Hare Krishna, Maharaja.

Please accept my humble Obeisances.

All glories to His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

we think of you often recalling some of the wonderful pastimes we have had with you and are looking forward to seeing you again. Hoping you are well and feeling the appreciation that so many devotees have for your association.

The last time I saw you you asked me if I had any news from Bobby.

My son Joel asked me if I would cook something for a small gathering to be held at the home of his half sister.

A daughter of my X husbands second wife.

When I drove it over out comes running like a small child, my x husband. I know you remember him.

HpS - Yes, we stayed at his house the day the highway North was closed.

After a warm heart felt greeting, he, out of context loudly said ‘Bobby’s in India.’ From the reactions of the other people there they had not heard this before. Shocked, I asked him ‘how do you know’? He just kept insisting. I just know. Then he kept asking questions about India and reincarnation. I was answering as best I could but imagine my shock.

When you met him he was an atheist. So years of Christmas Prasadam and tee shirts, books and Ganges water, and then your visit a bloom comes in the heart. I keep in touch and am feeling really humbled by the mercy we are all receiving every single moment.

Thought you might enjoy this little follow up.

I want to thank you for everything you have given me. We are in Alachua and are ok. Your disciple Nick gave me your info.

Yours in the service of that Divine Master Srila Prabhupada. 🙏🏻❤️😷🇮🇳😥

HpS - Wow! AgtSP. I had the hardest time figuring our who mbdasi is. You didn't sign this. Then "Bobby". Maha Bhagavata Dasi!

!!! 🚩 !!!

So very nice to hear from you. We were really sad we had lost your contact. Respects to the Ksetrajna Das. If you read the Kapi Dhvaja you will see that we are in Peru for six months. It is the start of our effort to consolidate all the preaching we have been doing into a movie etc. We will be back in USA 7 March (if we get a Visa extension) and stay there until middle of July.

Then we hope ... Madrid... India ... Sankirtan party where ever Srila Prabhupada is!

More news as you get it.

Jaya Srila Prabhupada and all Gurus and Vaisnavas!

Dear HPS, I have only 1 or 2 things going for me, they may not be great but perhaps it is enough.

I am determined to assist the evolution of the world wide Hare Krishna mission by facilitating agricultural development.

Fall 2020 to May 2021 I spent at New Gokul Dham in Sidney Texas. In 3 months I led the creation of a 1/10th acre (4,200 Sq ft) farm covered by greenhouses. We produced thousands of pounds of food in the 8 months I was there.

We left there because of health problems, asthma became so bad (I suspect from the ragweed or something) I could barely breathe the entire time I was there, had to use inhaler 10 times a day.

My partner Willow kept getting severe ezcema rashes that would bleed and get infected.

HpS - ASA - 😲 Hari Bolo!

Afterwards we traveled to Austin Texas for 1 month and lived with indigenous Mexicans, there we set up nice gardens for their community. Now we are in Northwest Arkansas renting a 4 acre homestead. Just got a small farm set up here and selling surplus to health food stores.

HpS/ASA - 💰 Now you can buy your partner a 1971 Cadillac!!! 😁 You chant Japa daily?? While you farm? Then all these experiences are entering into transcendence, no?

Many devotees ask me now to come to their land and help them develop it. I wish that a centralized farm training center could be developed.

HpS - Yes..

I can teach groups of people the basics and send teams out to set up and plant their land. We can grow fruit, nut trees, berries and ship them to all the devotees. Developing more self sufficiency would evolve the Hare Krishna mission 1000x forward.

Aside from farming, my sadhana is small but gradually becoming more personal and natural, I'm happy to chant, read, meditate on Srila Prabhupada, iskcon, Gauranga, Radha Krishna, their associates and pastimes. My life is becoming more regulated and orderly, having a wife is very helpful. She loves kirtan and reads sashtra all day.

ASA - Behind every good man is a good woman.... Behind every bad man is a ....? Behind you is a ... ? .... spiritual lady?? (Radharani...)

I still have an online following of a few thousand people. I am seen as a kind of existentialist radical philosopher that occasionally quotes vedic culture and references yoga. Slowly I am skimming the ripe ones and introducing Bhakti, Srila Prabhupada's books etc. to them.. I have created a social movement called "Crowdfunding A New Civilization" some people are very inspired by it, we have raised around $2,000. Our set goal is 1 billion. The mission statement is to buy land all over the world, plant thousands of acres of orchards/gardens, organize ecovillages, clean up the environment and usher in a new more evolved society on Earth.

I would like to hear your daily classes online, wondering the secret pass code to access it.. I miss you Maharaja, I hope someday to be formally initiated. Hare Krishna, hope you are well and blessed.

HpS - Still have the pants you gave us!! Access to our classes, Kirtan, ASA tree house, is always in the Kapi Dhvaja, no??!! http://www.jayarama.us/news.htm

We have mango, avocado, bananasd, sitafal, mulberrys, potatoes, beets, peas, carrots, zuccini, 9-herbs etc here!

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

How is your health? 😐

Did you die and go to heaven?

Family?

Didn't die yet. Health and family is pretty good. Had covid on end of last month together with my wife, was not so bad, used that time to take rest.

Our address book got corrupted and we lost many addresses. Can you please send your Whatsapp phone number here? We will not publish it.

My whatsapp number is: +420xxxxxx

I am using also telegram where I have same number and also Slovakian number xxxx

Can you erase all the disciple's Annual Reports from last year, so that we can start fresh for this year?

Done. Erased.

Myself and Pancha-tattva Das both experience, on certain devices, that VedaBase.io hangs up on anything but the Home Page. Yet, if you disconnect from the wifi and then reconnect, the target page immediately loads. I have tried different browsers, erasing all cookies etc, but still it happens.

Is it possible for me to meet online with you in real time, so I can check remotely, so I can see what is the issue?

HpS - Yes!!! We will coordinate through Whatsapp. AgtSP!!!

Can we give any help to get TLC up in Spanish?

Unfortunately no (at this moment). I still need to make new editor. Problem is my system force more or less same paragraph structure as it is in English, but English version of TLC is 3rd edition which is so so much different from previous editions (same issue as Spanish have Russian, Czech, ...) so it cannot be imported now. TLK, has same issue I think, there for example half chapter is completely different, like if from other book.

It will be my next project to finish new editor as it will be also required for Bhaktivedanta Archives for adding content for upcoming offline Vedabase app (that app is still long time to release, but if it will go good it may be ready around Janmastami).

HpS - O.K. but if you see ASA can help then let us know and we will try to join. We have many software engineers from Dell, Intel et al.

VedaBase.io is super, super service to ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, humanity. In the next life the organizers will be librarians for Nimai in Nabadvipa?

:)

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

😎 Maybe someone can buy Audi, but that doesn't mean he can drive to Goloka.

Hare Krishna dear and respected Maharaja

PAMHO AGTSP AGTHPS

I hope you are in good health or as best as possible. I read on the blog that a few weeks ago you had a stomach ache and something in your eyelids. I haven't heard or read about your allergy for several weeks, so I hope you are feeling better about it. I suffer allergy so I can understand what it is.

I want to write to you about different matters, so to make reading a little more bearable, I've decided to write different letters to you, each one focused on a specific issue.

In this letter I want to tell you about Saint Eulalia and my desire to travel to visit you and the devotees during February at the New Asoka-van ashram. I also want to tell you about an idea that I've got and that I'm very enthusiastic about it and that I wish to be able to carry out, as long as I can count on your permission and your blessings, Maharaja.

I've read some reports and also what you write on the Monkey Warrior blog and it´s exciting to imagine the activity and all the services that are being carried out in Santa Eulalia and the entire process of filming the movie "The Diary of a Traveling Creature". I think is fascinating and the reports they have published on the blog are very good, very explanatory, well detailed and synthetic.

The plan I have in mind today is to be able to spend all of February in New Asoka-van with you and the devotees, doing any service you need. And what I most want to do while i'm there is working on the production of 2 books that I want to publish: I've thought and felt strongly and for quite some time that I would very much like to write a book for you, which is written by me but under your instructions and supervision, and that it is published under Your authorship, is the work format known in literature as "ghostwriter": I write it under your full direction, you review, approve and the book is published with your name as the author. A basic working format may be that you simply dictate to me and I write, or I record and then transcribe, always based upon your ideas and thoughts and feelings and words, your direct message or whatever you want to share; Another format could be that you send or give to me some of your manuscripts so I can order and transcribe them and shaping the book step by step, or another way could be that you want to publish a book based on your classes available on the ASA channel on Youtube and/or on the letters from the Monkey Warrior blog; or even only you speaking focused on this idea to a new way of life for the human being conected with the nature, the sacred, the spirituality life... the simple life living from what the land that we cultivate gives us and the elevated thinking towards the sacred... for example.

The other book that I want to write and publish would be based on conversations between you and me and other devotees you want to invite to participate (conversations that of course I've got to prepare and also brace myself). Titles usually placed at the end, but to give a general idea of ​​this book I've thought of titles such as: "Conversations with a Vaishnava" or "Dialogues with a Vaishnava"; I really like the word "Vaishnava", so I think it would be very nice if this word appears in the title. This book is to be published under my authorship (but also written under your full direction, your review and your approval before publish). So if you agree with this project, we could schedule some of the days during my stay there in Santa Eulalia to hold these dialogues or conversations, I also want and can make audiovisual recording with mobile phone (very good cam integrated and probably recording with 2 nice phones) and later edit on my own some videos that we can also use for promoting the film.

I think around 4 weeks approx. of focus work (as far as possible) there in Santa Eulalia will be enough to gather all the material which one I will continue working on until I achieve the refined texts to publish (the texts of both books). All production costs involved will be borne by me and we can also receive support in whatever form may eventually arise. I will also ask and request Abhirama Thakur Das for his layout, design, editing and printing professional services.

I know you are very very busy, so I can understand perfectly if you decide that is not possible to do this books project, and I ask you apologize beforehand, it's just an intent to do something good for you and Srila Prabhupada through something that I know and love to do: writing.

In the following letter that I will write to you during this weekend or next week I will tell you:

- summary about my activities during this year, personal life, sadhana, etc.

-a brief report about ASA's activity on instagram and facebook where we publish information about your activities, under the supervision and help of your chilean disciple Arjuna Das and your argentine disciple Jahnava Devi Dasi.

-about 2 devotional visual art projects that I'm directing together with one of my sisters (Viviana Rold - Vrinda Devi Dasi) and who is (and all her family) disciples of Sankarshan Das Adhikari and his wife.

- report on the tribute book for Rodrigo Hernández Piceros.

To finish this letter I want to share with you a phrase that I read recently in the book "Modern Man in Search of a Soul (complexes and the unconscious)" by Carl G. Jung. In his epilogue Jung writes: "I'm convinced that the scientific study of the soul is the science of the future"; So little by little I am understanding why You and Srila Prabhupada appreciate Jung so much. For me he is a fascinating character and I think he probably is one of the greats of the 20th century; of course the greatest of the 20th century is Srila Prabhupada, indisputably, irrefutably.

Thank you very much Maharaja for all that you do for us and for allowing me to be able to somehow receive your mercy and your loving kindness.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krishna!

Your aspiring servant,

Carlos Rold

HpS - ASA -- 😕 AgtSP. Paoho. I think that the best thing would be to try and do something by internet to start with. The book that we wanted to do first was Tava Pache Pache. We dictated it a little each day after Mangala arati and it has taken almost 10-years to transcribe, edit and format.

I don't think I have anything special to dictate that we are not already doing.

Pancha tattva or others can take dictation and type.

How can we relate these efforts to the production of the movie and not distract limited resources from the project?

How are your Bhoga offers to your Deities???

¡Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja!

Por favor acepte mis rendidas reverencias.

Todas las Glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada y todas las glorias a Usted.

Deseo se encuentre en buena salud. Reenviamos esta carta, leímos que quizá monkey podría borrarla así que usamos el PCKD

Esperamos no ser una carga para usted.

Gurudeva, he leído sus recientes publicaciones sobre el divorcio y me sentí inspirada a compartir con usted y los lectores mi perspectiva. Hace más de año y medio que no le escribo sobre este tema, he trabajado con fuerza para aprender de la difícil experiencia. 

-Antecedentes-

Después de platicarlo con usted, en Diciembre de 2019 mi noble esposo y su sirviente decidimos separarnos definitivamente. Estuvimos casados por 10 años y antes de eso, fuimos “novios” por alrededor de 10 años. Nuestro matrimonio había pasado por serias dificultades durante más de 4 años.

Ambos hicimos todo lo que pudimos para estabilizarnos; incrementamos nuestros servicios juntos, mantuvimos nuestros votos de iniciación, canto de Japa… pero de algún modo los deberes materiales nos arrastraban con fuerza, parecía que una dificultad llamaba a otra. 

Cuando la situación era muy difícil pedí consejo y guía a usted, a algunas madres mayores en las que confío, a mi madre y a mi suegra… luego, realmente intente seguir sus consejos y creo que él también lo intento. Ambos nos esforzamos sinceramente… aún así, todo concluyó en nuestra separación definitiva. 

Mirando en retrospectiva creo que, aunque nos esforzamos, las “soluciones” que tomamos no fueron lo suficientemente profundas ni sostenibles, así que no pudimos obtener provecho de nuestras dificultades...

- Consejeros y Asram Guru - 

A) Aunque antes de casarnos recibimos guía pre-matrimonial. Me parece que nos confiamos y olvidamos continuar con ese apoyo para ajustarnos a nuevas circunstancias.  

B) Por otro lado quizá confundimos "Asram Guru" con "Consejeros". 

-Ahora me parece que el "Asram Guru" además de ser ejemplar en su Asram; tiene una relación profunda y constante de afecto y confianza, con la pareja a la que guía, así que, naturalmente, conocen la interacción de la pareja - ya sea con conflicto o sin él -. De esa manera pueden guiar de manera práctica al matrimonio joven, e incluso notar señales de alarma antes de que ocurra un "choque". 

-Mientras que los "consejeros", conocen solo la pequeña parte sobre la que se busca ayuda. Es decir, conocen solo el "problema", (que regularmente es apenas la punta del iceberg)... Así que frecuentemente están limitados a la información que la pareja en conflicto desee compartir y aunque intuyen el trasfondo, solo pueden hablarlo de manera indirecta. 

C) Creo que para mi matrimonio, la búsqueda de "Asram Guru" fue tardía; nos acercamos buscando instrucción detallada cuando el conflicto ya era serio, así que no podíamos ver, ni transmitir las cosas con claridad. "Necesitabamos una solución mágica a una catástrofe creada durante años"

D) ¿Por qué no buscamos ayuda de fondo? 

Usted me dijo "Consulte con 6 buenos brahmanas locales" y así lo hice. Sin embargo, quizá nos hizo falta revelar con mayor sinceridad o detalle nuestra situación a nuestros consejeros... Creo que (-basados en la experiencia-) nos detuvo el temor a que rompieran la confidencialidad y la vergüenza de ser "caídos"

(Aunque ahora que lo pienso, hubiera sido mejor correr ese riesgo - mejor arriesgar el orgullo que romper el matrimonio - ) 

Ahora me pregunto ¿Cómo podemos volvernos confiables para otros? Y después ¿Cómo podemos elegir apropiadamente en quien confiar? 

E) Por supuesto en mi caso, creo que mi esposo y yo tuvimos una visión muy pequeña para buscar "Asram-Guru"... ISKCON es muy grande y en distintas localidades, cuenta con varios devotos avanzados, experimentados y en muchos casos profesionales especializados que brindan apoyo y guía en el grihastha Ashram... tal vez pudimos "ir más allá de nuestro pequeño estanque".

Gurudeva, hasta ahora logró entrever la gran importancia de tener "Asram-Guru"... Parece que esta relación es casi tan profunda como Diksa Guru y Discípulo... Y también requiere de sinceridad, afecto, confianza y entrega por ambas partes y por supuesto demanda una gran inversión de tiempo...

Así que me he preguntado: ¿Cuántos Grihastas avanzados están dispuestos a tomar el rol de "Asram Guru", a involucrarse "más allá de un momento"? - En mi comunidad no conozco ningún Grihasta asi, -varios Grihastas exitosos, pero un poco distantes-... En el país donde resido, hay una pareja así, incluso se han preparado como consejeros profesionales... Aunque radican en otra comunidad, gracias al "Karuna Virus" se volvieron más accesibles a través de las telecomunicaciones. 

Por otra parte, ¿Cuántos matrimonios jóvenes hemos buscado, con sinceridad y sin prejuicios a un “Asram Guru”? ¿Cuántos nos hemos detenido, por temor a una indiscreción, o a ser juzgados o rechazados?

¿Cuántos comprendemos realmente la necesidad de tener un “Asram Guru”?... Es algo tan importante, pero tan subestimado… A pesar de que usted lo menciona regularmente ¡yo lo entendí hasta que mi matrimonio se destruyo por completo!

Pienso que si trabajamos sinceramente en esto, el beneficio a nuestro grihastha ashram también beneficiara a nuestra comunidad en general. (Ejemplo de ello son - ISKCON Chowpatty y Saranagati Village -) 

… Creo que estas, ¡son verdades evidentes!, pero en aquel momento yo no pude entenderlas. Ahora es tarde para mí, pero espero que mis errores ayuden a otros como señales de alarma.

Su sirviente

kintsukuroi

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I think that if we work sincerely on this, the benefit to our grihastha ashram will also benefit our community in general. (Examples of this are - ISKCON Chowpatty and Saranagati Village -)

HpS/ASA - 👍

... I think these are obvious truths! But at that moment I couldn't understand them. It is too late for me now, but I hope my mistakes help others as red flags.

Your servant

kintsukuroi

ASA - We remember that Rama told Laksmana that there is no mistake you can make that you cannot correct.

hare Krishna!

Su santidad Hanumatpresaka Swami! le ofresco mis más humildes y respetuosas reverencias todas las glorias a Srila prabhupada 🙏🏻

le escribí otra carta hace un momento pero al leerla me di cuenta que se borró una parte donde le informo que ingrese al ling que me dejó en la primera carta que le envié y que estoy viendo dónde tomar el curso que se toma para poder tomar iniciación, también escribí en la carta anterior que hay dos lugares en León Guanajuato dónde se hacen programas de lectura del bhagavad gita y srimad bhagavatam, un lugar es donde son puras madres ya iniciadas y el otro lugar es en el centro de león con prabhu isvaku un devoto mayor , le pido me disculpé si le llegan cartas incompletas de una servidora ya que todavía no se muy bien como mandarlas , le pido una disculpa por las ofendas que sin darme cuenta pueda cometer .

una aspirante a sirvienta

Julia cuellar torres

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I will do (Hare) Krishna!

The holiness of him Hanumatpresaka Swami! I offer my most humble and respectful obeisances all glories to Srila prabhupada 🙏🏻

I wrote you another letter a moment ago but when I read it I realized that a part was deleted where I inform you to enter the ling that you left me in the first letter I sent you and that I am looking at where to take the course that is taken to be able to take initiation , I also wrote in the previous letter that there are two places in León Guanajuato where reading programs of the bhagavad gita and srimad bhagavatam are held, one place is where they are pure mothers already initiated and the other place is in the center of León with prabhu isvaku a Senior devotee, I apologize if you receive incomplete letters from a servant since I still do not know very well how to send them, I apologize for the offenses that I may inadvertently commit.

an aspiring maid

Julia cuellar torres

HpS - ASA - Thank you! Please read the Kapi Dhvaja and write us with the current Priority Code.

Por favor lea el Kapi Dhvaja y escribanos con el Codigo de Prioridad actual