Narottama's Yearly Report

1 day, 22 hours ago by narotam_armijo in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaja

AgtSP

PAMHO


I`m very happy, I fell that this year that is coming to an end was more than beneficial fro my spiritual life and my material life, at the start in January I was quite exciting for my new life in Germany, I got a work in a honey company called "Madhu" and I lived with a devotee called "Ananda Vardhana" which is very funny once you realize that both my dad and the company of my dad have the same name.


But that emotion went away fast and very quickly, one of the first things that I discovered was that for me is very important to have family or people "like" family around me, otherwise I fall in a a sort of depression, and those three months working under that company and living (by that time I was renting another place just living with non-devotees) alone was hard, German winter is not famous for being kind to human beings, In April my happiness came back with Sun and the cold winter was over.


After that I also started to realize more deeply what is my Varna, that realization came when I discovered that I can`t work or put myself under someone that I don`t respect or appreciate,

and the owner of that company was neither of those and therefore working there was exceptionally hard for me.


I keep that job till legal end that I was allowed to work (six months) and right after that I went to a Ratha Yatra in Berlin, was amazing I love Lord Jagannatha, he always is with me and he always take care of me, he is my best friend and the most dear person in my life, after that I traveled to Portugal with an Erasmus program funded by the European Union. (Basically that Union pays to young people to travel free to many places that the program covers.)

The wife of Ananda (her name is Kanu Priya) is directing and organizing some of those projects and she kindly invited me to travel there. There I meet Lalita and all the drama after wards.


And after everything naturally ended I went to live in a temple in the south of Germany, close to the border with France Goloka Dhama, they have a wonderful place there, with beautiful deities and excellent devotees. I`m still in love with that holy place but now the separation is stronger. that happened in the month of September. I made a lot of devotee friends there and my devotion was renewed after having some devotees of my age around. That experience made me wonder why there is so few devotees of my age in general. During that time also I discovered more about my Varna while i was having a conversation with a Brahmacari, to not make it too long basically I was telling the problems in certain aspects of ISKCON and how to solve them, I asked him "you never thought how to solve this and that?" thing that he asked "Never usually I think on them and I just pray" for what I remember and well also other realizations but they can wait in another letter, but in a short resume I discovered that most likely I have some strong Ksatrya nature.


After it I went to live in a temple in France, New Mayapur, also a very nice place but organize by French people, so as you can imagine every thing is open to debate. The deities are wonderful, the people and the place also, is actually a Castle and use to be a medieval one till the family of knights that lived there made some heavy remodulations and after was sold to the devotees. I stayed there till the first or so of November.

Then Spain and Back to Chie were I'm staying at the moment with my family, I'm doing Sankirtan to maintaining myself and giving some of the most needed literature in this planet and this time.


I`m quite happy now seeing in which aspects I improved from last year and having more clear which ones I can improve now, also de idea and opportunity is for taking second, and I'm also seeing the chance of being a online teacher of languages.


I discovered an attraction that I have for photography and writing, I hope you could read what I have done till now. I will try to attach some pictures.



I'm very happy to be able to see you soon.

Hoping that your body is in good shape I hope to see you soon Narottama Dvija Das.


HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Is long but nice.

Srila Prabhupada is making us heros.

Hare Krsna.

Very interesting to hear your news.

Is 12.45am here in Tennessee. Must start 16 rounds before Mangala arati.

Every day is battle to serve Krsna, no?