Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
HpS/ASA --- AgtSP!!!! paoho & bw.
It's been a while since i wrote you. Our previous letters and our lost relationship often come to mind. It's not the reason i write you now.
I wish to write to you about current developments of my (devotional) life. For about three years now i have invested wholeheartedly in developing my professional life. Around 45 years down the road Krishna had given me a career and i was happy to accept it. Solid work was much needed in my life, and i applied myself to it. Right now i'm established in my work, i have earned my standing as an environmental inspector for the government and i'm getting some practical results. I feel that i'm able to fulfill that role according to a decent standard. There's satisfaction coming from work, while at the same time weeks are passing by fast and i also note the boredom of life without devotional service. My wife and children are doing well. Our eldest daughter (12) is going to atheneum (scientific preparatory education) this summer and we're very proud of her.
After taking this detour, i feel i need Krishna back in my life. I have to conclude in my stage of spiritual life, i wasn't able to be steady and do two things at the same time. Or three even. Being a devotee and build a new career in life while also being a father. I have gone through some soul searching and some crises of faith, partially related to our society also, but i feel that its time to get back my spiritual life now. I therefore come to ask your blessings.
HpS / ASA - I do not know exactly who you are. 🙂 I am speculating of several cool dudes, who have not communicated. Belgium??
Blessings?
💥Hare Krsna 💥
Whatever work, nehabikramo.. we have done on spiritual path is eternal! Keeps building up. Even for slow learners like me! (and you?)
In the beginning we have to balance (Bh. vinode Thakura). 2am to 10am spiritual life. 10am to 6pm work. 6pm to 2am play.
Goodness, Passion, Ignorance.
Yet.... as we advance.... and you/we are... we begin to see that it is all spiritual. get up early and get your rounds done.... then the 'business' is for Krsna. then the 'play' is for KRSNA. go to the Big Luxury shops to look for exquisite paraphernalia for our altar with our family.
This weekend we've concluded our fourth Amsterdam
HpS - Ah! Now I remember! Eg. Your helping us change planes in Amsterdam!! Thank you. So many memories. The apartment of the professional musician. Professional driving.
Kirtan Mela. We've had 400 visitors, 11 hours of kirtan, and a holy name retreat the day after with 70 attendants. It was such a grand festival, so blissful and fun! Our guest of honor was his holiness Sacinandana Swami, who is very pleased with our efforts. So much so, that he has decided to give the event a permanent place in his agenda.
Our team of four are very happy with how it turned out.
HpS/ASA - I bet Gauranga and His Sanga are also pleased!!!!
There are uncut livestreams on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl_kNe9b6EY
HpS/ASA - Really funny!! In what we peeked, nobody is smiling!!! 😆
All very serious Kirtan 😞
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God!
Hari bolo!
Krsna is a rascal.
😆 He has dogs!
I don't really know where to go from here, except for picking up my beadbag again and turning to Krishna and His holy names.
HpS - Yep!!! You are a spiritual genius!!!! You got it!
Don't hesitate. Become Guru for your environment.
Set a fixed number of rounds, eg. one a day, and fixed duration eg. one round a day for the next three days, one week.
and then DO IT. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna!!!! (Rupa Goswami and Prabhupada, Nectar of Devotion)
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Looking at myself with the honesty that i have, deep down i'm scared to give up my false ego, my "Richard" persona, and his worldly pro's and con's.
ASA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard#People_named_Richard
Most of them are dead or you never heard of them, no?
Well, what do you want your daughter to say:
My daddy was a famous clothing designer, or my daddy was an initiated disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, and my daddy played The Big Mrdanga.
I hope you are doing well, Maharaja. I don't know what's going on in your life and what projects you're working on, but i have full faith in your dedication to Srila Prabhupada. I did hear from my friend Janmastami prabhu how he relished your presence in Spain last fall. I hope you're health is supporting your devotional life.
With kind regards,
Your aspiring servant,
Raghava Pandita dasa
PS. After adding photo's and reconsidering this post and it's title; it's actually unnecessary. Just a cry for attention and approval. The power of observation always comes later than the foolishness. Hare Krishna. Jaya Srila Prabhupada.
HpS - Radhava Pandita. You are a good person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoya_Inoue
This guy seems like a half way reasonable person.
He is one of the greatest boxing champions in the world.
Small guy.
In his last fight for world championship he tasted the canvas.
He got knocked down.
Boom!
But he got back up!
BOOM!
BOOM!
