Letters to the editor

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and His infinite mercy.

All glories to the International Society for Krsna Consciousness, all glories to my spiritual master pouring out his mercy on this sinful soul like me:

Hare Krishna dear Gurudev. Please accept my obeisances at Your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA

AGTSP!

Thank you for your patience with this homeless hippie, many things have happened since the last time I wrote to you, the most important for me:

I had a motorcycle accident in which I almost left my body, the impact was so great that the people who He saw that he thought I was dead, they were surprised to see that I got up,

took my motorcycle (I was hit by a motorcycle from behind) and walked out. I suffocated because the impact was so great that it took all the oxygen out of my lungs.

I thought... how difficult to think of Krishna at the time of death in practical terms.

My ribs hurt, these days I go to a traumatologist to do some studies and plates. Otherwise I'm fine, just sore.

ASA - Relevant Foto Attached

The cool thing about this accident is that it's 1:50 in the morning and I'm singing my rounds.

I feel lucky because it helps me wake up, I've been asleep for a long time.

Jay Gurudev!!! thank you, thank you, thank you.

ASA - AgtSP AGTSP A G T S P!

2.- I spoke with the zonal GBC of the Ratha Yatra, and for now he doesn't want to know anything about it, they recently operated on him, and even so he is in charge of the program.

HpS - He needs an assistant, no?

It really is admirable. I didn't mean to bother him, I'll talk to him later.

He told me that when we started it we were able to do it in a certain spontaneous way and we skipped Some technical regulations that require Him as a zonal GBC, so forgive me for being such a boaster and thinking that I can do a Ratha Yatra by myself.

ASA - 🐽

Ratha Yatra means work in society, at that time we started three bhaktas (two bhaktas from Uruguay and one from Córdoba) Of which only I follow without initiation. In 2013 they gave me recommendations to get started, but tests happened and I couldn't overcome them.

The same dear Gurudev I promised you to make a Ratha Yatra, so I am thinking of making a Ratha Yatra kids for the children or a happy jaganath party. I feel sad that children cannot see Ratha Yatras.

HpS/ASA - Super! Small cart, small dieties, big Kirtan! Video, photo graph it. Make a movie.

When I just came to Córdoba, once walking to work I saw an ambulance under your foot... they were discounting a girl who committed suicide, then another day, coming back from connecting, another young girl's body was lying on the sidewalk, He had thrown himself from a building.

If these girls had gone to a Ratha Yatra and gotten Prabhupada's books, would they be happy and alive? .I am convinced that yes.

HpS - I was coming home from working for Master Card at 11PM. Walking to the Temple through the Tenderloin, a very rough area of San Francisco with bad bars, clubs etc.

I saw one Mexico guy walking along very depressed like he had lost his job, come home, got in a fight with his wife, slapped her hard and then walked out on the street.

Just spontaneously I said, "Don't forget God", and he stopped and his face lit up!

He looked at me like, "Yes! Yes! Thank you. Thank you. I forgot Him. He can help us even in the biggest mess."

Krsna consciousness is a must. Thank you for being motivated to continue in Ella, despite our limitations.

Yesterday with Radha JPJ we were listening to one of Your classes, It was talking about the Gopis and Vrndavam, and for a moment my humble home was transformed into Vrndavam thanks to You.

Thank you for bringing Vrndavam into this world.

These days with the help of Radha JPJ and with the mercy of Jagannatha I am resting to recover, we are reading Her Blog with Radha, we are happy to enjoy Her Tracendental adventures.

I would like to make a private consultation to work on my service.

Please forgive any offense committed inadvertently in this letter.

Trying to please him:

Bhakta Franco

HpS - I don't see any offenses. To quote Jani Joplyn -- Honey! You doin jus fine! [Doing just fine].

Go ahead... Expect a nice plateau in your Yoga. Waking up!!!

You are not Fanco. You are an angel made of light, you have been in a very great auto accident. Wake up!!!! Wake up!!!



Please accept my respectful obeisances at your beautiful lotus feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!

I hope the present finds it fine and very happy in your sankirtan.

Summary report months keshava, narayana, visnu and madhusudana 😊:

One of the most beautiful events is that Tulasi Devi finally came to our home!!!💜 She is in the greenhouse now and Franco is heating it with a wood heater, so that she is comfortable. For me, it is wonderful to visit her, sing to her, water her, pray to her, circumambulate her, and chant the maha mantra near her. I feel such a special friendly energy... I ask you to be happy in this place and not to abandon me.

HpS - ASA -- 👍

It happened that I went to dance at an event at Adi Sakhi Devi dasi's house about three hours and more... from home and she gave me a tulasi. At this event prasadam was distributed and there was also a small table with Srila Prabhupada's books. we met prabhu Radha Raman from Argentina and his wife. It was wonderful when he told us that he helped build the temple of chosica...!!! When He told us that... we just fell at His feet because we remember our first spiritual home...😂😂😂

Then I decided to interview him so as not to miss all the wonderful and hard events that happened in his life at that time. One of the things he told us is that the most static moments of his spiritual life were those kirtans with the devotees in Peru....!!!

Otherwise Gurudev, I am following my early sadhana, chanting my rounds and following the principles. Sometimes it seems that I have insomnia 😀 because I get up at twelve or one in the morning but I prefer to stay awake because if I go back to sleep I'll get up late. And then after my sadhana sometimes I walk by or sometimes a little nap before I go to collect. I remember your class where you tell about a devout grijasta who would take a nap after lunch until ten at night, say good night to his family😊 and he would stay up until mangalartik, make poems...etc. Then I had a short nap before going to work. We try to follow his example and sing, dance and write at dawn...

HpS - Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura!

Thank you for telling us stories of Vaishnavas that inspire us so much to follow our spiritual life at the most important hour 😃

Now I just need to live this saying: the past is history The future is a mystery And the present is... a gift❤💙 ....

ASA - Hari Bolo! '@'pop~

Sushila Dasi gave us Lord Jagannatha books and Vaisnava compassion to distribute. We have already given away some. But someone very cute...

Came in the package...

a beautiful puppet of ..

Srimati Radharaniiii!!!!!!!😀😀😀😃 So I am going to visit Srimati Tulasi Devi with Srimati Radharani😊😊😊 and I really feel happy!! Maybe I'm just a girl.. because I really love playing with this puppet and I feel really accompanied, it's amazing...

Gopalito turned 10 last Sunday, May 15... he always does wonderful things and loves puppets... Franco taught him how to sew and he has sewn his own various puppets!! and Franco helps him a lot. Franco also made a Krsna soft toy and I tried to make a Sri Radharani soft toy for Gopal😊.

Please, I ask Your precious blessings for the spiritual life of our son.

HpS-ASA - Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna... Hare Rama.... HARE RAMA!!! Gopal. May he become a very profound person.

I overextended myself. ..I was thinking of writing a short letter..but I can't help it. . Happily it is a summary of several months😊

Please, I ask for your valuable prayers for Franco's recovery. He had a very bad motorcycle accident... he tells you the details in his letter. Thanks to our beloved Krsna, He is recovering well.

Thank you for your valuable time and for being our Gurudeva!!!!!

Please Gurudev forgive any offense committed unintentionally, in this letter.

Please accept Franco's and Gopalito's dandavat Her attempted disciple:

Radha Japa Prati Jalpa Devi dasi

P.F. Ekangui Devi Dasi asked me to tell you that he is very happy with your response, Gurudev and thanks you very much.

HpS - ASA -- See attached foto of Lord Jagannatha. We think of her! What is happening with her life? It should be a great adventure.

Dear Gurudeva,

danvadat pranam.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

really thankful for your encouragement and your mercy on me in the letter. When i thought back on it while worshiping at my home altar, at once i also felt a similar kindness and mercy from them making it past my hard-heartedness/poor self image. You and the Lordships helping me up, dusting me off, fixing my collar and patting me on the back.

I read the sikstastikam daily with my japa circle group and pray that i can become humble and tolerant enough to serve spontaneously and constantly without (or with ever decreasing amount of) offenses and never fall down again. At 44 i may be 1/2 way into my lifespan with so much to learn and un-learn.

Around the time covid restrictions started there was talk about possible supply-chain issues when it came to food etc and i started to build a greenhouse from a kit in the backyard. The last step of fixing all the plexi panels was challenging using the provided hardware and the greenhouse sat 95% finished for almost 2 years. When i found a better way to mount the panels it was finally off the to-do list and that created a domino effect in the backyard where Cecilia followed up with a lot of runs to home depot and lowes for trunk-loads of material, and the backyard really came to life. We chant at least one mahamantra and panca tattva a day offering our food. Im not sure how the details of my current life will change or stay the same as i try to lay my life down at the feet of Guru and Krishna and try to let go of anything that is not compatible with that. Her father passed away spring 2019 at 82 and her mom is in her 80s at a nice senior facility in daly city. She’s a very caring and loyal person and gives me the freedom to do what i like, but i can’t twist her arm to come to the sunday feast- for a newcomer it takes some time to become familiar with the community. Her mom like mine is Catholic. Cecilia does a lot of work advocating for people at odds with church dogma. And works hard at it.

There’s an amazing devotee in SF from mexico, Vaninath, that will spend his last cent on books to give to other devotees, newcomers, etc and wait in bread lines for food. He lives in an sro in the tenderloin- used to live at the berkeley temple and served as a pujari there. He tells me the story he was kicked out because there was another devotee from russia that was standing with his feet on one of the prep tables in the kitchen and when he asked him not to there was fight or conflict and Jagannath Swami told Vaninath that he’s an illegal that just showed up, and this other devotee required a fair amount of money to bring to the us to also serve as a pujari there. He was kicked out and told me some pretty gnarly stories from his next four years living homeless. The last book he gave me was a beautifully illustrated large format telling of the Ramayana, the one before that was a Bhagavatam set he wanted me to give to my sister. I have my own Bhagavatam set, but that boxed set, i still have it and haven’t given it to her as he asked, because as much as i would love to pay forward this blessing im just not expecting her to have the right association where she can appreciate or understand it. If im wrong here please help me! Ive given all my family members smaller books like isopanisad, beyond birth and death, also Bhagavad Gita (Jaya!). I think the only one that’s been read was beyond birth and death becuase i asked my mom and dad to read the whole book with me on my birthday around 8 years ago. My parents have stayed at new vrindavan in WV with me during Gaura Purnim. One year for a christmas gift i asked them to avoid eating meat for a week- THEY DID IT! My mom has been painting photo-realistic water colors since the early 80s, she painted a picture of Srila Prabhupada for me for christmas 5 years ago.

My studio music is in a mostly idle state. I hope to get a chance to use it in the future as a platform to help spread the holy name and facilitate others that do this. I dont see kirtan as it is lacking anything needed to do this though. I also like to use music technology to explore/inquire into sound/time/rhythm/timbre/texture- just been more busy with getting up/going to bed early. At the moment im trying to get better/get started on harmonium and mridanga. Id like to be able to learn and help preserve some of the things Prabhupada gifted us without too much unnecessary embellishment.

hope you are having enlivening inspiring times at New Biharavan and look forward to seeing you there

Hare Krishna Gurudeva!

thank you

your servant,

Loka Bandhu Rama Dasa

hps - We are running to arati etc. your letter is too long for our little brain. so we had to start scanning it after first paragraph. it is great.

green house

celia catholic

vanniantha

Danvadat Pranam Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Have you ever taken a sabbatical?

I was able to talk with Ananta Rupa Das in Boise today. Planning to be there 6/1-6/7. Is there anything i can bring from the bay area? Thank you for your mercy!

your servant,

Loka Bandhu Rama Dasa

HpS - Yes we heard you are coming!!! Super. SUPER. Yes, if you can (?) please visit Loka natha Das and get some photos of him, his puppets etc. of the highest possible density. It will be very, very, nice.

Also any photos of Berkeley Temple and Deities!

I just texted you his phone and address.

Any Radha Gokulananda Prasadam if you can.

If this is not possible that is okay.

Just bring your smile.

HpS - ASA.

Hare krishna Gurudev!!

Pamho, AgtSP 

 I hope you are fine..

A Desciple of Bhakti Dhira Damorara Swami Maharaja contact me to ask you to make a short clip for his Vyasa Puja on 3th june..(give him the blessings to continue in service, Disciples of his grace wants to present a gift to him and consist of the blessings and mercy from the seniors and Srila Prabhupāda disciples…

.the clip should be send on the 31th of may

Thank you very much 

Ys ptd

HpS - We are not sure which of two Sannyasis is Maharaja. We met them both the same time and similar appearance. Can you send his photo and short bio-data!!?? Thank you.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

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

I hope you are in good health.

ASA - AGTSP!!! Paoho!!! Allergy is 95% lighter!!

Thank you for your tireless efforts in saving the conditioned souls like me! Gandharva Prabhu is scheduled for Friday, 5/27/2022, ASA SB English Presentation. With your current schedule should we still proceed with this arrangement? If yes, what time would you suggest for the class? We can also postpone this to a later Friday if that would be better with your current schedule.

Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa

HpS - I should, like to, attend the classes here. Our visit is short. So, can we just broadcast the Friday classes from here on gotomeeting at 7.45-8.45AM. It is nice that you all can also hear the classes.