ASA - What is your whatsapp number? 🙂 We wil send you his, and not publish yours.
All right! +51..... HpS - Thank you. We got your number from Abhirama Thakura das this morning and sent it with The Candra Mukhi Devi Dasi's information to The Atul Krsna Das. He already thanked us and guess he will contact you directly.
Without the Krsna book, who can escape from the endless darkness of Sansara?
Thank you very much for the opportunity 🙏
Trying to serve,
Rukmini dd
My dear Maharaja,
Namaste! Pranams!
Siya-Rama-maya sab jag jani karahu pranam jori jugpani
Knowing this world as manifestation of Lord Rama, I do pranams with both folded hands.
HpS - and march off to Lanka to fight.
Bhagavatam 12/5 chapter is titled as "Śukadeva Gosvāmī’s Final Instructions to Mahārāja Parīkṣit". Saintly teachers like Sukadeva give conclusions of their teachings in the end and also, summarize it in the end. So this chapter is very important as it is final teaching of Sukadeva. Parikshit attained the state described in Bhagavatam 12/5 after hearing the whole Bhagavatam. So as shrota (hearer) of Bhagavatam, it is important to understand what is our final goal which is described in this chapter.
For the pleasure of Lord Ram within and without, I am copy pasting this chapter. It is just 13 verses. If it is not inconvinient, please read them.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has elaborately described in various narrations the Supreme Soul of all that be — the Personality of Godhead, Hari — from whose satisfaction Brahmā is born and from whose anger Rudra takes birth.
O King, give up the animalistic mentality of thinking, “I am going to die.” Unlike the body, you have not taken birth. There was not a time in the past when you did not exist, and you are not about to be destroyed.
You will not take birth again in the form of your sons and grandsons, like a sprout taking birth from a seed and then generating a new seed. Rather, you are entirely distinct from the material body and its paraphernalia, in the same way that fire is distinct from its fuel.
In a dream one can see his own head being cut off and thus understand that his actual self is standing apart from the dream experience. Similarly, while awake one can see that his body is a product of the five material elements. Therefore it is to be understood that the actual self, the soul, is distinct from the body it observes and is unborn and immortal.
When a pot is broken, the portion of sky within the pot remains as the element sky, just as before. In the same way, when the gross and subtle bodies die, the living entity within resumes his spiritual identity.
The material bodies, qualities and activities of the spirit soul are created by the material mind. That mind is itself created by the illusory potency of the Supreme Lord, and thus the soul assumes material existence.
A lamp functions as such only by the combination of its fuel, vessel, wick and fire. Similarly, material life, based on the soul’s identification with the body, is developed and destroyed by the workings of material goodness, passion and ignorance, which are the constituent elements of the body.
The soul within the body is self-luminous and is separate from the visible gross body and invisible subtle body. It remains as the fixed basis of changing bodily existence, just as the ethereal sky is the unchanging background of material transformation. Therefore the soul is endless and without material comparison.
My dear King, by constantly meditating upon the Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva, and by applying clear and logical intelligence, you should carefully consider your true self and how it is situated within the material body.
The snake-bird Takṣaka, sent by the curse of the brāhmaṇa, will not burn your true self. The agents of death will never burn such a master of the self as you, for you have already conquered all dangers on your path back to Godhead.
You should consider, “I am nondifferent from the Absolute Truth, the supreme abode, and that Absolute Truth, the supreme destination, is nondifferent from me.” Thus resigning yourself to the Supreme Soul, who is free from all material misidentifications, you will not even notice the snake-bird Takṣaka when he approaches with his poison-filled fangs and bites your foot. Nor will you see your dying body or the material world around you, because you will have realized yourself to be separate from them.
Beloved King Parīkṣit, I have narrated to you the topics you originally inquired about — the pastimes of Lord Hari, the Supreme Soul of the universe. Now, what more do you wish to hear?
Namaste and Pranams!
Gaurav Mittal
HpS - C. C. after liberation, revive our Svarup!
Writing here to express my deep gratitude to all devotees who organized the Vyasa-puja online program. I watched the recording of the first program (with Jayadvaita Swami and Krsna Ksetra Swami) and attended "in live" the second one. For sure there was a lot of effort put into the organization of many offerings (video and pictures) and keeping the sequence of events.
Such an inspiration to see the happy faces of devotees from around the globe. From my perspective, it was a heartfelt expression of affection for you and your activities.
The next morning I got up enthusiastic and more determined to continue on this devoted path of Krsna consciousness.
Your servant Namacarya Das
HpS - Thank you. Write to us with your news of your Sankirtan!!! ISKCON Crow Asia!!!! Our respects to Nir Gata Devi Dasi and your parents.
Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva!!!!!!!!!!!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to YOU.
Please accept our humble obeisances. PAMHO
Bulletin is now upload on Facebook (English & Spanish), this is the link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/166681160058275/
Here We are, working on vacations...
-We finished our specialization studies (5 years) on Waldorf Pedagogy. Now We are working on our thesis project. It will be about literacy from the Waldorf point of view.
-We continue practicing flute and piano.
-We are preparing the material that we will use to teach 6th grade. We back to work at school in February.
VP was beautiful. Seeing You after a long of time was like medicine for us. Such a nice devotees from different places... I was able to talk a little with Radhika Prabhu.
NOW....answering your question.
How you translate "Urad Dahl" into Spanish? Is it available in Peru???
Here in Lima it is know as "Frejol chino", It can be green or yellow. the green one is easy to get. I eat that one almost every week.
HpS - That is Mung Dahl. Here is wikipedia link to Urad Dahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_mungo. Under nutrition you can see that it is HIGH in protein. We use it for festivals in Bharats etc. but Srila Prabhupada says that it is such high protein that on a regular basis it is not really 'vegetarian'. You can get it in Peru.
we read in the bulletin that Kapi-Dhvaja needs to be developed more systematically.
How WE (EDT) can help you to do that? please let us know.
HpS - I think it is just working on the Calendar.
I just discovered that Yahoo groups ceased to exist 15th December. So how can we make a distribution list? Your facebook account for English also?
Thank you so much. Hope your Japa etc. is going very well, then you will shine with KC to your students! Thanks to everyone.
Thanks a lot
EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette )
Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,
Dandavat Pranams. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We would all like to see your video during classes. We would like to setup a nice Wi-Fi connection at your place. Me and my brother (Srinath Krishna Das) have looked into it and there is a service provider called Xfinity that provides Wi-Fi connectivity in Murfreesboro. If you permit, we can set everything up and take care of monthly payments.
Please let us know if we can do that Guru Maharaj.
P.S: This is the link to my initiation ceremony on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEUZJmCM67k&ab_channel=SriramArunachalam
HpS - We looked at the video! It is very nice! We need to advance in spiritual life like you! We need to take 4th Initiation!
Your Servant
Shri Rama Krisha Das
ASA (UG) - Thank you for the offer of the Infinity account. We could investigate with local technicians and see if AT&T or other are better.
We are using our cell phone as a hot spot and the account we have with CCD and SDD includes unlimited Data, because she is a teacher.
A cable connection might be faster and more stable, but.... Infinity also drops calls, no?
Also, to have camera on requires more studio ambience, whereas with just audio we can focus on the sound without so much concern for the streaming video of our body.
We like PPTX.
We just sent a note to the local devotees asking about the increased stability.
Does it require a one year contract?
How much for three months?
Thank you.
Uncle Gismo, Science Officer, ASA
Does it work too?
HpS - Yes, it works here also.
I hope you can work it out for him without too much trouble. I gave you, PnD, his e-mail address, no?