Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Respected Maharaj,

Please accept our humble and respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to your holiness!!

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Paoho..... !. .. We feel like 'our holocastness'. 🐵

Trying to not eat peanut butter and bananas late at night.

We are writing to inform you that in our Richmond Yatra, Priya Mataji (wife of Braja Raja Krishna Prabhu) recently shared her desire and aspiration to take shelter of your Holiness. She is a sincere Vaishnavi practicing for a few years now and is serious about her spiritual life.

We would like to ask you Maharaj, what would be her next steps? Thank you very much.

We beg at your lotus feet to remain your servant, to develop taste in Chanting Holy Names, and to be protected from Vaishnava aparadha.

Your servant,

Divyanam Das

HpS - Very nice letter, thank you. We are remembering meeting at Radha kunda while you all were taking bath!!

About us acting as Diksa guru, we wrote out our perspective in a letter yesterday:

https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/14617/

In summary, we are too old to do the job.

We can act as Siksa guru, also in terms of our capacity, and we are seeing very nice devotees like Radha Krsna Das here in Houston who are taking up the work as Diksa guru very well.

Of course, the main thing is how we see everyone as Guru: trnad api sahisnuna... that is the spiritual world, and then Diksa guru, Vartmana pradarshika guru, Kula guru are all specific aspects of that.

O.K.??

agtsp

paoho / bw

tom brown here.

brother ass and hps are tired. the sun is at 8.51pm now.

sitting in the kadamba room in the sannyasi palace in iskcon houston.

very quiet.

lob spanish program was an intense, broad, profound, lasting, elegant production. Prof. Raul from the Jungian Center came with his esteemed wife. Many regular and leading Temple devotees attended.

Excellent.

Full morning program.

then 11-1pm a Bhakti vrksa program with about 40-participants.

all new devotees.

hps discussed the perspective of BG and verse 2.18.

several nice questions.

...

a little rest and off to the temple for the evening program. about five to six people: psychologists, NASA space engineers, all with questions and Krsna krpa Das and Sadhu Das leading Kirtan!

Radha Natabara 8PM Kirtan, SB/Lila-amrta!

Quick look at the Blog.

Seems people are requesting some of our, Monkey's, Diarys.

Tomorrow is Ekadasi. Fasting from Greens and Brains!

HpS gives Sunday Feast lecture and is going to talk about Epiphany, Three Kings, Interfaith Dialog.

Hari Bolo!!!

 ISKCON Educator and Mentor- His Grace Prana Das

His Grace Prana Das departed this material world (1-6-23), around 6. a.m. IST in Vrindavan Dham at the Bhaktivedanta Hospice. Many of you may know of His Grace Prana Prabhu.

He joined ISKCON in the early 80’s and has served most dedicatedly in the area of education in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., the USA, and India. He played instrumental roles as a teacher, principal, education consultant, and curriculum developer, for early, elementary, and Higher Education, was a great mentor and trainer, a Sanskrit curriculum developer, and a teacher at the Mayapur Institute of Higher Education. He assisted Mother Urmila in digitizing the Learn to Read Series. Most recently (the last 5 years), he has developed online interactive learning for children (bhaktilearning.com).

Between 2014-2018, I had the good fortune of Prabhu’s association during the startup years of establishing Goswami Academy at ISKCON Houston. He served as one of the visiting education consultants. Not only was he very knowledgeable and expert in the field of education, but Prabhu was a kind, caring, compassionate, and wonderful devotee. I feel very fortunate to have had his association. Please join me in prayers to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Sri Radha Krishna for the departure of this great soul.

Below is a must-see YouTube video in-depth link that features Prabhu joining ISKCON, his early years, services, and words of wisdom in our bhakti journey…

https://youtu.be/9WOjtWFdCho?feature=shared

HpS/ASA - We can only repeat what Subra Devi Dasi has said. We were fortunate to get Prabhu's association. He was compassionate in seeking us out when we were in his Yatra and always a friendly intelligent person.

Where is he now?

Will he be in Nadiya with Nimai???

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj.

Please accept our humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you very much for coming to Houston and staying here and giving your association to community.

Me and wife is very thankful to you that since you gave us Brahmin diksha we are able to serve lordship more.

Now we can cook for deity we do more then couple of times in week, also we are dressing Gaur Nitaya and Radha Giridhari and Girirajji, because of your mercy and lord blessings we got opportunity to do abhishek of Radha Giridhari on Janmastami, my wife Sumitra Radha got opportunity to Aartik on Goverdhan Pooja day.

HpS/ASA - We, agtSP, feel very fortunate to be in NMDh. We are trying to contribute!

You are already in Goloka, Nabadvipa, no? You just have to wake up!!!

We are trying to keep ourselves engage in more and more active devotional service.

Both Kids also help us in serving Radha Neela Madhav.

I am planning to visit my parent in India last week of Jan.

Please always keep us in your shelter.

Your Aspiring Servant

Devendra Krishna Das

Sumitra Radha

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Thank you!!! What are exact dates of your visit to India?

ASA[E] Guru-tattva.. Diksa guru retires.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to your enormous service.

I hope you get much better health.

HpS - Our donkey's health is pretty good for 75-years old.

Had littel fever, probably just like you, but recovered quickly.

Hearing, sight, memory are like 40% gone. That won't come back in this life time. It is good. We want to stop watching the movie of mangos and pick real mangos for Krsna!

Would be nice if we died right after sending this letter and you died right after reading it and then we both took birth in Nabadvipa with Nimai, no!!!

We remain firm with all our vows and also with the service in the initiation committee, I wanted to apologize for my mistake in misunderstanding the words in English, I will strive to improve, in fact I am practicing English with a devotee of the Indian community 🙏.

HpS - Your English is better than my Spanish! 😄

In December we helped aspiring devotees for Hari nama initiation and brahminical initiation of Jayapataka Maharaja, we had a very good association with older devotees.

HpS/ASA - Such a nice service!

My letter is mainly addressed to you to tell you about Bhakta Carlos Rold, a devotee of many years who has always felt very enthusiastic about everything related to making your sankirtan grow.

I am a witness of how he has made an effort to qualify and prepare himself.

For a year now, he has been following the four regulative principles, maintaining his sadhana, connecting to FMP, doing practical service in the Iskcon Chile temple, singing its 16 rounds (he tells me that when he cannot finish them, he sings them the next day, adding to the corresponding ones),

he has also approved [passed] the Disciples course and is about to finish the Introduction to Bhakti yoga course.

Also Bhakta Lucciano Macchiavello would also like to formalize his entire process in a certain way, he tells me that he has known you for more than 17 years and that no one like you has understood it, he has never stopped following your institution of donating milk and butter for the deity.

Gurudeva an important question, do you think in the future granting formal Refuge and possible initiation to Bhakta Carlos Rold and perhaps formal refuge to Bhakta Lucciano Macchiavello?, Both devotees have been following his instructions for years.

Your would-be servant

Manjuali Devi Dasi

Santiago de Chile

HpS - Maybe even more than a year ago we decided that we are too old to give any more 1st initiation. The Diksa guru takes Karma. It is a job, and it is a job for a young man. Last time we did it. Few months ago. We felt really crushed.

🙂

However, that does not mean that we cannot be Guru's for Carlitos or Machaivelli.

In Srila Bhaktivinode's 'Jaiva Dharma' one fictional Sannyasi, saint, Babba Mahasai, is preaching, teaching, guiding a young man from Kolkata when he visits Nabadvipa.

Then Bobba Mahasaya tells him that he is ready for initiation, but that he, Bobba Mahasaya is 90-years old and that if he initiates him, he will die, so they should go and see Vaisnava Thakura Bobba who is only 75-years old.

Young man. 😃

VTB says that it is an honor to do the ritual if BM recommends The Young Man (35-years old).

So, that is what we feel.

Carlos and Machiavelli are our friends!

What more can we want!!?

It is an honor if we can be their friends and counselors always.

We are recommending Yadunandana Swami in Spain as a very nice Diksa guru. Radha Krsna Das in Houston.

O.K.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I am a little concerned about your health. So I hope this meets you in really good health.

This is letter is going to be brief.

On January 9th we will arrive to Houston along with Palika dd.

We kindly ask for your blessings so that we can see your very good self again

C U soon Gurudeva

Trying to be your disciple

CMDD

HpS/ASA - AgtSP.

Monkey and Piggy want to know if you are bringing Ulysses? ???

Mahaprasada of Radha Madana-bihari?

Alfahores?

Think Radha and Nila madhava will be ecstatic to see you.

Visiting 16,108 houses of Krsna.