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Urgent

8 years ago by Nick Delffs in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna,
PAMHO AGTSP!
I am still doing music but not traveling so much. Been focusing on piano mainly. I am finally starting to see how the bar atmosphere is not conducive to spiritual life. So I try and get in and out of there as fast as I can.
I failed to mention in my update that I have been attending Mangal Aarti at the boise temple twice a week. And every morning on the way to work at 6am, I (and Aja every other week) listen to the Mangal Aarti prays sung by HG Swarupa Damodar Das and Prabupadas version as well. I am trying to commit the prayers to memory and also understand the meaning of the words.

Lately I’ve been very inspired by Prabhupada’s Lilamrta.

I’ve started a new job at Micron as an industrial carpenter. It’s the first steady job that I’ve had in a long time and I am learning to appreciate the strict schedule. The consistency is proving to be helpful in many ways but it all depends on how early I get up and if I chant at least eight rounds before I go to work. What helps tremendously is if I take simple and light prasadam early in the evening. This makes all the difference. You told me this once and I’ve known it to be true but now I am really putting it to the test.
I recently purchased a copy of the Srimad Bagavatam First canto. A friend has been sending verses and purports and we have been discussing via text. But this is not frequent enough so I need to read more on my own.
Thank you Maharaj for your responses. I will keep you updated more frequently.
Hare Krishna, Hari Bol!
-Nick
HpS - O.K. We'll look at the other letters.

Urgente, festival de Sri Nrsimhadeva

8 years ago by Asta Sakhi Devi Dasi in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Sábado 28 de Abril
Programa
Aparición de Sri Nrsimhadeva
4:30 am mangala arati
8:00 am clase de SB
Maharsi Prabhu

1:00 a 4:00 pm Yajña e iniciaciones con SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami
4:00 a 6:00 pm abhisheka
6:00 a 6:30 pm Sundara Arati
6:30 a 8:00 pm Clase Magistral sobre la aparición del Señor
SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami
8:00 a 8:15 pm último Darshan
8:15 pm prasadam

Querido Gurumaharaja
Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias!
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Los devotos del Templo envían este programa para tener Su aprobación por favor en cuanto a Su participación.

Algo importante, me piden saber si en caso de que se realice la ceremonia de iniciaciones, esta se realizará el día de este festival o ud prefiere hacerlo el día Viernes ??

Les urge conocer este dato porque la ceremonia para Sri Nrsimhadeva cada año se realiza pero si se incluye iniciaciones tendran que extender más tiempo como se indica en el programa propuesto.

Muchas gracias por Su amable atención Gurumaharaja y por Sus consejos.

Disculpe las ofensas por favor
Su eterna aspirante a sirviente
Asta Sakhi dd.

HpS - TlgaSP. La ayuna es hasta baja el sol, no? Pienso es inauspicious tener iniciaciones en esta dia antes de bajar el sol y tambien muy particular despues. Entonces, iniciaciones otro dia. Quien es candidato?

1-1/2 hora de clase es posible con Bhajan. Esta bien. Con migo si es bien para los devotos. Puede ser menos si quiere.

Grrrrrrracias!! Manyana a Lima.

Mexico Dance Programme(urgent)

8 years ago by Sarada Gaurangi Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS! Please accept our humble obeisences at Your lotus feet.

Hare Krishna Guru Maha

We hope Guru Maharaj is fine there. Hope this letter find You in the best of Spiritual health. We miss You so much Guru Maharaj. Thank You so much for Your boundless mercy. We had prepared 2 videos and as requested by Asta akhi [sakhi] mataji we have sent some high resolution photos too. Gadadhar Prabhu and JaiBhim Das did most of the compilation. We had sent to Dolores Mataji [She is Lalita gopi Devi Dasi. She is senior professor at Monterey Tech. Second biggest university in Mexico!!] as the files are big and we had to use Google drive. We are sending the links of the videos https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ruNRiHmCh-m3Reu7B7VWNrufGM-qnD2s/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PyNhv8x55ug02Z6WkSs30U_Xh8wQiViC/view . Kindly let us know what we can do to serve you better. The duration is slightly longer than what we had planned . We are leaving everything to Guru Maharaj for the necessary corrections.

Your ignorant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Hare Krsna. After two months of hard travel with no health problems we finally got some fever and influenza. We have fought it with yoga nad are winning. Thank you so much and the other devotees, Bhima, Gadadhara, for the effort. We hope this will be the start of a very effective cultural exchange between Manipur and Latin America. We will let you know the results.

Importante guadalajara Mexico

8 years ago by miguel valenzuela in Personal Sadhana Reports

Todas las glorias a Srila A.C Baktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Todas las glorias Ss hanumatpresaka Swami

Querido gurú maharajá por favor acepte mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias a sus pies de loto, permita que caiga un poco de este polvo sobre la cabeza su humilde sirviente .

Hemos trabajado en lo que me siguirio en nuestra utima carta , adoración en casa , un pequeño programa matutino , ofrecer comida , un poco de música y por la tarde un pequeño ofrenda , mi esposa me ayuda mucho a que esto lo pueda realizar y mi hijo le gusta tocar los cártalos, seguimos en el templo los domingos en mi servio , ahora estoy en el cuarto de pujarís , guardando las ropas de las deidades , el bhakti sastri con madre Candramukhi devi das ya casi terminamos el upadesamrta.

Platique con madre Asta Sakti devi das acerca de mi sadhana y de mi petición a usted de tomar segunda iniciación , ya tenemos la carta de recordación del templo , me dijo qué si usted está deacurdo ? hay espacio para ceremonia en su intimerario.

Su aspirante más insignificante a sirviente Mandali Bhadra das

HpS - ASA -- Mangala arati cada Brahma-muhurta??¡ Hermosa altar. Hermosa familia¡

Urgente - tributo a Sita

8 years ago by YugalaKD in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Hk Pamho

Dear Gurudeva, although I have slept very little and I would like to have the presence of all my brothers in the tribute to Sita, we still do not lose hope and enthusiasm, few people are helping as you asked, but very committed, that is why we are happy , about the event of tribute to the mothers in Chosica, the presentations of the half day are brief, it is difficult a Saturday to attend but because you will be, many will make the effort to attend, we hope we will be honored with your presence at 12 PM, your only presence is enough and at 2 PM please give us your mercy we wish to eat prasadham with your association, several spiritual brothers from Lima will go to cook. I'll see about the movie if I get it or put another one. Please be the jury of the art contest. The award will be on Sunday.
Sunday will be more devoted and on Monday only the locals, as most of us work. Thank you very much for engaging us in service, your blessings to please Mother Sita.

Hari bolus!

Trying to serve:

Yugala Kishora Dasi

Hk Pamho

Querido Gurudeva, aunque he dormido muy poco y quisiera contar con la presencia de todos mis hermanos en el tributo a Sita aun así no perdemos la esperanza y el entusiasmo, pocas personas están ayudando como Ud. pidió, pero muy comprometidas, por eso estamos contentos, sobre el evento de tributo a las madres en Chosica, las ponencias del medio día son breves, es difícil un sábado asistir pero porque Ud. estará, muchos harán el esfuerzo de asistir, esperamos nos honre con su presencia a las 12 PM, su sola presencia basta y a las 2 PM por favor denos su misericordia deseamos comer prasadham con su asociación, varios hermanos espirituales de Lima irán a cocinar. Lo de la película veré si la consigo o ponemos otra. Por favor sea el jurado de el concurso de arte. La premiación será el domingo.
El domingo irán más devotos y el lunes sólo los lugareños pues la mayoría trabajamos. Muchas gracias por ocuparnos en servicio, sus bendiciones para poder complacer a Madre Sita.

¡Hari bolo!

Tratando de servir:

Yugala Kishora Dasi

hps-asa - claro. Clase in Wilson vamanos a chosica! Juzgando la competencia del arte! Todo:

URGENT NIOS-Turning Point Report

8 years ago by hps in Special Category B

Hare Krsna, Amigos y Amigis,

Follows the report we just sent to our Officers and Directors of NIOS. It took us 45-minutes of hard work to write it but it is like a stick of dynamite to put in your hand.

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He Radhe, Vraja devike, He Nanda suno, kutah!

Our respects to His Divine Grace, Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Prabhupada, author of the book "KRSNA: The Supreme Personality of Godhead", and other unlimited transcendental resources.
Our respects to the Advisors, Directors and Friends of NIOS.
We write this from ISKCON Buenos Aires. It is beginning of Fall here so the weather is mild but one must be a little careful of Dengue from the few mosquitos who patrol the area.
Brother Ass, our dear body, after eight weeks, two months of hard, hard, hard travel has finally stumbled and we are running through a fever and probably some kind of virus.
It is some torment but manageable like having to clear the sinus passages every few moments.
In general, we took advantage of the friends and disciples here and a complete eye check for new glasses shows only a slight stigmatism, no glaucoma nor cataracts. Cleaning the teeth after two years showed only a small tartar build up and good strength for all the remains teeth, two having already gone-to-Goloka(?).

Yet, typing on the portable key-pad onto the HP Cell phone is a little tedious.

DON'T STRAIN YOUR EYES.

So, as we make the turn and head North, back to our base camp, Murfreesboro. The body and equipment are in reasonable order for 70-year old ass.

We spent the morning with three very, very competent Brahmacari disciples, pulling all the Argentinian pesos out of the cracks and a rough calculation shows that we have covered the expenses of the tour.

RESULTS:
We see our 'Anjana Suta Academy' (www.JayaRama.US) as our root and esoteric community. Then the middle world is the ISKCON Ministry of Education. Finally, our full effort to dance with the secular world is NIOS. Of course none can exist without the others.

The central point of the MOE was the GBC College seminar in Campino Grande, Brazil. Besides that we can probably organize everything else around 'Viplavah', the Ministries quarterly periodical of which we are now the Acting Editor and one of the founders.
There are now 1-million people in ISKCON of which a good estimate is over 150,000 are school age children. The work, the potential, is immeasurable. Of course, a lot of our travel has been to ISKCON centers and after all this, and oceans of discussions with intelligent people a concise report seems to be bubbling to the surface. So we pray for you help with that.
Today we will write this NIOS midway report and work on our 'Srimad Bhagavatam' study guide development. (Then at 6.30PM do a consultation for Lomasa-rsi Das and 7.00PM Gaura-arati and class on Sita Devi's appearance day festival, next Monday, for a full house of about 50-devotees and friends).

We have not been able to make a great number of stalwart allies in this effort to promote 'Art and the Sacred' as we hoped. For example, while in Argentina, Buenos Aires, we hoped to meet with the Director of the National Library who is a cosmic scholar and publishing house editor, and the Jungian psychologist who translated 'The Red Book' into Spanish. The Jungian gentleman was out of town and even after recommendations from close friends we have not been able to meet with the Library Director.
On the other hand, the Symposium promo video by Oscar Natars has received nothing but rave reviews and is up on the YouTube (look for NIOS Images) and a twenty page, first class folio of the event is going out in the hundreds.
We have contacts, we have resources, when we return to Lima on Friday it should be a turning point. Alejandro has sent the promo video to Ramon Mujica. If he is enthused to work on the project then we are still in the water. We are also hoping for a copy of a Mission Statement for ‘Solaris’ from our Editor, Miguel Polo.
After long struggle Rama-giridhari Das and ourselves talked and he has been making progress with Ambica on the fund raising with Meta soft.
Last I looked the web-page had not been updated with Joshua. I will try to contact him and see what his critical situation is.
After Peru we will be in Mexico City for the weekend. We have a university program there and what may be the premier of a Manipur/Mexico (Art and the Sacred) connection. That will be Sunday, April 29th, ‘The International Day of Dance’.
It seems we have expressed our situation well. We tried to call Prof. Samaresh but the Voice Over Internet would not hold so we will try to go out tomorrow and use a public phone station.
It is now 1.48PM, about 45-minutes on this Report.
Hope to hear from you.
HpSwami
Prof. H. H. Robinson
“All that is needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do absolutely nothing”, Thomas Paine, USA Revolutionary.

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