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Hare Krishna respetado Maharaj

Soy un seguidor de sus conferences y predica en iskcon y bueno me da como indignacion ver como algunos de sus dicipulos le mienten o le ocultan cosas... me pensaba quedar callado pero ...ya lo hice con otros pero ya me indigne mucho.

su dicipulo [xyz] dice que esta siguiendo lso 4principios... pero hace muy poco se le ha visto con una mujer muchisimoooooo mayoir que el  son pareja ... y la [abc] dice que esta deprimida y por eso no va a los templso?? o esta ocultando su embarazo???

maharaj no es chisme espero ud pueda ayudarlos a que dejen de mentirse a ellos mismos

disculpe mis ofensas

BV

HpS - ASA --- TlgaSP. Gracias BV por su carta. Claro no soy el super alma. Tengo experiencia directo de discipulos mentirando con nosotros y despues admitando su falta. Claro, hay muchas diferentes razones por que esta mentirando. A veces es bueno. Krsna a veces haz mentiras, no?  Pero basicamente tratamos entender PARA LA BIENESTAR de todos cuando uno esta decepcionando nostros, y cuando estamos decepcionando nuestras minsmos, pero por nuestra experiencia, escriptura, todo, no debemos ser demasiado occupado en estas cosas. Krsna nos da inteligencia como actuar y El conoce lo que pasa.

Enfocando mas en las actualedades positivas.

Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

It was ecstatic to have your association last weekend, I appreciate your kindness and blessings. I've heard for low class persons, mercy comes in the form of danda, and so I was grateful to receive your danda upon my thick skull. I actually chanted fairly decent rounds the next morning, so thank you very much!

My apologies for my ill-conceived question on Sunday. My inquiry about cause and effect may be more intelligible in context. The new legislation on gay marriage has precipitated multifarious discussions which have led me into some perplexity about some of the principles involved here. For preaching, I'd appreciate some clarification.

My question is: if illicit sex is allowed for 1st initiated straight couples who are married (I.e. outside of procreation, which seems to be broadly accepted within ISKCON today), why is it so strongly condemned for gay couples?

ASA - Jaya. I don't remember any bad question. ISKCON has become very broad, but as soon as Srila Prabhupada established an ISKCON Life Member program is became broader than before, no? Life Members don't have to follow the four principles, but they are still member so of ISKCON. Of course, there is no guarantee you can take your membership priveleges to the next life time.

So, for initiated devotees the standard is always the same. There was a GBC clarification of this. Honestly I think that some of our ISKCON gurus may be approving as you say, but as far as I know they are in great illusion and we hope Krsna enlighten's them soon.

On the other hand, if we prohibit gay couples from having some sort of "marriage", or (at least 1st) initiation, on the basis of illicit sex, then why do we allow straight couples who are having illicit sex to be married and/or initiated? (I understand that in Vedic times sometimes sudras or outcastes would copulate outside of marriage etc, but they were also typically not given initiation.)

Gays argue that although procreation is the function of intercourse, (and even a sufficient criterion for marriage), it is not a necessary criterion due to the Problem of Induction. They would argue that, because there is no essential, metaphysical principle of marriage, but only diverse instances in various cultures, marriage is therefore a social construct. Are we forced to argue against this on the basis of deduction from scripture only? And if so, why must we justify our definition of marriage according to empirical (inductive) criteria such as procreation?

    HpS - What is marriage? Do dogs get "married" for life? Some do. I would say that the definition of marriage is quite clear in P'paada's books and a fair amount of flexibility. Look at SB 1.17.38 and get back to us.
Crazy pleasure. Sense gratification. Most intense bad Karma. Every bit of pleasure you or your partners experience will come back to you as a corresponding amount of pain, no?
 

Aside from that, I was wondering what steps I may take to proceed in taking shelter of your holiness? I have read your guru tattva paper a few times already, and compared it with H.G. Ravindra Svarupa prabhu's Founder Acarya book. It made sense, although I would like to reread it. Unfortunately I'm finding a lot of dead links in your archives lately, and I can't open the guru tattva file. 

Do you have any instructions or questions for me at this stage? Otherwise, my temple authorities are Svavasa Prabhu and Brghupati Prabhu mainly. H.G. Mukunda Datta prabhu has been my primary shiksa guru so far, and Vaisesika prabhu and Badrinarayan Swami also took my part in trying to convince Mukunda Datta prabhu to accept me. Feel free to contact any of them if you wish. I can privately send their contacts if required. I wish you safe travels.

Your aspiring servant,

Bhakta Eric

HpS - ASA[UG))) --- We just tried the http://jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt link and it opened O.K?   Please tell us if you have any problems. We think our GT matched the Disciple Course and Rabindra's article fine. We just made it simple and based it on NOI mostly.

If Mukunda Ji would like to make a comment on the GT file that would be nice, but with a Temple President's recommendation I think you can be an official Refugee and then we stay in touch for six months refining the ideas and then we act as diksa guru under Srila Prabhupada's authority. Our Parampara is mostly Siksa, no??? Everyone had a Diksa guru though.

Koi Prasna Hai??

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

There are two questions on my mind that i would like to put forward.

First is about the equality of Man and God, such as Srila Prabhupada proposes when he compares a gold particle to the goldmine, or a drop of seawater to the sea. How does that go together with the 50 qualities the jiva has in comparison to the 64 of Lord Krishna?

HpS - ASA - Ahh!  Haww!  (Ray!).   We had the same question. I guess it would mean that we are like Krsna in small amount in the first 50 qualities.

Second is about verse 17.4. It mentions how men in the mode of ignorance worship spirits. Is there any relation here to the red indians, who were worshipping spirits,  or are those more spirits in name only, not really spirits such as disembodied beings but actually they are worshipping heavenly bodies, such as pantheists? I am reluctant to generally accept red indians as people in the mode of ignorance, but that could be a romantic idea because of how they are portrayed in literature.

HpS - ASA - There was one, "red indian" devotee who was my friend. I think his name was Nityanatha Das. He left his body a few years ago. He was describing some regular rituals, austerities, piercing the skin with sticks and hanging on ropes after fasting with drums and chants going on certain days to get a "spirit guide". It sounded, and he agreed that the "spirits" that adopted you may be of many, many different species:

apsaras, kinnaras, bhutas, pretas, kusmandas, viniyakas etc.  A kitten may be adopted by one of many different species of higher life e.g. a horse, cow, man, child.

Thank you for your reply. We like to read your updates on Monkeywarrior. We ourselves are back on the road in our company car, and it is inspiring our Krishna Consciousness, so we are happy with that.

Your insignificant servant,
Raghava Pandit das

HpS - Taxi wala???
We can get adopted by Srila Prabhupada or throug him, Rupa manjari.
 

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

PAMHO

Acá Bhakta Rodrigo Hernández Piceros de Santiago, Chile. Espero que usted se encuentre muy bien.

Por favor Gurudeva podría Usted darme su email, necesito hablar con usted de manera privada y confidencial

Desde hace un tiempo que en las noches en mi cuarto mientras trato de dormir y mientras duermo me atacan malos espíritus. Esto es grave y me preocupa mucho.

Yo estoy muy asustado y no sé porque pasa esto y qué debo hacer.

Para mí sería ideal hablar de esto por email de manera confidencial con usted. Por favor ayúdeme.

A sus pies de loto,

ss Bhakta Rodrigo

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Paoho.    Puede intentar communicar por: jayarama108-14disc@yahoo.com. Si ho hay respuesta comunicar otra vez aqui.

​Todas las Glorias a Sri Sri Goura y Gouranga Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupad Gurudeva por favor acepte mis Humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto...

GURUDEVA cantando 24 rondas y cumpliendo principios, estoy ahorita pasando momentos muy difíciles,

HpS - ASA ---  Nosotros tambien!

Maharaja tratando de no cuestionar nada,

ASA - BG 4.34, Significado - Que dice Prabhupada en terminos de "Fe Ciego"?

...tomando cada cosa que pasa como viene de la mejor manera y pensando que KRISHNA sabe el porque de todo ,que hay un propósito ,Gurudeva el dia de hoy tras hacer unos exámenes me diagnosticaron cáncer al esófago,lo primero que pensé es porque? luego di vueltas sin saber como reaccionar y llore estoy sin reaccionar aun ,cante rondas para encontrar respuestas y no hay respuesta alguna solo WOOwww mucha confusión.

ASA - Pasa mucho conmigo. La respuesta era, "su preocupacion y pregunta no es importante". Yo tengo arthritis mas y mas en los manos. Aparece va a ser un aspecto de vida mas y mas fuerte estoy moriendo de viejez, peridendo la vision, oido, memoria, de hecho. Pero eso es bueno. De un enferimidad o otrod Krsna es educadonos, "Eso no es su hogar!!!!!".

O.K?  Si va a morir esta ano, Jai!   Indra era feliz a matar a Vrtasura pero mientras estuve moriendo Vrtrasura estuvo sonriendo (laughing), "Ja, Ja, Ja, Indra, Vd piensa que Vd es el ganador, pero yo voy a dejar esta cuerpo horrible y ir a Vaikuntha y Vd va a quedar en esta mundo material. Quien es el ganador, Indra?  Ja!  Ja!  Ja!"

​MAHARAJA pido a usted unas palabras ,una guía para saber que hacer ,no dejarme engañar ni caer en ilusion,SE QUE MI CUERPO ESTA ENFERMO YO NO,pero a veces olvido eso y sufro como cuerpo,con todo esto mi único deseo es hacer una vida espiritual intensa,buscando que avanzar cada dia un poquito más y entender el propósito de krshna.

​GURUDEVA gracias por siempre estar ahy ,por contestarme siempre con las palabras exactas ,esas que me sacuden y me devuelven al camino correcto sin lamentaciones como lo hizo en mi carta anterior.

​Usted para mi es mi padre ,mi madre ,mi guia,espero ansiosa su llegada a Peru ....alguien que espera poder servirlo y aspira ser su sirviente

Amparo Hernández

ASA - www.translate.google.com  -   Basically you are in the same situation as me or many others. You are conscious of the fact that death may be very near. This is good. Others think that life will continue forever. Like many others you have to take advantage of this good position to increase your Krsna consciousness, Krsna bhavan amrta.

Basically chant 16-enthusiastic rounds and follow the 4-principles strictly. Of course that means you have to get up early and have a good morning program, mangala arati, kirtan, japa, SB, Prasadam, and then your position in the Sankirtan movement will be clear and that is the best way to get the mercy that Gaura Nitai are TRYING to send.

Write to the Blog with news and questions.

Hope you go to Goloka soon. Krsna is so unhappy to be without us.

¡Hare Krsna Maharaja! AgtSP.

I wish your health is good and don’t give to you problems.

Please, I want to ask some questions, but I see that here spoken generally about devotion, and I don’t know if to do mystical questions is correct. I think that mysticism is necessary when our heart don’t fell de devotion…like the science for the thinks that we don’t understand of the spirituality??? I´m in that situation a lot of times. I believe in God yet I don’t understand. I think about his omnipotence, omnipresence, and his powers, the gods, her potency reflection? And think that if we are not the body, her material powers work for us because Supreme God want, then we have a personal relationship with God directly or indirectly dependent of our capacity of see the powers or God in ours and in others…..is ok???

HpS - Jaya!  Vraja-mandala Parikrama, Ki Jai!   Yes, Krsna is everywhere directly or indirectly, but the more we can see Him directly then easier it becomes to see Him indirectly. If I have a personal talk with the artist, then I can really see his choices in the way he painted something.

Then, our reality is illusion if we don’t have one connection with the source of life…less if we have with the separates reflection of God in the material potencies, the gods, or any illusion if we have one personal relation with the master of the theaters …is ok??? My question is that, then, can we speak with God in the persons, or the gods, without the person in the body feel our relation with God or the potencies?

ASA - If we understand your question, yes. Duryodhana was trying to cause problems for Krsna, but he was actually engaged in his service. An enlightened person like Narada Muni or Vyasadeva might be able to see how Krsna was using someone as an instrument although the person did not know it.

When I try to see my days like that, I only see illusion, not real reality, I feel like one prisoner in one holographic world, where the deviated souls, ours, only live the film in one energetic platform, like the dreams, and we are waiting for the wake up, conscious that that vision make to us wake up when the false dead come to ask us about if we want wake up or not……are all that thinks corrects?

ASA - Again it is pretty esoteric, so it is hard for us to say precisely, Yes or No, but in general it seems pretty correct, and knowing you for a long time I would say that your existence on the yoga level is rather real, BUT it is usually contaminated with our own projections, desires, so the real thing is how it is taking us to Bhakti. Which in the befinning is Sadhana bhakti as disctated by an acharya like srila Prabhupada.

"Bahunam janmnam ante... " BG 7.19    .   Read the purport!!

For me are important that thinks because make me think about my ideas of life….HOW MAY I SPEAK WITH GOD DIRECTLY, IN PERSON, EVERY TIME, IN EVERY PERSON, IN EVERY THING, if not, what about my dream test, my real vision out of the corporal relations of man and women, with senses and wants, with material and spiritual….. If we are soooo fools, sooo poor of knowledge, of spiritual vision, if God save us, if we try to pray for our salvation of that false world…..is the way of devotion???...i am sooo fool, please, help me, save me, I can´t see You in any place, in any person….Can God, the Supreme God, pay our bill in the time of the dream test??? Like always, thanks you very much for all, I remember you soooo many times every day. Always trying to learnt more and more thanks of yours lessons. Your fool follower and friend, Pablo Parikrama. HARE KRSNA.

HpS - ASA - - - Write some poems in English.  Little ones.