Sunday Morning Srimad Bhagavatam class, reading Sri Caitanya Caritamrta. On coming Sunday (June 9, 2024), we will continue reading CHAPTER Eight: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya, verses 8.168 onwards.
Thank you to H. G. Lakshman Prabhu for doing translation for class on June 2, 2024.
It is the mercy of Maharaja, to engage everyone in reading books of Srila Prabhupada.
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Upendra dasa
ASA - AgtSP! Ramananda Raja!
Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.
Acepte por favor mis respetuosas reverencias.
¡Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada!
Espero que se encuentre muy bien.
Llevo mucho tiempo sin reportarme, pero nada ha cambiado.
Sigo con curso de Bhakti Sastri, y a un grupo pequeño en Curso de Bhaktas.
Estudiando Bhakti Vaibhava.
Leyendo Caitanya Caritamrta, adi-lila.
Desde este mes comenzamos un servicio (una vez al mes) para Sri Sri Goura Nitai del templo (ofrenda de bhoga y puja del mediodía).
Gurudev, debo decirle que casi no puedo interactuar en FMS ya que es la hora de preparar todo para llevar a los niños a la escuela. Cocinamos desayuno y almuerzo muy temprano, por eso me levanto más temprano para cantar japa.
Seguimos con la lectura del Krsna Book por la noche... un servicio eterno. Esperamos que los niños puedan hacer esta lectura cada noche cuando sean más grandes.
Hemos estado celebrando las festividades en nuestra casa o en casa de devotos, que también tienen niños. Las fiestas son en la semana, por eso es un poco difícil ir al templo.
También visitamos muy seguido a amigos devotos con quienes cantamos, y cocinamos para Krsna.
Los niños están en otra escuela. Encontramos profesores y niños veganos y vegetarianos, personas ligadas al yoga, más intelectuales y con más valores. Aunque cualquier lugar puede ser adecuado para ser devoto, estos ambientes pueden ser favorables.
Estamos tranquilos, felices en conciencia de Krsna. Haciendo todo con más devoción.
Espero que estas noticias puedan ser agradables para usted.
Nunca pido Sus bendiciones, pero espero seamos dignos de ellas.
Adjunto algunas fotografías.
Su aspirante a sirviente
Priyasakhi DD y familia.
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Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaja.
Please accept my respectful obeisances.
All glories be to Srila Prabhupada!
I hope you are well.
HpS - The same tooth that rotted and had to be pulled recently on the right side, seems to be now rotting on the left side. Doctor said it might happen. 🙂
Seems that not just our old age but also Kali-yuga is reminding us that everything can change a lot at any moment. So making plans for the next few months or years is necessary, but we need to be really ready to adjust, taking constant shelter of the the Holy Names as giving us intelligence to plan.
I haven't reported for a long time, but nothing has changed.
I continue with the Bhakti Sastri course, and a small group in the Bhaktas Course.
Studying Bhakti Vaibhava.
Reading Caitanya Caritamrta, adi-lila.
HpS - Hope it never changes, just gets deep and broader!
From this month we start a service (once a month) for Sri Sri Goura Nitai of the temple (bhoga offering and midday puja).
HpS - Super. Wonderful if all the Grhasthas do this! Different family every night each week.
Gurudev, I must tell you that I can hardly interact at FMS as it is time to prepare everything to take the children to school. We cook breakfast and lunch very early, so I get up earlier to chant japa.
HpS - Fine, fine. For Maite it is like 10.30AM! 🙂
We continue reading the Krsna Book at night... an eternal service. We hope the children can do this reading every night when they are older.
We have been celebrating the festivities at our house or at the houses of devotees, who also have children. The holidays are during the week, so it is a little difficult to go to the temple.
We also visit devotee friends very often with whom we sing, and cook for Krsna.
The children are in another school. We find vegan and vegetarian teachers and children, people linked to yoga, more intellectual and with more values. Although any place can be suitable to be a devotee, these environments can be favorable.
We are calm, happy in Krsna consciousness. Doing everything with more devotion.
I hope this news can be pleasant for you.
I never ask for His blessings, but I hope we are worthy of them.
I attach some photographs.
Your would-be servant
Priyasakhi DD and family.
HpS/ASA - Thank you, Prabhu. How old are your children? What is your esteemed husband doing.
All these things may seem like little things. but now many people in the world now are chanting 16-rounds per day under Srila Prabhupada's authority? There are Mangala aratis going on 24-hours per day, now?
Result will accumulate. It is like blades of grass growing and eventually pushing over a big building.
Such nice photos! We added some Prairie Dogs!
Hare Krishna Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you Maharaja.
Maharaja, it is our extreme good fortune to serve you, your care taker and H. H. Yadunandana Swami in Manipur. Please kindly let me know the details of the trip – when all of you want to come to Manipur and leave, and the details of the devotees, etc., etc. Accordingly, we will buy the tickets and send you Maharaja.
political situation is manageable?
Nectar Of Devotion seminar?
He wants some place to write essays from the SB.
Is Manipura good for that?
He would naturally be fantastic cultural ambassador of Manipur in the West.
Stay one/two weeks?
Then back to Spain for Rama vijayotsava on October 12th.
What do you think?
Political situation is ok Maharaja. We can have Nectar of Devotion seminar with good number of participants during your stay. Yes, Manipur is a good place for HH Yadunandana Swami to write essays. Two weeks stay is ok Maharaja or forever also ok. Everything is all ok Maharaja. Or, we together can have Rama Vijayotsava festival in Manipur too. That day is our Guru Maharaja’s Tirobhava Utsav. Rama Vijayotsava is on October 13th in India.
Maharaja, Manipuris are little racial nowadays with strong anti-Indian feeling. Indian preachers are not much successful in Manipur. We are always thinking to have very good connection with western devotees to preach here in Manipur. Guru Maharaja wanted to have many nice things of ISKCON Manipur. This would be possible only by your blessings, Maharaja. We are really very happy to hear that you are going to bring HH Yadunandana Swami also. All glories to you Maharaja.
Thank you once again for your love for Manipuri devotees and Manipur.
Maharaja, first floor rooms are ok for yourself and HH Yadunandana Swami? Can we have some seminars in Manipur University during your visit? If so, please kindly suggest some topics, Maharaja.
Your humble servant
Sadhubhusan Das
ISKCON Manipur
HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. Was waiting a little to answer until things are little fixed. Maharaja is trying to buy tickets right now. Madrid to India on the 18th of September, then he teaches for one week in Braja, and after that we can go to Manipuri. He is young man 😃 only like 65 years old. He can become great lover of Manipuri culture and maybe very strong link with Spanish culture of Spain.
Read all your news very carefully.
Think can give details soon.
Hope we can make cultural presentation that will reach people beyond Manomaya platform. Eg. I am this nation or that and nothing more.
Thank you.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru Maharaj HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj. Please accept our humble obeisances at Your sweet lotus feet.
Hare Krishna dear Guru Maharaj
Our godbrother Yamuneswar Prabhu Forwarded a message about Guru Maharaj's desire to take few classes for us fallen beings of Manipur. This has been our desire for a long time now, too shy and too worried we might disturb Guru Maharaj's busy schedule.
We have daily morning and evening classes starting at 6.30am and 6.30pm respectively through googlemeet.The link ishttps://meet.google.com/naa-phka-fth May we know when Guru Maharaj desire to take class ? Yamuneshwar Prabhu informed in the WhatsApp.
ASA/TB - 6.30AM IST is 8PM evening before for us!
6.30PM IST is 8am for us.
Maybe we can start working on an 8am class. Is there any topic or book that we can focus on?
Continuing our services from home. Chanting 16 rounds minimum daily. Thank you so much Guru Maharaj for the immense mercy.
Sending pic of Sri Nrshimha Dev on the auspicious Sri Nrshimhadev caturdasi. The other structure is the Sri Vishnu temple, the oldest Vishnu temple in Manipur as old as 15th century. The Vishnu Deity was gifted by Burmese king of Pong dynasty to Manipur King Kiyamba, long ,long before the advent of King Bhagyachandra. We were fortunate to give our services there.
HpS - We saw the Temple and heard the story, 'we heard He likes sweet rice'!!!
Opened Yoga programme at our department , trying our best to bring Srila Prabhupada's teachings to everyone somehow or other.
HpS - Asana and prana yama? Stories from SB?
Indebted to my Guru Maharaj always,
Your insignificant servant,
Sarad Gaurangi DD
Dear Guru Maharaja/ Dear Hanumat Preshak Maharaja
Please accept our humble obeisances
All glories to His Divine Grace!
On this auspicious day of appearance day of Lord Nrisimha we again can reflect how many blessings we received in this wonderful movement.
It takes a village to rise a child.
It takes innumerable incarnations and devotees kindness to keep us alive with their constant remembrance via occasions such as Nrisimha caturdashi.
We hope He will keep on glancing on us all and give us qualities to move forward.
In scriptures we find that
Sudarshan appeared as Varahas tusks,
Parasuram axe and Nrisimha nails.
Lord is everywhere!
Traps of His mercy are everywhere!
While writing this we are in the train back to our new "permanent" place that somehow appeared recently and took our time/attention past two months.
Due to the modes of nature and other ingredients I had to leave China and put all the deities to sleep.
Quite uncomfortable experience.
Today coincidentally happen that we are taking last 3 sets of Nrisimha deities to their home on 2000 km train journey.
The others are in Vrindavan.
China was basically paralysed due to covid 3 years and that move couldn't happen before.
My Guru Maharaja refused me 4 times in regards to green light for puja.
Took me 13 years to get the green light.
It was a nice time, time of growing desire for arcana seva.
His reasons are more and more proving right.
We tend to desire at the moment without being aware of circumstances that life brings and interfere with our regularity about seva.
Although I received a green light, it happened that still I had to go through lessons about deity worship and its importance.
Original altar was spread in 3 places and that made my mind 3 times more distracted.
Thanks to Lord Nrisimha and Prabhupadas mercy that we survived after giving the Lord this inconvenience.
Our "permanent" place is southern most part of China, just next to the border of Laos.
Its 2000m above see level and only place where there are some sort of hippy community.
It's ancient architecture towns with big lake in the middle.
Setting up a book table here is allowed (not in any other place in china).
In fact people standing on the street corners and doing some performance is encouraged and that is what makes this place famous in China.
A free zone!
People here wear traditional clothes and all do some sort of puja.
We collect water from the source as it is practice of people.
Tree of a picture-attached is one of 600 Peepal trees in the town.
Locals worship it for good fortune.
When we come to fetch water we do arati, poor water and circumabulate the tree.
Every village around the lake have people/families with particular skills.
Some are into cloth production, some have cows, tea, fish, stone or wood designing, etc....Hills are full of Buddhist temples and one can get some idea of their mood while being in those deep mountain forest doing their sadhana.
They are having large agricultural land and producing their own food.
Very well organised.
They have restaurants all around and if food is not free, then the fee is just very little.
Tibet is close by so strictness in their practice is higher than other parts of China. Proximity to Laos and construction of high speed railway that will open soon from the town to Vientiane, capital of Laos, is raising ideas of Krsna conscious expansion.
Young people speak English there and religious freedom reigns. It's a heaven that somehow has not yet been blessed by Srila Prabhupada and his troops.
We hope Nrisimha enlightens and guides us what is to be done and when. We may venture there in the future.
Anjana Ma has received nectar "from the sky". Your Anjana, whatever cooks is nectar. I am gaining some weight because of that, but I don't complain.
Maharaja, it's nice to have your association/presence in our life. We hope we can please you and imbibe your good qualities so that we can continue the legacy of His Divine Grace.
Yours in service of Hari ,Guru and Vaishnava
Vanara-rani Anjana and Narayan pandit das
HpS - Super. Why not ask Buddha to come and tell people about the absolute truth and its manifestations for them.
THank you so much.
Now we run to Temple.
Thank you so so much!!!
Each word was nectar.
Hare Krisna Gurudev. Gracias por la contestación a mi mensaje anterior, Voy a contestar a sus preguntar para el placer de los Blogueros.
ASA.Su intelecto está espontáneamente convencido de que será productivo, incluso si sus sentidos pueden estar un poco aletargados?
Si, pienso que el intelecto cada vez es espiritualmente mas productivo. Aunque a veces no me acuerdo de que he ido a buscar a la cocina.
ASA – Por que no derecho e historia?
La Universidad, desde el punto de vista de los jóvenes, es un medio para conseguir un buen trabajo (artha). Nimai debe pensar que derecho y economía le va a dar mejores facilidades para lograr un buen trabajo.
ASA. Pareces una de las personas más afortunadas del mundo. ¿Cambiarías tu puesto por el del Papa, Putin?
Me considero una de las personas mas afortunadas del mundo por haber conocido a Bhaktivedanta Swami (a través de sus libros, canciones, cartas,etc.) y también por los amigos que tengo, ya que son buenos devotos de Krisna. No puedo envidiar a nadie que no acepte a Srila Prabhupada como El Salvador del Mundo”
ASA. ¿Podrías entender lo suficiente sobre el libro a partir del artículo para ver si tenía evidencia sustancial para su tesis? Los Pandavas vivieron en Dvarpara Yuga. ¿Ha apreciado ese factor?
¡¡Gracias!!
Leyendo el articulo entiendo que el escritor catedrático de historia, defiende que estas culturas se conocían entre sí y tenían alguna conexión; y lo apoya con diversos descubrimientos arqueológicos. Tengo que leer el libro para ver si la cronología es fidedigna, pero me gusta que el autor nombre a Sahadev (como representante del gran imperio “Kushán”), que es un gran devoto de Krisna. Eso normaliza a Krisna en la historia desde la perspectiva occidental.
Tengo que leer el libro para averiguar la profesionalidad del Ensayo.
HpS/ASA - ¿Puedes ayudarnos con algunos planes para nuestra visita a España?
Estaré encantado de poder ser útil en su estancia en España. Cuando tenga el billete de regreso de India podemos ver las fechas de posibles programas. Entiendo que hasta que no vuelva de India no es necesario hacer ningún programa ya que, entre el aterrizaje del cuerpo, mente, etc. en España y la preparación del viaje a India, esos días son de transición.
Puedo hablar con Mónica (directora del Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid) y preguntarle si le va bien que hagamos algún programa allí a partir de finales de octubre.
También podemos hablar con Luis, el alcalde de Brihuega para hacer una presentación de la película en algún local del Ayuntamiento. Pienso que esta gestión es mejor hacerla a través de Yadunandana Swami que es el alcalde de la comunidad Santa Clara (Hare Krishna) y es algo mas oficial (protocolario).
Si se quiere hacer alguna cosa más, podemos hablarlo en octubre cuando ya haya descansado del largo viaje EE UU-España-India-España. ¿OK?
HpS - Thank you. At our age, making plans for the future is always very doubtful.
Maybe you have see in Twitter today that we are trying to visit India with Maharaja. That is like the 17th of September until the 2nd of October.
When we arrive on the 11th is Radharani's birthday party and then ekadasi, jiva goswami, vamana dvadasi, vsivarupa mohotsava etc. Of course, we hope we can be of some use during these festivals.
Visvarupa mahotsava is anniversary of Upadesamrta.
Of course, Yugala Kishore Dasi and two other ladies are working on suggestions for the calendar also, so we can coordinate it all here, no?
Thank you. 👍
Acepte mis reverencias.
Ss
Jayanta das