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Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada, todas las Glorias a usted. Pamho. Como se encuentra Maharaja? espero que bien de salud.

Despues de un verano en el templo de sus Señorias Sri Sri Radha Madan Gopala, cantando 16 rondas, 4 principios, Mangal Artik, Ekadasi, Raja bhoga,  Sankirtana y Sadhu sanga. Muchas realizaciones y pruebas, que nos han fortalecido, para el sadhana de todos los dias. Aprendiendo mucho de cocina con la madre Saranagati.

En el festival de Balarama Purnima hubo mucha misericordia desde la madrugada, ayudando a Prabhu Udharana con el pastel, Raja Bhoga y cambiar a Srila Prabhupada, senti como la misericordia del señor Balarama caia sobre nosotros. Ahora estoy en 3° semestre de la carrera y comenzamos un nuevo horario, buscando un servicio fijo en el templo nuevamente, el trabajo y la escuela acompañada de becas. He sentido mas madures en la vida devocional de la cual carecia y aun caresco en muchos aspectos, pero debo de refugiarme más en sus pies de loto y por ende en los de Srila Prabhupada.

Ya viene Janmastami, esperamos con entusiasmo llegue mucho servicio. Tengo una pregunta Maharaja, seria bueno que comenzara a leer sobre los seis goswamis de vrindaban y con que conciencia debo hacerlo? Otra cosa, una devota me platico sobre el tilak del Radha Kunda, sobre que es Radharani misma y la seriedad con la que debe usarse,  que es importante pedir permiso para usarlo a un vrajavasi o al maestro espiritual, e inexplicablemente al siguiente dia me regalaron Tilak del Radha Kunda, entonces le pregunto si es bueno usarlo o como se debe de usar.

Gracias Maharaja, mis reverencias.

Aspirando a lograr servirlo algun dia, su lenta sirvienta Bhaktin Zareth.

          HpS - ASA   - Jaya!   Todas la Glorias a Srila Prabhupada y su Radha Madana-gopala.  Puede leer de salud  otras cartas!!           Pienso en Caitanya caritamrta Srila Prabhupada dijo, siguiendo el ejemplo de Senor Caitanya podemos utilizar tilak de Radha Kunda.

         Muy bien su vida.    La essencia de todo es la Japa!   Advanzando en su vida individual significa ayudando su communidad (achintya bheda abheda tattva).     En esta base puede ver que su vida material, psycho social desarrolla bien, su ashrama, brahmacari, ghrastini...

   ...  En nuestra cerebrio esta bien mesclada Vd. y Atenea.    Por favor envia un biografia de Atenea al Blog!   Va a ser util para ella, Vd. nosotros.  Puede explicar HpSwami ha piedido es reportaje y puede realizar una intrevist de ella....   pintura????   Mucho diversion en la conciencia de Krsna.!

Reciba mis humildes reverencias SS

Todas las glorias a Srla Prabhupada Disculpe la demora en responder, pero acabamos de terminar el. Curso de cueramaro México donde Ud. Dicto el curso del nectar de la instrucción, maharajá ahora nos vamos con el grupo de sankirtana latino al frente de guerra en Venezuela allá se hará otro bhakti sastri a los devotos colombianos y venezolanos principalmente, por favor Denos sus bendiciones para q se cree una alianza de países y se ayuden mutuamente. por mi parte solo haré sankirtana q nectar fueron dos meses aquí encerrado y aunque tengo mucho conocimiento nuevo quiero quemar pasión en sankirtana, por favor le pido q me diga donde esta para mirar la zona horaria y poder conectarme a cantar en japa joe , muchas gracias su santidad Ud. Me da michos ánimos a seguir luchando en el campo de batalla. b. Brian Téllez Pd: desde mi iPod no me deja subir mi foto como me lo pidió el correo pasado pero apenas pueda se la envío, igual soy el devoto q lo sirvió la ultima noche en casa del perrito louliam :) se acuerda? En Méx. Cueramaro jaja jaja gracias Maharajá.

HpS - ASA -- Si, TlgaSP!!!    Pfanrh.     Podemos recordar a Vd. bastante bien, pero si vamos a mantener memoria y adelantar conocer uno a otro tiene que escribir reportajes de todo que pasa en Sankirtan etc.

Aqui terminamos nuestra Gira de USA.  no tan muchos libros personalmente pero muchos pasa entre los devotos al mundo!

                 Esperamos noticias!!!!!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, por favor reciba mis humildes reverencias, nos encontramos en Chosica, haciendo servicio en la cocina del Pujari con Prabhu Padapadma,

HpS - ASA -  TlgaSP!!!!   pfanrh.   Gran misericordia recibir su carta....   Pienso si puede convertir en gran chef para Krsna puede ampliar su Sankirtana mucho!

acá estan pintando el templo, al parecer acabaran para el dia de Srila Prabhupada.

Estare viajando para el 20 de agosto a Puno, con unos 750 libros, despues ire a Bolivia para la Marathon que esta organizando Prabhu Mathuresh.

Estare encontrandome con Prabhu Advaita para realizar un Sankirtan viajero en Bolivia y probablemente Perú.

Me estoy levantando a las 4 y 30 am, leyendo el Caitanya Caritamrita,  Adi Lila, capitulo 7  "Sri Caitanya en cinco Aspectos", también cantando 16 rondas de Japa diarias, cuatro principios.

Por otro lado tengo problemas, espero se puedan solusionar pronto.

¿como esta su salud?, acá el frio es humedo, no es tan fuerte pero hace daño, estuve con gripe, ahora ya estoy mejor.

Bueno Guru Maharaj me despido, un abrazo.

Gadai Gauranga Das

HpS - ASA - -  No noticias de su vida hogarena...   Esta bien?    Claro, eso es Kali-yuga, la salud, el clime, la iglesia, la familia, el gobierno, TODOS son malos.  Pero, basado...   en Sankirtana podemos adjustar, mejorar todas estas cosas y relacionar ellos con Sankirtana.  Esto fue el exito de Srila Prabhupada, relacione todo al servicio de Sankirtana: Immprimir libros de gran cualidad, convertir gran edificios a templos...

...  Hemos llegado en Tennesse ayer, terminando nuestr gira de Norte America. Fuerte, pero haciendo bien.  Buen resultado.   Realizando cosas con mas inteligencia.  Mas luz y claro, menos humo...      Ya, en los proximos dias planificamos los proxima dos meces, hasta salimos para Peru (si aun vivimos).   Estamos basado aqui en Tennessee pero pequeno vija a Houston y Virginia.   mas noticias por favor.  So muy inspirador y importante para nosotros, todos!

hare krsna maharaj,
PAMHO, dandvat pranam, AGTSP.
hope you are having nice preparation for Janmasthami in Boise!!. And your health has also must have improved!!...
 

HpS - ASA -  AGTSP  paoho...   We were like 80% out of the Janmastami rush.  Was a big festival for such a little metropolis.   Devotees came from hundreds of miles away to visit with us so we spent a lot of time in personal meeings with different devotees, families.  Hare Krsna!

     Inflamation in thoat, mouth and tongue has been gone for like six days now.  Ayurvedic analysis, vitamin B-12 supplement, Hand of God, seem to have worked!

   ...  we have many issues to talk/tell about so should we write them in single letter or in multiple letter.. (please suggest as per your convenience)...

HpS - ASA - Best is bite size pieces.  Post them here are put the top priority items first because we could have a global plague and all die at any moment.

   ...top priority is our sadhana
in last letter[node/1849] your grace wrote--- So get a habit. I would recomend Caitanya caritamrta. Start reading every day before breakfast. Can't eat until one page done. Then report back to us.

we read TLC daily atleast one page. its very esoteric, however we did read it after break fast [only 4 days] rest were before breakfast. 16 rounds average intact.[1 rule broken] we are at teachings to santana goswami.  we are attending managal arti mayapur.tv 

    ASA - It's nice isn't it???     Prabhupada's books...   TLC is the philosophy extracted by Srila Prabhupada from the Caitanya-caritamrta, the logic of Lord Caitanya's philosophy.   We see that it is a GREAT book for scholars, 4-5 five nice size dialogs, logic, history.         The Caitanya caritamrta has more history, culture drama tossed in.  That's why we recommended it to start with.

Intiation
we had a question how does relationship with you varies for you as formal aspirant as compared to hari nama intiated person ?

ASA - AGTSP!      I guess it is like asking a professor at the university if your can just sit in on his class as an informal student and he says, yes.   Then after you decide to become a registered student, satisfy the admission requirements, pay your fees, sign your contract and end up in the say class again with the same professor. Same thing but now with more commitment, more perfomance requirements, promiised rewards..

    ...   if we are able to follow 16 rule and follow 4 rules strictly, so in India trip in march 2013 can we take hari nam intiation or we can be just formal aspirant..

ASA - O.K.  Pull out the fingers...  Sept (1), October (2) ...  March (7) = Formal Aspirant,   ....  August (12) = First intiation.   + two years = second initiation, + 4 = grhastha-goswami iniciacion ....       Had a funny conversation with one American couple few days ago. They said that when whenever the felt like kicking or biting or beating on their beloved partner they would kiss them instead.  So, simple but really worked. They realized that they really love each other.  They want to go back to see Krsna hand in hand!   (Jaya!  Interesting.   We pretty much skipped that and went straight to Sannyasa).

You also wrote that:Honestly seems like you can make good conclusion to this race!!--- what race were your grace was referring to .

ASA -  Human race!   Rat race!            Race against death!    Become Krsnna conscious before we leave this body!

Family
family front is better, (Yeah, Anantarupa Das asked our opinion about the advice he has been giving you all. We agreed so much. There seems to be a real way to do things.) our son seems to be Ksatriya to us it seems he has karma of becoming a ruler or administrator... [we also have ksatriya quality but want to fight not rule]... i think its better to bring him to mode of goodness.. any suggestions?

       ASA - Krsna didn't try to bring Arjuna up in the mode of goodness.   Best find peoples Karma and then teaching to use it for Krsna.   Nanda-maharaja was mixed passion and ignorance, Vaisya, but all was done for Krsna, so it became saturated Purely Good within the broader perspective.   Vaisyas have to cut the testicles off of bulls to make them oxen.  Most of the men I know, actually all of them, would probably object if some one wantd to cut off their testicles.  Sinful reaction, but was within the broader perspective fo serving Krsna so it was a good thing.

Service
We were thinking to make some ppt or transcription for you
1. we offered transcription service of sankhya lectures.. but you asked us to hold...as you said you would be doing it.. is this service still available?
2. we were thinking of making ppt on TIME its origin etc [ one of the question of Parikshit Maharaj in chap 8 canto 2]..as we got many insights from on time, do you think it is worth an effort. we would offer this ppt to you as you generally meet highly intellectual people.
3. or is there any service we can be engaged over micro-soft office. [making balance sheet in MS excel etc]
4. we are still trying to serve Prof Samaresh

ASA - Our life is still not stable enough to give any decent answer to these questions.   This USA Tour which we just finished, May, Europe, India tours, were last of a series in our life.   We are facing some kind of Paramahamsa Ashrama in our Sannyasa now.  Our Parivrajacharya has to end.  Gotta settle down more and as we do that we can have a desk with papers and ideas in diferent jars, drawers.  Just write to us interesting things from your professional life that relate to Krsna here at the Blog!

thats for now... thanks for japa joe and correction in those.....
waiting to be briddled again
cabballo

         ASA - Horse!   Krsna was charioteer for four for Arjuna!   Thank You!

Hari Bolo!    (Brown Tom here!)       A G T S P !            paoho....  & bw.  Well, we made it to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, our ASA Office.   Was great!  Ten-long stimulating hours: Two airplane rides, three automobile rides.

    Mmmm!       Mmmm!             Yum!        Yum! !        !      "We don't expect it to happen but if the windows pop-open and all the air is sucked out of the airplane, like we are flying at 35,000 feet, like Denver is only 5,000 feet, El Alto en La Paz is only 13,000 feet, then while the blood is coming out of your ears and eye sockets taken the oxygen mask that has fallen from the sky and put it over your mouth and breath normally."

Ha!      Ha!              Ha!   Breath normally!     Yeah, sure.     "And we know that you don't know who the guy next to you is and you'll never see him again but try not to look over his shoulder at his Tom Cruise movie that he is playing on this cell phone or he might feel uncomfortable.  Just stare ahead at the blank seat in front of you for the next five hours and pretend you are practicing Za Zen".....    

So, we got here.  It was a pretty good trip.    We have learned so much how to do these Yajnas   We left books in the seat-back bag on both flights.   We looked for people to talk to in all the airports.  America is so impersonal and we are so solitary by nature, but we got a lot of computer work done.

We still have to be careful of over loading our eyes.

Now we are starting to get connected with Nitai-gaurasundara, Abhiseka, Rufus, Musa Prabhus et al.   M. Matsay and Manjari are out of the house for an Indian wedding.  It seems very important that you dress in the propr fashion!

Hare Krsna.        We kind of put our stuff, plans, projects, partners, commanders down on a big sheet of paper as ideas come while we are chanting extra rounds and then put them in more and more harmonius relations and then plan out th work (and play) for each day!

                            So, lets read the Letter to the Blog!   Robot says we have letters from four days ago to today.       We are your servants!

Tom Brown, PhD (candidate).  ASA

Hari Bolo, Prabhus,

             AGTSP     paoho.     Just finished all the Letters up to two days ago.   In the middle of the process we started getting strong chest pains left and right.  Hmmm!    Very funny, curious, ecstatic.  Dimished a lot.   Maybe heart attack or more likely bad posture from using laptop on the lap....

        ..... Still in Boise.  Outside our window, part of same "U" shaped building in which is our room, we see the Temple and other residential rooms.  Cars parked and many devotees, kids, coming with preparations for Janmastami, dramas ....!    Now some Japa.  We have  24/32 done and then at 6.30PM  regular SB Sanga with Srinivasa, Sri Hari, Upendra and others.     Back to Godhead.   About 95` F. during the days here.    There is nothing to be had in the 14-world but the Name.  It has filled the soul of Bhaktivinode Thakura....