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9 years, 7 months ago by Bhaktin Camila R. in Personal Sadhana Reports

All Glories To Sri Sri Gour nitay!
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All Glories to you!!

Hare Krsna dear Maharaj, how are you? I hope this find you in a very gooood health :) <img alt="laugh" height="22" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/teeth_smile.png" title="laugh" width="22" />

Camila R. Chilean living in Buenos Aires, Arrrgentina. 22 years old.

Firs of all i'm going to thank your answer to my previous letter, it was so nice, i felt very happy...so...THANK YOU!

Everyday i'm trying to make friend with my japa, so the chant is less forced..and more natural...sing... sing and pray. We also are trying to put more love and dedication.

I told you once that i'm with a devotee: Seva Kunja Das, disciple of Bhaktimarga Swami. In march he proposed to me..and we are going to get married! in September. I'm asking for your blessing in this stage...in which the two of us will enter in the Grhasta Ashram. Without your blessings my heart will be broken...so...please, i need your blessings.

On another subject, I was doing service at the temple with Seva Kunja...I was helping him to cook for the deities, but the authorities won't let us doing more service, cause our condition of : not married. I was VERY sad, cause i loved that service, but if is Krsna Desire i will find another service to do for him at the temple. For now, we are serving our deities at home (photo) ; NITAYGAURA SUNDARA. This amazing and merciful form of the lord is developing so much love in my heart.

I want to take initiation under your shelter..and under Srila Prabhupada's Shelter (firs of all) ..., i'm gonna make things right, and maybe some day be your spiritual daughter if you let me.

Well, without nothing more to say, only my best wishes for the amazing service that you are doing for Srila Prabhupada's mission. And hoping that your health is always good and fine.

HARE KRSNA! HARE RAMA!

(The deites of the photo are the ones who are living in our place...NitayGoura Sundara)

HPS ASA - Hare Krsna!

Thanks for your letter. We are old, so we always have health problems t they don't touch our soul! AgtSP!

Prabhupada got boys and girls married after a short time in New York. He said that they couldn't be members of the Society of they were living together and not married.

Of course we hope your marriage is a step in the right direction. One who does good is never overcome by evil!

Standard is 16-rounds and for principles. It is a show of our love for Krsna.

Thank you for your association. Make a lot of progress quickly!

Jayarama

9 years, 7 months ago by bhaktanicasio in Personal Sadhana Reports, Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Ki

hare krishna beloved and esteemed Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisnces,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Parama karuna Gaura Nitai brought huge blessings to our home!!

Mar del Plata Yatra is roaring!

Many things going on!! We are preparing a play for Rama Navami.

The ecologic house project is going on succesfully at Sri Govardhan, Hh Krishna Ksetra Swami saw it and said it is a kali yuga house out of garbage but he liked the concept.

The con about this is that withdrew energy and time for our spiritual practice so now we must finish what we started but huge realization that nothing is worthy besides a strong morning program and 16 good rounds.

We are struggling for this yet!!

We feel sad and inspired because of Gunagrahi Swami/prabhu as well as all the situation at Mayapur Dham.

We feel proud of being part of ISKCON family and huge responsibility at the same time.

Your guide is like a life guard in this ocean of faults of this material world. And we will try our best to help you help Srila Prabhupada!!

We are having good contact with Ambarish, Madhavendra and Rati manjari prabhus to coordinate your Sankirtan here in argentina.

You rock them all gurudev with your faultless character and your purity!!

What good quality do we have?

We are demon desguised as devotee!! Your mercy is unlimited to this fallen soul!!

Trying to serve you.

Nikunja Bihari Das.

HpS - ASA - Very interesting news. We are maybe two steps ahead of you in purification but Srila Prabhupada is on top of the hill guiding us out.

More news as it happens. Who else is prominent to you in your community? What do they do?

o.k. We Tweet and bathe now!

HARE KRSNA!

URGENTE GREATFULNESS AND A COUPLE OF SHORT QUESTIONS

9 years, 7 months ago by Sananda in Personal Sadhana Reports

HARE KRSNA DEAR GURUDEVA:

PAMHO,AGTSP!!!

I HOPE YOU FEEL HEALTHY AND RECOVERED FROM ALL THE TRAVELLING BY THE TIME YOU

READ THIS LETTER...

IT HAS BEEN GREAT TO FOLLOW YOU, I HOPE NOT TOO DISTURBING FOR YOU...

THANK YOU FOR MAKING SUCH AN EFFORT, TRAVELLING IT´S SUCH AN STRUGGLE!!

I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS:

1ST. HOW CAN I RELEASE FEAR TO GIVE UP ON ILLICIT SEX AND THUS BECOME A CHASE WIFE?

2ND. AND LESS TRANSCENDENTAL... I MAY HAVE THE CHANCE TO HAVE A PART-TIME JOB IN BRIHUEGA AS

ENGLISH TEACHER FROM SEPTEMBER, FOR THIS I NEED TO DO SOME COURSES (INVEST TIME AND LAKSMI) TO

PREPARE...

WHAT DO YOU THINK? SHALL I TRY? OR SHALL I FOCUS ON SANKIRTAN? (FOR OUTREACH AS WELL AS TO MAKE A

LIVING, NOW THAT WE DO NOT DEPEND ON BHADRA´S JOB...)

THANK YOU FOR THE NOTEBOOK...I KNOW IT WAS FOR BHADRA...BUT STILL.<img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />

ASPIRING TO BECOME YOUR SINCERE SERVANT

SANANDA DEVI DASI

HPS - ASA - - Hare Krsna! It was nice having association of u and BVD. Thank you. Thanks to Bhaktin Maite also.

Best way to get free from material sex desire is to get spiritual sex desire. Become servants of Radha Krsna in Their conjugal play. You can do that by spontaneously worshipping Their Deity every day. Buy for Them, cook for Them, take Them to school.

If you should teach in Brihuega, I do not know. It could be very nice, you'll meet new people and pictures you can them show. Talk to your advisors locally.

Many ways to do Sankirtan.

Send us more news. The Journal its for everyone, no? Only 1/3 finished.

hare krishna - fighting with dragons

9 years, 7 months ago by Bhakta Jorge España in Personal Sadhana Reports

hare krishna Maharaj pamho agtsp.

We are here at the manor
singing hare krishna
They say it is the perfection of life; we do not understand very well what that means; but anyway we like to sing and dance and also take prasadam.

the (bhakti-sastri) ends on April 27; we'll be back in Barcelona on May 3.

I have tried to be a good citizen, also good friends here and good cookies too.

my mother visited me for a week, she attended all programs, help in the food for life and even sang japa…

it is wonderful Maybe she becomes a devotee and help me go back to God.

I curse the Lord to steal my heart.
I curse the words of my guru to be the goal of my life.
I curse devotees to be always in my association.
I curse the scriptures to be the filter through which I look at the world.

I bless illicit sex, gambling, meat-eating and intoxication, to disappear from my mind.

I pray for the favor of the Lord can be a curse that from the material point of view seems a misfortune as being poor, ugly or without any education; Or a blessing like beauty, fame and fortune; I do not care what it is, my only interest is your causeless mercy.

a greeting I hope you're well.

hare krishna

Jorge

HpS - Hare Krsna. We are in the restaurant in the temple in Barcelona. Write more in the DTC in three minutes. It is very nice to hear you survived the Manor program. How many students in your class? To start to finish? Your poem was a little hard to follow logically but inspiring. We have to become Brahmans and then Goswami. When Goswami we feel Krsna driving our chariot. We can do more and more significant service. Were actually get eternally connected to ISKCON. We hope to hear of your next more. Norway, England...

THREE STEPS FROM CHILE

9 years, 7 months ago by trivikrama das in Personal Sadhana Reports

all glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
all glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami
Hare Krishna Gurudeva, I am Trivikrama das, Chile
I am chanting 16 rounds and following four regulative principles
I hope the flu is gone and you better health
now I'm reading "the teachings of Queen Kunti"
It has helped me dont lose courage , facing the day to day
last week I had a traffic accident and I broke my hand
all in all I'm fine, I'm convinced that without Krsna in my life the accident would have been worse, next June fill up one years cooking for the deity, Saturday through, it was a nice experience, the service I do with my girlfriend Francisca she cut vegetables i and helps me clean all , it has given me pleasure to see as time goes enjoy increasingly my service, thanks to your inspiration we have continued in service for now is waiting that service, because I can not cook with one hand, with the cold broken hand has hurt a lot
but with krsna always all good
I apologize for my ingratitude and descordialidad
I will write regularly
Krsna always look after him and once again thanks for everything
your eternal servant
Das Trivikrama

ps.this photo is a offering made I really liked how it looked

HpS - AgtSP. Thank you for your letter. We are in Barcelona. Yes. Could be much worse, no? Will your hand heal? If not then you will have a different perspective on life. You are married? How is your family? Who are your friends? What are your goals? The offering is so, so, so beautiful.

Krsna-kirtana Dasa from Queretaro, Mexico

9 years, 7 months ago by Christian in Personal Sadhana Reports, Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Hare Krsna! All Glories To Guru Parampara All Glories To Srila Prabhupada All Glories To Hanumatpresaka Swami Please accept my humble obeisanses Gurudeva, i extend my apologize for the absence of letters the past months, after i called you in december marathon there where a LOT of changes one after another, so i needed a little bit stability to structure my mind and heart in order to write. Sri Radha and i flew to peru in new year's day, her brother got diagnosis of 4th level cancer, so we thought we was going to say good bye to him (chant hare krsna, read Bhagavad-gita for him, feed him prasad etc.) wonderfully he recovered at least enought to keep with treatment, we will see next 4 months... i tried but never found the way to go to lima during your visit, still i got big remembrance of you due i was in cusco with some of my older God-brothers, i took A LOT of inspiration from them, about personal confidence and practice of Bhakti, but most of all, a lot of inspiration about Grhastha asram, Sri Radha and me had the chance to experience sankirtana with Gadai Gauranga & Nadiya, i beg so one day i can become fit to worship dvarka silas... also, learned about eagerness from Rohini kumara Dasa & yoga-mayi DD, but the ones that took my heart were Ananda Maya's prabhu Family, meeting them streghten my will to perform a service whithin ISKCON as a responsable Grhastha, we consulted an astrologer and told us the best date to marry was 19 th May, so we are preparing by now, a few more austeritys, accepting service for small-home, deities here in Queretaro, and also we will make 2 yajñas before that day, do you have any suggestion i could add at this? For now, we are back here at Queretaro city, taking more personal responsabilities, going sankirtan almost every day, at least a few hours, trying to improve each day our sadhana (sometimes we wake up but fall asleep after breakfast... or so.) and also trying to get deeper, heartfeeling relationships with the rest of the vaishnavas in general,still we make a special push with the ones that we appreciate. Personally, im inquirying from various sources, specially HDG why ISKCON is more like "small comunities gathered internationally" than an actual INTERNATIONAL - SOCIETY. trying to focus the obvious, a society has plenty of variety, still ISKCON has a lot of tabues about expanding service outside of temple structured thinking models. Again, thank you for your exemplary life, it constitute the very faith i have this movement is the beating heart of Srila Prabhupada, despite of some parts like me being materially ill, it can be fixed just by Sincere work and causless mercy. Your growing servant Krsna-kirtana Dasa HP swami - AgtSP. Paoho. We are on Barcelona. There are a lot of institutes outside of GBC ISKCON, no? E.g. Oxford Center for Hindu Studies. If we keep healthy contact with local GBC, they seem to accept these mature efforts. All of ISKCON's problems seem rather natural to us. We see progress is pioneering our own Sankirtan within the social and institutional life of ISKCON. Have friends, fight corruption. Support sane rules. Send pictures.

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