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hare krishna gurumaharaja!

todas las glorias a Srila prabhupada! todas las glorias a usted! por favor acepte nuestras reverencias!

nosotros estamos en argentina ahora, la proxima semana viajando para ecuador a continuar con el servicio en el pujari. necesitamos de sus bendiciones!

sus eternos sirvientes gadadhara gosai das & pushpa priya devi dasi

hari hari gaura hari!!!

       HpS - ASA -  Mooo  Cha Cha Chas   Gracias su carta!   TlgaSP!!!     pfanrh.  Como esta?   Sadhana?       Claro, noticias de Ecuador?    De Guru mangala Das ... todos!     Mucho hacer!!!

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisnaces, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

To night I was on my work related issues and I have some free time (as I was kept on hold, waiting for others to finish their work) and I went to "jayarama.us" archives and when I'm reading (Vedic Vs Myth and optical illusion document), somehow I got  this question.

What is the ultimate goal of this life, "Knowing the truth" or "feeling the truth". What is the purpose of reading all these Sastra's, is it to gradually to raise to the level of "feeling". Knowing the truth or having the knowledge makes the "heart to respond instead mind".

Or serving the Lord, knowing that, he is Supreme or anything else beyond it, in this yoga.

Please pardon my ignorance in regards to the above question Maharaj. I'm trying to make a habbit of the reading the sastras on a regular basis, some how some days, I feel more motivated and some days more like just reading. How do I make the mind go beyond the lines.

Your humble servant

-Srinivasa from Richmond, VA

       HpS - ASA -  AGTSP!    paoho   Is so, so nice to hear from you.  More, more.  We have letters of recomendation for your inititation and for your good spouse and we will deal them more officially when we get to USA after June 1st.  Now we are in the last week of this four month traveling sankirtan!     We are in Spain and Monday we go for the education symposium in Belgium.

Your questions are very good.  Usually, in these industrialized societies we take "knowing" as what Prabhupada calls, "Jnana".  There is very nice essay on this in the Foreward to the Isopanisad, "What is Veda?"   Please read it.    Modern guys, science, is Rational Empiricism. That is Pratyaksa and Anumana as you read the Isopanisad essay.  We see - I know, I see it.   And we speculate - algebra, grammar, logic, on that perception.

    Feeling for modern man is usually feelings that relate to the body, stomach, etc.   When we talk about feelings in the heart it is coming to the fundamental feelings of the Vrajavasis for Krsna.  These dont relate t the body.  This is the ulitmate goal. In the beginning our heart is clouded so we "feel" in the heart through our intelligence, Buddhi, contemplation.  Its very close to the soul.

      So, the answer is, that the jnana, rational understanding that Sastra gives, is to help us get off the gross level of Karma, senses, work without understanding.   It is useful.  We need it.  This is jnana, knowing.  But the goal is feeling.  Not feeling in the stomach, but feeling in the heart.  And to start that will mostly be dhyana, meditation, contemplation. We will be able to read Prabhupada's books with attention. We don't have to understand so much.  We are there with them.

Is a little clearer?   Read the Essay at the start of the Isopanisad!

Hare Krsna gurumaharaja. Por favor acepte mis reverencias a sus pies y sean todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Es mi deseo que se encuentre muy bien y felíz. Se que es así por que está muy cerquita de Krsna. Yo todavía espero que terminen la casa, la está haciendo un devoto, me dijo 3 meses y van 10, huyy. Trabajando mucho con la ira. Leyendo el Bhagavatam y de La lujuria al amor de BTS., mis Deidades Jagannatha, Baladeva y Subhadra me ayudan mucho. Canto las 16 rondas y sigo los principios. Creo que Krsna quiere que deje de ser rebelde y me concentre en El, en el amor, darlo y recibirlo. Realicé que siempre me enojaba cuando algo no salía como yo quería, y ese enojo me alejaba del amor, de las personas, de conocerlas, de relacionarme, quitándome la posibilidad de un intercambio amoroso. Estoy aprendiendo a no enojarme. Mi corazón está muy sucio pero quiero mejorar. Esperando también para empezar a trabajar, cuando tenga la cocina lista. Haciendo hata yoga. Relacionándome con los devotos de aqui. Estoy contenta de vivir en el campo. Esperando su llegada. Muchas gracias por ser mi maestro espiritual, lo quiero mucho gurumaharaja. 

Aspirando a poder servirlo algún día, madre Campakalata dd.

HARE KRSNA! 

        HpS - ASA -  TlgaSP.   Campa de Cordoba, Ki Jai!   Muy bien oir de Vd.  Tenemos noticias del Mar de Plata y ya de Cordoba.   Vamos a ser muy bien informado en la busca para Sita Devi!    Eso es.  En NOI hay mucho de ira.  Claro: Yukta virodha krodha.  Puee encontrar en Texto 1 Significado?      Frustraction >>  Ira.   Entonces necesita ser ocupado en SU Sankirtan. Bien?  Entusiasmo es mas importante que paciencia per sin paciencia se convierta a pasion > ignorancia = ira.   Tiene que ser entusiasta cumplir la casa, su base de Sankirtan. Cual es la definition de entusiasmo por NOI?   Como puede aplicar a cumplir la Casa-Base de Sankirtan?      Como puede desarrolla su Sanirtan sin esperar para la casa??

Todas las Glorias a Sri Caitanya Maha Prabhu!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, nuevamente mis reverencias, esperando que la presente lo encuentre bien de salud, queria decirle que estamos haciendo Mangal Artik a las 4 : 30 am, siguiendo los 4 principios , cantando 16 buenas rondas y algunas rondas más.

En la lectura estamos leyendo el Caitanya Caritamrta "ADI LILA" cap 11 - Las Expansiones del Señor Nityananda, tratando de entender como es que Nityananda vino con 12 pastorcillos de vaca.  También estamos leyendo el Bhagavad - Gita cap 2 - Resumen del contenido del Gita.

También estamos repasando el Bhakti Sastri, pues pensamos que es importante para mejorar nuestra predica  en nosotros mismos.

Bueno Guru Maharaj esperamos verlo pronto, nose si en Perú ó en Bolivia, estaremos comunicandonos sobre reportes de Sankirtan y tal ves contemos algunos pasatiempos de Sankirtan.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj. 

Gadai Gauranga Das
 

HpS -  TlgaSP-   Muy bien.  Si, Abhirama Thakura es un Gopa!  Quien es en Krsna Lila?    Esperamos sus cartas con mucho entusiasmo.  Ha Ha!  Canto Cuatro es nuestra estudio. Daksa Yajna.  El era pensando por que estuvo occupado  en el Yajna mas importante para Visnu era el persona mas importante.  Cuidado no desarollar esta actitud en Sankirtana, no?!!!   Somos devotos ordinario occupado en el mas excelso servicio por arregla del Senor Caitanya.  El puede animar qualquiere en esta servicio.

Respected Guru Maharaj,

Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srila Prabhpuada.

Saw a post on Cartesian Dualism and Descartes: http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/3009 I have introductory level understanding of this through course era MOOC :-)

Basically Descartes thinks Mind and Body are made of different things. He thinks body is material and mind is made of immaterial stuff that doesn't occupy space (I suspect that he may have thought that mind and soul are the same thing). He was challenged by his disciple Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia through 'the problem of causation'. Her argument is that only physical things can move physical stuff therefore only physical stuff exists. I have some hand outs and slides of this that I can send you if you like.

Your servant

Srinivasacarya das

             HpS - AgtSP.  paoho.   Please send what you have.  For us Manas and Buddhi don't occupy gross space either, no?   Space is the first of the gross five elements and mind and intelligence can exist before the manifestation of gross elements. For example, chemistry is a different "body" of knowledge from physics but neither exists in gross space.  Where is Microsoft word, no?   It is an idea.  The soul becomes entangled in bodies of material ideas.

Hare krsna maharaj, pamho,agtsp

can you elaborate when you said "We have to train people how to have the right attitude. Once you have that, the thoughts and acts and possessions will follow." -- how to get this right attitude.

      HpS -   AGTSP  paoho.  Look at the last part of Introduction to NOI.   This phrase is there.  Then we have BG 10.10-11.    We get the attitude especially during the Brahma-muhurta.  That is the time to get good Buddhi, attitude.  Then after breakfast good plans, manas....         If we contemplate the Gurvastakam duing B.Muhurta. Sing it loudly, know what the words mean,  then that gives us a good attitude for chanting HK / HR  kirtan. which we should try to let massage our heart.

how do you maintain your health at such advanced age & such hectic travelling schedule.

      hps -  Ha!   Ha!    Ha!   (Ray)     We don´t.    We have to adjust.   But the regular Sadhana keeps us healthy.

at this moment we think we have both problem with our subtle and gross body in unexpected way, hence we asked you the above question.

regards,flying horse
 

        HpS  -  Thank you so much.   Flying Horse can mean the mind!    Is so nice to hear from you!!   Your baby will be just like you!