Letters to the editor

ASA-E -- Guru, Diksa, HpSwami

Hare krishna 🙏

por acepte mis humildes reverencias 🙇

Todas las glorias a Srila prabhupada

Todas las glorias a usted

Espero se encuentre muy bien de salud,hace unos días estando conectada en el horario de japa joe en línea,usted me pregunto si tenía nombre espiritual (Diksha) le contesté que aún no, que esperaba fuera muy pronto,la verdad es que mi respuesta fue esta porque considere que no era el medio apropiado para hablar más sobre el tema.

Hace algún tiempo hiba a escribirle para pedirle que usted fuera mi maestro espiritual iniciador (Diksha) pero empeze a leer las cartas publicadas en el blog que usted ya no estaba iniciando y por tal motivo ya no le escribi.

Considero importante mencionarle que estoy en conciencia de krishna aproximadamente hace nueve años y desde hace ocho años hago 16 rondas diarias y llevo los cuatros principios regulativos, siempre que tengo la oportunidad me conecto a japa joe y al programa de la mañana mangala arati , dependiendo del lugar donde usted se encuentre,escucho sus clases que quedan grabadas, a las clases del día domingo casi no me he podido conectar por temas de trabajo...

S.S Hanumatpresaka swami 🙇Usted tendría la bondad de darme refugio y ser mi maestro espiritual iniciador por favor 🙏..

Su Aspirante a Sirvienta

Claudia Garcia Hernandez

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Hare Krishna 🙏

Please accept my humble obeisances 🙇

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you

I hope you are in good health. A few days ago, while I was online during Japa Joe time, you asked me if I had a spiritual name (Diksha). I replied that I didn't yet, but that I hoped it would be very soon. The truth is, I answered this way because I felt it wasn't the appropriate medium to discuss the matter further.

Some time ago, I was going to write to you to ask you to be my spiritual initiator (Diksha), but I started reading the letters posted on the Blog and saw that you were no longer initiating anyone, so I didn't write to you.

I feel it's important to mention that I've been in Krishna consciousness for approximately nine years, and for the last eight years I've been doing 16 rounds daily and practicing the four regulative principles. Whenever I have the opportunity, I connect to Japa Joe and the Mangala Arati morning program, depending on your location. I listen to your recorded classes. I haven't been able to connect to the Sunday classes much lately due to work commitments.

His Holiness Hanumatpresaka Swami, would you be so kind as to offer me refuge and be my spiritual guide and initiator? 🙏

Your Aspiring Servant,

Claudia Garcia Hernandez

HpS - Hare Krsna! AgtSP. Thank you so much for your letter.

It is just a fact that our body is old and cannot handle the Karma of initiation. Srila Prabhupada says that anyone who does a ritual ceremony takes Karma.

We were supposed to die about December 23, 2024 but we started taking cardiac medicine, following Ayurvedic prescriptions etc and that seems to have helped.

So, we started traveling again.

Then, there are people like yourself, like Carlos Rold here in Chile, who have been aspiring for initiation from us for years and are finally ready, and we thing, "Well let us just initiate them as a special case", but then we think of the result, like thinking of the result of eating one more piece of pizza and the result it not good.

Your request seems kind of like asking a six year old to please drive you to the market in the auto.

😆

On the other hand, we can act like Siksa guru, give advice, even how to relate to Diksa guru.

Any devotees you know who are initiating?

Thank you.

Are you in Mexico, Leon?

Dear Guru Mahārāja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda, all glories to your service, and all glories to all the Vaiṣṇavas.

I am writing with a repentant heart to beg forgiveness for the time I have wasted and the many opportunities for service that I have neglected. I can see more clearly how laziness, distraction and attachment to material comfort have covered my intelligence and caused me to fall short of your instructions and expectations. Whatever progress I have made is only by your mercy, and whatever distance has come between my ideal and my actual life is entirely due to my own lack of sincerity.

I deeply regret my sinful nature and carelessness that have arisen in my rebellious thoughts, words and deeds, and I pray that you may kindly overlook these faults and allow me to begin again.

By your mercy, I have understood that human life is very short and extremely precious, and that every moment not used in Kṛṣṇa’s service is simply a loss that can never be regained. Remembering Śrīla Prabhupāda’s emphasis on strict sādhana and practical engagement in devotional service, I feel ashamed that I have not fully taken shelter of the process you have given me and have frivolously allowed myself to become victimized by maya.

Instead of using my time for hearing, chanting and service, I have too often allowed myself to be distracted by temporary goals, self-aggrandizement and sense enjoyment. Now I am praying for the strength to give up these tendencies and to realign my life completely with your instructions.

With this mood, I wish to humbly submit one earnest request at your lotus feet. I desire to dedicate myself as a full‑time brahmacārī in your service, under your guidance and under the authority of your representatives. I understand that this ashram requires strict celibacy, simplicity, obedience, and full engagement in devotional service, rising early, attending maṅgala‑ārati, chanting the prescribed rounds, following the four regulative principles, and accepting whatever service is given without personal consideration. Knowing my conditioned nature, I do not trust my own strength, but I have faith that by your mercy and by the association of serious devotees, I can be re‑trained and gradually become a useful instrument in your mission.

Therefore I beg you not to reject this fallen soul. Please kindly engage me in whatever full‑time brahmacārī service you consider appropriate, be it temple service, preaching, menial work, or any other duty that will help purify my heart and keep me always close to the shelter of your instructions. If you so desire, I am ready to adjust my external situation, relocate, or accept whatever austerity is necessary to live as a proper brahmacārī in ISKCON, always remaining loyal to Śrīla Prabhupāda’s society and to your lotus feet. Kindly correct me, guide me, and chastise me as you see fit, but please never withdraw your mercy from me. I am presently in the United Kingdom but also have a passport for Australia, where I was initiated (via ritvik) in 2018.

Your aspiring servant and unworthy disciple,

Janardan-hari dasa.

HpSwami - Hare Krsna. We cannot immediately place your form and actions.

Under what circumstances did we initiate you??

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.🙏

All glories to you and Srila Prabhupada. 🙏

Thank you so much for your encouragement 🙏🙏

Here is the general prayer request from the temple:

Dear devotees,

Hare Krishna

I have been informed that Mitreya Rsi prabhu (Michael Parr), a disciple HG Radha Krishna Prabhu, will be undergoing a spinal surgery tomorrow that will be performed in two stages. One surgery will be performed on Monday (2/16/26) and the second one on Thursday (2/19/26)during the same week. The surgery is to reconstruct aspects of his spine including placement of spinal rod, pins, screws, and spacers. He will be an inpatient for at least a week, if all goes well, he will be discharged on Sunday, 2/23/26. He will then transition to physical therapy.

Please keep him in your prayers for a successful and speedy recovery.

And here is one reply:

Hare Krishna I came in Monday and with Krishna's mercy I will be discharged today (Friday). Mondays surgery went well Thursdays was delayed and lasted three hours plus . The pain is strong but is being managed by medication for the most part. I've been up and walked so I'm doing well thank you. I hope to make it to the temple within a week or two. I miss it greatly.

He goes very often to the nightly Bhagavad Gita class and yes I think he was in some branch of the military.

One time you started a sketch book and gave it to me to add to it. Then it went to Bhakta Angel, and finally it was to be completed by him as the last person in the "art chain".

Thank you Guru Maharaja!

Your servant,

Jaya Hari das

HpS - Yes, agtSP, I think he is the former Navy Corpman that we all know and love.

Gave us apple juice that went to Lord Nrisimha.

Thank you.

Certainly hope his body is aligned perfectly with his service.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada 🙏

All glories to Parama Karuna Sri Sri Goura Nitai

All glories to HH Hanumatpresaka Swami 🙏🌻

Hare Krishna, Maharaj HpS 🙏

Please, accept all my respect, gratitude and obediences.

Yesterday, in the Japa Joe program. You asked us about Vartman Acarya. Is our Vartman Acarya our Founder Acarya, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada?

Thank you, millions of times, for your mercy, inspiring association, priceless prayers and blessings for all of us.

Thank you for these amazing and useful tools: daily programs with your guidance, Vedabase and this blog 🐸

The greatest blessing of Krishna for me in this life is to have the devotee's association like yours, who to teach us how serve and love properly to our dearest Srila Prabhupada.

Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙇

An enthusiastic servant's apprentice of you 🙏

Annie from Lima

Thank you 🌻

HpS/ASA - Vartman means path, road, in Sanskrit language as dictionary says.

To our comprehension it is a Siksa guru, who gives us advice how to get on the Path to Goloka.

We are pushing through the dense jungle trying to go to Goloka and someone explains that there is a nice path that we can take. Eg. They tell us where is an ISKCON center etc.

This can be Srila Prabhupada directly and/or other people like you or me.

Next comes Diksa guru and then Sikha guru(s) who guides us after Initation.

First chapter of Caitanya Caritanmrita focuses on this.

If you can, send some photos of your self and associates et al.

Thank you.

What to do, what to say

When there is only the Holy Name?

All the books are there to say

Inspire me to take, to heart, the Name.

Chant with your voice, clap your hands

Use any instrument, but do not shadow the Names.

He is all that is, and I am to blame

When my citta (consciousness) does not rest upon the Name.

Blame is not what I understand is right

When a baby learns to walk, it is natural to go off-site.

So, try again as there is no loss

And the gain is divinely virtuous.

From realisation I do not write

These are my contemplations on Bhagavatam’s sunlight.

This Sunlight is what I need

‘Cos false ego took my creed.

Namacarya Dasa I try to be

With vaisnava seva the life is set free.

In this way I play the big drum

Hopefully not staying spiritually numb.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. 👌 Super. Million dollar gift.

Rewrite it.

Billion dollar gift.

Write in calligraphy style script in a hard bound book.

"No one ever finished a poem.

They just stopped working on it", Some French poet.

Thank you!

Apologize to you and the world that we are weeks behind on Blog Reports and Posts.

5°C here in Radha kunda at night.

No heating in room, but have good blankets and hot water.

Hours and hours of Sankirtan, Parikrama, individual counseling daily.

Packing, and leaving for flight to Madrid in 22-hours.

✈️

Hope have time to do Blog work, swim in waves of Sadhu sanga there.

Hare Krishna

Hare Krishna...

Hare Rama..

.. ..

More.

Hare Krsna Gurudev,

Por favor acepte nuestras humildes reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada,

Todas las glorias a usted!

We are in communication with some devotees from Nueva Vraja Mandala. They have expressed their intention to present, in the town of Brihuega, the video about Manipur that we created as an offering for you.

Yugala mentioned that you think it might be good to change the title. Do you have any ideas? It could be something related to the Rasa dance, or perhaps something more general?

Please let us know if you have any other suggestions. We can modify or add whatever may be necessary.

(This link will take you to the video, which is still inaccessible to the general public.)

https://youtu.be/3PfHcxNowa4

After the public screening, we would like to make the video accessible on YouTube so that anyone may watch it and share it.

Yugala also mentioned that the intention is to create a cultural program, so we also offered a photo exhibition about Manipur that is already prepared (they would only need to print the photographs there in Brihuega), as well as a photography book that explains the origin of the Rasa dance. Both are available in digital format and can be printed if they would like to use them.

If there is any way we can be of service, we are available.

A su servicio

Vrsabhanu Nandini devi dasi

Ambarisa Maharaja das

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho.

This tour with H. H. Yadunandana Swami and up to 20-devotees is super intense.

They are waiting for us to start cultural program in Imphal temple.

I would suggest the program be promoted as

Cultivation of the Human Spirit.

Light of the Bhagavata.

Then all of our previos resources can be used as needed.

Eg. Oscar's movies.

BBT pictures.

Then can add, focus on.

Manipur.

The Hidden Jewel of Human Culture.