Jara Mara Hari Das Reporting from Spain

4 years, 4 months ago by jaramara in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Maharaja PAMHO AGTSP

Here we are still alive (Will be 50 years old in 10 months)


HpS - If we live that long, we will be 74-years old in 11-months. Have you lived a good life so far? Seems like it.


Still based in my parents property (They are getting older over 75 now)


We got 5 hectares land and planning to develop Rural community


Planing to get a 50+ capacity youth hostel near the spot. (Would be a Asrama to host gests and students).


Keep developing projects, getting funds from European Union for developing nice projects for the youth, and supporting ISKCON organizations all around Europe. (Collecting and distributing over 1.000.000 € every year)


Now the good news:

We had a motor bike accident, Clavicle, hand and 3 rips broken.

Surgery, some titanium and glue and ready for service again.


ASA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man. Hope it was very, very useful for your eternal realization!! Big asset.


I was asking my self why Krishna and Balaram let this happen

I didn't need such a big signal just to learn to drive safely.

So It happened that after surgery I had to stay in bed for like 3 weeks.


So I didn't know what to do with all my natural passion.

Finally i decided to focus in trying to understand how to distribute Srila Prabhupada books through internet.


So after many youtube tutorials I Got to a plan

And decided to give it a try.

So I started with the system 23 November

Till Today 10 February we have distributed:

702 Bhagavad Gitas

Over 100 Small books

over 16.000 Euros collected and this is only in 2 months in Spain

Best of all I didn't have to move from my home

I just have to go to the post office once a day


HpS - ! Upadesamrtas? Light of the Bhagavatas? Making your customers in to salesmen??


And over all we got 800 contacts with Address, email and phone number

So we can keep helping this souls to get closer to Krishna, get more books, invite them to festivals, seminars, digital meetings, etc.


HpS - Super! That is the system, no? Distribute a few books and then train those people how to distribute.


We really think this is gonna be a revolution in the Sankirtan movement


The system is just on its first steps so it can be much more productive.


We are now looking for Sankirtan partners so we can expand the system every where:

Already set it up In:


Italy, México and Estonia.


We will start the E-Sankirtan this week in:

Argentina, Colombia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark.


We are setting up to start next week in:

UK, Australia, France, Croatia, Poland, Bielorrusia


Already seting up also for:

France, Portugal, Chile, Bengala, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg....


We keep in the process of expansion and hopefully we will have cover 30 countries by the end of this year. (Including USA, Canada, India,Russia, etc)


So I believe this will make Prabhupada very happy on his 125 anniversary.


All this has been possible thanks to your constant inspiration.


ASA - AgtSP!


So I kindly ask you for your benediction to be able to serve at the best of my possibilities to your dear guru maharaja (Srila Prabhupada) and Lord´s gauranga Sankirtana movement and your good self.


HpS - Is there some way people who want to join you can contact you?


I am also really trying to set up an ideal rural community as I believe this exemplary communities will also very much make SP happy.


HpS - So are we now. We like the name, New Ashokavan, named after Hanuman's lila of giving the ring to Sita!


In 10 months I will be 50 so I hope I would be able to delegate more in the younger Sankirtan partners like Prema Rasarnava, and Mantri Ram so I can start focusing in more reading and profound chanting.


HpS - Hmmm. Yes, but continue with your Sankirtan, now as a General rather than a Lieutenant.


Marta is being and amazing support, our relationship is getting more mature so less fights and more complicity in the service of Krishna Balarama.

She is very good packaging the books we sell.


HpS - Our respects to her!!! We only hope we can serve her. She is a very great person.


My son Vrindavan is in his first year university studying chemical engineering.

Marta´s father left his body so she is occupied solving all the administrative stuff.


Our garden keeps providing big percentage of our daily meal.


ASA - Also Meals for Moles?


We also have two bee hives and got some 5 Kg of honey for Krishna and Balarama.


Well Thats all for now

Please, Let me know if I can serve you in any way

Your fallen servant

JMHD


HpS - ASA - How is your Japa, Kirtan, Deity worship? Full morning program? We teach who we are more than what we know, no? 🙂

We hope more devotees join you. Respects to your father.

Morir para vivir

Hare Krishna dear Maharaja

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

How are you?


HpS - Very happy to receive a letter from you! With more work than our tiny brain can handle. Especially at 73-years old brain. So we prioritize for everyone's benefit and know Krsna is God.


I try to write, and then I find redundancies in my words, and without further ado, I suspend the writing.


HpS - Better just to edit and send, no?


Despite everything ... - my doubts always dissipate when I enter the Blog and read your comments, advice and blessings .. It is a great relief to experience happiness in the face of such mercy.


For example: A few days ago, while we were doing work with one of my sons on a terrace, he had an accident falling and seriously fracturing several bones in his arms.


HpS - My car only started after five attempts a few days ago. Of course, body is more close than car, but is basically the same, no?


Witnessing the incident, and as desolation, despair, frustration and grief invaded me ... I did not remember Krishna! Rather, lamentation was the only focus of my soul. A great sorrow in my heart. So you wrote: TB: Krsna sends advice through the devotees and the heart, but if we ignore that, then He sends a strong impetus from the environment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRE0FSvrw8) that we can't ignore the message. We just have to accept all this mercy. (hps)


So, without pretending to justify my failure to deprive myself of blogging and sharing, I call on myself to have to deepen my service, over the vanity that indolence inspires.


In another vein, the agricultural activity seems to be directed towards the desired purpose ("Tons of beans for the boys of Nanda braja"). The citizen garden model is seen as adequate to the current circumstances.


Chanting Hare Krishna before sunrise.


The observance of regulative principles progresses.


Thank you very much Maharaja. Their association is undoubtedly the result of the causeless mercy of Srila Prabhupada, His Lordships Goura-Nitay, Krishna,

Ekachacra N C das


HpS - I only remember having your association for a few hours when we were in Argentina. Your good self is father of Vrsabanu nandini Devi Dasi, no?

You impressed us as a very potent person.

It is a matter of understanding how to release that power, no? Where to focus? In this life or the next.

Just short notes of your service and of your community would be wonderful.


Hare Krishna estimado maharaja

Por favor acepte mis reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada


Como estás?


Intento escribir, y luego, hallo redundancias en mis palabras, y sin más, suspendo el escrito.


Pese a todo… - mis dudas siempre se disipan cuando entro al blog y leo sus comentarios , consejos y  bendiciones.. Resulta un gran alivio experimentar la dicha ante tanta misericordia.


Por ejemplo: Hace unos días, mientras realizábamos con uno de mis hijos un trabajo sobre una terraza, él se accidentó cayendo y fracturándose seriamente varios huesos de sus brazos.


Presenciando el incidente, y mientras me invadía la desolación, la desesperación, la frustración y la pena… ¡no recordé a Krisna ¡ Más bien, era la lamentación el único foco de mi alma. Una gran pena en mi corazón.


Entonces usted escribió:  TB: Krsna envía consejos a través de los devotos y el corazón, pero si ignoramos eso, entonces Él envía un fuerte ímpetu desde el medio ambiente (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRE0FSvrw8) de que no podemos ignorar el mensaje. Solo tenemos que aceptar toda esta misericordia. (hps)


Así pues, sin pretensiones de justificar mi falta por privarme de escribir en el blog y compartir, me llamo a tener que profundizar mi servicio, por sobre la vanidad que inspira la indolencia.


En otro orden de cosas, la actividad agrícola, pareciera hallarse encaminada hacia el propósito deseado ( “Toneladas de frijoles para los chicos de Nanda braja” ). El modelo de huerta ciudadana se aprecia adecuado a las circunstancias actuales.


 Cantando Hare Krisna antes del amanecer. La observancia de los principios regulativos progresa.


Muchas gracias Maharaja. Su asociación es sin duda el resultado de la misericordia sin causa de Srila Prabhupada, sus señorías Gouranitay Krisna.


Ekachacra N C das          


IMPORTANT ,PERSONAL ....

4 years, 4 months ago by Amparo Hernandez Castillo in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Maharaja!!!

Por favor acepta mis humildes reverencias a tus pies.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!


Como cada carta empizo contandole sobre mi sadhana ,20 rondas ,4 principios ,ultimamente un poco dificil concentrarme en buenas rondas,sigo el FMP y me conecto a las clases cuando son en español, atiendo las Tulasis (4)en casa,atiendo Jagannath Baladev Subhadra,Goura Nitay ,ofrezco dulces,capatis,ofrenda medio dia y leche,mi lectura en este momento se basa a los libros del curso de bhakti sastri,el cual sigo con P.Gandharva y nuevamente leyendo el krsna book.


"Please do not publish this part of the letter, because you are a sanyasi, this letter to the blog goes with a copy to the mail of P. Gandharva and his Wife"

. . . .


HpS - Comenta abajo en Ingles.


Bhaktin Amparo


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Hare Krsna Maharaja !!!


Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet.


HpS - AgtSP!!


All Glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!


As each letter I start telling you about my sadhana, 20 rounds, 4 principles, lately a bit difficult to concentrate on good rounds, I follow the FMP and connect to classes when they are in Spanish, I attend Tulasis (4) at home, I attend Jagannath Baladev Subhadra, Goura Nitay, I offer sweets, capatis, half day offering and milk, my reading at this time is based on the books of the bhakti sastri course, which I continue with P. Gandharva and again reading the krsna book.


HpS - ASA - !!! 👌


"Please do not publish this part of the letter, because you are a sanyasi, this letter to the blog goes with a copy to the mail of P. Gandharva and his Wife de él"


. . . .


HpS/ASA - We won't even read it. 😊

Best process is to have Gandharva Das or Karuna Krsna Das or some such nice devotee to send the letter to us. We are waiting. Thank you for all you determined efforts to help this movement.


Bhaktin Amparo

Personal Sadhana Report

4 years, 4 months ago by Yamuneswar Das in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna, Guruji Maharaja, Dandavat Pranam,


All Glaries to Sri Krsna, Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Brinda.


Please accept my humble obeisances unto the padmacharan of Guruji Maharajah that this as year gone, Guruji's Vyasa Pujah also finished. Some pictures are attached for memory.


HpS - AgtSP


Just for increasing spiritual knowledge in serving Radha Krsna, Panchatatva, Jagannatha, Balabhadra, and Subhadra, I am reading the translation in Manipuri the book Prem Bilas of Rupa Goswami Thakur Maharaja.


HpS - We do not have an English copy.


After initiation and brahma diksa also we have never discussed / taught how to serve deities. The most important thing is to serve Nityananda first to get Gouranga Mahaprabhu likewise, we should serve Radharani first to get Krsna. Again, we should fix a particular kunja following a particular Manjuri. Please instruct me my particular kunja and Manjuri to be followed. All such things are not in the Bhagavat Gita and Bhagavatam.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamunesvara Das


HpS - Hare Krsna!!!! Text Eight of Nectar of Instruction, Srila Rupa Goswami's, Upadesamrta, seems have complete answer to this question, no? NoI is first book of Srila Rupa Goswami, the more we study, assimilate, it deeper and deeper, the more we can go to the other instructions of Srila Rupa Goswami.

In the beginning as second initiated devotees, we can worship Lord Nityananda and Srimati Radha on our ISKCON temple altars as given by Srila Prabhupada, Bh. Siddhanta, Lord Caitanya... Of course, such nice pujaris as Bana mali Das et al can give instructions about this.


Then gradually our worship will come to Ruci seva, Raga-anuga seva (See https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/7/#bb5985 and following verses). This comes when are Goswamis, formally or by practice and realization. Ladys must also come to this stage before becoming pure devotees.


Are you Nistha, fixed, in Vaidhi Bhakti, service by rules and regulations:

  • Every day 16-nice rounds.
  • Four principles strictly.
  • Mangala arati and proper bath and dress for your Deity's daily.
  • All day fully engaged according to the daily Seva.

If we can do this, then Guru-Gauranga will reveal our Eternal Place and Leader.


How is your service progressing like this???


Your letters are very inspiring for such dummies as us.


HpS

About Giriraja Deitie

4 years, 4 months ago by brian tellez in Personal Sadhana Reports

Desr Gurudeva

pamho AGTSP

I wanna ask u finally what to do whit our deitie of Radha Giridhari, whit out your blessing we can't obtain the Supreme Lord service. Only 4 points.

👉

1)Before the wedding, we prayed that Krsna would come to our family in the form of a Deity (in any way the Overlord chooses) Because we can not create a good family if there is no Krsna in the center and worship Him in the form of a Deity. And Krsna came to us in this form.


HpS - Great! AGTSP!


2) I have already started worshipping Him and I have become attached to him and I cannot just give up serving him, but at the same time, I am not qualified and especially without your blessings I have 0 qualifications, because in reality you are serving the Deity of Krishna, not me, I am only serving as your instrument and helper in your worship.


3) we also told our sitation about this Guru of my wife, we told him your opinion on this matter and he said taking into account your words that if he gave his blessings for the worship of Giriraj, he would recommend that before worshipping Giriraj, prepare for it and at least a year , every day, regularly offer prayers in order to invite Giriraj to the family and worship him. 

(Before Giriraj came)


4) but the one thought that's sitting in my head is that I can't do anything for Him without your blessings, because I don't do worship, you do worship, and I just help in your service, and if you don't do it, how can I help you, then I can't do it.

On my part, I can follow the instructions of Niranjana Swami and my wife and I will offer prayers to Giriraj every day for a year. But maybe you could give me some other recommendations and instructions on how I could become a qualified brahmana to be your instrument in the worship of Giriraj. Could you give your blessings to this plan, or will you give us other introductions?


HpS - My only knowledge, AGTSP, is that unless you are living like a Brahmana, 4-principle strictly and 16-nice rounds/per day, then there can be very bad reactions from worshipping Govardhana and Saligrama sila, deaths in the family etc.

If you can do this for one year (with prayers) before starting Giriraja worship then, O.K., but must also continue after you start. It is like having a baby. You can't just put him aside because you are tired of him.


Attachment is Okay. https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/1/6/19/ and following verses are illuminating, no?


Gaura - Nityananda! Gaura-Nityananda! 😁