Bh. K. WhatsApped:
I miss Kirtan in public so much Maharaj, so I started to play melodic meditative guitar music in public some days 🎸
People give donations so I give them small Maha Mantra cards I made 🙏😊
Sometimes I distribute
books to them also, Hari Hari!
ASA Responds:
Perfect! Just improve your technique and inspire your own students.
Hare Krishna
Respected Maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
Reading your replies shows such maturity in you, I am spellbound.
By your mercy and prayers, my sadhana is little better now. One wrong trap for me is I am wasting quite a time on social media... I know I need to reduce that.
Mostly I am staying in Darbhanga. I conduct a small program at my room on Sunday. 2-3 families are slowly taking to the process of Krishna Consciousness, while 1 new online batch has been started- your blessings are required so that it grows into a group of devotees. As informed earlier, a ISKCON center has come up here in Darbhanga being managed by some devotees. Now I am trying to look for some other place for developing preaching. Sometimes I feel a little weak due to lack of association. If things work out nicely then in 3-4 months I can expect to serve Lord in a small temple near Sitamarhi. Sitamarhi is said to be the place where Mother Sita was found from within the Earth by Maharaj Janak. There a few devotees are also expected to join us. Not getting much/ any practical support from my authorities sometimes disheartens me and causes fear- how long I would be able to flap before maya captures me?
Please keep me under your blessing and let me know if I could do any little service for you.
Your servant,
Purushottam Keshav Das
HpS - AgtSP. As soon as I saw your name on this Blog post I was thinking about you and wanted to answer. I hope our other posts and our Kapi Dhvaja communicate our spiritual and material situation.
Hare Krsna!
Even now it is 5.07PM and we have one hour to wash clothes, cut nails, shave face and head as per every two week standard and then we have Juhlana Yatra and second night of a Symposium on Nectar of Instruction given be Krsna through our mind (We hope).
Here is what I was thinking
Why not move into the Bhakti Vedanta Research Center (BRC) Ashrama in Kolkatta and work with them. Get a diploma in history etc. be representative for our NIOS there, coordinate with Dr. Samaresh.
NIOS can make donations to BRC to help with any expenses.
What do you think?
I think it is a terrible plan,
but I also think it might be good.
Anything in this world is terrible unless Krsna wants it.
You are carrying on in all difficulty, like so many other followers of Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON devotees.
We will win.
My dear Maharaja,
Dandavat pranams. Jai Vaishnavas.
I wanted to hear your personal experience on the first step of Krishna consciousness - ““I am not this body but am spirit soul”. I will appreciate if you can share it as it will encourage the sadhaks.
HpS - It happens all the time. I believed that I was immortal about 4-years old when our neighbor's dog died and I evaluated my knowledge of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Then of course it is continuously confirmed by KC. Of course, we are not 100% fixed in Sat Dhama, but we seem to be on the right path after all our investigation and making more progress daily.
Here is my experience or sadhana report:
When you do mantra jap or make Krishna object of your thoughts, you start becoming aware of the space in which these thoughts appear and disappear. Thoughts come and go. But the space in which they come and go is unchanging awareness. It is not limited by this body and mind. It is prior to mind. That is you, the pure consciousness and awareness. So mantra jap or making Krishna object of our thoughts leads to realizing oneself as distinct from body and mind.
HpS - Yes, same experience. The Mantra as Japa or Kirtan or Sankirtan does that "Man" "Tra"
Here is what Srila Prabhupada explains:
“The very first step in self-realization is realizing one’s identity as separate from the body. “I am not this body but am spirit soul” is an essential realization for anyone who wants to transcend death and enter into the spiritual world beyond. It is not simply a matter of saying “I am not this body,” but of actually realizing it. This is not as simple as it may seem at first. Although we are not these bodies but are pure consciousness, somehow or other we have become encased within the bodily dress. If we actually want the happiness and independence that transcend death, we have to establish ourselves and remain in our constitutional position as pure consciousness.”
Regards,
Gaurav Mittal
HpS - Thank you sir. What has happened to the family? Are you still in Texas. Hare Krsna.
Hare Krsna Gurudev!!!!! 💌Reverencias a sus santos pies de loto!!! 🙌Todas, todas, todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!! 🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
Querido Gurudev, hemos tenido días de tsunamis fuertes en el corazón, hemos tenido que adelantar el matrimonio de diciembre para este próximo fin de semana, me siento como cuando mis hermanos espirituales tenían que organizar su visita y yo el Prasadam para las conferencias, ansiosa y con ganas de mejorar los aspectos que son relevantes para el avance espiritual. 🐛🦋 Syam llegará el sábado y ya en la semana estaremos casados, el se irá a trabajar y organizarse y yo me quedaré en Chile hasta diciembre, tratando de apoyar a mi hijo en su término de ciclo estudiantil y dar el paso de sus responsabilidades, además de tener un tiempo más con mi nieta que cumplirá 3 años en enero, ella ama el maha mantra, salta y baila cantándolo, me deja tranquila eso, yo no puedo controlar nada, sin embargo si encausarlo. 🌺🌺🌺
Seguimos introduciéndonos a diario en el canto 1 y en canto 3 del Srimad Bhagavatam, ha sido muy paciente Syam conmigo, ya que por circunstancias de la vida, no le había prestado la atención requerida a las escrituras sagradas, aunque debo decir que siempre mi libro de cabecera ha sido el Bhagavad Gita y Upadesamrta.
Estos días pararé con mi Sankirtan de prasadam, sin embargo estaré al servicio de los devotos que vengan a compartir con Syam y yo este momento de sadhu Sanga, no hay nada más importante en la vida de un devoto que la asociación, tal como lo comentaron hoy en la clase de prabhu AbhiRam, que sería de nosotros sin la asociación de los devotos, por eso me siento profundamente agradecida de usted Gurudev por darnos a diario el FMP y las trascendentales clases, es muy, muy misericordioso.
Misericordia(lo más pequeño q sale del corazón) 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Esta semana tomé darsan de las deidades SriSri Parama Karuna que están al resguardo de Gita Govinda y Dina Dayal, discípulos de Bhaktibushana Swami, muy cualificados, se extraña mucho ir a verlas al templo y hacer servicio, sin embargo ese síntoma hace desear siempre lo mejor para los devotos, para la Congregación en general y para nuestro avance espiritual. Prabhupada estaría muy feliz de ver como todos vamos danzando y cantando apegados a la Verdad Absoluta y desenmascarandonos para ser sirvientes, del sirviente del sirviente, por favor permitame cualificarme de mejor forma para el placer de Radha Krsna🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Postrada a sus pies y agradecida infinitamente su discípula que añora verlo pronto en Perú.
Laksmiradha DD
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Hare Krsna Gurudev !!!!! Salutations to your holy lotus feet !!! All, all, all glories to Srila Prabhupada !!! 🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
HpS / ASA -- We have pies de lechuga.
Dear Gurudev, we have had days of strong tsunamis in the heart, we have had to advance the December marriage for this next weekend, I feel like when my godbrothers had to organize their visit and I the Prasadam for the conferences, anxious and wanting to improve the aspects that are relevant for spiritual advancement. 🐛🦋 Syam will arrive on Saturday and in the week we will be married, he will go to work and organize and I will stay in Chile until December, trying to support my son in his term of student cycle and take the step of his responsibilities, Besides having some more time with my granddaughter who will be 3 years old in January, she loves the maha mantra, she jumps and dances singing it, that leaves me alone, I cannot control anything, however I can prosecute it. 🌺🌺🌺
HpS - Wow! Yet whatever we do for Krsna will have good result! Jaya, Senyora!
We continue to introduce ourselves daily in song 1 and song 3 of Srimad Bhagavatam, Syam has been very patient with me, since due to life circumstances, he had not paid the required attention to the sacred scriptures, although I must say that my book The headline has been the Bhagavad Gita and Upadesamrta.
These days I will stop with my prasadam Sankirtan, however I will be at the service of the devotees who come to share with Syam and I this moment of sadhu Sanga, there is nothing more important in the life of a devotee than association, as they commented.
Today in the prabhu AbhiRam class, which would be ours without the association of the devotees, so I am deeply grateful to you Gurudev for giving us the FMP and the transcendental classes daily, you are very, very merciful.
Mercy (the smallest thing that comes out of the heart) 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This week I took darsan from the deities SriSri Parama Karuna who are under the protection of Gita Govinda and Dina Dayal, disciples of Bhaktibushana Swami, very qualified, it is very strange to go to see them at the temple and do service, however that symptom always makes you wish for the best for the devotees, for the Congregation in general and for our spiritual advancement. Prabhupada would be very happy to see how we are all dancing and singing attached to the Absolute Truth and unmasking ourselves to be servants, of the servant of the servant, please allow me to better qualify myself for the pleasure of Radha Krsna🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Prostrated at his feet and infinitely grateful to his disciple who longs to see him soon in Peru.
Laksmiradha DD
HpS - We hope you sent photos of the Boda etc. Hari Bolo! Hari Bolo!!
AGTSP
PAMHO
Hare Krishna Gurudeva, le agradezco su respuesta a mi último reporte🙏
Tenemos una noticia muy buena mi esposo Gadadhar y yo aceptamos comprar un caballo joven también una vaca suiza se llama lila y está embarazada, ambos viven con nosotros en la finca en Montemorelos.
HpS - Mascotas, vacas para Krsna! Caballos comen mucho!! Espera Krsna envia su quota. Pertencen a Ksatriyas. 😊
Mi esposo está muy feliz y le envía reverencias agradece la guía que nos ha brindado para servir juntos y crear este proyecto en Montemorelos.
Entendemos que tiene un plan de viaje igual agradecemos su consideración y respuesta sobre invitación de visitar Monterrey esperamos poder viajar a Perú si Krishna lo permite.
ASA - Nos vemos en Peru. Enviaremos nuestras hadas sacar Vds. por un noche en nuestra alfrombra magica!
No quiero quitarle más su tiempo Gurudeva deseo se encuentre bien de salud🙌
tu insignificante sirvienta Anandamaya devi dasi
HpS - Photos del caballo.
