Rice Feeding Ceremony for dhAsharaTi in Houston in December - Change in Date

4 months, 3 weeks ago by sriram in Personal Sadhana Reports, Calendar Development

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaj,


HpS - ASA -- AgtSP!!! Paoho.


Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


I am following the 4 regulative principles. I am struggling to complete my rounds now that we don't have any support at home. Vishaka's parents have left for India. I will strive to complete my rounds, Guru Maharaj.


HpS - If you do, 💪💪💪🐒, then all the home work will become easy!


We are still doing the FMP with Dhaasharathi.


https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15291/


Regarding this letter, initially we had planned to do the rice feeding ceremony on the 18th of December Guru Maharaj, but since your Vyasa Puja is on 31st, we wouldn't be able to make the trip twice.


So, we thought we would do the ceremony on the 1st of January, if that's ok with you Guru Maharaj.


HpS - Happy New Year!

If it is O.K. with Nila Madhava and the village chiefs, then it is O.K. with us.


We will come on the 30th of Dec and leave at night on the 1st of Jan.


HpS - Super!!!


I hope you get some rest after reaching Houston Guru Maharaj. I saw in the blog that Richmond is keeping you very busy.


Every day here we have a noon or evening program.

We are learning how to function with an 25-year old Mercedes! 😃


Your humble servant

Sri Rama Krishna Das


HpS/ASA -- 🐵 🐷 🐘 Thank you!!! Hari Bolo!

Priyasakhi Devi Dasi

4 months, 3 weeks ago by priyasakhi in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!


Querido Guru Maharaja.

La tienda está en nuestra casa. Así que puedo ir a dejar y buscar a los niños a la escuela y estar con ellos toda la tarde.

Siempre tenemos kirtan sonando. Kadamba Kanana Swami, Jahnavi Harrison, Acyuta Gopi, Niranjana Swami y Madhava Prabhu.

Vamos a pedir más títulos del BBT, solo tenemos 4 títulos.


Muchas gracias por incentivarme a continuar con los cursos. No es fácil seguir, pero es un néctar hacer el servicio.


Si Gurudev, es la profesora Claudia Lira en la fotografía que envié en la carta anterior. Ella es muy agradable.


Su aspirante a sirviente

Priyasakhi Devi Dasi


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Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.


Please accept my respectful obeisances.


All glories to Srila Prabhupada!




Dear Guru Maharaja,


The store is in our house. So I can go and pick up the kids from school and be with them all afternoon.


We always have kirtan playing. Kadamba Kanana Swami, Jahnavi Harrison, Acyuta Gopi, Niranjana Swami and Madhava Prabhu.


We are going to order more BBT titles, we only have 4 titles.




Thank you very much for encouraging me to continue with the courses. It is not easy to continue, but it is a pleasure to do service.




Yes Gurudev, it is Professor Claudia Lira in the photograph I sent in the previous letter. She is very nice.




Your would-be servant


Priyasakhi Devi Dasi



HPS - ASA --- Thank you for the information packed news. Your kids, husband, church, nation all seem to be very lucky to have some one like you helping them! 😃

We leave now for home program.

Hope to broadcast it.


Answering your questions and general update

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 


So nice to hear from you and to be connected through this blog platform once again. Though I feel like I’m with you in the morning program and I have the great fortune of following your activities on Facebook and Twitter. But It’s always like a bolt of lightning when receiving your personal messages. A reminder of the ultimate goal of life and a clear picture of where I am at, simultaneously. There’s quite a gap. It’s encouraging and humbling in one shot. 


Yes, the community here in general is like an upside down and distorted version of what I think real community might be. And no one knows each other, it’s true. Everyone in their own isolated box of comfort, “pleasures” and miseries. Reminds me of that quote: “most people are living out quiet lives of desperation”…while saying: “I'm doing good”. 


HpS///ASA - AgtSP. Paoho. T. S. Elliot.



We long for village life and more association with devotees but at the same time are dealing with our own rugged individualist tendencies and contaminations.


HpS - That's the American Way, no? John Wayne, James Bond.


Despite all of that I find many moments throughout the day of clarity and connection to you. Started a Japa call for a few new Bhaktas: Braxton, Connor and Jack. They join almost every morning at some point in a two and half hour long duration. Getting most of my rounds in before breakfast and before the baby terror wakes up. Yamuna is advancing though but we can’t tell if she’s a great devotee or a great demon sometimes ha ha..


ASA - Can we be both?? 🐵


I’ve been giving talks every Thursday on Vaisesika Prabhu’s new book: The Four Questions. And then every Friday Anadi and I have been doing a class on Nectar Of Instruction using your Tava Pache Pache for Power point inspiration and discussion points. People have been engaged. Thank you for this commentary and for inspiring us to do this. 


Govardhana Puja was really deep and not a huge turn out but a quality crowd. I’m still working on our hill and making artful signage in yellow, red and the perfect green. I almost don’t want to finish it because then it could come to life and then I would really have to surrender! Ha ha and yes making it higher and charging people to commit transcendental suicide off of it is a good idea! Some wild preaching that would be. 


There is so much more I want to tell you but I don’t want to be too long winded. 


Thank you, Maharaja for everything and for remembering me. Been feeling a new level of conviction about this process and it appears Krishna is taking many things away from me to keep me out of trouble. It is all due to your mercy and kindness. 


Your aspiring servant, 

Nitisara Das

P.S. I’ve invited Balabhadra Prabhu and his good wife to our house for pizza on the 14th of December. Thank you for this great idea and chance to rekindle our relationship. Pizza prasadam can do amazing things..Jaya!


HpS - Wonderful! Wonderful. So, often these chasms between devotees are just misunderstandings, no? 🍕

🍕 ... 🍕...

Thank you.

We are packing to leave at 4.30PM for a home program.

Really have a full program here in Richmond.


Pretty constant chest moans now. Little higher pitch. Key of C-major. 😄


Yet, pulse is pretty regular and strong.


Hare Krsna.


We all must be ready to go, catch the magic carpet, take our place on the great mandala, as it passes through our brief moment of time, but also, continue to see practical plans developing from our Kirtan, no.


Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna...

See you all soon.

LAD Report and VP thoughts

4 months, 3 weeks ago by laksmana-108 in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva. Pamho, AGTSP!

On this occasion I want to deeply thank you for your inspiration for my spiritual life and my particular mission in ISKCON as the day of your glorious appearance approaches.


Your commitment to education, the purposes of ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada's books are admirable.


Seeing and following your commendable mission, I have no choice but to try to follow the dust of your lotus feet, tava pace pace. You follow the footsteps of your spiritual master and I trying to follow yours.


Therefore, my commitment to education has also been possible thanks to your inspiration and constant support. You were very close to me in my most difficult moments in ISKCON. And I continue in ISKCON because you also continued in ISKCON in very difficult times.


After researching, trying to teach in regular schools, studying for my master's degree, I discovered that Krishna wanted me to dedicate myself to teaching devotees. Supported by the merciful devotees of Chosica, especially Prabhu Karuna Krishna and Mataji Nitya Kinkary, I continue my work as a teacher of the official ISKCON courses.


In that regard, I have the challenge of trying to help ISKCON Chosica to become a Bhakti Vaibhava examination center. First I have to finish my qualification through the BVB exam that I am seeking. All this can be achieved through the mercy of Atul Krishna Prabhu with whom I have been talking about it.


It is worth mentioning that my relationship with Prabhu began this year when I was part of a BOEX group dedicated to developing question banks for various ISKCON educational programs. In reality I fell into it by your causeless mercy. I always wonder what I am doing in the midst of such an exalted group of devotees. I think basically learning.


You have always supported me to develop in my mission from the beginning. I was your student of Bhakti sastri, then of Bhakti Vaibhava, a more or less informal program, which we can now formalize if we manage to obtain the BVB examination center for ISKCON Chosica.


We also studied practically the entire Srimad Bhagavatam, up to the 11th canto, and for some time now we have also been studying Caitanya Caritamvrta.


I see myself as your eternal student. My small contribution as a teacher is based on what I learn from you, whom I constantly refer to in my classes. Your contribution to ISKCON education is truly great.

Your auspicious Vyasa puja has inspired me to write this, because you are truly a representative of Srila Vyasadeva who, seeing the advent of Kali yuga, dedicated himself to writing for the benefit of the confused souls of this age.


Please allow me to be a humble bearer of your legacy. Bless me to be a good disciple and may you be proud of me. And when it is your turn to leave this world, go with peace of mind, confident that there are devotees who follow you in your great mission to satisfy Srila Prabhupada and who wish, like you, that IKSCON's education be solid so that this great institution, the sankirtana movement of Lord Caitanya, is sustainable in time and space.

Your servant,

Laksmana-agraja das

The LAD


HpS - ASA - AgtSP. Thank you. Whatever we have done is at least 99.999% Srila Prabhupada, shielding us and drag, drag, dragging us along with out material attachments.

Eg. To many popsicles.


I take your appreciations as appreciations of him.

I also very, very, very much appreciate your determinations in these matters. In very challenging circumstances you have stayed with Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON and ISKCON Education.

Thank you.


Besides Karuna and Mataji, seems the second half of the orange also deserves a lot of credit, no? Has Mataji, R. Reti Devi Dasi also been an essential element in your ability to do you service?


Then, we only hope that you are acquiring other connections to Srila Prabhupada than just us.

We would feel very happy if we had a Maharaja Bharata et al falldown and you left Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON because of that.


You experience his personal presence in his books also???

why not Krsna as tiger?

4 months, 3 weeks ago by harsh_horse in Special Category A

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, agtSP, PAMHO

I know His Holiness likes Harinama and Sankirtana.

However we are enjoying vibhutis of Krsna. Still long way to go.


HpS - AgtSP!! Paoho... 🐵 We like vibhutis. So much fun hearing about the lions as King of the beasts et al, but in the end of BG 10, Krsna introduces Paramatma, then Visnu, Krsna.

Nice to see vibhutis and then realize how we are seeing an echo of KRSNA. Grrr. 🦁



Searching Krsna's sparks in Youtube, we found a video on comparison between Lion And Tiger.


Here's a table that highlights the key differences between lions and tigers:


  1. Hunting Success: Lions have a hunting success rate of around 20-30% per hunt, whereas tigers have a higher success rate of around 50%.
  2. Social Structure: Lions live in social groups called prides, while tigers are solitary and prefer to live and hunt alone.
  3. Size: Male lions typically weigh between 190-230 kg, whereas male tigers can weigh between 220-310 kg (485-683 lbs).
  4. Roar: A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, while a tiger's roar can be heard up to 3 km away.
  5. Behavior: Lions are more social animals, while tigers are more territorial and stealthy hunters.
  6. Hunting Strategy: Lions often hunt in groups (prides), utilizing teamwork and strength, with females doing the majority of the hunting, whereas tigers are solitary hunters that rely on stealth.
  7. Preferred Prey: Lions prefer large herbivores like zebras, wildebeest, and buffaloes, while tigers hunt various animals including deer, wild boar, and small elephants.
  8. Habitat: Lions inhabit open savannas and grasslands, whereas tigers live in dense forests and grasslands.
  9. Hunting Time: Lions primarily hunt during the night or early morning, while tigers are mostly nocturnal hunters, though they can hunt during the day.
  10. Hunting Techniques: Lions use coordinated attacks with some lions driving prey towards others, whereas tigers are ambush predators that use camouflage and surprise to overpower prey.
  11. Jaw Pressure: Lions have a jaw pressure of approximately 650 PSI, while tigers have a stronger jaw pressure of approximately 1,050 PSI.
  12. Running Speed: Lions can reach running speeds up to 80 km/h in short bursts, whereas tigers can reach speeds up to 65 km/h.


Whats ASA view on that why Krsna called himself as Lion among beasts in Bg. 10.30 not Tiger?


HpS - We don't know. Was also 5,000 years ago. Maybe Lions were tougher then. Of course, if lions and tigers fight, lions win, because just as you say, Lions fight in a group whereas Tigers fight alone.

Hmmm. The King may not be the best fighter, even the Commander in Chief.


our view is-- he let the ladies work. and Tiger is more like a special force commanders, Lion is king who uses special forces.


HpS - Hey.... same idea.


I dont find my useful for temple projects , ourself not attracted to rituals of temple.


HpS - Yogi.


Thanks for using this COMBAT mindset ("Combined Operations for the Modern Battlefield and Tactical Training) or (COunter Move Before enemy ATtack)



chanting with four rules,

Das of Hayagriva


HpS - Thank you. 3.48PM here in Richmond. Hope you saw our posts about the trip.

One opinion is that we are supposed to die today.

Before ears, eyes, skin, throat, mind were all acting up, but now heart has started. So maybe die today.

Don't give up.

If we make it to Nabadvipa, with Srila Prabhupada and Nimai, we really want to see you there!

Will you take the Vrndavana Yogi to Nabadvipa?

Now we start our series of programs as posted on Twitter.

Thank you so much.

Got a lot of other letters.

Maybe have time and energy to do them now. 💪

formality of report

4 months, 3 weeks ago by harsh_horse in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna, All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my obeisances.

we always think that what should we write . Then we are reminded Brothers Ass might have eye pain/head ache. HpS has anyway given a lot for lifetimes.


but are seeing that many letters are getting, finally we decided to write as formality



so now we are struggling to cook by ourselves


ASA - 👍


and due to which the body is not able to withstand long hours and it is erratic. four rules are intact for 16 rounds are some how are going.

somehow managing our job in the litigation process hearing the Vrindavan Sadhu a lot because we have lost sort of reading ability and the concentration for it as of now. Thanks for being there.


HpS - Thank you!!! Do hope that you are experiencing real tangible results from all this effort. As long as we are chanting "Hare Krsna" we are making progress. So, you must have made progress!

It builds up.

We do become happy.

Sadhu is speaking in Hindi?

Go you your next letter.