Sanskrit names of Creatures

10 months, 1 week ago by shatakshi in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Maharaj, PAMHO AGTSP!


You were speaking in one class that Gandharva are Fairies, Trolls are Rakshasas, Bhutas are ghosts etc. Maharaj, anywhere I can find more of these translations of creatures?

Like in Harry Potter there are different creatures that look after the vaults, etc. JK Rowling creates a world much like ours but with many different kinds of creatures.


Our SP’s books already have many species. If we can leverage those and show other kinds of life-forms related to pastimes, a lot of interesting stories can take birth.


I’m trying to write the story for our Ramayan in a new bottle.


Ys,

SMDD


HpS/ASA - Thank you! We remember in one Translation like in the first few cantos that Srila Prabhupada directly writes, "Gandharvas (Fairies)". You can probably find it with a keyword search on Vedabase.Io.

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Other than them, and for them, we just see considerable similarity in description of character, activities and abodes of:

  • Trolls = Raksasas.
  • Kusmandas = Imps.
  • Nagas = Chinese Dragons.

We don't know the where the lists are but we see them again and again, maybe in places like the different species coming to take milk from Bhumi in 'Maharaja Prthu Milks the Earth' etc.


Maybe one Blog reader can give more suggestions!


I don't know about Harry Potter, but C. S. Lewis [?] with "The Lord of the Rings" et al was basing his beasts [?] on very traditional description. He was Oxford professor.


O.K.??? Try asking in one of the online classes if need too.🙂


Thank you!

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HpSwami - Current Disciple List.

10 months, 1 week ago by hps in Special Category A, Hot Topics

A requirement, agtSP, for anyone taking Diksa from us, under the authority of Srila Prabhupada and his ISKCON, is that they file an Annual Report. Basically this has to be filed at the Reports link listed in this Blog.

An annual report to the Add Letter link is not sufficient.

These are formalities, but not meaningless formalities.

This is how we take this job.

🙂

Reports were due on January 9th 2024.


This is the list of Reports we have now on 2024 January 19th:

  1. Divya Dristi DD 
  2. Parasurama Avatar Das 
  3. Priyasakhi Devi Dasi 
  4. Vrsabhanu Nandini Devi Dasi 
  5. Sarad Gaurangi DD 
  6. Jaya Prema Sakhi DD 
  7. Murari dasa 
  8. Indu Lekha dd from Chile 
  9. Jiva-Sakti dasa 
  10. Madhvacharya das 
  11. Nanda-braja das 
  12. Aja Govinda das 
  13. Aristasena 
  14. Ekangi dd 
  15. [email protected] 
  16. Karuna Mayi devi dasi 
  17. Anandamaya das 
  18. Tarangaksi Devi Dasi 
  19. Subhadra Mayi DD 
  20. Campaka Lata dd 
  21. Gopi Radha DD 
  22. Rukmini Devi Dasi 
  23. Citrasakhi Devi Dasi 
  24. Sacinandan Das 
  25. Mani Kundali Devi Dasi 
  26. Mandali bhadra das 
  27. Bhakta Guimo 
  28. Nikunja Bihari das 
  29. Palika devi dasi 
  30. Abhirama Thakura dasa 
  31. Indu Lekha dd desde Chile 
  32. Ramakrishnananda Das 
  33. Satyabhama dd 
  34. Srinatha Krsna dasa 
  35. Braja Raja Krsna Dasa 
  36. Srinivasacarya Dasa 
  37. Annual Report 2023 
  38. Sudama sakha dasa 
  39. Asta Sakhi dd 
  40. Radhika Ramana dasa 
  41. Dhanistha Devi Dasi 
  42. Rukmini Sundari-Arequipa 
  43. Krishna Pramodini Devi Dasi 
  44. Srinivasa Muktipaty (Subala Sakha Das) 
  45. Prahlad-nrsmha das 
  46. MANYARI DEVIDASI 
  47. Rtu-raj Krsna Das 
  48. Sri Rama Krishna Das 
  49. Tungavidya devi dasi 
  50. Candramukhi dd 
  51. Parama Karuna das 
  52. Aniruddhakrsna Das 
  53. Nadiya Nivasi Dasi 
  54. Deva Vrata das 
  55. Jaya-hari das 
  56. Divya Sri Devi Dasi 
  57. Nilachala Chandra Das 
  58. Indira-Sakti Devi dasi 
  59. Mitravinda devi dasi 
  60. Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi 2023 
  61. Laksmana-agraja das 
  62. Patrak das 
  63. Govinda Pramodini Dasi 
  64. Namacarya Das 
  65. Loka Bandhu Rama Dasa 
  66. Hayagriva Avatar Das 
  67. Jayanta das (Madrid) 
  68. Purnamasi devi dasi 
  69. Jayanta das 
  70. Jana-pavana das 
  71. Adi Yajña Das 
  72. Radha Japa prati Jalpa Devi Dasi 
  73. Sugopi Radha dd 
  74. Gadai Gauranga Dasa
  75. VISALA DAS 

So, basically we will only send reports to Srila Prabhupada and claim responsibility as his Diksa guru for these 75-disciples.

😃 Makes our life manageable.


Every body else - we'll give you another month maximum.

We will post the notification in the Kapi Dhvaja... AGAIN 😦

Y ahora nadan como cisnes

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj.

Please accept our humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


We feel your kind gratitude and mercy every time we remember your wonderful person.

It is extremely pleasant to think of you.


HpS - 🐵

AgtSP!!!! .. We feel the same about you. Our Academy, Blog is ornamented by your presence.


We have known you all this time with meditation and joy. The fortune that you have found us and that you assist us in this world, we consider, is the miracle of the ripe fruit of pure love for God, in the unlimited mercy that Srila Prabhupada manifests in this Krsna consciousness movement... with utmost pragmatism and progressive efficiency .

Simply… infinite thanks!

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…words that do not describe the glories of the Lord

 they try to explain to the heart

 …that poet has died

The crows in their filthy place

They don't see God

Hare Krisna Hare Krisna


 

…I offer the flowers, which my hands will not touch

I give you everything

and that flower

 What is the flower?

 …What is the flower?

 what is the flower you have seen?

Krisna Krisna Hare Hare



The supreme beauty and opulence of the Lord

   indiscriminate mercy

 …in those who were like ravens

caged in a material body

They swim now like swans

Hare Rama Hare Rama

 

…thoughts full of material energy

They buried millions and millions of poets

…But those who were like crows

Caged in a material body

They swim now like swans

gRama Rama Hare Hare


HpS/ASA - Crows attached.

Such nice English.

 

TgSP TgHPS

 

Dear Mharaja, We wish you the best

ENC das



 

Hare Krisna Guru Maharaj.

Por favor acepte nuestras humildes reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.



Sentimos tu amable gratitud y misericordia cada vez que recordamos tu maravillosa persona. Es sumamente grato pensar en ti. Llevamos todo este tiempo de haberte conocido con recogimiento y dicha. La fortuna que nos hayas encontrado y que nos asistas en este mundo, consideramos es, el milagro del fruto maduro de amor puro por Dios, en la ilimitada misericordia que Srila Prabhupada manifiesta en este movimiento de conciencia de Krsna… con sumo pragmatismo y progresiva eficiencia.

Simplemente… ¡Gracias infinitas ¡



                                                          ………………….

…palabras que no describen las glorias del Señor

 pretenden explicar al corazón

 … ese poeta a fallecido

Los cuervos en su lugar inmundo

No ven a Dios

Hare Krisna Hare Krisna



 

…Ofrezco las flores, que mis manos no tocarán

Te entrego todo

Y esa flor

 ¿Cuál es la flor?

 … ¿Cuál es la flor?

 ¿cuál es la flor que has visto?

Krisna Krisna Hare Hare



 

La suprema belleza y opulencia del Señor

    misericordia indiscriminada

 … en aquellos que eran como cuervos

enjaulados en un cuerpo material

Nadan ahora como cisnes

Hare Rama Hare Rama


 

… pensamientos repletos de energía material

Inhumaron a millones y millones de poetas

…Pero aquellos que eran como cuervos

Enjaulados en un cuerpo material

Nadan ahora como cisnes

Rama Rama Hare Hare


TgSP TgHPS

 

Querido Mharaja: Te deseamos lo mejor

ENC das

A very interestig week in sankirtan

Hare Krsna Guru maharaja

AGTSP

PAMHO



How is the health?

asa- agtSP, 60%


How is the rain?

ASA - occasional. sufficient, Jaya Sri Krsna.


How are the devoties?

ASA - 75-95%


Here in Chile the sankirtan is really nice (in comparison whit Argentina) now the number of books disteibuted is close to 60 (for the moment is 54 medium and 4 little Gitas) and now I'm treating to make every day, so I hope at the end of the next 4 or 5 months have the enough money to travel with you.


ASA - Do you know where we are traveling? 🙂 🚀🚀🚀



For the moment chanting all my rounds (sometimes with a lot of effort and other times in a very simple way) But at the end of the day I finish all of them, also I'm following the 4 principles and also (Since I start reading Tava Pache Pache [TPP] I'm also eating less and less of the things that are not necesary for this body and that is helping me very much in Sankirtan).


ASA - 🐵... 🐖 🐖 🐖 we follow your path!!


Also in sankirtan i meet many diferent people, sometimes I simply go to a couple (that from a distance seems to be a really happy one) but when i go closer enough I can see how they were not happy but crying. Also I have meet very nice people, the other day maybe 2 or 3 day ago I meet a brittish man from yorkshire he was really nice and was in the search for something spiritual and he was tired of material life (he was really joung maybe like 26)


we talk and make a good frienship but he just speak inglish so he wasin't able to buy a book,


that I like the 3rd person from other lenguaje that get interested in a book or the filosofy but for language barrier I'm not able to give them a book (because the book is in spanish)


maybe i should try to get some inglish and portuges books also y notice that my sankirtan works better in inglish,


ASA - 👍 Even print some nice purports from VedaBase.Io in the language you need.


Is kinda funny that im my mother language is not so effective jajaja.


Also as a last thing I will like to ask if i can take second iniciation, because I have now the bhakti shastri and also I will really like to take it and be able to to adore deities.


HpS - How strict is your Morning Program? Does you Temple President think you are ready.

Does your Father think you are ready?

Dog.

Uncle?


Now, whit little to few to add I say good bye Guru Maharaja.

(The pictutes will go in less than 3 days if this page alows it)


Feliz vyasa puya - reporte mensual.

10 months, 1 week ago by Nadiya Nivasi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Todas las glorias a srila prabhupada.

Hare Krishna gurudeva, acepte mis reverencias.

Aqui Nadiya, reportandose, cantando 16 rondas y 4 principios, gayatris y Buenos ayunos, El Haber estado en vrndavana y mayapur fué una experiencia muy Linda y de mucha purificacion, sobre mi Vida. El Haber hecho El vraja mandala parikrama durante 20 dias, visitando templos, lugares sagrados, escuchando pasatiempos, me llenó de verdadera felicidad, de mucho analisis e instrospección en mi Vida espiritual y material, estuve viviendo casi mas de un año en Los templos, la Vida de templo me enseño mucho a entender a convivir con Los devotes, a ser comprensiva, a tolerar, a perdonar, y sobre todo a desapegarme ante la felicidad y la afliccion, no es facil, sigo en El proceso, este año quiero hacer otras cosas en conciencia de krishna, hacer negocios, estudiar ingles, aprender a comer saludable y organico, y escoger mejor mis amistades, y mejorar mi canto de yapa.

Muchas gracias por permitirme seguir a su lado, todos Los dias frente a su foto de Usted, le oro que jamas me aleje de sus pies y me aferre mas a sus pies.

Gracias por protegerme en todo momento, siempre siento que ud. Esta conmigo, es solo por usted que mi fe y confianza

en iskcon y srila prabhupada se solidifica mas.

Gracias por estos 14 años a su lado.

*Ofrenda de Vyasapuya*

Querido Guru Maharaj cuando lo conocí, lo primero que sentí fué la humildad que ud reflejaba, recuerdo que ud. Me habló muy amigablemente, yo tenia 22 años. Siempre recuerdo; sus palabras, su cariño y afecto de padre, su protección, su inteligencia, su sencillez, su buen humor, su fé inquebrantable hacia Srila Prabhupada, su personalidad magnética que me atrajo para refugiarme en Ud.

El Guru siempre nos protege, de todos Los peligros eminentes, ud. Es un legado que Prabhupada nos dejó para poder inspirarnos y seguir confiando en este proceso de conciencia de Krsna, es muy dificil para mi ser un devoto, pero solo por su asociación y su misericordia puedo seguir intentando ser su discipula, querido guru Maharaj, estoy inmensamente agradecida con Ud, en estos ultimos meses he sentido su protección y cariño en su Maximo esplendor, cada servicio realizado en bhakti yoga veo su rostro y sus bendiciones, cada lugar sagrado y templo que puedo ver y sentir la felicidad verdadera no es otra cosa que su misericordia, ud. Me mostró el verdadero Camino de la felicidad, y sigo trabajando dia a dia para poder sentir ese nectar supremo que Srila prabhupada nos dejó, porfavor permitame postrarme a sus pies de loto una y otra vez ...

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi.


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All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva, accept my obeisances.


Here Nadiya, reporting, chanting 16 rounds and 4 principles, gayatris and good fasts, having been in vrndavana and mayapur was a very beautiful and very purifying experience in my life.


HpS/ASA - You only go there by the mercy of Guru and Krsna!! AgtSP!!


Having done the vraja mandala parikrama for 20 days, visiting temples, sacred places, listening to pastimes, filled me with true happiness, with a lot of analysis and introspection in my spiritual and material life, I was living almost more than a year in the temples,


the Temple life taught me a lot to understand how to live with the devotees, to be understanding, to tolerate, to forgive, and above all to detach myself from happiness and affliction,


it is not easy, I am still in the process,


this year I want to do others things in Krishna consciousness, doing business, studying English, learning to eat healthy and organic, and choosing my friends better, and improving my japa chanting.


HpS - "choosing my friends better" is 97.777% of the whole process, no? Have you chosen Srila Prabhupada as your friend? I remember that I got the KRSNA book. Read it for one year, visited the Temple in San Francisco for one year, then moved in. After about 2-months of living in the Temple with the social conflicts etc. I specifically remember the location, activities, when I decided in my mind that even if all of ISKCON went to hell, I would still stay in ISKCON and serve Srila Prabhupada, the Founder and Acharya.

Has that happened to you?

Have you got a personal experience of Srila Prabhupada through transparent via-media? His books, disciples whom you know well enough and are pure enough so that you can adjust properly to get an accurate telephone connection to Srila Prabhupada?



Thank you very much for allowing me to continue by your side, every day in front of your photo of you, I pray that I will never walk away from your feet and cling more to your feet.


Thank you for protecting me at all times, I always feel that you. Be with me, it is only because of you that my faith and trust


in iskcon and srila prabhupada it solidifies more.


Thank you for these 14 years at your side.


*Vyasapuya offering*


Dear Guru Maharaj, when I met you, the first thing I felt was the humility that you reflected, I remember that you. He spoke to me very friendly, I was 22 years old. I always remember; his words, his fatherly love and affection, his protection, his intelligence, his simplicity, his good humor, his unwavering faith towards Srila Prabhupada, his magnetic personality that attracted me to take refuge in you.


The Guru always protects us from all eminent dangers, you. It is a legacy that Prabhupada left us to be able to inspire us and continue trusting in this process of Krsna consciousness, it is very difficult for me to be a devotee, but only because of your association and your mercy can I continue trying to be your disciple, dear guru Maharaj, I am Immensely grateful to you, in these last months I have felt your protection and affection in its maximum splendor, every service performed in bhakti yoga I see your face and your blessings, every sacred place and temple that I can see and feel true happiness is nothing else. that your mercy, you. He showed me the true Path of happiness, and I continue working day by day to be able to feel that supreme nectar that Srila Prabhupada left us, please allow me to prostrate myself at his lotus feet again and again...


HpS - We eat too many potatoes late at night! We are burdening Guru and Krsna to keep our service as Siksa and Diksa guru pure. Please see that they make us correct. We cannot do it by ourselves.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Wars are not won by good looking soldiers who never get wounded.

Wars are won by soldiers who get wounded by the enemy, but get back up and keep fighting.

Thank you.

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi.

AI and Lies

10 months, 1 week ago by srinivasacarya in Special Category B, Hot Topics

asa[e].. ug.. ai



Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja,

PAMHO, AGTSP.

Just wanted to share below insights of experts into the future world of Artificial Intelligence.


From a Linkedin Post:

Adolph Hitlers propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels purportedly said: “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” Gary Smith finds that “[large language models] can generate falsehoods faster than humans can correct them.”


Gary has been reporting on his humorous exchanges with ChatGPT for more than a year, sometimes asking the same questions to see if ChatGPT’s answers get better; they don’t. One of those questions involves how many bears the Russians have sent into space (correct answer is none) in which he shows that the answers are not getting logically better, but funnier.


Main article: https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/internet-pollution-if-you-tell-a-lie-long-enough/?


Your servant

Srinivasacarya Dasa


HpS/ASA[UG] - Thank you!!! 🐻 We have learned how to do keystrokes to get the Emojis into the page. You know? .... you type ":" and then put the proper keyword afterwards eg ":bear" and you get the bear emoji.


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We remember how Srila Prabhupada was saying that all these televisions were not useful. (We understand that traveling Puppet shows and local Puppet shows are better).

He said that in the whole world maybe two, three dozen televisions were needed.

One in Moscow. One in Beijing. One in the Vatican. One in...

... people develop memories! People talk with their neighbors. Brahmanas like Vyasa deva can give people like Sanjaya TV in their hearts.

WHTSTSPS (we heard they say that srila prabhupada said) that if you follow strictly and your children follow strictly then your grandchildren will be traveling on flying carpets.



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