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Hare Krishna Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances

Srila Prabhupada's disciple Rajasekhar Das Bramhachari passes away – 12:16pm – Monday 13^th May 2024

Below is the reflection of HG Milan Radha Madhav prabhu who was present in hospital-

Another disciple of Srila Prabhupada passes away. Rajasekhar Prabhu left his body just now in Sri Dham Mayapur.

We were just there in the hospital, for some minor procedure when we were told that another disciple of Srila Prabhupada was admitted there.

Jananivasa Prabhu went to meet him. Rajasekhar Prabhu was very happy to meet his godbrother there. Prabhu was telling him about the Chandan Yatra and the boat festival going on in the temple. Rajasekhar Prabhu was smiling and nodding, as he was on oxygen support. He spoke a few words occasionally through his mask.

How much happiness they feel in the company of their godbrothers. Smiling and talking about Krishna and Prabhupada. Jananivasa Prabhu was telling him "Radha Madhava's boat festival is there tonight, They are waiting for you..". To that he smiled and said Hare Krishna.

Riddha Prabhu, also came in and also joined the conversation. He was taking care of Rajasekhar Prabhu while in this hospital. Just while they were talking, Rajasekhar Prabhu who was sitting there looking at us and breathing.

They were discussing about relocating him to a better hospital in Burdwan district. There was raising funds to cover the medical expenses. They were requesting Jananivasa Prabhu if he could help, Prabhu immediately agreed to give whatever is required. He told me to make arrangements.

While this conversation was going on, and we were ready to move. Rajasekhar Prabhu suddenly fell unconscious.

The doctor present there immediately went and did his best to revive him, but the machines indicated that he was leaving. How auspicious! In Sri Mayapur Dham in the divine association of his godbrother, Rajasekhar Prabhu left the world.

Seeing this right in front of my eyes was quite a shock for me. We all were chanting loudly the Hare Krishna Mahamantra. Understanding that he was leaving the doctor, who was a devotee — Sukhi Achyuta Prabhu, brought some Ganga-water and put in the mouth of Rajasekhar Prabhu.

It doesn't get better than that, such an auspicious departure of a sadhu. Another great disciple of Srila Prabhupada left the world. A decade of tears, as Kadamba Kanana Maharaj said, where most of our senior devotees will leave. May we take their association more strongly and learn from them the art of dedicating one's life to Krishna.

Here is the link of Memorial festival in mayapur https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGL4ZFRjsg2EtE-ibb8xTtlhHC6WY_vJv&si=KeNE9aBqw6NNC0q5

Rajashekhar Prabhu has compiled many books on Vrindavan, Govardhan parikrama, Srila Prabhupada in South India and Calcutta- City of Divine Grace . I was fortunate to get his association in last months

Hyour aspiring servant

Pranjal

HpS/ASA - Thank you very much. This is essential news for us. I think I remember very, very much appreciating one of his parikrama books. Even several.

Thank you.

Hare Krsna

Hare Krsna

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA!! AND TO HIS LOYAL AND FAITHFUL DISCIPLES LIKE YOU!!

Before I begin, allow me to sincerely and humbly apologize for not sending you this report sooner. It is true that ARTd has been quite busy in the NIOS editorial service and with his work at Visual-Impress, in addition, he has been experiencing severe pain in his right elbow (the traumatologist says it is “lateral epicondylitis” also known as “tennis elbow.” for using the keyboard and mouse a lot), but, even so, I should have tried to fulfill my service by informing you of his health and making a brief report. Excuse me for being a silly monkey disguised as good intentions. I am trying to correct this failure by writing a few minutes every day about what we are doing so that when the Ekadasi arrives we already have the report material, we just need to refine the details and send it to you.

HpS/ASA ['g'] - It, agtSP, seems to be very natural. Once a month seems to be good enough for a report. Of course, we have like 40-minutes talks with ArtDas almost every week.

Sankirtan.

In a future report we will talk about the academic sankirtana of NIOS-Hispanic and its website, now, this report will cover the entire editorial service of NIOS:

ASA - Was excellent report at the NIOS Board of Director's meeting last Saturday.

Book "KNOWLEDGE, WORLD AND TRUTH, an introduction to Indian philosophy." Author: Miguel Polo. The book is already completely laid out and the cover designed. Miguel and the University of Huanta have made corrections, on Thursday, May 9, the corrections will be made. I attach the approved cover. Do you have any suggestion?

ASA - We will look later and appreciate.

Book "Waves of Devotion" (WOD). Author: Danudara [Danurdhara] Swami. The progress and current status of the edition are as follows: Mother Purnamasi has completed the style review and the fidelity of the translation of the text from English to Spanish, so the entire text is now ready. Mother Indira Shakti is finalizing the preparation of charts and graphs (which are also being supervised by Mother Purnamasi). Mother Mitravinda is without a computer so only ARTd is doing the work of replacing the Sanskrit diacritics throughout the book. ARTd is expected to complete this phase in May.

ASA ...'g'... - He is a real hero. Hope his Car Pull Sin Drome is manageable.

We trust that by your mercy, Srila Prabhupada and Gaura-Nitay, the diagramming will be complete as an offering to Sri Nityananda on Panihati Chida Dahi Utsava on June 20. Do you have any suggestions regarding this?

ASA - No. It should give great satisfaction to his holiness danurdhara swami and change the course of the history of the world. Sankirtan Latino, Ki Jai.

SOLARIS Journal No. 8. We are in the final stage of the layout. The content of this number is as follows:

1.     The Importance of Indian Philosophy for NIOS. Hanumāt Presaka Swami (Professor Huber Robinson)

2.     ¿Can Empirical Observation Influence Scriptural Testimony? An Exploration through Jīva Gosvāmī’s Sarva-saṁvādinī. Prof. Ravi M. Gupta

3.     Works of Art and Ecology: A Proposal for Education from the union of Ethics and Aesthetics. Prof. Cynthia Farías Ulloa.

4.     University Social Responsibility: integrative ethical method that balances the individual and the collective in professional training. Professors Clara Krafft and Dolores Chávez.

5.     Sociology of food and the Vedic perspective for community development. Prof. Guillermo G. Sepúlveda.

6.     Spiritual Plan of Aztlan. Banner of Chicano resistance and resilience. Prof. José Luis Valencia González.

7.     The importance of cultural contact between the West-India-and-Latin America. Prof. Frank Sucari.

8.     Reviews: Ecology, Spirituality and Knowledge by Diana Sánchez (Danmy DD) / Jung, Man and the Symbols of Him by Renato Delgado (Roy Ramanada Das)

9.     Collaborations from other academic journals

ASA - Super. More than our minimal simian brain can fully handle! 

SOLARIS Journal No. 9.

To ensure that 40% of SOLARIS content is articles in English, we have talked with Radhika Raman and Aja Govinda so that in addition to writing, they invite other academics to write. We have also written to Professor Harsh Pradana to do the same in India. All three have responded positively.

ASA - Also, we can print articles in English from our NIOS books I think.

Currently in Spanish, the following academics have already committed to writing and delivering their article before July 30:

1. Art and history as vehicles for an education in values, Héctor Béjar.

2. Ecological crisis, climate crisis and moral crisis, Daniela Vásquez.

3. Resonance, serenity and synchronicity: Jung and classical Chinese thought. Claudia Lira.

4. A holistic view of east and west, Manuel Ángel Silla

5. The cultural Portal of this issue is dedicated to the 40 years of cultural activities of the INTEGRO Group directed by Oscar Naters and Ana Zavala. Any suggestions on this?

That's all for now, HAPPY AND HELPFUL SITA NAVAMI and NRISIMHA CATURDASI!!

Hare Krishna, Bhakta Manuel.

'Q'pop~ AgtSP. Hope your body is surcharged with super human ecstatic spiritual ecstacy.

These reports are worth a million dollars. Inspire others to do the same.

The book cover looks great!

NIOS and Unversity of Utah are shaking at the gates of Harvard and the Sorbone/

Hare Krishna Guru ji.

Dandavat Pranams.

Guruji, I am learning myself by attending Bhagavatam classes twice a week with Subala Sakha prabhu ji I go to the temple every Saturday and every ekadasi for darshan (Radha Madan Mohanji) and try to help in the temple. Now in the new temple, I work in the gift shop 2-3 days and festivals and work as volunteer whenever I can guruji.

I get a chance to sing 12:30 aarti on Saturday mostly. I feel very beginner to spiritual life guruji so I try to focus on learning by attending classes and volunteer whenever for whatever they may need me. Sugopi led a manra meditation workshop at her yoga studio and I was there and spoke briefly on chanting and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

In May, there is Capital Kirtan for 3 days in DC and so we’ll be there to help there. Sugopi is one of the organizers. Guruji I work full time too. So I try to maintain my life as much as I can.

Your aspiring servant,

Sri Krishna Kanti Siromani devi dasi 

hps/asa so, agtsp, wonderful. what more do you want. you can make progress like all the neighborhood ladies of daccimata and nimai.

see you in glen allen, richmond. you assoc. in the full morning program is worth $700 each day!!

thank you.

regards to husband et al!!

Hare Krishna Maharaja,

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

I would like to give you an update of our program of this weekend. We've had our 3rd annual Amsterdam Kirtan Mela, paired with a Holy Name Retreat with His Holiness Sacinandana Swami Maharaja. The event received a good 300 visitors, plus several devotees who took up active services. Unfortunately i haven't seen much good photo's online yet.

We took some effort to draw in people from the yoga communities and have seen several faces unknown to us. Still, most of the visitors were ISKCON affiliated, Surinami Hindus and some of the Indian diaspora. I should say there were a lot of 'white bodied devotees'.

After three rounds we concluded this was the best one, with some good lessons learned. We again sold tickets (€25 for grown ups, €5 for kids under 16), and again we received some complaints and had devotees who we've known for years who boycott us). Still we believe it is alright what we do. I've asked feedback from some devotees to hear their thoughts, so we learn a bit and came to conclude that both ways have their advantages and it might not make a big difference. From how everything went, we believe Krishna was pleased with our effort, despite the arguments of some.

The idea that yoga students from around Amsterdam would come because of fixed price tickets is not yet proven. I tend to think the bastion of ISKCON wards of some people. We could make more effort next year to visit more schools and have a talk and see where they stand, and see if they can appreciate what we have to offer.

asa/tb make, agtsp, the popcorn free but salty, then charge a euro for glass of lemonade?

So that's more or less my missionary work for the year. Although i got some impression this weekend that Krishna pulls at me to get my spiritual life together. I've received good food for thought from the retreat today, as well as a lot of inspiration.

I hope you are doing well Maharaja. I hope you feel satisfied in the way you're instrumental in Srila Prabhupada's mission. I haven't followed your steps, i admit. I do think fondly of your example of educating yourself and build bridges. In that sense i am following in your footsteps in my own tiny way actually. I'm doing eclectic reading, bit of history, cultural philosophy, literature (short stories), biographies. I get to know my self and my range better with age. Its funny how that works, its kind of like board games; once you get going nicely, the game is almost over.

Hare Krishna,

A fallen householder,

Raghava Pandita dasa

ASA/hps - what do you think of our twitter posts.

even do it once a year and it accumulates!

nimai evan has dog following him, no?



Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

Please Accept my Humble Obeisances

I hope our health will be good and if that is not posible at leats leave this body in a good way, in sarkitan or with the chanting of the holly names of Krsna.

How are you?

hps/asa - immortal, alert, ecstatic!

just

like

you!!

😃

The notice of you going to Spain make me feel very happy, because now I will se you again, now I'm making some plans to be able to work there (in europe) and I think that is goig to be nice for me, I hope for your blessing in that matter, also I want to say sorry for not sending a letter in such a long time, this months for me have being really hard, but for now I feel very better, I'm chanting and dancing, also now my sankirtan is not as good as at it was a few months ago, but now I'm foccus on make every person that I make true sankirtan a devotee or close the way for that, I'm also reeding al most every dat the Srimad Bhagavatam (and sometimes the Bible) and I'm really enjoying that, is crazy how everythig that you put along with Krsna makes you feel more plesure or a strange gratification for do in it, now my target is that, make everything conected with Krsna in some way, I think also the bad time that I was having was for that, for forget that every action that one have to do have to be for and with Krsna, otherwise is just a lost of time, sorry for not being able to conect to your morning program, this fool can't go to bed before 11 pm, now we are workig to change that but for the moment is a problem that my family don't help much to solve.

Also I will start the Spiritual Warrior of his holliness Bhakti Tirtha Swami my dad give to me in one night along with some pizza and a few Popcorn made with Ghee, a very strange desition of making it but ended up tasting very nice hahaha.

A last thing to add, I still think about the pictures that I promise to you of the travel of Argentina, but I don't know way in this app is super complicated to send, once I almost loose the letter that I was trying to send, so If we meet in Spain and if I have the oportunity I think will be a best time to show you that.

Now with little to few to add, I say good bye and Hare Krsna :D

ASA/tb - agtsp!!!!! thank you for news... ours is about the same.

is this a good documentary?

from ww 2 we see how hard it was to win even one little fight on this planet, what to speak of conquering durga devi!!!

maybe we should expect many battles!!!!!

but see lasting progress each time!!!

Hare Krsna Srila Gurudev

Srila Prabhupada ki jai !!

Dandavat pranam at your lotus feet Srila gurudev

I am so glad and relieved to see that your holiness plans to visit Vraj dham this year. Consequently I, have currently dropped my plans for spain. Although, I am thinking of atleast making my passport.

I had a very very wonderful Darshan at jagannath puri. Tried visiting the places where sri caitanya mahaprabhu used to go. I got lot of mercy in the form of darshan and prasad at alarnath dham. The stone that had melted under Caitanya mahaprabhu is still there.

Went to bhajan kutir of H.D.G. Srila Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati thakur Srila Prabhupada. My appreciation has increased so much for him. I always felt special connection with H.D.G. Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati goswami Prabhupada. I am currently planning to read Bhakti Siddhant Vaibhav by H.H. Srila Bhakti Vikas maharaj. Found a online free copy, not sure if that's the complete version or not.

My sadhana has also improved a lot. 4 regulation principles intact and chanting my 16 rounds regularly but quality has to improve.

My Nitai and Nimai deities are back with me so I am very happy to serve them again. Looking at them gives me lot of happiness.

Srila Gurudev one question : how do senior devotees associate with each other. When Sanyasis and senior devotees meet each other how do they associate, what do they talk about.

Eagerly waiting for you to come to vraj.

Your trying to be student

Rturaj Krsna Das

hps/asa -super, super, agtsp, good news. t h a n k you!!! thank you. you are making solid eternal progress.

omly 23% chance of visiting in dia from spain.

next letter!! join us.