TlgSP!

Nuestro Muy Querido Gurudev, deseo que se encuentre muy bien de ánimo y bienestar. Gracias por los escritos durante Japa Joe, es muy hermoso poder estar junto a ustedes cantando los SN.

En respuesta a su pregunta: Si, estoy terminando una certificación de Neuropsicología Budista para Terapeutas. 

Ésto me permite ser acompañante de bienestar en personas con cuadros de ansiedades, depresiones, traumas, etc. Desde un abordar científico con las aplicaciones del Budhismo secular.

Ha sido de gran beneficio a nivel personal y un gran paso hacia mi naturaleza de terapeuta. 

En cuanto a mi compromiso, mantengo los principios un 99% y 16 rondas (hay días en que no alcanzo a cantarlas) aún así hay un leve gusto y calma al sentir las cuentas en mi japa, es un apego y refugio muy importante para mí, aunque cante 16 "pésimas" rondas. 

Yí Lin lo recuerda constantemente. Vendrá en unos meses más? Deseamos que si!! 

Gracias querido Guruji por leerme, por su tiempo y misericordia. 

Le dejamos un gran abrazo espiritual. 

Pd. Un recuerdo y las guirnaldas que hacemos :)

Vanca kalpa. Jay Radhe!

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TlgSP!

Our Dearest Gurudev, I hope you are in good spirits and good health. Thank you for the writings shared during Japa Joe; it is truly beautiful to be with you all, chanting the SN.

HpS/ASA - Body is O.K. Becomes dead and dull, then regular daily Sadhana, Sankirtan movement, gets us moving. Builds our intelligence, what are we supposed to do...

In response to your question: Yes, I am finishing a certification in Buddhist Neuropsychology for Therapists.

This allows me to support the well-being of people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, etc., using a scientific approach combined with the applications of secular Buddhism.

It has been of great personal benefit and a significant step toward embracing my nature as a therapist.

As for my commitment, I uphold the principles 99% of the time and chant 16 rounds (though there are days I don't manage to complete them all). Even so, I find a subtle sense of joy and calm in feeling the beads of my japa mala; it is a vital source of attachment and refuge for me, even if I chant 16 "terrible" rounds.

Yi Lin remembers you constantly. Will you be coming back in a few months? We certainly hope so!

Thank you, dear Guruji, for reading this, and for your time and mercy.

Sending you a big spiritual embrace.

P.S. A memento and the garlands we make :)

Vanca kalpa. Jay Radhe!

HpS - !! "big spiritual obeisances" might be more appropriate than a big spiritual embrace. 😆

Remember who needs your work as a counselor the most!!!

agtsp

paoho

4.40pm

have to prepare to leave with balabhadra das for m. kamagayatri devi dasi's holistic mental health clinic program at 5pm.

rathayatra weekend was incredible. many challenges adjusting to local schedule and deity service.

the maha-mantra adjusts our mind, habits and heart.

about 25-devotees here for every program and over 150 for all the different programs.

mangala arati.

japa.

class.

prasdaam.

sankirtan.

krsna lounge.

home programs.

mail.

preaching to whom ever KRSNA puts in our daily path.

Hare Krsna!!!

When Ravana kidnapped Sita, she called our with such distress that the entire universe went off of its axis. everyone including lord brahma wanted to help her, but they were afraid of ravana.

lord brahma said, this is terrible!!!!!! but our purpose it served. ravana is a dead man.

just go on with 16/4 with enthusiasm and our purpose is served, lord caitanya's mission of giving the science of Krsna to everyone is accomplished.

pamho, AGtSP!

Please accept my humble obeisances, Maharaj!

Your last WhatsApp, which listed a request for your blog, was it viewing or writing?

I wasn't sure, so I'm doing both!

Picking up from my last write to you.

Finishing the juice fast tomorrow, and weaning in soups, the benefits of the purge are felt, more so than last year. Though this time it was more focused and purposeful. Managed to actually get overweight in 2025. We knocked it down a peg and now ecstatically going on Hari Nama's & dancing with Vaisnava's!

The aspects of ksetra-jnana really helped me along too. Our young Counselor, Gyan-Shyam Prabhu, was giving a class at NRR, covering the "seer, the seeing, and the seen." Much evidence on the separation of body, mind and Soul and where they are together. Questioned GS on the relation of Ksetra-jnana (he corrected me, "jnana," said the last 'a' is silent), and he mentioned that Ksetra's spectrum goes further than the Paramatma. Seems am getting closer to the right place here.

We returned yesterday from Deland, Florida, where we attended a Tiro-Bhava of his Grace Maharaja Bhakti Caru Swami. Light turnout this year, still all good, the more dedicated devotees delivered archives, remembrance, and a fantastic feast (too bad I was still fasting)!

Got back to our camp later that day and reflected on how HH BCS disciples were continuing his Veda Foundation's Farm. We know you're batting for the Murari Goshalla ( ISKCON Murari Sevaka – Krishna conscious farm community) too!

Alrighty then, we're up to speed for now, still cashing in on those 2 a.m. Rounds, just wonderful. Now to get some things done before I'm dead.

Thanks again for your most valuable time,

your servant in training,

C.C.D.

ASA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Greffl1UVYc

Respected Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you. All glories to Srila Pravupada.

Actually I am writing this letter after a long gap. This year in the month of January I got superannuation from govt service. I had been working as vety doctor for the last 34 yrs. Last time unfortunately we had to cancel our visit program to Iskcon, Imphal, Manipur due to sudden fixation of marriage date of my daughter. But this time we will be coming to Radhakund in the month of October when you come there. We are eager to know the date when you will arrive Radhakund. On 10th of this month I with my wife will be going to Mayapur dham and will stay there for few days. We will attend Jaganath Ratha yatra festival at Mayapur. Our God sister Manjuwali Devi Dasi will also be going to Mayapura. We are practicing regular sixteen round mala jap, doing mangal arati etc. Yesterday we were lucky enough to listen one hour bhagawat class from His grace Sadhu bushan Das of Iskcon, Manipur over telephonic conference.

So please be merciful up on us.

Hare Krishna.🙏

Your most fallen servant

Chaitanya Dham Das

Hailakandi, Assam, India

HpS - So, so, so, agtSP, nice to hear from you.

Your service is not stoppable.

I think with great certainty we will travel to Radha Kunda in October, but the dates are not yet fixed. Watch here under the "Letter Type" category, Calendar Development.

Go ahead, become Jagat Guru on Lord Caitanya's order.

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Hare Krsna Gurudeva, agtSP, pamho.

after reading your letter, i think 7 purposes of ISKCON are defining, what is sankirtana ?

we think before Sankirtana comes Sadhana--aas you said

for us, local temple begins with mangala arati, kirtan and srimad bhagavatam as mentioned in NoI.

the community that regularly attends and builds those programs is our 'local temple'.

Well, seem you gave new definition of local temple, which is free from geography , yet practical.

Again took help of AI to understand your message-- AI's answer

He's showing that ISKCON's "local temple" was never purely a building you could walk to. From day one, it was a network held together by media and periodic gathering — because devotees were scattered and isolated, with no existing geographic devotee neighborhoods to rely on. The "local temple" was wherever the connection reached, not wherever the address was.

He's saying the sense of belonging to a temple/community doesn't have to come from physical nearness — it can come from the channels of communication that connect a person to Krishna consciousness and to other devotees. Those channels become the temple, functionally, even without shared geography.

Just sharing a residential area doesn't automatically produce sanga. People living on the same street may work in different places, keep different schedules, have no built-in reason to interact daily, and may not even share the same spiritual practice. Proximity of address doesn't guarantee proximity of association.

nice question:

If devotees wanted to all live together in one colony (one geographic location), would that force them to travel far for work — because their jobs are scattered in different places, not near that colony?

---our own reflection----

our current geographical local temple SEEMS to be focusing to get people together on sunday programmes and donation.. not much talk about sadhana is done it seems..

we have to follow our sadhana then Krsna will send people to make a local temple.

HpS - Yes. First is service attitude. If Local Temple is not going in the right direction in all aspects, then see how you can contribute some leadership, example. In a very loud Kirtan that we see has many faults, but is still with good qualities, even though our voice is not loud enough to be heard over the roaring drums and PA system, we chant from our heart.

Bhur, Bhuvah, Sva.

We are contributing on the Bhuvah level. It changes the reality and often we see that within is few Mantras the leader has changed, improved, according to our tastes, the Kirtan.

Better rhythm, more meaning...

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