Joining the family of Prabhupada

13 years, 3 months ago by narayani dd-bolivia

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
Jaya Gurudev, my reverences for his lotus feet.
Dear Gurudev, his letter is very beautiful, I think is an important encouragement to continue studying Prabhupada's books, and pass the Bhakti Sastri, who give in 10days!!!!.... also wish to study the bhakti vaibhaba... jaya!! <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a36.gif" title="" />, <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a38.gif" title="" />!!!...

In Cochabamba we have a festival called <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/40.gif" title="" />“joining the family of Prabhupada”<img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/40.gif" title="" />, will be very nice, is once a year and has become a tradition, devotees from all over Bolivia, La Paz Cochabamba, Oruro, Santa Cruz!!! is a wonderful feeling, as if you saw your  family together after a long time, of course, I miss you and  H. H. Jayapataka Swami too, to feel that really we all are.

 many devotees from peru come to festival, together with our dear brother Laksmana Prabhu,!!! Jaya!!!

I'm studying and learning very well care for the Deities, even in the festival we will give a workshop on worship of the deity, with its blessing all will be beautiful.

I was looking for much the second volume of Pancaratra Pradipa containing many details of how to bathe Their Lordships, among other things, but I can not find it, Where can I find?? Where I can learn all the details to be a good pujari??<img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/51.gif" title="" />

 Vrisabhanu Prabu is writing a very nice letter for you, these days are going to send it, he is a super devotee.<img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/03.gif" title="" />

Dear Gurudev, thank you very much for your kindness, and for having me patience.
His clumsy daughter   <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a37.gif" title="" />
Narayani Devi dasi.

HpS - AGTSP   pamho.  Such great news about your Festival.  We would like very much to be there, but as soon as we think about the travel to Bolivia our ears start to ache.   But we are not too far away.  You all, Ugra-nrsmha, Dharmaraja, Mathuresa and Mataji, everyone, are in Alto-Peru and we are in Bajo-Peru.
I don't have access to the Deity worship book, but I think that Laksmana Das can help because he is doing the service every day. So, many things are advancing very nicely.  I think Krsna will have some nice surprises to show you soon.   Are you studying in the university?

We will wait for Swami Vrsabhanu's letter.   A good wife is among the greatest jewels a man can possess.

BV verses

13 years, 3 months ago by tcsd

Dear GM,
Pamho
What are the 25 Bhakti Vaibhava verses?
Does anyone post recordings of your classes on the net? I have searched and found little. Iskcondesiretree has a good place to post lectures of prominent vaisnavas, like your holiness.
Yhs
Tcsd

HpS -  AGTSP!!!!    So nice to hear from you!   So, nice.   We have reached Radhadesa.
There are two links for our miserable classes at:
www.jayarama.us/kd/links.txt

http://www.vimeo.com/patrakito/videos
http://www.lotusfeet.ws

I checked them out and there are more recordings than you would want to hear in a lifetime!
The 25-verses are from a collection of 70+ verses that we selected to memorize for the Bhakti-vaibhava Diploma. Those are in the doccument at:

www.jayarama.us/archives/bv-100questions.doc
From those our proctor selected 25 as our examination. Which 25 is a secret unless you want to take the test. Of course, 99.9723% of all of my Bhakti-viabhava, Bhakti-sastri studies are from that year we spent together going through it all.  Shall we do it again?   Want to join Bhakti-vaibhava?   Of course, you would have to do your BG (Bhakti sastri thing the same time).
Just like School!     Haw!       Haw!     Haw!   (How are Baladeva and Nila??).

Servant

13 years, 3 months ago by mittalga

My dear Maharaja,

Dandavat pranams. Ram Ram.

HpS -  AGTSP   pamho.    Yes, but we should claim like Lord Caitanya to be servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna, no?    That is the necessity that I see of taking shelter of a Bona fide Acharya like Srila Prabhupada.

jivera svarupa hoya krsnera nitya dasa ---> To take shelter of Caitanya Mahaprabhu means to accept that one is eternal servant or part of Krishna which includes servant of servant ... of Krishna.

We are always servant of Krishna whether we accept it or not. That is everyone's eternal svarupa i.e. all living entities are eternal part (servant) of Krishna. Since Krishna is present in everyone, it also means that we are servant of servant ... of Krishna.
Claiming means to state something which is new. You were always servant of Krishna and you will always remain servant of Krishna. What extra this claim will achieve?
Your servant,
Gaurav

HpS - AGTSP!   We have arrived in Radhadesa, Belgium, and are starting to get settled down. We still have Jet-lag, but getting some nice work done.  Your letter is very nice for us. Not to long. I think the answer to your question, idea is at the link below and especially the following two verses. What do you think?

http://vedabase.net/cc/antya/4/192/en 

Bhakti Vaibhava

13 years, 3 months ago by Govindananda dasa

Hare Krsna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Maharaja HPS, please accept my humbles obeisances!
Some news about Bhakti-Vaibhava?
Your servant,
Govindananda dasa  

HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP   pamho.  The news is that by your sincere desire to study it, we are forced to do some work to organize things!   Thank you!    We have had meetings with the V.E.D.A.S. devotees and are organizing the curriculum now. Is there anyone else near you physically with whom you could keep company in your studies?  A study partner is SUPER important.   Tulsi Das was 30-minutes from the San Francisco Temple so he could come on Sunday and we visited him at his house twice a month, but we couldn't associate physically daily, but we talked by telephone almost daily and by that associatoin we went through the whole SB in one year together.
Is there anyone with whom you could form a group for association like that, meeting a few times a month at least???
 

 

¿CÓMO ALCANZAR EL SANYASI ASRAMA?

13 years, 3 months ago by Vamsi Govinda Das JPS

HARE KRSNA MAHARAJA, ACEPTE MIS REVERENCIAS.
AGRADECIDO PROFUNDAMENTE POR SUS INSTRUCCIONES.
SABIDO ES QUE LAS PERSONAS COMO YO HEMOS DESPERDICIADO NUESTRO VALIOSO TIEMPO OCUPÁNDONOS EN DIFERENTES ACTIVIDADES ANTES DE ESTAR EN ISKCON, HASTA QUE LA ENVESTIDA DE MAYA NOS HIZO SUFRIR MUCHO PARA RECIEN QUERER RENDIRNOS A KRSNA, POR LO TANTO, ¿CÓMO DESEAR EL SANYASI ASRAMA?, ¿CÓMO GANAR TIEMPO AL TIEMPO?, ¿CÓMO PREPARARNOS DE CORAZON PARA ESE PROPÓSITO?.
A SU SERVICIO,
VAMSI GOVINDA DAS.    CHOSICA, LIMA, PERU

HpS - TlgaSP    pfanrh.  ya estamos en Radhadesa, Belgica.  Pasa bien los seminars con el Colegio y el otro trabajo.  Piggy tiene unas noticias en su Posting.
Aqui tambien es Prahlada-nrsmha Das quien es fabricante de esta Blog!   Jaya!   Si utliza "Shift + Enter" solamente una linea entra en la carts, no dos.
Fin de Upadesamrta Texto Uno es una citacion de Sannyasa de Prema-vivarta:  "vairagya bhai...".
La preparation es tomar en serio todas la responsibilidades de Ashrama actual. Aprenda utilizar su situacion actual para Krsna.  Eso es Sannyasa.
Que piensa del cita de Upadesamrta?

DTC - Diary of a Traveling Creature (PIGGY)

13 years, 3 months ago by buckwhite

Monday (Jan/24)
Radhadesa, Belgium

9.45PM
R/25

Hari bolo!
We are almost on the ground. We will still probably have Jet-lag for a week. Now it is 2.45PM in Lima, so our body is completely awake. If we go to bed now, our regular time, we will just lie there awake. Then during the day we are hardly able to stay awake.
However, we have been able to get a little systematic communication going, work on projects. We prepared for our week-long seminar on NOI by reviewing our Annotated ASA NOI. It’s always updated at the Web page as:
www.jayarama.us/archives/asa-noi.doc
It is very satisfying. Then about 45-devotees came for the class after the Arati. As usual some guests are here staying in the Guest House. It was pretty satisfying. We didn’t distribute any NOI’s but hopefully it will have that effect down the line. Someone will appreciate it and distribute it. If we had some copies we could have offered discount price, autographed copys and distributed some. We will keep working on our book distribution.
That’s about it.
We noticed during Japa, that as often, we felt bad to start with, but chanting adjusted our Prana and then after some time we felt good. Japa satisfies many necessities.
Did a truck load of work on Bhakti-sastri today with VEDAS.  Now we will post this to the Letter Blog and HpSwami will answer some of the Letters. Then I guess we might be sleepy and get up by 1.15AM.
We are reading David Haberman’s Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu Preface for our class next week and for our Bhakti-vaibhava curriculum.