Sankirtan report

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,
Please accept our humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I am back in Mexico DF! For one week, Maharaja Bhakti Busan is here.

We were in Guadalajara one month and one week. We distributed around 7000 books (the group of 5 devotees: Prabhu Radha Raman, b. Carlos, Ekayani, b. Tania, and me). The most wonderfull is that many persons came to the temple because of the book distribution, and they had a good impression, I think they can become devotees one day, not so far. We should pray for them, it will help?

It was very nice, we learned a lot from m. Radhika, she is a very nice asrama guru, she help me a lot to understand about desires and who to balance, to see that devotional service as a life time project, and we should learn to balance ourselves, about seeing our desires in conexion to Krsna in a healthy way, to ask for advice when we cannot alone (I will stay in contact with her)...

I felt very tired while in Guadalajara, it was very difficult for me to wake up to Japa joe. One day I arranged to wake up, but just that day, there was not Japa joe... I think is because I don't eat in the right way, so I don't have energy. I need little more taking care of the body, to serve Krsna better and more focused. I am doing some improvement in this area (eating better and little yoga and walking), and I feel better! Today I woke up at 2:30am alone :) but the matajis asrama here is outside the temple, and there is no internet, and the temple was closed until 3:15am...

Prabhu Aravinda told us (4matajis) to go one month to El Salvador, to help with sankirtan! My parents are worried because they think is a dangerous place! I would like to go, but I don't like they are worried, we will try to make some arrangement.

I have my mind fixed in the idea to go to the Bhaktivedanta College the next year to study education!
Maybe my family will come to visit me here to Mexico in November...

Your insignificant servant,
Nitya Kisori dd
Gurudeva I feel you are not pleased with me, maybe Krsna told you something, ... or is my speculation?

        HpS - ASA ---- AGTSP   pamho.   Speculation.    I never even began to think ill of you.  Honestly we would like to be as advanced a devotee as you.   Is joking and not joking.    We are so happy to hear your results.     Yes, is life long, eternal project.   Most essential is 16 enthusiastic rounds daily in the foreground of 4-principles srictly    helping Lord Caitanya in His Sankirtana, book distribution.  However, sooooo  many ways to participate.      If we give devotees nice Prasadam and they stay to hear the class and take some books to distribute then many people have participated in the Sankirtana!

       O.K.   We wait for more news.

hare krsna

12 years, 7 months ago by syam kund das in Personal Sadhana Reports

hare krsna Guru maharaj

Estamos aqui en el templo de Buenos Aires con los devotos...  faltan 2 para cumplir 16 rondas para hoy. hace un mes y 15 dias que las cumplo las 16 rondas y mangalaratik y 4 principios! estoy muy feliz otra vez!! el sabado distribui 15 libros!! mis reverecias tengo que ir a cocinar a los devotos pues parese que el concinero lo internaron y los devotos de sankirtana pasaron mil aventuras!!! hare krsna!! 

su sirviente Syama kunda das

                   HpS - ASA ---   TlgaSP     Mil veces, 10 mil veces, intentamos llegar a la plataforma de Japa y Principios eternos!       Entonces estamos util...!

BHAKTINA TERESA (BUENOSAIRES)

12 years, 7 months ago by bhaktina teresa in Other

TODASLASGLORIAS ASRI SRI GAURA NITAI,TLGSP Y MIS RESPETUOSAS REVERENCIAS

A USTED GURUMAHARAJA!!!!

LE ESCRIBO PARA SABERCOMO ANDA USTED DE SALUD SI ESTA MEJORANDO? ;( ESPERO QUE ESTE MUY BIEN AQUI TODOS ORANDO POR USTED.

MIS SERVICIOS VAN MUY BIEN VOY TODOSLOS FINES DE SEMANA HACER SERVICIO AL TEMPLO SI NO TENGO EXAMENES QUE ESTUDIAR :) LAS RONDAS VAN BIEN Y LOS 4PRINCIPIOS PERFECTOS ESTOYVOLVIENDO A LEER REINA KUNTI..

            ASA -- Gracias su carta!     Jaya Srila Prabhupada.   Reaccion de alergia en el piel, todo es mucho mejor, pero....   no es perfecto.  realmente vamos a morir todos, entonces mejor usa de una mala ganga...  

ESPERO QUE ESTEBIEN, ORANDO POR USTED SIEMPRE GURUMAHARAJA!

YOUR SERVANT teresa... HARIBOL!

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj

12 years, 7 months ago by Gopal C Biswas in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Respected Guru Maharaj,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Guru Dev, In last letter, you have asked me to what i think about BG 17.15 and Puport and how it
    applys in my daily life.

    BG 17.15 Teaches, We should speak - truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others, and
    also in regularly reciting Vedic literature.

    Truthful : I am a strong believer and follower of this. Because without truthfulness we can not
                      approach Lord.

                      Chaitinya or Krsna is in our heart, he knows every thing very well that who is honest & who
                      is incorrect.

                      if we are cheating some one by telling lie, Means we  are actually cheating our own self,
                      not the person.

                      we impure our self by doing so. Whenever we speak lie, we pollute our self. And this
                      pollution drag away our self from Lord.

    Pleasing  : No, Have to work on it. I have to put lots of hard work for this. Because i speak very
                       straight.

                   ASA - Try to think how the person to whom you are speaking will perceive what you are saying.   Will they be able to understand what you are saying our will the violence of your words cover the message?

    Beneficial : Yes, we speak.

    Not agitating to others : Many time my words agitate others. Because i speak very strait. Which
                                                 people don't like.

ASA -  Krsna is not straight.  He wandering on the banks of the Yamuna.  Do you subtley enjoy hurting people with knife like words?   It is a question we ask our selves many times!!

    Regularly reciting Vedic literature : we always like to recite from scriptures.

    Please advice.

your servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

           ASA -  You are an extremely nice person....  but as you know you must purify, not abandon, your words.  It is better to have a wise man for an enemy than a fool for a friend, it is so nice to have one you doesn't flatter us.  Vibhisana was talking to Ravana giving straight advice.

DAVID

12 years, 7 months ago by bhakta david in Other

SOLO ESPERO QUE NO ME DEJE NUNCA GURUDEVA. (recuperese por favor de esa hiedra. en un 200%,)

            HpS -  ASA    ---   TlgaSP   Bhakta David, Ki Jai!   Si quiere hablar poco confidential entre nosotros trata:    [email protected]

Recuerdo

12 years, 7 months ago by Adi Yajña Das in Hot Topics

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias a Sus Pies de Loto Gurudev

                ASA -  Oink!       AGTSP    paoho..

 Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja Encontre esta carta de Srila Prabhupada  en un libro de Mahanidi Swami, Pienso Usted  me puede Ayudar.Y depues puse un texto completo de Srimad Bhagavatam 

Los Angeles

4 December, 1968
68-12-04
 
My Dear Sivananda,
Please accept my blessings. I have received your most recent letter (undated) and have noted the contents. I am so happy that by next week you will move into our new temple site and that you and Krishna das shall both be working so there will be no difficulty in financing. It is all Krishna's Grace.
So far as Acyutananda and Jaya Govinda, yes one of you may write to invite them to your temple in Hamburg. In this connection I have already dispatched one letter to them and I am still awaiting their reply.
Regarding your first question, is it offensive to think of Krishna's Pastimes while chanting, I think you should know that it is not offensive, but rather it is required. One must try for the point when he simply hears Krishna and immediately all of Krishna, His Pastimes, His Form, His Quality, are in his thoughts. So to always be immersed in thoughts of Krishna this is our process. When we are full in Krishna then where there can be any chance for maya in us? So this is our duty to remember Krishna's Pastimes. One who cannot remember Krishna, let him always hear Hare Krishna and then when he has perfected this art, then always he will remember Krishna, His Activities, His Qualities, etc.
 
 
It is progressive...  (NOI 7 & 8)..  During Japa make the chanting first. Nama..  rupa...    If we chant sincerely the Name will BRING the Form  and that will BRING the Qualities, Pastimes.   That is our experience, understanding.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The answer to your second question is that when one becomes accustomed to inoffensive chanting, then his fruit is that he is promoted to the stage of pure Love of Godhead, or prema. This prema is the perfectional stage of consciousness and the most blissful by very far.
So far as singing of the Christian hymns, if others sing this we have no objection, it is very nice, but in these hymns they have no definite idea of what is God. We are directly approaching and praying to Krishna for the highest benediction of eternal devotional service so we do not require to repeat the Christian hymns. Our point is to always follow the example of the acaryas and this will bring us to the perfectional stages with no doubt. For the Christian hymn you describe, the example may be given of where one person is appreciating that water is very nice and another is tasting water. So when we taste water the appreciation automatically is there and when we have taste for chanting, automatically the appreciation is there for God.
I hope that you are well along with Krishna Das and Uttama Sloka. Please keep me informed of progress with our Hamburg center.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
NB: You may write to Jaya Govinda at
Indraprastha Gaudiya Math
Dina Ka Talab,
Malkaganj
Delhi-6
India
Also Acyutananda at Radha Damodara temple Seba-Kunja, P.O. Vrindaban Dist: Mathura India.
 
Srimad Bhagavatam 2.7.53
 
The Lord's activities in association with His different energies should be described, appreciated and heard in accordance with the teachings of the Supreme Lord. If this is done regularly with devotion and respect, one is sure to get out of the illusory energy of the Lord.
PURPORT
The science of learning a subject matter seriously is different from the sentiments of fanatics. Fanatics or fools may consider the Lord's activities in relation with the external energy to be useless for them, and they may falsely claim to be higher participants in the internal energy of the Lord, but factually the Lord's activities in relation with the external energy and the internal energy are equally good. On the other hand, those who are not completely free from the clutches of the Lord's external energy should devoutly hear regularly about the activities of the Lord in relation with the external energy. They should not foolishly jump up to the activities of the internal energy, falsely attracted by the Lord's internal potential activities like His räsa-lélä. The cheap reciters of the Bhägavatam are very much enthusiastic about the Lord's internal potential activities, and the pseudodevotees, absorbed in material sense enjoyment, falsely jump to the stage of liberated souls and thus fall down deeply into the clutches of external energy.
Some of them think that to hear about the pastimes of the Lord means to hear about His activities with the gopés or about His pastimes like lifting the Govardhana Hill, and they have nothing to do with the Lord's plenary expansions as the puruñävatäras and Their pastimes of the creation, maintenance or annihilation of the material worlds. But a pure devotee knows that there is no difference between the pastimes of the Lord, either in räsa-lélä or in creation, maintenance or destruction of the material world. Rather, the descriptions of such activities of the Lord as the puruñävatäras are specifically meant for persons who are in the clutches of the external energy. Topics like the räsa-lélä are meant for the liberated souls and not for the conditioned souls. The conditioned souls, therefore, must hear with appreciation and devotion the Lord's pastimes in relationship with the external energy, and such acts are as good as the hearing of räsa-lélä in the liberated stage. A conditioned soul should not imitate the activities of liberated souls. Lord Çré Caitanya never indulged in hearing the räsa-léla with ordinary men.
In the Çrémad-Bhägavatam, the science of God, the first nine cantos prepare the ground for hearing the Tenth Canto. This will be further explained in the last chapter of this canto. In the Third Canto it will be more explicit. A pure devotee of the Lord, therefore, must begin reading or hearing Çrémad-Bhägavatam from the very beginning, and not from the Tenth Canto. We have several times been requested by some so-called devotees to take up the Tenth Canto immediately, but we have refrained from such an action because we wish to present Çrémad-Bhägavatam as the science of Godhead and not as a sensuous understanding for the conditioned souls. This is forbidden by such authorities as Çré Brahmäjé. By reading and hearing Çrémad-Bhägavatam as a scientific presentation, the conditioned souls will gradually be promoted to the higher status of transcendental knowledge after being freed from the illusory energy based on sense enjoyment.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Canto, Seventh Chapter, of the Çrémad-Bhägavatam, entitled "Scheduled Incarnations with Specific Functions."
 
 
Mi deseo no es ser un sentimentalista o querer adentrarme mas al rasa lila sin la conciencia correcta, aunque se que las grandes almas son sirvientes en ese lugar, mi deseo es comprender mas a Radha y Krishna.  Todo esto es por que quiero tener mayor apego mejores rondas  y mayor desapego del mundo.
Este topico de meditar en los pasatiempos entre los devotos con los cuales yo estoy es como una desvicion , mas en realidad ninguno sabe muy bien de esto o cuando es esto desviado o como hacer tal practica.
Estas preguntas son relebantes para poder cambiar mi corazon, se que Usted en algun momento se va a IR del mundo y no voy a saber a quien Preguntar, y en un futuro todas estas cosas son con las que vamos a lidiar 
 
Siempre FIel a Sus enseñanzas y a Srila Prabhupada 
Su sirviente Adi Yajña Das
 
           ASA -  Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!    Seguimos los 4-principios buenos y cantamos 16-rondas entusiastas y podemos confiar en nuestra inspiracion y interpretacion de los ensnanzas de SP (libros)...     Super alma, Sadhu Sanga.  Estamos bien protegidos..!            !                                     !   Adelante con su mision.  Va a tomar Sannyasa?   How is your English study?