From Madrid

10 years, 11 months ago by marcos in Personal Sadhana Reports

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

How are you? I hope everything goes well!

I returned from Israel, the trip was an amazing experience. I met very interesting people, and I visited many different places like: el santo sepulcro, monte de los olivos, Nazaret and more!

My plans changed and now im living in the temple of Madrid (this is my second month I started in October, I stayed at temple other times for some days, like three or two days but not to live) , im very happy here! Jivattatva prabhu and Jagamohan prabu thought that for me is better to stay now in Madrid and i think that they are in the correct idea, because I can share much time with different devotees.

Now we live in the temple: Jharikanda, Janardana (devotee from Cuba he is mathematics university professor), Isvara, Balaram (from Nueva Vrajamandala) and me. All are great and live with them is very good and funny.

In a few days we are going to start a course “Iniciación al Bhakti Yoga” this course has a duration of three months and we are going to learn about many different things, I think that its going a very complete program cause some of the students have initiation but they want to do the program to refresh his knowledge.

Im learning to play different instruments (Jagamohan is a great teacher), I read usually the different books of Prabhupada and I help to clean, cook and other activities of the routine.

I feel very happy and comfortable, sometimes my mind disturb me with different topics but when the Japa time at morning arrives all this problems disappear and I can feel good for all the day! I need to trust more in Krisna!!

In these months I have learned that I cant control the future time and I dont know what is going to happen, but I wish to continue here for some months (maybe half year or something more…).

4 regulations good and family and friends ok!!

Some instructions or advices to this new style of life?

Thanks to read the letter!!! HARE KRISNA!!!!

                  HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP!!!    Thank you very much for news. I can't remember you specifically??!!!  Did we talk last time I was in Spain?   Oooof!    Something we can remember, but is nice just to correspond. If you write little often, every couple weeks then we will remember you.

65-years old, Donkey brains (but also meet a LOT of people).

Yes...  we hear so much opportunity for preaching in Israel, but... is there regular morning class in Espiritu Santo!   That is Srila Prabhuapada's REQUIREMENT in ISKCON.

Desde Chile

10 years, 11 months ago by Guna Manjari in Personal Sadhana Reports

AGTSP

AGTHpS

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja!

Thank you very much for your reply to my letter of October. Very inspiring about Houston Elementary School, hopefully here in Chile can do something similar one day, with Candrabhanu we thought it would be great to live in community with more devotees; find out from other countries living well, for example in Brazil.

Candrabhanu is finishing up the thesis, to finish his college career in social work, still working in a supermarket packing and Friday cooking for Srila Prabhupada Festival with two devotees, sometimes cooked for some parties and Vyasa Puja also, devotees trust their service as a cook.

For my part, I continue with the offering cooking service on Friday afternoon at SS. Gaura Nitai and Berfi and sandesh cooking for a week. Yesterday was exhausting but beautiful afternoon, as I cooked the offering so that he could eat subji maha prasadam, Bhakti Sundar Goswami Maharaja. Also Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra have been all this week in the temple, since last Wednesday was the first Ratha Yatra this year and November 3 this Sunday will be the second and yesterday I also made preparations for Them. I was very tired and so I plugged it into Joe Japa Saturday.

Well, I wanted to mention that I'm going to sankirtan and we are coming out with Fernanda Leiva (aspiring start with you), she helped me a lot the first day, as sankirtan did long ago and she is an expert :) It has been very inspiring and enriching the sankirtan and sadhu sanga with Fernanda too, I'm very happy. Thank you very much for your blessings and enthusiasm to continue doing so. Finally, here I send you some photos, Ratha Yatra truck on Wednesday, one of SS. Gaura Nitai temple and another yesterday in the kitchen of SS Gaura Nitai when preparing Berfi and sandesh sweets.

I hope you are in good health. Thank you very much for your effort every day to give your association through Japa Joe.

Please accept my humble obeisances.
trying to serve, Guna Manjari dd

            HpS - ASA --- AGTSP....   Paoho. Is so nice to hear from you and about Candra-bhanu Das and everyone. We will be in Chile en less than 8-weeks, no?  It is nice to visit other Yatras. You can even make an arrangement to trade service with devotees. Some couple that wants to visit Chile can do your service and you can go to their country and do there service for some time.
Narada Muni visited all the homes of Krsna in Dvaraka to see the Grhastha life of Krsna in different places. Then we can appreciate our own temple much more. Get ready for Goloka!!!

Thank you so much for your association in our Japa sanga.
We can all be birds in Radha-Krsna's garden at lunch and sing together for Them!! !

Nice fotos!!

Recordado Gurudev!

10 years, 11 months ago by Radha Japa in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Querido Gurudev!

todas las glorias a srila prabhupada! todas las glorias a sri sri radha madhana vihari!

Espero se encuentre muy bien y feliz en conciencia de krsna! trato de leer sus mensajes en el blog, me alegra mucho que se este cuidando. Gracias por su respeusta anterior!

 Ahora estoy leyendo el guerrero espiritual 2 de SS. Bhakti thirta Swami. El explica que estamos en una escuela de amor y que es realmente amor y lo que no es. yo tenia muchas preguntas acerca de lo que le conte en mi carta anterior. Vi que con algunas personas no tenia una relacion real. y no me sentia bien al ver lo malo de las personas. estoy viendo ahora lo malo de mi mism y al ver mis limitaciones, veo que ellas me alejan de krsna. Maharaja dice muchas cosas hermosas, una de ellas es:

uno puede amra de verdad y tener que alejarse por amor.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP  paoho. Muy bien oir de Vds. que significa "amra"

Me di cuenta que soy mas feliz amando, auqnue tenga que alejarme por el bien de la otra persona y el mio, que alejrame porque estoy enojada. Estoy entendiendo que es normal que todos tengamos malas cualidades por eso que estamos en este mundo. Pero si quiero salir de aqui y ayudar a otros a salir tengo que asociarme con almas que me ayuden. Hay muchos motivos para amar a personas " no tan agradables" todos tienen hermosas cualidades y sino las  puedo ver puedo amarlas porque son parte de krsna. Entonces me doy cuenta que cuanto mas siga mis practicas espirituales, mi sadhana,etc, mas podre amar a lrsna y por lo tanto tambien a todas las personas. Le cuento todo esto por que queria que sepa como me siento ahora, estoy mucho mejor.

        HpS - ASA -- Y mas que estamos dando amor a personas que no nos gusta mucho como acto de voluntud, el mas que podemos ver y eliminar los malas cualidades en nosotros!

Mi hijo esta muy bien, gracias a krsna, ya camina y esta muy hermoso e inquieto, cuando baño a las deidades, le gusta estar a mi lado y mirar como lo hago, como los levanto y acuesto, etc. les sonrie mucho. Franco le hizo una cuna a gopla  nuestra deidad.

Gracias por desear que vivamos en una comunidad de devotos, a mi me encantaria!! por ahora trato de vivir  mas en el presente. Nos estamos organizando ahora para comenzar con nuestrao proyectos el año que viene. ya tenemos el pasaje del 30 dic al 6 de enero a buenos aires, para poder tomar Su asociacion!

          HpS - Vamos a Mar de Plata para Viernes y Sabado. PUede hablar con Ambarisa Das de los detalles. Vamos a poner en Kapi Dhvaja.

Estoy muy inspirada con la danza, sigo ensayando por las mañanas cuando gopalito duerme despues de mangalartik y rondas.

Gracias por su tiempo y Asociacion! Que pase un hermoso mes de damodara en compañia de Gopal!

Intentando ser su discipula: Radha japa prati jalpa dd.

P.D. nuestra compu casi deja el cuerpo.. tenia algunos fotos para enviarle , sera para la prox carta!

      HpS - Hay una devota se llama Yamila, regresa de programa de Dhanvantari Swami in Brazil y ya es con su familia en Cordoba. Pienso Vd le gustaria mucho encontrar a ella y posible ella le gusta mucho comenzar aprender baile. Ya es alumno en la universidad.

Revenencia a su "Swami"!!!!!   Ya un altar para Gopal!

My humble obeisances

10 years, 11 months ago by Candrarekha Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports

All glories to sri sri gaura nitai

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

P.A.M.H.O.

Dear Gurudeva!

Always praying to Krishna, you find yourself very well in your service, and your health.

This time I want to ask some questions

In this world, we find it hard to be really honest, we are full of errors and difficulties, and I think personally being devotees, we have the advantage that we want to enhance awareness and interest us for a better life.

Being fallen as we are, we can help people who are devotees who want to improve, but somehow or another, your lifestyle, work ou any coisa impedes this progress?

How I can help, what is the best way to preach, without them being further away from Krsna or feel a pressure?
 
If I do not feel qualified to guide these people, I should only pray to Krishna, and Krishna is asked to reveal more in their hearts and who come more to the instructions of Srila Prabhupada?
 
and whats is happening with a person who has knowledge of all that Srila Prabhupada explains, and yet not follow their philosophy?

 

Thanks for reading my questions Gurudeva, Please accept my most humble obeisances again and excuse my bad English too ...

Ever hope In This Life, I Can serve In A Good Way to you.
 
your aspiring servant
Candrarekha Devi Dasi
( Santiago- Chile)
            HpS - ASA - Jaya!  AGTSP.  paoho. I can't understand your question in exact detail. I think is best to write in both Spanish and English and then we can follow better, but from what I understand is very good question.
Basically these questions are answered so nicely in Texts 7 and 8 of Upadesamrta.
There are two kinds of third class devotees, kanishta adhikaris, those who want to advance and those who do not. If a third class devotee is willing to take instructions from Prabhupada and the books, then we should do the austerity of associating with them and giving them advice so that they are animated to advance. Basically we can really help people depending on our own level of advancement. An ambulance medic can get someone so that they are stable for 20-minutes and rush them to a real doctor in the hospital. 
So we have to advance.
If someone does not listen to our intelligence and not even scripture and acharya then we have to let Krsna preach to them through the external energy etc.
 
If anybody asks this in the future I will tell them to ask you for the answer.
-[;D} =

try to follow your steps

10 years, 11 months ago by AKD in Personal Sadhana Reports

Please accept my humble obeisances 

Dear Gurudev

I'm in the service to give educational programs for the comunity on New Nilacal Mandir, I send my plan for education develoment in Guadalajara, I visit other devotees of Aguascalientes city where there are a Bhakti Vriksa Program, and try to take good asociation with devotees of Durango, Uruapan, Queretaro, and Leon.

Try to be a devotee, chanting good rounds and taking properly association. it's hard to be an representative of S. Prabhupada or exalted devotees like you but we need start, and  now we take help of good friends that are try to preaching in some pleaces.

On Aguascalientes we make a festival on the public park, and on Uruapan study with the devotees how to do for stay on the devotional path (reading and studing Prabhupada books, chanting properly with asosiation, start on mangalarti every day, take comon sense)

I keep the program of the records about the new devotees and making presentation for kids, studens and general people, we take participation on sanga programs and siksa program, of Congregational ministry.

On MED I send a mail for devotees of chile with plan of education.

Thanks a lot for your good example and mercy, your crew member Aniruddha Krishna Das

           HpS - AGTSP. Very nice news. If you continue like this all the contamination in you heart will disappear and your dormant love for Krsna, and your eternal service will reawaken. You will see Krsna even in this body. I hope you are in touch with Bhakta Rodrigo en Chile. He is member of surrealist community in Chile and has nice preaching platform with them. It has many people looking for the 'real' essence of life.

De regreso en casa...

10 years, 11 months ago by Juliananda in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna! Todas las glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada y a usted. Por favor acepte mis más humildes reverencias a sus divinos pies de loto.

    HpS - ASA - Pies de Manzana.

Estimado Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja. Aqui le escribe Bhaktina Juliana de regreso en casa. La maraton ha sido bastante favorable, se logró recaudar una buena cantidad de laksmi para la construcción del templo en Sri Govardhana.

            HpS - SUper...

Muy reconfortada por haber sido parte de la misión de Srila Prabhupada pudiendo distribuir sus libros! Muchas austeridades para el cuerpo y la mente pero valieron la pena todas y cada una. No tengo intenciones de contradecirlo Maharaja, pero me tomo muy por sorpresa lo q menciono acerca de mi iniciación. La verdad no me siento lista, ni creo jamás estare lista para merecerla. De todas maneras lo recibí con una profunda alegría. En el momento q leí su carta me encontraba haciendo servicio con las madres Rukmini Paty y Andrea, discípulas suyas también en El templo en Santiago. Les comente esto y ellas me alentaron mucho. Me hablaron de muchos pasatiempos suyos junto con sus discípulos de ahí. Fue muy nectáreo ese servicio al lado de mis hermanas espirituales. Me despido, deseo se encuentre muy bien de salud y le envio mis más afectuosas y respetuosas reverencias a sus pies de loto. Su insignificante aspirante a sirviente, Bhaktina Juliana

             HpS - Prabhupada dijo que la iniciacion no es algo muy extraordinario. Si estamos siguiendo todo, entonces no hay razon no tomar inicacion del Acharya. Rondas, principios, programa de la manana, un tipo de sankirtana en ISKCON para uno ano, y una carta de recommendacion del Presidente del Templo.

O.K?

Muy bueno oir de Rukmini pati y Andrea. Espero que ellos estan adelantando bien tambien. Yo tambien quiere adelantar!!!!