Hare Krsna GuruMaharaja!

11 years, 4 months ago by Bhaktina Romi in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

All Glories to Holy Names

All Glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

All Glories to Devotees

Please accept my must humble obeisance to your feet.

I wrote you before you go to India. Sorry for write again without the answer of previous letter. My situation not change a lot, like I told you during your visit. Yet the sadness and frustration still here so present, but thanks to your merciful instructions the things going better. My moodiness and anxiety have dropped. This process is practiced with joy so obviously I am committing some fault.

ASA - AGTSP  Seems you mean "without joy".


4 pple and 16 rounds OK, sometimes recovering some of them. I keep organizing things thats I was delay in your previous visit, please bless me to do that service with better consciousness.

I was reading all the letters I wrote in the Blog, and always appears the same instruction, and I effort to follow like the first time, chant better Japa, with that weapon Krsna will control all situations in the best way. I don't know why I keep attached to things that´s no good for improve in Spiritual Life...
I began to exercising, the feelings, no easy, no connection about what is the heart, only brain stuff. Ouch!
Hope your health improve soon from your India's trip. I pray to Sri Krsna and Srila Prabhupada for that.

Question:
Why the sasncrit word for word sometimes say one thing and in the translation say other? ex. BG 18.66 
[ Word for word:  — do not; śucaḥ — worry.] [Translation: Do not fear.]
Thanks for answer GM.

 

Thanks Guru Maharaja to always be present.

That person who want to develop a correct attitude of service.
Rati-manjari Devi Dasi



pd. http://vimeo.com/88555228 SRI PANCA TATTVA MAHA ABHISEKAM summary. 6.3 min !!!

HpS - Jaya!  In some of the other letters there is advice for you also. I think that Prabhupada did not always do the word for word translatins. and he had devotees use the Translations from Gita Press sometimes when they were nice. He had enough work to do on the Purports. Chant, fix your priorities. Be enthusiastic to get a nice job, nice, car, nice family, nice house, good health.. If we want these things, O.K. don't be depressed when we don't get them. Chant Hare Krsna and be like Kardama and Devahuti! I want material things. I am a fool too, but I see how they are needed for my advancment, so Krsna is pleased that we are second class learners but we are trying our best.

\Nice pictures!

Goura Purnima Kee!

11 years, 4 months ago by yemila in Personal Sadhana Reports

<small>Hare Krishna, acepte por favor mis respetuosas reverencias, Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.</small>

<small>Dear  Guru Maharaj</small>

<small>Le cuento un poco de lo sucedido en este tiempo. Mis 16 rondas lo mejor posible, están muy bien y los 4 principios también. Mi “levántate temprano y termina tus rondas” estuvo inestable, pero ya estabilizándose otra vez gracias a Ustedes… no entiendo que paso . En fin, siento que estoy empezando a entender lo que es la humildad y la tolerancia, las dificultades me estaban ahogando hasta a niveles físicos y es la primera vez que estoy tan agradecida y tan cerca de mi Señor mas adorable, Nityananda, es a El a quien le oro en mi japa, piediendole...humildad y tolerancia para que no caiga en engaños, que me ayude a relacionarme, a servirlos, a cumplir la orden,no puedo sentir todavía la verdad , pero puedo seguir la orden eso es algo que entendí bien, pero oro para poder practicarlo, y los siento cerca y me están ayudando…mientras haga mis ejercicios espirituales va a estar todo bien. Es como en la universidad, si no entregas la tarea tenes una mala nota, entonces quiero ser una buena estudiante ,pongo todo de mi , pero se que todo no depende de mi, que aun mi inteligencia no esta resulta y ahí es cuando me refugio a que pueda cumplir con mi deber.</small>

<small> Estoy haciendo distribución de libros los días sabados y aveces también domingos en plazas y por la orilla del rio. Siempre me refugio en el mantra: Avashia rakshibe Krishna (T3 , NOI),me ayuda muchísimo. Retome el estudio de la satra, ahora estoy con el Isopanisad y el KB. Me refiero a “retomar” cuando estoy consiguiendo organizarme con un ejercicio constante, que este último tiempo estaba decaído.</small>

<small>Estoy aprendiendo también temas de la arquitectura, que me sirven  bastante. Aun  nadie sabe que soy devota , solo que no como carne y no consumo alcohol etcétera jejej.. Estoy abservando todavía, viendo que puedo hacer ,como. Algo que llamo mi atención es que la arquitectura en el mundo siempre ha tenido un referente o “movimientos” y que en este momento se estaría buscando un nuevo modelo, y es Oriente! Apuntan al sistema Chino e Indu según unos textos que nos dieron a leer… supongo que todo deriva del Vastu veda,en lo que es oriental. Me gustaría saber , no se si hay algo genuinode eso. Mis profesores son muy buenos parece que buscan la iluminación en la arquitectura ,no la mayoría pero tienen mucha vocacion..A ellos si les hable..les dije que veía la arquitectura como un tema muy amplio, y hable del Vastu veda como ejemplo ,no se mucho en realidad, pero les dije que es un sistema que deriva de los Vedas y que apunta a favorecer determinada ética y  individual y social,(varna asram),les dije que en esto el centro no era el hombre, como en el sistema occidental, sino que era el hombre en función de …. Todo lo que nos rodea, y que contenia el aspecto astrológico por ello y mucho mas, (lo teológico)  . Ellos me respondieron: Wuaaaa! Que bueno! Que era muy impotante lo que decía,ya que la arquitectura al ser muy amplia puede ser usada como una psicología preventiva y asi ayudar en aspectos sociales, me dijeron que me iban a dar libros para que lea, parecen filósofos. Esto sucedió cuando me presente ante mis compañeros y ellos, y tenia que decir porque estudiaba arquitectura, eramos muchos. Todavia no manejo mis emociones, y eso me impide actuar bien para Krishna, por ejemplo cuando hablaba mi corazón latia a mil por hora y eso me hacia olvidar lo que tenia que decir.. es molesto, pero es lo que tengo por ahora.</small>

<small>Gurudev también le cuento que les estoy hablando de krishna a mis antiguos amigas y amigos de la escuela media,son diferentes personas, solo con una pude hablar de Krishna, pero con otra quizás voy de a poco, les leo, y voy viendo que les puede llamar la atención. Están la mayoría estudiando en la Universidad también y es sorprendente porque la mayoría se volvió vegetariano, les vendo prasadam.</small>

<small>Con mi familia estamos bien, hubo unas caídas pero Krishna me dio la inteligencia para arreglar mi comportamiento, y ellos están contentos.  Es increíble como Krishna es el Maestro mas grande… yo no le puedo explicar la conciencia de Krishna a mi hermano de 14 años pero Krishna lo hace.. tengo unos pasatiempos increíbles.. Lo que me preocupa es que por ejemplo, si cometo un error con mi hermano o quien sea, automáticamente les cae mal Krishna, y eso me estresa  porque es claro que aun cometo muchos errores,  pienso que puedo hacer alejar a una persona de krishna en vez de acercarla y eso es muy fuerte,me estresa por momentos.</small>

<small>En relación a las danzas Radha Japa PJ dd, pronto estará empezando a dar clases, asi que estoy muy contenta. Tambien hay dos profesoras más, devotas. Pasaremos Goura Pournima en casa de Radha japa PJ.</small>

<small>Gurudev estoy  lamentando mucho no poder asistir a japa joe ni a sus clases, asi que espero pronto tener un medio personal para comunicarme con ustedes, es muy importante y muy misericordioso de su parte.</small>

<small>Por favor manténgame atada a sus pies;le envio unos bocetos de la descripcion del otoño :) mis reverencias  ,Feliz Gaura Purnima Guru maharaj</small>

<small>Su Sirvienta Yamuna Tiravana dd.</small>

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<small>GOOGLE by Monkey</small>
 

Hare Krishna , please accept my respectful obeisances , All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Dear Guru Maharaj

I tell a little of what happened at this time. My 16 best rounds are very good and also the 4 principles . My "get up early and finish your rounds " was unstable , but it stabilized again thanks to you ... I do not understand what has happened . Anyway , I feel I'm starting to understand what humility and tolerance , difficulties were drowning even physical levels and is the first time I'm so grateful and so close to my Lord more adorable, Nityananda , is to the gold him whom my japa, piediendole humility and tolerance ... do not fall for tricks, help me to relate , to serve , to obey the order , I can still feel the truth , but I can follow the order that is something I understood well, but gold to practice it, and feel close and are helping me ... as do my spiritual exercises will be all right. It's like in college, if you do not give the job you got a bad grade , then I want to be a good student, I put all of me, but everything does not depend on me, that even my intelligence is not and that's when I take refuge to enable it to fulfill my duty.

 I 'm doing book distribution days on Saturdays and sometimes on Sundays also squares and along the river . I always take refuge in the mantra : Avashia rakshibe Krishna (T3, NOI ) helps me a lot. Regain study satra , now I'm with Isopanisad and KB . I refer to " resume " when I am getting get organized with a constant exercise , while the latter was declined.

I'm also learning themes of architecture, serving me quite . Although nobody knows I'm devout , I just do not like meat and no alcohol consumption etc. .. jejej abservando 'm still seeing what I can do , like. Something that caught my attention is that the architecture in the world has always been a benchmark or " movements" and at this point would be looking for a new model , and it East! They point to the Chinese system and Indu as texts that we got to read ... I guess it all stems from Vastu Veda, in what is oriental . I wonder , if something is not genuinode that. My teachers are very good seems to seek enlightenment in architecture, but most have no vocation .. A lot of them if they speak .. I told them I saw architecture as a broad topic , and talk of Vastu ban as an example, not much really , but I told them it is a system derived from the Vedas and pointing to favor certain ethics and individual and social , (varna ashram ) , I told them that this was not the middle man , as in the Western system , but was based on man .... Everything around us , and which contained the astrological aspect for it and much more, ( theological ) . They said to me Wuaaaa ! That good! It was therefore important what he said, because the architecture to be very wide can be used as a preventive psychology and social aspects also help , they told me they would give me books to read , speak philosophers. This happened when I stand before my colleagues and they, and had to say that studying architecture , we were many. We do not control my emotions , and that prevents me to do well for Krishna , as when he spoke I was beating a mile a minute heart and that made me forget what I had to say .. it's annoying , but it's what I have for now.

Gurudev also tell you that I am talking about krishna my old friends of the middle school , they are different people, with only one could speak of Krishna , but another perhaps I go a little, read them , and I saw that they you can get attention. Most are studying at the University and is also surprising because most became vegetarian , I sell them prasadam.

With my family we are well , we had a few falls but Krishna gave me the intelligence to fix my behavior, and they are happy . It's amazing how Krishna is the greatest teacher I ... I can not explain consciousness of Krishna my brother 14 years ago .. but Krishna I have incredible hobbies .. What worries me is that for example if I make a mistake with my brother or whoever, automatically drops them bad Krishna , and that stresses me out because it is clear that even I make many mistakes, I think I can do to remove a person from krishna instead of closer and that is very strong, I stressed at times .

Regarding Japa Radha dances PJ dd , will soon be starting to teach, so I'm very happy. There are also two teachers , devout . Goura Pournima spend at home Radha japa PJ.

Gurudev 'm regretting much joe unable to attend classes or japa , so I hope soon to have a personal way to communicate with you , it is very important and very gracious of you.

Please keep me tied to her feet, sent him some sketches of the description :) my obeisances Autumn , Happy Gaura Purnima Guru maharaj

Your Maid Tiravana Yamuna dd .

HpS - ASA - Wow. Long letter. but nice. We read it like 87% Very nice!!!!!  You just continue like this and Krsna will give you more and more help to be in intense Krsna consciousness.

Noticias y dudas

11 years, 4 months ago by Bhaktin Belen S. in Other

Hare Krsna Maharaja! Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!! Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Espero se encuentre bien. !! Aquí, Belen desde Buenos Aires - Argentina    ---   .U.

Por un lado..... En el BG 9.29 acerca de la reciprocidad entre el devoto y Krsna.. Dice "La reciprocidad del Señor no se debe considerar que se encuentra bajo la ley del karma".. mi pregunta es, cómo sabemos si estamos teniendo una real relacion con Krsna o si estamos actuando y teniendo reacciones bajo la ley del karma?

            HpS - Different answers at different levels. AGTSP. A Goswami is in touch with the supersoul. A new devotee takes instruction from Prabhupada's books and Guru. Chanting 16-rounds is not a product of Karma. It is a relation with Krsna and He will personally make it hard, easy etc.

BG 9.28 PRahupada habla de los sannyasis, de que aquellos que dedican su vida al servicio del Señor se deben considerar completamente liberados en el presente y en el futuro, su ida al hogar, de vuelta a Dios, está garantizado. Pero en el curso de discípulos me explicaron que los maestros espirituales no se liberan del ciclo de nacimiento, enfermedad, vejez y muerte hasta que no liberan a todos sus discípulos. Es decir, vuelven a reencarnar en este mundo para liberar a sus discípulos. Entonces no me queda muy en claro.

        HpS - There is a letter to Brahmanda where Prabhupada says that if the disciple follows the standard of the vows then the Guru is obliged to come and help him if he doesn't go back to Godhead in one lifetime. But if he is not following then the Guru is not obliged. So, if he is following the he should go back quickly. Even if the guru has to come back he doesn't come back under the influence of Maya. It is like a Doctor coming into the hospital to help a patient on his day off, his vacation.

BG 11.8, Prabhupada dice en el significado que Arjuna es el comienzo del parampara.. pero no entiendo a qué se refiere. Ya que Arjuna no está dentro del parampara...

HpS - There are many Paramparas, from Laksmi, Shiva... We belong to the Brahma sampradaya. But that goes through Vyasa deva and Vyasa deva gives us the BG. So in that sense Arjuna is the beginning of the Parampara because Vyasadeva takes the BG from Arjuna.

En cuanto a cuestiones personales... mantengo las 16 rondas diarias, los principios y el servicio me cuesta bastante.. Si bien lo hago, me cuesta relacionar la acción en sí de lo que hago con la causa, que es Krsna.. Como puedo mejorar esto?

                HpS - No entiendo. Hablo espanol como un burro. poco subtil para mi!!

Muchas gracias!

Hare Rama!

HpS - Grrracias su carta, sus austeridades!!!

Jayanta/Madrid

11 years, 4 months ago by jayanta in Personal Sadhana Reports

Querido Gurudev: Pamho. TgSP y sus seguidores fieles.

Espero que se encuentre bien cuando reciba este mensaje y que su entusiasmo por Krisna vaya en aumento.

Sadhana estable y tranquilo. Por el Templo hace tiempo que no vamos, desde la Asamblea General donde fuimos desterrados al bosque de Navalakunda.  No nos sentimos queridos en el Templo y tampoco nos sentimos bienvenidos. Tampoco nos sentimos escuchados. Las autoridades ni tan siquiera se molestan en contestar las cartas o sugerencias.

Desde mi perspectiva, los que no compartimos los puntos de vista de los administradores actuales somos vistos como enemigos y parece que prefieren que no vayamos. Avesa Rupa y Adi Ras  ya no son miembros de ISKCON Madrid y Purnamasi y yo somos miembros no-activos y, de momento, tambien miembros no presentes; Jagamohan tomará una decision cuando vuelva de India. La congregación a quedado mas dividida que antes y yo, despues de 17 años de servicio al Templo me siento como un extraño en el mismo. Todo es por la misericordia de Krisna  aunque puede que eso no signifique que sea el principal deseo de Krisna.

En lo personal estoy mas tranquilo y estoy contento con mi nuevo estatus social.

Sin mas y esperando pase un buen Goura-Purnima se despide

 su aspirante a buen-sirviente

Jayanta das

GOOGLE TRANSLATE:

Dear Gurudev : Pamho . TGSP and his faithful followers.

I hope you are well when you receive this message and enthusiasm for Krishna is rising.

Sadhana stable and quiet . At the Temple you have not come, from the General Assembly where we were banished to the forest Navalakunda . We do not feel loved at the Temple and we are not welcome. Nor do we feel heard. The authorities did not even bother to answer letters or suggestions.

From my perspective , those who do not share the views of the current directors are seen as enemies and seem to prefer not to go . Rupa avesa Ras Adi and are no longer members of ISKCON Madrid and Purnamasi and I are non- active members and , so far, also members not present ; Jagamohan make a decision when I return from India. The congregation to become more divided than before and , after 17 years of service to Temple I feel like a stranger in it. Everything is by the mercy of Krishna but that may not mean that is the main desire of Krishna.

Personally I'm more relaxed and I 'm happy with my new social status.

No more waiting and pass a good Gaura - Purnima goodbye

 Your aspiring servant good -

Jayanta das

HpS - ASA - Jaya. AGTSP. paoho. Honestly I don't know the details of the situation in Madrid. I am not there, but the basic principle is like you say, just work on your own spiritual life 100% and then you will naturally see how to relate to others.
Ultimately it is Krsna, Prabhupada's Temple, so we try to deal with things but we also stay in touch with devotees and the situation in every part of ISKCON in a general sense. When I have problems like this, and I do, then I always remember that Prabhupada says a devotee does not become his enemies enemy. I try to think what I can do to help the situation. If I am right then, I am right and others are just confused. How can I try to help them. That's all I can do.

In even an extreme situation Krsna wanted Draupadi to go through all these problems. He did not try to solve the problem, but he had His plan in the long term.

Reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all!

I And Mine

11 years, 4 months ago by jaynityananda in Other

<big>Dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your grace.</big>

<big>In my meditation on gita chapter 12 i ran into a difficulty. Mother Urmila's explanation of the bhakti path in 12.8 - 9 - 10 is that in 10 the focus is on working for Krishna to attain peace, in 9 it is trying to fix the peaceful mind on Krishna (abhyasa-yoga) in order to get the desire for Krishna, and 8 is raganuga (as mentioned by Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur). </big>

<big>If i'm not being karma-yoga-oriented, i find myself on level 10. The idea is that i should work for Krishna. Krishna is my boss. He is the proprietor. My difficulty lies in how i feel towards property. When i worked in the office, i had a computer, which was for me, but not mine. That i could feel as not mine. I had a different relationship with that computer as with household stuff that i have bought with earned money. That does feel like it is mine. Or at least, there is a different relationship. Now my inquiry is this. How can i work in the mood of not being the proprietor if i actually do feel like that? To put it in another way, how do i get to the point of feeling things aren't mine, but Krishna's property. Perhaps i'm overcomplicating simple matters, and all these things can be solved by prayer and Krishna's mercy. </big>

<big>AGTSP - By regular Deity worship. Have Deity of Krsna in your house or Temple and then connect everything with Him. When you buy new clothes put them in front of the Deity and say, "We have these new clothes for your servants, are they correct?".</big>

<big>And He will say, "Little fancy aren't they??"</big>

<big>And you will say, "Yes, its a fact", and take them back and get something a little more appropriate.</big>

<big>The regular process of Diety worship is essential in the neophte and grhastha stages and it works!!</big>

<big>I hope you are doing well, both physically and spiritually.</big>

<big>Your servant,
Raghava-pandita dasa</big>

Advice to Romeo and Juliet

11 years, 4 months ago by hps in Special Category B, Hot Topics

We so often hear about men and women who get into an informal, accidental relation and then get abandoned and don't know what to do.

Here are some ideas.

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AGTSP paoho I guess the basic principle is that this is Kali-yuga. We are all alone, but we take some kind of artificial, cheating shelter by political co-operation with others sometimes and feel protected.

When we formally took Sannyasa then the real situation actually hit us. At first I was just staying and working in my little cave in the Berkeley Temple, but I could feel the subtle politics, so we started to travel and stay with different devotees around the Bay Area. This is Kuticak and then Bahudak. The stages of Sannyasa were so natural.

Then even that was not full surrender to Krsna so in ~January 1990 we took off on Parivrajack. We had just enough money to go and no more. It was frightening, but we were pretty convinced that Krsna was there. This was our duty. So we did it and one thing after another worked out and we have been traveling all over the world since then, ~1990, with no money or shelter except from Krsna.

At one point we arrived in New York in the snows of Winter and could stay with Professor Sankar Sastri for a few days but we really had no place to go after that. We did not agree with the way the BI or other Temples were doing things and we refused to compromise our principles. We finally decided that if there was no option we would just go sit behind some hand-ball board in a public park and freeze to death in the snow and let our body be found in the Spring.

Then, we got invitation to come again to Peru and it was not a long-term solution but it was a wholesome thing to do and then we expected that Krsna would arrange another engagement after that, but... the basic principle is that we have to be ready to leave our body if there is no service for us here. 

Read the verses about when the Pandavas leave:

http://vedabase.com/en/sb/1/15

So that is the real principle. Unless you are ready to give up your body for Krsna you will always have to make compromises with the Witch and She is delegated with the task of causing your trouble.

As a Sannyasi, yes, we can't get into all the details of this, but a general principle is that a lady or gentlemand only has intimate relations with their husband or wife. If one has intimate relations with someone he is she is his or her husband or wife.

You can think like that. Then the embecile left you to look for some other associate, O.K. She's an embecile, doesn't understand what a great person you are (Ha! Ha!).

And your attachment, lamentation etc. is natural, but what can you do? What can you do when your mother dies?

Well, you can do a lot... your mother is not dead, your "wife" is not dead. You can try to understand what to do for the welfare of all, not just your self, given the current situation.

O.K?

Don't try to be patient more than enthusiastic. Do something nice for everyone.