Report - AmD - Diario 02

1 week, 2 days ago by anandamayadas in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.



 For a long time we have prayed to Nrshimhadeva of Mayapur for his [your?] health... Now we have Him here very close...



 I send you this report, which is actually a copy of my diary:


ASA -🐵 🐖🐖🐖 Thank you!


From Deli to Calcutta by plane and from Calcutta by taxi to Mayapur... We arrived in the afternoon and after a bath we went to ask permission from Lord Siva to allow us to enter the Dham... The altar of Lord Siva was closed, but you could see it from the window in the temple of one of the Vaisnava Gaudiyas (there are many temples around here) and then we went to take darshan at the Iskcon temple...


We have seen Panca Tattva, Radha Madhava, through photos and videos for so many years.

Astasaki, and Nrshimhadeva, seeing them in person was a very difficult experience to tell...


ASA - 🐒 Can break even a stone like heart!


From some signs, I always thought that I was more attracted to Vrndavan... Actually I don't know... But I feel very good here in Mayapur...


HpS - Mayapura is a confidential part of Vrndavana, where Lalita and Visakha try to explain to Krsna the feelings that Radha has for him, no?


There is something to Chosica, where I lived for more than fifteen years... We have already visited several historical and sacred places... And I would like to stay... But I still have to see Vrndavan...


We nhave been here in Mayapur for almost a moth and we have been very busy serving in the Bhakti Marga Swami theater team, this year "The Age of Kali" will be presented, which they say was presented before and Srila Prabhupada liked it very much...

 Here in Maharaj's team there is also Parama Karuna [Das!], he is the lead, he is Kali in the theater, and he was the one who recommended me to Maharaj... I am taking charge of the lights...


 Yesterday the official presentations of "The Age of Kali" began and many great personalities, Gurus, sannyasis, SP disciples, Kirtaniyas, etc. came.


ASA - Outside guests? In the Samadhi Auditorium?


 We will be from March 6 to 12 here in Mayapur and from the 13th there will be a small tour ending on March 18 in Deli... That day our service ends and we are thinking of going to Vrndavan for a few days to return for Gaura Purnima to Mayapur ...


HpS/ASA - 👳 🐒🐒 You are so fortunate. Hope all you friends and family are following you and so many personal relations being corrected.

Mother Saci even committed offense to Advaita Acharya and had to ask for forgiveness!


 Please bless me to enter Vrndavan, we don't know what will happen when we are in Srila Prabhupada's Samadhi or when we see Gaura Nitai, Krsna Balarama and Radha Shyamasundar in person... We have longed for that moment for a long time...


ASA - ... and Govardhana❗❗


 I hope to see you again here in the Holy Dham, I hope that is one of Krsna's plans for me...

 Your aspiring AmD servant.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!! Hare Krsna.


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Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva, por acepta mis humildes reverencias, todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.


Desde hace mucho tiempo le oramos a Nrshimhadeva de Mayapur por su salud... Ahora a Él, lo tenemos aquí muy cerca...


Te envío este reporte, que en realidad es copia de mi diario:


De Deli a Calcuta en avión y de Calcuta en taxi a Mayapur... Llegamos en la tarde y después de un baño fuimos a pedir permiso al Señor Siva para que nos permita entrar al Dham... El altar del Señor Siva estaba cerrado, pero se podía ver desde la ventana en el templo de una de las Gaudiyas Vaisnavas (hay muchos templos por aquí) y luego fuimos a tomar darshan al templo de Iskcon... Hemos visto por foto y videos tantos años al Panca Tattva, Radha Madhava Astasaki, y a Nrshimhadeva, que verlos personalmente fue una experiencia muy difícil de contar... 


Por algunas señales, siempre pensé que me sentía más atraído a Vrndavan... En realidad no lo sé... Pero me siento muy bien aquí en Mayapur... Tiene algo a Chosica donde viví más de quince años... Ya hemos visitado varios lugares históricos y sagrados... Y me gustaría quedarme... Pero aún tengo que conocer Vrndavan...


Ya estamos casi un mes aquí en Mayapur y hemos estado muy ocupados sirviendo en el equipo de teatro de Bhakti Marga Swami, este año se presentará "La era de Kali" que según dicen fue presentado antes y a Srila Prabhupada le gustó mucho...


Aquí en el equipo de Maharaj también está Parama Karuna, él es el protagonista, él es Kali en el teatro, y fue quien me recomendó con Maharaj... Yo estoy haciendome cargo de las luces... 


Ayer empezaron las presentaciones oficiales de "La era de Kali" y vinieron muchas grandes personalidades, Gurus, sannyasis, discípulos de SP, Kirtaniyas, etc. 


Estaremos del 06 al 12 de marzo aquí en Mayapur y a partir del 13 habrá una pequeña gira terminando el 18 de marzo en Deli... Ese día se termina nuestro servicio y estamos pensando ir a Vrndavan por unos días para regresar para Gaura Purnima a Mayapur...


Por favor bendiceme para poder entrar a Vrndavan, no sabemos que va a pasar cuando estemos en el Samadhi de Srila Prabhupada o cuando veamos en persona a Gaura Nitai, Krsna Balaram y Radha Shyamasundar... Hemos añorado ese momento por mucho tiempo...


Espero volver a verte aquí en el Santo Dham, espero que ese sea uno de los planes de Krsna para mí...


Tu aspirante a sirviente AmD.


Maturity Management

1 week, 4 days ago by chas d lind in Personal Sadhana Reports

February 20, 2024

Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,

Please accept my humble obeisances, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!


Bhaimi Ekadasi is underway, and thoughts are beginning to sway, best I find something to say. Japa is resting for a moment, after 16 rounds of fulfilment this day. 


While fasting, am packing cookies to restore meager offerings to others, though this batch was not so easily matched with pillaged dough and distraction shown.

Dry mixes all astrewn, butter was fluid, seemed to be doomed, my only hope would be the Lord’s boon, for my mind was swooned...again.


Well, kept the faith and mixed it straight, came out great, these cookies have been offered since 98’, only the Divine saved me this time.


Age is showin’ have to keep goin’,

for too eager for the everlasting past,

regardless,

changing bodies remind us we don’t last,

time to pass... going out with a biscuit blast.


On to the gift of “now”, we’re present to expand our presence,

best yet with an essential vow...

may our minds be supine like Tulsi, resting on Govinda’s brow [?], then our frivolous pride will humbly bow.


Under the sway of Ekadashi, then Lord Varaha pulls the Earth from the ocean's waves. That’s not all to say, next is dear Sri Nityananda’s day, so be it, within this week’s superb spin.


Still composing with a poetic license, though I only have a learner’s permit, unable to fully commit my trips, I will not try your patience or stir agitations with half-baked citations.


Thank you for your patience and compassion, for this fool is ingracious, an obscure bastion-pouring shards of mental debris upon innocent beings.


Concluding, self-diluting ways, arriving to surmise, I have a kaleidoscope for a mind. Thus your flexibility in our banter has forged some intelligence, I'm becoming a chanter. Am grateful for your miraculous subtle touch for I feared so much, this brain could have gone insane, and my japa would not regain.


Now in doing so, ventures are tenured where they grow... I only have to do the needful and flow, always remembering your examples in Sadhana goals which do not encumber our Guru’s Souls, but free their glories to fulfill the eternal toll of God’s Love, priceless and whole.


Enough of my tumultuous tittering will leave you with another's offering, “The Butter Thief” from a real-deal poet who knows it and shows it.


Thank you for your most valuable time!

 c.c. das


HpS/ASA - Thank you!

Thank you for the box of cookies.

They were here when Nandulal Das brought us.

In the rush he forgot his box, but we gave it to NgD and local constituency.

What about minimal sweet, biscuit?


Sadana report

1 week, 4 days ago by panchali@ in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare krishna gurumaharaj

Please accept my most humble obeisance on to your lotus feet

All glories to srila prabhupada


How are you gurumaharaj ? It has been more than a year while we had your last Darshan here in India, at Radhakund.

You told me to write to you whenever I had doubts in anything.

Your book Tava Pache Pache has been such a wonderful guide to Nectar of Instruction that whenever I read it, it guides me what to do and I feel your presence.


I never wrote before as I was having tough time fighting with Maya and completing my 16 rounds on time. But now , from last one month I have been able to get up early by 4:30 am and complete my rounds on time.


HpS - Very nice! ! !


By your mercy i'm able to chant 16 rounds properly so I took a pen and wrote to you giving my sadana report.

My service of small giriraj at my home is also going on.

I decorate him everyday with sandelwood paste as you suggested me.


Gurumaharaj, can I do bhakti shastra course, which book should I start reading?


HpS - If you are in Radha kunda you could do it with Bhagavata Maha-vidhyalaya, no? They are near Govardhana. Try to contact them. Sukadeva Das may have their contact information.


Please guide me as I will proceed as you guide me


Thank you gurumaharaj

Hare krishna

Ys- panchali Devi Dasi


HpS - Thank you for wonderful news. Where are you staying in more detail. How long have you been there?


Hare Krishna

3 weeks, 2 days ago by purnamasidevidasi in Personal Sadhana Reports



Dear Gurudeva:

Please, accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you for the continuos opportunity to get your association in live, trough Go to meeting and another media.

Very soon it is going to be Nityananda Trayodiasi.

These last days, I am being role playing, in the classroom, the pastime of Govardhana and some fighting with demons. I am sending you some pictures.

I have also writen a short story about genre [gender?] violence for a contest, since one school friend has encorouge me to do it. I included the Maha mantra. This way, I think the judges will read it. I am also sending it to you.

Still working, day after day. Life is hard and sometimes I feel tired. but thanks to devotees asociation and chanting japa, I am still in the fight, triying you to be satisfied with my minimum aportation to Srila Prabhupada mission, which is the real goal. Practicing sports also helps me. I practice triatlon adapted to my age, body and very few abbilities. Running allows me to reduce stress and anxiety after a difficult hard day in the classroom, with 17 child minds plus mine! Sometimes, I run, sometimes I swim and, less often, but sometimes as well, I ride the bike. And I do it with Nimai and Sarasvati. We all go together but Sarasvati with kids of her age. In the triathlon group, some people call me Purnamasi, since that is the name that appears in my WhatsApp and they like it.

Nimai is almost finishing his last year of school before the University. He still doesn’t know what to study, but his preferences are International Relationships and Economy. He is a good student and, most of all, a good person. Sarasvati, she is 10, very positive girl. Everybody likes her so, she is popular.

 

Thank you very much for your mercy.

 

Hoping one day being able to serve you properly.

 

Purnamasi devi dasi


HpS - Thank, agtSP, you. It is awesome when we think that there must be thousands of people like us in the world now.

You meet all the Purnamasi type followers of Srila Prabhupada and you all laugh to see how much the same you are and that you all are trying to do something and it is not just one of you but one thousand!

Thumbs up.

Encouraged to do your work.


I meet the 1,000 hps types, nimai meets the 1,000 nimai types.

\srila prabhupada has put life blood into the world.

things are changed.

iskcon is going into third phase.


what does jayanta das think about nimai's studies?

maybe try a lot of different things.

what about cinema?

Asking for help

3 weeks, 2 days ago by mercurio3 in Personal Sadhana Reports

PAMHO AGTSP! All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!


Hare Krishna!! How r u Maharaj!?


HpS - AgtSP!! Do you get our Tweets?🙂


Well here go some of the issues I was telling you in the former letter.


I began experiencing some problems with the mother of my child, some of them are pretty private, and the ones I can mention are:


  1. She threatened me and my family, and took my kid away certain day with the police
  2. She’s moving to a town a little far away from where I’m living, so I won’t be able to see her that often, and I’m really close to her so that caused me certain distress, and the accumulation of all this things caused me to get a little bit attached to tobacco, thank you and Krishna I didn’t fall so deep, I’m trying to follow your advice of at least not smoking before 6pm and I usually don’t smoke really much
  3. She sometimes feeds my kid with certain egg-containing foods

Sometimes I’m feeling sleepy, and I force myself to stay awake because of the stressful situation.


I started a treatment with a counselor in order to quit smoking and seeking new ways to improve my health.


Could you please give me an advice?


HpS - No. Not really. 🙂 Nothing new. Go ahead with the tools Srila Prabhupada has given you. Be bold in chanting Hare Krsna loudly, often. All the:

Tobacco

Witches

Attachments

Etc

Will just dissolve like the fog as the Sun comes up.

Go ahead. You are on the right path. Just stick to it and lean how to progress on it better by practice.


Well beside all of that the quality of my rounds I feel have been better than ever, and also of my reading.

Prabhu Govinda Damodar referred me to a text in which Prabhupada says that in difficult times Krishna gives more mercy.

Also I’ve been feeling myself more enthusiastic.


Thank you very much in advance Maharaj!


Federico Molnár


HpS - Jaya!!

To die profoundly

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!


Still relishing our time with you in Houston. A fire was lit and we are keeping it stoked. Some times there are just red coals and other times there is a lot of light. Maintenance and steadiness is our constant work. Internally crying selfish tears half the time, though. Noticing everyday and sometimes many times within a moment, how I am like a spoiled brat. An ungrateful child in the hands of so much mercy. Not fully taking advantage of what I have been given. A kind of purgatory. And then your voice comes in..Durga has given the reins to Radharani. And your illuminations are remembered. A few things I know by heart and text 3 and statement in the purport of NOI comes to mind/heart: devotional service is so pure and perfect that once having begun, one is forcibly dragged to ultimate success.


Wow.


I endeavor to be dragged? Enthusiasm is more important than patience as I’ve heard you say. We’ve observed that when most rounds are done before breakfast and there is class then that momentum carries and we are able to actually give to others. Otherwise there is nothing to give really and it can feel like hell or purgatory. I don’t want to waist this life that you have given.


A lot of exciting new projects and pioneering work ahead here in New Biharvan dham. Our dear Kalakantha Prabhu has made Boise his number one focus for Krishna House and Krishna Lunch. Him and his good wife Jita Mitra Prabhu will be living here for a year and they are bringing other angels and experts to give us a strong push to get things going.


The New Biharvan perspective and bonsai tree is growing nicely despite so many challenges and opposition. I think about what you said a lot when I am feeling unhopeful..the temple is Sat Cit Ananda. I try to just lean into that and do my duties. Sing to God in His home, fix things here and there and be the janitor. Pretty good gig! Hope to just keep doing this after I die? Long row to hoe..


Here is a song/poem(it will change to fit music) I wrote for you this morning:


Profoundly Dying 


For you, we are trying 


But there is no try, there is only do? 

Well I know what will be done 

Can be done more for you  


Giant steps, baby steps 

Or a slow and steady crawl 

A leap of faith, an effort made 

or a care free flippant fall 


I want more with you 


And connection to that line 

Disciplic succession 

No more waiting for a sign 


It’s you, the one I will die to follow 

It is me, the false ego 

Many bitter pills to swallow 


To garland your shadow 

What is the need? 

When the root is watered 

And it grows from the seed 


Lighter, brighter days ahead 

And the mercy river flows 

Saintly joyous attributes 

From the crown down to the toes 


Rising above the gunas

Your arms stretched out like wings 

Attention sharpens 

If I can only hear you in the mornings 


Divinity blues sung in the darkest hour 

Preservation, cultivation 

Then the light comes rushing in 

As I offer you a flower 


Now it’s a good day to die, to die profoundly 


Thank you Maharaja for the constant inspiration. Your enthusiasm keeps our fire bright and illuminates Srila Prabhupada’s teachings for us. Praying that you heal quickly from the dental surgery! Transcend~dental


Eternally grateful and indebted, your aspiring servants,

Nitisara das, Anadi and Yamuna


P.S. We got the Improvisations for the Theater book like you suggested and have started trying out some of those exercises/games on our own and at Krishna Lounge. Thank you for that suggestion! Amazing young people coming each week and a very very sincere ex Christian.. hallelujah/hare Krishna!


HpS - The beginning part is very nice, where she talks about the fundamental principles of drama theory. she capitalizes the word Environment.

It think it is Paramatma yoga???


Very nice news.

You see we have been drowning in blood etc.

Yet getting to this wonderful mail, no!!