The Oriental Kings - Vyasapuja Offering 2022

3 years, 5 months ago by divya in Other

om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā

cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ

 

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ

paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim

yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande

paramānanda-mādhavam

I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, the deliverer of the fallen souls. His mercy turns the dumb into eloquent speakers and enables the lame to cross mountains. (CC Madhya 17.80)

 

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you on this auspicious day of your vysapuja. The best moment of the year has come, when we have to write vysa puja offering. How difficult it becomes to put the thoughts into words. Though we daily sing cakshu – dana dila yei, janme janme prabhu sei. You are my lord birth after birth, still I am unable to glorify youand your unlimited causeless mercy. 

Guru Maharaj you are an ocean of mercy, who, even though I have no special qualification, still accepted me as your disciple and always trying to rescue me from the material distress. 

You never judged the worthiness of your disciples; you just selflessly offered your shelter. You are so approachable and humble and are always so concerned about your disciple’s welfare, spiritually and materially. You are understanding and patient towards your disciple’s material conditioning, you guide them sublimely and engage them in service without enforcing it. You were always there for us when we we were going through such mental pain and agony. You were in constant touch with Srinath Krishna Das, asking about my health and well being and also shared the reason behind what happened. It was a great strength for us as if Krishna is personally present with us in the form of our beloved spiritual master. Despite of the busy schedule you even spoke to me and motivated me. 

Guru Maharaj you have been always there for us whenever we were in need of you, and you made sure we somehow get out of the material distress by giving spiritual advice and making us progress in Bhakti, thus making us go near to Krishna. That was the main reason I was able to stand up and gain strength to fight with this material distress. I am always so inspired and encouraged by your highest standard of devotional practice expecting that someday by your mercy I will be able to follow atleast a part of it. Your simplicity, humility and forgiveness with all other vaishnava qualities is your greatness. 

Guru Maharaj, though I am unqualified still you considered me and gave me second initiation. Please help me so that I may be useful for Krishna’s service and be a nice tool for Krishna.

Dear Guru Maharaj, my heart is full today and I am inshort of words, but still would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for accepting me as your disciple and for being there for me as a spiritual father. If I fall down I know that you will be there to pull me up.

The list of your glorification could be endless. I take this opportunity to thank you for everything, I feel grateful and proud to be your disciple. I pray to Krishna to give me the intelligence to learn to serve you always with enthusiasm and determination. Thank you for giving me the shelter in this material world. May you spend a beautiful birthday. I humbly beg for your blessings and please forgive all the offences that I commit. 

All glories to you dear Guru Maharaj always seeking your blessings, mercy and service. Please always keep us in your divine shelter

 

Yours humble servant,

Divya Sri Devi Dasi.


HpS - 😬 You are a soldier! You are fit to be Draupadi or some such lady in your next life. Thank you for your association. Go ahead. Let Krsna take all your ego and leave you with your real self, as brilliant as the sun, capable of doing your little service in Vaikuntha. Then we shall really see each other for the first time and recognize each other and laugh.

See you all soon.

Best wishes to all the servants of Kala chandji!!!!

Hare Krishna

3 years, 5 months ago by purnamasidevidasi in Other

Hare Krishna Gurudeva:

Please, accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

September is almost finished. This Saturday is the Ratha Yatra, in Madrid.

I have started school with the same children than last year, so they already know about Krishna. Today we have done a beautiful bhajan with karatalas, maracas, mrindanga and sticks. Since I worked a lot on Krishna’s pastimes with them, this year I am starting to teach them more about singing with instruments, Tulasi and another characters like Garuda, Hanuman (they know a little bit from last year), Ramacandra and Sita. Is this ok?

During the weekends, we continue with the Sat Sangas at home. And. Very soon, in October, I am going to start the Club Nityananda, a club for children and teens in which, following the book “Becoming your devotee”, we are going to talk about diferente topics. Some of the lesson will be taken during the Sat Sanga, but, once a month we will visit a Museum or exposition related to the topic. For example, the first month we are going to visit an exposition about how artists have represented the human body during diferente ages. The poster has a paint of Krishna with Tilak on and, since the first unit is about tilak, the kids will have to look for the picture of Krishna with the tilak on into de Museum. After that visit, we will give some books on the street and then, right to the Temple to have Prasadam and to participate in the Sunday Feast. Another weekend of the month, we will go to Nueva Vrajamandala, where we will represent a drama. The first month drama will be Krishna’s Headache. I will count with the collaboration of Narottama prabhu and other devotees form Nueva Vrajamandala and Madrid. What do you think about this? Any advice? Thanks in advance!

About Solaris, I am trying to do my best. It is very nice to have Jitendriya prabhu working on this too. We are thinking about how to get the magazine in the Spanish academic world. I hope we will be able to please you somehow.

Hoping you are fine when reading this message.

To your service,

Purnamasi devi dasi



ASA - Please write again using the Priority Codes in the Kapi Dhvaja, thank you.





Querido Gurudeva

3 years, 6 months ago by Juan Espejo Thorndike in Other

Hare Krsna querido Gurudeva

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada


Me alegra mucho que pueda estar aquí en Perú todos estos meses, tuve la dicha de verlo en el Templo de Chosica dos veces y escuchar sus hermosas clases que siempre son un néctar para mí.


Éste año ha sido complicado para nosotros, como Ud sabe Lavanya Mangala enfermó con cáncer desde mayo, justo cuando acabábamos de terminar las clases de Bhakti Sastri con Prabhu Gandharva y hemos podido comprobar una vez más que Krsna es el único controlador de todo este universo. A veces cuando "todo está bien", maya nos hace creer que nosotros somos pequeños isvaras, pero no es así. La verdad es que he podido comprobar que no controlamos nada; ni nuestro cuerpo, ni nuestro sueño, ni nada en absoluto.


Le agradezco una vez más por su inmensa misericordia de haberme aceptado como su discípulo.

Gracias a Krsna y a pesar que al principio cuando nos enteramos de la enfermedad de Lavanya fue muy difícil, sigo cantando mis 16 rondas y cumpliendo con los 4 principios.


Ahora mi principal servicio es cuidar a mi esposa, pero también estos últimos meses desde fines de octubre hemos podido hacer servicio para Sus Señorias Radha Madana Vihari en Chosica. Me han dado la oportunidad de prepararle la ofrenda de medio día de algunos sábados y realmente me hace muy dichoso poder servir a Sus Señorias, además he podido comprobar que Krsna come mucho!!!

Con su misericordia queremos cada vez servir más y mejor a Radha Madana Vihari.


Quería contarle también que mis hijos están muy bien; Sebastián ha sacado muy buenas calificaciones en su carrera de música en el conservatorio y siempre de alguna manera está conectado con Krsna cantando algunas rondas, Juan Diego está trabajando como entrenador personal en su pequeño gimnasio además de estar preparado su tesis en su carrera de Nutrición y Estefania junto a mi nieta Larita están viviendo en Cuzco pero de vez en cuando nos visitan.


Aquí le adjunto unas fotos de la última ofrenda que le preparé a Sus Señorias.


Todos los días lo recordamos como el padre bueno que es Ud.


Su sirviente


Jana-pavana das


HpS - ASA - 🙂 De un modo muy correcto, el quien se muere primero, gana. De ninguna nuestro deseo es quedar aquí sino Krsna tiene misión especial para nosotros.

Espero la Lavanga Das utilizando su situación como SUPER impetu ser santa de primera.

Ella tiene producir unas poemas etc.

Biografía para todos!

Hare Krsna. Hare Rama.

🙏🙏🌻🌻🙏🙏

Nos vemos pronto.








Word from the other side

3 years, 6 months ago by mbdasi in Special Category A, Other

Hare Krishna, Maharaja.

Please accept my humble Obeisances.

All glories to His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.


we think of you often recalling some of the wonderful pastimes we have had with you and are looking forward to seeing you again. Hoping you are well and feeling the appreciation that so many devotees have for your association.


The last time I saw you you asked me if I had any news from Bobby.


My son Joel asked me if I would cook something for a small gathering to be held at the home of his half sister.

A daughter of my X husbands second wife.

When I drove it over out comes running like a small child, my x husband. I know you remember him.


HpS - Yes, we stayed at his house the day the highway North was closed.


After a warm heart felt greeting, he, out of context loudly said ‘Bobby’s in India.’ From the reactions of the other people there they had not heard this before. Shocked, I asked him ‘how do you know’? He just kept insisting. I just know. Then he kept asking questions about India and reincarnation. I was answering as best I could but imagine my shock.


When you met him he was an atheist. So years of Christmas Prasadam and tee shirts, books and Ganges water, and then your visit a bloom comes in the heart. I keep in touch and am feeling really humbled by the mercy we are all receiving every single moment.


Thought you might enjoy this little follow up.


I want to thank you for everything you have given me. We are in Alachua and are ok. Your disciple Nick gave me your info.


Yours in the service of that Divine Master Srila Prabhupada. 🙏🏻❤️😷🇮🇳😥


HpS - Wow! AgtSP. I had the hardest time figuring our who mbdasi is. You didn't sign this. Then "Bobby". Maha Bhagavata Dasi!


!!! 🚩 !!!

So very nice to hear from you. We were really sad we had lost your contact. Respects to the Ksetrajna Das. If you read the Kapi Dhvaja you will see that we are in Peru for six months. It is the start of our effort to consolidate all the preaching we have been doing into a movie etc. We will be back in USA 7 March (if we get a Visa extension) and stay there until middle of July.

Then we hope ... Madrid... India ... Sankirtan party where ever Srila Prabhupada is!

More news as you get it.

Life update, farming revolution

3 years, 7 months ago by bhaktadaniel108 in Other

Jaya Srila Prabhupada and all Gurus and Vaisnavas!


Dear HPS, I have only 1 or 2 things going for me, they may not be great but perhaps it is enough.

I am determined to assist the evolution of the world wide Hare Krishna mission by facilitating agricultural development.

Fall 2020 to May 2021 I spent at New Gokul Dham in Sidney Texas. In 3 months I led the creation of a 1/10th acre (4,200 Sq ft) farm covered by greenhouses. We produced thousands of pounds of food in the 8 months I was there.

We left there because of health problems, asthma became so bad (I suspect from the ragweed or something) I could barely breathe the entire time I was there, had to use inhaler 10 times a day.

My partner Willow kept getting severe ezcema rashes that would bleed and get infected.


HpS - ASA - 😲 Hari Bolo!


Afterwards we traveled to Austin Texas for 1 month and lived with indigenous Mexicans, there we set up nice gardens for their community. Now we are in Northwest Arkansas renting a 4 acre homestead. Just got a small farm set up here and selling surplus to health food stores.


HpS/ASA - 💰 Now you can buy your partner a 1971 Cadillac!!! 😁 You chant Japa daily?? While you farm? Then all these experiences are entering into transcendence, no?




Many devotees ask me now to come to their land and help them develop it. I wish that a centralized farm training center could be developed.


HpS - Yes..


I can teach groups of people the basics and send teams out to set up and plant their land. We can grow fruit, nut trees, berries and ship them to all the devotees. Developing more self sufficiency would evolve the Hare Krishna mission 1000x forward.


Aside from farming, my sadhana is small but gradually becoming more personal and natural, I'm happy to chant, read, meditate on Srila Prabhupada, iskcon, Gauranga, Radha Krishna, their associates and pastimes. My life is becoming more regulated and orderly, having a wife is very helpful. She loves kirtan and reads sashtra all day.


ASA - Behind every good man is a good woman.... Behind every bad man is a ....? Behind you is a ... ? .... spiritual lady?? (Radharani...)



I still have an online following of a few thousand people. I am seen as a kind of existentialist radical philosopher that occasionally quotes vedic culture and references yoga. Slowly I am skimming the ripe ones and introducing Bhakti, Srila Prabhupada's books etc. to them.. I have created a social movement called "Crowdfunding A New Civilization" some people are very inspired by it, we have raised around $2,000. Our set goal is 1 billion. The mission statement is to buy land all over the world, plant thousands of acres of orchards/gardens, organize ecovillages, clean up the environment and usher in a new more evolved society on Earth.


I would like to hear your daily classes online, wondering the secret pass code to access it.. I miss you Maharaja, I hope someday to be formally initiated. Hare Krishna, hope you are well and blessed.


HpS - Still have the pants you gave us!! Access to our classes, Kirtan, ASA tree house, is always in the Kapi Dhvaja, no??!! http://www.jayarama.us/news.htm

We have mango, avocado, bananasd, sitafal, mulberrys, potatoes, beets, peas, carrots, zuccini, 9-herbs etc here!

Answer to your letter

3 years, 7 months ago by pnd in Other

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


How is your health? 😐
Did you die and go to heaven?
Family?

Didn't die yet. Health and family is pretty good. Had covid on end of last month together with my wife, was not so bad, used that time to take rest.


Our address book got corrupted and we lost many addresses. Can you please send your Whatsapp phone number here? We will not publish it.

My whatsapp number is: +420xxxxxx

I am using also telegram where I have same number and also Slovakian number xxxx

Can you erase all the disciple's Annual Reports from last year, so that we can start fresh for this year?

Done. Erased.


Myself and Pancha-tattva Das both experience, on certain devices, that VedaBase.io hangs up on anything but the Home Page. Yet, if you disconnect from the wifi and then reconnect, the target page immediately loads. I have tried different browsers, erasing all cookies etc, but still it happens.

Is it possible for me to meet online with you in real time, so I can check remotely, so I can see what is the issue?


HpS - Yes!!! We will coordinate through Whatsapp. AgtSP!!!


Can we give any help to get TLC up in Spanish?

Unfortunately no (at this moment). I still need to make new editor. Problem is my system force more or less same paragraph structure as it is in English, but English version of TLC is 3rd edition which is so so much different from previous editions (same issue as Spanish have Russian, Czech, ...) so it cannot be imported now. TLK, has same issue I think, there for example half chapter is completely different, like if from other book.

It will be my next project to finish new editor as it will be also required for Bhaktivedanta Archives for adding content for upcoming offline Vedabase app (that app is still long time to release, but if it will go good it may be ready around Janmastami).


HpS - O.K. but if you see ASA can help then let us know and we will try to join. We have many software engineers from Dell, Intel et al.


VedaBase.io is super, super service to ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, humanity. In the next life the organizers will be librarians for Nimai in Nabadvipa?

:)


Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das


😎 Maybe someone can buy Audi, but that doesn't mean he can drive to Goloka.