Thank you Guru Maharaj

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to HH Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj.


Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj.


Please accept our humble obeisances at Your precious sweet lotus feet.


Thank you so much for the reply Guru Maharaj.


Our cup overflows with your love. We are trying our best to please you dear Guru Maharaj. We have only Guru Maharaj as our refuge. Even if the whole world disowns us, we will continue to seek Your mercy Guru Maharaj.


HpSwamiAgtSP


We visited Kumbh Mela...it was a spiritual experience of a lifetime. We were not aware that the day we took the holy dip at Triveni Sangam happened to be Advaita Acharya's appearance day. We take this, not a coincidence but a special blessing from our Guru Maharaj. We had to wait in the queue for nearly 3 hours to take darshan of Hanumanji....the only Hanumanji who is in lying down position.


Thank you Guru Maharaj once again. The CC classes have started on Gaura Purnima. We are having every Sunday at 1pm. A small group of about 15 of us. This again is Your blessing Guru Maharaj. Most of them are doctors, retired professors ...surgeons, Psychologists, Anesthesiologist. The oldest is Sir Akshaykumar Prabhu, all of 85 years, who was also one of the dignitaries of the programme conducted at RIMS together with NIOS when Guru Maharaj visited our Institute.


Sending some pic. Both the devotees holding the CC were our teachers . One was the Head of Biochemistry department and the oldest , Sir Aksayekumar Prabhu holds the CC with lots of love.


Our godsister Radha Japa Mataji is teaching us Spanish and Peruvian dance. We surrender to you Guru Maharaj. We remain indebted to you Guru Maharaj for making such wonderful things happen in our lives. Only when we Associate with you dear Guru Maharaj can we find real peace and satisfaction in our lives.


Your insignificant servant always,


HpS - Maybe we can study CC together.

ASA will be reading CC adi 7.

Poetry Compilation Offering - ASA and our Own.

1 week, 4 days ago by Kamagayatri in Special Category A, Special Category B

ASA - Submitted several weeks, months, ago!! Hare Krsna.


Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaj,


Please accept our most humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


We are very excited to have your darshan at the morning program in Houston on your Vyasapuja. It is so nice to chant with you Guru Maharaj. You have and continue to be our reason to be inspired in Krsna Consciousness. Currently we are watching the Vyasa Puja on YouTube.


We wanted to present a small offering. It is a compilation of your poetry and illustrated manuscripts. There are 30 posts from the last four months on the blog: https://poetry-anthology-by-hp-swami.tumblr.com/ . If we have your blessings, we hope to keep looking through twitter and the blog from the last ten years to create an anthology of your poetry.


HpS/ASA - Amazing! ! ! AgtSP!!!!!! . . . . We looked at the first one third. It seems to be like Moon Beams from a Larger Madness.

Little birds and bees that ornament the forest trees of Srila Prabhupada's cogent symphony.

Read a few a day:\?


We asked Srinath prabhu a few months ago if it was possible to print an anthology that could be up to 300 to 400 pages. We are thinking that it may be that long Gurudev because of how prolific your writing has been through the years and how important it is to preserve your writing that means so much to your disciples and everyone in the Vaishnava community who appreciate your art. Srinath said it is possible to publish this many pages and is happy to help with the process. It would be an irreplaceable gift to the devotees and disciples, as well as every human and of course non-human that could hear near and far.


ASA - Kindle? Printable format like Word and PDF that people can publish as they like.



We have a lot of questions about how you would like to organize it Gurudev. We would also like to find other Vaishnava poets in the ISKCON movement or beyond to help with a preface.

We can ask Radhika Raman Prabhu and others about possibilities. Also in blog form we could make changes and edits and can send the login info to you also to make edits. We can send this in a separate message.


ASA - You can see that even though we wanted very, very much to answer your post, looking at it and others often, we just do not have the strength.

After months in Houston we are getting some kind of working schedule.

Not planning on changing our Camp site before August 15th, Janmastami.

How is the Army!

Spaniards, Cowboy American Kids, Missy's, Potato People?



We also have questions for publicizing such as: Should we have just one poem per page or is two ok if it is under 8 lines? What kind of Titles for each poem would you like? For now we put Date above the poems and if there were more than one publication the time was also included.


We also noticed how special the picture icons are with the accompanying poems. When we transferred from twitter on the computer to word the pictures became very big. If we copied from the phone though they stayed the same. Would you like the pictures with the poems Gurudev? We included some with and some without. We are curious if emojis could be published.


On another note, we felt like Idaho city home got transformed being able to honor you Gurudev for Vyasapuja. We made a veggie pot pie dish and made holiday cookies. Also you requested from my husband pictures. Jahnavi wanted to draw the Syamataka Jewel and was very happy to hear that it was a pastime you are also fond of. Sita wanted to draw Radha Krsna "getting married" and said she really wanted to see them get married. She said it was not in the Krsna book but said it did happen in the forest and wanted to share it with you.


Here is a poem:


Dear Guru Maharaj

The snow falls

The suffering

the hurt continues

like a Robert Frost poem

people are getting lost in thinking...


The woods are lovely, dark and deep,  

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.


We know another road less taken

Where Krsna plays

Gets lost in the woods

with his best friend

holding each other through the storm

and frolicking thereafter


All of the devotees wanted to believe Krsna is theirs only

And when the trees fell down and demigods came up

the rumors spread

Krsna is extra Ordinarily special

Still

they couldn't stop believing that Krsna is our family member, best well wisher

Our life force now and forever


Guru Maharaj we want the same

You gave us a glimpse of

Being our utmost friend, well wisher

We sometimes forget like Krsna's friends and family

Your position


Because we are so happy to be with you

And get this attention we never feel worthy of

From Krsna's special friend

Its other worldly

and we never want it to end


Missing your association means we miss

going to the watery source

We want to draw/leap/forget what is painful with you

and just serve


You gave us a family

Your oasis source of Srila Prabhupada

The spiritual world that's opened up to us like a tent in the middle of Kansas

escorted us to join the circus of our childhood dreams

Thankyou 🙏


You said a few years ago

With a jovial laugh

"Your old enough now to be a grandma"

We are sad to see jealousy, remorse, sadness, lamentation

Not leave us even with the gravity of age

What an exhausted sigh and opening monkey warrior

we get steadfastness to Srila Prabhupada's process


every prose or excerpt is a passage

on how to step into the spiritual world

where every step is a dance

seamless, easy, simple and natural

to just slow...... down

with japa; studying service and gandarva prance

Make it our main skip line and Dandavats

At your and Srila Prabupada's lotus feet

Every waking and evening prayer


We beg to transform dry limerence and notoriety

into being a servant of the ants in the temple or the worm tiller of the rosemary outside

who serves the herbs that find its way to Krsna's plate

In the woods we wait 🙏




We miss you Gurudev. Please let us know when we can see you again. We could take turns going to Houston. Happy Vyasa Puja!


Your servant,


Kamagayatri dd, Murari, Aja, Jahnavi, Sita and Arjun


HpS - Wow! As soon as we ask a question you answer it.

I hope our Blog Posts, Twittttttter and no anveSaka have been able to keep you informed about us.

Poetry is great.

You are putting something very, very substantial on the plate!!!

Don't wait.

Don't hesitate.

Distribute in bite size pieces wherever you go, whomever you meet.

Those who will take to distribute also, to whomever they meet, dump a bagful at there feet.

Desde mi trinchera

1 week, 4 days ago by Cruz Santa in Personal Sadhana Reports

Hare Krsna! Muy querido Guru Maharaja, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias sean a nuestro comandante en jefe; AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Fundador Acarya de ISKCON y todas las glorias a los miembros de este trascendental ejército! 🙇

🌺


Querido Gurudeva, orando siempre a nuestras Señorías le otorguen la energía suficiente para continuar con Su Sankirtana. Agradezco de todo corazón cada esfuerzo que usted realiza para involucrarnos en esta trascendental misión. Solo por su misericordia sin causa consigo esforzarme, tanto como puedo, por vivir conforme a sus instrucciones (estoy repleta de fallas, pero me esfuerzo con entusiasmo, determinación y confianza en el proceso) Soy solo una partícula en este inmenso ejército, y mis batallas son así de pequeñas, tan solo intento que cada experiencia me conecte con nuestro Señor y compartir Conciencia de Krsna, a quienes conozco.


- 4/16, FMS, FEP... Srimad Bhagavatam, es la panacea, diariamente nos refugiamos en Él a través de los significados Bhaktivedanta, de vuestras clases y las de maravillosos vaisnavas. La asociación de buenos vaisnavas nos brinda guía, contención y apoyo, les estoy muy agradecida.


- Intento adorar y cuidar de nuestras Señorías, desarrollando amor. (Observo que no estoy dándoles amor, porque la idea que tenía del amor estaba condicionada a distintas experiencias materiales; expectativas, ilusiones y traumas, poco a poco vamos descubriendo la diferencia entre el oro y el hierro.)


- Aun hay dolor tras la muerte de buenos amigos, pero intento refugiarme en la misericordia de Krsna. Escuchamos una clase muy iluminadora sobre el suicidio, de Rambhoru Devi.

( https://youtu.be/dfSK_gXMRCs?si=en8qrqW_pkQxTJqS ) 


- Como es normal, la salud de este cuerpo se deteriora. Estos últimos meses hemos padecido inflamación cerebral, ahora parece más estable, aunque tengo muy, muy poca energía, tanto que casi no he podido conectarme al ASA FMS, estoy realizando el programa matutino un poco más tarde (5 am).


Gurudeva, creo que más que morir, me asusta la posibilidad de permanecer en un estado de inconciencia, porque es muy probable que no sea capaz de recordar a nuestro Señor, me asusta pensar, cuánto tiempo podría pasar en esa condición y a dónde me llevará mi baja conciencia😕


Por ahora ese es el reporte desde esta pequeña trinchera, intentamos tener una lucha digna, batallando entre dolor, temor, quizá un poco de amor, pero con mucha confianza en nuestro misericordioso Señor y Sus representantes.


Eternamente agradecida con usted, siempre a sus órdenes.

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi


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Hare Krishna! Dearest Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.


All glories to our Commander-in-Chief, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of ISKCON, and all glories to the members of this transcendental army! 🙇


🌺


HpS/ASA - 




... Dear Gurudeva, I always pray that Our Lordships grant you enough energy to continue Your Sankirtana. I wholeheartedly appreciate every effort you make to involve us in this transcendental mission. It is only by Your causeless mercy that I strive, as much as I can, to live according to Your instructions (I am full of flaws, but I strive with enthusiasm, determination, and confidence in the process). I am just a particle in this immense army, and my battles are that small. I am simply trying to connect with our Lord and share Krishna Consciousness with those I know.


🐵 🐒

🐒

🐒

🐒 ASA ! 



...... - 4/16, FMS, FEP... Srimad Bhagavatam is the panacea. We take refuge in Him daily through the Bhaktivedanta purports, your classes, and those of wonderful Vaishnavas. The association of good Vaishnavas provides us with guidance, support, and encouragement; I am very grateful to them.


- I try to worship and care for our Lordships, developing love. (I notice that I am not giving them love because the idea I had of love was conditioned by different material experiences: expectations, illusions, and traumas. Little by little, we are discovering the difference between gold and iron.)


- There is still pain after the death of good friends, but I try to take refuge in Krishna's mercy. We listened to a very enlightening class on suicide by Rambhoru Devi.


(https://youtu.be/dfSK_gXMRCs?si=en8qrqW_pkQxTJqS)


- As is normal, the health of this body is deteriorating. These past few months, we've suffered from brain swelling. Now it seems more stable, although I have very, very little energy, so much so that I've barely been able to connect to ASA FMS. I'm doing the morning program a little later (5 am).


Gurudeva, I think more than dying, I'm afraid of remaining unconscious, because it's very likely I won't be able to remember our Lord. I'm afraid to think how long I could spend in that condition and where my lowered consciousness will take me.


HpS - "Unconscious" may mean Conscious of the material elements eg. water, fire, earth and nothing else. We are absorbed in looking at something stupid, but... if we want it, we can be detached from that absorption and realize that behind the material nature is paramatma... and He is manifestation of that rascal son of Yasoda, whom we all love like anything!

All the work you have done develop that consciousness is fully appreciated by Krsna.

!FULLY!

Last verses of Isopanisad. You will not be unconscious.



For now, that's the report from this small trench. We try to have a dignified fight, battling through pain, fear, perhaps a little love, but with great trust in our merciful Lord and His representatives.


Eternally grateful to you, always at your service.


Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi


ASA 🐒 - Death is God's way of saying, 'it's time to slow down!'

Pain is not letting go our our prestige and rejecting just crying like a helpless baby for KRSNA!

Seeing, agtSP, you every minute.

Hare Krsna

1 week, 4 days ago by Gadai in Special Category A

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!


Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba mis respetuosas reverencias.


Por lo pronto sigo en Huancayo-Perú, no se si me mude a otra ciudad de Perú, quizá lo haga para mediados de año de éste 2025, pero mientras tanto continuo por esta zona.


Salgo a distribuir los libros de Srila Prabhupada una o dos veces por semana. Esto me apena mucho, lamentablemente el lugar donde vivo es muy lejos, y el gasto es mucho mayor para mi, siento que estoy haciendo muy poco por mejorar mi Sankirtan, ante está situación voy a analizar y tomar una decisión para mejorar mi distribución de libros. Le pido que por favor me de sus mejores deseos y bendiciones para tener la inteligencia adecuada para mejorar mi sankirtan y poder satisfacer a Srila Prabhupada 🙏


Mangal artik 4 y 30 am conectándome a Goto con usted, por ahí alguna ves no puedo conectarme por problemas en la red, 16 rondas de yapa diarias, 4 principios, lectura del Krishna book, también estoy estudiando el Bhakti Vaibhava con Prabhu Laksmana Agraha, algunas veces falla la red, el motivo es por lo lejano del lugar donde vivo, pero, veremos que ocurre.


También sigo estudiando Jyotish y Samudrika, ahora Jyotish y Samudrika enfocado al Ayurveda. Son ciencias que me gustaban desde muy joven. Por ahí estuve haciendo algunas lecturas de Jyotish y Quiromancia a unos familiares a forma de práctica y felizmente todo muy bien, dándoles como remedio algunos libros de Srila Prabhupada.


Mis padres ya dejaron el cuerpo en el 2024, felizmente pude comprender la situación y predicar a mi familia y todo gracias a Srila Prabhupada y sus libros, no fue fácil, tuve que fortalecerme externamente e internamente a pesar de que internamente tenía muchos sentimientos encontrados, usted sabe, muchos recuerdos de ellos, risas, lagrimas, pero, así es, es parte de la vida, nacimiento, enfermedad, vejez y muerte, comprender lo que es la vida y la muerte solo lo puedes comprender con las palabras de Srila Prabhupada, no hay más!!!

Estamos de pasada, lo más probable es que yo sea el siguiente en la lista, y por mis actos, es seguro que vaya un buen rato al infierno, pero, mientras tanto seguiré en servicio devocional hasta el final de mi existencia.


Se podría decir que éste es como mi reporte de los cuatro primeros meses del año 2025.


Bueno, me despido Guru Maharaja, que el Señor Nrsimha lo proteja y nuevamente mis respetuosas reverencias.🙏


Hare Krishna.


Gadai Gauranga Das



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All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!


Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja, please accept my respectful obeisances.


For now, I'm still in Huancayo, Peru. I don't know if I'll move to another city in Peru. Perhaps I will do so by mid-2025, but in the meantime, I'll continue in this area.


I go out to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books once or twice a week.


HpS - ASA - ! 🙂


This saddens me greatly. Unfortunately, the place where I live is very far away, and the expense is much greater for me. I feel like I'm doing very little to improve my Sankirtan. Given this situation, I'm going to analyze and make a decision to improve my book distribution.

I ask that you please give me your best wishes and blessings so that I have the intelligence to improve my sankirtan and be able to satisfy Srila Prabhupada 🙏


HpS - Please do the same for us! All of us.

Hare Krsna!!!


Mangal artik 4:30 am connecting to Goto with you. Sometimes I can't connect due to network problems. 16 daily rounds of Yapa, 4 principles, reading the Krishna book. I'm also studying Bhakti Vaibhava with Prabhu Laksmana Agraha. Sometimes the network fails, the reason being because I live so far away, but we'll see what happens.


I'm also continuing to study Jyotish and Samudrika, now focusing on Ayurveda. These are sciences I've enjoyed since I was very young. I've been doing some Jyotish and palmistry readings for some relatives as a form of practice, and fortunately, everything goes very well, giving them some of Srila Prabhupada's books as remedies.


HpS - We understand that Bhanu Swami also uses these as a way of meeting people and bringing them to Vedic culture.


My parents passed away in 2024. Fortunately, I was able to understand the situation and preach to my family, all thanks to Srila Prabhupada and his books. It wasn't easy. I had to strengthen myself externally and internally, even though I had many mixed feelings inside—you know, many memories of them, laughter, tears—but that's how it is, it's part of life: birth, illness, old age, and death. Understanding what life and death are can only be understood through Srila Prabhupada's words, nothing else!


We're just passing through. Most likely, I'm next on the list, and based on my actions, I'm sure I'll go to hell. . .


[This is not Hell?! 😲

]


... for a while. But, in the meantime, I'll continue in devotional service until the end of my life.


ASA - That's not permitted! We will continue to do our service... life after life, or in eternal life!!!


You could say this is my report on the first four months of 2025.


Well, I bid you farewell, Guru Maharaja. May Lord Nrsimha protect you, and once again, my respectful obeisances. 🙏


Hare Krishna.


Gadai Gauranga Das



Sadhana & Contemplations

Hare Krishna, Siksha Guru Maharaja; please kindly accept my most humble obeisances; all glories to Srila Prabhupada; all glories to your good self, his exemplary disciple;


HpS//ASA --- AgtSP. Paoho. we feel like 87% egoistic morons, so any advice we can give will be mostly from SP in spite of us!


all glories to all the devotees of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. I trust that all is going well with you in your own devotional service.


HpS/ASA - 😆


I finished my rounds this morning.


HpS/ASA - It 🌞

is at 3:18 Post Meridian, pushed both long, hard and sharp this morning for our Japa, and we still need to finish 8-rounds. Yet, the quality of the Japa is better than ever.


There was a feeling of surprise when I did, as if saying to myself "is that all? Shouldn't there be more?" Lately, I have had to wait until late in the evening to finish my rounds. I get very disturbed when I fail to finish my rounds in the morning. I keep vowing to not let it happen again, but I am embarrassed to say that sometimes it does. I have so much sinful karma and so many anarthas in my heart.


HpS/ASA - Ditto except we don't feel any real, "is that all". A little passes our mind, but we are so satisfied being able to do the Vaidhi bhakti that we are permitted to do.



Lately, I sometimes find myself feeling rather cold and heartless towards the world around me, not caring for the troubles of others so much, nor the political intrigue sensationalized in the media. Neither am I interested in the accomplishments and preaching efforts of the greater, worldwide ISKCON: which is probably a very offensive for me to think and feel. I feel so removed from all caring, like I'm in another world.


By your grace my daily sadhana is still happening, with Deity worship, Tulasi prayers and prayers to the spiritual master.


HpS - Our grace???? His Divine Grace? Yes, His Divine Grace and your and my and Niti-sara Das grace added like little peanuts to His Divine Grace's grace?


My daily readings of Srimad Bhagavatam and my japa are still ongoing. My online attendance of the Hawaii classes each morning is still happening, pretty much every day-unless something unexpected arises. My evening online attendance and my hosting classes on Bhagavad gita 3 times a week is still ongoing. I'm still maintaining my Prison Ministry preaching via conventional mail. And lastly, my distribution of books whilst driving for Uber continues, as modest as it may be.


HpS - As the black doctor told Janis Joplin when she described her daily drinking standard, "Honey, you do'in jus fine"!


I will close here, so as not to annoy you further with my lunacies.


ASA 🐒

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4064


Please kindly bless us so that we can remember Krishna in our final moments. I wonder if I will be so fortunate as to remember Krishna in my moment of death. I think about such things a lot: I'm 74.

Yls, Bbd 🙏🙏



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- Honey, you do'in jus fine! ... Yet, gotta keep push'n. Wanta be Nabadvipa vasi, Radhakunda grass in next life. Or just closer to Srila Prabhupada's sankirtan, no?

An artist never finished the car, he just stopped working on it

Hare Krishna dear GuruMaharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!


Earlier today, by Srila Prabhupada's mercy, I sold 3 Srimad Bhagavatam sets!

He wanted to remain anonymous, though.


HpS - ASA - 🐷

Oink!


Then Sarvabhauma Prabhu and I had a great time serving Prasad at the art car appreciation lunch.


The announcer got NilaMadhava's maha garland!

HpS - Can't get anything even close unless you go to Hawaii, no?


Then I got to stop by the farm to sing happy birthday to Abhay. He loves the Tava Pache Pache that you got him!!

ASA 🐵 Hope it is like beans with his bread!


At the art car lunch, we also distributed a Hard Gita, an SSR, and some Chant and Be Happy's.


It was a great day!

See you in the temple!


Your aspiring servant,

Jaya Hari das


HpS - We all liked the festival from our perspective also. It was very loud but we had ear plugs that Abhimanyu Das gave us November in INdia!

Also, we can see how there is so, so, so much room for improvement on the Sankirtan of the Holy Names.

See you now in your Vani. It 🌞 is at 5.38 Past the Meridian. We have prepared a PPTX for class tomorrow. Responded to a few of the many great Blog posts. 🐸...

Hare Krsna

Hare Rama

HARE KRSNA... HARE RAMA

H A R E K R S NA .. H A R E RAMA! ! !