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Hare Krishna Reverencias TlgaSP 

Querido Guru Maharaja..

Hace algunas semanas venimos dialogando con nuestro queridísimo Prabhu Abhirama Thakura dasa sobre la posibilidad de viajar hacia USA para asistirlo a usted en lo que sea necesario...

En este momento estamos reorganizando el proyecto de Ecofarm en Mar del Plata haciendo el seva de coaching (misión, visión, estrategic planning, sadhana y estudio sistemático)..Estamos avanzando mucho con el plan estratégico y las cosas se van acomodando… si viajo el avance seguiría porque podría continuar vía online.

Estoy dispuesto y listo para asistirlo en el servicio que sea necesario para que usted se pueda avocar más y más en sus trabajos de predica, escribir, Sadhana, salud, tutoría y demás servicios. Está bien?

Con todo mi corazón y mi devoción (si la hay) podría asistirlo en el seva de cocinar, laundry, limpieza del asram, baño, cocina, ayudarlo en grabación de cursos o vídeos que quiera hacer, como acompañante para salir a caminar, comprar lo que se necesite, etc, etc. Está bien?

Si usted está de acuerdo viajaría por tres meses y podríamos hacer un calendario de actividades de ekadasi a ekadasi según los servicios específicos, tratamos de ser una ayuda para aligerar sus ocupaciones no una carga mas, yo estaría para asistirlo cuando lo necesite tratando de ser lo más sensible ante sus necesidades…

Este arreglo es muy beneficioso, por una parte, ser útil a usted para el desarrollo de su Sankirtana para el placer de Srila Prabhupada y Krishna, y por otro lado servir a mis hermanos espirituales que estarán muy felices de saber que lo estamos cuidando y asistiendo personalmente en estos tiempos de pandemia global.

Por nuestra parte estamos muy pero muy felices de ser bendecido por esta nueva propuesta... Esta es una gran oportunidad y misericordia para mi vida espiritual y maduración en mi camino del brahmacari asram al sannyasa asram.

Siempre tuve el deseo de estar un tiempo largo con su asociación personal..Tomar su asociación me dará mucho beneficio para mi servicio y crecimiento en el Sankirtana!!! 

Claro está que sólo quiero servirlo donde sea mejor para usted; aquí con el seva de liderazgo (vani) o en USA como su asistente personal (vapu).

Por favor siéntase libre de tomar la mejor decisión. Soy su sirviente y me alegra ser su discípulo.

Su sirviente Ptd

HpS - ASA - Hare Krsna. Thank you for this nice summary of this suggested plan. I talked about it with the dearly beloved Abhirama Th. Das, brother-in-law of the mother of Raquel the bunny.

My thoughts are not very clear on this but several points seem to be useful to consider.

Yes, our donkey is getting older and we should really be minimizing our driving to simple or emergency acts.

Same is true of some of the property and building maintenance but:

1. "el seva de cocinar,
2. laundry,
3. limpieza del ashram,
4. baño,
5. cocina,
6. comprar lo que se necesite
7. acompañante para salir a caminar
8. ayudarlo en grabación de cursos o vídeos que quiera hacer."

Basically we do 1-6 as exercise for our body and rest, getting out, and 7 we have 1-3 companions already. Hmm. Yet, 8, we have been feeling it would be good to have some one to hold the camera.

Of course, in general principle it would be great mercy for us to have your association here, but to come from Mar de Platanos, to M'boro to hold the camera seem like we should be able to get a more local resources.

Also, this is not a big community like BsAs. It is quite small and would not be much to do. P'tattva Das goes crazy!! Yet, maybe we could both enroll in courses at the local university, MTSU, like Perception in psychology etc.

Still another thought. Maybe 2021, October... (?).... we move to South America for one year, one place and then go to back to USA for three months and then go to India, radha-kunda, with 100-devotees, to make a movie, and we stay there are leave this world there in 2024?

Then you or others might come and just stay until we all go back to SA.

To facilitate this I am dedicating the current DTC(p) to you! Maybe you can write a responding Diary and see how we might associate.

Classes at MTSU??? Other bigger projects???

Hk. Tgsp.Tghps.

I hope you are very well in all respects dear Maharaja. For our part, always grateful, trying to overcome our limitations gradually and progress in consciousness, as promised. 1728 early morning enthusiasts as medicine, and as diet, regulative principles.

We are living in the province of Santiago del Estero (Argentina) with two of my sons, Julián (21) and Tomas (23). We have been working on an organic garden project for three years. Everything is going very well. Government restrictions due to the pandemic have placed us in an unexpected parenthesis, and the plans, as we had drawn up, had to be modified. Man proposes and Krishna disposes. Right now, we are busy developing the same organic garden project, but adjusted to the urban.

The central idea of ​​the venture is the production of vogue for self-sustenance and the distribution of prasadam among the neighbors according to everything that said activity entails. I ask for your blessings.

Thank you for allowing me to share mangalarti every morning.

HpS - AgtSP. Grow a ton of beans for Nanda braja's boys, and they will send, their Braja Kirtan noise.

Hk. Tgsp.Tghps.

Espero se encuentre muy bien en todo aspecto estimado Maharaja. Por nuestra parte, siempre agradecido, tratando de superar nuestras limitaciones paulatinamente y progresar en la conciencia, conforme a lo prometido. 1728 entusiastas temprano en la mañana como medicina, y como dieta, los principios regulativos..

Nos encontramos viviendo en la provincia de Santiago del Estero con dos de mis hijos, Julián (21) y Tomas (23). Hace tres años que trabajamos en la realización de un proyecto de huerta orgánica.. Todo va muy bien. Las restricciones gubernamentales por la pandemia nos ha colocado dentro de un paréntesis inesperado, y los planes, tal como lo habíamos trazado, debieron modificarse. El hombre propone y Krisna dispone. Ahora mismo, nos ocupamos en desarrollar el mismo proyecto de huerta orgánica, pero ajustado a lo urbano.

La idea central del emprendimiento es la producción de boga para el auto sustento y la distribución de prasadam entre los vecinos conforme a todo lo que dicha actividad conlleve. Le pido sus bendiciones.

Gracias por permitirme compartir el mangalarti todas las mañanas.

Reverencias de todo corazón

HK

Ekachacra N. C. das

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

Gurudeva, even if I work in two universities and now teachers are overloaded with more work. I can say that I am doing quite well.

For instance, the university asked me to be a full time professor but I refuse. It is important to make a balance in life. So that, I can have time to other activities like cooking for Krsna and then with my sister we take prasadam. She is a vegetarian by force jajaja she does not how to cook so, she almost never eats meat. She has to buy it, and mostly she eats chicken not meat.

HpS - Tell her that I warned her that if she pays for people to kill chickens then in her next life she will be born as Colonel Sanders!

My deities at home are so gorgeoous it is very nice to take care of Them.

ASA - Designer clothes?

As I told you I was asked to give a speech about Anxiety. I did it. It was 70% successful. It is very sad to see how people in general think that you are crazy if you asked them to meditate to comtemplate,and when you tell them YOU ARE NOT YOUR JOB, breath, take a pause. SOme receive my message others just continue the way they are. Stressed, and their lives are job centered.

ASA - Donkeys smoking cigarettes.

My gem therapies are ok, I have a full set of gems of top -notch quality. I gave some therapies by distance with mantras and meditation and others in person.

I also go to therapy to my right knee. I have chondromalacia.

ASA - You must be very proud to have a disease with such a big, Latin name!

Nevertheless, I do not feel discouraged. I accept it and move on.

Regarding FMP leading kirtan SUNDAY is covered: Rohini kumar das, Parasurama das and Priyasakhi dd (from chile also) So we have two gentleman and 2 ladies. Let's see how it works. I have already explain how to do it as you requested me.

Ulyses is getting old but he is the strongest at home, he gets along pretty well with my cat "Peregrino"

Thanks Gurudeva

See you in FMP

Trying to be your disciple

CMDD

Asa - Thank you. Tom Brown devi donkey. Are there girls kung fu clubs near you?

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gournga Mahaprabhu

Radha Krsna Ki Jay and Goura Bhakta Ki Jay

Dandavat Pranam,

Please accept my humble obeisanses unto Guruji's padmacharan that I could not write letters to Guruji Maharaja because all the time in the reply the wrote "[ This email address is used only for sending notification from HPS Blog, please don't send replies to this email address.] again they write " Please (!) send letters following the protocol at www.JayaRama.US/kd/lte.htm " in this address also I could not write due to technical reasons. Please send us the address for communication.

Recently I went and met Nanda Gopal Das in his house, he is willing to write something so I handed over the same address mentioned above but whether he could write or not I could not communicate. Later I will go and meet him again.

In the same Bolg, Dr. Sarda Devi also wrote Guruji some letters and same reply as myself.

Guruji Maharaja, once I heard that Guruji Maharaja is looking the International Cultural Exchange Programme (Ranganiketan). Are you working the same? In this regard one of my friend suggested to show the Gouralila in the shortest form in Manipuri by the Manipur child artist taught by Mrs. Sila Devi, Asst. Prof. of Dance in the Manipur University of Culture. I want to discuss with Dr. Sarda, she is also interested in such cultural activities.

I frequently met Prabhu Partha Sarthi Das in connection with the publication of the translated Bhagavat Gita As It Is in Manipuri (both Bangali and Manipuri) script. We have completed third time correction. In the mean time Prabhu Partha Sarthi Das is trying to compose a selected words, sentences of A.C. Prabhupada, the deep underlying meanings in the form of Guide Book. So as we can understand the central ideas of Prabhupada in the Gita. I will quote some of the contains in the next letter, because I am not in a position to remember those words and sentences exactly.

Yours fallen servant,

Yamuneswara Das

HpS-ASA - All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Thank you for letter and news from Manipur.

We too are slow responding and have technical problems for head to floor.

Yet, we are all connected if we the mornings to chant not snore.

Our respects to Gita scholar,

Nanda gopal all.

Today is Kartika starting,

Now is red and yellow Fall.

Chant more rounds better.

We don't have any cultural exchange programa now, but we will keep you as a correspondent if we hear of such.

Come out of Manipur and preach.

Still reading SB??..?

Dear Gurudeva,

Pamho, AgtsSP!!!

Hope you are fine and in good health, I m [I'm] really greatfull [grateful] and in debt with [to] you, for allways [always] inspiring and accompany the fallen ones like me. I appreciate so much all the efforts that you do, the fmp, and your lectures, that sadly many times I can't get all of them, with 50% of attention and monkey jumping over me.

HpS - We feel inspired by you! Using so much creative intelligence for Sankirtan and to maintain your Ashrama. Courage, strength, determination. Hmmm? Maybe we are all getting mercy of Parampara in the biggest part?

Many times I fell like in the middle way in my spiritual path, with a feeling of apathy towards the world, a little mixed with melancholy and sadness, and at the same time searching for a real flavor in the Bhakti practice.

HpS - In NOD Rupa Goswami says this is normal.

The Vaidhi Sadhana is much mechanical,

HpS - People pay a LOT of money for machines in this world, no?

. . . but the necessary medicine I need for craziness…hankering for the real flavor, I fell [feel] like licking the bottle on the outside… how to take the step in purifying the felling, in starting to have a real flavor in spiritual life, in which personal relationship settles steadily, not from disappointment in the world but from a positive position in which there is a personal and loving relationship with Radha Krishna?

HpS - By trying to do the Vaidhi Bhakta more expertly, no? Same time looking for the causeless mercy that Krsna sends and grabbing it.

Even a small percentage of sincerity (me) on this path has lasting results! After so many stupid, lazy, selfish years, by the unlimited patience of Srila Prabhupada, I am advancing in detachment from this material world and attachment to the spiritual world (or else I am becoming senile and prone to sentimental hallucinations).

Gurudeva, many changes this times, a strange year, but nice in the inner place… We are at this time taking a big decision in moving to live in the mountains, very nice place, quite far away, there some devotees, friends, inviting us, a project in progress, much ideas, big chance...

HpS - 1. Who are you? What is your position, nature in the situation 2. Who are we? Family, invitees. Their nature, motives. 3. Plan based upon the kind of person I am, we are... 4. Parafernalia eg. land house horse hose hat heat. O.K.?

In all these times change my work more to the online and is good, slowly developing these, by courses, consultations with Ayurveda counseling and therapy, and also starting reading charts with vedic astrology, Maxi Peralta invited me for next month to talk about vedic astrology in a online meeting of symbolic languages, with the Jungian people…

HpS - Super. We are waiting for the final version of the next Solaris and then we can all send it to Maxi, Sonu Shyamdasani, Bernardo!!! We are looking for a Jungian who knows their side of the river and wants to build a bridge to Rupa Goswami's side.

 Your insignificant servant,

 Madhavendra Puri Das

HpS - Thank you? How is your family?

Nice fotos! Big beets! Scary little girl devil...... Here is link to Co-vis mask with smile!

https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+smile+masks&rlz=1C1CHBH_enUS920US920&sxsrf=ALeKk02O-dm2_voqrAgK5wg3GYWrXGsq8Q:1603995693584&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl46XMtdrsAhVvuVkKHfSnDX4Q_AUoAnoECAsQBA&biw=1280&bih=578#imgrc=k9NcTiWmK8TA_M

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj!! Please accept our humble obeisances at Your lotus feet.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

We pray that this letter finds you in the most blissful state.

HpS - I also pray the same for me and you!

We have installed Sri Hanumanji outside the temple complex of Sri Radha Damodara Mandir, Toubul. Resting coolly under the shades of the banyan tree, our Hanuman gives us a glorious darshan. The local devotees tell us that under this banyan tree HH Bhakti Svarup Damodara Swami used to sit and rest. We will be celebrating Tirubhav on 26th....

HpS - That is Tin goswami Samadhi, no? Now it is char goswami samadhi. I was there in Radha kunda when the celebration happened. Very happy, very sad. Even now, today is 26th.

Last tuesday on Parama Ekadashi our uncle left his physical body. HG Ramanuja Prabhuji and HG Jai Bhima Prabhuji chanted Gopala sahasranama, Gajendra Moksha and BG chapter 8 day before Ekadasi. He was still conscious that time. Aunt chanted Harinaam till the last few moments before he left. On the day he left ,we kept on his lips charan tulsi offered at the lotus feet of Sri Govindaji, read BG chapter 8 and Sri Gopala sahasranama. He made a loud sound before he left. My aunt is bewildered by the sound coming from his mouth. She wants to know what that meant.

HpS - Good question. Maybe just the sound of the prana leaving the body through the lips. Is very exalted way to leave!

We have been selected to be a member of the Sri Govindajee Temple board. Guru Maharaj can we serve Sri Govindajee by being a member of the board? We were taken by surprise by the turn of these events.

HpS - As far as we know it is fine. Just be happy. Lao Tzu gives us advice that can be taken as: The Emperor should control the function of the empire the same way a beggar would cook his one chapati.

Continuing to read Krsna book with father. He enjoys the pastimes so much. We usually read after the SB. Father keeps referring to Krsna as Butter thief.....keeps telling....lets read that Butter Thief's leela....

HH Bhakti Vyasa Tirtha Swami Maharaj is not in the best of physical health. All of 94 years, chanting ardently all the time. We will miss Maharaj a lot ...last time when we went for getting darshan of Maharaj, HH laughed at us and said...' Mataji..be like Chitrangada.....'

Guru Maharaj...merciful dear Gurudev...we seek your mercy to chant our rounds blissfully ....more and more. Thank you so much for changing our lives.

Your insignificant servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Thank you for all the wonderful news. We hope the Samadhi ceremony is more and more glorious. We will have one in our community also.