HpS - ASA - AGSTP This letter is one month old!!
Hare krishna maharaj! Please accept my humble obiansces. All the glories to SRila Prabhupada!
Maharaj, I have read the steps to follow to become your diciple or in a first instannce take refugee. It is very clear thank you!
I wanted to tell you a little bit of my back ground , as i have told you before maharaj my husband and I teach yoga, we come from an impersonal school, Bihar School of Yoga . I studied there and lived there some months learning yoga teqniques ( pranayama, concentration, kriya yoga, shatkarmas ) and also took initiation in that school some years ago. since i meet krishna conciusness I have not been to these school again insted I started going to Mayapur.
First of all i wanted to know if there is any problem , any inconvenient regarding that point for me to take initiation with you and follow your instruction Maharaj.
HpS - AGTSP!! How are you now? No, there is no problem taking initiation in ISKCON, but we have not heard from you for a month. How are you?
As i have continued growing i have reached fortunately bhakti yoga and as ive learned in Bhagavad gita a yogui can continue in the yoga ladder up to bhakti yoga if he wants to serve the supreme personality of godhead. And that is the only thing i want to do now, serve krishna and all his expansions. What i have learned in yoga is very helpfulll for my japa practice and for my sadhana but now I know there is much more, there is Krishna!!!
HpS - Yes! The Hatha Yoga can be very useful for Japa and Sadhana. There is no loss. Of course we hear it that all of the "zeros" we have before, get a "one" in front as soon as we can connect our life to Krsna. Now you can use your Hatha yoga for Krsna!
Regarding my sadhana Maharaj for 6 years I have been waking up at 4:30 and doing all my yoga practices but since i meet krishna conciusness ai changed my sadhana , i still prqctice pranayama , shatkarmas and asana since it helps me to stay focused in Krishna while doing my rounds and be able to sit confortably. since one year now I have been waking up at 4:30 , chanting 16 rounds with no day exception, following the four principles.
HpS - Wow! You can be Srila Prabhupada's disciple now! You have to take like a "Disciple Course". I hear it is nice and simple, and then recommendation from Temple President. Nice to be an Refugiado for six months to get final ideas clear about who everybody is and what there role is!
Regarding mangalarati since i came back from Mayapur I have been waking up the deities and Tulasi maharani and then chanting 16 rounds near her.
In mayapur I went to bhagavatam class every day , here in argentina i listen to classes on the internet. and follow the reading.
My questions is Maharaj is it ok to preform mangalarati at home?
ASA - Certainly.
Is there something else i should be doing at homr to make it better ? Like chanting the Nrishimhadev pranam ? , sri guru pranam? Is it ok for me to listen the bhagavatam classes from Mayapur tv ?
ASA - Yes to everything. Of course, with local Temple you can make friends with more advanced devotees and get so much advice from them. BG 10.10-11 also.
I will do the bhakti bhaivava course but first i have to finish bhakti sastri ! Iam hoping next year to do it in mayapur!
I do not have the posibility at this moment of going to the temple every morning since i give clases at the time of bhagavatam class , but i do have a regular practice at home . I have learned to have dicipline in my sadhana.
is there anything else I could do or is it ok how Iam doing now ? Is there something more i could be doing at home ?
Regarding the service , I will talk soon in this days with Maharari prabhu , the temple president here to start doing a fixed service .
Is that ok Maharaj ?
Maharaj, i Also I wanted to ask you if you will be in Peru or in India or in argentina in between december and march 2015 ?
Because I would like Maharaj if it is posible to be able to meet you in person and maybe I can arrange the ways to be sometime where you will be .
thank you for everything Maharaj, i feel really fortunate for you to be answering my letters. I apologize for any ofense i could have commited in my writtings.
Today we are having a kirtan at home for five hours ! We are celebrating 2 years of kirtan at home ! So we are doing sll the preparations and hopefully many devotes are coming!
Hare krishna Maharaj, I hope you are very well !! My sincere best wishes!
your servant
Alexa
HpS - What is happening? Sorry taking so long to answer but you see we got innundated with this USA tour and after two weeks back we are beginning to catch up.
