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Reporte 1: volviendo a empezar

7 years, 5 months ago by Nadiya Nivasi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports, Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

! Todas las glorias a sus señorías más misericordiosas Sri Sri Gaura Nitay!

! Todas las glorias a SrilaPrabhupada y a su sankirtana eterno que salva vidas!

Hare krishna querido Gurudeva, pamho, nuestro reporte es el siguiente;

Sadhana 5:00 am. a 5:30am., algunos días cantamos 16 rondas y otras 25 rondas, tenemos el deseo de volver a las 25 rondas después de casi medio año, 3 gayatris a la hora, los 4 principios está bien, bañando a las silas, recuperamos nuestra lectura del NOD y con mi esposo el SB canto 2.

ASA - Oooof!  Super-chica!

Cerramos el restaurante por algunos inconvenientes y porque nuestra vida espiritual se estaba debilitando, era muy cansador pero logramos la meta de hacer la casa  para tomar como una base de sankirtana.

ASA - Si, restaurante is MUY fuerte.

También dejamos de hacer programas en el centro cultural Bhaktivedanta por una serie de conflictos, revanchismo entre dos grupos y por otras cosas que no quiero dar detalles, entiendo que todos estamos en el proceso, pero lección cumplida para enfocarnos más en la distribución de libros, como Ud. Dijo una vez; el avance se ve de adentro hacia afuera, ahora quiero estar bien yo espiritualmente y que lo demás se dé, aquí donde están los terrenos  y la casa hay un señor juez que quiere ser devoto así que mientras estémos en Huancayo trataremos de darle lo que Prabhupada nos enseñó, estamos haciendo programas en su casa los domingos.

M. Anadi adi Govinda nos invitó para ir a bolivia para hacer sankirtana me encantaría poder tener su asociación para enero 2018, por el momento aquí en Huancayo estámos distribuyendo libros Gadai Prabhu está feliz por volver al sankirtana solo me queda aferrarme a su dhoti  para volverme experta como El. 

En enero un devoto de la India nos está trayendo 60 silas estámos muy felices pero Gadai está más feliz que yo.

ASA - 60!!!

Veo más seguido a mis padres y a mi único hermano, hay más comunicación con ellos, mi padre quiere ir a la India y mi deseo sigue vigente de poder llegar al santo dham, por ello voy a volver a empezar a prepararme espiritualmente.

Eso es todo Gurudeva perdón por ser tan materialista estoy tratando de espiritualizar las cosas en conciencia de Krsna. Vimos fotos de Ud. En India 

Atte. Nadiya Nivasi Dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!      Demurra una mez responder. Viaje a India y Australia. HK!   HK!   Muy inspirador oir de Vds. A veces tenemos que evitar unos otros miembros de ISKCON por que no son de la misma humor de nosotros. ISKCON es bastante amplio, y a veces porque son Kanistha-adhikaris y muy materialist en su servicio.

Siempre buscando como podemos ayudar cualquiere person entrar en el servicio de Krsna. Krsna tiene mucho hacer!!!    Vamos a Peru en Febrero, Marzo.

Entra profundamente en la Lila de Senyor Nityananda.

Happiness Unbound.....

7 years, 5 months ago by Sarada Gaurangi Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports, Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!! PAOHO at Your lotus feet!!

Dear Guru Maharaj,

We are so happy that Guru Maharaj's health has improved a lot! We pray that Krishna continues to bless Guru Maharaj ever more.

Laxmipati Prabhu, Banamali Prabhu and a couple of devotees who are attending SB classes daily will be participating in the ILS to be held on 4th Feb at Mayapur. Much as I wish to attend the blissful conclave, I am afraid I won't be able to apply for leave...but leaving everything to Krishna...as always..

Last Sunday, a group of Dental surgeons who attended the CPD programme at RIMS on 2nd Nov visited ISKCON temple and one of them approached us and told us that he really enjoyed the programme . We are so thankful to Guru Maharaj.

The texts were enlightening Guru Maharaj. Thank you so much. The geriatric population here are a  torn out lot...the insurgency had almost maimed them...at a certain point of time...in the recent past...there was a strong anti Vaishnav drive...but somehow a lot of us simply refused to leave Govinda...its a lot better now.....This kartik we went house to house singing Damodara Astakam. Banamali Prabhu narrated the pastimes of Damodara and Yasoda Ma ....and the benefits of offering ghee lamp during this month....devotees were so happy...we were even happier....we offered them prasadam....some of them generously offered Laxmi....

We are starting a congregation centre at Serou. Laxmipati Prabhu is taking charge of the centre. The land has been partly donated and partly sold by a Bengali Mataji. We have started construction with the little fund that we have collected. Laxmipati Prabhu has moved in...we need Your blessings Guru Maharaj...

Having some problem uploading the pics....not very techno savvy....will upload ASAP.

I remain,

Your servant forever,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - Hare Krsna. AgtSP.  Thank you for your news and letter. Pitta 95% recovered. We won't go to the ILS. Stay in Tennessee until February then start to travel: Texas, Mexico, South America.

So many things, people, change. We  have faith in staying in the dust of Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet, and reciting Holy Names.  There must be so many people who can become ISKCON members in Manipur. Hope we can get some international contribution, from Peru.

Eagerly waiting for Guru Maharaj at Manipur

7 years, 6 months ago by Sarada Gaurangi Devi Dasi in Personal Sadhana Reports, Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS. PAOHO at Your Lotus feet.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,

We regret that Prof. Samaresh is not making it, we had already distributed the invitations ...trying to make some adjustments with the program. We had sent the attached programmes at the email address of Guru Maharaj and Prof Samresh.  We are so sorry. We seek forgiveness.

Had been very busy Guru Maharaj....almost every evening we go house to house program and sing Damodara Astakam ...we cover about 4 to 7 houses a day. We come back from work late in the evening and go with senior devotees....today we will cover 4 houses....

We need Your mercy Guru Maharaj. Silchar devotees arriving today...Sending the program once again....we are keeping the inaugural function as simple as possible. We would request Guru Maharaj to speak for about 5mins at the brief Inaugural function. The main Talk for Guru Maharaj has been kept at 1455hrs. This would include interactive session of about 25mins.

Waiting eagerly for Guru Maharaj.....its been raining for the last couple of days....

Your most fallen servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS_COMPUTER_FAILURE_KRSNA KNOWS SINCERE AND LAZY EFFORTS_SEE YOU IN A FEW HOURS! WILL BE WONDERFUL PROGRAM>!!!!

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Art and the Sacred

7 years, 6 months ago by hps in Special Category B, Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports
“Art and the Sacred, Bighting Beans”
HpSwami – We would say that the following dialog between Albert and Bosco would be stimulating for a Tibetan Buddhist concerned wth sacred art as well as we Bengali Vaisnavas.
We would see at least three kinds of sacred art: That which is a sacred object in and of itself, like sacred calligraphy; sacred art that is an iconografic or symbolic representation of the sacred and finally, sacred art that takes us to the sacred. Below we ask if you agree is the first basis for sacred art of the third category.
From the Bible we hear, “Fear of God is the beginning of knowledge”.
So, is fear of God the beginning of art?
We didn’t eliminate God from the  equation, we just marginalized him.
What do you mean, asked Bosco?
I mean that we wanted to continue to enjoy this bodily existence.
The body doesn’t get diseases, the body is a disease, replied Albert with disgust.
Are you sure of that said Bosco.
Yes, said Albert. Bob Bickford who was a tender of a wine bar in Sausalito told us that his body had never done anything nice for him so why should he do anything nice for his body.
Albert, Hmmm!
Bosco, https://www.vedabase.com/en/bg/13/8-12, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-
duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; “One should try to understand the distress of accepting birth, death, old age and disease. There are descriptions in various Vedic literatures of birth. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam the world of the unborn, the child’s stay in the womb of the mother, its suffering, etc., are all very graphically described. It should be thoroughly understood that birth is distressful. Because we forget how much distress we have suffered within the womb of the mother, we do not make any solution to the repetition of birth and death. Similarly at the time of death there are all kinds of sufferings, and they are also mentioned in the authoritative scriptures. These should be discussed. And as far as disease and old age are concerned, everyone gets practical experience. No one wants to be diseased, and no one wants to become old, but there is no avoiding these. Unless we have a pessimistic view of this material life, considering the distresses of birth, death, old age and disease, there is no impetus for our making advancement in spiritual life.”

Educacion en Peru etc

7 years, 6 months ago by hps in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports
 
Hare Krsna, Prabhus, Caitanya, Karuna, Abhirama, Mathuresa et al.
Hemos pasado de Nashville a Houston, Delhi, Ujjain, Pune, Mumbai and now we have legado en Brisbane. Claro es austeridad fuerte para el cuerpo y mente pero nuestra yoga de Srila Prabhupada es super.
En ruta estamos en contacto con Director del Academia de Bellez Artes de India. GBC, Ministry of Education, Programs de Estudios Sastrica de Pune, que es possible el mas fuerte en el mundo.
Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna.
Muchos oportunidades. Muchos desafilos para nuestra insinceridad.
Como podemos ayudar en Peru, Merco-Andina. Pienso los asuntos abajo de Representante Reigional par MOE y la revista son muy util. Podemos adelantar a nuestra Gloria por esta linea.
Desculpa 6-semanas responder a esta carta pero no mas noticias de Vds. ni tampocos. Aparece esta movimento adelanta por la misericordia de Senor Chaitanya con un poco de nuestra esfuerza!
Jaya. Esperamos oir de Vds!
 
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On Fri, 9/29/17, Mathuresh Dasa wrote:
 
 Subject: EDUCACION EN PERU
 To: "Karuna Krsna Dasa" 
 Hanumat Swami,  "Abhirama Thakura Das Alejandro Salazar" , "Caitanya Candra Das (Bramacari)" 
 
 Date: Friday, September 29, 2017, 6:44 AM
 
 Querido Karuna
 Krishna Prabhu:Pfamhr, tlgaSPMe dirijo a ti
 en tu nuevo rol de Coordinador para la Educación en Iskcon
 Peru.El pasado lunes tuve una renion con SS
 Hanumat Presaka Swami y Abhirama Thakur Prabhu en la que
 hablamos sobre el tema de la Educación en
 Peru.Como tu bien sabes, SS HPS ha realizado una
 ardua labor en el campo educativo en Peru por varios años,
 labor que ha dado muchos frutos que han formado a docenas de
 devotos en los cursos de Bhakti Sastri y se ha llegado a
 cientos de personas a través de programas de predica en
 Universidades. Así mismo, se han consolidado muchos
 contactos entre personas importantes del mundo académico y
 científico.Maharaja y su equipo de colaboradores
 tiene muchos planes y programas confirmados para seguir
 aportando en el campo educativo en beneficio de la misión
 de Srila Prabhupada en Peru y la region Andina.
 Es muy importante que estos programas sean parte
 del nuevo proyecto educativo en Iskcon Peru, bajo tu
 responsabilidad.
 Por favor, toma un tiempo para analizar y ver la
 manera de incluir en los programas educativos que ya tenemos
 planificados para Peru para la formación sastrica de los
 devotos y publico en general, estos programas de predica que
 SS HPS y su equipo esta llevando a cabo.
 Maharaja, como miembro del directorio del
 Ministerio de Educación de ISKCON es una pieza clave que
 puede seguir aportando mucho con sus ideas, programas y
 capacidad.
 Una de las propuestas preliminares
 es:1.- Crear el puesto de Representante del
 Ministerio de Educación del Area Andina (Peru, Ecuador,
 Chile y Bolivia). Se propone que tu tomes esa
 responsabilidad.2.- Producir /traducir la nueva
 revista "Viplavah" del Min. de Educación, en
 español, incluir artículos locales y distribuirla en los 4
 países de la region.3.- Cada 3 meses realizar un
 programa de predica en universidades o centros
 culturales.
 Quisiera escuchar tus comentarios sobre esta
 propuesta.TsMathuresa
 dasaSupervisor ZonalIskcon Peru y
 Bolivia
 

Asiatic Society Lecture

7 years, 6 months ago by hps in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports
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On Fri, 10/13/17, Asiatic Society wrote:
 Subject: Re: invitation for lecture
 To: "HpS (HHR)"
Date: Friday, October 13, 2017, 12:38 AM
 
  
 Dear
 Professor Robinson,
 
 Kindly refer to your mail dated 9th
 October, 2017. We have preferred the first topic
 "Applicability of Scientific Principles within the
 Srimad Bhagavatam in Modern Times" that you have
 suggested.
 
 May I earnestly request you to kindly send us a brief synopsis of your lecture so that it can be circulated. The date of the lecture is fixed on 30th October, 2017 at 3.30 p.m. at the Humayun Kabir Hall of the Asiatic Society.
 With regards,
 Yours sincerely,
 Dr. S B Chakrabarti
 General Secretary
 The Asiatic
 Society
 1, Park Street
 Kolkata
 700016
 
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Jaya Sri Krsna!
 
Esteemed Dr. S. B. Chakrabarti,
It is a pleasure to hear from you. In our Parivrajacharya we have reached Melbourne, Australia. Of course the great Indologist Ian Mabbit has been our friend here.
The dates and venue are fixed on our calendar.
The topic is very timely considering the hold that modern science has on our philosophy and practical lives.
We made a similar presentation at a symposium organized by University of Madras and the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies last January. We will continue with these ideas as it pleases your good Society.
 
SYNOPSIS
From classical Western view point Science is described as a Philosphy of Nature. The Bhagavad-gita (7.4) and then the Srimad Bhagavatam (Cantos 2 and 3 etc) in vastly greater detail also present a Philosphy of Nature, Sankhya. Presenter will outline some history of the presentation to and then appreciation of this Sankhya by modern scientific authorities such as Nobel Laureates Charles Townes, George Wald and others. He will also make a preliminary presentation of how the content of Bhagavata Sankhya can be very practically adjudicated with Western approaches to understanding Nature and invite the Society to join in this delightful and essential effort of changing our world view of Nature.