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SB workshop ~~ Sunday Morning, August 03, 2025 continue reading CC Madhya 15 ** Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya Offers Parsadam
Dear Maharaja and devotees;
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru and Gauranga.
On Sunday, August 03, 2025, at 7.30am, Houston time (CST ~~ time zone), we will continue reading:
Chapter 15 (Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya offers Parsadam~~Madhya Lila); verse 15.70 onwards
we might be able to cover about 45 verses.
- For July 27th class H.G. Nikunja Bihari Prabhu has graciously agreed to do translation for CC notes
- Lakshmana Prabhu has graciously agreed to do translation for Maharaja's class.
- Thank you to H.G. Mitravinda Mataji for always joining session to be back up translator if there are technical issues.
Maharaja, thank you for engaging everyone in reading systematically books of Srila Prabhupada.
Your Servant
Upendra Dasa
HpS - ASA -- AgtSP!!! We do not have to decide what or when to read. Srila Prabhupada's books are like the Holy Names Themselves. They are sweet, and supremely educational wherever you open them and read!
Vidya vadu jivanam.
Read and that reading will organize your thoughts about how to read more and more systematically.
Then we will have systematic, logically organized, knowledge of Sastra, become Uttama-adhikari and then people will spontaneously say, "Oh, my God, who is that person!", just upon seeing us!
AgtSP and Lord Nityananda.
Palika dd_ brief report
Hare Krsna, respected and dear Gurumaharaja.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Please accept our humble obeisances, and we hope you do well in the association of devotees from Houston.
Many things have happened recently: my father in law passed away at home, accompanied by us and the maha mantra sounds all time.
This is the first time Parvati has lost someone very loved and she is going through her grieving process. At home, we are doing well thanks to the mercy of Sri Sri Gaura Nitay at our altar, which helps us greatly to keep our faith strong.
I also wanted to inform you that Caturatma and me have begun doing service at Sri Radha Madhama Vihari´s kitchen in Chosica on Sundays and please send us your blessings to be more in service.
HpS - AgtSP!!! paoho. Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna. Krsna Krsna. Hare Hare // Hare Rama. Hare Rama. Rama Rama. Hare H A R E! We feel so happy to see pictures of RMB. Who is managing the Temple? How are the festivals and Mangala arati and SB class.
By the other side, I want to share with you the information about the collection we made in Peru for your hearing aids. Through the mercy of Krishna we were able to join forces and raise $828 with the support of the following devotees:
Candramukhi dd ($108), Nitya Kishore dd ($83), Jana Pavana das ($20), Abhirama Thakur das & Maria ($101), Jambavan das ($308), Govardhana das - Cusco ($30), Jagadisvara das - Cusco ($20), Roy Ramananda das - Arequipa ($50) and Palika dd ($108).
Thank you very much for your mercy, Full Morning Service, your classes and many ways You always help us to keep in contact with Krsna and His devotees.
Your foolish servant,
Palika dd
HpS - Thank you for your news!!!!!
How is your Sankirtan.
first lecture to students
Hare Krsna Guruji
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JVe17V1SLxYjVpHZ27rvm2T291EGdxsztBO4g33x87A/edit?slide=id.g33e23aba2d7_0_30#slide=id.g33e23aba2d7_0_30
This link is about causality.
You are the inspiration for this.
The slide is supposed to be corroborated with audio.
But we trust TB he can know what these slides means
Bowing down
Das of Hayagriva Avatar
tb - wow... agtsp. hps could catch a lot.
it looks great, but like several days with at least an hour each day.
phenomena and .... noumena, no?
is it to develop enduring friendship with these students? is one of them having curly hair, swarthy complexion, playing a flute, natural leader of rest?
Insights on my position and sadhana
Hare Krishna, most beloved Maharaja 🙏
All glories to the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya 🙌
This is Gunavira Das:
About my position related to ashrama, it seems that, even as a brahmachari, all this time I have being functioning as a artificial grihastha for my relatives’ care.
Everything seems to be dharmically logical though! I still work hard as a nurse and in the family business, so brahmacharia development is more about the internal than the external.
hps/asa - nice to hear from you. we hanker for reports from you.
unless you have a wife you are a in vedic b'cari ashrama. b'cari can work in medical trade, but should develop attitude that he is doing it for KRSNA.
16-nice rounds?
personal altar?
About sensual/mental gratification. It looks like I need horse blinders to stay focused, too many ways to lose control; and deep anarthas taking refuge in the shadows… I have being eating, besides fruits and vegetables, herbs from the garden, moringa leaves and many more and they help. Also seeing the beautiful gender indirectly, and to the feet, and these measures help. I had intense challenges in previous months, but already on track again!
hps/asa - same .... got an altar? bathe your deities, dry and ornament them and sex desire goes away.
About Comparative Religion. I have being reading both biblic and vedic literatures in order to understand the crossoverality of the religious practices. It seems that everything matches! The allegued “differences” are just about perspective: Considering Judeo-Christianity as a religion for the 3rd dimension entrepreneurs (but much more to be revealed according to the same Scriptures) , and Vaisnavism for the multidimention enthusiasts… Book of Job might be considered a Purana as is highly complex. Sorry if I am inaccurate in my logic.
hps.asa
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKb40l59SbQ, "a perfect stranger".
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1653, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_of_Christ, "imitation of christ", thomas akempis
I continue on the path with Gadadhar Gosai Das Prabhu for the good of the world. Sometimes I help like an ant (not proportionally), sometimes like a tortoise (I wish I did), sometimes like a hawk (I think).
Sincerely, servant of your servants!
Gunavira Das.🐢
your servants, hps/asa 👳 🐒 🐖
_________
Hare Krishna, amado Maharaja 🙏
Todas las glorias a la Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya 🙌
Se reporta Gunavira Das:
Sobre mi posición en el áshram, parece que, incluso como brahmachari, todo este tiempo he estado funcionando como un grihastha artificial para el cuidado de mis familiares. ¡Aunque todo parece tener lógica dármica! Sigo trabajando duro como enfermero y en el negocio familiar, por lo que el desarrollo en brahmacharia se centra más en lo interno que en lo externo.
Sobre la gratificación sensorial/mental. Parece que necesito anteojeras de caballo para mantener la concentración; hay demasiadas maneras de perder el control; y anarthas profundos que se refugian en las sombras… El Harinam, los Principios como bases, y he estado comiendo además de frutas y semillas, hierbas del jardín, hojas de moringa y muchas más, que me ayudan. También veo al llamado género bello sólo indirectamente, y a los pies, y estas medidas me ayudan. Tuve dificultades intensas en los meses anteriores, ¡pero ya estoy en el buen camino!
Sobre la religión comparada. He estado leyendo literatura bíblica y védica para comprender la transversalidad de las prácticas religiosas. ¡Parece que todo concuerda! Las supuestas "diferencias" son solo cuestión de perspectiva: si consideramos el judeocristianismo como una religión para los emprendedores tridimensionalistas (pero con mucho más por revelar según las mismas Escrituras), y el vaisnavismo para los entusiastas multidimensionalistas... Aunque el Libro de Job podría considerarse un Purana, ya que es sumamente complejo. Disculpe si mi lógica es imprecisa.
Sigo en el camino con Gadadhar Gosai Das Prabhú por el bien del mundo. A veces ayudo como hormiga (no proporcionalmente), a veces como tortuga (me gustaría), a veces como halcón (eso creo).
Atentamente, ¡sirviente de tus sirvientes!
Gunavira Das.🐢
News
Hare Krsna
Hare Krsna, Gurudev
All Glories to Sri Sri Goura Nitai
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to you
Please accept my humble obeisances.
After quite some time, here I am, resuming contact with you. I hope you read my letter. How is your energy? Here I receive your messages from the WhatsApp groups, thank you for that.
In my previous letter I told you that my beloved Tulasi Vrinda Dasi has arrived in this world, a very interesting and joyful personality. Motherhood has fully taken over me, making me experience feelings such as austerity, renunciation of results, giving selflessly, discipline, starting over after a lost battle, dealing with my own frustration, and has taught me to see new perspectives in life. My priorities have shifted, my time is vanishing, and tiredness is a constant.
The mental load has overwhelmed me on several occasions, and the need to indefinitely give up my own desires for a greater good—these are just some of the thousands of things Tulasi has taught me since her birth.
My love overflows when I see her, I feel that with every hug I can breathe again, and I feel proud of every small achievement in her early path of life.
She shows signs of devotion like putting her hands together when the altar is opened, even though it wasn’t a gesture that was taught to her. She interacts with a figure we have of Lord Ganesha, she leaves [loves?] toys to Goura Nitai, and helps me ring the bell during artik.
I want to humbly ask you, Gurudev, to please grant your special blessings to Tulasi so that she may always stay connected to Srila Prabhupada and the parampara, and thus learn to love Krsna throughout her life.
ASA - "These are not ordinary children. Krsna does not send ordinary people to be the children of devotees. You have big responsibility to protect them so that that can grow up and do wonderful things for Krsna", Letter from Srila Prabhupada that we remember.
As for me, I work, I’m disconnected from my Sadhana. I try to chant and to connect, sometimes in an effort to recover my rhythm. I’m no longer so critical of my process and understand that perhaps this is a moment in which I have to fulfill my family responsibilities, and I hope to be able to bring order back to my life so that the spiritual can once again take precedence.
Sorry for the length of my letter, but prolonged absences require lengthy explanations.
Thank you for being my Guru.
As I read in another letter, I’m sending some photos for your eyes only. I hadn’t sent updates because I resisted sharing photos of my family, and that letter gave me the impulse—thanks to those Vaisnavas too!
Reverences Gurudev
With much affection,
The one who always wishes to serve you
Rati Mañjari Dasi
(P.S. I translated it into English using ChatGPT)
HpS/ASA - So, I guess we should not share the photos unless they are espionage for the CIA, no? I guess as Sannyasis we must share them with some responsible Grhasta.
If you can't chant 16-rounds a day, then fix some number you can do. Maybe three rounds a day. You will find that it does not take strength, it gives strength!