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Hare Krishna Gurudeva!

Danvadat Pranam

please accept my humble obeisances at your feet 🙏

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you are having a very inspiring and nourishing stay in by Radha Kund.

Disciple report 2022

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2022 april and after has been an important year for me. I bought a ticket to Sadhu Sangha 2022 in spanish fork utah & i thought i want to be chanting 16 rounds again when i attend the event in the end of may.

Devotees in the ISV (Iskcon Silicon Valley) Sangha are very active with regular online and in-person community events. Pavani Bhakti dd started an online zoom call 5-7am early in april.

I joined the call monday-friday & was getting all my rounds done before 8am almost every day. I was getting a greater amount of taste or reciprocation during the chanting than i ever had save for a few special moments in years past. Ive had to make up rounds the next day very few times since then.

My current daily schedule mon-fri is 4am call my Mom and read either Bhagavatam or a Catholic book she chooses on alternating days. 5-6:30 zoom call with Pavani and Devotees. 6:30 we read a chapter of Bhagavad Gita & Pavani narrates a power point that brings up key concepts from the chapter. 7:30 i Join a zoom call with ISV devotees Where we have have aarti, guru puja, read a verse from Bhagavatam & then have a discussion that we take turns leading. We each lead the discussion around once a week. This ends around 8:30. After making breakfast prasadam, i offer it on my home altar & take a shower & Then worship for around 30 minutes. I do this daily. Phone call with my Mom and two different devotee groups is Monday through friday.

I used to work saturday and sunday. Ive been taking those days off so i have a chance to make it to ISV saturday and Berkeley sunday. I dont make the saturdays at ISV as regularly as id planned. Ill usually take it as a ‘slack day’ and wake up with no alarm saturday and sunday. This year ive attended 4 Ratha YAtras- Boise, LA, San Francisco, Sacramento. Ive bought three Bhagavatam sets, distributed one, sponsored another, and have one i was going to give to another devotee to find out she had a set, so have it on a top shelf until it goes to someone. They were bought on Bhaktivinod Thakur’s appearance day, Radhastami & Bhadra Purnim.

My Girlfriend Cecilia Accidentally broke Tulsi’s branch putting her outside into this protective mesh container that is stretched on a metal mesh frAme. I saved the branch til Kartik & made it into a ghee lamp that i offered to the Deities in Berkeley & used it to light another devotees lamp. I went on a trip to portland with two other devotee friends, in four days/three nights we distributed Over a ton of books and collected nearly 2k donations.

Gurudeva, i know you are REALLY busy! I checked the Kapi Dvaja from the last time i messaged you here in the blog. I hope you are still able to keep a healthy balance, do not spread yourself too thin & have the time to use for what you want to do & leave room to be filled with blessings from Krishna, Srila Prabhupada & devotees & disciples.

I have a little bad news i broke a principle twice in october & have occasionaly looked into things that dont help my relationship with Krishna or my little sankirtan. The reciprocation i was feeling during chanting and doing puja had really tapered off from late summer into october. After those incidents id like to think ive been able to reset a little and do my best to really chant and worship in a prayerful mood. Sorry to go on so long here Gurudeva! If there is anything else you’d like to know about me or anyone here in the bay area or any way i can be of some service please let me know. Jaya Gurudeva! Jaya Prabhupada!

your servant,

Loka Bandhu Rama Das

Hare Krishna

HpS - Thanks for the news! I think it is inspiring for everyone.

Don't know if can read so much detail for everyone we've initiated et al.

We will announce the Report form in this Blog as open for Annual Reports in the next Kapi Dhvaja.

Please send your official report there!!!

Thank you.

Become a victor!

Become Uttama adhikari.

AgtSP!

[11/7, 11:31 AM] : Xavier:

Thank you.

So it seems like your happy and satisfied with whatever they are doing.

I'm very disheartened to see the response of your being ok with whatever they do. 

But you must be having some very good reasons for the same.

Thank you

ASA/TB - Esteemed Xavier, there is response from your esteemed wife at https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/13610/ to our post of your Whatsapp at: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/13608/

We did not say that we are happy with what they are doing in regards to your first comments.

We said that we had not heard any such thing from them or deduced any such murder plan from their actions of speech.

Really, we are not capable of dealing with such domestic details being only Sannyasis, B'caris, and in the majority not even human.

HpSwami posted a very well thought-out, practical perspective on divorce in an earlier Blog post.

He can't do much more than that.

It takes us 20-minutes to cut and paste the links to transfer these talks from Whatsapp to our Blog, which is the only place we can deal with them effectively.

We liked you from the first minute we met you in Quesqo Temple, and still do.

Right then we saw that there might be real challenges in compatibility of personality types between you and your wife.

So, please post anymore comments on these things here so we can get help from our ASA community. They are very nice. Fun.

In general, it seems that you need to find good married folks, Grhasthas, who can give you practical details to advance in these thing to the practical satisfaction of all involved.

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[11/7, 12:15 PM] Gaura Yance - Vira Gopal: Haré Krishna querido Gurudeva mis reverencias hoy estamos mejor de Salud hoy hicimos Parikrama de Brahmán Ghat to Raval

[11/8, 12:15 PM] HPSwami - ProfHHR: The Roti Rat at Brahmanda Ghat, is neither skinny nor very fat, but he always knows where your your chapatis are hidden at.

Dear Maharaj,

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

I wanted to request you to kindly stop Mr Havier and Teresa from pursuing their plans to kill me.

Since they can't get divorced as per what they are saying you have said, they are now making plans to kill me, to remove me from their lives. 

They have already threatened me twice and are now planning to come to kill me.

Request you to ask them to focus on bhakti instead of looking how to spoil everyone else's lives.

I've told them earlier also that I'm fine to work out a peaceful arrangement to get divorced and work out a reasonable amount to take care of Teresas's expenses till she gets married again (only if her greedy dad doesn't want to usurp that amount).

It may be my last message before they execute their evil plans.

Request your help in the matter.

Your servant,

Xavier

ASA - Hare Krsna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

This is HpSwami's Secretary, Thomas Brown.

HpS is 99% detached from these details of Grhastha Ashrama.

He is 74-years old, in Sannyasa shrama, and has already written an essay on his ideas of these divorce dealings in Kali yuga.

We have had some regular social dealings with the Havier family and casual mention of their relations with your good self, they have never expressed any desire or effort to kill you, either through their direct statements or through any deductions we could make.

All we can suggest is that you contact the police if this is going on.

Please write to this Blog with questions about some more general principles in this situation. There is no mistake that cannot be rectified if we take shelter of Krsna, but we are very useless in giving detailed advice since we can hardly know the details of the situation.

Hari Bolo!

Gauranga!

Thank you.

Hare Krishna Guru-Maharāj. PAMHO. AGTSP! I am writing this in connection to seeking approval for my proposed service. As you are aware I am presently at Simhachalam Temple, Germany.

hps/asa - no, agtsp. was not aware you are there.

A couple of Prabhu’s have mentioned that they are struggling at the moment to advance the preaching in Vienna, Austria, to wit we not have a temple at all in the entire country of Austria for a very long time. The situation is that they have a preaching centre there, but can only manage organising a weekly love feast on Sunday. As you have instructed me to ‚preach like a hurricane‘ it occurred to me that as I am fluent in German (having learnt it in Austria), it may be a good fit and great opportunity to do this. I understand that it will be possible for me to reside at the preaching centre in the city in order to assist in the preaching. Should it get too difficult or overwhelming, I can always re-energise here at Simhachalam which is around a 5 hour bus ride from Vienna. Should I receive your blessings for this endeavour I can then formerly ask Kripa Sindhu Prabhu about how we can proceed with the mission in Vienna. Your servant, JhD.

HpS - Of course, do it if you can.

4principles, 16 good rounds, full morning and evening program and

PREACH.

Results depend on Krsna and the sincerity of those He sends.

Read the Kapi Dhvaja. Write to the Blog, not Whatsapp or our Monkey Mail Clerk may lose your letter.

Hare krishna dear Guru Maharaja All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! Please accept my obeisances

 I write to you from Govardhan land of Krishna Mar del Plata. 

I hadn't written to him for several months and he didn't want to let another day go by. We were able with the Devotees to perform all the important festivals. The last one was Govardhan puja and the transcendental disappearance of Srila Prabhupada, and I was asked to teach the class. It is the first time that I teach a class on Govardhan and the disappearance of Srila Prabhupada, Happy about this. We inaugurated a place for the parties, and we were working with some devotees of the farm, to fix the space, in a race last week. Prabhu Nikunja donated most of the paint and furniture for the new space, and there we placed it. The party was attended by devotees who preach in Mar del Plata and the congregation. Now with this new space, we will have new challenges as a group to be able to do services together and to be able to give this offering to You, our spiritual Masters.

 After the Pandemic, festivals continue in the homes of devotees, but with this common space it is more comfortable for everyone.

 On the other hand, we are finishing the first year of electricity and next year we will continue. 

This month we celebrate 16 years of Brahmacari, and in all this time we have gone through so many changes, tests, crises, doubts, which have led us to mature in some areas and to believe more in Srila Prabhupada, and still influenced by Passion and ignorance, without a doubt. that going through it has been possible by His grace that of Krishna and the devotees.

We remain firm in this direction always sheltered in His instructions and in the Devotees, I believe that even better days will come in the future, because life has always been improving since I joined the devotees 18 years ago, and the change in I can notice the conscience, of course accompanied by the four principles, the 16 rounds, the program, and the friendship with the devotees and the simple people. 

A few years ago I took a 20-month course in astrology, and it helped me broaden my understanding of the difficulties and facilities of people and my own in the face of life (the struggle for survival, bg 15.7). accept me as your disciple. Beyond my difficulties to surrender 100% to the mission. And I ask you to apologize if I say or do something arrogant. This comes from a class I recently heard from Bhakti Dhira Damodar Swami in Spanish in which he explains the Guru disciple connection, and from this I have been able to see how many times I have made decisions without consulting him, when in my heart I have had the call to discuss it with you. concluding

Here my parents are elderly, I am attached to being with them at this time of old age (they live 700 kilometers away), and this is why I do not travel much far away to preach. They are good people and with very stable habits, they appreciate and love the devotees and have helped in one way or another the Sankirtan movement, in part I believe that my stability is due to the affection in childhood on their part. With desire to see him again, and organizing myself for next year to go to India (very crazy Argentine economy) Trying to follow and mature Krishna consciousness, wishing for more attachment to Krishna and more detachment from the World who had the grace to meet Srila Prabhupada in His Books and You in life

 His Disciple and Servant Adi Yajna Das

HpS/ASA - HAre KRsna. AgtSP!!!! Thank you for the news.

Maybe, if Krsna wants to organize a miracle, and it is important, we can meet in Mexico in March.

We took Sannyasa 10-years after being B'cari. Time for you to also do it?

Pancha-tattva Das was considering very seriously but now is thinking it may be too soon.

Maybe discuss the topic with him.

The basic principle is" Wake up!

Reality is waiting for us to get back to work.

Wake up!

CASTELLANO/ ESPAÑOL

Hare krishna querido Guru Maharaja

Toda gloria a Srila Prabhupada!!

Por favor acepte mis Reverencias

Le escribo desde Govardhan tierra de Krishna Mar del plata.

Hacía varios meses que no le escribía y no quería dejar pasar un día más. Pudimos con los Devotos realizar todos los festivales importantes. El último fue Govardhan puja y la desaparición trascendental de Srila Prabhupada, y me Pidieron que diera la clase. Es la primera vez que doy una clase de Govardhan y la desaparición de Srila Prabhupada, Contentos por esto. Inauguramos un lugar para la fiestas, y estubimos trabajando con algunos devotos/as de la finca, para arreglar el espacio, en una carrera de última semana. El Prabhu Nikunja Dono la mayoría de la pintura y el mobiliario para el nuevo espacio, Y ahí lo ubicamos. La fiesta contó con la participación de los devotos que Predican en Mar del Plata y la congregación.

Ahora con este nuevo espacio, tendremos nuevos desafíos como grupo para poder hacer servicios juntos y poder dar está ofrenda a Ustedes nuestros Maestros espirituales. Después de la Pandemia se continúo con festivales en las casas de los devotos, pero con este espacio en común es más cómodo para todos

Por otro lado estamos terminando el primer año de electricidad y el año próximo continuamos.

Este mes cumplimos 16 años de Brahmacari, y hemos pasado en todo este tiempo tantos cambios, pruebas , crisis, dudas, que nos han llevado a madurar en algunas áreas y a creer más en Srila Prabhupada ,y todavía influidos con Pasión e ignorancia, sin duda que transitarlo ha Sido posible Por Su gracia la de Krishna y los devotos.

Seguimos firmes en esta dirección siempre refugiados en Sus instrucciones y en los Devotos, creo que van a venir días aún mejores en el futuro, por qué siempre ha ido mejorando la vida desde que me uni a los devoto hace 18 años, y el cambio en la conciencia lo puedo notar,claro acompañado de los cuatro principios las 16 rondas, el programa, y la amistad con los devotos y las personas sencillas.

Hace algunos años hice un curso de 20 meses de astrología, y me ayudó a ampliar la comprensión de las dificultades y facilidades de las personas y las propias frente a la vida( la lucha por la supervivencia, bg 15.7).Le agradezco de Corazón que me acepte como Su discípulo. Más allá de mis dificultades para rendirme 100% a La misión. Y le pido me disculpé si digo o hago algo soberbio. Esto surge de una clase que escuche hace poco de Bhakti Dhira Damodar Swami en Español en la que el explica la conección Gurú discípulo, y a partir de esta he podido ver qué muchas veces he tomado decisiones sin consultarle,cuando en mi corazón he tenido el llamado de hablarlo con Usted. Concluyendo

Aquí mis padres están Mayores, estoy apegado a estar con Ellos en estos momento de la vejez( ellos viven a 700 kilómetro) , y por esto es que no viajo mucho por predica lejos. Son buenas personas y de hábitos muy estables aprecian y quieren a los devotos y han ayudado de una u otra manera al movimiento de Sankirtan, en parte creo que mi estabilidad es por el afecto en la Niñez de parte de ellos.

Con deseos de volver a verlo, y organizándome para el próximo año ir a India( economía Argentina muy Loca)

Intentando seguir y madurar la conciencia de Krishna, deseando más apego a Krishna y más desapego del Mundo quien tubo la gracia de poder Encontrarlo a Srila Prabhupada en Sus Libros y a Usted en la vida

Su Discípulo y Sirviente

Adi Yajña Das