Sadhana Piyari Mohan das - Mes de julio

2 years, 3 months ago by piyari_mohan_das in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


You are present in my heart, but I don't give you the attention you deserve. I wish at some point I could constantly meditate and serve you.


HpS - We are a window on Srila Prabhupada, but there are many others. Learn how to get a personal connection to him through them.


My sadhana has remained regular. While I am living with my aunt for study reasons, I prefer not to get up so early so as not to disturb them, but once I return to the Cabildo, at the end of the year, I promise to resume the Mangala Arati sadhana.


HpS - Yes adjust, be push for Brahma muhurta. Maybe get up and just read and write.


This semester I had a bunch of English, it was super basic, but I realized that I have many gaps. The teacher said that I have an "intermediate technical and communicational" level of English.


HpS - Wonderful.


Once I finish studying, I want to take an English course so that I can perfect the execution of her first instruction "learn English."


ASA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_UegL1R3X8&pp=ygUjdGhyZWUgbGl0dGxlIHBpZ3Mgc2hha2VzcGVhcmUgc3R5bGU%3D



At the moment I can understand 75%, I keep learning new words daily and reading paragraphs from Srila Prabhupada's books in English. At noon I read the Nectar of Devotion and at night before going to sleep the Krishna Book (I'm in chapter 58).


ASA - We are on chapter 21! VedaBase.Io has the Dual Language View. Hop you use it. We do.


I am increasingly aware of my Anhartas and I pray to continue purifying myself. Pride, fame, prestige, recognition and the list goes on.

I have many impurities in my heart, perhaps millions of lives of sins.

Now I understand why you said that I would need 2 fires for my first initiation, to burn so much karma that I carry, maybe it was a joke, but I do need them.


HpS - Yes, maybe for the first time after millions of lifetimes we are getting a human birth and really seeing what the work and hope is!

BG Chapter Two a little after 2.35 says "nehabikarmo naso sti...". Very nice meditation.


I'm on vacation, now I only have the next semester left and I finish my degree. I have been distributing books in Cabildo, where my family lives. Generally there are 1,2 or 3 books a day, it's little, but I think consistency can make a difference.

I do it person to person, but a few days ago I decided to sit down with books at a table and do bhajan with kartalas. In the first three days that I did it, one person came up very interested and took a book.


ASA - !


I am already communicating with sankirtan friends so that they can give me their feedback on my preaching projects.


For the Cabildo I think it would be interesting to do an interfaith dialogue program, since hardly anyone knows Krishna consciousness and the people are quite religious. prevailing Protestantism and Catholicism.


ASA - ! Could be.


Despite not being in the temple, I have the daily association of the Vaisnavas thanks to technology. I feel spiritually strong and happy.


What is standard or what should a “household brahmacari” do?


HpS - Full Morning Service on line? Talk with Sankirtan partners after breakfast about the days Sankirtan plans etc!


I want to know about it because that is my condition. My life is like of a bramacari, but living with my family. I feel stable in this position, I have been able to follow my spiritual practices and my health is in the ideal state (according to the opinion of my psychologist and psychiatrist).


Your Servant

Piyari Mohan das


HpS - 😃 You seem to be in a little bit of a manic mode when you wrote this. Do you still get little bit depressive modes.😞 Learning how to keep you SELF satisfied and using these swings is like 90% of KC, no?

Raktaka Das

2 years, 3 months ago by hps in Other

WhatsApp:

[8/8/2023 9:40 AM] Shiva shakti malhotra (Raktaka Das Sister): Hare krishna guru jii

Hws uh

Gurujii uh have any no of devotee living in bramton Canada plz send me noo

Hare krishna🙏


[8/8/2023 4:41 PM] HpS: Hare Krsna! So nice to hear from you. Where is everyone? No we have no particular connection in Canada. Why?

Stories of the Universe

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

 

Last week, I requested permission to use Krishna Art images in the English version (Stories of the Universe), but my request was denied because they consider my project not as good as modern productions like Disney and Century Fox.


ASA - 😲


Unfortunately, creating a professional production as desired by the devotees in "Los Angeles" would cost me 1-Billion dollars, and I don't think I'll achieve that in this lifetime.

 

For this reason, I am turning to artificial intelligence to design my own artworks for the

Srimad Bhagavatam, so I won't have to rely on approvals. I am attaching some

images for you to see, as I am still optimizing them.

 

ASA - Super. After you have some more production, ask them again.

We saw documentary of life of Confucious. He did so much work to synthesize and teach the classical wisdom of China for the good of humanity and The Higher Good, but materialistic kings thwarted him and his most promising student died. He died thinking that he was a failure, but he has been one of the most influential persons in the history of the world. Even now people are leaving Mao's philosophy and returning to Confusious.

So we do the right thing with the resources given and depend on Krsna for the magic.


Considering the bad experience, do you recommend that my project remain connected to the Ministry of Congregational Preaching (MPC)? Or would it be better as a personal project? Or is it better to join NIOS? The MPC could possibly hinder the dissemination of my project in the future, similar to the "Krishna Art" department.


HpS - We can't say. We just don't know.

Politics in ISKCON can become very materialistic at times. GBC, Sannyasi, Gurus can fall into abominable (suduracaro) activities and take their branch of the institution with them. This is normal. So, make it a personal project, make it a part of NIOS.

With whom are you consulting in Peru?

 

I will be grateful for your guidance in these circumstances.

 

Hare Krishna

Jagat Pavitram das


ASA - Super art. Have you got Sankirtan partners?

 

Updates

2 years, 3 months ago by shatakshi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Dear Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

I’m in Pondicherry.


ASA: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Puducherry,+India/@11.9362923,79.7723282,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x3a5361ab8e49cfcf:0xcc6bd326d2f0b04e!8m2!3d11.9415915!4d79.8083133!16zL20vMDc3Nzl3?entry=ttu


Parents and brother are alright. Regarding travel plans Maharaj, however you instruct 🙏.

YAS,

SM DD


HpS/ASA - Thanks to Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Prabhupada, that we are all together in this Blog et al.

Of course, we must make an apology to you and many others that we do not handle this mail timely. It shows our character deficiencies, but we are making little progress in becoming perfect servants by our little effort and SP's BIG EFFORT. 💠


We saw some posts in our WhatsApp group with your goodself and Swami Sri Hari Das. Is he still working at Mathura University? Plans for retirement?


Also, is very interesting your academic work.

Makes path for many others to follow.

The more you can post here, the more will be able to take advantage of our work.

Now it, the Sun, is at 4.20PM.

We do our daily Blog review and posts of Sankirtan results from the ASA Search Team. 🐵

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Where is Sita?

We will post our own results in today's DTC.

Let us go together to the next Post. Please read and write comments about these Blog posts!

Report Purusottama Month🙏

2 years, 3 months ago by Radha Japa in Personal Sadhana Reports

Remembered Gurudeva!


Please accept my humble obeisances to your beautiful lotus feet👣🌻🌼🌷🌺🌹🙏 All glories to srila prabhupada!!!


I wish you are doing well in your wonderful kRSNA consciousness ❤

Thank you very much for Your wonderful blessings Gurudev! 🙏 I'm glad you liked Your poem 💜


Please forgive my delay in my report. I was somewhat stunned because many things happened


Franco and Gopal 💪 ===============

The strongest that happened was that Franco cut his foot on a plate. I was too scared to see the river of blood that ran from his foot!!!!... the wound reached the tendon. The first thing Franco did was put his leg up and bandage himself with a piece of cloth. He didn't want to go to the doctor. It's incredible but he knows his body quite well and he knows how to heal himself. I only helped by buying what was needed and trying to get him to rest as much as possible. He had had the tetanus vaccine happily. I wanted to call an ambulance... but he didn't want to. I have heard several very serious experiences here of people who are infected with intrahospital viruses when they go to the hospital with open wounds, and I understood Frank.

He also healed alone at home when he had a motorcycle accident, where he broke his ribs..😑😑 .. it's like RAMBO in the Uruguayan version☺


Happily he is recovering. He is already climbing the roof to build and he also recently recovered, but he started with the space where the altar will be!💖. He has a very strong and incredible will!!!


Please 🙏 I ask for your prayers for him.


HpS//ASA - Amazing! Our respects to him. Surprised he did not need stitches. Hop he is doing 16/4 with enthusiasm and gets formally initiated into Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON!


Gopal turned 11 on May 15. He still loves words, dictionaries, doing wonders with his hands, correcting my words😅. I will always beg Your Blessings for my dear son. May you always be a very happy Krsna devotee❤and may develop pure love for Radha Krsna in this life.


He didn't send any art photos because franco is very reserved and prefers not to publish😊 .happily he told me to send him the photo of Jaganatha Baladeva Subhadra that he carved a while ago. Thanks to T.B. for encouraging us to travel, it seems impossible...


Beautiful Bhagavatam 🎶❤💙🎵 ****************************

We have advanced the reading but I still want to comment (following Your merciful request) on chapter: Kali's punishment and reward:

I think that only a pure devotee is the only one who lives happily in this world. He understands that everything that happens to him is by the grace of Krsna and he does not live agitated, he lives happily. The bull was the personality of religion and despite his pain he was calm and did not want to name the alleged culprit. Just before writing my previous letter to you, I saw a documentary film about slavery in India. It is the most horrible, monstrous thing I have ever seen! The experience was so real to me that I couldn't stop thinking about it.


I thought: how could these mistreated girls stop identifying the author of their great pain... In my personal case, I have always had the great fortune that whenever someone has treated me badly, Krishna has shown me how good that person is... and that's why I naturally understood that it was only what I had to pay. . Realizing that relieves me a lot. and makes me more and more grateful to His Divine Grace for bringing us the most confidential knowledge to love krsna and make him happy and naturally be happy.


In my next report I continue to tell you about other experiences.


Thank you very much for the verse. We will always strive to move forward to put it into practice.

I don't really consider that I have the necessary intelligence to distinguish Vaishnavas.. but with the help of Krsna and His blessings Gurudev I can achieve it.. it seems necessary while we live in this world.. if you allow me in my next one. letter I will comment something about it.


please forgive any offense in this letter🙏 And receive our dandavats from Frank and Gopal

Always trying to please him:

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha Devi Dasi


HpS - Jaya! Maybe Franco can send art done by His Monkey Within. We let our Monkey Within, Tom Brown, out.


Is best letter yet.


How are Madhavendra and Family???

Murari Sevaka // NIOS Campus

2 years, 3 months ago by nkd1010 in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami,

   Please accept my respectful obeisances!  All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

   

    We are  praying that ISKCON Murari Sevaka will fit into Your schedule next weekend. 


HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!!! Paoho. Wovw!  We just got to this mail. We did not recognize your esteemed name.

Usually we try to answer within three to five days, and if there is no answer, devotees are welcome to send a Wake Up Call to our Whatsapp number.


It was a

Super Fragalistic Expialidoshas.

visit for all five of us in our car.

Just super.

  1. Excellent association with other visitors.
  2. Relief from motorized, industrialized life.
  3. Getting slobbered on and knocked over by Jambavan the cuddly, loveable Bear-King Dog.
  4. Talking with goats.
  5. Resting in a rustic cabin.
  6. Seeing Lord Caitanya and Nityananda face to face (4-feet tall).
  7. Association with Their pujaries including history of the devotion of Murari sevaka farm.
  8. Kirtans/Krsna katha.
  9. Real ISKCON American food feast. Baked potatoes and cherry cobbler. Gaura Nitai must be glad They came to America.

. . .


And that we become one of Your regular Temples to visit and bless and purify. 


We still have so much work to do; but we have steadily and progressively worked towards cleaning and beautifying and rebuilding the transcendental Home of Sri Sri Nitai Gaurachandra, while being granted the most special gift of caring for and worshiping Srila Prabhupada and Sri Sri Nitai Gaurachandra. 


And to offer a weekly Saturday Love Feast to all souls seeking shelter at the Lord’s Lotus Feet. 


Bhakta Ruslan and Kevin have been great supporters in this endeavor. By the extreme mercy of Guru and Gauranga we are able to serve Here.  And protect Krishna’s cows, too.  And goats.  And peacocks and peahens.  And cats.  And our 3 Great Pyrenees are guarding all of us, under the direction of Krishna in their hearts! 


We have encountered major obstacles every single step of the way.

Last Summer/Fall we went 91 days without a drop of running water on the property.  The contaminated, shallow well which was Murari’s water supply for all these years finally went dry. 


After much hardship and endeavor Murari Sevaka now has clean, stable water coming in.


With Bhakta Kevin’s help we are ready to attract hundreds of new devotees in the area with Harinama/Sankirtan and bring back the already existing Devotees who no longer participate at Murari and sculpt out the most beautiful Abode in the state of Tennessee for the pleasure of Sri Sri Nitai-Gaurachandra and Srila Prabhupada and my Guru Maharaja and all the Devotees and Neighbors and Pilgrims.


And we would like to offer our services and whatever we have to You and NIOS. 


    Yesterday I mowed and cleared a nice japa trail for Your visit, through the beautiful valley directly North of the Temple Building.  Tomorrow I will widen it enough to comfortably accommodate at least 3 people side by side. 


Joey Burns, our amazing plumber is coming out to install a toilet and plumb in a shower for the men’s side of the bathhouse tomorrow morning as well.


HpS - Yes, we were observing all these things and noting that this was only by effort of big personal contributions.


    Please mercifully accept our invitation and come out to Murari next week.  We are looking so forward to hearing from and serving You.  And I pray this message was not too terribly long.

                   Your servant,

                   Mitravinda gopi dd

   

HpS - It is not too long.

When we saw that Gaura-Nitai had given us $201 in donations, we felt embarrassed, so we put $100 back in Their donation box for more service as guided by Their pujaris.


We expect to leave our present body in Fall 2024, so we are trying to consolidate our things, plans, relationships.

Maybe we come back as children in Murari.


Murari has seemed to far away for easy development from Nashville of Atlanta. I heard that it was planned as a combined rural center for both, but it seems too far away for either!!! ?


We have been looking to develop a Campus near Nashville for "Teacher Training" and "Educational Administrator Training" for ISKCON et al. Then the teachers and administrators can organize the rest of our institutional education.

The Buddhists had Nalanda.

The Mormons have Brigham Young University.


Nashville is centrally located for national transportation.

Not as crowed as East Coast.

Many churches seem to already have their Universities here.


It would seem nice to have a Campus 24-minutes from the airport:

Land Friday after noon.

The Campus station wagon picks you all up with other arrivals.

Get settled in to the well arranged accommodations.

Friday evening reception for students and like dinner.

Saturday morning three classes.

Afternoon workshops.

Evening entertainment.

Sunday morning closure and connected up to continue your classes on-line and return after six to twelve weeks.


Thirty residential students, 30-seminar students/weekend. 12-teachers.

Six vanaprastha/brahmans owning their own houses around the central campus.

Behind them garden, orchard and animal space.


Other devotees buy property within bicycle distance.


FM radio station with five mile radius.


😃 Of course, all this could change quickly if China, or Russia, or Canada starts a nuclear war etc.


What service base would you envision for Murari?


HpS/ASA/NIOS