Urgente - Reflexiones Institucionales
Algunas Reflexiones Institucionales.
ASA - Respondaremos en la Ingles abajo.
ASA - Respondaremos en la Ingles abajo.
Reciba Ud. Mis repetuosas revererencias mi querido Guru Maharsh aqui en Lima continuando con mi Servicio Devocional y con mucho imteres a la respuesta que le dara a mi siguiente pregunta: Estuve leyendo el Libro PRABHUPADA de Su S.S Satuasuarupa Harash en especial el ultimo Capitulo Titulado LA ULTIMA INSTRUCCION ahi se señala algunas instrucciones pra la administracion y pra la vida cuidado de devotos. Mi pregunta es de las instrucciones que Srila Prabhupada a dado ¿Cual es la mas relevante? ¿De todas las instrucciones dadas para la conduccion administrativa y espiritual de ISCKON cuales serian las que se pueden aplicar en el contexto actual? ¿Cual es la manera de corregir o mejorar la adminitracion? Suplico que sea extenso en su respuesta y tambien pido perdon por cualquier ofensa cometida con mi pregunta ante Ud y Sri Krishna y Radaharani. Dandavats. Su Sirviente eterno VISALA DAS.
ASA - Me gustaría ser extenso y tal vez tengamos más tiempo para responder más tarde, pero si ve nuestras publicaciones, puede ver que estamos trabajando muy duro. Aún así, creo que puedo dar algo de ayuda.
Cuando estaba en San Francisco, Berkeley, un periodista le preguntó a Srila Prabhupada: "¿Qué pasará con tu movimiento cuando mueras?" y con gran fuerza respondió Srila Prabhupada, escuchamos esto de sus labios: "Nunca moriré. Viviré para siempre en mis libros".
Así que hay la mayor cantidad de instrucciones de importación. Tener una relación viva con Srila Prabhupada en sus libros. Administración significa organizar cosas para ayudar a los devotos a hacer esto.
Mañana y tarde sentados juntos y leyendo y discutiendo sus libros.
Corazón puro, buena inteligencia, toda la información vendrá.
Dear Guru Maharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!
The editing work for NoI commentary is going on well despite few busy weeks in August due to the festivals. Radhika Raman Prabhu is editing and is confident that he will be able to get lots of work done in September. He is almost done editing Text 1. I am also working on adding references and incorporating your suggestions in his edited version.
I will email you each text after it is edited. I am hopeful of sending you a few texts in September.
Thank you very much for engaging us in this service Guru Maharaja. It is going to be a very wonderful addition to Srila Prabhupada's commentary.
Your servant
Srinatha Krsna Dasa
ASA - Thank you so many!!! AGTSP!!!! .....paoho..... hope you all have regular increase in service, back to Vaikuntha velocity!!! Really seems like we should be making video recordings of selected topics and then Ambarisa Das and Vrsabhanu-nandini Devi Dasi can edit them. Go to book version later? Maybe. Stories for Sita about Rama.
On Monday, August 26, 2019, 01:03:13 AM CDT, Mishra Illo <[email protected]> wrote:
Me a sannyasa? Imagine that. Although my 3 marriages failed miserably I still think that maybe it could work if I just found the right person.
Next week I have to return to estados unidos after 5 months in Sridham Mayapur Dhama. It has been fairy tale happiness here. Every day 16 rounds, bathing in the ganga, and lots of fantastic vaishnava associations.
Living anywhere within 32 miles around Sri Navadwipa Mayapur is equivalent to living in Vrindavan, particularly in Sri Mayapur. Of the seven holy places giving salvation, Ayodhya, Mathura, Gaya, Kashi, Kanchi Avanti, and Dwaraka, Sri Mayapur is the most important place of pilgrimage.
Sriman Mahaprabhu with His advent made His own Svetadvipa descend here, and after four centuries after the disappearance of Sriman Mahaprabhu this place of pilgrimage Svetadvipa will be superior to all other places of pilgrimage of the world. Living in this place removes all sin and offenses, and helps pure devotion to grow.
Though I don't know how I will survive away from here, I have to pay off over $10,000 in debts before I can live in Mayapur full time. Do you think I could do well going to Chile and getting a job teaching English?
ASA - Thank you for all the wonderful news!! We will post it on our Blog! I don't know about teaching in Chile economically but I suspect that it is a saturated market. Lots of b-lingue Gringo buscando trabajo. Envia la pregunta al Blog. Que pasa con la Aron, esposa actual. Su hijo. Muy Bueno oir sus comentarios!
Gracias su asociacion. Vd no es persona sin profundidad spiritual. Solamente tiene que crecer su caracter.!
ASA - MB! Going to take Sannyasa?
On Monday, August 26, 2019, 01:03:13 AM CDT, Mishra Bhagavan Das wrote: Me a sannyasa? Imagine that. Although my 3 marriages failed miserably I still think that maybe it could work if I just found the right person.
Next week I have to return to estados unidos after 5 months in Sridham Mayapur Dhama. It has been fairy tale happiness here. Every day 16 rounds, bathing in the ganga, and lots of fantastic vaishnava associations.
Living anywhere within 32 miles around Sri Navadwipa Mayapur is equivalent to living in Vrindavan, particularly in Sri Mayapur. Of the seven holy places giving salvation, Ayodhya, Mathura, Gaya, Kashi, Kanchi Avanti, and Dwaraka, Sri Mayapur is the most important place of pilgrimage.
Sriman Mahaprabhu with His advent made His own Svetadvipa descend here, and after four centuries after the disappearance of Sriman Mahaprabhu this place of pilgrimage Svetadvipa will be superior to all other places of pilgrimage of the world. Living in this place removes all sin and offenses, and helps pure devotion to grow.
Though I don't know how I will survive away from here, I have to pay off over $10,000 in debts before I can live in Mayapur full time. Do you think I could do well going to Chile and getting a job teaching English?
ASA - Thank you for all the wonderful news!! We will post it on our Blog! I don't know about teaching in Chile economically but I suspect that it is a saturated market. Lots of b-lingue Gringo buscando trabajo. Envia la pregunta al Blog. Que pasa con la Aron, esposa actual. Su hijo. Muy Bueno oir sus comentarios!
Gracias su asociacion. Vd no es persona sin profundidad spiritual. Solamente tiene que crecer su caracter.!
AGTSP paoho! Is O.K?
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NIOS MEETS NANTES
The door opened and out came a very congenial scholar. We had some trepidation because before we’ve met some powerful Jungian scholars but some have been chain smokers and others angry and arrogant. . .
Ooof!
Quite a relief. Then Professor Nantes took us across the Baroque lobby into his office, which was lined with books and beautiful artifacts to the ceiling. The fresh morning air of Buenos Aires came in through the window, cars hummed by as they went to work. There were ourselves, Hp Swami and three young students.
“Have you heard of E. T. Hall?”
“Have you read Jung in India?”
We have been trying to meet Dr. Bernardo Nantes, the founder of Fundacion Vocacion Humano, Dean of Universidad del Salvador, translator of C. G. Jung’s Redbook for three years ( and Shonu Shyamdasani of the University of London, co-founder of the Philemon Foundation, for at least seven years).
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In Dialectical Spiritualism, Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Prabhupada, offers commentaries, on summaries, of the ideas of many, many Western philosophers. These summaries were presented by two of his educated students. The very last philosopher presented was Dr. C. G. Jung:
Prof. Howard Wheeler: That ends our session on Jung.
Srila Prabhupada: So far, he seems the most sensible!
If we take our NIOS work as building bridges between the classical worlds of the Orient and Occident, then Prabhupada’s comment along with Jung’s that follows is simply compelling.
“... if you go to other races, to India or China, for example, you discover that these people are conscious of things for which the psychoanalyst in our countries has to dig for months.”
“We Europeans are not the only people on the earth. We are just a peninsula of Asia, and on that continent there are old civilizations where people have trained their minds in introspective psychology for thousands of years, whereas we began with our psychology not even yesterday but only this morning. These people have an insight that is simply fabulous...”
Jung, C. G.; Analytical Psychology, Its Theory & Practice; Vintage Books, 1970, pages 48 & 74
Please join this work. If you are like us you had some little contact with Carl Jung during your undergraduate university studies. It is enough to pique interest but seemingly superficially presented. If you continue to be like us then you read the above quote in Dialectical Spiritualism and you are motivated but don’t know how to approach Prof. Jung and his followers in more depth. Of course books are the basis, so here is a suggested reading list. It’s interesting that everyone who I know who has read the books has also found them challenging for their personal spiritual development and mental hygiene. They can all be found at Amazon:
· The Tavistock Lectures,
· Memories, Dreams and Reflections (Auto-Biography),
· The Kundalini Lectures.
· Carl Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology – The Dream of a Science (Take it slowly. It is a look at the development of all of Western thought on psychology during Jung’s lifetime),
· Introduction to the Redbook by Prof. Shonu Shamdasani (Buy the text only version of the Redbook)
· . . .and now we are reading Jung in India.
Besides the books there are the people: Beverley Zabrieskii, Paticia Llosa, Maximilian Peralta. We have been able to meet so many, and then we attended a three day symposium on Art and the Creative Intelligence at U.C. Santa Barbara and were swimming in an ocean of youth, old age, various nations, intense scholarship, social awareness and compassion, artistic creativity, money.
Maybe you are not like us. Maybe you are coming from the other side of The Bridge. Our preferred lecture title has been: Science, Psyche and Spirituality, the Encounter of Prof. C. G. Jung with the Mysticism of Ancient India. As soon as you start talking about the mysticism, philosophy, religion, Yoga of ancient India you are diving into an ocean of traditions, practices, living examples.
If you want good food, go to Italy; romance, France; machines, Germany; but if you want Philosophy, India.
Sanskrit
George L. Harte, University of California
A Rapid Sanskrit Method
Motilal Banarsidass, Dehli, 1989
Preface
“It [sanskrita]is, like Chinese, Arabic, Greek and Latin, one of the few languages which has been a carrier of a culture over a long period of time.
Thus, the variety of writings in it, and the quantity of those writings are staggering. An incomplete list of subjects treated in Sanskrit, usually with great prolixity, is as follows:
· The four Vedas
· The Brahmanas and Aranyakas
· The Upanisads
· Grammar
· Epic, puranic, literature - Including 18 major puranas, 18 minor puranas, and hundred of sthalapuranas.
· Works on Medicine
· Logic
· Astronomy & Astrology
· Mathematics
· Lawbooks
· Architecture
· Music…
On most of these subjects, there is an immense literature still extant. Indeed, a rough estimate of the works which will be listed in The New Catalogus Catalogorum yields a total of about 160,000 works… many so difficult that it would take years of study to properly understand them.…Sanskrit does have its share of great writers: Kalidasa ranks with the greatest poets, Panini is without question the greatest pre-modern grammarian, the Mahabharata ranks with the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the Bhagavata-purana is among the finest works of devotion every written, being equaled in my opinion only by other works in Indian languages.”
Of course, the Britannica article is a good place to start if you have no experience with India philosophy and mysticism (which I doubt): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Indian-philosophy.
Then if you have a little preliminary faith and can accept our advice we would recommend our own tradition of Bengali or Chaitanya Vaisnavism. It is centered around the above mentioned Bhagavata-purana and is based in tradition upon Srila Rupa Goswami’s 16th century Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu of which Professor David Haberman, Indiana University, has produced an excellent translation. The Introduction to his translation is worth a million dollars, tracing the entire tradition from Bharata Muni, before Christ, on up to even modern times. At Amazon.com it clocks in at around $101 but maybe you can find it in your research library of even try to contact us. It is 752-pages so if you want a simpler path we would suggest:
· Light of the Bhagavata.
· The Nectar of Instruction,
· The Teachings of Lord Caitanya.
These are all on line at www.vedabase.com and can be purchased in hard-copy at www.Krishna.com .
Are you interested in crossing the Bridge to buy and sell? Are you interested in waking up.
An Englishman saw three people doing the same thing. He asked the first one:
“What are doing?”
The fellow answered, “Can’t you see, you damn fool! I’m laying bricks. Leave me alone”.
“Sorry, please forgive me.”
Then he asked the second man, who was doing the same thing:
“What are you doing?”
The man paused and replied, “I’m making money, take care of my family”.
English man thanked him and asked the third Johnny, “I say old chap, what are you doing?”, and the man looked up and said, “Oh, it’s very interesting. Today we are putting up the wall that goes behind the altar, and after a couple of days when it is set, the marble masons will come and hang the marble. My children are very small now, but when they are bigger I will bring them here and show them how I helped to build this great Cathedral!”.
Querido Gurumaharaja
Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias!
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!
Recién puedo escribir las preguntas respecto al color de vestido de Lalita Sakhi y las otras 7 grandes maestras .
Es verdad que el color azul del sari de Srimati Radharani no existe en el mundo material?
HpS - No se. Claro su saree es una persona, no?
Sucede lo mismo con los colores de saris de las 8 grandes maestras?
HpS - Pienso que si. Es como un reflejo de algo en una espejo. Hay distortion. Sus sarees son consiente, no?
Gracias por sus enseñanzas Gurumaharaja.
Su eterna aspirante a sirviente
Asta Sakhi dd
HpS - Sri Radha, Sri Hari, Asta-sakhi, Yamuna!