Letters to the editor

ASA - Translation of following Spanish Letter by www.translate.google.com
Hare Krsna
Please accept my respectful obeisances!
Dear spiritual master, Hanumatpresaka Swami,

NIMSAR, a new team of devotees who serve actively in the temples and who wishes to serve the authorities of Peru, in the organization of education, wishes to be part of ASA, institution that you lead [head]. We thank you in advance for asking us to present our educational proposal in the Blog, before we send you first to anyone, our complete proposal by mail with a copy to a brother. We apologize for not understanding your wishes. We hope to please her [him] and apologize for any discomfort. We wish to serve in Srila Prabhupada's mission of sankirtana. Please give us your mercy.

Hari cake! [Interesting, the Robot takes, "bolo" as 'cake']

Your maid:
Yugala Kishora Dasi
NIMSAR Coordinator
Hare Krsna + + + + +

ASA - Original Spanish. Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias!

Querido maestro espiritual, Hanumatpresaka Swami, NIMSAR, nuevo equipo de devotos que hacen servicio activo en los templos y que desea servir a las autoridades de Perú, en la organización de la educación, desea formar parte de ASA, institución que Ud. dirige. Le agradecemos de antemano por pedirnos que presentemos nuestra propuesta educativa en el Blog, antes le enviamos primero que a nadie, nuestra propuesta completa por mail con copia a un hermano. Discúlpenos por no entender sus deseos. Esperamos complacerlo con ella y pedimos disculpas por cualquier malestar ocasionado. Deseamos servir así en la misión de sankirtana de Srila Prabhupada. Por favor denos su misericordia.

Hari bolo!

Su sirvienta:

Yugala Kishora Dasi

Coordinadora NIMSAR

Mayo - 2017

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ASA (Buck White) - Thank you Mother Yugala-kishore Devi Prabhu et al. We just answered a similar letter from Isvari Devi Dasi also thinking of this letter. Can you look at the answer we gave to Mataji. It should go through Translate.google.com easily and then give your answer?  We are making so much progress.

Can you also send photos of The Jambuvanitos with little bio-data?

Traduccion - ASA (Buck White) - Gracias Madre Yugala-kishore Devi Prabhu et al. Acabamos de responder a una carta similar de Isvari Devi Dasi también pensando en esta carta. ¿Puedes mirar la respuesta que dimos a Mataji? Debería ir a través de Translate.google.com fácilmente y luego dar su respuesta? Estamos haciendo tanto progreso.

¿Puede usted también también enviar las fotos de los Jambuvanitos con poco bio-datos?

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EDUCATION PROJECT FOR ISKCON

(CHOSICA & LIMA – PERÚ)

Coordinator: Yugala Kishora Dasi

Lima – Perú

May 2017

EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL 2017 - NIMSAR

INTRODUCTION

MISSION AND VISION

OBJECTIVES

MEMBERS

COURSES

NORMS OF FUNCTION

INTRODUCTION

Thanks to Srila Prabhupada’s mercy, I could meet my spiritual master and study Bhakti Sastri and Bhakti Vaibhava. That saint association is an invaluable gift that I will never be able to afford. Therefore, trying to reciprocate in some way the effort of H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami, my spiritual master, who for many years has been supporting to ISKCON education in our country and worldwide, I very humbly wish to coordinate the reactivation of NIMSAR, Educational Institution at the service of ISKCON.

Reply from Hanumatpresaka Swami about reactivating NIMSAR:

 “In terms of NIMSA, if you want to present yourself as an ASA branch, we need a good deal of organization before receive the approval from Tío Gismo, Tom Brown and Buck White and the Executive Command! Electing of President, Secretary, Treasurer, norms of function and the approval of the National Board if it is for all Peru. Of course, it’s good to talk with Mathuresa Dasa about these matters, right?”

Srila Prabhupada presents a profile for the study of the Scriptures, in his following letter:

Bombay, January 27th 1976

My estimated Svarupa Damodara,

Please accept my blessings. I beg of you to receive thanks for your letter of December 26^th, 1975, I have read its content carefully Your plan for a Summer Bhaktivedanta Institute is a very good idea… brahmana means pandita. Therefore, I’m suggesting exams. Bhakti Sastri (for all brahmanas) based on the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Isopanisad, Nectar of Devotion, Nectar of Instruction and all the small books. Bhakti Vaibhava based on the above plus the first six Cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam. Bhaktivedanta based on the above plus the Cantos 7-12 of Srimad Bhagavatam.Bhakti Sarvabhauma based on the above plus the Caitanya Caritamrta. These degrees may correspond to Bachelor, Master and Doctorate. Consider how to organize this institute.

In the hope that the present will find you well.

A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami
 

Seven Purposes of ISKCON:

1. To systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large and to educate all people in the techniques of spiritual life in order to check the imbalance of values in life and to achieve real unity and peace in the world.
2. To propagate a consciousness of Krishna (God), as it is revealed in the great scriptures of India, Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam.
3. To bring the members of the Society together with each other and nearer to Krishna, the prime entity, thus developing the idea within the members, and humanity at large, that each soul is part and parcel of the quality of Godhead (Krishna).
4. To teach and encourage the sankirtana movement, congregational chanting of the holy name of God, as revealed in the teachings of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
5. To erect for the members and for society at large a holy place of transcendental pastimes dedicated to the personality of Krishna.
6. To bring the members closer together for the purpose of teaching a simpler, more natural way of life.
7. With a view towards achieving the aforementioned purposes, to publish and distribute periodicals, magazines, books and other writings.

OBJECTIVES

Primary Objectives:

• Educate people on sastric knowledge base don the teachings of Srila Prabhupada’s books.
• Support in the educational area to temples, cultural centers and nama hathas.
• To form a committee of devotees educators in ISKCON Lima-Peru.
• Continue with the labour of NIMSAR, Institution founded thanks to the effort of Hanumatpresaka Swami, disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.

Secondary Objectives NIMSAR:

• Courses, seminars, workshops, conversations with devotees and interested people.
• Census of educators or interested people in educational issues.
• Permanente training for educators.
• Analysis and discussion of issues related to education in ISKCON Peru.
• Search for solutions to short, medium and long term problemsin ISKCON Peru’s education through the identification of the problem and the proposal of possible solutions.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

PRESIDENT:   Yugala Kishora Dasi.

SECRETARY:  Jessica Mendoza Winder

                           Rukmini (Translator).

TREASURER:  Ragunattha Das

                                    Iliana Vera Yanamoto

INDEPENDENT BRAHMINIC COUNCIL:

• Hanumatpresaka Swami
• Karuna Krsna Das
• Gandharva Das
• Authorities and educator leaders

PROFESSORS:

• Karuna Krsna Das
• Rupa Gosai Das
• Yugala Kishora Dasi
• Jagat Pavitram Das
• Lila Sakti D.D.

EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE

All professors and others:

• Ramacandra Das
• Gaura Gadhadara D. D.
• Gandharva Das
• Tangaraksi D. D.
• Radha Raman Das
• Malini D. D.
• Yashoda D.D.

It can be incorporated other devotees who want to participate.

REGULAR COURSES:

INTRODUCTION TO BHAKTI YOGA

Requirement for first initiation. Duration: one year. Cost: 30 soles per month.

BHAKTI SASTRI

Requirement for second initiation. Duration: one year and a half. Cost: 60 soles per month.

BHAKTI VAIBHAVA

The first six Cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam. Universitary Level. 

FIRST MODULE: PADA PADMA (The first two Cantos of SB) Duration: a year. Cost: 60 soles per month.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Chosica Mandir

Children between 3 and 12 years old. Aimed to the children of devotees and general public.

Free. Donation of 5 soles per month for application sheet and fruit offering.

NORMS OF FUNCTION:

• NIMSAR is an educational institution that seeks to be authorized by ISKCON Perú, and seeks to be an ASA branch (Anjana Suta Academy - Hanumatpresaka Swami) whose GBC is Tamohara Prabhu.
• Meetings of the Board of Directors will be monthly, every first Dvadasi of the month.
• Reports to the NIMSAR lead member, H.H Hanumatpresaka Swami, our guide, will be one week after the board meeting. And every time he visit Peru, we will meet “face-to-face”.
• The written reports to the National Board of ISKCON Peru will be four-monthly, the last day of the month.
• Reports written to temples or cultural centers will be four-monthly, the last day of the month. And “face-to-face” meetings will be as required by the authorities.
• All NIMSAR activities will be scheduled between January and February; at the end of March the first report is presented to our authorities.
• At the end of the year, the annual work will be evaluated and the final report will be issued to the authorities.
• Permanent activities: Pada Yatra (July) and once and twice a year educational conversations. Bhakti Sastri, Pada Padma, courses, workshops, seminars, clases of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. Sunday school in Chosica.
• The duration of the Board of Directors shall be rotating among the members of the board of directors by voting and for a period of one year, finishing his/her period at the end of March of each year.
• Becomes member of the Voting Board, the person who engages and attends the meetings and submits their reports.
• The members of the Educational Committee have a degree of partial commitment and support in their areas of interest to which they have committed.
• Each member of the Voting Educational Committe provides a minimum monthly donation of 10 soles for basic administrative expenses and the rest is optional.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

President:
 

1. Have the representation of the General Assembly.
    
2. To represent the Association legally and formally and to have a vote of quality.
    
3. Organize and present a comprehensive work plan to ASA and temple authorities, listing the results required within the overall goal pursued.
    
4. Presiding over the General Assemblies.
    
5. To structure and submit periodic and annual reports to the Directing Council or the General Assembly.
6. Coordinate and promote the activities of the Board of Directors and the Association.
    
7. Exercise in the achievement of economic funds for the Association.
    

Vice-president: (Can be the treasurer or the secretary)
 

1. Replace the President in his temporary or final absences.
    
2. Coordinate with the President the activities of NIMSAR.
    
3. Maintain a constant knowledge of the operations and functions performed by NIMSAR
4. Participate in all the functions of planning in the short, medium and long term, involving themselves integrally in them.
    
5. Collaborate with the achievement of financial funds for NIMSAR.
    

Secretary:
 

1. To take charge of the correspondence and archives of the Association.
    
2. Coordinate together with the Board of Directors and teachers the start, duration of educational programs and inform, publicize and disseminate them.
3. To prepare a file of teachers with their students and census of the members of ISKCON, public in general and possible students.
4. To take care of the juridical matters of the institution, as well as the structural coordination of the same, in collaboration with the Board of Directors.
    
5. Record the minutes in a legally registered book.
    
6. Collaborate with the dissemination of the General Assemblies.
    
7. Collaborate in the coordination of the General Assemblies.
    

Treasurer:
 

1. Take NIMSAR accounting and manage its funds.

1. Collect dues and donations.

1. To elaborate a work plan for the obtaining of economic funds, previous approval of the Directing Council and ratification of the General Assembly.
    
2. Submit four-monthly an economic report. Produce an annual report of the financial status of the Association, or when is requested by a minimum of 5 teachers.

1. Have all members of ISKCON and people interested in taking the courses registered.

INTERNAL REGULATIONS OF NIMSAR:

• The Board relies on the Board of Directors whose main member is Humatpresaka Swami.
• The Board of NIMSAR approves the members of the Board, Board of Directors and Collaborators.
• The Board appoints the Board of Directors.
• The Board of Directors is composed by: President, Secretary and Treasurer.
• If a member of the Board is absent from meetings three times, without reasonable justification, he may lose his right to be a member of the Board of Directors.
• No one will defend their opinions based on their status or position.
• We will value all contributions whether we agree with it or not.
• We will keep the agreed agreements confidential.
• Each of us will respect any agreement we make.
• If a member of the Board behaves improperly will first orally sanctioned, the second opportunity will be in a writing way and at the third opportunity may lose their right to be a member of the Board.
• All the decisions are taken by the Board, preferably by consensus. If no consensus is reached, a vote is taken and the decision is taken by simple majority.
• No one can send any communication, make a deal, accept or organize a program on behalf of NIMSAR without the authorization of the Directory.
• All agreements, directives or resolutions must be in the minutes of the meetings. These minutes will be signed by all members and must be available to all for their consultation. No member can act on behalf of NIMSAR if it is not established in the Minutes.
• The Board establishes the mission and vision of NIMSAR, its educational philosophy and all legal matters before ISKCON and the State.
• Cooperation and communication are the bases of all NIMSAR actions.

APPROVAL OF AUTHORITES

• We sent this same first report about NIMSAR educational proposal to the Board of Chosica Mandir, Wilson Mandir and the National Board. And we maintain communication with both authorities, previously we raised this proposal orally and the authorities wish to support, they reacted favorably.
• This 21st May we will have our first personal conversation with P. Mathuresa, to whom we wrote as soon as we spoke with you of our proposal to reactivate NIMSAR. 

 HARE KRISHNA GURUMAHARAJji,

Please accept my most humble obeisance.

All glories to GURU and GAURANGA.

Hope your health is ok and I pray to Lord NARASHINGHA, to be always with you... At here we are eagerly waiting for the month of September to come so that we can meet you soooooooon! 

3:05 a.m. now at my place (Silchar). Tonight due to hot temperature I am unable to sleep, so I clicked to youtube (around 1:30 am) and on my uncle's demand (who is sleeping by my side) searched Srila Prabhupada's lectures in Bangla!

Accordingly, I found one and while hearing to that I slept. The climax was that His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada came in my dream!!

(This is for the first time I saw His holiness Srila Prabhupada in my dream)

I saw He came at ISKCON Silchar, giving lectures and I was somewhere there as His assistant. After that program, He came to someone's home and was taking rest during mid-afternoon (probably). I came to my home (which was not my present home also unknown to take rest) and didn't notice any of my family members there. When I went to meet Him again, (on the way I was thinking that it was KRISHNA's mercy that He came to meet me??) it was time for Him to leave for another place and I was helping in arranging things. 

Slowly slowly the time came for Him to depart and I started crying like anything? Even water was also flowing from my nose!!

With this pity condition, I was standing in front of Him and trying to tell Him something but didn't utter any word. My tears touched His hand and cheek. He was persuading me not to cry like that, but I could not control my tears.

In the midst of this situation, (when He was supposed to get into the car) I asked Him when shall we meet again? And he replied He remains busy but assured me that He will meet sometime. And by saying this He and one more senior Maharaj got to a car (Maruti 800 AC, sky blue colored) and departed. I was running behind the car and He turned back did namaskar and waved His hand. The car disappeared in the mob.

After that, I came back to that home where He took rest (broken from inside). A beautiful girl (of my age may be), came to me and she requested me to pluck some ornamental leaves for her. I was not paying heed to her request. She again requested me, I saw there were a little of the leaves available. While plucking I was arguing to myself that why I didn't tell Srila Prabhupada about the problems I am facing to do research with the meteorite and what are my plans to spread KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS with this research work.

Suddenly, that unknown girl started talking to me, she was questioning me that why I didn't take my own car to drop Prabhupada and why didn't I gave Him some money for His journey. I couldn't reply her as she was 100% correct!! I was feeling guilty and suddenly I woke up.

GURUMAHARAJji please forgive me if you are irritated by this mail. I am helpless It's only You with whom I felt I can share and so emailed you immediately and please provide me shelter at Your lotus feet.

Yours fallen servant,

Bhishambhar Gauranga Das

HpS - ASA ---- Very , very nice, letter.  Did Prabhupada give you any instructions?  Did you hear any of the instructions he gave during the lectures??

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj

Dandavat Pranam unto your lotus feet.

HpS - AGTSP!!   Our lettuce feet. We are still in the process of purification also.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu.

Dear Guru Maharaj,

On behalf of my father your disciple Krsna Swaroop Das, I beg for apology for his not being able to communicate with you frequently through this blog as he is not comfortable in handling techy stuff. He remembers you and prays unto your lotus feet everyday.

HpS - We are so happy to hear about him and youer Ashrama and community. Maybe he could write a few words about his Sadhana and Sankirtan and you could pass them.

Guru Maharaj I pray and beg to seek some answer for a question which has been a topic of confusion. As it is well known to everyone that Krsna, the Supreme Lord is omniscient and we as tiny fragments of Him have a freewill; a minute independence to choose. So does Krsna know "EXACTLY" what our choice will be???(say for example what I am going to eat in the morning 10 years from now on Jan 1st,2027). To me, it feels that the way Krsna "knows" is that He doesnot necessarily know all the details but as He knows our nature so chipping in a way He can narrow down to the most likely choice. i.e He does not know in the way 2+2 gives 4. But some devotees they argue that Krsna knows EXACTLY (all details with no room for other possibilities) what my choice will be everytime. This idea of theirs seems to me that it makes us like robots with no freewill at all. I feel there should be some (at least a tiny little) uncertainty (probabilistic way) associated with God's way of knowing things as we are also individuals with a separate identity and a freedom to choose. Some devotees even argue that the answer to this question is subjective i.e the answer depends on the individual's level of understanding. To me it seems like an excuse to avoid being caught wrong.

Please be merciful to me to explain and clarify this subject matter and let me know if I am wrong and kindly correct me. 

Dandavat pranam unto your lotus feet.

Hope it meets you in good health.

Expecting your merciful association.

Your fallen servant

Bishal

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna!   Very ancient, very contemporary and very important question. After our summary of our thoughts there is a list of references. I think you can find them all at www.jayarama.us/archives/abc-ndx.docx. We will post this answer in the Archives in our asa-encyclopdeia.

The soul is sat-cit-ananda, so it has free-will. It can do fun, interesting, things that even Krsna doesn't expect. The Gopis are full of unpredictable, intense, emotional states that even they can't predict, nor Krsna, but happy surprises.

Krsna, Krsna's Devotee and Devotional Service (Purnamasi Devi?) all come together and dance and no one can quite figure out who is in control.

We are growing. We can grow faster or slower. That is our choice. Krsna, us, no one knows our potential.

In the material world in the mode of ignorance we are forced to act. Our actions are predictable. Of course, one might be in the mode of goodness in his senses and mind and be in the mode of ignorance in his intellignce, heart, like a Buddhist, Mayavadi monk who is clean, honest, generous, but at heart is fixed in the conception that he will become the supreme, original, transcendental being, God. This is really stupid.

In the mode of passion there are some choices but the impulse act in a certain way is very strong.

In the mode of goodness we can actually make choices. Of course, they are being given by Mayadevi under the order of Krsna, so they may be material options, smoke the cigarette, don't smoke it. Then we set in motion ignorant, passionate or good reactions.

Maharaja Nrga, 10th canto, Krsna book, did lots of materially pious activities and he surmises that that led him to transcendental thought. Why not?  God creates this world so that by dealing with matter, plastic dolls, correctly we can come to deal with real babies.

Of course, Krsna has His free-will also. If we act submissively, friendly, under the modes of nature then He can give us transcendental choices or not.

O.K?

As far a the concepts of "chance, random events" occur in science, we find that the concepts are not clear. We heard that Bertram Russell, the Nobel Laureate, said that the concept of Chance is the most important concept in the 20th Century, because no one has he slightest idea what it means.
What is the etymology of the word?
A chance event is one whose cause can Absolutely not be Known, no?   Does such an event exist?   We have to have Blind Faith (see purport to BG 4.34) in this Axiom, Postulate.

If we accept this Godly entity, Chance, then the result is a philosophy of "neti-neti", no Not this, not this.  What is the Absolute Truth? It is not this, not this, not this; Absoute Ignorace, a Saiva, Nihilist or Mayavadi conclusion.

O.K?    Big topic.

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www.jayarama.us/archives/abc-ndx.docx
Free-will:
   allows chance to understand one’s relationship with God, SB 4.25.26 p
   allows one to change guna and karma in present life, SB 5.1.14 p
   in human life provides opportunity to get out of repeated birth and death, SB 1.16.9 p
   in material existence, SB 2.9.2
   of liberated souls, SB 1.6.37
   So even in the material nature there is a chance of an independent choice by the living entity, and according to his choice the material energy offers him different varieties of material bodies, SB 2.9.2,
   “The living entities are given freedom to make their choice…”, SB 2.7.49

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To: Hanumat Preshaka Swami
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 6:32 AM
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Dear Hanumat Preshaka Swami

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

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Hare Krsna, Prabhu,

AGTSP. Paoho.   Ekanatha gaura Das from Peru, no?  Who made this PPTX?    It is very concentrated. For whom is it meant?

To detailed for us to examine all the details.

We are always brought to the consideration that this is happening on different levels of consciousness. It was spoken at the end of Dvapara yuga. People and the universe were much finer then.

The yojana is a multiple of a finger width. Whose finger? What age?

For example, the earth is spinning on its axis at 1,000 miles per hour. Thus it covers 24,000 miles in 24-hours. It is like a top, but like a spinning top it also has a a precessional rotation with reference to the stars. This takes about 26,000 years.

Life of Brahma is 100 years x 360 days/year x 2000 divya-yugas/day x 4,320,000 earth-years/ divya-yuga = 31.104 x 10*12 earth-years.

Life of Brahma 31.104 x 10*12 earth-years / Life You-me 100 earth-years = 31.104 x 10*12 

If one recessional rotation takes 26 x 10*3 earth-years for us then that would be:

26 x 10*3 / 31.104 x 10*12 brahma years = .836 x 10*-9 brahma-years.

If a movie is changing frames at slower than 24-frames per second (critical flicker frequency) then we begin to see each frame. So if the recessional rotation of the earth's geo-magnetic field is spinning at such high velocity for Brahma loka, it would appear and act as a solid cone shaped mountain with its peak downward, no?

For Indra loka, Kuvera loka, there would be different relative "Critical Flicker Frequencies".

Do you see our perspective?

The analysis we see in the PPTX are all from the viewpoint of Bhu-mandalis like us, no?  We have other insane speculations based upon this different dimensional perspective that match up with the rings of oceans of different substances etc.

We can go to these different "Lokas", locus, locations, by pranyama etc.

Rasa-raja Das said that our cosmology was completely mental. Well, we graduate first place in psychology from the University of California in 1970 so that is our perspective.

For whom is the presentation intended?

hare krsna maharaj, PAMHO, AGTSP

its incredible to see that your grace puts so much effort to help others irrespective  of  their evolution level.

ASA - Whoop!   Whoop!    Oink!   Oink!

I am actuall mentally numb to write anything due to my own stupid behavior.

ASA - Numbki!

But SPOG arranged for circumstance leaving us no work on internet, so we thought its better to  write to Blog.

ASA - Supreme Personality of Blog-head.

It was surprising to see in node 7865  by Abhimanyu ji from Chile.

" Yes, if we artificially push Vaidhi bhakti, Japa for example, weeds can grow with the creeper and it can result in many crazy things.. I knew several cases of where people stole the tape of Prabhupada chanting the Gayatri mantra and listened to it and then went crazy."

Can you kindly tell us more  about " artificially pushing Vaidhi"...and how it can water the weeds.  Where does Srila Prabhupada write about it?

ASA - http://www.vedabase.com/en/cc/madhya/19/158   . . .   Is O.K?     Daksa worship the one true God, but he also wanted to hold the the Great King's Rod!

...till now our own assessment was we are just being little lazy/ unintelligent in pursuing Vaidhi bhakti. But your answer seems to direct about something else.

As you are our  guru (not Diksha guru) can you please tell us what rules/angas according to you are not artificial for us?

HpS - We don't live with you so much to give detailed advice, our mis-fortune, but finding a devotee who you can read and share your experiences with is one that we can all do, no?  We just read what they are reading each day at the Boise Temple and then Text our little thoughts, then look for a bigger Sanga once a week.

Of course, as much as we chant HKHKKKHHHRHRRRHH we are always making progress, First thing our of your mouth each morning HKHKKKHHHRHRHRRHH! 

horse victim upastha vegam

ASA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta         One thing leads to another. Seek the root of the sin. Then you can apply the Mantra, and the whole tree will be clean again.
If we are sincere for a long time, it means that our attachments are deep. Some of them are rooted in our ontological rejection of Krsna. Those are DEEEEEEEp!      NOI 7!
Usually our sins at this stage are not, something that has to be rejected. They are attachments based upon something valid. We just have to figure our what it is.

One devotee we know. She was always agitated sexually but following the principles. Them she had one more child, the one who seemed to be waiting to be her daughter, and she was never agitated after that.

What is the real cause of our sin?

Are we suppressing a real power?

Hi,  Guys!

What do you think of this?   Comments?  Did you submit your offerings?

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Vehicles

Hanumatpreṣaka Swami (Prof. H. H. Robinson)

We are very delighted to write for this second issue of Solaris. To our experience the first issue was very well received. We heard comments from around the world and so far it seems to fill a necessary position in the global cacophony. In it we were delighted to ride upon the empty boat in the chariot of the mind with a culture of happiness in the company of Dionysius and others. From our point of view it needs a more organized system of developing the theme and articles for each issue and a more explicit Editorial Board. This is like saying a crawler needs to become a toddler.

­­For this issue let us contribute that after reading Shakespeare, Solomon, Cervantes and Rama [Confucious, Journey to the West, Agatha Christie. . .] we have come to the conclusion that the ancient, mystical, religious Bhagavata Purana as relished in medieval Bengal is the greatest of all world classical literature.

George L. Harte, University of California, A Rapid Sanskrit Method, Motilal Banarsidass, Dehli, 1989

Preface

“It [sanskrita]is, like Chinese, Arabic, Greek and Latin, one of the few languages which has been a carrier of a culture over a long period of time. 

Thus, the variety of writings in it, and the quantity of those writings are staggering. . . . Kalidasa ranks with the greatest poets, Panini is without question the greatest pre-modern grammarian, the Mahabharata ranks with the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the Bhagavata-purana is among the finest works of devotion every written, being equaled in my opinion only by other works in Indian languages.”

David Haberman, Bhakti-rasa-amrta Sindhu of Rupa Goswami, Motilala Banarsidass, 2003

The Bhāgavata holds a particularly eminent position in the school of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism, for whereas other Vedantic schools produced commentaries on the Vedanta Sutra, the Gaudiyas consider the Bhāgavata as Vyasa’s own commentary on the Vedānta Sūtra.

The Bhāgavata is complete in 12-cantos, comprising about 18,000 verses. It systematically takes the auditor from the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, God, to his smiling face. This reminds us of St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s extensive number of sermons on the Song of Solomon wherein he describes that yes, with God there is the kiss of the lips, but first we must learn the kiss of the feet and then the kiss of the hand.

In his commentary on Srimad Bhagavatam 2.2.12 (http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/2/2/12), Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami writes,

“And as one gets free from the intoxication of sex indulgence by purification of intelligence, one should step forward for the next meditation, or in other words, the progress of meditation on the different limbs of the transcendental body of the Lord should be enhanced in proportion to the progress of purification of the heart. The conclusion is that those who are still entrapped by sex indulgence should never progress to meditation above the feet of the Lord; therefore recital of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by them should be restricted to the first and second cantos of the great literature. One must complete the purificatory process by assimilating the contents of the first nine cantos. Then one should be admitted into the realm of the Tenth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.”

We would be glad to join the readers of this article in a progressive study of theses first two cantos, and as we are freed from any unnatural sexual lusts we would like to go ahead with them through cantos 3-6. Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami recommended the first six cantos with the diploma of Bhakti-vaibhava and the final six as Bhakti-vedanta.

Encylopedia Britanica; Philosophy of Education, contributed by Harvey Siegel, Professor,  Department of Philosophy, University of Miami [https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy-of-education]

"The Western philosophical tradition began in ancient Greece, and philosophy of education began with it. …

The introduction by Socrates of the “Socratic method” of questioning (see dialectic) began a tradition in which reasoning and the search for reasons that might justify beliefs, judgments,

and actions was (and remains) fundamental; such questioning in turn eventually gave rise to the view that education should encourage in all students and persons, to the greatest extent possible, the pursuit of the life of reason.

This view of the central place of reason in education has been shared by most of the major figures in the history of philosophy of education, despite the otherwise substantial differences in their other philosophical views."

This reading of the Bhāgavata is not just lip-service, acquiring information, reasonable analysis, nor even poetical justification of life and its aims. Its challenge is that it will take us to the throne of God in the celestial world if we read it in the company of like-minded people and professors.

In the first Canto we see a Preface to the great work: What is the purpose of the work, under what circumstances is it written, what is the character of the author and what are the qualifications of the reader.

The situation described in the Bhāgavata is the end of the Age of Bronze, when Methusalah and others were living hundreds and even a thousand years (See Genesis 5:21–27) and the beginning of the Age of Iron when we a lucky of we live an active 100-years. Maharaja Parikṣit, principal student, is about to die. He was a highly moral, enlightened and powerful world Emperor and has now renounced everything to prepare for death. Sukadeva Goswami, a universally respected teacher of the time, only 16-years old, is selected to give the supplicant, and all of us, the properly enlightenment for this crucial moment.

SB 1.3.43

kṛṣṇe sva-dhāmopagate
 dharma-jñānādibhiḥ saha
kalau naṣṭa-dṛśām eṣa
 purāṇārko ’dhunoditaḥ

This Bhāgavata Purāṇa is as brilliant as the sun, and it has arisen just after the departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa to His own abode, accompanied by religion, knowledge, etc. Persons who have lost their vision due to the dense darkness of ignorance in the Age of Kali shall get light from this Purāṇa.

(http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/1/3/43)

Establishing the credentials and motivation of the teacher and student, the general need for such a text, in the Second Canto, Suka-deva Goswami actually begins his teachings with the Mantra:

oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

O my Lord, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

In the first three chapters he then describes the Absolute Truth as Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān, which we can translate as the progressive spiritual realizations through Pantheism, Mysticism and Monotheism. As we progress to the other ten cantos we will see a didactic organization that is extremely pleasing and practical to the modern systematic mind, also voluble as the highest quality of poetry. Please invite us to join you in this most congenial of studies.

SB 1.2.28-29
vāsudeva-parā vedā
vāsudeva-parā makhāḥ
vāsudeva-parā yogā
vāsudeva-parāḥ kriyāḥ
vāsudeva-paraṁ jñānaṁ
vāsudeva-paraṁ tapa
vāsudeva-paro dharmo
vāsudeva-parā gatiḥ

Synonyms:  vāsudeva — the Personality of Godhead; parāḥ — the ultimate goal; vedāḥ — revealed scriptures; …

Translation:  In the revealed scriptures, the ultimate object of knowledge is Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. The purpose of performing sacrifice is to please Him. Yoga is for realizing Him. All fruitive activities are ultimately rewarded by Him only. He is supreme knowledge, and all severe austerities are performed to know Him. Religion [dharma] is rendering loving service unto Him. He is the supreme goal of life.

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