Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Summary of last week’s Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.12 to 1.2.21 :

Verses 1-5 : Suta  goswami’s reply with obeisances.

Verse 6 -7 – Answers to Questions 1 and 2

Verses 8-15 : Only Bhakti should be the goal of any activity we do.

Verses 16-21 The progression in Bhagavatam– Suta Shiksha

Details of the verses:

V13: VAD for smoother  functioning of the society not for oppressing the weaker sections.  The ultimate goal of VAD is Hari tosanam. Pleasing the Supreme Lord.

V14: 4 processes of obtaining the absolute truth Srotavya – hear about Kirtitavya – glorify dhyeyah – remember, pujya – worship.

V15:  We can get liberated from knots of reactionary work by remembering Krishna constantly.

V16:

Mahatsevaya – service to pure devotees.  This is stage 2 . Before that we need the mercy of those devotees whom we want to serve. So

1. Mercy of the pure devotees

2. Service to pure devotees

3. Faith – Shradha. This is not blind faith. The faith we developed by serving the pure devotees.

4. Punya tirtha. Tirtha means guru. Then we take shelter of Guru.

5. Eagerness to worship: Vasudeva katha ruci. We develop taste for hearing the messages of Krishna.

V17:

For the devotee who has developed the urge to hear the messages of Krishna, He personally cleanses the desire for material enjoyment from the devotees’ heart.

V18: Nasta prayesu

6. Bhakti – bhaktir bhavati . Devotional service to the Supreme Lord.

7, Disappearance of obstacles:  nasta prayesu abhadresu. Inauspicious things like nama aparadas disappear.

8. nishta : then steadiness achieved. Naishtiki.

HpS - ASA -- We remember hear Srila Prabhupada comment on this and say that this "steadiness" was always chanting our rounds, always getting up in the morning, not sometimes yes, and sometimes, no. Then he said that this was (!) 80% Krsna conscious.

V19:

Once we achieve steadiness in devotional service modes of passion and ignorance disappear. Lust, hankering, desire will no longer bother us. Devotee will be situated in the mode of goodness and will be happy.

9. ruci : Spiritual taste: Aruchi for the sense objects results in actual spiritual taste anavidham rajas tamah. No affected by passion and ignorance.

10. Asakti – Sthitam – firmly attached.

V20:

11. Rati: Fondness.  Prasanna manasa  Enlivened mind. When fondness for the Lord arises, mind is enlivened.

12.  Prema : Devotional love.  Bhagavat bhakti yogatah.

13: Vision or audience : Bhagavt tattva vijananam. Experience of Krishna form , pastimes etc.

14. Direct experience of the Lord’s sweetness. Bhagavat tattva vijananam.

V21:

Once we see the Lord, we can see ourselves also in proper perspective.

Next week’s syllabus is 1.2.22 to 1.2.29.

Thank you.

Your servant,

Sundari Radhika dd.

HpS - ASA -- Thank you!  We are getting more and more educated by these classes. When does Ananta-rupa Das get back?

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, 

Dear guru maharaja,

I would like join myself to the Teaching of Lord Caitanya Study Group, which you're creating.

Since some months ago I have thought star a regular reading of it, but I don't have the first impetus to star it.

Thank you very much for thIS kind of opportunities.

Hare Krishna.

hPs - PLEASE JOIN. SEE THE LETTER WE JUST WROTE 2 NAMA ACHARYA DAS

Hare krsna

Agtsp all glories to you Guru dev

Pamho

Can we  join  to the study group of TLC?

You Will use start meeting for these group?

Thank you 

Your servent Ambarisa das

hPs - PLEASE DO. YOU CAN SEE THE LET TER WE JUST ROTE TO NAMA ACHARYA DAS WITH DETAILS. YES STARTMEETING,COM [992055489]

Guru Maharaja,

in response to this:

http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/node/7731

I am not sure I will make it for Saturday's meeting where TLC study timings will be discussed.

For us ( NDD and ND) , weekends and mid-days are not practical. Friday or Monday evening will be good. So, let's see if that will be practical for others.

We do not want to be the obstruction. So if our feasible timings are not practical for other devotees, we will withdraw from the study group.
It is not that this makes me happy, but it will be difficult to commit if from the beginning I know there are some impracticalities. I understand that we are all in different time zones and have everyday duties, so is not easy to find a fixed time period for many meetings that fits the whole world.

Hoverer, if we do not make it to this study group, I am convinced that there is some other way to engage in Krsna-katha :-)

Your servant Namacarya das

ps: Your Start Meeting recordings do NOT have the download option anymore. Before it used to be there, now is no more.

HpS-ASA: Well, HK/HR, you did make it, and we did discuss all this stuff there. 1] We will all read http://www.vedabase.com/en/tlc/introduction, the Introduction, and then have discussion group next Saturday at 8AM ACT. 2] Everyone can/will write to the Blog with realizations, including Croatians and their Spice, and 3] We have another discussion group at 1pm ACT = 7pm Croatia time.

Is O.K?

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama,
Worship Radha, worship Shyama,

TB-Jack London said that before you can write even one word worth publishing you must write 100,000 words of trash, so start writing trash.

BW-For some of us it may take more trash than others. Keep writing.

TB-We clipped the NOI and spiral-bound it so that it will lay open on our camp table and we may type with both hands and still cite from it. Piggy, BW, is determined to read it 51-times. He thinks he might even be able to memorize the whole thing. That is very good, but it is also very important to understand the content in terms of the times and places of our modern world and then cite relevent passages. Ultimately it is not our book. We are delivering ito Sita Devi, but we can show here our Foreword, In-line Paragraph Titles, Foot-notes, End-notes and Afterwords.

Hare Krsna!

We got responses from CMDD in Lima, Nama-acharya et al in Croatia and Prahlada-nrsmha et al in Mayapura.   Hmmm. Let's do it!
When it is 6.00AM in Peru, its about 12PM in Croatia, and 4.30PM in Mayapura, but PND is coming to Europe, we hear!

Hmmm...

Morning US would be evening in Mayapur for online group.  That's workeable. Is that O.K. for Croatia, mid-day, which days? Saturdays?  Fridays?  What do you think?   We will discuss it this Saturday at 8AM ASA (ASA Camp Time [We are camped in Nashville]) on StartMeeting.com

Fun!  Fun!  Fun!   Friends, Partys, Particulars >>>=======>  Sankirtan!