Vyasa Puja Offering - From Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

7 years, 9 months ago by Gopal C Biswas in Special Category A

Hare Krsna Adored Guru Maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Guru parampara.
    
All glories to you on the auspicious occasion of Vyasa Puja.

When we read about "Guru" in Shastra, we see you there. You are not an ordinary, you are one of greatest 'vairagya' we have seen ever.

HpS - Hare Krsna. We have eaten too much ice cream in recent times.


Always conscious for Krsna, You accept Krsna in everything and always in Vrndavana playing with Krsna and the cowherd boys in the deep beautiful forest.

HpS - TlgaSP!

Your 'Vairagya' bhava inspire us a lot. Your deep 'Vairagya' show your deep love for Lali-Lala in Vrandavan. Your 'Vairagya' give us enthusiasm to move forward with confidence that you are there to protect us.

You not required to go slowly in Krsna's thought. you immediately entered in Krsna's thought just like that, you don't require any situation, instead, in all situation you are with Lali-Lala. This inspire us to learn like you.

You make us representative of You, Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, Srila Bhaktivinoda thakur.......otherwise we are fool only.

When we are in service and if we tried to delivered by heart and if we able to deliver, tears come out from our eyes, without saying any word all good wishes goes to you. We automatically realize these are because of you, we don't have any capability to deliver. you are stand for us that is why we are there else, we are just fool and full with pride.

Because of your causeless mercy upon us, we are allowed to serve, otherwise we are simply worse than other animals.
Your caring, gives us caring from others.

Guru Maharaja, Lots of things are pending to learn from you so we pray for strength to follow you on the path of bhakti.
 
Thank you so much Gurudev.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - AgtSP. We feel that we have so much to learn from you, Srila Prabhupada, all the devotees.

Vyasapuja Offering December 2017

7 years, 9 months ago by srinivasacarya in Special Category A

Respected Guru-Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

ASA - Letuce feet. AgtSP!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and you, his unalloyed servant.

Thank you for keeping my family and I floating in the ocean of this material world for yet another year with your kind guidance, exemplary dealings and nectarian Krishna katha. At an advanced age, sacrificing your comforts and health, you tirelessly engage in Srila Prabhupada’s service for the welfare of the fallen souls.

You are humility personified whom even the lowest person can approach without fear.

HpS - We wonder who you are talking about! Maybe more appropriate would be, "We are hypocrisy personified whom even the lowest person fears to approach for becoming contaminated."

Your life is simply an example of Srila Rupa Gosvami’s Upadesamrta.

HpS - Ahh!   This is a letter about Srila Prabhupada!  Jaya!.

What can six urges do to you who have given body, mind and words to Krishna? What six things can destroy your bhakti who doesn’t even desire one proper meal a day or a comfortable place to live or sleep? All the six things that enhance devotion are part of your sublime character. You are expert in six kinds of loving exchanges and you treat three kinds of devotees in the most appropriate manner. Your faith in holy names is extremely deep and you do not see any difference between the Lord and His names. Your deep devotion to holy places leading up to Vrindavan dhama and the Lord’s devotees leading up to Srimati Radharani is marvelous.

This year I encountered many challenging situations but by your mercy my devotional service in general was much more in quantity compared to last year. At gross level things are fine in all areas but internal consciousness need to improve a lot. I struggle to chant attentive rounds and it’s a constant battle with my mind. I am begging you and Krishna to drag me to the best states of spiritual consciousness, from which there is no return, no matter what needs to be done with me!

My desire is that I simply recognize the greatest treasure the Lord has given me in the form of your association and acquire the needed intelligence and strength to serve you and your servants with every bit of myself life after life.

Please forgive my offenses and I hope to be of some use in your service to Srila Prabhupada. If all goes well and if I have yours and Radharani's mercy I will be celbrating this year vyasapuja in Sri Vrindavan Dham with my daughter, wife, mother and father. May be some magic will happen and other God brothers or sisters will join me!

HpS - Tungavidya Devi Dasi is there! Sita-pati Das.

Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa

Request BG Story

7 years, 9 months ago by Isvari devi dasi in Special Category A

Hare Krsna, Dear Maharaja.

PAMHO AGTSP!

Thank you very much for inspiring us every day. Krsna allow us to count on your association for a long time.

I wanted to ask you if you can tell me some pastime (anecdote) of yours with the Bhagavad Gita. For me it would be a lot of help to know this.

Thank you very much for your generosity

Lord Nrsimhadeva protect you

whit affection

ys Isvari dd

HpS - We saw Jayananda Das' BG. He had underlined a lot of things. There is one Purport where Srila Prabhupada taks about the importance of becoming Krsna conscious from beginning of life. He says that if that happend then when we grow up and sexual energy starts to become strong at about 13-years old then our natural love of Krsna will not turn in to lust. We can connect that sexual power to Krsna where it belongs.

If we are not KC from a young age then when the sexual energy increases lust will come and then it will become very difficult to change it to Prema, but Srila Prabhupada wrote, Bhakti-yoga is so powerful that even a late beginner can make rapid progress.

So, Jayananda Das had underlined that part. He thought he had started late.

Lots of progress in the next hour!

ok, as demons and demigods are situated in body in kali yuga

7 years, 9 months ago by Nanuk in Special Category A

I think the major problem here is the people are convinced of chemical evolution not electrical, intelligently designed, we should just help all. http://www.akasha-plane.weebly.com

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna, Nanuk!
We looked at the site and it is interesting. We are focused on getting the Ministry of Education Jounal out today. We look at two other letters.

Suburban Bobba (SUBO) - Review Draft.

7 years, 9 months ago by hps in Special Category A

What do you think of this:

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(Sannyasa) Suburban Bobba

by Guy Gismo PhD, Anjana Suta Academy  (www.jayarama.us)

Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine by Gadadhara Pandit Dasa; Amazon.com

We are concerned with serving Krsna:

nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema 'sādhya' kabhu naya
   śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya  (CC 2.22.107).

It is our normal life. For that, we need to become immortal. If we are going to die and then become sheep, turkeys, pig-keepers, then how will we be Krsna conscious. Srila Prabhupada may not be able to hang on to us unless we get free from so many strong material attachments like … breathing air. He may lose contact with us and we may plunge again into the 8,400,000 species of life for all eternity or for an aeon.

This is sannyasa:

Nyasa - renouncing.
San-nyasa - completely renouncing.

It is like Vanaprastha Ashrama and then Sannyasa Ashrama. You give up gross sex with a woman and then you give up even joking with women.

Of course, our ISKCON Sannyasis are trying to do this. Yes, they take Sannyasa for the fame, easy life, peace, but they also do it also for the right purpose, to get free from Samsara for their benefit, for benefit of society and for … the benefit of Krsna (Yasoda-nandana).

How can we do that in the modern world??

The Lives and Challenges of Vaishnava Sannyasis in Modernity by Yadunandana Swami https://blservices.com/product/sannyasis-in-modernity/

Gadhadhara Das, in the book cited above, talks about being an Urban Monk, but Srila Prabhupada’s mission is to deliver the Western world and most of that also requires going into the Suburbs where our congregational base lives, Suburban Monk.

How do we host an ISKCON Sannyasi in the Suburbs? Help him do his work of seeking liberation, exalted devotional service and leading us to the same platform?

Discussing the cause of his fall-down H. H. Satsvarupa Das Goswami comments that he broke the first rule of Sannyasa, being alone with a woman.

“There are so many rules and regulations to be followed in the renounced order of life. Most important of all, a sannyāsī is strictly forbidden to have any intimate relationship with a woman. He is even forbidden to talk with a woman in a secluded place. Lord Caitanya was an ideal sannyāsī, and when He was at Purī His feminine devotees could not even come near to offer their respects. They were advised to bow down from a distant place.

This is not a sign of hatred for women as a class, but it is a stricture imposed on the sannyāsī not to have close connections with women.

One has to follow the rules and regulations of a particular status of life in order to purify his existence.” BG 16.1-3 (p).

Ladies should not talk to Sannyasis unless their husband, father, grown-up sons or brothers are present.

SM: Ooof! That is not practical!

It is with some effort and the result is wonderful for all.

SM: Did Prabhupada follow that with Sally Agrawaal in Butler, Pennsylvania? He came from the YMCA where he was staying and cooked lunch before Mr. Agrawaal came home. Didn’t he talk with her alone, in a “secluded place”.

UG: Yes, there are reports of some instances like this, but we find so many times Srila Prabhupada was very strict about not being alone even for regular discussion with respectable ladies. Maybe he was in the same open room while they put flower vases in place. Maybe he answered questions simply but did not initiate or extend conversation.

These are our, Prof. G. Gismo, Anjana Suta Academy, realizations, standards, an line authorized.

SM: What if I have to talk with a visiting Sannyasi about something. Can I call him?

Make a conference call with your son. Text him with a copy to your husband.

If a Sannyasi is staying in your house and you the Dude has to go to work and leave him alone in the house with the ladies, then you offer to drop him off at the library. Understand that as a host you must have a male devotee, gentleman come and keep him company if you will be out of the house.

How can we help him in his Sannyasa?  By taking advantage of his association.

Why do universities exist? So teachers can learn.

Plan on taking Sannyasa. Understand that your comfortable Suburban environment is temporary. It is a step on the way to Vanaprastha and that is a step on the way to Sannyasa.

We may think, “Oh, I am a devotee, why do I need to undergo these formalities, Sannyasa, civil widow?” The answer is that they are formalities but not without meaning. We may have deep personal commitment between a man and a woman but still they should get formally, religiously, married.

This is a good basis, no?

Question: What does your, Uncle Gismo, PhD mean.

UG: Doctor of Phalocracia. Study it with us and we will award you the same title.

SP: You are half mad, no?

UG: Yes, but… Lord Caitanya said that one can understand Srimad Bhagavatam only when he becomes a madman like him. Of course, there are many madmen, but we want to become madmen like Lord Caitanya.

Controlling the tongue, belly and genitals.
A Sannyasi who is traveling has to eat, engage his tongue and belly, in many different places. Srila Prabhupada was a “miser” but he took the expense of traveling with a personal (even female (with male secretary)) cook, no? Once we had lunch at five different ISKCON restaurants in Mexico City before we came to Houston. We were completely sick! All of the food was Sattvic but it was all different, different consciousness. Ask your guest what he wants to offer to his Deities. Don’t offer what you think he would like, which often may be opulent, or special food that you think you would like.

Often people will cook special preparations for a Sannyasi or any special guest rather than the simple food they take daily. You don’t cook these special preps every day so many times they aren’t cooked that well and if he is eating special, opulent food daily the Sannyasi will get sick and die very soon and become a street dog.

What does he want? Does he want to cook? Let him. Invite him.

Ask him what he wants. So many times we see that people ask XYZ what this Sannyasi eats and get the wrong information. Ask him.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

All of us going with Srila Prabhupada to see Krsna.

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UG

7 years, 9 months ago by hps in Special Category A

Hare Krsna, Prabhus,

Paoho.  AGTSP. Prof. Guy Gismo, here (Uncle Gismo).

For all of you Bachelors reading, you can always offer Macaroni and Velveta cheese to your Lord Nrsmha deity.

Also, if you are eating while you are typing (well, low class, but it does happen) and you get honey on your computer keys and they stick. Then, usually you can pry them up from the side and they will pop off and then you can clean the key and then push the key back in place. We say usually but maybe it will wreck your computer.

That's Science, always and element of risk.