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Hare Krsna AGTSP, PAMHO

Querido Gurudeva, espero que empiece bien su gira latinoamericana!!! Le oro al Señor Nrsimhadeva para que lo proteja en sus viajes. Esta pregunta no entro en el reporte anual.

PREGUNTA. estilo de vida del bramacari en Iskcon.

1. Veo a bcaris sinior de 35 a 40 años de edad, que por distintas razones, (la edad, la enfermedad, practican raganuga bhakti o por que sus cuerpos ya están cansados) no participan en los programas de templo como mangala arati o gaura arati , o no hacen ciertos servicios fisicos del templo y se les dan ciertas facilidades o tratos especiales.

Entonces me pregunto, ¿cual es el destino del Bcari en Iskcon después de los 35 o 40 años?¿Que actitud o deberes debe tomar para seguir siendo útil en el movimiento y respetado en su situacion?¿Hay un tiempo y lugar especifico para retirarse de los programas establecidos por Prabhupada como mangala arti o gaura arti? Hay un plan para ellos?

Cumpli 27 años, y aunque no se cuanto tiempo mas estare en el bcari asrama, me pregunto ¿cual seria mi destino si continuo como bcari de Iskcon?

Gracias Gurudeva por darme su trascendental ascosiacion en el Ratha Yatra en Nashville. Estare eternamente endeudado con Usted. 

Su insignificante Siervo, Etasa Krsna Das.

HPS - Muchas gracias su pregunta. TLGASP [[pfanrh]]. Pienso es algo muy individual. Cada b'cari o Sannyasi es diferente, y cad Templo, comunidad es diferente. En India posible poco mas unidad pero entre difrerentes templos y yarras tambien variedad.

India conoce mas como realcionar con VAD entonces de una manera es natural pasar dias mas madura en India. Pero, otra vez, especificamente en el occidente es algo nuevo e estamos pioneros. 

Vd. tiene que desarrollar su relacion con unos B'caris quienes tiene la misma naturaleza como Vd. y desarrolla el modo de servicio juntos.

AGTSP paoho

If you have to reach us you can call Bhakta German, pronounced Herrman. at +51 99 275 3391. He is with us most of the time.

Hare Krishna, Esteemed, Gurudeva,

pamho, agtSP,

There is a very nice book The Third Partner by Vijay venugopal das and Prema Padmini dd which gives wonderful advice about grihasta asram. They are leading bhakti vriksa programs in middle east and russia with huge success.

mataji was here and left us this book, i liked it a lot.

it can be purchased online in the ISKCON congregational development site.

it is only in english though.

at  your lotus feet.

Bhakta Nicasio.

                       >>> ASA - AGTSP... paoho.... We got swollen feet. !   Thank you so much for the news!!! 

What about this Web site, some one can write a review?

http://www.vaisnavafamilyresources.org/

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP

PAMHO

Well, I just wanted to inform U that someone, I do not know if it is a man or a woman, is harassing me on facebook he/she is posting nonesense about me, like I drink alcohol or I do not dress properly.. <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" /> That made me laughed yesterday.

However I have like two doubts:

1.- There is a lot of activities that we can engage in like reading, chanting, etc and this person created an account on face just to harassed devotees because it is not only me and this person uses  a photo of a devotee who is a young girl. why people do that??

            ASA - AGTSP. paoho.  Could be many reasons, no? Could be that they are really lonely, afraid, scared and don't know how to have positive relations. They are afraid to make friends so they try to get attention, make enemies. We just chant HK / HR and see if we can help them, Krsna, everybody acheive their proper goals!

2.- It is kind of suspicious that this started just a few  days before ur arrival. Someone does not want me around??

                     ASA - Maybe??  Doesn't seems so. Really seems to just be crazy.

jajajaja it is funny. I am going to take advantange of the association of such a pure devotee of Sri Krsna and Prabhupada the much as I can. This is my right. " Los patos que estan mas cerca obtienen mas pan" I just wanted that U help me to understand why these kind of things happen??

I am telling U this because it seems that someone likes me so much, maybe they wanted to bother U, talking about me. One thing I can be proud of is that U know EVERYTHING about me so I do not have fear about anything at all. I just want to inform U, am I that important???

Thank U all so much for iur support

THis year for me was for A LOT of purification 

Krsna really loves me

Thank U again

Trying to be sincere and ur disciple always

Candramukhi dd

                  HpS - ASA --- Yes, we, who have Sahajiya tendencies, try to take all this stuff toooo lightly. Maybe is best to devote a little effort to keep things clear. Thank you for informing us about this mis-information,or otherwise people might thing that Candramukhi has become a transvestite alcoholic punk Rtvik priestess, and try to help you!!!

AgtSP!

Hola Maharaja, Hare Krsna!!!

Vivan Radha y Krsna!!!

Pamho!

Hare Krsna!

Soy Bhakta pablo del Parikrama, de españa.

           HpS - Jaya, Sri Vrndavan Dhama!

Espero que este mejor de salud su cuerpo, y Usted este perfecto en todos los aspectos.

Yo sigo con mis cosas, en general va para adelante bien gracias a Radha Krsna et al.

La finca va bien, parece que gracias a Radha y Krsna et all al final llegara a buen puerto, y dara muy buenos frutos, es solo cuestion de tiempo.

              HpS - Puede llevar unos a Radha Govinda candra, otros?  Si, no puede ofrecer a un foto de Ellos.  Mmmmmm!

Varuna esta bien, dentro de poco tiempo estaremos de vacaciones de navidades.

             HpS - Cuantos anos? Que nivel en escuela? Puede buscar partes del Caitanya-caritamrta leer a el.

Yo, Maharaja, estoy bien. Aqui en el campo poco a poco voy en contrando mi sitio. Estan siendo dias duros pero estan acabando dulces.

Pienso mucho sobre diferentes aspectos filosoficos, llevo meses pensando que personalismo, realizacion personalista, consta de realizacion localizada y onmipresente. Y me hace pensar mucho en mis pasos y en como centro mi consciencia en Krsna. Lo mejor para Krsna!!.

Me gusta mucho pensar en la relacion entre Los Santos Nombres, Hari y la separacion de Krsna, El en mi recuerdo.

Intento recitar Hare Krsna constantemente. Un Gran Yoga.

No se que mas contarle Maharaja. Espero que se encuentre muy bien y que todo le vaya muy bien. Es muy divertido leer sus actividades.

HARE KRSNA.

HpS - Primero oir. Austeridad. Entonces Krsna enviara buena gente oir de nosotros. Despues abrir su propio Templo.

Best wishes, Prabhu.

Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!

For diksha, the standard of following is 6 months only, not one year, so you qualify - unless I read what you wrote wrong. Thus there doesn't seem to be a problem. Even if it was a year, I think you should be initiated anyway, even though it is not my decision to make, because of your unique situation. 
Your wellwisher, Gunagrahi das Goswami

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. paoho. As I experiences and even saw letters from Prabhupada the standard for Hari-nama Diksa was six monthe duing Srila Prabhupada's physical presence. When Prabhupada and the Vedas say "One Year".  That seems for sure to be second initiation. Of course, we should follow long enough to be sure that we can do what we are promising to do. If after 2-years we honestly are still not sure that we can follow the principles for our whole life (barring unexpected tricks from Maya devi) then we should wait.

"I promise I will pull you out of the water if you fall in. I won't let you drown". This is serious promise, but practically speaking if we see that we have done it and we simply expect we can do, it then, yes, make the commitment.

Here at the ASA we also think Bh. Nicasio should take 1st initiation if he feels ready.