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


 

On Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:27 AM, Radhacharan Das <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear Maharaj,

Hare Krishna!

PAMHO, AGSP

Thanks for you mail, Swamiji,

Please let us know when you are arriving India and when you will be visiting Manipur? Please guide us in all your possible ways and at all times.

Your servant in Srila Sripada's services,

Radhacharan Das
ISKCON Manipur


15 March 2015

Hare Krsna!

Esteemed Radhacharan Das

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Swami and all the Manipuri Bhaktas.  It is so, so, so nice to hear from you. The only person who regularly writes to us, writes to us, is Mukta - Yamunesvara Das from Thoubal.

We will be in Delhi from 7-12 May but will be too short to go anywhere else. Then we expect that we will be in India for a few months starting February 2016.

Of course, we always want to help the Sankirtan in Manipur and expand the glories of Manipur to the rest of the world.

We are doing a lot of work with the Ministry of Education for ISKCON - Primary Schools, Universities...

How is your Japa vrata, Temple and schools and Manipur?

Our respects to Ekanatha, Bana-mali, Sadhu, everyone!

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On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 2:26 AM, Mukta Okram <[email protected]> wrote:


 

All Glories to Sri Gujuji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Groura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

 

 

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Sri Juru Maharaja’s padmacharan that after a long gaps I got Gurujis reply of my letters. I am so happy to get Gurujis reply as asirbad and amrtabani. I will try to upload in the blog at my level best but sometimes I could not open and sometimes the message could not send properly. That is why I send the letter through the email.

 

I am regularly reading Srimad Bhagavatam one or more slokas now it reach upto 4.11.30-32 Svayambhu Manu’s advice to his grand son Dhruba Maharaja not to kill Yaksas who killed his stepbrother Uttama by one of the Yaksas.

 

     HpS - ASA -  AGTSP     Yes, if you can work through the Blog it is so much more efficient, but it is our love for Manipur that makes us try to communicate anyway.

Seems that Dhruva Maharaja let himself go a little crazy, passionate, in his war with the Yaksa, thinking that since he is a Ksatriya, then one of his Ministers or family members will pull him back to goodness.

 

 According to astronomical calculation, along with the polestar there is another star, which is called Sisumara, where Lord Visnu, who is in charge of the maintenance of this material world, resides. Sisumara or Dhruvaloka can never be reached by anyone but the Vaisnavas, as will be described by the following sloka. Srimad-bhagavatama 4.12.27 and

 

As Sisumara, Visnuloka or Dhruvaloka are completely different from this material world, so a Visnu temple within this world is also completely different from this material world. 4.12.29

 

In these two quotations, there is a confusion that is the three names Sisumara, Dhrubaloka and Beikuntha or Visnuloka are the same loka? And we simply heard that any living entities who climbed up to the Veikuntha loka will automatically return and get the birth and death bodies but here Dhruva Maharaja get the Dhrubaloka and mentioned by Narada that he will never return and the birth and death life. Please clarify the truth.

 

              HpS - Yes, no one is forced to return from Vaikuntha. Is a thief is being chased by the police for stealing a woman's purse, and he runs into the French Embassy in Delhi, the Delhi police cannot follow him. Legally, the French embassy is NOT a part of India. Iindian laws, police, military have no authority there.

So, like that, no? Dhruva loka (which it seems is also called Sisumara) is an Embassy of the Vaikuntha world.

 

We the bhaktas of Thoubal celebrated Goura Purnima (appearance day) of Gouranga Mahaprabhu on the 5th of March in the evening (Sandhya) with abhisek and change of dresses with arati and other sankritans along with brata. And in the next day we invite some local people and arranged prasadam for about 35 members. For about 2 hours we performed nama sankritana and different bhajans.

   HpS - Super!!!

 

Please let us know   the timing of Guruji’s visit India and Manipur, especially for Thoubal unprotected neophyte devotees. No one is taking care from the ISKCON so the bhaktas and beisnabis of Thoubal  are waiting like orphan. But one day or other, some one or other will send any guide for us to guide in the way of spiritual life, in this hope we are chanting his holy names. 

 

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

 

HpS - AGTSP - Paoho. We are in Houston, Texas for 12-days, working very hard with Primary School, Internation Education Projects and with disciples. By Krsna's arrangement we will be in Delhi (Vraja) from the 7th-12th of May. After that it looks like we will go to India in Februrary of 2016 and stay for a few months!

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10 years, 2 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama

AGTSP

paoho & bw.

Monkey Piggy, HpS, Jiva-goswami Das, here.

We finally got to the letters. Answered all up to two that at 5 days old.

We are working very hard.  BhVai each night. Two and three classes each day.

FMP on Start Meeing, but we are also on the Mayapur TV site for ISKCON Houston.

O.K. Guess that is it for now.

We have tickets bck to Nashville next wednessday, then back to Houston end of April, then May we go to Delhi, Spain, Italy, Spain, Brusells. Please help us with the Inside Europe tickets.

Then June July we go to San Jose, Boise, Seattle, Bellingham, Houston (NA Edu Conference)   ---  Mexico .. Then third week of August almost confirmed for Peru (lima - Terra pots (five weeks))).

Satyabhama dd / Mexico

10 years, 2 months ago by zareth bhaktin in Personal Sadhana Reports

Dear Guru Maharaja, Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and the unstoppable movement Sankirtan of Sri Gauranga.

I hope your sankirtan always stay equally unstoppable Gurudeva. I was follow his tour of Latin America and the education congress in Chile. Thank you for being such example for me.

For the short time I had and knowing that you was very busy, I arriegue to send a letter with Prabhu Patraka to order your important blessings. By the mercy of Krsna excelsa I am now in Vienna, Austria, by ascholarship from the University. Immediately I can appreciate the protection of his refuge, because from the first moment that I arrive to Europe a matayi waiting for me, a home and prasadam.

      HpS - ASA -  !!!!!!! AGTSP  !!!!

Now I live with 3 matays of Russian origin, wth the shelter of Sacinandan Swami Maharaja. They are very protective and have a similar project to the Mexico. A Ashram for matayis to study or work. In Vienna the brake preaches a few years ago, there was temple and Gurukula, but for management problems, now just are only few devotees. There are now only a Bhakti Viriksha every weekend into a new center preaches that are driving. And a monthly harinam. On Saturday we celebrate Gaura Purnima here Everything was very fast Gurumaharaja, is a huge project that excites me, but while I need his blessings and his instruction.

Sorry if this sheep walk without asking for direction ... I have a cuestion Gurumaharaja, sometimes I can see that the disciple always ask to the Guru what to do or where to go. And in my relationship with you, I not ask to you what I have done, I wonder if that's right or I need to try more to care this relation with good cuestions for my life or maybe about to the philosophy. Thanks for all Gurudeva

     HpS - AGTSP.   You, we, all need advice!      Best to ask lots of people.   Especially we are counselors in terms of Diksa - rounds, principles, but then you can ask many other people, gurus, devotees, ladies, mother, father... When do you come back to USA. Maybe we will see you in May in Europe.

Your aspiring servant Satya Bhama-dd

Solace in Challenging Times

10 years, 2 months ago by jaynityananda in Personal Sadhana Reports
Dear Gurumaharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It was with great elation that i read of your visit to Radhadesh for the conference in May, as i most likely wasn't going to make it to Spain this year. I'm glad to have learnt of your tour to South-America and return to the States, but it's also less pleasant to hear about the harshness of the climate there. HpS - You have the dates, no? We put it into the kapi-dhvaja calendar. We have to get the interior tickets now. My year so far was lively. Late last year we learnt my wife was a little bit pregnant, and by August she's getting fully pregnant. We also are kicked out of our house, by legal pressure, but with 7 months respite. It is coming to pass together with delivery, so that is challenging. But we are fully aware this is the arrangement of Gaura Nitai, and although we don't see yet why They arranged it like this, we do see recurring themes and are very blissful because of that. Mid January i had to deal with some troubles in my chanting, probably because i offended a devotee out of arrogance a few weeks earlier. Me and the person solved that situation. I consider this a good experience, even though i chanted notably less than 16 for a few weeks. I am very impressed how you caught up leftovers from 2013, and in all honesty i don't see my lazy self doing that (this time at least). HpS - Yes, that was left-overs from our 25/day standard. We were always able to do 16/day. At least figure out how many you owe and then later you can catch them up. Is a promise you made. Fortunately i'm back at my minimum of 16. I do recognize my bad attitude in saying i don't see myself catching up. While writing this, on deliberating how to ask you what you think about it, i came to the conclusion that the best thing to do is to try to catch up anyway, even though i'm not sure how many rounds it were, and until when it'll take me. Reformation should be the goal. One line i heard Amala Bhakta prabhu say, was, 'I live to be corrected.' I sort of understand that now, as a husband, but as a devotee not yet, unfortunately. Let this be my little attempt to get there. 31 x 8 = 248 rounds. Ooff :) HpS - ASA - Inch by Inch, It's always a Cinch (Easy). Little by little starting to do some devotional program in the evening with the family. This is nice, but there is much room for expansion. Mornings i'm pretty much by myself. No singing, but some reading and praying, and working to get the bulk of the rounds done in a good way. The Journey Home translation i just finished. HpS - Wow!!!!! Now i want to start a new project, a book about the early days of ISKCON in the Netherlands, with interviews with participants. Stories about how Sri Sri Radha Gopinath came to Amsterdam by Malati. How they were in the Red-light district. Like that. In both Dutch and English. I seek your blessings to make this project pleasing to Srila Prabhupada. HpS - Hog (Lord Varaha) bless you!!!!! What is your idea on the following? The Lord in our hearts knows how we feel and what we experience, so then why would He feel the need to experience what Sri Radha feels, the three reasons mentioned in Adi 1.6? I wonder where the difference comes from. Radha Krishna are one in their identity, but it seems their feelings are unknown to each other, not like Supersoul experiences us. HpS - Well, just like Radharani we are stones yet unknown. We are discovering new things about our service potencies that Krsna nor us know. Same for Krsna, but yes, She is the ananda shakti and there is always a competition between the Jnana sakti and the Ananda shakti. Krsna understands Her then She expands Her self. happy lover's quarrel with lots of friends. That's pretty much it for now. nAma-zreSThaM manum api zacI-putram atra svarUpaM rUpaM tasyAgrajam uru-purim mAthurIM goSTha-vATIm rAdhA-kuNDaM giri-varam aho rAdhikA-mAdhavAzAM prApto yasya prathita-kRpayA zrI-guruM taM nato smi I bow my head again and again to the holy preceptor, through whose most celebrated mercy I have received the best of all names, the initiation mantra, Sri Sachinandan Mahaprabhu, Svarupa, Rupa and his older brother Sanatan, the extensive dominions of Mathurapuri, a dwelling place in the pasturing grounds [of Krishna], Radha Kund, the chief of all mountains, Sri Govardhan, and most pointedly of all, the hope of attaining the lotus feet of Sri Radha Madhava. (sri mukta carita, invocation) In all my humility, Dandavat pranams, Raghava Pandita dasa HpS - Very nice to hear from you, We wish you all the best. We hope that Mataji is doing well with her heroic service and that your son will be a great Vaisnava!!!

Do not forget us Gurudeva

10 years, 2 months ago by candra108_mukhi in Personal Sadhana Reports

HARE KRSNA BELOVED GURUDEVA ¡¡¡¡¡

AGTSP ¡¡¡PAMHO ¡¡¡

I hope this meets you in really good health ¡¡¡¡

Gurudeva ¡¡¡ Today in Gaura Purnima NBD and I performed mangala artik, while I was worshiping the deities he was singing then we chant our rounds ¡¡¡ and joined startmeeting ¡¡¡ We want to put Krsna in the center of our lives ¡¡ We really want to go back to Godhead ¡¡¡ CHant HK is the best plan ever ¡¡

   HpS - ASA - If you go back to Godhead you can see Krsna, and play with Krsna!

Gurudeva things did not worked out with my roomate buuu ¡¡¡ So now I will live in an apartment ¡¡ I continue getting used to this big change in my life, but I am pretty happy ¡¡ I am working as secretary in SAMA ¡¡¡ I really like to learn new things and being able to help Nikunja makes me extremely happy.. I see I can feel all the effort that HE does in order to please SP and U.. Very nice inspiration I can say that He really likes to be Hare Krsna ¡¡¡ even more than me I admire that a lot ¡¡ I feel secure also with him.

Manu and Benji are too cute, two angels,  ¡¡ We get along pretty well ¡¡¡ I feel so happy to have their company ¡¡¡ 

Gurudeva I am a little delay with my rounds, but days before Gaura Purnima we made the vow to start doing FMP ¡¡¡¡ So please I humbly request your blessings so I can complete my rounds every day ¡¡ We have that desire ¡¡¡¡ Gurudeva thank U all so much for all your suppport.

Gurudeva if U allow me, I want that today you be my witness that I give up  all my bad thoughts and negativity, and just be in Krsna's hands ¡¡¡¡

HpS - Oooof!   That's a lot to give up!!!!    Some of our bad thoughts are comming from millions of life times, but is so helpful to just to smile when you are thinking bad thoughts. It is so silly but just smiling makes your mind think you are happy. Then it looks to the intelligence to find a reason and finds Krsna.

Time is too short to waste time, better chant Hare Krsna ¡¡¡

Happy Gaura Purnima beloved Gurudeva ¡¡

Always trying to continue iur path 

Candramukhi dd 

HpS - Thank you for your intelligent effort. I hope you get chance to call your moma's house. Is so nice having your association on the FMP wiht Start Meeting.