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PAMHO; AGTSP.

   Querido Guru Maharaha, Seguimos haciendo servicio en Malaga. Sin practicar sexo ilicito, ni licito. Sin carne ni huevos ni pescado, . Nada de juegos de azar; nada de intoxicantes. Todo esto, gracias a Su Misericordia ilimitada. 17 rondas minimo. La gran medicina del alma. Aun asi espero que con el tiempo todo esto mejore. Tendré que incrementar la paciencia.

Seguimos los programas regularmente, sobre todo los matinales.

He dado tres dias de clase sobre el SB 1,1,2 y una clase de CC. Los devotos quedaron contentos. Hay que mejorar Jñana y Vijñana.

Luchando arduamente, continuamente, constantemente, lamentablemente, etc con la mente, ego falso, y los 5 sentidos. Asi que no se puede decir que estamos sólos.

  Seguimos haciendo servicio en Malaga.

Un dia de Sankirtan: 2 Problemas materiales  soluciones espirituales, en 3 horas y un descanso para la espalda, sentado unos 15 m. Aunque lo importante es salir. Malaga es un sitio dificil, algun dia más saldré.

  17 rondas minimo. La gran medicina del alma.

  Para mi estos son tiempos dificiles al mismo tiempo que pienso que es maravilloso el camino que estoy recorriendo, a más dificultades más purificación, es un hecho que hay grandes cambios. Estoy planteandome nuevas posibilidades y caminos dentro del mismo camino. No es el momento de hacer cambios de templo o lugar. Aunque si pueden ser cambios de perspectiva, tiempo, de  adaptación al clima, circustancias etc.

Todos los Vaisnavas son almas espirituales que de alguna manera estan entregando su vida a Krishna, y por lo tanto también son hermanos....

   ¿Va a ir a Nueva Vrajamandala? Si es asi ¿que dias? Estaría bien que nos viesemos, si no es asi, espero verle pronto en otra ocasión. La vida espiritual no es facil......espero poder seguir 4-16 vida tras vida. Aunque haciendo balance se puede decir que todo va bastante bien. Momento de continuar.

Perdone otra vez todas mis ofensas....

Jharikhanda-gaura Das

HpS p ASA - TLGASP pfanhr... Estamos afilando el itenarario ahora. Puede ver aqui en el Blog. Adelanta. La unica cosa que necesita es DETERMINACION INFNITA!!!

ALL GLORIES TO SRI SRI GAURA NITAY

TLGSP, AND MY RESPECTFUL OBEISANCES TO YOU  GM!

HERE AGAIN BOTHERING!!! THANKS FOR YOU LETTER.

I WANT TO LIVE WITH NANDA MAHARAJA! CHRISTINA? OH MY GOD, NEVER!

THANKS FOR THE LETTER TO MY SISTER GM, WITHOUT ANSWERS would be lost !

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HARE KRSNA HARE RAMA GM! FORGIVE ME FOR MY OFFENSES.

                                                             your servant ter kadamba devi dasi.

HpS - ASA - Hare Krsna! Maybe you have stomach cancer and you will die within three months! Maybe not.   More news of your studies.

All gloires to Sri Sri Gaura Nitay ,to All Srila Prabhupada, All glories to his feet Dear Gurudava,

I hope your health accompanying ... A long time ago since I wrote you, and I have no excuse; speak a word with you on your visit to Chile and asks him about the dreams I've had with you !!

, well give me your answer and left very happy, also very inspired to keep striving in Krishna consciousness;

Also I made the comment that since initiation gave me a year ago about my anarthas attacked me mass also helped me with that.

Thank you very much.

Currently I have a job where they pay me well, I occupy time in my son and also in Gaura Nitai, but I must confess that time my sadhana low for having bad association and fail on some principle, leave my service in the kitchen of the deity and somehow give me a maya, never stop singing my rounds, neither ate meat nor jugue gambling, I had just a bad association under my consent, now I can do a service without touching fire ... all this brought me much suffering and I'm paying the consequences of my actions which I realized once again that associated with maya and surrender to lust blurs the intelligence and only makes nonsense,

I am very sorry for my actions and I cry and suffer for them, what I liked best is the service in the pujari and now Iand now I must wait six months following strictly the principles to serve the Lord (assistant pujari) which is fair.

Well since a month ago again and strictly follow the 4 principles, singing my 16 rounds, I'm reading the teachings of Lord Caitanya, the BG afternoon and also must tell you that Krishna in his infinite mercy, I have in my house Gaura Nitai !! and this for several days (1 month) makes my sadhana is a stronger, get up early, singing aṣṭaka Guru, Govinda and today also japa joe with you and the devotees also taketh the course of Bhakti Priya Sakhi sastri that will impart dd and Paramesvara D from April. since giving me initiation had a very difficult year where Maya was merciless and I attacked subtly and since I have to Goura Nitai in my house, my sadhana is to strengthened but still maya insists and I feel weak, I feel hypocritical, I strive but I think it is not enough ...

I just want to give to the Feet of Krishna and do a good service, but I feel with acute depression, I feel lonely, I have faith that everything is fleeting !! I just want to do the right thing, but my ignorance is such that I fear this material world, I just want happiness I'm tired of suffering and find myself trapped in this poor sense of intelligence.

Hopefully I can understand by Gurudeva and help me.

Your eternal servant Krisangi Devi Dasi

PS: I am using a translator, sorry I am not good at English. I sent photos of MI Goura Nitai and mia to be reminded of my face donkey. I hope to meet daily in Japa joe. Jaya Radha and Krishna.

HpS - ASA - No foto de su Caro Burra!      Gracias su carta. Su situacion es bastante comun. Yo siento solo muchas veces. Realmente sin la amistad de Krsna sentimos solo. Cada Gopi siento sola a veces, pero Krsna viene y habla con ellas. Son chicas, no muy madura. Y Krsna esta asegurando que El es su amigo y Ella es una amiga individual para ella. Nunca va a dejar Su amistad individual.

O.K. Necesitamos escapar de la illusion de la Bruja y obtener amigas/gos en Vraja eternos. Claro, es una lucha para todos nosotros. Ya estamos obvservando, involucrado en una lucha entre la GBC de cosas fundamentales! Principios super basicos. Tentaciones de poder, fama etc. que puede ruinar ISKCON.
Levantate temprano y cumplir con sus rondas con el mejor entusiasmo que tiene!
Escribra nos.

Actua como su hija puede decir con orgullo, "Eso es mi Mama!".

Hare Krsna dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupda

Dear Gurumaharaja, 

I'm very happy to tell you that I've recently started my Bhakti-sastri course (at last!). It's something I've been waiting for a while. For now, Laksmana prabhu is giving me on line lessons but as soon Isabelle and I move to Chosica I'll engage the classroom group at the temple. Bhagavad-gita is the most intelligent, overwhelming and sharpest book I've ever read. It is going to be very nice to study it systematically. 

Gurudeva, I have a few questions concerning to some doubts. I hope you kindly give me an answer to them.

1. Our philosophy encourages congregational chanting of the Holy Name and association with the devotees, but our relation with Krsna is individual, now and forever. In which way an incorrect understanding of what association means could harm the development of this natural individual rasa with the Lord?

HpS - ASA --- I guess the answer would be 1) When the association is based on material things eg. we are associating because we want fame, prestige etc. from our "religious" association. Eg. I associate with devotees because I want to become President, Sannyasi and have comfortable accomodation, association with the opposite sex. 2) When the association is an improper mixture of mellows. The Gopis are good citizens of Vraja, they milk cows. They have their own friends and circle of associates within Vraja. They have their own unique relations with Krsna. See Krsna Book Chapter 21.
So, they, we associate with devotees who have a similar spiritual perspective. We don't associate with Karmis.
AND it is acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva. You must give you whole energy to your unique relation with Krsna giving up all concern for GBC, Guru etc. and as you do this then you will realize that you cannot devolop it without GBC, Guru. Also, quite inconceivably you must give 100% to Guru, GBC et al and if you do this then you will realize that you cannot serve them unless you have your own unique, secret relation with Krsna. Actually this question is the whole focus of our filosophy and goes on forever in its answer.
 

2. Pure devotional service means to serve God without any trace of selfishness or personal desire and free of karma and jñana yoga. Srila Prabhupada explains in NOD that karma yoga is performed in rituals and jñana yoga in philosophical speculation. This means that in the way we achieve Bhakti we leave our analytical approach to philosophy and practice of rituals?
HpS - No, Krsna stopped the Rasa-lila for Brahma-muhurta (Mangala arati). We do the rituals and use our intellects in the SERVICE of our Rasas with Krsna. We do them. They are wonderful, but ultimately in terms of the nature of Rasa. Actually this is explained in the BhSastri curriculum!

"Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself" (Isopanisad, Invocation). This phrase could refer to us, the Jivas. So, why do we need to engage whith the Complete Whole? What kind of feeling moves us towards God despite of being complete in ourselves? what kind of completeness is this?
HpS - I would say we "don't" have to engage with Krsna, in one sense. Prabhupada says Krsna is free to accept our service or not. But the devotees attitude is that he will never stop offering it, with love. So, yes the devotee is complete just like Krsna, although of course different.

I've been a little bit demanding with my wife's saddhana, can you please tell me up to which point we could be a raw example for others?

HpS - What does "raw" mean? Do you mean you are putting stress on her that doesn't let her get her rounds done, or you are putting pressure on her to get her rounds done.
1. We "put pressure on people" by preaching intelligently, nicely, humbly, to them.
2. If they don't, can't, listen then we preach by setting a good example!

Hoping you're doing well with your health and sankirtan

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - We have to establish some time for some online discussions. Also, you can certainly ask these questions to Siksa gurus like Virabahu, Bh. Bhusana Swami et al.

Thank you so much.

Hare Krishna Beloved and Esteemed Gurudeva!!!!

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

New adventures in bhurloka!!

 I feel that I have advanced, I was in patala loka but now in bhur loka. Of course Krishna in BG 8.15 describes this place as duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam and again in BG 9.33 he describes it as anityam asukhaṁ lokam, SP in the purport to this verse says "this world is temporary and full of miseries, not habitable for any sane gentleman." This is the perspective i always look to observe my life. I'm always tired, i feel like i dont have time to rest, but also i realize that most of the time I'm happy, thank you and SP,

_____'o__

Reentering grihastha asram with CMDD brought a new perspective in my life. Again i realized that is not easy, nor a solution but a shelter to advance spiritualy. Fortunately i really feel like that. My mind is a little bit more focused and the willing to make devotional service has increased. I feel honestly that I am where i supose to be. She gets along really well with manu and benji. And we are getting to know each other little by little in a cooperation mood.

Having your association is the biggest fortune i have in my life, I can see what a great personality you are gurudeva. Your good qualities are unlimited, wherever you are you look like a diamond between glass. Lately i have been participating in japa joe program and watching you via mayapur tv. Thank you gurudeva because your instructions are so clear, you set such a high standard example.You push me to reach to that state of conciousness. There is no limit to your Siksa!!!

Every two weeks i go to a radio show to speak about ayurveda, it is very popular, and one time i was there with a very famous doctor, Facundo Manes, he is a neurosurgeon, he operated the president of argentina Cristina Kirchner, he is the rector of a very renowned university and a neuroscientist as well. Now he wants to research about in which part of the brain God's idea is created. Anyway he wrote a book which is a best seller, he speaks about the brain and how to make it healthy. So he was making all these descripions about the brain and i realized he had no information about the mind so he couldnt explain things such as lust or violence from a biological point of view. Then after his interview i spoke with him and i told him, that he seemed to be an extremely clever man but he was too focused on the tree so he was losing perspective of the forest. And he humbly replied "yes you are right, what can i do to change this" and i suggested to research about the mind in works such as Bhagavad Gita As it is and  Carl Jung and the Philemon Foundation. Then i thought how great would be to have a book about the work you are doing in this field to preach to this kind of people.

Unfortunately i have to tell you that my sadhana is not as good as yours by a huge distance, but still i'm struggling to put it as first one priority. Actually most of the time i finish my rounds before going to bed or the next day sometimes. 

We are working this out with CMDD and making strategies to establish a strong FMP and increase the quality of our Japa.

On the other hand i sense I'm making big progress in the auto realization field. I'm observing with atention my feelings and the motto [motives] of my actions. So this allow me to go a little deeper in the process and not just a mechanical repetition.

i love ISKCON life Gurudeva!! 

Thank you for make it very clear to me,

Struggling to become your servant,

At your lotus feet,

Nikunja Bihari Das. 

HpS - ASA - Jaya. AGTSP. Paoho. The first result of devotional service is freedom from suffering. Then things becomr harmonious, auspicious, then . .  .    Very nice news.   We don't give all our strength to chanting 16-enthusiastic rounds because we haven't realized that it will improve all of our efforts, satisfy all of our desires in the most efficient way. As we put them first, then we willl realize the importance of the Japa Vrata and do it with more and more and more strength.