Hare Krsna.
AGTSP
Paoho
Yahoo Groups died. Still the Kapi Dhvaja just went up at http://www.jayarama.us/news.htm
Please help us get a new distribution list service. Maybe Mail Chimp.
We are still here at 902 Hilcrest. We like the neighborhood.
Our health is delicate (at 73-years old that is obvious) but some very good work.
We are preparing for the Mayapura SB seminars next few weeks.
Thank you,
Hare Krsna.
HpS , BW , TB et al.
Hare Krsna....
...... agtSP
..............Paoho.... HpS is peacefully finishing the day with an empty gas tank again. He joined the Mayapura Institute Bh. Vedanta class by Bh. Caitanya Swami at 4.30AM and stayed until it finished at 7AM as preparation for his classes next week.
1-hour going for walking with NgD.
Reading and editing for SB 9.5 for MI class.
. . . . Letter to RRD and his two sons.
....... House keeping. (Below freezing until 9AM.)
Answer important letter from Dr. Samaresh.
Host meeting of Abhirama, Miguel Polo, and Abhiseka for NIOS.
Tried to answer Vaisnava Crecer letter from Mexico ... but... now he has to glide the rest of the day, pushed by the Divine Wind.
Thank you.
Looked for URGENT letters in the Blog.
16-rounds a day and Krsna can link all of our little work into one
4.37 PM
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Murfreesboro,+TN/@35.6136652,-86.0860828,8.64z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8863f80e5b170141:0x850cb92ad6b577f6!8m2!3d35.8456213!4d-86.39027
Cold and sharp rain sprinkles outside.
NgD canceled our marching orders.
We can't do any more computer work.
We want to but it will cause permanent damage to our eyes.
Yet we can chant after the fashion of the YouTube link for Prabhupada Singing that we Tweeted.
"Bolo Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare.
Bolo Rama Rama, Hare Hare"
So
nice.
Dance of the undead donkeys!
Lord Nrshma deva can bash anybody's head with His club. (Especially ours).
So beautiful is Vrndavana, where Krsna and the Go, Gopi, Gopa play. They live in a great forest and forget any other way.
There is one road passing in and going on out, from the other worlds.
Sometimes some one comes down it with an ox cart, but they are just absorbed in their work in their little village way.
It is all so important, which girl is wearing Krsna's garland remnant!
Life and Death.
😉
Help them live!
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.
MI, NIOS, all seem to be offering options to the modern world at large. We can row our little boat but only Sri Krsna and the Assembled Devotees can pull a great big barge.
Tried to answer the Blog letters in terms of priority. A lot there!!
TB/BW
🙂
🐷 🐵
Hare Krishna Gurudeva
Please accept my humble obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I hope this letter finds you in good health.
I made the experiment to chant a fixed number of rounds. Also, I read some literature about its benefits, but to be honest, I feel that something is missing. I know that for a guaranteed progress, there must be a 'combo': mangala aratik, kirtan, SB, prasadam... May be those are the missing aspects 🤔
Due to my studies at university, I've acquired critical and analytical thinking, so for me it's hard to follow something without arguments or recognizing its multiple perspectives. Last year was a shock in the spiritual dimension. Now, for this 2021, I'd like to continue digging into my being, recognizing how I'm going to follow the spiritual path and, the most important thing, building a solid base.
At university, I took a theology course. It was astonishing that most of my partners were in the same position as me. In the first class, the teacher asked: 'Why do young people approach religion and why do they distance from it?' The main idea was that young people are seeking for a sense to their lives and the answer for their existential questions. Whereas, they distance from religion when there are so many ritualisms without basis or ideas out of context. The theology course was a great experience: we learnt about the spiritual dimension of the human being and how Lord Jesus teachings can be applied in these times.
That's all for now. Thanks a lot for reading this letter. Thanks a lot for your mercy and inspiration.
Rukmini Devi Dasi
HpS - I had to leave my materialistic family and community associations. I was living in the B'cari ashrama which is like living in homeless center in some ways. So many stressful things. I was wandering the streets in San Francisco, askin, analytically... is this KC real. Then I read a page etc, from Srila Prabhupada's book, and the answer was clear. Every time I make this experiment it is real
Yes.
There is clear definite content in these books.
Maybe I am too weak to follow. Maybe I can follow by the 'skin of my teeth', but this is the best knowledge I have found in anywhere.
So, that is why I am here.
Gita says that even the sincere desire to be a good person is glorious. Don't turn into:
https://www.goliath.com/random/7-most-evil-women-in-history/ 😎
Hare Krsna Gurudeva
Please accept my obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
This time I want to take of something that we talked about in my last letter.
This is what we talked about:
“One last thing to tell, important, a friend who is living in the Zurich temple introduced me to Philip, he also lives there. This friend said that we could get along and created a WhatsApp chat to introduce each other. Philip and me are making plans so that we can spend our lives together serving Krsna ... even though he and me are on different continents.
HpS - Do what you must do!!!
Romeo and Juliet???
He is a serious and responsible devotee, I think he will take good care of me and the family that we want to have.
Was Kunti happy?
Gandhari, Radha, Darupadi, Juliet, Josephine? ? ? ?😎
Are you going to be happy??
Were they SUCCESSFUL?? Are you going to be SUCCESSFUL?”
Philip proposed to me, I said yes.
Part of our plan is to get married and live in Switzerland. He returned to his village, started working and is looking for a house for us. In addition, we began the long and difficult process to obtain my visa, we did all the corresponding procedures, now we are waiting for the migration response.
On the other hand, his questions made me think a lot. I can´t assure you that I will be happy because this world is not made for that, but I am sure that I have chosen a great partner to share my process in Krishna consciousness, I believe that our spiritual life can be successful.
HpS - If the attitude is that we are both in jail, insane asylum, and marriage means making a laboratory where we can learn how to become cured, then it is fine. It will be very satisfying.
I know that this new stage is going to be full of changes, that I will have to learn many things. There is something that particularly worries me as we decide that one day we will have children. I am concerned about not knowing how to raise a child, I am more concerned about not knowing how to raise a child in Krsna consciousness. They say that women have a motherly instinct, I hope this awakens when i need it.
Another thing that worries me is the language, in the village of my future husband they speak German. Philip says that most of the people speak English and that I won't have a problem communicating with them. I also started a German course, pronunciation is difficult for me and I don't like how it sounds.
I choose to see all this as a great adventure with Krsna in my heart accompanying me at every step. (Krsna, adventure partner)
I´m going to live in the Zurich temple until we get married, it would be about 2 months, I want to continue my service as a pujari in the temple for those two months and also after going to live with my husband. I would like to do it once a week since the temple isn´t near the village where we are going to live. We will live in Wängi, Philip grew up there, his family and friends are there too.
I´m thinking about how to continue my preaching in a country where I don´t know the language, perhaps prasadam distribution can be a good option while i´m learning the language. I think I could start a preaching program just like the one I did before the quarantine, maybe a Bhakti Vrksa, maybe a weekly online reading with the devotees in the congregation. The possibilities are limitless.
I hope I can go on with the morning program when I no longer live in the temple.
There will be a 7 hour time difference with FMP on gotomeeting, so I will have to do it without my dear Anjana Suta Academy devotees.
Gurudeva, even though we are far away, I feel close to you, and I thank you for the enormous effort you make to teach and give us your association every day. Thanks for the slides and tweets. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
One of my deepest wishes right now is that your instructions become my life.
Your aspirant servant
Panda Bear 🐼
HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. We had to scan the last part of the letter because there is a Polar Bear trying to set fire to the tree in front of the house, but your plan seems basically sane. NOW.... 4-principles and 16-rounds under the authority of Srila Prabhupada! Do it or not do it, but make it the goal, then Mother Yasoda will give you all the help you need.
Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,
Danadavat Pranams. Jai Srila Prabhupada.
This is in reply to your questions to this letter i sent: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12048/
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HpS/ASA - Of course, we talked about all this now that we are pushed to do these classes with MI, and decided to go to X-finity for one month for $75, to be installed next Monday, then we can see how it works.
Did an online connection speed test and it showed down load at 10MBPS and then 30MBPS and upload ad 2MBSP.
Your Servant
Shri Rama Krishna Das