Por favor. acepte mis reverencias

todas las Glorias Srila Prabhupada y al movimiento de Sankirtan de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Agradecemos a la Suprema personalidad De Dios Govinda por permitirnos su asociación y poder aspirar a volvernos vaisnavas . después de estar ausente por algún tiempo estuve pensando y reflexionando como ser un mejor sirviente , y entendí que el trabajo y el esfuerzo externo solo genera ansiedad y perturbación de la mente . adicto al café mi inteligencia estuvo confundida pero por la misericordia sin causa nos restablecemos en el servicio estable través del estudio de srimad bhagavatam y 16 Rondas. ahora empezamos Bhaktivaibhava tercer canto con Radhika Nagar Prabhu y nuestra inteligencia se esta purificando. al ver oka Humildad de Vidura., tus clases son buena referencia para estudiar y tener un buen entendimiento .

logramos constituir una Asociación Civil , Nueva Govardhana Montemorelos , ante el gobierno de Mexico gracias a la ayuda de miembros dedicados a obtener resultados (Guna Vira Prabhu. y Bhakta Diego) conformamos presidente , secretario y tesorero , hay miembros vitalicios que aportan mensualmente económicamente. , . el próximo mes de octcubre estará llegando Prabhu Hari Cakra dicipulo de Prabhupada , el esta en Málaga España ,pero el siente una responsabilidad DE PREDICA en Latinoamérica y quiere que distribuyamos libros y nos asociemos para establecer un programa fuerte en Montemorelos .

nuestro sistema de agricultura esta funcionando poco esfuerzo y mucho resultado , el restaurante y el Hostal cada ves mejor ,,estamos importando al Chef Narayan Para prabhu de argentina. nuestro hermano espiritual esta interesado en ventor. a Monterrey a trabajar en el restaurante.

Gurudeva lo extraño mucho y en cualquier momento voy a buscarlo a Radha kunda y escuchar su kirtan , perdone por mis ofensas estoy madurando y entendiendo el gran tesoro de Bhakti .

estoy reportando al GBC mis actividades. y le agradezco por apreciar mi entusiasmo y resaltar que es mejor la acción que la inacción. o la pasión que la ignorancia , el santo nombre aporta los nutrientes para cultivar bondad y servir mejor .

La vida en familia es como una fortaleza que me protege y me ayuda a estar a salvo , con la ocupación constante y la supervisión de mi esposa puedo ser moralmente ejemplar sin duda ahora aprecio mas que nunca era ashram de grihasta , tengo muchas memorias y consejos que guardo en mi corazón y estoy eternamente agradecido a usted por ABRIRME LOS OJOS CON TANTO AMOR Y SABIDURIA. .

seguimos. haciendo planes y arreglos para conquistar y seguir en la lucha en el Sankirtan , entendemos que ISKCON es una institución joven con conocimiento milenario y estamos entendiendo nuestra posición , soy lento entendiendo pero no claudico en mi proceso ,solo necesito tiempo para pensar y tener una mejor perspectiva.

agradecemos y estamos para servirle.

su aspirante a sirviente el caído Gadadhara Gosai Das de Mexico

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Please accept my obeisances

All Glories Srila Prabhupada and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Sankirtan movement.

We are grateful to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Govinda for allowing us his association and being able to aspire to become Vaisnavas. After being absent for some time I was thinking and reflecting on how to be a better servant, and I understood that work and external effort only generate anxiety and disturbance of the mind. Addicted to coffee my intelligence was confused but by causeless mercy we are restored to stable service through the study of Srimad Bhagavatam and 16 Rounds. Now we are starting Bhaktivaibhava third canto with Radhika Nagar Prabhu and our intelligence is getting purified. Seeing Oka Humility of Vidura, your classes are good reference to study and have a good understanding.

HpSwami / ASA --- AgtSP!! Paoho. We must echo a lot of what you say.

We have not been able to answer posts here in the Blog, your posts, even though we want to.

No coffee but too many popsicles.

Now we are in Spain, rural community like your Monterrey community but older.

So much they have learned.

Hope you all can visit here sometime and Yadu Swami and others visit you.

The world is obviously terrrible, so, so many people are looking for solution.

You have it.

We have it.

We were able to form a Civil Association, New Govardhana Montemorelos, before the Mexican government thanks to the help of members dedicated to obtaining results (Guna Vira Prabhu and Bhakta Diego). We are the president, secretary and treasurer. There are lifelong members who contribute monthly financially. Next October, Prabhu Hari Cakra, a disciple of Prabhupada, will be arriving. He is in Malaga, Spain, but he feels a responsibility to PREACH in Latin America and wants us to distribute books and join forces to establish a strong program in Montemorelos.

ASA -- Hope you can get at least one more person to be Secretary/Treasurer!!!

Our agricultural system is working with little effort and a lot of results. The restaurant and the hostel are getting better and better. We are importing Chef Narayan Para Prabhu from Argentina. Our spiritual brother is interested in vending. He will come to Monterrey to work in the restaurant.

ASA - He is also champion Judo teacher!!

Gurudeva, I miss you very much and at any moment I will look for you at Radha Kunda and listen to your kirtan. Please forgive my offenses. I am maturing and understanding the great treasure of Bhakti.

I am reporting my activities to the GBC and I thank you for appreciating my enthusiasm and emphasizing that action is better than inaction. Or passion than ignorance. The holy name provides the nutrients to cultivate goodness and serve better.

Family life is like a fortress that protects me and helps me stay safe. With the constant occupation and supervision of my wife I can be morally exemplary. Without a doubt, I appreciate the Grihasta ashram more than ever. I have many memories and advice that I keep in my heart and I am eternally grateful to you for OPENING MY EYES WITH SO MUCH LOVE AND WISDOM.

HpS - 🐵 👍 👍 👍

Let's continue. Making plans and arrangements to conquer and continue the fight in Sankirtan, we understand that ISKCON is a young institution with ancient knowledge and we are understanding our position, I am slow to understand but I do not give up in my process, I just need time to think and have a better perspective.

HpS - 😃 We remember that Srila Prabhupada said, "So, you can make plans for serving Krsna, but better to just chant Hare Krsna.".

Plans for Sankirtan!!!

16/4 for Sankirtant ❣ ❗

We are grateful and we are here to serve you.

Your aspiring servant, the fallen Gadadhara Gosai Das of Mexico.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja!

Please accept my respectful obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

It's a great pleasure for me to receive your association in Nueva Vrajamandala, a beautiful place and tremendous Vaishnava community project. I'm very happy for this new opportunity that God gives me to be close to you.

Below I'm writing the report of the first visit of Radhika Raman Das to Chile (Professor Ravi Gupta) from October 23 to 26, your disciple who is now in charge of leading the academic preaching of NIOS. Radhika Raman came to Chile accompanied by his family, his wife Amrita Keli, their two children and his father Ananta Rupa.

HpSwami ASA--He is 'in charge of'?

We had not heard this.

Is it a post given by President, Directors?

There are so many nice preachers in NIOS, including you.

Of course, Prof. Ravi Gupta is a unique example!

None of us would like to work in NIOS without his energy!

🐂👍👍👍

Your disciple Arjuna Das again naturally took charge of the leadership of the coordination and management for the events at the universities, IF and Iskcon Chile.

On Thursday, October 24th at noon, the first talk was held at Universidad Católica. There was no audience, so Radhika Raman decided to change the format and instead of giving the conference, a very entertaining conversation spontaneously developed between him and Claudia Lira about the main topic “Ecology and the Sacred” and other related topics. Vishvanatha from Dhatri school of yoga was the translator. Lily Jiménez, professor at Universidad de Chile in the area of ​​Art and Religious Studies and from the Center for Judaic Studies, also participated. I met professor Lily in 2018 just a week after “Art and the Sacred.” She is a student and active participant in Dhatri and that time when she told me that her specialty is religious art, we connected and wanted to work together someday.

Same Thursday by night, the conference “Ecology and the Sacred, the care of the environment from the ancestral Vaishnava philosophy” was held at IF. Vishvanatha was the translator. Your disciple Jagad Guru Das was the host. Your disciples Manjuali Devi Dasi and her husband Lalita Madhava Das were in charge of the cocktail and once again surprised everyone with a luxurious prasadam. There were about 70 people in the audience, most of them new people, some influential people, businessmen, academics, artists. The conference was held at a new IF headquarters in Las Condes, an upper middle class area in Santiago, near to the Las Condes Cultural Center where we produced the "Psychology and the sacred" in 2016 and one of the days of the "Art and te Sacred" in 2018

On Friday 25th at noon the conference “Ecology and the Sacred, principles of environmental care from a Vaishnava theology, theoretical and methodological perspectives” was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Universidad de Chile, thanks to the efforts of Professor Lily Jiménez and her friend, Professor of Anthropology Francisco Araos, who is focused on the practical development of the concept of Conservation Anthropology, focusing on research and dissemination of the human dimensions of biodiversity conservation. About ten students from this school came. Your well-wisher Sruti Priya Devi Dasi was the translator.

We had very little time to do the production and promotion. I found out at the end of August that Radhika Raman was coming to Chile to organize these events. So, although the participation at the universities was very low, I consider that the events were successful. With better organization and more time for production and adequate economic resources, we will be able to organize larger events with Professor Ravi Gupta, including a tour of Chile visiting different universities.

In any case, academic events have ceased to be attractive in Chile, as we have been told by professors from different universities with whom we have a relationship, even important events organized by the same university have very low attendance, is the tendency after pandemic. Perhaps it's necessary to think about and design a new strategy for academic preaching.

After the Universidad de Chile we went to the temple to take prasadam and during the afternoon Amrita Keli mataji gave a conference about Homeschooling at Iskcon Chile and after Gaura Arati Radhika Raman gave the Bhagavad-gita class.

On Saturday 26th, after Mangalarati and Govinda, Radhika Raman gave the Srimad Bhagavatam class, the temple was almost full. After breakfast we took the whole family to get their luggage and for a sightseeing tour of different attractive places, such as the Church of the Dominicans and San Cristobal Hill. They got on the cable car, they seemed happy and enthusiastic about getting to know a little of the city quickly, because then we took them to the airport to take their flight back to Utah.

The congregation in Chile greatly appreciate Radhika Raman and his family, they are lovely and he had a very positive impact on the teachers and scholars with whom he had direct contact during the conferences. Radhika Raman is a very special devotee, he is a genius and a very loving and humble human being, and he is also a master, he is a Guru.

Ananta Rupa Das stay at Iskcon Chile until Friday November 15.

Thank you very much Guru Maharaja for the opportunity to do this service and allow me to associate with such special devotees.

Please accept my respectful obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Your aspiring servant,

Carlos.

ASA - Thank you for this fantastic journalism.

If you continue like this Krsna will kidnap you and you will become one of the Newscaster green parrots on Vrndavana?

Krsna will decide when to send the people, massive crowds,

🐂🐂🐄🦍🦍👺🌞🌴🌴🐒🐕🐒🐵,

our job is to be academically prepared to receive them, and invite them as best we can?

Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja,

please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Jaya Guru and Gauranga!

We had a wonderful ceremony, series of programs and the installation of H. H. Gopal Krishna Goswami’s samadhi last weekend. So many incredible stories were told and deep appreciations expressed and sincere glorifications. Very purifying and uplifting to say the least.

Thinking of you in Radha Kund all the time and trying to be there in spirit.

In the process of making Govardhan Hill in our yard. Inspired by something you said in a class years back. It’s changing our relationship with the land here. One of our all time favorite pastimes. Going deeper into it..

Trying to stay off the mental platform like the song suggests “one toke over the line sweet Jesus”.

Feeling connected to you when I chant and pray sometimes.

All 5 movies that you made are such wonderful recourses and conservation starters. We want to watch them again and again and share them.

Thank you, Gurumaharaja.

your aspiring servant,

Nitisara das

HpSwami/ASA -- Trying to respond to this post for weeks!

Hope our posts on Twitter are enlightening.

Guess you know we are still in Spain.

Ten to thirty enthusiastic participants in FMS daily.

Then day is super.

Chances to become practical members of Lord Caitanya’s movement.

Boise city as a community is kind of an illusion, no?

It is shared effort to supply utilities, water, electricity, no?

Traffic facilities.

No one knows each other.

No village life.

Temple must be oasis in the desert for many.

How was Govardhana Puja?

Build high your Hill?

Then you can offer people the chance to jump off it and go back home, back to godhead for some economical price, no?

😄

Hare Krsna Gurudev,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your Vrindavana Dham pastimes Gurudev. Praying for a dust of Vrindavan dam and that we can have again in this life or the next.

Our computer crashed along with the data a month ago and we apologize for the delayed response. We have recovered the data.

Here is the writing we have been doing. We see it in the genre of prose. There is no ending so far. The last few paragraphs can be expanded and worked on. We are not sure what the next chapters could bring....maybe how we travelled across Canada on sankirtan, ended up in the Columbus Ohio ashram selling cookies and then going to Vrindavan with Arudha Mataji. We just see what has the most feeling/poetic opportunities to expand on and go with that. We would like to speak to an audience that may know nothing about Krsna or the Bhakti path. It could be for devotees too.

We really appreciate Gurudev that we can share this. We are still trying to hold on to some menial service doing Sunday school classes online and in person until the season gets colder. We are traveling with our Nimai Nitia deities each day going back and forth while we chant manga Aarti and our rounds. Trying to offer incense and flower now everyday, wake them, put them to sleep and change outfits every Sunday. We read an offering at Gopal Krsna Swami's reunion event. They fit perfectly in the car dash in a sacred box.

Right now we are also changing our private practice office and will have better facility to run group therapy. Kids are doing well and happy. One group will use the format from Dharma Recovery. It is a Buddhist inspired recovery model, but there are a lot of Vedic principles taught. This group teaches eastern principles such as the importance of sanga, how recovery from substance use or process disorders is renunciation, and how we can get in touch with the Paratmatma within.

The Cult I loved. The love, the stillness I am still in. 

This picture represents a time in my life when everything flipped. My sister had heard murmurs from mom that her 18-year-old sister 3 months prior had hopped on a transnational bus.   The allure of hearing new words such as “ashram,” and joining the “Hare Krsnas” helped my sister have hope that escape was possible if new eastern words were intermixed. The murmurs that her former raver turned saree-wearing sister was “doing better” after joining the farmland commune in Burnaby , British Columbia Canada.

Reiterations of 4 am wake-ups where fellow monks would partake in five-hour temple darshan sittings overwhelmed her senses. My sister recalled on the phone that I would go on about “Downtown transcendental literature distributions” and “services” where marigolds are endlessly strown for garland stands at the Sunday love feasts. Her new found family was a secret home with a narrow passage. How to enter it seemed as daunting as trying to understand how words in Sanskrit could be recited like songs.

Her sister, now “Bhaktin Kristie” pointed to the short white haired leader who was a former street punk. Another had been Initiated and given the name Dhanishta. 

The last girl crouching and pulling weeds in the carrot garden “shaved her dreads when she joined.” The new derelict group shared a damp second-story apartment where sleeping bags were rolled up because “the reality is we don’t need a lot….”

When my sister first arrived with my mom, she was taken by the marigolds vastly growing in yellow and orange rows around the farm. Sitting with her sister overlooking the groves she finally could see that there was coherency in her sister’s thinking despite leaving the family behind 6 month prior. She was trying to figure out how she was still standing.

“I found myself scrubbing this oversized pot. I couldnt do the laundry because I bleached the deity clothes… but scrubbing the kitchari burn spots created this dim reflection of me. 

I could feel it finally. Our parents divorce. What I was chasing. In the end I did hug that pot. I rushed off from the evening service to find a few sweet balls hiding behind the altar. Its like my new father and mother had my back. Just in an esoteric way. They will always be around.”

As the farm tour progressed, more sociological observations emerged. Young men in pink dhotis kept themselves at a distance. The women’s uniforms seemed at best second hand mounds of bright synthetics fastened to hanes T-shirts. Their hair was strewn back like a chore instead of an ornamental object. The boy’s strange shaved heads were dismantling their 19 year old ego (in a good way) like they had traded n patriarchy for an unnamed hyperreality.

“We would sing louder than the brahmacaris and they would seem annoyed and ignore us more. They even reported us to the ashram leader and it just made our rowdy girl group want to sing and dance more uproariously during kirtan. The Hare Krsna calling and response becomes a type of hollering if we were leading the prayers. Then we had the realization that it isn’t just about us and our egos. Despite, we still kept up with the unsaid rule that whichever group got to the first morning kirtan prayer at 5 am won.”

As we walked down the hill and with defeated sighs and a head buried in silk cloth, my sister disclosed the hardest part of my day to her.

“They want me to chant. I really had no idea how to do that….the older one Dhanishta sat with me and tried to show me. One day though everything became a lucid dream.

In the space between the marigold farm and the temple I watched myself sit in lotus. The nettle bushes that enclosed the garden became a wall that felt like a closing in that only observing mind could create. The solitary beads in a bag became something to knead, now held like glistening halos. One breath in and one breath out with the nettle slowly made the residual muck wade away the everyday tasks that are hard to shake. 

The atmosphere started to glimmer for my sister too. She put together that the archetypes mother and father was just a few corridors down. A hill foreshadowed an apartment complex of what she described as “the fairy godmothers who made themself avail to us. Four elderly Indian women cooking, cleaning, sewing, appearing as if we had just knocked on their entrance a moment ago, their heads nodding with delight. “

After a long tour, we did sit down for evening service in the temple wherein what seemed like the leader of the young saffron and saree wearing pact bowed down and sat adjacent. A boisterous, heavy French accent came through the loud “Hari bol!!” in a beautiful rage above multiple mrdanga loud bangs, clouded glasses heavy with transcendental sighs and new hands to bandage up again after the altar curtains closed.

“He always would stand up for us, because believe me….not everyone in the community wanted our derelict monk group to stay.He didn’t want his temple donations I guess to support a group he couldn’t understand."

Was the reiteration to our ghetto punk-turned-Indian attire offensive to some? Even if we did sincerely wear sarees like a tattered uniforms, the assimilation was sometimes not understood. We wanted to be a part of a different time, not in present Kali Yuga times but possibly a different Yuga, a before tech age of peace and anti establishment that the Vedic ethereal world could open up. We could feel on a subtle level and the daily sadhana practice, that this world existed beyond this one, but it was still understandably uncertain to the jollier and wealthier donors. Our seva of digging out carrots with the utmost love or dancing through China town scared those who really felt jolted by strange street cymbals did look strange. We had wounds from what we can now call “the material world.” Giving our all with intensive inquiry during Sanskrit briefings infuriated the established gentleman who wanted a normal Hindu temple to call his own. 

Vedaveyas reassured the mixed group that turning us away was never an option. “If I did, where would you have all gone?”

 Even when the ashram dismantled due to an older trainee falling “in love” with our bhakta leader, we remembered the omen from a popular African American formally Princeton-educated guru who danced in the temple with temple-only sneakers. 

“Maya (the goddess of illusion) won’t like this. Its just too good what you have going on here.” 

There was a knowing that my sister had never seen in my eyes before. “I have unanimous agreeance: illusory powers will always be our bait to mortal reprise or waking up to a strange job in an unhandpicked time of our life that will feel drudged, uncertain and stuck. But this slow demise will wake us up. 

Even the other senior twenty something goth girl who wore black sweaters over draped paisley prints was looking for our clear eye glance. With every sleeping bag roll up and when we chose to be thoughtful and say “Let me do that” even when we were in our own dark demise from maybe 4 lives ago that thing we did that kept wrestling with austere sock line clips is now. 

The focus on the Bhakti latha creeper stages that seemed so far away from our past snagged us like jolted waves. Sometimes Dhanista was having a seizure and we held her while another swung, cleaning up the ashram and giving hugs before bed.

One upper level apartment so normal from the street view there was a series of living room sacred altars with multiple Govardhan shelas. The black shiny sacred rocks had painted lotus eyes that gently greeted everyone who reverentially entered. Once I met them they started to come in dreams like Mexican worry dolls and said goodnight to all of us before bed. 

The Shelas represented a new world. Natural forms that were non different from a living breathing force. I was told by the guardian of these sacred Gange river found representatives of the divine that Shelas are non different than Krsna. I could see them in my mind’s eye as land marks on a gem filled walk to the real Mazatlan that actually had an end that wasn’t melting ice cream. I could talk to the shelas that were alive because God also walked that trail and became the mountain that shaded us. The mountain journey to the wise man in the cave was finally outside of Casablanca and peyote dream scribes. 

I welcomed feeling spaced out and happy with being in the shelas home as much as the owner of the apartment’s. On various plush platforms she had something beyond children. I was scared, enamoured, and captured by a vibration that enveloped me. I would walk out to the street to breathe again. Sitting with God wasn’t something described to me before I entered.

HpS/ASA - It is super great 👌. We got to your leader falling in love with the Bhakta Leader and have to go to temple program.

Really great!

Try and block it into maybe three chapters???

Great

Refreshing

🌴🌴🦧🌴🌴🌴

Por favor. acepte mis reverencias

todas las Glorias Srila Prabhupada y al movimiento de Sankirtan de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Agradecemos a la Suprema personalidad De Dios Govinda por permitirnos su asociación y poder aspirar a volvernos vaisnavas . después de estar ausente por algún tiempo estuve pensando y reflexionando como ser un mejor sirviente , y entendí que el trabajo y el esfuerzo externo solo genera ansiedad y perturbación de la mente . adicto al café mi inteligencia estuvo confundida pero por la misericordia sin causa nos restablecemos en el servicio estable través del estudio de srimad bhagavatam y 16 Rondas. ahora empezamos Bhaktivaibhava tercer canto con Radhika Nagar Prabhu y nuestra inteligencia se esta purificando. al ver oka Humildad de Vidura., tus clases son buena referencia para estudiar y tener un buen entendimiento .

logramos constituir una Asociación Civil , Nueva Govardhana Montemorelos , ante el gobierno de Mexico gracias a la ayuda de miembros dedicados a obtener resultados (Guna Vira Prabhu. y Bhakta Diego) conformamos presidente , secretario y tesorero , hay miembros vitalicios que aportan mensualmente económicamente. , . el próximo mes de octcubre estará llegando Prabhu Hari Cakra dicipulo de Prabhupada , el esta en Málaga España ,pero el siente una responsabilidad DE PREDICA en Latinoamérica y quiere que distribuyamos libros y nos asociemos para establecer un programa fuerte en Montemorelos .

nuestro sistema de agricultura esta funcionando poco esfuerzo y mucho resultado , el restaurante y el Hostal cada ves mejor ,,estamos importando al Chef Narayan Para prabhu de argentina. nuestro hermano espiritual esta interesado en ventor. a Monterrey a trabajar en el restaurante.

Gurudeva lo extraño mucho y en cualquier momento voy a buscarlo a Radha kunda y escuchar su kirtan , perdone por mis ofensas estoy madurando y entendiendo el gran tesoro de Bhakti .

estoy reportando al GBC mis actividades. y le agradezco por apreciar mi entusiasmo y resaltar que es mejor la acción que la inacción. o la pasión que la ignorancia , el santo nombre aporta los nutrientes para cultivar bondad y servir mejor .

La vida en familia es como una fortaleza que me protege y me ayuda a estar a salvo , con la ocupación constante y la supervisión de mi esposa puedo ser moralmente ejemplar sin duda ahora aprecio mas que nunca era ashram de grhasta , tengo muchas memorias y consejos que guardo en mi corazón y estoy eternamente agradecido a usted por ABRIRME LOS OJOS CON TANTO AMOR Y SABIDURIA. .

seguimos. haciendo planes y arreglos para conquistar y seguir en la lucha en el Sankirtan , entendemos que ISKCON es una institución joven con conocimiento milenario y estamos entendiendo nuestra posición , soy lento entendiendo pero no claudico en mi proceso ,solo necesito tiempo para pensar y tener una mejor perspectiva.

Ananda enviara fotos.

agradecemos y estamos para servirle.

su aspirante a sirviente el caído Gadadhara Gosai Das de Mexico

HpS ASA -- AgtSP.

Por favor leyendo carta a Astasakhi Devi Dasi!

❗️

     Revelations at Florida State’s Grid Iron Hari Nam

 Was on the way to the Krishna House next to the University in Gainesville, Florida, the freeway traffic signs warning: “Congested Traffic at University!” Just lovely, turned off one avenue early to mitigate the milling masses of Football clashes.

  They weren’t kidding, even 5 miles out there was vehicle congestion, snaked around, back-tracked and finally made it to the Krishna House, $50 parking fee (free for Kirtaneers). All of the devotee’s already had left for gate #7 at UF (University of Florida) campus, so I hoof down University Avenue, ducking and weaving through the crowded streets.

 Made it to the lucky number 7 gate, and sure enough we had about 35 devotees on Sankirtan. All were keeping to outside left of the stadium promenade while attendees would enter on the right. Facing the ongoing people entering the Arena area we all could give a resounding, “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna-Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Ram Hare Rama, Rama-Rama, Hare Hare!”

 Many were reacting favorably, some would come and dance in front of the Kirtan, and others would play on the gong a devotee offered. All the while, 2 Mothers were handing out sweets to those who would take them. Subhra and I baked about 80 cookies to bring along, so we stocked those with the “Sweet” Mothers.

  What was interesting is when I handed cookies to some of the devotee children, another Mother was very suspect on my part. Guess she didn’t know I was with the Hari Nam group. She inquired with the other Mothers about the cookies while inspecting each one. Then she finally decided to let the young ones enjoy them and I continued in the Hari Nam.

  Was quite a mixed group of Vaisnava’s, more seniors then youth, yet all were enthusiastic. Did my best to keep chanting and realized my voice was not carrying.

  So, found a tone that I could keep volume with and it wasn’t straining my vocal cords. In the Temple, sounds are more confined, outdoors in the public arena, sound has more dispersion. Regardless, my voice does not have much endurance and my Kirtan’s grow short compared to the Vaisnava’s there. At least now I’ve found a voice that will at almost accommodate the Hari Nams.

                 Kartik Kicks Kali Kraziness

  Now, the Kartik moon Is shining, which is reflecting how delayed I am in sending you this note. Apologies, still working with devotee’s houses and getting minimal quality time at home. Of course at least there is some quality, quantity is debatably superfluous... am happy with any of your association I may get.

  These days of Kartik have already impelled tapasya, even though I still think I’m choosing what to sacrifice... “ RIGHT!” I haven’t a clue in actuality, so Sri Bhagavan has me tumbling already. My Swiss Army knife has disappeared, I’ve opened a can of worms at Pushkara Prabhu’s ceiling & skylight, plus keeping a mess out of his art studio. Then all the editing I’ve done had been neutralized, and I had to redo it, maybe 7 times before I’m done, I look forward to seeing what happens next.

Forever Seeking Sadhana

  Happy to say the “japa-yantra” technique is revived my rounds, the essence that I think helped the most is the “Acintya-Bheda-Bheda” technique. Keeping all three Names as they are with the separate groups of 8 linked together in breath, then all 16 names stay in cadence. Works for me.

  With my baby boomer brain and toxic dried-out levity, it’s fortunate I can even attain reasonable consciousness. The external affairs of karmic placement really complicate renewing stable habits of Bhakti-yoga. The challenge I find is understanding one's own character development, keeping the bonafide qualities and disposing of the nonsensical ones.

                         Sadhu Hug-a

  Personally speaking about personal speaking, I find it is necessary to monitor offensive behavior on our own part to really keep good relations. An example of devotee association with Braja Raja Suta Prabhu and myself, we met briefly at the NRR (New Raman Reti) Eco-Farm with our wives. The Mata’s were exchanging pleasantries, and Braja & I just kind of stood looking at each other. Then, inspired by Bahushira Prabhu’s greeting, I stepped closer and gave the Ol’” Heart to Heart” hug chest bump with a light slap on the back. He wasn’t sure how to take it. Regardless, he did smile and maintained his composure. He is so dedicated to his empirical standards that it’s difficult to get him to loosen up... to each their own.

                         Hardy, R & R

   At least Subhra and I got a break last weekend; we made a trip to St. Augustine Beach. It was gray, windy, and cool, confirming autumn’s arrival. Adding to the lovely ambiance was beached strife with remnants of the Hurricanes' wrath, strewn broken seashells, broken sticks, and such. It was a bit of tracking barefoot, of course, nothing compared to your journeys to the 12 forests of Vrndavana. 

   The Sun broke through the clouds, bringing warmth and brilliance. I was contemplating a dive into the mighty Atlantic Ocean, yet I was hesitant in my false ego. I need purification. The waves were quite massive, compared to Texas’ Gulf of Mexico. Still, I knew, it was like when one goes to a Holy Tirtha and does not bathe, it is offensive, of course drowning is another consideration. So, abandoning my mind and shallowness, I bowed into the roaring blue.

It was quite a mixture of waves. The current was going all directions, with one spot pushing towards the shore and the other going parallel, and of course, a slight rip-tide to complete the situation. I kept my footing and, as they say, “Go with the flow,” did so.

I caught a short wave coming out, stepped in, and was escorted to shore by the saltwater. It was different for me; I’ve never had such an intimate experience with the ocean like that. Plus, all the swirling actually relieved some sciatic nerve problems (yes, age is taking its toll).

                       Submissive Surmising

The timing of events seems to be more and more constrained, yet mystically arranged. My meanderings are more guided in the interest of Bhakti, though am not purified enough to fully embrace. Regardless, chanting, dancing and feasting always keeps me going for more practice. Seems my quasi-sentient capabilities are directing more practice at intimate levels, i/e, a perfect excuse to stay home, write, be domestic and pretend I’m retired. Then I see you with loving tenacity and persistent guidance with all whom you associate with and I am ashamed for being such a miserly Yogi.

                    Conclusive Congregating

Guessing my only good fortune is in getting some association at New Raman Reti. Last night was their Monthly Kirtan gathering, officially been going on for a year now, a nice mix of Senior, Junior and in-between devotees.

With Damodarastika also added to the song list, I was very ecstatic. I guess my hermit-loner desires aren’t entirely rooted as yet. We need good association in Kali-Yuga to keep us human and evolving into Vaisnavas. The sad part is when maligned neophytes or advanced ego-plights come into our circle of friends, it can be a challenge not to be disturbed. My policy still is “Chant, Chant, Chant”... then the ol’ mind trying to say, “Can’t, can’t, can’t,” such are our challenges in this material world.

With your perseverance in mind, I will continue to serve Maharaja! May your carnal existence only be limited to its departure.

All glories to your service!

CC.

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HpS//ASA - Thank you, agtSP, for the ting-y-tang of your Braja bound boom, BOOM' B O O M-a-rang!!! 🦘🦘🦘 🏈

Dipping into the modern American, whole world, whirlpool and then returning with impressions that fit our Sadhana bhakti gang.

Cookies too for the petting-zoo.

Have you got a Brahma-muhurta research-project in your lab?

How is Mangala arati at the Temple?

Visits in your Ghrastha tempo do you grab?

Otherwise, perform at home, online, according to your Ashrama size?

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Now, the sun is at 2.24pm here in Brihuega, near Madrid, Spain, SPAIN,

S P A I N!

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... krsna krsna, hare hare...

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in the sankirtan we should just find our place, the gaggles pace, then play our instrument with ever in creasing potency by His Divine Grace?

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raise the quality to the canons of goloka on high!!

hare krsna ✨️

2.56PM, chan ted 2 rounds and edited this little letter.

quack, quack.

now look for any letters from ASA Carnaval, and at 4.30pm to the Temple room back!!!

Your answers lack.

Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare!!!!!!!!!