Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja 🙏 Pamho. AgtSP. I made a short video depicting your journey to Boise where you risked your life to save all of us🙏
https://youtu.be/Po7VgUxohBw
Your insignificant servant,
Sugopi Radha dd
HpS - Too shocking for us to listen to it all, but watched it! Video journalism is great contribution to Iskcon. Great. Plan your next. Get crticism from yhr Gopis.
Querido Gurumaharaja.
Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!
Muchas gracias por su santa asociación diariamente por FMP
Nuestras humildes oraciones para que Sri Nrsimhadeva proteja su energía para su sankirtana a Srila Prabhupada.
Muchísimas gracias por su darshan diario en la gira virtual, definitivamente una gran misericordia en plena pandemia, también representa un enorme esfuerzo físico de Su parte, las pantallas son muy cansadas! , por ello apreciamos mucho más, justamente ayer SS. Yadunandana dijo: "¡en tiempos de crisis no hay que perder el tiempo!" así como lo hizo Pariksit Maharaja, inmediatamente recordamos a Usted como este gran ejemplo.
Después de la gira virtual quedamos con sentimiento de separación de las clases de Srimad Bhagavatam bilingüe, porsupuesto entendemos que ahora las clases serán en inglés. Una vez le escuché decir que FMP es en español, lo justo es que SB sea en inglés! : )
Además de esto acabamos de tener tanta misericordia en este sentido.
Gurumaharaja humildemente preguntarle si existe la posibilidad de agendar un día a la semana (ahora o cuando Usted considere) una clase de SB bilingüe por favor, me ofrezco a buscar los traductores a tiempo para no tener retrasos.
HpS - Una semana de descanza. MI IDIOMA MATERNA!!! Ahhhh! Estuvimos caminando con NGD y hablando y observando que despues de hablar mi mente esta esperando por traduccion en Espanol! Una semana pura Ingles.
Pero pensando como Vd., pero, mejor que bilingue es solamente Espanol un(os) dia y Ingles otros. Martes por la tarde Espanol? Vienes Ingles??
La idea es informar con anticipacion para que los devotos organicen sus tiempos y no desaprovechar tan grande oportunidad y sobre todo valorar Su esfuerzo, porsupuesto cualquier cancelación será comprensible.
A veces sucede que los anuncios de las clases en el chat FMP, si serán en inglés o bilingües, se pierden por la gran cantidad de nuestros mensajes, de cualquier manera seguiremos esforzándonos por leerlo esperando cualquier novedad.
Por favor disculpe mi atrevimiento, es una inquietud que he tenido por mucho tiempo y decidí extenarla a Usted con la idea de servir su sankirtana y apelar por nuestro beneficio que probablemente puede ser egoísta.
Disculpe mis ofensas por favor.
Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente
Asta Sakhi dd.
HpS - 5.30-6.30 Martes?
Hare Krsna Gurudeva!
Agt SP!
Agt Nimai & Nitai!!!
I hope that you are very well, and that every day is a more beautiful day in Krsna consciousness.
I loved your response to my last letter ... incredible. The date is very nice ... THANK YOU GURUDEVA.
These past few days I have been quite introspective. Many accomplishments.
I truly believe that my spiritual advancement has reached a point, an important point in my destiny.
I am ashamed to talk about these things, because I am telling you about it, and it is not politically correct ... sorry Gurudeva.
HpS - For this purpose is Sadhu sanga. NOI 4, 5, 6!! This Blog is a Sanga like after the Sunday Feast public lecture some people come up to the Vyasa asana to talk a little more personally.
Yoga has made me grow incredibly in recent years.
I am sure that you could say many more things than I about all this, but for some reason (although perhaps I should not do it) I tell you about some of my personal achievements.
Lately, Krsna surprises me a lot. The layers of illusion between the mind and my own being, my soul, are like mental curtains, I could even take them with my hand ... And when I move away from them, each atom that surrounds me becomes a diode that emits a certain color, creating my environment. It's funny that when that happens, the mind becomes atoms too, showing me that the mind is no different from the matter I see, nothing different ...
When I want to see that state, I only look at the matter carefully; mind, senses and what surrounds me at the same time, without speculating or altering what I receive in body or mind, whatever it is (dreams, ideas, mental films ... etc etc). And so, I can perceive as matter, it is as spiritual as the spiritual world, but its inhabitants are people disconnected from everything by the false ego, and that is why everything is now done backwards ... and that Krsna did not build it , but us.
ASA - Monkey with a Mirror?
At that time, I feel like I'm in the wrong neighborhood.
Krsna always takes my Bhakti along the mystical paths ... which is actually the same as saying that it takes me on the scientific side ... I have always been very scientific, Krsna is very smart ... hahaha
What else can I tell you Gurudeva? The world becomes a shadow of the spiritual, but it is not a matter of the kind of matter from which it is built, but because it does not have that center which is for us by nature Krsna, and everyone else.
ASA - It is real. A real mirror?
It is as if a street full of wax lanterns, full of light and color, mystery, adventure, romanticism, and magic, were extinguished one by one, in a selfish way, and only afterwards was a space the same as the previous one, but empty of all that truly fills us souls, the only thing that actually exists with Krsna, with God.
Honestly Gurudeva, I don't know what I'm doing in this world ... hahaha ... I had to have been born into a lost Amazon tribe, this western society is much much more primitive than any hidden Amazon tribe.
May Gurudeva do well.
My humble obeisances.
Hare Krsna
HpS - Thank you! If you can start to find storys in the SB+ that illustrate your realizations, that is nice! Or explain SB+!
More news!
Hare Krishna Maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
When we discussed in May about the online private school for kids who are stuck at home, I was not completely ready. Having spent a month in working out details with the help of our friend Priya Carana Mataji, I am confident that I can do this. I am planning to just take up K-4 for now. After talking to interested parents, we have two options for the school either half time or full time.
Halftime includes Japa, Kirtan, Scriptures and Sanskrit. Full time includes academics also. Although planned to just do it for friends and family initially we opened it up for a few more like minded devotee families. We decided to keep the name "Gaura Rasa" which you have kindly given us for Sugopi's college club. We will use it for any teaching endeavors we may take up. Please bless me that I may be able to help the kids advance in Krishna Consciousness while pursuing their academics.
Your servant,
Sundari Radhika dd.
HpS - Super news!!! Saturday school. After school. Supplement to normal school. Sunday school. All of these individual, then collective, then stand alone school. Of course, wherever you go, whomever you meet tell them about Krsna. That is great school!!!!!!
News!
Life of celibacy is full of courage, adventure, humiliation, discipline, devotion, struggle and bliss, and much more.
ASA - Wow! AgtSP! It sounds like being alive! Most people now are dead!!!
Later, I will explain how.
First of all I would like to clarify that celibacy I am speaking of is better represented by the sanskrit word ‘brahmacharya’ which literally means ‘to dwell on brahman’. In simple words, it means to always be absorbed in thoughts of God.
In Vedic lifestyle, to follow brahmacharya means not to indulge in following-
1. Think about opposite gender.
2. Speak about sex life.
3. Dally with opposite gender.
4. Look lustfully at opposite gender.
5. Talk intimately with opposite gender.
6. Decide to engage in sexual intercourse.
7. Endeavor for sex life.
8. Engage in sex life.
Now I come back to the question, how is it to live the life of celibacy. In Vedas, celibacy is recommended for quick advancement in spiritual life. So celibacy must be observed for making spiritual progress. As a celibate, I found the life of celibacy to be a life of-
Courage- Whole civilization is promoting sense enjoyment and celibacy is just the opposite. So it certainly needs great courage to walk on the path.
HpS - ASA - All these apply to devotees in female body! Just have relations to become nice mother or marry Krsna!
Adventure - If something is very difficult to achieve, it becomes adventurous. In kaliyuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged to promote atheism and sensuality. To live in such society and still maintain high degree of purity is certainly very difficult. Many great warriors like Saubhari and Vishwamitra Muni also got wounded on this path. So to follow celibacy in Kaliyuga is certainly adventurous, it is very difficult to follow.
Humiliation- A brahmachari is supposed to live a vedic lifestyle. Vedas recommend that a celibate/monk should not do jobs. Rather should spend his time in cultivation of spiritual life and spreading spiritual message to others. But often people tend to take it as unproductive work, parasites for society ….. Those who don’t understand the value of spiritual life tend to ridicule the monks, and monks have to go through that. This humiliation keeps a celibate humble, which is far better than being proud.
Discipline - We follow the discipline of getting up early in the morning 3–4 am (no matter whether in Kashmir or Rameshvaram, summer or winter), taking bath and attending morning rituals, following the instructions given by Guru, doing practical services etc. These is no holiday for us, though our everyday is holy.
Devotion- We do have the facility to use our 24 hours in service of God, as we have no material responsibility. This is very helpful for always being God conscious. We can spend much more time in reading holy scriptures, developing its understanding, practically applying it in life, worshipping Lord etc.
Struggle At times services needed are quite challenging and we need to struggle to complete things on time. Also mind and senses tend to run here and there and we must struggle to keep it back on track. There is struggle to strike a balance between our services, personal spiritual practice and relationship with other fellow monks. There is struggle to maintain good relation with the superiors and managers of organizations.
Bliss, God is source of all happiness and more we connect to Him, our own life gets filled with joy and happiness. This inner bliss is so great that it keeps us from going astray. Lord Krishna says in Gita 6.22 -
yam labdhva caparam labham
manyate nadhikam tatah
“ In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness, realized through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty.”
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Of course the list is endless, this is a brief answer.
If one stays in family life then principles of Brahmacharya can be applied in following ways
HpS - ASA - Thank you. Now.... can you give practical examples of each of these from your own experiences this year in ISKCON!!!?
Todas las glorias a Goura Nitay
ASA - Nityananda! 'nitai pada kamala...." buen cancion memorizar. tambien texto CC. Adi. 1.2. "Vande Sri Krsna Caitanya..."
Todas las gloria a Srila Prabhupada
ASA - !!!!!!!!
Hare krishna Guru.M comienzo mi reporte,
contando que comenzó el frío aquí en santiago de chile pero a pesar de esto hago todo mi SADHANA, mejorando cada día en cantar unas buenas rondas leer y estudiar a pesar de que hay temas que me cuestan me esfuerzo para lograr un buen entendimiento, preguntar hasta que quede claro. sigo hablando con las chicas por teléfono una vez a la semana riendo y preocupada por sus dudas ,(son las chicas del jardín) . también en casa comenze plantar en maceteros algunas plantas (orégano, romero, albahaca y otras.. para krishna están creciendo bastante bien. cada día medito en hacer un buen servicio y mejorar mi vida espiritual para ser un ejemplo, muchas gracias por su inspiración se despide su humilde sirvienta Raman Reti devi dasi
HpS -- Muy bien!!!!! A abajo orden de Sr. Chaitanya, "amar ajnay guru haya..." convierta Jagat Guru. Paso por paso.