Hare Krishna, dear gurudev. Please accept my obeisances, and all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you are doing very well in all respects.

HpS/ASA - so, SO, S O, nice to hear, agtSP, from you! .... this is the material world.... there are problems everywhere. 90% of our progress and satisfaction is getting up early now and getting our rounds done before mangala arati with enthusiasm.

it puts a new perspective on our day!

who is KRSNA?

By the mercy of the devotees, I chant my 16 rounds quite poorly and follow the principles quite well.

I am realizing my spiritual state as very, very poor. I feel like I'm not only licking the bottle from the outside, but I'm also very far from the bottle.

HpS/ASA - Well, at least, agtSP, you know there is a bottle!!! Socrates and the Bhagavad-gita both comment that it is usually only 1 in a million who have realized that there is a bottle and something to be got!

I feel like a complete fake. I can sense my false ego boasting and being indifferent to my spiritual poverty. It seems as if I don't want to be helped, that I'm deliberately wasting this life. It's as if I have shackles on my legs, and there's a force preventing me from taking them off. It's very sad.

ASA - Us too! Yet Krsna is more kind than honest, so He trying to find ways to move us! He won't give up. Every Mantra you chant has lasting effect. It is the best thing you can do for you and the whole world too.

hk hk kk hh / hr hr rr hh

I continue to study psychology, also mediocrely, many subjects in a short time.

HpS - Jung??? What books???

I made things very difficult for myself by bringing my mother to live with me. A month and a half ago, she broke her hip, and being alone with her became more than a challenge.

In the community of devotees here, there have been four divorces so far this year. Four marriages remain.

I also wanted to ask you about worship at the Radha Krishnacandra Mandir. Do some devotees who are pujaris not follow certain principles? Is alcohol, marijuana, or infidelity a factor? Even though the proposal is meant to be like home worship? Does this negatively affect everyone?

What is the most reasonable course of action in this regard?

HpS - Where is the Radha Krsna Candra Mandira? If it is Grhastha home temple is one thing and if it is official ISKCON Temple it is another.

And what about my personal state?

HpS - Do you mean, BsAS, Chaco, Chatamarca...???... 😄 We do not know too much more about your Personal State, Province, except what we hear in these posts, news from your neighbors in [?] Cordoba. If you mean your personal Krsna Bhava Amrta then that is even more rare!!!

The more we hear about you, the more we are satisfied.

The less we hear about you, from you, the more we are worried.

Just because you can't be Romeo and Juliet doesn't mean you should get divorced, no?

You may have to have a car, you may have to have a spouse. It is a practical, but can develop into transcendental, relation!

Thank you very much, Gurudev, for your immense mercy, and please excuse my inadequacy in devotion and discipleship.

Hare Krishna, Gurudev!!!

Your well-wishing disciple, Campaka Lata dd.

HpS/ASA - All the Monkeys want to visit your Ashrama and Cordoba in the good weather and play in the trees.

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Hare Krsna querido gurudev. Por favor acepte mis reverencias y sean todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

Espero que usted se encuentre muy bien en todos los aspectos.

Por la misericordia de los devotos canto mis 16 rondas bastante mal y sigo los principios bastante bien.

Estoy realizando mi estado espiritual como muy muy muy pobre. Siento que no solo lamo la botella del lado de afuera sino que estoy muy lejos de la botella. Me estoy sintiendo una completa farsante. Puedo percibir mi ego falso vanagloriarse siendo indiferente a mi pobreza espiritual. Parecería que no quiero ser ayudada, que estoy deliberadamente desperdiciando esta vida. Como si tuviera unos grilletes en las piernas y hay una fuerza que me impide quitármelos. Es muy triste.

Sigo estudiando psicología también de manera mediocre, muchas materias en poco tiempo.

Me compliqué mucho trayendo a mi madre a vivir conmigo, hace un mes y medio se quebró la cadera y estar sola con ella se volvió más que un desafío.

En la comunidad de devotos de aquí han habido 4 divorcios en lo que va del año. Quedaron cuatro matrimonios en pie.

Quería preguntarle también con respecto a la adoración en el Mandir de Radha Krsnacandra, algunos devotos que son pujaris no siguen algunos principios, alcohol, marihuana, infidelidad, a pesar de que la propuesta es como una adoración hogareña, esto afecta negativamente a todos?

Qué es lo más razonable a este respecto?

Y de mi estado personal?

Muchas gracias gurudev por su inmensa misericordia y disculpe mi inaptitud devocional y discipular.

Hare Krsna gurudev!!!.

Su bienqueriente discípula Campaka Lata dd.

asa[e] sadhu sanga

Major Jade: I live in a place where everyone is Sudra or Tribal. I have no good association.

ASA/Hansadutta: Srila Prabhupada made his generals out of mud!

[Abhimanyu was surrounded by the Kaurava catur-vyuha formation and could not get out. Bad association, man. Trying to kill him.

So he decided, well if I kill them all, then there will be no bad military formation to escape from. So he began to kill everyone.

If you are surrounded by bad association and always struggling to avoid bad temptations, then just turn the Big Guns on them and make them all ISKCON devotees, or Seventh Day Adventists... and then there will be no bad association to avoid.]

MJ: You can say that. You got good association. I'm not that advanced.

ASA/TB: Hey, maybe so, maybe not, but it may just be a reality that Srila Prabhupada has decided that it is time for you to become a paramahamsa.

MJ: I want your, HpSwami, association!

HpS/ASA: We are not God. He is the best friend of everyone. He is the only friend, associate, who will satisfy us.

Our limited association can only include about six people a day in Indra loka dialog. There are many devotees who tell me that they just want to live a peaceful life and enjoy in a civilized fashion and they are NOT focusing on going back to godhead at the end of this life.

We are focusing on going back home, back to godhood even IN this life time.

Of course, we may be delusional and in reality be even worse off than those who are focusing on taking birth in ISKCON Indraloka, but more and more often we feel direct pressure to give up this current gross body and develop a current material body, and internal body, fit to play with Krsna. Play with Nimai in Nadia.

Maybe take birth in the universe were Srila Prabhupada and HIS Iskcon are dancing with Nimai in Nadia.. even as a 🐶 Dawg.

So, to try to serve by preaching (and reaching our friends and masters) we keep:

• WhatsApp community, anVesaka, for immediate posts: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15534/
• Blog for slower, deeper exchange [www.MonkeyWarrior.Com]

We have broadcast this for years.

If you have not got it after this many years you are a 😕 "slow learner". Haw Haw Hare!!

It's best we can do.

Through the paramatma we can also be connected, me and you.

Join us for Mangala arat, Kirtan, SB, One or more Rounds daily, at physical and cyberspace locations announced in the Blog and anVesaka. On that basis, we can meet with the people we are working with to make a calendar daily after breakfast.

Yes, we can handle one or two direct mails to WhatsApp private line, but really its a very thin orange line.

Please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet that dance eternally in the Sankirtan of Sri Gauranga!

HpS/ASA - We, agtSP, are very disturbed by such descriptions of us... 😥 we are just humble devotees trying to make progress in Srila Prabhupada's movement. Hmmm. His Sankirtan is our focus, and we have some qualities.

Thank you!!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!🙏🙇🏻‍♀️👏💐🌺

All Glories to You my Gurumaharaja! 🙏💃🏻💖🌺

I hope you are very happy today in your eternal relationship with Govinda💖❤️🎵

HpS - Actually not much in our eternal relationship with Krsna. More in our current relationship with Krsna, through Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON, as a very sick patient in the clinic.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

80% proper diet.

Fortunately some mail that we can answer!!! Thank you and very soon, go to the evening program in the Temple!!!

Last Ekadasi I was able to record this song, which I wrote many years ago, 2000 I think. I edited it today. There are some errors in the noises you hear, but sometimes it's hard to find a moment when there's no noise at all. I'll try to improve😅

" I want to Get To You"

🎵I want to get You💖

I want to see you dance

To be able to see you play

The transcendental flute🎼💖

🎼I want to get You💖

My supreme destiny

I want to get You

And for there to be no more mourning🎵💖

🎵I want to get You💖

I want to see you walk

Play with the gopis

And see your smile🎵💖

🎼I want to get You💖

To dance for You

I have no more reason to live

With me here🎵💖

🎵 I want to Get You💖

I want to see you graze

Together with Balarama

To the transcendental cow🎼💖

🎼I want to Get to You💖❤️

A thousand times towards You

A thousand times

Towards You

Only towards You

I will reach...

I will!🎵❤️

I hope you like it. It's a song I wrote with much love for Govinda. Although many years have passed since I wrote it, it's always heartwarming to sing it. It's all thanks to you🌺💐🌺💐🌹🌺💐🌹🌷🎈👣🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

Here is the YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/6O7E4iJW5Wc?si=2A5Q29HHhSeD8xBV

https://youtu.be/DsMjGT4he_s?si=bcWcaUbiFG-fy1My

I sang it in English for you. One video has no subtitles, and the other has Spanish and English subtitles😅🎼🎵💖

trying to please his beautiful heart of lotus ❤️💖🪷Gurudeva

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha Devi Dasi 🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🎵💃🏻♾️

HpS - It is hard for us to listen because we are such materialists.

Recording the Prayers of Queen Kunti in Spanish after reading them and contemplating them very nicely might seem to be better, no?

Even recording them with some other devotees!!!

Thank you!!!!

Flying to Nashville tomorrow!

Thank you!!!

Hare Krishna!!

Cómo se encuentra usted Gurudeva? Espero que bien. Por favor acepte mis reverencias.

🌿🌸Toda Gloria a Srila Prabhupada!!🌿🌸

Gurudeva, le envío el enlace de la clase de Srila Prabhupada que compartí hoy en GoTo. La encuentra en YouTube con el nombre de Seeing God's hand in all. La clase fue en Vrindavan el 7 de Octubre de 1976 (yo tenía un año de edad!). El canal es The Acarya. Está en inglés.

https://youtu.be/99Jnqgb3Qso?si=or9puXCAZbKVHAJR

Gracias por su asociación cada día y espero cada día ser mas y mas conciente del valor de su asociación y la de Srila Prabhupada y los devotos.

Krishna lo proteja siempre. 🌺🙏🏼

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Hare Krishna!!

How are you, Gurudeva? I hope you are well. Please accept my obeisances.

🌿🌸All Glory to Srila Prabhupada!!🌿🌸

Gurudeva, I am sending you the link to Srila Prabhupada's class I shared today on GoTo. You can find it on YouTube under the name Seeing God's Hand in All. The class was in Vrindavan on October 7, 1976 (I was one year old!). The channel is The Acarya. It is in English.

https://youtu.be/99Jnqgb3Qso?si=or9puXCAZbKVHAJR

Thank you for your association every day, and I hope to become more and more aware of the value of your association and that of Srila Prabhupada and the devotees.

May Krishna always protect you. 🌺🙏🏼

HpS/ ASA - We, agtSP, will watch it!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

From, agtSP, Divya-nama Das, Temple President, ISKCON RichMond, Virginia, USA.

Respected Srila Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj,

Please accept our humble and respectful obeisance at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

HpS - In this body, agtSP, we are aspiring for maybe properly tended human feet, yet in our Svarupa I guess that both you and I may have lotus feet, if not lotus hooves.

Maharaj, your mercy, blessings, and guidance is always a beacon for our services to Srila Prabhupada at ISKCON Richmond Yatra. We often remember your clear and exact prediction for us to have a full-fledged beautiful Temple that will serve and nourish tens and thousands of people in Richmond and near-by areas, in their spiritual journey.

For your pleasure, we would like to share some of the major developments that have happened in the past 8 months or so, since the last visit of your Holiness.

HpS - Thank you, THANK YOU, T H A N K Y O U! Our visit was a landmark in our life. After that we posted into our Base Camp at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and then we have ended up for eight months, Camped here in ISKCON Houston.

Tomorrow we will be back in Tennessee for three weeks.

Then we have a Campsite reserved 13th September until maybe 23 December.

1. Since for any major project, the first thing that is required is water. We had a well with limited supply of water. We recently completed a well project which took us about four months to acquire permits, drill a new 350 feet well, install a commercial grade water pumping system with 119 Gallons of Pressure tank and 500 feet of pipeline with water outlets in our residential building, barn area, and garden area. Now we have enough water supply all over the property. 

HpS - Does it pump continuously or do you pump for some time and then have to let the water build up at the bottom again? How much can you pump a minute if you are pumping continuously??? Thank you.

What is the seasonal rain like?

2. Since our Temple inventory has grown exponentially, we recently added a 10x40 feet storage container, which will house all our festival related items, books, gift shop and other inventory. We are constructing 80 feet wide storage racks for the same.

3. In preaching and outreach activities - HG Radheshyam Prabhu visited us in April this year and under Prabhu's guidance, since then, we have conducted multiple outreach events, which attracted over 200 potential new devotees from the Richmond area. With that we are planning to start two new weekly programs in Mechanicsville and Westend areas. HG Radheshyam Prabhu will be coming again in September.

HpS - Super. I have one associate in Santiago, Chile, he has been working professionally in Social Media for years, and apparently he never had any trouble getting a lot of new people to come for events in the city of santiago, but the bottleneck was receiving them properly once they came for the specific event and then later programs.

Your news is great.

4. We have also reinitiated the college preaching at VCU. On average monthly twice a group of devotees goes on Book distribution in the university area and connects with VCU students. We are also in process of starting a Bhakti Yoga Club there under guidance of HG Radheshyam Prabhu.

5. Maharaj, this year we had one of our grandest Janmashtami Festival, where we served around 2500 guests. Some of the highlights of the festival are:

 - Around 500 of Srila Prabhupada Books were distributed to include 119 Bhagavad Gitas and 1 SB set

 - Around 2500 plates of free Prasadam was distributed

 - Around 100 families did some sponsorship for the festival and participated in Kalash Abhishekam, Aarti and Archana

 - Around 250 platters were served at Govinda's

 - Other highlights included Diorama Radha Krishna Deities, Gopi Dots, Gift Shop, Jhulan, Cultural Program by kids etc.

6. Recently, one devotee from Phoenix AZ, who is a professional Architect came to visit us and look upon the Temple Property. He will soon start to work on a conceptual site plan, to provide a vision of our Temple Project.

Maharaj, all of this was possible because of Srila Prabhupada's mercy, blessings of your holiness and other senior Vaishnavas, and collective devotion/selfless service of the devotees here at Richmond. We sincerely pray at your lotus feet to keep us under your divine shelter and empower us to be an instrument of our Acharyas. We have a long way to go..

We beg your blessings that we can sincerely take shelter of the Holy Names and avoid all offenses, especially Vaishnav Aparadh.

your servant,

Divyanam Das

HpS - Jaya! 😃 Jaya! Jaya!

Srila Prabhupada's voice boomed through the Temple-room in Berkeley, San Francisco, "The magic will not be done by me, nor you, nor any living being. The magic will be done by Krsna when we become pure devotees of KRSNA!".

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna!!!

May this movement fulfill in great abundance the mission of Lord Caitanya: https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/preface/#bb5769

asa[e] silas, worshipping

From WhatsApp:

I have 3 Shalagrams from Jaya Guaranga Prabhu (we had the program at his house when you visited) currently. I am asking for your permission to receive them and worship them. What do you think?

HpS/ASA - 🤔 Hmmm.

We, agtSP, get this question a lot.

I hope that Srinatha and SriRamaKrsna Das's get Monkey's Encyclopedia organized so that we can refer folk to his, our, answer there.

1. as far as we understand it is very serious. it is like having a child. it is not that we can accept them and then later put them in a drawer and forget them.
2. the govardhana silas are exceptionally dangerous. if offended they can even kill family member.
3. not being born of brahman fathers, we are not accustomed to the standards that are required by our cultural heritage, but if we have developed these, then srila prabhupada cautiously approved of the worship.
4. they are worshiped more by the character of the pujari, than the sophistication of the paraphernalia. guess you can search vedabase.io for key words: raghunatha / govardhana / sila. you know this? nice description of the worship of the zilas that lord caitanya gave to raghunatha das goswami. so, must be very strict in brahminical habits such as four principles, brahma muhurta etc.

for some devotees it can be very nice.

maybe better to stick to the household worship of gaura nitai and join the temple worship of Radha and Krsna!

Keep a picture of Them on your altar with your Deities of Gaura Nitai.

Hope to hear of any thoughts you have.

Thank you!