From Silchar, Krishnaswarup das.

Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaj.

Dandavat pranam unto your lotus feet. AGTSP, Guru and Sri Gauranga.

Because of my lack of ability in using online communication, please forgive me for not keeping in touch with you.

HpS - ASA --- 😥 Yes, we all appreciate your association very much. Any news from your Forest!

By your grace, I along with my family members are trying our level best to do our Sadhana nicely. Because of the lock-down due to Coronavirus currently I am in Bangalore with my family at my elder son's place. Today as mentioned in DTC, I am very concerned to hear about your severe chest pains.

HpS - Not "severe". Chest pains, head pains, eye pains .... this body, especially as it gets older is a "pain". So have to use it carefully then it is O.K. for a few more miles!

Guru Maharaj, daily I am praying to Srimati Radharani for your longevity and good health. Please leave your body so soon for the sake of guiding and nurturing your fallen disciples like myself.

Guru Maharaj, I have one small prayer unto your lotus feet. May I address you as 'Gurudeva' instead of 'Guru Maharaj' as I personally feel more comfortable in addressing you with the former?

HpS - We are just humble servants of Srila Prabhupada and in that proportion everyone. In one letter he says that guru is O.K. for us as long as we remember that He is the Founder Acharya and we are Guru, Acharyca, under that shelter. Gurudeva seems fine, but only if you understand that we are just representing ourselves as humble Madhyama adhikaris. Still have material desires, but they are under control and diminishing.

How is ASA Radha Kunda Ashrama? What is your work now?

HpS-ASA?

Dandavat pranam unto your lotus feet.

Hare Krsna



(“Gismo-11) Gracias + clases en Youtube

5 years ago by Victoria in Other

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada🌼

I want to thank you for your "virtual visit". I really felt that you was here, other spiritual brothers also share this feeling. A very intense feeling that has filled me with spiritual strength. Thank you.

HpS - Was the same for us! We miss the association of all ISKCON Argentina, devotees very much. It is a part of the spiritual world. It will be there in original form as we progress to Goloka.

Hari wants to listen your classes (as a unquiet child). I notice that he seems to be distracted but then he remembers some things and comments , especially about Krsna or Animals. He have many questions about the universe and the spiritual world, he want to know how everything works. He is very attached to saying "bye" “ HARI BOL” at the end of the meetings. If he doesn't, he cries.

For me it is a daily challenge to understand his emotions, guide him and not repress him unnecessarily. As it is said in the Bhagavad Gita, the mind is like a child. Understanding this helps me see that it is natural for him to get frustrated quickly, the need to be focused and entertaining it s important. Boredom is a disaster.

HpS - That is the real force of Maya at the time of death. We become very depressed. Learning to help him will teach you to control your mind, no?

We are editing and uploading to the Asa Audiovisual youtube channel the classes that you sent via Twitter. Thank you for constantly finding a way to engage us in service.

These are the links:

Hector Bejar & Srila Prabhupada

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


Sri Caitanya y los 5 mantras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfiz5ePGlUw


Viaje a Occidente

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTiIp-Eeoo


C.C. Adi Lila 7.3

https://youtu.be/xGcpEe2jKXE

your servant, Vrsabhanu Nandini DD

HpS - ASA -- We were not so strict about sending the twitter links because we did not get any feedback about people wanting them. Now we are more motivated! Gotomeeeting erases them after about 3 or 6 months.

Please keep sending them and then maybe we can send some of the important ones that you are missing.

Thank you so much! Super success to your Sankirtan! Mother, Daughter, Wife, SUPER GIRL!(Our Photo Added)

(CPKD) seguimieno de sus intrucciones y el descubrimiento de Kapi Dhvaja

5 years ago by indira in Personal Sadhana Reports


Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada, y todas las glorias al movimiento de sankirtan de Sri Caitanya.

Hare krishna querido Maharaja, acepte mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias, espero que este bien allá donde este.

Le escribo para informarle de mí sadhana mensual, cumpliendo los 4 principios y el canto de las 16 rondas, aun que todavía me sigue costando mucho concentrarme cunado las canto, también que su instrucción de bailar con Krishna en ves de bailar para el me ha servido mucho, entre ello, encontrar una manero hermosa de hablar con Krishna.

Hacia unos días hable con Prabhu Jayanta Das (devoto de Madrid), con el cual tengo buena relación, le escribí por que estaba preocupada de por que usted no me respondía las cartas, y me hablo de la revista Kapi Dhvaja es una revista genial, aún estoy leyéndola, pero darle las gracias por hacerla, es otra manera de estar cerca de usted.

También siempre que puedo escucho sus clases en GoToMeeting, y a mi esposo y a mí nos da siempre mucho gusto de escucharle.

Muchas gracias por su atención y sus instrucciones.

su sirvienta Bhaktin Indira.

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada, and all glories to Sri Caitanya's sankirtan movement.

I will do (Translation of "Hare" by Google) Krishna dear Maharaja, accept my most humble and respectful obeisances, I hope that it is well wherever it is.

I am writing to inform you of my monthly sadhana, complying with the 4 principles and the singing of the 16 rounds, even though I still have a hard time concentrating when I sing them, also that his instruction to dance with Krishna instead of dancing for him has served me Much, among them, finding a beautiful way to talk to Krishna.

A few days ago I spoke with Prabhu Jayanta Das (devotee of Madrid), with whom I have a good relationship, I wrote him because I was worried that you did not answer the letters, and he spoke to me about the magazine Kapi Dhvaja, it is a great magazine, I'm still reading it, but thanking you for doing it is another way to be close to you.

Also whenever I can, I listen to his classes on GoToMeeting, and my husband and I are always happy to listen to him.

Thank you very much for your attention and instructions.

his servant Bhaktin Indira.

HpS - Thank you. Use the KDPC in each issue of Kapi Dh. to get more attention to letters. Jayanta Das, Ki Jai!

Perpetual Pandemia

5 years ago by hps in Special Category B

AgtSP!!! Paoho..... 🙏 Talking with Radha-krsna Das, Sriman Gopinatha Das . . . we have the same perspective. In more detail, personally we think that this Karuna-virus is God's end to the Industrial Revolution.

"O.K. the Vedas have been dispersed all over the world again, and you people are about to destroy your selves and the planet we live in, so I (God) am pulling the plug on celestial powers, flying around in the sky and whizzing across the Earth like demigods."

When we (NIOS) organized the "Symposium on the Contribution of Ancient India Toward Making a Better World" with Justices of the Supreme Courts of India, Governors of West Bengal et al, et al, under the Direction of our NIOS's Principal Advisor, Dr. Prof. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, the result kept coming back in again and again, the same way. God has designed the world to work where almost everyone lives in a Vedic village.

Of course, you have contact with your local town and then with your Big City, and the whole world is actually running under one government, but your life, medicine, education, culture, art, clothes, architecture, music, drama, government is all local.

We see this in South America, Chile, Peru and when we were in Russia with Visistha Das, Jitakrodha Das and the devotees. We finished a surrealistic preaching tour of the Golden Ring cities around Moscow and then we stayed in a village outside of Nizni-nagar or some such city in a log house owned by devotees.

It was a normal Russian village but for us it was like going back in time.

There were maybe 25-houses in the village. One was the old house of the Rich-man, another was a new but simple house of the Poor-man. There was a 300-year old church falling down and being pushed back up. Grave stones.

There are two winters in Russia. The White Winter and the Green Winter. We were there at the beginning of the Green Winter, May, and Nature knew that she had like four months or so to do everything, sprout, blossom, impregnate and fructify. It was like Nature, the dense forest, just exploded out at us.

Then we would go for a walk on the narrow little dirt road from North to South,coming out of the forest at both ends of the village, and Grannys, Babushkas, with their scarves tied over their heads, sitting outside of the house, shucking peas, surrounded by a few goats, toddler and chickens, would wave to use and smile and say, "Dosh vidonya", and we would smile and wave back and say "Hare Krsna" and I suspect all the news about us had reached the other end of the village before we had even walked there.

THE THREE FASTEST FORMS OF COMMUNICATION:

  1. Telephone.
  2. Telegraph
  3. Tell a Woman

We would look at the Tombstones, the Rich and Poor man's houses, and the green fields cleared from the forest and say, "Dostoyesvski was not a great writer! Even an idiot with half a brain could write great storys in this atmosphere." We could just see the Archetypes: The Poor-man's son falls in love with the Rich-man's daughter... There was life everywhere, physical, biological, cultural.

Ahhhh! Take a deep breath and live!

The young Ayurvedic doctor in the village goes to his grand-father and say, "Poppa, I cannot cure Mr. So-in-so. He has these symptoms," and Poppa says, "Oh, yes that family has had that agitation of 'pitta' for as long as we know. You know that herb -blah, blah, blah- that grows down by the old mill stream? That will works for them".

Local pharmacology, generations living together. Bicycle distance through the forest to the next village if you don't have Ayurvedic doctor in your village and then...

... A narrow, paved road, going East from the village that makes 12-minute walk to the road where buses are passing every twenty minutes to take you to the city to have tea with your nephew and Aunt and maybe Uncle, and buy needle and thread etc.

Krsna has designed the world for us to live in the village. Go to the city for big politics. See the Count (of the County) in his Seat and come home.

Not primitive. Access to the sophisticated electronic technology if you need it, but who needs it!?! Local puppet shows will knock your socks off. Two or three dozen television sets for the whole world? Develop 'mystic' powers? Simple living and high thinking.

The only thing that can stop a pandemic is isolation, no? Bubonic plague, Spanish flu, controlled by isolation. Need Achintay-bheda-abheda-tattva. Each family, village, independent but integrated.

"Hey, County, we got some plague infection. We're keeping it in our village. Let people know. Send some help!"

"O.K. Little Village. Help is on the way. Same thing happening in the Other Little Village. We got it controlled".

This is a summary of what we think will happen.

We've tried the modern science look, understand everything as a centralized machine, and it won't work for everything. God's sending viruses to bring us back to reality. So, so, so much about how to live a natural life in Srila Prabhupada's books.

Sankirtan.

Everyone build your community based upon Sankirtan. Start to develop orchards, they don't require such intense surrender as cows right away, and they give good results right away for kids to adults.

Adjust this life in this Reform School so it can do its job. Reform your sub-conscious.

Not everyone will join. It is voluntary. Some countries will be Govinda's and some will Maya's.

Yes, there will be air travel, but you will have to put on a HazMat suit before boarding and be sprayed with disinfectant after your arrive, but why go anyway? Your grand-kids can travel on flying carpets and can communicate by radio waves through the piezoeletric crystals that are growing in their pineal glands.

DTC 28(Th)

5 years ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP

paoho


We answered a lot of letters, but still a lot to answer. We really just scan for those with the current Kapi Dhvaja Priority Code. It is in the Current Kapi Dhvaja each fortnight.

Now we must run out and do some gardening before the trees take over. Then we have the Hawaii class. We already did one hour of research.

Our schedule is robust.

We feel we are lazy and greedy, but probably only 30%... Have to improve.

O.K. Cutting hedges.

Gismo-9

Querido Gurumaharaja, por favor acepte mis reverencias a sus pies de loto.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhuapada.

Esta cuarentena ha tenido buenos resultados, gracias a que ahora tenemos un poco más de tiempo hemos podido leer un poco más los libros de Srila Prabhupada, lo cual ha ayudado a tener mejor concentración en las rondas, mejor estado de ánimo. Hemos estado más al pendiente de las clases que se transmiten, etc.

Por fin estamos logrando acudir frecuentemente a mangala arati. Todo esto nos ha despertado una sensación de mucha más cercanía hacia usted. Ahora nos sentimos muy tontos. Por mucho tiempo hemos sido un pato tonto que no se acercaba a comer, aún teniendo la comida tan cerca. Por favor discúlpenos. Queda todavía mucho camino por recorrer pero estamos entusiastas para mantenernos así aún después de que se retomen las actividades diarias, trabajo, etc., y agarrarnos fuerte.

Nos mantenemos también con programas semanales de bhakti vrksa, algunos círculos de lectura y estudio con devotos, todo virtualmente.

Los principios y nuestras rondas están bien y mejorando.

Sin más por el momento, me despido.

Su aspirante a sirviente Bhakta Héctor.

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Dear Gurumaharaja, please accept my obeisances at your lotus feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhuapada.

This quarantine has had good results, thanks to the fact that now we have a little more time we have been able to read Srila Prabhupada's books a little more, which has helped us to have better concentration in the rounds, better mood. We have been more aware of the classes that are broadcast, etc.

At last we are managing to go to mangala arati frequently. All this has awakened a feeling of much closerness towards you. Now we feel very silly. For a long time we have been a silly duck who did not come close to eating, even with food so close. Please excuse us. There is still a long way to go but we are enthusiastic to stay that way even after daily activities, work, etc., and hold on tight.

We also maintain weekly bhakti vrksa programs, some circles of reading and study with devotees, all virtually.

The principles and our rounds are good and improving.

No more for the moment, I say goodbye.

Your aspiring servant Bhakta Héctor.

HpS - Are you the taxi driver???? We are even worse ducks. We recognize you very much now because of your presence in the programs. Writing... Drawing???