1008 - Second Initiation Part 2


Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Guru Maharaja, HG Pyari Mohan Prabhu said he sent the letter of recommendation to [email protected] yesterday. I finished Bhakti Sastri in 2019 and the ISKCON disciples course in 2016. 🙏


About the date of the initiation, whatever you say is fine, Guru Maharaja.


Thank you very much.


Your humble servant,

Sugopi Radha Devi dasi


HpS - AGTSP!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ....... paoho......... we saw the letter listed in our "vip" mail box. We will look at it and then we can have the initiation ceremony. Should we do it in the new Connecticut temple? ? ?


Then third initiation, 4th.. 5th... taking a part directly in the Mahabharata con Krsna. What role should you play???

😐

DTC 29(Fr)

3 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna!!

Tom Brown here!

AgtSP!!! He has saved us from going to bars for social life and drinking strong drinks with alcohol to be able to digest meat and fish, and then suffering terrible in the following morning.


We have very, very, strong daily program here: Chanting Japa before Mangala arati, some art, drawing. FMP. Regular SB classes and Evening program.

Bhoga offerings are very nice and then regular Prasadam with devotees. After Prasadam (during Prasadam!) many questions and comments.

Rohini Devi Dasi and Maria, Elisa (???) Canchacaja were visiting us for one, two days. We had very excellent discussions with them.

With all this contact it is a struggle to do our Carl Jung reading etc. but it will happen, and our developed Ashrama life, preparing for temple classes, is completely necessary because that consciousness is really what we have to offer to innocent people who are just beginning to remember their actual home existence, name and home.


So many more things to say, but can only really say them in response to letters here in the Blog from ASA relatives who especially are reading the Kapi Dhvaja and/or attending our Academy Morning Program!


Lettuce look at let her's!

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DTC 20(Th)

3 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

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SP!! p a o h o!!! 🙏


Thursday comes and Thursday goes and still we have 10 nice toes.


No one has written to us with the FMP or KDh Priority Codes, so I guess there are no priority messages.

Our individual priority of taking Prasadam only in the association of devotees. It is a little tough, fitting into the schedule and menu of the Ashrama here, but we are learning, and the cooks are learning what offerings the Lord likes, needs.


It means that we are rather weak some times, but that is good. We are weak. We push ourselves in different social positions with strong foods that artificially stimulate the liver, stomach etc. and then we get more work, but in the long run we are weaker both at the end of the week and at the end of the body.


Humble means to accept how much you can actually do, and accept the social, political, respect you receive for that, but fully conscious that the Lord who sees all things in private will reward you in private.


O.K.

Won't push to answer more Blog posts right now, but look to our other priorities, and see that that becomes the basis of answering Blog posts.


Hare Krsna!!

Hare Rama!!

Death of Children

3 years, 8 months ago by hps in Special Category B

Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami. Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you.


Our esteemed Daughter-in-law's water broke in the morning today and she had a miscarriage 😭😢

It was all so sudden.

The baby was 15 weeks and left the body. Please pray for the baby. It was a boy. She was reading Bhagavatam for the entire time of pregnancy and had almost completed the third canto planning to complete reading the entire Srimad Bhagavatam by the end of her term. We hope we have done something useful in the child’s onward journey. Of course our very beloved daughter-in-law is heartbroken. You hve always be such a guide to our family that in this crisis we hope you, Guru Maharaja and all the devotees bless us with illumnation and strength.

It is only by their mercy that we can try to come out of this tragedy.


HpS - 😳

Abhimanyu, Abhimanyu!!!  Krsna, Pandavas, Kuruksetra, Subhadra!!! Mayi-bharta Das and his wife had a third little baby but it was ot developing cognitive functions. A scan showed that it had no developed cerebral cortex and the doctors predicted death within a few months.

They wrote to Srila Prabhupada and he said that sometimes a yogi or a devotee has a little bit of Karma left, so Krsna picks the proper parents and the Yogi, devotee, can finish it off in a few months.

He told them to just surround the baby with Krsna kirtan and feed him Prasadam

We saw the fellow. He looked quite comfortable and instead of a few months lived in that body for 13-months.

Such a Mother is very hard to find, and the asupicious association of such a great sould, even for 15-weeks is glorious.

They might like to read this and stay in close touch with look toward Lord's plan:

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/6/15/


Hare Krsna!!!



AmD

3 years, 8 months ago by anandamayadas in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!


Espero encontrarlo más descansado.


Me hubiera gustado mucho poder verlo y conversar en persona.


Voy a escribir en esta carta lo que estaba esperando decirle personalmente, por favor no lo publique.


HpS - Certainly general comments:

Hare Krishna, AmD,

Muchísimas gracias por esta carta. Quizás somos un 75% de devotos sinceros y más allá de eso, nuestros ojos están fallando, etc.

Luego vimos el título de esta publicación y pensamos que era la carta anterior que había enviado, así que no la abrí hasta ahora.

Por supuesto, hemos conversado por Whatsapp y esperamos hablar por teléfono contigo con Parama karuna Das.


Hemos escuchado algunos comentarios sobre esta situación, y los de Patrak parecen ser los más directos, lúcidos y con su habitual motivación muy sincera.


Personalmente, nos enfrentamos a muchos desafíos personales como el suyo de otros amigos y discípulos, por lo que no podemos dar la atención personal a cada uno que queremos.


Tu historia ciertamente parece normal. Dentro del rango del Srimad Bhagavata. No dejes que The Witch destruya tu entusiasmo. Todos somos puros. Todos cometemos errores y luego tenemos que corregirlos. Eso es todo. Nadie tiene derecho a no aceptar la corrección de una situación.

¡¡Todos somos demasiado esenciales para los planes de Krsna de separarnos del movimiento Sankirtan !!

👍 🚙 🚙 🚙





FMP PC - Second Initiation

3 years, 8 months ago by sugopiradha in Personal Sadhana Reports

Tom Brown - AGTSP paoho. Ooops. We missed this! If you don't get an answer within three with a Priority Code, then write to us again!


Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


Since the beginning of this year, I've been contemplating the benefits of taking second initiation. I remember how you often mention in your classes that first initiation is experimental, and that real initiation is second initiation. At the time of second initiation is when Krishna accepts one as similar to Himself.


Guru Maharaja, I wake up at 3:45 AM daily, chant my rounds, do Mangala Arati, and listen to SB and BG classes. I wanted to humbly request for second initiation from you. I received first initiation in 2017 and have seriously kept my vows since then. I think that second initiation will help me achieve a greater degree of purity, cleanliness, and punctuality to serve Krishna.


If you bless me with second initiation, I wish to serve Sri Sri Jagannath, Baladeva, Subhadra, and Gaura Nitai along with my parents, after the grand opening of our temple on October 3rd.


Your servant,

Sugopi Radha Devi Dasi


HpS - It is fait accompli. We are struggling to be good machines for our Spiritual Master but we have challenges from being in foreign country, needing to use an old donkey etc.

Have you done the Bh. Sastri course? I think so.

When shall we have the ceremony?

Need a letter from The Piyari-mohan Das.

What useful are you learning in Yale?

Any friends, students or teachers of KC there?