DTC 10(Su)

6 years, 3 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna.

Starting to get hot in India. Still not too many mosquitos. Temple is CROWDED on Sunday. Nava-yogendra Swami was supposed to give SB class today but he was sick so we were enlisted. Then we had to step into the car from the Vyasa-asana into the car, Kolkata traffic, and after dogging two pigs running we climbed six flights of stairs in the dark and came out on the roof where all the Book Distributors from all the Bhakta-vrksa Programs were assembled with a roaring Kirtan to get ENLIVENING INSTRUCTIONS from HpSwami about the Marathon.

He was terrified but Krsna gave a good class.

More fruit. Back in the Car. Back to the Temple. Bath, Gayatri, Lunch (Saved from Breakfast). World Classical Literature. Nap.

Worrying. Why is Prof. Samaresh not calling?!! We were supposed to see Sanjaya (the type-setter) today. No call. No call. Do mail. Listen to chaos of five Sunday Feast programs below.

Rtu-raja K Das cousin called. We gave his number..

Srinivasa Das called by accident. We were happy by accident. We talked for 30-minutes.

We ansered letters.

Prof. Called. Printer whome we met last night NEVER SENT THE QUOTE for printing Siksa Drsa tha he promised last night! No reason to travel today to see Sanjaya. Seems good. Too much.

Tomorrow the Gaudiya matha wants us for lunch, meet other printer, record interview with Professor, get signed contract with printer, go to paper supplier, go to see Sanjaya, ask PKD to check in for us and pay Rupees 200 for seat in rows 11-20. They board first.

Then return to Temple.

Ha! Ha! Three more years and we can retire in Radha-kunda?

Join us.

Now we go down for Arati.

Proxima visita a España

6 years, 3 months ago by jayanta in Calendar Development

Hare Krisna Gurudev: Pamho. Gloria a Prabhupada y sus seguidores fieles.

Sí, me parece bien que pueda venir despues de Abril. Si cuando viene aún está la Universidad activa hablaré con Mónica para ver si podemos ir a su clase (Antropología). Si viene mas tarde estudiaremos que se puede hacer.

Un saludo

Su sirviente

Jayanta das

HpS - Gracias Senyor! TlgSP! Pranrh. Aqui en India pasando mucho como esperado. Ya idea es ir a Espanya en Septiembre. Entonces va con Yadun. Swami a India para renuion de trabajo con Board Of Examiners (BOEX) de Ministry of Education, y entonces regresa a Espanya. Entonces podemos pasar tiempo, eventos, ir y volver. No es el mejor para los universidades en ir, pero en volver puede ser bueno? Nos gusta hablar mas con los profesores que los alumnos, aun ambos son super.

Como esta Vd.?

Hare Krsna - Callao

6 years, 3 months ago by Palika Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna querido Gurumaharaja!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept our humble and respect obeinsances at your lottus feet and hoping everything is ok with you in Mayapur.

HpS - Now we are back in ISKCON Kolkata. I think our life is just like yours, intense pressure but good results. AGTSP.

Here we are making some changes in our material occupations in order to be less stress and improve our spiritual ones. Two weeks ago i received a call from another company with a good proposal to work the technical area for a Swiss company in Perú so this new job is not for the commercial area and this sounds good for me. I passed all interviews and test and I will be beggining on 18th march. By the other side, Parvati si going to attend to MMUN Conference (Montessori Model United Nations) with a delegation from Montessori School of Peru. The Conference will be in Chicago from 1st to 4th of May and Arcita prabhu gently help us to contact Chicago Temple for prasadam delivery, really Prabhupada’s mercy.

HpS - Two very interesting things. Hope devotees in Chicago can also help her get good rounds done etc. We will be back in the USA by then and can talk on the telephone at least. She is a young lady now.

We continue with our Bhakti Vriksa group Nimay Nitay and began a whatsapp group to continue the study of SB from monday to saturday with monthly meetings to discuss and have a review. At this moment we are serving our home Goura nitay deities and going to Chosica.

HpS - ASA -- What part of SB are you studying?

Parvati is chanting 2 rounds daily and She told me that she likes devotees asociation even though nobody in the group is of her age.

This a short report about us and missing your association in Iskcon Callao. Please forgieve our faults and errors, sometimes we do ñor recognize we are crazy.

Thank you very much Gurumaharaja!

your foolish servant,

Palika devi dasi

HpS - Thank you for the news! When we were there we sat with Abhirama Das as produced a "Chart of Accounts" for NIOS. Do you have that? Eg. 100 for Assets, 200 for Liabilities, 300 for Income, 400-900 for Expenses. This news from Callao is so, so enlivening for us. Thank you.

URGENTE "GOVARDHANA SILA"

6 years, 3 months ago by Nadiya Nivasi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Todas las Glorias a sus señorías Sri Sri Gaura Nitay!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a su sankirtana eterno!!!

Hare Krsna querido y recordado Gurudev, por favor reciba nuestras respetuosas reverencias, recibí su respuesta el día de hoy y lo vimos con mi esposo Gadai Gauranga, usted me hizo la siguiente pregunta sobre la Govardhana Sila:

ASA - Aaaawk! TlgaSP Pfanrh... Govardhana Sila!!! Es super peligroso adorar si no esta fijado en bondad. Esta fijado en bondad???

Bueno mi esposo yo seguimos el sadhana que estableció Srila Prabhupada (Mangal Artik, 16 rondas de Yapa, 4 principios) también la lectura de los libros, cantar los Gayatris a la hora indicada.

Bueno también vivimos en el campo donde hay muchos animalitos alrededor como vacas, ovejas, burritos, pajaritos, etc. Se podría decir que el lugar donde vivimos esta en una bondad material.

Prabhu Puspa Gopal nos regalo la Govardhana Sila hace dos semanas, la estamos adorando junto con las demás Salagrama Silas.

Mi esposo y yo tenemos carácter fuerte y no creo que eso sea estar en bondad o si???

¿En este caso queremos saber que hacemos?

¿devolvemos la Govardhana Sila a Prabhu Puspa Gopal?

¿Que nos sugiere usted o que instrucción nos da?

Bueno Guru Maharaja nos despedimos, esperando su respuesta, recomendaciones e instrucciones.

Hare Krsna!!

Gadai Gauranga Dasa.

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi.

HpS - TLGASP! Pfanrh. Muy bien. . . . Por nuestra comprehension la adoracion de Govardhana o Saligrama Sila es algo muy fuerte. Gran oportunidad y gran peligro. Es importante preguntar de su maestro espiritual antes de comenzar. O.K.? Yo pienso es bueno para Vds, pero tiene que entender, eso es su bebe. No puede dejar cuando no le gusta, o cuando hay otros actividades. adoracion puede ser muy simple: Poco agua de ganges, pasta de sandalo, un guirnalda simple y un dulce bueno, pero es un ninyo. es capricioso, muy (?) jugaton (playful). El va a ir in sankirtan con vds. espera un gran cambio en su vida!

Happy Vyasa Puja

6 years, 3 months ago by Sarada Gaurangi Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj Hanumat Presaka Swami! Please accept our humble obeisances at Your lotus feet.

HpS - Lettuce feet. AGTSP. Paoho.

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaj,

We celebrated Guru Maharaj's Vyas puja at RadhaDamodara Mandir at Toubul. We felt Your presence all through the celebrations. This was the same place Guru Maharaj gave initiation in 2017. Please forgive me Guru Maharaj for my humble offering.

We requested HG Devarshi Das Prabhuji to give a class on Guru Tattva...though not qualified we had to assist Prabhu in the translation. Prabhu gave such a nice class enlightening us about the importance of the spiritiual master in helping us cross the miseries of material life, the coverings of attachment forbidding us to go back to the spiritual world.

Our President HG Radhacharan Das Prabhuji and our godbrother HG Ishana Prabhuji glorified our Guru Maharaj from the core of their hearts. We had kirtan by little kids and after Puspanjali we had prasadam ( Manipuri prasadam with a cake prepared by HG Sachisuta Prabhu).

We wish you the best Shree RadhaDamodara can offer...We do not have the right words to thank You dear Guru Maharaj.

Your ignorant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Thank you. We only hope on "our guru puja" that all the "gurus" in our ISKCON parampara are glorified, illuminated. In our case, we hope to see our good qualities and bad qualities illuminated so that we can advance in the service of Srila Prabhupada and all the previous Acharyas.

See you in few days!

We would like to do the Bhakti Sastri NOI seminar while we are there. Is O. K.? The Manual is at http://www.jayarama.us/archives/tpp-noi.docx

Can we work on translating it?? It is late, so don't panic. Could even divide the work. Even hire some people.

News from Radhakunda

6 years, 3 months ago by radhakundamataji in Special Category A

Radhe! Radhe!

ASA - In one lecture in London on Radhastami, Srila Prabhupada commented, "Radhe", "Hare", no difference!

Hare! Hare!

Maybe Srila Prabhupada's habit of chanting "Hare Krsna" was to instruct us that we Western folk must be careful to keep Radharani with Sri Krsna, no?

Panto (ASA - Panto? Please accept nine times obeisances? Please accept ours many more!!)

Agtsp

My dear guru Maharaja, first of all I want to thank you for giving me darshan during your Indian tour, pls accept my humble obeisances.

HpS - We felt the same. Also for your family!!

Following your instructions I want to share some pictures and stories of the holy places and festivals in Radhakund.

Today is Siva ratri, the great night of Siva, the story says that Parvati was meditating in her husband and did penances and austerities whole night to protect him, since then this night all women go to ask Lord Siva to protect their husbands and sons.

It is supposed that we do not have to worship demigod, ONLY to ask them to help us to advance towards Krsna.

Here in Vraja when we start a parikrama we should ask Mahadev, Lord Siva, to allow us to do it since he is the gatekeeper of the dhama.

But why or how he got the post of gatekeeper? Here is the story

In the Garga Samhita it is mentioned that when Lord Siva knew about the rasa dance, he wanted to be there to see him dancing with the gopis, so Parvati and him came but only mother Parvati could come in.

Lord Siva was very sad because of this but he was told to go to Vrndadevi to help him, she told him to go to Mansarovar to meditate in order to get a gopi's body, which he did and once he had a female body he went in to the rasa lila.

There he danced with krsna as a gopi but suddenly krsna said "I cannot relish this dance, it is as if some man be here, so he asked Lalita Saki to go and see if there was a man inside.

She came back and told him "No, there is no men inside but there is a gopi with three eyes". Krsna said "go and bring her"

When this gopi came Krsna who knows everything told her "Siva you have relished the rasa dance, now you have to go out, but I have a job for you, from now on you will be the gatekeeper and you are not going to allow any man to come in".

Since that day Lord Siva is in charge of the gate in the holy dhama and that is why we have to ask him for permission to come in.

I an sending two photos in the first is Mahadev in his altar in the entrance of Radhakunda.

The second photo is a deity In Nitai dhama temple where Kunja Bihari is dressed like Mahadev.

Om namo sivaya. Mahadev ki jaya.

Next time we are going to start our parikrama of Radhakunda.

Only one question guru Maharaja, do you want me to write this report in English or Spanish or both.

HpS - If you can do both it would be wonderful.

Thank you once more for your causeless mercy.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

Radhakunda, Syamakunda, Giri Govardhan ki haya

HpS - In CC Adi Seven, near the end, I think where it is described how Lord was visiting Kasi visvanatha Temple, in the purport Srila Prabhupada gives the Brahma samhita mantras as authorized for worshipping Lord Siva, Ganesa et al. Also Lord Siva instructs the Pracetas in Canto Four, no?!

Thank you!!