hare krsna maharaj, pamho, agtsp
jaya gaur bhakt vrinda,
HpS - ASA - Jaya AGTSP. Paoho we were writing this letter and then Bh. David came in to say good-bye and it got lost??? David is very nice devotee who visited from Denver. Now is 5.53PM, Thursday, 31 November, he is leaving for Denver. We will answer like one or two more letters here then bath, Japa, Yahoo mail and go for initiation in Temple.
... little update on question asked by u in node 3508
Our son's would be 2 yr on kartik poornima, his Legal Name is Parikhshith Pradhan.
HpS - So, 17th November is anniversary of Maharaja Pariksit.
My guide has changed, there is lot of progress, but still not yet to give us thesis.
HpS - Very nice!
india is changing, lots of materialism keeping in, it seems india is 25-30 yrs behind USA. so u can say India is USA of 1985.
HpS - We remember that at that time there was a lot of impersonalism. Everyone was becoming absorbed into electronic toys. Palm-pilots, etc. Their sense gratification and relations on sense gratification all had this impersonal, electronic nature.
regarding see you in february, we were thinking to come to Mayapura or Vrindavan or lucknow, mostly we would try to bring espousa y hijo also.
will it be possible for u to give date by date travel plan
but can not commit as of now
seems ur india trip is quite short in duration, and may be lots of your disciples may accompany you. so in that we would prefer to come alone, lets us see what Nrsng Dev,TB,BW plans.
HpS - Let us stay in touch with details. Even today we had request to stay one more day in Mayapura for Ministry of Education meeting, so we might skip Lucknow and go directly to Delhi/Vrndavana. We really want to see you all then.
We are communicating with female disciple of Srila Prabhupada, who gives classes in e-sanga, on regular basis, she has accepted us as Siksha Disciple. We are getting lot of help from her, it is very personalize.
HpS - M. Urmilla Devi Dasi, no? She is here with us all for the last week on this educational development in Houston. Like six hours a day of meetings.
You both are our eyes to help to move on path chalked by Srila Prabhupada.
I think we would become formal aspirant by 1 feb 2014. Jaya!
we wanted to ask you things about preaching.
i. what is motto of our preaching? is to convert people to Hare Krsna faith ?..we are asking this because we are meeting people who already have some spiritual back ground. some body is islamic, some body follows SB but not it line of Mahaprabhu etc etc
HpS - ONe answer is from the INtro to the NOI. We are learning how to help Lord Caitanya spread the science of Krsna consciousness. So, somebody may know physics from Japan and somebody else from Germany, but if they are sincere then they are all exchanging information. If someone is a sincere Christian he will naturally have lots of interest in ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada's SB, and we in his knowledge.
Those who just take religion from materialistic, nationalistic tradition, we try to help them by quoting from Acharya and Sastra if they want to here this.
They don't have to follow our Parampara.
ii. we give books to people, they hear conception from SB like epistemo from ISO, What is know from SB 1.1.1, 3 aspects fo reality SB 1.2.11, 24 elements etc etc... what is the next step ?and where do we stop.
HpS - We can give LOB, NOI, BIO of Srila Prabhupada, BIO of Lord Caitanya from INtro to SB. We can give book, Teacings of Lord Caitanya (four dialogs (good for scholars)), then start Bhakti-sastri studies... never have to stop.
iii. we some how are not able to convince people of chanting as yuga dharma, we can convince of ideal sociology, VAD, etc but not chanting.
HpS - I guess they have to experience it from Prabhupada.
we are reading mathews in bible with espousa, chaptr 6 and 5 are very heavy and helpful to us.
HpS - Jaya! Hallelujah!
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Matthew 5
King James Version (KJV)
5 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth...."
.... I hope we get some more time to read this!
,harsh
HpS - SUch nice news!! We hope that you can get in touch with Goloka education, Ramagiridhari and Prana Das when they return to Mumbai. They are in New Mumbai. We have LOTS of work to do.
Can you contact Girivaradhari Das and then find our from Dr. Bandyopadhyay which are the universitys that we should contact first. We need a list of about 40 to start with. Then we can send a promotional flyer to them for the Felicitations volume. Send the news of this to this Blog! Use Category A for the category. Thank you so much!!