Hare Krsna,
Esteemed Asta-saki Devi Dasi,
Gracias por su carta con inquietudes specificas acerca de devotos, Templo. Son muy buenos. Muy bien quierente de todo el mundo.
Estamos resondiendo por carta particular de Yahoo con copia al sabio, Abhirama Thakura Das. Si no la reciba escriba aqui otra vez, por favor.
Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Guru parampara.
Radha-Krsna Ki Jay, Goura Bhakta Vrndaki Jai
I am so so much happy to get Guruji's amrtavani and trying to execute all adeshas including book distribution, seminar, sanmelan and prasadam at our level best. Everything could be performed only by the Guruji's blessings.
HpS -ASA --- AGTSP..... Paoho....
In continuation of my regular reading of Bhakti Rasamitra Sindhu 1:2:221-23 here mentioned "Damodara Month" . What is it meant Damodara Month, which is worship in the month of Kartika in Mathura?
HpS - The twelve monts of the Vedic year correspond with the twelve Tilaka marks. So, first month is Kesava, second month is Narayana .... Then twelth month is Damodara. Other name is Kartika. Such a nice book. Hope to see you very soon!!
Yours fallen servant
Yamunesvara Das
Hare Krishna, Hare Rama,
AGTSP
Por favor acepte mis reverencias Querido Gurudeva.
Aqui le escribo Devarsi de Buenos Aires. Estoy intentandolo, a pesar de los obstaculos que puedan presentarse en mi camino. Usted siempre es mi mayor referente, y cada avance que yo pueda hacer es gracias a Usted.
Yo se que no estoy tan comunicado, ya que mi trabajo me consume tiempo y energia (diseño grafico). De todas maneras eso no deberia ser mi excusa.
En cuanto a mi sadhana, canto 16 rondas y sigo los principios regulativos. Mi pregunta es: Como puedo incrementar la dulzura en mi japa?
HpS - ASA -- 'tato jayam uddhirayet...', Srimad Bhagavatam es juestra verdadero medio de conquista. Claro, SB es la corazon de todos los libros de Srila Prabhupada (CC, NoD,ISO...). Programa de la manyana completa: Levantase temprano para Brahma-muhurta con Mangala-arati, Bhajana, Kirtan, then Japa, SB, Prasadam.... !... ISKCON Sankirtan... Prema-nama.
De que manera puedo servirlo Guru Maharaja?
Si en algun momento mis conocimientos de diseño grafico o diseño web le son utiles estoy a su disposición.
Espero ser mas util para el Sankirtana de Srila Prabhupada. Aun no soy bueno distribuyendo libros.
Lo espero en Buenos Aires muy feliz. Estoy orando por su salud y bienestar.
Mis reverencias a Ud. Guru Maharaja.
Su aspirante a sirviente
Devarsi Narada das
HpS - ASA -- Nuestra enfoque principal, eso es. Obtiene unos libros. Ponelos donde puede ver los y sácalos de aquí! Deseo, deseo, deseo - discubrira tecnicos comm hacer lo. Predica la a otros tambien. Puede ser un libro cada anyo. Entre siete vidas. Pero la esfuerza es la perfeccion. Cada vendador tiene su propio tecnica.
O.K.
El sendero corecto tiene algo dulze des de la comienza.
Noticias de BsAs!
Hare Krsna, Nanuk Ji,
We read all the last five posts.
There are so many things that you may not know about Sriman Hansadutta Das and the whole BBT case, Rtvik case. I was the Treasurer for the San Francisco Temple at that time and finally Hansadutta Ji was really having very, very bad falldowns. He was very open about it. He was taking money from the Temple and turning in his beer recepts and directly telling everyone, "Don't worship me as a Guru!"
He said, "I've got it licked, now I'm coming back very strong!" so many times. I was about two rings away from him but his initimate followers like Kapilsva Das and Ripugna Das were right there taking the beer away from him when he was very intoxicated and explaining to us what he was going through. Since then I don't know how he has fared in terms of the four principles. I do feel that even in that abominable external condition he was more Prabhupada conscious than I was. He was always saying, "How can I face Srila Prabhupada like this."
Then with the BBT, I talked with Vedaguhya Das, whom I have had some contact for many years here and there. There has never been any moral criticism of him. He said that after they got the copyright usage to the pre-1977 BBT books that they started to print them and then Hansadutta Das started to fall into the same old habits intoxication and it looked very bad for their efforts so they asked him to step down as a Director. He did and there was a financial settlement.
As far as the poisoning issue and the hair samples. I asked Nitai-gaurasundara Das, who is our NIOS President and director of a psychiatric hospital and our concern from what you had said was that the arsenic level was low as I remember and the cadmium level was high. This is strange. How to get cadmium in India at that time. Why not use arsenic.
Our basic position is that yes there are many problems in ISKCON. We heard from Prabhupada's lips that this is the material world, there are problem everywhere, so certainly there are problems in the institution. At the same time we heard him say that anyone who chants the pancha-tattva mantra and follows it with Hare Krsna has achieved the perfection of life, but if you want to preach then you should read my books.
So, we are following four principles, up evey day for Mangala arati with devotees, Kirtan, SB, and 16-rounds. Then we judge other people in the ISKCON insitituion. Make our legal fight, and also judge who will be our friends in the ISKCON society, and talk with our Guru, directly.
That's where we are starting from. We can go into a lot more technical details about Guru-tattva, changing books, poisoning, but before that we really want to know if people who claim to be following, representing Prabhupada are following the standard that he set: 16-enthusiastic rounds daily, 4-principles strictly. If they are not, O.K. maybe they are neophyte devotees. Even neophyte pure devotees as Prabhupada calls them, more advanced than we are but need to adjust the externals.
So.... Hare Krsna!!! HpS
Dear Guru Maharaj,
PAMHO ! AGTSP!!
GM I will be traveling to India for a couple of weeks to visit family. I will be in India till Oct 5th. It was great to see you on a visit to the Bay Area and able to serve you in a small way. Planning to visit parts of Kerala and Ananta Padmanabha Swamy temple there in Thiruvanantapuram.
I would like to join online classes of yours and will make efforts to do so.
Started SB group study with a devotee Krishna Dharma here. It started with a bang and tapered off for a while. Again trying to be steady in reading SB which runs for an hour. Finished three chapters of 1.1 to 1.3.
Radhika Raman prabhu had given Sanskrit introduction to BayArea devotees during the long weekend. It was amazing especially singing 15 slokas on Prabhupada. Recorded extempore by his Oxford Sanskrit teacher.
your servant
Kolavecha Sridhar Das
HpS - Hare Krsna!! Why don't you write more often! We saw the first lecture by Radhika-rama Das, but accepted his advice to not listen to the following lectures. Haw! Haw! Haw!! We will try to listen to the rest.
Check with Srivasa-pt. Das about the Saturday morning programs. We will be in Pune and Navi-mumbai when you reach India.
Let us stay in touch while we are there!!
Take books for distributing on the airplane etc.
Hare Krishna Gurudeva !
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!
HpS - TlgaSP! Referencias a sus pies de loto tambien.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!
I write to tell you how I am in my spiritual practices....and how I am in general...
I am so happy to have your saintly associatión every day in FMP, this helps us so much, giving us the enthusiasm to practice our daily sadhana bhakti......16 rounds are Ok and 4 principles strictly are also Ok....of course I can do this only by your mercy...
Also, I want to tell you that I am improving a little bit about reading Srila Prabhupada's books, now I am reading first canto, chapter 3 : "Krishna is the source of all incarnations", I read two verses of SB every day, also I finished reading "the eight phases of yoga " a small book that contains the teachings of Lord Kapila deva, Canto 3. I realized that this book contains wonderful information ! Sometimes I distributed this book without even having read it before...but now I read it. I want to improve more, reading more daily...
Gurudeva, I would like to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books again, I think this is my Dharma for this life [Yo tambien. Dharma para muchas vidas, no?], when I did it in the past I experienced a lot of enthusiasm and happiness, it was the best time of my life [Get a partner or two], but now it seems that my present Karma does not allow me to do it.....as I told you a few days ago I am having arthritis problems again, in my hands, specifically in my left hand, swelling and pain, I am taking pills to ease the pain, otherwise I can not stand.
Gurudeva I am just realizing that actually I am a sinner, I have always these physical problems, diseases, pain in my body, I have committed many sins in my previous lives and also in this life and it is only by your mercy and Srila Prabhupada's mercy that I have stopped committing sins. Thank You !!!! Thank you Srila Prabhuapada !!!
As you told me once in the past: "bad health is Krishna's educational mercy" !
I hope to learn the lesson that this life is teaching me..
Now I only want to have your saintly association Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada' s association through his books....."sanga sanjayate kamah"
Thank you so much !!!!
Trying to be your disciple :
Mitravinda d.d
HpS - ASA --- Fight with your body, being enthusiastic. Use it as you can. Srila Prabhupada could barely whisper but he was playing on the big Mrdanga until the last moments of his strenght. You play your big Mrdanga! Send us news of your Sankirtan. So many ways to distribute books. Get a partner!!!