BANANA LLAMA Ofrenda de Vyasapuja_AmD

4 years, 2 months ago by anandamayadas in Special Category A

Hare Krsna querido Gurudeva!

Por acepte nuestras humildes reverencias.

Todas las glorias Srila Prahupada!



nama-srestham manum api

saci-putram atra svarupam

rupam tasyagrajam uru-purim

mathurim gosthavatim

radha-kundam giri-varam aho

radhika-madhavasam

prapto yasya prathita-krpaya

sri gurum tam nato ´smi


Me postro ante los hermosos pies de loto de mi maestro espiritual, por cuya misericordia sin causa he obtenido el supremo santo nombre, el mantra divino, el servicio del hijo de Saci-mata, la asociación de Srila Svarupa Damodara, Rupa Gosvami y de su hermano mayor Sanatana Gosvami, de la morada suprema de Mathura, la bienaventurada morada de Vrndavana, del divino Radha-kunda y de la colina de Govardhana y el deseo dentro de mi corazón por el servicio amoroso a Sri Radhika y Madhava en Vrndavana.


Este verso es muy hermoso, lo cantamos a diario después de nuestro guru puja, hay algunas bendiciones reales ahí para nosotros, y algunas nos faltan realizar aun, pero tenemos la fe y confianza que gracias a su misericordia lo podremos alcanzar algún día.


Querido Gurudeva permítenos ofrecerte esta ofrenda de palabras... es un ensayo de nuestro seminario “Krsna Surya sama” por el auspicioso día de tu aparición, como un homenaje al representante fidedigno de Srila Vyasadeva:

“Krsna está ahí siempre en su nombre como un sol radiante en el cielo alumbrando el jardín de nuestro corazón. En muchos casos esa luz es oscurecida por las nubes de nuestros anarthas que surgen de los deseos separados de Krsna, y en otros la oscuridad es más densa gracias a la niebla de nuestras ofensas al Nombre. Aún así nuestro corazón es un terreno fértil para nuestros deseos, algunos han crecido como árboles en el transcurso de muchas vidas y hay mucha mala hierba crecida por falta de cuidado. La desafortunada alma espiritual puede pasar trillones de vidas con ese panorama. Solo por la buena fortuna sin causa, la jiva que tiene la oportunidad de relacionarse con un maestro espiritual fidedigno, recibe en su corazón el hermoso regalo de la semilla del servicio devocional. Esta semilla del Bhakti se vuelve fuerte gracias al riego y cuidado del jardinero experto, quien debe podar el jardín de los deseos y debe regar su semilla con el canto constante de los Santos Nombres. Ninguna Jiva puede volverse un experto jardinero si no ha sido formado por el maestro espiritual, quien a su vez es un sadacari, un practicante honesto. Si la jiva no practica el canto, la semilla del bhakti se mantendrá débil y vulnerable. Solo el canto constante puede regar su raíz y hacerla crecer por encima de la niebla de las ofensas. Si ese canto puede liberarse de las ofensas, el cielo del jardín se verá alumbrado por una luz tenue, provocada por las nubes de los anarthas. El sol del Santo nombre está ahí radiante, pero aún no puede ser percibido a plenitud, sin embargo esa luz que se filtra a través de las nubes disipan el cielo del jardinero experto que practica el canto con mayor sinceridad que al comienzo, y la semilla que se ha convertido en una gran enredadera que crece sin parar, gracias a la misericordia del Guru fidedigno, alcanza el árbol de los deseos de los pies de loto de Krsna, quien está situado eternamente en el planeta Goloka Vrndavan, en la región más elevada del mundo espiritual”.



sakale sammāna korite śakati,

deho' nātha! jathājatha

tabe to' gāibo, hari-nāma-sukhe,

aparādha ha 'be hata


Oh Señor y amo! inspíreme con el poder de honrar apropiadamente a todas las entidades vivientes. Solamente entonces cantaré el Santo Nombre con gran éxtasis y todas mis ofensas cesarán.


En la víspera del auspicioso día de su aparición, su aspirante a sirviente, Anandamaya das.


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Hare Krsna dear Gurudeva!

For accept our humble obeisances.

All glories Srila Prahupada!


nama-srestham manum api

saci-putram atra svarupam

rupam tasyagrajam uru-purim

mathurim gosthavatim

radha-kundam giri-varam aho

radhika-madhavasam

prapto yasya prathita-krpaya

sri gurum tam nato ´smi


I bow down before the beautiful lotus feet of my spiritual master, by whose mercy without cause I have obtained the supreme holy name, the divine mantra, the service of the son of Saci-mata, the association of Srila Svarupa Damodara, Rupa Gosvami and his elder brother Sanatana Gosvami, of the supreme abode of Mathura, the blessed abode of Vrndavana, of the divine Radha-kunda and of Govardhana hill and the desire within my heart for the loving service to Sri Radhika and Madhava in Vrndavana.


This verse is very beautiful, we sing it daily after our guru puja, there are some real blessings there for us, and some of us still need to realize, but we have the faith and confidence that thanks to his mercy we can reach him someday.


Dear Gurudeva let us offer you this offering of words ... it is an essay of our seminar "Krsna Surya sama" for the auspicious day of your appearance, as a tribute to the reliable representative of Srila Vyasadeva:

“Krishna is always there in his name like a bright sun in the sky lighting the garden of our heart. In many cases that light is obscured by the clouds of our anarthas that arise from Krishna's separate desires, and in others the darkness is denser thanks to the fog of our Name offenses. Even so, our heart is a fertile ground for our desires, some have grown like trees over the course of many lives and there is a lot of weed grown for lack of care. The unfortunate spiritual soul can spend trillions of lives with that panorama. Only for good fortune without cause, the jiva who has the opportunity to interact with a trustworthy spiritual master, receives in her heart the beautiful gift of the seed of devotional service. This seed of the Bhakti becomes strong thanks to the irrigation and care of the expert gardener, who must prune the garden of desires and must water its seed with the constant song of the Holy Names. No Jiva can become an expert gardener if he has not been trained by the spiritual master, who in turn is a sadacari, an honest practitioner. If the jiva does not practice singing, the bhakti seed will remain weak and vulnerable. Only constant singing can water its root and make it grow above the fog of offenses. If that song can be freed from offenses, the garden sky will be illuminated by a dim light, caused by the clouds of the anarthas. The sun of the Holy Name is there radiant, but it still cannot be fully perceived, however that light that filters through the clouds dissipates the sky of the expert gardener who practices the song with greater sincerity than at the beginning, and the seed which has become a great vine that grows nonstop, thanks to the mercy of the trustworthy Guru, reaches the wish tree of the lotus feet of Krsna, who is eternally located on the planet Goloka Vrndavan, in the highest region of the spiritual world. "


sakale sammāna korite śakati,

deho 'nātha! jathājatha

tabe to 'gāibo, hari-nāma-sukhe,

aparādha ha 'be hata


Oh Lord and I love! inspire me with the power to properly honor all living entities. Only then will I sing the Holy Name with great ecstasy and all my offenses will cease.

On the eve of the auspicious day of his appearance, his aspiring servant, Anandamaya das.

HpS - AGTSP!!! These are very chastising words for us. It is so easy for us to fall into bad rounds unless we chant!! We hope you become a paramhamsa very quickly! You were going to go to Mexico with Mataji as Pujari's, no? Guru prasada Swami told me that he wanted you to come but there were problems organizing it with the Temple managment!

Strategic Plan

4 years, 3 months ago by hps in Special Category A

Paramatma Das and I are engaged in helping to develop the Strategy for Preaching in Latin American for the Regional GBC. Here is our current response comment:


Hare Krsna, Prabhu,

AgtSP!  Paoho.    We are running at about 83% efficiency. I guess that is pretty good

for the material world. We have survived the 14-week, fourteen airport, tour and arrived in Houston.

As I proposed in the last LARGBC meeting lettuce continue with our dialog.


I registered my thoughts about your strategy.  Very, very, very nice and improvement would be to 1. integrate with our management culture more explicitly, which is Varna Ashrama Dharma, and 2. base it on Sastric references, 3. develop the strategy in stages of deeper and deeper complexity.


1. Who am I????  I really have struggled with this in this current dialog, and it has been a big advance in my spiritual life trying to write it for you.

I remember the exact moment. I was using a cross-cut, arm-saw in Gunar Lindh's Custom Carpentry Shop, Sacramento, California. I had got a book, was visiting the San Francisco temple and trying to get from Adau sraddha, Sadhu sanga to Bhajana kriya, although at the time I didn't know it. I was trying to get from random chanting to focused, systematic chanting.


Then, using the saw, I made the decision, that in the midst of all these new spiritual rituals, I would always chant "Hare Krsna" and remember the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada within the core of my heart.

Of course, we are still a long, long way from perfecting that, and doing book distribution, and going to Mangala arati are necessary for doing it, but that is who we are. Later we realized that it is definitely a Sannyasa perspective. 'A Sannyasi is happy when he is always remembering Krsna within the core of his heart', Jagadananda's prayer at the end of NOI 1 purport.


So that is who we are, Sannyasis endeavoring for Bhava, expecting plans to develop in our minds as a natural sequence.


Do you see our point?


Where do we fit Sannyasis into our Strategic Plan for preaching (in Latin America)?

Are you planning on taking Sannyasa?

Are our Sannyasis involved in management up to 80% really Sannyasis?


Without dealing with these fundamental issues it is Tactical Planning, not Strategic Planning, no?


Of course, I agree that we need to progress in both areas. The best way to develop a preaching strategy is to preach. No Commander ever made mistake in battle if he decided to pull his ship alongside the enemy and fire.


So, I guess my next shot would be, does your honorable self plan on taking Sannyasa?


Can we adopt this as a basic statement of our Mission, from the Intro to NOI: Our Mission is to qualify ourselves to help Lord Caitanya in his mission of spreading the science of Krsna consciousness to the conditioned souls by studying the books of Srila Prabhupada scrutinizingly.


mutual understanding must be clear..

4 years, 3 months ago by sacsingh in Special Category A

Dear Maharaj, PAMHO! AGTSP!

Thank you for discussing these issues with us.

You said:

HpS - Jaya! Again. Again. Again. These are all things we have discussed here before. I hope our opinion is clear. We go on discussing it but for us you are not presenting anything new, so we are happy to talk in person some time but we seem to have exhausted this forum sad much as possible in terms of mutual understanding.

Actually what you said was not clear,

HpS - Not clear to who? 😁 Even Krsna does not know Balarama, the original Guru-tattva perfectly. He is always increasing. For me I have a practical understanding. We have published it in http://www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt.

even your “disciples” are confused.

HpS - Actually only one of them mentioned this dialog to me and their comment was kind of informal that it was interesting but it seemed a little tiresome. I think it is one of the best dialogs I have had on this topic on the Blog. If they don't understand then they are not my disciples right.

You claim to be a diksa guru and then turning around and saying you are just a formalities siksa guru only.

HpS - Boy! Never say this. I, you, can both be practical Siksa gurus, just as Vartmana prasarshika gurus, telling people buy a book, and then we can be Siksa gurus for Madhyama adhikaris by repeating Shastra or teaching how we are able to eat and sleep less, read more etc.

This is really confusing. If you say Srila Prabhupada is the diksa guru, that needs to be clear. It is very clear to me and it should be to you and others.

HpS - We have tried to get a "Clear" "German precise" definition of Diksa guru, we are glad to adopt any position if we be near Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet, but it was not clear. Then we heard Hrdayananda Goswami and our good disciple, Radhika-Ramana Das who chants his rounds and follows four principles for decades and is also an Oxford scholar and Sanskritist that there is not emphasis on Diksa in our Sampradaya so the definition is not so hard. More is who is on the Kanishtha, Madhyama, Uttara, Sampradaya Acharya level. So again, taking the definition from 'kiba sudra kiba nyasi' verse we are a Diksa guru acting for our Acharya Srila Prabhupada. Even as Madhyama Adhikari we can accept disciples but only if they have accepted Srila Prabhupada as an Uttama Adhikari guru. That's pretty clear. Let us get back to work. How to get more books into the heart of more people.

If we try to mix both things, it just creates confusion and your siksa disciples will be confused. They will say HPS says he is a diksa guru, now saying he is a siksa formalities guru only and not a diksa guru. You say they should worship the Acarya (Srila Prabhupada) but they want to worship you.

HpS - We have corrected some of the above, but one point is to ask how many of the people Srila Prabhupada intiated had a clear idea of Guru tattva. Many of us were initiated in like 1974 but thought that maybe Srila Prabhupada was conscious of everything we were doing. Revatinandana Swami asked Prabhupada if this was true and Srila Prabhupada answered that he was not the super soul. When he need to know something about a disciple Krsna would inform him and usually externally.

I hope you can see that I would like to do my job better. I would like to see a better institutional ISKCON. I would like to see a better group of friends ISKCON, I would like to see my individual connection with Prabhupada better.

Are you chanting 16-nice rounds a day under the authority of Srila Prabhupada and following the four principles strictly. Have you received the Mantra from someone who received it from Srila Prabhupada and was himself doing 16/4? and trying to correct any deviations in the institutin? If yes, then I can consider that you are a disciple of Srila Prabhupada. Have you seen the citation in the seventh canto about Prahlada Maharaja's relationship with his older Godbrothers.?

you commented: [https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10635/]

HpS - Yes, we can talk of Guru tattva in Mexico. Basically Srila Prabhupada is Founder Acharya for you, me, everyone in ISKCON, no? Then he left over one-hundred volumes of instruction so why should we be confused, no?

Basic principle is chant Hare Krsna and be happy.

Then what is your ROLE? If he (Srila Prabhupada) is founder Acharya for you , me and everyoone in ISKCON, then your role is not DIKSA, it is of siksa only, why claim to be a diksa and confuse people? You are saying that everything is very clear but it is not!

HpS - We have discussed this above and in previous letters. We are claiming to be Diksa guru because we are the ones who 'initiate according to the process'. Why are you confused? We discuss this a LOT while traveling and lecturing. It is clear to the audiences. Guru tattva is unlimited and expanding. We want to KNOW guru well enough to improve our service to Krsna. Are you following our Founder Acharya? Are you chanting 16/4. Are you keeping full morning program. If now, then you will not be able to chant 16-enthusiastic rounds. Then it will not ne clear to YOU.

https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10640/

You stated about letters shouldn’t be published here is Hansdutta reply:

“I never heard this, who said this ? In the early years anyone who received a letter would duplicate it and send to the other centers, later on it became impractical”

HpS - Madhuvisa Das, one of the early devotees who had so many letters from Prabhupada told me that when they asked devotees for their letters for publishing he sent in a lot, but some he did not because they were personal.

Jayadvaita gives nice evaluation of the standard that Srila Prabhupada made for the authenticity of this letters. I told you, no, that it is in a letter to Brahmananda about nor circulating letters unless Prabhupada told him to do it. It is in Jayadvaita's intro to the Vedabas, "what you are getting".

Hansadutta Das told me that Prabhupada told him that every big man would have three secretaries. With the first he would discuss the general content of the letter. Then 1 would tell 2 what to write and 3 would type it and clean up the syntax. 2 would look at it and if o.k. initial it and give it to 1 and if number one initialed it the Big Man would just glance at it and sign it unless it was very specfic topic. I have not said to not cite letters here but just with this level of understanding them. Did Srila Prabhupada tell his secretary when asked for how long the GBC Secretaries should serve that they should serve 'for as long as they have life', and the secretary then typed up the letter as, "they should serve" for life? Prabhupada says that at 50 years old the life in the body is finished, that maybe you can push it to fifty five. See my point about letters??

A set of 5 volumes of prabhupada were published by Nischinya das

HpS - Five volumes of letters?

O.K. we have to rush to get a bath. We are late because this dialog is so nice. Interfaith dialog today. What about the 16/4, FM Program, getting the mantra from a strict 'Prabhupada' disciple? Can we talk on the phone when we get to USA?

part of village -2

4 years, 3 months ago by harsh_horse in Special Category A

Hare Krsna Maharaj,

PAMHO, AGTSP,

Previous node: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/10636/

His Grace asked us :

What is name of your new school???

answer: Institute of Management Studies part of Banaras Hindu Univeristy .

http://www.bhu.ac.in/fms/

Who are your associates there??

this tough question because associate is very big word. We have acquaintances mostly academician. Nice connection with Local ISKCON is also formed.

but no one at the level of associate yet.


you suggestion the selection of village depends on associates...its new angle for us. to find village...thank you very much.


monkey horse

HpS - Is your better-half with you there? Is Swami Parikshit's karma becoming more clear? Is Mataji going to apply here PhD? Is SHE making friends and associates there? Picture of the altar in the local ISKCON center?

GURU Tattva discussion

4 years, 3 months ago by sacsingh in DTC, Special Category A

Dear Maharaj, PAMHO! AGTSP!

Hare Krishna from Sacramento.

Please watch: https://youtu.be/Bw-MhN90bVk

From your primary siksa guru, Hansdutta Prabhu have you met him recently?

HpS - Been in transit! Hansadutta Das is one of our primary Siksa gurus. 🙂 I watched the video. Its nice but I think we have discussed all these points before.

I had a conversation with him and recorded it for your you above, Hansdutta says nobody in Iskcon is guru, that means HPS is only a formalities guru not the diksa guru. Srila Prabhupada only appointed ritviks, and confirmed by Puri Maharaj.

HpS - 😀 again I think we have discussed Alok this before.

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oETO0KzbRk

And finally this:

https://www.akincana.net/2019/12/06/7502/

ISKCON GBC ritviks discussion - will most likely be approved IN 2020!

Whats HPS view on this you accept or need further discussion?

Please note to HPS disciples: I hope you boys and gals aren’t offended by my questions to HPS. My intention is to establish Srila Prabhupada and strengthening people’s connection with Srila Prabhupada this is seriously lacking because the gurus don’t educate disciples to accept Srila Prabhupada as diksa and siksa guru both. I see my questions has raised some doubts or questions among HPS disciples that is HPS really a diksa GURU or only siksa GURU. My opinion is he is only officiating and siksa guru after the ceremony HPS becomes your god brother essentially.

Now comes the part of tṛṇād api sunīcena!

Some preaching material from Sacramento - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjjMvqIa1SI

HpS - Jaya! Again. Again. Again. These are all things we have discussed here before. I hope our opinion is clear. We go on discussing it but for us you are not presenting anything new, so we are happy to talk in person some time but we seem to have exhausted this forum sad much as possible in terms of mutual understanding.

AgtaSP! Sixteen good rounds, four principles strictly.

BANANA LLAMA

4 years, 3 months ago by Aristasena in Special Category A, Calendar Development

Estimado Guru Maharaja:

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

we Para informarle que organizamos una propuesta entre varios hermanos espirituales, que sería la base para una reunión.

Feliz llegada a México. ¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabupada!


Dear Guru Maharaja:

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

To inform you that we organize a proposal among several spiritual brothers, which would be the basis for a meeting.

Happy arrival to Mexico. All glories to Srila Prabupada!

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Yes we got it. We also had the nice meeting yesterday with the Psychologist! When can we meet? We were thinking during the retreat in Cuernavaca and also before the Sunday festival. One basic principle is separating the functions of Diksa guru from our Sankirtan work.