Hare krishna dear Gurudev

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope this meets you in good health and sankirtan bliss

I am very grateful to be in touch with you and have your association though Goto, WhatsApp, Blog. I would like to share with you that this august month was very intense with so many festivals in local iskcon temple of Asunción Paraguay. around 50 attendees in Janmashtami and 30 attendees in Radhastami, kirtan and lecture was performed and Prasada distribution for all guest.

I do some seva for that purpose in pujari, kirtan, kitchen, cleaning and so on. It was really enlightening to participate in the festival this year. Especially to see local matajis seva for pujari, they are doing themselves the clothing, crowns, jewelry for Goura Nitay, Prahlad Nrisimha and Srila Prabhupada. I will share some photos but all of this I never seen it before because devotees usually buy that stuff from India, now devotes are doing it and that’s why I get surprise this time. After all the festivals we also have the great visitor of the local Indian Ambassador Dr. Piyush Singh, now he is very eager to collaborate with local iskcon. I hope I can share more insights and reports in next letters.

pd. next time we will definitely try to offert plum chutney on Radhastami, thanks for the advice.

kind regards

thank you

your servant

Vijaya Govinda das

HpS - Thank you so, so, much! These festivals are essential part of our Bhakti yoga, no? Srila Prabhupada introduced them from the very beginning.

Daily festival of Mangala arati and then Sandhya, Gaura arati.

Sunday Festival!

We have a collection of Power Point Shows that we are gradually developing for each festival day.

We can worship the Deities, chant more Kirtan, Bhajan, chant and memorize important verses and songs...

... everyone has something to offer, especially Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON's initiated disciples!

😎

Hare Krishna GuruMaharaja!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

I just wanted to write to tell you that the Rice University outreach has begun again.

Here are some photos from tonight's event.

Your servant,

Jaya Hari das

HpS/ASA - Would like so much if we could present professional lectures on Vastu, Ayur, Danda, Gandharva Veda. Architecture, Medicine, Political Science, Drama!!!

Hare Krishna, my dear and always remembered Gurumaharaja 🙏🏻

Please accept my sincere obeisances 🙏🏻

All glories to our savior Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻

HpS/ASA - AgtSP!!!

Dear Gurumaharaja, I hope you are in good health. I always see you well. Although I know you are always smiling for us, your students in the spiritual life.

Gurumaharaja, I apologize for not being able to join the GoTo program these past few weeks, but since the last time I spoke to you, my life has been like a whirlwind, and for now I'm happy about it. I have a few things to tell you; I'll try to summarize:

ASA - 🐵 🐵 🐵

By Radharani's arrangement, we got a larger space to spend the summer season. We are in a village very close to NVM. We'll probably return to NVM in the winter because the owner of the house doesn't want us to install a fireplace (God's arrangements?).

I was accepted for a temporary job (6 months) at the town hall, cleaning in the villages near Brihuega. I am very grateful to Radha Govinda Chandra for the opportunity to collect.

HpS - Super!

I left my service caring for the 92-year-old devotee. We took care of him for two years. It's time to step back and allow others to collect (I feel incredible peace not being responsible for someone else's life).

I still maintain my service at the inn (I really enjoy working with Jambula; he always reminds me of you. Jambula is organized, not a Hare Krishna fanatic; he's protective; he's one of the few best godbrothers I have). I also keep the mini-room so I can rest (I think a woman should always keep her room in her family's home, for safety. Even though I'm married, etc., I'm a single woman in a foreign country and continent).

WHAT AM I?

ASA - WHO.... are you! 😃

Gurumaharaja, I've been analyzing my life in this material world, the various jobs/services I've performed, and I'm still not clear on exactly WHAT AM I? I remember the first time I spoke to you, you asked me, "WHO ARE YOU?" and when I told you my name, you told me YOU ARE A SPIRITUAL SOUL, WE ARE SERVANT DOGS OF SRILA PRABHUPADA (and you showed me the kanti saying that it was our leash) I was very shocked. Every so often that I meditate on the subject I ask you, another day you told me YOU ARE BRAHMANA (my father and brothers are lawyers) VAYSHA (my mother and her family are business merchants) AND SUDRA (we all are) I asked the same question to several devotees and some said "I am a brahmana, I am future vanaprastha (oh no!), I am a leader, I am a grihastra, etc etc" I am not very clear at what stage or what I really am, BUT I know that now I HAVE TO COLLECT.

I've worked as a teacher (15 years), ASA - Brahmani

a waitress in a bar, ASA - Sudra (survive each day!)

my dad's secretary, managed my mom's family business, I'm a wife, I was a pujari for over 10 years, etc., and now a cleaning laborer, ... and I feel tired of EVERYTHING... Once you told me "you're an old soul, you've lived through almost everything before."

In Vrindavan they told me "you're a Westerner, contaminated, you only chant HARE KRISHNA and take prasadam." I feel that THAT ANSWER is the essence of my existence. And one day you told me, "You are my third-class disciple." That's the answer that makes me feel completely happy (whenever I remember you, I AM HAPPY).

HpS - Third class?????? I don't know what that means. You seems to be doing pretty good as an affectionate mother to whomever you meet. Nice person. Someone easy for everyone to love.

Current world is a mess!!!!! Have your noticed! Relatively speaking ISKCON is pretty good. In some respects it is good in that it does not deceive people too much into thinking that it is great.

So, your life is materially chaotic and it is going to get more so. At 77 years plus, mine gets more more chaotic daily. I have control over smaller and smaller world but.... that is GREAT! Sages and Sagginis pray for Kali yuga. No way to get attached to anything more than 27% and just pause and chant:

Hare Krsna

.. in the presence of your Bead Bag. [Keep it nearby, tied up all day] and you are a liberated soul and you are going more and MORE and M O R E back to Goloka.

1. So, keep chanting more and more.
2. Look more and more for Sankirtan Partners in whatever institutional relationship.
3. Be ready to grab the mercy when it passes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozX0KazFoDk

INDIA

VRINDAVAN, EXTERNALLY, IS VERY SIMILAR TO PERU... BUT IT IS A SPIRITUAL PERU... Vrindavan is a place I would like to return to... RADHARANI❤️ I think I saw my Gopal in the form of a child in some places in Vrindavan (am I going crazy?).

HpS - Yes.

I had many beautiful experiences and experiential teachings in my short time in India. I felt like I had lived there before. I dressed as a man, and when I went out on the streets, I felt so natural... Wow! Thanks to the monkeys and motorcycle horns, I was able to realize I was in the material world... RADHE RADHE❤️ Without her, nothing happens! RADHE is the queen of everything and everyone!

SPAIN

Gurumaharaja would like to ask you to pray. Please have the mercy to visit us soon in New Vrajamandala (NVM). Gurumaharaja, without you, I feel like I don't want to be in this place anymore... I feel so alone without you... When I clean the NVM staircase, I remember your feet stepping on each step and I get so emotional!!! I remember you staying at NVM and the service I receive seems so beautiful... I beg you, please have the mercy to visit us again... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 We will organize everything better than the last time you visited us. We will welcome the godbrothers with more devotion. Please 🙏🏻 We are an HpS team at NVM Yugala, Tarangakshi and I (it's only because of you that I'm still at NVM)

Missing and remembering you every day

In vain, trying to be your third-class disciple

Yasoda Devi Dasi

May Lord Nrisimha continue to protect you 🙏🏻

HpS - We only plan to chant HK. Dream a lot of Sankirtan. Act as a sleep walker in the sensual world.

Seems that we will be Camped in Nila-madhava Dhama, Houston, ISKCON, until December, with another visit to ISKCON Nashville in November. Maybe another in January on the way to Spain. Stay for some time with my heart meds, then go with Yadu Swami to India/Radha Kunda.

Of course, Putin may start a nuclear war, but seems likely because that would stop the internet, and FOX Communications Corporation would not like that!!!

Please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet that dance eternally in the Sankirtan of Sri Gauranga!

HpS/ASA - We, agtSP, are very disturbed by such descriptions of us... 😥 we are just humble devotees trying to make progress in Srila Prabhupada's movement. Hmmm. His Sankirtan is our focus, and we have some qualities.

Thank you!!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!🙏🙇🏻‍♀️👏💐🌺

All Glories to You my Gurumaharaja! 🙏💃🏻💖🌺

I hope you are very happy today in your eternal relationship with Govinda💖❤️🎵

HpS - Actually not much in our eternal relationship with Krsna. More in our current relationship with Krsna, through Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON, as a very sick patient in the clinic.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

80% proper diet.

Fortunately some mail that we can answer!!! Thank you and very soon, go to the evening program in the Temple!!!

Last Ekadasi I was able to record this song, which I wrote many years ago, 2000 I think. I edited it today. There are some errors in the noises you hear, but sometimes it's hard to find a moment when there's no noise at all. I'll try to improve😅

" I want to Get To You"

🎵I want to get You💖

I want to see you dance

To be able to see you play

The transcendental flute🎼💖

🎼I want to get You💖

My supreme destiny

I want to get You

And for there to be no more mourning🎵💖

🎵I want to get You💖

I want to see you walk

Play with the gopis

And see your smile🎵💖

🎼I want to get You💖

To dance for You

I have no more reason to live

With me here🎵💖

🎵 I want to Get You💖

I want to see you graze

Together with Balarama

To the transcendental cow🎼💖

🎼I want to Get to You💖❤️

A thousand times towards You

A thousand times

Towards You

Only towards You

I will reach...

I will!🎵❤️

I hope you like it. It's a song I wrote with much love for Govinda. Although many years have passed since I wrote it, it's always heartwarming to sing it. It's all thanks to you🌺💐🌺💐🌹🌺💐🌹🌷🎈👣🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

Here is the YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/6O7E4iJW5Wc?si=2A5Q29HHhSeD8xBV

https://youtu.be/DsMjGT4he_s?si=bcWcaUbiFG-fy1My

I sang it in English for you. One video has no subtitles, and the other has Spanish and English subtitles😅🎼🎵💖

trying to please his beautiful heart of lotus ❤️💖🪷Gurudeva

Japa Prati Jalpa Radha Devi Dasi 🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️🎵💃🏻♾️

HpS - It is hard for us to listen because we are such materialists.

Recording the Prayers of Queen Kunti in Spanish after reading them and contemplating them very nicely might seem to be better, no?

Even recording them with some other devotees!!!

Thank you!!!!

Flying to Nashville tomorrow!

Thank you!!!

From, agtSP, Divya-nama Das, Temple President, ISKCON RichMond, Virginia, USA.

Respected Srila Hanumat Presaka Swami Maharaj,

Please accept our humble and respectful obeisance at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

HpS - In this body, agtSP, we are aspiring for maybe properly tended human feet, yet in our Svarupa I guess that both you and I may have lotus feet, if not lotus hooves.

Maharaj, your mercy, blessings, and guidance is always a beacon for our services to Srila Prabhupada at ISKCON Richmond Yatra. We often remember your clear and exact prediction for us to have a full-fledged beautiful Temple that will serve and nourish tens and thousands of people in Richmond and near-by areas, in their spiritual journey.

For your pleasure, we would like to share some of the major developments that have happened in the past 8 months or so, since the last visit of your Holiness.

HpS - Thank you, THANK YOU, T H A N K Y O U! Our visit was a landmark in our life. After that we posted into our Base Camp at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and then we have ended up for eight months, Camped here in ISKCON Houston.

Tomorrow we will be back in Tennessee for three weeks.

Then we have a Campsite reserved 13th September until maybe 23 December.

1. Since for any major project, the first thing that is required is water. We had a well with limited supply of water. We recently completed a well project which took us about four months to acquire permits, drill a new 350 feet well, install a commercial grade water pumping system with 119 Gallons of Pressure tank and 500 feet of pipeline with water outlets in our residential building, barn area, and garden area. Now we have enough water supply all over the property. 

HpS - Does it pump continuously or do you pump for some time and then have to let the water build up at the bottom again? How much can you pump a minute if you are pumping continuously??? Thank you.

What is the seasonal rain like?

2. Since our Temple inventory has grown exponentially, we recently added a 10x40 feet storage container, which will house all our festival related items, books, gift shop and other inventory. We are constructing 80 feet wide storage racks for the same.

3. In preaching and outreach activities - HG Radheshyam Prabhu visited us in April this year and under Prabhu's guidance, since then, we have conducted multiple outreach events, which attracted over 200 potential new devotees from the Richmond area. With that we are planning to start two new weekly programs in Mechanicsville and Westend areas. HG Radheshyam Prabhu will be coming again in September.

HpS - Super. I have one associate in Santiago, Chile, he has been working professionally in Social Media for years, and apparently he never had any trouble getting a lot of new people to come for events in the city of santiago, but the bottleneck was receiving them properly once they came for the specific event and then later programs.

Your news is great.

4. We have also reinitiated the college preaching at VCU. On average monthly twice a group of devotees goes on Book distribution in the university area and connects with VCU students. We are also in process of starting a Bhakti Yoga Club there under guidance of HG Radheshyam Prabhu.

5. Maharaj, this year we had one of our grandest Janmashtami Festival, where we served around 2500 guests. Some of the highlights of the festival are:

 - Around 500 of Srila Prabhupada Books were distributed to include 119 Bhagavad Gitas and 1 SB set

 - Around 2500 plates of free Prasadam was distributed

 - Around 100 families did some sponsorship for the festival and participated in Kalash Abhishekam, Aarti and Archana

 - Around 250 platters were served at Govinda's

 - Other highlights included Diorama Radha Krishna Deities, Gopi Dots, Gift Shop, Jhulan, Cultural Program by kids etc.

6. Recently, one devotee from Phoenix AZ, who is a professional Architect came to visit us and look upon the Temple Property. He will soon start to work on a conceptual site plan, to provide a vision of our Temple Project.

Maharaj, all of this was possible because of Srila Prabhupada's mercy, blessings of your holiness and other senior Vaishnavas, and collective devotion/selfless service of the devotees here at Richmond. We sincerely pray at your lotus feet to keep us under your divine shelter and empower us to be an instrument of our Acharyas. We have a long way to go..

We beg your blessings that we can sincerely take shelter of the Holy Names and avoid all offenses, especially Vaishnav Aparadh.

your servant,

Divyanam Das

HpS - Jaya! 😃 Jaya! Jaya!

Srila Prabhupada's voice boomed through the Temple-room in Berkeley, San Francisco, "The magic will not be done by me, nor you, nor any living being. The magic will be done by Krsna when we become pure devotees of KRSNA!".

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna!!!

May this movement fulfill in great abundance the mission of Lord Caitanya: https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/preface/#bb5769

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja!

Please accept these respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I'm still processing our week with you in Boise and my time with you in Houston. Intense purification and Fun.

Thank you for this perspective on the Trnvarta pastime song. Indeed the traveling minstrel, the observer is the perfect and natural archetype to merge into for singing these folk songs...And so fascinating, the aesthetic difference between Dvaraka /Mathura and Vraja. I’ve always loved simple folk music(American and Peruvian). But also have some appreciation for the sophistication of orchestra music and the English gardens. Being in Radha Nilamadhava Dham was refreshing and deeply inspiring.

While I was there I had a really nice conversation about temple presidency with Saranga Thakur Prabhu after the boat ceremony. He said 50 percent of the job is knowing how to take criticism and then he said Jaya Krishna Prabhu after so many years of this service said it’s actually more like 75 percent of the job.

So I’ve been thinking a lot about what is criticism. Of course we should be focusing on our own shortcomings and how to improve, more than on others. But then if you are in a managerial position it seems like that has to intensify(fixing yourself up) and so this is why the purificatory process speeds up? Extra mercy may be given? And can a neophyte devotee give auspicious criticism (three fold) according to Bhativinoda Thakur’s definition of that term?

One little/big improvement: We are finally starting to play nice mellow kirtan/bajans on our speakers at the perfect volume during the Sunday Feast while devotees take Prasadam. After wanting to do this for so long and hearing it from you so many times..something finally clicked. Little steps in the right direction but seeing big improvements and nice steady momentum in New Biharvan Dham.

Slowly but surely my service here is feeling like a personal project. Thinking of it like this is helpful, Maharaja. Like a song or a play..I’m wrapping my head around your instruction and wanting to take it to heart. Personal projects can be collaborative. The rugged individualist and isolationist in me kicks and screams sometimes but I may have him under control. He’s a lonely simple guy that is ultimately looking for something more. Not satisfied.

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Achintya bheda abheda tattva, dictates that as we develop our own unique character, we realize how it is properly, proportionally, and eternally connected to our society.

you have to play your instrument in the band, but you realize so much of it in terms of the performance of the whole band.

Maharaja, can gandharva’s or angels help with management just like they help with creative projects?

HpS - I guess, so? I think Krsna takes more responsibility in inspiration for management.

Relationships between devotees doing service at the temple are getting stronger/deeper. It seems like Radha Bankibihari are in control. Supreme disrupters and mischief makers, always looking for a good time at any cost.

Carl Jung’s ideas on the psychology of addiction has been such a helpful barometer and jumping off point when talking with new comers and in our own self analysis. And I keep thinking it is by your mercy that we have this wonderful bridge. And specifically a great connection to NOI.

More news to share soon. Until then we will be chanting japa with you, for you and because of you..and taking part in the morning Houston SB classes on YouTube in addition to our own KRSNA Book reading..

All the very best with your Janmashtami celebration! Thank you, Gurumaharaja.

your aspiring servant,

Nitisara das

HpS - We take criticism in terms of NOI 4, 5 and 6.

Then we ask ourselves if it is really letting us see things that we need to improve?

Maybe we are not even the target. Maybe the people crticizing us are just projecting there enemies of torture victims on us because of our social role or other things. then we see their emotional, psychological and spiritual problems as we avoid the assault and take helping them as our service.

Hmmm! 🙂

Thank you for our association!!!!!!

We hope Boise becomes very ISKCON conscious.