Desde Chile

12 years, 5 months ago by Guna Manjari in Personal Sadhana Reports

AGTSP

AGTHpS

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja!

Thank you very much for your reply to my letter of October. Very inspiring about Houston Elementary School, hopefully here in Chile can do something similar one day, with Candrabhanu we thought it would be great to live in community with more devotees; find out from other countries living well, for example in Brazil.

Candrabhanu is finishing up the thesis, to finish his college career in social work, still working in a supermarket packing and Friday cooking for Srila Prabhupada Festival with two devotees, sometimes cooked for some parties and Vyasa Puja also, devotees trust their service as a cook.

For my part, I continue with the offering cooking service on Friday afternoon at SS. Gaura Nitai and Berfi and sandesh cooking for a week. Yesterday was exhausting but beautiful afternoon, as I cooked the offering so that he could eat subji maha prasadam, Bhakti Sundar Goswami Maharaja. Also Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra have been all this week in the temple, since last Wednesday was the first Ratha Yatra this year and November 3 this Sunday will be the second and yesterday I also made preparations for Them. I was very tired and so I plugged it into Joe Japa Saturday.

Well, I wanted to mention that I'm going to sankirtan and we are coming out with Fernanda Leiva (aspiring start with you), she helped me a lot the first day, as sankirtan did long ago and she is an expert :) It has been very inspiring and enriching the sankirtan and sadhu sanga with Fernanda too, I'm very happy. Thank you very much for your blessings and enthusiasm to continue doing so. Finally, here I send you some photos, Ratha Yatra truck on Wednesday, one of SS. Gaura Nitai temple and another yesterday in the kitchen of SS Gaura Nitai when preparing Berfi and sandesh sweets.

I hope you are in good health. Thank you very much for your effort every day to give your association through Japa Joe.

Please accept my humble obeisances.
trying to serve, Guna Manjari dd

            HpS - ASA --- AGTSP....   Paoho. Is so nice to hear from you and about Candra-bhanu Das and everyone. We will be in Chile en less than 8-weeks, no?  It is nice to visit other Yatras. You can even make an arrangement to trade service with devotees. Some couple that wants to visit Chile can do your service and you can go to their country and do there service for some time.
Narada Muni visited all the homes of Krsna in Dvaraka to see the Grhastha life of Krsna in different places. Then we can appreciate our own temple much more. Get ready for Goloka!!!

Thank you so much for your association in our Japa sanga.
We can all be birds in Radha-Krsna's garden at lunch and sing together for Them!! !

Nice fotos!!

Recordado Gurudev!

12 years, 5 months ago by Radha Japa in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Querido Gurudev!

todas las glorias a srila prabhupada! todas las glorias a sri sri radha madhana vihari!

Espero se encuentre muy bien y feliz en conciencia de krsna! trato de leer sus mensajes en el blog, me alegra mucho que se este cuidando. Gracias por su respeusta anterior!

 Ahora estoy leyendo el guerrero espiritual 2 de SS. Bhakti thirta Swami. El explica que estamos en una escuela de amor y que es realmente amor y lo que no es. yo tenia muchas preguntas acerca de lo que le conte en mi carta anterior. Vi que con algunas personas no tenia una relacion real. y no me sentia bien al ver lo malo de las personas. estoy viendo ahora lo malo de mi mism y al ver mis limitaciones, veo que ellas me alejan de krsna. Maharaja dice muchas cosas hermosas, una de ellas es:

uno puede amra de verdad y tener que alejarse por amor.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP  paoho. Muy bien oir de Vds. que significa "amra"

Me di cuenta que soy mas feliz amando, auqnue tenga que alejarme por el bien de la otra persona y el mio, que alejrame porque estoy enojada. Estoy entendiendo que es normal que todos tengamos malas cualidades por eso que estamos en este mundo. Pero si quiero salir de aqui y ayudar a otros a salir tengo que asociarme con almas que me ayuden. Hay muchos motivos para amar a personas " no tan agradables" todos tienen hermosas cualidades y sino las  puedo ver puedo amarlas porque son parte de krsna. Entonces me doy cuenta que cuanto mas siga mis practicas espirituales, mi sadhana,etc, mas podre amar a lrsna y por lo tanto tambien a todas las personas. Le cuento todo esto por que queria que sepa como me siento ahora, estoy mucho mejor.

        HpS - ASA -- Y mas que estamos dando amor a personas que no nos gusta mucho como acto de voluntud, el mas que podemos ver y eliminar los malas cualidades en nosotros!

Mi hijo esta muy bien, gracias a krsna, ya camina y esta muy hermoso e inquieto, cuando baño a las deidades, le gusta estar a mi lado y mirar como lo hago, como los levanto y acuesto, etc. les sonrie mucho. Franco le hizo una cuna a gopla  nuestra deidad.

Gracias por desear que vivamos en una comunidad de devotos, a mi me encantaria!! por ahora trato de vivir  mas en el presente. Nos estamos organizando ahora para comenzar con nuestrao proyectos el año que viene. ya tenemos el pasaje del 30 dic al 6 de enero a buenos aires, para poder tomar Su asociacion!

          HpS - Vamos a Mar de Plata para Viernes y Sabado. PUede hablar con Ambarisa Das de los detalles. Vamos a poner en Kapi Dhvaja.

Estoy muy inspirada con la danza, sigo ensayando por las mañanas cuando gopalito duerme despues de mangalartik y rondas.

Gracias por su tiempo y Asociacion! Que pase un hermoso mes de damodara en compañia de Gopal!

Intentando ser su discipula: Radha japa prati jalpa dd.

P.D. nuestra compu casi deja el cuerpo.. tenia algunos fotos para enviarle , sera para la prox carta!

      HpS - Hay una devota se llama Yamila, regresa de programa de Dhanvantari Swami in Brazil y ya es con su familia en Cordoba. Pienso Vd le gustaria mucho encontrar a ella y posible ella le gusta mucho comenzar aprender baile. Ya es alumno en la universidad.

Revenencia a su "Swami"!!!!!   Ya un altar para Gopal!

October

12 years, 5 months ago by jaynityananda in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Dear Gurumaharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I wish to report bookscores from last month. I went to the closest town some afternoons, and distributed 9 big, 10 med, 7 small and 1 dvd. No gita's, but had good meetings and inspired several people without them taking a book. It was a while ago since i went out, and it was great! Very enlivening and cleansing. I desire to go more often, perhaps in small groups with stationary harinam, and bookdistributors and prasadam. Nice idea, but so far i haven't been able to execute much of my sankirtan ideas. Perhaps when spring arrives this one can actualize.

Other than that, listening very inspiring and helpful classes from Vrindavan dham on the chapters of king Puranjana / Pracinabarhi. Practically they are my siksa shelter. Started working fulltime yesterday. My schedule is irregular, from very early till very late, but the work has its advantages. I feel enthusiastic about it.

Please forgive me for my kanistha shortcomings. All good fortune in your busy-ness.

Following in the back,
Raghava Pandita dasa

             HpS - ASA - Jaya! Hare Krsna!  "Nearest town" - where do you live? In the forest with Hansel and Gretel?  Yes, working is chance to meet people! I told you how Jayananda Das did Sankirtan as a Taxi walla!  Now, by the mercy of Srila Prabhupad and Lord Nityananda you can do more!!!

My humble obeisances

12 years, 5 months ago by Candrarekha Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

All glories to sri sri gaura nitai

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

P.A.M.H.O.

Dear Gurudeva!

Always praying to Krishna, you find yourself very well in your service, and your health.

This time I want to ask some questions

In this world, we find it hard to be really honest, we are full of errors and difficulties, and I think personally being devotees, we have the advantage that we want to enhance awareness and interest us for a better life.

Being fallen as we are, we can help people who are devotees who want to improve, but somehow or another, your lifestyle, work ou any coisa impedes this progress?

How I can help, what is the best way to preach, without them being further away from Krsna or feel a pressure?
 
If I do not feel qualified to guide these people, I should only pray to Krishna, and Krishna is asked to reveal more in their hearts and who come more to the instructions of Srila Prabhupada?
 
and whats is happening with a person who has knowledge of all that Srila Prabhupada explains, and yet not follow their philosophy?

 

Thanks for reading my questions Gurudeva, Please accept my most humble obeisances again and excuse my bad English too ...

Ever hope In This Life, I Can serve In A Good Way to you.
 
your aspiring servant
Candrarekha Devi Dasi
( Santiago- Chile)
            HpS - ASA - Jaya!  AGTSP.  paoho. I can't understand your question in exact detail. I think is best to write in both Spanish and English and then we can follow better, but from what I understand is very good question.
Basically these questions are answered so nicely in Texts 7 and 8 of Upadesamrta.
There are two kinds of third class devotees, kanishta adhikaris, those who want to advance and those who do not. If a third class devotee is willing to take instructions from Prabhupada and the books, then we should do the austerity of associating with them and giving them advice so that they are animated to advance. Basically we can really help people depending on our own level of advancement. An ambulance medic can get someone so that they are stable for 20-minutes and rush them to a real doctor in the hospital. 
So we have to advance.
If someone does not listen to our intelligence and not even scripture and acharya then we have to let Krsna preach to them through the external energy etc.
 
If anybody asks this in the future I will tell them to ask you for the answer.
-[;D} =

try to follow your steps

12 years, 5 months ago by AKD in Personal Sadhana Reports

Please accept my humble obeisances 

Dear Gurudev

I'm in the service to give educational programs for the comunity on New Nilacal Mandir, I send my plan for education develoment in Guadalajara, I visit other devotees of Aguascalientes city where there are a Bhakti Vriksa Program, and try to take good asociation with devotees of Durango, Uruapan, Queretaro, and Leon.

Try to be a devotee, chanting good rounds and taking properly association. it's hard to be an representative of S. Prabhupada or exalted devotees like you but we need start, and  now we take help of good friends that are try to preaching in some pleaces.

On Aguascalientes we make a festival on the public park, and on Uruapan study with the devotees how to do for stay on the devotional path (reading and studing Prabhupada books, chanting properly with asosiation, start on mangalarti every day, take comon sense)

I keep the program of the records about the new devotees and making presentation for kids, studens and general people, we take participation on sanga programs and siksa program, of Congregational ministry.

On MED I send a mail for devotees of chile with plan of education.

Thanks a lot for your good example and mercy, your crew member Aniruddha Krishna Das

           HpS - AGTSP. Very nice news. If you continue like this all the contamination in you heart will disappear and your dormant love for Krsna, and your eternal service will reawaken. You will see Krsna even in this body. I hope you are in touch with Bhakta Rodrigo en Chile. He is member of surrealist community in Chile and has nice preaching platform with them. It has many people looking for the 'real' essence of life.

Sankirtan/Temple Activity Reports

12 years, 5 months ago by Jagamohan in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Hare Krisna, mi querido Gurudeva Hanumat Presaka Maharaja todas las Glorias a Srla Prabhupada.

Mis actividades en el Templo siguen como de costumbre llego normalmente al Guru Puja y realizo diferentes servicios y estoy viviendo fuera. Los Hariboogies no estamos

encontrando locales para hacer conciertos, pero escribi a SS Indradiumna Swami y no pude comunicarme con el para asistir a sus festivales.

He sacado un billete para la India y estare 3 meses con Isvara Prabhu en su casa de Mayapur en febrero.

Su humilde sirviente Jagamohan

HpS - ASA --- Hare Krsna!!!   TlgaSP.   Muy feliz comunicar con Vd. Nosotros tambien estamos en India 9 Feb - 1 Marzo. Puede ver en www.jayarama.us/kd/cal los detalles. 16-23 feb en Mayapura.

Mangala arati para Srila Prabhupada y Krsna en casa cada dia!   Volver a casa!