Hare Krishna Maharaja
PAMHO AGTSP AGTHPS
I hope You are as well as is possible.
HpS - Without Srila Prabhupada's mercy we would have killed ourselves from beer, burgers and .... long ago! Even now we are struggling with more subtle intoxicating habits.
Please Maharaja, I ask You, please, forgive me the offenses that I have committed towards You and the devotees.
HpS - Only offense is that we all want more of your real association. Release the Carlos within!
I'm writing to share my 2020 annual report.
SUMMARY
- 16 nice rounds: 50%
- 4 principles: 65-70%
- Gotomeeting Mangalarati: 90%
- Gotomeeting SB classes: 70%
- Other HPS online activities: 80%
- Association with devotees: 80%
- Sankirtan: at least a couple of books by week
- Ekadasi: 60%
HpS - Hope you can ask how does this compare with last year.
ABOUT MYSELF
My inner life is in chaos and lately I've felt that my mind and heart are rotten. But thanks to Srila Prabhupada, H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami and the devotees, I can continue to stand up and resisting this material world and this Kali Yuga; likewise, thanks to all of you, I can continue trying to do something good.
I've been under intense stress cause family affairs, strong karma, but I think that I need to learn to be more tolerant and change my point of view and I know that all the problems and sufferings I've got are due to my own actions in the past, but it is so difficult to control the mind and also I've got a very big and intense ego and some times I've had suicidal thoughts again but I know that would make things worse, because all my suffering is in the mind and not in the body; and when those thoughts come to me I remember the words that I've heard come out from You: "(...) must suicided the false ego (...)". But, how difficult!, so much that it seems impossible;
in some situations I feel I can't take it anymore and the false ego begins to defend itself, it seems to me that it is something inevitable, at least in the level at which I'm and in certain circumstances. It seems so difficult for me to change my mind or how I'm seeing "the movie" because I'm so identificated with the story and what I think is my role. I would like (and I need) to create another point of view into my consciousness and new elements into the personality, ¿is that possible?;
off course, I know Krishna consciousness point of view is what I need to develop. I've realized, and I really want, that what I need it is to write a new movie story for me and for the rest of my life in this earth. Any idea for the argument or plot?
HpS - ASA -- ??? What books, movies, music do you like?
Our passionate Karma is attracted to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dSZD3YQ_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM .
We grew up in California, Arizona, and them have moved here to the area described in the second song. So, we see that the simple association with nice devotees, and personal Sadhana allow us to see our Karma in these songs and how Krsna is manifest in them. We have to turn our life into a movie. We need to defeat Maya in the world of Home Video.
I've thinking that I need some psychological help and therapy, so I decided to enter Claudio Naranjo's "Gestalt Alive School" (www.gestaltvivachile.com), I tried to enroll but they have closed the school and will see if they will open it for 2022, they said. So anyway I've to find some therapy that helps me to complement with my Bhakti Yoga process. I know You and Claudio Naranjo were friends, even he wrote in the first Solaris edition. Do you know or have any opinion about his method or propose and about his school?
I know they've got one campus in USA, New York or Berkeley, also Barcelona (Spain), Italy and other countries like Chile. Do you both meet in Berkeley University? Since over 10 years ago I'm interested in him and his line of work and I've read some of his books and they are real jewels for this times, one of my favorites is called "Changing Education to Change the World: A New Vision of Schooling", is a tremendous contribution to any professor or instructor and for parents and everyone in fact.
HpS - Aaaah! Immediate answer to my question. So, understand your passions and then see how regular reading of Srila Prabhupada's books and Mantras gives deep perspective on those. Connect your Passions to Krsna. You have to do it. No one else can do it for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85BvT5X6WSo
He talks even about East and ancient India and the Vedas connecting everything with differentes source of knowledgment and scholars and phylosophers from West of all times, and the greeks, egyptians, etc., like You do!
I think we probably can take some elements of his style to integrate to our preaching and also I think that maybe between his followers we can find some people interesting in Bhakti Yoga and the Krishna Consciousness. I really want to know what do you think, please Maharaja?
HpS - I think it may be very true. We had nice meeting with him. I can only help a little bit. write a draft for an article for Solaris.
SOLARIS & RODRIGO
But Krishna is so good and merciful, even with a stupid fallen like me, and this year gave me a new opportunity and I had the privilege of supporting Abhirama TD with Solaris and those months were a true oasis within my desolate psychological world. Working with Abhirama, the idea came up to publish a tribute to Rodrigo. Later, 2 of his best friends and members of the Colectivo Surrealista Derrame (Surrealist Collective Spillover: the most important in Chile during recent decades and of which Rodrigo was founder) joined: Enrique de Santiago and Sebastián Riveros (also from Dharma Comunicaciones, the publishing company and Rodrigo's communications agency). Later, and due to a Krishna's arrangement, Raúl Zurita also sent a text for the tribute and then so did Paula Miranda, so we are very happy because, in addition, this literary tribute to Rodrigo has a lot of feeling and now also academic support. I feel that all this confirms that Rodrigo, besides being a genius, is a great soul. Also, and by recommendation of Abhirama, we will publish an offprint (separata) of this tribute, which we want to distribute among those close to Rodrigo and into the academic and literary circuit of Chile. This offprint publication, which will be like a thin book, begins with a beautiful and heartfelt preface written by Jagad Guru Das.
HpS - Very nice. When we think about people there is an influence in their life, no? His next birth is wonderful. Yes, maybe something in Solaris!!
Working for Solaris I was able to connect with inspiring inner places and wrote some poetry and other short texts. I wrote a poem thinking of You, Maharaja, a poem inspired by You and dedicated to You, it goes at the end of this message (I felt it and wrote it diretctly in english). Please, Maharaja, forgive me cause I'm asking You to be merciful with me again and, please, accept this poem as an offering for Your 2021 Vyasa Puja.
SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE WEB
HpS - Hare Krsna. We have to stop reading and commenting on this letter here, for today. Not that it is not very nice, but because we have limited human capacity, our eyes and bran and heart will get over loaded. We have like 65-Vyasa puja letters! Ooof. Annual Reports that are not posted in the Report section of this Blog page don't count. Gotta post them there.
We are not the Paramatma, Srila Prabhupada said. Then he said, when I need to know something about a disciple, Krsna informs me and usually externally.
Then he said (Hansadutta Das told us) that the spiritual master (devotees) does not do anything unusual. He gives lectures, chants Kirtan, but THROUGH him, the Paramatma does many things.
People will look at a devotee and have a fantastic experience. He is not doing it, but Krsna has chosen to use him. So, pray to Krsna, Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, and write with some more of the news later. We will leave it so others can read it. Thank you very much. You are very dear to all of us. Very. Just need to go on as fast as possible.
As I already mentioned in a previous letter (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11379/), during June we took up again the Anjana Suta Academy Chile Instagram account (one of the most influential social networks currently). Instagram is not a "Graham Cookie", but in most cases it does work as donkey food, although we try to put it to better use. From a few months ago, we have not published as much content as we were able to do during the first months, but we do continue publishing information about Your daily SB classes, other online programs You participate and some summaries of Your classes. Besides, we publish the classes by Vaishnavis every monday and by Prabhu Srinivasa et al. every friday. All this with the daily supervision of Arjuna Das, the blessings of Abhirama TD and Anandamaya Das, with whom I have spoken to inform them about this service and they have given me their blessings and very good suggestions that we hope to be able to apply soon. We have also been in contact with Ambarisha Das and we have published different content on Instagram informing about the ASA Audiovisual YouTube channel to direct users to the videos of Your classes and Your different online programs. Since August 4, another Instagram account managed from Argentina by your disciple Jahnava Devi Dasi (who has done and still doing a fundamental job, with an unparalleled surrender to You) began to operate where the same content is published, but contextualized to the local public. Please, Maharaja, we need to know what do you think about this service for You and if You agree and if we are able to receive Your official authorization to keep doing it or you prefere to stop or modificate/integrate some element. You can check these social networks in the following links:
www.instagram.com/anjana.suta.academy_chile
www.instagram.com/anjana.suta.academy_argentina
WIKIPEDIA
As I mentioned in that same previous letter (https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11379/) the Spanish version of Dr. Samaresh's biography is available on Wikipedia since approximately 6-7 months ago, but the English version has been rejected on several times and now, recently, they rejected again because they found some version of the text that I sent to You a few month ago for revision through this MNK WRRR blog; so, we are thinking a new strategy to continue untill to get it. We hope to resolve this soon; it has taken more than 1 year since You gave me this instruction, please excuse me, but they are very strict especially for English articles, we have realized that they have another standard of demands much more severe than for to publish articles in Spanish. Going back to the Spanish biography, the main photo of Dr. Samaresh was removed from the article due to copyright issues, so we need a photo of the professor that is free of copyright, ideally a current photo, we hope it is possible. And about the english article, I think I've got to write a new text, completely new, based in the information I've got about professor, and I also think will be better that some NIOS member could help me in some way (eg. reviewing the new bio I'll write), because I'm not an expert in enghlish lenguage at all (and I'm very far from it), even I'm not an expert in spanish lenguage yet, but I will. Please, Maharaja, give me one more chance.
You can review the spanish biography accepted by wikipedia in the following link:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaresh_Bandyopadhyay
Even they sent back the MNK WRRR link into their response fundamenting the rejection. I copy now the text they sent:
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OTHERS
- I've been translating Rodrigo's latest book into English, approximately half of it is done.
-In relation to editorial matters, thanks to Your disciple Pyari Mohan Das, I've been involved in all the editions of “Molinos de viento” (windmills) magazine, reviewing the texts and doing style correction.
- The last time I tried to translate You in one of Your classes, I did it so badly and then I felt terrible, I just wanted to be swallowed up by the earth, but then I had a realization that brought me calm: my service is not to speak, my service to Krishna is to write, just writing, at least for now.
- I really would like to know if there are another specific service that You need and I can help, eg. ASA Encyclopedia, or documents or books translation from english to spanish, or whatever You want for me, please, Maharaja, I want to be able to serve you better this year in those affairs that You really need (for example: I can support in some way the interviews book project), please, Maharaja. I just want to be your servant and I really want to be a good monkey this year and untill the end or forever; to be a good monkey is my new goal and life purpourse (too much karma acumulated being a bad monkey and naughty , and I don't want it any more).
Thank You so much dearest Maharaja for allowing me to do these services. All these activities that I've exposed in this report and that have been a refuge for me, are exclusively due to Your mercy, although I don't have even the minimum qualification, still You and Your disciples allow me to try to do something.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami!
HARE KRISHNA!
Your aspiring servant,
Carlos Rold
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VYASA PUJA 2021 OFFERING
On Your Behalf Envoy
(for Hanumatpresaka Swami)
Just keep trying
I will still trying
Your words are flying
Within heart Your Names rhyming
While brains burning
Mind is running
And ego expecting
Intelligence rising
Consciousness watching
We, spirits in transit
My love is waiting
For soul is coming
Tongue is claiming
Naming You
Breathing You.
Your sight is hiding place
To side the perfect sage
With lotus feet and face
You sent to let us try again
In eternal time the game
For spread Your Holy Name
And human race
Set free from be slave
To material desires that have no sense
Thus the goal for existence
Feeling being a deep sentence
Your shelter need I won’t offense
For a chance myself is melted
Remembering You
Hoping for You.
His spiritual master´s messenger
From eternity passenger
Ilusion voice doesn't listen her
Material living way just forsaken
Then never feels the same
Big monkey forces invokes day by day.
He never be defeated and no betray
I just want to serve
To Your behalf envoy every day.
