NIOS - Helpful nature

Hare Krsna ,Pamho, AGTSP,AGTHpS, AGTTB, AGTUG,AGTBW

Seeing the condition of brother ass, it remains puzzle how all of you are able to manage your services to Srila Prabhupada. Could be some mystic power!!!!

Did HpS talked to Prof Bandyopadhyay?

HpS - ASA(BW, TB, UG ...) - Yes, we had a very nice discussion. We were arranging for him to meet with Sri Hari Das and Aja-govinda Das while he has in Delhi. Now we will call him with NGD and see what Krsna arranged.

Was HpS able to meet Mr Modi ?
HpS - Even if not, we are getting a lot of practice at doing it and involving a lot more people!

Does HpS has any service, where horse can help?
HpS - You are doing so much help just "growing up". Every time you chant Hare Krsna under the shelter of Srila Prabhupada you are "growing up" and can do more and more work. We expect th next book to be published soon, maybe in Bombay, so Dr. will visit there and you can help him then. They with Goloka Education we can start to distibute it (and the last one).  All your hard work in Kolkatta will give fruit!

Horse is very thank ful to all of you for starting ASA and esp BHvai. Horse has been behind the standards, but still as back bencher he has understood a lot.

Horse was thinking about his helpful naturs in general. Then he read http://vedabase.com/en/sb/5/8/10/ . "Material conditions are already established by the superior administration according to one’s karma. They cannot be changed. "

then he was confused to understand the contribution of red cross society, Mother teressa. Esp Ksatriyas are supposed to provide material comforts. Horse understands that SB 5 is for Sannyasis, but what can people with Ksatriays tendency learn from it.

trying to be a monkey,
passionate horse
 

HpS - ASA - Yuddhisthira asked, Bhisma while lay on the bed of arrows which was more powerful destiny or effort. Bhisma responded that the Ksatriya is basically a man of action. Destiny and personal effort at both important, but of the two personal effort is prominent. Without personal effort it is even difficult for destiny to act.

If you are really a Ksatriya then take some Karate classes. I would say you are more like a Royal Counselor. So work hard within your nature. Set some goals like that.

What will they be tell us some good life goals for a person like you!

update-whereabouts

10 years, 8 months ago by Raulmontreal in Personal Sadhana Reports

 AGTSP !

 Please accept my humble obeisances

 Dear Maharaja

 We are back in DC again, urgent family matter, sister was very affected emotionally and all levels,  but thanks to Srila Prabhupada's mercy and yours we could advice and practically bring sister back to life.   She's listening to kirtans, chanting and learning Gita plus learning about Caitanya Mahaprabhu.   We'll take her to Govardana Puja tomorrow.   About the recomendation letter seems the senior manager devotee we asked 6 months ago forgot about it. Brahmacharis  advised me to get the Diksa also.  They are listening to your lectures and love them all very much.   But they are still out of town seems fixing a vehicle problem.  We apologize for the delays and foolishness.  Will get some sankirtan leader to write letter.   Please Maharaja have some rest,  your bodily heath is precious,  Krishna !  

your servant

Raul  

<img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" /> Monkey -   <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />Piggy -- ASA - AGTSP paoho. Yes, KC is universal. We can give the best advice, example, to EVERYONE as we become devotees. Jayananada Prabhu would naturally attract everyone and then they would start talking with him while they were fixing the walk-in refrigerator etc.

Then he would answer by saying something like, "Well, I don't know, but my old Grand-daddy used to say.". Then he would put some advice, perspective from Srila Prabhupada on their plate and they could hear it with interest and some respect.
Sounds like your sister has good chance of becoming perfectly happy in this lifetime!

Letter for recomendation has to come from The Temple President! <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />

Hare krishna !

10 years, 8 months ago by Alexa in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare krishna maharaj ! Please accept my humble obeisansces.

All the glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Thank you Maharaj ! I am relieved and happy to know that you can make some exceptions! [To not intitating much more after this year].

I hope I am worth to make an exception I have continued chanting 16 minimun rounds every day and following the regulative principles. As you asked me, regarding to service I have started doing service in a group of bhakti Vriksha on tuesdays .

It is very inspiring , so many new people chanting , reading bagavad gita and eating prasadam !! This tuesdays we did a japa class , everyone doing japa together , then offering ghee lights to Damodar ! it was very nice Iam very happy to be part of this service:) !

I will ask Mahahari Prabhu the recomendation letter .

Thank you for the information on where to read about grhasta ashram , I will read it !!! Hare krishna Hare Rama !

HpS - ASA - We are all going to die. Our "guru" is going to die. Krsna was Arjuna's best friend, but one day he would also see Him, "die". Secret to get out of the "box" and see our relations from the viewpoint of eternity.
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news from Valparaíso

10 years, 8 months ago by Ignacio González in Personal Sadhana Reports

All glories to Sri Sri Gouranga Nityananda
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to Sri Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisance
I really hope that all of your plans are pleasing Krsna and your health is very strong. My name is Indranila Mani dasa (ex-Ignacio González) from Valparaíso, Chile.

Let me start asking for your forgiveness. . . . 
. . . Indranila Mani dasa

P.S: Please Gurudeva, don´t publish this letter in the blog. Just because . . .

HpS - ASA - Jaya! AGTSP Very nice to hear from you. You should have written, called us, sooner as you had different problems. Maybe we could have helped. In general, we have to publish all letters that we read from girls because we are Sannyasis. From guys, we can be a little more liberal and just put in ". . ." for the more individual stuff. If someone wants us to not Publish a Letter then they should make that declaration BEFORE they letter rather than after. Then we have the option of not publishing and also NOT READING it.

Jaya! Also, we just can't handle individual letters in much detail. Our eyes won't handle it.

In general, also, let me say that 90% of the people reading this Blog have problems just like you, so there is not too much detail that we can't discuss here, among friends. Yes, some very particular details, let's exchange e-mails, but that is so, so, so, so very hard for us.

In general (as your General):
1. 99% of the world's population has no resort other than sex, drugs and movies. So as we have Srila Prabhupada in our perspective at all we are doing very well.
The SB is full of Fall-downs. Srila Vyasadeva fell down. The Praceta's fells down. Chayavana Muni fell-down. However, the reality is that we are immortal. You can't kill your soul. You will come back again and again.  Yes, in the beginning it is not unnatural to have robust moral falldowns. Later there are subtle falldowns. Even to want to not serve Krsna with intense spontanseous love is enough to make us fall-down from Mathura to Ayodhya.

2. How do we get back up?
We must learn from the failures then they are GOOD!.
We must be everyone's well-wisher, even those who have "hurt us".
Then it all becomes easy. We chant as much as we can.
We fix a certain number of rounds to do daily for the next ________ week or weeks and do them! Something we know we can do. Maybe we are so twerked out that all we can do is one round once a year on Janmastami and Gaura-purnima, but do something you really know you can do for afixed time and see the result.

Bong!     Do we want out?

Bong!   Bing!  Bang!  Japa, reading, hanging out with devotees...  Realize that our problems are NOT small problems. What we are going through is very much between me and Krsna: Family, friends, society, they are never going to be clear relations, NEVER, until I have some reasonable idea about who am I and who is Krsna (Prabhupada ISKCON...).

O.K? Give us some thoughts we can discuss here. Look at the discussions with others. We very much want your association

Urgent questions. Drowning in our own mini maya whirl pool. :/

10 years, 8 months ago by Kamagayatri in Personal Sadhana Reports, Special Category A

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We had a couple of issues that came up this week that seem pressing. Thank you for your tolerance! And thank you for your last reply Maharaj. We are not on the level to feel that we can transcend this body and even think about getting a spiritual body because we are so immersed at times by the  troubles created by our own mind and body!! It is good to hear that is the goal though, thank God... At times we can differentiate that's the mind, that's   the spirit soul!  Usually this depends on how sincerely we are chanting and doing service.

Here is a question Maharaj, thank you very much for listening. My boss's husband Madhava Chandra and  also my Bhakti Shastri  teacher said I shouldn't be getting up at four because I'm not on the level of a Mahatma! Prabhu said that to do this one must take a nap during the day but if you're working full-time nine to four this is not a good idea. Please maharaj let us know if Mangal Arati and time for japa is different for the 9-4 householder bunch??

HpS - ASA - - -  "Devotional service means transcendental activities. On the transcendental platform there is no contamination by the three modes of material nature. This is called viśuddha-sat-tva, the platform of pure goodness, or goodness free from contamination by the qualities of passion and ignorance. In this Krsna consciousness movement we require everyone to rise early in the morning, by four A.M.,and attend mańgala-ārati, or morning worship, then read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, perform kīrtana, and so forth. Thus we hold continuous activities in devotional service twenty-four hours daily. This is called sato vrtte, or following in the footsteps of the previous ācāryas who expertly filled every moment of time with Krsna conscious activities" NOI-3
Srila Prabhupada says, "everyone", here, not just Sannyasis or others.
In his presence he required the Grhasthas to also be up for Mangala arati. Krsna stopped the Rasa-lila for Mangala arati. He left Rukmni in bed for Mangala-arati.
If Prabhuji would like to write to the Blog also we could discuss the comment also.
Of course, 4AM means Brahma-muhurta, no? So this means 1-1/2 hours to 3/4 hours before sunrise. At different times in the year, in different places, this might change for 4AM to other times, but if we don't get up for Mangala arati, kirtan, Japa, SB, then we will not have enthusiasm in our daily service. We will have pure intelligence.

Of course, the contamination may ne subtle. Vyasadeva was not smoking cigarrettes or going to bars, but he still deviated, made a mistake. He presented Krsna so indirectly in the Vedas and Puranas that no one could figure understand what was he real purpose of religion.

He was not satisfied, Narada Muni, his Guru, told him that Buddha would basically have to come and deny all that he had done before SB to get things back on line.

So, yes, get up early and get your rounds done with enthusiasm.

For the devotees who were up to 10PM closing the first restaurant in ISKCON Prabhupada tod them STILL they had to get up for Mangala arati. Yes, you may have to go to bed earlier. You may have to take a nap. BhVinode Thakura was up early, but he had a nap before breakfast.

O.K?

The other question is regarding how to have patience and be excepting of the situation with St. Nicholas prabhu. Prabhu doesn't want to spend time together now and wants to act as single parents again because he says that I seem too detached when I'm around him. I have explained that I want to work on the marriage and I want to give Aja a Krsna Conscious family but he is saying that it seems I have lost respect for him and that I show it (It may be due to losing some trust). I feel very fallen in this situation Maharaj because I want to do my duty and I want to follow instructions. I understand that the problem is in my mode of how I am approaching the situation. What if we do things out of duty but our feelings and heart may not be 100 percent behind it?? Is Krsna still pleased? I'm praying for realizations so I know how to have more heart and feelings behind doing my duty and to not do something reluctantly or with my guards up. I have a hunch that to move through this my realizations need to be so so much deeper....

HpS - ASA -- Have fun. Tell him how you feel. Listen to how he feels. In NOD we remember Prabhupada saying that in the beginning there is a tendency to impersonalism because we are fried with material variety and we don't yet have spiritual reality.

So it is natural in our devotional dealings in family life this will always be there in the beginning also. We don't have this "respect", "love", based on the body of our family members: "Oh, how beautiful you (r body and singing) are!", "Oh, what big brains you have!". You have just as big a challenge to become a pure, normal, devotee of Krsna as me or Hari-vilasa or Srila Prabhupada or Queen Kunti... You are not facing small challenges, so don't be surprised that it takes time and effort, love, affection and having lots of adventure and fun. The result is eternal, absolute and all pervasive. The Supreme Lord of unlimited numbers of universes, master of all the gods, will become your personal confidant.

Nick has fre will also. His progress is also his free choice. Let's see what happens. The Soap Opera of "Kama and Nicky in Hell's Reform School!"

I pray for sincerity and good rounds so I do not get to mental about this. Thank you thank you for listening to this banter!!! We know you are very very busy.

Your fallen servant,

Kamagayatri dd

HpS - ASA -- Oink! AGTSP paoho

Mercy! Mercy! Give me your mercy please!!!

10 years, 8 months ago by Christian in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Hare Krsna dear guru maharaja!

Please accept my most sincere obeisances

All glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Sankirtana movement

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to your mercifull instructions

Gurudeva, yesterday we finish the books we brought to Xalapa - Veracruz with the sankirtan party leaded by Jayadeva Hari Das, it was amazing to go out with such powerfull devotees of sankirtan, i found many interesting people, among them, there is one mazon girl who had already encountered with another devotee last year, she took Bhagavad-gita, and will go to the Mexico city ratha yatra this weekend, she is very eager to practice vaishnavism, chanting the holy name. We also did a home program with devotees from a town near from here it was full chanting and taking prasadam, very very joyfull, but at the end of the program i asked the mataji owner of the house about a murti of Sri Hanuman and she offered to give it to me, wich i accepted. Jayadeva Hari got upset with me and told me that it was wrong to ask for a deity, that i shouldnt do that. What can you advise me now that i already did it?

HpS - AGTSP! I don't know! Did you ask for it or did you just ask about where it came from and she offered to give is to you. I don't know? Talk with devotees, chant Hare Krsna and make a simple decision. Can offer to return it and explain what is happening, and see what she says then.

Gurudeva, I heared that you told Govinda Pramodini that you will be in Tennessee for your Vyasapuja, Next week I will do the application for the visa, please give me your permission to go there with the rest of my Godbrothers from Mexico, because if you agree, Krsna will allow me to get the visa and also collect the laxmi required for that travel. Im doing my best in my service, confident that if i do it propperly Krsna will be there helping me.

HpS - ASA - Aaaaaaaaaawk! There is no Temple here. It will be snowing. There will be wolves stalking the streets at night to steal cigarrettes from lonely travelers, hotel rooms will be $55/night, you'll have to rent a car.  Better to participate by Skype from Mexico, no? ?

I have been taking great asociation from you by hearing your classes and recordings i have, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR INSTRUCTIONS! for they are non-different from your lottus feet. Could you please explain me one phrase of yours that impacted my consciousness? The phrase is "When the spiritual life is complete, the so called material life follows; if it doesn't, then the so called  spiritual life is wrongly applied"

ASA - Hansadutta Swami used the analogy often that when you put a garland on your body you don't have to put one on your shadow. It is their automatically. So, when we are engaged properly in spiritual life our material life automatically becomes auspicious also. Of coure, in the beginning our spiritual life is not complete so we have to make a balance of spiritual and material responsibilities, but later we see that they are all spiritual. For example, morning is for my spiritual activities, day time is for night time is for enjoying.

Of course, again, as we advance it all becomes the same thing.

And our material situation may not appear so nice externally. Like Maharaja Pariksit being cursed to die:

"SB 1.19.4: While the King was thus repenting, he received news of his imminent death, which would be due to the bite of a snake-bird, occasioned by the curse spoken by the sage's son. The King accepted this as good news, for it would be the cause of his indifference toward worldly things."

Thank you again for spending your time cultivating the seed of bhakti in our hearts! i will never be able to pay the debt i have with you, with Srila Prabhupada!

Your dumb disciple

Krsna-kirtana Dasa
 HpS - ASA -- We are just little messengers for you real Guru.