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Hare Krsna querido Gurudeva

Acepte mis humildes reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Disculpe no haberle escrito antes, primero quería contarle un poco sobre mi servicio en los últimos años después de mi segunda iniciación. Básicamente he estado haciendo servicio en el Templo de Chosica una vez por semana como Pujari y cocinandole a Sus Señorias hasta hace más o menos unos cuatro meses.

Tuve que dejar el servicio estos últimos meses porque mi Mamita Elena estuvo mal de salud, primero con una neumonia y luego una infección generalizada.

Éste jueves 11 de diciembre a las 2:55 a.m. dejó el cuerpo en compañía de cuatro de sus cinco hijos, la despedimos con oraciones y alabanzas. Ella siempre ha sido un modelo y una inspiración para mí, gran devota del Señor Jesucristo y de la Virgen Maria. Cuando me volví devoto de Krsna entendió que era lo mejor para mi y estuvo muy feliz por el cambio positivo que vio en mí.

Ella estuvo presente en mi primera iniciación y era muy favorable al movimiento, incluso nos ayudó en la prédica consiguiendo un local de la Municipalidad de Magdalena para reunirnos con los devotos.

Sé que Ud estuvo orando mucho por ella, muchísimas gracias de corazón.

En un par de semanas volveré a mi servicio a Radha Madama Vihari, los extraño demasiado.

Quiero que sepa que todos los días medito en Ud por lo menos tres veces al día y que lo amo profundamente.

Gracias por su inmensa misericordia!!!

Su sirviente

Jana-pavana das

HpS - ASA - Thank, agtSP, you so much! We only see that Srila Prabhupada loves our Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ can only recommend this movement of Gauranga as object of intense respect and participation of all Christians, Moslems et al.

Very best regards for your Mother.

You will meet again.

There will be long distance phone calls!

We posted her photo on anveSaka and again ask devotees to look at it and chant Hare Krsna.

We are headed for Lima tomorrow (with a few stops along the way).

Hari Bolo!!

Become Paramahamsa,

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,

 Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

HpSwami ASA - AgtSP. All respects to your lotus feet on Goloka!

 All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 All glories to Guru parampara.

 Gurudev, submitted my annual report. Booked ticket for Vrndavan ( Jan 19 to 24, 2026 ).

HpS Hope to hear your Kirtan there.

Your dependent,

Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

Hare Krishna Maharaja!

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Today during your FMS you said your voice is 90% dysfunctional. I've noticed you've been dealing with this problem for quite some time, at least for several weeks.

I also have a voice problem that became chronic, so I want to share my experience with you.

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ASA 🐒

Hare Krsna.

It was about thirty pages long.

We could read the first page and then had to run away!

Our special throat problem has only been for about a week. Since last Saturday.

Common Flu.

Send shorter news!

Please accept our obeisances To Your lotus feet🎵🙇🏻‍♀️🎶

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada!🙇🏻‍♀️💖🌹💐🌷🌻🌹

All glories to You, our adored Gurudeva!🙇🏻‍♀️💐🌷🌻🌹🌹🌻🌷💐

Please forgive me!! I didn't know it could be taken that way. It was hard for the heart just to read it. How important it is to know the intensity with which a single word can sound for each being.

We try to just please him and it hurts a lot that my words have not pleased him, but we are learning. Once we hear from his lips: the disciple has a duty to offer everything to the spiritual master and the spiritual master has a duty to reject everything. So for a long time we revered him like: his lotus feet, even though we saw that you didn't like him. But later. We hear this way of reverence of the Hindus and it seemed so sweet to us!! So real, because I thought that as women, we can't get close to their feet, but I thought so, to the dust of their feet. And because we have the mercy of taking that powder to take refuge and because a refuge is always sweet for the heart, it is called sweet powder. That's why I thought it was a perfect phrase.

Of course, this is just our view.

But now I see that you are not pleased, so please tell me how you would like us to honor you as our Gurudeva. Please excuse the inconvenience caused and I sincerely hope to please you with everything I have and I am that it is actually too little, but at least, it is what I can give.

Thank you for telling us how your throat goes. It makes me very happy to know that your doctor also helps you with this and I am calm. although whenever we hear it coughing... it causes us pain.

always trying to please her lotus heart:🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🌹🌻🌷💐

Radha Japa Prati Jalpa Devi Dasi🙇🏻‍♀️🎶🏞

HpS - AgtSP. Thank you J. P. R. Devi Dasi.

We have been trying to explain this attitude for some time. It is not just you, but others also.

In some ways it is a minor point, but in others it is quite important.

For example, after Srila Prabhupada left, his disciples who had been listed to give intiation, almosts universally thought that they should be Gurus like Srila Prabhupada.

"Pada" names were so common:

Achaya Pada, Visnu Pada, Hari kirtan Pada.

Gradually we are all realizing the exalted positin of Srila Prabhupada.

He is a Sampradaya Acharya like Rupa Goswami etc.

They do not have to appear in every generation.

As far as I understand there are three generations of Diksa gurus in between Narottama and Visvanatha, but Srila Bhaktisiddhanta does not list them in the Parampara.

Does not mean that they are bod or insignificant people, but they were not Sampradaya acharyas.

They were competent to pass on the process, as we should be, but they did not make big changes like Rupa Goswami.

When Srila Visvanatha appeared, we would understand that he was politely explaining to his Diksa Guru what the purports of Narottama meand, and so his Diksa guru and the other gurus back to Narottam all blessed him and encouraged him to go to Narottama and move the Sampradaya forward.

O.K.

Please see us as Guru in light of our, your, Founder Acharya.

You can glorify the dust from his lotus feet, and try to poperly understand the dust from Franko, ourselves, and Nikunja bihari Das, and your own feet.

😃

SOme little help?

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you. 

Thinking about you a lot and your upcoming travels. I am wanting to travel with you and wanting to travel blind…but knowing I must serve you more and more in the vani sense. Sometimes it feels as though you are physically present in our morning program. I’m finding over and over again that anytime I feel discouraged, depressed, no enthusiasm..all that needs to be done is to cry out in the Guruastikam song then like magic or mysticism some enthusiasm comes in and I feel connected again(and japa improves like a symbiotic relationship). Sometimes it’s as if you are dancing in front of me. Each verse iconographic and a world of discovery. It’s sobering and blissful simultaneously. I’m committed to this experiment and we are not missing a single morning. Sometimes it works at home but mostly it is most potent at the temple(The rugged ignorant individual in me doesn’t like this!). But more then just relief from suffering it is the perspective.

Slowly slowly losing this taste for wanting to be a great man/bad man. Some intelligence is telling me to just secretly be a good disciple.  

“Day by day, stone by stone

Build your secret slowly

Day by day, you'll grow too

You'll know heaven's glory”

-Little Church inspired by Saint Francis

It’s an amazing thing, Gurumaharaja..every single Thursday program and so many conversations at work and in the street Carl Jung is mentioned. And when I simply repeat some things I’ve heard from you, their eyes light up.

Another possible bridge we are experimenting with is this book: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. We have started a new series on it for our Thursday program. Each chapter or agreement has been a wonderful jumping off point to basic Bhakti topics and specificity Nectar Of Instruction. Seems like 80 percent of people here either have read the book or have wanted to read it. I got it when I was a teenager and it may have helped me come to KC. Very famous book. Curious if you know it or know his other book Beyond Fear. Who were these Toltec people and what was their relation to Vedic culture? Is a question that keeps coming up. 

Lastly, many politics and changes in infrastructure in our temple and in the US government. Our temple’s government has been shut down in a way as well. But it’s going in a good direction and this has raised a lot of questions for me personally: Do we need both conservative and liberal devotees for a healthy spiritual  community? And should the two aspects be balanced within us? Like Prabhupada talks about the razors edge.. and can we put smarta Brahmins, consrervitives, and more dictative speakers all in the same general category and then Avadhutas, liberals and provocative speakers all in the same general category as well? And are these two mentalities eternal?  

Thank you for all the enlivening classes recently. The redwood tree that is Houston temple is a great inspiration for our Boise bonsai tree temple. The squirrel moving the stone is just as important to Lord Ram as the big boulders the monkeys carry?  

Your aspiring servant, 

Nitisara Das 

HpSwami ASA 🐒- Lord Nityananda and Srila Advaita Acharya engage in mock joyful arguments about conservative and liberal attitudes.

Srila Prabhupada comments that there have always been these two attitudes: Avadhuta and Smarta, and they have never understood each other and they never will.

Yet their conflicts stimulate each other and they love each other like anything.

Yes, in the drama, there are no small parts, just small actors!

Realize Boise is the center of the universe.

Will look at above book.

See you soon.

Respects to all?

in cont. from here https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15917/

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Have you read the ISKCON Deity worship book?

Yes, years ago. I vaguely remember from the book what we already discussed about the lamp offering to Damodara.

HpS/ASA - 👦 🐵 🐷 🎰 naman isvaram sat cit ananda rupam...