My dear Maharaja,

Dandavat pranams. Ram Ram.

HpS -  AGTSP   pamho.    Yes, but we should claim like Lord Caitanya to be servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna, no?    That is the necessity that I see of taking shelter of a Bona fide Acharya like Srila Prabhupada.

jivera svarupa hoya krsnera nitya dasa ---> To take shelter of Caitanya Mahaprabhu means to accept that one is eternal servant or part of Krishna which includes servant of servant ... of Krishna.

We are always servant of Krishna whether we accept it or not. That is everyone's eternal svarupa i.e. all living entities are eternal part (servant) of Krishna. Since Krishna is present in everyone, it also means that we are servant of servant ... of Krishna.
Claiming means to state something which is new. You were always servant of Krishna and you will always remain servant of Krishna. What extra this claim will achieve?
Your servant,
Gaurav

HpS - AGTSP!   We have arrived in Radhadesa, Belgium, and are starting to get settled down. We still have Jet-lag, but getting some nice work done.  Your letter is very nice for us. Not to long. I think the answer to your question, idea is at the link below and especially the following two verses. What do you think?

http://vedabase.net/cc/antya/4/192/en 

Hare Krsna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Maharaja HPS, please accept my humbles obeisances!
Some news about Bhakti-Vaibhava?
Your servant,
Govindananda dasa  

HpS - Jaya!   AGTSP   pamho.  The news is that by your sincere desire to study it, we are forced to do some work to organize things!   Thank you!    We have had meetings with the V.E.D.A.S. devotees and are organizing the curriculum now. Is there anyone else near you physically with whom you could keep company in your studies?  A study partner is SUPER important.   Tulsi Das was 30-minutes from the San Francisco Temple so he could come on Sunday and we visited him at his house twice a month, but we couldn't associate physically daily, but we talked by telephone almost daily and by that associatoin we went through the whole SB in one year together.
Is there anyone with whom you could form a group for association like that, meeting a few times a month at least??? 

HARE KRSNA MAHARAJA, ACEPTE MIS REVERENCIAS.
AGRADECIDO PROFUNDAMENTE POR SUS INSTRUCCIONES.
SABIDO ES QUE LAS PERSONAS COMO YO HEMOS DESPERDICIADO NUESTRO VALIOSO TIEMPO OCUPÁNDONOS EN DIFERENTES ACTIVIDADES ANTES DE ESTAR EN ISKCON, HASTA QUE LA ENVESTIDA DE MAYA NOS HIZO SUFRIR MUCHO PARA RECIEN QUERER RENDIRNOS A KRSNA, POR LO TANTO, ¿CÓMO DESEAR EL SANYASI ASRAMA?, ¿CÓMO GANAR TIEMPO AL TIEMPO?, ¿CÓMO PREPARARNOS DE CORAZON PARA ESE PROPÓSITO?.
A SU SERVICIO,
VAMSI GOVINDA DAS.    CHOSICA, LIMA, PERU

HpS - TlgaSP    pfanrh.  ya estamos en Radhadesa, Belgica.  Pasa bien los seminars con el Colegio y el otro trabajo.  Piggy tiene unas noticias en su Posting.
Aqui tambien es Prahlada-nrsmha Das quien es fabricante de esta Blog!   Jaya!   Si utliza "Shift + Enter" solamente una linea entra en la carts, no dos.
Fin de Upadesamrta Texto Uno es una citacion de Sannyasa de Prema-vivarta:  "vairagya bhai...".
La preparation es tomar en serio todas la responsibilidades de Ashrama actual. Aprenda utilizar su situacion actual para Krsna.  Eso es Sannyasa.
Que piensa del cita de Upadesamrta?

9.45PM
R/25

Hari bolo!
We are almost on the ground. We will still probably have Jet-lag for a week. Now it is 2.45PM in Lima, so our body is completely awake. If we go to bed now, our regular time, we will just lie there awake. Then during the day we are hardly able to stay awake.
However, we have been able to get a little systematic communication going, work on projects. We prepared for our week-long seminar on NOI by reviewing our Annotated ASA NOI. It’s always updated at the Web page as:
www.jayarama.us/archives/asa-noi.doc
It is very satisfying. Then about 45-devotees came for the class after the Arati. As usual some guests are here staying in the Guest House. It was pretty satisfying. We didn’t distribute any NOI’s but hopefully it will have that effect down the line. Someone will appreciate it and distribute it. If we had some copies we could have offered discount price, autographed copys and distributed some. We will keep working on our book distribution.
That’s about it.
We noticed during Japa, that as often, we felt bad to start with, but chanting adjusted our Prana and then after some time we felt good. Japa satisfies many necessities.
Did a truck load of work on Bhakti-sastri today with VEDAS.  Now we will post this to the Letter Blog and HpSwami will answer some of the Letters. Then I guess we might be sleepy and get up by 1.15AM.
We are reading David Haberman’s Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu Preface for our class next week and for our Bhakti-vaibhava curriculum.

Diary of a Traveling Creature  by Buck White

Radhadesa
Belgium
3.21PM
R/6
Hare Krsna!  Hare Rama!              AGTSP  paoho.           Oink!   Oink!
How are you?    This will be our first post to the Letter Blog!   Well, we arrived in Radhadesa, Belgium, Europe!   In six days we’ve gone from Lima to San Francisco to Houston to Newark to Brussels, passed through four time zones, given one Bhakti sastri test, met with Giriraja Swami and students, friends, strangers, officials, Cardinals, and given five lectures!

Brother Ass is still not convinced that we aren’t heading out for more travel tomorrow.

Our accommodation here is quite nice. It’s Prahladananda Swami’s room in the Castle. Little cold and dark, but got WiFi.

Now, we gotta work on our Bhakti-rasamrta Seminar.

Ears are O.K.  Eyes are weird.  Hari bol!   We’ll work on our rounds also.  All night in the airplane. Seven hours time difference.

Thank you:

• Patraka, Candra-mukhi, Oscar and all the devotees in Lima and,
• Srivasa, M. Malini, Bali and all the devotees in the Bay Area and,
• Shyama-sundara, Hari-lila and Nandulal and all the devotees in Houston

It is just amazing, amazing, amazing how many nice people there are in this movement. Thank you for the granola, pakoras, dried fruit. Hari bolo!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my dandavats.

It was very difficult to write this letter in english, but it is a good way of learning the language…

Because many services we have done, not only in cochabamba ... all over the country, It was very difficult to accede to Internet, and to be able to communicate with you, dear Gurudev, so sad it was my destiny, I believe that I lost the opportunity to give you my offering of vyasapuja… <img alt="frown" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/confused_smile.gif" title="frown" /> And my annual report <img alt="frown" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/confused_smile.gif" title="frown" />… If only you had a bit of mercy for me...

We did prepare a very nice vyasapuja in La Paz and Cochabamba,  to the satisfaction of Krsna, yours, and devotees, everything was very ecstatic and I have always in my mind the humble offering to hislotus feet:

Dear Gurudev, you are a soul so devoted to Srila Prabhupada, is the great inspiration that I need to grow in all aspects, I never forget the humility that you have, and love given to all, many believe that the spiritual master is very far from us, which is almost unattainable, but really feel in my heart that you are a soul so accessible and so merciful, you are a friend, a father, a guide, an example… I always think of you and Srila Prabhupada, you are a great devotee of to him, and you express all the teachings of Prabhupada only acting, you really inspires me and thank you for all the mercy that has given me, I want to be a fertile ground for all the mercy that you made me .  Srila Prabhupada  Patita pavana KI Jaya!!!

is January 19, maybe you can not read my annual report, But better late than never, <img alt="yes" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_up.gif" title="yes" />. anyway is an offering to Srila Prabhupada also:

I have been able to follow the 4 principles strictly all of 2010, singing my 16 good rounds, my mind wanted to bother, but I hit it with Hare Krishna and Hare Rama!

My authority is Mathuresh Prabhu, he is a great devotee and a great example.

 With my little deities we got up early, and do the all the program since 4:30 am, There were days when he did not, but keep hitting the mind to tame it… is a tough fight!!! <img alt="blush" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/embaressed_smile.gif" title="blush" />

Every day I meditate on Srila Prabhupada, , and it's amazing what a pure devotee can do, he revolutionized the world and change the hearts of so many people, I feel fortunate to be one of those people and I do not want to be alone with that gift, I distribute it to all, and I do, I do the best I can…. we can never change the world as it did Prabhupada, but  with the mercy of Prabhupada I will take his message to anyone who wants to take, my mom is one of them, I could change the consciousness of my mother, all thanks to you and Srila Prabhupada!

I saw many pictures of you in Peru and I am very happy to see you and know that is fine, Krsna always keep you healthy and strong

(google translator helped me)

Jai  dear Gurudev, I say goodbye to you very attentively
His clumsy servant Narayani Devi Dasi<img alt="" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/a37.gif" title="" />
Cochabamba, Bolivia.

HpS -  AGTSP    pamho.  Well, it's about time you wrote! <img alt="smiley" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.gif" title="smiley" />    Your letter is very nice.  We can only see any good qualities we have as Srila Prabhupada's mercy in helping us.   We should only aspire to be like this, in his Sankirtana, life after life!    We are just packing to go to Europe.  These four days in USA have been so much work and so much result.   Thank you Srila Prabhupada.   Our respects to all the devotees.     We hope to see you soon,       We are working on the Calendar now!    Thank you so much for your efforts.   Just keep on washing, washing, washing off the dirt and you will come out!