Prof. H. Pradhan wrote:
regarding plato and his work
https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/meditations-on-the-philosopher-king-plato-and-if-utopia-is-possible
ASA - Super. Thank you Prof. Super. Are you going to write to the author? He, you can, must, write for, help, Solaris. What about Confucious? His ideas have been enacted for centuries, no??? Laws of Manu????? More!
El Jagad Guru Das escibio:
[9:53 AM, 8/7/2020] Jagad Guru das: 17:30 hrs. Nashville
[9:54 AM, 8/7/2020] Jagad Guru das: Is possible to confirm? We can use GoToMeetin because I can re-streaming what happened in GotoMeeting
[10:27 AM, 8/7/2020] Jagad Guru das: Or try with the phone given by Google Meet and just try
[10:28 AM, 8/7/2020] Jagad Guru das: In this case is a 10 minutes test whenever you can, gurudev.
HpS - Podemos hacer, TLGASP, pfanrh, a las 17.00PM Nashville hora.
gotomeeting es bien y podemos probar cuando quiere.
[9:46 AM, 8/7/2020] Caturatma Dasa: Movie "Philadelphia" con Tom Hanks
[9:50 AM, 8/7/2020] Caturatma Dasa: Un abogado que fue despedido por tener sida
ASA
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_(pel%C3%ADcula)
ASA - Muy interesante. Como comunicar cosas raros a la gente.
Dear Guru Maharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!
HpS-ASA -- AgtSP!!! Pamho... -[;o]/\___
I came across the attached painting yesterday and immediately thought of you. I think you might like it. It has the entire leela of Hanuman delivering the ring to Sita. It was painted by a famous artist from Chennai called Keshav. You might know him.
HpS - No..... my loss.
I have uploaded the DTCs in google drive that others can download from here - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11EPWsm3vFp9WmKMOsw7EXLhexnazc3Dt?usp=sharing
HpS - The paramhamas can extract milk from water! It is a media experiment for us. How to preach? How to do Sankirtan? Srila Prabhupada was experimenting with new forms always.
I was not sure about distributing it to others. You can delete the link if you feel so. They are incredible.
We are chanting our rounds and following the principles.
HpS - Thousands of homeless dogs sleeping in the street thank you. When we are "chanting our rounds and following the principles" the whole world benefits. Chant with your lips, brain, heart!!!
In our daily reading we are reading SB 4.7. Divya and I really like reading together and it has become an activity we like doing together. In Saturday SB classes when we read the 9th canto, there were many chapters about family lineage. I was not very interested in knowing the names. But when we went through the same in SB 4.1, it was as if I knew those people. I was eager to know Devahuti's family after reading so much about her in the third canto.
ASA - Yes! It is a fact, no? Each time we go through it, it becomes more know to us. That will happen eternally, no??
By your mercy, we are getting a little taste for reading Srimad Bhagavatam. We are enjoying reading Srila Prabhupada's purports and are able to understand a bit too.
We will be completing NoI in the Bhakti Sastri program in the next 2 weeks. I am learning so much running this program both in terms of knowledge of scriptures and also dealing with devotees. We started with 20 students and 2 students dropped out, which I think is no so bad. It is taking a lot of my time and energy, but I like doing it.
ASA - 10% drop out is great.... the result is eternal, 'nehabikramo naso sti...'
I have been listening a lot recently and I can genuinely feel that my perspective of Bhakti has widened. I had a very narrow view of how things should be done, probably due to my upbringing. But now I think I am understanding things from a deeper perspective. This podcast between Caitanya Caran prabhu and Hari Parsada prabhu titled Intellectual diversity in scriptural understanding was especially enlivening - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9AvIEF7JlU.
The temple is still closed. Nanda Braja prabhu and family are here. Janmashtami and Vyasapuja are going to be online. But luckily, my service in the temple is on Wednesdays and Vyasapuja falls on Wednesday this year. I'll get to do Prabhupada's guru puja arti if no one pulls rank on me :)
The process seems to be working although there are so many more things I need to work on. It is only by your mercy that I am able to perceive it. Thank you so much Guru Maharaja for everything you do for us.
Your servant
Srinatha Krsna dasa
HpS - Thank you!!! We prepare to the Friday presentation through Youtube for Nashville yatra. If you just go on like this Srila Prabhupada says we will become preachers on the level of Narada Muni. .
Hare Krishna dear Maharaja !
Please accept my respecful obeisances...
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I just hope you are in good health or the best as is possible.
ASA - Do cockroaches have good health? Does Lord Brahma have cholera? ? . ?
I'm writing to you regarding one of your answers, 5 weeks ago approx., when I sent an attempt from a Bhaktivinoda poetry's translation:
https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11283/
You said: "Save copy of the poem. Maybe work on the translation more. You can also write another poem in Spanish based upon the ideas."
So, I wrote a new one with a new lyrics, more personal, but trying to keep the original spirit of what I felt Bhaktivinoda wanted to transmit, and keeping the same verse structure as Bhaktivinoda's original. It goes in spanish at the end of this message. Please, accept it as an humble offering in this special Balarama Purnima day (in fact, night: full moon is hanging on the sky right now).
ASA - Moon, moon in the Sky, Do you see witches flying by?
I want to take this opportunity and let you know that I'm so happy working for Solaris again, this is very very important for me in every sense. So, thank you so much for give this opportunity to me and letting me try serving you using my skills... you are so merciful... The dynamic duo is again in the house and little monkey is back!
Thank you so much for everything,
all glories to Srila Prabhupada !
Hare Krishna!
Your aspiring servant,
Carlos.
HpS - ASA --- We have been run over by a herd of rhinocerous today. Maybe 1000 with pearls in their ear ring stampeded this way.
Seven people called on the tele phone. 42-were in class today, the Hawaii, ballet...
Now we will continue with our search for Sita. We are sending out drones all over the universe.
We hope your song travels just as far. We have a lot of ground to cover. Journalism is the devotees best service. !!!! Hari Bolo!!!! Hari Bolo!!
Bh V Tha wrote pages of song BOOKS, what to speak of songs!!!! So much to translate??
Canto al Alma del Saragrahi Vaishnava (Oda a Bhaktivinoda Thakur)
1. ¡Qué pobres aquellos
Que pierden sus días
En alborozo sin sentido y alegría festiva!
Consciencias ocupadas para siempre
Por formas venenosas de líquidos alcohólicos.
2. Estallidos de cristales sobre la calle
Que brillan y hechizan el mirar
De quienes se sienten atraídos
Hacia el abrazo de licor perdido
Y entregan el corazón;
Esclavos del vino que nunca ves superar
Lo que ha sido llamado desgracia y deshonor.
3. ¿Acaso estaría el hombre destinado a ser
Un bruto en su actuar y sentir?
¿Será esa la suerte del que finalmente creyó
Ser el dueño de todo lo que le rodea?
¿Apartarse de la intuición y del sentido común?
4. La gloria del hombre tiene significado
Cuando relata con gracia cómo alcanzar lo Divino,
El hombre está hecho para vivir y amar
Aquel hermoso abrazo que afirma desde el Cielo.
5. Vehículo de carne nuestra desgracia
Cárcel mortal que encadena
El alma,
Por muy antiguos errores ha sido confinada
Y dentro de un cuerpo
Debe intentar elevarse de nuevo.
6. ¿De qué sirve este juego infantil?
Nunca ganamos, nunca disfrutamos,
Realmente nunca lo alcanzamos...
Y decae dentro de cien años
Una rosa marchita que se lleva el viento.
7. Ni tan solo un rosado matiz queda
De esta y la otra vida
Ir y venir, antes y después,
Dentro y fuera del tiempo, para nada;
Alma solitariamente independiente se le ve pasar
Con el bien y el mal sobre la mente.
8. ¡Eco profundo se escucha rugir
La voz inmemorial del pensamiento!
¡Qué feroz se ve su aspecto!
Envueltos en asombro divino
Nosotros leemos los Libros Sagrados de la Naturaleza.
9. Para el hombre su vida es un problema oscuro
Cortinas y humo de izquierda a derecha
Y no se encuentra aquel alma
Que venga a decirnos
Lo que existe más allá de nuestra vista.
10. Y entonces una voz, reconocida y tan profunda,
Sentimiento que aparece intenso dentro de nuestro interior;
¡Ser Humano! ¡Eres un alma eterna!
La muerte nunca te podrá disolver.
11. Para ti, el Ser Supremo en lo alto
Eternamente mantiene
Una reserva de felicidad, allá arriba,
Sin tiempo ni final;
Tú eres el que anhela Su más puro amor.
12. ¡Oh mi amor eres Tú!
Poder benigno que hechiza
Ahora derrito mi alma ante Dios
¿Cómo poder describir con palabras de la tierra
Aquel suave y expansivo sentimiento?
12. Disfrute, tristeza,
¿Qué más de lo que hereda la carne?
El alma que duerme
Finalmente concluye que puede participar.
13. Y entonces, mis amigos, para qué tal disfrutar
De qué lamentarse por todos los demás;
Las mujeres, el vino y la carne de las bestias,
No encontrarás ahí jamás el amor que anhelas.
14. Tu naturaleza es amar a tus hermanos
Y devolver tu corazón a Dios
Solo Él sabe que tu esfuerzo ha sido sincero;
Testigo cierto y claro.
15. Olvida el pasado que duerme
Y deja de soñar con el futuro
Actúa siempre en el tiempo donde estás
Y el avance llamarás.
16. No digas esas frías ideas sin razonamiento
Que el alma se crea espontánea
Y que será destruida;
Las inertes reglas mecánicas de la Naturaleza Material.
17. Solo el Ser Supremo entiende
Por qué nos dio la vida y todo
El alma puede extinguir
O conectarla con los placeres elevados
Su promesa eterna cumplir.
18. Así que tú, Alma,
Empuja tus pasos hacia adelante
Lucha contra todo acto malvado
Odio y Lujuria son sus soldados
¡Haz de ser un héroe de verdad!
19. Mantén tu posición original
En el mundo espiritual
Tan firmemente como puedas
Nunca dejes que la ilusión te derrote
¡Aguanta alma héroe!
20. Alma del Śaragrāhi Vaiṣṇava
Tú eres el ángel más hermoso
Tú que guías,
Guíame a Vrindavan
Y dime el poder de Su espíritu.
21. Allí mi alma descansa
Una vez libre de la materia
Sobre los brazos infinitos de mi amante
Paz eterna y amor trascendental
Son la magia de mi canto.
Srila Prabhupada gave us the book "KRSNA, The Supreme Personality of Godhead". In the original big size it was especially wonderful. The letters were 13.5pt. The drawings by Jadurani Devi Dasi (?) were 'psychedelic'. We didn't know devotees or the Temples, but the pictures were from another world.
We would read one sentence over and over again, until it was a complete icon, meditation.
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"Once upon a time there was a King named Satrajit who lived within the jurisdiction of Dvaraka dhama..."
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This story, this process, drives us mad.
Impose
a
self
quarantine.
Don't go out. Don't look at people. Just your glance can contaminate them. They will become mad also. -0-0-0- The Kingdom of God is for none but the Completely Dead. -0-0-0- A material body cannot stand such animation!!!
