Sankirtan/Viplavah

4 years, 8 months ago by hps in Special Category A

On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 02:27:56 PM CDT, Mishra Bhakavan Das wrote:

Carrying on in Texas. Humbles and Glories. 

My job as an audio technician has opened back up. I have many days of work though my back cannot handle the heavy stuff much longer. Mi esposa is nicely situated with her job working for the City of Dallas. Once a week I go to Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji's mangal arotik. I have to be on the road by 03:45 for that. Mostly I go to read the Prabhupada Nectar. We just finished Vishaka Devi Dasi's book about Srila Prabhupada called "5 years 11 Months and a lifetime of Unexpected Love" which was amazing. Now we are reading Yogeswara's "Swami in a Strange Land". 

Although I have had two good months of sankirtan the weather has become really cold and rainy, and I have to go back to work, making it very hard to get out. I bought a case of "Karma La Justicia Infalible" and sold the whole box. So I ordered another case. This time it is "Meditacion y Superconciencia" and have sold about half the case. As far as english books, my son Abhaycharan Nimai Dasa had a stack of 26 various books in Gita Nagari that he felt should be distributed, so he sold them to me to move them here in Texas. So far 11 of those books have been sold including a big hardback "Nectar of Devotion."

I hope this meets you well, safe, and comfortable. Mishra Bhagavan Dasa

HpS - Hare Krsna!  You seem to be situated in Subhadra as well as Bhaga: Auspicious as well as opulent life. Can we publish this letter in the next issue of Viplavah?  Do you also read Srila Prabhupada's direct books? Eg. Krsna book and hot milk?  We find that they act as the catalyst for understanding these other books. All respects to Mataji. Anybody who could live with you has to be a saint. Of course, you don't count because you have no option.  <img src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f60e.png" alt="Emoji" height="16" width="16">

Viplavah: https://iskconeducation.org/journal/

Report to Dr. Samaresh

4 years, 8 months ago by hps in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Sent to Dr. Samaresh. 2020 Oct 28

"Thank you for news Professor. Yes, Iwrote that letter to you in May. But there was no postal service to India at that time. So I gave it to Thanu Subrahmanian (Tandavika Das) when he went to India first of this month to attend to urgent affairs.

Go to know that PKD is pushing the book security.

Afte pushing, pushing, pushing, we finally got all the douments for the annual meeting signed and collected by the Secretary.

Now....  we finally got a final draft copy of the next issue of 'Solaris' from Abhirama and Prof. Miguel in Peru. I have discussed it with Abhiseka, our new NIIOS President, and NgD's son. Abhi. is quite enthusiastic and competent for NIOS. I will send him the copy of Solaris and in can serve as a backbone for discussusion on NIOS.

We will then organize a coloquia of all of us to duscuss the Mission/Vision for ISKCONand then head toward more practical goals.

No news from Dhurva Das about visiting Professor Mabbit. Also, need to transfer money from Sri Hari Das to Nila-kamal for our lare debt to your good self.

That is our general news now.

Allergy is little undercontrol.

Ants have gone and mice have come. Our auto has died but maybe we can get it working. 🙏🦍🙏"

Stri Dharma SB 4

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

https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/25d4e4c978028bcbccf1460aa051818bddc8da7597b8ec4177da1bfe3f0da339

SB 2020 OCT 13, Stri-dharma, S. R. D. D., Canto Four.

Could not attend the class. Just now hearing. Very nice.

Was mentioned that one should not strike a women even if she commits some sin.

If we look at articles on the internet ont "death penaltly gender statisitics" it is very interesting. Maybe men are executed 10-times more.

Also, in most states girls can be legally married at 16-years old with parent's permission. So, could be 'engaged' at younger age and then legally married at 16-years. VAD rules are natual.

Also mention of women, men and eunichs. This is the same point some ASA members have made. Before it was ´he´in literature, now it has become 's(he)', but should actually be 's(he)it'. If you say the whole thing fast it becomes the vulgar, taboo, word for excrement. Maybe this is a sign from God of what Kali is trying to do with human society. Keep 'he' to include naturally she and it?

Arci and Prthu 'went to the same planet' - does this apply to them because they are eternally husband and wife, but in the case of Jivas means they both go to the same plane, Vaikuntha? In their Svarupa they may belong to very different families, but they will always remember how they played this conjugal relation in the incarnation that took them back to Vaikuntha?

Sarad-gaurangi DD's Manipur

4 years, 8 months ago by Sarada Gaurangi Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj!! Please accept our humble obeisances at Your lotus feet.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

We pray that this letter finds you in the most blissful state.

HpS - I also pray the same for me and you!

We have installed Sri Hanumanji outside the temple complex of Sri Radha Damodara Mandir, Toubul. Resting coolly under the shades of the banyan tree, our Hanuman gives us a glorious darshan. The local devotees tell us that under this banyan tree HH Bhakti Svarup Damodara Swami used to sit and rest. We will be celebrating Tirubhav on 26th....

HpS - That is Tin goswami Samadhi, no? Now it is char goswami samadhi. I was there in Radha kunda when the celebration happened. Very happy, very sad. Even now, today is 26th.

Last tuesday on Parama Ekadashi our uncle left his physical body. HG Ramanuja Prabhuji and HG Jai Bhima Prabhuji chanted Gopala sahasranama, Gajendra Moksha and BG chapter 8 day before Ekadasi. He was still conscious that time. Aunt chanted Harinaam till the last few moments before he left. On the day he left ,we kept on his lips charan tulsi offered at the lotus feet of Sri Govindaji, read BG chapter 8 and Sri Gopala sahasranama. He made a loud sound before he left. My aunt is bewildered by the sound coming from his mouth. She wants to know what that meant.

HpS - Good question. Maybe just the sound of the prana leaving the body through the lips. Is very exalted way to leave!

We have been selected to be a member of the Sri Govindajee Temple board. Guru Maharaj can we serve Sri Govindajee by being a member of the board? We were taken by surprise by the turn of these events.

HpS - As far as we know it is fine. Just be happy. Lao Tzu gives us advice that can be taken as: The Emperor should control the function of the empire the same way a beggar would cook his one chapati.

Continuing to read Krsna book with father. He enjoys the pastimes so much. We usually read after the SB. Father keeps referring to Krsna as Butter thief.....keeps telling....lets read that Butter Thief's leela....

HH Bhakti Vyasa Tirtha Swami Maharaj is not in the best of physical health. All of 94 years, chanting ardently all the time. We will miss Maharaj a lot ...last time when we went for getting darshan of Maharaj, HH laughed at us and said...' Mataji..be like Chitrangada.....'

Guru Maharaj...merciful dear Gurudev...we seek your mercy to chant our rounds blissfully ....more and more. Thank you so much for changing our lives.

Your insignificant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Thank you for all the wonderful news. We hope the Samadhi ceremony is more and more glorious. We will have one in our community also.

KDPC (Santa Teresa de Jesús)

4 years, 8 months ago by jayanta in Special Category A

Hare Krisna Gurudev: Pamho.

Leyendo una parte del libro "Cuentas de Conciencia" de Santa Teresa de Jesús" (Ávila) en el Capitulo 44 (traducido del Castellano Antiguo) dice:

Cuentas de Conciencia 44

2. “Súbitamente me vino un recogimiento con una luz interior tan grande que me parecía estar en otro mundo, y hallose mi espíritu dentro de sí, en una floresta y huerta muy deleitosa, tanto que me hizo recordar de lo que se dice en el Cantar de los Cantares: Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum – venga Él, mi amado, a Su huerto y coma sus delicadas frutas”.

“Vi allí, en este Elíseo (lugar delicioso donde van las grandes almas), un joven negruzco con una extraña belleza; encima de su cabeza tenía como una guirnalda, que no corona, de gran pedrería, y muchas doncellas que andaban allí con Él, con ramos en las manos, todas en cánticos de alabanzas de Dios. Yo no hacía sino abrir los ojos para no distraerme y no me era posible quitar la atención de ello”.

“Había allí una música de ángeles y canto de pajaritos, de la que el alma gozaba, aunque yo con los oídos físicos no lo escuchaba, más el alma, estaba en aquel deleite. Yo miraba como no había allí ningún otro hombre ”.

3. “Esto duró más de hora y media –que no podía apartar mi vista ni mi atención, y con gran deleite, cosa diferente de otras visiones; y lo que de allí saqué fue más amor a Dios y tenerle más profundamente presente con aquella belleza, no es posible que fuera imaginación”.

No se si google podrá traducir esto de forma fiel al texto.

Mi pregunta es si Sta Teresa practicando el Cristianismo pudo ver a Krishna. Es verdad que no hace alusión a la pluma de pavo real en la cabeza; pero el resto parece una descripción de Krishna con las gopis durante un muhurta. En la tradición cristiana no se habla de Dios como un joven moreno.

¿Que opina? Siento molestarlo pero el texto me pareció interesante observar los niveles de re4alización espiritual a los que llegaban en aquella época tanto Sta Teresa como San Juan de la Cruz y otros.

Gracias.

ss

Jayanta das

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Hare Krishna Gurudev: Pamho.

Reading a part of the book "Accounts of Conscience" of Santa Teresa de Jesús "(Ávila) in Chapter 44 (translated from Old Spanish) says:

Consciousness Accounts 44

2. “Suddenly a recollection came to me with an interior light so great that it seemed to me to be in another world, and my spirit was found within itself, in a very delightful forest and orchard, so much so that it made me remember what is said in the Song of Songs: Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum - come He, my beloved, to His garden and eat its delicate fruits.

“I saw there, in this Elysee (delicious place where great souls go), a blackish youth with a strange beauty; On his head he had like a garland, which does not crown, of great stones, and many maidens who walked there with him, with bouquets in their hands, all in songs of praise to God. I kept opening my eyes so as not to be distracted and it was not possible to take my attention away from it ”.

“There was a music of angels and the singing of birds, which the soul enjoyed, although I did not listen to it with physical ears, but the soul was in that delight. I looked like there was no other man there ”.

3. “This lasted more than an hour and a half - that I could not take my eyes off my attention, and with great delight, something different from other visions; and what I got from there was more love for God and having him more deeply present with that beauty, it is not possible that it was imagination ”.

I don't know if google will be able to translate this faithfully to the text.

My question is whether St. Teresa practicing Christianity could see Krishna. It is true that it does not refer to the peacock feather on the head; but the rest looks like a description of Krishna with the gopis during a muhurta. In the Christian tradition, God is not spoken of as a dark youth.

What do you think? I'm sorry to bother you, but the text seemed interesting to me to observe the levels of spiritual fulfillment reached at that time by both Saint Teresa and Saint John of the Cross and others.

Thank you.

H.H

Jayanta das

HpS - I have heard of this from other devotees a little, but... you are the first person to send it in such detail! Google did a good job. I don't think I know any more than you do, but yes, certainly, Krsna can reveal His form in Vrndavana to people anywhere. I have heard very sober descriptions of people having visions of Krsna and associates that led them to go to the library to find a book about ""'KRSNA""" and then to the Temple.

"If the Prince and Princess want to go into the prison house, who can stop Them", said Srila Prabhupada?

More!!

Application for post in ASA

4 years, 8 months ago by harsh_horse in Special Category A

Previous letters regarding :

https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11561/ ,https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11579/

Hare Krsna Maharaj, PAMHO, AGTSP

Your grace wrote -- "We will put your request before the Supreme Absolute Undifferentiated Commando of ASA and see what they say".

Dear Sir have the Commando of ASA replied any thing ?

we are constitutionally servant, if we dont serve him, we will forced to serve (illusion of enjoyment) maya.

guided bomber

HpS - Yes... like we said in the response to your other post, today. Is O.K. you want to look at Category A each Ekadasi and cateogorize and edit them for the Kapi Dhvaja???