daily sb reading [https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/3/#bb5883]

Today SB 1.15.41 and 42 because we are preparing for our eminent death, and trying to do it by chanting with an eye to Sankhya is very appealing.

We remembered Maharaja Yuddishira's preparations and then looked them up.

Is very interesting.

We clicked on 'juhAva' in the word-for-word and usually it indicated offering into a fire sacrifice. That is nice.

Also, we were thinking that Srila Prabhupada wrote these purports before he came to USA and had chance to refine his English, though he had young devotees edit them, no?

'Study my purports to the bone!'

So, we have a call into Srinivasa Das to discuss the translation.

It is so, so nice reading these purports after several years. We may have read them like five times over the past 40-50 years.

They are tantalizingly fresh each time.

How do you find them?

Do they help your service?

Maybe we are not trying to directly follow the Sankhya-yoga of Maharaja Yuddhisthira or Lord Kapila, but we should see the same Sankhya results from our Yoga that are described here.

'For every process in the Astanga yoga system, there is a corresponding process in the Bhakti-yoga system.'

Purport: "The material color of the mind is changed when one washes it clean of the contaminations of life-breathing..."

This phrase, "life-breathing", struck us very strongly the first time we read it and we have cited it several times in lectures and meditated upon it as we do our Japa, Kirtan, honor Prasadam.

Practice not breathing when you are chanting. Go on chanting. Make your tongue and jaw move, keep the mind on the Mantra, but see what happens to your body.

We breath to get life.

We eat to get Prana that we can feel filling and circulating in our bones and body, but - we can get the same 'life' from the Mantra.

Ohhh! Wow! Hmm? 🤔

We must learn to do that. We must learn to live without being 'colored' by the material atmosphere, air. Live atop the Himalayas.

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The we thought of SB 5.5.5 that SP cites in NoI etc. etc. etc. Has same idea? Let us look. 🙄

SB 5.5.5 - 'karma-ātmakam — absorbed in material activities' is the phrase that SP cites in NoI, but did not see it discussed here. Maybe it was prenoted in the previous verse. SP discussed them together in NoI. 5.5.4 is a memory verse.

Do you know it?

Try to chant it now.

. . .

No karma-ātmakam is not there in 5.5.4 but we remember nice discussion in NoI.

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Let us look up how Bhisma deva left his body.

[UG: We discovered that if you put a colon [ : ] and follow it with words, the emo list shows up!

SB 1.9.43, no, no Sankhya there. . . . O.K. . . . . Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare!!

Let the Hari-kirtan guide us in our recitation of SB.

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Hare Krsna!!!

AgtSP!

Paoho.

Tom Brown here.

HpS is having some pretty regular chest aching at the moment. It is not intense, but unless he rests our body it gets worst.

It forces us to look for more subtle resources for strength.

We look and yes, they are there, but we must abandon some attachments.

Seems we honored Prasadam pretty well today. Could have chanted more and eaten less!

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

In letter to Karuna shakti Devi Dasi we recounted today's work. Was pretty normal day. We are doing a lot of work.

Yes, it will kill us, but better to die doing some nice service than contemplating our dreams.

We need to put some more priority on Blog mail. It is mostly our fault. PDSB, DTC(UT), ArtD, BOEX, PSFoundation, NIOS all demand attention but we must realize that they are all Krsna's projects, for Krsna's enjoyment in seeing them grow.

Krsna is our friend.

Hare Krsna.

What does He need now?

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[UG - If you put a colon : and follow it with a emoji name then the Blog prints it. Eg if I put : and then follow it with "angry" 😠]

Here is a list of all the Blog Posts unopened. I think we will get to them soon:

Deities First darshan and Installation

1 week, 6 days ago by [email protected] in Other

Murari Sevaka Farm Temple

1 week, 5 days ago by keving in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Murari Sevaka Farm Temple

1 week, 5 days ago by keving in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Murari Sevaka Farm Temple

1 week, 5 days ago by keving in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Reporte de Karuna Mayi Devi Dasi

1 week, 5 days ago by karunamayi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Letter from a soul in Argentina

1 week, 5 days ago by narotam_armijo in Personal Sadhana Reports, in Sankirtana / Temple Activity

Reports, in Other

Sanskrit Verses for Sundara Kanda Drama

1 week, 4 days ago by shatakshi in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Priyasakhī Devi Dasi

1 week, 3 days ago by priyasakhi in Personal Sadhana Reports

News Jagannatha, Baladeva and Srimati Subhadra! 💙❤💛

2 days, 4 hours ago by Radha Japa in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports, in Other

I Send you my number

1 week, 3 days ago by Gopi Radha Devi Dasi in Other

Anandamaya dd

1 week, 1 day ago by Bhaktin Alejandra Jimenez Mty in Personal Sadhana Reports

To all readers

4 days, 2 hours ago by harsh_horse in Personal Sadhana Reports

Film genre

3 days, 21 hours ago by shatakshi in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Letter from Yugala Kishor

3 days, 3 hours ago by candra108_mukhi in Personal Sadhana Reports

La Edad de Oro y sus 10.000 años

1 day, 3 hours ago by piyari_mohan_das in Hot Topics

ASA - Hari Bolo. See you in Sankirtan. 8.54PM - 16-rounds.

Call from Priya. Very nice, young woman we all met at program in Monterrey, Mexico.

Of course, since we are in this Sannyasa Ashrama, we can't meet, converse, without company of respectable householder.

So answered with this text message:

"Hare Krsna. 

Working on our movies.

How can we serve you?" 

Then the Priya texted:

"Hare Krshna, Am wondering how you travel when you visit other ISKCON centers/temples in other states. Do you go by car?'

So, we will post here and then send the link to her, and hope that she can join our Blog, because this cut and paste will kill us.

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"It depends where we are going. Sometimes walking, sometimes in car with others. Of course, across the USA or South America or India we go by plane.

Before we traveled Economy Class alone, but now we are too old, so we will only go out of the neighborhood if someone picks us up and drops us off ! "

He Govinda.

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Tired

(See picture of Dog attached)

One hour intense meeting with project director for the four movies, DTC - The Ultimate Trip. and then one hour meeting with Ambarish and Vrsabhanu Devi Das, directors of the third and therefor heart of the four movies.

Then walking, talking with NgD, Dr. Desai, full evening program with Radha Natabara.

One hour of eye straining, heart gaining, editing of SOLARIS/Cultural Portal, Dr. Samaresh.

Few Blog, St. Elmo Fires.

and now the Kapi Dhvaja.

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/ / / 🐒 Ha! Ha! Hare. Just can't do it, and tomorrow is regular Saturday workshop and Sunday, Raul and Ambarisa meeting. Hmmmm.

I think we keeping a pretty good work load.

9.51PM

Good night.

Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,

pamho, AGtSP!

Please excuse my use of acronyms, shooting for time revelations, too much Seva! Guess now discretion is needed even more, Raja-Guna all around.

Regardless, am grasping moments of refreshing enlightenment & delved into the “Gayatri Book” from Sacinandana Swami. Although I’ve only just started the book I am in over my head. Tremendous information and excellent research have gone into this publication, quite deep will have to swim through this one slowly.

Chapter one, text five elaborates on Bhagavata-marga (way of the Srimad Bhagavatam) and Pancaratrika-vidhi (way of Temple Arcana), seems to be another case of “Acintya Bheda Bheda Tattva,” Lord Caitanya’s magical philosophical formula. This is just the first few pages, and my brain is already being tested.

Ascertaining the qualities and applications of these foundational and advanced practices takes some sincere consideration. To begin with the platforms of bhakti need to have developed for essential appreciation and experience and this can be through devotional service. The inceptive qualities in Buddhi yoga and the absorption of Bhakti yoga may both bring understandings of the Lord’s mercy.



“Bhagavata Marga” is the go-to manual, seeming more Buddhi yogish’ whereas the “Pancaratrika-vidhi” acts like Bhakti, though it is dealing with Arcana. Now we are informed these two are the other way around. Now to clarify will assist in more understanding of Spiritual contraindications in mystical moments. Very interesting for advancing devotees keep getting more intrigued by the Lord’s hidden messages.

From what samples I’ve gleaned thus far is that the message is the same on the sciences of self-realization and that is, sincere service to our Guru’s matures our realizations and also strengthens our faith in the Sampradaya. The mutual connections are our insurance of getting devotional service correct and also still allow new joys of spontaneity. Such is Krishna consciousness, life with living knowledge that does not stop, so much to look forward to.



Meanwhile, trudging along the treadmill of construction work at the Bhaktivedanta Institute, home maintenance etcetera, and while it seems like an ongoing, daunting dilemma, japa comes to jolt our lulls of monotony, reminding us this is why we’re here... then a happy event is approaching here in our little temporary domain...Ratha Yatra in Jacksonville this weekend!. Seems the good Lord keeps us from too much of the mundane and this time I’m able to freely participate. San Francisco’s Ratha Yatra consumes me with service... both of these festivals bring so much joy, hope to die while dancing in the Spiritual platform. We’ll see what Sri Krishna has planned. 

HpS - Thank you! We saw pictures of the Rathyatra? Must have shocked the people in the Village of Jack's Son ie. Jacksonville.

[Who was Jack, anyway?]

Then, of course, you and the Subhra Devi Dasi are going to actually visit us for two days and two nights! In will be a Memorable Weekend.

Thank you so much for taking the hard, hard journey to visit. We hope that it can be so productive in your Sankirtan that it will be worth the effort!

hare krsna. brown tom here.

the sun is at 6.55pm.

starting to get dark outside.

saturday night. everyone going to their club to enjoy kali yuga delights.

• fms!
• sb with upendra das and hpswami
• bbt of spain 51st anniversary
• 3-hours with abhaya for nios accounts. 60% done.
• cooks vegetable soup for lord.
• jaya hari das finished sorting dtcs for last two years and cleaning and organizing kaos in the garage!

consolidating everything so that the ashrama is in order and the sannyasi can leave something in writing.

HARI BOLO

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Lettuce answer some letters.

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