Big big news from Mar del Plata

Hare Krishna beloved and esteemed Gurudev,
Please accept muy humble obeisances!!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
I know by the blog, twitter and kdh how you are. But how is your pear tree?

ASA - She, He, It, seems to be doing O.K.    By S(he(it))'s Karma it is forced to stand out in the heat and cold and drink from one leg.  Oooof!   So far it has given one full sized fruit and two short ones. It is not getting any taller fast, 2-meters. Our rose bush is about the same. The gardener thought it was a weed and chopped its head off but still blossoming. How are your trees?


I really liked your proposal to Anuttama Prabhu. We have to make that step!!
 

I'm glad that your India-Australia tour was a complete success. And that you are recovering. Such great news that you are coming to South America very soon. I hope you can visit Mar del Plata this time.

ASA - So do we. We would like to ride there on the back of a tiger.


Spiritual life: improved a lot after we moved six month ago to Sri Govardhan, our eco village. Living close to a temple sorrounded by devotees makes things much more easy. 
16r 4p ok. Attending mangala aratik 3 times a week. 
We have to improve a lot the quality of our japa.
Material life: Still working as ayurvedic doctor. Our clinic works great. Next year we are going to leave mondays free of work to increase reading and studying. So the scheme will be tuesday to friday to town to work and saturday to monday stay at the farm to enhance spiritual practices.
We started teaching at the university, med school. Big challenge, great preaching opportunities. If you come i hope i can arrange a program there for you.

HpS - That is the program we did at the State Medical College in Manipur: Science, Psyche and SPIRITUAL Health, the Encounter of Carl Jung with the Ancient Mysticism.


Family life: we are getting married to Julieta mataji december 7th. Only civil. Fire ceremony after  one year of living together. She is daughter of a devotee, mother Maria. Very well educated and very fond of living with devotees. She has a very similar level of insanity as myself. Our astrological compatibility is very good. We have His Grace Srila Virabahu prabhu as asram guru. We are reading  also heart and soul connection by the GVT.
Madhu Mangal (Manu) and Bhurijana (Benjamin) are great. Also the Sri Govardhan atmosphere was wonderful for them. They attend gurukula, Madhu is chanting 4 rounds regularly. They have nice service attitude.
Preaching: Mostly to our clients at the clinic. Distribute books at work, like 12 per month average.
We are inviting many devotees to our farm to preach in town. Bhaktigouravani Swami was here last month and this month Hh Mahavisnu Swami and the harinam ruci. On January bramacharis from Buenos Aires mandir are coming
We quit all other engagements to focus in improving personal sadhana and bhajana.
We are creating a study group to start Bhakti Sastri. Prabhu Laksmana Agraja Prabhu kindly provided us with their study guides. The plan is two hours studying individually then 1:30 hs once a week we gather and discuss. Communication via wapp.
We plan to start next january.
Yesterday we had a meeting with Ambarish, Madhavendra Prabhus and Rati Manjari dd to start coordinate your argentinian tour.
Let's read second viplavah issue.
Your stupid disciple,
Nikunja Bihari das.

.HpS - Thank you! Marriage in Kali-yuga seems to be the best use of a bad bargain from any point of view. If everybody blesses you then could be useful (for you and everybody).
Our regards to Madhu and Buri. They got initiated?? Julieta? Maja-jana!...
Interesting you write and we just started having heart arythmias. Every now and then the heart misses a beat. NGD suggested a little more salt one time. It worked, but it really pushes us to think, we can have heart failure at any moment. How ready are to grab our hand luggage and go to the next vehicle. We want to develop an eternal little place at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet. Remember our features, our friends, our family. We left them!

We hope your Mission becomes more and more clear. Are you headed in the right direction to understand that? Is this your last life in the materal world?!

Jagamohan Das

Hare Krisna por favor Acepte mis humildes reverencias Todas las Glorias a Srla Prabhupada.

Espero que se encuentre bien de salud, como sabe estoy en Madre Tierra intentando desarrollar el proyecto pero me encuentro con muchas incertidumbres o dudas sobre lo que debo hacer ya no por el proyecto en si  si no tambien por los devotos.

Aspirando a ser su humilde sirviente Jagamohan Das.

HpS - Hare Krsna.  Ya volviendo de India, Australia, todo!!!   Si, como you entiendo algo de confusion el proyect. Primero por buen Sadhana y associacion tiene que clarificar un poco cuales son sus responsilibidades  y naturaliza en servicio decocional, ISKCON of Srila Prabhupada.

2-puede buscar otros personal quien ha resolvado paso una arribe un poco.

Quien soy yo?  Quien somos nostros?

3- Un plan desarrollar Sankirtan juntos.

4- Parafernalia: Autos, herramientos, casa, ternos...

Adelante. Preguntas?

Reporte 1: volviendo a empezar

! 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.....

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

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>!!!!

Art and the Sacred

“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.”