Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna,

Dandavat Pranam HpS Guru Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances unto Your Padamacharan that Nandagopa Das, the seniormost disciple of Thoubal and Brahman wants Sanyas from Guruji during Guruji's Manipur visit. He is going Tirtha Yatra starting from 17th Dec for ten days for Asthi bisarjan of his wife at Nabadwip.

And we will sit together about the program of Guruji's Manipur visit on Saturday the 13th Dec ai Imphal.

Your fallen servent,

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - AgtSP. Finally have strength to read and answer these letters. So nice to hear from you.

Did he approach us for Sannyasa while we were there, or by any means?

Hare Krishna most beloved Srila Gurudeva

Please accept our sincere and humble obeisances at your lotus feet. 🙇‍♂️🙏

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to you, Gurudeva!

Daily Sadhana Report (EST)

• 4:15am – 5:30am: Morning Japa

(Gurudeva when you started Japa Joe, then onwards we are completing 16 rounds before Mangala Aarti 3am-5am, We also attend every FMS call.)

• 5:30am – 6:30am: Waking the Deities, Mangal Aarati, followed by Saligrama araadhana

• 6:30am – 7:00am: Japa

• 7:00am – 7:30am: Attending Bhakta Charitra reading (ISKCON Richmond)

• Evening: Reading Srila Prabhupada’s books (minimum 30 minutes)

• Gayatri: 3 times daily (three Sandhyas)

Weekly Sadhana & Services

• Tuesdays & Thursdays (10:30am–11:45am): Online Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Amarendra Prabhuji

• Fridays: Chaitanya Bhagavata class by HG Divyanam Prabhuji

• Saturdays:

• Morning Mangala Aarti together with Mechanicsville devotees at one place (ongoing since July 2022, by your blessings)

• Attending Saturday Feast at ISKCON Richmond

• Sundays (8:30am): Vaishnava Sadachar class by HG Divyanam Prabhuji

• Temple Service: Ongoing small facility projects and maintenance work throughout the year to help save temple funds

(Month of Karthika)

• Daily 3:00am–5:00am Japa

• Deity worship with Saligrama araadhana

• 7:30am–8:45am: Daily online classes on Krishna’s childhood pastimes by HG Amarendra Prabhuji & HG Gauranga Darshan Prabhuji

• Daily Damodara Aarti with lamp offering

• Evening family reading of Sri Sri Vrindavana Mahimamritha (with your instruction)

• Completed up to the 9th Sataka during Karthika

• Small fundraising drive for Jagannatha Ratha Collected $2.3k

—-Gurudeva no material job this year, mainly focus on sadhana and temple development services

• Serving devotees and assisting temple projects as primary engagement

Begging and prayers at your lotus feet Gurudeva. 🙇‍♂️🙏

we are humbly begging your blessings for:

• Strength and intelligence to improve my sadhana

• Protection from Vaishnava aparadh

• Constant engagement in serving Srila Prabhupada’s mission, Service to you, the community, and all devotees in the mood of servant of the servant

Srila Gurudeva, we are eagerly awaiting your Darshan on the most auspicious day of your Vyasa Pooja.

Your humble servant,

RamakrishnaAnanda Das 🙇‍♂️🙏

HpS - Again, finally have time and strenglth to get to these vyasa puja letters.

Very nice report.

Working as a Vaisya, Sudra, Brahmana, Pujari, can all be spiritual or material.

Just doing what is our Karma for Krsna, no?

Arjuna didn't have a material job on the field of Kuruksetra, no?

🙂

Please Adored Gurudeva accept our obeisances to Your Lotus feet🙏👣🪷🎵💖 All Glories To Srila Prabhupada! All Glories To My Srila Gurudeva SS Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaja ki jaya!🙏

HpS - This is a letter from Vyasapuja time. We are finally having opportunity to get to these.

Again, these statments of glorification of our lotus feet are really disturbing go us, as I guess they would be to you.

We are servants of Srila Prabhupada. We are struggling to act like strong devotees and not indulge in "atyahara".

When I glorify Him, it comes from my heart, and I hope to please Him and that You will accept my glorification of His beloved lotus feet, our refuge in this dark Kali Yuga.

You told me in a past letter to try chanting Guru Astaka word for word and then write to you🙏👣🪷

The truth is that since I did the Guru Astaka dance, I felt very happy that whenever I sang Guru Astaka I translated each verse and I felt very happy to have learned it.

And I remember writing him a letter that never reached him, either because he was in India or because I accidentally sent it blank. In it, I told him how happy I was to sing with meaning and that I had composed a "tune"😚 in Spanish for Nrishimha Pranam and also for Gaura Artik, and I think for Guru Astaka as well. It makes me happy that Gopal asks me for those songs in Spanish because I did it especially so that he will always remember singing with his mother and never stop singing and doing the morning and afternoon programs.

HpS - Very nice. NOt just the translation of each verse but each world, no?

So, when you recently told me to do it word by word, I started chanting a verse of Guru Astaka, then reading the meanings of each word, and then reading the entire verse. And continuing with the next one, and so on. It started taking me sometimes an hour, sometimes two hours, to finish Guru Astaka plus the entire Mangalartik. Franco says I'm very analytical 😅

But it's so wonderful to know the meaning of each word. I really like the sound of Sanskrit, and I realize that the translation isn't 100 percent perfect because, in my opinion, the Sanskrit language is very profound, and a single word can mean something like a phrase that perhaps Hindus or experts already know, and that I, as a Westerner, had no idea about.

HpS' Super Super!

For example, "tree sandyas" could only be translated as "three times of day." But... it's not just that... we know it means three auspicious times of day: dawn, midday, and dusk... but the translation, if it were complete, would be almost a book, not just a songbook. 😀

Thank you for helping me, Gurudeva 🙏💖👣🪷🎵. I love your instructions. I hope to serve you eternally. 👣🪷💖🎵 Eternal thanks!

Please bear with me, sometimes when I chant I take a while but I want to do my best to please you and always end with ..srivas adi Gaura Bhakta Vrinda to have the blessing of all Vaishnavas.

And please forgive any offense unintentionally caused in this letter.

Always, always, always ♾️ trying with all my tiny strength to please His sweet lotus heart

Her insignificant attempt at eternal maid:

J.P.R. Devi Dasi

🙏👣🪷💖🎵Jaya Jaya Jaya

Jaya Sri Radhe👣🪷💖🎵♾️

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna!!!!!! All respects to Franco. Is he doing and sculpting?

Dear Guru Maharaja, all glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Just today, Nirgata and I were discussing the same topic—Śivajī, prayers to him, and his glories. Shortly afterward, your blog post arrived.

We found that many of the thoughts you shared there closely matched what we had been reflecting on.

Is this the “mystical” Hanumat Preśak Swami that a brahmacārī from the Chowpatty temple once spoke about?

Or, as you have often said—quoting Śrīla Prabhupāda—is all such “magic” simply Kṛṣṇa’s arrangement?

Coincidence… or something more?

On the side of our altar, we have a Śiva-liṅga (which has come into our lives several times by his own sweet will) and also a deity/mūrti of him.

Also, Śivajī is present in Vṛndāvana, as Gopīśvara Mahādeva.

At this moment, I am not writing with specific inquiries. Some questions are forming within my manasa—and, I hope, also within my buddhi—and I am taking time to refine them.

Your servant,

Namacarya Das

PS: Srila Prabhupada's quote about magic: The magic will act as soon as you become a pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa.

The magic will be done by Kṛṣṇa, not by me or you. He will do it. 

https://vanisource.org/w/index.php?title=720519_-_Lecture_SB_02.03.01_-_Los_Angeles&hl=magic

HpS - Yes, we heard that from a recoding of Srila Prabhupada under very intense circumstances. Has always impressed us.

Radha and Krsna are so fine!

Their woship is so fine.

We must be so fine.

Who is the Supreme Personality of Godhood?

Maha visnu?

Paramatma?

Is the personality of godhood very elevated but ultimately a temporary manifestation from the eternal Brahman?

Siva? Durga? Rama? Who is the Supreme?

Bala gopal? Radha gopal?

Hare Krishna Maharaja

PAMHO AGTSP

A devout friend recommended someone to perform an exorcism. He meets almost all the requirements, the only thing that doesn't fit is that he's not a devotee of Krishna, he's a devotee of Kali.

This person was first a devotee of Krishna, but later became initiated with a Guru who primarily worships Kali.

Do you think he's a good choice?

Balaram Kripa das

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!! Tom Brown and Buck White do not see how one can really be a devotee of Kali without being a devotee of Narayana?

Especially if one has prior knowledge of of Krsna from Srila Prabhupada.

Of course, one may have very sincere devotion of Kali, Shiva, Surya, Brahma in relation to Sri Hari, Narayana, just as one may have sincere devotion to St. Francis as a way personal way to appreciate Jehovah.

Raghunatha Das worshipped Lord Caitanya by worshipping Svarupa damodara Goswami, though, SDG.

So, seems like you should find another exorcist?

Who recommended him?

Why?

Thank you.

Sunday, May 03, 2026, at 7.30 am, Houston time

We will start reading Madhya Lila; 19.01 onwards.

(Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructs Srila Rupa Goswami)

Thank you to all devotees for their dedicates service to ASA ~~ SB workshop class. H. G. Lakshman 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-ASA - AgtSP!