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12 years, 10 months ago by sriradhedd in Personal Sadhana Reports

Dear Maharaja,

PAMHO, AGTSP!

Thanks for your quick answer.
Yes, Krisna shows us the right path.
I'm sorry i didn't sit on the grass with You and your disciple when You were in Mayapur but my mind told me be careful. 2 years ago i was sure i want to get initiation again from one of your godbrother. But he turned out he has difficulties and can't accept disciples. After that i collapsed again and thought i never can trust in any spiritual master. I was suspicious. But now i see i had to learn from this situation. After that i started to pray to Srila Prabhupada and Lord Nityananda very intensively to lead me to a guru who can help me purify my heart and from whose mercy once i can do pure devotional service. And Lord Nityananda was merciful...

From me and my family.
I'm 36 years old, i have a sister and a brother. They are not devotees but like the bhaktas. My brother has lot of books and sometimes he reads Bhagavad Gita. My mother has died 12 years ago, my father is totaly materialist unfortunately. But he visited the temple once he always gives donation to the sankirtana devotees if he sees somebody in the street. And i always give him prasadam.

I live with my husband we don't have children and we don't want to have.
My husband was my godbrother, He would like to follow Sacinandana Swami.
Before our Indian trip I worked for a radio station as an advertising manager and my husband worked for a bank as a group leader. But we wanted to change our life therefore quit our job and gave up our sublet. We like risk :)
My husband writes business plans and essays now. And i will learn to sew. We want to start a business with handmade stuffs. We have few good ideas. If it's not necessary we don't want to work for a big company again. The association is not so elevating there.
Now we live in the countryside in my father's house. My father has a girlfriend and now they live in her flat so this house is empty. Unfortunately there aren't devotees in this city but we are here just ad interim. We would like to find a flat in the capital and want to go to the morning program regularly. Now we get up at 3 am and hold Mangala arti here.
But we don't want to stay in Hungary too long max. halfen year till i learn. When we start our online business we will move. We would like to find a small yatra where we can serve the devotees.
Our "ex" godsister and godbrother are in India at Kusum Sarovara, they are very nice devotees and invited us to join them and serve at Govardhan. They need manpower. We miss their association but we can't imagine our life in Vrindavan for long time. My heart is not pure enough to live there. Madhavananda Prabhus wife was also our godsister and they also invited us to serve in Bhuvanesvara. So we have opportunities to live in India but we would like to find a place in Europe. We will see what is Krisna's plan.

Before India we helped in the pujari room regularly just simple things in the background. Not so easy to serve here in Hungary but we try. First i was very sad when the GBC told me don't chant the gayatri mantra but now i know Krisna doesn't make a distinction between the services therefore i'm happy if i can do anything.
Your blog and your site is very informative and helps me a lot.
I hope once i can be on your assistance.
Thanks for everything.

Your servant,
Sri Radhe dd

HpS -  Jaya!!!!!   AGTSP   paoho               I think BG 10.10-11 give us clear answer to all this, no?    If we can't see who is our Guru in different ways, it doesn't matter. Krsna is always our Guru and if serve Him sincerely then He will give us clear inteligence how to approach Him, appreciate Guru in other more accessible forms!

O.K.   Please send more news as your Sankirtana develops!

Radhe!! Radhe !!

12 years, 10 months ago by Bhaktina Romi in Personal Sadhana Reports

All Glories to Sri Sri RadheSyama!
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All Glories to you!!!

Dear Guru Maharaja:
                                          How're you? I hope you'll can have more rest. 

HpS - ASA    AGTSP    paoho.    We just arrived in Monterrey. Still little chest pain, but much less.  We have to learn to work with a more relaxed attitude.
                    I'm fine, chanting 3 round, at least. Adoring Sri Sri Gaura Nitay, J B & S and Srila Prabhupada :)
                  I download your .txt of Bhakti Sastri, and that's my guide to read the Upadesamrta, and learn about conduct, association, process and content. I read the Manual of Japa by Satsvarupa Das Goswami. But well, my effort is not enough, for the moment, but I have faith to get better.
               We're prepparing your comming. It's so great! I associate, with some spritual brothers who're so kind! They leave me help in some things and i'm so happy about that! <img alt="laugh" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/teeth_smile.gif" title="laugh" /> I feel that way I can retturn, a tiny part of everything you do, thanks for your mercy, thank you for coming.


Surrender to you holy holy holy lotus feets!
Thanks for your valious time and for your mercy.
-Bna Romi-

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HpS - Jaya!   AgtSP!!!!                    Hare Krsna!              We all try to contributing our special service in the best way we can while we are here!

Candramoonkey report

12 years, 10 months ago by candra108_mukhi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Very dear Gurudeva:

AGTSP,pamho

I know that we meet everyday at japa joe with everybody but since a long time I did not write to U,.....

I am very very very grateful and happy for this Japa joe this december 21st my rounds, sadhana etc has improved 108% , thank U very much I feel more energized now.. for instance the other day even if I did all the things that were on my hands I couldn't cover one turn in pujari so I remembered that U tell me that if I just can offer one smile to Krsna that will be Ok and HE gladly will accept it, so I just smile and one mataji tried to help us in that situation <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/09.gif" title="" />.. Gaura Nitay are much more concern about our hear and chant I realized that.....

I will retun to work on March 5th..but I have already bought my ticket to argentina <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/05.gif" title="" />... I will there from March 10th to march 16th... (I can handle that situation at work).. I will travel to U to Mar del plata <img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a04.gif" title="" />.... I will go with Mahamanjari dd (Prahladananda Swami's disciple) but on different flights same dates.... we are going to stay at EKanta bhakti's house due to stayin g in the temple is too expensive for us so I can't be there for mangal arti because it is too far away from the temple.... But we can meet  in Srimad Bhagavatam class ,in the evening programs , etc also in mar del plata we will stay at Arjuna sakha das and erika's house the same I guess we can not meet at mangal arti. ON ekanta'sn we have wifi so we can do japa joe with everybody else yeeeeeee

I have already research about the tickets to chiclayo after this email  I will write to the itinerary email....

I can not wait for starting the third canto so I guess I will start reading....

Thanks for all your inspiration....

Your eternal servant

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 HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP   pamho.  Yes, we are coming to the point where we see that we are going to explode.   Out material life will come to an end and we will have 4, 14, 44 arms and 16 heads to do all the service we want to do!   You Itenary is on our Calendar!!!!!   Hare Krsna.  See you in just like two weeks!

Keep Trying

12 years, 10 months ago by Patrak das in Personal Sadhana Reports

PATRAKA DAS writes!

HARE KRSNA Dear Gurudeva...pamho

after some time we are writing in this blog.. excuse us for the delay

these months have been challenging in many aspects...health, sadhana, association with devotees, understanding who we are...

by the mercy of Krsna this body is accepting very well new kidneys  but we are still afraid...this time we dont want to mess it up...so we are taking it very carefully... sometimes we feel very very tired and sometimes we feel like superman..hahahaha.... we think it is the side effects of too many pills???

our sadhana is not so good nowadays... we dont get up early everyday but we keep trying... we are using all ur advices....we chant 16 rounds but we feel they are not good rounds at all... our association with devotees is very low... for so long we couldnot control our tongue and our words that we feel we hurt many devotees so we feel ashamed to look at their faces... we admit we never appreciate how much devotees care bout us....we are keeping our japa in our hands as much as we can so everytime we think of making an offense we chant and ask Krsna to not to think of that....we start to see some devotees to get some of their enthusiasm

we are reading more Prabhupada's books and everytime we find the answer to our questions..it is amazing  how Prabhupada is always with us and we do not realize... our bhakti sastri fellows help us a lot to appreciate more Prabhupada's book...

we are trying to do our best to be a good servant x Prabhupada and U...

thanks a lot x being so patient

HpS - Jaya!      Many times we notice Srila Prabhupada comments that this was the standard of the Six Gosvamis, but then he says that neither he nor us are Rupa Goswami. So, four principles strictly and 16-enthusiastic rounds are what Krsna wants.

How can nice introspective recitation of the Holy Names be bad for our bodies?

That's the focus, no?     Enthusiastic Japa.  Of course, if we are in the body of a dog we won't do it on beads, but we can still do something.

So, fight with intelligence to get enthusiatic rounds done as your Number One Priority and then Four Principles and then .......

.....  Thank you so much for your news.   It helps a LOT.

Leter from P Caitanya lila and wife

12 years, 10 months ago by candra108_mukhi in Personal Sadhana Reports
Le ofrezco mis respetuosas reverencias a Sus Adorables Pies de lotus. Espero que se encuentre en buen estado de salud. Esta carta tiene por motivo lo siguiente: Cada vez que nos encontramos en duda o cuando el futuro no esta claro; Ud. siempre esta dispuesto a guiarnos y siempre que seguimos su instruccion tiene exito tanto espiritual y materialmente, es por eso que le escribo por un consejo. Querido Gurudeva nosotros seguimos viviendo y haciendo servicio en el templo de Mississippi. Este lugar es maravilloso, como Ud. dijo es como Vrindavana, por eso pensamos quedarnos, y buscamos terreno para poder quedarnos pero es imposible, porque cada vez que queremos la tierra no nos la quieren vender o simplemente es muy grande, nosotros solo queremos 2 acres, para tener un jardin y el trailer pero aun no encontramos. Pensamos quedarnos por lo pacifico que es la farm, Gaurangui crece en la inmensidad de sus jardines feliz. Tambien pensamos en la posibilidad de movernos por la facilidad que tienen otros estados, (estudio para mi, trabajo para Caitanya y colegio para Gaurangi). Entonces vemos cual seria la mejor opcion, si California (San Diego) o Florida. De todos modos siempre queremos vivir cerca a un templo y hacer servicio por el resto de nuestras vidas. Para nosotros esta muy claro que el unico proposito aqui en la tierra es servir a los devotos y a Krishna, siempre vamos con Gaury al templo y cantamos juntos y ella es muy devocional, quiere mucho a Prabhupada y al Senhor Jaganatha. Gurudeva algunos devotos nos sugieren que nos vayamos a Florida, ya que dicen que es mucho mejor que esta farm, todavia no hemos tenido la oportunidad de ir y ademas dicen que los terrenos cerca al templo en Alachua son mas comodos. La opcion de volver a California es porque hay tantas facilidades de obtener lo que uno quiere en el aspecto material pero claro que es un estado muy agitado y todo es expensive.
Se que Ud. nos dara una respuesta favorable Gurudeva, gracias por ayudarnos a seguir unidos a Srila Prabhupada.
Ofreciendole otra vez nuestras respetuosas reverencias, nos despedimos.
Sinceramente
Caitanya Lila da, Gaurangui dd & Sacimata dd 
 
HpS - ASA --  Jaya!    TlgaSP   pfarnh.   Hace 100 anos no oir de Vds.  Pensando mucho en Vds.  No se los detalles.   Puede esperar hast el Senor arregla oportunidad en Mississippi.   Posible formand esfuerz con unos otros devotos comprar y dividir un terreno mas grande.
No, se pienso su carta tiene claro buen comprehension de cosas.  Pienso sera bueno visitar a New Raman reti en una viaje bien organizado para su advanza espiritual y ver personalmente lo que pasa alla!!

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

12 years, 10 months ago by draupadi in Personal Sadhana Reports

ALGTSP

Hare Krsna Gurudeva. How are you? I hope you are fine.

Here I am trying to do some service. I am continuing doing service at Wilson three days a week and I also continue chanting my rounds and following my 4 principles.

In Nityanandas ´s day I went to Chosica´s festival in the morning and Wilson´ festival in the evening. It was like a little marathon for me because I had to travel between the two celebrations but I was great. The two celebrations were very beautiful and full of enthusiasm from the devotees; it makes the festivals very catching.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva.

Your servant.

Draupadi Devi Dasi. 

HpS - Jaya!      AgtSP          So nice to hear from you, and such very fine English.  Thank you for this news, but do  you still have the job with the English Center and what ahs happened with the "Gita Coaching" program?