Annual Sannyasa Report

7 years, 2 months ago by hps in Personal Sadhana Reports

From: Prahladananda Swami 
To: Hanumatpresaka Swami
Sent: Saturday, December 9, 2017 11:25 AM
Subject: Sannyasa Annual Service Report 2017
 

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     Please accept my obeisances. _/\._ All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
 
      This  letter is a reminder for you to send me your yearly sannyasa service report.  Because the GBC meetings in Mayapur are very early this year, please send no later than the 15th of January 2018.   You can e-mail the report to me or you can send a written report (snail mail other than email) to:
 
ISKCON Melbourne
PO Box 125
Albert Park VIC 3206
Australia
 
     Below is the form that I request that the sannyasis use for their annual service report.
 
Sannyasa Annual Report Form
1.         Your name.
2.         Your address.
3.         Your email addresses.
4.         Your telephone numbers.
5.         Your websites.
6.         Please list the countries and cities that you have visited this year.
7.         If you like you can make some comments about the temples or countries that you have visited.
8.         Please let us know what were the services you rendered as a sannyasa this year.
9.         What were your realizations about the sannyasa ashrama, preaching, or ISKCON this year?
11.     What outreach projects are you planning to do in the future?
12.   Can your report, or part, of it be made public?
 
Hope you are well.
 
Your servant,
Prahladananda Swami
 
 
 
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Hare Krsna, 
Esteemed Prahladananda Swami et al,
Is the following adequate?

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GBC - ANNUAL SANNYASA REPORT (2018)

Hanumatpresaka Swami

(This Report Can be Made Public except for the phone number)

www.jayarama.us

2129 Stratford Rd.; Murfreesboro, TN 37129; USA

Phone: X X X

We followed the four principles strictly and chanted a minimum of 16-enthusiastic rounds daily although there is plenty of room for improvement in not overeating and not letting the mind wander during Japa.

We are based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA with Nitai-gaura-sundara Das as President of our non-profit educational corporation, NIOS. Our GBC Secretary is H. G. Tamohara Das (who is of ripe old age enough to take Sannyasa, no)?

Traveled to India in January and October with a side trip to Australia. We have been doing academic programs with such agencies as the National Library of Peru and Chile, the Asiatic Society of Calcutta and others. We have been presenting Psychology and the Sacred with good response from many communities especially the Jungians.

You can see a sample of this if you go to YouTube.com and search for "psychology and the sacred 2016".

We also have been pushed to continue with "Hamlet and Arjuna", this has involved national poet laureates such as Raul Zurita and others.

In the USA we visit Houston, Seattle, San Francisco etc, and in South America Peru, Argentina, Chile.

We are members of the Latin American GBC, Executive Committee of the Ministry of Education. We are doing a lot of work with the MOE.

We find some things in ISKCON in a lot of chaos, but we find the same thing in our life, so we don't feel much inclined to be too critical of others. Our focus has been, "Get up early and get your rounds done". We have and on-line program when we are not traveling through our web-site: www.jayarama.us that has 10-18 devotees daily for Mangala-arati, NOD and 30-minutes of Japa and Chat.

Of course a lot more details but this is a good sample. We are very eager to assist any of our readers if we can, and if anyone has any interest in "Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encounter of C. G. Jung with the Ancient Mysticism India" then please contact us. Prabhupada commented in "Dialectical Spiritualism" that among all the Western philosophers Jung had the most sense.

Hanumatpresaka Swami

current iskcon

7 years, 2 months ago by harsh_horse in Personal Sadhana Reports

hare Krishna maharaj, pamho, AGTSP

i personally don't know how to say all this. But we were surprised that you said in DTC that you were working with us in India. We never felt that we are working with you. It seems we took much more from you, and even did not appreciate you in return.

we want to take intiation from you, but due to...

HpS - ASA - Ahhh!    This is the same as the other letter. Well, as we said, our situtation is just the same as yours and your honest and penetrating description of the situation has helped us clear our brains a lot. Thank you Dr. Pradhan.

As far as the ISKCON gurus and GBC Secretaries etc. etc. that I know, most of them are in the same situation as you and me.

For me I can start with what I personally heard from the lipz of my spiritual master. If you want to take me as a spiritual master in this aspect you can now hear it from my lipz (word processor). SP said, "I will never die. I will live forever in my books".

O.K.

DP - We can't interpret how to apply what he says.
ASA - Well, he says things to a lot of different people because people are on different levels and in different boats. He says things that ladies in the class can understand and you and I cannot understand and vice a versa, but some things are quite appropropriate for us all.
For example, there is no doubt that he wants us to chant
Hare Krsna/Rama as much as possible.
O.K?  Now you have full engagement in ISKCON - Chant Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, as much as possible...

 

DP - But I can't chant all the time!
ASA - Don't say that, chant.

DP - I can't! I can't!

ASA - Well, then chant Kirtan morning and evening with your family and friends [as much as they will join you [and if they don't join you then let The Evil One take care of them]]. Read the KRSNA book and chant Jaw Pa Pa!


One rounds, two rounds ....    Make some vow of how many rounds you will chant a day for a certain number of days and declare your Vrata here in The Blog and then Report, here in The Blog.

We will chant 16-rounds per day for as long as we can breath and follow the 4-principles strictly (with the possible fall down into Illicit Vanilla Ice-cream Consumption though we hope to surpass even that by the mercy of Guru Prasad Swami).

Simple, no?    Even a Software Engineer could do it, what to speak of a Management Engineering Docent, no?    Other details will follow?
 

O.K? ?  ??   Koi prasna hai!?

        O.K.  with all of the guys who are in the same situation as Dr. Pradhana???      Come on!  I can think of at least two, three more immediately.

ASA Staff

current iskcon

7 years, 2 months ago by harsh_horse in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Maharaj, pamho, AGTSP

i personally don't know how to say all this. But we were surprised that you said in DTC that you were working with us in India. We never felt that we are working with you. It seems we took much more from you, and even did not appreciate you in return.

ASA - You put is in touch with Pankaj etc. How is he?? Anything we can dew four hymn?

. . . we want to take intiation from you, but due to inability to follow one of regulative principles according to NoI, we are not moving ahead.

ASA - Lottery is a terrible addiction.

...moreover most counsellor's are generally very busy. Also ,there is very less coherence in advice by them.

The formula of senate of six devotees is difficult, because I am not able to get them together in one place and time.

I don't find usage of reading SB because we don't know how to apply in our situation. Most of counsellor's even give up to help us apply them.

So in nut shell we can not even get a local authority. 

Your formula of village e.g. Houston temple is rare and now has become very costly.

We were adviced to have kid by ISKCON counsellor,  but in retrospect we think it was wrong. There were many advices like this.

I don't know how to serve Srila Prabhupada in current situation and in current Iskcon

HpS -- Your analysis is wonderful. It describes our situation perfectly. We will read your other letter and see if it makes things even clearer...

South America Calendar.

T.L.G.A.S.P.

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies de loto mi muy querido Gurudeva.

Con respecto a su pregunta si hay la posibilidad de viajar ???

Mande mi solicitud a fin de poder participar en un curso organizado por El GBC-College para el desarrollo del Liderazgo, es una escuela de liderazgo oficial de ISKCON donde candidatos potenciales seran entrenados para actuar en  servicios de liderazgo dentro de ISKCON.

Existen solo 30 cupos para este curso, espero calificar, de ser asi estare viajando a Brasil, para participar presencialmente en dicho curso.

Por el momento este seria el vieje mas sercano que tendria.

Es cuanto tengo a bien informarle mi querido GM.

Atte. su humilde servidor eterno Jiyada Nrsmha Dasa.

HpS - Jaya! Habla con el Mathuresa Das acerca del viaje a Campina Grande. Solamente 3-meces. Es bueno comprar tan pronto podemos.

Esta bien la siguente? Que piensa todo el mundo?

Mar

5-Mexico
6-Lima

19-Cuzco
20-Bolivia
23-Campina Grande
30-Argentina

Abril
20-Lima
25-Mexico
30-Houston.

Hari bolo

Todas Las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaj, reciba nuestras reverencias, estamos por unos dias en Chosica visitando a mi familia, haciendo algunos documentos en el centro de Lima, mucho calor por aquí y también muchos ladrones.

Estamos otra ves en Sankirtan, distribuyendo libros de Srila Prabhupada, también Prabhu Bhakta Percy ayudando al Sankirtan, nos esta facilitando 2000 libros de Srila Prabhupada,

HpS - ASA - Jaya!

...los cuales nos estamos encargando de distribuirlos entre 4 devotos (Prabhu Advaita, Prabhu Bhakta Alex, Madre Nadiya y yo), entre las ciudades de Huancayo y Ayacucho.

ASA - !

Nuestro Sadhana marcha bien,  Srimad - Bhagavatam, entrando al canto 2, Capitulo 9 "Respuestas citando la versión del Señor".

ASA - Eso es casi el fin de los dos primeros cantos!  Vd teine que ser experto conecedor de los pies de loto de Krsna.

Mañana esta viniendo Maharaj Maha Visnu Swami y los Harinan Ruci por 2 dias en Lima y  Chosica, iremos a ver Maharaj y recibir de su misericordia y santa asosiación, despues de regreso a Huancayo y vivir en la base de Sankirtan que se construyo.

HpS - Super, super. Nuestras reverencias a Maharaja. Es amigo para muchas anyos. Tambien estuvimos pasado dias de apreciacion mutua con HNRuci en Mexico.

El lugar donde hemos contruido se llama en quechua "SONHOS  BAJOS",  y  traducido al español significa "CORAZONES  BAJOS", aqui por esta zona tenemos un amigo que quiere ser devoto, el es un Juez de la zona, y también nos visita una joven llamada Ketty que es enfermera, asi estamos tratando de establecer un Nama Hatta, donde poder ayudar a estos jovenes en su vida espiritual.

HpS - Bien. Esforzar en muchas areas: Distribution de libros en el calle, escuelas, establecer centros para entrenyar mas Sankirtaneros... una programa integrada. Si Krsna quiere puede ser Presidente de Peru.

Enfocandonos en tratar de tener un buen Sadhana y tener nuestra lectura regular del Srimad - Bhagavatam, nuestras 16 rondas con atención,  4 principios y recibir la asosiacoón de buenos devotos, pienso que podemos progresar en el servicio devocional, todo por la misericordia y guia de Srila Prabhupada, esperamos, por la misericordia de Sri Nityananda seguir en la distribución de libros y realizar todo esto con felicidad.

Por eso en el Bhagavad - Gita, Capitulo 9, Texto 2,  Krsna le dice a Arjuna lo siguiente:

rāja-vidyā rāja-guhyaṁ
pavitram idam uttamam
pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ
su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam

"Este conocimiento es el rey de la educación y el más secreto de todos los secretos. Es el conocimiento más puro de todos, y como brinda una percepción directa del ser mediante la iluminación, es la perfección de la religión. Además, es eterno, y se practica con alegría".

Bueno Guru Maharaj me despido, esperamos poder verlo cuando venga a Perú y también le pedimos a Srila Prabhupada que nos permita  poder verlo en nuestra meditación, perdoneme por el deseo <img alt="laugh" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/teeth_smile.png" title="laugh" width="23" />.  Hare Krsna!!!

HpS - Ya tenemos boleto ir a Peru. Detalles en El Blog!!!  Somos siguendo sus pasos!
Ayer viene un muchacho para reperar nuestra plomeria y hablamos para 15-minutos y el tomo un Upadesamrta con gran entusiasmo. Ya esperamos va a leer, tener mas contacto con nosotros, ISKCON, y se convierta en un Sankirtanero!

Gadai Gauranga Das

Sadhana

7 years, 2 months ago by RukminiQuispeTapia in Personal Sadhana Reports

Todas las glorias a su Divina Gracia A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada

Querido gurudeva

Porfavor acepte mis humildes reverencias

Gracias a usted me mantengo en mi servicio, estoy esforzandome para cantar muy buenas rondas sin ofensas, mangal arati por ahora sabados y domingos, participante ativa en los programas del templo, ahora estoy leendo el Nectar de la devocion. Ademas estoy muy feliz por que el señor Jagannath llego a mi hogar, ahora puedo adorarlo todos los dias; porfavor permitame hacerle una pregunta  y darle mis reverencias de antemano por su respuesta, ¿ cuan importante es mantener un templo o centro de predica si cada devoto puede volver su casa un templo?

HpS - Pienso es una pregunta que depende mucho en las circumstancias. Por ejemplo, Hay buen utilidad de un templo para atraer, educar nuevo personas?  Los devotos no son suficiente fuerte mantener program en casa y necisitan un templo?

yo se que la asociacion con los devotos es super importante, sin embargo los programas de Namahata no me privan de eso.

Que el señor Nrisimha lo proteja siempre

Su eterna sirviente

Rukmini Sundari Devi Dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna!   Es algo especifica. Posible un restaurante es mejor que un Templo. Si, necesitamos Templos, pero donde, cuando..