Srila Prabhupada offering urgent

7 years ago by candra108_mukhi in Special Category A

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

Very nice class in our workshop today

Gurudeva I was wondering if U may be so kind and send your offering to Srila Prabhupada. I am going to lead the Abhishek in Wilson so I would like to read your offering as well

Thanks in advance

See U soon

Your eternal servant

Cmdd

HpS - Hare Krsna. Incredible Janmastami festival here with Yadu Swami and Bh. Gaura vani Swami et al.  Radha Govinda candra.     We just sent the offer to Nikunja in his Blog post. Got it??   We will be in Peru in a few moments!

Urgente: Your offering to Srila Prabhupada

7 years ago by bhaktanicasio in Special Category A

Hare Krisna!! Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

I want to ask you if you can send here your offering to Srila Prabhupada in occasion of his Vyasa Puja. 

Reading it is very inspiring for me and I guess for many devotees.

I apologize for taking little bit of your precious time.

Adi Yajña Prabhu send his humble obeisances,

Thank you Gurudev,

At your service,

Nikunja Bihari das.

- - - -

Bowing down with our head on the floor we offer you our obeisances to you Srila Prabhupada.
 
Nama om visnu padaya Krsna presthaya bhutale
Srimate Bhaktivedanta Swami iti namine
 
Namaste Sarasvati devam
Gaura vani pracarine
Nirvisesa sunnyavadi
Pascatya desa tarine
 
We can see so, so many faults in our character and actions, but we have followed the four principles strictly again this year and chanted a minimum of 16-enthusiastic rounds daily. We are sure that this is 99.9999% by your mercy and austerity.
 
We are up for Mangala-arati and join with your other disciples in singing and dancing for the Divine Couple early in the morning.
 
We have been joining the Sankirtan party with Nita-gaurasundara Das, our President of our "North American Institute for Oriental and Classical" studies and the many devotees in South and North America, India etc.
We have also the honor to be members and workers of the Ministry of Education under the direction of His Grace Sesa Das.
 
The donkey that we are riding through this world is now seventy years old and vision, respiration, teeth, memory are all diminishing but we and our doctors are amazed at how well is our health. We see absolutely no other cause than this Yoga you have given us. We also remember that you write in the KRSNA book that the old men in Dvaraka would be filled with youthful energy because they were able to see the smiling faces of Krsna and Balarama in their city each day.
 
We hope to be a small feature, creature, in your orchestra delivering messages to Sita from Rama in a scarf tied by you around our neck.
 
Please accept our humble obeisances and we will try to minimize the number of disturbances we create at your lotus feet daily.

urgent(?) Update from Dhruva, Art and Sacred Australia

7 years, 1 month ago by Dhruvānanda DAS in Special Category A

Dear Maharaja,

pamho agtsp

Apologies for not replying earlier to your last reply. We received immediately and took note of the contents, but have been slow to reply. I declined the speaking invitation on your behalf. No issues there at all. We look forward to doing what we can to assist once your calendar is set.

HpS - Any attention from you all is wonderful.    We are waiting until 20th August for Bhag bazaar Gaudiya Matha to make any final decision on the symposium at the end of November, but really looks like it will not happen.  Then we are thinking of coming to India from 15 January to 30 March. O.K.??

We have had a challenging few weeks. My better half, Dhanesvari DD, has spent time in hospital and has been on a lot of antibiotics for a mother related health issue. Thank Krishna we have reached stability again now and her health has improved.

HpS - All this is education from Krsna. If we are 16/4 then Krsna can arrange everything!  Hope she benefited very well.

I am currently working on several essays for university. Oh, I didn’t tell you yet.  I transferred into a philosophy/theology degree. There are two main reasons for this. The first being that the amount of austerity required to complete the computer science degree I was enrolled in (too much general IT stuff) was not justifiable considering the role I have in the sankirtan movement and in career also (which to me is the same thing), the role as an educator.

ASA - That sure seems O.K. to us!

The second, and more deeply rooted reason, being somehow I have cursed myself to approach Krishna through jnana-mishra-bhakti. This is obviously a result of my impersonalism towards Krishna. Anyway, one essay I am currently working on is challenging John Paul Sartre’s 'Nothingness’ that is consciousness, which his whole materialistic existentialism is built upon and which he denies, without good argument, has any non-material foundation or any links to God. I will point out that it’s still a dualism and calling something ‘nothing’ simply shows you don’t understand it. I will present this in a concealed, detached and “academic” way of course. Another essay I am working on is an investigation into Socrates’ relationship with his daemon, his inner voice, his conscience or even possibly the paramatma, who was his guide in his decision making and without whom, according to Plato, Socrates would not have become Socrates.

ASA - Wow!

Although the aforementioned writing tasks are taking my attention, my wife and I are still enthusitaicglly working on the Sacred Art of Indigenous Australians article for Solaris and the presentation for October. We will forward the article to Sriman Abhirama Prabhu on completion. I will most certainly incorporate the Bhagavatam verse you kindly forwarded. https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/8/5/33

Hope this meets you in good health.

We are chanting Hare Krishna and meditation on how to serve better.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Dhruvananda D

Dhanesvari DD

HpS - And the kids and mothers and fathers and....    !       We are working to assemble Solaris so an article by the end of this month for the magazine is great. Not the finished presentation. Just a presentation of your results so far and where your investigation is taking youi.

Urgente! LAD is leaving ISKCON Part II

Hare Krishna, dear gurudev, Pamho, AGTSP!

The title and first paragraph were like talking to myself, trying to draw attention to an issue that I considere real. At least for the people like me, kanistha adikari. After my rounds and readings, the thought was the same, the feeling was the same. Discourage, desapointment, frustrations is an issue that is real in ISKCON andino. 

Of course, I will never leave ISKCON. I was just quoting what you said not long ago. That you were about to leave ISKCON, not Srila Prabhupada, two times. May be I miss understood. The point is that it is very difficult to do my service here. Many problems. So I stopped trying. I don't see how can It changes. 15 years experiencing the same. 

So I´m focunsing in my personal development.

I understand very clear what you said about living in ISKCON and I follow all of that. No problem in that department. No 100% percent, but a decent amount.

So, I don´t have much else to say.

Please forgive my lack of intelligence.

your usseles servant,

the LAD

(I hope I can talk to you soon. There are another details, more personal. Thank you very much)

HpS - ASA - Yes, let us talk by Skype etc some time.

We may take charge of the institution if it is too corrupted and work to reform it for the welfare of all. We felt the GBC body was too corrupted to times. Many people felt that, so we went to Srila Prabhupada directly, but in the end the institutional problems were resolved. We could and are making the same mistakes.

Good luck in serving Srila Prabhupada and his expansions. Strangely I received idential letter from Cusco the same day, and here in Houston the night before. I don't think it is necessarily an Andean problem only. It is the nature of things in the material world. Peru has its style..

Pamho!! hk

7 years, 1 month ago by Nanuk in Special Category A

Ain't that funny that www.liveuamap.com was full of traffic accidents.  You know, in new wars, attack could come from any side, terrorist (rogue) or anti-terror so called things of any nation, like Russia, #NATO#BERKUT#FAD#Maidan#euro MAIDAN akasha-plane.org #mtfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-C3voZwpM

HpS - ASA - UG ---   Thank you. Such nice post!   We glanced at liveu... It is interesting. What you say is so true.  Back in the 1960s we came in contact with Prof. Marshall McLuhan. He has remained one of our central intellectual pillars. He was a historian of Media etc.  Get, "The Media is the Massage" by him and Quinten Fiore. It is incredible graphic experience. It is a booKartoOn-manual.... 

He said, the third world war will be a media war and there will be no distinction between civilians and military.

Some questions

7 years, 1 month ago by bhaktanicasio in Special Category A

Hare Krishna Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Here goes a few questions,

In SB 2.10.36 purport, SP says that sometimes Brahma is Visnu himself. This statement confuses me a little bit cause i thought Brahma is a demigod a jiva tattva. Can you explain please?

 

HpS - Srila Prabhupada, the Acharyas, make this point several places. When there is no one qualified to be Brahma, then Krsna takes the job Himself. When there is no one capable of protecting the Brahmanas, children, old men and women in Kali yuga, then Krsna does the job Himself.

 

 

Then i remember you said that there is a mistake in a book ( NOD or NOI) where it says raganuga but it should say ragatmika. Where is that mistake? Do you remember?

ASA - We just looked it up. It is Chapter 15 - NOD. It has been changed in the English but not the Spanish!

The last one is about the lectures at our chapel. We are finishing second canto, and because you always quote 2.2.12 I suggested to begin again with the first canto. I´m in charge of organizing lectures. But a senior devotee said that we should continue with the third canto because that will enthuse devotees. So shall I insist in beginning again with first canto or i continue with third canto and i study pada padma at home?

Thank you Gurudev,

At your service,

Nikunja Bihari das.

 

HpS - Hmmm?     I would say it is nice to go over the first two cantos regularly. For example, Saturday morning might be dedicated to Cantos and Two when the public can be invited, but other days can deal with more advanced Cantos. Many times the devotees are following principles so they can appreciate more advanced topics. If there are a few people in the audience who are not then maybe Krsna helps them not be damaged by the advance topics.

We saw that when Srila Prabhupada gave lectures on parts of the SB that were advanced in public he would not deal with the topic in his lecture but go straight to BG topics eg. Paramatma, importance of liberation etc.

Make some local decision. Seems fine to go ahead, but to even take the study in modules and discuss the study in summary.

Eg. Story of Gajendra's liberation, SB 8.2-4.