sankirtana in europe ,india and australia

12 years ago by harsh_horse in Hot Topics

hare krsna Maharaj, Pamho, Agtsp
will it be possible for your grace to share ppt/doc of seminars u gave in europe ,india and australia?

hari bol
harsh

           HpS - AGTSP...      I don't really remember any new ones we did.  We just used the Sankhya ones and the LOB ones that we already had.    We did the "Bhaktivedanta Library, Overview of all 12-cantos and overview of 1st two cantos also."   I see the bvlibrary there.  I think they are all there.     We are learning about media.    We are acclaimed as Masters of Power Point by esteemed Directors.    O.K.   Even a Dog has his tail.        So we did japa-joes.pptx and that includes reference to japa-joe.doc.  Hmmm?  How does the combination work?   ?    ?

two perspectives of pyschology

12 years ago by harsh_horse in Hot Topics

Hare Krsna Maharaj and TB
PAMHO, AGTSP.
hope you are well. we are fine trying to serve parampara with our mental and bodily diseases to some degree, hope things are better as time pasees.

we expect some thing unprecedented may happen in Jan 2014. [Maybe monkey and piggy may retire]..
anyway this paper from Ame Pys Assoc. talks about the emerging perspectives http://sonoma.edu/users/s/smithh/psy380/toc/posts/values.pdf

a new term call positve pyscho is mentioned here. becasue till freud and only people with mental problems were studied in pysc labs.  This paper also talks about philo asssumptions the theory have

i understand this paper can be useful to you if you were to continue preaching in areas you did a year back.

but we dont know about your long term plans. still we are sharing it.

we thank you for  giving so so so much association through webex, letters, japa.
we are eternally indebted to you. we dont know if we can be come formal candidate before you stop giving intiation. but still we would continue to serve you in whatver possible way.

regards,

dwarf trying to follow TB,BW and HpS.
         HpS - ASA ----  Jaya Thank you.  We will read the letter.  We are at Hari-lila's home. It is 11.51AM.  We got here at 11.15AM.  Had lunch, adjusted luggage, doing mail and then we will be on the airplane to Denver!    We stay in touch.       Thank you very much for all the support you are giving us.  Honestly, you have helped a lot and your dedication to Krsna is not unnoticed by His friends.         O.K.  Pack up and go to Denver!

Como pueden amar los ksatryas de kali yuga

12 years ago by jayanta in Hot Topics
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En cuanto a lo de las reuniones  del Consejo Rector con todos los devotos es  un consejo muy sabio, se ha vuelto una necesidad. Como mínimo cada vez que se reúna el Consejo Rector ( 3 ó 4 veces al año), tener también una reunión con todos los devotos. Además de los Istha Gosthis que aconsejamos sean cada mes. Pienso que antes de tener la reunión formal del Consejo Rector, tendremos una reunión el Consejo Rector y todos los devotos.

Sí, siento la presencia personal de Srila Prabhupada en ISKCON. Por eso ISKCON saldrá adelante, porque SP sigue guiando personalmente, aunque algunos solo podamos oirlo o verlo a traves de libros, otros devotos, ect. Pero pienso que cualquier dia él personalmente me podrá decir: " Jayanta eres tonto. Tienes que hacerlo mejor".

Me he tomado la confianza (creo que la última) de reflexionar sobre un tema del que se oye mucho y se habla poco:

“Amor y Confianza: El cuidado de los devotos”  

(En ISKCON o en el Templo no hay amor)

Esta es una frase muy escuchada en nuestra sociedad de devotos

         HpS - ASA - TlgaSP.    pfanrh.   Oink!   Oink!     Si!    Pero no de nuevo!      Desde mi primero visita al Templo de San Franciso estamo oyendo esta queja ...  de unos.   Pero de otro lado hay muchos que aprecian el refugio del ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, Devotos, Administracion, Pujaris, Deities!!

y, se suele utilizar para mostrar cómo, a veces, la iskcon, o sus líderes, puede ser crueles o abusivos  con los devotos.

Pero no es menos cierto que a veces tenemos unos conceptos limitados sobre al amor y sobre a quién tenemos que cuidar; porque a veces da la sensación que sólo debemos cuidar a los devotos  que tienen un perfil social bajo en la institución. Me refiero a los devotos que no tienen cargos administrativos. Muchos de nosotros pensamos que GBCs, Presidentes de Templo,  gurus, etc no necesitan de este cuidado porque damos por hecho que ya lo tienen.

         ASA - Oooof!   Es un hecho!    Mu bien!   Tomar papel de Presidente y a veces estamos es mucho, mucho, mucho stress y tolerar mucho mucho abuso de unos de los "siguiedores". Pero, en conclusion es nuestra experiencia ser B'cari, Madre, Presidente ......   Todos los devotos en ISKCON sufren igual y son iguales glorioso.  No papeles pequenos en ISKCON, solamente actores pequenos!!

   Creo que nadie puede demostrar que no  todos necesitamos de la ayuda y el amor o cuidado de los demás. Incluso, a veces, el estar en un cargo y, por lo tanto, bajo la observación de muchos devotos y bajo la presión de muchas otras situaciones, hace que muchos de los líderes de la institución necesiten de mas” amor y confianza, y cuidado” que otros devotos que no están bajo esa presión.

Antes de seguir  quiero analizar lo que es el amor desde mi propia perspectiva.

       ASA - Hare Krsna!   Y esta buen carta de Jayanta Das continua para muchas, muchas mas palabras.  Otro carta de Jara-mara-hari Das, y la misma estamos eliminando la mayoria, por que...      por que.....    somos Monos!!!!!           Pensamos los puntos de Jayanta Das son super...  Pero honestamente no podemos digestir mas en un momento!    Lamento!      Estupido!!!!     Mo No!            Entonces, misericordia, si piensa nos merce,    otro carta en esta tema con la proxima parte!

Vuestro sirviente

Jayanta das

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          ASA - Vuestra seriente, Buck White (Puerquecito)   P.S. Hermoso foto!!

doubt regarding offence -from canto 4

12 years ago by harsh_horse in Hot Topics

Hare krsna Maharaj, PAMHO, AGTSP
this question should have been either in chapter class or module review class, in BHVAI canto 4.

This is regarding offence of Surici against Dhruv Maharaj.

http://vedabase.com/en/sb/4/9/23 says "When Suruci insulted Dhruva Mahārāja, he was just a child. She of course did not know that Dhruva was a great recognized Vaiṣṇava, and so her offense was committed unknowingly. When one serves a Vaiṣṇava unknowingly, one still gets the good result, and if one unknowingly insults a Vaiṣṇava, one suffers the bad result."

But Surici offended him when Dhruv ji was not a vaisnava. What was the fault of Uttama, he was younger than Dhruv Maharaj, he did not even insult him.

we are asking this because every one is potential vaisnava. but he follow Ksatriya rules it is ok to insult opponent as a sport. so is it that all insult we have done to people would be treated as vaisnava apradh. 

trying to run with small steps
dwarf

    HpS - ASA -  AGTSP    paoho.   Hmmmm!     We guess that Dhruva Maharaja was a "vaisnava" right from the very beginning. As soon as he had information that the best way to solve his problems was to go to Visnu he accepted the offering with full determination. He could have thought, "No, that's to hard!  I will do it myself. I am more than the almighty God. I will corrupt my brother by starting with offering him chocolates. Haw!   Haw!   Hawww....".   So he took to Visnu worship, and he didn't know about love God as an option, no?   Did Narada Prabhu give him that option?

          Yes, it seems that maybe we should not go to the Temple because there we might commit some unconscious offense to some one and if we stay in hell then we won't commit any Vaisnava aparada.  Ha!  Ha!  Hare!!!!                Guess, this is just the way it is.  What we want is at the Temple so we HAVE to go, but....  we have to be careful!           Then Uttam, brother.  Maybe he was guilty because he didn't protest the treatment of his brother.   Laksman, Bharata, they didn't tolerate the mistreatment of their Brother...   Hmmmm

news from Montreal

12 years ago by Raulmontreal in Hot Topics

AGTSP !!

Please accept our humble obeisances

Dear Maharaja

It's been a while since I sent news, so here it goes (the abridged form to take as little of your precious time as possible)     We are chanting, reading SB, BTG, Iso, etc  got the Miracle on Second Ave. book also and finished in a week or so, pure nectar.

We also got the Radha-Damodara Vilasa II, Vishnujana Swami's lilas...just the first few pages got us pondering and tasting the nectar for weeks so that one will be finished in much longer time I beleive...began reading the CC Adi-lila also, well, that one will take a lifetime..

                HpS - ASA - Jaya!!!   Adi-lila starts off with a lot of very Ontological descriptions of Lord Caitanya and is very concentrated intellectually. So, don't be discouraged to move ahead in CC.  Other parts you might find super, super essential with more pastimes to illustrate the philosophy.

We went to Toronto Temple for a week to coincide with Vaisesika prabhu's seminar, SB morning clases,  bhajan, etc etc.. very extatic.  we miss Toronto Temple, so much enthusiasm and warm hearts there..felt like home.

 Krishna's mercy though has brough Bhakti Raghava Swami to a farm a couple of hours from Montreal so we are going whenever we get a lift...Nouvelle Vraja Bhumi, ahhh..   Krishna has once more saved us from certain spiritual death in Montreal...

Peru (Feb-March) was very nice also, summer, old pals and final farewells to Karmi passed there, etc.

Stayed close to the Chosica temple that we love and cherish very much (it was the first vedic architecture temple we ever saw and the first time we met Krishna back in 1990) chanted a lot of rounds there during our visit in March.

Now we are just hoping to stay for a few weeks or a month in Nouvelle Vraja Bhumi,  before our yearly visit to the states (Wash DC) to see mother and after that just run from here to Toronto in the winter so our bhakti lives and thrives.

We are thinking on moving to Toronto or Nouvelle Vraja Bhumi the only places around where we can survive as a devotee. Please we need your blessings, your mercy pulled us from inertia into fighting for saddhana.  

you most fallen and humble servant

bhakta Raul

                   HpS - ASA - Jaya!   AgtSP!!!!    Thank you so much for the news.  Very enlivening...    Of course, the best way to keep association is to do service with devotees.  That does not require physical presence.  Try to increase that. One thing we do is to study with devotees even at a great distance!

Candra-mukhi DD - Pandava-ekadasi, Shelter for Ladies.

 
Hare Krsna, Beloved Gurudeva ¡¡¡
A G T S P ¡ ¡ ¡
PAOHO
 
I hope this meets U in really good health ¡¡¡
 
 
Thanks for your association and inspiration. Our Sadhana has improved a lot. Japa joe at 1:30 am has helped us a lot.. Mangal artik is nice.. service is better now. Our sole Bhakti Sastri student Radha govinda dd is young and she is very nice. Her association is helping us a lot.
 
 
I am focusing as U advised me on my BELOVED GAURA NITAY They are so merciful and kind ¡¡ They are helping us a lot ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ We are under Nityananda's lotus feet shelter.
 
Bhakti vaibhava study is extremely nice for us ¡¡¡¡¡ I have realized that Srimad Bhagavatam is our very means of conquest in this age ¡¡¡¡¡
 
Association with  good devotees like Madhumanjari dd, Palika dd, Sundari Radhika dd ¡¡¡ extraordinary ladies ¡¡¡ helped us A LOT¡¡¡¡¡¡
 
I am pretty busy so Maya can not get in ¡¡¡ I have to finish my Doctor Thesis in education THIS YEAR, also a lot of work in my university and in the temple ¡¡¡ It is nice, helps to keep our heart clean and our conscious up ¡¡¡
 
NEWS: The whole set of Srimad Bhagavatam IN ENGLISH has arrived at our home ¡¡¡ mercy from Palika dd I am paying it in parts I am so happy Krsna Himself as His literary encarnation is at home JAYA 
 
Nevertheless on the other hand I have one concern.    U said one thing to me in your last email ¡¡ 3 ladies alone unprotected ¡¡ Just one nice dog ¡¡¡ 
 
My mother, sister and me .. U are a sanyasi You can protect me with your instruction and mercy BUT here in Peru where can we take shelter??    Who can be take care of us here ?? 
 
Also next on June 19th it will be Pandava nirjala Ekadasi any specific instruction for me for this Bhima ekadasi?? that can help me ?
 
Thank U all so much
Trying always to be your disciple
Candramonkey dd
 
               HpS - ASA - Jaya!   AGTSP....   paoho.  Sorry has taken eight days to answer this.  Too much work.  We have to surrender more to get power to do more service!  Jaya.   From our experience there was no emphasis on Bhima-ekadasi while Srila Prabhupada was here, at least not in San Francisco Temple. It started after he left.   Recently Guru-prasada Swami, Guna-grahi Swami and Bhanu Swami among others investigated this and the conclusion was something like, there is no specific scriptural injunction nor instruction from Srila Prabhupada to do Nirjala ekadasi on this ekadasi.  Of course, every Ekadasi can be nirjala ekadasi as we can do it and must at minimum be a fast from beans and grains, all with the purpose of increasing devotional service, especially hearing and chanting about Govinda. Read the Krsna book with someone else on Ekadasi!
 
I don't know who specifically you can take as social-psychological-practical shelter now that your father is not present, but the basic principle is super important and if you pray to Krsna I think he will give you help. For example you have  a relation with Pallika Devi Dasi. O.K.   She and her good husband may be natural people.    Another practical thing would be to sell or rent your house and buy a house near to the Temple in Chosika or something like that.  There are so many ways to start heading in the right direction, and ultimately because it is Kali-yuga and Varna-ashrama-dharma is so weak, Krsna, Himself, is inclined to become father, brother...   but  better to look for the physical representative he is sending.   Please let us all know your progress in this regard. It is very important.  Temple President should help.