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Manipur Visit

10 years, 5 months ago by hps in Calendar Development
On Friday, October 25, 2013 1:16 AM, Mukta Okram wrote:
All glories to Guruji and Gouranga
Sripad Maharaja Ki Jay
 
Please accept our humble obeisances to Guru Maharaja's padmacharan that in the last meeting of the initiated bhaktas of Thoubal ISKCON decided to request our Guruji for coming Manipur on the 23rd  and leaving Imphal on 27th Feb. 2014 if Guruji can adjust the programmes. Our family will purchase the Air tickets of Guruji's to and fro ( Kolkata-Imphal and back). Moreh ISKCON Bhaktas requested this time also for coming Moreh and Mayanmar but this time we could not arrange like the same programme of previous year. We will concentrated only Guru Pujah, Interaction, Freequent Nam krtan with Guruji, question and answer and mainly hearing of Gurujis lectures on Bhagavat and Geeta etc. Please suggest something for our bhaktas and mandir and any specific programme to be taken up during Gurujis Manipur Visit. As previous year a team of 35-40 in a but will visit Mayapur, leaving Thoubal on the 28th Feb. 2014.
 
We could not invite Guruji directly from America, so when Guruji  is in Mayapur pleae spare 5 days for the simple and poor bhaktas of Thoubal as mentioned from 23-27 Feb. 2014. We are waiting eagerly Guruji's positive response for purchasing Air Tickets and other arrangements like finishing of Gurujis Ashram (Room). If possible, please mentioned the name, flight etc.
 
 
Yours fallen servant
Jamunesvara Das
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14 November 2013 - HpSwami wrote:
 
Esteemed Jamunesvara Das, Hari-das Das et al,
Hare Krsna. AGTSP!!!   paoho....   Thank you so, so much for your letters and even thinking of us. You mentioned that you were having some illness and could not go to your office. This has passed? Of course, such diseases are excellent opportunity to judge our developed consciousness and preparation for death.
I also have been out of station from the 15th of October until just last week. We had to go to Texas for a North-american Symposium on Educational Development. We were one of the principal organizers and our daily work-load was intense.
Now we are back at our Base in Tennessee and everyone agrees that it will take us until end of January to apply all the results we got from the three weeks in Texas.
We feel Krsna wants us to continue with these management responsibilities until January 12th 2014. That is the 10th anniversary of NIOS, our educational corporation, trust. After that we will be more free to write and just travel as we like.
Please, don't give up on writing personal letters from everyone even if we are a little late to respond.
Of course, the Blog - www.hps.monkeywarrior.com is always the best place to communicate because then so many more people can hear the glories of Sri Dhama Manipur!
VISIT MANIPUR
You are all very, very cruel! We want so much to visit Manipur. We love Manipur. We even think of just throwing all these other responsibilities to the side and flying there, BUT...  ...
. . .     ..0'......        We are trapped!        [Maybe this is how Sita-devi feels!]
 
This visit to India is very short.
Only three weeks and the real center is the ISKCON Leadership Sanga (ILS) meetings from 16-23rd February. We arrive a week before that and then we have very fixed work for NIOS with Dr. Samaresh and Rabindra-bharati University in Kolkatta. After the ILS we would just go to visit Sri Vrndavan dhama with Nitai-gaurasundara Das, the President of NIOS. We have not been to Vrndavan for almost two years!
So, what to do?
Maybe we could come to Manipur for one day from Kolkatta.    Ha! Ha! Hare!   
In any case we are never, never separated if we want to be connected as long as we are chanting Hare Krsna as dictated by Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya.
Mother Saci is one of the MOST intimate associates of Lord Caitanya yet she was not able to see Him for 24-years. They communicated soul to sould, by dreams, by letters and packets of Prasadam!
So, what do Radha Govinda say?
How is Ekanatha, Partha-sarathi, Sadhu bushana, Vana-mali... ? Are any of them coming to Kolkatta, Mayapura, Vraja.. during our visit?
We wait for your letter and our response should be much faster. We are at our Base until 25 December. Then we will be in South America (just like Manipur) until 29th January.
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wArning!

10 years, 5 months ago by hps in Calendar Development

AGTSP
paoho / bw. . .  at any moment we can go. once we surrender to KRSNA He's all we know.

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DTC (Mo/11)

10 years, 5 months ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP
paoho
6.15PM. The sun sets at 4.30PM now and so it is kind of depressing in the evening. Also, we are a Sannyasi so we are alone a lot and have to work alone like Hanuman looking wof Sita alone.

It can become very intense, depressing, causing doubt, but also can get a lot done this way.

We are O.K. We will put a letter we wrote Dr. Samaresh after this. It gives some perspective on our situation. Answered about five letters. Very nice. Had a hellish fight with the Money Gram people. They decided that Arya-srestha das, Karuna-shakti devi dasi
 and I were like drug dealers and thus they would not transfer the money we are trying to send for M. Jambavati's auto-biography and dental surgery. Some went. It is funny. We will try to send another way.

At the time of death we become very morose and the only enthusiasm is our transcendental relation with Krsna, and that can be like the sun!

The letter to Dr. Samaresh explains the general challenges and so far we are doing well adjusting our work load and then we can more easily see what Krsna wants.

O.K. Post that letter and then maybe go get the Money Gram refund and then go to NGD's and Mother Matsya and Abhiseka's and Radha-Natabara's Ashrama, and go for our 44.5 minute evening, night-time walk. Is down to freezing a night now. We got our warm jacket from Tandavika's house. We offer Lord Nrsmhadeva a blend of two bananas, apple juice and some p-nut butter for breakfast, and his kitri of of green split peas and rice and potatoes and carrots and celery with ghee and salt for lunch.

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Esteemed Professor,
Hare! Hare! Krsna.... We hope this meets you in the best of spirits. Our physical machine is in extreme malfunction. We had some general irritation from under the skin starting about three weeks ago. Now it has erupted in some places with small prickles, itching, burning.
Maybe reaction for accepting disciples, and our own stupid actvities.
Creates some fever feeling, little nausea etc.
We have not been able to do much work.
Retreating to intense Nama-japa puts us in touch with pure life and that seems to be the real hope of curing this disease.
We chant and chant and chant and then the external world gets a little ordered. Diet only such as celery and split mung dahl.
Letters to friends.
Other work hovering on the edge.
Also feet swollen and another incisor may need dentist.
Is very, very funny for us... . we can see this body is a garbage covering the soul, unless Krsna wants to use it for mundane Sankirtana.
Sanjaya sent the book.
We very eager to take a look.
If we had not met Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada we would be in a real mess now, but on the contrary we see that nothing can stop the chanting of the Holy Names.
http://vedabase.com/en/cc/antya/20/12
We submit our little news and pray that we can get a little simple service to perform in this Sankirtan movement of Sri Krsna Caitanya with your esteemed self.
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Dear Gurudev

10 years, 5 months ago by yemila in Personal Sadhana Reports
Hare Krishna, Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada , a Sri Guru y Gouranga, por favor acepte mis reverencias.
 
Le cuento que estoy en Cordoba, estoy esforzandome por levantarme temprano, y mantenerme limpia por dentro y fuera, siempre viendo en que modo de la naturaleza estoy y esforzandome por la pureza y obtener un poco de devocion. Mis 4 principios estan muy bien y mis 16 rondas tambien. Estoy comenzandome a relacionar con los devotos de la zona, pronto va a haber un rata yatra, estoy muy contenta por eso. Y con respecto a los estudios , si, el año que viene comienzo a estudiar, no es un fin para mi, pero debo hacerlo gurudev; entiendo lo que usted me dijo en la otra carta, y pienso que voy a ir entendiendo mas a medida que lo vaya haciendo. Por el momento vivo con mi familia, tengo una habitacion aparte de la casa asi que eso es un respiro , pero se que esto es por poco tiempo hasta que me organize. Me estoy cuidando mucho  y estoy aprendiendo al mismo tiempo bastantes cosas. Tambein le cuento que ya empece el curso para dicipulos con Param Das, y es muy interesante. Voy  a realizar mas cursos con ellos. Estoy distribuyendo prasadam para mantenerme economicamente y pronto apenas pueda continuare con la distribucion de libros. En poco tiempo comenzare a participar en japa joe. Mucho para hacer :), lo que mas me importa es poder participar en japa joe.
 
En relacion a lo que me dijo sobre lo que pienso del grihasta asram, lo que entiendo es que aun no estoy preparada para eso y que aun necesito un tiempo mas en este asram (bramacari), a pesar de no poder estar en el templo... seria lo ideal. Pero como usted me dijo , de aca a un año estare mas clara . Muchas gracias gurudev por sus instrucciones, las respuestas que le da a sus dicipulos me ayudan mucho a saber como hacer , y que es lo que desea Krishna. Espero la letra de esta carta salga con un color normal :) disculpe, se ve que hubo un error en el programa.
 
Mis reverencias otra vez , su aspirante Yemila.
 
HpS - ASA -  Jaya!  TlgaSP!!!!   Mucho cuidado, no?  Dejando la disciplina y fuerte asociacion de la escuela de Dhanvantari Swami y ya sola en Cordoba. Es un desafilo fuerte mantener buen conciencia, todo. Adelante. Siempre buscando un relacion personal con Krsna entre todos los diferentes cosas exterior en Karma yoga o aun Sadhana bhakti.
Yoga tiene que ser divertido!
Siempre desarrollando nuestra poder interno como podemos distribuir Krsna a otros. Krsna tiene muchas personas quien necesitan un guru, amiga, tiene que prepara su caracter.
O.K. Noticias de sus estudios y tambien de los devotos de Cordoba. Especialmente noticias de Radha-prati-jalpa y su familia!
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studying and distributing books

10 years, 5 months ago by Raulmontreal in Personal Sadhana Reports, Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

AGTSP !!!!!

Please accept my humble obeisances

Dear Maharaja

Thanks for the references on SB, I'm studying it and clarifying our understanding of maya, such perfect reference !  thank you !  

We are distributing books as our service, every day in the afternoons, in metros and the street it is so blissful hold Srila Prabhupada's books and distribute them to people and or also just reach out and exchange a few words on bhakti yoga etc  We struggle so much with it but finally by the mercy of devotees and Prabhupada we are totally hoked up to it.  

We got  Waves of Devotion by Niranjana Swami, thinking it was the one you told us about but just realized the right one is by Dhanurdhara Swami !    didn't know there were two from different authors.   Any way this one by Niranjana Swami is also pretty intense, sort of a collection of lectures, it's  a journal, found a nice lecture on the bhakti-rasayana verses from Brihad Bhagavatamrta, and other intense lectures.  We will try to get the one by Dhanurdhara Swami also !  we read the intro and really like it much much...

sravanam-kirtan , sravanam higher principles !  

we thanks you so so much for your advise and patience but we are following through, fighting the good battle..  

your servant

bhakta Raul 

HpS - ASA - Paoho.   Such good news. We will put our news in the DTC. Paoho. Send more news as you can.

Un pasatiempo de sankirtana

10 years, 5 months ago by Nadia Morales Uricay in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Todas las glorias a Sri Caitanya y Sri Nityananda

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Hare krsna guru maharaj, porfavor reciba mis más sinceras y respetuosas reverencias. Estamos en Chosica, haciendo mangala artik con las deidades de casa, bañando a las silas y a las deidades, haciendo algunas ropas, leyendo el caytania caritamrta con P. gadai, 16 rondas, cocinando y un poco de sankirtana, hubo un harinama con el grupo "harinama Ruci", hubo muchos devotos haciendo sankirtana entre ellos el grupo que viajó a bolivia, nos inspiraron y dieron muchas ideas de como hacer sankirtana, estamos aprendiendo a tocar mrdanga.

hace una semana estuvimos en  la ciudad de huancayo durante 3 dias, distribuimos unos 200 libros aproxidamente, y ahora estamos haciendo planes para poder viajar previa a la marathon que empezará el 18 de noviembre en perú. También la marathon de bolivia fue muy extático distribuimos alrededor de 4000 libros, aprendí muchísimo de los devotos.

             HpS - ASA - OooF!   TlgaSP!!   Increible.

. . . hay un pasatiempo que va relacionado con lo que Ud. una vez me dijo que ahora no es la era del conocimiento y estoy comprendiendo que yo solamente debo tratar de que las personas se lleven libros ya sean para sus amigos, familiares, etc.

Un dia en huancayo cuando estuvimos haciendo sankirtana con P. gadai gauranga, paré un señor y le dije llévese un libro, elija el que más le guste y dá un donación y el señor me respondió si claro yo quiero estos libros yo promuevo y traigo doctores cubanos especilistas en medicina natural dame todo y  mientras hablaba con él de pronto otro señor pasó y lo paré y le dí los libros para ti pero dudó pero el señor que ya tenia los libros; el LOB, LA VIDA PROVIENE DE LA VIDA, KARMA MEDITACIÓN empezó a convencerlo al otro señor de que se lleve un libro, que eran muy buenos que existe las energías y sobre todo empezó hablarle del karma uffffff yo quedé atónita lo convencio y se llevó  3 libros; LOB, LAVIDA PROVIENE DE LA VIDA Y EL KARMA. Guru maharaj, usted siempre está haciendome ver que yo no doy ningún conocimiento que Prabhupada es el que predica yo solo intento servir a los demás y ser un instrumento.

Guru Maharaj me despido de usted, que su salud mejore.

nadiya nivasi dasi

               HpS - Jaya!!!  Una vez que un vendedor de zapatos muy exitoso fue preguntó cuál era su secreto. Él dijo: "Ver a la gente, ver a la gente, ver a la gente!"

Jaya... Super. Muy bien. Esperamos mas noticias...