URGENTE - Cuzco Assault

7 years, 5 months ago by Gadai in Hot Topics

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj, por favor reciba nuestras respetuosas reverencias, seguimos en sankirtana aquí en la ciudad de Huancayo. El día martes estoy viajando a la ciudad de Huancavelica por 5 dias, para hacer sankirtana con Prabhu Adveita Takur, de ahí volvemos a Huancayo.

Por otro lado estamos muy tristes por lo que paso con madre Amparo Hernandez, seguimos muy de serca lo que paso con la madre, por telefono mi esposa le ayudo emocionalmente y moralmente, nos encargamos de comunicar a la Junta Nacional, a lo cual contamos con la ayuda de Prabhu Caturatma.

Prabhu Rupa Gosai viajo desde la ciudad de Arequipa para ver y ayudar a la madre y a su pequeño hijo.

Nos sentimos muy indignados con los devotos de ISKCON - CUSCO y sus respectivas autoridades, pues en ningún momento le ayudaron a la madre, ni siquiera fueron a verla al hospital. Cuando nos comunicamos con algunos devotos de Cusco y pedimos ayuda para la madre, lo único que se recibió fue la indiferencia en todo sentido. Ellos dicen que la madre Amparo y el devoto Amala Karuna siempre tenían problemas y que intentaron ayudarles. En un momento dijeron que la madre no tenia cáncer, que mentía, pero hay evidencias con documentos del Hospital de que la madre si tenia cáncer y de que nunca mintió.

Prabhu Raguvaran siendo su padre nunca se manifestó.

Todo esto es muy indignante e inhumano, pues hasta donde se sabe la madre Amparo quiere participar y ser parte de ISKCON,  ser iniciada por usted, también participo del curso de discípulos con Prabhu Laksmana Agraha.

No sabemos si es Karma. No sabemos por que pasan estas cosas, lo único que sabemos es que hay mucha insensibilidad e indiferencia en ISKCON – PERÚ.

Prabhu Laksmana (discípulo de Prahladananda Swami) se comunico con la ministra de la protección a la mujer en ISKCON y la ministra le dará la ayuda necesaria a la madre.

Por estas cosas que pasan a veces quisiéramos dejar ISKCON, pero por Srila Prabhupada, sus Gurus, y algunos muy buenos devotos no lo hacemos.

Esperamos que esto mejore por el bien del Sankirtana. Que Nrisimha lo proteja Guru Maharaj. Hare Krsna.

Gadai Gauranga Das

Nadiya Nivasi Dasi.

HpS - Jaya! TlgaSP. Pfanrh. Claro, soy de aqui, 3,000 miles distancia de Cuzco. Pero estamos esforzando vizitar aun que es fuerte presion en nuestra cuerpo: frio, altura, viaje...   pero eso es nuestra deber. Como un ano pasado introduzcan estas sanciones contra Amparo y Amara. Yo estaba preguntado de como tres devotos mayores de la historia, y despues cartas de Amparo contra Amala, y Amala contra Amparo. Ser Presidente de un templo de ISKCON es muchas veces mucho critica y no mucho felizidad. Yo lo hizo. Por ejemplo, Vd. y Gadai quedando en Cuzco y tomando responsibilidad para ISKCON Cuzco. El Presidente actual no tiene mas abilidad, recursos de Vds, pero es tomando esta responsibilidad.

Pegando mujers nunca es acceptable.

Ella es SUPER estable, cada dia en Mangala arati, clase, Japa,  "on-line" con nosotros. Estamos esforzando con Mathuresa Das como ella puede entrar en la comunidad otra vez, pero eso es nuestra perspectivo de 3,000 miles.

Muchas gracias hablar con ella.

Si puede ser assesor para ella it would be good, sera bueno tambien.

DTC Sa(9)

7 years, 5 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP  ... Paoho..... Brown here!

We died and have gone to heaven, or somewhere like it. We answered all the mail up to three days old and only have like two letters left from our travels to India.


Our stupid car still has the same problem with the security system (won't unlock to start the engine very well) after getting it towed 35-miles to Franklin and paying $232 for a new battery. They said that was the only problem, but as soon as we go it here. The same problem.   Oooo!

But we will go ahead with whatever we have. If we have to abandon it as a $3000 mistake, O.K. We can see that now. Sometimes Krsna sends us lots of money and we have to make decision about it. Lao Tzu said that the emperor should conduct the affairs of state the same way that one should fry a small fish. We can fry small almonds. Don't waste money. Worry about making good decisions, but realize that every endeavor is covered with fault.
I know one big devotee. Big in his professional situation also. You know him too most likely. He disagreed with some of the ways his Temple President was running things, but he said that inspite of all of that he made decisions about big money matters and took responsibility. That takes guts, he said.

It is like that. So cold outside that we can't even really go into the other parts of the mobile home except for service, but warm in or little 15x15 foot cave.

We get lonely, bored, but we are also thankful for the chance to be alone. Traveling we get a lot of pressure, attention. In Mayapura maybe 600-people will pay their obeisances to us daily. Awk!   We try to reciprocate with them. We eat too many  pnuts and bananas (and jam), but we are improving, much less jam.

How are you?

We attended the:

ABC,

Saturday Morning,

SB,

Bhaktivedanta Curriculim Development,

Workshop

and it was nice.  So, nice. Seems like it will improve, in spite of our hypocrisy. Srivasa Pandita Das, Upendra ....

Then we did a power point show, Trash, that you can find by looking in the ASA Archives in the folder Trash as trash171209.pptx. That means 2017 december 9th. That one was about Kant.

Then we did another one that turned into the Syamantaka Jewel which is in the same place with the same address but a longer extension that indicates the time.

Wellllll. Is 5.08PM now. Sun has been gone since 4.30PM. Got several problems for tomorrow. Unless we connect with NGD (He has to go to the mental hospital most weekends also) we will just submerge in World Classical Literature with a little chanting of the Maha-Mantra, but will be BACK UP AND FIGHTING TOMORROW MORNING.

Hare Krsna.  Hare Krsna.

There is no doubt about it, many or most of our disciples are more advanced than we are, but the competition is not over yet.

Ha!   Ha!  Hare!

Lord Nrsmha deva is very kind to be our friend for so many years.

The process is good. It works. Our little Bhakti grows.

See you soon.

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna!!   Fool Evening Program.

Dear Gurudeva the Party Start

7 years, 5 months ago by brian tellez in Personal Sadhana Reports

Haré Krishna dear gurudeva please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada

thank you very much for your answer

ASA - Two Months ago!   Sorry for delay. Traveling to India.

...is just  i needed, you are the main force for me, 

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now I have been given the great opportunity to travel through South America doing Harinama and sankirtan with Mahavisnu Swami until December and the temple authorities agree

I feel that I am very white I need inspiration.

ASA - White???   Green, maybe?  Means fresh, new, inexperienced.

Please, I ask for your blessings in order to distribute thousands of books.

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!!!  It may help a little bit, but need blessing of other ISKCON members more.

you are my own life

HpS - You are very kind!  What has happened since this letter?  You had a big fall down and have been eating chocolate every month?  You have been instructed to take Sannyasa??

his servant Vrajndra kumara das

ASA - Your servants!!!!!   HpS, TB, BW et al. Try to make people ito book distributors.

RATHA YATRA SANTIAGO CHILE 2017

7 years, 5 months ago by Carlos Rold in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Hare Krishna dear Guru Maharaja ! AGTSP ! PAMHO

I hope you are in good health at the time of receiving this letter.

HpS - ASA - Our health or Brother Asses health?  We had not thought about it but Brother Ass does not have stomach pain, hip pain or heart arrhytmia today but has put on a little weight and eyes are certainly fading and deep respiration requires some little attention.

Oink!    It is good. It is very good. Soon this well used body will dissolve and the parts recycled into another body. Where will be go? We think that we may take birth as an ugly, greedy, little fat girl in ISKCON with a complexion like crudded milk, with stupid selfish character, an alcoholic mother and father etc. Hope they endorse home schooling and our mother lays off Whiskey Sours while we are in embryo and we can find the KRSNA book as soon as we are able to see pictures!

I'm writing to tell you that last saturday, december 2nd, we had a wonderful Ratha Yatra Festival here in Santiago de Chile!

ASA - Lucky, Rascal!

A few days before, I went to the airpoirt with the Iskcon Chile Team for HH Maha Visnu Swami and Harinam Ruci. They are really amazing ! They came out chanting Hare Krishna, playing Mrdangas and Kartalas, involving all the people in the airport and everyone was happy and participating in the chanting!

ASA - Did you also chant to receive them?   Flags?!

Since the beginning they was [were] a source of inspiration for all of us. I was able to accompany them to 3 Harinam by the morning, before Bhagavatam class, It was really pure nectar! Even we all get [got] into a school[s] and everybody there was happy and no any gard [guard] make some problem for us !! and the school's children started that day chanting Hare Krishna !!

The Festival day I was working helping to the production team since early morning. I've got a chevrolet van so was very useful the whole day. It's called Bhaktimobile and has done many service this year in each festival... in its next lifetime will be a Ferrari  XD

ASA - Maybe a golden chariot in Dvaraka or even better a bull cart in Braja.

Saturday midday, Santiago's main street was closed and the Lord's Chariot passed dazzling. Many devotees dancing and chanting and many new people came to the starting point and many new people joined as the chariot moved. HH Maha Visnu Swami leading the Kirtan. The police escorting. Many many people pulling the strings [ropes] and making advancing the Chariot of Lord Jaghanatha, Baladeva, Subhadra and Srila Prabhupada !  

Aprox 2 hours after starting all we came to one of the most important and central parks in Santiago [what name????], there was the stage and the stand with Prasadama, books, yoga and ayurveda, etc. Many people who were in transit there were staying a while to participate. 9 pm festival was over.

ASA - And all the devotes dead! 

Everyone back in the Temple was with the energy so high, still chanting and dancing with the devotees of Harinam Ruci, they really never stop! [Not Dead] When I returned home almost midnight, I just could not sleep, but I was very happy. 

The governor and the team of the municipal office were very satisfied with all the work of ISKCON Chile. They said want to do more things with us. Also mass media.

I send some pictures. 

Please, Guru Maharaja, forgive all the mistakes that this foolish human being makes in the communication to you.

ASA - Hey, Dude, you keep writing like this we'll give you the ASA Pullitzer prize for journalism!   Are we right, everyone??

HARE KRISHNA !!!!!!
Your aspiring disciple and servant,
Carlos Rold

(The boy in the Maharaja picture is the oldest Visvanatha's son)

ASA - Oink!   Oink!!     Whoop!     WHoop!       Next write about a Sunday Festival in Santiago. Distribute this letter locally.

Annual Sannyasa Report

7 years, 5 months ago by hps in Personal Sadhana Reports

From: Prahladananda Swami 
To: Hanumatpresaka Swami
Sent: Saturday, December 9, 2017 11:25 AM
Subject: Sannyasa Annual Service Report 2017
 

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     Please accept my obeisances. _/\._ All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
 
      This  letter is a reminder for you to send me your yearly sannyasa service report.  Because the GBC meetings in Mayapur are very early this year, please send no later than the 15th of January 2018.   You can e-mail the report to me or you can send a written report (snail mail other than email) to:
 
ISKCON Melbourne
PO Box 125
Albert Park VIC 3206
Australia
 
     Below is the form that I request that the sannyasis use for their annual service report.
 
Sannyasa Annual Report Form
1.         Your name.
2.         Your address.
3.         Your email addresses.
4.         Your telephone numbers.
5.         Your websites.
6.         Please list the countries and cities that you have visited this year.
7.         If you like you can make some comments about the temples or countries that you have visited.
8.         Please let us know what were the services you rendered as a sannyasa this year.
9.         What were your realizations about the sannyasa ashrama, preaching, or ISKCON this year?
11.     What outreach projects are you planning to do in the future?
12.   Can your report, or part, of it be made public?
 
Hope you are well.
 
Your servant,
Prahladananda Swami
 
 
 
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Hare Krsna, 
Esteemed Prahladananda Swami et al,
Is the following adequate?

________________________________________________

GBC - ANNUAL SANNYASA REPORT (2018)

Hanumatpresaka Swami

(This Report Can be Made Public except for the phone number)

www.jayarama.us

2129 Stratford Rd.; Murfreesboro, TN 37129; USA

Phone: X X X

We followed the four principles strictly and chanted a minimum of 16-enthusiastic rounds daily although there is plenty of room for improvement in not overeating and not letting the mind wander during Japa.

We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA with Nitai-gaura-sundara Das as President of our non-profit educational corporation, NIOS. Our GBC Secretary is H. G. Tamohara Das (who is of ripe old age enough to take Sannyasa, no)?

Traveled to India in January and October with a side trip to Australia. We have been doing academic programs with such agencies as the National Library of Peru and Chile, the Asiatic Society of Calcutta and others. We have been presenting Psychology and the Sacred with good response from many communities especially the Jungians.

You can see a sample of this if you go to YouTube.com and search for "psychology and the sacred 2016".

We also have been pushed to continue with "Hamlet and Arjuna", this has involved national poet laureates such as Raul Zurita and others.

In the USA we visit Houston, Seattle, San Francisco etc, and in South America Peru, Argentina, Chile.

We are members of the Latin American GBC, Executive Committee of the Ministry of Education. We are doing a lot of work with the MOE.

We find some things in ISKCON in a lot of chaos, but we find the same thing in our life, so we don't feel much inclined to be too critical of others. Our focus has been, "Get up early and get your rounds done". We have and on-line program when we are not traveling through our web-site: www.jayarama.us that has 10-18 devotees daily for Mangala-arati, NOD and 30-minutes of Japa and Chat.

Of course a lot more details but this is a good sample. We are very eager to assist any of our readers if we can, and if anyone has any interest in "Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encounter of C. G. Jung with the Ancient Mysticism India" then please contact us. Prabhupada commented in "Dialectical Spiritualism" that among all the Western philosophers Jung had the most sense.

Hanumatpresaka Swami

current iskcon

7 years, 5 months ago by harsh_horse in Personal Sadhana Reports

hare Krishna maharaj, pamho, AGTSP

i personally don't know how to say all this. But we were surprised that you said in DTC that you were working with us in India. We never felt that we are working with you. It seems we took much more from you, and even did not appreciate you in return.

we want to take intiation from you, but due to...

HpS - ASA - Ahhh!    This is the same as the other letter. Well, as we said, our situtation is just the same as yours and your honest and penetrating description of the situation has helped us clear our brains a lot. Thank you Dr. Pradhan.

As far as the ISKCON gurus and GBC Secretaries etc. etc. that I know, most of them are in the same situation as you and me.

For me I can start with what I personally heard from the lipz of my spiritual master. If you want to take me as a spiritual master in this aspect you can now hear it from my lipz (word processor). SP said, "I will never die. I will live forever in my books".

O.K.

DP - We can't interpret how to apply what he says.
ASA - Well, he says things to a lot of different people because people are on different levels and in different boats. He says things that ladies in the class can understand and you and I cannot understand and vice a versa, but some things are quite appropropriate for us all.
For example, there is no doubt that he wants us to chant
Hare Krsna/Rama as much as possible.
O.K?  Now you have full engagement in ISKCON - Chant Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, as much as possible...

 

DP - But I can't chant all the time!
ASA - Don't say that, chant.

DP - I can't! I can't!

ASA - Well, then chant Kirtan morning and evening with your family and friends [as much as they will join you [and if they don't join you then let The Evil One take care of them]]. Read the KRSNA book and chant Jaw Pa Pa!


One rounds, two rounds ....    Make some vow of how many rounds you will chant a day for a certain number of days and declare your Vrata here in The Blog and then Report, here in The Blog.

We will chant 16-rounds per day for as long as we can breath and follow the 4-principles strictly (with the possible fall down into Illicit Vanilla Ice-cream Consumption though we hope to surpass even that by the mercy of Guru Prasad Swami).

Simple, no?    Even a Software Engineer could do it, what to speak of a Management Engineering Docent, no?    Other details will follow?
 

O.K? ?  ??   Koi prasna hai!?

        O.K.  with all of the guys who are in the same situation as Dr. Pradhana???      Come on!  I can think of at least two, three more immediately.

ASA Staff