AGTSP!!!!!!! paoho........ -[;o]/\___ Been answering letters for 2-hours!! About dead!
M. Matsya Devi Dasi brought Raja bhoga offering for Lord, Nrsmhadeva. Seven courses!
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Hare Krsna Maharaja. Please forgive my arrogance in the last letter! I was obviously under a spell of false pride trying to display my erudition before others! I beg your forgiveness and for that of all the esteemed devotees on this blog. o/ \_
Your aspiring servant,
Bhakti Sastra Das
HpS-ASA - Did not seem that way to us. Your letters seem very cultivated. What about VDM 15.73? P'pada, Radha-8 lecture, London, "Radha! Hare! No difference" Compare Sarva bhauma Das Translation with Kusakratha Das (http://www.jayarama.us/archives/vdm.docx)...
Hare Krsna Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Maharaja from what I understand, love of Godhead, Krsna prema, awakens by constant absorption in the pastimes of Vrindavan. Only by constant hearing of this transcendental realm can we catch a glimpse of the perfected state of the living being.
HpS - AGTSP Yes, and the stages are described in the NOD, no? Vaidhi Bhakti, Raganuga Bhakti, Bhava Bhakti . . . !! Prema Bhakt !!! (AWAKE!)
In Vaidhi we see Radha Krsna as Deities and the altar as Vrndavana and we keep it clean. Then we see that they are Spiritual (Brahmana), then we get inspiration in detail from Them and see Their mood (Goswami), then we talk with Them (Saksi Gopal). Correct.
Srila Prabhodananda Saraswati Thakur describes, “I meditate on the fair and dark complexioned divine young couple, who are absorbed in ecstatic love for each other and who are singing melodiously together under the tall, huge, kadamba trees filled with many flowers on the banks of the Kalindi River.”
- Sri Vrindavan Mahimamrta Sataka 15 Text 98
I feel it is important for us practicing devotees to know that our goal is not just to follow rules and regulations but to actually attain spontaneous loving attraction to Radha & Krsna in Vrindavan. This is achieved only by taking shelter of Srimati Radharani.
HpS - I agree. It can be like having a free vacation from Chicago in the Winter to Hawaii. Then you have to come back... but now you know where you want to live. By Lord Caitanya's mercy we can get a taste of Prema that even a Lord Brahma might not get!!! ... but then we come back and have to do Karma-misra(mixed)-bhakti yoga ie. stop smoking, chant on beads.. as we advancing karma-misra, jnana-misra, dhyana-misra... we always keep the lighthouse in mind, and sometimes we may get little undeserving visits there as we advance, (https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/6/22/), but high thoughts and practical work?
“The golden effulgence emanating from Sri Radha’s bodily limbs covers the ten directions. She drowns both spiritual and material objects in the ocean of Her transcendental beauty. In this way She is always supremely glorious.”
Sakata Seven, Text 93
I pray to the most merciful Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu for an ounce of mercy to understand and approach these Himalayan topics.
Is my understanding correct?
Eagerly awaiting your comments or corrections.
Your insignificant servant,
Bhakti Sastra Das
HpS - ASA - We added our little thoughts above. Are they correct from your point of view? See another letter from you... :>>> We want VERY much to fit Vrindavana Dhama Mahimamrta (VDM) into our hearing and chanting.
Dear Guru Maharaja, PAMHO. AGTSP!
How have you been dear Gurudeva? I hope you are fine and in good health. I am just fine, trying to listen to your classes and being more enthused and inspired by your shelter. How is Lord Nrisinhadeva + Prahlad and Lord Hanuman?
HpS - AGTSP!!! Paoho. They are fine!! Every day we do Puja for them before Mangala arati. Put Them to rest in the afternoon, wake up later and rest again at night... Our health is O.K. Is old vehicle. Don't trust it on the freeway anymore, but good for getting around town.
I am thinking about traveling abroad in a near future. Life gives changes to our lives, I hope Krishna has good results for me, who knows?
HpS - Only if it helps you go inside also. You have great interior resources to awaken.
I hope this locked down let me approach more to Krishna.
your servant,
Jagat Bandhu Jagannatha Swami dasa
HpS - A technical thing. Sometimes devotees send us "Private Messages" on GoToMeeting. We can't read them!!! Another letter from you to look at! :>>
Dear Guru Maharaja PAMHO AGTSP! How are you doing? regarding your last question, well I can´t relate my teaching to Krishna, I wish I could, but I continue doing my work and maybe parents can perceive something different.
HpS - In BG, Chapter Ten, Arjuna asks Krsna how ordinary man can know God. He is the taste in water, the light of the sun, the shark, the lion. You can give stories about lions to your students etc.!
Baladeva and Subhadra are living with me, both are studying high school, Subhadra is learning how to play the piano and violin and Baladeva is drawing and learning how to tattoo. I may associate with somebody else, who knows, that may help my Krishna conciousness or it could send me to hell!
HpS - ISKCON Hell. Temple President JB JSWD, Vice-President - Baladeva, Treasurer -Subhadra!
Prabhu Urjesvara used to tell me the great things Hamsadutta did in San Francisco because he was serving him personally, so he said he had such a great power!
I attached some photos I took in 1995 and another you gave me from Raktak prabhu and others.
your servant,
Jagat Bandhu Jagannatha Swami dasa
HpS -- Thank you!!! Hello, to Bala and Subhadra. We still have Baladeva's Dragon Picture.
Hare Krishna Maharaja
Todas las glorias a Srila Prahupada.
Todas las glorias a Usted.
Por favor acepte mis mas humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto.
HpS - ASA -- Pies de lobo, pies de loco. TlgaSP!
Anteriormente me había presentado con usted pero no como se debía y le ofrezco una enorme disculpa. Me llamo Manyari Devidasi de nacimiento, ya que soy hija de devotos. Aún no he sido iniciada. Actualmente me encuentro como residente en el templo de RADHA MADAN GOPAL_ISKCON Ciudad de México. Me estoy encargando de coordinar los servicios del cuarto de flores, tengo el dulce del dia los dias domingos, también hago preparaciones para que se vendan en el restaurante. Llevo un aproximado de 6 meses como residente en el templo, y anteriormente me quedé un poco después de su visita el año pasado. Me he esfprzado desde hace aproximadamente cuatro años por cantar dieciseis rondas, y siempre he seguido los cuatro principíos regulativos.
Tengo 17 años, ya terminé la preparatoria con una carrera técnica en arquitectura y quiero estudiar una licenciatura en pedagogía para algun dia empezar un Gurukula en el templo, solo que este año por los arreglos que se dieron no ingresé a la universidad, pero pienso estudiar en linea en cuanto tenga la oportunidad.
Me gustaría poder seguir con mis estudios y residir aquí mínimo un año pero si yo me quedo mas tiempo como encargada en el cuarto de flores yo estaría más tiempo aquí.
Si bien había escuchado hablar de usted, bastó mas que esta visita para poder estar segura que quiero tomar refugio a sus pies. Tan solo le ruego un poco de su misericordia para que me pueda aceptar si es que usted asi lo considera.
¡Jay Srila Prahupada!
¡¡¡jay Maharaja!!!
Con deseos de servirle, Manyari Devidasi
HpS - ASA -- Thank you for this nice letter! Who are your parents? As I understand Srila Prabhupada you did not take birth in that family by chance. Architecture is the most artistic of all the science and the most scientific of all the arts?
We hope the initiation process gets adjusted.
If you are follow me, Srila Prabhupad, Guru-prasada Swami's discipline, you are our, their disicples. Krsna knows what is our heart and actions. Yet, yes, the formality of initiation is important, just like the marriage ceremony. The boy and girl are dedicate to each other. Completely fixed in no adulteries, but the wedding ceremony is essential. It is a formality byt not a meaningless formality.
So many nice plans... That is like Karma yoga if you have them in proportion to the ultimate goal, WAKE UP! Return to your service in Goloka. Everything here is just a cinema.