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HpS

2021 Domingo 10

2.15PM

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept our dandabat pranams,

Yesterday at 2 pm, H.H. Bhakti Anandamai Haridasa Guru Maharaja and Banamali Prabhu, Sadhubhusan Dasa and Brojendro Prabhu came at Thoubal and discussed the modalities, program and finalised everything for your Vyasapuja.

Around 50 we are arranging Prasadam. Programme will start from 8.30 a.m. and Prasadam at 1.00 p.m.

Please suggest any item to be added.

Yours fallen sarvent,

Yamunesvara Das.

HpS - Thank you for the news! AGTSP. So nice to hear of the devotees in Manipura. First, we are only supporting a HpS Vyasa Puja if it is viewed as our effort to glorify, illuminate the entire parampara: Krsna, Vyasa, Lord Caitanya, Narottama Das, Srila Prabhupada, Us, You et al.

What is our place?

We offer our obeisances to everyone.

Sing the Bhajan by Bh. Siddhanta Sarasvati, no? http://kksongs.org/songs/k/krsnahoitecatur.html

Here is our Vyasapuja Offering to Srila Prabhupada this year.

"We offer our humble obeisances to His Divine Grace Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, author of the book, KRSNA: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Founder Acharya of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness.

Srila Prabhupada, we suspect that our attempts to illuminate your glories on your Vyasapuja day are like a candle trying to illuminate the sun. The flame just becomes invisible. On the other hand if we are allowed to consider the task like a fire-fly trying to illuminate some of the features of your lotus feet then we might be able to make a small contribution to today's activities.

When your divine grace was in Berkeley. California in 1975 we heard from your lips that anyone who chants the Pancha-tattva Maha-mantra and follows it with the Hare Krsna Maha-mantra has achieved the perfection of life, but if they wanted to preach they should probably read your books.

Then, when asked by a reporter what would happen to your movement when your divine grace died, you answered firmly that you would never die, you would live forever in your books.

These two statements are our life and soul.

Thank you.

We try to always be chanting Maha-mantra internally and externally under the shelter of your divine grace's lotus feet and over and above that read and preach from your books.

Now we read Caitanya-caritamrta daily before Mangala-arati, and it is 90% a novel experience for us. We understand it with so much more depth than before. We see that your divine grace's book is deep beyond our abilities to plumb.

Then after Mangala-arati we read and discuss a little with the devotees in Spanish. Before we were doing Nectar of Devotion, but now we are read a verse a day from the Light of the Bhagavata. We find the purports as direct truth, illumination, on such topics at Veganism, administration in ISKCON etc.

We keep a daily Srimad Bhagavatam class. Sometimes it is with an online group, sometimes local temples. We are integrating our study with the development of questions for the Bhakti-vaibhava diploma with your ISKCON Board of Examinations.

We cite your books from Vedabase.io and the concepts we have learned therein in our humble attempts to preach in the university, Jungian, world classical literature and interfaith communities.

They are the guide for devotees advancing from adau sraddha, sadhu sanga... to prema.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada. We feel we have always been a heavy load that you have had to drag forward in our purification, but we are experiencing practical advancement.

We hope that we can be a little, pleasing, grain of sand under your lotus feet, in the sandy path that is your ISKCON, helping your Sankirtan expand and expand and expand.

Thank you.

Your very fallen servant, Hanumatpresaka Swami

11 March 2020."

At you service.

Critical Review

Photo of Board of Review Attached

Submitted by Gauravani Das:

YouTube:Compass (feat. revati prema)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cc9XXVeyXU

Contrast with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHrkaxyoWB4

Reflection of Krsna and the Cowherd Boys? Dangerous to Gopis? See lyrics. Can write Krsna conscious comments?

Suggestions:

Add images, like a PPTX. Add lyrics.

Reactions:

At this moment the hard beat [virya rasa?] is more appealing to us. Other times the softer mellow could certainly be cool. Lyrics are very difficult. We are very much afraid to listen to them unless it is a paraphrase of Bh. V. Th. et al. Ooooh.

Lyrics with Sastric references.

Another Contrast (local Nashville iconography):

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

Both cases the lead is the drummer!

Give a purport to the song. How it was written? For who?

Champu is poetry and prose combined eg. Gopala champu of Jiva Goswami.

HpS. AgtSP. No hay contenido! Mensaje de. BUDDHA?

Hare Krsna,

For several years we traveled with our good friend Lokannatha Das and his Purnima Theater puppet show.

It was him, M. Maharani Devi Dasi, his wife, and usually a fourth.

We went all across the USA from California to Tennessee, to New York, to Santa Fe to... That is how we met NgD.

I was seeing him while in Berkeley.

We exchange letters. He still does puppet shows and is very curious scholar. The Berkeley City Library was his workshop.

Attached is a scan of a letter we sent to him in answer to his.

Should we scan and share these letters?

Are they of any value to others?

Stimulat Sankirtan?

TB/BW et al.

All Glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to you Gurudeva

Dear Gurudeva, here Nara-Narayana Rsi das from Buenos Aires, Argentina I hope you are very well. please accept my humble obeisances to you.

HpS - Very, very nice to hear from you. We think of your all often and wish we could get your association.

Dear Gurudeva, I really hope you are very well, I am constantly hearing about you, thanks to the mercy of my Godbrothers who share information on social networks.

This has been a very unusual year, the quarantine has put the university in online mode, which has helped to take the decision to live in the temple of Buenos Aires to take the association and shelter of Sri Sri Goura Nitai and his devotees. I have been living in the temple for almost 3 months and it has been very good since I arrived, I feel that it has been a good decision. I am serving as pujari at noon, cooking for Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, making arati and placing the deities to rest. I am learning a lot and doing service with a lot of meditation and kindness.

HpS - Before They did not have noon arati, no? Just evening???

Now that the university has gone online, I have the desire to travel to the US, when possible of course and Krishna and covid-19 allow it. I would like to know the places where Srila Prabhupada was, serve as pujari or whatever is necessary and take the opportunity to practice fluent English. I am willing to stay longer than 2 years in a temple in the USA.

Do you have any suggestions on where Gurudeva would be good to go? I will be speaking with some devotees who live in the USA to consult the different possibilities that may arise.

Again, I hope you are doing very well.

I hope I can become a useful disciple.

Ys

Nara-Narayana Rsi Dasa

HpS - More than where, is who. Look for good association, people who will inspire you to improve your service. How to improve your Sankirtan.

Already you have so much. Now, how can you share it.

Maybe go to Spain.

Do you read the KRSNA book a lot. The first edition was the size of 'carta Americana' and 13.5 puntos! Very good for meditating the book. Live in Dvaraka con Krsna.

Become an arquitecto?