Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna!

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obessiances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Guru Maharaja, we are in deep in the war. Frankly I am getting my (censored) kicked; battered, bruised, bloody, maybe a few fingers lost. However, we are making progress.

HpS - Jaya! Life is like a battle of Kuruksetra, no?

Nityananda Prabhu told me once the quickest way to become purified is to take up some kind of management role in ISKCON. I have this small role as Director of Krishna House Ashram Dallas and YES, he isn't lying!

HpS - Yes! Yet going out on the street distributing books or door to door in the USA is not a small task!

I think I may be a glutton for punishment. I'm not joking. Some kind of twisted pleasure in getting hammered. We are making advancement no matter how hard we get hit and we are getting hit ALOT. It kind of feels good though, it does feel good. Actually, I am learning a lot. A few tears but getting closer to Radha-Kalachandji.

I apologize for not staying so in touch. We will come to Houston and see you. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come to Dallas? I beg you.

Your surrendered disciple,

Nanda-braja das

The picture is of our first Spiritual Sunday program which is our alternative Sunday feast program directed towards westerners. 25 people came, 7 of which where devotees and rest new comers.

HpS - We will look.

Yes! We we're disturbed not to hear from you.

We may not be able to do a lot, but by Srila Prabhupada's austerity we can always give a little practical help.

AgtSP!

Are you working alone?

In Mayapur there is a large community of the Soviet Hare Krishna people.

HpS - The Soviet Union,^[r] officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics^[s] (USSR),^[t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics;^[u] in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR.

Now the Moscow Soviet is at war with the Ukraine Soviet, no?

Will they identify as Slavic peoples?

Reverencias a SDG A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada y SS Hanumat Presaka Swami. Un reporte de Sankirtana en Nueva Vrajamandala. En Janmashtami y dia de Srila Prabhupada, puse una mesa con Upadesamrta y Tava Pache Pache y se distribuyeron Upadesamrta 1 y Tava Pache Pache 9. Uno a un discipulo de Srila Prabhupada, Sg Drsta p, que esta por aqui. Sankirtan ki Jaya!!!

HpS - Jaya! Puede distribuir NdlI en cuantidad eg. seis con TPP como ellos pueden convertir in Sankirtaneros.

Super!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva,

Danvadat Pranam

please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

I was able to take a few pictures,

and also Abhimanyu Das and Bhakta Cory were able to document and narrate a lot of the Yatra and the festival.

Lordships always look so happy to come and give their mercy imo

link to the video

https://youtu.be/HZRKvBV7Lc0?feature=shared

Your disciple, your servant

Loka Bandhu Rama das

HpS/ASA - Thank you!!!! Chance to see the spiritual world. one of the 16,108 homes of KRSNA in dvaraka.

inspires participation.

also so nice to have your association and lokannatha das association here in boise. amazing how he remembers things from pastimes we had here in boise that stimulate our memories.

more....

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

Here is the Ratha Yatra poster:

HpS/ASA

Jaya Jagannatha!

The Essence of KC

Taking Krsna from Vaidhi Bhakti to Braja Bhakti

NOI 8

DTC - UT series is coming into the final editing stages.

Of course, there are INTENSE discussions of artistic style etc.

Here are the posts we made to the Directors, Producers et al on WhatsApp:

[9/20/2023 5:02 PM] : Gracias Senyor! We have been struggling to survive the last few days. We are doing programs every two months with NIOS Nashville, but that means that people are coming from Florida, California, renting houses, and so we have intense activity as hosts.

[9/20/2023 5:03 PM] : Then, we were not doing anymore travel, DTC, <<ULTIMATE TRIP>>, after we got back from India but were getting so, so, many requests to travel and visit people.

[9/20/2023 5:06 PM] : Finally, we got our feet on the ground, after like two, three months in our Base Camp, Nashville, and #1) We realized that we cannot travel alone anymore. Those days are done. The travel exhausts us and we get disorientation, vertigo, to even the point that we could black out. So we agreed to visit Richmond (East Coast) and Boise (West Coast) for like aweek each if some one would pick us up and drop us off.

[9/20/2023 5:06 PM] : Did Richmond. Was a killer but so, so productive.

[9/20/2023 5:10 PM] : Now we have been in Boise for 48-hours after an 8-hour, four-airport journey. They have planned a strong cultural program, and people are flying in from Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta et al to see us. Just spent 1-hour with Lokannatha Das. We worked together with a fantastic traveling puppet theater, "Purnima Puppet Theater", for like four years, and this is first chance we have had to consolidate everything with him. He still has the marionettes in boxes, and has pretty solid Parkinson's disease, but he is a transcendentalists, so he understands that even though his normal bodily functions are disturbed, he can find ways to still use his body to create and communicate by using innovative methods.

[9/20/2023 5:12 PM] : What really, really is happening is that I am staying in touch, building my understanding or our audience for DTC-UT. So I feel that my opinion of winding up the production of the videos and heading into the distribution stage is well informed.

[9/20/2023 5:13 PM] : I think I have one perspective on our audience, one part of our audience. I think Raoul, Pablo, Abhirama have other audience they know.

[9/20/2023 5:14 PM] : Now I have been motivated to show the movies to others and get their unprompted opinions. You saw the strong, favorable review that Gopinatha Das (HP Exec) gave.

[9/20/2023 5:15 PM] : Now I would like to download DTC-India here, and work out a Critic's Screening. Then, for me, I think my perspective on uploading to Vimeo and public marketing would be done.

[9/20/2023 5:19 PM] : Also, in perspective of the whole series, I wanted to see the second half of DTC Spain before forming more ideas and criticisms. Again, I see many options. One that half the studio world has seemed to use is: Studio Cut and Director's Cut. I may not be the best. I think we have some funds to cover our costs for some more editing, but for me and everyone, I think that it is not just money (money is Radha) but also how people see the personal value of investing more time in the series, the project.

[9/20/2023 5:23 PM] : I like criticism from sincere people. It is tough but I like it. I am eternal and maybe my efforts don't deserve a documentary consolidating what I have done in this lifetime. O.K. Jesus and Maria like my efforts 🙂 and are always giving criticism motivated and taking what I have done, we have done, and making eternal improvements. At some point we WILL achieve Escape Velocity and then the whole cosmos opens up to our space ship.

[9/20/2023 5:23 PM] : 💪💪💪🐮

[9/20/2023 5:24 PM] : 🤖

[9/20/2023 5:25 PM] : So... ArtDas... we need another link to download DTC-India. The one you sent has appeared to have expired. We want to show it here. Radhika Raman Das arrives tomorrow or Friday and stays until late Sunday or early monday.

[9/20/2023 5:26 PM] : Then we want to look at DTC-3.