dev service in 3 modes

2 weeks, 3 days ago by harsh_horse in Personal Sadhana Reports

hare Krsna Gurudeva, agtSP,paoho

Thank you for answering our letters the Vrindavan Sadhu is a vaishnav in Hari Das Thakur line. He does quote. Chaitanya mahaprabhu very often. he only speaks in Hindi.


I am also hearing Mahatma Prabhu from Alachua, as representative from ISKCON


Sb 3.29.10 says

There are different devotional activities, such as hearing, chanting, remembering, worshiping, offering prayer, rendering service and surrendering everything, and each of them can be divided into three qualitative categories.


Does His Holiness thinks it will be appropriate to go letter (missive) by letter, and build on this topic ?


HpS - We, agtSP, don't understand? More details?



We primarily have been category of 3.29.8, hence v r in this state.


We r like Sugriva, only in association of Hanuman can we serve Rama.


ASA - Sugriva was brought to his senses by Laksmana's visit also, no?




Partida de un Vaisnava

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias Guru Maharaj


Le compartimos que después de luchar contra el cáncer el pasado jueves prabhu Radha Raman dejó el cuerpo y esta vida en Monterrey, podría tratar de compartir todas las cualidades de tan querido devoto pero no podría yo ser capaz, me a dado mucha nostalgia este acontecimiento porque antes de conocer a los devotos yo visité el restaurante Govinda´s que era negocio de prabhu Radha Raman por ahi del año 2011 fue mi primer contacto con los devotos y definitivamente quedan muchos recuerdos y nostalgia de cuando conocí a los devotos en 2012 .

Ofrecimos el espacio de predica de nuestro restaurante para el funeral del devoto, sorprendentemente muchos devotos asistieron a dar su ultimo adiós.

Realizamos kirtan, lectura, bhajan, sadhu sanga lo que pudiera hacerse para dar un ambiente propicio y digno para su trascendental partida.


Tu sirvienta eterna Anandamaya devi dasi.



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All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my humble obeisances Guru Maharaj


HpS - ASA - !!!!! AgtSP!!! paoho.....


We shared that after fighting cancer, last Thursday, Prabhu Radha Raman left his body and this life in Monterrey, I could try to share all the qualities of such a dear devotee but I would not be able to, this event has made me very nostalgic because before meeting the devotees, I visited Govinda's restaurant, which was Prabhu Radha Raman's business, around 2011.


It was my first contact with the devotees and there are definitely many memories and nostalgia left from when I met the devotees. in 2012.


ASA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVD0bP_ybg


We offered the preaching space of our restaurant for the devotee's funeral, surprisingly many devotees attended to say their last goodbye.


We performed kirtan, reading, bhajan, sadhu sanga whatever could be done to provide a conducive and dignified environment for his momentous departure.


Your eternal servant Anandamaya devi dasi.


HpS - It is 1932. Our Father is leaving for a three year contract in China. There will be letters. telegrams, long, long, long distance phone calls on our birthday.

lots of tears from little children, but we know that after three years we will meet again!!

Be proud to make our report then.


Thank you for the picture. We will chant one round in front of it.

Everyone do that.

Give him some guidance now that he is on Bhuvah loka.

Rice Feeding Ceremony for dhAsharaTi in Houston in December - Change in Date

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaj,


HpS - ASA -- AgtSP!!! Paoho.


Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.


I am following the 4 regulative principles. I am struggling to complete my rounds now that we don't have any support at home. Vishaka's parents have left for India. I will strive to complete my rounds, Guru Maharaj.


HpS - If you do, 💪💪💪🐒, then all the home work will become easy!


We are still doing the FMP with Dhaasharathi.


https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15291/


Regarding this letter, initially we had planned to do the rice feeding ceremony on the 18th of December Guru Maharaj, but since your Vyasa Puja is on 31st, we wouldn't be able to make the trip twice.


So, we thought we would do the ceremony on the 1st of January, if that's ok with you Guru Maharaj.


HpS - Happy New Year!

If it is O.K. with Nila Madhava and the village chiefs, then it is O.K. with us.


We will come on the 30th of Dec and leave at night on the 1st of Jan.


HpS - Super!!!


I hope you get some rest after reaching Houston Guru Maharaj. I saw in the blog that Richmond is keeping you very busy.


Every day here we have a noon or evening program.

We are learning how to function with an 25-year old Mercedes! 😃


Your humble servant

Sri Rama Krishna Das


HpS/ASA -- 🐵 🐷 🐘 Thank you!!! Hari Bolo!

Priyasakhi Devi Dasi

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!


Querido Guru Maharaja.

La tienda está en nuestra casa. Así que puedo ir a dejar y buscar a los niños a la escuela y estar con ellos toda la tarde.

Siempre tenemos kirtan sonando. Kadamba Kanana Swami, Jahnavi Harrison, Acyuta Gopi, Niranjana Swami y Madhava Prabhu.

Vamos a pedir más títulos del BBT, solo tenemos 4 títulos.


Muchas gracias por incentivarme a continuar con los cursos. No es fácil seguir, pero es un néctar hacer el servicio.


Si Gurudev, es la profesora Claudia Lira en la fotografía que envié en la carta anterior. Ella es muy agradable.


Su aspirante a sirviente

Priyasakhi Devi Dasi


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Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.


Please accept my respectful obeisances.


All glories to Srila Prabhupada!




Dear Guru Maharaja,


The store is in our house. So I can go and pick up the kids from school and be with them all afternoon.


We always have kirtan playing. Kadamba Kanana Swami, Jahnavi Harrison, Acyuta Gopi, Niranjana Swami and Madhava Prabhu.


We are going to order more BBT titles, we only have 4 titles.




Thank you very much for encouraging me to continue with the courses. It is not easy to continue, but it is a pleasure to do service.




Yes Gurudev, it is Professor Claudia Lira in the photograph I sent in the previous letter. She is very nice.




Your would-be servant


Priyasakhi Devi Dasi



HPS - ASA --- Thank you for the information packed news. Your kids, husband, church, nation all seem to be very lucky to have some one like you helping them! 😃

We leave now for home program.

Hope to broadcast it.


Answering your questions and general update

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 


So nice to hear from you and to be connected through this blog platform once again. Though I feel like I’m with you in the morning program and I have the great fortune of following your activities on Facebook and Twitter. But It’s always like a bolt of lightning when receiving your personal messages. A reminder of the ultimate goal of life and a clear picture of where I am at, simultaneously. There’s quite a gap. It’s encouraging and humbling in one shot. 


Yes, the community here in general is like an upside down and distorted version of what I think real community might be. And no one knows each other, it’s true. Everyone in their own isolated box of comfort, “pleasures” and miseries. Reminds me of that quote: “most people are living out quiet lives of desperation”…while saying: “I'm doing good”. 


HpS///ASA - AgtSP. Paoho. T. S. Elliot.



We long for village life and more association with devotees but at the same time are dealing with our own rugged individualist tendencies and contaminations.


HpS - That's the American Way, no? John Wayne, James Bond.


Despite all of that I find many moments throughout the day of clarity and connection to you. Started a Japa call for a few new Bhaktas: Braxton, Connor and Jack. They join almost every morning at some point in a two and half hour long duration. Getting most of my rounds in before breakfast and before the baby terror wakes up. Yamuna is advancing though but we can’t tell if she’s a great devotee or a great demon sometimes ha ha..


ASA - Can we be both?? 🐵


I’ve been giving talks every Thursday on Vaisesika Prabhu’s new book: The Four Questions. And then every Friday Anadi and I have been doing a class on Nectar Of Instruction using your Tava Pache Pache for Power point inspiration and discussion points. People have been engaged. Thank you for this commentary and for inspiring us to do this. 


Govardhana Puja was really deep and not a huge turn out but a quality crowd. I’m still working on our hill and making artful signage in yellow, red and the perfect green. I almost don’t want to finish it because then it could come to life and then I would really have to surrender! Ha ha and yes making it higher and charging people to commit transcendental suicide off of it is a good idea! Some wild preaching that would be. 


There is so much more I want to tell you but I don’t want to be too long winded. 


Thank you, Maharaja for everything and for remembering me. Been feeling a new level of conviction about this process and it appears Krishna is taking many things away from me to keep me out of trouble. It is all due to your mercy and kindness. 


Your aspiring servant, 

Nitisara Das

P.S. I’ve invited Balabhadra Prabhu and his good wife to our house for pizza on the 14th of December. Thank you for this great idea and chance to rekindle our relationship. Pizza prasadam can do amazing things..Jaya!


HpS - Wonderful! Wonderful. So, often these chasms between devotees are just misunderstandings, no? 🍕

🍕 ... 🍕...

Thank you.

We are packing to leave at 4.30PM for a home program.

Really have a full program here in Richmond.


Pretty constant chest moans now. Little higher pitch. Key of C-major. 😄


Yet, pulse is pretty regular and strong.


Hare Krsna.


We all must be ready to go, catch the magic carpet, take our place on the great mandala, as it passes through our brief moment of time, but also, continue to see practical plans developing from our Kirtan, no.


Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna...

See you all soon.

LAD Report and VP thoughts

Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva. Pamho, AGTSP!

On this occasion I want to deeply thank you for your inspiration for my spiritual life and my particular mission in ISKCON as the day of your glorious appearance approaches.


Your commitment to education, the purposes of ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada's books are admirable.


Seeing and following your commendable mission, I have no choice but to try to follow the dust of your lotus feet, tava pace pace. You follow the footsteps of your spiritual master and I trying to follow yours.


Therefore, my commitment to education has also been possible thanks to your inspiration and constant support. You were very close to me in my most difficult moments in ISKCON. And I continue in ISKCON because you also continued in ISKCON in very difficult times.


After researching, trying to teach in regular schools, studying for my master's degree, I discovered that Krishna wanted me to dedicate myself to teaching devotees. Supported by the merciful devotees of Chosica, especially Prabhu Karuna Krishna and Mataji Nitya Kinkary, I continue my work as a teacher of the official ISKCON courses.


In that regard, I have the challenge of trying to help ISKCON Chosica to become a Bhakti Vaibhava examination center. First I have to finish my qualification through the BVB exam that I am seeking. All this can be achieved through the mercy of Atul Krishna Prabhu with whom I have been talking about it.


It is worth mentioning that my relationship with Prabhu began this year when I was part of a BOEX group dedicated to developing question banks for various ISKCON educational programs. In reality I fell into it by your causeless mercy. I always wonder what I am doing in the midst of such an exalted group of devotees. I think basically learning.


You have always supported me to develop in my mission from the beginning. I was your student of Bhakti sastri, then of Bhakti Vaibhava, a more or less informal program, which we can now formalize if we manage to obtain the BVB examination center for ISKCON Chosica.


We also studied practically the entire Srimad Bhagavatam, up to the 11th canto, and for some time now we have also been studying Caitanya Caritamvrta.


I see myself as your eternal student. My small contribution as a teacher is based on what I learn from you, whom I constantly refer to in my classes. Your contribution to ISKCON education is truly great.

Your auspicious Vyasa puja has inspired me to write this, because you are truly a representative of Srila Vyasadeva who, seeing the advent of Kali yuga, dedicated himself to writing for the benefit of the confused souls of this age.


Please allow me to be a humble bearer of your legacy. Bless me to be a good disciple and may you be proud of me. And when it is your turn to leave this world, go with peace of mind, confident that there are devotees who follow you in your great mission to satisfy Srila Prabhupada and who wish, like you, that IKSCON's education be solid so that this great institution, the sankirtana movement of Lord Caitanya, is sustainable in time and space.

Your servant,

Laksmana-agraja das

The LAD


HpS - ASA - AgtSP. Thank you. Whatever we have done is at least 99.999% Srila Prabhupada, shielding us and drag, drag, dragging us along with out material attachments.

Eg. To many popsicles.


I take your appreciations as appreciations of him.

I also very, very, very much appreciate your determinations in these matters. In very challenging circumstances you have stayed with Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON and ISKCON Education.

Thank you.


Besides Karuna and Mataji, seems the second half of the orange also deserves a lot of credit, no? Has Mataji, R. Reti Devi Dasi also been an essential element in your ability to do you service?


Then, we only hope that you are acquiring other connections to Srila Prabhupada than just us.

We would feel very happy if we had a Maharaja Bharata et al falldown and you left Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON because of that.


You experience his personal presence in his books also???