Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna, respected and dear Gurumaharaja.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please accept our humble obeisances, and we hope you do well in the association of devotees from Houston.

Many things have happened recently: my father in law passed away at home, accompanied by us and the maha mantra sounds all time.

This is the first time Parvati has lost someone very loved and she is going through her grieving process. At home, we are doing well thanks to the mercy of Sri Sri Gaura Nitay at our altar, which helps us greatly to keep our faith strong.

I also wanted to inform you that Caturatma and me have begun doing service at Sri Radha Madhama Vihari´s kitchen in Chosica on Sundays and please send us your blessings to be more in service.

HpS - AgtSP!!! paoho. Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna. Krsna Krsna. Hare Hare // Hare Rama. Hare Rama. Rama Rama. Hare H A R E! We feel so happy to see pictures of RMB. Who is managing the Temple? How are the festivals and Mangala arati and SB class.

By the other side, I want to share with you the information about the collection we made in Peru for your hearing aids. Through the mercy of Krishna we were able to join forces and raise $828 with the support of the following devotees:

Candramukhi dd ($108), Nitya Kishore dd ($83), Jana Pavana das ($20), Abhirama Thakur das & Maria ($101), Jambavan das ($308), Govardhana das - Cusco ($30), Jagadisvara das - Cusco ($20), Roy Ramananda das - Arequipa ($50) and Palika dd ($108).

Thank you very much for your mercy, Full Morning Service, your classes and many ways You always help us to keep in contact with Krsna and His devotees.

Your foolish servant,

Palika dd

HpS - Thank you for your news!!!!!

How is your Sankirtan.

Hare Krishna remembered GURUMAHARAJA! Please accept my obeisances at your merciful lotus feet🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🌷🌺🌹🎵

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Sri Gauranga's Sankirtan Movement!!!

I have so much to tell you.

First, I'm sorry I couldn't contribute to the purchase of your hearing aids. And I also thought of Sti Sri Radha Madhana Vihari and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai of Lima Mandir. Of all the help you've given me!!!...!!! And I've never been able to send a donation to them yet...

It's funny... but I'm going to collect and give all the Lakshmi to my husband, whom I consider a good administrator. My two accounts, one with a bank and one with PayPal, are empty. The bank account, Franco withdraws whatever is there on the same day. And the PayPal account is only open for donations from my father, etc.

I'm thinking of asking for donations when I make my dance videos so I can donate something to the deities. I'm really happy with very little. I just need a lot of warm clothes in the winter and just enough prasadam. Since I don't save anything on my own, it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to make our trip to India. If I save anything, I spend it on butter to make ladhus for my ladhu, Gopal.

Since my sales are so small, my mother helps us with a monthly donation. But this donation for you came to me unexpectedly, and I couldn't contribute. I hope to be able to contribute in some way next month.

I think I don't know how to relate well with Mother Laksmi Devi

HpS/ASA - We have heard from cultured Indians that there is a general statement in India, that Sarasvati and Laksmi usually do not bless the same person.

So you can be a poor teacher, or a rich queen or business person, but not both. Of course, devotees do attract both Matas!

Guru pournima:I had never considered this before. Could you please tell me what I should do on this special day? I thank you so much, Srila Prabhupada, and our sweet Krishna every day... every moment, with so much feeling, for what you have done for me. My way of trying to repay you is that when I go to do the daily "collection," I tell innocent people about you! I think my face reflects my happiness, and people always start reading the books, and even several, or I don't know how many, have gone to the preaching center. This is my way of feeling part of ISKCON. For me, ISKCON is in the streets, in every person who is encouraged by my words to follow Prabhupada to self-realization. You are my big family. Franco and Gopal are an extension of you. Whenever I saw the devotees at harinama, I thought: there is my family! And from the first few times I read a small book by Srila Prabhupada, like Ecology and Survival, I thought: I want to go live with Him! I want to be part of their mission!!!

For years my feelings of missing you have led me to cry inconsolably, it's normal now I know, in a silly girl like me. Many times I have stopped watching your class videos so as not to cry because Franco and Gopal worried so much. It was bitter tears of disappointment, of knowing that this world will never be as we want it... because it is not our home... frustration of not serving you, seeing you, etc. But now I try to endure this because I love your classes and you as a person.

purusottama month: Please could you help me, dear Gurudeva? Last year, 2024, I saw on my Vaishnava calendar that the month of Purusottama came and that it lasted almost 15 days... and this year, 2025, the same thing happens. I like to do some special activity during that month, and I thought the month of Purusottama was last year, and when I see this year there are almost another 15 days of the Purusottama month, I got confused, because I know they are every 3 years. Please help me. Thank you very much.

Please forgive me for any unintentional offense in this letter.

her eternal servant, a tree? that can dance in Goloka😀🙇🏻‍♀️🎵🌹🌺🌷🙏🏻

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha Devi Dasi

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Thank you all!

Why not develop some programs with local devotees?

Who are the devotees in your neighborhood. Within 4-hours?

Dances to illustrate Jaya Radha Madhava and Gaura-arati song, Dasa-avatara stotra, and Udillo aruna and Radha and the Bee are all great, no?

Dear Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances Maharaj, and all glories to your service to Srila Prabhupada. I am so very happy to provide some service in the form of articles to send to Abhiram Prabhu for the Solaris magazine. I am very glad that I can be of some service to Abhiram Prabhu and the editors of the Solaris magazine.

Thank you for your association and for involving me in some academic service.

Your humble aspirant servant,

Aja Govinda Das

HpS - Thank you! We hope to read your articles. We hope that Solaris is well formatted and distributed.

We would like to see articles that give our ISKCON, BBT, OCHS, BRC, BI perspective, but also give us links to other groups with whom we can learn, partner and help!!!

We are going to an evening program now in Boise.

Kama gayatri Devi Dasi's Brother's Yoga/Sound center.

Hope to share and compare with many sincere yogis.

Hare Krishna, Gurumaharaja,

please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you so much for the letter and prasadam. The illustrations and messages are very refreshing and we feel so fortunate to have this exchange with you. I really like the red that you added to my drawing and letter. It’s a wonderful visual representation of how you enhance and bring color to our lives.

We had a really nice Snana Yatra and now we are gearing up for our Gundicha Marjan tomorrow. Deep cleaning and scrubbing of the heart. Getting the externals and the internals ready for the great Ratha Yatra procession. A truly transcendental parade..there is an electricity in the air and a buzz in the temple. We feel a push forward everyday and a nudge in the right direction.

Loved hearing from you the other day how Jayananda Prabhu would take breaks and read Prabhupada’s books with others. Sometimes I work like an ass and forgot why I’m working and who it’s for and lose perspective.

Been very inspired by watching this again..the documentary and commentary on the SF Ratha Yatra that you filmed:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyM6nTZN1Cg

and then I heard you mention it in a class right after watching.

Looking forward to having you here very soon. I will be in contact about program schedule and temple card that goes on prasadam packets. Both things are developing. Thank you for the guidance in this regard. You have appeared in my dream three times in a row now guiding me as well. First dream we were setting up for a program in someone’s big mansion. We were building a really nice bench together and I was helping you saw but I got distracted while talking and you told me to focus! Another dream: we were on a walk and I could not keep up with you. You were so calm but somehow moving so fast! There have been so many dreams but these two really affected me. Thank you and see you soon.

your aspiring servant,

Nitisara Das

P.S. here are some pictures of our home Deity’s that you asked about. And some pictures of our siksha gurus:) and a carpentry project that was done while listening to your classes. Every time I see it I think of so many points you made and stories you told ✨ they are infused within it?

hps/asa - we are, agtSP, reminded how a real Vaisnava, Guru, like Srila Prabhupada, can build a palace using bent nails like us.

our experience at the first idaho rathayatra, we built the cart with lokannatha das et al, was that if we can only offer a little bit externally eg. simple cart/kirtan, KRSNA in the audience's heart screams at them to pay attention.

packing for the trip.

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We did not send this.

So much, emotional, intellectual, physical packing.

Now we are in our cave on ISKCON Martha Street, Boise, Idaho.

We published a trip review in anveSaka, and you and Nanda braja Das are honoring Prasadam in the other room of the cave complex.

Thanks to you all.

The accommodations are more than Vaikuntha. They are Goloka.

This is a good place to sacrifice your entire life!

Please accept my obeisances at your immaculate lotus feet. Eternal thanks for being my Guru Maharaja🙏🎶🙏🎶🌷🌻🌹🙇🏻‍♀️

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada!!

Al Glories to You , my espiritual master eternal🙏🙏🙏🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🎶🌹🌻🌷💐

I was traveling back home and someone threw a rock at the window near where I was standing. A shard of glass fell on me, but it didn't hurt me. A man who was standing near that window hurt his head; fortunately, the others weren't hurt, although all the windows on that side shattered.

This made me think about everything I still want to do. One of the things is that I'd like you to hear all my songs to Krishna before you leave. The truth is, I'm really embarrassed to post them.

When Franco created this YouTube channel for me, I felt uncomfortable posting my dances. And now my songs... I need to learn to dance well. In fact, I almost always make up steps, etc., which is why it takes me so long to post.

I always trembled before dancing, but when I enter the world of the pastime, it makes me forget that I'm recording or that I'm on stage. Only when I remember Your words, Gurudev, and think that I'm contributing to Srila Prabhupada's sankirtan movement and think that our Krishna is pleased, does it make sense, and I want to do all the things I still need to do.

I remember your words, Gurudev: You used to tell me, "Later... later..." to some questions I once asked in public. And I thought... yes! I'm leaving a lot of things for "later." And I don't deserve your answer.

Here, with all the shame I feel for posting this... ☺, are some of my feelings toward our Govinda. I hope you like my Gurudeva and help my son Gopal remain a devotee forever. Eternal thanks for blessing my son.

 https://youtu.be/ASTfUYwn_AY?si=919babAPor_NCO5i

I translated it especially for you, beloved Gurumaharaja🙏🙏🙏🎶🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

Trying to please His adored Lotus Heart, taking refuge eternally in the sweet dust of His immaculate lotus feet:

Radha Japa Prati Jalpa Devi Dasi

HpS/ASA - We, agtSP, will look at them.

Why did you break the window?

It sounds like a crime against humanity, and ultimately Krsna, everything belongs to Him, no?

Even if we neglect to offer proper respects to a richman, or big scholar, even if he is atheist, Krsna will not be happy with us because He has awarded these things.

Thank you.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Below is text of recent announcement from Bhakti Vikāsa Trust

We are pleased to announce the release of the new three-volume book The Mood and Mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda by Bhakti Vikāsa Swami.

This work presents a detailed, systematic study of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s instructions, ideals, and vision for ISKCON. A must-read for all who wish to serve him with clarity and purpose.

Srila Prabhupada is the very life of ISKCON, and service to him is the sure means of success, both for the members of ISKCON and the institution as a whole. But what exactly did Srila Prabhupada want and expect from his followers? What were his plans and his hopes? How relevant are his instructions today? Can we change or neglect them?

Investigation of these vital questions makes The Mood and Mission of Srila Prabhupada essential reading for all devotees who wish to serve Srila Prabhupada in the best possible way.

Also below is link to short intro by the author

https://youtu.be/qsnHpPFurKA

Some details about the book(s)

Name: The Mood and Mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda

Publisher: Bhakti Vikas Trust

Publication Year: 2025

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 2036

Weight: 5300 gms

ISBN: 978-93-82109-85-3

Table Of Contents

Volume 1

Preface, Editorial Notes, Acknowledgements, Introduction

Part I: Opening Topics

Part II: Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Exalted Position

Part III: ISKCON: Definition, Aims, Scope

Part IV: Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Success

Volume 2

Part V: The Hare Kṛṣṇa “Movement”

Part VI: Societal Perspectives and Initiatives

Part VII: Four Aphorisms

Part VIII: Specific Programs

Part IX: Preaching to Various Types of People

Part X: Political Initiatives

Part XI: Beyond Designations, but Highlighting Regional Differences

Volume 3

Part XII: Highest Welfare Work

Part XIII: Other Religious Paths – Perspectives and Interactions

Part XIV: Śrīla Prabhupāda and His Disciples

Part XV: Wayward Disciples

Part XVI: Rāgānugā-Bhakti and Imitation

Part XVII: Organization and Management

Part XVIII: The Future of His Movement

Appendixes

Index

Your servant,

Gopal

HpS/ASA - AgtSP! Thank you. We have the set and will start reading it soon. All of Maharaja's books that we have read have been solid, inspiring, powerful, practical.

We stand before him like a cat admiring a king. in our ASA we take our Mission Statement from the Preface to NoI.

Our Mission is to help Lord Caitanya in His Mission of giving the Science of Krsna Consciousness to humanity at large by empowering our selves by studying to works of the Six Goswami such as NoI.