Old age is a good friend for a devotee - SP
Are we becoming spiritually advanced or senile dementia?
Both?
Our Short-term Memory goes and it even becomes more difficult to drive. Yet, this forces us to operate more on habits and intelligence, rather than the mental platform. That is good, because the immediate memorys may go, but the deeper Bhava, Buddhi, intelligence will survive.
Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam... BG.
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All Glories to Shri A C Prabhupada, Sripada and HpS Guruji Maharaja.
Dandavat Pranam!
I have read Gurugi's reply and re-read Krsna chapters.
As narrated by Prabhu Partha Sarthi Dada the story of Yamu and Krsna are found in the book Puranic Encyclopedia: Yamuna is the daughter of Surya Deva and twin brother of Yamraj, again the sister of Sanideva.
Yamuna is one of the wife of Krsna and play with gopis after rasalila in the Yamuna.
It is a long puranic story, I am so satisfy to know the story of Yamunesvara: The iswara of Yamuna; Krsna.
Yours fallen servant,
Yamunesvara Das.
HpS - Thank you. I have seen one maybe two Puranic Encyclopedias. One friend, Balabhadra Das in Boise, Idaho, has a copy. I think that Srila Prabhupada spent a long time in the library using the Puranic Encyclopedia to write the biographys that he has in the purports to the first two cantos.
We also read that Yamuna is the liquid form of Visaka Devi.
Krsna - Yamunesvara.
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Do you have Sadhu sanga for reading with other devotees?
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Hare Krishna, Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
There is a house available on Lokey street about a mile from your Ashrama.
It's available from July 11 to July 15.
Should we book it Maharaja?
Your servant, Sundari Radhika devi dasi
HpS - ASA - AgtSP! paoho.... Thank you for your kind association. It seems fine from our side.
No calendar conflicts or great universal cataclysmic events happening.
It will be very nice having the association of everyone during those days.
Our real concern is that Sri Krsna Chaitanya and the whole Panca tattva take us in hand and give us some good service to offer to Radha Krsna during those days.
asa-e, mr. peanut, s/a prasadam
AgtSP! paoho/bw. We buy 1-oz. Planter's Peanuts packages in boxes of fifty. They're cheap that way. Then we Sri Visnu them! Offer them to Lord Nrsmhadeva, put on our ASA sticker and distribute them liberal as God's own crumbs!
Because they are plastic-packed and the familiar face of Mr. Peanut is there, no one doubts their purity.
Mr. Peanut was born in 1928. That's what Webster told us today.
We were out for a morning walk around our block, and he assailed us friendly. Shirt was soiled, breath was foiled, but he was all hands-on-deck for battle.
We had a pack of P-nut Prasad in our belly-sack and flacked him in a second. Later a calling card. While he held forth on the origin of the species (Mr. Peanut).
We've noticed that Mr. Peanut has:
We were thinking thus and then the voice of Guilty Conscience said, "Why are you always so whimsical! Can't you be serious!", and the second we thought that, on the hedge leading up to our Ranga-niketana camp was an empty Mr. P-nut wrapper!!!
Mr. Pnut is a partial incarnation of The Divine Spirit.
Also, we saw a painting once with many Mr. Peanuts with wings fly upwards titled, "Mr. Peanut Goes to Heaven".
Prasadam and Kirtan for the Masses, books for the classes.
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asa-e, mangala-arati
hk/hr
Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva, Pamho, AGTSP!
For Lord Nrsimha appearance day we (Raman reti d d and LAD) started our renewed daily program (described bellow).
After 4 month of RR arrival to Peru, we have achieved great goals.
Our sadhana is better, our schedule is more fixed.
The offerings and attention to the Deities of Goura nitay, and our inaugurated Lord Nrsimhadeva have been a great advance for our spiritual life.
Our apartment on the roof of my house is quite advanced. Our kitchen for the Lord is stocked with almost everything that is needed to offer him good offerings. By the mercy of many friends and devotees we have been able to acquire many things to attend Krishna properly.
We also inaugurated our temple hall with a makeshift altar with a wardrobe, but it's pretty cool. We were able to put windows and other things that we were missing. Now we only need a few chairs and cushions to be able to serve guests.
For now, we celebrate the holidays with good prasadam that we share with my family and some friends. In the future we will be able to invite devotees to our celebrations. The temple hall has also been designed to be able to give lectures to guests that I am sure Krishna will send soon.
That was the idea from the beginning. Have a small preaching center. Invite prasadam to guests. In the future, we will see the possibility, as you told us, of starting a school with friends and devotees. We have already had conversations about it with several people. It also follows our idea of distributing prasadam in the village and eventually having an NGO for this purpose. Invite local artists to do cultural programs and reconnect with the municipality to do joint programs.
Our base is almost ready and we wait for your mercy, Srila Prabhupadas and Lord Caitanyas, to fulfill our projects or show us what we have to do to expand the Sankirtan movement. We also hope that they will allow us to do some temple service. We thought going to cleaning once a week would be nice.
We are open to Krishna's mercy to do a little or a lot, as He shows us.
Thank you very much, dear gurudeva, for your infinite mercy and the care and love that you shows us at all times without deserving it.
Your servants
LAD and RR
LAD AND RR PROGRAM
Morning
2.50 - 3.00 am Get up and get ready
3.00 - 4.00 am Rounds
4.00 - 4.20 am Get ready, wake up Deity, prepare offering
4.20 - 4.30 am Offering
4.30 - 5.00 am Mangalartik-puja
5.00 - 5.30 am Rounds
5.30 - 6.00 am CC reading
6.00 - 6.10 am Gayatri
6.10 - 6.50 am Study
6.50 - 7.15 am Dressing Deity and prepare offering
7.15 - 7.25 am Offering
7.30 - 8.30 am SB class
8.30 - 9.00 am breakfast
9.00 - 10.00 am break
10.00 - 12.00 m chores, study.
12.00 - 12.10 pm Gayatri
12.10 - 12.40 pm Preparation of offering
12.40 - 12.50 pm Offering
Lunch-rest
Afternoon
15.30 - 18.00 pm chores-study
18.00 - 18.10 Gayatri
18.10 - 18.20 Prepare offering
18.20 - 18.30 Offering
18.30 - 18.50 Gourartik, Bhagavad gita
18.50 - 19.00 take to bed Deity
19.00 - 20.30 Classes (Bhakti sastri, Pada Padma, Canto 3, C. Disciples)
20.30 - 21.00 Soup, Krishna book, go to bed
HpS - Some times Krsna introduces unusually things, like special demons or special fruit trees in the forest.... Have to understand the priorities as well as the schedule, no?!!
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