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forgive for offences

10 years, 7 months ago by harsh_horse in Hot Topics

hare krsna maharaj,
pamho, agtsp

          asa - agtsp!    [letter edited for bevity.]

we dared to communicate on your behalf to Muslim Preacher on your behalf, without your permission and without any qualification.--trying to spread movement

dwarf.

             asa- seems no harm done.  just tell him what you did and why and then present sankhya as you know.  "bhumi apo...".

World Holy Name Week

10 years, 7 months ago by hps in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports, Hot Topics, Calendar Development

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

His Holiness Lokanatha Swami sent us the following information:
This year World Holy Name Week is from September 17 - September 26. Your planning of your participation should start NOW!
Here is some of the ideas, from WHNW committee, on what we can do during

WHNW.
1. Nagar Sankirtan - Harinaam processions with WHNW and mahamantra banners.
2. 24 hours and/or 12 hours Sankirtan yajna - Non-stop kirtan for 24/12
hours.
3. Japathon - Pledges from devotees and congregation to chant extra rounds
during this period.
4. Morning Bhagvatam class on Holy names as the theme - Morning Bhagvatam
classes emphasizing on glories and importance of Holy Names.
5. Japa Seminars – Seminars on japa related topics e.g japa reform, 10
offenses, types of japa etc
6. Japa Retreats – Group of devotees do japa retreat camps under proper
leadership and guidence.
7. Sunday feast lectures & dramas – Preasentations based on importance of
Holy names and related topics.
8. Japa Booth – Putting a table with beads and pamhplets in the temple
encouraging new comers to get the beads and chant.
9. Inter Faith events - Invite other religions/faiths for Kirtans and other
Holy Name related events.
10. Radio Shows - Broadcasting Hare Krishna Kirtans, specially Srila
Prabhupada dhun on radio.
11. Holy Name walks - Padyatras to nearby towns and villages to distribute
holynames, prabhupada books and Prasad.
12. Harinaam concerts - Arrange Harinaam concerts (Kirtan in different
styles and many musical instruments) for public.
13. Celebrities - Get the cricket/Film stars and other celebrities for
public chanting events During WHNW.
14. Banners - Post Hare krishna mahamantra and WHNW banners/hoardings
throughout the citiy/town/villages.
15. Newspapers adverisement- WHNW articles/advertisements in newspapers
16. Media - Call media groups for events coverage for TV/Radio/Newspapers
etc
17. Inter-faith conventions on Holy Name – Invite other religion/faiths for
dialouge on holy names of God.
18. Giftshop SALE – Special discount on Kirtan/bhajan CD’s/DVD’s during
this period.
 
19. Truck Kirtan - Performing kirtan from moving motorized vehicles like
flatbed trucks, double decker buses, etc. This produces an effect of a
moving stage.
20. Harinam Rathcart - Just like many people are attracted to Jagananatha
Rathayatra, and enjoy pulling the cart and serving the Lord, similarly,
people will be attracted to pulling a cart with Harinam Prabhu on the cart.
A procession with big Harinaam posters, nicely decorated on the cart with
loud kirtan along with distribution of parsadam, mahamantra stickers &
Srila Prabhupada Books.
21. Kirtan Mela - Arrange festival of Kirtan, a couple of days or at least
one day festival with Holy names as the center.
 
For any news or enquiries contact our  global coordination team:
Divyanam Das ([email protected]) and Ekalavya Das ([email protected]) 

*agtsp*PAOHO Gurudev**

10 years, 7 months ago by Yamila Sandivara in Other

**Gurudev**

Yasasvini dd: 4 principios, yapa ok*; sigo trabajando en biblioteca; universidad va bien*Mucha fisioterapia.

Sábados programa en p. Kesava y domingos alquiler sala en el centro.

El 24 de septiembre es mi boda por fuego y; en la misma ceremonia mi prometido se inicia con Paramadvaiti Swami, aquí en mendoza en nuestro campo.

Resumen: invitados[ 50% devotos que pertenecen a ISKCON + 50% de devotos que pertenecen a Vrnda = un día cantando mucho mucho el Maha Mantra*] .... Pero falta El invitado más importante: Usted Gurudev + lo recordamos* pronto vamos al Japa Joe. También en ese día meditaremos en Usted.

Gracias por darnos el mejor regalo: <Krsna>

               HpS - ASA --- Jaya!   TlgaSP.    Por Paramadvaiti Swami en iniciacion el pide de los aspirantes cuantos rondas y cuanto de los 4 principios va a seguir. Eso es algo diferente de ISKCON y por nosotros muy diferente de Srila Prabhupada como Founder Acharya. Es un punto de discussion entre nosotros y Maharaja. Como se llama su estimado esposo???   (Hasta 24 Septiembre).
Esperando que es un dia muy auspicioso y tambien ofrecer nuestras saludos a Maharaja. Jaya! Hare Krsna.

Report from Toronto

10 years, 7 months ago by Rashmin dd in Personal Sadhana Reports, Other

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! 
It has been too long since I last wrote. Reading the kaphi dvaja inspired me to finally write. I suffer from procrastination. Regarding the date for next year's ratha yatra festival on Toronto it will be the second weekend of July - the 12 and 13 of July 2014!! We look forward to hopefully see you!

     HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!   Paoho.  Yes, so nice to hear from you. O.K. RY dates are on our Calendar.  We are sure inclined to come, and now it is on the Calendar.

Yogendra and I are having a daughter :) She is expected on November 11. Very soon basically. Of course we are not agreeing on a name... Maybe you have some suggestions maharaja?

            HpS - Very nice. She's not an ordinary person.  One factor is that the day of the week she appears fixes the first letter of the name. That is why P'pada kept same first names at initiation (I hear). So, ask some Vedic Indians to help. Beyond that I don't have any ideas, but don't start arguing where she will go to college yet. (Ha!  Ha!  Ha!)

When I sent the last letter I forgot to include a question. One of my husband's friends got us a set of Gaura Nitai deities in April. Recently we started to do regular offering of incense in the morning. Should we do a more elaborate arti or simply incense is ok?

          HpS - Is nice to offer a flower.  You and Yogendra can even look for flowers to steal during the day.

I become afraid that They don't get such a high standard of worship as that in the temple and therefore are committing offenses.

          ASA - Main offering is love.  That will tell you what to do. Second is cleanliness and Third is punctuality. Set a time standard you can do. Fourth is all the details in the Deity worship hand book. Be sure to give them regular classes so they get good character development and don't grow up to be crimminals.

My sadhana is steady. Chanting 16 rounds, 4 principles. Currently reading 4th canto of Bhahavatam about Prthu Maharaja. He just became content with only performing 99 horse sacrifices.

              HpS - We are on Chapters 17-18 this week.

I am glad to hear you are healthy.

Your aspiring servant, Rasa-mandali devi dasi

                      HpS - ASA -  Your aspiring, guru, teacher, counselor.   Please give our respects to Yogindra Ji and your family and President!

Bhakti Shashtri in New Jersey

10 years, 7 months ago by Nilamani108 in Other

Dear Maharaj,

Please Accept My Humble Obesiances,  All Glories To Srila Prabhupada.

I am writing to follow up on our discussion in Richmond regarding Bhakti Shastri / Bhakti Vaibhava in the North East (New Jersey Area). 

Currently I am trying to present Bhakti Shastri to around 15 students - they are asking tough questions that I can't always answer.  A couple of these are:

Can Sadhana Bhakti be considered Uttama Bhakti?

With reference to BRS 1.1.23 -

•aprärabdha-phalaàpäpaà, küöaàbéjaàphalonmukham
krameëaivapraléyeta, viñëu-bhakti-ratätmanäm
 
In which sequence does Bhakti vanquish sinful reactions - starting from oldest first (aprarabdha or from prarabdha).
 
We would also like to request that you please put some time on your calendar for visiting us here.
 
Hare Krishna
 
Nilamani Das
 
HpS - AGTSP.  Paoho.   Was so nice to hear from you.  Soooo nice. Yes, we were very happy to meet you in Richmond and25we were hoping that you would be merciful and persistent and write to this humble Blog.   Honestly it is the only way that we can handle our correspondences. As I write this to you there will be about 25-more devotees reading it and some of them will have the same questions as you. Then we don't have to answer the same questions like five times.
First, these are hard questions. We don't have any Sastric reference, but what we have heard from senior devotees, who do base their substance on sastra, uttama adhikari starts at the level of Bhava. Adau sraddha, sadhu sanga....  this famous verse gives all the level of bhakti, no? BG 4.10 purport has the verse nicely put and of course Prabhupada paraphrases it in NOI 7 and everywhere. Madhyama adhikari starts with Bhajana kriya.
Is O.K?
Second, we have never read whether the seeds start being removed from old to new. We have a suspicion that they get removed in terms of how they come up in our service. If we have to stop smoking to go on the altar then the motivation to go on the altar pushes us to eliminate that anartha, so that will be destroyed at that point, no matter when we acquired it.
 
Third, we had nice talk with Braja-bihari Das this weekend as part of our annual NIOS symposium. Do you know him???    Hari-lila Das is here with us and he knows your good self. BBD is graduating some Bhakti-sastri students and will start Bhakti-vaibhava in like January. Are you formally connected to the ISKCON Board of Examiners to give approved BhSastri/BhVai diplomas?
If not lets get it taken care of. We can co-ordinate with BBD.
Please send us your ideas.
Our cellular in the USA is 209 5053219
HpSwami - ASA!!

Reporte de actividades

10 years, 7 months ago by Angada das in Personal Sadhana Reports

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las glorias al movimiento de Sankirtan de Sri Gauranga

Querido Gurudeva porfavor acepte Dandavats a sus pies

Por fin me he decido a escribirle por este medio para contarle el servicio que estamos realizando. Por ahora estamos en la ciudad de cancun nos mudamos para aca devido a que empezare a trabajar en el restaurante que es mantenido por una devota llamada Chandrika devi dasi , la comunidad de aca nos estan reciviendo muy bien

Estamos apoyando en la proyecto de la finca me han dado el servicio de pintar las paredes del area del templo que construyen y en la elaboracion del altar. Estamos muy agradecidos con la misericordia de Krishna , Seguimos con el servicio de participar en progamas artisticos, en el festival de Janmastami apoyamos con la decoracion, funcion de titeres e hicimos Rangolis esto esta complaciendo mucho a los devotos tenemos una paguina en FB (Monkey Warriors)con fotografias de lo que estamos haciendo en diferentes festivales

Cuando estavamos en mexico participamos en varios progamas de predica y Ratha Yatra. Los devotos se complacen mucho con este servicio y nosotros somos felices por ello.

Con respecto a nuestro sadhana estamos con mas fuerza devido a su misericordia retomamos nuestro principios (no mas humo) y estoy encontrando mucha fuerza en el canto de mis rondas , adoramos a nuestras deidades todos los dias , distribuimos libros y estamos muy activos con la comunidad apoyando en los progamas que aca se realizan . Todo aquello a lo que se le pueda llamar exito es definitivamente devido a su misericordia es usted una constante inspiracion para seguir avanzando y si no le escribia antes era devido a que que me avergonzaba no poder seguir sus instrucciones , ahora oro al Señor por que pueda mantenerme y ser un digno receptaculo de su misericordia sin causa . Con mi esposa las cosas van bien ella esta contenta de que trabaje mas y sea mas determinado, como todo habeces tenemos diferencias pero estamos tomandolo con mas calma ella va bien con su proceso un poco preoocupados por una cuestion de su salud devido a que tiene un osteoma en su craneo pero parece que nos es grave estamos buscando la manera de que se opere pronto, y confiamos plenamente en la voluntad de Krishna Gracias por mantenernos inspirados con sus gloriosas activades Gracias por recordanos a seguir pas instrucciones de srila prabhupada Gracias. Krishna por haberme dado la opurtunidad de haberlo conocido Reverencias a sus pies y oramos por que se encuentre bien

HpS - ASA -  TLGASP.    Es tan tan tan bueno oir de Vd.  Escriba aun no esta siguiendo perfecto.  Puede hacer algo. Unos alcoholicos toman un voto no tomar alcohol antes de media dia. Para ellos es tan fuerte como un voto de los gopis en su nivel. Hacer lo que Vd puede hacer para Krsna.

Muy bien sus noticias.  Estamos en Mexico 16-20 Octubre.