Iskcon San Diego - Please give me shelter

4 years, 8 months ago by stopngo in Personal Sadhana Reports

You're Devine Grace Hanumatpresaka Swami.

I understand you weren't able to get my last letter.this is the latest circumstance in my sadhana.

My job is offering me there VSP program ( voluntary separation program) which allows me to leave my job Sooner planned.

I've decided to look into San Diego temple.i like the idea that they have a farm that supplies ahimsa milk to San Diego, Laguna,and Los Angeles and other great services that I can contribute to.

There's nothing more that I want in this material world, and hopefully I can be of some service to the devotees. looks like SD is a community of well wishers. i hope to be in California by the beginning of the new year if not sooner.

I follow your blogs and hopefully I'll have a better internet to participate in your classes.i see you're deciples become empowered by your mercy.if only some day this mudha could be of service.if there's anything I can offer please don't hesitate.

Servant of the servants Mike Jarvis, from Seattle

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!! So, nice to hear you again, Mr. M. Jarvis. Wow! So nice!! Please read the Kapi Dhvaji. www.jayrama.us 'news'. We STRUGGLE to get it up and put our news there. In the Letters to the Editor there is a Kapi Dhvaja Priority Code (KDPC). Please put the code in your Title box in you letter, so it gets rapid treatment.

Don't know much details about San Diego. Head Pujari is our "Disciple" for many years. Just got knocked into the hospital by a truck against his bicycle but recovering. All I can suggest is get to know the situation in good detail.

Basically wherever we can take shelter of Srila Prabhupada is good place. 16 - 4.

See you soon!!!!!!!!

KDPC Noticias de la Jardin Escondido

4 years, 8 months ago by ramanretidevidasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay

Todas las gloria a Srila Prabhupada

Hare krishna Gurudev comienzo mi reporte contando que las fiestas de Janmastami, Srila Prabhupada y Radhastami fueron muy bellas , leyendo , escuchando kirtan todo el día y con preparaciones para ellos.

Mi altar de fiesta para cada uno de los festivales, las deidades de casa hermosamente vestidas para la ocasión. Esos días reflexione mucho mi compromiso con Srila Prabhupada para mejorar mi servicio como devota en lo personal y para la comunidad.

Usted me ayuda mucho, pero yo también tengo que poner de mi parte, me esfuerzo bastante para lograr este objetivo y ser un buen ejemplo para otros.

Ayer terminamos el primer canto del S. Bhagavatam ahora ensayo y examen.

HpS - Ya listo oir la sugerencia de Suka Deva Goswami.

Sigo la predica por teléfono acompañado para formar lazos firmes,

HpS - Cantanando Kirtan por internet con sus alumnos?? Que todos dejan sus cuerpos tan pronto como puede, hay mucho trabajo esencial esperando nos en Goloka!!!!

Muchas gracias por su inspiración se despide su humilde sirviente Raman Reti devi das

HpS : Noticias de su familia, tambien!

Hari Bolo (Updated August 31th timings) - Program of the Colloquium Nature and sacrality of Universidad Católica de Chile - October 7-28th

All Glories to Sri Sri Radha Govinda

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Dear guru maharaj,

Some news about the program sponsored by NIOS to the Universidad Católica de Chile here.

1- Gandharva das will translate and coordinate the details with the Universidad Católica technical requirements. 

We can say in advance that the platform o the event will be Zoom nad the regular presentation will be of the 20 minutes but you're highlithed in the program at 19:30 hrs. to finish that day and with the prefix "Conferencia" not just presentation. So, we should know if you will have only 20 minutes too. But we don`t know exactly. We will know today.

It would be very nice to have your personal darshana in the first minutes, and desirably throughout the whole presentation and question and answer. Mainly, because is good to let clear that you will be online, with your personal presence there and it won't just a recorded video. 

So, the question is: Is possible for you Gurudev, to access to a different source of internet that evening? Just asking. I thought that maybe the Nitai Gaura Sundar's house, but is workday. Anyway, I think that is possible to have a US number from the Zoom too, just like Google Meet does, and we could check that works.  

The presentations should be ready and sent to them two days before the day of each table.

2- Visvanath Cakravarti Thakur das will be translating and supporting the German teacher, the same one from last year. Here is his profile if you want to check: https://fah.um.edu.mo/staff/staff-philosophy/moeller-hans-georg/ 

3 - Abhirama Thakur das is coordinating the exchange between Solaris magazine and Aisthesis UC Magazine.

4- NIOS and Solaris are sponsors in several items, mainly design, translation.

5- Ambarisha Das and Vrsabhanu Nandini d.d. are working on a promotional and registration videos of the colloquium 

6-OM Bhakti (Lalita Madhava) will give a concert on-line to the program on the first day.

7- The titles of the conferences (in English by courtesy of Microsoft Translation services associated with Office 365) and speakers of every one the three days of the event are in the last part of this report. The important there is that we put the other five participants of the "MESA 2: NATURALEZA Y SACRALIDAD: MUNDO ASIÁTICO" scheduled to the October 22nd, and it will start at 17:30 hrs. (Chilean Time) - that will means 15:30 hrs. Nashville, Tennessee, time. 

I know that now the difference is just one hour, nevertheless, Chile will change to the "Chilean Summer Time" on September 6th, that means that the clocks will move 1 hour forward.

Your particular presentation is schedueled to 19:45 hrs. (Chilean Time.) Details in the final program. The link to the Document is below.

8- A good team is collaborating in this service.

Important considerations

Summary of the theme and dates of each table:

TABLE 1: NATURE AND SACRALITY: CHRISTIANITY - October 7th.

TABLE 2: NATURE AND SACRALITY: INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS - October 14th.

TABLE 3: NATURE AND SACRALITY: ASIAN WORLD - October 21st.

TABLE 4: NATURE AND SACRALITY: ACTION AND CONTINGENCY - October 28th.

They accept my proposal "Govardhana Eco Village - analysis of the keys to the sustainability of the past to rebuild a better future" I was there, and I think that the award the GEV received and other things will like it to this audience. 

I was there actually but If you can give me an advice about this presentation and share with me any contact from them, I would appreciate a lot.

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Despite your table is the third one, I would like to recommend to get the general idea of the second table too. Maybe, we could ask to Carlos Rold to make a summary for you of this table. He's very good in to get the main ideas. 

I said that because the mapuche crisis has renewal in the last weeks. An increment of the Violence in the south of Chile between the police, some mapuche people. And the general people have starting to rediscovering of the deep cultural heritage of mapuche. 

Actually, I'm very impressed for the amazing similarities between Vaisnava and mapuche traditions. So, it would be good for you to be aware of these presentations because it will be there, in ether. Actually, for this reason there is a table focused in indigenous traditions.


Gastón Soublette wonderful video

A good summary of the mapuche culture is in this wonderful video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27LAd906yM

An 15 min. interview extract to Gastón Soublette, a Claudia Lira's mentor and one of the 8 or 10 most famous and important intellectuals of Chile nowadays (93 years old and still alive and clear mind)

This interview is in Spanish, however, it has subtitles, and the feature of automatic translation of youtube is very very good to this kind of videos with a good Spanish spoken.

He was in the release of Claudia Lira's book and I broached him, and when I told him about you and your efforst and I told him that maybe you both can talk, he gave me his phone. He would like to know more about a spiritual guru, swami with a western background. 

He lives slightly as a hermit, so for communication, he has just cable-phone, and no smartphone and internet either, so an encounter could be possible in your next physical visit. Or maybe we can try by phone after the event.


Program - Version 1 (Organizers, Instituto de Estética de la Universidad Católica de Chile, Claudia Lira and Elvira Rios, are waiting some feedback from all of us, the speakers, but they think that the definitive version is almost this one, or maybe with two minor changes):


Original Program in Spanish:

http://bit.ly/coloquio-uc-spanish2

Original Program in English:

http://bit.ly/coloquio-uc-ingles2


Thank you guru maharaja, thank you for your training.

HpS - So, the program is 5-weeks from now? Thank you. Maybe we can make it part of a larger program from our side that would complement their program. The Govardhana Eco Village program is very strong. Radhanatha Swami's book is there. I have contact with some devotees there.

DTC mo(31)

4 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP!!!!

Dark clouds are coming. It is 5.12PM. Our Boss may have Karuna virus. It is agitating the village. Thunder storms with lightening are threatening. Neighbor of NgD house got hit by lightening. Fire Men had to come to extinguish it. Just blew off part of the roof:

BanGGG G!

We got a lot of rounds done. We've done very nice Bhoga offerings. [Must be mercy of Hari Das Thakura]. We are writing the DTC(p) for Jayananda Das. His association is the best, but now we are tired.... want to rest...

The Good Soul: DON'T rest! Push on to death. Keep chanting!

Us: O.K. Got our rounds. SB class. Lots of consulting. Look for Krsna in the forest with the boys to see Them play!!!!

[Some mail left. Letter from Jagat guru Das about Programa with Catolica!]

KDPC, REPORT BY GOVARDHANA DASA (ABR-AGO), CUSCO MANDIR

4 years, 8 months ago by Govardhana das in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja

AGTSP

PAMHO

Dear Gurumaharaja, wishing you are in good health, we always pray to Lord Nṛshiṁha deva, to take care of you and protect you. This Quarantine has hit us all very hard, it is the material nature (kleśa), but being associated with you, in your online programs, in the singing of Japa, made this blow soft, we have taken advantage of the improvement in many things, new ideas, reinventing ourselves spiritually, which we are not doing for you, for Srila Prabhupada, maybe fear? Insecurity? I think so.

So we recap a lot of things. Since mid-March we started online classes with Yatra devotees, on Wednesdays Nama Hatta online, we talked a little (ice breaker), we sang, 01 round of Japa, and we studied a book by Srila Prabhúpada, now we are reading the NOI, we are in Text 5, very good conclusions from the attendees. On weekends (Saturday and Sunday), “Online Spiritual Retreat”. We read the Krishna Book (Saturday night) and the next day, the complete Mangala Arati program, and at 6:30 am, Srimad Bhagavatam class, we take turns for the class. We coordinate everything with Prabhu Raghanuga Bhakti, temporary head of the Temple, and with Prabhu Goura Rupa.

Among the assistants there are three very enthusiastic Bhaktas, M. Margot, B. Fernando and B. Baltazar, who are fulfilling a basic program at home, we guide them, they are very favorable. For some issues not all are connected, but little are they getting hooked, if they do not have internet, we make a call by cell phone, loudspeaker and voila ... Fr. Jagadisvara das, and P. Harimukunda das, and M. Divia Dristy also participate, although you can't connect sometimes when you do, your participation is excellent.

For example, yesterday in Radhastami, he gave a spectacular class, very nectarean, we also broadcast it on Facebook live Iskcon Cusco Mandir, very good comments, few, but encouraging.

In these transcendental festivals, small preparations were made in the Temple, we recorded the Arati, some devotees came to the Temple to cook and make garlands, M. Yogamaji dd, M Divia Dristy dd, M. Taky and their daughter Aracely, still in this pandemic, devotees do their devotional service, with all the care required. Prabhu Astavarga gave the online class for Janmastamy, it was by cell phone, but it worked. We have some technical drawbacks, but we are improving little by little, many limitations, but the show must go on.

HpS - Jaya!!! The Evil One and his Consort cannot stop your efforts!

Dear Gurudeva, the quarantine with family in these 4 months locked up at home, helped us a lot, we did many things so as not to get bored, we painted the house, board games, we saw Bahubbali 5 times, Nilacandra loved it, she wants to be part of the army of Krishna, a very restless boy and my daughter Vrisabhanu, is also very restless, very clever, it surprises me very much. At least the quarantine served to get to know us more.

HpS - So wonderful!!! Hope you painted pictures on the walls also!

Dear Gurudeva, this is a bit confidential. . . . . HpS - ASA --- Not very confidential, but O.K. Yes!

Dear Gurudeva, I want to ask for your blessings so that these programs continue to work and improve, it is the basis of "Clinic for the Soul", because this helps us to improve and reach more people and preach to them about this great Movement of Srila Prabhupada and to experience the nectar of devotional service, it is our mission… (na dhanam na janam na sundarim…). We are developing some ideas for programs, audios, videos, spiritual coaching, we are about to start our last semester of Master of Administration, we are preparing for our Pada Padma exam with LAD, we are running, we hope we do not stumble and fall on our face.

HpS - Step by step by step you are becoming a Goswami....

Dear Gurudeva, we are eternally grateful to you for everything. May the Mercy of Sri Krishna always be poured out upon you.

Your worthless would-be servant

Govardhana dasa

HpS - Very nice! What is the news about your good wife? Where is she from, who are here associates? What are here interests?