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Querido Gurumaharaja 

Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias. 

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Durante la reunión de japa Joe escribió: 

"Las gopis siempre están mejorando su vaidhi bhakti? 

¿Les encanta hacer vadhi bhakti?"

Queremos entender por favor cómo mejoran su vaidhi bhakti siendo perfectas en los principios regulativos? 

Todos los asociados de Sri Krsna en Vrndavan son raganuga bhakti? 

Las gopis mayores son las maestras eternas de las menores? 

Con el paso de Kali yuga cada vez es más difícil seguir instrucciones, cómo nos enseñan las gopis la humildad de internamente poseer una atracción natural y externamente observar los principios regulativos del servicio devocional? 

Muchas gracias por su infinita misericordia y asociación bajo la guía de Śrīla Prabhupāda. 

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente 

Asta Sakhi dd 

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Is very nice question that we will encounter again and again.

From what we understand the Gopis have different rules and regulations they follow.

For example, they would come each morning to the house of Nanda and Yasoda after Krsna left.

So maybe they chant 16 rounds on their beads and follow the four principles strictly, but they do it not with just the motivation of the scriptures but because it is stimulated by their Prema Bhakti.

They are all Ragatmika Bhaktas. Their souls, atmas, are filled with Bhakti.

The Raga anu ga, bhaktas go, ga, after, anu, after the Raga of the Ragatmika bhaktas.

This was translated incorrectly in the original Nectar of Devotion but the correct translation was given of the verse where it is quoted by KDKaviraja in CC.

Kali yuga or being Prahlada in H. Kasipu's house can be great impetus to be pure internally.

Yet, we also pray to have a replica of Braja in our Iskcon life to help us wake up our real self.

O. K.?

Hare Krsna, Gurudeva,

Please accept Obeisances

AGtSP

HpS/ASA - AgtSP... ! .... !

After wife left us with kid, we sort of reading SP books ourself, if somebody is teaching we would accept.

Now we are starting reading books on own, we started with LoB.

Is LoB verbatim from SB 10.20?

HpS - As I remember it seems that some verses may not be exact of even 100% there. Would have to review in more detail, yet it seemed that a very tight relationship.

Lob 2

"As soon as this movement is taken up through spiritual singing, dancing, and feasting, the people will automatically become obedient and honest."

What is importance of classes then?

HPS/ASA - lasses, puppet shows, PPTX shows of the classes by Brahmanas for themselves and others give us perspective for chanting.

It is like selecting nice place and time to chant.

Class, books, give us nice Thinking, Feeling and Willing place for chanting.

Nice chanting then we want to sit properly, dance.

When we are tired, take Prasadam, it is ready.

Reading SP's books is also singing. Send audio clips to Anirruddha!

Thanks to all of our readers.

Want to read and respond to last post from Nama acharya Das but must rest a little before Japa.

Drove for about three hours to and from Madrid to lecture, Kirtan, associate with devotees and guests at the chapel there. Was fantastic program.

Sure so many people took the program to heart.

Want to share it with others.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva,

all glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my humble Obeisances.

I have been keeping it to myself. And try to work on sadhana myself, here I am writing to you not expecting any solution, as you many times say " you don't know our situation".

Our four rules have been intact.

HpS/ASA

That means that by Srila Prabhupada's mercy we are at least human beings, no?!!

Our chanting from June 2025 remained 16 but, we used to do it un-enthusiastically, while watching kirtan, video. Because the moment we stop using eyes we sleep.

Now from Dec 2025, our parents are with us

HpS/ASA - Jaya!

...and we talk everything. Our main focus is not get angry.

Maybe it is Indian cold or our insincerity our average rounds are 3 on beads.

We don't want to ramble our mind.

Positive: Some mental chanting goes on, lots of Narasimha videos. The recent one replay in our mind.

Seems remembering has increased.

Trying to be ritualistic disciple.

HpS/ASA - Thank you for report. Probably true of many readers. We also struggle to keep Rupa Goswami's sadhana!

We keep beating the nine basic words into our heart:

Get up early and get your rounds done well.

Oue basic religious principle is to start chanting by 12.50AM. That gives us ten minutes for each round until 3.30AM. Then bath, Mangala arati, etc with devotees. Then SB class with devotees. Then Ayurvedic break fast feast then...

Many challenges from weather, old body etc, but feel that we have something to contribute to the Sankirtan movement!

If people take it our not is not 100% under our control.

I'm sure that your effort with your family has an effect. Great or small depends on Krsna.

NoI 7 is true. If we GUEAGORDW then we start to get a taste for Chan Ting. It maybe only a game of chess of putting the words in the right place, but the Euclidean logic games, Rasa, later starts to glow with real efforts like compassion, satisfying Radha/Krsna, Gauranga!

Waiting for more news.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada 🙏

All glories to Parama Karuna Sri Sri Goura Nitai

All glories to HH Hanumatpresaka Swami 🙏🌻

Hare Krishna, Maharaj HpS 🙏

Please, accept all my respect, gratitude and obediences.

Yesterday, in the Japa Joe program. You asked us about Vartman Acarya. Is our Vartman Acarya our Founder Acarya, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada?

Thank you, millions of times, for your mercy, inspiring association, priceless prayers and blessings for all of us.

Thank you for these amazing and useful tools: daily programs with your guidance, Vedabase and this blog 🐸

The greatest blessing of Krishna for me in this life is to have the devotee's association like yours, who to teach us how serve and love properly to our dearest Srila Prabhupada.

Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙇

An enthusiastic servant's apprentice of you 🙏

Annie from Lima

Thank you 🌻

HpS/ASA - Vartman means path, road, in Sanskrit language as dictionary says.

To our comprehension it is a Siksa guru, who gives us advice how to get on the Path to Goloka.

We are pushing through the dense jungle trying to go to Goloka and someone explains that there is a nice path that we can take. Eg. They tell us where is an ISKCON center etc.

This can be Srila Prabhupada directly and/or other people like you or me.

Next comes Diksa guru and then Sikha guru(s) who guides us after Initation.

First chapter of Caitanya Caritanmrita focuses on this.

If you can, send some photos of your self and associates et al.

Thank you.

Headed, agtSP, to Gaura arati.

Intense, wonderful, program at University of Madrid, Complutence, today.

Oxford, Sorbonne of Spain with Yadu Swami, Jayanta Das and one very nice Mataji.

Looking at Blog posts.

Will try to answer after arati.

25 rounds done from today.

Still in Brihuega Iskcon Spain.

Health 90% for such an old horse.

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaja! Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

It’s been very enlivening for us to see all the videos of your travels. Especially seeing you at Govardhan Ecovillage. We hope to go there someday (externally and or just internally). We have a long journey ahead…trudging along and barely getting by. Being a witness to your journey has been a wonderful blessing in our lives and beyond that..a North Star and a constant reminder of the real purpose of human life.

We have been working on a devotional album for a few years now and it is finally out on all the streaming platforms. We chose our favorite prayers that we sing every morning and arranged them with guitar, percussion and piano mainly. It started out just as a personal project to go deeper into these songs and to know them by heart and incorporate them into our musical creative life. But then I helped build a recording studio for a world renowned recording artist and Ram Das follower (sweet devil). Lots of natural light and decent vastu which is really hard to find in a recording studio. Anyway, we started recording with him and he liked it so he really helped us out and is now turning his fan base on to it. We then found a well established devotee record label in Russia called 108 Records Global and they have released the album and have been a huge support.

Maharaja, this is all because of your mercy and that is why we have dedicated it to you. It has been a very exciting service and our intention with it is to attract young people to KC and spread the glories of these most perfect songs.

Of course there is mode of passion and it’s all put through like a mode of passion filter (music industry/promotion) and it does feel strange to put these songs out with a picture of us on the cover so please let us know what you think and if this is sacrilegious or perverted in any way. (Sadly, Guruastikam had to be cut down to only 3 of the verses.)

…no one ever finished an album, they just stopped working on it. Many more to come, we hope…

Thank you, Gurumaharaja.

Your aspiring servants,

Nitisara Dasa, Anadi, Yamuna and Madhavi Priya

P.S. A lot of good progress at Boise temple. I’ll give an update on that soon. Here is the album:

https://onerpm.link/Anadi_Morning_Prayers

HpS-ASA - We have been, agtSP, running since we left Houston in (?) December. ✈️🐎🐎🛺🦽🚗🚍

Just now can open -some- mail!

Good news from you.

Thank you

How is Sripad Murari das' Buddy... Body?

Everybody's Buddy?

Will approach the link with great caution!

In Madrid, Brihuega.

The sky is falling.

The armies of Islam are approaching.

🌼

July 4th in Boise?

New Biharvan?

The ABCs (American Bhagavata Curriculum)?