Hare Krishna Dear Devotees,
For pleasure of Guru and the devoteees, I am posting the recitation of 'Nectar of Instruction' done by Gurukulis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVbv2QF-p0
your aspiring servant
Kolavecha Sridhar Das
Vrndavana-Dhama-Mahimamrta
by Prabhoda-ananda Sarasvati
[trans. Kushakrata Das]
Shataka 15
73 I shall tell you a mantra that is hidden from all the Vedas and not manifested anywhere in the most confidential scriptures. When a person chants this mantra the great spiritual perfections come before his feet and the opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead stand in his hand.
74 For a person who chants this mantra there are no orders or prohibitions. A person who understands the dust of this mantra’s lotus feet purifies they who know the rules of the Vedas. This mantra is the sweetest nectar. It is the auspiciousness of all auspiciousnesses. It is filled with all limitless wonderful glory. It is the attainment of all attainments.
75 It is the ultimate goal of all goals. It is the wild bliss of all wild blisses. They say it is the secret of all secrets. Without thinking of anything else, day and night chant this mantra: Radha.
["Radhe", "Hare", no difference - S. P'pada, London, Radhastami.]
76 This mantra is a flood of sweetness churned from the sweetest nectars. It is a precious flood of the wild sweetness of the bliss of pure love. O fortunate one, who understands us? Who understands the meaning of this mantra that is a flood of bliss flowing into the heart?
AGTSP.... Paoho.... We did so much work with B. S. Damodara Swami and Ranga-niketana, Manipuri, Dance and Kirtan... We learned a little about Indian-Vedic-Krsna Conscious Dance.
Our esteemed student, Radha-prati-japa Devi Dasi is a dancer.
The question comes: What are some good themes for Dance in ISKCON?
Of course, what we are doing is Gandharva Veda. We can realize God through Vastu-veda, architecture etc or Ayur-veda or Danda-veda, but we are realizing Him through GV: Music, Dance, Drama!
Lord Caitanya would act out. the meaning of the songs.. . .
We can dance spontaneously in Kirtan!. . . . .
We can organize Dance/Drama according to the styles of the Acharyas like Manipuri traditions attributed to Narottama Das Thakura et al.
We have seen devotees trying to do Rasa-lila with 4-ladies, 4-men at Janmastami and it seems very weak. It is hard enough for the Laksmis in Vaikuntha to do Rasa-lila, what to speak of Iskcon devotees. Of course, if you are born in the right place, like Manipura (Peru), you might have the facility to do something wonderful that makes even public feel choked up. . . . Raga. Tala. Abhinaya! . . . SINCERITY =]]PURITY[[=:>>
We suggest things that have stories. Not just feelings, like Rasa-lila.
Gaura-arati is a very descriptive song. Make it into a dance. It catches the mind and becomes of intense personal use to Srila Prabhupada.
Dasa-avatara-stotra: Manipuris, South Indian communities have DAS! Why not ISKCON.
We suggested The Song of the Bee to Radha-prati-jalpa.
"Jaya Radha Madhava, Kunja bihari...": Again nice story.
We have a kind of Gaura-arati we can dance out, and it allows us to catch, stimulate our mind.
Dance for Krsna! Nobody else has to see.
"Gurv-astakam": Illustrate the content.
"Dance on fire until the end, music is your only friend", Traditional.
Is an Extra Terrestrial being from Warp World Nine (WW9).
He came to Earth some years back when his space ship crashed in the Pacific Ocean and Monkey and Piggy just happened to be passing by in their newly acquired sailboat, Allah's Bold Cruiser.
He immediately took command of the ship and crew and has been a dominating figure in the Anjana Suta Academy ever since.
He is ASA Science Officer, President of the ASA Civil Deadman's Club and Chairman of the ASA Supreme Undifferentiated Absolute Commando. The ultimate managing authority of the ASA.
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He describes that his world, WW9, is a plane, and planet, [kind of like cigar and cigarette] just like this world . . . only different.
There is an ISKCON there.
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He has observed that in The European Heaven:
In The European Hell:
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Focusing on French poets he has heard with interest the phrases:
He also heard with great enlightenment that one time, in WW9, one ISKCON French Sannyasi had a fall down and married his Brahmacarini secretary. Two new French Bhaktas in the B'cari Ashrama were talking about it, and one of them said , "Srila Prabhupada said that if a Sannyasis goes back to Grhastha Ashrama and gets married, it is like a dog eating his own vomit!!!!". 🤨
"... and the other French Brahmacari said, "Ahhhh, yes . . . but look at the quality of the vomit!" 💪💪👍
The first nodded and said with some contrition, "Ahhh, yes. It is a fact. It is a fact".
HpS - ASA --- Thank you so, so much Srima ART Das! We have read and made little corrections to the English version of this dialog.
It seems to me that we can move ahead to the next object of discussion: Srimad Bhagavatam, https://vedabase.io/es/library/sb/1/9/ Verses 25-29. Maybe Anandamaya Das can give a summary of who is Bhisma deva for Hector??!
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ART Das - Although the communication by phone was choppy, here is a summary of the dialogue:
At the beginning of the dialogue, Hanumat Presaka Swami gave a brief historical summary of the Gaudiya Vaisnavism and the Acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva philosophy (simultaneous and different identities). Then he explained who Srila Prabhupada was and introduced him as the author of the 'Srimad Bhagavatam’s' Preface, written in India in 1962. That is to say, 3 years before his arrival to America.
At the end of this first intervention, Hanumat Presaka Swami also talked about Bismarck, the Ottoman Empire, Alexander the Great and Arnold Toynbee. (Gurudeva, do you remember the reason? I think it was about the strategy about how to do things).
HpS - It could have been. We certainly want to take advantage of the lessons of history in trying to communicate the message of Krsna and the Bhagavata.
In turn, Héctor started his participation by mentioning that the author uses the human society category at the beginning of the Preface. This is important because the term human society refers not only to people but also to their communication systems, languages, gestures, etc. He mentioned that the human being is the most communicative of all animals in the world and that in order to understand and improve the world, it is correct to speak about human society so that we can be able to understand the reason why a person in the Amazon forest laughs or cries and the reason why another one in London does same.
Then he explained that it is Srila Prabhupada’s success to use the term spiritual brotherhood and to pose the ideal of a common cause. Hector Bejar criticized the Christian and Muslim churches since they assume that their religion is the only true one and that the others are false, so they divide people into 2 groups: The faithful and unfaithful ones: The selected ones -superior beings- and the rest -the inferior beings-.
For him it is correct to talk about spiritual brotherhood, that is to say that this process is for the whole humanity, for the whole spiritual brotherhood without any exception.
The second part of the dialogue was taken up by Héctor Bejar. He mentioned that Srila Prabhupada proposed in this Preface, the re-spiritualization of all humanity, and that in order to do this, we must understand that re-spiritualizing means returning to the spiritual, to include everything that communicates a universal message. Then professor Behar criticized the current society that privileges the material aspects, in a way that for this society, commerce is the most important thing. This is the reason why something is judged to be qualified as good for its possibility to be sold. That material kind of mentality in which the more goods you have the more you are valuable is widely spread in all the media (TV, movies, newspapers, radios, etc.) This mentality generates a society depending on many unnecessary things.
Héctor ended by stating that the spiritual aspect is an inner wealth that we all have.
On his second intervention, Hanumat Presaka Swami mentioned that A.C. Bhaktivendanta Swami was a person who came from a spiritual culture. Then he explained how the universal language is the way to re-spiritualize the whole humanity by sacred dancing and chanting.
The sound was not good during the conversation, so the dialogue ended. Afterwards, I spoke to Héctor Bejar and he manifested agree to discuss about Bhismadeva's instructions next time.
Thank you very much Gurudeva for building bridges to connect to academic people so that through dialogue they can be able to reconnect to the spiritual life..
Hare Krishna GURUDEVA, your insignificant servant, Abhiram Thakur das
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Dialogo entre SS Hanumatpresaka Swami y el Profesor Hévtor Béjar
Aunque la comunicacion por telefono fue entrecortada, a continuación, un resumen del dialogo.
Iniciando el diálogo el profesor Hanumatpresaka Swami hizo un breve resumen histórico del Gaudiya vaisnavismo y de la filosofía acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva (identidad y diferencia simultáneas) luego explicó quién es Srila Prabhupada, que el prefacio del Srimad Bhagavatam lo escribió en la India el año 1962, 3 años antes de venir a América, al final de esta primera intervención también hablo de Bismark, el imperio otomano, Alejandro el magno y Arnold Toynbee, Gurudeva recuerda el motivo? Creo que era sobre la estrategia de como hacer las cosas
A su turno Héctor comenzó su participación mencionando que el autor al inicio del prefacio emplea la categoría sociedad humana esto es importante porque sociedad humana no sólo se refiere a las personas sino también a los sistemas de comunicación, a los idiomas, a los gestos,… el mencionó que el ser humano es el más comunicativo de todos los animales de este mundo y que para poder entender y mejorar el mundo es correcto hablar de sociedad humana y así entender porque ríe o llora una persona en el Amazonas o porque ríe y llora una persona en Londres. Seguidamente mencionó qué es un acierto (de Srila Prabhupada) emplear el termino hermandad espiritual para luego plantear el ideal de una causa común, Héctor crítico a las iglesias cristianas y a musulmanas ya que asumen que su religión es la única verdadera y que las otras son falsas entonces separan a las personas entre fieles e infieles, entre los elegidos o seres superiores y el resto, los seres inferiores entonces a él le parece correcto hablar de hermandad espiritual, es decir que este proceso es para toda la humanidad, para toda la hermandad espiritual sin excepciones.
La segunda parte del dialogo la retomo Héctor, él menciono que en el prefacio se plantea la reespiritualización de toda la humanidad entonces dijo que para hacer esto debemos entender que reespiritualizar significa retornar a lo espiritual, es decir retomar todo lo que comunica un mensaje universal. Luego critico a la sociedad actual que privilegia lo material por eso para esta sociedad lo principal es el comercio, por eso, se califica que algo es bueno cuando se vende más, esa mentalidad de “más cosas tienes” “más vales” se difunde en todos los medios (Tv, cine, periódicos, radios,…) esto genera una sociedad con muchas necesidades innecesarias. Héctor termino manifestando que lo espiritual es una riqueza interior que todos tenemos.
En su segunda intervención el profesor Hanumatpresaka Swami comenzó mencionando que A.C. Bhaktivendanta Swami está presentando que él es una persona que proviene de una cultura espiritual. Luego menciono que el lenguaje universal para reespiritualizar a toda la humanidad es el canto y la danza espiritual.
Como durante toda la conversación el sonido estuvo entrecortado ahí termino este dialogo, luego hable con Héctor y manifestó su deseo de seguir dialogando esta vez sobre las instrucciones de Bhismadeva.
Muchas gracias Gurudeva por tender puentes con los académicos para que a través del dialogo se reconecten a la vida espiritual.
Hare Krishna GURUDEVA, su insignificante sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das
Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,
PAMHO. AGTSP.
As you know, our son is going to start University in Crimea and we will have to move with him.
Just got confirmation from my upper management that they can let me work remotely from Crimea for two years. I may need to come back to Botswania for a week or two, once or twice a year. I also have an offer from Titan Insurance company in Crimea. Financially they are looking same but with 3M, Botswania, I get to save travel time and still join our SB classes. In CRM I have to drive for an hour to work to Titan Insurance.
I am leaning to stick with Mac and pass the opportunity from TI. Does this seem OK to you Maharaja?
ASA - AGTSP paoho.
O.K?
