El Aguila - Avíseme, hay preocupación por su salud entre los discípulos, Muchas gracias por todo GURUDEVA, HARIBOL!!
HpS - TlgaSP. Pfanrh. Somos bien. TlgaSP, pero Hermano Burro es muy bajo de energía. Garganta, estómago.
Y hay tendencia del Alma des asociar con el cuerpo y inteligencia. 🚀🚀🚀
En ISKCON, ASA, posible otras están en situación similar.
Hare Krsna. 🙂🦍🙂
Gurudeva, voy a preparar un ppt? Esta bien?
HpS - Por Gaura-arati? Es super!
5PM
End of the day for our Sankirtan play????
Will chant rounds, and go to walk with NGD and Dr. Desai at 6.30PM. Before that it is too hot for us.
Then we will join the FEP Kirtan at 6.30PM with Ananada-maya Das or other and present discussion of NoI at 7PM.
That should be while we are walking and driving!
Interesting.
We have to adjust to these local timings.
NoI, Ki Jai!
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Today's Sankirtan was very nice. Of course, we always have to dodge arrows shot at us by Maya Devi, but in general we got about as much work done as we could!
Get our and meet the people!
Mitravinda Devi Dasi mentioned in her letter that her Sadhana has improved about 20%. We feel the same way. Maybe you do too? Maybe it is the general influence of higher powers! We hope it is eternal progress. A lot of our progress is just getting our work organized so that we can see all of it. That comes from the 'Kapi Dhvaja'. Then we begin to see how much work we can do really do and consolidate it.
Thank you,
Hare Krsna // Hare Rama,
Brown and White.
Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja 🙏
Please, accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!!
HpS - Wooof! Woof! More likely pies de lobo que pies de loto.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
HpS - !
I am here, trying to make a little report about my activities.
Thank you very much for your sacrifice, austerity and patience in order to help us to get free from this material illusión. 🙏
HpS - 99.999% of our contribution is done by Srila Prabhupada.
Vedabase.io service: We just finished to correct the typing mistakes that Néctar of Devotión had. It had many many misspelled words, you have noticed some of them during our reading on FMP. Prahlada Nrsimha prabhu told me that I could fix the errors while NOD was already on line, because fix errors would take me more time.
HpS - Also some punctuation errors, no? Also, the original English had mistakes in the verses cited. Sometimes they were not the right verse number. Hmmm? Such nice, nice, nice service. Maybe you will be correcting the spelling mistakes of the gopis in Vraja!
My brother, Jorge (musician) helped me a lot to correct the text. He studied written journalism and he has a good knowledge of orthography and words. He really likes Srila Prabhupada's books.
HpS - We were wondering about him!!! Please say hello.
I hope NOD is properly corrected, in any case, the reading that you are doing on FMP every day will be the last filter to notice if there are still some errors. It is always possible to go to the edit page and correct them.
SADHANA: Since the last time that I wrote to you about this topic, by your mercy and Krishna's mercy my sadhana has improved by 20%.
HpS - Ours is about the same! Maybe it is a general effort by God and the Gopis!
Gurudeva, I have realized that CHANTING ROUNDS BEFORE MANGALA ARTIK is the BEST THING I CAN EVER DO ! Even 4 enthusiastic rounds before mangala artik turns it into a very different experience.....in comparison with mangala artik without chanting any round. I realized that this time of day (sadhana-Brahma muhurta) is the time that I am happiest. It is the time of day that I can be really happy. I want to internalize this realization so that it can be part of myself in order to be able to do it every day, always!! Please, bless me!! 🙏
ASA - Guru-mukha Swam told us that SP said four times in one lecture that the best time to chant your rounds is before Mangala-arati! Of course, we also heard him say that for Grhastha this might not be practical.
Gurudeva, I want to improve! Still I am struggling with "ilicit eating" (grains made by non devotees), but those falls are less and less frequent. I am just learning to eat in a proper way, to take care of my body, to have a proper rest, so that I can perform a nice and healthy vaidhi sadhana bhakti.
ASA - It is related to cooking grains for Krsna, no? You can do the austerity of cooking cakes, pies, cookies, laddus, bread for Krsna and then there is room for EVIL KARMI GRAINS.
Every day, I am attending Srimad Bhagavatam class on GoToMeeting or/and I am reading one or two verses of Srimad Bhagavatam in the morning.
Yesterday at night I started to read KRISHNA BOOK before go to sleep. I am going to keep this reading every night.
HpS - Read it and Tweet our questions of comments?
By your mercy I am understanding a little more that this life is actually an OPPORTUNITY that KRISHNA is giving me to purify myself, that is the only reason of my existence, not to gratify my senses.
Thank you very much for your patience and mercy!
Your aspiring servant: Mitravinda dd.
ASA - Is Jorge playing guitar in public? On line? Heavy metal!?
HpS - ASA --- Thank you so, so much Srima ART Das! We have read and made little corrections to the English version of this dialog.
It seems to me that we can move ahead to the next object of discussion: Srimad Bhagavatam, https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/1/9/ Verses 25-29. Maybe Anandamaya Das can give a summary of who is Bhisma deva for Hector??!
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ART Das - Although the communication by phone was choppy, here is a summary of the dialogue:
At the beginning of the dialogue, Hanumat Presaka Swami gave a brief historical summary of the Gaudiya Vaisnavism and the Acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva philosophy (simultaneous and different identities). Then he explained who Srila Prabhupada was and introduced him as the author of the 'Srimad Bhagavatam’s' Preface, written in India in 1962. That is to say, 3 years before his arrival to America.
At the end of this first intervention, Hanumat Presaka Swami also talked about Bismarck, the Ottoman Empire, Alexander the Great and Arnold Toynbee. (Gurudeva, do you remember the reason? I think it was about the strategy about how to do things).
HpS - It could have been. We certainly want to take advantage of the lessons of history in trying to communicate the message of Krsna and the Bhagavata.
In turn, Héctor started his participation by mentioning that the author uses the human society category at the beginning of the Preface. This is important because the term human society refers not only to people but also to their communication systems, languages, gestures, etc. He mentioned that the human being is the most communicative of all animals in the world and that in order to understand and improve the world, it is correct to speak about human society so that we can be able to understand the reason why a person in the Amazon forest laughs or cries and the reason why another one in London does same.
Then he explained that it is Srila Prabhupada’s success to use the term spiritual brotherhood and to pose the ideal of a common cause. Hector Bejar criticized the Christian and Muslim churches since they assume that their religion is the only true one and that the others are false, so they divide people into 2 groups: The faithful and unfaithful ones: The selected ones -superior beings- and the rest -the inferior beings-.
For him it is correct to talk about spiritual brotherhood, that is to say that this process is for the whole humanity, for the whole spiritual brotherhood without any exception.
The second part of the dialogue was taken up by Héctor Bejar. He mentioned that Srila Prabhupada proposed in this Preface, the re-spiritualization of all humanity, and that in order to do this, we must understand that re-spiritualizing means returning to the spiritual, to include everything that communicates a universal message. Then professor Behar criticized the current society that privileges the material aspects, in a way that for this society, commerce is the most important thing. This is the reason why something is judged to be qualified as good for its possibility to be sold. That material kind of mentality in which the more goods you have the more you are valuable is widely spread in all the media (TV, movies, newspapers, radios, etc.) This mentality generates a society depending on many unnecessary things.
Héctor ended by stating that the spiritual aspect is an inner wealth that we all have.
On his second intervention, Hanumat Presaka Swami mentioned that A.C. Bhaktivendanta Swami was a person who came from a spiritual culture. Then he explained how the universal language is the way to re-spiritualize the whole humanity by sacred dancing and chanting.
The sound was not good during the conversation, so the dialogue ended. Afterwards, I spoke to Héctor Bejar and he manifested agree to discuss about Bhismadeva's instructions next time.
Thank you very much Gurudeva for building bridges to connect to academic people so that through dialogue they can be able to reconnect to the spiritual life..
Hare Krishna GURUDEVA, your insignificant servant, Abhiram Thakur das
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Dialogo entre SS Hanumatpresaka Swami y el Profesor Hévtor Béjar
Aunque la comunicacion por telefono fue entrecortada, a continuación, un resumen del dialogo.
Iniciando el diálogo el profesor Hanumatpresaka Swami hizo un breve resumen histórico del Gaudiya vaisnavismo y de la filosofía acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva (identidad y diferencia simultáneas) luego explicó quién es Srila Prabhupada, que el prefacio del Srimad Bhagavatam lo escribió en la India el año 1962, 3 años antes de venir a América, al final de esta primera intervención también hablo de Bismark, el imperio otomano, Alejandro el magno y Arnold Toynbee, Gurudeva recuerda el motivo? Creo que era sobre la estrategia de como hacer las cosas
A su turno Héctor comenzó su participación mencionando que el autor al inicio del prefacio emplea la categoría sociedad humana esto es importante porque sociedad humana no sólo se refiere a las personas sino también a los sistemas de comunicación, a los idiomas, a los gestos,… el mencionó que el ser humano es el más comunicativo de todos los animales de este mundo y que para poder entender y mejorar el mundo es correcto hablar de sociedad humana y así entender porque ríe o llora una persona en el Amazonas o porque ríe y llora una persona en Londres. Seguidamente mencionó qué es un acierto (de Srila Prabhupada) emplear el termino hermandad espiritual para luego plantear el ideal de una causa común, Héctor crítico a las iglesias cristianas y a musulmanas ya que asumen que su religión es la única verdadera y que las otras son falsas entonces separan a las personas entre fieles e infieles, entre los elegidos o seres superiores y el resto, los seres inferiores entonces a él le parece correcto hablar de hermandad espiritual, es decir que este proceso es para toda la humanidad, para toda la hermandad espiritual sin excepciones.
La segunda parte del dialogo la retomo Héctor, él menciono que en el prefacio se plantea la reespiritualización de toda la humanidad entonces dijo que para hacer esto debemos entender que reespiritualizar significa retornar a lo espiritual, es decir retomar todo lo que comunica un mensaje universal. Luego critico a la sociedad actual que privilegia lo material por eso para esta sociedad lo principal es el comercio, por eso, se califica que algo es bueno cuando se vende más, esa mentalidad de “más cosas tienes” “más vales” se difunde en todos los medios (Tv, cine, periódicos, radios,…) esto genera una sociedad con muchas necesidades innecesarias. Héctor termino manifestando que lo espiritual es una riqueza interior que todos tenemos.
En su segunda intervención el profesor Hanumatpresaka Swami comenzó mencionando que A.C. Bhaktivendanta Swami está presentando que él es una persona que proviene de una cultura espiritual. Luego menciono que el lenguaje universal para reespiritualizar a toda la humanidad es el canto y la danza espiritual.
Como durante toda la conversación el sonido estuvo entrecortado ahí termino este dialogo, luego hable con Héctor y manifestó su deseo de seguir dialogando esta vez sobre las instrucciones de Bhismadeva.
Muchas gracias Gurudeva por tender puentes con los académicos para que a través del dialogo se reconecten a la vida espiritual.
Hare Krishna GURUDEVA, su insignificante sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das
Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Thank you for your thoughtful response to my previous letter.
If it is at all possible to keep the next section private, may I humbly ask that it not be posted to the blog? If you think it is important for others to hear the issue and see your response however, please publicly respond.
I also understand that these topics are not necessarily appropriate for a sannyasi. If they are, would it be possible for you to direct me towards a person with whom I can discuss these issues and then report back to you?
ASA - Censored by ASA Board of Confidentiality (PG-13)
Thus ends the confidential portion of my letter.
There is a general lack of guidance throughout the movement on how to negotiate ashrama dharma with the added complication of same-sex attraction (none of the four ashrams, except perhaps vanaprasta, seem to be acceptable). Would it be possible to find a way to either ask you for guidance in negotiating these difficulties or to be referred to someone with whom I can have a mature conversation about this matter and receive sound guidance?
I apologize for the nature of my inquiries. As this has all been a major barrier to my spiritual life, especially to my association with the devotees, I feel a desperate need to find some way forward.
Your servant,
Nityananda-rama dasa
HpS-ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. The 'Confidential' part of this nice letter was not anything that I can give much detailed advice about. !!! We are all in strange situations in Kali-yuga.
"Kalau dose nidhe rajan...", this Kali-yuga is an OCEAN of faults.
How many?
An OCEAN!
The weather is bad, the society is bad, the mind and body are bad....
So, there is not too much detailed knowledge about Varna-ashrama-dharma because it is not possible. It is like there is not detailed knowledge about Astanga-yoga, because it is not possible etc.
So... please send me a phone number where I can text you and I will try to give a few details. I won't publish your phone number so that unwanted swimming pool salesmen are not bothering you.
Of course, there is lots of info on VAD in the SB etc. eg Preganancy of Diti in the Evening, but these are all in co-operation with VAD! Other than that, with the direct help of Vaisnava neighbors, non-devotees can make progress. Gotta have friends in San Diego Temple community to help you.
Daya-nidhi Das?
Sugar and Sexual Relations in Grhastha Ashrama are considered manageable for initiated devotees,
but heroine and necrophilia are not.
In any circumstance if chant Sri Krsna Caitanya, Prabhu Nitayananda... and follow it with HK/HR will will make progess... (to becoming an initiated devotee)!!!
Get to work! You have plenty of opportunity to advance.
Thank you!