Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja!

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

HpS//ASA - AgtSP. Paoho. We remember an exchange of [?] letters where one devotee asks Prabhupada can I call [?]Bhagavan Das Prabhu "Guru"? Maybe it was Harikesa??

Srila Prabhupada answered with yes, but said something like, but do not forget who is your real Guru. Last paragraph in NOI 5 [?] mentions this, no? We don't accept the post of Diksa Guru for anybody who is not developing a personal relationship 💪 🐵 with Srila Prabhupada as Uttama Adhikari Guru, right?

Wonderful!

Sorry for the super delay, but I finally have the book scores for what I distributed in 2024.

January

Maha- 12

Big- 11

Medium- 9

Small- 94

February

Maha- 8

Big- 10

Small- 141

Phamplets- 21

March

Maha- 36

Big- 9

Small- 114

Phamplets- 62

April

Maha- 28

Big- 19

Small- 98

Phamplets- 100

May

Maha- 14

Big- 15

Small- 53

Phamplets- 56

June

Maha- 18

Big- 20

Small- 39

July

Maha- 8

Big- 8

Small- 19

August

Maha- 13

Big- 1

Small- 41

September

Srimad Bhagavatam set- 1

Maha- 23

Big- 21

Small- 71

Phamplets- 1

October

Srimad Bhagavatam set- 1

Sapta Rsi sets- 3

Maha- 73

Big- 20

Small- 78

November

Srimad Bhagavatam set- 1

Caitanya Caritamrta set- 1

Maha- 189

Big- 34

Medium- 10

Small- 400

December

Caitanya Caritamrta set- 1

Maha- 282

Big- 100

Small- 258

So if all the math is correct, then for the Gita Marathon, I did over 400 Gita's , and for the year a total of over 2,000 of Srila Prabhupada's books.

HpS//ASA

🤗

It's all Krishna's mercy!!

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!!

HpS - Maybe 99.999% Krsna's mercy and .001% our mercy, no?

With more than 8,000,000,000 people on the planet you then must become Siksa Guru for 8,000,000, no? 🤔

Your aspiring servant,

Jaya Hari das

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you Guru Maharaja.

I am thanking you a lot Guru Maharaja from the core of my heart for giving me a chance to serve you personally during your last visit to India (at Radhakunda). I am trying to understand you more and more so that I may be able to serve you in a proper way and please Srila Prabhupada. I am always praying to Sri Sri Prahlada Narasimhadeva Bhagavan for your good health and long life, and sincerely hoping for your coming back to India again soon.

HpS - Thank you!!! We appreciated your humble, very, very determined efforts to serve us and the Vaisnavas.

Please realize that we are just one spark of Srila Prabhupada's mercy. As appropriate, please do not neglect us, but also please realize that there are so many ISKCON devotees that he is sending to act as channels to him.

Serve them (him).

We had nice Vyasa Puja program on 31/12/2024 (your holy appearance day) at the house of your disciple HG Chaitanya Dham Das at Hailakandi District (neighboring district of my place, Cachar) of Assam, India with around 100 devotees’ attendance. I humbly did glorification of you for 15 minutes even though I am very shy in public speaking. I have distributed some Krishna books in Manipuri on that day. All our godbrothers and sisters here, happily gave donations for the program. I went there two days ahead for the arrangement and other sevas. I am sharing some pictures from the program below.

HpS//ASA - 💪💪💪 🐒

Guru Maharaja, today, I would like to ask you few questions of my life. Kindly forgive me if these are offensive and disturbing you by considering me a stupid disciple of yours.

My father passed away when I was very young. He was the only person who was supporting me like a backbone in every aspect of my life.

After my father passed away, I have been facing a lot of problem, I have been trying to find out someone who can have some love and care for me. By the mercy of Vaisnavas and Krishna, I came in Krishna consciousness.

Fortunately, I found you in the form of my Diksha Guru. Serving you and instructions from you are the only strength of my life. I don’t know whether it is because of the loneliness, I feel depressed most of the time; sometimes I feel like committing suicide also. Please guide me on this issue Guru Maharaja.

HpS - I have almost identical situation to you. People may put on a big external show, but everyone is just little three year old children in so much anxiety because they have not mother or father or big brothers and uncles present.

Only solution is suicide... followed by waking up our real life.

That is what I do.

16-rounds is an effort to kill my material existence. as that disappears I can concentrate on waking up, shaking us, my soul, self, to get back to work!

The work in Goloka is being disturbed because we are not there to make our unique contribution.

I have a very weak mind. I don’t know whether it is by female nature or not. Living alone is quite difficult. Many times, I feel the need of a person who can be my guide, support (in the form of my husband) in my daily life, and who can take me to you and Srila Prabhupada. And, there are also a lot of derides from the society because I am an unmarried single woman. Considering all these, I feel like I should get married. I would like to get advice and guide from you Guru Maharaja in this regard. I will follow your advice. Is it good for me to live a life of Brahmacharini or get married? I get varied opinions from many senior devotees in this regard. Some say not to get married; some say to get married. I don’t know which one is good for me. Please enlighten me on this Guru Maharaja.

HpS - Generally speaking, Prabhupada, Krsna, are very strict. Get married.

If you can't find some jiva soul in a male body of blood, bones, muscles, nerves, covered with skin and decorated with a mustache, then marry KRSNA. Marry His diety. He will do that in Kali yuga, but most practical in this lifetime, find another moron like you [us] and act as vaisnavas in marriage.

Guru Maharaja, please forgive me for disturbing you. I am sincerely praying for the mercy of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and Sri Sri Prahlada Narasimhadeva for your good health and long life. Please bless us with the opportunity to serve you personally again and again in the future at the places like Radhakunda and Manipur

Thanking you always to be my spiritual master.

Your humble servant

Manjuali Devi Dasi

Cachar, Assam, India

HpS - We are thinking of our visit to you little tower in Braja. It was so much fun. So nice to meet your family.

Everything is O.K.

Deal with these problems like some rain drops falling on a sunny day and focus on your journey!

Only a few minutes until these bodies are finished.

URGENT

Hare Krishna, Gurumajaraja

PAMHO

AGTSP

I'm Divya Dristi dd from Cusco Perú I was using the name Manjary but now I prefer to write you directly 🙏.

I'm staying in Cusco now,My plan is to live here,I ve rented un appartment,with two rooms, I have the proyect to invite women devotees to leave with me,to give clases of puppetts,theater and kirtan,to children and teenagers ,in the same appartment in the leaving rooms.

The idea is to ask a cover money for the lessons so this money could be used to pay the rent and other expenses like services and bhoga,and much more, to be it susteinable.

The appartment has all services, wifi,kitchen,one toilet with hot water,located in a good location central city, actually in this building there are a liders institute for children and teenagers in the first floor,so its a good location.the last week Prabhu Dinabhandhu from vrindavan and his servant came to Cusco to preach CK and they stayed in this appartment they liked it and Prabhu Dinabhandhu gave me his blessiings for this proyect.

QUESTIONS:

1._Which advises could you give me to make this plan work?

HpS - AgtSP. Do nice Hari Kirtana, Japa. Understand what your natural passions are. Develop plans with other devotees after understanding their personal motives, and sharing yours.

Who am I? Who are we? What is the plan"

2._Could you please help me to find two women devotees who would like to teach in Cusco and leave here? If they have experience teaching they can stay from one week to much more time.I could hellooo them.

HpS - Not much. 🙂

It is a very distant place for us. We don't know anyone who would want to go there. Very specific character required.

Yet, you have posted the job opening here on the Blog, so maybe we have helped that way, by supplying one forum, community, where someone maybe be inspired to join you.

Any fathers, uncle, brothers, male cousins, grown up sons, nephews, helping you?????

Thank you very much for your aswers.

Your servant

Divya Dristi dd.

🙏🙏🙏🌈

Hare Krishna, Maharaja and Devotees;

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

All glories to Guru and Gauranga.

On Sunday, January 26, 2025, at 7.30am, Houston time, we will continue reading chapter 10~~ The Lord's Return to Jagannatha Puri; we will start reading from verses 11.26 onwards, we will be able to cover about 50 verses.

Thank you to H. G. Kunja Bihari Prabhu for doing nice translation for class January 19th class. He stepped in at last minute notice to do translation seva for class, because H. G. Ambrish Prabhu was not feeling well.

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

HpS//ASA - Traveling with Mahaprabhu, Sri Gauranga, in Bharata 500 years ago! Do not desire anything else.

YS

Upendra dasa

Hare Krishna Gurudeva 

PAMHO - AGTSP

I have a question:

How should our relationship be with practitioners of other religions such as Christians, Jews, etc?

If they invite us to their ceremonies, how should our behavior be?

Thank you very much 

Your servant 

Piyari Mohan das 

HpS/ASA -- HK/HR.... thank you for your letter. these are very nice questions. we had, have, these questions.

First, i would say that in the conclusion, i never met a better christian than srila prabhupada. remember listening to his voice coming over the loudspeaker in the kitchen as we cooked the 6.45am offering for radha gokulanands.

he said, 'lord jesus christ, prophet muhammad, they did such good preaching work'.

by that time i had associated with srila prabhupada a great deal by very intensely studying his KRSNA book. i had seen the standard that he required from his disciples, managers.

i had a pretty good basis in direct investigation of christ through my church, churches, personal experiences.

I knew that srila prabhupada was not concerned with trying to get cheap followers, that he spoke his mind about different religions even if it was not popular.

so, our attitude towards christ and christians and islam is respectful to the point of life and death and beyond.

bh v. th says that if we are i the place of worship of some other faith, church, at the time of worship, we should think, 'the same God that I worship is being worshipped here, now. by seeing the adoration of these devotees of my Lord, i can learn things to improve my worship, yet because i do not belong to this tradition formally, i may not be participating in all of the details of this ritual'.

i think that Vatican II has basically the same perspective, so that the pope and cardinals and others my visit a hare krsna temple. they may sing and clap, but not dance. 🙂

maybe someone comes to ISKCON and participates, but does not take Harinama Diksa, 1st Initiation, and then feels that ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, will always be in His heart, and in the heart of Krist, but this person should return to or formally become baptised in another tradition, islam, jehovah's witnesses, LDS...

maybe they have come to realize srila prabhupada as a vartmana pradarshika guru. guru who shows the way. always venerable. expect jesus to enhance their relationship with ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada, but become and remain matriculated in their Jesus Christ university and get their PhD.

O.K.?

After 1st or 2nd or 3rd [sannyasa] initiation, is it o.k. to leave and take diksa, be baptised in another line?

i don't know. lord caitanya took initiation from isvara puri, a vaisnava, but then took sannyasa from kesava bharati.

i think that the answer to this question would need to be taken directly from srila prabhupada. we might only be able to guide a student, our student, in the process of talking about it directly with srila prabhupada.

9.54PM

good night!!

see you in Mangala arati.

if anyone else asks this question i will tell them to ask you and you can show them this essay etc.

January 20, 2025

Dear Maharaja Hanumat Presaka Swami,

pamho, AGtSP!

We received your correspondence, reminding us, that we too must keep in the loop. In this case we’re taking advantage of your world-famous blog, so on with the show!

ASA agtSP..... paoho. 🌴

Actually it’s been trying.

Just to get some dharmic activity since returning from Houston I jumped right into a Bhaktivedanta Institute residential service, and mundane bill coverage along with household and yard pruning, maintenance etcetera.

Though I guess all this is part of dharmic activity, I just feel that so much more effort should go with devotee association.

Then last week, after 2 try’s for Hari Nam, I finally scored on the 3^rd attempt and did get some necessary Sadhu Sanga.

After dancing & singing [🐵

about KRSNA] in the streets, I was in ecstasy… though some Vaisnava’s there were puzzledly looking at me. Regardless, l felt much better, admittedly, the following day I had some intense myofascial convulsions, like leg cramps from hell.

Funny thing was I started laughing it hurt so much and I felt better… hope I’m not getting sadistic [masochistic?] in my old age.

On the social scale, I finished my japa early (that 2am start time just nails the chanting) and a quick visit to Facebook seeking the new devotee’s I met on Hari Nam.

I was hunting and pecking on the Ol’ laptop (Dell XPS is in the shop), and “Pop,” a pornography “rated advertisement was blatantly flung on my screen.

My Brahma Muhurta hours were “hurting.”

Then, later, you were posting on X about keeping our hearts clean and offerable to Shyamasundar Gopal.

So tricky Maya is!

My fear factor is actually rising now, for at my latter [years?], devotional service is important, and we know how the mind knows no limits of sense gratification.

The good thing is that we have such nice darshan of Sri Sri Radha Shyamsundar at the Temple and are getting more association with some very advanced Vaisnava’s! Sri Bhagavan is keeping us engaged where we may do the best, I have to never forget and always remember.

Apologize for my brevity, had limited editing time,

All glories to your service!

HpS/ASA -- We work on the World War II dictum that if first class will never get done, and second class will be too late, then third class is good enough.

Thank you for your powerful and valuable association. Please, by mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Nityananada, go on becoming a devotee on the level of Narada Muni. Eight PM, time for arati and KRSNA book!

more.

respects to mataji and madan mohan das