All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All Glories to Gaura Bhakta Vrinda!
Please accept my obeisenses gurudev, hope you re ok. There is some time dont writing to you. Here we continue trying to improve our service, we are doing some bhaktivrisa meetings. Also some programs with yoga students in there houses with basic class much harinam chanting,bhajans and of course prasadam.
Workin in the evenings in an office, also giving yoga classes in the houses of the people, a bit stressed of fast city rythm of life. Havin nice relationship with my wife, the worship of gopalji, jaganatha,baladev nd subhadra nd prabhupadas murti is helping us so much...i was thinkin to put at the side of gopalji a photo of radha beeing a little girl, what do you think about it?.
with my wife we are helpin to organize the bhakti sastri seminar here in bs as, now prepearing a class about prabhupadas mood and mission. Studin fitotherapy nd chinese medicine, Making a satyananda yoga profundization course, also making many maha mantra bhajans with the yogis.
Gurudev i want to ask you a doubt that i have these last week....since 10 day there is here in buenos aires visitinng a devotee named vaisnavacharya chandan goswami,he is very nice and sweet, and his katha is very profound. He was giving a class in Iskcon temple nd many houses of mostly iskcon devotees. he is the son of Padmanabha goswami from the radha ramana temple and also his disciple.
how is it that disciplic sucesion goes? its legitime gaudya disciplic sucesion? Also he is here in buenos aires initiating many many devotees, with very diferents requirementes form iskcon. Also he reinitiated some disciples of hrydayanand maharaja nd other Iskcon gurus. Also i heard he said that reinitiation is bonafaide cause its a diferent school. what do you think about that? Also he gives 2nd initiation not brahminical initiation nd giive gopal mantra to his disciples its the same gopal mantra we chant in the gayatri?
Hope i could see you in vrindavan in kartik,we were taLking with ambarisa nd vicky to go with you to manipur is there any special requirement at these time to go there? sorry for so much questions!
Look at these video gurudev http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAJby1NR--M is very nice, is madhavendra puris pastime made with puppets.
yr servant,
madhavendra puri das
Hare Krsna, AGTSP. Pamho. Is so nice to hear from you. We are like someone find water in the desert. Thank you for the news. So many activities in the Sankirtana movement but the most essential is chanting 16-good rounds. I have to tell myself that all the time also! We are still in Tennessee. News in other Blog Posts. Your Yoga effort seems like good way to approach people. Keep praying in the mood of Srila Prabhupada, his books, to intensify your service. More intense, more intense!
Devotees in Peru were also asking if I knew anything about Chandan Goswami. I asked Krsna-ksestra Prabhu, he did so much research work in the Radha-raman Temple for his PhD and knew the devotees, there well. He said that Prabhu is nice person, favorable to ISKCON devotees. As I remember he felt there was no objection to him giving classes in homes of devotees. Of course, giving official classes in the Temple is the decision of the local Brahmanas, President in consultation with others.
The way you are describing him giving initiation seems wrong to me, of course, I am not the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so my opinion is my opinion and although it seems to to be pretty good it certianly is not closed to understand new facts.
Devotees like Prabodhananda Sarasvati were initiated in Sri Sampradaya as far as I know but then took shelter of Gaudiay, Lord Caitanya Sampradaya. I don't think they took Diksa again, another Mantra. Prabhu is in succession from Gopal bhata Goswami and this is bona fide as far as I know, but I think it is very important for everyone to stay very fixed under Srila Prabhupada's feet in thei preaching in the modern, Western world. So, giviing classes, giving advice, infromally being very intimate Siksa guru, this seeems like it might be fine. I don't know the details of Prabhu's comprehension of BG, SB, NOD et al. But giving Diksa, this seems that it should be done in good perspective of Srila Prabhupada as an empowered Acharya for the Western world. We could even go so far as to say, maybe the FOREMOST Acharya for the Western world.
The Gopal gayatri is the same as we use as far as I know. All Gaudiya vaisnavas use the same.