Girivaradhari Das: Hare Krsna! Dear Gurudev, Dandavat Pranam. Jibesh Das Prabhuji wants to submit some amount in your account.
Please advise, Thank you
HpS - ASA - AgtSP!!!! Paoho.... So, nice to hear from you! We don't know how to transfer money from him to our USA NIOS account. If he can give it for local ISKCON work and supervise how they use it, that is wonderful, for us, for you, for ... https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/31/14/
... and send us news of the use!
Subal Das, ISKCON Berkeley,
Please accep my most humble obediences. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you Guru Maharaj.
How are you? We hope everything is well with your health. We miss you and especially at this times Guru Maharaj. Hare Krishna.
HpS -- We are fine! 🙂 There are no obstacles for devotees!!! Only new oportunities. After Krsna killed Putana, they burned her body and it made a good smell!
How, who, is the family? Spiritually? School, Work, Religion!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj! Please accept our humble obeisances at your sweet lotus feet!
ASA - Lettuce feet.
Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,
Happy Father's Day....was going through Mataji Nadiya Nivasi Dasi's letter...so relevant to what comes to my mind every now and then...2024...the letters I would be missing....the void...and everytime....would be asking...'which way Guru Maharaj?' . Feel so I'll equipped....so helpless without Your mercy Guru Maharaj.
HpS - It will happen when you die also. Awaken you Super Powers
We are in touch with University faculty regarding exchange programme between Manipur and Peru. We have identified some departments working on Vaishnava culture. Will meet them personally and update the details as soon as possible.
ASA - Dance, Music, Textiles, Sociology, Art. Peru - Manipur have so much in common.
Regarding prasadam distribution...most of the time its sweet rice...the public keep telling ISKCON kheer is so different....!!!
We are going to offer lotuses to Shri Shri Govindaji....all the way from Toubul. Lots and lots of lotuses...
Today...we took some pics at Toubul...just after Mangalarti...reminds me of the reflection of the spiritual world!!
On 19th we clicked this circular rainbow around the sun from our courtyard...
Sharing some pics from our Sankirtan during Corona....
HpS !!!
Attached Diksa letter. Can you type this so we can post it in the www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt format?
Hare Krishna Maharaja!
AGTSP AGTHPS PAMHO
(June 20 Saturday 2020)
In response to our previous communication (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11242/) I'm so glad to know that allergy is under control and you are with good energy, I can note it listening your online programs. Related with this, thank you very much for your answer this morning, I said to you that I think the economy is the heart of society and not the education, but after your reply I understood that this modern society is, then, a deformed body. So, is Education (or must to be) the heart of every activity in a healthy and harmonic society?
ASA - AGTSP!!! What is education? Acquire information? Learn to reason about our information? Wake up our relationship with Krsna!!! The heart of every society is congregational chanting of the glories of the Lord.
I talked with Rodrigo's mother a few minutes ago and told her that you asked to me about them. She still sad missing her son. They are afraid about the virus, the Kiosko sells less, but they still working with protections. She said "please, tell Hare Krishna to the Guru and thanks so much to Him".
ASA - Same to her!
Thank you very much, thank you so much, for every single reply you wrote to me in the previous letter, I felt (and I feel because I read it again any time I need inspiration) my heart melts. I don't know how to explain it, because I don't know the proper way to share so intimate feelings, but my chest is into a warm and expansive feeling, with a certainty deep thought that is just because of your mercy.
ASA - Maybe is symptom of a new pandemic disease!
A few hours ago, Iván Santandreu left the body. He is the owner and founder of "Mundo Nuevo" Magazine, one of the most important alternative media in Chile, probably the main one. He was 58 years old. I don't know the circumstances at all. He is a great soul. This last years he was fighting, fighting really hard, using scientific bases and medical references from all over the world through his mass medias against vaccines, transgenics, pharmacy and alimentary industry, corruption... He has got 22 years of successful trajectory and his influence is growing day by day here in Chile, at least 1 million monthly followers, readers and users. He was a real master in his area. His wife is an Iskcon devotee and so are their children, but they all walked away after rape and corruption cases were uncovered.
ASA - In ISKCON???? I know that some devotees had made formal complaints to the GBC. Formed a committee, but it was hard to help them completely because of the language barrier, and they stopped moving forward through the institutional system. I told them to go on and write to me in simple, clear English and I will help what I can.
In the KDh we were posting results of our suggestions to GBC about reorganizing management in CHile. After three months (who can work faster!) GBC said that they were making changes in the structure. Vice President learning to become President. President moving to Zonal Supervisor.
Did that happen?
A few years ago I found him playing Karatalas in some kirtans in the temple, but he always kept low profile, he didn't like to let other devotees to know who he was. He helped us in 2018 with " The Art and The Sacred", we published in his magazine your interview we made in chilean government palace and we bought in a low price a quarter of page into the paper magazine promoting the day with you and Dr. File. He was very nice with us even I asked for all those things to him just upon the deadline to enter to the printing. Last year he published Lord Jagannath in the cover page of the magazine! I think he comes back to the Spiritual World... My Eternal Lord, Krishna, please, take him come back Home...
ASA - Preacher or anyone who helps the preacher will find the path of spiritual life open!
https://www.mundonuevo.cl/el-arte-y-lo-sagrado-cultivando-el-espiritu-humano/
Since the last day of the Iskcon Education International Seminary, I keeped fascinated with extracts from a mystical Bhaktivinoda Thakur's poetry that an older devotee shared in his exposition. So, I search it on the web and I found an english version, but I don't know if is the original one, I mean, I don't know if Bhaktivinoda Thakur wrote it in english or bengalí. And I found a spanish version, but I really didn't like at all, so I decided to write a translation by my own. It tooks me all this week and I already finished just before to start writing this letter. I want to offer this translation to you, Maharaja, in this day that is special for all of us, Bhaktivinoda Thakura appearance day. Please, Maharaja, accept this offering as a humble effort from a dumb fallen one who is trying to do things right just to be your servant some day. I tried to connect with the original feeling of the poetry and also try to keep the rhymes in spanish, but I could not accomplish it at all. Of course, is not necessary you read the spanish version, is so long, but I send it at the end of this letter anyway. It is such a pretty wonderful and beautiful poetry.
ASA - Yes! Was Engish. Very, very, nice poem. I memorized once. Still know parts of it.
https://www.iskcontimes.com/saragrahi-vaishnava-by-bhaktivinode-thakur/
I just don't know how to express the gratitude that I deeply feel towards you... all glories to Srila Prabhupada! all glories to Bhaktivinoda Thakura!
Your aspiring servant,
Carlos.
HpS - Save copy of the poem. Maybe work on the translation more. You can also write another poem in Spanish based upon the ideas.
1. ¡Ay de aquellos que pasan sus días
En alegría festiva y alborozo!
Las deslumbrantes formas líquidas mortales
Ocupan para siempre sus corazones.
2. Las botellas que brillan hechizan el mirar
De aquellos a quienes atrae y abrazan del corazón;
Los esclavos del vino nunca se pueden levantar
De lo que nosotros llamamos desgracia y deshonor.
3. ¿Estaba el hombre destinado a ser
Un bruto en su actuar y en su corazón?
¿Debería el hombre, que señor de todo lo que le rodea es,
Apartarse del sentido común?
4. La gloria del hombre es, en sentido común,
Dictarnos la gracia,
El hombre está hecho para vivir y amar
El hermoso abrazo del Cielo.
5. La carne es nuestra desgracia,
El marco mortal que encadena;
El alma por antiguos errores confinada
Debe intentar levantarse de nuevo.
6. ¿Por qué entonces este juego infantil
En lo que no puede ser nuestro,
Que cae dentro de cien años
Como si una rosa se hubiera volado?
7. Nuestra vida no es más que un rosado matiz
Ir antes de tiempo por nada;
El alma sola estaría por siempre
Con el bien o el mal a cuestas.
8. ¡Cuán profundo es el pensamiento de los tiempos!
¡Qué grave se ve su aspecto!
Y envueltos en asombro divino, oh, nosotros,
Los libros de la Naturaleza leyendo.
9. La vida del hombre un problema oscuro es para él,
Una cortina a la izquierda y a la derecha;
Ninguna alma ha venido a decirnos
Qué existe más allá de nuestra vista.
10. Y entonces una voz, tan suave y profunda,
Dentro de nuestro propio interior es sentida;
¡Hombre! ¡Hombre! ¡Eres un alma inmortal!
La muerte nunca te puede disolver.
11. Para ti, tu Señor en lo alto ha mantenido
Una reserva de felicidad, allá arriba,
Hasta el fin de los tiempos, ¡tú eres Oh!
El que quiere más puro amor.
¡Oh amor! Tu poder y hechizo benignos
Ahora derriten mi alma ante Dios;
¿Cómo pueden mis palabras terrenales describir
Tan suave y expansivo sentimiento?
12. Disfrute, tristeza,
¿Qué más de lo que la carne es heredera?
El alma que duerme
Solo concluye que de ellos participa.
13. Y entonces, amigos míos, no más disfrute
Ni lamentarse por todos los demás;
Las mujeres, el vino y la carne de las bestias,
No hay amor alguno que esto otorgue.
14. Lo tuyo es amar a tu hermano
Y entregarte a Dios.
Y Dios sabe que tu esfuerzo es bueno
Este hecho es cierto y claro.
15. Olvida el pasado que duerme
y con el futuro no sueñes jamás.
Actúa siempre en el tiempo en el que estás
y el avance llamarás.
16. Pero no me digas en un frío razonamiento
Que el alma es creada solo
Por las inertes reglas mecánicas de la Tierra
Y que será destruida.
17. Solo mi Dios que nos dio la vida y todo
El alma puede extinguir,
O darle todos los placeres elevados
Para Su promesa cumplir.
18. Así que empuja tu marcha hacia adelante, oh alma,
Contra todo acto malvado
Que se levante con los soldados Odio y Lujuria;
Sé un héroe de verdad.
19. Mantén tu posición en el mundo espiritual
Tan firmemente como puedas,
Nunca dejes que la materia te empuje
¡Oh, aguanta hombre heroico!
20. Oh alma del Śaragrāhi Vaiṣṇava,
Tú eres un ángel hermoso;
Guía, guíame a Vrindavan
Y el poder del espíritu anuncia.
21. Allí, libre de la materia descansa mi alma
Sobre los brazos de mi amante.
Paz eterna y amor espiritual
Son la magia de mi cantar.
HpS - Nuestras deseos son contaminados. Espero puede servir a Srila Prabhupada super. Somos incluyidos.
No tenemos Blue Sarabhu, pero tenemos Blue Babon!
Hare Krishna Maharaja, por favor acepte mis reverencias.
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!
Le escribo con el fin de presentarme, ya que si usted me lo permite me gustaría tomar refugio en usted como mi maestro espiritual.
Mi nombre es Geraldine Valdivia Urra, actualmente vivo en Antofagasta, Chile.
Conocí el movimiento de conciencia de Krishna en el año 2015, mi primer encuentro cercano fue en el congreso de eduación que se dió ese año a las afueras de Santiago. En ese congreso lo conocí a usted y comencé a aprender de usted.
A lo largo de estos años he estado avanzando de manera muy paulatina en el estudio del Bhagavad Gita y El Srimad Bhagavatam, y en el canto de mis rondas, debido a mi apego al disfrute de los sentidos. Sin embargo, el año 2019 fue un año muy duro para mi, y esto logró acercarme más fuertemente a Krishna.
Actualmente me encuentro siguiendo mis 4 principios, y cantando 16 rondas diariamente. Tengo un servicio fijo en un colectivo de devotas, organizado para el cuidado de nuestra comunidad de devotas y devotos de ISKCON Chile. Específicamente, me encuentro en el departamento de comunicaciones, encargada de la búsqueda de artículos, literatura, entrevista, edición y confección de publicaciones para redes sociales.
Además, me encuentro tomando algunos cursos, como el curso de Guru-discípulo con madre Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi, curso de Bhagavad Gita con S.G. Nityananda Prabhu, y participando de un programa de capacitación vaisnavi de la Secretaria de la mujer de Iskcon Brasil.
También asisto regularmente a su programa completo de la mañana y atenta de asistir a las clases en español que usted da a través de Gotomeeting.
Soy una devota muy neófita pero con el deseo de avanzar hasta desarrollar amor puro por Krishna.
Reitero mis reverencias, y agradezco infinitamente todas sus enseñanzas.
Hara Krishna.
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Hare Krishna Maharaja, please accept my obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I am writing to introduce myself, for if you will allow me I would like to take refuge in you as my spiritual master.
HpS - All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
My name is Geraldine Valdivia Urra, I currently live in Antofagasta, Chile.
I met the Krishna consciousness movement in 2015, my first close encounter was at the education congress that took place that year on the outskirts of Santiago. At that congress I met you and started learning from you.
Throughout these years I have been progressing very slowly in the study of the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam, and in the singing of my rounds, due to my attachment to the enjoyment of the senses. However, 2019 was a very tough year for me, and this brought me closer to Krishna.
I am currently following my 4 principles, and singing 16 rounds daily. I have a fixed service in a group of devotees, organized for the care of our community of devotees and devotees of ISKCON Chile. Specifically, I am in the communications department, in charge of searching for articles, literature, interviews, editing and preparing publications for social networks.
Also, I find myself taking some courses, like the Guru-disciple course with mother Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi, Bhagavad Gita course with S.G. Nityananda Prabhu, and participating in a Vaisnavi training program of the Iskcon Brazil Women's Secretary.
I also regularly attend your full morning program and look forward to attending the Spanish classes you give through Gotomeeting.
I am a very neophyte devotee but with the desire to advance to develop pure love for Krishna.
I reiterate my obeisances, and I am infinitely grateful for all her teachings.
Hare Krishna.
HpS - We just want to serve you, Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON, Krsna!!! Have you read http://www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt ? Spanish version is at http://www.jayarama.us/peru/archivos/guru-tattva-es.txt , maybe older version.
This gives our idea of what service we can offer! Only thing is how your are waking up, and your Friend is waiting.
