those are the 14-worlds. Gandhava loka is in Bhuva-loka.  They are in different parts of the 14-worlds. We really know how to get to our ISKCON Temples and how to go out on Sankirtan. –[;0)---

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS – We send you more news as we get it, but if you have not done the sequence listed above on the Blog PLEASE try that.   May you have all success in understanding Srila Prabhupada’s books and become the greatest ISKCON leader.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

10 years, 2 months ago by purnamasidevidasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Dear Gurudeva:

Please, accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you for coming to Spain. You are very merciful. 

I still run the children program every Friday at my home. New kids are coming (9 kids in total). We make aratic, bhajan, crafts, theaters, songs... Everything about Krishna pastimes and the Srimad Bhagavatam. One a monthe we, as a group, go to Sunday program in Madrid and once month to Nueva Vrajamandala. 

HpS - Super!

My son Nimai is growing up very fast. He likes being the bhajan leader with his friends. Sarasvati is 18 months. She enjoys everything! and she loves when we all sing Hare Krishna and Jay Srila Prabhupada. 

Thank you again for the Japa joe and mangal aratic program. Somedays it is not easy for me to connect and follow it but, when I can do it, I feel veru fortunate to have your asociation and the other devotees asociation too. 

My report: 16 rounds and 3 Gayatri mantras ok, but I have to improve the quality.

Waiting to see you soon and hoping you are fine when you get this message.

Your aspirant to humble servant,

Purnamasi devi dasi

HpS - ASA --- This Varna-ashrama-dharma is the soil where the seed of Krsna katha can grow. Our Western civilization is so crazy. They think they cannot live without intoxication, meat and useless sexual relations. All just two legged animals, no?   Of course, they may be innocent, so if we learn how to show them the proper example and explanation of VAD then they may be able to follow and engage in Krsna Katha. You service is so nice. Teach parents and children how to help Lord Caitanya and basic principles of civilized life: Japa and Four Principles.

Details for your trip to Spain

10 years, 2 months ago by Dandava das in Calendar Development

Hare Krisna Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances. AGTSP.

Thank you for your answer and I'm so sorry for the tickets. I'd want to get clear your dates and we had some problems with the comunication and emails (your email acount doesn't exist [[email protected]])

When you come we pay the tickets or if you want we can do a money transfer for you, up to you.

On other hand, I don't know what is Sananda DD doing about "The Encounter of Carl Jung with the Ancient Mysticism of India at Complutense University". She didn't say us anything, I'll write her to ask her if she needs help.

We think is better for you to stay at Madrid's Temple at the first and then go to New Vrajamandala.

We would like you give initiation (1st) to Bhaktin Mercedes and 2nd to Jaramara Hari Das. If you have a plan about other devotees, they are wellcome

When you go out from Spain, do you go to Radhadesh?. If it's true and possible, we want that Jaramara Hari Das and Mantri Ram Das go with you there for a some days (3-4). How looks it?.

HpS - ASA ---  No, no, no...  AGTSP paoho....  Nothing to be sorry about for the tickets. It was easier for me to book them since I know all the details.   On the weekend of the 16th of May we go to Villa vrndavana in Italy and then for the second weekend, yes, we go to Radha-desa. It is the ISKCON Studies Group. They are more like university professors, but 24-26th we may have more time, but also may have to go to England! Best to talk about it on the 13th May.

I hope I can to do some service for you (vapu) when you come.

Your humble servant.

Dandava Das

PD. I send you a recent picture (2 weeks ago)

We follow trying to work for Krisna.

HpS - ASA ---    Thank you! !      How is the family?

DTC Th(26)

10 years, 2 months ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP

paoho

6.24PM.  Medical Center Parkway is full of cars headed home. NGD just called, he is home from the Manincomia, madhouse and we will write to you, iron brother asses clothes and go to his home for SadhuSanga.

We had nice class with Hawaii on e-sanga.com today.

Nice call to India for Sri Hari Das.

Offered Oranges, Apples, celery and nuts and milk to Lord Nrsmhadeva.

All the mail answered up to 3-days ago.

So many little things eg. check bank, call Upendra Das, 

Hare Krsna!!!  Hare Krsna.