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URGENT!!!! Ratha Yatra Toronto Comittee

12 years, 3 months ago by Rashmin dd in Hot Topics
Guru Maharaja,
 
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
 
Again I write because I could not send you an e-mail. Apparently it is no longer in use, the one you gave me. This is the only thing I could think of to do. Please reply to Radha-bhakti dd ASAP via e-mail if you are using. I hope you can visit as I see that you are in America by that time- maybe you can sneak away for a weekend?
Sorry to send this here but, anyways. Hare Krishna!
 
your aspiring servant,
Rasa-mandali dd
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Hare Krsna dear Hanumatpresaka Maharaja,
 
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
 
Haribol! We are writing to you on behalf of the Toronto Ratha-Yatra Organizing Committee. This year, our festival is taking place on July 13th-14th, 2013. Maharaja, do you know your availability at this time? We were wondering where you will be, and if it might be possible for you to attend our festival?
 
 
Our vibrant parade cruises right through Toronto’s downtown core, with three glorious chariots and thousands of devotees. The festival continues on Centre Island, where the famous Festival of India continues to inform and entertain the masses, and where one can find Toronto ’s own unique features. Some of the highlights of our festival have included:
 
  • Ecstatic kirtan through Toronto 's famous Tunnel
  • Sumptuous Prasadam (Over 35,000 plates distributed each year!)
  • Q&A Tent
  • Yoga Meltdown - our Hare Krishna yoga festival!
  • Vegan Cooking Demonstrations
  • Award-Winning Entertainment
  • Dedicated Events for Children
  • An Area Dedicated to "Simple Living, High Thinking"
  • A Bhajan Kutir with Non-Stop Kirtan
  • A Pre-Festival event, which in the past has been held at Dundas Square ( Toronto 's equivalent to New York 's Time Square), or at the Temple featuring twelve hour kirtans with such kirtaniyas as HG Madhava Prabhu
  • ...and much more!
More than anything else however, Toronto ’s Ratha-Yatra presents an incredible outreach opportunity. There are countless people in this metropolitan centre that are in need of Krishna Consciousness. For this, we need your blessings and your association.
 
If there is a possibility that you can attend our festival, please reply to this email. Also, if possible, please inform us of where you might be arriving from.
 
Hoping to have the opportunity to serve you this summer.
 
 
Your servants,
 
Radha Bhakti devi dasi and Shyamalangi devi dasi
Toronto Festival of India (Ratha-Yatra) Hospitality Team
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HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP  paoho.   We got the letter forwarded from Dayanidhi Das.  I answered her with a copy to you.  We had actually been thinking of Toronto, but we are still in this North America Tour that weekend.  We get back to Nashville like the 16th.   After that maybe we could come for some other festival???

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12 years, 3 months ago by hps in DTC

      AGTSP   (((paoho)))      We have arrived in Madrid after like 35-hours of travel from Kolkata to Lake Town to Mumbai to Brussels to Madrid.      Exhausted but pure.  Japa Joe tommorrow we hope.

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12 years, 3 months ago by hps in DTC

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                           P   !   (((paoho)))...    Here we are sitting in the Mumbai airport at Gate Eight.   It is midnight, to that means it is changing from Tuesday to Wednesday.  I don't know how we survive if there is no Krsna!   Our life is full of austerity. Of course, guys in Africa or World War II or...   have it a      LOT      worse, but we go on with this physical and emotional and intellectual stress for a long time. I guess all the time.

Well, our entire process is suicide, so why can we complain.  The only question is whether you are actually killing the soul disease which makes you sick, selfish, way down deep.
   JUDGE BY THE RESULTS.
We are carrying on a brief case and our two-gallon metal bucket. EVERY time they want to see the contents at the Security Point. This evening, 30-minutes ago, the security guard wanted to see Lord Nrsmha deva, so I unwrapped him.  He put up his arms and said, "Jaya, Nara hari!"       Almost all the Security Guards and Immigration people say, "Hare Krsna".

Our flight is at 2.20AM!    We have two hours to chant Japa.     Guess we will start Japa Joe tomorrow morning again in Madrid.     We ate some fried bread chips that Hari-krsna Das gave to us in Radha Govinda temple in Kolkata. 

Our stomach and Hari-bowls seem to be dealing with it O.K. (but not perfectly) so far.

Strange place: About 12-fourteen year old girls and two ladies cut'n up. One family of like HIppies doing some Tai Chi.  The Gate is deserted.   About 55-people within view, in a room the side of three basket ball courts.  Oink!  OInk!  Whoop!    Whoop.

             ON the shuttle flight to here they served Chicken or Veg.  A LOT of people took the Chicken.  India has changed a lot in the last 4-years.   Everyone is going to hell, but the Stewards still call all the ladies, "Mum", and it is chicken and not beef!
            We are Krying in distress that we cannot give any K.C. to people.  Hare Krsna.
Well, I guess we chant some Japa.   We got Skype set for "Away".   This USB modem turns into a pumpkin in about two hours.

Hare Krsna.  Hare Krsna.                  The whole trip to India and Australia so far reminds us of Srila Prabhupada's comment to Jayatirtha Das: Wherever you make the endeavor you will find that the preaching is good.   So, many people are helping the Sankirtana, but we feel afraid to rely too much on anybody...   Especially ourselves .. Ha!    Ha!     Ha!             We kind of try to Chant HK / HR and put any service into immediate use.

                Hey!    We didn't know this thing has a camera!!           This is a picture of us here.  See, the beard!    We are trying to "Dress our age".   People look at us and say, "Don't give the old guy too much work".   Actually the Immigration line was like 20-minutes long, but when we came to the front door guy he looked at us and said, "This way Bobba, fast lane".  So we used our cane a little bit so that people wouldn't be envious of us and went through more quickly.

It's a fact though, its a lot of stress on our heart standing for a long time lines.

O.K.  Lets try one more picture!

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querido maharaj

12 years, 3 months ago by miguel valenzuela in Personal Sadhana Reports

acepte por favor mis muy humildes revencias

o en todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

con todo respeto me dirijo a usted

he estdo escuchando sus clases del Upadesmrita que dio en Mexico, yo vivo en Guadalajara y desde hce mucho tiempo aqui le estamos esperando mi nombre es Miguel Ignacio Valenzuela Castañeda, soy entrenador de natacion, tengo 32 años,soy soltero y participo con los devotos del templo de Nueva Nilacala Mandira

canto 16 rondas desde hace 8 meses y sigo los cuatro principios desde ese tiempo

he leido vsrios titulos del bbt, como: LA REIN KUNTY, PREGUNTAS PERFECTAS Y RESPUESTAS PERFECTAS, LA CIENCIA DE LA AUTORREALIZACION, EL REY DEL CONOCIMIENTO, LA LUZ DEL BHAGAVAT Y EL BHGAVAD GITA

siento una gran atraccion por seguir su guia espiritual y desde que he visto los videos de sus clases desde hace cuatro meses, y me a inspirado a seguir en la conciencia de Krishna y con sus clases me ayuda a no dejar de seguir cntndo y siguiendo los principios.

Mi relacion con las autoridades locales, es muy poca por que csi no tienen tiempos pero tengo una relasion buena con Aniruddha Krishna, mi servicio ha sido limpiar la parafernalia y hacer articulos de joyeria ya que se de este oficio que practico. espero estar en comunicacion con usted para servirle en lo que usted me diga. Hare Krishna

                   HpS - Hola, Miguel Ignacio Valenzuela Castañeda!    Ya es bueno leer el Upadesamrta, no?          Cuantos diferentes personas o grupos de personas son mencionado en el Prefacio.  Existen en una heirarchia?      Aniruddha Das es buen devoto, no?

alejandra jimenez monterrey

12 years, 3 months ago by Bhaktin Alejandra Jimenez Mty in Personal Sadhana Reports

Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Todas las glorias a usted Su santidad hoy me reporto desde monterrey, nuevo leon, mexico.

Tengo tiempo de no dar un reporte ya que e estado algo saturada y termino mi dia sin energia por que estoi apoyando rn atender el nuevo restaurante en monterrey.

ahora me encargo de atender clientes , administrar y cuidar el laksmi... no es un servicio que agrade a uno, pero un sirviente tiene que hacerlo.

Hoy mi japa y mi sadhana esta algo negligente, aun no me acostumbro a mi servicio (:0. Empese ase 1mes a adorar una deidad de laddu-gopal que me trajeron de vrindavan ... Espero escuchar de usted pronto su santidad HPS Asepte mis humildes reverencias ... Hari bolo !

                HpS - ASA -  Jaya!  TlgaSP!!!!!    Gracias su carta.  Servicio mas essential es cantar 16-buen rondas cada dia!!!!            No puedo recordar a Vd, especficamente.  Nuestra cerebrio tiene 65-anos y es un poco vacio.  Vd. estuve asociado con Gadai!!

Gracias sus noticias!!!             Siempre una buena muestra de libros en el restaurante. 

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