Report from Radha Kunda
PAMHO
AGTSP
My dear guruji, please accept my humble obeisances.
Here in Radha Kunda starting the hot season,
ASA - HpS ---- AgtSP... If you can even survive at Radha kunda as a cockroach you are our Deity... This news is worth a million dollars for all of us readers. Thank you! Don't get too proud!!!
....we finished three months of very cold season, but no matter how is the weather, to be in Radha Kunda is always a nectar.
I am chanting 32 rounds daily now, no problem with the 4 principles and my gayatri mantra, to which I still don't get attached, if you have a formula for that, please tell it to me, and since I have not a seva in Gopalji mandir due to the fact that there are many brahmacaris and they do all seva very well, I have assigned myself a seva, I am cleaning Radha Kunda at least one hour every day, fighting with the monkeys and the vrajabasis, it is nice, a very sweet seva, and I invite every one who comes to Radha Kunda to help me for a while, cause as the Upadesamrta, The Nectar of Instruction states: "Where then is that intelligent person who is unwilling to serve this Divine Radha Kunda, which is situated at the feet of Govardhana Hill?"
I also want to tell you that reading your communications, in the first ekadasi of this 2013 year, I read the following: "Este siguiente ano esperemos que sea "El Retiro a Tiempo de Monocito y Puerquecito". Por ejemplo, estábamos pensando no iniciar mas despues de este ano.
So, if you really want to do it, and if you want, I can adopt them, at least until you come to live in Radha Kund as you wish. Here they can relish the incomparable environment of devotional service and listen kirtan and sit down in the banks of Radha Kund waiting for the gopies to come and play with them.
And talking about your living here in Radha Kunda, there are so many plots that are being sold these days, so maybe some of our godbrothers can help you buying a plot and building a bhajan kutir for you here in this Holly Dhama.
Please, my dear guruji, keep on bestowing your causeless mercy upon me so I can stay in Radha Kunda until the end of my life. And that takes me to a question.
I have read that the spiritual master introduces us to Krsna when we die, but what happen if one fallen soul like me dies before my spiritual master?
Thank you very much for your answer, your prayers and benedictions unto this, your (trying to be humble) servant
Tungavidya dd
HpS - ASA - VDM - Prabodhananda Sarasvati - Translator Kusa Krata Das ---
1 Meditating on the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha-Muralimanohara, placing myself at the dust of Lord Caitanya’s feet, and respectfully offering obeisances to the great devotees of the Lord, who are so many oceans of transcendental virtue, I shall now happily begin to praise the transcendental opulences of Sri Vrndavana.
2 I am not strong enough to go to the far shore of the great nectar ocean of Vrndavana’s glories. Who can go there? However, because I love Vrndavana I will now dip into that ocean. I pray that this endeavor may become successful and bring an auspicious result.
3 O Sri Vrndavana, please reveal in my heart Your wonderful transcendental form full of the most confidential spiritual knowledge and bliss. Embarrassed to describe the highest nectar, the Upanisads only say “not this, not this”. Where are you described?
4 Day and night I glorify Vrndavana, which is filled with the wonder of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna’s pastimes, the wonder of the greatest sweetness, the ultimate nectar of Lord Hari, the sweetest, most beautiful auspiciousness and a flood of virtues Ananta-sesa, Siva, and a host of others cannot cross.
5 Think of Vrndavana with love. Roll in its dust. Love it ardently. Please its moving and non moving residents. Worship Sri Radha’s birthplace. With all your heart take shelter of Sri Vrndavana, the best of all holy places.
6 If the Vedanta does not directly describe Vrndavana, why should that matter to me? If the faulty logicians, who are like serpents living in the Vedic literatures, ignore Vrndavana, why should I care? If even the devotees of the Lord do not understand the glories of Vrndavana, how does that affect me? Even if my heart were pierced by thousands of thunderbolts, I would never leave Vrndavana.
7 I meditate on Vrndavana, where the cuckoos sing the fifth note, the flute plays splendid melodies, peacocks sing and dance, vines and trees bloom, splendid and charming forests are wonderful with many birds and deer, and there are many splendid lakes, streams and hills.
8-9 The transcendental, subtle, expansive Brahman effulgence, which is the secondary cause of material creation, is last. Before it is Vaikuntha, then Dvaraka, then Krsna’s birthplace, Mathura, then Krsna’s Vrndavana, the shelter of the surabhi cows, and first is the place in Vrndavana forest where the gopis enjoyed pastimes, where Radha’s grove, which fills us with wonder and which is the form of the highest purest love, which maddens everyone there, is splendidly manifest.
10 Wonderfully flooded with handsomeness, intelligence, and mutual love, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, eternally enjoy passionate amorous pastimes in the company of Their friends there.
11 Srila Vrndavana is perfect in every way. Blind fools say there are genuine defects there. O! O! I pray that I may not see these fools at the moment of my death! Are they not the object of everyone’s laughter?
12 After attaining the platform of Brahman happiness by performing severe austerities, the personified Upanisads worshipped the Personality of Godhead without any reservation, and thus obtained His mercy. By the mercy of the Lord they were able to become surabhi cows in the land of Vraja and enjoy the direct association of Sri Krsna, and by constantly grazing on the grass of Vrndavana, they become filled with the nectarean taste of the topmost mellows of pure devotional love for the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.
13 If someone relates to me the faults of one of the moving or non-moving residents of Vrndavana, then how is his action different from cutting me with hundreds of sharpened swords, arrows and other weapons? The residents of Vrndavana are all as dear to the Personality of Godhead as His own life. If one is a little bit inimical to even a blade of grass in Vrndavana, then who will be able to rescue him from the horrible hell that awaits him? When will that rescue occur?
14 May my eyes become overwhelmed with ecstasy by seeing the nectar waves of Vrndavana’s beauty. May my intelligence drown in the nectar ocean of Vrndavana’s glories. May my body become agitated by the swiftly moving currents of ecstatic bliss and thus roll about on the ground of Vrndavana. Falling down like a stick, may I offer my respectful obeisances to all the residents of Vrndavana.
.... I just try to chant the Gaytris with exciting rhythm. Their meaning has not been revealed, and the books I see by devotees don't reveal a more intimate meaning to me yet. We go on.
.... We have been thinking about retiring in Radha-kunda, even if it kills us. We have just as much opportunity to see our eternal form before we leave this body as when we leave it. Of course the moment of death is very special, but we can and should attempt all perfection even while we are in this body....
............ Where does Krsna want us to serve? Radha kunda, Nashville Tennessee... That is where must go.. We have to find out. We don't want to impose any ideas. We are too, too stupid for that. Srila Prabhupada is certainly your guru as well as mine and he will certainly help you as well as me.
Time for the evening program. Expect about 75-devotees for the NOI seminar. Good luck with your war (of love) with the Monkeys....... Our respects to BS Damodara Swami and his servants.....
