ABAT scientifically

3 months, 3 weeks ago by harsh_horse in Special Category B

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

AGtSP

Please accept my selfish obeisances.


I know you might be now communicating in astral world.


ASA/PhD - AgtSP! paoho... SB 2.8.20 gives nice definition of 'astral' body!!!! Also, vedabase.io gives nice search result. SP seems to feel that it is a little marginal to Bhakti Siddhanta but practically useful!


As a Guru you have poured us with words, which if we realize we will be Paramahansa.


Some of your statement which we remember / ruminate upon

1. If we keep the bed sheet improperly, we are disturbing visva-rupa.

2. If we eat some thing nasty, then Visva-Rupa feels that nastiness.


We read in Srila Prabhupada books , model of passion makes us think we are different.


We know the story of Krsna eating a morsel of rice and all disciples of Durvasa Muni were satisfied.


On the other hand there is concept of Hriskesa where he control our senses


Then there is concept of watering the root, where we satisfy lord , and then all other living entity will be satisfied.


Now we are speculating the oneness and difference of the knowledge acquiring senses, working senses, between different living entities.


How can my sensation of my senses be different from other people that is well know fact, but how can it be one.

like when all are in temple, we experience less material pangs, that give us the sight of oneness.


we are speculating on materially differences of sensation of senses also reduces when we are close to Krsna.


however then there comes a question of free will, not every body is connected to Krsna.


like again we are thinking how come only disciples of Durvasa Muni were only satisfied by Krsna eating.


were they all above material differences, or it was Krsna who took them beyond material plane for a moment.


we satisfy lord , and then all other living entity will be satisfied.-- how this practically works in satisfying different needs of senses.


its difficult to understand Guru tattva, but the way your mind and words manifest, it does seem to us you are supersoul-without for us


HpS/ASA - Your letter to us is very stimulating. We don't understand all that you are speculating. That's O.K.

It is declared to be in-con-CIEVE-able.


Look up the etymology for CIEVE. I bet it has to do with organic process of birth. Womb even.

Con CEPT. con CEPT TION.


so no one, not even KRSNA can always understand what is going on in a logical sense. but we can always make a positive contribution to the situation.

Krsna, Krsna's Devotee and Devotional service [?} KRSNA, RADHA, PURNAMASI?? all come together and dance and no one can quite understand whose in charge.

Krsna understands the Gopis {hladini shakti} then they come up with some fun madness, that even surprises them!! what to speak of KRSNA.

Yet, then His cit shakti, figures it out.

So always a competition between cit shakti and ananda shakti.

but in spiritual consciousness it is integrating not separating.


Being one apple on the tree we know that when we are getting good sap, the rest of the apples are also.

have a nice idea and suddenly others in the situation get the same idea.

some ideas are in our portion of the virata rupa and other ideas are common to the whole or selected subsets of the viratarupa.

what is my position in this orchestra!

what can i do to improve things.

look at the result i am having on the Big Picture.

in western theater training, gandharva veda, it is called 'ensemble learning'.

thank you.


Sunday 12.49PM. Little hot.

Little fat.

All rounds done before Mangala arati.

Upendra Das' class, then crash!


Sunday Festival prep.

Informe personal Jayanta and Catholic Saints.

3 months, 4 weeks ago by jayanta in Personal Sadhana Reports, Special Category B

Hare Krishna, Gurudev: Pamho. Toda gloria a Srila Prabhupada y sus seguidores fieles.

Contesto a las preguntas de mi última carta:

¿como están creciendo Nimai y Sarasvati?

Nimai ha terminado el primer curso de Universidad de doble grado (Derecho y Administración de Empresas). También trabaja algunas horas a la semana como monitor de triatlón en dos colegios cercanos a casa. Acaba de cumplir 19 años

Sarasvati cumplirá 12 años en Septiembre. Es una persona muy sociable y tiene muchas amigas en el colegio donde estudia y también en los círculos de programas extraescolares (triatlón, voleibol y gimnasia rítmica). Ahora ha estado en un campamento de niños (niñas) aquí en Nueva Vrajamandala. El día 12 se van, junto con Purnamasi, a un erasmus de Hare Krishnas a Lanzarote (Islas Canarias) junto con jóvenes de distintos paises europeos.

Pienso que estan creciendo bien y preparándose para desenvolverse en el mundo material.

¿Purnamasi se retirará pronto de la enseñanza?

Pienso que, de momento, le quedan años hasta que pueda dejar de trabajar. Tiene el trabajo y su familia (padres) cerca de casa (Collado Mediano). Sus padres son mayores ( más de ochenta años) y ella debe estar cerca para cuidarlos. Nimai también tiene la Universidad relativamente cerca y Sarasvati se encuentra a gusto en el colegio.

Yo pasaré mas tiempo en Brihuega e iré a nuestra casa de Collado (Madrid) cuando se requiera mi presencia.

La idea es que la mayor parte del tiempo estaré en Brihuega para acudir al programa de la mañana del templo.


HpS - Wonderful new! Is like breathing air after being submerged in the water. Thank you. Respects to all of them. Please say that we hope they will be engaged in doing wonderful things for the world with Srila Prabhupada's help.


Vidas de Santos cristianos.

Si alguien tiene tiempo puede leer la biografía de San Antonio de Padua. Es un santo franciscano portugués y su vida es muy interesante. Recuerdo que cuando la leí me inspiró mucho. Por supuesto Santa Teresa de Jesús (Ávila), San Juan de la Cruz y San Pedro de Alcantara son de lo más interesantes para los amantes del bhakti.

ss

Jayanta das


HpS - You are a fountain of youth. this is wonderful reading material. srila prabhupada is such an ecumenical saint. we have never found anyone who is more humble and eager to meet religious people from any tradition.

real saint is eager to see religious life in any national context. learn from it. serve it.

Buddhist Conversation

4 months, 3 weeks ago by balabhadra dasa in Special Category B

Hare Krishna, Siksha Guru Maharaja, dandavats; glories to Prabhupada; glories to you for your own exemplary devotional service; glories to all the devotees of Lord Chaitanya.


HpS/ASA - AgtSP! Still alive! 🐶 😺 🐦 🐺 🌴 🐖 🐖

🐒 🐒🐒 🐄...



So then, a lively conversation for Buddhists literally means talking about dharma as enunciated by the teachings of Lord Buddha. It sounds like sravanam kirtanam, or Krishna Katha as practiced by Vaishnavas.


Yls, Bbd 🙏


HpS/ASA - Real Buddhist is number one prime candidate for KC, no?! Follows four princely pals NO:> 🍺 🎲 💃 🍔


Chants on Beads.

Knows about Sukavati, Amitaba Buddha.

Loves to hear you read the Krsna book to him!

Bhagavatam Class Comment

5 months ago by balabhadra dasa in Special Category B

Hare Krishna, Siksha Guru Maharaja,

please kindly accept my most humble obeisances;

all glories to Srila Prabhupada;

all glories to your good self, for your many years of devotional service to Srila Prabhupada;

all glories to all the devotees of Lord Chaitanya.


I just wanted to share a question about a statement that you made in a recent Bhagavatam class : "Buddhists really like a lively conversation." I have always thought that real followers of Buddhism are keen to practicing "maunam:" silence.

I can understand that many people today who are interested in Buddhist meditation may have an appeal for lively conversation because they are out of touch with the real austerities traditionally observed in Buddhism.

Traditional Buddhism is not at all involved in worldly social interaction.

And from my own personal experience, when I drive for Uber, a passenger will notice the books on display, and the most common question that comes up is "Is this some sort of Buddhism? Is this anything to do with Buddhism?"


I guess it's more of a rhetorical question, but since you made it I felt compelled to ask it.


Yls, Bbd 🙏


ASA 🐵 🔬

"From a largely English-language standpoint, and to some extent in most of Western academia, Buddhism is separated into two groups: Theravāda (lit. 'the Teaching of the Elders' or 'the Ancient Teaching'), and Mahāyāna (lit. 'the Great Vehicle'). The most common classification among scholars is threefold: Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_Buddhism


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQHNYR8xj5s

Theravadan would be solitary silence, no? Yet, Mahayana would be social concern.


Somewhere in this movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulDzLjz0wdw I also saw them illustrating this principle.

Then, Tulasi carana sevita Das, our disciple from San Jose, stayed in Thailand several times, and married a girl from there and made the same comment that the monks would wonder, accept alms, and lye under a tree in a market place and just discuss The Dharma with others.

🙂

H.H Hanupreshaka Swami, Gurumaharaj, Pranam Mantra

asa[e] guru tattva; pranama mantras


Hare Krishna, Gurudev. Dandavat pranam unto your lotus feet.

AGTSP.

We almost, all your disciples belonging to Silchar and Imphal, have agreed this Gurudev pranam mantra.


So praying to our H. H. Guru Maharaj to kindly accept this Mantra so that all your disciples of this planet can use this same mantra to pray unto your lotus feet. Hope that by the grace of lord Radha Shyamasundar gurudev you are quite fit in all respect. Dandavat pranam gurudev. Your fallen servant. Krishna Swarup Das.


Srimad Hanumat Presaka Swami Pranam Mantra


nama oṁ viṣṇu pādāya

kṛṣṇa preṣṭhāya bhūtale

srimate Hanumat Preṣaka

svāmin iti nāmine


namah—obeisances; om—address; viṣṇu-pādāya—unto him who is at the feet of Viṣṇu; kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya—unto him who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa; bhūtale—on the earth; srīmate—all beautiful; hanumat-preṣaka svāmin—Hanumat Preṣaka Swami; iti—thus; nāmine—who is named.


I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Holiness Hanumat Presaka Swami, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.


namaḥ akiñcana mūrtaye

bālaka­neva sarala

mita bhuk vādy­a suśīlam

samāna bhāva bhāvine


namah—obeisances; akiñcana-mūrtaye—personification of material detachment; bālaka-neva—like a child; sarala—simplicity; mita bhuk—eat very less; vādy­a—musical instruments; suśīlam—expert in playing; samāna bhāva—treated equally; bhāvine—accepted.


Our obeisances are unto you, O personification of material detachment and childlike simplicity. You eat very less just to survive and expert in playing musical instruments and treated everyone equally.


Prabhupādasyā­nucara

rūpavāni prachāriṇe

sarvato gatvā tene ca

atma jñāna prakāśine


Prabhupādasyā—of Srila Prabhupada; anucara—follower; rūpa—Srila Rupa Goswami; vāni—instructions; prachāriṇe—preaching; sarvato—everywhere; gatvā—traveling; tene—imparted; ca—also; ātmajñāna—knowledge of the self; prakāśine—enlightened.


You are the servant of Srila Prabhupada engaged in preaching the teachings of Srila Rupa Gosvami. You traveled everywhere imparting the knowledge of the self to everyone.


HpS - ASA --- AgtSP!!! Paoho. We always want more and more of your association and the wonderful Silchar, Manipura et al devotees. Just thinking about those places and the Sankirtan we are in ecstacy.


Now we are in ISKCON Houston, Texas, southern part of USA.


Is little warm here but so far is fine.


Krsna personally guarantees this place will not be perfect.


This topic of Guru-puja is very nice, no?


One of the Pancha-tattva.


"In this verse [Nectar of Instruction 5] Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī advises the devotee to be intelligent enough to distinguish between the kaniṣṭha-adhikārīmadhyama-adhikārī and uttama-adhikārī. The devotee should also know his own position and should not try to imitate a devotee situated on a higher platform.", https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/5/#bb5954


Honestly looking at our level of renunciation and determination we can see that maybe we qualify as Sannyasi, Goswami, uttama-adhikkari, in some perspectives, by His Divine Grace, help of everyone, but we do not see our selves as perfectly, strongly on the platform of Bhava.


Developing.


We must all have lotus feet in our Siddha Svarupa but now we don't feel that we have them.


Devotees offering different Sanskrit verses to glorify us for events like Vyasa-puja or other informal moments seems fine. Then we can directly comment on each one.


The first Mantra seems fine.

The second seems to be beyond our range in some ways.

We do not feel that we are the form of renunciation.

. . . Real renunciation of going out door to door each day. 🙂


Many devotees like myself are struggling to not eat too much. Some success. Some failure. No meat fish or eggs. No grains cooked by Karmis!


Third Mantra seems too general. It is pretty much included in the first and general description of any Goswami, American Goswami, member of ISKCON, no?


So, first Mantra, especially as appreciation of what Srila Prabhupada is making us, seems enough, no?


We are like you.

We like to be "glorified" if it is glorification of Krsna and Guru!!


How is the Sankirtan in Silchar?

Your Ashrama, Family?