"Donkey-1"

Querido Gurumaharaja: 

Por favor acepte mis respuestas reverencias! 

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Gurumaharaja los devotos encargados de las clases online del Templo preguntan si la trasmisión para ISKCON México puede ser a través de Zoom?

HpS - Jaya. This is a common question. We are using gotomeeting.com, which accomodates 150-people, but Zoom is becoming the popular media. We use it. If someone has a paid account, not free account, then we can log on for the visual aspects but call in for the telephone to a USA number for the audio. That saves data usage for us and is more reliable. Can you check that? Telephone access thrugh USA number! 

La fecha propuesta es el Domingo 31 de Mayo a la hora habitual de clase: 5:00 pm 

Le parece bien Gurumaharaja? 

HpS - We just added it to our cell phone calendar!!

Enviarán la invitación oficial con el tema que el yatra requiere. 

HpS - Jaya!

Por otro les he pedido le envíen una respuesta con el tema Iniciaciones, hoy me confirmaron que lo harán pronto.

Muchas gracias por su misericordiosa atención Gurumaharaja. 

Disculpe mis ofensas por favor. 

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente

Asta Sakhi dd. 

HpS - !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enviaeramos un DTC esta noche.

“Donkey-1” Follow up on Zoom meeting

5 years ago by Namacarya das in Special Category A

Dear Guru Maharaja, again and again thank you for joining us and giving a wonderful presentation. Devotees were satisfied :-)

HpS - It was so nice. Raghu from Amsterdam!!!

We had some audio problems. Your audio was disappearing from time to time. I could follow your thought almost all the time, apart from when you spoke scientifically about perception and sound, where you used some words and expressions that I am not familiar with. However, we have a recording and will listen to it.

You told me to enroll in a university course about perception. Thank you for the suggestion. I have done that. I finished one small course of 5 lectures of 25 minutes each. It was short but complex for me. Next, I will try another course which is longer and with many more materials.

HpS - Then you can talk from academic base with scientists. Ie. they claim to be based in rational empiricism, but then we see what empirical knowledge really is! It is based upon mental perspective etc. You see what you want to see, what your culture has conditioned you to see.

A comment about your point that nagara sankiratana is great in Argentina. I would like to mention that Buenos Aires population is 3 million people. This is almost a whole of Croatia. Pula town is 50 000 people. I guess there are hundreds of devotees in Argentina, and for them is much more practical to perform and organize such events. Here we are a few. And it looks more like a cry alone in the wilderness. I remember Krsna Ksetra Swami telling us about great Sunday Feasts in Buenos Aires with 400 devotees. Of course, I appreciate your idea and inspiration here. I just wanted to put up another perspective on the matter.

HpS - Yes, yes... Ha! Ha! Hare! Here we are like five families of initiated devotees. We can go out with three flags.

If I remember properly, you planted a pear tree in your garden. How is a pear doing these days?

HpS - I am still a proud father. Bharata became a deer! I may become a ..... It is growing....

We planted different green leafy vegetables, chillis, paprika, zucchini, tomatoes and many flowers in our garden.

Without wanting to burden you … , do you think you could join us again in the future at our meetings? Do you know some devotees from USA (or anywhere) who would be willing to give a talk on Zoom for our sanga?

Your servant, Namacarya Das

HpS - I will let them respond here. What about the Hawaii classes? That is Thursday at www.e-sanga.org but yes, let us organize some more European broadcasts!!!! Thank you!!!! You are a general in the Sankirtan Army.

Donkey-1 Pada padma work

Hare Krishna, dear gurudev. Pamho, AGTSP!

So, you already have worked on the Canto One questions?

Where are they?

HpS - AGTSP!!! paoho.... http://www.jayarama.us/archives/boex-sb1-questions.docx

Can I work on the chapter 4, then?

HpS - We had nice discussion of that with Yugala kishora Dasi today. There is her, you, others who can, should, work on this Educational Development, Bh. Vai. development, Bh. Vai. Evaluation Development. As we suggested, we are trying to organize the work by starting with the current Module, SB 2.1-3, by including three panditas: HpS, Isvari-radha Devi Dasi and Gandharva Das. We are trying to share our mode of work, the kind of intellectual product that we are aiming at and learn from others. Then we can go ahead with an expanded team for the next modules. Seems O.K???

I have sent some suggestions. How are they?

HpS - We answered! They were great!!!! You are great.

Your servant,

Laksmana-agraja das

Book Reading Groups/Tools

5 years ago by hps in Special Category A

Dear devotees, leaders and GBC members

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In anticipation of your kind support, we are formally launching the Srila Prabhupada’s Books Reading Marathon to increase readership of Srila Prabhupada’s books during this COVID-19 pandemic. We are very confident that with your continued support, we shall be able to generate the necessary momentum to make it a success.

We also humbly request your support in circulating this message widely to the devotees within your respective communities and encourage them to participate in this effort wholeheartedly.

We have increased the resources available on our website:

(visit https://iskconeducation.org/books-are-the-basis/),

and already have 8 different online sessions in different languages.

Grateful for your kind attention and help in this effort.

Tapan-misra Das

Executive Secretary, ISKCON Ministry of Education

DTC 14(Tu)

5 years ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP Paoho. AgtSP!!!!! Maybe we had too much pudding Prasadam at lunch and had to sleep too much! Tomorrow we will try to take less.

It is so, so, so nice to be able to cook for Lord Nrsmhadeva ourselves every day and then try to become more and more expert in offering and honoring Bhoga and Prasadam!

We have been in complete quarantine for 12-days now. Maybe we go out for Office Supplies etc in two days. Market for raisins and nuts? Still, if Abhiseka and Manjari can buy for us it is safer.... but how will this virus be quarantined? Even if one person has it, it can start again. We are trying to live like demi-gods and fly in the sky!!! But we have bodies and actions like hogs and dogs, so naturally there will be bad reaction. Better to live in the village. Keep health, nutrition, politics local with a broad perspective. Vedic!

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Met with Miguel Polo, NgD, heard M. Isvari's nice class, joined, Nashville Kirtan, cut some grass, met with Abhirama and Arjuna, Blog, Whatsapp and Yahoo mail, DTC paper copy. O. K. now we can rest. It is like a tennis game with Krsna, Maya, the balls (days) keep coming and we have to strike them back. If we win the game we go back to higher level of service!

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Thank you Pandava, CMDD, Jagat.... for your letters!

Hare Krishna! I need your instruction

5 years ago by bhaktapiero in Special Category A

Hare Krishna 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada 

Obeisances Gurudeva 

Thank you for the online programs and for reply my questions. 

Gurudeva, please, i need clear out my mind. Following your instruction about travel 4 years to know better my nature, i was thinking about travel the next year (2021) to Europe, Spain, and then to another countries, maybe India, Italy and then EE.UU. 

Now here in Chile we have to do so much to be more strong and keep growing. I was thinking, if your like and consider it a good think, stay here in Chile and help in administrative services or whatever it take. 

Maybe i can travel to EE.UU a few months and study with Pyari Mohan das and return to Chile. Also i want to start my university study, i like very much study and keep learning. 

Please help me, give me your instruction and i follow you. 

Your eternal servant

Pyari Mohan das 


HpS - I do not know the details of what would be best. I do know that one of the essential things in making decisions about details is to consult with Brahminical and Administrative authorities, and the Lord in the Heart (and maybe also the Lord in the Stomach).

In general, there will always be administrative problems in any Yatra, community, so we should not wait for them to be solved before visiting other Yatras. We can help with problems there are Brahmacaris traveling from there can help with our Yatra, just no to do it whimsically, co-ordinate with authorities, but it is your right as a Brahmacari to travel.