Letters to the editor

ASA(E) VAD, Determining Varna

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja,

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

In today lecture, you mentioned Ramananda Raya to suggest the best thing to follow varna-asrama.

Somehow whenever I hear about varna-asrama I cannot understand how to apply in my life. For asrama it is easy, I am in grihasta asrama. But I don't see how I can fit into varna.

I like to do activities of sudra (programming and architecting software). But when I see somebody needs protection I generally have to act, which could be consider by some kind of ksatriya thing. And goal of my sudra activities is to spread knowledge, which could be sinsidered as brahmana.

As my sudra activities are taking most percents, it could mean I should fit into sudra varna. Srila Prabhupada mentioned "A sudra cannot live independently". If I imagine to not live independently, I would rather prefer to not live than to be dependant on decisions of others. My horoscope chart mentions I cannot work under anybody. If I will follow varna properly it will stop Vedabase and Vidyabase preaching projects. Same time I cannot fit in other varnas too.

Or should I consider it that by helping to spread teaching which Srila Prabhupadfa gave us, I don't work independently, but under Srila Prabhupada? Thus fitting requirement for sudra to not be independent?

My understanding is that helping with sankirtana mission is more important than to fit into varna, but then why are there quotes that one should follow varna asrama?

Is my way of understading wrong? What should be right way of accepting this?

Please tell me to understand this topic.

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

HpSwami ASA 🐒 - Does this help: https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/29/10/ ?

Eighty-one different combinations.

I am Sudra Brahmana Brahmana Brahmana?

I think you are also predominantly Brahmana.

Yes, your Brahmana nature can guide your Sudra nature.

Brahmana naturally serves King, GBC, Temple President but as a Brahmana, under Acharya, Supersoul.

He is merciful to King.

That is his service.

Helps?

So nice to hear from you.

We are in NVM now.

Hare Krishna.

Hare Rama.

Chant this eternal, transcendental song.

Hare Krsna.

Hare Rama.

We, ASA 🐒 🐖 🤖 👦, have arrived, still alive (5%), in ISKCON New Vrajamandala, Spain.

We take some credit (1%), but mostly it was Guru, Krsna, Nanda Raja and Jayanta Das' brawn and brain.

Freezing at night.

In the 40s during the day.

In our room under the covers we stay.

🪷

Next Sunday the 4th we will fly with The Pack.

In India we will woof, bark and quake.

Planning the Tour.

Programs when we return.

All the seeds of lust and envy,

In hearts we will 🔥 🔥 🔥 burn.

🪷

Japa Joe and Sri Upendra Das

Are at the same local time

Through the change of time and space do give a toss.

O. K., reached our internet-eyeball limit for today.

Some games with the Boys we hope to play.

More later we can read and say.

🐒👍👍👍

Sunday, December 28, 2025, at 7.30am (Maharaja is process of deciding time for class during his stay in Spain), Madrid time

We will continue reading Madhya Lila; 18.01 onwards.

(The Lord Caitanya's visit to Vrindavana)

Thank you to all devotees for dedicates service. H. G. Nikunja Bihari Prabhu will help us with Spanish translation seva for reading notes of CC and for Maharaja's class, we are still looking for Spanish devotee to do a seva of backup translator; in case there are technical difficulties.

Maharaja, thank you for engaging everyone in reading systematically books of Srila Prabhupada.

YS

Upendra Dasa

HpS ASA - Arrived New Vrajamandala, Spain.

Below freezing at night. In the 40s during the day.

All the rooms cool or cold, but act Act ACTIVE community.

Will try to open SB workshop at 7.30am and close at 8am Madrid time to start local class.

We can translate if best.

asa(e) somnambulists

Monkey and Piggy had followed the Yoga: Dot your eyes, cross your teas,

but Goloka-Dvaraka they did not get when they crossed the seas.

They had reached the mystical island of Dvaraka, and it was expansive beyond all belief.

Now the search party was spread out around the edge of a swamp on the jungle.

They were sitting and griping about how they had been tramping up and down every hog, dog, camel 🐫 and ass path on the isle, but still they had not found the mystical metropolis of Dvaraka.

To make matters even worse, all the queer frogs in the swamp were gaily chanting: ritvik, ritvik.

,,-'o',,

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaja

AgtSP

PAMHO

I`m very happy, I fell that this year that is coming to an end was more than beneficial fro my spiritual life and my material life, at the start in January I was quite exciting for my new life in Germany, I got a work in a honey company called "Madhu" and I lived with a devotee called "Ananda Vardhana" which is very funny once you realize that both my dad and the company of my dad have the same name.

But that emotion went away fast and very quickly, one of the first things that I discovered was that for me is very important to have family or people "like" family around me, otherwise I fall in a a sort of depression, and those three months working under that company and living (by that time I was renting another place just living with non-devotees) alone was hard, German winter is not famous for being kind to human beings, In April my happiness came back with Sun and the cold winter was over.

After that I also started to realize more deeply what is my Varna, that realization came when I discovered that I can`t work or put myself under someone that I don`t respect or appreciate,

and the owner of that company was neither of those and therefore working there was exceptionally hard for me.

I keep that job till legal end that I was allowed to work (six months) and right after that I went to a Ratha Yatra in Berlin, was amazing I love Lord Jagannatha, he always is with me and he always take care of me, he is my best friend and the most dear person in my life, after that I traveled to Portugal with an Erasmus program funded by the European Union. (Basically that Union pays to young people to travel free to many places that the program covers.)

The wife of Ananda (her name is Kanu Priya) is directing and organizing some of those projects and she kindly invited me to travel there. There I meet Lalita and all the drama after wards.

And after everything naturally ended I went to live in a temple in the south of Germany, close to the border with France Goloka Dhama, they have a wonderful place there, with beautiful deities and excellent devotees. I`m still in love with that holy place but now the separation is stronger. that happened in the month of September. I made a lot of devotee friends there and my devotion was renewed after having some devotees of my age around. That experience made me wonder why there is so few devotees of my age in general. During that time also I discovered more about my Varna while i was having a conversation with a Brahmacari, to not make it too long basically I was telling the problems in certain aspects of ISKCON and how to solve them, I asked him "you never thought how to solve this and that?" thing that he asked "Never usually I think on them and I just pray" for what I remember and well also other realizations but they can wait in another letter, but in a short resume I discovered that most likely I have some strong Ksatrya nature.

After it I went to live in a temple in France, New Mayapur, also a very nice place but organize by French people, so as you can imagine every thing is open to debate. The deities are wonderful, the people and the place also, is actually a Castle and use to be a medieval one till the family of knights that lived there made some heavy remodulations and after was sold to the devotees. I stayed there till the first or so of November.

Then Spain and Back to Chie were I'm staying at the moment with my family, I'm doing Sankirtan to maintaining myself and giving some of the most needed literature in this planet and this time.

I`m quite happy now seeing in which aspects I improved from last year and having more clear which ones I can improve now, also de idea and opportunity is for taking second, and I'm also seeing the chance of being a online teacher of languages.

I discovered an attraction that I have for photography and writing, I hope you could read what I have done till now. I will try to attach some pictures.

I'm very happy to be able to see you soon.

Hoping that your body is in good shape I hope to see you soon Narottama Dvija Das.

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Is long but nice.

Srila Prabhupada is making us heros.

Hare Krsna.

Very interesting to hear your news.

Is 12.45am here in Tennessee. Must start 16 rounds before Mangala arati.

Every day is battle to serve Krsna, no?

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaja

PAMHO AGTSP

Thank you, Gurudeva, for not letting go of my hand.

This past time has been very difficult for me. My doctor changed my medication, and that caused a health crisis.

This time it was as if I were fighting the devil himself in my head, with many doubts, confusion, and a struggle to maintain my sadhana.

But here I am, as the song "The Patient" by Tool says, "But I'm still right here, giving blood, keeping faith."

I can see my limitations, and I am discovering what my service will be from now until I leave this body.

My obeisances, Gurumaharaja.

Piyari Mohan das.

HpSwami ASA - AgtSP. Hare Krsna.

Hare Krsna.

Krsna Krsna .. . Hare Hare...

Hare Rama.

Hare Rama... Rama Rama Hare Hare.

In your head or in the room?

We experience the same weather as others in our town.

If it is sunny and clear.

Raining and Grey.

If you are fighting devils, it benefits others in the same mental world, no?

Helps Gaura Nitai.

Thank you.

Hope you get good association.

Devotees read this and contact you appropriately.

🙂