Day-dreams of a Traveling Creature

1 week, 3 days ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.


AgtSP.

Paoho.

We continue to focus on getting up early and getting our rounds done enthusiastically before Mangala arati.

Then joining the Full Morning Service in our local, ISKCON Houston, Temple.


It is so incredible.

We have never had such mechanically focused rounds before.

Usually 5-10 people join on line.


We will post the address regularly in WhatsApp Community, anveSaka.


Then we fight to honor Prasadam properly.


Work on our regular Sankirtan.


Of course, until the 17th we have some packing to do for the three month World Tour.


Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna.


We will wash a long sleeve pull over shirt now.

It has gotten gold and dark here in Texas.

Hare Krsna. Hare Rama.

Goswamis of ISKCON (The Trip)

3 weeks ago by hps in DTC, Calendar Development

Goswami's of ISKCON

Somnambulistic Wanderings of the Anjana Suta Academy 🚶

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Wed/17 December - Huber Robinson (Brother Ass) flies with HpS/TB/BW et al from Houston, Texas to Nashville, Tennessee. ✈

Tandavika Das will pick him up at the airport and then they will have a delightful and productive drive to Franklin for Kirtan, and Krsna Katha with Giriraja!

In the evening Camping with Abhiseka Das, Mataji and Children at their College Grove Ashrama. Hope to have a NIOS Board of Director's Meeting with some very short reports, and good focus on NIOS Nashville with participation of all the local urban, suburban and rural Sankirtan centers.


Thu/18 - College Grove to Vrndavana Forest. There we hope to meet with some of the prominent Leaders and Followers in the Forest, and see and enjoy the development of the Project.

At CG maybe one or two more people can join us, but at VF there should accommodations for up to 12-devotees. RSVP.


Fri/19 - VF to Radha Natabara Ashrama, Murfreesboro. Even Reception and Inauguration for Srila Locana Das Thakura and HpSwami's Vyasapuja (worship of Vyasadeva) in the evening.


Sat/20 - Programs throughout the day on Appearance Day of Locan Das Thakur: Male, Female and Juvenile Gurus in ISKCON. Rivalries between the Six Goswamis, Prabhodananda Sarasvati et al as examples of the same in modern ISKCON. Srila Prabhupada as Guru, HpSwami and Diksa disciples of other ISKCON Diksa gurus, as Gurus et al!


[ ] We need someone to host a completely Spanish language section in the morning, live and online.

[ ] We need someone to organize different programs, speakers, artists. Local participation from Murari, VF, Yoga Soul!!


Sun/21 - Closure with Breakfast by Noon.


For accommodations at Motel 8 for about $150 (2-star but nice) or Hampton Inn at ~$250 (4-star) for Friday and Saturday night, contact Tandavika Das at +1 615 210 6167 by call or WhatsApp. He expects that all programs will be at the Hampton Inn, Murfreesboro.

HpS, TB/BW/UG et al will be camping at 902 Hillcrest Dr, TN 37129. Assembly and some camping facility for single men is available there.


Hall at the HI only accommodates 70-people with strict compliance by the Hotel and Fire Marshal, so to assure participation:

Reservations are required .

Mon/22 - Brother Ass 🏇

with HpS/TB-BW et all fly Nashville - Dallas (11.45AM-1.55PM). That afternoon and evening, Tuesday and Wednesday, until midday, there will be more festivities of the Goswamis of ISKCON ASA Tour with some very special interest for the Disappearance Day Anniversary of Jiva Goswami on Monday.


We are expecting news from Srinatha-krsna Das, Nanda-braja Das et al in Dallas for some idea of events there.

Devotees from Houston might like to join us there.


Wed/24 - Nanda braja Das and HpS join Santa Clause on his Christmas Eve flight from Dallas to Madrid (5.15PM-9.25AM).

🎅 🎅 🎅 🎅 🎅

Ha! Ha! Hare!

DDC (Th/20)

3 weeks, 2 days ago by hps in DTC

Diary of a Dreaming Creature


It 😎 is at 5.11PM. Sunset was some time ago, here in ISKCON Houston.

Very nice letter from Miguel, Terkadamba Devi Dasi, Dallas, but should take a break now for our eyes etc.

Been pretty good day.

  1. Japa Joe 📿🐵
  2. Full Morning Program in the Temple 
  3. Meeting with:
  4. Atul Krsna Das on the Bhakti-sarva-bhauma diploma.
  5. Tandavika Das about Guru-puja in Nashville.
  6. Rest and Reading. Mail.
  7. Preparing for meeting with Uncle Gismo and H. G. Gopinatha Das from Hewlitt-Packard this evening.
  8. FEP

Thank you for your association. Sankirtan!

💪💪💪🐵🐷

dtc [14/fr] 2.26pm

4 weeks, 1 day ago by hps in DTC, Special Category B

asa[e] moon beams from a larger lunacy



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... we are continuing this from whatsapp group. because it is a longer post about more general thoughts.

and don't want w/app to get the reputation of being anything more that moon beams from a larger lunacy, not the lunacies themselves.

blog is place for larger lunacies.

[[[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4064]]]

[[[[[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leacock did srila prabhupada know him?]]]]]


it, position of the sun, in houston, texas, is 2.28pm

we are here now.

you are here now.

past and future are illusions of the external energy.

hare krsna.

Jaya!


past is a current perspective created by memories, which are one kind of thoughts, that we use to orient to the only thing that actually exist, the present.


looking at the past from a broad perspective, feeling that my wife in my last ashrama and in-laws and son, would be verbally, violently critical that i am a failure and have wasted my life with no result, we feel that that we should consider such fantasies, but not with detail or any direct necessity to action.

i guess that many of our readers have a collection of personalities, situations, events, that they live over as more or less, harsh, violent, attacks.

Hare Krsna!

🙂


Most of them just arise from the current condition of our bodily energy, etc.


getting up early, 12.40am, and getting our rounds done well, gives us really fundamental perspective on life, the subsequent day.


there is no one like srila prabhupada!!!


anyone who is like him, like jesus christ, socrates, shakespeare, dwight david eisenhower all say the same thing.

take initiation from a bona fide spiritual master and follow his instructions with more and more precision.


so, are we doing o.k.? taking advantage of this human life. know more than mark twain or e. a. poe?


we have chanted 16-nice rounds first thing this day, with so much help from several venerable ladies and gentlemen.

we have followed the four principles, of which the only one from which we have had any agitation is no illicit sex.

even, no illicit sex, has not been a gross agitation.

it is what appears to be, from srila prabhupada's and others comments, an automatic reaction from the Karma, Destiny, of the birth we have taken, and the reactions to earlier actitivies.


I guess, our readers, currently in Western female bodies have the same reaction but from their perspective.


kind of like one step up from being born as a dog.


yet we can navigate around the agitation, and it does not really stick, and it seems that we can come to the point, during ekadasi etc, where we can regularly come to such bhava, that we can wash it off our soul completely.

[daily bath in the sankirtan of the holy names.... ?three times or more, daily bath.]


yes,

because we are in the material world,

we will get the modes of material nature smeared on our body body from time to time, because

  1. we have some subtle attachment still,
  2. Krsna wants us to get into the modes for preaching.


Hare Krsna.


2.45AM

not bad, to be under the Sun 😎, no?

he is a really great dude.

yet, we have to go beyond him to go to goloka, reawaken our eternal form, and even take advantage of lord caitanya's mercy to expand our vaikuntha svarupa into a braja svarupa, no?!

murari gupta knows about rama. is 100% dedicated to Him, but he enters Gaura lila and then can integrate Gaura kripa with Rama Krpa.

Spiritual life means that we only add stuff to reality, no?

We don't eliminate anything.

[https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/2/16/]


We are still Baptized Episcopalians, no?

Just added Srila Prabhupada as my Christian Bishops would want me to do.


Bhakta Sun God

GBC Advisory Board Member!


Should call Upendra Das. He called us and we were in the meeting with Jagatguru and Parampadam Das, and H. H. Dhanvantari Swami about Chile Sankirtan.


the only project we are leading, managing, now, is constant chanting of the Holy Names.

at our age etc. that is authorized GBC, Temple President, Founder Acharya project, no?


other projects we are available for advise, and spontaneous participation.


Joe Banana: "You no write, us, we no write you!"


  1. tonight Radha Natabar sanga at 8PM.
  2. take some more water. maybe milk.
  3. call upendra das
  4. whatsapp mail caught up.
  5. look at blog mail
  6. don't check yahoo mail. only do that every few days.
  7. VDM. asa[e]
  8. i love lord nrsmha deva [brass divine murti]. hope we can be worthy of His association.
  9. legs object to the idea of walking to the temple.
  10. baked apples are good, but raw are tough.
  11. hare krsna.... kkrsna kkkk rsna hare .. hare.
  12. it cause us a lot suffering when people 'offer their obeisances to our divine lotus feet', have even politely asked some of them to stop, but I guess they are engaged in Karma yoga not Bhakti yoga. Srila Prabhupada has been tolerating worse from us for all eternity. 🙏
  13. 3.01pm, call upendra das, look at blog, read vdm, work on asa[e]

thaanknk you all.

be like a bird with the six goswamis in braja?

what is srila prabhupada's form in gaura lila?



DDC (saturday/8)

1 month ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna.

AgtSP.

Paoho.

9.06PM

Answered all the wonderful posts up until 4-days ago. Unanswered post form Nadiya, Laksmana etc.

Should take some water, Heart medicine and take rest.

Up again at 12.40AM and get our 16-rounds done with as much enthusiasm as we can before Mangala Arati.


So, so, so much practical purification and development of mind, body and spirit can be accomplished from 1AM to 5.30AM.

Hare Krsna.

Good night.

Repair your body while it rests.


Did not listen to SB class today or read VDM!

Ratha yatra was a lot of very, very hard work for us.

dtc251020 9.39a

1 month, 3 weeks ago by hps in DTC

🐵 diary of a traveled creature.


today we will talk about narakasura. we have heard about damodara lila, damodara astaka, gopala champu.


but nothing about dvarakdisha.


nobody in the the three worlds relishes the pastimes of braja like the dvarakavasis.


they are closer to them than the ayodhya vasis, vaikuntha vasis, svarga vasis...

omaha vasis.

this way we make sober devotees. steady devotees.

vraja lila candidates.

they can live in braja as rocks and bushes.