All glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to Lord Caitanya's sankirtan. My obeisances at His lotus feet.

I am forever grateful for His blessings to sing my rounds, I have already started and I feel very good and happy to be singing rounds again.

I have wanted to write to you for a long time to thank you for your attention, I know you have many occupations and I did not want to bother you. I also end up a bit tired.

Physically, I am making a greenhouse and now I am working on it to build a Wallipini, which are some greenhouse designs found in the Bolivian highlands. I continue to build the mud house and reinforce it with stone and cement.

HpS - ASA - Amazing!!

Thanks for sending me the YouTube address to see the gunman's movie, I honestly like some Chinese series like the Dark Lord and Nirvana Infire that are great and of course full of frustrations.

The protagonist of The Dark Lord reminds me of Krsna by His intelligence and mischief.

Radha Japa P. Jalpa always gives us the reading of Srimad Bhagavatam, Prabhupada's Nectar, Bhagavad Gita and Krsna book,

HpS - She is very good reader.... SB is very big. So many stories illustrating different points.

...lately I do not enjoy it so much because I am physically tired, but I am not complaining I am a happy sudra. Lord Jaganatha is very merciful to us.

For now I want to finish our house and make it more livable. I would like your advice about my service in Iskcon,

if I would have to help the devotees of Cordoba to revive the Ratha Yatra, or carve deities to help other devotees to do Ratha Yatras?

What do you suggest? I've been thinking about this for a while. .

HpS - I really can't give much detailed advice because we don't know the details of the situaion. We would like have to live in the community, but I can give Chanakya Pandita's advice: Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from man counselors. So take our advice, his advice, and get good advice from different perspectives and then you can make some practical plan.

In the beginning the details don't matter so much. Just engage in a healthy fashion in some service and concentrate on getting 16-nice rounds and 4-regulative principles as an eternal habit. Then after first initiation, like one year, more details of our service style become obvious.

This is our understanding.

I don't have much to tell. Spring is coming and I'm going to be busy with the garden, cultivating and transplanting.

Eternally grateful for Your time, with no more news to tell, I bid you farewell with a strong transcendental hug.

I will send photos of what I am doing

Hare Krsna!

Bhakta Franco

HpS - Thank you. All glories to the lotus feet of our Acharya, Srila Prabhupada, and all the sincere devotees of ISKCON etc!

Such nice news. Please send more as things develop, the garden, the family, the neighbors.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada , todas las gloria al sankirtan del Señor Caitanya. Mis reverencias a Su pies de loto.

Estoy eternamente agradecido por Sus bendiciones para cantar mis rondas, ya comencé y me siento muy bien y feliz de volver a cantar rondas.

Hace mucho quería escribirle para agradecerle su atención, sé que tiene muhas ocupaciones y no queria molestarlo. También termino un poco cansado Físicamente , estoy haciendo un invernadero y ahora lo estoy cabando para construir un Wallipini que son unos diseños de invernadero que hay en el altiplano boliviano.

Sigo construyendo la casa de barro y la refuerzo con piedra y cemento.

Gracias por mandarme la dirección de YouTube para ver la película del pistolero, sinceramente me gustan unas series chinas como the Dark Lord y Nirvana Infire que son geniales y porsupuesto están llenas de frustraciones. 

El protagonista de The Dark Lord me hace recordar a Krsna por Su inteligencia y picardía.

Radha Japa P. Jalpa siempre nos regala la lectura del Srimad Bhagavatam , el Néctar de Prabhupada , el Bhagavad Gita y el Krsna book, ultimamente no lo disfruto tanto porque estoy cansado físicamente, pero no me quejo soy un sudra feliz. El Señor Jaganatha es muy misericordioso con nosostros .

Por ahora quiero terminar nuestra casa y hacerla mas habitable. 

Me gustaría que me aconsejara acerca de mi servicio en Iskcon, si tendría que ayudar a los devotos de Córdoba a revivir el Ratha Yatra , o tallar deidades para ayudar a otros devotos a hacer Ratha Yatras? Usted que sugiere?

He estado pensando en esto hace un tiempo. .

No tengo mucho que contar, Se acerca primavera y voy a estar ocupado a full con la huerta, cultivando y trasplantando.

Eternamente agradecido por Su tiempo, sin más novedades que contar, me despido con un Fuerte abrazo trascendental. 

Ya enviaré fotos de lo que estoy haciendo

Hare Krsna !

Bhakta Franco

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you so much for your reply to my letter!

Have you take the Disciples Course?

Yes, Maharaja, I have completed this course taught by the principal of the TKG Academy in Dallas.

Will the Sriman Nityananada Das give you a letter of recommendation for Harinama Diksa?

Yes, I am sure he will gladly write this letter for me.

Thank you very much!

Also, Bhakta Reilly has really helped out today, we went to the store to get the supplies for the Light of the Bhagavata seminar. I hope to show you at the Aarti tonight. 🙏

Your aspiring servant,

Bhakta Jason

ASA/TB-BW - So U8the Ma Haw!!! 🙊

We are very happy to have your association in Boise and here. We think Srila Prabhupada must also be very happy.... ! .... As the formalities go, if you want us to act as Diksa guru, initiate according to the formalities, then we are very pleased to do so, but if you have some other inclination that is fine.

Next step would be to get the formal letter of recommendation.

[And eat or share the Maha after you steal it, both methods are very advanced]

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All Glories to your Sankirtan Guru Maharaja!

I begin this report by thanking you for your enormous effort to keep you informed of your sankirtan and classes on a daily basis, although it is true there are times that I cannot connect, hours later I can listen to your classes that are already recorded, and also for the monthly Kapi Dhavaja.

HpS - Thank you very much. Sometimes we wonder if our efforts are of much value. 🙄

I think from the first moment you have been the inspiration and clearest example.

HpS - We just finished talking with Virabahu Das. He has been very big inspiration for us.

It has been a while since my last report and I apologize for this.

ASA - 👹

I hope soon you can go to the ophthalmologist with the company of a devotee to check your eyesight, we need your healthy vision.

HpS - Tomorrow, Janmastami, we will go to see a dermatologist. We will be investigating 'skin disease' on Janmastami. 😁

My family is in very good health, the Lord always protects them. My mother is also an example of devotion and perseverance, she sings the rosary whenever she can, she tells me that every time she prays the Lord and the Virgin always listen to her, she is very devoted to the Virgin and dedicated.

ASA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66zUY8UZn4M

This last time if I have dreamed of my father, this dream always repeats itself, he says goodbye and he looks good, in that hug I can even feel the aroma of him, I miss him a lot, but I know that his soul is fine.

ASA - 😌

Now I continue to tell you a little about what I have done lately, together with Lalita we continue to distribute Prasadam, this service never ends, I think that people will always have the desire to eat and even more when they taste food offered to the Lord.

ASA - Krsna consciousness means good food and good music. Engage them also in distributing and chanting.

I tell you that a few days ago the Temple President, Prabhu Jaganatha Caran, told me about a possible second emergency initiation which has caused me a bit of confusion on whether to advance in this process or not, since I think that the main thing is to inform you and I would like to study and dedicate the time as it should, to prepare myself in the best way and to be with the necessary qualifications for the due attention of your honorable Members and not to commit offense at such a great step, I imagine that times are changing and everything perhaps it becomes more flexible.

I have been studying the Vedic texts as much as possible to give a good test, but I made the decision that I want to prepare myself much more and if you approve it, in the not so distant future, you will give me that enormous mercy.

HpS - I don't think it is such an emergency in some ways. I think you are quite qualified. Srimat Virabahu Das mentions that they have interviewed the candidates in terms of chanting their 16-enthusiastic rounds and following the 4-principles strictly.

He also mentioned that you and Sriman Lalita-madhava Das have not been formally married and are not living together.

I thought you were married and were living together.

It is good that we have several devotees to guide us in spiritual life. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Like him, and probably a lot of others, and even yourselves, it seems you should make the superhuman effort of dealing with the national bureaucracy and formalize your relationship.

Considering all the things we know, it seems that it would be nice for you to take second initiation with the fire sacrifice on Wednesday.

For Pujaris we do not demand the Bh. Sastri course, but of course it is nice.

I think you already took the Disciple Course, no?

If not, then our GBC Secretary, Virabahu Das, assures me that this is what would make it an 'emergency initiation' but it is alright if you commit yourself to take the course as soon as possible. I hear that it is nice, a little formal, but satisfying.

Eternally at your service and waiting to be more and more qualified.

Manjulali [Manjuali] Devi Dasi

HpS - Please tell The Lalita-Madhava Das to drop us a line also! We will be in your neighborhood in just a few weeks. Good food and good music, and learn the stories from the SB, CC etc. Then you can put them into modern language as the situation requires.



With the association of Lalita or other gentleman we can talk with telephone, whatsapp if you like. Just send you contact number here. We will not publish it.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you are in good health.

HpS-ASA -- AGTSP!!! paoho. We are just like you, no? Out vehicle, tool, robot is getting old and all the functions are decaying. This happens again, and again, and again...

and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,

I write you this letter in order to inform you about our Asram. M. Gauri has a good health on [in] general, with some little age-related ailments. She's staying with us. We're living in Chaclacayo, near to Chosica, since a month ago.

ASA - Chocolate Cow! We know it. Prof. Anadi and Dharma used to live there. Bhadra rupa Das.

We moved to this place due to some building problems. We hope to stay for a couple of months more until we sell our old apartment. Rukmini and Devahuti have been on virtual classes during all the pandemic and they will probably continue until next year. We have an altar at home.

We always try to keep our sadhana in association with you and the devotees through FMP.

HpS/ASA - 😟 We are so sad that it is not nicer!! Your attendance is very awe inspiring.

Once a week, I go to Chosica Temple and I do some service in pujari's kitchen. By your infinite mercy, we are in this service for more than 6 months. We're always trying to keep in touch with your virtual classes and sharing experiencies and questions with some godsisters and godbrothers.

Since the beginning of this year we have a little dog, her name is Catalina Shakti, but we call her Caty. We're very happy with her because she's naturally a vegan dog. Her vet said she's very healthy and has a good weight. She loves listening the Maha Mantra when we connect to FMP.

Dear Gurudeva, we hope to keep in touch with you and informing you about our activities. Please, we beg you for your blessings to stay always in service of Radha Krishna, Gaura Nitay and Guru Krishna, also to have a better understanding of this espiritual science and experience trascendental realizations. Thanks a lot for all your effort and your infinite mercy to all of us.

May Nrisimhadeva always protects you.

Trying to serve,

Tarangaksi Devi Dasi

HpS - We heard that Nimai had a puppy, and for sure Krsna has two dogs. One is

BIG

and very ferocious to guard the calves and cows from wolves, and the other is a house dog. We hope Rukmini Devi Das is growing up a very valiant lady like Draupadi, Visnu priya, Kunti et al. The Dalai Lama says that we should live a good life, so that when we are old we can remember it and enjoy it for a second time!

Also, so others will say: Ah, look at Rukmini Devi Dasi, she is an example for all of us. She takes whatever Life sends her and makes it beautiful.

Bh. K. WhatsApped:

I miss Kirtan in public so much Maharaj, so I started to play melodic meditative guitar music in public some days 🎸

People give donations so I give them small Maha Mantra cards I made 🙏😊

Sometimes I distribute

books to them also, Hari Hari!

ASA Responds:

Perfect! Just improve your technique and inspire your own students.



Hare Krishna

Respected Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Reading your replies shows such maturity in you, I am spellbound.

By your mercy and prayers, my sadhana is little better now. One wrong trap for me is I am wasting quite a time on social media... I know I need to reduce that.

Mostly I am staying in Darbhanga. I conduct a small program at my room on Sunday. 2-3 families are slowly taking to the process of Krishna Consciousness, while 1 new online batch has been started- your blessings are required so that it grows into a group of devotees. As informed earlier, a ISKCON center has come up here in Darbhanga being managed by some devotees. Now I am trying to look for some other place for developing preaching. Sometimes I feel a little weak due to lack of association. If things work out nicely then in 3-4 months I can expect to serve Lord in a small temple near Sitamarhi. Sitamarhi is said to be the place where Mother Sita was found from within the Earth by Maharaj Janak. There a few devotees are also expected to join us. Not getting much/ any practical support from my authorities sometimes disheartens me and causes fear- how long I would be able to flap before maya captures me?

Please keep me under your blessing and let me know if I could do any little service for you.

Your servant,

Purushottam Keshav Das

HpS - AgtSP. As soon as I saw your name on this Blog post I was thinking about you and wanted to answer. I hope our other posts and our Kapi Dhvaja communicate our spiritual and material situation.

Hare Krsna!

Even now it is 5.07PM and we have one hour to wash clothes, cut nails, shave face and head as per every two week standard and then we have Juhlana Yatra and second night of a Symposium on Nectar of Instruction given be Krsna through our mind (We hope).

Here is what I was thinking

Why not move into the Bhakti Vedanta Research Center (BRC) Ashrama in Kolkatta and work with them. Get a diploma in history etc. be representative for our NIOS there, coordinate with Dr. Samaresh.

NIOS can make donations to BRC to help with any expenses.

What do you think?

I think it is a terrible plan,

but I also think it might be good.

Anything in this world is terrible unless Krsna wants it.

You are carrying on in all difficulty, like so many other followers of Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON devotees.

We will win.