Letters to the editor

HK, Guru maharaja. AGTSP, please accpet my humble obeisances.

Reporting from the principal base.

I had desires to join the Brahmacari asrama. Before coming here to Bhakti Shastry, Pancatattva Das give me his saffron clothing,

I have thinking seriously about becoming one before during this period of time and when he give me that I feel more exited about being one, but I don't know how to be one, what I have to do to become one.

HpS - Read and reflect on these:

https://vedabase.io/en/library/lob/19/

https://vedabase.io/en/library/lob/31/

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/9/27/

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/7/12/

Talk to local authorities.

Report on the results of your findings.

Basically be a celibate student!

😃

I can be one? I ask Devaki and he ask Dhanvantari Swami, and he said that is good, but it's all that take to be one? Sure I have to ask you first if I can be one.

HpS - Yes, it is good. At least for some time. If you can serve Krsna well in that ashrama and thne go directly to Sannyasa that is also good!! Great.

Whit few to little to add have a nice time in Krsna consciousness. :^D

(I cannot figure out how to put a little tilaka in to the smilely face ''\_(•-•)_/'')

HpS - Neither I!

Thank you.

Always nice to hear news of Maharaja's ashrama.

asa[e] - media resources, cinema.

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

As per your instruction, I would like to share the link to an interesting movie. 'God on Trial', the plot of the movie is based on a true story during the Holocaust.

It depicts the need to understand why we suffer.

The theology of suffering of a group of Jewish people who, the night before their already announced death (Gas chambers), full of fear and despair, questioned and debated God's promises of protection.

It is an attempt to rationalize and understand the suffering and the imminent death that is imposed on them (like we all are in some way).

How to reconcile their faith in God's loving plan and the excruciating pain and suffering that they are exposed to.

In my humble understanding, it is an invitation to question our beliefs, and go deeper in our relationship with God.

If someone is interested, here is the link

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4r8uhx

Hope this will be useful to somebody like it is to me.

Thank you.

Ys.

Madhumanjari dd

HpS/ASA - super! SUPER! . . S-U-P-E-R! ! !

We will watch.

Thank you.

What about Dinner with a Perfect Stranger and the other one about her daughter?

Others?

Anyone else recommend Media Resources?

This is Sankirtan: K.C. view point on modern media.



Hare Krishna, Gurudeva 🙏🏻

Please, accept my humble obeisances!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

This is the current schedule of devotees for leading kirtan on Full Morning Service:

● MONDAY: H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami.

● TUESDAY: Govardhana das, Mitravinda devi dasi.

● WEDNESDAY: Yugala Kishora dasi, Jagad Guru das.

● THURSDAY: Tarangaksi devi dasi, Caturatma das.

● FRIDAY: Abhinanda das, Deva Vrata das.

● SATURDAY: Isvari Radha devi dasi, Karuna Sakti devi dasi.

● SUNDAY: Candramukhi devi dasi, Parasurama Avatara das.

Gurudeva, remembering what we talked with you and Jagad Guru prabhu here in Perú (Santa Eulalia) about FMS..

I've been asking if some devotees that regularly participate in the program wanted to lead the kirtan. Some of them are interested in doing it.

That being said, there could be three devotees (instead of two) per week day, rotating during the month.

We could then have a renewed list of leaders, so there's more diversity and giving the opportunity to others, without excluding devotees that had been already participating a long time ago.

What do you think, Gurudeva?

Thank you.

Your aspiring servant:

Mitravinda dd.

HpS - AgtSP! Thank you! Again, we are slow in responding to the Blog. Radha ramana Swami visiting. So, nice. DTC deadlines. Reduced capacity to write on screen with our aged donkey.

Today we went to the optomatrist for annual check-up and he dialated our eyes, and they are still distorted after seven hours.

😃

The rotation sounds great, but they should be devotees who are keeping a regular Brahma muhurta program, joining our program regularly and can pronounce the Gurvastaka with meaning.

O.K.?

Dear Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

Maharaj please don’t apologize for replying late 🙏, we are very grateful you think of us.

We are learning stick fighting sequences here, long stick and short stick.

Then they will teach fighting with metal weapons (sword, short, medium, flexible, javalin), then finally fighting with bare hands.

We have learnt many variations of fighting positions (elephant, lion, boar, snake, fish, cat, cock etc).

It’s intense (my vit D levels dropped and I developed lower back pain, and a bad tooth filling popped from clenching/ joined 2 Yr diploma 5-6hrs/day).

Now I’m recovering and reduced few classes until my body understands what to do.

The calls for all the movements are in Malayali, as this artform originated from Kerala.

We are making meticulous notes for future students. I’m constantly wondering which choreographies can be made with these fight sequences. Quite professional.

We were working on the film for you with Yogi from Houston, but got a bit stuck feeling inadequate. Have to learn more about filmmaking.

HpS - ASA - AgtSP!!!! Paoho.... thank you for writing us, ASA. Which Yogi???

In a few weeks I go to Mandi IIT to teach 3 credit course. 14 days, 4hrs/day intensive. 1.5hrs yoga/pranayama/yoga Nidra, 1 hr Odissi, 0.5hrs theory, some HW.

We are trying to design a before and after psychological evaluation for students to fill to understand the therapeutic properties of oriental practices.

HpS - Jaya! Bet it reduces Parkison's Disease.

In the meantime I’ve been applying to PhD programs, emailing professors in US (Harvard/Stanford/MIT etc) interested in research psychotherapeutic benefits of oriental practices to see if my proposal will click. Also applying to AFI, USC, NYU. Wherever Krsna gives scholarship and admission, we will go 🙏.

I've been reading SB daily, need to improve hearing. Morning chanting a little disturbed due to early classes here (but strive for 16rnds before breakfast). Trying to figure out a schedule our body can cope with mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. For this week I’m going to skip morning class so I can chant in Brahms muhurta.

YAS,

SM DD

HpS - Thank you so much. I'm sure a lot of people take good perspective on their own service and Sankirtan from your news.

How about your family?

Poppa, Momma, BIG BROTHER et al?

Any Yatra friends and associates?

Where are you camped specifically? In Vraja?

Thank you!

I'm sure Krsna will give you more and more guidance from directly within your heart!!!

Thank you!

bhil bhari,

was wandering in the jungle looking for fruits and roots that were easily available.

he found 16,227,338 different varieties of cactus plants that did not want their leaves to be eaten, but budged out fruits, that they wanted to be eaten, and their only request was that the eater defecate the undigestible seeds within their excrement some distance from the father plants.

then the species would spread.

he would bring sacks back to THE VILLAGE and distribute them to worthy folk.

like most people, he did not have any friends.

he thought real friends were hard to find.

then...

one day...

he was walking in the jungle/forest, and dells, of 'saura nunubee' and saw a 'sadhu' traveling with one 'brahmana' and one servant.

'ho, bho, dude', he said!

'KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA', said the sadhu [who was tall, aristocratic]!

'huh'. said bhila bihari?

"KRSNA, KRSNA,

KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA, HE," Dude said again! Right in his face, hands, heart!

"KRSNA, KRSNA,

KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSSS...

...NA, KRSNA, KRSNA, Pahi mam"'

bh b understood that HE was asking, 'where is KRSNA'???

'where is KRSNA'?

. . .

HE was completely focused on him.

bh bil just stood there.

here was someone who intensely wanted his comradship for all eternity.

in an understanding always increasing, integrating, way.

HE wanted what he could give.

HE wanted what he could discover that he could give.

''Hare Krsna, Hare Rama''.

took HIM to heart.

never let HIM depart.

KRSNA the supreme 'sat'.

asa[e] - ug, stick fighting (contributor T. Brown)

"Each of them had a bugle made of buffalo horn and a stick and a flute, and each called his respective calves by their particular names."

https://vedabase.io/en/library/kb/14/#bb91039

"They were each equipped with a stick, flute and horn, as well as a lunch bag, and each of them was taking care of thousands of calves."

https://vedabase.io/en/library/kb/12/#bb90950

"To give an animal peaceful instructions is useless, and the only means is argumentum ad baculum. In other words, the only means to keep animals in order is a stick".

https://vedabase.io/en/library/kb/68/#bb92107

"They prepared some arrows for mock fighting, and Kṛṣṇa began to throw His arrows at Śrīdāmā. Śrīdāmā began to block these arrows by whirling his pole, and by Śrīdāmā’s chivalrous activities, Kṛṣṇa became very satisfied. , , ,

When Stoka-kṛṣṇa, one of the many friends of Kṛṣṇa, was fighting with Him, his father chastised him for fighting with Kṛṣṇa, who was the life and soul of all residents of Vṛndāvana. Upon hearing these chastisements, Stoka-kṛṣṇa stopped his fighting. But Kṛṣṇa continued to challenge him, and thus, in order to meet the challenge, Stoka-kṛṣṇa took his pole and began to display his dexterity by whirling it."

https://vedabase.io/en/library/nod/46/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick-fighting

https://blackbeltwiki.com/cane-fighting

http://www.selfdefensecanes.com/

Whirling a cane is good exercise.

Look at some of the formal exercises.

Chant "Hare Krsna" and dance as you whirl your stick.

Join a class to meet people and preach.

We thought that full 4-5 foot tall staffs would not be available in everyday life like a cane, then we saw the broom on the porch, and realized that full size "staffs" are everywhere. Some of them the brush part even unscrews!

We saw an older fellow walk onto the airplane with a full size walking stick and nobody batted an eye.

They are even more fun to whirl because they have more mass and inertia.

Hare Krsna, go luck.

Tell us your experiences.

(We saw a very good instruction manual by a director of Calcutta (?) police from like 1875 or something, but can't find it again.

He said that the weight of the cane or strength of the strike was not as important as the speed.)