Hare Krishna Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances. So, so sorry we didn’t come see you this time. There’s been a constant lack of communication from our godbrothers and godsisters in Richmond — they hardly ever tell us when you’re coming. The last 2 times, someone from DC usually let me know instead.

I was local, but I was in Leesburg for the weekend and didn’t find out until the day before that you were coming. My mom was working since it was the middle of the week, and she was also really sad we didn’t get enough notice because she can’t get time off from the hospital last minute.

HpS - Ooof! Yet we have been posting the news pretty regularly here of our Calendar Development, no??? 🐵

Honestly, I feel like such an outsider in Richmond now. It’s as if I didn’t spend four years there and contribute to the community. I didn’t get invited to Subala Sakha’s daughter’s wedding, or the other girl’s wedding either, even though we literally lived together for a whole semester.

And every time I come there now, I just get asked why I’m not married yet, as if it’s somehow my own fault.

HpS - Maybe the winner is the one who gets married to Krsna!

It honestly feels like a very judgmental community sometimes, and one that lacks emotional awareness.

ASA - 🐵 What to expect???? They all speak seven different machine languages, no????

So it feels really discouraging going there now.

At this point, I mostly only go to Richmond to see you, which is why I’m especially sorry I missed you this time.

Someone else in DC mentioned you may be coming up here. If so, can we please host you? I’m about 20 minutes from the temple, and my dad will be here too. We've been doing a bhakti related events at the yoga studio I teach at. There is another studio in DC called Bhakti DC that has a Bhakti 101 type program that I'm also a part of. Lots of yogis that are exploring the sattvic side.

Haha, I’m finally making enough (monkey) money to be respected, I guess. I’m sending my mom back to Braj in business class — though honestly that’s mostly just me playing around with points and airline miles.

Also, my dog’s name is Ares, so it was funny you sent that Wonder Woman clip. It was a really good one. I took it to mean that love conquers all if we keep believing in Krishna — that maybe at the last moment, Krishna gives us all the strength and power we need to conquer maya and this world.

Hare Krishna 🙏

Perpetually stuck and trying to be your servant,

Sugopi devi dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna.

Hope that the devotees in Richmond can give some more help.

They were all half mad while we were there.

Subal had just been through the second most intense wedding of the year after Advani's in India. We visit one devotee who had a massive brain stroke and is slow, slow, slow, beginning to blink his eye lids with Morse Code.

Another baby shower.

What do you teach at the Yoga studios?

What is your father doing? Is he inventing stuff for the Indian army.

I think we got our most recent calendar up. It is under the Calendar, Letter Type Above, no?

When have you manipulated for your mother to go to India???

Hare Krsna adored Gurudeva please accept our humble obeisances 🙏👣🪷🌹🌷🌻💝💖All glories To Srila Prabhupada!

Regarding your question about Franco, he replied:

I'm preparing for the start of Kali Yuga by building the house, preparing the garden, installing solar panels...

All I can say is that he watches a lot of news and worries about what the world will be like in the future and prepares for that.

Regarding the beautiful video you sent us in your last letter, I can simply say that for me it is like the emotionally strongest, peak moment of Radha's love for the Vrajavasis, for Krishna 💖

Franco had downloaded it a long time ago, when KRSNA AUR KAMSA was first released, with Spanish subtitles!! At that time, Gopal would play with a wooden stick and dance, imitating the gopas in the song where the gopas sing praises to Krishna.It was wonderful to see my son like that!

. I hope to send the link in the next letter; I can't find it now.

That video faded away over time and we can no longer watch it; it keeps cutting out. We tried to download it again, but we couldn't find it. So we'll watch it in English and try to understand it that way 😊 That beautiful yet sad moment of Krishna Aur Kamsa that you sent us:

"I try to stop thinking about you and separation from you, but I cannot, so I just give up."

His eternal servant:Radha japa prati jalpa devi Dasi 🙏🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🙇🏻🙏🙇🏼👣🪷🌹🌷🌻💝🙏💦💖🙏🎶🪷🙏🙏🙏⛑️🙏💪💛🙏👣🪷🙏

HpS - Amazing. I was told that the lady singing is one of the most famous artists in India, Bollywood and she did it all for free.

Such a nice song.

Hope Franco has good success.

Bh. Caru Swami told me that he told Prabhupada that with the modern weapons they have they can destroy the world, and Prabhupada told him, you do not know the power of the demigods Bhakti Caru.

They use all there weapons and in one day the demigods neutralize and the damage. In two days they bring things back to their original form and in three days they make it better than it was.

We are not lazy. We use our God given intelligence to prepare things but we also expect MIRACLES, no?

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

hps/asa - i think that maybe we have lotus hooves or lotus paws.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

ASA - !!!

Since I last wrote we have accomplished the following:

1. Moved back to New Govardhana, Australia;
2. Regularly attending the full morning programme;
3. Developed an online/mobile application for Krishna Village accommodation services (the accommodation being a major source of revenue for the temple);
4. Introduced and implemented distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books (x3 including Bhagavad Gita) into all of New Govardhana's 48+ guest rooms, as free to read/purchase at check out items;
5. Commenced bhakti shastri course (x2 classes per week with Sriman Iksvaku das Adhikary); and
6. Commenced developing 'Prabhupada Slokas' application, transliterations, translations and with sanskrit pronunciation of all slokas cited by Srila Prabhupada, for individual and group study, including the translations of all Temple Daily Programme songs, from Bengali to English for learning these essential prayers "off by heart". App to be eventually released for purchase from the Apple App Store (for nominal amount).

Begging your blessings to this end,

Your servant,

Janardana-hari dasa.

HpS - ASA - Thank you this news!!! Who do you have for associates. Where is New Govardhana? Near what city??? Map GPS????????? Cobras??

Mukunda Goswami?

Sunday, May 31st, 2026, at 7.30 am, Houston time

We will start reading Madhya Lila; 19.114 onwards up to verse 19.165.

(Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructs Srila Rupa Goswami)

Thank you to all devotees for their dedicates service to ASA ~~ SB workshop class. H. G. Nikunja Bihari Prabhu will help us with Spanish translation seva for Maharaja's class and reading notes of CC.

H.G. Mitravinda Mataji will help us with seva of back up translator; in case there are technical difficulties.

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

YS

Upendra Dasa

ASA - 🐵 🐷 ..... 🤓 🔭 🔬 ☢ Jaya!

hare krsna. 5.18pm. we are mad, agtSP, but we are glad.

another day in the battle of kuruksetra played.

30-minutes with:

1. Sri Rama Krsna,
2. Srinatha Krsna
3. Abhirama Thakura das

on Phone. calendar.

Whatsapp with AED, et al.

Full Morning Program.

Japa Joe. Mangala arati. Excellent guest played drum.

Using S9+.

Offered split yellow mung dahl to Lord Nrsmha deva.

Class with Mukunda Dutta Das:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mukunda+datta+prabhu+kirtan

Distribute a few books to a few people who will appreciate them????!!!

Now let us look at the reports from others.

Thank you.

• Eyes are fried.
• Respiration at 70%.

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna. I think some devotees in Mexico in ladies bodies have it worse.

Heroes and Heroines!

Hare Krsna.

AgtSP!

The 🌇 sun is at 4.23pm here in Nila Madhava Dhama, ISKCON Houston. We are in our cave in the Sannyasi ashrama.

T. H. Giriraja Swami and Rtadhvaja Swami, and 100+ devotees left from here for the big Sadhu Sanga in New Orleans.

October India Delegation

Participation of members and directors for

a delegation to Udipi and Delhi (Braja), India,

in October, to develop (Bhakti) Ayur Veda(anta)

are developing.

Want to join us?

Forty minute phone call trying to help disciples and innocent people in their Grhastha ashramas.

Health pretty good.

Honoring Prasadam same.

Annual Reports

Finally❗❗❗, systematically, answering the Annual Reports.

Following the Four Regulative principles means complete celibacy in body, words and mind for Sannyasi and B'cari.

Grhastha couple only have relations once a month after 50-rounds to get children when wife is in time of conception! 😎

We are following our Sannyasa standard, but have to be more clever to avoid the stories of men and women mixing in the popular media.

Always room for improvement.

Even Srimati Radharani and Sri Krsna are increasing Their chastity!!!!

If you have fallen from this standard and 16-enthusiastic rounds then we cannot act as your Diksa guru.

Hansadutta Das, Bhagavan Das et al commented that this was the source of their fall-down. They thought they could imitate Srila Prabhupada and stay connected to people as Diksa guru even if they were not following the vows.

We are not Sampradaya Acharya like Srila Prabhupada.

If you cannot follow, then let us help as Siksa guru (I think the Sanskrita is Patha-pradarshika) to show you the way, help you back on, the path.

It may take one month. It may take one year. It may take a lifetime. Even though he is not required to do this, the amount of mercy that a bona fide spiritual master will give to a sincere disciple is practically speaking unlimited.

O.K.? Any questions?

In general, we discuss them here.

This is like the group that gathers around the speaker after the Sunday Festival lecture. Lecture was for everybody. Group afterwards is more intimate, open secrets. Then a few words in detail in private for very intimate talk.

If we don't do this then we are acting like Putana to some degree, no? We are pretending to be 1st, 2nd, 3rd level disciples of Srila Prabhupada but our Sankirtan is then mixed with these material attachments. We are giving breast milk mixed with Coca-cola!

Jaya!!

AgtSP.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/5/#bb5939

O.K. Now we crawl to the Temple. Post a letter to Lokannatha Das in Berkeley on the way, and call Sri Rama Krsna Das in Dallas about www.JayaRama.US!

Thank you.

P. S. Can also use a pseudonym when you write to the Blog to be demur.

Thank you.