Letters to the editor

We will start reading Madhya Lila; 20.45 onwards up to verse 20.107

(Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructs Sanatana Goswami)

The class starts at 7:30 am ~ Houston Time

Thank you to all devotees for their dedicates service to ASA ~~ SB workshop class. H. G. Nikunja Bihari Prabhu will help us with Spanish translation seva for Maharaja's class and reading notes of CC.

H.G. Mitravinda Mataji will help us with seva of back up translator; in case there are technical difficulties.

Maharaja, thank you for engaging everyone in reading systematically books of Srila Prabhupada's.

YS

Upendra Dasa

HpS - We, agtSP, tried to join last Sunday, but just exhausted from the travel. Try again this week.

Hare Krishna, always remembering Guru-maharaja 🙏🏻

Please accept my sincere obeisances 🙏🏻

All glories to Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻

Gurumaharaja, I have been reflecting a great deal on various matters, so I decided to write to you once the mental storm had subsided. I remember you once told me, "Yasoda, you had better tell me how you resolved your problems." Therefore, I want to divide this letter into two short parts.

1. HpS's ARRIVAL IN NVM: We are very happy about your upcoming visit. As I understand it: Arrival in NVM on September 23.

🐵 - As we understand it he arrives, agtSP, with Anantesvara Das about 1pm 24th.

Departure for India on September 26. Return to NVM on October 12 and return to the United States on October 21. And you will be accompanied by a devotee, is that correct?

🐷 - Oink!

My questions are: Will the devotee who will accompany you from India return with you?

HpS - Yes, British Airways.

Gurumaharaja, is the same room as before (next to Bhakti Gauravani Swami) okay with you?

🐷 - Super.

Has anyone else confirmed their attendance at NVM on the dates of your visit?

🐵 - Nope!

Please reply so I can reserve rooms at the NVM guesthouse.

If anyone else would like to visit NVM during those dates

and

stay at the ashram/guesthouse,

please email me at [email protected].

2. PERSONAL REFLECTIONS: Gurumaharaja, I am tired of EVERYTHING and almost EVERYONE... I feel that material life is like a video game where I repeat the same move so many times that I want to throw everything away and leave. I remember the days at Radha Kunda - Barsana and I regret having left the most sacred place to return to the materialistic anxiety of wanting to work to earn money... I am a coward... I admit it! I hate being a coward.

In the end, I understood that everything I'm experiencing is a necessary stage I must go through to move forward. I am so grateful to God for having devotees nearby who tolerate me 🙏🏻, to Radha Govinda Chandra with her smile that always revives me, and of course, I am infinitely grateful to Krishna because you are the strength in my life, and every day I think of your imminent arrival. It's like water on the mental fire I feel: "Gurumaharaja will come soon! Gurumaharaja will come soon!"

May Lord Nrisimha protect you ALWAYS 🙏🏻

Trying to serve you

Yasoda Devi Dasi 🙏🏻

HpS/ASA - First time I went to Vrndavana💥

Kartika, 1978. I did not want to leave. I thought that it would be better just to wander off into the fields and die under a tree, but then I had this impression of gopi like substance in front and above me saying, "If you don't go back to the regular world and tell them about it, who will!?

As long as you have any Krsna consciousness eg. the smell of oil offered to the Diety, Japa, we will be connected to you.

The Kapi Dhvaja

Monthly Sankirtan Report of the Añjana Suta Academy.

An esoteric branch of ISKCON.

Founder-Acharya - Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Branch Head - Hanumatpresaka Swami (Bh. Ved).

Purnima [8] (Vamana masa)

2026 July 30

Every Kapi-dhvaja contains all past and future KDhs – Abbey Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It.

HpS, ASA tskp, have returned to their 🏕️ camp at Kakachand Ji Dhama (Iskcon Dallas, Texas).

Getting their camp set up, adjusting to local program with:

·       Patita-pavana Das,

·       Jaya hari Das,

·       Sundara Radhika and Su gopi devi Das,

·       President Saranga thakura Das {!}

·       et al al al.

Keeping full morning program: Sixteen rounds before Mangala-arati, SB class,

Setting Calendar with Sankirtan partners.

HpS and Nanda-braja Das went to Boise for two weeks. Super meeting with Niti-sara and Radhika-ramana Das’ and their wives with with three prominent Mormon families. Future Sankirtan with Mormon community planned.

White water rafting and three days of flu.

Then, Oakland, Dublin, Los Gatos, Berkeley, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area,

With meetings with Govinda-priya Devi Dasi and her esteemed husband Sankara-ananda Das of the ministry for women’s services, H. H. Bhira-krsna Goswami who is our GBC in Tennessee who played guitar while HpS played the flute at a beautiful rich couple’s home,

And Srivasa Pandita Das and Vaisesika Das about Bhakti sarva bhauma diploma, and 1,001 eternal associates at Berkeley Temple.

On to Seattle, with Panda-vijaya Das and the second self-driving car from Amazon, Hari-vilasa Das, new Campus center, ISKCON Balaji Temple, a Bhakta-vrksa group grown into another new Temple and the Old Temple.

Leading Kirtan with the devotees is such a great Yoga.

HvDas stayed for HpSwami’s class (PhD!)

Back to Houston with a very nice black lady in our adjacent seat who had been on missionary work to Africa, Europe and asked excellent questions for 2-1/2 hours, and took NoI with great enthusiasm.

Expect in Houston until Janmastami.

Look for periodical updates in the Blog 🐸 under Category A and Calendar Development.

Camping in Houston until 2 September, then Janmastami in Nashville, after that the Bhakta vrksa of Sankirtan Das, Vrndavana Forest of Gayatri Das and hoping to visit Krsna Life in South Tennessee.

By Radhastami back to Houston and then on September 23^rd to Madrid with Ananta Isvara Das for our NIOS/ASA documentary, “Ayurveda, Traditional Medical Philosophy of Asia”.

24th and 25^th in Madrid etc.

26^th fly on British airways with AID to Bangalore and start Ayur Veda at Tan Mayi Goswami’s Maitreya Ashrama in Udipi on the 28^th (?) until the 9^th.

Back to Madrid on the 12^th and HpS stay until like the 21^st, October and AID as long as there are programs at Universidad Complutence etc.

21^st October, HpS back to Dallas, and off to Mexico for like five days and then Lima and Santiago for ten daze each.

Back to ??? Nila Madhava Dhama and rest.

Radha Kunda ??????????????

Thank you.

Hari Bolo!

See you in WhatsApp

Blog. www.MonkeyWarrior.com

H. P. Swami, Tom Brown et al.

Appendicitis

Projects we are involved in are:

1.     Caitanya Cinema Circle – With Pablo and Abhaya Joshi. Establishing a Department of Media Resources in ISKCON Houston integrated with ISKCON North America.

2.     DVAD – Daivi Varna Ashrama Dharma – With Bhakti vikasha Swami project in South Tennessee, ministry of ladies services.

3.     ASA[e] – ASA Encyclopedia – With Sri Rama Krsna Das in Dallas. You can see it as part of the web page: www.jayarama.us. Made a little progress in learning how to edit the articles, and trying to integrate the editing and writing with our community and schedule.

4.     Bhaktivedanta Library – Sastric studies with Vaisesika Das et al.

5.     Yare Dekhi – Wherever you go, whomever you meet, tell them about Krsna based upon the Kirtan in your heart and Caitanya-caritamrta.

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Hare Krsna Gurudeva, PAMHO, agTSP..

Bhaktivinod Thakur speaks about regret and repentance for chanting the holy names with offenses.

One of the meanings of the maha‑mantra, or one of the ways in which we can chant, is to ask Krishna for forgiveness for having committed offenses to His holy name.

We have committed many offenses in our distracted, apathetic, lazy chanting of the holy names. Krishna is so kind and merciful that He personally comes to us in the form of His holy name. Yet we are so ungrateful that we neglect Him. We neglect His personal presence in His name, and we often chant just out of duty — merely to finish our rounds and move on to something else.

It is as if Krishna has come to our home and we are neglecting Him, turning our backs towards Him.

So, as we chant now, we are going to pray from our hearts. We are going to feel from our hearts: “Krishna, please forgive me for all those offenses I have made.” And the mood is that I will never make them again. I will never take Your holy name for granted. I will never be apathetic when approaching Your holy name.

I admit my guilt in offending Your name — through inattention, through negligence, through treating Your holy name as an impersonal sound vibration, as a ritual practice, as something that I have to do rather than something I want to do.

I ask Your forgiveness. In my remorse, I pray to rectify myself and always chant Your name with devotion.

Regret | Japa Guided Meditation | Mahatma Das

feels so sad. so impersonalists, yet inconceivable.

can you help/ guide us to realize how sound of holy name is non different from Krsna..its inconceivable ..or may b v r giving excuse.

but above text made us realize our guilt.

Hp Swami - You are already doing the right things.

You are on the right path.

It is the greatest battle in the world.

More than these wars being conducted by great powers around the world.

Chant, follow four principles, keep full morning program, meet with your Sankirtan partners after breakfast to make plans, apply them to your best ability during the day.

Have a bath a beautiful arati, kirtan, reading together in the evening.

Send the demons off to the Maya.

🙂

Hare Krishna.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

AGTSP. All glories to you, Guru Dev.

Here in Córdoba, Argentina, I have spent these past few months in lumberjack mode, cutting firewood to maintain some warmth in the forest tower.

At the same time, with our very limited resources, we are trying to make progress with the construction of the house.

Together with Vrsabhanu Nandini, we are teaching photography classes at Hari’s Waldorf school.

We have started meeting every two weeks for devotee children at “the Forest Tower,” with playful activities such as art, theater, and games, with the idea of cultivating bonds among them and sharing Krishna consciousness.

As for our work, we continue working remotely in video and photo editing, but we are going through a period of economic hardship and need more or better work opportunities. This situation affects various matters and decisions that one may have to face.

I have written letters for the blog, and I have always felt that they revolve around the same topics—a routine that has continued for years.

I know that internally one matures and learns, even when external circumstances remain repetitive. That is why, sometimes, I do not know what to tell you or share on the blog. Nevertheless, I am sending you this kind of report.

Regarding my sadhana:

I am following the four principles.

Sixteen rounds, irregularly (I am not completing them every day).

We continue to attend to our altar, perhaps at a lower standard, but it remains the center of our home.

We regularly connect to Asa’s programs.

From our side, we are always available to serve you and the sankirtan movement.

Thank you very much, Guru Dev, for your example and guidance.

Your servant,

Ambarisa Maharaja Das.

Hare Krsna 

Por favor acepte mis reverencias.

AgtSP todas las glorias a usted Guru Dev.

 Aqui desde Cordoba Argentina, Ambarisa das.

En estos meses en modo leñador cortando leña para mantener cierto calor en la torre del bosque.

Tambien con lo limitadisimos recursos tratando de abanzar con la construccion de la casa. 

Estamos dando clases de fotografia junto a Vrsabhanu nandini en la escuela Waldorf de Hari. 

Empezamos una reunion cada 15 dias para niños devotos en "la torre del Bosque" con actividades ludicas como arte, teatro y pasatiempos, con la idea de cultivar lazos y el compartir conciencia de Krsna entre ellos.  

En cuanto a nuestro trabajo seguimos trabajando a distancia en edicion de video y fotos, pero estamos en un periodo de precariedad economica necesitando mas o mejores trabajos. esta situacion afecta varias cuestiones y deciciones que uno pueda afrontar.

He escrito cartas para el Blog y siempre senti que se repetian en los mismos temas. Una rutina que se prolonga en años. 

Se que internamente uno madura, aprende, aunque los hechos externos sean repetidos. Por eso a veces no se que contarle o compartir en el blog. Sin embargo le envio esta especie de reporte.

En cuanto a mi sadhana: 

Siguiendo 4 principios

16 rondas irregulares ( no estoy terminandolas todos los dias)

Atendemos nuestro altar tal vez en un menor estandar pero sigue siendo el centro del hogar. 

Nos conectamos regularmentre a los programas de Asa. 

Desde nuestra parte siempre disponible para servirlo austed y al moviemiento de sankirtan.

muchas gracias Guru Dev por su ejemplo y Guia. 

su sirviente Ambarisa Maharaja Das

HpSwami ASA - Krsna is trying to help us. By sixteen rounds we make ourselves accessible to Him.

We may be poor or rich but internally we will have strength and happiness.

These reports are super.

Send more.

Send details.

We are thinking of service you can do for NIOS but depends on Krsna engaging us also.

Success or failure we plan to give our life to Radha Krsna and Rama at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet.

Okay?

Respects to everyone.

Hare Krishna

AgtSP

PAMHO

How are you? I hope health is still a word in your dictionary specially at that age that your body has.

Hp Swami ASA - AgtSP we have returned to our Base Camp at ISKCON Houston.

Setting up camp

I have a little question about chanting rounds and practicing spiritual life, does it really make you more sensible?

Because I fell the more I chant and the more I read I become to some extent more sensitive and cry-full I don`t bad or anything but makes me wonder if it really is because of that or is just the time of the year.

Hp Swami - Some times we wonder if we are making advancement in spiritual life then Krsna puts us in contact with someone we new in college for example and we see the difference.

We should be able to see tangible results externally and internally.

I`m fighting to wake up more early but some times this young body is fighting back and some days I even don´t finish all my rounds due to my own stupidity, I know what I have to do and I will do it, I think is just a part of the process to make mistakes and learn about them. But we will see each other more often in mangal arati :D

As always hope your health is betttter than before and that old rust little car still has some oil to work properly with not many problems.

HpSwami - Wars are not won by unwounded soldiers who march into battle with new handsome uniforms. They are won by wounded soldiers who get up, use what resources they have and go on fighting.

Thank you.