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Please accept our obeisances To Your lotus feet🎵🙇🏻‍♀️🎶

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada!🙇🏻‍♀️💖🌹💐🌷🌻🌹

All glories to You, our adored Gurudeva!🙇🏻‍♀️💐🌷🌻🌹🌹🌻🌷💐

Please forgive me!! I didn't know it could be taken that way. It was hard for the heart just to read it. How important it is to know the intensity with which a single word can sound for each being.

We try to just please him and it hurts a lot that my words have not pleased him, but we are learning. Once we hear from his lips: the disciple has a duty to offer everything to the spiritual master and the spiritual master has a duty to reject everything. So for a long time we revered him like: his lotus feet, even though we saw that you didn't like him. But later. We hear this way of reverence of the Hindus and it seemed so sweet to us!! So real, because I thought that as women, we can't get close to their feet, but I thought so, to the dust of their feet. And because we have the mercy of taking that powder to take refuge and because a refuge is always sweet for the heart, it is called sweet powder. That's why I thought it was a perfect phrase.

Of course, this is just our view.

But now I see that you are not pleased, so please tell me how you would like us to honor you as our Gurudeva. Please excuse the inconvenience caused and I sincerely hope to please you with everything I have and I am that it is actually too little, but at least, it is what I can give.

Thank you for telling us how your throat goes. It makes me very happy to know that your doctor also helps you with this and I am calm. although whenever we hear it coughing... it causes us pain.

always trying to please her lotus heart:🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🌹🌻🌷💐

Radha Japa Prati Jalpa Devi Dasi🙇🏻‍♀️🎶🏞

HpS - AgtSP. Thank you J. P. R. Devi Dasi.

We have been trying to explain this attitude for some time. It is not just you, but others also.

In some ways it is a minor point, but in others it is quite important.

For example, after Srila Prabhupada left, his disciples who had been listed to give intiation, almosts universally thought that they should be Gurus like Srila Prabhupada.

"Pada" names were so common:

Achaya Pada, Visnu Pada, Hari kirtan Pada.

Gradually we are all realizing the exalted positin of Srila Prabhupada.

He is a Sampradaya Acharya like Rupa Goswami etc.

They do not have to appear in every generation.

As far as I understand there are three generations of Diksa gurus in between Narottama and Visvanatha, but Srila Bhaktisiddhanta does not list them in the Parampara.

Does not mean that they are bod or insignificant people, but they were not Sampradaya acharyas.

They were competent to pass on the process, as we should be, but they did not make big changes like Rupa Goswami.

When Srila Visvanatha appeared, we would understand that he was politely explaining to his Diksa Guru what the purports of Narottama meand, and so his Diksa guru and the other gurus back to Narottam all blessed him and encouraged him to go to Narottama and move the Sampradaya forward.

O.K.

Please see us as Guru in light of our, your, Founder Acharya.

You can glorify the dust from his lotus feet, and try to poperly understand the dust from Franko, ourselves, and Nikunja bihari Das, and your own feet.

😃

SOme little help?

Hare Krsna, TB,

Tom Brown, Secretary ASA - HAre Krsna, Hayagriva A. D. AgtSP!!!

We were telling a student the concept of soul, it taking shelter of sperm, then fertilizing with egg in ovum etc.

All this was done to tell difference between dead body and living body.

Then the question of multiple babies arised , there we got stuck, questions like are there soul in eggs, then the process of non identical, identical twins arose, which has got very nice explaination from the medical science, which bolsters the perspective that we are lump of matters.

so can TB or HpS put light soul theory of fertilization and twins reproduction especially from embryology perspective.

yet to accept with faith that the soul exist to serve Krsna.

TB/ASA - We all don't know too much about embryology and persepctive of Sankhya.

In all cases it seems pretty simple. Get a sponsor for a house and then architect, craftsment etc start to build. Two houses on the same lot, or maybe two bothers whose wives decide they like the other wive's houise and so a second identical house starts on the same lot.

Rare but seems simple.

Is O.K.?

Hare Krishna, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, my obeisances to you, GM. My previous letter didn't send; browser problems. How are you? I read something on the Blog. Thank you always for your updates.

About me, I made a brief summary: I was living in Bariloche, Patagonia, and I hope to return soon. I came to Buenos Aires to study. I graduated as a flight attendant, and I'm studying languages, but English never sticks in my brain. I also had my first Chinese class, french and german are no the way todo, I always choose difficult things, like my mind, which suffers a lot. I think and demand a lot of myself; I never stop feeling happiness in my activities, but I always feel like something is missing, and my thirty years limit me; I think I'm too attached. I'm also a ceramicist (pottery?) it's my current job, but I enjoy it so much, and it's so therapeutic, that I don't feel like it's work.

I spent six months in Mexico visiting my sister Malati and her family; everything was so beautiful and pleasant, and they were so kind. Guru Maharaja, I ask for your blessings to help me continue and to lower the ego within me.

I always wish you well and the company of the devotees and Srila Prabhupada. Excuse my bad english, your crazy Servant

Ter kadamba devi dasi

HpS - How long, agtSP, has it been since we had a chance to communicate? !!

Did you restring our Japa beads when they broke?

How are you parents?

Gone to Goloka?

Multi-billionaire brain surgeon and famous French fashio designer?

Hare Krishna, Maharaja

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you

I had a somewhat intriguing experience and I want to clarify this situation that is causing me a lot of confusion.

While dancing before the deity, I visualized myself as a gopi or girl in the spirit world.

One night, while thinking that perhaps I was a gopi, I felt as if “Krishna” came and wanted to have physical relations with me.

This “entity,” I don’t know what kind of entity it is, had such relations with me, just as if it were a person. My body was agitated but now that I remember it, I feel disgusted by this situation. It’s like a kind of rape, I don’t know.

This was a real thing, not a dream. In fact, I was writing while it was happening, as if this being were speaking to me through my mind.

I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything, but I felt it.

Now I'm stable, back to normal, but it's still there, bothering me sometimes. But I no longer believe in "that gopi who has physical relations with Krishna."

Do you think this was a ghost or some other kind of entity?

Thank you.

Your servant, Rama Krishna Dasi

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. I do not know. The material energy is unlimited.

When we are engaged in Sankirtan with Srila Prabhupada, in the company of his nice, disciples, then we have a good perspective on reality and can make some practical judgement about our subtle and gross experiences.

Adjust your life so that you can have such Kirtan association morning and evening daily.

There are Bhutas, Pretas, Yaska, Rakshasa, Vininayaksas, so many subtle beings.

It is just like a rat trying to understand the variety of people, cats, dogs, horses, pythons etc that there are in the world and then having experiences with them.

There is not limit to how much your can become fixed in your original K. C. experience.

Learn who you are now, build your character and preach.

Hare Krsna, Gurudeva.

Obeisances.

Obviously we try to see Guru Parampara System (GPS) behind you so AGTSP, AGT-GPS.

HpS/ASA - Of course, we feel successful when we have been able to be a window to Srila Prabhupada.

Please tell us what he says to you.

We generally don't stay physically with ISKCON devotees. However when we are working with so called non ISKCONites, we say that in India there is so much confusion who is God, what He wants etc, it was our fortune to come in touch with Srila Prabhupada books, and then came you and first initiation.

brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja.

We remind ourself of your mercy by this verse, we do feel pacified, small progress is eternal, correct, progress.

HpS - We seem to be making a small contribution to the whole process, yet it was by the mercy of our Mother, Godmother, and the USA after World War Two that we had our first start in spiritual development.

Then it seems very much from previoius life we took up the work again.

After that, it was Srila Prabhupada who gave us this extra ordinary initiation into Bhagavata Dharma, God as a person.

Specific to India, he is presenting nothing other than the Vedic proposition, the amplification of the Acharyas.

Of course, at any time, in the material world, that is amazing!

in letter 15915 you wrote -"We cannot give too much help!"--well this could direct indication of you might be tired of us, and leaving us to our stubborness/ egoism of not following your instruction but our mind....

so on that line we ask you ..

How can we serve you eternally?

How can we serve you currently ?

four rules intact as never before.

getting up everyday before sun rise ,

current focus is on this tamasic/rajasic body and not so bogged down that four rules break.

you have given us lessons for eternity.

Obeisances

Hayagriva Avatar Das

HpS/ASA - We do not feel tired of your association.

It has always been cause of humility for us since the first day we met you and Mataji after the lecture in Gaziabad.

Any news from her and The Aniruddha?

Are you still teaching at Varanasi?

Getting up early and getting your rounds done, with as much alacrity and enthusiasm as you can apply, and following the four regulative principles as strictly as possible is the very best service for us and Srila Prabhupada.

It is like planting a mango tree and nurtering it.

All wonderful things will come from that.

Seed, sprout, seedling, sappling, tree, sprouts, buds, flowers, green mangos, ripe mangos, trade some mangos for bananas/coconuts/pants and shirt..

Is good idea?

asa[e] guru tattva; disciple falls from vows.

Dear Gurudeva,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

I am writing this letter to tell you that I am losing myself spiritually. For several weeks I have not been keeping fully the promise I made to you of chanting 16 good rounds and the Gayatri mantras, and I feel very, very bad.

You always say that if one is not keeping the vow, you are not his/her spiritual master anymore, and I understand that.

HpS - As Diksa Guru, but if you or someone in this position wants, then we can try to function as Siksa guru, Patha-pradarshika guru, again. That is Guru who tries to get us on the formal path, the vows and promises.

Of course, Srila Prabhupada is doing this for all of us through so many media.

It is only my fault. I ask your forgiveness for having failed you and Srila Prabhupada. It is clear that I am not up to the standard. Please, I hope you don’t think that I am getting lost by engaging in sense enjoyment, I mean, more than some weeks ago. Truly, that is not the case.

I have simply complicated a little more my life with my new personal situation. At the same time, I am getting older and I have less material strength, and it seems also less spiritual strength. The daily life of a worker woman who lives alone with two children and several bills to pay at the end of the month consumes a lot of hours and energy.

I have the feeling of sinking into a spiral that swallows me and pushes me away from the devotees. Sometimes I think am a burden for the devotees: Jayanta is better living in Brihuega and the devotees who live around here are only interested on when Jayanta can come to have a lecture and a sat sanga meeting.

And I totally understand it. I am only good at my job, driving and some sports.

I would like to thank you for all these years in which, through your great mercy, you have allowed me to remain close to you and benefit from your association, knowledge, and realizations.

I am deeply, deeply sorry for not being up to the level of you, your spiritual master, or your disciples. What frightens me most is that I don’t know if I will ever be able to be. But I am going to keep trying. This soul is fighting.

If you allow me, I would like to continue connecting, whenever I can, to Japa Joe, FMP, and the Sunday classes. Also, whenever needed and if you consider it appropriate, please count on me to help with NIOS.

I am sorry to have to write you such a letter.

I hope you are in good health.

An aspirant hoping to be able to serve you again.

HpS - As usual you are a heroine and leader for so many people. How many people are in the same position and have not taken the brave and honest steps to write here.

Thank you.

Can we act as your Siksa guru?

Vartmana, Patha, pradarsika guru?

Of course, Krsna does not forget all the effort you have made.

It is like taking the rope He is offering from the shore and pulling us closer. Eventually we get to the point that even though we still go under the water, our feet now hit the bottom and we can use that to push ourselves up, as well as take the pull from his rope.

Later we will be 50% out of the water.

Yet in all cases we hold onto the rope. Even 50% of the rivers current can carry us away.

Of course, the rope is 16/4 with enthusiasm.

If we lose the connection we are headed back to the Samsara of the river flow. Again, it is different for one who has chanted than one who has not.

If we have the strength and intelligence to go to work etc. then we have the strength and intelligence to chant some Japa and follow principles to some practical extent.

No whiskey.

No betting on horse races.

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Keep track of how many rounds you owe Krsna.

Take a vow to chant a certain number of rounds daily that you know you can do for a certain period. Eg. "I will chant four rounds per day until Christmas".

Then see the result.

Then take a vow to chant fixed number, more or less, during the next period.

At least one round every year on Janmastami? 😆

This is what Srila Prabhupad and we guess Rupa Goswami recommend in the NoD.

Sangat sanjayate kamah.

Our desires develop from the company we keep.

If you are giving so much help to Nimai the Great and Sarasvati the Charming, then why aren't they chanting with you?

Has Jayanta Das moved full time to Brihuega?

Does he not help with the care of the minor children?

Are the two of you enacting your Spanish lila of Sancho and Teresa?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo7VlD66ISM