DTC Sa(18)

10 years, 11 months ago by hps in DTC

               AGTSP!    (((paoho)))     We just arrived in Valencia (yes the worlds best oranges), Spain.   It is totally desorganizado aqui, but the Kaos is a nice Kaos and we are getting a 60% reasonbly plan for this weekend.  We have Prasadam and internet access in one house. (Looks like no Japa Joe).  Rest in another and then worship, Kirtana, Cultural (Indian Community) Programs and Initiation in another.

Then on Monday at 7.30AM we take a train to Barcelona because devotee had problems at last minute and could not loan us his car.  Ha!    Ha!           Hare!    !

           Had very nice meeting with Ministry of Education at 11AM by conference call. FInished New Vraja Mandala visit with 90% success.   Four hours drive to get here. Sleeping in the car like hanging from a tree. Now we have to post our BhVai notes and then teleconference at 3PM.        Hare Krsna   >>>======>

Pamho.PabloParikrama.

10 years, 11 months ago by PABLOPARIKRAMA in Personal Sadhana Reports, Other
AgtSP!
Agt Guru y Gauranga!
Agt All Devoties!
Hare Krsna!
Hola Maharaja, soy Bhakta Pablo del Parikrama, de España.
Espero que este super super bien en España en todos los aspectos.
Antes de nada pedirle perdon por no poder ir a verle, he intentado arreglarlo pero va a ser imposible finalmente. Pero voy a conseguir Internet  para comunicarnos por Japa Joe y otros. Es lo unico que puedo hacer. Voy a llamarle a su movil de España. Espero no molestarlo.
Tengo que pedirle un favor, Su Consejo.
-Hace 1 ó 2 años,  un familiar de un viejo amigo mio, es Vidente de la Virgen de Lourdes. Ella puede hablar con los antepasados y con su Guia, una Sirvienta de la Virgen.
Sin yo decirle nada y sin conocer nada de mi, le dijo a mi amigo que me dijera, que mi mujer Virginia no estaba dispuesta a que yo estuviera con mi hijo Varuna, y que por eso sufriria " grandes problemas ", y que rezara y pidiera para que cambiara la manera de pensar de mi mujer.
Yo no he estado rezando por que cambiara su mentalidad, pensando que con su nuevo matrimonio, el embarazo y el nuevo niño, estaba mucho mejor, fuera de  su depresion profunda. Pero creo que me equivoco.
-Mi pregunta es;     Como puedo rezar por mi mujer y pedir por Su cambio de mentalidad??
                                      Que tengo que rezar para cumplir el deseo de mi querida Virgen, Madre de Jesus.???
                                      La Virgen tambien la llama " mi mujer ". Voy a sentir siempre los pensamientos de Virginia por  nuestra union o desapareceran despues de los 5 años del Manu-samhita en los divorcios???      
Es muy duro sentir los pensamientos de otra persona que ahora solo intenta hacerme daño, y que ademas hace cosas muy feas.
Perdone por solo pedirle cosas y no ayudarle en nada. Intentare ayudarle en algo.
Hare Krsna!
                HpS - ASA ---   TlgaSP.   Hay muchas diferentes rayos del Sol, Dios.   Todos son buenos. No hay ninguna desacuerdo entre Jesus-cristo ni Srila Prabhupada.  Ambos solamente quiere el bien para todos.  Si vamos a tomar apoyo de Srila Prabhupada rendirse a Krsna para Kirtan de los Santos nombres es el mejor oracion. No tenemos que hacer algo especifica para adjustar la mente de otros. Krsna misma va a tomar responsibilidad para nuestra familias todo. Pero.....  Si Krsna quiere que estamos trabajando para El, como Krsna quiere Arjuna luchando para El, muy bien, va a instruyir nosotros hacer, rezar, algo especifica.  Tiene que preguntar del santo Cristiano que estan enviando esta mensaje a Vd. como orar para ella.

A.S.N.F (A Son Never Forgets)

10 years, 11 months ago by Patrak das in Personal Sadhana Reports

HARE KRSNA DEAR GURUDEVA…

all glories to Srila Prabhupada and U!!! 

pamho  _____0_

hope u ar ok…

first of all I would like to apologize because I don’t write so often…

actually I feel more comfortable when talking to U on Skype

 

By the mercy of Radha and Krsna we have interesting experiencies in our life… we just try to understand and accept them as they are (their mercy)… <img alt="" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/04.gif" title="" />

Our sadhana (16R,4P, 4AM, worship, reading) is ok… we would like it to be better so we are working on that…. a little bit away from devotees because of our ego… but keeping our service in pujari twice a week so it give us as a good excuse to see them and associate with some of them…

As I told U before I got a part-time job cooking for a family..i really feel it is Krsna’s hands cause for me it is very difficult to get a job…  it is going very well I have the opportunity to give them prasadam…

 Bhakti Sastri is great!!! I am not a good teacher but the students are so nice that I learn a lot from them… we have a very good group of matajis in Chile that culminate the course this year, and one godbrother from Tarapoto who started this year…

Brother Ass… well we can only say that we are here by Krsna’s mercy and of course yours too…  as u told me before this body doesn’t get a disease, this body is a disease

 Some projects for studying  but let see what krsna wants from us…

forgive me again for not writing so often on the blog…

thanks a lot for your patience…

always thinking a way to be useful for ur Sankirtan!!!

your servant Monkey warrior

Patrak Das <img alt="" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/22.gif" title="" />

     ASA -  Jaya!   AGTSP.     paoho.  Yes, SKype is nice, but is also so important to post news here.  Your news is very nice.  This is new for us a lot.   What about NIMSAR?  There was going to be an "Identity" meeting with your CMDD, RDD et al and then you were going to contact us after you discussed what were the purposes, members etc of NIMSAR.   We called LAD. Health is so much better.  We try to get computer for him, internet!          Really Krsna wants us to be fully engaged to our limit!

  SUch nice fotos!!!!

Nitai Gaura

10 years, 11 months ago by GauraLilaDas in Other

Dear Srila HP Swami Maharaj

Sri Sri Guru Gauranga jayatah

Long time no speak! 

Some more Srimad Upadesamrta questions for your Holiness :)

I really appreciated Srila Narayana Maharaja's translation of Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada's commentaries of Upadesamrta on your recommendation! Very helpful, but I'm wondering what your feelings on BR Sridhar Maharaja's translation/commentary?

          HpS - AGTSP  paoho.  I think I answered this in another letter that you sent. We just started to read Sridhara Maharaja's comments. They seem nice, inspiring.

Also, what is the signifigance of the white beadbag? is it important? some gaudiya camps say that this is a signifigant external part of a gaudiya devotee... I know that Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada used a white bead bag and all other acaryas seem to have...

ok, thank you for your time, come to dallas real soon!

your servant, Gauralila Dasa (Rtadhvaja Swami)

             HpS - Yes!   We answered this in another letter.   What usually happens is that we answer the letters between 3-10 days.  Usually we keep it to three. So, if there is no response in that time don't worry.  If it is URGENT.  Put URGENT in the Subject field.  We wait for your responses!

Hare Krsna Guru Dev

10 years, 11 months ago by Gopal C Biswas in Other

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Guru Dev, There is a problem! I am not able to recollect the slokas but i am able to
    recollect the essence of slokas.

    But devotees say, i should be able to recollect the slokas also. So please advise.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

                             HpS -  Hmmm?    AGTSP   paoho.   Actually Prabhupada said that some Brahmanas are Sastric Brahmanas and others are Pujic Brahmanas. They worship the Deities but may not remember slokas so well.  The same realization comes from reading as from worshiping.  Can you memorize other things?  Eg. things for your job, programing??

Sannyasa

10 years, 11 months ago by aja.govinda in Personal Sadhana Reports

Dear Guru Maharaj:

Please accept my most humble dandavata pranama. Jaya Srila Prabhupada and Jaya ASA, NIOS, and Bhati!

I will be returning to the USA in the end of June.

             HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP...  We will be in Denver then.  3 July we go to New Biharvan!

My parents are asking me to continue the treatment prescribed by Vaidya Nahar Singh of Hodal, a town which is 1 hour by car from Vrindavan. He is a nadi-vaidya (Ayurvedic doctor who diagnoses diseases through the pulse) and has Sanskrit Ayurvedic books based on which he cures many diseases. Nahar Singh has said that his treatment will continue for at least 10 months for me and he can only give one month's medicine at a time. However, I cannot stay in India that long as my Tulane professor is awaiting my starting the postdoc. My dilemma is that my mother wants me to stay in India indefinitely till I get treated, however, I have promised my Tulane professor that I will start the job in end of June.

Maharaj, you are so merciful for giving pearls of wisdom to us. It is a very interesting point that you mentioned - Why not get to Sannyasa???   Kardama Muni did it?    It is based on Yukta vairagya not impersonal renunciation. Renounce to become more intimate with everyone! - This is something I never thought about. I always thought that this stage is always going to be too advanced for me. However, you have clarified my vision that when a Vaisnava performs tyaga, they don't give it up, but they give up the desire to enjoy it. We need to renounce our desire to enjoy the world. The sannyasi gives up one small family to make the whole world his family. 

Maharaj, sometimes I feel that I am a theoretical devotee in the sense that it is easy for me to talk about the theory but bringing it into practice is so difficult. It is so difficult to give up the desire for enjoyment.

Aja

                    HpS - ASA --  Ha!    Ha!    Ha!                We see that a lot of our "material" enjoyment is just natural demands of the sense.   We think we are sleeping too much, but it is not a fact.  We have a different life and body than Rupa Goswami. The thing is too purify our enjoyment.  Probably there is good reason why we are addicted to a certain type of movies or sport etc.  Find out what it is and purify the attachemnt, no?

             2.  Medicine or PhD.   Why not ask the Doctor?????