Hare Krishna Dear GuruMaharaja!

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to you!

All glorious glories to Srila Prabhupada!

So I just wanted to write you a quick note to say that I have started reciting the translation to Gurvastaka daily. I don't have it memorized yet, but I'm reading it a lot!

Today was my last official day for Tulasi service, so I was able to share all I know with the new people how we serve Her in the greenhouse.

They were very patient with me, I think a lot of them already knew how to do the service, one person has a Manjari tattooed on her arm.

So I think with quality people like this, who are already possibly more experienced, that Srimati Tulasi Devi will be taken care of very nicely.

When we got back to the pujari room, Mother Chandravali was engaging some of the devotees in Krishna House to polish Radha Kalachandji's paraphernalia. So we got to see Their pure silver Ekadasi crowns!!!

Plus the copy I ordered of Kamala Subramanium's Mahabharata came in the mail, and I'm very excited to read it! I heard it is so detailed and gripping! Then I can figure out how to use that book, plus NOI, LOB, and TLC to preach.

Oh plus I'm excited to see the new DTC-UT!

And after Houston, I was wondering if I could stop by the Boro to see you?

See you in Houston!

Thank you for everything!

Your aspiring servant,

Jaya Hari Das

HpS - All great news. Of course, we are meeting already in Houston, but this letter gives us such great perspective on who we are seeing through our gross conception of life. See you in Gauranga Hall in a few minutes.

Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

The blog is our home for a lot of us. Some of us have been travelling a lot in the last months, far from home, but still, we use our consciousness to find our safe place, which is here.

Now, I'm coming back with my new service as Temple President of Santiago Mandir and the Head of ISKCON Chile.

I have sent to you (attached by other means that allow it) the official recommendation letters for the second initiation to Sripati das, and to the first initiation to Diana Sanchez and Estafania Colella.

We take more time to send this letter because we are just arriving at this service, and we have created now a committee dedicated exclusively to checking every one of the applications to initiation. Actually, the letters are signed also by one of the representatives of that group, Manjuali devi dasi.

Please, keep me as one of your apprentices.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

HpS - Thank you! We got the hard copies from Asta sakhi Devi Dasi and it was an excellent ceremony. I think Krsna is telling us, "No more Hari-nama Diksa". Time to retire as Diksa guru. We wrote about it in the current Kapi Dhvaja. Talk with you soon.

Dear Guru Maharaja, Hare Krishna.

PAMHO AGTSP

In my regular reading, i.e. I was not searching for a quote on the topic, I read this:

The executive head must always be alert to the safety of the prajās, both man and animal, and inquire whether a particular living being is harassed at any place by another living being. The harassing living being must at once be caught and put to death, as shown by Mahārāja Parīkṣit. >>> SB 1.17.10-11, from the purport

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[Not advocating death sentence here, and not against it, according to time, place and circumstances.]

Food for thought. Replace ‘executive head’ for ‘GBC’ / leader, and ‘prajas’ for ‘all devotees serving under GBC / leader’.

In my arrogant understanding, harassment is one of the easy-to-detect symptom of a materially conditioned consciousness, personally and socially.

There is harassment everywhere, however as, a hopefully progressive, bhakti yoga sadhakas, the idea is to curb it down, personally and socially.

It fascinates me how Srila Prabhupada is uncompromising, direct and strict about how to deal with a person who is harassing someone else.

Any leader who has “prajas” should carefully attend to and be aware that there is no harassment in his community, or if there is, act accordingly / firmly.

More could be said, there are different aspects.

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS/ASA - Thank you for this comment. Sorry took us almost two weeks to answer. Kapi Dhvaja, Blog posts, ASA Carnival on Face book etc, hope give some idea of the intense programs and travel last few weeks!

Am hoping it will get lighter when we get back to Nashville, but thinking that it may not. Now we have to learn to be continually absorbed in the association of devotees.

That is Vaikuntha, no? The ground, trees, everything is Krsna's devotees.

Jaya Jaya Harinama.

I think that replacing King for GBC is stimulating. I do it, but also we must see that the protection that a Brahmana gives is different than the protection that a Ksatriya gives, no?

GBC is Ksatriya spirited Brahmanas?

Also, kind of harassment ... Kali was cutting of the legs of the bull and beating them. Emotional abuse may require a different punishment than death, no?

Punishing devotees, Brahmanas is a very fine service! Yet, it is something someone who takes the power of GBC must do.

More.. !!

Dear Guru Maharaja, AGTSSGN AGTSP PAMHO!!

Hare Krishna! I hope you are well, recovering energy from the very intense days of preaching you had in Mexico.

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta said that unless you like constantly talking with people who want to hear about Krsna only, you won't be happy in the spiritual world.

We have to learn to swim in the waves of Sankirtan!!

I already in the north of Chile back to work and material responsibilities.

This report is very different from others, for several reasons. First, I wanted to thank you for your so pleasant and uplifting company, it has been very important for me to share these last few weeks with you; to Lalita Radha, Saranagati and Laghu Bhagavatamrta for their friendship and all the support they gave me, they really made my stay unforgettable, also to Govinda Pramodini for her way of working and helping to expand the reach of NIOS there, I was able to learn a lot from all of them. Going out to Harinama and distributing books it’s something that I don’t usually do, at least not like these days with you, thank you for this.

I always have conflicts for not going unnoticed, unfortunately to meet certain goals or do what is needed, it is necessary to be noticed. I took many of the things that you emphasized in the classes as direct instructions, a clear example is Confusio and Revenge, I would have to dig several graves to take that path, there were plenty of reasons, too much disrespect at all levels , at one point I felt sick for holding my temper in the face of unfair situations, but at the end of the day I think I gained much more than I lost. Furthermore, taking responsibility for the second initiation should serve me to develop more aspects of my spiritual life and my role in the Iskcon community.

I wanted to apologize, if at any point, I committed an offense or did something that wasn’t to your liking, sometimes it is inevitable to disturb others just with our presence, but it’s something elective at the same time to take this things personally, even if it’s directly our name that is used to hurting others.

I realized everything that can be done with you there, if we were able to carry out the program with martial artists, we would reach another audience that plays an important social role, they aren’t just athletes, it is the Ksatrya segment of the community that seeks to contribute and if we provide spiritual and philosophical reinforcement to these people, surely we can improve the environment. So I await your instructions to present the project and set up meetings to shape it and define dates. If so, I would travel to present with you, I hope this materializes (we have 4 months to prepare something really good), I’ll be in contact with Govinda Pramodini to give it a follow-up, her experience and insurance contacts will help, I have also thought about graphically supporting your NIOS department there, sometimes we aren’t prophets in our own land.

We lived days of very intense service and I can only say that my heart is full of love for you, that you are and will always be an inspiration to me and the most sincere way to relate to Srila Prabhupada through the example of a Vaisnava that you are.

See you soon, if Krishna wants.

Your eternal servant. Parasurama Avatar Das. Santiago - Chile.

HpS - AgtSP. Thanks to your for your maturing and developing service.

Once Sriman Hansadutta Das created a big mess in Germany and suggested to Srila Prabhupada that he should resign from active preaching, but Srila Prabhupada told him, no, that he should go on, that he was like an elephant, he did big, big, work but passed big, big stool, excrement, so please go on with your service but minimize the stool passing business because he, Srila Prabhupada, has to clean it up!

🙂

I guess you can apply the principle.

We cannot do much to organize programs or plans now. We need to get back to our Base Camp in Nashville for some time and see how the basic situation is, but don't let that stop you developing your Sankirtan.

Let us stay in touch in a heart to heart communication.

Guess the basic instruction is the same for all of us. We were hearing it in the SB class this morning: Interaction between men and women is the most fundamental skill we have to develop.

Of course as Dvija, twice born, there is the art of living in strict social relation in this area.

It is a challenge for us. We are learning how to control the subtle social relations more and more each dya.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Our web server is out so temporary copy of this K Dh is here,

Kapi Dhvaja

2023 April 5

Visnu-Purnima (5.2)

● Sankirtan Babble of the Anjana Suta Academy (ASA), www.JayaRama.US, a pioneering branch of ISKCON, Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

● GBC Zonal Secretary – H. G. Virabahu Das.

● Editors - Tom Brown, Buck White et al.

● Branch Head - H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami.

● Published - Each New and Full-moon day.                                                                               

Wandering Miscreants

www.jayarama.us/kd/wm.htm

The Sun is at 5.36PM,

Nila-madhava Dhama,

Houston, Texas, USA

2023, April 6^th, Thursday.

AgtSP (paoho)!

This last fortnight started with us still camping at New Govardhana near Monterrey, Mexico.

H. G. Gadadhara-gosai Das and family et all still hosting us, with so many devotees eg. Aristasena Das, Asta-sakhi and Subhadra-mayu Devi Dasis, Karuna-shakti Devi Dasi, Dhruva, Dhanesvari and girls, Arya-strestha and Saccinananda Das’ and so many others working on the ASA Sankirtan!

We continued with the Friday night Caitanya Cinema Circles watching Oscar’s Universal Form and then summary extract of Brother Son, Sister Moon.

For last four nights we moved to Gadhay-gauranga’s restaurant and guest house in Monterrey. Simple but great. Continuous rush of backpackers reserving rooms. We also had huge Harinama to the Lion’s Garden around the corner where they have given use of their ancient garden for Sunday and other festivals.

In general, Hari-lila Das, Mataji, Kuvera et al appreciated that there are fantastic preaching opportunities in Mexico. People seem to be simple, warm-hearted (but also can become angry like children sometimes too).

In Monterrey we did big cultural program at one of the oldest and most prestigious language schools. Bhakta Guillermo was the Master of Ceremonies, contact. Harilila Das did Intro to Sanskrita Language and HpS did Hamlet and Arjuna.

·     Everyday Mangala arati and Gaura arati. Local bhaktas coming for classes

·     Accommodations rough like campinggg.

·     Complicated packing and travel to Mexico City. Shuffling luggage, wrong Terminal, Guest Lounge…

MEXICO CITY

Arrived. First class apartment with Janardana and Arya Srestha as roommates. Formal arrival lunch with 10,000 devotees, tamales and frijoles!

Evening meeting with Diksa candidates (All in Spanish!). Gaura arti…. Rest….

Rama-navami

·     11.30AM – Diksa with Bh. Sundara Goswami

·     2-4.30PM – National Congress and Assembly of Deputies, Commission on Cultural Relations, Session on Relations of Mexico and India with Ambassador of India (ICCR), Minister of Culture and five more top rank Mexican Dignitaries, television, first class Indian Dance (Subhadramayi DD et al), Abhirama Thakura (Hector Behara).

Nios was certified by the Indian participants, Hari-lila Das, Ranchor, as being first class representative of India, and by the Mexican participants, symphony direct Ricardo, Govinda-pramodini Devi Dasi et al as being first class representatives of Mexico, Latin America.

Ambassador said that NIOS had organized in three weeks what he had been trying to do over 15-months. So many practical and spiritual questions from the heart for HpSwami.

1.  First, they will laugh at you,

2.  Then, they will try to kill you,

3.  Then, they will expect solid example and knowledge to follow.

We have come to the third phase. Now so many challenges to be grown up institutionally.

… After the intense program in Assembly Room Seven (El Chuachasumach), they took us right into the Main Hall with 500 national Deputies, debating laws and referendum, walked us down through swirling mass of Delegates, standing and meeting in the aisles, greeting our sponsor until we were all sitting in the first row. Then our sponsor (tall as a regal tree) passed a note to the Directoress of the Assembly (twenty feet above the Assembly Fooor) and she smiled and gave us “The most warm welcome for the NIOS/International Delegates from India just coming from the workshop on India/Mexico Cultural Relations, with sincere wishes for all success in our work! Hare Krsna!”

(Now saying “Hare Krsna” is like saying “Salam alekham” to some Muslim friend.)

The building was an example of the greatest architecture in the world with six story vaulting ceiling.

Marched out, back to our Ashrama while talking with Ricardo about his symphony conduction in Carnegie Hall and our contacts with Havi Das, (Ilan Chester) and Symphony of the Soul.

·     Quick evening Prasadam and run to the temple (fighting chest pains) for the Rama-navami evening program with 600-devotees.

Ayee de mi!  Caramba!  Chihuahua!

Every day was like that in Mexico City. Can look at Monkey’s Diary of a Traveling Creature. Big picnic in the park, premier of Spanish subtitled DTC-UT-Peru. Screaming, complicated rush to airport (fighting chest pains), dumped into the USA at Customs.

“Welcome home”

“Oh, my God, thank you. God bless America”.

Now we are just putting our feet on the ground. Adjusting things in the Big H(ouston) and well head back to our Base Camp in Nashville (Murfeesboro).

“Where are you going after this???”

We don’t know. We need to sit down in our Base Camp at 903 Hillcrest, TN 37129, considering things with Abhiseka and Nitai-gaura-sundara Das and then plan for the Final Months.

If developing a NIOS Campus is progressive, then we can see never leaving Nashville again. Otherwise, sort the few boxes of stuff there and maybe go to Houston and Mexico.

Very unlikely we’ll go out for another Mexico, Richmond, Boise tour.

We need to settle down for our last days.

Brother Ass go back to India, Yamuna bath, in a clay canister. (Haw!  Haw!  Haw!)

O.K.

The Sun is as 6.43PM. We had to review Monkey’s DTC, collect the notes for its Preface and then write this (with little chest pain, and eye strain).

Now, lettuce (let us) dress up and go down the lane from the Sannyasi Place to Nila-madhava’s Alter for Gaura-arati and three last rounds.

Will we come back and finish this???

Calendar

http://www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.htm (revised 2022 July 13).

Now Sripad Surya-narayana is at 2.18Am, 23-04-07. As usual, after FES we could not do anything practical. Had fruit and nuts for a late night supper.    {Arrrgh!}  Now we have zero-rounds done from today, but finished three we had left from yesterday.  L

Lettuce, TB/BW, finish this KDh quickly and post it.

·      11^th about noon we SWA to Nashville, (BNA), then we skedaddle to The Boro, 902-Hillcrest.Then we  work to get out Base Camp in order.

·      Tonight Srinivasa Das, Mother Guru-bhakti Devi Dasi, Jaya-hari Das, Abhaya-joshi Das et al are arranging a sneak preview of DTC-US (USA)  {Tada, Tada, Tada!!}    in The Gauranga Hall.

·      Next Kapi-Dhvaja would be April 19^th

April

8^th = Katy with Devendra-krsna Das with Mataji and family.

9^th = Sunday Festival.

10^th = SB class.

11^th = Hou to BNA.

Again, plan to settle in our Base Camp and look at everything with NgD/AsD et al and plan our next move.

Uncle Gismo

www.jayarama.us/kd/ug.htm

In Goloka, every step is a dance, every word a song, and the sound of Krsna’s flute in the dear-most companion.

$$$ - ASA

There has not been too much activity. We closed our ASA accounts from 1 January to 7 March but we see we did not summarize them. We will make a note [ttd] to do that and post it in the Blog. The mad USB robot is subdued but [ttd] must work on this more when we get back to The Boro.

ABC (American Bhagavata Curriculum)

·     Full Morning & Evening Service (FM & ES), Sankirtan Classes etc, we are trying to share through www.gotomeeting.com (737-859-341). Watch for news at Twitter and ASA Blog.

·     Tava Pache Pache (The book) - Is available at https://www.amazon.com/Tava-P%C4%81che-Instruction-C-Bhaktivedanta/dp/0984861149/ref=sr_1_1?crid=C815I1W1M0J0&keywords=tava+pache+pache&qid=1656835432&s=books&sprefix=tava+pache+pache%2Cstripbooks%2C77&sr=1-1. We are presenting it as we travel and ArtDas brought 20-copies in Spanish from Peru!

·     Diary of a Traveling Creature (The Movie) – Is available at: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dtc1/708063883 . That’s the first movie. The second, USA, is also done.    Jaya!!!!      We are still working with Jagat-guru Das on sending the link in the Blog and by Twitter.

·     Waves of Devotion (Spanish Translation), has no more news.

·     Tweeting our Vedabase.io TLC, Ramayan, and Kindle Carl Jung readings!

·     Solaris (NIOS periodical) editing of the Award Ceremony article from Asiatic Society has gone from Govinda and Subhadra Devi Dasi’s to ArtD. We only wait for news from them now.

Wherever you go, whomever you meet, chant Maha-mantra for their hearing and let It preach

LOB, NOI, TLC etc.

Branches

No Blog reports this fortnight but personal discussion with Smt. Karuna-krsna Dasi about ASA Carnival, Srinivasa Das, Govinda/Ranchor, et al about NIOS.

Guru-tattva

www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt

HpS is getting 16/4 done daily but struggling to not eat too much at improper times. Watch the Blog for the list of recently initiated devotees from Asta-sakhi Devi Dasi.

Letters to/from the Editor

https://jayarama.us/kd/lte.htm

·     Blog (www.monkeywarrior.com) is caught up. We look at it daily, usually in the afternoon.

Category A is stuff for this current Kapi Dhvaja Twitter (huber_robinson):

Where is Sita?

. . . . Here is the Ring!

 . . . Back to Rama, Back to Rama!

Piggy’s Parting Pearls

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna. 2.42AM.

(No chest pains, little eye-strain, breathing little smothered, HK, HK!)

We feel that Krsna is instructing us that basically this is the last time we will do initiations. From what we know, Radha-krsna Das in Houston, Swami Yadunandana in Spain, are acting very nicely as ISKCON Diksa gurus, and very compatible with out ASA efforts.

Lord nRSMhadeva will go back to the Boro, but Lord jagannAtha will stay in Srinivasa Das, Su-gopi, Sundara-radhika Devi Dasi’ AzrAma.

This may be the last Kapi Dhvaja.    We find ourselves more and more riding a Donkey³ (Half-dead, Half-deaf, Half-demented) or maybe we are making spiritual progress.

Yet, this morning, for the first time, we got the feeling that we might stay until 84-years old, but just as a Hari-nama San-Kirtan leader.

(Unless Putin and Nato toss a few tactical nukes at each other in the Ukraine, and then we will be publishing Kapi Dhavjas in Goloka. Jaya!)

Hari Bolo.

Srila Prabhupada Singing Maha-mantra (as Bhajana),

Simple form at: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smz7zghQLaY),

Graphic enhanced form is at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uCAGiWT8A&list=PLrhs0W1X0ThVs2ISR__ZFVSLSAx2g_8f0&index=12&t=905s

We listen to it every day when we take our morning bath etc. We can check our consciousness, Bhava, attitude, against the absolute standard of love of God!

Beloved Gurudeva please accept my obeisances to your lotus feet!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!

We have just sent the audios to:

[email protected]

because when we send to the email you gave us: [email protected] We got an automatic response that there was an error. so we deduced that the email was going without www .

Please I would like to know if it arrived well and if it did not, please tell us where we can send them again.

I hope the audios are to your liking. I don't think they are well sung... but we tried.

I am immensely grateful for engaging me in Your service dear Gurumaharaja.

his eternal servant aspirant:

Radha Japa- Prati- Jalpa Devi Dasi

ASA- AgtSP paoho.

Yes!

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On the job...

Back to you soon.

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