Letters to the editor

asa-e; dance

"Dance", so essential to Bhakti-yoga, is a 14th century French word, according to etymological dictionary online.

Pretty recent origin.

Previous word was from Latin. In Spanish, "Saltar", as seen in the English, "Salient".

Sanskrit, "nRtya" eg. "mahapraho kirtana nrtya gita" (Sad Goswami Astaka).

Usually described as "sequential movement", this questions the idea that our culture is predominated by a linear view of time, as opposed to a "be here now" iconographic, "Bhava".

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!!

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asa-e; sankirtan; dtc-ut

Monk's Podcast

1) Hamlet and Arjuna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WgPzy1

2) C. G. Jung and the Bhakti-siddhanta of Traditional India.

https://youtu.be/vtoH0E_ng4o

asa-e (section on laddu gopal below); Laddu Gopal

Hare Krsna querido Gurudev, acepte mis humildes y sinceras reverencias a sus santos pies de loto.

HpS - ASA - Piese de lobo?? 🐺

TlgSP!!!! HpS - !!!

Estas últimas dos semanas viajé a Orlando USA por invitación de Yasodanandanesvari y Vidusaka para conocer a Syam Krsna Gopal Das, perdone por no haberle informado, creí que no se concretaría el viaje por motivos de pandemia, llevamos 4 meses conociéndonos virtualmente y pasamos la fiesta del Señor Nrsimha haciendo servicio para la clase de SS Trivrikrama Maharaja, realizamos sadhana, fuimos al Templo de Naimisaranya en Miami, donde obtuvimos darsan de las deidades, luego viajamos a Alachua donde compartimos con devotos latinos, comunidad, muy hermosamente organizada, con deidades bellísimas y servicio muy determinado.

ASA - Esa es una oración larga. 💪 💪 👍 💪

Allí tuve la bendición de recibir a Gopal Laddu como regalo de una madre que es pujari y que me otorgó ese servicio para purificarme y avanzar en mi vida espiritual. Me autoriza Gurudev para servir a Laddu Gopal en mi sadhana matutino?

HpS - He is not exactly in our Sampradaya. As we worship Krsna with Radha, Pusti-marge sampradaya worship Krsna with Yasoda, and Laddu Gopala as their principle deity. There was a Laddu Gopala diety on the altar in Dehli temple but they decided He should only be present for Janmastami as we understand.

So, I would say it is nice on you personal altar, but not for the big institution. Talk with devotees about simple worship. If you take second initiation it can be more official.

También tomé darsan en el centro de prédica de Gainesville, las guirnaldas de jazmín del cabo realmente purificaron mi mente y mi corazón.

Luego viajamos a Santo Domingo, donde pude emocionarme con la dulzura de Sus Señorías Sri Sri Gaura Nitay y donde me conmoví mucho, muchísimo con la precariedad y austeridad del templo, ruego a Radha y Krsna que envíen a un matrimonio brahmana cualificado, entusiasta y con cualidades administrativas a aportar a ese Yatra.

Ya me encuentro en Chile haciendo la cuarentena en un hotel por 5 días por lo que he podido estar en FMP, leer, cantar, siento que estas realmente son unas vacaciones, ya que no he tenido quehaceres domésticos y donde me he alimentado adecuadamente.

He vuelto con muchos compromisos, que espero usted acepte como ofrenda, terminar el curso de discípulos que no concluí, pero que si tengo claro en mi corazón. Volver a asistir al pujari una vez a la semana y semana por medio quedarme para mangala Arati, también aportar cortando vegetales una vez a la semana en Alimentos Libres una ONG que se está concretando acá en Chile. Seguiré decorando para las fiestas de agosto ya y día a día tomar la santa asociación de FMP, cantar mínimo 16 rondas diarias Krsna mediante.

Con Cristóbal mi hijo aún intensionando mejoras para su vida, sigue rebelde, me comunique con Mandhara Sakha para que puedo apoyarlo y guiarlo con herramientas para su desarrollo positivo y solo me queda orar... Recordábamos a madre Saci con una devota mayor, sin embargo ella se purificaba con las proezas del Señor Caitanya.

Prepararme día a día para poder servir mejor en esta misión, donde muchas veces, no valoramos lo que tenemos hasta que lo perdemos y donde es bueno siempre agradecer lo que hay para que Radharani le diga a Krsna que estamos aquí para dar lo mejor de nosotros mismos en la casa que nos dejó Srila Prabhupada para vivir en el mundo.

Estamos leyendo con Syam el Canto 3 del Bhagavatam como instrucción suya a él, también estamos leyendo por las mañanas el Canto 1, para ir avanzando juntos y mejorando nuestra comprensión espiritual, él ha sido una potente inspiración para mi determinación y hábitos diarios devocionales🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Mis reverencias eternas Gurudev, felizmente agradecida y rendida a sus pies de loto.

Laksmiradha DD.

HpS - Keep advice from local devotees. 4-principles, 16-rounds.... !!! Perfection. Best wishes for your son!

vad;grhasta ashrama

AgtpS ! ! !

paoho.

Tom Brown, Buck White and Uncle Gismo,

We get asked to give advice about marriage relations, and like any ordinary people, we automatically think we are qualified to give it. Why? Because we are being asked to do so.

Then our association with Srila Prabhupada and Krsna gives us perspective and we actually come to a more accurate perception.

• By nature and situation we are in the Sannyasa order. Our first advice is almost always renounce. If there are problems in your relationship renounce them. That is the natural fault of a Sannyasi, false renunciation. We, by nature and situation, are not qualified to give specific advice on Grhasta relations.
• We are uniquely situation to give good advice because we are not closely involved in the situation viz. No one knows who discovered water, but it probably wasn't a fish.

We are thinking of one particular situation directly in front of our attention right now that will hopefully allow us to give some useful advice.

Our first advice is, along with Krsna and Srila Prabhupada's books, get Ashrama gurus eg. Parents or other family members who are battle tested. They've been through it and have come out successful.

You will need them in the beginning, middle and end.

ASHRAMA GURUS

Divorce is no more realistic than pulling our your teeth, because you are having trouble eating. Some cultures who are recently following the American lead will think that cell phones, nuclear weapons, birth control pills and divorce are good.

We Americans come from a culture that is now 3rd world in marriage relations, and having been involved with divorce since birth I can say that it does not work.

The Vedas say that it does not exist.

If a boy and girl have reasonable consultation before marriage (by people who have two hands, two legs, and can hold down government jobs) and then say, "I do", before a priest and succeed in living together for 3-5 years with out killing each other, then divorce won't work.

Your too much connected.

You've grown your second set of teeth. Your babyhood is over.

There is no divorce.

Vedic description of psycho-physical nature of girls is that they can only give themselves once.

You can only grow your adult teeth once.

Well, you may ask, what about your HpSwami who is divorced, and it is a good example?

Yes, paste the devil on the wall.

1. He did not apply for divorce, his wife did.
2. He entered into Sannyasa life and never returned (which justifies his wife getting remarried after six years [good woman <bet a good second husband also>].
3. His mind returns to his son, wife every day and tries to create a happy family life. He looks like he went through marriage in a sincere, Krsna conscious, fashion so he will be able to extract the deep attachments while in Sannyasa ashrama, but if he had been able to go through the complete cycle it may have been more natural.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

From the Dude's, point of view, if he follows the advice given by the Sannyasa and Ashrama gurus in conversation with all involved, and it is not working out, then seems he might take a second wife. This can be legally adjusted in terms of the current legal system but in Vedic perspective, he has to continue to love, protect, his first wife eg. Offer a good Ashrama situation like seeing that here father and brother are looking after her. She is getting descent income from her service. All the world knows that he/she are still fulfilling the obligations accepted in the Marriage Vows and she is not a

👹! DIVORCEE 👹 !

VEDIC FUNCTIONS LIKE DIVORCE

Second-wife will be like a set of false teeth, but in some rare cases this is better than the real ones.

There is no Romeo, there is no Juliet. The best we can do is Kardama and Devahuti, and they both had great qualities, and the conclusion was that they both realized that marriage is a therapeutic relation only for mentally ill people and as soon as we can help each other go through it and get back to our real family life in Goloka as nicely curved blades of grass we should do it.

You may have noticed that this letter does not cover a million different things, but that is that nature of Grhasta ashrama, it may take 25-years to perfect it.

That's all for today.

UG/TB/BW (et al).

asa-e, Janma, mrtya, jara, vyadhi

From A Family News Group

• 10.15AM - Hare Krishna, everyone. Ashish Prabhu is in the ICU in Lucknow. Let’s please keep him in our prayers.
• 2.15PM - Ashish Prabhu left his body

HpS - ASA -- In 1938, one little boy of six years old, and his sister of seven, along with their mother and aunt, said good bye to their daddy at the San Francisco port. He was going by ship to work on an oil contract in China for three years, and they were very, very sad.

Yet, it did not mean that he ceased to exist, nor that there would not be very responsible mail, telephone, telegraph communications.

Then after three years he returned and you can imagine the greeting party at the dock then, and the presents.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/11/4-5/

We can focus on the separation from the family member or we can focus on the next destination he has achieved.

Christians preachers long have chastised their followers for the hubris of predominant lamentation on the departure of a congregational member.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/antya/11/ Starting Text 53

I have the image of Ashish being born into Gaura-lila in Nabadvipa as a boy the same age as Nimai when Nimai was going around causing all kinds of delightful havoc for young girls, His Mother, neighboring ladies, big Pandits etc.

Of him in ecstasy at the youthful energy in his body, and his attraction for Nimai along with his friends, the other boys.

Even just a little contact with the mercy of Gauranga qualifies one to approach the supreme abode of Krsna, no?

Hare Krsna. Hare Rama.

Ashish Ji, Ki Jaya!

asa-e, Karma and Diksa

Hare Krishna, Maharaj

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you.

Please accept our humble family obeisances.

This is Devendra , Sumitra, Saloni and Divyansh (Sharma family ) from Houston TX,

Thanks lot maharaj for giving your personal association during last Houston trip , we are very fortunate that we got an opportunity to meet and serve you , when we meet first in Iskcon Houston my son really like you, we all like your simplicity and you are a great humble vaishnava.

ASA - AGTSP! Simple or simpleton 😎

It was so nice to sit in the patio of Govinda's with you all, Gopinatha, Caitanya !

Our Sadhana and Seva in temple is going good by Krishna mercy, I have question Maharaj, when we surrender to Krishna , still we have to go through law of Karma ? because being in material world , it is hard to engage always in Akarma activity.

Thanks Maharaj

HpS - Is a question that we also had!

NoI constitutes first instructions for neophyte devotees, so our base is there, no? ! In the Bhaktivedanta Purport (noi 5), Srila Prabhupada cites:

Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 4.192):

dīkṣā-kāle bhakta kare ātma-samarpaṇa

sei-kāle kṛṣṇa tāre kare ātma-sama

“At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders to the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as He Himself.”

So, as we understand, at the time of Diksa (which is formalized by a ceremony, like a wedding is formalized) then the ropes of our Karma pass from Durga to Radha, from the nurse-maid to the mother. So we don't go into the sacrifice as a beautiful 16-year old white girl and come out as a handsome, heroic 25-year old Ethiopian man.

We still have our Karma, but now it is Krsna Karma. Radharani can eliminate, adjust it, but like Arjuna after BG, he still had his Karma, duty as a Ksatriya, but now it was adjusted to integrate with Krsna.

Bh. Vinode Thakura, when he would go to court he was thinking that now he was herding cows with Krsna, no?

O.K.?