muy urgente - ofrenda de VP

6 years, 5 months ago by YugalaKD in Special Category A

Domador de Titanes

Es hora de cosechar,

Siembra las semillas,

los frutos fueron escogidos,

maduros, fuertes y sobresalientes.

Otros Gurus tienen miles de seguidores,

Hanumatpresaka Swami

prédica a los líderes.

En una oportunidad un crítico de cine

cuestionaba una película que presentaron

en la conferencia de Su Santidad,

cuando Hanumatpresaka Swami

profirió palabras, el insensato, trato de disculparse

valorando el mensaje trascendental de esa película,

que superaba a cualquier otra gandora de “Óscar.

Así es Gurudeva, un ladrón de corazones,

Nadie se resiste a la pureza del devoto puro.

Todas estas personas exitosas desean su asociación,

El hace sankirtan a lo grande, en grandes conferencias,

Pese a todo ello, siempre es sencillo y amable con todos.

Siempre determinado en su sadhana,

cantando al Señor Nrsimha, tocando la flauta,

el raga matutino a la hora del Gayatri.

Este año, después de una tormenta, me vino la calma,

y me dio a Hanuman, a quien se me instruyo adorar,

Krsna habla en el corazón del Guru.

Cual cartas liberadoras de locura de mente

Corrí tras su sombra, siempre oyendo,

nos sentimos dichosos.

El primer puesto de la maratón es para HpS,

sin su misericordia no podría ir a India.

Sin sus bendiciones no podemos lograr nada,

El nos motiva a seguir nuestros sueños.

El siempre instruye con su buen ejemplo.

Un mono decía: “yo siento que debo ayudarlo”

Yo siento que no podemos pagárselo.

A Nuestro Salvador, Nuestro Instructor,

Nuestro padre, Dueño, Maestro Bienqueriente,

Sirviente de la Gran familia de Prabhupada.

Infinitas dandavas, mil súplicas por cualquier ofensa,

Mi único pedido es más entendimiento,

para poder servirlo, para poder complacerlo,

que sería de la educación en ISKCON,

sin la contribución de Hanumatpresaka Swami,

un lumbreras, un pionero en estudios sastras,

el gran cosechador, muy Encandor,

el Domador de titanes

emponderado por Krsna.

Jay Srila Prabhupada!

Jay Gurudeva!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Su hija que lo adora:

 Yugala Kishora Dasi

HpS - ASA -- Jaya! Podemos entender 11% pero aparece una poema muy hermosa!!! Espero hay alguien con abilidad como Miguel Cervantes quie puede traducir. Gracias. Yugala kishora Dasi. Tu eres una ganadora, sin duda, joya de corona de sus familia.

Urgent for Gurudev

6 years, 5 months ago by Kamagayatri in Special Category A

Hare Krsna to our dear Gurudev on the auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja!

Please accept our most humble obeisances! All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.

Gurudev, we are very happy to report to you as a family our gratitude for the shelter of your association and guidance in this material world. Otherwise, we are reminded of what it would be like to be reminiscent of an 18 month old baby we once saw in the rubble of an abandoned building near Vrindavan’s Sandipani Muni school, alone with no parent or adult in sight. Of course, she is in Vrindavan so Krsna will take special care of her but the image Is a reflection of our state without the chance mercy of your association in this material world. In a conversation with the Irish poet Desmond O’Grady, Prabhupada states we need sincerity to get the opportunity of protection. “Therefore God is called caittya-guru, the spiritual masterwithin the heart. And the physical spiritual master is God's mercy. If God sees that you are sincere, He will give you a spiritual master who can give you protection. He will help you from within and without---without in the physical form of spiritual master, and within as the spiritual master within the heart. īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ

hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati

bhrāmāyān sarva-bhūtāni

yantrārūḍhāni māyayā

[Bg. 18.61]

"The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine made of the material energy."

We pray to have the qualities that will help us be disciples that are not a burden and not take advantage of this rare opportunity to be a foolish follower of your and Srila Prabhupada’s divine example. 

Gurudev, we wanted to share with you that the newest member of our family is still unborn and 10 days past her 40 week due date. We pray that everything will be ok as we are scheduled to be induced tomorrow. We want to name her Sita and were hoping that you would bless her with a gift of her middle name.

HpS - ASA - She arrived O.K., no?? Sita Sundari??


We hope you have a wonderful Vyasa Puja. We hope to still follow your instruction of writing poems inspired by the SB and will share one soon!

HpS - Jaya! Kamagayatri and Murari write poems, and now they are read in all the homes. They tell of a pig who went to heaven, but had to return to punch down the bread he had leavened.

Aja wrote and drew a picture for his offering. It says: Thankyou for helping my family and doing everything you do. Hare Krsna.


Your servants,

Kamagayatri, Murari, Aja and Jahnavi

HpS - ASA - Jaya!!!! See you soon. Your success is guaranteed. Japa. Japa. Japa. For 16-rounds let let Radha be the Mommy.

Urgente Gurudeva please

6 years, 5 months ago by Sita Devi Dasi in Other

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,

All the glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!,

Please accept my respectful obeisances and forgive my ofenses please.

Gurudeva here we (Sergio and I) want to write a very special letter, when we talked with You in Arequipa we told You we were living in Cusco, after some days I moved from Divya s mataji s house to the same building Sergio was living, everything was more practical because of the business we have, etc. In that time we talked about the possibilities to get married and why, we read a very nice book that a mataji lent us, it was about marriege with a religous perspective, the questions we have to make to eachother, when and so on. Trying to forget for a while about duty and practical things we wondered what could change in our compromise and although we have to improve, we have the same goals, dificult but posible.

Gurudeva, aquí (Sergio y yo) queremos escribir una carta muy especial. Cuando hablamos con Usted en Arequipa, le contamos que vivíamos en Cusco. Después de algunos días me mudé de la casa de Divya mataji al mismo edificio que estaba viviendo Sergio, todo era más práctico debido al negocio que tenemos, etc. En ese momento hablamos sobre las posibilidades de casarnos y el porqué, leímos un libro muy bonito que nos prestó una madre, se trataba del matrimonio desde una perspectiva religiosa, también las preguntas que debemos hacernos el uno al otro, cuándo y así sucesivamente. Tratando de olvidar por un momento sobre el deber y las cosas prácticas, nos preguntamos “qué podría cambiar en nuestro compromiso” y aunque tenemos que mejorar, tenemos los mismos objetivos, es difícil pero posible.

Then, I finished my classes in the unversity with good grades, however I neglected my rounds in that time. Now I want to complete them all, I am so sorry Gurudeva for that. About our principles, with effort, goals in mind, advice and good association.. we accomplished well. 

 Luego, terminé mis clases en la universidad con buenas calificaciones, sin embargo descuidé mis rondas en ese tiempo. Ahora quiero completarlos todos, lo siento mucho Gurudeva por eso. . Sobre nuestros principios, con esfuerzo, objetivos en mente, consejos y buena asociación, lo logramos bien. 

Then we traveled to Lima and we had some meetings with my family and Sergio, very nice moments, it was a matter of time, mistakes we could avoid, etc. We spent December 31st in the house of some devotees and then, on January first Sergio surprised us with a proposal in front of my family and.. I said yes!. Before any arrangment we want to ask You Gurudeva. Now this is probably urgent for us, we would like to formalize our relation ship soon, we will come back to Cusco in Febrerary and we have some ideas about what we can do, with some help of our relatives. We are not thinking now about fire ceremony, maybe next year, civil marriege now with garlands with very close relatives.. they are ideas and desires in our minds and hearts. We would like to know what You think about this.. we will waiting for your reply Gurudeva, please forgive our offenses, May Lord Nrsimha protects You always. Sita Lalita dd.


Luego viajamos a Lima y tuvimos algunas reuniones con mi familia y Sergio, muy buenos momentos, era cuestión de tiempo, errores que pudimos haber evitado, etc. Pasamos el 31 de Diciembre en casa de algunos devotos y luego, el primero de Enero Sergio nos sorprendió con una propuesta frente a mi familia y ... ¡Dije que sí !. Antes de cualquier arreglo queremos preguntarle a Gurudeva, ahora, probablemente sea urgente para nosotros, nos gustaría formalizar nuestra relación pronto, regresaremos a Cusco en Febrero y tenemos algunas ideas sobre lo que podemos hacer, con la ayuda de nuestros familiares. No estamos pensando ahora en la ceremonia del fuego, quizás el próximo año, podría ser matrimonio civil ahora con guirnaldas y con parientes muy cercanos... son ideas y deseos en nuestras mentes y corazones. Nos gustaría saber qué piensa acerca de esto... esperaremos su respuesta Gurudeva, perdone nuestras ofensas, Que el Señor Nrsimha Deva lo proteja siempre. Sita.

I wrote You Maharaja before going to Cusco with Sita, telling You about our relation ship.. and I had no answer in that moment. Now I write You again with humillity, for something more important. On January first I made a decition to propose marriege to Sita in front of their parents, brother and girlfriend and Sita said yes. I would like to know If You agree, it would give me a lot of tranquility to know what You think. Thank You very much in advance for Your time and please forgive any offense commited, Hare Krsna..Sergio.

Maharaja, yo le escribí antes de ir a Cusco con Sita, contándote sobre nuestra relación .. y no tuve respuesta en ese momento. Ahora Le escribo de nuevo con humildad, para algo más importante. El primero de Enero tomé la decisión de proponerle matrimonio a Sita frente a sus padres, hermano y asociada, y Sita dijo que sí. Me gustaría saber si está de acuerdo, me daría mucha tranquilidad saber lo que piensa. Muchas gracias de antemano por su tiempo y, por favor, perdone cualquier ofensa cometida, Hare Krsna ... Sergio

Well tomorrow is a veeery special day! Specially for us and for all of our god brothers and sisters, we are so thankful and ashamed at the same time, by hearing your pastimes we cant avoid an smile! or stop our tears. Just by remembering Your words we feel happy, with hope in our heart and eager to chant, the Holy names of Sri Ram!. We are so thankful, we have to do a lot, we are in debt.. so we wont stop singing and dancing, just because we know that our well situated Gurudeva can take us there, wherever He wants to take us.. there.. chanting the glories of the Holy Name. Happy Vyasa puja Gurudeva! Then we have another special day this Saturday 12. Hare Krsna.

Bueno mañana es un día muy especial! Especialmente para nosotros y para todos nuestros hermanos y hermanas espirituales, estamos muy agradecidos y avergonzados al mismo tiempo. Al escuchar sus pasatiempos, no podemos evitar una sonrisa! O detener nuestras lágrimas. Con solo recordar Sus palabras, nos sentimos felices, con esperanza en nuestro corazón y ansiosos por cantar, los Santos Nombres de Sri Ram!. Estamos muy agradecidos, tenemos que hacer mucho, estamos endeudados ... así que no pararemos de cantar y bailar, porque sabemos que nuestro bien situado Gurudeva puede llevarnos allí, a donde Él quiera llevarnos ... allí ..Cantando Las glorias del Santo Nombre de Sri Hari. Feliz Vyasa puja Gurudeva! Luego tenemos otro día especial este sábado 12! Hare Krsna.

Sita Lalita dd and Sergio.

HpS - Thank you. AGTSP. Paoho. Your history and plans seem nice. Only thing is letting your rounds slide. I have to figh this also! If you are so busy in service that you have not got time to eat and sleep then there is excuse to back up your rounds. Krsna will never punish us for chanting 16-good rounds. Whatever you did during your Japa time would have been done better if you had spent the time with 16-good rounds. The Witch tricked you.

Witch 5 - Sita 25

Next inning!

Make them up, no? Gradually! Then when you die your grand children will say, "Our Grandma and Grandpa we very upright lady and gentleman! We follow them!"

Send us pictures of the Wedding. I bet your Poppa will cry a little even though he is very tough.

urgent cal development

6 years, 5 months ago by harsh_horse in Calendar Development

Hare Krsna Maharaj,PAMHO, AGTSP

we will try to come to kolkata between 18-23 , feb.

HpS - SUper! Let us talk as soon as we get to India!

You can please try to invite Mahatama Das of education meeting in USA.

please have look at http://mahatmadas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/108-Management-Mistakes.pdf

this combines wonderful experience.

all articles by him can be found at http://mahatmadas.com/articles/


regards,

kneeling horse

HpS - We had like one hour discussion with him and Janmastami Das about three weeks ago. Tapan misra Das from MOE is also working with them. You have to get a grant to travel and do research on education in USA!

Sastic Diploma Evaluation

6 years, 5 months ago by hps in Special Category B

EVALUATION OF ISKCON SASTRIC STUDIES

(rev. 2019 January 13)

With years of dialog and practical experience, among many members of ISKCON in various positions, we are making the following suggestions for standards and techniques of evaluation of candidates for the Bhakti-vaibhava and other ISKCON diplomas. We feel that this may be a step in the right direction but it is a continuous program of adjustment and improvement.

1.    Our eternal relationship with God can be revived in the human form of life, and that should be the goal of education. Indeed, that is the perfection of life and the perfection of education. https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/7/6/2

2.    The BOEX, Ministry of Education, should be able to certify the character development by at least 20% and maybe 100% if its members have the chance to associate deeply with the candidates. Otherwise the Board will have to develop practical techniques for acquiring information from others such as Temple Presidents and senior devotees.

To this end we should obtain the standards and techniques used by the Ministry of Sannyasa Services in evaluating candidates since Srila Prabhupada indicated the Bhakti-vaibhava (BhV) diploma as being for Sannyasis.

3.    Students might graduate Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude or Magnum Cum Laude, and optional lines should be developed by Varna Ashrama situation eg. Ladies, Gents, Brahmanas, Ksatriyas. Some may be good at Slokas others at essays and others at songs.

4.    In the matter of direct Sastric knowledge we would suggest that:

a.    Evaluation should be done by globally standard semester divisions eg. BhV might be grouped into four years or eight semesters. The students would have to be registered with the BOEX at the start of each Semester with their name, e-mail contact, and local contact person. Passing the Semester evaluation would then be centrally recorded and if they complete all eight Semesters within (?) 8-years then they receive the glorious diploma!!

b.    All related ISKCON BhV centers et al should develop and continually improve a common Question Bank of several hundred good, interesting, short-answer, questions on Cantos One – Six. Of course, these would be grouped by Semester and could be weighted from 1-5 points in terms of their importance. Semester tests could be selected from this Bank and anyone who can answer the questions without taking a BhV registered course would be quite a Venerable Dude.

c.    Three Open Book Short Essay Questions from maybe seven alternatives could be presented and the candidate could use all personal notes, indices etc. with full access to all of Srila Prabhupada’s literature. Of course this would be a timed evaluation of maybe 30-minute.

d.    Essays written at the candidates leisure but then presented in a discussion forum where they would have to defend or enhance their presentation.

e.    Sloka Memorization should include texts used by the Acharyas from the first six cantos of the Bhagavatam, but should also include relevant texts cited in the purports even if not in the text of the Bhagavatam itself eg. Candidates for Bhakti-sastri should know nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām even though it is not mentioned in the texts of the BhS syllabus.

The total number of Slokas may not be so high.

The candidates for BhV should be re-evaluated on verses from the BhSastri syllabus. This of course would be related to training the students how to develop techniques to refresh and deepen their memorization of relevant texts.

Daily and Annual songs and prayers can be included in the evaluation eg. For first initiation one should be able to follow the full morning program. For second initiation and BhS one should be able to lead it from memory and for BhVai one should know the word for word meanings to good extent. Testing could be offered for festival material such as Dasa-avatara-stotra, Radha-stava and Mangala-arcana.

Candidates should select some texts for their own memorization and then be tested eg. One may like to memorize the prayers by Queen Kunti in Canto One and another by Hanuman in the Fifth Canto.

f.     Relevant texts can be included eg. Nectar of Devotion Southern Division, Waves of Devotion, Surrender Unto Me.

Thank you for your attention and consideration and please contact us with comments, complaints, questions and donations.

Hanumatpresaka Swami

Anjana Suta Academy

 Www.JayaRama.Us

Brother Asses Sister

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

On ‎Saturday‎, ‎January‎ ‎12‎, ‎2019‎ ‎11‎:‎10‎:‎50‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CST, Huber Robinson's Sister, Brenda Robinson, wrote:

Hi Hube, its been a while since we heard from you. How are you doing and where are you now? In the states or around the world?

 

😊HAPPY BIRTHDAY😊

 

Hope you had a good day and when you have a chance bring us up to date on your travels, teachings, etc.

 

Love, sis


HpS (HHR) - Thank you for your letter. We try to send news but I guess some of it gets lost?! Please send our regards to Ernest Larry Robinson et al. Did he ever find out what our Austrian family name was?

We always post our news each two weeks at our web page: http://www.jayarama.us

Basically we are still based in Nashville but travel through South America twice a year and India Spain once a year.

We had an incredible symposium on Art and the Sacred with the National Library of Peru in November with artists and scholars from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Australia etc. This is our third year with them and next year we will be going to Education and the Sacred.

Our body, burro, is great for 71 years old. Our eyes, ears, teeth, memory, right knee joint are all headed out. We expect to go to our reward about October 2024.

How are you all???