Nila Madhava Dhama / Goswami Academy

4 years, 4 months ago by hps in Personal Sadhana Reports, Calendar Development

2/10/2021 Ccd-Subhra dd: Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

CCd got his vaccine shot today. 

I am surprised they are not prioritizing teachers on the list🤔

We hear you with lots of speaking engagements and sore throat so did not want to trouble you with being a guest with our students on Zoom. However, before you go to Peru we would love to have you as a Guest sometime when is convenient for you. Our best times are 10am, 11:30am and 1:30pm. Half hour is good for the age group we have. 🙏


We are trying to get a community school newsletter started. I was advocating for monthly but our new marketing volunteer wants to do something weekly.... this month we had three students drop.. one going to Russia and the other two) siblings) devotees ... parents want them exposed to public school. Other news... well, shared with RGD prabhu that for the next school year we will do our Professional training with resources within Houston and Texas so he need not travel.

🐒

Hare Krishna Maharaj,


With no water and rotating electricity in Texas, here’s the Goswami students enjoying the snow! 

https://fb.watch/3IUa8rn5oy/

Pray all is safe and warm on your end🙏


Ccd: How is your throat & voice feeling?


HpS - ASA -- Thank you! We feel it a great honor to associate with the Goswami Academy. We are drowning in the MI, Bh Vedanta, seminar now. Please don't forget us.


Our throat is just hanging in there for this Seminar etc. It is like a 73-year old automobile. It runs very well if you appreciate its condition. A few more years then a new one.

Learning how to associate from a celestial, transcendent perspective!


In our next lifetime will we all be together as students in the Goswami Academy???


When all else fails ISKCON of Srila Prabhupada will be remain if we want it to be.

Lord Nityananda Prabhu's Appearance Day Lecture - 2/25 (Thu)

4 years, 4 months ago by sriradhavallabhadas in Calendar Development

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!


Thank you Maharaja for agreeing to give class on this day. Since it is a working day will 7 or 8 PM - Miami time work for you? (6 or 7 PM your time CST). Please let me know so that I can confirm with the temple devotee to send it out to congregation. Thank you once again 


Your servant

Sri Radha Vallabha das

Miami


HpS - Yes, AGTSP, we will be very purified to talk about Lord Nityananda on the 25th. Please send us the links.

Connecticut SF

4 years, 4 months ago by srinivasacarya in Calendar Development

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


I am writing on behalf of the devotees at ISKCON of Connecticut to humbly request you to enlighten us at our virtual Sunday program. The class is from 4PM - 5PM EST (3PM - 4PM CST) followed by arati and kirtan. Please let us know if any Sunday in March works for you.


Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa


ASA - Hare Krsna.

So far, any Sunday but 14th is fine. It will be a great honor to make a presentation.

What are the demographics of the audience?

Can we make the topic of broad and lasting interest?

Sunday Feast, Feb 25 & Mar 14

4 years, 4 months ago by hps in Calendar Development


Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!


We are looking for guest speakers for this Sunday (2/14) and also for Lord Nityananda Prabhu’s appearance day (2/25-Thursday night). We will be honored by your association if you can give class on one of those days depending on your availability. Will it be possible? Please let me know. Thank you for your time and consideration 

Your servant

Sri Radha Vallabha das

Miami


HpS - AGTSP. Paoho. Can we try to speak about Lord Nityananda on the 25th? 14th is coming up too fast.




Maharaj,

Obeisances. Jaya Prabhupada.


This is Balarama Dasa from San Diego. I was wondering if you’d be free to speak on a Sunday night via zoom here in SD ? I was thinking that you could speak on March 14 630pm to 730 pm.


Anyway Maharaja,

Please let me know what you think.


Your servant,

Balarama Dasa


HpS - ASA -- Thank you! Radha Giri-dhari, Ki Jai!!!! It would be fine for us. Paoho!!!

Vyasapuja in Manipura

4 years, 4 months ago by Yamuneswar Das in Calendar Development


All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept our dandabat pranams,


Yesterday at 2 pm, H.H. Bhakti Anandamai Haridasa Guru Maharaja and Banamali Prabhu, Sadhubhusan Dasa and Brojendro Prabhu came at Thoubal and discussed the modalities, program and finalised everything for your Vyasapuja.


Around 50 we are arranging Prasadam. Programme will start from 8.30 a.m. and Prasadam at 1.00 p.m.

Please suggest any item to be added.

Yours fallen sarvent,

Yamunesvara Das.


HpS - Thank you for the news! AGTSP. So nice to hear of the devotees in Manipura. First, we are only supporting a HpS Vyasa Puja if it is viewed as our effort to glorify, illuminate the entire parampara: Krsna, Vyasa, Lord Caitanya, Narottama Das, Srila Prabhupada, Us, You et al.


What is our place?


We offer our obeisances to everyone.


Sing the Bhajan by Bh. Siddhanta Sarasvati, no? http://kksongs.org/songs/k/krsnahoitecatur.html


Here is our Vyasapuja Offering to Srila Prabhupada this year.


"We offer our humble obeisances to His Divine Grace Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, author of the book, KRSNA: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Founder Acharya of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness.


Srila Prabhupada, we suspect that our attempts to illuminate your glories on your Vyasapuja day are like a candle trying to illuminate the sun. The flame just becomes invisible. On the other hand if we are allowed to consider the task like a fire-fly trying to illuminate some of the features of your lotus feet then we might be able to make a small contribution to today's activities.


When your divine grace was in Berkeley. California in 1975 we heard from your lips that anyone who chants the Pancha-tattva Maha-mantra and follows it with the Hare Krsna Maha-mantra has achieved the perfection of life, but if they wanted to preach they should probably read your books.


Then, when asked by a reporter what would happen to your movement when your divine grace died, you answered firmly that you would never die, you would live forever in your books.


These two statements are our life and soul.


Thank you.


We try to always be chanting Maha-mantra internally and externally under the shelter of your divine grace's lotus feet and over and above that read and preach from your books.


Now we read Caitanya-caritamrta daily before Mangala-arati, and it is 90% a novel experience for us. We understand it with so much more depth than before. We see that your divine grace's book is deep beyond our abilities to plumb.


Then after Mangala-arati we read and discuss a little with the devotees in Spanish. Before we were doing Nectar of Devotion, but now we are read a verse a day from the Light of the Bhagavata. We find the purports as direct truth, illumination, on such topics at Veganism, administration in ISKCON etc.


We keep a daily Srimad Bhagavatam class. Sometimes it is with an online group, sometimes local temples. We are integrating our study with the development of questions for the Bhakti-vaibhava diploma with your ISKCON Board of Examinations.


We cite your books from Vedabase.io and the concepts we have learned therein in our humble attempts to preach in the university, Jungian, world classical literature and interfaith communities.


They are the guide for devotees advancing from adau sraddha, sadhu sanga... to prema.


Thank you Srila Prabhupada. We feel we have always been a heavy load that you have had to drag forward in our purification, but we are experiencing practical advancement.


We hope that we can be a little, pleasing, grain of sand under your lotus feet, in the sandy path that is your ISKCON, helping your Sankirtan expand and expand and expand.

Thank you.

Your very fallen servant, Hanumatpresaka Swami

11 March 2020."


At you service.


URGENT - Calendar Change - Mayapura Classes

4 years, 5 months ago by hps in Special Category A, Hot Topics, Calendar Development

Our classes for Bhaktivedanta diploma,

For the Mayapura Institute,

On ZOOM,

Will start next Monday, Feb 1st, from 16-18:30 IST, 4.30 - 7AM Nashville Time,

On Mahārāja Sagara and Lord Rama, SB Canto 9, Chapters 8 to 12.


Then February 15-19th will be Canto 9, Chapters 19-24.


We didn't post this first session on our cell phone calendar so we missed it.

Radhika-nagara Das was sharp enough to remind us. He is only 47-years old, young man!


To avoid the Zoom address going public and risking hackers joining, we will give the Zoom address to just a few people individually and most everybody else can watch it on Facebook.


So . . . who wants the Zoom address, especially for Facebook sharing?


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Obviously we will have to concentrate on preparing our teaching material. We will not be able to join the FMP during those days, and our voice and mind will be exhausted after 2.5-hours of lecturing daily.


Thank you so much,

HpS, Brown Tom and White Buck


Hare Krsna