Greetings from Vancouver, B.C.

2 years, 12 months ago by bhakta_edward in Other

Hare Krsna, Hanumatpresaka Maharaj!


I am writing to you in hopes that you may have some small memory of me.


I met you at the Vancouver, B.C. ISKCON temple where I served as a young bhakta. I was dear friends with Bhakta Jeremy, who became one of your disciples. His spiritual name was Jananivasa dasa.


HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. What happened to him? He left his wife and that was the last i head of him!!


It has been many years since I left the movement but I was recently reintroduced to Krsna Conciousness through a family friend.


I am very interested in reading and hearing Srimad Bhagavatam and currently listen to classes by Srila Prabhupada.


I would also love an opportunity to converse with you about the Vedas and spiritual life in general.


Thank you so much for your time.


Warm Regards,

Edward Dinsley


HpS - We keep this Blog and from our webpage www.jayarama.us you can see our fortnightly news letter.

I guess along with those and the mercy of God we can stay in touch.

This is a wonderful path!

Primera carta

2 years, 12 months ago by estefania in Other

Hare Krishna Maharaja, mis reverencias!! Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Escribe Estefania de Santiago , Chile. Tengo 31 años y soy psicóloga de profesión . En 2018 lo conocí en el simposio "El arte y lo sagrado" , y en su última visita a Chile pude asistir a sus clases, desde ahí me interese por la conciencia de Krishna y estoy eternamente agradecida por despertar en mÍ el deseo de ser consciente de DIOS. Cada día intento mejorar mi canto de Rondas y organizar mi rutina para aspirar a lograr un buen canto de 16 rondas.

Me he mantenido ayudando al templo de santiago de manera económica y gestionando diferentes donaciones. De manera práctica un tiempo estuve haciendo servicio en el cuarto de pujari, pero el templo de santiago tomo un pausa en ese entones y no he podido retomar ese servicio aún por motivos laborales, sin embargo hace un par de semana me integre en la cocina para la fiesta de Prabhupada de los días viernes, es algo que me está haciendo muy felíz.

Espero que Krishna le otorge muy buena salud para poder seguir disfrutando de su asociación y sabiduría a través de sus clases y si Krishna quiere volver a verlo. Me despido reiterando mi admiración y humildes reverencias.

🌼🌼🌼🌸🙏🌸🌼🌼🌼


HpS - Thank you. AGTSP. Any specific friends, guides, in the Temple community?

Do you do psychotherapy?

What kind?

Thank you so much

3 years ago by purnamasidevidasi in Other

Hare Krishna Gurudeva:

Please, accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!


I would really like to thank you for the incredible gift.

[HpS/ASA - Some beautiful hand made dolls from Chile.]

They are so beautiful and useful! I hope I will use them the best way possible! I can not do anything properly without your example, help and motivation, and also without the help of such nice devotees I have around. I would be so lost if Srila Prabhupada would not have been so altruistic!

Thank you for coming to Spain. It has been a real gift to have your association. And by your association, having been able to meet so nice spiritual brothers and sisters and incredible special people like Raul Zeballos, Hector Bejar, etc. Wow… Now, we are already missing you. Fall is knocking on the door, leaves turning y ellos, orange, brown…. and your are in India. But still we have your Twitter messages and your classes, thanks to some of your beloved disciples. Your guidance is so important…

I hope your health is good.

Thak you again for being so kind.


Your servant,

Purnamasi devi dasi


HpS - Thank you for loaning us your "post man", Jayanta Das. He was a column for the whole structure of this India and Spain recording.

A solid, happy, stimulating column.

Next life we all be in Nabadvipa with Nimai????

Urgent / MKW / Hanuman - Need approval to meet

3 years, 1 month ago by Gopal C Biswas in Other

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,

  Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

  All glories to Guru parampara.


  Saw your India schedule on google spreadsheet and it is looking very busy

until October 03, 2022.


  Please advise, where we can meet and HG Jibesh Das can get initiation. Once we receive

your comment will book tickets accordingly.


Your dependent,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das


HpS - Thank you!!! Maybe to busy with things while in the first three weeks. Traveling with movie team and scientists, but after that we hope to be in Radha Kunda until January 25th. Good time to meet then, no? Of course, need to talk with Jibesh personally. Also, need letter of recommendation from ISKCON Temple President with whom he is working.

Still think that might be best for us to be Siksa guru but take Diksa from nice ISKCON devotee in his community.

Thank you.



Trees with feelings [No priority code that fortnight]

3 years, 2 months ago by Namacarya das in Other

Glory, and my thankfulness to the lawless love of Brajadhama!


ŚB 1.2.2

Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that great sage [Śukadeva Gosvāmī] who can enter the hearts of all. When he went away to take up the renounced order of life [sannyāsa], leaving home without undergoing reformation by the sacred thread or the ceremonies observed by the higher castes, his father, Vyāsadeva, fearing separation from him, cried out, “O my son!” Indeed, only the trees, which were absorbed in the same feelings of separation, echoed in response to the begrieved father.


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How Suta Goswami knows what trees in that situation were going through? Specifically, how does he knows what feelings the trees have and more specifically, that those feelings are of viraha — separation?

Did the trees have feelings of separation from someone (any living beings) or did they especially feel separation from Sukadeva Goswami?


Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das


HpS - I do not know. I didn't even think to ask the question. Maybe it was a topic that came up indirectly during the conversation of Srila Suka with M. Pariksit, like Vyasa asking Narada to tell about his life??

Thank you. Stimulating question.

Next?

We go to next question?

See if it is a question you have also?

News of your Sankirtan, family, Sankirtan partners?

Ideas para artes vaisnavas

3 years, 2 months ago by piyari_mohan_das in Other

Hare Krishna Gurudeva


please accept my obeisances


All glories to Srila Prabhupada


I wanted to tell you that I have done well in high school, learning interesting things, and well, I have a hard time accepting it because I see little of it, but mine is in the field of arts and the cultural industry, so I must dedicate myself and develop myself in that area.


My north is communications, culture and the arts.


Despite that, I also have skills for other things, such as administration, guidance and business.


It's hard for me to stay fixed doing just one thing, so I think that over time I'll dedicate myself to different occupations, but within the area that I mentioned before.


HpS - Sounds good. Who is helping you manage your mind?


I wanted to ask your advice on how to deal with these areas in connection with Krishna consciousness.


In music you advised me to compose songs based on the poems of the acaryas.


HpS - Yes, we commented on your progress in other post. Thank you.


In illustration I am good at working with graphite, I am doing a portrait of Prabhupada. I have read that Prabhupada liked the works for the books to be realistic, but I don't know if that applies to all devotional works. Any idea for the graphic part? I've heard a few times that it would be interesting to do comics.


HpS - Some stuff, just do from your own inspiration, delight, but the rest try to do in the practical Sankirtan association of other ISKCON devotees.


In writing I have learned some things in the race. I once heard from you in a class that you can take a pastime from Srimad Bhagavatam and adapt it to modern life for example, can I do that? or put it in a different and attractive context. I've thought about writing philosophically, but people like stories better.


HpS - Yes, but apply principle above.


The other thing is that I have not advanced in the proposal to make a connection between Srimad Bhagavatam and Don Quixote de la Mancha, you also said that you could do a rehearsal of a scene for example, I have not done anything with the excuse of first finishing read Prabhupada's books.


And well, those are the three areas that I dominate the most, perhaps in the future these can be united in the audiovisual field.


The art of theater does not go with me, I am ashamed to do it, to practice it, it is not natural for me, but I understand that it is very therapeutic. Maybe in the future Krishna will bless me to get into this art.


I like all artistic expressions, I would love to experience them all, but I am not unlimited, only Krishna can.


Well Gurudeva, thank you very much. At the moment I think that making devotional art is the beginning for the expiation of what happened in the temple, since they extended the period in which I cannot go to the temple for judicial reasons, so I still cannot do service in that place, I only this remains.


I plan to apply everything I have learned in Institute to my artistic career. I wish to be of help to Vaisnavas.

your servant

Piyari Mohan Das


HpS - Are you making correspondences, letters, with other devotees besides this Blog???

Thank you for you efforts.

Very important.

Yes, should do them in part as expiation for moments of temporary insanity, but especially for apologizing for offences, voluntary violence.

When we are the victims of these material reactions, we should not let ourselves become "victims". No, that is Maya's trick. "I am not a victim! I am in control of my attitude to the violence this person is aiming at me, my body, and I chose to help them."


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Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada


Quería contarle que me ha ido bien en el instituto, aprendiendo cosas interesante, y bueno, me cuesta aceptarlo por que lo veo poca cosa, pero lo mío va por el ámbito de las artes y la industria cultural, así que debo dedicarme y desenvolverme en esa área.


Mi norte son las comunicaciones, la cultura y las artes.


A pesar de eso también tengo habilidades para otras cosas, como la administración, la orientación y los negocios.


Me cuesta quedarme fijo haciendo una sola cosa, así creo que a través del tiempo me dedicaré a diferentes ocupaciones, pero dentro de el área que antes le comentaba.


Quería pedir su consejo para saber como desenvolverme en estas areas en conexión con la conciencia de Krishna.


En la música usted me aconsejó componer canciones en base a los poemas de los acaryas.


En la ilustración soy bueno trabajando con grafito, estoy haciendo un retrato de Prabhupada. He leído que a Prabhupada le gustaba que las obras para los libros fueran realistas, pero no se si eso aplica para todas las obras devocionales.

¿Alguna idea para la parte gráfica? He escuchado algunas veces que sería interesante hacer comics.


En la escritura he aprendido algunas cosas en la carrera. Una vez escuché de usted en una clase de que se puede tomar un pasatiempo del Srimad Bhagavatam y adaptarlo a la vida moderna por ejemplo, ¿puedo hacer eso? o ponerlo en un contexto diferente y atractivo. He pensado en escribir de manera filosófica, pero a la gente le gustan más las historias.


Lo otro es que no he avanzado en la propuesta de hacer una conexión del Srimad Bhagavatam con El Quijote de la Mancha, usted también dijo que se podía hacer una ensayo de una escena por ejemplo, no he hecho nada con la escusa de primero terminar de leer los libros de Prabhupada.


Y bueno, esas son las tres áreas que más domino, tal vez en el futuro estas se puedan unir en lo audiovisual.


El arte del teatro no va conmigo, me da vergüenza hacerlo, practicarlo, no es natural para mi, pero entiendo que es muy terapéutico. Tal vez en el futuro Krishna me bendiga para poder adentrarme en esta arte.


Me gustan todas las expresiones artísticas, me encantaría experimentarlas todas, pero no soy ilimitado, solo Krishna puede.


Bueno Gurudeva, muchas gracias. Por el momento creo que hacer arte devocional es el comienzo para la expiación de lo sucedido en el templo, ya que extendieron el plazo en que no puedo ir al templo por cuestiones judiciales, así que todavía no puedo hacer servicio en ese lugar, solo me queda esto.


Pienso aplicar todo lo que he aprendido en el instituto en mi carrera artística. Deseo sea de ayuda para los vaisnavas.


Su sirviente

Piyari Mohan das