KDPC Yasoda's letter

5 years, 3 months ago by candra108_mukhi in Personal Sadhana Reports

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Dear Gurumaharaja and spiritual father.

Please accept my humble and sincere obeisances.

Sorry for not writing to you before, so many things happened this year that forced me to keep my time fully occupied. At home we lived: my aunt (the nurse) who has Alzheimer's, my mother (who sells Ice in blocks), Hari Sundar (my associate), my two puppies and me. I tell him we lived because in May my aunt fell and had a fissure to the bone Femur, due to her mental state, the doctors decided to operate it for her prompt recovery of the bone.

This, brought care to FULL TIME for their mental state and operation. My aunt took care of me as a child, she was like my second mother, she has no children or husband, all her life was dedicated to work in one of the largest and oldest hospitals in Lima and of course study and study (she has master's and graduated in quantity) Since I was his “daughter” because I saw myself in the obligation and ethical moral responsibility to take care of her now that she is 76 years old and in the mental state she is in. After the operation, my aunt Alzheimer's became a senile dementia, so she needs constant supervision, if I neglect she can eat any object she finds and I have to evade her aggressive outbursts, unfortunately she recognizes me only for some moments Take psychiatric medications but it is still a concern and dedication. My mother, not understanding this disease and arguing so much with her (why she doesn't recognize her if a moment ago she had called her by name, etc.) is that I asked her to leave the house and go to the other house to take care of my uncles (the 90-year-old brahmachari, my aunt Ana the 83-year-old teacher who has an NGO) So Hari Sundar and I take care of my aunt with Alzheimer's, sharing times (he in the morning and me in the evening ).

HpS - Jaya!!!! And your father? Do you have lots of Krsna stories and Srila Prabhupada playing in the background for your patients??? They are going to take birth in the Hare Krsna movement in their next life. Who is Hari Sundar, foto????

You know, sometimes when I talk to my aunt, I feel that I see my future (woman alone, dedicated to her work and studies) I am afraid, because she makes me lose my patience and I think “God, when I grow up, someone who is more loving than me ) I feel that at this stage of my life, I became too rational, I think the feelings are good and necessary but at the same time they create a disorder of weakness and imbalance, preventing us from thinking clearly.

In addition, I am dedicated to my work, the school, with my dear students. As the educational institution where I work is personalized teaching, I can not have more than 10 students per classroom and work with children that other schools do not want to receive because they have a series of disorders, children with hyperactivity, opponent challenging, chronic insomnia, dyslexia, dysprosodia (language problems), dipraxia (lack of motor coordination) schizophrenia, neuropsychological problems and more. I like my work, I thank you infinitely gurumaharaja for motivating me and telling me that day “YES, STUDY EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY THE CANTUTA IN CHOSICA, DO NOT DOUBT” if it were not for you, I would never have discovered my vocation, nor studied in my beloved national university of education "La Cantuta". I feel that thanks to being a teacher I balanced my life.

Gurudeva, when I am in class and I see my students with the difficulties that I mentioned before, I think will it be that in the spiritual world there are cowboys that present these symptoms that in this world we call disorders? Without wanting to be offensive, I remember reading in the book Nectar of devotion that gopis and cowboys had some symptoms of love for Krishna, such as stuttering, babble of emotion, talking so fast that they are not understood, dreaming of Krishna , etc. Could it be that my work is a preparation for the spiritual world? Could it be that Mother Yasoda needs me to learn to treat children like this to help her take care of the cowboys?

HpS - I don't know... I think they are not ordinary people. To get contact with a disciple of Srila Prabhupada like you is not ordinary. Maybe they had very demoniac histories and now are acting like birds and beasts or... ??? Chant Hare Krsna and you will get insight. BG 10.11

I finished my studies at the university, I will begin to see the procedures to get a bachelor's degree and a bachelor's or master's degree, I don't know who could help me, I have to find out too many legal procedures.

HpS - Ask The Blue Baboon, Laksmana agra Ja Das, CMDD, Abhirama.

But, meanwhile, as every teacher should always be trained, I am studying a specialization: Language therapy (to deal with my students' problems with methodology and strategies)

I don't know how wrong I am, but now I think that the spiritual life is also to find a balance and goal in life, guided by a trustworthy teacher (as in school) Gurumaharaja there is no day that does not think of you, as a model and inspiration Sometimes I tell my students that I also have a teacher, who guides me, teaches me right and wrong, with love and humor, with patience and care, with songs and letters. Children are happy with so little, and I am happy knowing that you always listen to me through the heart.

Mi papá le manda saludos, me preguntó por usted en navidad, vinieron mis hermanos los gemelos (miden 1m 85cm) mi hermana que sigue soltera porque tiene un carácter peor que el mío y mi madrastra que es mi segunda mamá. El médico dijo que el problema cardíaco que tiene mi papá (síndrome de Wolff - parkinson al corazón) es hereditario, uno de cuatro hijos podría padecer lo mismo, bueno hasta el momento los cuatro hijos presentamos algunos malestares al corazón. ¡Benditos genes!

Gurumaharaj aprovecho en saludarlo por su viasapuja, que el Señor Nrishimha lo proteja siempre y que el servicio a Srila Prabhupada lo mantenga siempre activo.

Con amor, su hija espiritual Yasoda devi dasi 

HpS - Super, super, super!!! Who is Hari Sundar???? Foto. Saludos a su Papa... Leya la Biblia (libro Krsna y toma leche caliente con azucar cada noche!)

Mother Yasoda is a MOTHER!!!

Viplavah Link

5 years, 3 months ago by hps in Special Category A



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<Banana Boro> Suggestion verse for Bhaktivedanta Medical Association conference

5 years, 3 months ago by Namacarya das in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

As you wrote:

We will sit down in The Boro until next weekend and then we go to Houston, Nila-madhavaDhama, with SripadNitai-gaura-sundara Das for the Bhaktivedanta Medical Association conference. Saturday we do a Keynote Address, (Have to prepare it), Science, Psyche, and Spirituality: The Encounter of Professor Carl Gustav Jung with the Mysticism of Srila Rupa Goswami. Sunday we do the Srimad Bhagavatam class. Any suggestions for a verse? We were thinking of the verses about Hari DasaThakura’sJapa disease.


If I may suggest: https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/2/10

Translation

Life’s desires should never be directed toward sense gratification. One should desire only a healthy life, or self-preservation, since a human being is meant for inquiry about the Absolute Truth. Nothing else should be the goal of one’s works.

Purport

The completely bewildered material civilization is wrongly directed towards the fulfillment of desires in sense gratification. In such civilization, in all spheres of life, the ultimate end is sense gratification. In politics, social service, altruism, philanthropy and ultimately in religion or even in salvation, the very same tint of sense gratification is ever-increasingly predominant. In the political field the leaders of men fight with one another to fulfill their personal sense gratification. The voters adore the so-called leaders only when they promise sense gratification. As soon as the voters are dissatisfied in their own sense satisfaction, they dethrone the leaders. The leaders must always disappoint the voters by not satisfying their senses. The same is applicable in all other fields; no one is serious about the problems of life. Even those who are on the path of salvation desire to become one with the Absolute Truth and desire to commit spiritual suicide for sense gratification. But the Bhāgavatam says that one should not live for sense gratification. One should satisfy the senses only insomuch as required for self-preservation, and not for sense gratification. Because the body is made of senses, which also require a certain amount of satisfaction, there are regulative directions for satisfaction of such senses. But the senses are not meant for unrestricted enjoyment. For example, marriage or the combination of a man with a woman is necessary for progeny, but it is not meant for sense enjoyment. In the absence of voluntary restraint, there is propaganda for family planning, but foolish men do not know that family planning is automatically executed as soon as there is search after the Absolute Truth. Seekers of the Absolute Truth are never allured by unnecessary engagements in sense gratification because the serious students seeking the Absolute Truth are always overwhelmed with the work of researching the Truth. In every sphere of life, therefore, the ultimate end must be seeking after the Absolute Truth, and that sort of engagement will make one happy because he will be less engaged in varieties of sense gratification. And what that Absolute Truth is is explained as follows.

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Will it be streamed online ?

Your servant Namacarya Das

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HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!!!!!!! paoho We were looking at the Akincana web site. They say it was started in Croatia but now other devotees have taken it over.

This is wonderful verse! Good health automatically follows when we take our quota... Discussed with the organizers and final resolution is to take the verse from Canto One, The Pandavas Retire Timely, which describes Yuddhisthira folding the different layers of the material body back into the Atma. For doctors will be nice to hear about Sankhya, ISKCON Medicine as Assisted Suicide. All of our relations with this body is to destroy it at the root.

Thank you!!!

Any news about the ?Esther? Indradyumna Das is on line most days for Mangala arati etc.

We will find out about Streaming. The SB class will be at ISKCON Houston at Mayapura TV. Others I don't know.

Banana Boro - Sunday Srila Prabhupada Class.

5 years, 3 months ago by Mitravinda d.d in Other

Hare Krishna Gurudeva!

Please, accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

As you asked us today on FMP, I have heard this morning a Srila Prabhupada class on Youtube. It is a 25 minutes class with Spanish subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfls7Eh5Zy8&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2TxDK-Bx_w6ikIiG3QYrpemXyjMLOWrxeT85vximSXHwVCPQOr8dgFHXw

Srimad Bhagavatam class - 1. 8. 28.

"My Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all-pervasive one. In distributing Your mercy, You are equal to everyone. The dissensions between living beings are due to social intercourse".

The part of the class that I liked the most is that "KRISHNA is equally merciful to everyone."

In the class Srila Prabhupada give us a very nice analogy: "Just like the sunshine, the sunshine is not partial saying: here is a poor man, here is a lower class man, here is a hog, I will not distribute my resplendence there. No, the sun is impartial, sun is equal to everyone, sunshine is there open but if you close your door, if you want to keep yourself in a tight darkness....it is your business".

"Similarly KRISHNA is everywhere, KRISHNA is for everyone, KRISHNA is ready to accept you as soon as you surrender".

"Simply we have to prepare ourselves to see KRISHNA....to understand KRISHNA, that is the goal of KRISHNA consciousness".

Thank you Gurudeva! 🙏

Trying to be your disciple: Mitravinda dd.

ASA - Very, very nice!!!!! AGTSP. paoho. Even if we fall down and act like hogs. Krsna will still send us mercy!!!!! Of course His mercy may be a firm stick to our rear-end to get moving, but thank you!!!

Viplavah2019-4 Up

5 years, 3 months ago by hps in Special Category A

Hare Krsna, after challenges and delays we win! Viplavah2019-4 is up on our ASA webpage. Journal of the Ministry of Education.

Go to http://www.jayarama.us/archives/ and scroll down until you come to viplavah2019-4. There is a fine resolution one, about 4-megabytes and web one which is much smaller.

Read it, share it, send us your comments.

HpS - ASA

DTC 11(Sa)

5 years, 3 months ago by hps in DTC

AgtSP!!! Paoho & bw.

Brown and White here.

HpS - Is a pretty good guy. Got a lot of work to do to become perfect, but, Hey!, who are we to criticize anyone. We are not even human beings!

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Yesterday he cooked Kitri for Lord Nrsmha deva, but didn't measure the oats to carefully. Ooops. One liter of Kitri. Then, because his mother trained him not to waste a single drop of food, he tried to honor the WHOLE THING and made Brother Ass, you Body, Buddy, as sick as a dog! Knocked the Pitta and Vayu right off their rockers.

Today, the hiccups have gone. Got some work and rounds done! But still nor digesting well. Today we tried more water in the Kitri and it came to 750 ml, but less heavy. Still little trouble digesting, but NOTHING like yesterday.


O.K. 5.31PM maybe we can go walking with Dr. Desai and maybe NGD will get back in time. Sun sets at 4.45PM and it has been raining today.

We answered the letters with the Priority Code, but AMD used one from two issues ago and it changed today!

Haw! Haw! Haw!! "You no read us, We no read you", Joe Banana (an evil Chinese guy who kind of dominate ASA at times.

Hari bolo!