dear Swamiji,
AGTSP, PAMHO. Devotees are looking forward to meeting you. They ask if you can come for Bali Rathayatra which is at the beginning of July. Kavicandra Swami also comes for Rathayatra. Devotees have many programs during this time.
Usually about 5,000 devotees from all over Indonesia will attend. Here in Indonesia there are about 25 Rathayatra a year.
Your servant
Ken
AgtSP-pamho
Hare krishna Gurudev es realmente bueno escribirle otraves y siempre desearle lo mejor a usted en su servicio a Srila Prabhupada
quisiera saber en que ciudades estara cuando vaya a India, si visitara Mayapur para el kirtan mela...me gustaria ir esta vez porfavor
HpS - Si, va a nuestra Calendario por la enlace en el Kapi Dhvaja, puede ver la programa que ya tenemos. Aparece como un mes mas hasta todos los detalles va a ser fijados.
Deme sus bendiciones, muy humildemente se lo ruego quisiera visitar el santo dhan y acompañarlo en esos dias en esta oportunidad
muy probable que viaje solo pero siempre con Nityananda, gracias por su asociacion su estupido sirviente
parama karuna das.
HpS - Claro es muy importante buscar companero de viajes, y contactos en India. Va a India solo es como va a Peru solo.
Una cosa. Pienso era muy bueno si podemos hacer muchos bailes basado en nuestras canciones, como Gaura Arati, Jaya Radha Madhava Kunjabihari, Dasa Avatara Stotra. Va ser un gran conribution del movimiento de Srila Prabhupada.
Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Guru parampara.
Gurudev, in my previous letter, URL : http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6949
we had asked, can we perform "Agnihotra"?
we means to say, can we learn & perform "Agnihotra", other then what we (ISKCON temples)
do Agnihotra for Initiations, Weddings etc. Except these, can we learn & perform other
Agnihotra also? If so what those should be?
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das
HpS - ASA --- Ahhh! I don't know much about this. It is not the work of a Sannyasi, more for Grhastha. There are devotees in ISKCON who do this for these different Sanskaras. I think Mukunda Das, the Head Pujari in Vrndavana would know about this and of course there must be Brahmanas in your Yatra who do this. For example there is the Hari Cutting Ceremony and others, no?
Do you have any photos from the book-release in Delhi??? Or do you know anyone who does? We are planning on fixing our India schedule three months in advance. We arrive 31st December so we will start buying the tickets 31st September. Actually we have the tickets and program up until the 10th of January with Delhi, Tirupati, Madras.
Hare Krsna!
Dear Swamiji
AGTSP, PAMHO. Any amount of time that you can come would be great! Please let me know by the dates. You will be flying from. Calcutta? Devotees will be happy to have you here for any amount of time.
Your servant,
Ken
HpS - What is the airport near you?? Denspar? From where in India is it best to come? Delhi - Denspar is only serviced by Jet Airways as far as we can tell. ~ $650
Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj.
Dandavat Pranaam unto your lotus feet.
HpS - All glories to Srila Prabhupada (AGTSP!). We feel that we still have like "lettuce" feet. We still have material desires mixed with our desires to serve Krsna.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
PAMHO.
Guru Maharaj, I am inspired by your kind reply and spiritual instruction. As material profession, I am Divisional forest officer and I work in Guwahati. I have to be in this stupid profession every week Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
Although few, I have got the association of some disciples of His Holiness Bhaktiswarupa Damodar Maharaj and His Holiness Subhag Swami Maharaj, at Guwahati. We have regular Bhagavad Gita discussions on Sunday evenings where we exchange thoughts and concepts on Vedanta.
HpS - Very, very, very nice! Expand it to include new people. Expand it to once more a week like Wednesday evening. It does not have to be everyone, maybe just one or two people who live closer to you during the week. Sunday and then once during the week makes a very strong program. Then Krsna can inform us how to make more adjustments (BG 10.10-11)
Guru Maharaj, please grace me to make myself render unalloyed service to your lotus feet through Kapi Dhvaja this time onwards.
I am very pleased to learn about your kind India visit. I am eagerly waiting to have the darshan of your lotus feet. Therefore, I shall certainly come to Mayapur during your period of stay there. So kindly let me know. Also, Guru Maharaj, we have most humbly requested Haridas prabhu to make arrangements for your North East visit.
Again Dandavat Pranam unto your lotus feet.
Your most fallen servant
Krsna Swarup Das
Silchar
HpS - What are you discussing in your Sunday programs? We mentioned to Yamunesvara Das in another Blog letter answered today that we are going to fix start fixing our India tickets with the next few weeks. We have exchanged two letters recently with Hari das Das from Nigeria.
All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu
Radha Krsna Ki Jay, Goura Bhakta Ki Jay,
Dandavat Pranam,
Please accept my humble obeisanses unto Sri Guruji's padmacharan that in checking in the block (Blog) recently I found one letter heading After India written by Abhimanu Prabhu who is working in Bali in the Bhaktivedanta Academy and Bhaktivedanta Dharma School. I had met one Abhimanu Prabhu who is also an Amirican during my Bali tour. He knew Guruji also very well. Is this the same Abhimanu or another one? I had written letters and send some photos also but he did not communicate me in future. In future, if Guruji reply his letter please mentioned my name as reminder. His mail address also might change or not, but no reply.
HpS - Yes, he is the same person. We were serving together in San Francisco and on many projects for B. S. Damodara Maharaja. We will tell him to contact you as we are in contact with him.
Guruji, I had already mentioned that we are eagerly waiting Guruji's tentative time table of North East India, specially for Silchar, Agartala, Guwahati and Imphal for taking arrangement and air tickets. I think, now Haridas Prabhu also might be in Nigeria so no telephonic conversation and mail.
Not only that, I am eagerly waiting Guruji's final suggestion for going to our Mandir or Not. After Guruji's reply I would arrange a meeting for all the initiated bhaktas for discussion and taking final decision about the modalities Gurujis visit in Manipur.
Yours fallen servant
Yamunesvara Das
HpS - I answered two letters from Haridas Das that he sent from Nigeria. He suggested a schedule that did not leave any time for visits to Bombay, Kolkatta or Vraja. We are taking little time to get opinion of Bombay (Rama-giri-dhari Das), ISKCON Ministry of Education, Kolkatta devotees, so that we can do the best during our six weeks in India.
It is three months until we arrive in India, so it seems that we still have a little time to hear from anybody about their requests, but yes, we should start buying tickets within the next few weeks.
About going to the Mandir, do you mean Thoubal Mandir? As I understand they are keeping an old standard that is not inline with Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON method. Is that correct?
Of course, we would want to ask Banamali Das about his opinion. If he says it is alright and gives suggestions about how to adjust the details, that would be alright. Other wise you can origanize your own programs in your own homes to start with, no?
In any case you can invite people to your home and accept invitations from them and have Kirtan, Lecture (Reading and Discussion), Kirtan, Prasad. Then BG 10.10-11, Krsna will give us intelligence how to expand more and more.
In NOI Text Seven, in the paragraph beginning, "The conclusion is...", Srila Prabhupada paraphrases the Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu verse, "Adau sraddha...". The exact Sanskrit is in BG As It Is Purport to Text 4.10.
This verse describes the different levels of spiritual development. Look at the translation in BG and then the more detailed explanation in NOI and tell us where you see your level of development. Let us discuss this in some detail and you can also discuss it with the devotees there.
We need to become Uttama adhikari devotees as soon as possible so that we can help others!!!