URGENT: Request for participation as listener (MI)

4 years, 5 months ago by Isvari devi dasi in Calendar Development

Hare krsna Maharaja and ASA team,


Please accept my humble obeissances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and discipular succession!


Thank you very much for your answering about SB classes on monday.

I wanted ask you please if you can allow me to participate as listener for the course that you will give for Mayapur Institute (1 to 5 February and 15 to 19).


HpS - ASA --- Yes. Certainly. It is an honor.... We should give the link . It is only February 15-19


Hopefully possible

Thanks a lot

whit affection

ys Isvari R dd



Note: Darupadi is a great devotee and queen, and she defended Ashwatama in opposition to Krsna's wish that he should die for his crimes. Ashwattama tried to two times to eliminate the descendents of the Pandavas.

Draupadi mentioned that by mercy for Kripi, Ashwattama should not be killed, however, when he was sent into exile, he would no longer see or take care of his mother Kripi, and being true that the soul is eternal, the execution of Ashwattama would have been the most appropriate thing to do than leave him in exile for such a long time. Is there a mission for Ashwttama or plan that he didn't complete in this world?

Please excuse me my intelligence is not deep yet to understand these issues.


HpS - As we understand, Krsna was not completely dissatisfied with him. Asv. knew that his own father loved Arjuna more than he loved him, Asv. That's tough thing for a boy to accept. Then, after his father taught Arjuna all his most confidential knowledge, what did Arj, Pandavas do. They tircked, his father, killed him...

.... So it might seem that for Asv. to go temporarily insane was not unjustified, but he made too many mistakes for the son of a Brahmana, and so Krsna was satisfied that he was chastised like he was.

Guess he came to his senses and accepted that punishment.

So it is all justified.

Maybe Pandavas all saying, "You are more than us. You accepted chastisement for your sins, and now that is O.K."

In the next Satya yuga he will still be alive and will be given the honor of being the father of the next race of Ksatriyas.

Mixed good and bad guy like us??

DTC 24(Su)

4 years, 5 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna,,,, Hare Rama!!!


AgtSP!! Paoho.... We are Kirtaniyas! We (TB/BW) chant Hare Krsna.

The only sin we can commit is to ...

... stop chanting HK!


The rest is the modes of nature or the moods of the Gopis.


Swish! Swish! Swirl! Swirl!!

How are you?

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WE GOT seven of our sixteen rounds done. (plus nine from yesterday!! 🙈)


Local time is 9.02PM

+10.00AM - 2.15PM we did the NIOS accounts and Treasury work with Abhaya Ji and had Ekadasi program with him, Mataji and Abhirama Thakuras Das.

Twelve preparations! [ARTD organized lecture program with Nirantara Das for Radha Madana bihari's Yatra! 👍 ]


+2.15-3.30PM was our evening walking/talking with NgD! Some rain. Used our Jagannatha umbrella from Mayesvara Das and CCD/Sbra DD. Flashed all the cars that passed with the "Black Man's" B I G Smile.


+Finished the DTC(p) dedicated to H. G. Vatsala Das and M. Sasikala Devi Dasi et al.


+FMP.. . . .


Let us look at Letters to the Editor:>>> Thank you!!!

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AGTSP!!!

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AGTSP!!! (paoho) 🐒  🐒

 

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MOE Looking for Education Designers

4 years, 5 months ago by hps in Special Category A

Atul-krsna Das writes:


Maharaja...Dandavats!...We are looking to gather a team of devotees to put together a module of teacher training specifically for online teaching...Under our current circumstances, obviously required urgently....Could you possibly consider some of your students who might be qualified and available to be involved?


ASA - Anyone can help? Don't be timid.

DTC 21(th)

4 years, 5 months ago by hps in DTC

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E KRSNA, HARE RAMA! Jaya Radha, Jaya Shyama! It is 7.41PM. Sunset is 5PM. That's when we start our 45-minute exercise walk with NgD. We get attacked by heavy depression because it is dark, cold, we are not getting the Sankirtan results we want, but.. we see that we keep struggling, struggling, struggling, to get our rounds done with


ENTHUSIASM

.. which means FMP!!! Then some little progress is always made!! We got five bags of paper and plastic off to the recycling can. We are saving Bhumi from suffering, then she can do her job for Govinda.


Washed the clothes,

Spent one hour preparing for Hawaii class and one hour presenting and then 15-minutes with good talk with Ramananda Das, Organizer, after it.


Very satisfying to do PPTX.


Now 45-minutes answering letters. Is tough because we have like fifty that are mostly Annual Reports (from devotees who apologize for not reporting during the year 😁), but is so nice to hear from devotees.


Put URGENT in the field and describe what it is if it is not an Annual Report.


It is a great honor to be able to try and offer something to devotees so they can advance more and more and more.... O.K.


Have letter from ARTD, Gandharva Das et al to answer.


Now Local evening program and cook some broccoli for Lord. Nrsmha.

Thank you,

HpS/TB/BW

Report 2020

4 years, 5 months ago by Govinda Sundara in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our humble obeisances 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all his ISKCON army.


ASA - https://www.google.com/search?q=army+of+rama&rlz=1C1CHBH_enUS920US920&sxsrf=ALeKk02D8oDLBBAYfXsoAQOdE3wy4Q65yQ:1611279005758&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAoJaGsq7uAhWQY98KHXyQBxMQ_AUoAnoECBoQBA&biw=1163&bih=525


All glories to you and your services


Please accept our report of this year as a sincere endeavor of improving our actual consciousness. This year was great in terms of introspection and learning about our Anarthas.


Living again with my parents and Ranchor Prabhu has been an Intense experience. I’m a very intolerant and angry being, I recognize that is mostly for tons of unfulfilled desires…i desire to control others, I desire respect and power, I desire comfort and family connections, I desire a convenient Grihasta life. But thanks to Krishna I’m NOT getting that, and I’m learning to get detach from those desires and attachments.


HpS - Want to be Draupadi in your next life. There is an opening for the role.


The first thing we do in our day is look for closer shelter of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions for our life as you suggested, and every day we hear him on Prabhupada box, We feel so happy after hearing his voice, his instructions to keep us strong in sadhana whole day, his sense of humor and intolerance for rascalism. 


Ranchor prabhu set up a nice daily Dinacharya for us—-> 

FMP, Japa, Radha Govinda and Nama Prabhu service with fruits, almonds and flowers @7am, prayers @7:30, SB/BG reading, Yoga, Breakfast, Nap, Diary/Journal writing, Cooking and hearing HpS class, Bhajans, Gratitude journal writing, Milk and Sleep.


ASA - Wow! Super man! 


I’m currently studying Srimad Bhagavatam with my friend Premarani (We read on Skype, almost finish Canto 3). Also I started a job as a Science Teacher for Junior High Students, Teaching Math, Biology, Physics and Chemistry, which has been nice but a bit frustrating because the curriculum force us to teach Evolution and mechanistic view of the world. But kids are sweet and inquisitive, one day we discuss about our temporary body-permanent soul, so is not all bad.


HpS - ... and other girls are being raped an butchered in Nairobi! So, nice your life!! So nice. Find ways to get the truth across, just like Prahlada when he was in school.


Gurumaharaja this year we learned to slow down and trust Krishna’s plans, to plan less and surrender more, to desire less and chant and pray more and go deeper in our spiritual life. 


We would like to offer all our actions and services during this year to your lotus feet, our only goal is to please you and Srila Prabhupada, begging to get your causeless blessings always


Still working on becoming worthy disciples

Always hankering for your service and association


Your fallen servants,


Govinda Pramodini Dasi & Ranchor Krsna Das


HpS - Thank you. Keep chanting and looking for the inspiration of how you can fit directly into the preaching. Now just being Brahmanas, but be Goswami's, Krsna driving your chariot: Shoot here, duck, hold on for this turn.

Reporte anual

4 years, 5 months ago by mandara sakha das in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj Hanumatpresaka Swami, ¿cómo está?

Mis deseos de salud y felicidad en conciencia de krishna para usted!

Con mucha sinceridad quiero escribirle esta carta de manera resumida, pues hace mucho tiempo no le escribía.

En el camino, me di cuenta que no estaba siguiéndolo de manera apropiada, y por ello, las veces que le escribí, usted no recibió mis reportes. Con humildad nuevamente intento escribirle.

Este año 2020 ha tenido muchos cambios para mi. Durante 11 meses trabajé como psicólogo en una institución cristiana con personas que viven en la calle. Fue una experiencia fuerte ya que son personas con historias de vida de mucho sufrimiento, también pude ver muy de cerca la degradación de kali yuga, y en un momento, comencé a enfermarme, pues habían nudos kármicos tan fuertes en ellos, y yo no podía ayudarlos realmente. ni el gobierno del país podía hacerlo completamente. Por las horas laborales difícilmente podía predicarles, entonces no me sentía satisfecho por completo. Y en un momento decidí retirarme del trabajo y dedicarme a la astrología védica, ya que había tenido estudios hace un par de años pero no era tan central en mi vida. Y pues, con ello me siento satisfecho, porque les entrego el maha mantra hare krishna a todas las personas que me solicitan una carta natal, puedo entregarles conocimiento védico y hablarles del bhagavad gita.

También todo este año 2020 he estado cuidando a mi abuela de 93 años, junto a mi madre. Una labor que requiere mucha paciencia, y consciencia de autocuidado propio, pues hay que bañarla, cocinarle, ayudarle a moverse, etc..

Por todo esto, no tuve mucha participación en el templo, sumado al corona virus que nos obligo a estar en el hogar.

Por otro lado,

Este año no he tenido el sadhana ideal, como cuando vivía en templos, pero krishna siempre me ha llevado a madurar y evolucionar, a veces con sufrimiento por errores cometidos, y a veces con inteligencia.

Tengo la suerte de que mi madre es devota más fuertemente hace 2 años aproximadamente, y con ella compartimos el cocinarle a krishna, tenemos nuestro altar, etc.

También le comento que estoy asociado con una devota llamada Gabriela. Tenemos planes para casarnos para seguir lo recomendado por prabhupada. ya los padres de ambos lo saben y están contentos. Ella ayuda con la prédica del ministerio vaishnavi y otros servicios más.

Con esto creo que resumo en general mi vida, le agradezco de corazón sus esfuerzos por seguir a su maestro espiritual Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, por expandir la conciencia de krishna, por tener la misericordia de darle primera iniciación a este tonto, y permitirme intentar saborear el santo nombre bajo la guía del hilo invisible que me ata a usted y a krishna en la distancia.

Me despido pidiéndole disculpas por no haberle escrito antes, me sentí culpable en muchas ocasiones. Pero a pesar de que se que no es lo correcto, también se que eso indica que usted es importante para mi.

En esta existencia eterna me siento agradecido de conocer a un maestro espiritual y la comunidad vaishnava.


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Posted by: mandara sakha das

Title: Annual report

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj Hanumatpresaka Swami, how are you?


HpS -About the same as you!


My wishes for health and happiness in Krishna consciousness to you!


With great sincerity I want to write this letter to you in a summarized way, because I have not written to you for a long time.


HpS/ASA - 😕


Along the way, I realized that I was not following you properly, and therefore, the times I wrote to you, you did not receive my reports. With humility again I try to write to him.


This year 2020 has had many changes for me. For 11 months I worked as a psychologist in a Christian institution with people who live on the streets. It was a strong experience since they are people with life histories of a lot of suffering, I could also see very closely the degradation of kali yuga, and at one point, I began to get sick, because there were such strong karmic knots in them, and I could not really help them. not even the government of the country could do it completely. Because of the working hours I could hardly preach to them, so I was not completely satisfied. And at one point I decided to retire from work and dedicate myself to Vedic astrology, since I had had studies a couple of years ago but it was not that central in my life. And so, with that I feel satisfied, because I give the hare krishna maha mantra to all the people who request a birth chart from me, I can give them Vedic knowledge and tell them about bhagavad gita.


HpS - Hmmm!


Also all this year 2020 I have been taking care of my 93-year-old grandmother, together with my mother. A task that requires a lot of patience, and awareness of her own self-care, since you have to bathe her, cook her, help her move, etc.


For all this, I did not have much participation in the temple, added to the corona virus that forced us to be at home.


On the other hand,


This year I have not had the ideal sadhana, as when I lived in temples, but Krishna has always led me to mature and evolve, sometimes with suffering from mistakes made, and sometimes with intelligence.


I am lucky that my mother has been more strongly devoted to her about 2 years ago, and with her we share cooking for Krishna, we have our altar, etc.


I also mention that I am associated with a devotee named Gabriela. We have plans to get married to follow Prabhupada's recommendation. their parents already know it and are happy. She helps with the preaching of the Vaishnavi ministry and other services.


With this I think I summarize my life in general, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your efforts to follow your spiritual master Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, for expanding Krishna consciousness, for having the mercy of giving this fool first initiation, and allowing me to try to savor the holy name under the guidance of the invisible thread that binds me to you and krishna in the distance.


I say goodbye apologizing for not having written to you earlier, I felt guilty on many occasions. But even though I know it's not the right thing to do, I also know that it indicates that you are important to me.


In this eternal existence I am grateful to meet a spiritual master and the Vaishnava community.


HpS - Thank you, thank Gabriela, Mama and Grand Mama! Get your rounds done. HK. HK!! Then Krsna can give you more chance to preach. Take notes of your Sankirtan. That will help you improve it daily and send a report after a few weeks.

Expect rapid change.