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mis Respetos  a Srila Prabhupada¡¡¡¡¡

mis respetos y reverencias  a Ud. Maharaja¡¡¡¡¡

Maharaja, le tengo buenas noticias, soy Bhakta italo, de Tacna -Peru, le informo que ya compramos unas 20 hectareas de finca, lo compro mi abuelita en sociedad, en mi nombre. Y de regalo me daran cinco vacas. Me lo daran todavia en febrero del 2015, ahora lo unico que me falta es una esposa, le suplico Maharaja  me de muchas bendiciones. Mi abuelita Marina esta muy contenta y yo tambien, realmente este es un arreglo del señor Krishna, tal como Ud. Maharaja me dijo, tanto que hemos buscado al fin de un momento a otro se presento, por una amiga de mi mama que tambien esta comprando ella se ha comprado 30 hectareas de finca. Su amiga de mi mama se llama Susana. Este mensaje se lo dedica mi mamita abuela Marina.

Mi abuelita Marina canta muchas rondas cuando viajamos; pero todos los dias canta 16 infallable, y cuando salimos de viaje canta hasta mas de 64 rondas. y todos los dias lee Las Enseñansas de Caytania Mahaprabhu.

y yo todos los dias canto mis 16 rondas y a veces mas y tambien, leo todos los dias los libros ahora mas pausado y con ganas de estudiarlas, me acorde de un consejo que me dio Su Santidad en el asram de Chosica, que deberia estudiar a menos media hora y ahora me doy cuenta, tambien estoy siguiendo un celibato severo pero no es para soportarlo tanto, mas aun asi estoy dispuesto a soportar mas fuerte aun. Nunca pense que el celibato era tan beneficioso. 

Continuo bañando al Señor Hanuman todos los dias y ofreciendo Artik,  2 veces al dia, ahora con variadas canciones.

Tambien estoy tratando de romper algunas barreras que no son compatibles para mi de lo que aprendi en el templo, lei que la religion buena es para obtener paz, y sosiego, asi que no debo sufrir o ver que la religion me trae perjuicios, asi de esa manera quizas siento o veo que ISKCON esta mas cerca.

Tambien descubri que erradicando de la mente todo lo que me enseñaron en el colegio y desechando lo aprendido acerca de anatomia y medicina moderna, y otras teorias de la ciencia moderna se puede pensar con el corazon y se piensa mucho mejor, quizas ya no especular como lo hace la cabeza. Y todo eso viene gracias al celibato.

Y tambien tratando de analizar si  dentro de mi corazon tengo un idioma o lenguaje propio y suena  mucho mejor que el español.

Maharaja desde que practico el celibato llega momentos donde quizas parece que rebico conocimiento que proviene o quizas esta en el eter.

Mi abuelita piensa de srila prabhupada que es como un angel de Dios, y esta muy agradecida de que por el aprendamos todo y mi abuelita le da muchas reverencias a Srila prabhupada y tambien a Ud. Maharaja.

HpS - ASA - TlgaSP!     Increible.   No, decir casi nada. Solamente espero que puede desarrollar muy fuerte relaciones con otros devotos de ISKCON. Algo muy practico en terminos de servicio a Krsna, Sankirtan.

Unas fotos de Vds????

Escriba como quiere!

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva ¡¡¡

AGTSP ¡¡¡ AGTU ¡¡ PAMHO 

I hope this meets U in really good health ¡¡¡¡¡ 

Gurudeva I am so sorry for not writing to the blog as I used to.. The truth is that nothing more changes since my last report. Nevertheless many changes in my life. But we feel enthusiastic and determined ¡¡¡

We chant our rounds daily, follow principles, do service, read, work, study. And try to associate with nice devotees ¡¡

Last saturday we went to Chosik, we return to our service all saturdays with Them since noon until change Their pijamas ¡¡¡ , in wilson I have pujari every friday.  BV study is really nice and it help us a lot ¡¡¡

Ratha Yatra was a big success many many people asking me who are those statues?? as soon as I arrived with our LOrdships ¡¡ one small child gave to me some flowers and told me these are for Them ,and it was the first time that she saw them. I felt so happy ¡¡¡

Regarding NBD and me we are fine. He is an extremely nice devotee ,with good feelings, with lotssssss of service and burden so my desire is to help him. I learn a lot from him. We help each other. We have plans but if you let me,please I prefer to tell those on my annual report. It is amazing he is like my father in many things ¡¡¡¡ 

Thank U Gurudeva for your concern and support we really feel protected. And please forgive us again for not writing. But we everyday think about you, in how to be a good tools for U and Srila Prabhupada and not just fool monkeys 

Always trying to be your disciple

Candramukhi d

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP Paoho. No, you are writing enough. We are just amazed that before there were five letters a day and now there is one. We thought that maybe the robot was not working. It is fine with us. Your report is very nice. Whatever Krsna wants, that is our service. Whatever the Gopis, Srila Prabhupada want for Krsna, that is our service, eternally.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,
Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.
Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Este año mi reporte no es bueno. Pero desde su última carta me di cuenta  que estaba abandonando mi vida espiritual. Pero ahora  estoy cantando rondas, estoy organizando para estar en Japa Joe a veces para escucharlo y cantar con Usted. Este pato está tratando de volver cerca de Sus pies de loto.

HpS - ASA --- "Una vez que llegan a Krishna, nunca pueden escapar." [Pero podemos desviar en el "parque de diversiones" de la Bruja para mucho!!!   SB esta llena de caidas. Casi nada mas. Peru despues de levantas (get ups). No tan importante como esta cayendo, mas importante como esta levanttando! Gaura-Nitai necesita.

12/01/14

HARE KRSNA GURU MAHARAJA!  ALL GLORIES TO MIGHTY SRILA PRABHUPADA!!  HUMBLE DUNDAVATS AND PRANAMAS.

JUST A QUICK LETTER TO THANK YOU SINCERELY FOR THE SHELTER OF YOUR LOTUS FEET!!  ALSO THANK YOU FOR SENDING ADVICE FROM SB  10.14.8.  TEARFULLY READ AND RE-READ.

HpS - Wow! Our studies have had some result.

WILL BE MOST INTERESTED TO LEARN WHAT IS THE RESPONSE FROM JUNGIAN GROUP TO YOUR WORTYHY IDEAS/SUGGESTIONS.  GUESS THIS WILL TAKE SOME TIME. - 

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. Esteemed, ASA, Sacramento, Sankirtan Leader. We sent a letter to the Philemon Foundation with copies to our NIOS Members. Dr. Kitsikis has already responded that his focus is more Global Politics. He is described as one of the best three. He said he has forwarded our letter to a collegeau of 20-years who is leader of a big Sufi sect in Turkey!

WHEN DO YOUR TRAVELS COMMENCE?   LOOKED FOR YOUR SCHEDULE BUT DIDN'T FIND IT.

ASA - It's in the "Calender" link. 31st Decmber. Return 11 February.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS.  YOU HAVE MINE, GURUDEVA.
YWS,
KDD
HpS - ASA - Please offer our regards to D.P! Ask him if he thinks there really is a Santa Clause?

Hare krishna Maharaja!! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

I hope that you are fine! 

The reason cause i write this letter is becouse Isvara Prabhu (the pujari of the temple) proposes to me to learn how to do differents activities about the worship in this days (all this month). He will return to India 13 of January and i will return to the temple around 8-9 of January (I will go to my city 24 of December and i will pass the christmas with my family). The authorities say me that the day of the initiation will be 23 of December.

Dandava said to me that he likes a lot the idea of that Isvara teaching me about worship this month.

Isvara and Dandava say to me that I should to write you to ask  about your permission.

Thank you very much for your time!!

Your insignificant servant Marcos.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. We mailed Jacobo's beads to Dandava Das at Espiritu Santo address yesterday. They say about two weeks, 19 December, they should arrive.
I don't know the standard of Gaura-Nitai's worship in Madrid as established by local Brahmanas, Temple and GBC authorities, but if it is O.K. with them, then it is certainly O.K. with us. Great purpose of Deity worship is to keep us, clean and punctual so we can chant Hari-nam, Sankirtan, nicely in Kali yuga.!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj!

Please accept our humble obeisances.  All glories and jaya Srila Prabhupada!

We are very sorry to hear about your tooth Maharaj.  So many nerve endings in the teeth.  We will pray that this pain ends soon for you.

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!!  Well, we were able to just see it as "noise" rather than "pain" for a large part. We can see that the pain is giving your jaw, body, social impression, over to "noise". Get ready soon. We are all going to become noise.

Maharaj, things have been busy (thank Krsna for that).  I have been appointed through an emergency situation to be in charge of the 5th and 6th grade classroom.  I was teaching full time a month ago but now it is part time as a Composition, American History, Grammar and Literature teacher.  It has been amazing and a lot of hard work.  I have permission to now incorporate Vaishnava comparative studies the last 10 minutes of Literature and History (i.e., we study Figurative Language and thereafter look at Figurative Language in Suradasa's poems. In Literature we read about the life of impressionist painters and compare the paintings to Impressionist style paintings of Lord Caitanya made by no-name listed, pre-19th century Bengalis in the book  Birth of Kirtan!).  Everyone, including the parents, seem happy with this approach.  I feel more and more dependent on Krsna though!  I do not have my Masters in Education, so I have to really prove myself and my abilities (sincerity is there, but abilities to teach are developing as I practice the art of teaching).  Thank Krsna everyone is tolerant of me while I learn the ropes.

Sadhana has been okay.  I will get up between 6-7 every morning and chant as much as I can, get Aja ready, do some mangal arati. I am reading every day but it is all over the place: mostly to prepare material for Values class or Comparative Study.  

I have seen some successes this year in being able to give up previous material desires.  Simpler life, simpler housing situation, giving up non-devotee association (I was hanging on to some association of artists out of sentiment only, but now there is not as much need for this nor is there any time for this!)  I went out on books alone yesterday and now I do this every Saturday usually with a group.  Gunagrahi Maharaj was just here for a visit, and Maharaj explained that some material desires are hard to give up and sometimes impossible to give up for the time being.  For example, I was struggling with this idea of family getting together for Thanksgiving!  I still wanted to DO that, so I cooked for Nick's parents a prasadam feast.  I think this delegating of desires and transforming them into KC desires is going okay. But there are a thousand others in the deep mine of material desires the closer we get to sincerely performing Krsna Consciousness.  Somedays I am so overwhelmed I just need to write or play a silly game with Aja.  When is distraction healthy distraction Maharaj?  Should it always relate to Krsna Consciousness, even our distraction?

HpS - We hear that Srila Prabhupada told the devotees in Hawaii, that if it did not interfere with their service they could swim for 45-minutes every day.  Hmmm. Sometimes we just have to relax the mind, or get brain-strokes. Look for the most KC diversion you can get. Four principles is good standard.
I think it is really a matter of being sincere and seeing how much you have indulge the brain and body to keep them fit for service. Experience is a great teacher.

BUT, (and I know this is a big but) I know so much of my struggles are unnecessary.  I am speculating, but the situation with Nick seems to be Mayadevi's personal construct to detract me and simultaneously attract me to a devotional path.  My realization is that if I can go deeper into studying scriptures in a more regulative way and making this my life and soul, I would not be so torn up about the everyday calamities.  I want to ask you Maharaj how to develop this mood of absolute dependence on the scriptures.  I pray for it, but I am still so distracted.

   HpS - The Gopis didn't know how to read and write, Nanda Maharaja didn't know how. He would  hire some educated fool to do it for him. They would watch puppet shows about these things andd understand it all. Hour in the morning, hour in the evening. One standard. That can some with Aja, some with devotees. Some before breakfast.
How to eat better? Experiment with different diets.

I have a feeling this is my next step to not just being a normal person with normal tendencies towards laziness and lamenting.  It seems to be what separates a bhakta from a Vaishnava.

    HpS - It is one things that separates a Madhyama adhikari from and Uttama adhikari.  

I am now about to start my internship as well as a class on Evidence based counseling to finish my degree. Part of me does not even want to finish school (Haha, silly, I know!!) because I am already very busy with teaching 25 hours a week and keeping up with my sadhana and Aja. I am incredibly scared that I will lose my sadhana and service if I take this on.  Let me know if you have any advice!

HpS - Of course, don't do anything that doesn't first INCREASE your attachment to Japa-vraja and 4-principles and Full Morning Program. Krsna will send the Prasad if you do that.

I will ask Hari Vilas's and Madhava Chandra's as well.  You are very merciful for listening.  I hope, that maybe I can incorporate some Jungian approaches towards psycho-therapy into my practice.  I am looking forward to your paper on this.  

Your lowly servant,

Kamagayatri dd

HpS - We got our first response to our letter yesterday from Dr. Kitsikis. He forwarded it to the head of a big Turkish Sufi movement and said that he would have interest in what we are trying to do. That's all I hoped for, that our first approach to authorities would be re-directed to more appropriate people, then we can write more and more focused stuff!

Thank you four your news. Of course, the real focus seem to be getting up for Brahma-muhurta.

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