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[3/7/2025 5:32 PM] Deva-dharma Das: TgSP Pamhr Hare Krishna Maharaja 

En un mes recibí dos invitaciones para dar clases de BG en templo y en un programa de congregación. Hoy me invitaron a hacer puja para un programa de congregación. A las tres respondí que no estoy preparado. No me siento entrenado. Me falta más confianza.

También recibí la invitación para jugar soccer con amigos del colegio 

Debo empezar ya a entrenar y aprender a hacer puja, a aprender a dar clases? No tengo idea de cómo empezar.

Por favor tiene un comentario? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Mi experiencia máxima en lo que es predicar ha sido bhakti vriksha

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[3/7/2025 5:32 PM] Deva dharma Das: TgSP Pamhr Hare Krishna Maharaja

In one month I received two invitations to teach BG classes in temple and in a congregational program. Today I was invited to do puja for a congregational program. After three I replied that I am not ready. I don't feel trained. I lack more confidence.

I also received the invitation to play soccer with friends from school

Should I start training now and learn to do puja, learn to teach classes? I have no idea how to start.

Please have a comment? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

My greatest experience in preaching has been bhakti vriksha

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. paoho. First, we are trying to help everyone by giving them Bhakti yoga based upon our personal practice and Srila Prabhupada's books.

If we are not chanting 16 nice rounds and following four principles strictly, then we should work on that.

Then, we can give classes and preach by knowing the audience. Ask the organizers about who they are. What is their level of development?

Are they just coming for the first time: Adau sraddha?

Do they understand stand the basic ideas of Bhagavad-gita, reincarnation? Karma? How God incarnates and is present through His energies?

What is the process and different levels of development of Bhakti yoga?

Ask someone else to join you in organizing and presenting the classes.

Just read NoI from the beginning to the students. Answer any questions and if you can't then try to go to an authority with them.

O.K.?

Hare Krishna, dear Hanumatpresaka Swami. My name is ... [Edited by HpSwami ASA] I writing in the name of my friend Trivikrama Das, from Chile, who is pass away two month ago, and for recommendation of Jhagad Guru, from Iskon Chile.

He (Jhagad) said to me that you were the spiritual master of Trivikrama and I could tell you -with all the details- what is going on, and you will understand.

A couple of weeks after Trivi left us, he make contact to me like a medium (I'm not used to be a medium before that). He ask me some favors, like talk to some people to say goodbye and answer some questions that all of us had, for keep his journey lighter I guess. 

But with the pass of the weeks, he didn't go away. We start to have a better communication and he can told me something about a Karma that we had in common from past lives, and that "we" broked in this one, with his dead and this "work" that we made together.

A couple of days ago he make contact with me again, for say goodbye. He told me that he "had been called", and he was very happy.

But yesterday he made contact again to ask for help, because after we say goodbye something happen, he can't kept his journey and was trapped in an awful place where he is suffering so much.

He told me that he wants to talk with his Spiritual Master, because "he will know what to do" but he told to me that was Jhagad. 

Today we talk to Jhagad and he told me to write to you looking for help for my friend.

I appreciate so much if you can help me to help him to stop his suffering, or if you can help him directly.

I appreciate too if you don't publish this article, because I think is very personal.

I attached a photo of Trivi, in case of you don't remember him.

Please let me know if you need more context or whatever.

I'm sorry by advance if I was rude or unorthodox in some way. I'm not actually a devote, but I respect so much your philosophy and Trivi, in some way, more than my closer friend, is my spiritual master now, and I' would do anything for his rest and peace.

Thank you so much!

HpSwami ASA - Thank you, Hare Krsna.

Since we are Sannyasi these things in this association are shared.

Of course your esteemed name we can keep confidential.

Thank you for letter.

Full concern for Trivikrama.

Certainly seems Jagad Guru Das is also his spiritual master.

Please send some photos of him and we can all chant HH/HR while looking at them.

That should give him shelter, guidance, association, motivation.

Thank you.

hare krsna hare rama. jaya sri vrndavana dhama.

it, the position of the sun 🐵 🐒 is 7hours and 26minutes Post Meridian.

about 5:30PM was sunset, so the energy has changed.

our class and FMP was very intense. there are five senior b'caris devotees visiting here. all more advanced than we are.

talked with abhiseka das, NIOS President 💪👨 for 41 minutes. preparing for 11th-18th in Nashville/Middle Tennessee. Program development.

Trying to understand The Lord's next plan of work.

Think this body will survive until Janmastam, based in Houston ISKCON.

We like our Ashrama.

We like Nila-madahva's audience!!!

We like Zoo here.

We have Blog mail to answer.

We have publication projects to do,

But as you can see we hope to serve you.

By Tweeting on Twitter

At morning and noon

And evening too.

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O.K. Join Sri Sri Radha Natabara Sanga at 8PM.

Hare Krishna, Maharaja and Devotees;

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to Guru and Gauranga.

March 09 is auspicious day ~~Ekadashi fasting. Happy Ekadashi to everyone. On Sunday, March 09, 2025, at 7.30am, Houston time, we will start reading chapter 12 (Madhya Lila); we will be able to cover about 40 verses.

Thank you to H. G. Nikunja Bihari Prabhu for doing Spanish translation on March 02 for CC reading notes and Maharaja's class.

For March 09, class: H. G. Lakshman Prabhu has agreed to do Spanish translation for Maharaja's class and H. G. Nikunja Bihari Prabhu has graciously agreed to do Spanish translation for reading notes on CC.

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

Your Servant

Upendra dasa

ASA - 🐵 Jaya Sri Rama!!

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja, please accept our obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

Thank you so much for this wonderful letter and these illustrations. The Alfred North Whitehead quote is something I want to remember everyday. So grateful to have you in our lives. And we feel very fortunate to have you approve/bless Madhavi’s name as well and to read your kind words for her in the letter. 

HpS/ASA - Tom Brown, Monkey, agtSP, does most of the handwritten letters! 🐵

The grand plan is to keep Radha Bankibhihari happy and taken care of. Make friends and good association here. Do this and do it fully until another opportunity comes on its own accord. And then someday maybe go on tour again but this time with devotees and yes bring the Lordships with us! 

HpS - Super! Prabhupada recommended Gaura Nitai for traveling.

Anadi will be home schooling Yamuna and Madhavi with Mother Arudha’s books and her personal guidance. 

HpS - Super. If it happens, a nice step is Collective Home Schooling, where up to five families work together to have one or people be full time teachers.

I’ve been asked to take over the temple president role here and have been talking with Radhika Ramana Prabhu quite a bit. Not a huge change because Anadi and I have essentially been sharing that responsibility for a few years now but still it feels like a big weight and a great challenge. I’ve been laughing with Krishna about it and have had some arguments too. I just never could imagine that I would have a responsibility like this. 

HpS/ASA - Get everything written down by the principal participants. Fix it for a certain time eg. six months, one year, then review the contract after that time? Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

Going to have our second movie night at the temple in March. Going to show Brother Sun Sister Moon a movie about Saint Francis. Then we will start showing the Diary of A Traveling Creature movies each month starting in April. 

HpS/ASA - What night? Friday night?

I would like to visit you in Houston in the Spring. Is that okay?

HpS - Our plan is to get ready to board the airplane to Vaikuntha (hell) with notice of one breath. 78-year old body!!! but general consensus is that is practical to plan being based in Houston ISKCON until Janmasatami = August.

11-18 March = Nashville. Especially talking about visiting again around Janmastami time for a big North American festival in Nashville ISKCON.

Always happy to have your corporal association.

Been listening to the SB classes in Houston almost everyday and corresponding with Jaya Hari Prabhu so I’ve been receiving lots of mercy in that regard and it’s been empowering projects here in Boise. I eagerly await your classes each week and they inspire our Krishna Lounge talks and everything else. 

Thank you, Gurumaharaja! Oh and thank you for the donation🙏🏻

Your aspiring servant, 

Nitisara Das 

P.S. here is an animation/puppet show that someone made for a song of mine. The song is about Love in separation with God. He wants to keep working with me so as I develop my own Sankirtan I can engage him in more krishna consciousness subject matter.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2OcZTmB2zwI&pp=ygULbmljayBkZWxmZnM%3D

HpS - We will look at it a little later!!!

Now... 4.10PM... and packing up to go to the Temple by 4.30PM to be available for and Sadhu sanga, then 6-6.40PM make the Sunday Love Feast lecture presentation.

As usual, www.youtube.com (ISKCON Houston).

Thank you!!!

Respects to everyone!!

Krsna has a career plan for all of us, no?

Maybe over several lifetimes!

Who might you be in the Mahabharata in you next life???

hare krsna,

hare rama.

skc, pna, sad, gdh, sv-agbhv... hk hk kk hh hr hr rr hh! 😃

kk/hh!!!

kk/hh!

hk hk.... become detached from smoking, copulating, eating, breathing... thinking... knowing... existing... play with KRSNA. he wants everyone's service. he uses it to satisfy everyone in the best way possible. 'yatha taror mula niscanena...'.

relatively dead x relatively alive.

in the goloka atmosphere everyone eternally does thrive.

looking for KRSNA in the sound around...

hk//hr !!! jaya krsna, balarama!!!

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