Dear Guru Maharaja,

Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

You wrote:

Even more important is to read in the association of devotees. Have study partners, students, teachers.

Could you please share why this is such a significant activity—both in general, and especially compared to reading alone? If possible, I’d appreciate it if you could share your thoughts here, without referring to śāstra or quoting from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s letters, talks, etc.

I have my own perspective, but I’d really like to hear yours—assuming you think I’m in a position to understand it.

It’s not that I don’t want śāstra evidence—I both need it and already have it. However, I’m wondering if there’s something 'beyond' that—some personal or practical perspective—that could help explain the possible advantages and disadvantages (if any) of studying alone versus studying with a group or a partner.

I may (most probably will) use this in my presentations on Krishna bhakti.

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS/ASA - Uh! Ahh! Humph!

Krsna. Krsna. Krsna. Krsna. Krsna. Krsna He!

How are you?

Any more bank security?

How is Nirgata Dasi?

Your father, is still with us???!

Croatia is ready for the the Third World War?

(Vacation spots)

When I write on the Blog today.

Booomph!

I have association.

It wakes me up.

When I do Japa. Alone. It wakes me up. To direct experience of Krsna.

We are NEVER alone.

Three year old children, like us, are never alone.

We pretend we are alone and can do 'it' alone. But Mami and Daddy are watching while they do their adult chores.

My Karma has very little "Guru" in the chart. That means teacher, mayor, GBC, Temple President.

Submitting or becoming one.

Badrinarayana Swami said, "You are one of the few ISKCON gurus that I know who expects their disciples to think for themselves".

So, I we, 🐵 🐷 😺, tend to for relations as partners with people.

Hanuman was with the team looking for Sita for Rama, and making reports.

Prabhupada's Library is very big. Too big for one whole life time. We gotta have help looking for stuff that is dynamite for us!

Study, research, pioneering, partners.

So much of what ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON, not the shadow ISKCON, is, is pioneering.

Have to find ideas that will fit in your field pack. or pick up ideas from libraries of Prabhupada's books as you find them here and there and use them for the task at hand.

Like Hanuman killing a mean horse with his teeth, fist, and claws, and then using it to bash other horses and chariots.

how do we 'die' [to live]??? . . . . Takes knowledge. Research.

ABhAbheda tattva means that we will always be absolute little researchers, applyers, and that dictates that we belong to a team.

Who will we we all be in Gaura lila in our next lifetimes in Nadia?

Who will be the Chand Kazi?

Will you be Govardhana or Hiranya??? Will we be your stable manager?

https://www.jayarama.us/archives/vdm.docx

Please adored Gurudev accept my humble obeisances🙏🌹🙏🌻🙏🌷🙏💐🙏🎶🙏🎶🙏🎶🙏🌹🙏🌹

All glories To Srila Prabhupada!!!!

Today I want to tell you: that time I returned to Córdoba for the second time, and I couldn't tell you what was coming... a very strong change in my life... it was because a great disciple of yours, whom I appreciate very much, told me that it was better not to tell you anything until I had things clear. That's why I didn't say anything to you, but my heart was twisted with sadness... for feeling that I hadn't fulfilled my duty to you. I was like that for a long time until I spoke with you. I want you to know that I have ALWAYS had you very, very, very present and that I understand two things: 1. As you once told me: what is going to happen, will happen. 2. All your disciples want from the heart is to take care of you, and I appreciate and value that very much. I just wanted to tell you.

Please forgive my unintentional offenses🙏

Your Kumari, who always aspires to serve you like a loving mother, serves her son:

Radha Japa Prati Jalpa devi dasi

HpS - Taking care of me??? Body, mind or spirit?

Taking care of each other???

Chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Rama is the greatest gift, no?

Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja,

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

HpS/ASA --- AgtSP!!!! paoho & bw.

It's been a while since i wrote you. Our previous letters and our lost relationship often come to mind. It's not the reason i write you now.

I wish to write to you about current developments of my (devotional) life. For about three years now i have invested wholeheartedly in developing my professional life. Around 45 years down the road Krishna had given me a career and i was happy to accept it. Solid work was much needed in my life, and i applied myself to it. Right now i'm established in my work, i have earned my standing as an environmental inspector for the government and i'm getting some practical results. I feel that i'm able to fulfill that role according to a decent standard. There's satisfaction coming from work, while at the same time weeks are passing by fast and i also note the boredom of life without devotional service. My wife and children are doing well. Our eldest daughter (12) is going to atheneum (scientific preparatory education) this summer and we're very proud of her.

After taking this detour, i feel i need Krishna back in my life. I have to conclude in my stage of spiritual life, i wasn't able to be steady and do two things at the same time. Or three even. Being a devotee and build a new career in life while also being a father. I have gone through some soul searching and some crises of faith, partially related to our society also, but i feel that its time to get back my spiritual life now. I therefore come to ask your blessings.

HpS / ASA - I do not know exactly who you are. 🙂 I am speculating of several cool dudes, who have not communicated. Belgium??

Blessings?

💥Hare Krsna 💥

Whatever work, nehabikramo.. we have done on spiritual path is eternal! Keeps building up. Even for slow learners like me! (and you?)

In the beginning we have to balance (Bh. vinode Thakura). 2am to 10am spiritual life. 10am to 6pm work. 6pm to 2am play.

Goodness, Passion, Ignorance.

Yet.... as we advance.... and you/we are... we begin to see that it is all spiritual. get up early and get your rounds done.... then the 'business' is for Krsna. then the 'play' is for KRSNA. go to the Big Luxury shops to look for exquisite paraphernalia for our altar with our family.

This weekend we've concluded our fourth Amsterdam

HpS - Ah! Now I remember! Eg. Your helping us change planes in Amsterdam!! Thank you. So many memories. The apartment of the professional musician. Professional driving.

Kirtan Mela. We've had 400 visitors, 11 hours of kirtan, and a holy name retreat the day after with 70 attendants. It was such a grand festival, so blissful and fun! Our guest of honor was his holiness Sacinandana Swami, who is very pleased with our efforts. So much so, that he has decided to give the event a permanent place in his agenda.

Our team of four are very happy with how it turned out.

HpS/ASA - I bet Gauranga and His Sanga are also pleased!!!!

There are uncut livestreams on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl_kNe9b6EY

HpS/ASA - Really funny!! In what we peeked, nobody is smiling!!! 😆

All very serious Kirtan 😞

😞

😞

God!

Hari bolo!

Krsna is a rascal.

😆 He has dogs!

I don't really know where to go from here, except for picking up my beadbag again and turning to Krishna and His holy names.

HpS - Yep!!! You are a spiritual genius!!!! You got it!

Don't hesitate. Become Guru for your environment.

Set a fixed number of rounds, eg. one a day, and fixed duration eg. one round a day for the next three days, one week.

and then DO IT. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna!!!! (Rupa Goswami and Prabhupada, Nectar of Devotion)

👍

Looking at myself with the honesty that i have, deep down i'm scared to give up my false ego, my "Richard" persona, and his worldly pro's and con's.

ASA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard#People_named_Richard

Most of them are dead or you never heard of them, no?

Well, what do you want your daughter to say:

My daddy was a famous clothing designer, or my daddy was an initiated disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, and my daddy played The Big Mrdanga.

I hope you are doing well, Maharaja. I don't know what's going on in your life and what projects you're working on, but i have full faith in your dedication to Srila Prabhupada. I did hear from my friend Janmastami prabhu how he relished your presence in Spain last fall. I hope you're health is supporting your devotional life.

With kind regards,

Your aspiring servant,

Raghava Pandita dasa

PS. After adding photo's and reconsidering this post and it's title; it's actually unnecessary. Just a cry for attention and approval. The power of observation always comes later than the foolishness. Hare Krishna. Jaya Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - Radhava Pandita. You are a good person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoya_Inoue

This guy seems like a half way reasonable person.

He is one of the greatest boxing champions in the world.

Small guy.

In his last fight for world championship he tasted the canvas.

He got knocked down.

Boom!

But he got back up!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva, please accept my obeisances to your lotus feet🙏🌷🌼🌻🌺🌹🎵

All glories To Srila Prabhupada!

All Glories To You my beloved Gurudeva!🙏🎵🌹🌺🌻🌼

Happy Rama Navami!!!

Record this dance that you asked me for a long time ago! :

https://youtu.be/1h_EUUfKyQc?si=kXelClHZ4Ejr5H6y

P.D

Today I was meditating on your request for my commentaries on song 3, Kardama Muni and Devahuti. I remember not finding anyone with whom to discuss this beautiful subject, and I felt frustrated for not being able to please you as you asked. Added to this, I was beginning to know what it means to be a wife and a mother! So, I was very stunned, but I remember that you asked me to save my comments (which I still have) somewhere on this blog, which I never did! Today, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, I realize that my service to you was not in the past, in Chosica, nor when I was physically with you. My service to you is always fresh, it is eternal, and I want to improve it every time. It will never be something that was left in the past because it is what gives me life today and always, and it will be eternally. Please ask me for a service, and I sincerely hope to please you. Forgive me for my shortcomings. His words: I'm always listening to them in my heart, and they're always new; they're not in the past. They're here now, and they're eternal.

Please forgive my unintentional offenses🙏

HpS - We are most enlivened when our "disciples" have dreams, realizations, of Prabhupada, his books, his instructions... 👍

Please Adored and remenbered Gurumaharaja!👏👏👏🙏🙏🌷🌻🌹💐🎶 accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet🙏🙏🙏🙏🔔🌷🔔🌷🔔🌹

All glories To Srila Prabhupada!!! !!! !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

All Glories To You my Gurumaharaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My SB comment you asked for: 😊

This was incredible to me.

It happened around the day of Your vyasa puja 2023.

After work, before going home, I went online to look for some photos of You to make the video I made as an offering to You and Srila Prabhupada!

And I found a page that said it was dedicated to criticizing ISKCON. I was shocked that someone could waste their time like that. Of course, I didn't even open it. I was scared, because the internet can be very dangerous too.

But the most surprisingly sweet thing was that just that morning before leaving home, the verse from Srimad Bhagavatam I was assigned to read that day was verse 37 of the chapter: The Lord Who Is in the Heart, from Canto 2.

 In the final part of the purport, Srila Prabhupada spoke precisely as follows:

"If someone does not purify himself through the practice of bhakti yoga, he must be a pseudo-devotee. For such an imposter, there is no remedy that can free him from material entanglement." I felt: Srila Prabhupada is watching over me!!! For me, ever since I saw him in photos and read his books, I felt like my true father, and that feeling has only intensified and continues to intensify.

HpS - Radha criticizes Candravali, and Candravali criticizes Her, yet They are cousins and they love each other like anything!

Hmmm. 😟

Please forgive any unintentional offenses committed in this letter.

And please accept respectful and loving obeisances from Gopal, Franco, and myself at your divine and merciful lotus feet.

May our Krishna continue to bless and protect you abundantly!!!

Please forgive my unintentional offenses

always trying to please Her beautiful lotus heart:

Radha Japa Prati Jalpa Devi Dasi

P.S. I just edited my previous letters and made them shorter for you. And I just read your responses to Candramukhi Devi Dasi and Prabhu Gadai. Thank you so much, beloved Gurudeva, for letting us know more about the wonderful gopis and the three levels! May everything improve in ISKCON Peru! Here in Argentina, there are so many problems with inflation, but I read a wise person say that if everything is fine, then how can we bring out the fighter within us? It's in these difficult times that our qualities emerge to overcome the situation, and they come to light because there is no other alternative!

HpS - Real wealth is land, cows and brahmanas. Invest in teachers and teaching!??

Hare Krishna adored and always remenbered Guru Maharaja please accept my obeisances at your lotus feet 🙏💐🌻🌼🌷💐

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!

All glories to you my dear Gurudev!!!🙏💥🌷🌼🌻💐

I made this small offering to my lord Gauranga😊🙏 and here I share it with you:

subtitled english:

https://youtu.be/BElNBS_vISg?si=kv0xyUsUVE9muMh8

subtitled spanish:

https://youtu.be/fl5zPma4bug?si=o_7HNn-GVi7VUclP

I pray at Your lotus feet that my service may be accepted.

Please forgive me for any offense. Every day I learn how to serve better.

The video I made is a wonderful song dedicated to Sri Gauranga: GAURANGA KARUNA KORO I heard it a while ago when Franco downloaded it. And I longed to know the meaning so I could dance to it. So inspiring!!!

I've also uploaded my video offering to Sri Nityananda, "Nadiya Godrume," with English subtitles especially for You and to make it more accessible to English speakers. Here it is:

https://youtu.be/oih9S7QdnpE?si=IHNE6yG_7GKquvZn

Thank you for your advice Gurumaharaja. They really inspire me a lot🙏🙏🙏🌷🌼💥.

I really don't think I have any sankirtan partners yet. 😊🙏

Thank you for your time!

Please forgive my unintentional offenses

Always trying to please you: J.P.Radha dd

P.S. I performed this dance with the strongest intention in my heart to fulfill His request of years ago. Perform a dance of Sri Gauranga dancing in front of Lord Jagannath's chariot!

HpS - ASA ---- Thank you!!!!!!

Spontaneous dancing is Kirtan and Bhajan is the highest perfection of life!