Sunday Morning Srimad Bhagavatam class, reading Sri Caitanya Caritamrta. On coming Sunday (May 19, 2024), we will continue reading CHAPTER Eight: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya, verses 8.71 onwards.
Thank you to H. G. Lakshman Prabhu for doing translation for class on May 12, 2024.
It is the mercy of Maharaja, to engage everyone in reading books of Srila Prabhupada.
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Upendra dasa
Hare Krishna!
Dear Guru Maharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to you.
Gurudeva, I wanted to say thank you.
I am making some advancement and I owe you very much for this.
I know I could not pay you back but I do desire to try. I am trying my best by waking up everyday at 3:45am, chanting 16 superbly attentive rounds,
following 4 regs
and dancing at Mangala aarti.
My rounds are done before 9am. Our morning program is pretty much like clock work, and I am working on going deeper.
I am very determined to spread KC in Dallas here to westerns. We have programs specifically targeted for this demographic and we are finding some success. Even more targeted is I am working to spread KC with youth. I have signed up for one of the NA leadership initiatives and Youth is my initiative I have chosen to be part of.
I figure this works very in line with my current preaching endeavours at Krishna House Dallas. We have a nice group with Manoram Prabhu, Malati Prabhu, Kalakantha Prabhu and Sangara Thaukur Prabhu. I think this is a great opportunity for me to work with and see some nice devotees in action.
Gurudeva, I really don't want to leave anything on the battlefield when I leave this body. Besides FMP and my service, I have read 9 books in the last month on communication, leadership, sales and wealth.
We will read Art of War soon.
I don't plan on slowing down with this.
I was told recently, a little over a month ago, that I have so much more potential than what I am giving. That stung but at the same time it started a fire within me, challenge accepted.
Since then, I have felt more alive in my KC than ever. I see more clearly my service, an amazing increase in my ability for it and my better character. I am a coach, a teacher, like you said 15+ years ago.
I don't want to do anything less than giving my everything for Srila Prabhupada and you. However, Gurudeva, I want to be transparent in my endeavor with you. If you have any concerns or adjustments, you would like from me please tell me. If you would be so kind please bless me that I can be the best leader, communicator and most importantly servant that I can be for Srila Prabhupada.
I am looking forward very much to seeing you in Houston, if Krishna allows me to live that long.
Haribol,
Your servant on the battlefield, boots on the ground,
Nanda-braja das.
HpS - AgtSP!!
You are such and example to us!
seen this? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xWTNiznnrc
2.06 - "It's just a game!"
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Thank God, even us dogs, bears, can take part and dance in ecstacy.
Hare Krishna Gurudeva
Please accept my obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
We continue fighting, this mind I have is very demonic, but without a doubt the process of Krishna consciousness helps to control it through spiritual intelligence [3.43]
HpS//ASA - Wonderful!!
I have interacted with devotees from other Vaishnava schools, it has been nice to be able to appreciate their service. I don't share some things with them, philosophical topics and I think that if at some point they invited me to listen to a class at their school, I would avoid doing it, but if I share Kirtan, it is what unites us, and well, prasadam too (but making sure which does not have garlic or onion.)
Since February I have been making a contribution to the ISKCON Chile temple, and also to NIOS Chile, for whatever purposes they deem appropriate.
I took a Vedic counseling course, they teach the basis of the most important Vedic sciences: jyotish, ayurveda, yoga and vastu. It's in English, so it helps me put a little more effort into learning the language.
My musical and preaching project on social media is having good results. I am adapting the maha mantra to popular songs and it is attractive to people, also devotees.
Thank you Gurudeva for accepting me in your program again.
My obeisances
Your servant
Piyari Mohan das
ps: I share a photograph of today's program (April 30, 2024), we are going to complete almost 2 months with weekly meetings. In the image Álvaro and his son Maximiliano. They are steady and enthusiastic.
HpS - Thank you!! THANK YOU! . . .
Pray, HK///HR, that Krsna puts a Brahminical column in your preaching efforts!!!
Hare Krsna!!
Best wishes bringing all your disciples back to Goloka!
April 28, 2024
Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,
Pamho, AGtSP!
As requested, the short review of “Acara O Acarya,” a book by Sri Cakravarti, translated by Bhumipati Dasa, completed earlier this year in time for Maharaja Bhaktisiddhanta Swami’s 150th anniversary, a perfect time to reflect.
This subtle, enlivening book contains 30 questions on the Science and Art of Bhakti Yoga, applied with bonafide Vaishnavas, three actual Goswamis, and a couple of advisors, who separately correspond and comment on all of the queries. It is quite a voracious dialogue humbly submitted with Sastric references.
The questions are designed to eradicate misconceptions among devotees and posers. They reveal minute faults hidden in flowery words and popular misbeliefs and reinforce proper practices. All in all, the book shares the accomplishments of empathy versus strict sadhana practices, creating some forethought for advanced devotees and piquing the minds of neophyte devotees for aspiration.
The mood of gracious critique is not always quickly comprehended, so it is a volume that more mature devotees will appreciate and sincere, competent theists may also absorb.
Knowledge is power, and understanding it is perfection.
Thank you for your valuable time.
ASA - Great, but where is it available? How did you get it???
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Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva AGTSP PAMHO ☺️
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ASA - Wonderful! This should go into the Guinness Book of Records!
Wonderful!! You life is 97% perfect, no?
