Jagajivan d urgent

8 years, 7 months ago by candra108_mukhi in Personal Sadhana Reports, Hot Topics

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

This is a chat with B Priya dd

Dear Chandra, please convey to Maharaj that my husband was very touched by his message. He was asking about him. He was so happy to hear from him. Thank you for this message!

You can tell him that prayers are defenetly working and he feels much better.

Thanks

Cmdd: This is the message Gurudeva

Iur useless servant

Cmdd

HPS - Thank you. We should not be concerned with material happiness and distress, no? Life and death. We should stick to our service, in this world and also beyond this world. This we can see that any circumstance is a gift to help us! Use it.

Message Urgent

8 years, 7 months ago by candra108_mukhi in Hot Topics

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP!

I was on internet yesterday and I saw this clip. Normally I do not watch actor's opinions but this caught my attention

This is an argentinian program. Susana Jimenez is interviewing a famous mexican actor. And suddenly he started to say how Jesus changed his life. And for 8 years he is practicing celebacy. He says that the most important thing is to serve God not become famous. He prays with his rosary everyday and goes to the church. Everybody is impressed how a handsome and popular man thinks like this. He says: when I meet my future wife I will tell her. I was being faithful even before I meet U. 

For me is worthy to share because this man has more faith in his rosary than me. And he has strong believes [beliefs] and character, something that may inspire all of us. And also how can we by our behaviour inspire others

Thank U Gurudeva and please kindly forgive my stupidity

Trying to be useful

Candramukhi dd 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10210779932433028&id=1191853456

HpS - Thank you!!!   We need to find the inspiration that is all around us. That is the spiritual world, always being completely surrounded by inspiration. Otherwise how can we maintain our service?

Viaje a Mexico

8 years, 7 months ago by Asta Sakhi Devi Dasi in Hot Topics, Calendar Development

Querido Gurumaharaja:

Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias!

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Muchas gracias por Su respuesta.

Hemos platicado con varios hermanos espirituales de forma virtual, DF. Guadalajara, Uruapan y Monterrey y personalmente con la autoridad del Templo, Prabhu Dharmaraja. 

A) Estamos muy agradecidos de que Usted considere visitar México en Diciembre, todo lo contrario a ser un disturbio, resultaría ser un gran apoyo para el grupo de sankirtaneros del DF. debido a que la última semana de Diciembre resulta ser la más dificil, la mente y el cuerpo se cansan por el rirmo de marathon e incluso cuesta hacer el sadhana y mantener una buena conciencia. 

Considerando este importante punto, Prabhu Dharmaraja y el líder de Sankirtana de este grupo, Vrajendra  Kumara Dasa le piden a Usted que nos visite por favor en esas fechas, ya que sería una gran inspiración para los sankirtaneros jóvenes y todos justamente en estos últimos días de Diciembre. 

 -Podemos organizar una reunión con los sankirtaneros el 25 de Diciembre, ese día la mayoría de sankirtaneros descansan. 

- Buen mangala arati para entusiasmar.

-Podemos crear estrategias de distribución de libros como sastra dana para Navidad , etc etc. 

- Podemos seguir trabajando en mejores ideas. 

* Prabhu Dharmaraja enviará una carta de invitación formal. 

B) Sus discípulos coincidimos en que lo más importante para nosotros es Su salud y dar apoyo a la prédica ya agendada para India. 

Por tal motivo y por el largo viaje a India también opinaron que la visita en Febrero sería lo más indicado.

Querido Gurumaharaja, Usted es nuestra vida y alma, estamos para intentar servirle y no para ser servidos. Su visita en cualquiera de las dos fechas será muy auspiciosa para todos, en esto estamos de acuerdo con la autoridad del Templo.

Nosotros quedamos  rendidos a Sus sagrados Pies, atentos a tomar Su misericordia. 

Lo que Usted decida estará muy bien para todos .

Muchas gracias por Su paciencia y tanta misericordia. 

 Por favor disculpe nuestras ofensas.

Su eterna aspirante a sirviente 

Asta Sakhi dd. 

HpS - Pies de loco.  TlgaSP.      Ya compramos el boleto:  Llegamos a Mexico, DF, 1.59PM, 24 Deciembre, United 1088.  Salimos 10.55AM, 30 Deciembre, United 1025

Hare Krsna.    Nos vemos pronto!     Gracias....

VAISNAVI

8 years, 7 months ago by hps in Special Category A, Hot Topics

Hare Krsna!  "Monkey", Bhakta Tom, asked us to post the following for comments:

VAISNAVI
We have been little confused by what seems to be the introduction of the term “Vaisnavi” into our ISKCON culture. We never heard it much and then it was becoming very prominent and a political slogan.

The position of women, the position of Sannyasis, the position of chocolate, in ISKCON are all topics that are important for creating the proper ambience for Bhagavata Dharma, sravanam, kirtanam et al and we are certainly willing to discuss our opinions on the topics as it is profitable.

Our primary discomfort with the term Vaisnavi has been that it seems to put a bodily conception on the Vaisnava. It seems to be degrading the Vaisnava from pure spirit soul using a material designation, to one actually determined by that designation. It is offensive to see the Spiritual Master, the Deity in the Temple or a Devotee from a materialistic point of view, no?

We have been sitting on these inquietudes with our tail tucked away for a long time trying to understand them, and have seen very exalted Matajis have the same comprehension that they also feel that the term puts a material conception on their right to be Vaisnavas, as if we would say Atma and Atmi.

Well, by golly, we looked up the term on Vedabase.com and it is cited variously in Prabhupada’s books, but the majority of cases it comes back as a name for goddess Durga.

There seem to be only three other cases where Prabhupada uses it: For the prostitute who tried to seduce Hari Dasa Thakura and then became a Vaisnavi, for Diti who tried to murder her sister’s babies and them became a Vaisnavi and Prabhupada’s own sister.

These are all elevated souls. We should be so lucky to achieve their positions, but is there some material conception still lingering in their realization? Maybe yes, maybe no.

Prabhupada appears to have unlimited affection for his very, very esteemed sister, but the general ambience is there that other family members still retained some flavor of material conception in their worship of Visnu, and therefore do we think of them as mildly materially tinged Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis such as Maitreya Muni before he met Krsna with Uddhava et al.

Well, we asked HpSwami to post this so that people could give us there opinions. There are like 9-more things that we could say about this but then we would not be able to get to Sannyasa and Chocolate, so we will stop here.

Urgente! Respuesta de LAD

Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja. Pamho, AGTSP!

Thanks for your response.

I couldn’t go back to sleep until I could write this letter.

Well, I was expending something else, and I got an institutional answer. But anyway that’s what I deserve, I guess.

Maybe the message is “stop whining before your spiritual master and do your bloody job”

You are not my shrink or my daddy. I was probably expecting an “attaboy” or “well done”, but I got “we probably better shut down the whole damn thing”. So, people, “don’t brag before your spiritual master, just do your job the better you can”

Maybe I was looking for some sympathy. So “don’t play the victim, just do your job.”

Thanks for teach me a lesson. “Just do your job”.

HpS - ASA --- We don't have a lot of communication here so when you send letters it is with a lot of undevleoped perspective. Actually we were very appreciative of the history you gave. Again. Thank you. Like we said you seem to be doing a whole lot to satisfy Srila Prabhupada!

Tom Brown: Atta, Boy, well done!  You have earned your Sargent's Stripes in the Army of the ISKCON Apes!

However, and not to be cruel of judge anyone more harshly than WE judge ourselves, we have to set practical goals and do them. Without these regualr Nimsar reports we can't run "ASA Branches" of which NIMSAR has been in first or second place.

Yes, we (NIMSAR) need a lot of improvement. I guess what are we doing is not good enough. We need to be more professional, etc. I think we need more people working together to do better things. We are on it.

I still want to do some improvement for BVB in Spanish. Actually I have like 8 new students for Pada Padma so that is forcing me to work on the Tpp study guides. I’m translating the entire material again and I’m adding some little things like photos, etc.  So, If you allow me I can carry on with this job. We need to work on the BVB authorization also. Currently we are working as an informal branch of your own program.  

I’m revising the ppt for Bhakti sastri as well and I got 3 more students on-line for that purpose and of course to remember the thing for myself and help others.

I still need  to prepare myself better and do my master degree but maybe I’ll do it in Peru. It’s going to be way too expensive to do it abroad.

M. Isvari already sent you the report last ekadasi.

NIMSAR is reporting everything to the authorities and always asking for permition, but in a kind of an impersonal fashion.  Jiva sakti prabhu said that we need to approach them to have better communication.  It was a brilliant piece of advice.  That’s probably what they are expecting.

Please, we need your constant advice.

I hope we (NIMSAR and I) can have your blessings to carry on and do a better job.

Your servant,
LAD

ASA - Thank you for the quick response!!!  There is nothing in ISKCON more important than this dialog. We got a letter from Isvari Devi Dasi, our Secretary for NIMSAR, so let's see what she has.

About the the TPP stuff for BhV and BhS we need to talk. I would say that there is no loss in the work you are doing, but we can improve it more if we co-ordinate it.
So, the NOI lectures that we did should pass to Ajata-satru Das and Abhirama Das for Editing?  
See, this is what I mean. We have to discuss our priorities here in the Blog. We can communicate here eternally and transcendentally.

Let's look at Isvari Devi Dasi's letter.

Chicago-Richmond-DC-Raleigh tour fixed!

8 years, 8 months ago by hps in Hot Topics, Calendar Development

Hare Krsna!    AGTSP!    paoho...

We just bought all the tickets for this Chicago-Richmond-DC-Raleigh tour:

October
26/We - Nashville to Chicago (Midway) -- 2.00-3.30PM

November
2/We - Chicago (O'Hara) to Richmond -- 11.45AM-2.45PM
9/We - Richmond to Potomac/Washington D. C. -- Work out Bus, Train, Auto.
16/We - DC (Reagan) to Raleigh -- 2PM-3.15PM
22/Tu - Raleigh to Nashville -- 10.15AM - 10.45AM

If anyone wants to scream for a super, SUPER, S U P E R, important change we have 24-hours. Otherwise, let's start figuring out who we can talk to about our Ministry of Education, Goloka Education, NIOS, Monkey and Piggy projects and make it a useful trip!

Jaya! Hare Krsna!   (Total = $417.06)