News and rumination

7 months ago by Namacarya das in Other

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krishna!


I am not writing you much. Feel as obstruction into your busy schedule and non-needed tiring for your eyes.

Some disciples also do not write on the blog. I know them. Sure, some of them, meet you in person regularly at least yearly.


It looks I do not travel much or almost nothing. So, in a way, can't write news such as "was here and there, with those and those devotees, visiting that and that temple."

Still, hopefully, the travel is into the depthless of the heart (consciousness - citta). It may be not exotic to talk about, write about (specially in the public forum). Hope against hope that Citta Hari may do his merciful activity and will have a temple in the heart.

I try to chant here and chant there, internally and externally, what is there unless not touched by the Holy Name.


Parents are getting old and crippled. Helping them to go through whatever they need to go through.

Nirgata is doing fine - whatever "fine" can mean for an over-50-person in Kali Yuga.


Trying to be in sadhu sangas with reasonable non judgemental attitude.


Reading Srila Prabhupada's books in a not-in-a-hurry method. Not rushing through the pages. Jotting down notes. Idea is to accept and make transformation (of consciousness) and not just collect data.


Is not easy to live, it is not easy to inquire sincerely and be vulnerable in society (devotee or at-the-moment non devotee). Questioning ISKCON fables and "laws" in a non aggressive, gentle mood while being open to be questioned by others.


Birds fly as much high their wings can take them (sloka from SB), so I try to present the topic with the honest realization. And, if it is a thought or even doubt, I declare it openly that it is a point of my reflection based on reading, hearing and contemplating the sastric teaching.


I continue reading the Blog, Flag with a monkey on it 💖

and Twitter posts.


Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das



HpS - Thank, agtSP, you! Very nice report.

You know Walt Whitman (Thoreau, Emerson)? American poets, writers, called The Transcendentalists. Beginning of USA. had some contact with BG etc!


Whitman wrote that in this life the body travels far, but the soul travels much much more.

I meet the same men, the same women, the same situations and challenges, again and again,

But each time higher, higher.

Life is a spiral.

It goes up.

Where does it go?

..

...

....

I do not know.

But I know it goes some place good!


Paramatma vadi???


Hope so much that our ASA work is of some value to you in systematizing your Sankirtan!

Respects to the Catless one (Spanish: Nir Gata).

Who is there in your Yatra?


Preguntas espirituales - PMD

7 months ago by piyari_mohan_das in Other

Hare Krishna Gurdeva

Please accept my obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada



I feel fortunate to be your disciple and thus be able to be in contact with Prabhupada, the Acaryas and Sri Sri Radha Krishna.


I have some questions:


- how should I write my name?

Piyari Mohan das?

Or

Pyari Mohan das?


HpS - As far as I know... AgtSP... "Piyari Mohan das"



- What is the feeling of separation and how does it manifest itself in the life of the devotee?

HpS - Seems that we want to feel well integrated with Srila Prabhupada and his ISKCON.


- Can Radha and Krishna be visualized as father and mother?

HpS - Yes, Radha is the beloved Mother of all the cowherd boys.



- As I understand it, one of the characteristics of uttama adhikari is that he is scholarly and knows how to debate philosophically, but on the other hand there are learned people who you can debate but they are not uttama adhikaris. How to make a difference?

HpS - Because their logic is very superficial. Maybe based on Euclid's Principles. Do no know BalaRama, Jesus, Nitya ananda as the real logos.



- Is there any relationship between the platform of devotee (kanishta, madhyama and uttama) with the ladder of bhakti? For example, it could be that to move to anharta nivriti the devotee has to move to the platform of madhyama adhykari, etc.

HpS - As we know:

Kanistha = Adau sraddha and Sadhu sanga.

Madhyama = Bhajana kriya to Asakti.

Uttama = Bhava and Prema.


Thank you very much Gurudeva

Your servant

P(i)yari Mohan das


HpS - Thank you! Hop you are reading the other posts. They are for you also!

Hope your relations with ISKCON institution is clearing and any offenses to devotees are resolving so that you can be on friendly terms with all of them.

Urgente – Bendiciones necesarias

7 months, 2 weeks ago by Cruz Santa in Other

¡Hare Krsna! Querido Guru Maharaja, por favor acepte mis sinceras reverencias.


¡Todas las Glorias sean a Su Divina Gracia y a su trascendental legado!

¡Todas las glorias a la Biblioteca Bhaktivedanta, que nos empuja de múltiples maneras al servicio devocional! 

Y ¡todas las Glorias a usted que nos guía para sumergirnos en este trascendental estudio!


Gracias por llevarnos, en línea, a su viaje en Boise, lamentamos saber de las dificultades que la alergia está ocasionando a su cuerpo y oramos para que su energía se restablezca y sea favorable al incansable Sankirtan que usted ofrece a nuestro muy misericordioso Acarya.


Como la mayoría, también estamos padeciendo de dificultades físicas, pero nos permiten continuar con nuestros intentos de servicio. Por su misericordia sin causa, parece que podemos contribuir desde nuestra propia posición.


mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ       paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim  

yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande      shri-gurum dina-taranam


Guru Maharaja escribo para comunicarle que, muy misericordiosamente, SS Yadunandana Swami me ha solicitado impartir (en línea) el estudio del Isopanisad y Néctar de la instrucción a estudiantes de Bhakti Sastri del Instituto de Estudios Bhaktivedanta España. Será la primera vez que su sirviente dirija un curso de estos trascendentales libros. Aunque estoy haciendo mi parte, soy consciente de mis limitaciones, y que sólo por la misericordia sin causa de Sri Guru y vaisnavas podría ser una herramienta útil. Así que, humildemente, le ruego me otorgue sus bendiciones e instrucciones para la realización de este servicio.


Querido Gurudeva, muchas gracias por ser una gran fuente de inspiración y guía. Aspiro a algún día poder ser digna de ser llamada su discípula.


Siempre a su servicio

Su aspirante a discípula

Karuna–Sakti Devi Dasi


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Hare Krishna! Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my sincere obeisances.

All Glories be to his Divine Grace and his transcendental legacy!

All glories to the Bhaktivedanta Library, which pushes us in manifold ways to devotional service!

And all the Glories to you who guide us to immerse ourselves in this transcendental study!


HpS/ASA - https://vedabase.io/es/library/cc/antya/1/2/ 🙂



Thank you for taking us, online, to your journey in Boise, we are sorry to hear of the difficulties that the allergy is causing to your body and we pray that your energy is restored and favorable to the tireless Sankirtan that you offer to our most merciful Acarya.


HpS - AgtSP! Paoho... Now, and for weeks, everyday our nose and eyes have been with some burning and irritation. It is nice because it pushes us to be more pure.

Hare Krsna. Hare Rama.

We wanted to transmit more of the program in ISKCON Boise but were so busy with hospitality etc that we couldn't.


Like most, we are also suffering from physical difficulties, but they allow us to continue our attempts at service. Because of His causeless mercy, it seems that we can contribute from our own position.


mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim

yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande shri-gurum dina-taranam


Guru Maharaja I write to inform you that, very mercifully, H. H. Yadunandana Swami has requested me to teach (online) the study of Isopanisad and Nectar of instruction to students of Bhakti Sastri of the Institute of Bhaktivedanta Studies Spain. It will be the first time that his servant leads a course on these transcendental books. Although I am doing my part, I am aware of my limitations, and that only by the causeless mercy of Sri Guru and Vaisnavas could I be a useful tool. So, I humbly request that you grant me your blessings and instructions for the performance of this service.


HpS - Of course! I think that you will be a very good teacher. Don't make it to academic. Try to make it more like friends discussing a good book.


Dear Gurudeva, thank you very much for being a great source of inspiration and guidance. I aspire to one day be worthy of being called his disciple.

Always at your service

His would-be disciple


Karuna–Sakti Devi Dasi


HpS - ASA - 🐒 🌴 🌴

Please send some reports of your preaching program.

Srila Prabhupada's Vyasapuja bonus track

7 months, 4 weeks ago by Carlos Rold in Other

Hare Krishna Gurudeva!!!


PAMHO AGTSP


I want to send you again my offering to you that I wrote for your most recent Vyasapuja, because I know that those days you were very busy and perhaps you could not read it, I send it to you again and this time also as an offering to Srila Prabhupada.


Thank you very much for everything, Gurudeva, please accept my respecftul obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!


Your aspiring servant,

Carlos Rold



POETRY/POESÍA (OFFERING TO YOUR VYASAPUJA):


TRANSLATION:

I see Your gaze in the cosmic ocean

I see Your magic in every second

I live in the nostalgia of wanting to return to Your world

and You keep me here

to connect with the high and the deep

and the stars will explode

thus all worlds will be born

and the suns spin endlessly

through parallel universes

the orbits that emanate from You

appear and disappear without restraint

from Your pores are projected

all the energies that I contemplate

of Your words, all sacred,

the Maha Mantra is my prayer and my temple

of Your writings, all eternal,

Srila Prabhupada's are my commandments

of Your pure devotees, all my masters,

Gurudeva is my full shelter

of Your games, all beautiful,

those You play with me make me perplexed

of Your songs, all teachings,

the Bhagavad-Gita is the supreme poem

of Your breaths, all pure,

in which I'm now I feel safe and calm

of Your images, all powerful,

the ones You send to my heart are my destiny

You are the witness

that has always been with me

the best friend

the eternal supreme

that paves my way

I don't want anything else

just to stay with You

I perceive Your remembrance

through the time I follow You

and with the wind I look at You

at every instant I think of You


ORIGINAL:

Veo Tu mirada en el océano cósmico

veo Tu magia en cada segundo

vivo en la nostalgia de querer volver a Tu mundo

y me mantienes acá

para conectar con lo profundo

y las estrellas explotarán

así nacerán todos los mundos

y los soles giran sin parar

por los universos paralelos

las órbitas que de Ti emanan

aparecen y desaparecen sin freno

de Tus poros se proyectan

todas las energías que contemplo

de Tus palabras, todas sagradas,

el Maha Mantra es mi oración y mi templo

de Tus escrituras, todas eternas,

las de Srila Prabhupada son mis mandamientos

de Tus devotos puros, todos mis maestros,

Gurudeva es mi refugio pleno

de Tus juegos, todos hermosos,

los que juegas conmigo me dejan perplejo

de Tus canciones, todas enseñanzas,

el Bhagavad-Gita es el poema supremo

de Tus respiraciones, todas puras,

en la que estoy ahora me siento seguro y tranquilo

de Tus imágenes, todas poderosas,

las que al corazón me envías son mi destino

Tú eres el testigo

que siempre ha estado conmigo

el mejor amigo

el Eterno Supremo

que me allana el camino

no quiero otra cosa

solo quedarme Contigo

Tu recuerdo percibo

a través del tiempo Te sigo

y con el viento Te miro

en todo instante Te pienso


HpS - Your poem seems hard to translate. Also seems that it needs amplification. so much concentrated personal experience.

Thank you!!!

You have a lot to do!

Maybe we only begin our service in this life and then take it up again, together in our next life in another universe with Lord Caitanya!!!

Do esoteric Kirtan.

Testing

7 months, 4 weeks ago by [email protected] in Other

This is rupanuga saddhanta das. PAMHO.


HpS - Jaya!!! Super!!


Please send you WhatsApp number as well as news of your Sankirtan. We won't publish the number.

How many gallons of water a day, how many pounds of ice?