All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Dear Hanumat Preshak Swami,

Please accept my humble obeisance at Your lotus feet.

I was trying very hard to open an account in blog but it was difficult because in India and my country nobody use this blog. But by the mercy of Lord Krishna, I met Your good disciple Vrajendra Kumar Das from Colombia in Vrindavan and he kindly helped me to open an account in blog.

Now my next project is to send to You introduction to my research work on the time aspect form [from] Srimad Bhagavatam and to prove the necessity of such research at present moment. I am 100% sure that Your Grace can uplift my humble work up to very high level. I am in very need in Your help.

So if Your Grace mercifully will allow me to send to You introduction to this work I will be very much content. And please excuse my poor English, so I will try all my best to write in understandable manner.

I am very happy to write this letter to Your Grace and I am feeling very much satisfied by Your Great compassion to such poor fallen soul as myself.

Falling on the dust at Your lotus feet

Your eternal humble servant Satyavati Dasi from Vrindavan

HpS - Hare Krsna. We are old, blind, and stupid. We don't have the ability to read any more, but if you start with a one or two line summary of the thesis here we can comment on that and then go on to some more maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_is_the_Simplest_Thing

Such a big topic. A couple of sentences to summarize your thesis.

Hare Krishna Querido Gurudeva!!!!!!!!!!!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a USTED.

Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias familiares. PAMHO

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Estamos a unas semanas de terminar las clases en el colegio. Estamos muy cansados pero felices de poder compartir y aprender con los niños y las niñas.

No somos muy hábiles para poderle dar consejos de como mejorar este boletin. Desde nuestro punto de vista es muy bueno y muy variado. Gracias a este boletin podemos saber mas sobre usted.

Aun recuerdo cuando el boletin era escrito a mano. Es otro sentimiento. Tenemos algunas copias guardadas como un tesoro.

Muchas gracias por darnos este grandioso servicio. su misericordia es increíble.

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette )

HpS --- Thank you all. How is your venerable Mother? Your Aunt live nearby also?

How old are your students?

What are you teaching them?

Of course, you are teaching them what is life, by your attitude, no?

Can you describe a couple of them?

Hare Krsna Gurudeva!

Agt SP!!

Agt Radha and Krsna!

I hope that you are very well in all aspects.

HpS - Need a lot of improvement, but life is nice in many ways.

I, very good Gurudeva...never materially, of course.

I don't know what to tell Maharaja, because what I like to talk about, or people do not talk, or is confidential, it seems.

HpS - Let your "Inner monkey and piggy" speak for you.

I've been trying for days to find the inspiration to know what to write to You, but since I have not found a solution to the problem, I'm going to write something that seems natural to me.

ASA - Better than something that seems un-natural!!

I often think about life, Krsna, etc.

I imagine that in spiritual advancement, practitioners receive more and more cascades of energy, of all kinds, without discrimination and en masse, like the flow of the river ganges falling on their heads. It seems to me that, a river of life flowing.

HpS - Hmmm. Would seem that we get out of the material stream, which means we see how it is the result of a spiritual stream, no?

Some people only want to wet their face, others only their hair, etc. But in my practical experience, when you discover your face towards the waterfall of life, or towards the massive flow of life, you will not find breezes from the forest brushing your face, but a massive and ruthless force, that like rocks 5 kg, they don't stop putting pressure on our faces. That to me is Parvati and Siva in direct but impersonal experience.

ASA - !

In my opinion, if one opens his soul to that massive force constantly, he will suffer and enjoy massively in every fraction of the time. One second is very long on this matter.

HpS - Yes, requires different kind of body.

My personal experience tells me that pressure increases as one detaches oneself from the world, and I have seemed to experience 2 paths in increasing pressure. One helps us, and another just annoys.

The one that helps us is caused by observing the world and how it works. The pressure is progressive, and it matures in the initial and intermediate stages, in the advanced stages, one, the only thing you can do is receive the pressure and give thanks.

The one that bothers us is caused by plans outside our destiny that are created in our mental dreams.

In both cases, Parvati uses agents of the material world

Everything is my opinion, the fruit of my direct experience

I believe that demonic people, agitated by the dark aspect of Parvati (or of the Virgin Mary), know nothing more than to bother so that Parvati is pleased ... with us, not with them.

The worst thing that could have happened to this world is the industrial revolution, since before the world was a world of regions, laws of the "place", forbidden areas for humans, direct knowledge of other species or different races, or demons of many classes. Physical, non-physical. Human, non-human. Now people are enslaved and educated by butchers, and they answer "good, good" just like sheep.

HpS - Yes. In many ways it began with World War I, no? That was the first really mechanized war.

I always remember some words that the Virgin Mary repeats a lot to seers of all times and countries "whoever says he is mine and does not abandon the path of deception, will suffer". Or as the Bible says, "the lukewarm are the worst, because they are neither one thing nor the other"

HpS - Revelation of John!

I'm sorry Gurudeva that I write to you without order, but I didn't know what to say

I think the same as You Maharaja, this world is depressing.

I hope you are in good health, Gurudeva, and the days pass quietly in Krsna consciousness

My humble obeisances Gurudeva

Hare Krsna Maharaja, buen día.

Hari bolo Hari bolo, Hari Hari.

HpS - Thank you very much!! What are Siva and Parvati called in the spiritual world? In this world we see a reflection of that Vaikuntha form in the mirror of Prakrti. Is very nice letter. Must move from Brahman realization to P'atma, to K como vecino.

My Dear Maharaja!

Hare Krishna! Pranams! Namaste! This is Gaurav Mittal. I hope you remember me. It has been almost 9 years since I had last conversation with you. I read your blog quite regularly.

HpS - Honestly I think about you pretty often!! How's the wife and family? How is your self relization.

Suppose we see object like table outside. Is there really table outside as we see it? When light hits the retina, special cells called photoreceptors turn the light into electrical signals.

ASA - Rods and cones. We studied psychology, perception in the university. We think that we have a smart ass!

These electrical signals travel from the retina through the optic nerve to the brain. Then the brain turns the signals into the images we see.

HpS - Oooop! WIthout the Paramatma, Atma, and Mind (Which uses the brain, no?) they would not be 'turned', no?

Object outside is interpretation of those electrical signals in one specific way. Can there be another way to interpret those electrical signals?

ASA - Sure!!! Look up optical illusions on the internet and you'll see how we see things differently again and again based upon the senses, the mind, the intelligence, the soul....

Can those electrical signal convey true reality? Where does object truly exist? It only exists inside in mind in form of image, perceptions and sensations projected onto mind. If we look deeply, we will find that independent existence of object outside is just a belief. Object independently existing outside is convenient, consistent and practical belief.

ASA - Social convention, toys maintained by the SUpersould for the noisy children.

In terms of reality, we can be sure of only one thing. That awareness or consciousness in which object appears exists.

ASA - Rene Descartes: Cogito ergo sum, no?

That awareness / consciousness is our real unchanging Self. Unfortunately, we identify unchanging self with objects due to illusion of maya. True Self (ATMA) is eternal, seer, witness, without any change, beyond time and space. Time and space are mental constructs and ATMA is beyond these mental constructs.

ASA - This is Brahman realization, no? Then Paramatma, I can realize that I have relation with a Super-self, Paramatma, Collective sub-conscious.... intuition, insight.

Bhagavatam describes this mental filtering of true reality as illusion. Few verses which describe it:

SB 11/7/7: My dear Uddhava, the material universe that you perceive through your mind, speech, eyes, ears and other senses is an illusory creation that one imagines to be real due to the influence of māyā. In fact, you should know that all of the objects of the material senses are temporary.

SB 11/23/49: Persons who identify with this body, which is simply the product of the material mind, are blinded in their intelligence, thinking in terms of “I” and “mine.” Because of their illusion of “this is I, but that is someone else,” they wander in endless darkness.

Different experiences like pain, pleasures etc are in the mind and I am totally distinct from mind. They don't even touch me. This is beautifully described in Bhagavatam.

SB 11/23/56: The false ego gives shape to illusory material existence and thus experiences material happiness and distress. The spirit soul, however, is transcendental to material nature; he can never actually be affected by material happiness and distress in any place, under any circumstance or by the agency of any person. A person who understands this has nothing whatsoever to fear from the material creation.

Upadhi means to appropriate some other quality as oneself. There is awareness and there are objects which awareness (atma) is aware of. There is seer (Atma) and seen (objects). I (the seer) has appropriated objects (not self) as self. Rupa Gosvami says - sarvo upadhi vinirmukta - devotional service starts by not appropriating these upadhi - which means to rest in ATMA and not accept body and mind as belonging to self (mine) or as self (me).

The chapter SB 12/5 is final instruction of Sukadeva Gosvami and chapter is also titled - "Śukadeva Gosvāmī’s Final Instructions to Mahārāja Parīkṣit".

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/12/5/

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/11/23/

I wanted to find out your understanding on Bhagavatam 12/5 and Uddhava Gita especially chapter Bhagavatam 11/23. I hope you can share your understanding.

Thank you very much.

Dandavat Pranams,

Gaurav Mittal

HpS - Thank you!!! We kind of gave our idea above and discussing a whole chapter, SB 12.5, here would be hard, but after considering our comments, maybe there is some subsequent ideas, verse, from the Uddhava Gita!!!

Hare Krishna!!!!!!!!!!!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a USTED, querido Gurumaharaja.

Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias familiares. PAMHO

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Aqui estamos, aun vivos. Continuamos trabajando de manera virtual, dando clases en las mañanas.

Este mes de DAMODAR es muy especial para nosotros, recordamos que en dia de este mes Krishna nos dio una segunda oportunidad para servirlo. Ofrecemos la mecha todos los dias en familia. Pidiendo mucho por usted.

Muchas gracias por darnos este grandioso servicio. su misericordia es increíble.

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette )

ASA HpSwami - Thank you. We are dying but if we receive personal energy from Krsna we can do something in this Sankirtan movement.

Give us evaluation and instruction for this little bulletin.

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and your service unto him.

For the Japan library, they can do a Bank Wire Transfer and to do a money transfer, they are requesting an invoice or like a bill with the book and it's price. Do we have an official NIOS letterhead or official NIOS invoice.

Here is the letter from the Japanese librarian:

Dear Dr. Ayush Goyal,

Please send your invoice at your earliest convenience.

Upon receipt of it we will send our remittance by Bank Wire Transfer.

Your prompt procedure will be highly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Manabu Oda

Assistant Librarian .... Japan

HpS - ASA --- Esteemed Aja-govinda Das

Thank you for you essential help in this area for NIOS. We were little delayed in dealing with this as we did not have Word on our computer until yesterday so we could not write a proper invoice.

Then we looked at the price of the book.

Then we went to the UPS, FedEx and DHL sites and went through the mechanics of getting a quote on shipping costs to Japan. That took about 1-hour of hard work. The Estimates came back at $170, 170 and 150 respectively!

So, I responded to your e-mail with this info so you can ask the library if they have a less expensive means of shipping, and whether they still want to order the book.

Ooof. So much technical work. We can only do so much a day.

It is satisfy in some respects. To do battle with the robot and win 14/11.