Hare Krishna Maharaj
PAMHO. AGTSP!
My return mailing address for my initiation beads is:
Janardan Andrews
...Australia
Thank you again kindly.
Your servant,
Jay.
HpS - Eiii, Mate, one or two fotos of your ugly mug, face. Maybe with any other rascals from your Temple?
Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva
AGTSP
PAMHO
I hope iur health is Ok
Thank U all so much for iur association.
I was wondering why are so many devotees depressed.... sad... I was in this situation before . They are my friends, my brothers and makes me feel a little sad as well... Sananda dd listens to me .. she has such a huge heart that she put up with my terrible mind... So that enhances me to try to help others But actually is a good thing isn't it? Because that means that we little by little get detached from this material world...
I am one week delay on my rounds... yes the week of the Symposium.. But we little by little will catch up on them.
Also catch up on my BS classes... Read SB review pada padma.. SB is nectar nectar nectar
Gurudeva please may U be so kind and tell me the dates U will be in India on February 2017??
The book that U gave to us SP in Mexico is so so nice... It is on my drawer and I am reading it little by little.. Thank U all so much..
Yesterday we were on the Sraddha ceremony of Jambavan's mother we stay up until 1 am that is why I did not join FMP.. The sound of Houston channel.is very bad.. so please GM if U can join through SM when U give classes that will be great...
Thank U all so much
Trying to be iur disciple
Cmdd
HpS - ASA --- Jaya. Thank you for your letter. We are still fixing our Calendar. Looks like we will go to Houston, South America, in December and January. Then we will go with Rama-giridhari Das to India like the beginning of February. Feb 9-19th is the Guru, GBC, Sannyasi meeting in Mayapura. Besides that maybe Kolkatta, Bombay, then back through Spain. It depends on how strong is our body.
O.K. We join through SM for our Houston classes. We are 14-rounds behind right now, but also catching up.
Become an Uttama adhikari this week.
Hare Krishna Maharaj
PAMHO. AGTSP!
I have just finished my final initiation exam, paperwork and have received my Letter of Recommendation from Ajita Prabhu (please see attachment).
Govinda Caran Prabhu has confirmed that he will be able to conduct the initiation on Tuesday 19 July at approximately 9:30am-10am (Aust. time). We hope we can recieve name confirmation and any other details you wish to add via Govinda's email ([email protected]), by Monday 18 July evening Australian time. Otherwise we can postpone if necessary of course.
I have not asked for a Skype hook-up as I do not wish to add to your burdens, and am satisfied with the current arrangement. Thank you.
Lock and load, hari-haribol!
Your servant,
Jay.
HpS - Hare Krsna. Please excuse our delay. As you know we were drowning in the Symposium and then the Five Cities tour in South America. It was very, very usefule, but the finale was 34-hours without laying down to sleep and then when we got to Houston, just as intense. Yesterday BAD chest pains. Doctor says, slow down or get a heart attack.
O.K. Just put, "urgent" in the letter header and well answer very quickly. The basic ISKCON rule, Brahminical rule, is that I should chant one round on your beads. Can you mail them to HpSwami; 2129 Stratford Rd.; Murfreesboro, TN 37129; USA? We will be there August 1st, and stationed there until December. I was trying to avoid this but seems essential.
Agt Guru and Gauranga!!!
Agt Srila Prabhupada!!
Hare Krsna Maharaja!
I´m Budanath das, from the little mountain.
I hope you are very good in all aspects
I have spent many days trying to write, but I can not find something to say that is not nonsense.
The other day on the 50th anniversary of Iskcon, I had the best day of my life.
A drop of nectar fell on me, and I had a very strong personal experience, that still hits me. Maybe it's silly
For some matter, time and space, on all the time, were canceled and it seemed that lived a sociable conversation, outside the logic, where at peak times, material image sparkled and was part of a conversation or reality that had nothing to do with what was seen, except for the presence of Paramatma.
In the plains, like today, Paramatma seemed to have a thousand faces and mouths, they observed objectively, but aware of everything
Something drives me to find this present, mystical, behind everything, including sensory logic
It was like looking back to childhood friends. No sense to use logic
There is only one way to repeat that experience, that ever-present reality ... 16 rounds, 4 principles, and service
It has given me great enthusiasm experience. Enthusiasm
I hope I can go mad for Krishna one day, or tomorrow, or today, and forget everything. I think that Krsna likes to ask that.
I try to be more regular writing, and especially reading
In a week I tell you that I have read and how long. Follow your tweets, blog, nectar
Lack done much in the kirtan, bhajans, festivals, devotees, pure souls. I will try to buy a Harmonium.
Thank you very much for everything
Tulasi is very well.
Yours, Budanath das.
Hare Krsna.
HpS - As I understand from Academic Psychological studies, many people have these 'psychotic' experiences, or 'religious' experiences, but they seem to be natural experiences. With the perspective of SB we can use them., Narada muni describes his experience in SB 1.6, no?
I have had experiences like this some times. As you say, by good regular Sadhana we can become quite purified quite rapidly and experience a more profound perception of the world.
Yes, we find that reading leads to writing, leads to trying to read systematically. Let us try to get Sita out of the clutches of Ravana. Let us try to get many the innocent souls out of this world. We have to look for them then...
Hare Krishna, All glories to Srila Prabhupada, please accept my obeisances Gurudeva.
Gurumaharaja I finished University since two weeks ago, ...
HpS - ASA -- Jaya! You can use your education and title for Krsna.
... by the mercy of Sri Krishna I finish a service that made my parents very happy, with that they give me their blessing to choose the way that I want to continue. Thanks Gurudeva, because was that during 5 years of college you accompany me with instructions, example and strength to have to Krsna and this is the best gift.
Then, after the Uníversity, me sick for first time of varicella, although I'm better, was very irritating, but this event has given me the opportunity to be with my daughters and remember Krishna consciousness a lot. Read and sing every day. Soon we will move to my Mom house the next week, I will miss live near yo the temple, was awesome. So we will have a big oportunity immerse myself in spiritual life, philosophy and depth of Grihasta Ashrama.
Alexey my husband is already in Mumbai working in an office engineering, he is ok, but feels lonely, likes India but the bureaucracy is complicated, he awaits us in August, we will live a year in Mumbai, the girls and I expect to be in India our Sadhana could be more focus.
Gurudeva, I have some questions, What would be the proper way to ask Krishna determination and intelligence because understand what is the Holy dham? Exist an exact preparation before going to India because for be ready? And finally and most important, Gurudeva believes that one day I could have your blessing for to go to the Holy dham pilgrimage? I feel very unqualified and unable to understand anything, but having his guide me feel cared and focus in understand the true and really importante essence to the dham.
HpS - ASA --- Going to India is just like going to a different ISKCON country. Krsna consciousness is different in Germany than South America, but is the same fundamentally also. So, just going on with your ISKCON service will prepare you for visiting India. Of course, you can ask specific questions from devotees have gone there, but that is just normal. Going to the Holy Dhama is the same. It is just the result of following the process and making gradual advancement.
I hope your visit to Mexico really happy Gurumaharaja.
Your aspiring servant
Satya Bhama dd
Hare Krishna
HpS - We will be there within 12-hours.
Dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and yourself.
On this day let me take the opportunity to write you. After several little cycles in time have passed, and different transcendental themes on which i’ve pondered have gone by, i write this letter. At the end of every one of these little cycles i meditated on writing you, but every time these letters were unfinished. Usually because topics are hard to write down, and also asking for clearance about doubts and questions seemed useless because of the limits of writing. The main topic that has left me with questions is about my origin as a spirit soul, and basically about whether i have actually ever been with Krishna. Life and and the soul are certainly very wonderful.
Not a day goes by that i don’t think about you and our relationship, but these days i’m usually lamenting about my fallen situation. The sentence of that i’m fallen is quite hackneyed, but for me i think it fits the bill this time. For a respectful person it is better to die than to transgress his word, according to Maharaja Yudhistira. Why bother telling you again and again about my weakness of heart? Is it better to just quietly slip away or to let you know that i’m thinking about you oftenly, and how much i love our ISKCON, and that i cannot leave you because the shame in that is even greater than the one i’m feeling in this current state. Weakness of heart is the result of sinful attitude and offenses, so i was told. My efforts seem like those of an ant who helps building a bridge to Lanka, and perhaps our Lord will be pleased with me one day. I hope you will too, Gurudeva. You have shown mercy upon me by accepting me, while probably knowing the risks of that, but still you gave me your hand, to which i somehow did not hold on to. I’m still swimming in the current, waiting for the tide to turn that brings me back to the boat i wish to climb back in to. Yasya prasadan na gatih kutoh pi.
So much for the sad part. I know my devotional activities are not much and mainly self oriented, but i wish to tell you that i’ve finished Srila Prabhupada’s Lilamrita and am now reading the Mahabharata, with great transcendental pleasure. I feel myself very fortunate to read these histories and stories about Lord Krishna in Dwaraka and Arjuna and Dharmaraja. We also have some festivals to visit this summer, and a short retreat in Radhadesh coming up. While driving to work i listen to Amala Bhaktas Maharajas narration of Srimad Bhagavatam.
How are you yourself, Gurudeva? I pray that you are well and able to fulfill all ideas that you have for Srila Prabhupada’s service, not bothered by physical discomfort. All that is happening in South America under your direction is certainly wonderful. also, can you explain why the wonderful Druva Maharaja was able to go back to Godhead even though he unnecessarily killed so many yaksa’s? It is mentioned that he was on the spiritual platform but at the same time acted out of bodily identification for his assasined brother. How is that possible? Kuvera said those who were killed were not killed by Dhruva but by the time factor. This is difficult to grasp.
May this letter and inquiry not be a stereotypical disciple--spiritual master letter with a philosophical question in the end, though it may look like one. I dream of actually being able to maintain a simple life where i can sit down with sadhus and ask and discuss relevant questions. Until then i still wish to remain,
Your insignificant servant,
Raghava Pandita dasa.
HpS - Hare Krsna. The first focus is the service: 16-good rounds. If you can't do that, then fix some amount that you know you can do for a certain time and do it, even though your mind is crazy. Then reevaluate the result and take another vow. A soon as we are fixed in this service we will be able to answer other questions very easily.,
