Nrsimha Bhoga - "Waves of Devotion" Spanish Translation Report

2 years, 10 months ago by Mitravinda d.d in Special Category A

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva 🙏🏻

Please, accept my humble obeisances!! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!


Gurudeva, here is a brief report about the progress in "Waves of Devotion" translation..


Regarding the Eastern Ocean of the book already translated into Spanish that we got from Param Padam prabhu:

Apsara Gopi dd is doing a review of it.

Comparing with the original book we saw that the preface by Satyaraja Dasa is missing.

Some footnotes were missing also. We are adding them.


We are doing a review of the Sanskrit with proper directions given by BBT.


Reviews and corrections are going to take some time. There are 144 sheets currently in review.


Southern Ocean of the book is 90 % translated and we already started with the West Ocean. Apsara Gopi dd, Candramukhi dd, Isvari Radha dd, Rohini dd and Sita Lalita dd are working on it.


Waiting for your comments and suggestions..

Thank you very much, Gurudeva 🙏🏻


HARE KRISHNA!!


Mitravinda dd.

Apsara Gopi dd.


HpS - We have a copy of David Haberman's translation of the Bh. Rasam. Sindhu. It is great. https://www.amazon.com/Bhaktirasamrtasindhu-Rupa-Gosvamin-2vol/dp/812081861X Is anyone in Spain working with you???

This is super classical work. Work for the ages.

Translate the meaning of the book, not just the words, no?

Sankirtan - El Ambiente

2 years, 10 months ago by hps in Special Category A

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A recuperar el espíritu!

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[Nrsimha Bhoga]-Realizations from spiritual illness-Trip to Spain

2 years, 10 months ago by bhaktanicasio in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudeva,


Please accept our humble obeisances,


All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,


!

Here we are at our asrama at Sri Govardhan, Mar del Plata,

Recovering from spiritual illness. We got caught by "gold fever", mode of passion and ignorance, greed, longings. Although we made good profit the price was too expensive!! We weakened our spiritual practice and started to feel depressed! We feel like Dhruva Maharaja before his realization of bhakti. Seeking glass!!


ASA - Gosh! What did you do? Buy shares in a new airplane company?


What we realized:

1) Nothing is worthy unless connected to Krisna!! Hare Krisna mahamantra is the most powerful medicine!!


2) Sangat sanjayate kamah!! Be careful of your Sanga!!


3) Money doesn't solve your emotional problems. Wealth is not money but pure relationships!!


4) Never forget the isavasyam culture! Everybody have their quota. Accept your karma!!


5) People are suffering because they don't know the above. Promoting Krishna Consciousness is the greatest service to humankind!!


6) We must keep endeavoring to take the medicine!! There is no limit for purification!! Chanting, reading, feasting!!

7) Srila Prabh

upada's process works, is scientific and bonafide!! Begging for his mercy!!



We have our tickets to Europe!! All the family to the old continent!!

Madhu and Bhuri are joining Jara Mara's Prabhu program for two weeks. Juli, Marga and I will be in Murcia, Spain, Ramanuja Prabhu invited us to work with Ayurveda. Then all together one week in italy!!


We arrive at Nueva Vraja Mandala july 23rd until 29th. Hope we can meet you there and be of some utility to yourself!!


ASA - Oink!


Thank you Gurudev, you make everything much easier!!

We are big fools, need improvement,

At your service,

Nikunja Bihari das.


HpS - 😁. I think Ambo-Nandi-Vamsi will be traveling about that time.Too. Saca bastant fotos en su viaje. meet nice people en route who are des[ert

Jay Maharaj :)

2 years, 10 months ago by mercurio3 in Personal Sadhana Reports

Jay Maharaj HK!!

Please accept my obeisances!!

All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!


How are you? How's your health doing???


ASA - Just like yours!


Are you still in India?


ASA - Never went? To whom are you rye ting?



Well, this is the first letter I send you after a few months since last time I wrote you. Here many things happened, my child Indiana is 1.5 years old, she's so big and enjoyable, she loves playing and whatching Little Krishna and Bal Ganesh's movies,



the other day on Little Krishna we were watching how mother Yasoda after Krishna killed the bird deamon (I think it was bhakasura), takes his little hands with the palms opened and says "this little hands which are cooler than a lotus flowers killed a deamon?" (or something like that) so after that my daughter put her hands in the same way so I began praising her hands as mother Yasoda did.


She brings so much joy to my life!! Now I keep working every day in my family's company, always performing graphic design tasks, and other stuff. And I'm trying to occupy myself in watching some designers' YouTube channels so I can cultivate myself professionally.


And I decided to continue my computer systems analyst career, I'm starting studying next semester :) With my ex conjugal partner, I tried to fix the relationship but there was no case,


when we were separated she was distant and indifferent, and when finally we decided to retake the relationship we couldn't get along, so well now we're just friends.


HpS - A nice friend is hard to find.


My personal sadhana got better in average, I began waking up earlier in the morning (excepting for weekend when I try to get a little bit more rest), I keep chanting a fixed amount of rounds every day, and I'm still reading Srimad Bhagavatam,

now I'm on canto 2 chapter 5, it's really sooo beautiful,


I'm enjoying a lot Srila Prabhupada's purports and I hope I can read more and more. I keep attending my Gaura Nitai in my home's altar, and offering the bhoga.


I'm buying organic produce here in my city which are really cheap, unluckly I wasn't able to convince the other Yatra's devotees to do the same, how can I make the aware of the benefits of eating healthier?


HpS - Speaking logically and setting a good example, but in the end everyone has free will.


I keep following an ayurvedic diet, trying to eat my dosha's according ingredients and food, and taking account Ayurvedic recommendations. I started following ekadashis again.


I was wondering about some topics Maharaj, I'm sure you can help me out with them: how can I wake up early in the mornings every single day?


HpS - Do you need to? Is it time? Then get a wake up partner. First one up calls the other.


and how to keep myself fixer in my sadhana? how can I clear my mind and become more appreciative about what Krishna has given me? How can I become humbler?


HpS - Hmmmm. Basically you have to really desire to do it. Then you will use your unique intelligence to find ways to advance and Krsna will send good association and little miracles. That is all that I know.



Thank you very much for being there always!

Sincerely,

Federico


HpS 🐵 Do better every breath? ?

Rattling Mind Question

2 years, 10 months ago by jaynityananda in Hot Topics

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


HpS - All G L O R I E S to Srila Prabhupada.


In our previous conversation you commented the following:


"At the same time I'm eager for their blessings, but wanting to be recognized is this annoying voice in my mind that keeps on rattling."


"HpS - It will probably be there until the day you die, but if you engage in devotional service you will not be bothered by it."


What I would like to know is how this works in more detail. I was diagnosed as having ADD by a psychologist. And I do have the symptoms that are used to describe it. Does this mental attitude only last for this lifetime, which is how i understand your answer? Like as in the higher authorities turn off a button when the allotted time for punishment is done.


HpS - As I understand from psychology in the broader world and our Sampradaya, it is like having a banana shaped nose. You will have it until you die, and the mental attitudes are even more durable than the physical ones. They are the basis of the gross ones.

NoI 6 - Tad gada mula hantri, our Yoga is starving the root of the mental and physical "banana noses".

We are developing extreme love for Krsna. We begin to love our Deities. If someone where to steal Them we would not be able to move. We would collapse and stare at the floor. We don't realize how our WORK is developing an attachment to Krsna ('s Name, Form, Pastimes, Associates).


I always had the notion that this kind of mental state is only over when it is purified by my own efforts or by grace. I kind of lost my hope that it will be taken away as a mercy by the Lord in this life. [and i am not sure if i knew what to do with myself if He did. I wouldn't recognize my own mind anymore].


HpS - It will adjust as far as possible. Maybe go away, but it might stay, but then it will be insignificant. A cactus in the neighbor's back yard.


I argue that idea also by what i understand from the notion that we carry our desires and convictions with us in our subtle body from one body to the next. That is a kind of mental state too. What about an ADD kind of mind? That could actually stop?


HpS - Don't know. They may be inaccurately describing a banana knose as zuccini knose.


Looking forward to your reply.


🐱 Oink - Written by Sriman Buck White after consulting with HpS.


Hari Bolo, Hari Bolo!


Your aspiring servant,

Raghava Pandita dasa

Las glorias de Lavanya Mangala dd

2 years, 10 months ago by Juan Espejo Thorndike in Other

Hare Krsna querido Gurudeva

Mis reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada


Disculpe por favor el no haberle escrito antes, la verdad aún estoy conmocionado por la partida de mi esposa Lavanya Mangala dd.


Quisiera compartir con usted, cómo Lavanya vivió su enfermedad y cómo partió de éste mundo.


Durante todo el año que duró su enfermedad siempre mantuvo una actitud positiva y optimista, nunca perdió su sonrisa y dulzura hacia los demás. Ella siempre se mantuvo ecuánime y me decía que todo en la vida incluyendo la enfermedad era por algo bueno, ya que de todo ello se podía aprender.


Con una valentía admirable Lavanya soportó y aceptó el dolor; y, todas las complicaciones que la enfermedad le produjeron y si bien es cierto luchó contra la enfermedad en la medida que pudo ella siempre aceptó la voluntad de Dios, "que se haga tu voluntad Krsna" decía y es que lo amaba y lo ama con todo su corazón.


Los últimos meses ella sabía que se acercaba el final y aún así con lo difícil que es saber esto se mantuvo ecuánime y en paz consigo misma.


El 29 de marzo, día en que dejó el cuerpo me dijo "creo que hoy día me voy a morir", le pregunte si quería que la llevara hospital y me dijo que no. Nosotros ya habíamos hablado de como quería que fuera su partida de éste mundo y ella mencionó: "con oraciones y en compañía de mis seres queridos".

Y así lo hicimos querido Gurudeva la acompañamos en éste momento tan importante nuestros hijos, mis hermanas y yo cantando todos juntos el Maha Mantra y recitando el Salmo 23 el cual le gustaba mucho.


Ahora estoy tranquilo sabiendo que ella está cantando y bailando en el cielo como dijo usted, pero aún siento mucho dolor y tristeza por la partida de mi amada. Estoy aferrandome a Krsna, tratando de cantar mis rondas y estoy llendo al templo de Chosica los sábados para cocinarle a Radha Madhana Vihari y esto me está haciendo mucho bien.


Muchas gracias por su inmensa misericordia, lo quiero mucho.


Su sirviente


Jana-pavana das


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Hare Krsna, dear Gurudeva.

My obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada


Please excuse me for not writing to you earlier, I am still in shock after the departure of my wife Lavanya Mangala dd.


HpS - I think we all are in some way.


I would like to share with you how Lavanya experienced her illness and how she left this world.

Throughout the year that her illness lasted, she always maintained a positive and optimistic attitude, she never lost her smile and sweetness towards others. She always remained equanimous and told me that everything in life, including illness, was for something good, since she could learn from all of it.


HpS - Such a fortunate person. So fortunate those who know her.


With admirable bravery Lavanya bore and accepted the pain; and, all the complications that the disease caused her and although it is true that she fought against the disease to the extent that she could, she always accepted the will of God, "may your will be done Krsna" she said and that is that she loved Him and loves Him with all your heart.


The last few months she knew that the end was near and yet as difficult as it is to know this she remained level-headed and at peace with herself.


HpS - The end of the car ride to the airport. Changing from one vehicle to another.


On March 29, the day she left her body, she told me "I think today I am going to die", I asked her if she wanted me to take her to the hospital and she said no. We had already talked about how she wanted her departure from this world to be and she mentioned: "with prayers and in the company of my loved ones."


And so we did, dear Gurudeva, we accompanied her at this important moment, our children, my sisters and I, singing the Maha Mantra together and reciting Psalm 23, which she liked very much.


HpS - So, nice!


Now I am calm knowing that she is singing and dancing in heaven as you said, but I still feel a lot of pain and sadness for the departure of my beloved. I am clinging to Krsna, trying to chant my rounds and I am going to Chosica temple on Saturdays to cook for Radha Madhana Vihari and this is doing me a lot of good.


Thank you very much for her immense mercy, I love you very much.

Your servant,

Jana-pavana das


HpS - ... Srila Prabhupada... It is like saying good bye to a family member in 1925 when they are taking a boat to work in China for 3-years. We will all meet again. There will be telegrams, but still there is very natural separation.

What service did she want for Krsna. If we help accomplish that we will feel intimate, intimate connection.