Hare Krishna Gurudev,
Please accept my humble obeisances,
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Can you please provide an email address where I can send you the Gurukula file?
Thank you,
At your service,
Nikunja Bihari das.
ASA [email protected]. Confirm that we get it, please.
HpS - Thank you for using the Kapi Dhvaja Priority Code. It was Piggy-1 and you used that. Some members think that "KDPC" is the KDPC. That is like thinking that the word "Banana" is a Banana!
Hare Krishna Gurudeva! 🙏
Please, accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!
I would like to make a brief report about our service for Vedabase.io :
The last book we finished for Bhaktivedanta Library in Spanish was "Teachings of Queen Kunti". It is already on line.
Then, it's been two months that we have been waiting for more books from BBT. I kept communication with Prahlada Nrsimha prabhu and he told me that there were no books to import into Spanish yet, he had gotten some books but those were not possible to import at the moment as they do not exist in English.
So, now I want to tell you that a few days ago and by Krishna's arrangement BBT sent "Néctar of Devotión" !!!
Now I am working on it. I hope I can finish it soon. It would be ideal if it will be finished when you finish with Sri Isopanisad reading on FMP.
HpS - Yes!!! AGTSP paoho. It was there in VedaBase.Com!
Gurudeva, I am happy to be able to do this service, I am enthusiastic to do it and also feel happy because I know that you have been wanting NOD to be on Vedabase.io in Spanish language for a long time.
HpS - I think Srila Prabhupada also!!
Please, Gurudeva give me your blessings to do a good job !!
Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to purify myself !! 🙏
Your aspiring servant 🙏
Mitravinda devi dasi.
HpS - Jaya!!!! Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. More chanting more service! Thank you. Go ahead.
Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva, pamho. AGTSP!
Just to answer some questions you asked me before.
I am not working outside. I tried very hard to get a teaching job, but it didn't work. I think Krishna wants me to work only with devotees for now. And in fact I am doing it full time doing the activities that I mentioned before.
ASA -- Check!
P. Karuna was already organizing the classes online since before I suggested it. So that point is fine.
Yes, I´m trying to balance vidya and avidya as we are meditating on the FMP. Furthermore we were putting emphasis on that with the Bhakti sastri group. We have already finished the ISO and now we are going with the NOI.
I feel quite confident, for the simple reason that I try to listen to you carefully, as much as I can.
Already for some time. I cannot take everything that my spiritual master gives me, as you always say, but something remains in my mind.
I feel completely identified with ASA thinking and I try to motivate my students according to what I have learned from you.
HpS - !!! I fell like Big Brother out of "1984". Was that translated into Spanish?
Of course, I also try to practice what you always recommend. I am increasingly convinced of the importance of the FMP. Some still see it as a temple ritual, as something ad libitum, not as essential for spiritual advancement.
As for administration in general, I am not much involved now.
As for the Romeo and Juliet matter that you mentioned to Raman reti dd, I think it's a matter of time. We are both clear that we are going to come together to do service together. The theme of romance will be there for a while until we can handle it better and move on to a more detached stage. Of course with your blessings and the blessings of all the Vaisnavas and authorities.
HpS - Ha! Ha! Ha! Maybe a new phase. For some great sages, the Vanaprastha and Sannyasa stage became a source of INCREASED attachment to wife and home, because now the wife's chastity became manifest on the subtle platform and the husband knew that his wife would follow him into death just to be with him (catch him, Ha! Ha!) again in the next life! Only solution is increased attachment KRSNA!!! Worship the Deity!!
Thanks again for your patience.
I hope someday to be a servant for you.
Laksmana-agraja das
HpS - We hope that we can all integrate - HpS, LAD, KKD, CMDD, Yugala-kD, et al, et al, Gandharava in building a nice educational system in Peru.
Hare Krishna, dear gurumaharaja. Pamho. AGTSP!
HpS - All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!! Without his mercy, at best, we would be nice, moral, Christians, with some intuitive perspective, but..... basically suffering!
Thank you very much for replying to my last two letters.
My dharma is definitely education. Being a teacher-facilitator is what makes me what I am, at least in this current situation being a conditioned soul.
ASA - SP -- 1) Become self realized, 2) build your character and 3) preach! Step one accomplished.
I will continue until the end of the year with the teaching of Pada padma and bhakti sastri once a week. Unfortunately we could not continue with the Pada padma that we were going to do in the temple, nor could we do the seminars that were scheduled for Sundays in the temple. I am going to suggest doing Srimad Bhagavatam and / or Bhagavad gita classes online as they are doing in many places (Ecuador, Chile, Argentina).
Yesterday I was very honored to give an online class for a preaching center run by Prabhu Hari-samkirtan. He got excited and participated in the class that you gave last night. The schedules were perfect and we were able to do both, teach and listen to your class.
HpS - Oooof!!!
Not long ago I did my first 2020 disciple course with devotees from Ecuador, Chile, Alachua, Colombia. It was very rewarding. It was Monday and Friday. Then it occurred to me to occupy those days with seminars. After talking with several devotees, we saw that the subject of association is essential to move forward. Even more with this issue of social distance.
ASA - "Sangat sanjayate kamah - One's desires and ambitions develop from the company we keep", Cited in NOI!! First goal of our ASA Sastric Education is that we learn how to associate as: Teachers, Study Partners, Students; with other Bhaktas gathered around Srila Prabhupada's books. Then Systems of Study/Evaluation, will develope out of that association. Claro, it is different in Lima than Govardhana Eco VIllage in India!
So that's what we're doing, devotee association seminars. Of course, our trend is always ASA and NOI (always trying to follow in your footsteps). So we did seminars based on NOI 4-6. I included things that I learned in ISKCON courses, my university experience, and things that I have been discovering and learning from you and Srila Prabhupada, through reading your books and listening to you for almost 20 years now. We will continue with this as long as we can.
HpS ---- Ha! Ha! Hare!!!! We can continue with it forever, no? Meet again, even in other bodies and develop this same work.
It also occurred to me that I may submit an article to Viplavah about my ASA vision of education. "Yathādhītaṁ yathā-mati".
HpS - What is taking you so long!! 😀
Janmastami issue is academic issue, so write it so that your professor in school can read it and the rest of the issue.
Studying my master's degree, I discovered that the best educational currents coincide with ASA and Srila Prabhupada's vision, in some way. It is actually the other way around, knowing a little about your vision and Srila Prabhupada's vision, which are somehow the same, he perceived, for example in Constructivism, much of the ASA vision. I want to write something simple, not very technical. My tendency is minimalist in ideas, I am not very thorough or elaborate. Anyway, it's something I wanted to tell you about.
ASA - Develop your outline and post it here.
As for the work on the Pada padma, I will be watching to see how I can fit into your working group and I will be ready in case I am needed. I estimate that your suggestions for the First Canto of the SB need to be evaluated and discussed in the BOEX.
HpS - Yes, we are having a little bit of trouble integrating with BOEX. It is distance, they are professionally trained educators (eg. always citing Bloom's Taxonomy, which we just began to look up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bloom) and we are a little lazy, and maybe we are more strategy incklined!
My personal life is going quite well and my relationship with Raman-reti devi dasi too. When the quarantine ends we will make plans for her to come to Peru and get married. We are very excited about our sankirtan plans. As one of my siksa gurus, Prabhu Atmarama from Australia said, “If you get married and stop preaching, why do you get married?
HpS - Wow!!
Thank you very much for your patience with me.
Your servant,
Laksmana-agraja das
The servant of Laksmana's older brother, that is, one more monkey (The Blue Baboon)
ASA - Please send current foto of BB! -0- Laksman "taught some good lessons" in Lanka!
Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I hope everything continues correctly. I am writing to report on some activities and ask some questions and for some advice:
HpS - Our first advice is to be pretty proud of your efforts to help Srila Prabhupada's movement, thank you.
HpS - The Boex has just finished a collection of BG questions that they think are pretty standard, but it may be some time before they roll those out. In general, to quote Bhakti vijnana Swami from Russia, we are not fruitive workers. The diplomas and titles actually have real value, but the essence is 1. developing friendship centered around studying Srila Prabhupada's books, 2. That will naturally develop into regular meetings and systems of association, 3. Then we can learn facts, ideas, and have evaluations.
HpS - Me too. It is nice. It is self propelling. I find more and more depth in the Purports, structure of the book. I really wonder if I can get beyond just a few Cantos in this whole life time! CC is more pastime driven.
HpS - We started that, no? You join the Regional meetings with USA. There is Param-padam Das in Argentina. Do you know him. Then Nara-narayana Rsi Das. He is there also and wanted to help. Whatsapp us and we will try to get you their email address.
HpS - NOI and whatever closed topic seminars that anyone wants to and is qualified to do. Eg. Rupa Siksa, CC Madhya 19.
HpS - You say, "was". Were they victims of the Karuna virus? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVfVBFdMaM (extracting gold from a messy place).
That's all gurudeva
I await your recommendations and thank you very much for the opportunity to serve you.
HpS - Our practice, which I can recommend, is to read a little of different books every day. Involve others sometimes and do it alone others. We do:
CC before managala arati.
NOD (Iso now) after.
SB regularly developing things and focus with the community and your intest
Lilamrta during breakfast
NOI each evening
KRSNA book and hot milk before taking rest. All for the purpose of distributing them. Hear them and they will come out of your mouth, mind, heart.
Your servant
Gandharva dasa
Gauranga!
Hanumat Preshak Swami. Humbles and Glories.
Greetings from Santiago Chile.
While I was in Mayapur, Jayapataka Swami told me "You should go to Chile " 🌎 with no explanation why.
Anantagauranga Prabhu is from Chile and suggested that I could get a job teaching English in Santiago. 📚 It sounded like a good idea so I came here to give it a go.🛬
Then the carona hysteria lockdown shipwrecked me inside the ISKCON center. 😱I was given service in the kitchen to be of some use. 🥖Jayapataka Swami told the devotees that he was happy that I am here. When Jayapataka Swami is happy everyone is happy.
ASA - Except the Demons. 😎
The temple is managed by Bhakta Sebastian and a few other new devotees. The president comes once a week, in the afternoon. The GBC does not have a strong presence.
It would help if the GBC and gurus had more time to spend in Santiago! ⏳Jayapataka Swami came last year and gave a boost of inspiration.🚀
HpS - We have been spending one month every year, but our trip was cancelled this year by the pandemic. As far as I know Bhakti Bhusana Swami also comes regularly and Maha-visnu Swami and Hari nama ruci have been coming. Of course, you are there setting the proper example of Goloka life!
Sebastian wants initiation from Mahatma Prabhu and Bhaktin Phyllis is striving for Maha Vishnu Swami. Elroy for Bhakti Bhushan Maharaj. Bhakta Liisiano wants to get in line with your disciples.🗿
HpS - Is that Bhakta Luciano?
x x x (Censored because it is a comment of a lower category.)😁
It didn't take long for everyone to figure out that I am in a much lower category.
HpS - They are very clever that way! (Ha! Ha! Ha!)
You asked for suggestions so this is mine. Have some real senior devotees come to Chile and stay.🐒
HpS - We discussed that above. I think it may be that you are only getting a view of the Yatra during the Pandemic. Again, we spend 1/12 of our time there each year and run into other "senior" devotees often there. Write again with 1. How you actually fought the battle to improve your participation in the situation and 2. How you joined that with another devotee who was doing the same!!
"Inch by inch, it's always a cinch", Vaisesika Das
Sus Mishra Bhagavan Dasa
