Hare Krishna Maharaj, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am happy to write to you about my sadhana after several months.

Now, I am waking up between 4 and 4:30 am to attend your FMP sessions and then join the chanting call with Sugopi.

My rounds are becoming more and more enthusiastic ever since.

However, on some days, I fail in my morning Sadhana and then lose confidence. But I try to remember your instruction from other letters - fall down, get up, fall down, get up, make progress.

I am still trying to arrange my morning schedule to include mangala aarti every day. I am also offering incense and flower to the Lord daily. I am regularly attending your Srimad Bhagavatam lectures and Srinivas Prabhu's classes every week. I am reading Srila Prabhupada's books regularly, even if it is just a few lines on days when I have too much school work.

I am also helping Kamagayatri Mataji in the Sunday school by doing Srimad Bhagavatam related activities and verse recitation with kids.

HpS - This is such an intense program that it would seem you could make light bulbs in the grocery store glow just by looking at them. Very nice. You are good disciple of Srila Prabhupada.

In your reply to my previous letter, you had asked about my family, community, and work. My parents live in Bangalore, Karnataka, and even I grew up and studied there. I introduced them to Krishna consciousness, and my mother has been enthusiastically chanting 16 rounds for almost a year now and preaching to other family members. My father is still chanting 4 rounds, but we are motivating him to increase the count. At school, I work part-time as a math tutor, teaching assistant, and research assistant.

For the past one and half years, I have been chanting 16 rounds regularly, following 4 regulative principles strictly, and eating only prasadam. I request you to please initiate me. I beg for your mercy and blessings to be able to keep up my sadhana and make it stronger.

Your aspiring servant waiting for your mercy

Chithkala

HpS - Seems that all you need is letter of recommendation from Temple Authorities and complete the Disciple Course. You already did that, no?

1st initiation, 2nd initiation, 3rd initiation . . . . 143 initiation. . . . .