Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!

I hope you are doing well. We really missed coming to Richmond to visit you. For Divya, it has been more than a year since she met you. But Manjari had her vaccination closer to that date and would have been very fussy during that time. She is already 2 months old now.

We are settling into a semblance of a schedule. She is sleeping better at night and we have resumed our deity worship services. Divya dressed Sri Sri Radha Govinda on Srila Prabhupada's Vyasapuja after 3 months. I am somehow squeezing my rounds in and Divya is getting there. My parents being here has been a huge help. They will be here till the 23rd and then go to Atlanta to spend a week with Srirama and leave to India on 29th September.

The second batch of Bhakti Sastri concluded here in Dallas and we have about 15 graduates. The devotees are very appreciative of the in person classes. We are planning to start the third batch in October. Personally for me, it is very fulfilling to teach because I am reading the material again and learning more. We released the pujari training videos for all the arathis. It took a while but they have come out nicely.

HpS - Have you, agtSP, read "Surrender unto me" by Bhurijana Das?

We have had some wonderful association during the festival period. HH Haladhara Swami visited during Julhan Yarta and gave classes on Queen Kunti's prayers. Incredible classes with commentaries from Srila Vishvanatha Cakravati Thakur. Maharaja was making the point that Srila Prabhupada's purports had everything. He would read VCT's commentary and read Srila Prabhupada's purports to demonstrate it.

Radhika Raman Prabhu and Kalakantha prabhu were there for Balaram Purnima. Everyone loved Radhika Raman prabhu and invited him to make Dallas his regular stop. He had come to visit Manjari. Then Anantarupa prabhu came to work on a memories book he had compiled for Gopal Krishna Maharaja. Since the toy project ended earlier this year, I haven't had any proper projects. So I had the time to work on the book. It was 3 days of intense work and we got the book published on Amazon KDP. We could have done a better job, but we were in a time crunch. I am learning more about typesetting and there is definitely a lot of room for improvement. When I did Twirl Your Beads, I had never worked on getting a book published. Then you mercifully engaged me in TPP and with Gopal Krishna Maharaj's book, we see this as Krishna wanting us to continue serving in this area. I am looking to change teams internally and have given interview. If I get the job, I cannot work remote anymore and would have to go to the office in Richardson, which is about a 30-40 min drive one way.

We hope we can come and meet you after you come back from Spain. We really miss your personal association. Manjari will be about 6 months then. She is a result of your mercy Guru Maharaja and already has your shelter. We request your blessing and the blessing of all the devotees in the blog for her so that she may grow up to serve Srila Prabhupada very nicely🙏🏼

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

HpS - Thank you. We saw Sriramakrsna Das and parents and baby and wife!!!

Ananata rupa Das gave us copy of Gopal Krsna Swami's book!

Of course, the margin should have been wider, no?

But then the book may have been thinner,

But reducing the font size by half a point may have solved that but...

... no one ever finished formatting a book.

They just stopped working on it.

🙂

Hari bolo!!!

Bh. Sastri.

Meeting in cyberspace and Nabadvipa in our next life?

All respects to Mata ji.