HK Maharaj! PMAHO AGTSP! How are you??? Are you still in the US? How’s your health doing? Were those earphones your disciple got you good for you?

HpS/ASA - We are Camping at ISKCON Houston. Look at Calendar posted today, please. 🙂

Health is like yours. Very good for a 77 year old Hippy to Hare body.

Earphones do help for more formal conversations, classes, private listening to media. Thank you!!

I was watching a podcast of yours the other day, the Nama Rasa Podcast. I liked the class :)

HpS - So did we. Youtuve Nama rasa is a real triumph for Srila Prabhupada's movement.

How’s the preaching going over there in the states? How do you see the organization in the US temples?

ASA - 🐷 - Very mechanistic. Sankirtan in the streets and malls is accomplished by some really empowered souls. Patita pavana and Jaya Hari Das, Bhakti Lan Sing, here in Houston, Mahotsava Das and Bhakti vikasa Swami devotees, to our knowledge.

BIG BIG opportunity for devotees in their professional relations to become known as members of ISKCON and then gradually preaching, showing, to their professional contacts.

Jehovah's Witnesses. Mormons and Hare Krsnas.

What to they stand for???? Have they got any good idea.

A wave may come at any moment. Gotta know your stuff from study and practical experience.

Like so man places the real door to door is IP Address to IP Address.

There something I would like to comment you about: sometimes I see a real lack of motivation from some devotees here in the temple of Buenos Aires, not in the service in which I do participate (Harinam), but for instance the Prasadam, I used to donate organic grains and some other stuff in order to the devotees can take better care of their health, and now I’m giving another dakshina because my economy is not as good as it used to be.

And I see the devotees not making a real effort to take care of their health, with just 30 hours of sankirtan they can earn the Lakshmi to afford a whole month of organic goods.

And IDK [?] why they are not doing it. Is there anything you think I might be of any help for them to improve their sense of responsibility?

HpS - Talk to them with reason. If that doesn't sink in, try to talk to the leaders. In any case preach by example. They are people.

Another thing I don’t quite understand, most of the devotees don’t pay real attention to Ayurveda until they get cancer, why is that? They eat refined flour, white sugar and white rice, and in spite of they knowing really well that is not good, they still consume that.

HpS - They have their blind spots. You and I have ours. We cannot see ours. They cannot see theirs.

Sometime ago I began watching self devolopment gurus podcasts and learned a lot of stuff: how to set myself goals, how to keep a routine, how to keep a track of my completed habits, how to be consistent. And I think some things we should ask to Krishna for certain things. I see a lot of things that I have to improve in my life, and whenever I feel something is spiritually good for me, I ask Krishna for it, and He helped so much.

My point is that I feel a lot of devotees are just content with what they have, even if that’s not the best for them, and they get stuck in that step.

HpS - Show them the higher life. Some of us will die with some of our attachments. Some are superficial, so look at their change of hear. NOI 6.

I’ve heard the other day that I keep listening to: avoid people who have no goals in life, we cannot change them, and seek the association of those who have goals and pursue them.

Can we apply that to our spiritual life in any sense?

HpS - Yes. 😃 More important than Immediate Goals is Priorities. Get up early and get your rounds done!

thank you very much for always replying my letters, please keep us in your prayers.

HK!!

Federico Molnar

HpS - 6.35PM Wash our face, hands, mouth, Tilak and rush to Temple. See you there in anveSaka WhatsApp.

Thank you!❗❗❗

Get initiated by a bone fide spiritual master and be engaged by s(he)it in worshipping the Deity. NOI 5

old letter--https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15715/

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,

AGtSP, PAMHO

Gurudeva asked --"is it to develop enduring friendship with these students? is one of them having curly hair, swarthy complexion, playing a flute, natural leader of rest?"

answer--

The purposes of ppt is

1. to establish concept "causeless" existENCE, it make more sense if it is Being than primoRdial soup. and we can develop relation with Being, He controls all causes.
2. our own self were heavily mis/un guided, where we criticized people, wasted youth in technical life, was not exposed to philosophy / vedic ideas... so we should give it to them
3. enduring relationship with student---some of them yes , but with idea of guiding them as service to ISKCON and SPOG
4. the curly black hair boy (natural leader) is manifesting themself as spiritual sparks, so we have to learn different emotions before we relate with curly black boy
5. we remember your words in University preaching , just go to Param-atma level, and then personally try to take to Bhagvan.

obeisances

HpS - Professor!!

Very best wishes.

If you look around, you don't see anyone more empowered than you to teach certain things to your current circle of acquaintances.

Amar ajnaya guru haya.

It is now 😎 6.20PM.

Just finished, after 45-minutes, current Calendar.

Stomach, eye, back ache 🙂

Squeeze in one more Blog post and go to Temple!!

Join us???

Thank you so much for your help, guidance, friendship for so, so, many years past and we hope forever in the future.

CURRENT ASA CALENDAR

2025 August 5th

Daily

• 12.40AM - Rooster Crows!
• 12.50AM - 3.30AM -- Japa on line at https://meet.goto.com/898954813.
• 4.30-5.30 AM - ISKCON Houston Temple for Mangala arati, Spanish language reading of NOD, Tulasi Puja, Japa and little chatting at meet.goto.com/jayarama108-vip. Temple program is also at youtube.com ISKCON Houston.
• 5.30 - 9.45AM - Flexible. More Japa. Temple/Ashrama. Reading, preparing for class, class, breakfast, checking mail and meet with devotees, Calendar Development, SANKIRTAN. Napping.
• 6PM - 8PM - Maybe Temple program, meetings with devotees.
• 8PM - Radha Natabara, Nitai-gaura-sundara Das, Zoom Group, about three to four times a week.
• 8.40PM - Sleeep!

Regular Events

• Sunday Festival.
• Presenting SB Class Wed/Fri and one Sunday Festival a month.
• Bilingual SB Workshop with Upendra Das and HpS Sunday 7.30-9.00AM
• Hawaii SB class once a month at 11AM.
• Hearing Temple SB class live or online.
• ISKCON Board of Examinations Thursday 9.00AM

August

Camping in ISKCON Houston until 22nd.

22nd, Friday (until 13th September) Nashville, Middle Tennessee.

22nd - Pravine meet us at airport about three pm and go to The Boro.

23rd, Saturday - Join Ramesh et al Bhakta vrksa in the Boro.

30th Saturday - Ramesh unless it is rescheduled for next day.

31st - Radhastami in the Boro or with Yoga Soul [?] in Nashville!

September

• 3rd - Ekadasi
• 4th - Vamana/Jiva Goswami
• 5th, Friday - Bh. Vinode Thakura Appearance Day.
• 6th, Saturday - NIOS Board of Director's Meeting AM. House warming program in College Grove for Abhiseka Das and Family PM.
• 7th, Sunday - Vrndavana Forest with Gayatri Das et al, travel to Murari Farm Sunday evening with Parampara Das and camped there for one, two, three [?] days. Mooo!
• 12th, Friday - Back to the Boro.
• 13th, Saturday - Back to ISKCON Houston (Camped in the Gunja Room in the Sannyasi Ashrama, 3402 Radha Lane, Houston, Texas 77018 until mid December).

MIDDLE TENNESSEE trip has lots of room for development. We are working out transportation, accommodation. We have our 902 Hillcrest Camp which can maybe accommodate guests. We can stay in Grhastha ashramas but not alone in the house with ladies. Maybe visit Franklin while we are in College Grove. Visit Murari more often for day visits.

Accepting invitations for Mangala arati (Full Morning Service) and always inviting to join our ASA FMS at 902 Hillcrest Drive if not going out.

BODY, MIND, SPIRIT

• Body expected to be steady with hearing aid, heart medication and maybe cataract surgery for three to five years. After that expecting some more adjustments, new body. Maybe die at any moment.
• Mind less local awareness but Intellect developing.
• Hari-kirtan/Japa, Spiritual development advancing as Srila Prabhupada promises. Mostly like Hanuman in Kali yuga. Sitting on Arjuna's flagstaff. Roaring from time to time. Dreaming of Sankirtan. Responding to questions, invitations, sleep walking.

Involved In

• ISKCON Houston, Cinema Resources and Production Department, development with Dean Pablo, Master Abhaya Joshi and Temple Administration.
• ASA Encyclopedia with Srinatha Krsna Das.
• NIOS with Dr. Samaresha, Srinivasa Das, Abhisheka Das et al.
• Can go out for local programs if we are back in the same bed by nightfall.
• Maybe travel to ISKCON Boise, Richmond/Murfreesboro, ... ... Chile ... ... ... ... Spain/Radha-kunda....?.??.

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asa[e] jack trash by date.

note: jack london said that one had to write 10,000 words of trash before he could produce anything worth publishing, so start writing trash.

piggy commented that in monkey's case it might be 100,000 words.

Jack Trash 250728 5.42 ante meridian

agtSP - brown and white here.

my maternal uncle, bill birch, was a "he govinda/he gopal" birch tree bark stretcher in Warp World Nine.

he smoked stretched birch tree skins and then sold them to artists who painted scenes of Krsna and the Brajabasis on the the Yamuna: kaliya.. nanda maharaja returning from mathura after paying the tax...NM being kidnapped by the A-Gents of Lord Varuna...

he did not like monkeys in top-hats but thought they were alright as observers of the Rasa lila... if they stayed pretty quiet... and watched from the trees (on the branches) with their arms over each other's shoulders.

he was kind of tolerant that way.

• one day
• he got an
• order
• for one hundred birch bark panes from the folk in dvaraka.

he was Hari-Fied!

"go to dvaraka... from mathura?", he thought.

"Harry Bowl! Harry Bowl!"

(there was a Bowling Alley near his home in Mathura and he would go there when his mind was distressed and Bowl and chant, ".... KRSNA KRSNA, HARE HARE... KRSNAKRSNA HAREHARE"

... and escape from all angziety.

.

the owner of the place was Harry Murari.

so, it was called "The Harry Bowl"!

😖

uncle bill was not a coward... so he said good bye to his wife and family and other in laws who came to his little hut and palleted the panels on his back and made his way down through the dusty street to Awkmad's Camel Place and haggled for a rope lift to Dvaraka.

When it came through, he just had a harrowing moment to catch on and then the dust devil was off.

they roared an ripped over vast expanses of arid Savannah and Desert and eventually arrived with an unceremonious plop down in front of Sri Krsna coming out of one of the Palaces of one of His darling Princesses.

Sri Krsna looked a little worried like a man on the way to the laundromat with a complicated task begged by his wife.

and uncle bill was stumbling to pick up the birch panels, put his hat back in place and get outofsite-as-fast-as-possible:>... but it was not possible and Sri Krsna immediately stepped over and began to help him and then asked, "where are you going"?

Uh

OH

Ah

ooof!

"I'm looking for the art shop of Jhari-walla Rksa", squelched my Uncle,

and Sri Krsna said that He was headed that way and He would like the company on the walk and insisted on carrying some of the panels.

My Uncle expleted, "but you are God".

and SRI KRSNA responded, "So, what!

I'm God and you are Bill... What was it??"

"Birch"

"Yeahhh, 'Bill Birch'.

"I'm God and you are Bill Birch"

"but dvaraka is a much nicer place than the /islameo/judeo/christian heaven, no?

"yes", said my Uncle Bill, going into uh kind-uh auto pilot mindless slow motion panic!

"ooo OOO O O O AWkk!"

but Krsna just carried on talking about his domestic bliss. the visit of His mother-in-law and the seven challenges of Hercules.

by the time Uncle Bill reached the Art shop he was smiling a kind of iron smile and Jhari-walla Rksa kind of wrapped him around the shoulder and pulled in.

saluting Sri Krsna as He continued on toward the Eleven Days All Spices store.

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250730 3.06am

uncle birch sat in a tree that overlooked the nearby sea.

he'd helped Rksa Saab repair his fob, and categorize the art board.

now the sun rose of the scene

the monkeys all began to scheme

and chatter in the jungle.

forest.

it was early morning in dvaraka dhama.

the housewives made their song.

as they began to roll chapati-flour.

after leaving RS's shop, he'd in a little parkside stopped and bartered for bananas.

bunch he'd bought and slowly walked amidst the traffic clutter.

then finally the outskirts of Dvaraka city reached, and in this pleasant jungle beached.

ocean was about 1/2 mile away and he could hear the surf and smell the salty air.

the cawing sea gulls all the fish did scare.

caaaw caaaaw caaama lobha crodha.

the jungle animals made no fright.

they would come and sit quietly beneath his tree. share a few grunts and growls and then break free.

there seemed to be no hunger or thirst here unless KRSNA wanted.

-0-0-0-

time to put this JL Trash into a bottle and see who has to read this twaddle.

SELF PUBLISHING.

(Another kind of Self Publishing is to put the Twaddle/Trash into a fire)

Hare Krsna, Gurudev

PAMHO

AGTSP

AGTYOU

How are you, Gurudev? I'm still alive, by your mercy. Just fluttering for a while longer in this world.

By your mercy, and Srila Prabhupada's, I remain in the purification process (anartha nivritti). I think it could take me millions of lifetimes more (I'm like a very black coal, as Srila Prabhupada says), but the good thing is that by Krishna's grace, in one way or another, I'm staying alive, trying to become Krishna conscious.

Completing 16 rounds and 4 principles. Very weak morning program. I lost the "shakti" I had from your association ("borrowed feathers") and returned to mediocrity and instability in my sadhana schedule. I go to bed late and wake up late. My mind tells me that it's very important to you that your disciples get up at 4 a.m. every day... and I'm "massaging" myself. It's a daily struggle.

HpS - Then, agtSP, you will win.

I spend all day reading and trying to preach. Distributing books. Trying to recruit people to Srila Prabhupada's boat. These efforts don't have much effect because of my lack of purity.

HpS - ... and because you are trying to advise people in the prison to not steal?

But I keep going and going and going... what else can I do? I do it for my survival... If I don't read, preach, distribute books, etc., I fall into a "meaningless" life and wish to disappear into Brahman (hahaha).

ASA - Yes, after you see the material nature for what it is, then no job here seems useful. Painted fruits do not satisfy hunger. Preach and if we die, o.k. that is Krsna's desire.

Die and go to heaven??

The other day I heard a class from Srila Prabhupada, who said that only the grhastha has the motivation to earn money and progress materially... I felt very connected to those sayings... I don't feel any motivation for economic growth (artha), but I still have a lot of kama...

I only think about my old age and my material survival, even though I know that Krishna provides for everyone (eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman).

I try to stay motivated with small projects in Krishna consciousness, so that my mind survives and I don't wish for the soul to leave the body.

The book distribution is going well. June and July were fully occupied.

Well, Gurudev, I wish you a happy Balarama Purnima, Janmastami, Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja, and Radhastami.

I love you so, so much. Thank you for appearing in my life.

You are my window into the possibility of becoming fully Krsna conscious and spiritually happy. I want to follow in your footsteps. Give me your mercy (I know you're giving it to me...)

Haribol!!!

Deva Vrata das

HpS - Do not mistake the mailman for the correspondent! 🙂 We are doing a little, but the UruKrama, big worker is Srila Prabhupada, Panch tattva and Radha Krsna, no?

Distribute Book

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Hare Krsna Gurudev

PAMHO

AGTSP

AGTYOU

¿Cómo estás Gurudev? yo sigo vivo, por tu misericordia. Aleteando un tiempo un más en este mundo.

Por tu misericordia, y la de Srila Prabhupada, me mantengo en el proceso de purificación (anartha nivritti). Creo que puede llevarme millones de vidas más (soy como un carbón muy negro, como dice Srila Prabhupada), pero lo bueno es que por la gracia de Krishna de una manera u otra me mantengo vivo tratando de volverme consciente de Krsna.

Cumpliendo 16 rondas y 4 principios. Programa matutino muy flojo. Perdí el "shakti" que tenía por tu asociación ("plumas prestadas") y volví a una mediocridad e inestabilidad en los horarios de sadhana. Me acuesto tarde y me levanto tarde. Mi mente me predica que para ti es muy importante que tus discípulos se levanten todos los días 4am... y me "maseo" a mí mismo. Es una lucha diaria.

Me mantengo todo el día leyendo y tratado de predicar. Distribuyendo libros. Tratando de sumar gente al barco de Srila Prabhupada. Son esfuerzos que no causan mucho efecto por mi falta de pureza. Pero sigo y sigo y sigo... ¿qué otra cosa puedo hacer? Lo hago por mi supervivencia... Si no leo, predico, distribuyo libros, etc... caigo en un "sin sentido" de la vida y deseo desaparecer en el brahman (jajaja)

El otro día escuche una clase de Srila Prabhupada, que solo el grhastha tiene motivación para ganar dinero y progresar materialmente... Me sentí muy reflejado con esos dichos... No siento motivación alguna para el crecimiento económico (artha) pero todavía tengo mucho kama...

Solo pienso en mi vejez y mi supervivencia material, aunque sé que Krsna mantiene a todo el mundo (eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman)

Trato de mantenerme motivado con pequeños proyectos en conciencia de Krishna, para que me mi mente sobreviva y no desee que el alma abandone el cuerpo.

La distribución de libros va bien. Junio y julio estuve plenamente ocupado.

Bueno Gurudev, te deseo un feliz Balarama purnima, Janmastami, Vyasa puja de Srila Prabhupada y Radhastami.

Te quiero mucho, mucho. Gracias por aparecer en mi vida.

Eres mi ventana de que se puede lograr volverse plenamente consciente de Krsna y feliz espiritualmente. Quiero seguir tus pasos. Dame tu misericordia (sé que me la estás dando...)

Haribol!!!

Deva Vrata das

ASA - Nehabikramo nasho si... on this path (BG 2.30+) there is no loss or diminuation, and a little progress saves one from the greatest fear, again we become dog (with fleas in hair (worms in stomach and heart (violent people in the neighborhood)).

Hare Krishna Querido Gurudev, TLGASP Acepte mis humildes reverencias!

Como me lo indico hice una cuenta en su blog con mi nombre espiritual.

En esta oportunidad escribo para reportar la donaciones de chile para la compra de sus audífonos. Gracia a su misericordia muchos discípulos y bienquerientes pudimos aportar.

HpS - We are going to Home Program tonight and tomorrow night to listen to H. H. Radha-rama Swami speak, and maybe we participate also, but... it would not be possible without good hearing aid system.

Envió este reporte con una fotografía de lo que se pudo colectar, ya que así me lo indicaron.

Espero que Radhakrshna siempre lo protejan. Nos vemos en una nueva carta.

Atte.

Havihsara Devi Dasi

HpS - Havi = Ghee, Sar = Essence. In Bhagavad Gita Krsna says that He is the fire, the priest and THE OFFERING, no?

You are the servant of the very living offering into the fire.

Sacrifice you body into the fire of Sankirtan!