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Oink! WHooooopPPP! Here we are the same as yesterday. Body is a little better. No stomach upset etc. Still dark outside. OOOOOOO.V.OOOOOO
We just answered, wrote, 25-letters on Yahoo and Blog. Such nice reports of preaching, book distribution, personal Sadhana!
We have other work but we just can't get to it.
We met with Upendra Das by telephone from VRNDAVANA for one hour for our BhVai studies.
We gave class for Hawaii, SB 1.2.17 for 1.25 hours.
Cooked for Lord Nrsmha Deva.
And learned a little about the Bermuda Triangle and Rasputin.
Srimad Bhagavatam puts us in such an incredible position to understand and USE material nature.
O.K. Off to NGD's home. 7.30PM is evening program there on Friday. . .
Hari Bolo! Hari Bolo!
Please, accept my respectful obeisances maharaj
All obeisances to Srila prabhupada
All obeisances to HanumatPresaka Swami
Hare Krishna maharaj
I am David Leyton of Santiago de Chile. Sorry for the absence but i have a problem of internal communication (I am very discouraged and sad) and my memory it is so bad.
How are you maharaj?, when you coming to Chile?
HpS - Jaya! So nice to hear from you. If you are depressed that is best time to write!. www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.txt has our calender!!! We get to Chile like 8-weeks from now!
My Sadhana report it is, i am chanting 16 rounds, everydays (only two days when i was very sick) keep my four principle (i have a girlfriend that i love so much and i live with her). i don't a service in the temple. i remember you every days, i have your picture of him in my altar to Srila Prabhupada caitanya sr, Laksmi and radha krishna.
I am very sorry for i not write you.
Today i had a good day, i was initiated in reiki, i did a therapy (8 sesions) and the therapist offered me introducing me to also do therapy, even I told her she could not take her as a teacher as this you are my master and I said no matter, but I would use to heal myself and others who do not sing will do krishna.
I'm sorry if I offended at some point but I tend to make mistakes.
I miss you maharaj
Haribol maharaj
HpS - Jaya! AgtSP!!! No offense. We usually get depressed because the energy in the body in droping. We need lunch etc. But also, depression is sign of intelligence. Anybody who doesn't know, Krsna, who is not engaged in Bhakti-yoga will naturally be depressed. Without Krsna we are subject to death, humiliation by wicked greedy people.
Is very depressing.
But as we learn how to do regulated service then we can always be happy, bright future!
What is Reiki? We know a little but not much. Is there a parampara? Is there an idea of who is the patient? Are we this body?
AgtSP!!! We wait your wise instruction.
Wish your recover from the spider bites maharaj
Dear Guru maharaj
Please accept my dandavat pranams. All glories to Srila Prabhupad.
I wish you speedily recover from the spider bites maharaj. You might already know this, but I was thinking if applying coconut oil might help.
HpS - Not sure what [AGTSP!] was the stimulous, but the more ultimate cause is that we are 70% pitta at least, and that was out of order because of too much psycho-social disorder, diet etc. When we changed that it started to reduce. Over our whole body.
I am progressivelly successfull in chanting my rounds and following all regulative principles.
Wishing you speedy recovery maharaj
your aspiring servant
Nataraj
HpS - Where are you? Dallas???
"By bhajana-kriyā one attains freedom from the contamination of materialistic life. He no longer goes to a restaurant or hotel to taste so-called palatable dishes made with meat and onions, nor does he care to smoke or drink tea or coffee." NoI Seven.
Prabhupada makes a clear standard for us. Compared to other religions and yoga groups ISKCON, Prabhupada, Has a high standard, but we get the real result, no?
Also the regulative principles are not just something mechanical. We follow them because it makes Krsna happy.
There are three ways to do things:
The right way,
The wrong way and,
Krsna's way! More news... your Yatra??...
Question - influence of prasadam prepared by others
Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
If somebody who is not pure devotee is in the situation when he needs to take prasadam cooked by other devotees (e.g. temple, sankirtan van, festival), is there way how he can get immune to receive cook's mind or mood?
I found myself sometimes my mood changes or some non-standard pictures / throughts appear in my mind sometimes which seems to be connected by eating prasadam prepared by others.
Somebody in my country previously told: "Cook is hidden temple president."
One could think that when food is offered and become prasadam it will be transcendental. Is consciousness hidden in food caused by wrong attitude during offering or during eating prasadam?
Your servant Prahlad-nrsmha das
HpS - ASA -- BIG topic. We answer for you and 6,000 more people. Maybe print essay and send to Barrack Obama.
1. Hari bolo!
2. More Hari Bolo!
3. NOI.... page 45. visayera anna khaila. If we take food cooked by a visayi, material enjoyer, our mind becomes wicked. Look up source of citation in CC and I bet you will find very nice discussion of the subject there!
Yes, it is transcendental if properly offered but still some difference. Prabhupada talks about his mother's kitchen and explains that she would cook as she cleaned, so when the bhoga left for the offering there was just one, two minutes to clean up the kitchen, not that the plates, very nice and neat, would go to the altar and the kitchen would look like the dancing place of Lord Shiva at the end of the cosmic manifestation! That chaos will be in the offering, no?
He said she demanded all the pots be shining and if not, "Back to the cleaning girls", then he says that if you honor prasadam cooked in a kitchen like that immediately you feel refreshed.
So there is some difference.
Just like there are a variety of devotees in ISKCON, so we have a certain level of respect for all of them and associate with some more intimately.
As a Sannyasi we get invited to a lot of dinners, by different people, so we have adopted a standard that Prabhupada mentions, 'If the cooks are completely clean (strict vegetarian) then, for Sankirtan purposes, it can be offered to the deity'.
Maybe a vaisya on the road will eat some vegetarian cooking, offer it, in a place that cooks hamburgers. He has different Dharma from a Sannyasi.
Krsna will protect us.
Sometimes you have to associate with little bit crazy fellow in ISKCON, but we do it.
O.K?
Question - subtle principles
Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
In your last report you mentioned:
Four principles gross AND subtle.
I would like to know what person can do to avoid subtle breaking of principles (e.g. lusty thoughts)?
Your servant Prahlad-nrsmha das
HpS - AGTSP. paoho. Is so nice to get your association, Mr. Web-master. Thank you so much for this Blog. We get constant comments that people read the letters and for us it is only possible way to maintain good communication! Thank you.
".....what person can do to avoid subtle breaking of principles (e.g. lusty thoughts)?" - In some respects NOTHING!
We heard that Kavi-chanda Swami asked Prabhupada when he was a b'cari, how can I avoid thinking about illicit sex, and Srila Prabhupada responded that because of the birth he had taken [we have taken] he [we] will not be able to stop thinking about illicit sex, but if we engage in devotional service we will be able to tolerate the agitation.
So, that is one aspect. We Western dogs will have these thoughts up to the end of our life, but then there is good chance they will be washed away by the rage-ing river of death.
Another aspect is that we can certainly decrease them by Sato-vrtteh (NOI 3), following the Sadhana of the previous Acharyas. During Mangala arati is less likely to think of these things and if we condition our mind with Sattvik devotional practices... BooP! .. It will think of other things.
The whole process, all verse of SB... are the answer to the question in one sense.
1) Tolerate and go on. 2) Keep good life to reduce. 3) Don't 'entertain' them when they come.
If we have thoughts of having sinful relations with men, women, animals, trees.... then don't entertain the thoughts. "Oh, hello, lusty thought, please sit down in this nice chair. Have a cigar and some brandy. Let me talk with you, See you, Enjoy you, Invite your relations".
Chant loudly, engage in service and the unwanted guest will go away (sooner or later).
O.K.
Guess we see you in India soon!
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