The Blessed and Damed from Amsterdam

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Since last letter some major things have transpired in my life, of which i wish to inform you. First of all, August 6th our second daughter was born, healthy and beautiful, named Madelein Anandini.
Because my life has been highly irregular since, i have not chanted japa regularly.

 

HpS - ASA -    Thank you for this service to this new devotee!     Look for the time. One round here. One round there.    You will become som much better servant of your babies if you do this sacrifice for purification.  At least keep track of how many rounds you have fallen behind and later  you can chant them, like old Prasadam.


I mostly take care of our eldest, and my wife of the youngest. Besides this, i still work my job in irregular hours (6 am - 2 am). All was too much on me, so i slacked. Up till august i was pretty fixed, and it is only since a week that i feel that i am getting back on track. The will is back, though the understanding of the need for chanting never faltered. I have to admit that i transgressed one of our principles a handful of times. It was bad conduct; it was calculated.

HpS - ASA --- Oink!    We are third class learners some times!

In retrospect, i see that, apart from the big family demands and obligations, i have been through a small crisis, like ones i have seen before. Just before the delivery, we had a kirtan event which for me was very powerful spiritually. Then i kind of lost my touch. Earlier in my devotional life, i lost touch twice, after i realized i couldn't match up to the people i looked up to, after first feeling myself their equals. This was like a sort of disgrace, because i realized they saw through me and i saw myself acting like a fool, and so i withdrew myself.

HpS - ASA ---  Ha, ha, Hare!    We are all going to falldown big or little. It is more important how you get back up!!!

Something similar happened again this time, but it feels now i'm recovering from that much faster, and without the leave. It is like getting up after falling, and i see the goodness of that; the getting back up. However, i am apprehensive that humility again will not go deep enough to prevent things happening again. Pigheaded is the word, me thinks. At least understanding of that specific mechanism is coming gradually.

HpS - Enthusiams is the most important, no?   But without patience then we will go sloW.  Make progress,  but perfection may take a few more weeks.

The good thing about these last two months in the desert happened on the intellectual level. I found myself connected to Hridayananda Maharaja and his Krishna West approach, and more so about his inter religious presentation. In my work i meet many elderly Surinami ladies. Surinam is a former colony where African slaves worked and lived alongside locals, Hindus, Javan and Chinese immigrants, and they lived together happily. I meet many Hindus and Christians, and many know about each others faiths, but generally there is a lack of deeper understanding of Indian history and philosophy, and so i get identified as a Hindu often. Personally, i don't like to be identified as someone who likes Indian culture, because i don't, and with the help of Hridayananda Maharaja, i have been able to have many successful spiritual conversations, in which sometimes i helped broaden understanding, and sometimes was able to explain more about Krishna's teachings about the soul to Christians. Also, my understanding of various Christian groups and their particular ideology is broadening. So i feel very enlivened again, in a way that seems new to me in my career in Krishna Consciousness. Even though i fell down in sadhana, at least this aspect of my devotional heart and mind kept flowing.
HpS - ASA --  Jaya!!!!
Before i really got attracted to KW, i purposefully wore decent normal clothes on harinams, so as to give a signal to people who saw us, that you can look like a Western guy when you're a member of ISKCON. This was inspired by meetings i had on sankirtan, where several young, spiritually oriented people told me they would not take to KC because they didn't wanna be like identified as a Hare Krishna because of our personal presentation. Of course this could be called shallow to some extent, but to me it indicates that people here in this country have reservations to join a group that expects its members to follow certain dress codes and wear tilak on their faces.

HpS - ASA -- Lord Caitanya dressed like a Mayavadi!

So i think i was a 'member' of KW before i knew it.

In Amsterdam, our temple has opened doors in a new center since earlier this month. It is a rental, and management is still saving for the down payment of 100k for buying property. There are no residential quarters, so that is a bit unfortunate, but the center is nice. It has a good kitchen, and bright and decent temple room.

My apologies for a long letter, but in conclusion, i mostly wish to apologize for intentionally breaking my vows. I have suffered from it, and i am climbing back up. Perhaps you still find me a candidate for your guidance and mercy. It saddens me to read of your struggles, but it also gladdens me because of how you deal with it and keep adjusting and keep going strong.

Param Vijayate Sri Krishna Sankirtanam!

Your aspiring servant,
Raghava Pandit das

HpS - We were wondering more, and more often what had happened to you!    Seems that this is one thing that you might add.  Write a little more often!   Your War on the Witch, is personal and individual. The White Witch will help you!   Krsna and Radha and all the Gopas and Gopis are watching (and eating popcorn??).

About 91% of what Hrdayananda Goswami says I agree with. I think similar to him and Satsvarupa Goswami.

Please give our great respects to your good wife and here great work!!!

Temple news next week?

Video-Congreso de Educación Chile 2015

9 years, 8 months ago by Victoria in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Hare Krsna Gurudev,  ._^o_   AGtSP!

Aqui esta el Link del trailer sobre el "I Congreso de Educacion con Iskcon" Chile 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyoZHNZPB14

Muchas gracias por su asociacion, su infinita inspiracion y ejemplo.

intentando servilo

Vrsabhanu Nandini dd
 

HpS --- ASA ----    AGTSP!!!    Por la fin obtuvimos oportunidad ver esta enclace.  Es super!   Hay un parte donde los subtitulos son tan suave no puede ver.  Pero es super!      Gracias.

México - Educaccion - Calendario

Querido Gurumaharaja. 
Por favor acepte mis reverencias !
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada ! 

Esperamos ser parte pequeño de vuestro sankirtana. Con Sus instrucciones humildemente esperamos lograrlo.

   ASA -  TlgaSP!!!   Pfanrh.    Esperamos ser un pequeno parte de SUS sankirtan!


Hoy 30 de Septiembre hable con Su Santidad Guruprasad Swami en el templo,  le informe de nuestro interés de su participación en el próximo congreso o encuentro educativo regional del próximo año en México. Dijo que luego platicará con Usted. 
Le informe que ya empezamos a organizarnos para la colecta de fondos económicos para este fin y estuvo muy de acuerdo, dijo que este es un factor muy importante. 
Pedí sus bendiciones y nos regaló su guirnalda. 

Muchas gracias por Su inspiración Gurudeva. 
En nuestras oraciones a Sri Nrsimhadeva siempre está Ud presente. 

Si el Señor Krsna nos bendice una vez más, podremos verlo en el mes de Diciembre. 

Perdón por las ofensas por favor. 

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente : 
Asta Sakhi dd

HpS - ASA --  AGTSP.   Hay mucho para mejorar estas festivales, de educacion, pero es un hecho son essencial.

Visita a Mexico, vamos a escribir ya una carta con detalles del planes para el Calendario.   Vds son muy, muy, muy inspirador para nosotros.   Si somos fuertes y puros, Krsna puede poner todo el pais de Mexico abajo de nuestra administracion en solament un minuto!

NIMSAR REPORT

9 years, 9 months ago by Germán Vegas in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Hare Krsihna Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!

I delayed a few days to write this report. Today we had the second meeting, Directory, and I preferred to wait to report back the results. There have been different major proposals being the following:

  • It is necessary to establish a work plan for the next two years for which we ask the help of Mr. Arturo Palomino who has taught the course Projects Management  at the University of San Marcos for many years. It [He] is also expert in international cooperation projects. I have spoken of NIMSAR and agreed to cooperate with us.
  • We must rethink our leadership model. NIMSAR grows slowly and we must implement  more effective management system.
  • It is necessary to become skilled in pedagogy and didactics. I was trained in two universities according to the model of meaningful learning of David Ausubel, constructivist psychologist. We should take education training workshops on this model as well as in structuring of class sessions  to improve our performance in this way.We have to find ways to improve the quality of the classes taught in the temple so as the NIMSAR courses.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.10032/pdf

(The first two pages are sufficient for understanding the concept)

ASA - We have opened the link in another window and will look at it!    One of Ravana's ten heads was dedicated to education!

  • Investigate on free education platforms  (e-learning and b-learning) as Moodle.This tools allow us access to a wider audience in different cities and other countries. Similarly, it allows us to structure and adapt our educational content to these models centered on learning and experience.

https://moodle.org/?lang=en

  • We will design and edit a bilingual website, which can promote NIMSAR programs and courses and allow us to capture donations from devotees interested in contributing to the ISKCON education (you can guide us in this sense, perhaps). For donors, we publish a bi-monthly online magazine and a monthly newsletter. Donations will be used to organize trips to some cities in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador to carry seminars and lectures with the aim of promoting NIMSAR courses. We have also thought to use those funds in the training  in issues of human development, coaching and pedagogy.

I'll be waiting for your comments Gurudeva.

Your servant
Gandharva dasa

HpS - Very nice perspective, plans.       1)  Does this fit into your personal passions.    2) What about Jiva-shakti and the ISKCON Peru, Committee on Education?

Thank you very much!!    ​        Educating for ecstacy.

Ananda Maya report sadhana

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada 

Todas las glorias al movimiento de sankirtan !

porfavor asepte nuestras reverencias Gurudev

Ahora en Monterrey estamos bien con nuestro servicio con bebe, Jay Govinda, pensando sobre su educación hablamos con made Gopi radha D.D. sobre proyecto de educación con los bebes vaisnavas pero nesesitamos viajar a D.F. para tener una información mas clara y consejos,

HpS - ASA - TlgaSP!     Pfanrh.  Cuando puede ir?

Krishna Balaram deidades de nuestro humilde hogar (artik, ofrendas, kirtan) and made a Krsna garden home, poco a poco mejorando en este nuevo asram ... happy quiza estamos sintiendonos mas apego en esta etapa de la vida por los hijos y matrimonio pero mucha realización.

Nuestro servicio en templo es publicidad de eventos con Adobe Photoshop, flayers de festivales algunas veces servicio de fotografía de festivales en templo.

Krishna Janmastami I made a Giriraj sila cake offering.

16 rondas<img alt="yes" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_up.png" title="yes" width="23" />, 4 principios<img alt="yes" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_up.png" title="yes" width="23" />, lectura personal Srimat Bhagavatam & Mayapur.tv (darshan online), en templo Monterrey matayi Vilasini D.D. planeando enseñar  ingles para poder escribir y hablar ingles ella es disipula de H.G. Sankarsan Das Adhikari.

Mi esposo Gadadhar Prabhu, Servicio en restaurante & clase Srimat Bhagavatam en 7:30am and sankirtan en la tarde, muy inspirador para nosotros siempre muy entuciasta :) el habla sobre su ultima visita en Mexico D.F. muy felices de tomar su asociación y consejos muchas gracias gurudeva.

Muchas gracias por tomar su tiempo de leer esta humilde carta, sabemos que es intensos sus  dias , estamos leeyendo cartas de reportes encontrando muchas respuestas.

(A   G​  T  S  P!     Paoho.     Anybody else experiencing problems writing in the Blog?   When we hit the Enter key, for example, it tosses us to the top of the page.   Hmmm?

Windows 10??      Well, its still a great way to communicate and reminds us of how much better is the tele-communication in Goloka, Moooo!)=

I'm work whit windows 8.1 don't have problems with the page, but maybe windows 10 have 1 or 2 details.!

deseando se encuentre bien, pedimos  bendiciones para mejorar nuestro sankirtan y tambien porfavor le pido bendiciones para todo el yatra en Monterrey para continuar predicando conciencia de krsna .

Su eterna e insignificante sirviente Ananda Maya Devi Dasi 

HpS - ASA ---    AGTSP.    Gracias para tosas las noticias!!!     MUCHO atencion leer sus comunicaciones.  Esperamos todo adelanta muy bien en Monterrey.    Ciudad Mexico tiene mucho gente!    En Monterrey pued tomar apoyo de poco mas limpieza y tranquilidad, no?    De otro manera narco trafico pero, no???      Tiene que entender su ambient bien y que necesitan la gente para advanzar, y servir a ellos.  Servir a un inferior se llama msieridordia!

Much hacer.   Super reverencias al Gadadhara Das.    Bueno, si el puede tomar unas notas y escribir de sus encuentras en Sankirtan!

Cuidado!   Estamos adorando un Dios bastante travieso!!!

 
La torta es en forma de Govardhana, y comiendo?????

NIOS - DSB Report

Jai, Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Professor, Master Harsh et al,

Here we are still in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Our health is still very delicate with need to rest as much as 9-hours in a day now.  Our best medical advice is that we have to continue to adjust our work to live according to our Donkey's age.

In this regard we are basically working to develop a list of priorities and schedule that we can maintain personally and then responding from that perspective to the suggestions of others.

As of now this NIOS work is one of the very topmost priorities for us. We have had a series of discussions on maintaining the functioning of NIOS by shifting its operation to Texas and joining a broader educational corporation there, Goloka Education. This is taking time and energy and we shall be sending you particular notices on this.

Of course we have had our local work with Dr. Ravi and the big Celebrate Nashville Festival this weekend.

I received the final bill from Ma Saraadia press and now we only wait for the general accounting for this one project from your good self.

In this maze of NIOS work two projects seems prominent to us: Distribution of the books we have and the co-operation with the National Library of Peru on the annual journal, "Solaris", and an international conference on "Psychology of the Sacred". Both of these are moving along well with very, very senior scholars and editors. Particularly we have a meeting scheduled by phone tomorrow night with the Director of the Library, who has been beleaguered by hosting the International Monetary Fund, with Presidents and Representatives of 50-nations in Peru. He has written an EXCELLENT paper on the history of religion and psychology and at this point we are looking for someone who wants to go ahead very, very seriously in a dialog between Sri Caitanya's Bhagavata School and Occidental view of nature with this perspective of Jung. Unless we get this the journal and symposium will not have life. Can you help in this?
 

Besides NIOS and its administrative work, there is of course our personal Sadhana, without which we would be dead.  We keep that from 4.30-5.30AM On-Line and are committed to four classes on SB and BG weekly in Spanish and English.

These classes we feel should satisfy our very great debt to our ISKCON disciples and students.

Finally, we have our obligations as members of the Executive Committee of ISKCON'S Ministry of Education but we feel that those are being satisfied by their relationship with the aforementioned Sadhana Bhakti publication and education work.

Of course, there is more work to be done, structuring our strategy, but in-spite of all these challenges we are making tangible progress.

We will try to call both you are Harsh tomorrow and look for any mail from you as soon as possible.

We are anxious to hear about any work you are doing and if Pranava Das has contacted your good self.

HpSwami

NIOS - ASA