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10 years, 3 months ago by Raulmontreal in Special Category A

AGTSP !

Please accept our humble obeisances

Dear Maharaja

Thanks you very much for your words of encouragement, they stay in our mind and make their way to our intelligence and heart saving us from the dungeons of maya. Nice to know you are in Boise and about all the programs you are constantly pushing. Brings back memories from the time when Srila Prabhupada comented on Vishnujana's decision to keep the travelling bus sankirtan program after the first bus burned to the ground. "Nothing stops that man" similarly we witness how your are also unstopable, jaya ! You mentioned visiting Montreal jaya ! Radha Manohara are waiting for you! Please let us know how can we help to make it a reality.

ASA - HpS - AGTSP paoho. Of course this letter was sent weeks ago. Now we have left Boise and gone to Seattle, San Francisco and back to Nashville. We won't go to Montreal, but we noted in the KDh that we will be n Chicago.

Your lectures on SB and Bhaktivedanta library could benefit the Montreal yatra tremendously.We are going back to Montreal Sept 9.Jammastami in DC temple !

your servant

Raul

HpS - ASA - How are you? What is happening?

Management Science

10 years, 3 months ago by harsh_horse in Special Category A, Hot Topics

hare krsna maharaj,
pamho, AGTSP,

hope your sankirtan is going well.

we found this link, http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/09/how-philosophy-makes-you-a-better-leader/
basically this is based on socrates.

i hope this can help strenghten NIOS.

reegards,
horse

ASA - AGTSP! Paoho, Bombay!
Thank you very much. We downloaded it an will look at it soon!
pig

TPP CB9

10 years, 3 months ago by bhaktanicasio in Special Category A

Hare Krisna beloved Gurudev.,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

If it is possible i would like to receive a copy of the Tpp Cb9

Postal adress is Cordoba 3412, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, cp 7600

I have catched up with my rounds and now i can chant some extra rounds.

Unlimited mercy!!! the process works!!

Thank you,

At your lotuss feet,

Nikunja Bihari das

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!! Paoho. Very nice, 16-rounds per day + !

BW just made an address label for you for Tpp Cb/9. Should ship on Wednesday next. Did you get the last one? An updated description of the projects is at:

http://www.jayarama.us/archives/tpp-cb.htm

It is working well. Cb/10 is planned as scanned and electronic distribution. Did you get Cb/8? What is your critical review of it? How should we make it better?

Prabhupada has said so much. We just need to run behind him like dogs in the dust of his lotus feet collecting, getting dirty, from the clouds of dust he raises in his Sankirtan.

4.44PM Saturday - We go for a walk to the Good Will Store. They are a Big USA Second Hand chain. Look for big cloth on which to paint an elefant for our Oct/4th festival drama. Also chant some extra rounds!

Questions

10 years, 3 months ago by kitri das in Special Category A

Hare Krishna Maharaja! AGTSP.

hope you re okey :)

HpS - ASA - AGTSP. We hope that we can go from O.K. to Ecstatic!!

Last Sunday we had a ceremony by the temple's vicepresident for those who are taking shelter of an spiritual master, so I was called to attend and received kind of a Certificate that i have completed the level of Sri guru carana ashraya! and i got the blessings of Radha-Gopinatha to take shelter... So I just wanted to let you know.

Then i have a few questions : - like Im always thinking the diference between morality, ethic and integrity and how to connect each other. I supposse they must be quite or little different, and I would like to know what Krishna and the acaryas think about that.

HpS - AGTSP!!!! I think that these are English words that are used differently by different Western philosophers et al. In Sanskrit, Gaudiya, Vedic, ISKCON culture there is "Upa-dharma" or things that take us closer to Dharma. For example, we follow the four principles. These are ethics, morality. In themselves they are not spiritual, but by Krsna's arrangement they create a good environment for spiritual life, chanting 16-rounds.
Is O.K? Upadharma.

- In today's class, canto7. 3.35, Ramai Maharaja was mentioning about material desires in return to our service. So I'm trying to be always sincere when praying, that means I also tell God my desires with the purpose of not hiding what it cannot be hidden,. But I'm thinking what would happen if I ask Krishna, knowing He's the source of the demigods, for something material. Because for example that verse in the bhagavatam( i think), says that even if one has material desires, desires of liberation, or has no desires, one should approach the Lord. Therefore, in this sense, I wonder how He would reply if for instance I ask for some ability or wealth, or whatever, (I'm just guessing). It reminds me to the explanation of prabhupada in NOI about christian people but I'll more info. and on the other hand I'm not gonna ask that, but this question was always in my mind, so if you can clarify it please Maharaja.
HpS - I think you have nice comprehension. Kardama and Devahuti had a lot of sense gratification, but it was all within the range of Bhagavata Dharma, so they learned from it that material sense gratification won't make you happy. So, yes, sometimes ask Krsna to help us with our material desires, to purify them, to give us a higher taste while we do them.
Are you attached to breathing air?
Well, you won't have it when you die. So we have a lot of material attachements we have surpass.

Trying to be your servant, camilo.

HpS - AGTSP!!! We see some more letters from you in the past we will try to get to them! Recovering form this North American tour!

sexual orientation and your views

10 years, 3 months ago by shyamsundar in Personal Sadhana Reports, Special Category A

Hare Krisna maharaj. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you. PAMHO at your lotus feet. Maharaj thank you for replying to my questions. You had mentioned srila prabhupada's third canto explaination. But its given there that the demons were later attracted towards the damsel and were infatuated with a appetite for sex . It therfore means that they were actually heterosexual but due to lust were attracted to lord brahma. But gay people are not attracted to females. But the demons were attracted to females.Gay guys dont have uncontrolled lust or insatiable appetite. I think Srila prabhupada meant lust not gay people to be demoniac. Further srila prabhupada never treated his gay disciples any different than his straight disciples. 2) research by american society of human genetics in 2012 did a multi centric research on male sexual orientation. Data replicated hamer's Xq28 finding as determined by two point and multipoint LOD Score mapping . Authors concluded that "our findings taken in context with previous work suggest that genetic variations in each regions contributes to development of the important psycological trait of male sexual orientation. Q) Maharaj dont you think that it will be better to support gay devotees so that even they get the oppurtunity to go back to krisna by bhakti yoga ? Q) If a gay devotee is already in a monogamous relationship with a devotee partner, will you accept him/ her in Prabhupadas movement and give him or her the oppurtunity to serve Radha and Krisna. Thank you very much for helping me out by answering my questions. I know its difficult for you to answer my questions here because people might interpret it in a wrong manner . I am very very gratefull towards you maharaj. Your servant Shyamsundar HpS - ASA --- Yes, I would have to look up the exact citation in the (?) third canto. In general I think it is a complicated topic and the basis of four principles and 16-rounds a day makes a lot of it moot. Rama and Sugriva had a "vow of friendship" which was as binding as a vow of marriage. I don't know of any GBC rules about this, but as far as I know, anyone who is following the four principles and chanting sixteen enthusiastic rounds a day and has proper administrative approval can be initiated. That means that Krsna accepts them as His students. The whole process focuses on the soul, no? Homo, hetero ... these are all starting places, but if we advance in spiritual life this quickly falls away. My basic approach is that I initiate people who I know and who know me. Homo-sexuality is a secondary issue. '0'

sexual orientation and your views on it.

10 years, 3 months ago by shyamsundar in Special Category A

Hare Krisna Maharaj All glories to Srila prabhupada All glories to you maharaj PAMHO at your lotus feet. Maharaj I am a 28year old gay devotee from indian origin . I came in contact with ISKCON through street sankirtan in london in 2011. I have been chanting and following the regulative principles from the last 1 year. I came in touch with GALVA( Gay and lesbian vaisnava association ) where i had a chat with Amara das prabhu ( prabhupada disciple) .he told me that in ISKCON multi guru system many gurus do accept gay disciples although celibacy is to be maintained ie illicit sex is not allowed. I even read H.H.Hridayananda swami's view on it. I want to know your view on the topic. How do you view homosexuality ? And if you ever had a gay disciple what will be your suggestion to him/her. Maharaj I am sorry because i asked this question in a public forum but i hope many aspiring gay devotees will be helped. I pray to Krisna that i didnt offend you by asking. Thank you Your servant Shyamsundar HpS - ASA - AGTSP! Hmmmm! very interesting. We will let Uncle Gismo, the ASA Science Officer give his clinical opinion on the matter. UG - ASA -- Thank you Swami Ji. Let's be frank about this. 1) Your Prabhupada says somewhere like in the Third Canto that the sexual appetite for of one male for another is not a sane attraction at any point during a normal human life. 2) They say that R.D. Laing, the great anti-psychiatrist psychiatrist said that insanity is usually an sane reaction to an insane situation. 3) White Rats [http://www.neebo.com/Textbook/even-the-rat-was-whiteb9780205392643/ISBN-9780205392643?gclid=CLyC99eJ58ACFYMF7Aod9koA1w] when put in large colony cages with plexiglass tubeways connecting to other large colony cages and lots of food and water begin to reproduce and reproduce. After a while there is over-population followed by cannibalism of babies, catatonia and ... homo-sexuality. 4) THEREFORE we might speculate that homosexuality is a sane psycho-physical reaction to an insane situation, urban over-population, in some people. Experience has shown that it could be a reaction in anyone: Sannyasi, GBC, German woman, Frenchmen. It may be Mother Nature's simple practical way to reduce the population. HpS - ASA - Thank Professor! What do you think of that Prabhu?

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