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Saludos desde Brasil

11 years ago by nara narayana in Personal Sadhana Reports

All glories to Sri Krishna Caitanya and Sri Nityananda, All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
 
Dear Guru Maharaja Pleace accept my most humble and respectful obeisances, excuse the tardiness of my report.
I'm already here in Brazil with Danvantari Swami Maharaja, and already beginning the study of BG. Now we are in a city called Paraty, in the rural community of Goura Vrindavana with Purujotraya Swami Maharaja, is a very nice place in the middle of the moutains ``mat atlantica``, very quiet to study and good to do austerities:). We are helping some days in the construction of the new temple that Purujotraya Maharaja is making very high in the moutains. To Goura Purnima we participate in a pre inauguration of the temple, was very good. We will be here for 2 month and then go to Nova Gokula for two months more.
 
Guru Maharaja, I have distributed the 108 Upadesambrta, I had a nice experience. At first I thought it might become a book a little hard to the people but over the days the books started coming out. Shortly before finishing the marathon the  BBT said ; we have not any UP more ;;;;; I still missing UP give some to reach my goal,  so I started looking UP everywhere, exchanged with bramacaris, cookbooks (the most sought market) for UP and to accept a book with the cover a bit old, worn.
 
One day in Sankirtan, and without UP, i was talking to a boy and he says:
well ..and .. that book?
I said, what? this? noo, this is very destroyed, is a good book, but I did not show you because it is not in good condition.
Ahh he said, and speaks of?
I said, teach you how to Control your senses.
and he said ... ok I'll take it, and gave me 10 pesos.
 
I was very happy for all the people who took the books were good people, I feel closer to UP in sankirtan was very good for my spiritual health, all the time i was toking About Him, ...
Guru Maharaja want to learn to serve in some way, find my place and help you in the mission of Srila Prabhupada.
hoping you are well.
your  servant
nara narayana
                    HpS -          !!!!   AgtSP    paoho.   Ur letter is wonderful.  We can only offer our obeeisances.  You can see from the DTCs what is happening to us.           We distirbuted 25-UP  in  seminar here.   Make  book  distributors!!

Links between sudamerican culture and vedic culture

11 years ago by ananta108 in Other

 AGTSP!!

 PAMHO!!

Hare krsna Maharaja there'is one Russian devotee who lives in Mayapur en she is working on a Russian magazine so ,she has some questions for you in regard to the link between sudamerican culture and vedic culture here goes she posted and some questions thanks a lot ys Ananta Gouranga das

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I can say only that I'm doing seva in one Russian vaisnava magazine that is called "Golden Age".
There we're preaching some general things like pure life (vegeterianism etc); good family relationship; including spirituality in our ordinary lives; sattvic art; healthy food and life style habits... Also we tell about Vedic system of knowledge, about reincarnation, we give large quotes from Bhagavatam and from lectures on these topics.
We consider our audience as from teenagers to the 50-years old people, our magazine is for family reading and for putting it on the shelf and coming back to it again and again, not single-use reading. Our edition is distributed by sankirtana on the streets, in trays with free newspapers and among bhakti-vriksa members to introduce Vedic knowledge to their relatives and friends.
So this our material will be dedicated to the connection between Latin America and Vedic culture - as many Russian young people are very interested in some things from South America like tzolkin, ayahuaska and all the shamaniac stuff popular through the books of Huan Karlos Kastaneda. We'll give some parallel quotes from his books and from "Bhagavad Gita as it is" - because there are really many common things.
And what we need is some coherent story about some obvious traces of Vedic culture in Latin America that are left in the language, toponyms and names, in some traditions, in architecture...
I've heard something about pujas with garlands, insences and conches, some fire yajnas which are still held in some remoted places of South America. 
And there is information that near Arisona was found a big ancient city built with the principles of varnasrama, that breaks the impression of ancient Indians like the society of hunters and collectors. 
Also I heard about some Hanuman temples and swastica symbols somewhere in Brazil. Even about a Sanskrit name of some village lost in the Amasonia jungles. 
Moreover there is a story in Puranas about a tunnel through the Earth from Lanka to Brazil by which Kumbakarna imported the gold for his brother Ravana. If it's possible to quote it, it'll be perfect!
Usually there's no documentary proof of such information and no photos - and they would be the priceless material, like sensation for our western minds! In Russia people are used to think that our language has roots from the Sanskrit, and we never think that previously all the Earth had one language.
Also there are some questions more.
- How do the well-known Mayan calendar that "has finished" in 2012 correlate with the Vedic calpas?
- How it could turn that the ancient Vedic civilization with its highest moral standarts (vegeterianism, respect to all the living entities, ahimsa) turned into so cruel traditions right up to the human sacrifices? What influence did ancient American Indians have? 
- And one of the most interesting questions: did it happen by the pure accident that aboriginal pop of America became known as Indians? What did Columbus want in India when he started his travelling? And why did he decide that he'd reached his goal inspite of, seemingly, the total difference between India and South America?

                  HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP.  We have one book done by a South Indian Brahman when he visited India about 6-years ago.  It is the most rigourous that we have seen.  Other than that we do not have much specific knowledge about this. We know that there is a "Vedic" ambience in Peru and that attracts, allows, people to appreciate our ideas and benefit from them.        The book is in our locker in Lima and we are in Australia.  But maybe others have copies.           According to one map in the 5th canto everyting below the equator is Patala, no?   Then it is not surprising there were human sacrifices for subtle effect.  Jarasandha was doing these.

Good luck.         Of course, we try to continue to help with news to Ananta gauranga Das, and hope to hear any of this news you have.   Arisona is Arizona and is in USA.

Hare krsna!

11 years ago by Candrarekha Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

<cite>All glories to Their Lordships Sri Sri Gaura Nitay</cite>

<cite>All glories to Srila Prabhupada</cite>

<cite>P.A.M.H.O</cite>

<cite>Dear Gurudeva<img alt="" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/57.gif" title="" /></cite>

<cite>I hope your heart is improving and that its activities are well, and quieter.<img alt="" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a36.gif" title="" /></cite>

<cite>A couple of months  not send my report, sorry for that, as a disciple is the minimum I can do , I think this looks  not good on, so I can collect more activities to count hohoho.<img alt="" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/08.gif" title="" /></cite>

<cite>well, my report is very short, my life been nice, quiet, I'm singing my rounds, I'm reading a lot, I'm following my regulative principles, and much sadhu sanga ky jay!</cite>

<cite> these last months I have been without service in the temple, I have taken a little more time to be quiet.( I felt a little stressed and tense in the temple for a time)<img alt="blush" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/embaressed_smile.gif" title="blush" /><img alt="crying" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/cry_smile.gif" title="crying" /></cite>

<cite>I go regularly attend the temple programs, even taking hatha yoga classes there, I've also spent more time with my family, with my friends devotees.<img alt="heart" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/heart.gif" title="heart" /><img alt="yes" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_up.gif" title="yes" /></cite>

<cite>I also spent time traveling, now my normal activities retake in Santiago.<img alt="" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/38.gif" title="" /></cite>

<cite>sorry, poverty in my letter and my bad english!</cite>

<cite>I wish you a good morning for you guru maharaja<img alt="yes" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_up.gif" title="yes" /></cite>

<cite>my obeisances</cite>

<cite>Candrarekha devi dasi<img alt="" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a37.gif" title="" /></cite>

<cite>(Santiago -Chile)</cite>

                HpS - ASA ---- Jaya!!!  Very nice to hear from you.   Report is nice.   What are you reading?    Just collect a few interesting quotes and send them with your thoughts in your next report.  Your service sounds good!!            See you soon!

Urgente

11 years ago by Linda Janeth in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupara

Todas las glorias a usted Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis humildes y respetuisas reverencias 

Hace 3 semanas estuve en el templo de Guadalajara y hable con la madre Radhika, me recomendo que por lo menos este yendo 1 vez al mes al templo de 3 a 4 días para hacer servicio y para asociarme con los devotos. Este fin de semana voy de nuevo.

Estoy viendo la posibilidad de irme a vivir a Guadalajara, en unos 2 meses que es cundo termino de estudiar, en Uruapan la ciudad donde yo vivo, las cosas están muy pesadas, mucho crimen organizado e inseguridad y yo no quiero que mi hijo cresca en este ambiente. El papá de mi hijo es desfavorable y tenemos conflictos porque cuando va con él le da carne y el niño se enferma del estomago yo he habledo con él y dice que no le va a dejar de dar carne, que el niño solo tiene que decidir, ese es otro de los motivos por los que me quiero ir para Guadalajara pero no se si el papá de mi hijo lo vaya a permitir. 

Maharaja le ruego me de sus bendiciones para tener el valor de actuar y ser una buena guia en la vida espiritual de mi hijo. Hay ocaciones como en este momento en las que me siento muy sola y desprotegida, se que son arreglos de Krishna pero duele. 

Le ruego disculpe mis ofensas.

Su aspirante a sirviente 

Linda Janeth

             ASA -  Jaya... TlgaSP!         Gracias su carta.  Su situacion es tan, tan, comun en la era actual.  Yo personalmente pase por estas problemas y la solucion es... Canta Hare Krsna y sea feliz.   Como Draupdi en el juego de dados.   Ha!     Ha!    Ha!    Sea feliz.         Pero es un hecho.  Estamos en problemas por que estamos cuasando la misma problemas a otros anteriormente y ya hay la reaccion.  O.K.   Acceptamos lo que Krsna arregla.  Buscamos buenos amigos de todos maneras:  Fisicalmente, skype, telefono, cartas,  y cantamos Hare Krsna y podemos ver que aun en el juego de dados Krsna esta alla!

The Neo-metropolitano Chapter 2

11 years ago by Jagadananda Pandit das in Other

Radhe Syam jaya bolo Sita Ram!!

AGTSP!!!PAMHO!!!!

Gurudeva it has been a while so I´ll be brief. I got married two weeks ago with a devotee from Florida disciple, of Hrdayananda Maharaja. Also I´m starting to record a devocional album with some spiritual brothers and devotees from Buenos Aires. Learning to be a good person as father, as husband and as a disciple. Hoping you are fine.

I have read in a Gour Govinda Maharaja lecture that says that we don´t have to pretend to see the guru but to be open so the guru sees us. And I want to ask you, what can you see or perceive from me as a disciple. 

I want to say to you that as a disciple I want to thank you for your effort of always being generous in your kripa and that I always feel safe in my spiritual life and inspiration for having you as guru.

Trying to improve my japa, service, instrospection and relationship with the devotees.

Jagadananda Pandit das --------► The Neo-metropolitano. 

PD: Last year was your Vyasa Puja and my son Radhe Gopinath first year. :)

                  HpS - Jaya!   We have intitated like 315 people!   We have hard time remembering anything new at 65-years old!   You gotta stick your face in front of us with graphic examples of who you are more often!!!               Your Pappa is the wonderful devotee, Jiva Goswami from Gupta Vrndavana.... ?????  ...  Your son is one year old but you got married two weeks ago.    Hmmm?   Was son from other marriage?           Things seems to be moving fast.          That's O.K.  but just hang on to those Japa beads.               You see Prabhupada's hand in his bead bag all the time, not just during Japa hours.  Make some little beads, 25-beads, to keep in your pocket to chant extra rounds.  16-minumum but Prabhupada says, 128 ( 2x64) is nothing.  Haw!   Haw!    HaW.                 Super good luckn wiht your music and family.  Engage them in the service of your Deities!!                    I got more feeling from you picture, but not enough!   Turn up the volume.  Remind us who you are!          Jaya!!    .V.          Happy, Hare Krsna!!            !   Thank you!!  SO much....  All, best regards to your good wife.

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