Hare Krsna Gurudev - Urgent

9 years, 5 months ago by Gopal C Biswas in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, thank you so much. Marking the letter as Urgent as we have only remaining few days of Kartik Month....(2nd initiation).

    1. Regarding this, URL : http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/5829

       I am completely ready to do it by telephone in Pune. But have checked with Pune Temple, there will no 'Yagna' (Fire sacrifice),
       in coming days. That's why was heading for Vrndavana Temple.

       Please let me know your input.

    2. Regarding this, URL : http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/5830

       Thank you so much for clear sight. i would be very happy to assist "university programs", need next 6 month time to prepare myself
       as currently already in process of a planned preaching Program, so it will take some time to finish. Hope to finish in next 6 months.
       then would fully focus on "university programs".

       What is VAD?......and i am fully ready for preparing for full renunciation, Sannyasa.

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP. paoho... VAD=VaranAshramaDharma

       As you said "Learn how to communicate and preach.", Please guide me about it for better preparation and better result for Prabhupada.

 your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - When will next sacrifice be in Pune?  That would be best time.

Hare Krsna Gurudev

9 years, 5 months ago by Gopal C Biswas in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, some time, i feel, i should left the material life and go to Vrndavana and live a spiritual life....do sadna, read scriptures.

    As the donkey is getting older of this human life and am loosing days of this human life,......every moment.

    My nature is like a 'Saadak' so like Sadna, reading, deity worship, glorification of lord.  
    but have less knowledge. Need more clarity on what to left, where to go, what to do for
    best utilization of this human life.

    Please let me know if you have any thing for me.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA --- We are trying to develop these university programs with Dr. Samaresha so you can please help with that. In SB 1.17.38, I think, Srila Prabhupada says that girls should be married by 16-years old and boys by 25-years  or take Sannyasa. Of course, that may be in the ideal situation in the future, but in many ways it can be true. If you are doing regular Sadhana for several years, then you begin to see you VAD. O.K. Maybe your should think of staying as a B'cari and preparing for full renunciation, Sannyasa. Of course, Sannyasa is very good as a means to study and read and do austerities to get knowledge to help others. Learn how to communicate and preach.

PAMHO From Budanath Das.

9 years, 5 months ago by H.Rama in Personal Sadhana Reports

AgtSP

Hare Krsna Maharaja, Pamho.

I´m Budanath, the donkey monkey.

I hope you are very happy and Krishna conscious.

Regarding the origin of Budanath, I'm not quite sure, but I'm wrong but is related to the Boudhanath temple in Kathmandu. .Literally it means "the Lord of knowledge," but I have always understood as "The Lord of Buddha", the Lord of the"enlightened soul", associating to Nityananda, and maybe Lord Siva, because for me, Lord Siva is the mercy of Nityananda projected on the subject.

ASA - Aaaaah!

It is true that I feel inside me a very loving relationship with the Lord Siva, I love, and I feel something very similar with Nityananda-Balarama, although I know Nityananda-Balarama are more sensitive, more secrets. I feel very close to them in some way, so that I think once that is related to them.

Sorry Maharaja, really do not know precisely.

Thank you so much for your answers, are like to meet you on the street.

In this regard I have been thinking a lot these days.

If I am not this body, and life itself is pure energy, as the spark and fire, meet the people you love, the feeling about the soul, the heart, is not a question of space, but nearby loving, energetic. And so I've been trying lately with you ... I have to admit that I who does not move, You seem to be always moving, and that makes me happy.

ASA - Brother Ass is at least 70% Pitta, fire, says our Doctor. Fires always are moving, no?

It gives me happiness prove that one can have a friendship with someone always wherever you are. I meditate on You, and with a little luck you scold me for being with so many mental nonsense. You greets me and shows me your joy at having gone to see You that day. Of course it is not possible without the Holy Names.

I am tired, confused, I know I have to associate with the Holy Names and when I do, meet my friends at the Holy Names.

I know you try to learn me to be a great person, pleasant to the eyes of Krsna, Radharani, Balarama, Srila Prabhupada ... and I appreciate that inspire me to break my mental worlds, and try to set the vision of my mind to really see, to feel from the inside of me, the reality as it is without the projections of my mental problems.

Today I was reciting the Holy Names and dust of mind was cleaning with the vibration of the Holy Names. So you were getting me wondering;

-¿ You finally come today?

- Yes Maharaja, I know I had to come before, my mind entangled me, Maharaja.

- 'Well, yes' You said “The important thing is you're here now”

And You were  explained that this platform of the mind is that determines the fate of death. The strength of our personal desire, now broken by the pure vibration of the holy name, thought materializes in the form of body. But if we do not let that touch, impregnated us with his mystical material power, we return to the source of our life. To the world where Life, God, Vishnu, Krishna is present with us without departing from the fire.

A world of pure life energy, without beginning and without end.

When I am in that state, I can not extend it by effort, but by internal pure desire, For love to not part with those people I love. I guess that's personal. I dream that this vibration open the clouds of my mind and let sunlight pass without interruption before my death, and may come running.

Sorry to dwell much.

Thank you so much Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja to make a fool like me to learn.

At Your shadow Maharaja, Yours, Budanath Das.

HARE KRSNA

HpS - Hmmmm!   The Srimad Bhagavatam is quite large. It includes, with CC, so many descriptions of these different realms of consciousness, no?   Go on reading Prabhupada's books!!! You will get to see you realizations of cosmology, time, space, psyche there!!
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!!!!!!!!

Vedabase office, etc ... update

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my hubmle [humble] obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Vedabase.com is getting bigger every month and it seems to move project to next level we will need some physical office space where our team can work on the project. 
So today I had meeting with Gauranga Simha Prabhu, one of deputy managers of ISKCON Mayapur regarding possibility to rent some office space on ISKCON campus. Hopefully managers will be inspired by Krishna to agree to provide the space for Vedabase project.

Also I canceled offer from Mayapur Institute to work on their website, canceled any future service for JPS Archives and will be extremely cautious in taking any other projects.  It seems I took much more than I could handle which led me to too much stress, 'systematically' avoiding morning programs. And also took time I could use on vedabase.com. If I will continue like this I will get mad/crazy and my head will explode. :) 

ASA - That happened to us about three lifetimes ago. Wasn't a good thing.

When my service for TOVP will be completed I am planning to do only service on vedabase.com.

Last we spoke about ILS you mentioned about place on education table. Do you think it will be possible to get also slot(s) for presentations in main tracks? 

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

HpS - ASA ----  So, so nice to hear from you and your reactions and plans. I think Vedabase.com can be considered very best way to help all other projects. Yes, seems to be so much work: A better Welcome page for new people, Index, Increase different languages, Promote knowledge and use of the Vedabase.com

We are working on the ILS program now. The organizers cancelled the idea of an education exhibition and are going to have some kind of ISKCON exhibition. Contact Ramgiridhari Das directly if you can. .. [email protected] ...

Other than that the Deadline for proposed ILS Seminars has closed, but I submitted one on Higher Education and if you let us, we could give you a lot of time to present, Vedabase.com during that time, and leaflet people in general.

We are of course focusing on this symposium on "Psychology and the Sacred"., June 21-23rd, Lima, Peru, but Vedabase.com is an essential part of that.

Thank you so, so, so much for your work. Thank your good wife for loving you even though you must be an intolerable ass at times. Thank your parents who gave us such a half-way sane person.

Thank you in the name of everyone who uses this Blog.
What about getting, "Prabhupada" in Spanish for Vedabase.com?

 

Maybe you can't afford Audi, but at least you will be able to walk barefoot around Goloka some day, causing more mischief there, no?
 

KIRTAN RASA FROM SPAIN

9 years, 5 months ago by kirtan 108 in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna Maharaj!! Please accept my houmble obeisances.

Dont worry i understand that the body is getting old, this happen to everyone. The important thing is our eternal soul.

Im Bhakti Sundar Goswami son, we met and talk in Houston.

I hope that your remember me.

HpS - Yes!!!  AGTSP.    I was just thinking about you and wondering if we would hear from you again.

The last time i wrote you this letter from the account of Mantri Rama Das.  http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/node/5773

PD: I will read the Gurutattva that you post in your website.

HK

HpS - O.K.!!!!  Hope to hear from you soon!!

Reporting from HariKripa

All glories to Srila Prabhupada & U

please accept my humble obeisances

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudeva. We hope U are much better.

HpS - Better?  AGTSP  Paoho.    Better from the stress for the South American trip?   Hmmm.  That was a long time ago, no?   Better than our daily struggle, like you?  Hmmm.  Like you, we are struggling to improve, and we do discover things. We discovered that we can bake potatoes in the micro-wave in five minutes and that has helped a lot.
Ha!  Ha!   Hare!
In general, I think like you, we are discovering that, "much better", means that our improvements, externally keep up with the external degredation caused by the three modes, but internally we are getting eternally "much better", like you(?).

As we promise we are trying to write more often to the Blog telling U about our adventures. This time we are in HariKripa (Arequipa- Peru) having such a good time with devotees (Rama lila dd and family , Manasi Ganga dd, and many many more). They are such a nice devotees with so much enthusiasm…

We had a Ratha Yatra here with their Deities and the presence of H.H. MahaVisnu Swami & Harinam Ruci devotees. For Us this has been a blessing…  we could share with devotees after so many months. Its like an injection of happiness, faith, devotion, mercy, ect…  hahahaha  we are so happy… This is the best medicine…Association with devotees, kirtan, prasadam…. 

Some days ago we experienced something very very emotional for us, after many months we were dancing and singing in Goura artik. It was so so moving. In some moment we couldn’t even sing cause we were feeling like a baby crying and asking for forgiveness to his parents. We really miss that kind of things.  We need to go to temple more often and be more open and try to share more with devotees…

We still have this problem of weight but we feel with more energy and that helps a lot to follow our sadhana. We are following an alternative medicine based on herbs and meditation and eating proper food for our body, bach flower remedies. In some way it is working. But our main medicine are our rounds so we putting more emphasis on that.

Family is ok. they are 90% vegetarians now… 

Well i guess this time news are much much interesting than last letter….

Thank you SO SO SO SO much for always being there with us, helping us... we are not a good example but that is our aim....

Yours in Service

Patrak Das

HpS - People tell us that all of Patrak's problems are a result of his sadness at seeing his father go. Is it true? I did not know him very well, but I can see that he might have been a very, very intimate part of your life.  My father and I were not very close. My Mother a little more, but not much, but when I got news of may fathers mortal demis, even though I had not had any contact for years, Sannyasa, still I was having dreams of him at night.
Any Krsna conscious advice about these things for our family audience.

Your Arrequipa report is super.   Of course, we smile and think, hmmm, things are very good there when you visit, but how would it be living there. Maybe the same as Lima, ISKCON.   If.....   that is true then the answer is to travel a lot, no?    -[;o]/\____