Letters to the editor

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, please accept my humble obeisances

Dear Guru Maharaj,

HpS - One letter, one devotee asks Srila Prabhupada if he call his local GBC, Sankirtan leader, as his guru, and Srila Prabhupada says, "Yes, but do not forget you is your real (or ultimate) Guru", So, we only feel comfortable with this title, Guru Maharaja, rather then Maharaja, for a Sannyasi, if everyone who uses it have accepted Srila Prabhupada as an uttama adhikari guru. NoI 5, last paragraph.

I think you have a very healthy understanding of this!!

When we saw you last year in September we told you we were expecting a baby, we were blessed by a little boy. He was born in Laredo Hospital, April 25th, his name is Karuna Avatar Nitai.

We’ve been pretty busy with visits from family and friends who came to meet the new addition to the family, while working on our new house in Riaño, currently building the rooms and the electric installation. 

HpS/ASA - 👍

Recently we were in Janmastami in New Vrajamanda. They had a gorgeous festival, never seen anything like that there, nicely organised by Yugala Kisor Dasi with lots of kirtan and activities. We saw the whole community coming together, working towards the festival and creating a nice atmosphere.

HpS/ASA - Is ISKCON in the third phase? 1st they will laugh at you. 2nd they will attack you. 3rd they will start asking you for serious guidance? Challenges at every phase.

We hope to be able to move into our new house soon, just before winter arrives, Krishna willing, and work on our winter farm vegetables and spring water.

I hope these few words meet you well and that my little one’s schedule will improve so I can join Japa Joe and the full morning program.

your servant

Sukanya Sita devi dasi

HpS - Jaya!!!!!

We always remember SP's comment that these are not ordinary children. Krsna does, not send ordinary children to be children of devotees, so the parents must protect them very carefully so that they can grow up well and do wonderful things for Krsna!!!

Family affection is very natural. Kapila recommended it to Devahuta, but He also recommended that she always temper it with a little bit of Sankya, remembering that your, my, baby, husband's, all bodies are just biological robots that have nothing more to do with us than your cellphone.

Thank you all so, so much.

All success like Kardama and Devahuti!

asa[e] Interfaith Dialog.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva

PAMHO AGTSP

A few months ago I was invited to a Kirtan at a Sarasvat Gaudiya temple (Ex Vrinda) in Valparaíso, and due to my lack of association, I went for a while. Then, a few months later, they invited me to sing Kirtan, and I accepted.

Today

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Actually several days, maybe even more than a weeks ago. We tried to answer this important letter earlier but didn't have the strength with all the things that we happening!! He very responsibly squeaked in our personal WhatsApp mail, and we responded but still could not get to it until now (=7PM 25 08 02).

I was invited to celebrate Radhastami at an ecovillage they have in Catemu, close to my house. I've never been. I'd like to know your opinion on this situation. For my part, the times I've been to these programs, I've left when a sastra class is being given, trying to follow what Prabhupada established.

Thank you, Gurudeva.

Piyari Mohan das

HpS-ASA - AgtSP!!!! Paoho/BW.... On the administrative level, ISKCON as a transcendental institution, GBC, Temple President, I know of no specific rule that would govern your participation. I think that Senior men like myself in this Leadership Role, might be restricted from intimately associating with Sarasvat Gaudiya programs.

I would have to check.

You should try to check with your local Chilean ISKCON authorities. Tell us any answers you get.

In general, Prabhupada, Bhaktivinode Thakura, Lord Caitanya, they visited other Vaisnava centers, and even Temples of Demigods.

Prabhupada says, that following the example of Lord Caitanya, we should visit Temples of Demigods and show people how to worship them properly. See last part of CC 1.7.

Bh. V. Thakura says that when we are in someone else's place of worship at the time of worship, then we should think that the same God I am worshipping is being worshipped here, and I maybe able to learn how to enhance my worship by see their methods and sentiments, but because I do not belong to this tradition, I will not be participating in the details.

Lord Caitanya listened to Sarva-bhauma Bhattacharya preaching Mayavada philosophy for like seven days {?} without saying a word, but we can see it was a strategy to introduce dialog for proper preaching.

So, I would suggest that you go. Listen. Evaluate. Don't lead any events, and report back with your findings!

Thank you.

asa[e] asa camp

(rev. 25 08 02)

Srila Prabhupada would have a permanent space at the top of his letters label, "Camp:". Then the Secretary would type or write in the location where Srila Prabhupada was camped when the letter was sent eg. ISKCON Temple Juhu.

This always struck us as very nice. We are all actually just camping in this material world. It is not our real home. Of course, this is especially true for the Sannyasis and itinerant preachers.

We have WhatsApp group(s) for our current (and recurrent) ASA Camp(s). For example, today, 25 08 02, we are camped at 902 Hillcrest Dr., Murfreesboro, TN37128.

In General:

These Groups are especially for the logistical arrangements of the Camp, not philosophical discussions 🤔

eg. food, lodging, transportation, program.

Daily Agenda

~Morning - We get up early and get our rounds done, with enthusiasm. Join us. Early has now become by 12.40AM, then we do Japa (on line if we can) until 3.30AM and because it is enthusiastic we may make thundering noises, so please let us know if we are bothering anyone.

Then we have Full Morning Program (FMP) from 4.30AM to 5.30AM with Mangala arati, reading (usually Spanish but can make toward bi-lingual if guests), then chanting/chatting.

Usually SB class from 7.30-8.30AM followed by Breakfast Prasadam. We usually eat light in the morning and save the rest for in our lunchbox for our picnic with everyone.

After Breakfast we check the mail, communicate with everyone with whom we are working about our day's Sankirtan schedule.

Usually available for basic interviews after full morning program and before the evening program. During the day scheduled events and private work projects.

~Evening Program - Flexible, but often go to the Temple or Temple-room in our Hosts Ashrams for chatting and Bhajans. Often join Sri Sri Radha Natabara Sanga on line.

Diet

Maha-prasad! AgtSP, we always offer everything to our Istadevata, Lord Nrsmha deva. He is supposed to have a tablespoon of Ghee and some squash daily.

Puris and Raita are very nice!

No Quinoa and no, no, soya! Soya gives us headaches. 😧

Beyond that we follow Jayananda Das' diet: Don't eat too much and work hard.

Sadhu sanga

Because we, HpS, Tom Brown and Buck White et al🐵 🐖 👽, are mostly B'caris and Sannyasis we are only allowed short term contact with the opposite sex for preaching purposes only. No conversations in secluded places. https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/16/1-3/#bb3635.

So, staying alone in house 🏠 or driving alone in auto 🚙 just agitates everyone's mind. One practical approach for Grhastha Ashrama is that host, Gentleman, is present when we are present and if he goes out we go with him. Often what we do if Gent goes to work, we go with him and can camp at the library etc while he is out, or another Gentleman can come to give us all company in the home, or we can take his car after after dropping him for work and go joy riding in the country. 🙂

Lord Caitanya had 3-1/2 intimate associates: Svarupa Damodara, Ramananda Raya, Sikhi-mahiti, and Sikhi-mahiti's Sister. Srila says that ladies are counted as 1/2 in Vedic culture 🙂

. Strange. She never talked personally with the Lord but was one of the 3.5 most intimate associates of the Lord!

Accommodation

We have lived through Lokannatha Maharaja's Braja Mandala Parikrama and one of the hottest years in 35-years in Kolkata prepping The Second World Congress for a Synthesis of Science and Religion for B. S. Damodara Swami's Bhaktivedanta Institute. So, we can live with just three paces of land to our arms extension and a place to fill our bucket with water! Mother Matsya Devi Dasi called us the Maintenance Free Sannyasi. 😳

Srila Prabhupada said, "Become self-realized, build your character, and preach".

We really like a hard surface, not soft beds. How about you? Our feet swell up if we sit in a chair much, so we like to sit, sleep and work in the same spot. Putting a piece of 3/4" plywood on the bed with a yoga mat is great!

😕

(This man is nuts). We heard that Romapada Swami sleeps on the floor also!

Well, 🐵

, guess that is about all. Please text us at our ASA Blog: MonkeyWarrior.Com, with your camping tricks. We will try to revise this post from time to time.

Camping out is fun for the whole family!! ⛺

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🌴

asa[e] tom's trash 25 08 02

obeying, agtSP, jack london, we 🐵

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🐒 🐒continue to write our 100,000 words of trash rummaging through hanumatpresaka swami's attic stash.

there was man named ricardo alfonso brihuega cook, who decided to write a book, about a monkey who was writing a book, about a man named, cook, who gave a cat a dirty look. are there cats in braja dhama or by buddha are they forsook?

cats cannot be vegetarian. they must eat meat to survive and thrive.

if they were bigger and hungry then they would look upon their owners with a thirsty eye.

yet, prabhupada talks about a guru in the jungle giving milk to a tigress daily and having her smell his little brahmacaris and telling her, that she should not eat his students because he gave her milk.

hare krsna kirtan resolves all things, and very soon we will be knowing all that we need to know to accomplish our assigned missions!

for our mission seems we must die and go to heaven.

there we can just be small.

and on a little cloud we'll crawl

from scene to scene

and play our hoop!

chanting Hare Krsna, and that's just all!

CURRENT ASA CALENDAR

2025 SEPTEMBER 1

Daily

• 12.40AM - Rooster Crows!
• 12.50AM - 3.30AM -- Japa. Online after 22nd September at https://meet.goto.com/898954813.
• 4.30-5.15 AM - Mangala arati, Kirtan, Spanish language reading of NOI, little Japa and chatting at meet.goto.com/jayarama108-vip.
• 5.15AM+ - Flexible: Study, more Japa, on line and local Sankirtan, Consulting.
• 8PM - Radha Natabara Sanga, Nitai-gaura-sundara Das, Zoom Group, about three to four times a week.
• 8.40PM - Sleeeep!
• Those who are Yogis usually eat once a day in the evening or afternoon: Some squash and 1 tablespoon of Chawanprash and ghee.

Regular Events

• Bilingual SB Workshop with Upendra Das and HpS Sunday 7.30-9.00AM: meet.goto.com/jayarama108-vip
• Hawaii SB class once a month at 11AM: e-sanga.org
• ISKCON Board of Examinations, Thursday 9.00AM

September

Base Camping at: 902 Hillcrest Dr, Murfreesboro, TN 37129, USA until 22nd.

• 3rd - Ekadasi
• 4th - Vamana/Jiva Goswami, Evening go to Abhiseka Das/Family Ashrama in College Grove (until 7th Sunday).
• 5th, Friday - Bh. Vinode Thakura Appearance Day. Maybe day-visit to Tandavika Das/Family ashrama in Franklin
• 6th, Saturday - NIOS Board of Director's Meeting AM. House warming program in College Grove for Abhiseka Das and Family PM.
• 7th, Sunday - Vrndavana Forest with Gayatri Das et al, back to the Boro in the evening or Monday.
• 10th - Radha-krsna Das returns to Houston.
• 11th - Luz de la Bhagavata en Espanyol con Arequipa, Peru.
• 13th - Murari Farm Saturday Festival, if we get a ride?
• 14th - Visnucarana Das Ashrama, Hendersonville, North Nashville.
• 15th - Vijaya and family go to India.
• 17th - Ekadasi.
• 18-20 - Rural Development Seminar at Murari Sevaka if possible! 🙂
• 21st - Dr. Desai Memorial. 10AM - Noon
• 22nd - Nashville (7.30AM) 🛫 to Houston 9.30AM 🛬.

Expect to camp at 3402 Radha Lane; Houston, TX 77018 until December.

• 28th - Durga Puja.

October

2-21st Oscar and Anna, Grupo Integro, Mexico.

November

8th - Festival of Bliss, Houston.

December

20/Sa - Birthday Anniversary of Huber Robinson (HpSwami) 🏇

[?] Maybe go to Chile for a week for an International Symposium on Peace.

[?] Maybe go to Spain and India at the start of the 2026 with Yadunandana Swami et al.

BODY, MIND, SPIRIT

• Body expected to be steady with hearing-aid, heart medication and maybe cataract surgery for three to five years. After that expecting some more adjustments, new body. Maybe die at any moment! 🤔
• Mind has less local awareness but Intellect developing.
• Hari-kirtan/Japa, Spiritual development advancing as Srila Prabhupada promises. Mostly like Hanuman in Kali yuga - Sitting on Arjuna's flagstaff. Roaring from time to time. Dreaming of all kinds of possible Sankirtan. Responding to questions, invitations, sleep-walking.

Involved In

• ISKCON Houston, Cinema Resources and Production Department, development with Dean Pablo, Master Abhaya Joshi and Temple Administration.
• ASA Encyclopedia with Srinatha/Srirama Krsna Das et al.
• NIOS with Dr. Samaresh, Abhirama Thakura Das, Srinivasa Das, Abhisheka Das et al.
• Can go out for local programs if we are back in the same bed by nightfall.

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[8/29, 10:17 PM] Yamunesvara Das - Manipura: Hare Krishna, Dandavat Pranam.

How is Guruji's health? Is there any plan to visit India especially Mayapur and Brindavan next year? Please advise me to increase Radha Krishna Prema.

: During Goura Purnima. I am reading Prema Bilas in Manipuri translation. The characters of Srinivas, Naratom and Shyamananda are the next Avatars of Shri Gouranga, Shri Nityananda and Shri Adwaita Prabhu.

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Sankirtan!

At our age, our only realistic plan is to really consider that each breath maybe our last.

So, we are working on practical plans to be chanting Holy Names whether our gross body is here or there.

Please help us keep our subtle body with Guru and Gauranga in Radha kunda, Manipur, Nabadvipa.

Doctors estimate that with medication and mechanical enhancements we should be functioning at our current capacity for three maybe five more years.

So some discussion is there amongst the ASA Supreme Undiferentiated Absolute Commado to visit Spain and Radha kunda like January or February with Yadunandana Swami.