Dearest Gurudev, please accept me my humble obeisances, all the glories to Srila Prabhupada. All the glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami!

Primero que todo disculparme por no haber enviado mi reporte anual por el conducto regular establecido, pero este ultimo ano para mi ha sido muy diferente, el tiempo y la salud me han mostrado una realidad diferente, donde ya he terminado mi tratamiento de quimioterapia en el cáncer de seno y ahora deben realizar la cirugía para extirpar los residuos que han quedado, gracias a Krsna, a los devotos, a mi esposo Syam Krsna Gopal y los médicos, todo ha sido más llevadero.

Feliz Cumpleaños querido Gurudev todo lo mejor para usted en donde quiera que este, si usted es feliz siempre mi corazón saltara de alegría.

Agradezco infinitamente a Srila Prabhupada por haber seguido la instrucción de su Guruji y expandir el conocimiento de la conciencia de Krsna en occidente, donde usted con un sequito de almas compasivas y rigurosas han tomado sus votos y determinación para llevar la antorcha de conocimiento a seres tan ignorantes y caídos como yo. Krsna ha puesto a merced de grandes almas, con diferentes cualidades, todo el entendimiento para cambiar nuestras vidas a una mas sublime y austera.

He seguido con las 16 rondas diarias, los cuatro principios y los tres gayatris a pesar de las irregularidades de mi salud.

Esta mañana estaba escuchando un kirtan de Radhika Das de Londres, hecho en un teatro y pensaba, wou que bien suena el violín, el saxo, la guitarra en ese kirtan, miraba al público y pensaba, wou sin embargo ellos solo están gratificando sus sentidos, Maya nos quiere derrumbar en mil pedazos en este mundo material!!! por qué esa gratificación es la que nos envuelve en querer mas y mas y llena cientos de teatros en música, pero un kirtan, eso, nos acerca mas a Krsna, bailamos para Krsna y transformamos esa lujuria en amor como dice Bhakti Tirtha Swami.

Agradezco que mi mente y mi corazón se sientan atraídos al sadhu sanga, del cual estuve alejada por mi salud y solo me relacioné online, ahí es donde vi quienes son realmente mis amigos en Conciencia de Krsna, las oraciones de los devotos son poderosas y sus acciones también.

Todo lo que profundizamos en las escrituras védicas son pequeñas perlas que vamos hilando en nuestro collar para ofrecerlo a Krsna, ojalá pueda hacer para los 6 Goswamis también, sus bendiciones siempre son requeridas para nuestro avance.

Cuando oí que estuvo en el hospital por una arritmia, me desespere, porque no iría a Houston y solo estaría en casa ofreciendo junto a mi esposo un prasadam para los dos, me sentí egoísta y además era primera vez que estaría aquí en Gainesville para su Vyasa Puja, el año pasado pudimos ir a visitarlo y el anterior hicimos un prasadam para los devotos de Puerto en su honor, ¡pero este ano Krsna Caitanya! quería con todo mi corazón compartir sus glorias en asociación. ¡Para mi sorpresa llego una devota hindu justo esa noche que supimos del estado de su salud y me devolvió una parka que le había prestado para Janmastami (cuando hicimos las guirnaldas en el frio cuarto de las flores) y me dejo una donación por mi estado de salud, lo que inmediatamente pensé oh le haremos un Vyasa Puja a Gurudev! En menos de tres días empezamos todo, solos con Syam, toda la comunidad de Krsna House esta en Puerto Rico y casi todos los devotos estaban en su último día del año, por lo que pudimos celebrarlo y glorificarlo junto a 10 devotos con quienes cantamos, glorificamos y un devoto de Miami llamado Isvaku Das, dio una excelsa clase, cada devoto dio una glorificación a su persona y un devoto que no lo conocía vio una clase e investigo sobre usted y la impresión que tuvo es exactamente como es usted.

 Gracias a la ayuda de los devotos para guiarme en los detalles: Madre Rasa Manjari de Peru, Prabhu Laksmana Agraha, Candra Mukhi Dasi, Prabhu Ram Narayana de Republica Dominicana y del laksmi de Cintanami Dasi de Chile y de Vaisnava Dasi de Alachua,lo logramos Gurudev, usted siempre nos ha dicho que habiendo kirtan, devotos, prasadam se puede celebrar un Vyasa Puja, completamente cierto Gurudev!

Postrada a sus pies su sirviente

LaksmiRadha DD.

Adjunto las fotografías de su Vyasa Puja Gurudev y como dirían los Beatles “With a Little help from my Friends”: 

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First of all, I apologize for not having sent my annual report through the regular established channel, but this last year has been very different for me. Time and health have shown me a different reality, where I have already finished my chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer and now they must perform the surgery to remove the residue that remains. Thanks to Krsna, the devotees, my husband Syam Krsna Gopal and the doctors, everything has been more bearable.

HpS//ASA - Death is the sum-total of all possible bad experiences: Srila Prabhupada. Yet for a purified devotee it is fun, like have a would lanced and drained, forever!!

Happy Birthday dear Gurudev, all the best to you wherever you are. If you are always happy, my heart will always jump for joy.

I am infinitely grateful to Srila Prabhupada for having followed the instruction of his Guruji and for spreading the knowledge of Krsna consciousness in the West, where you, with a retinue of compassionate and rigorous souls, have taken your vows and determination to carry the torch of knowledge to beings as ignorant and fallen as I am.

Krsna has put at the mercy of great souls, with different qualities, all the understanding to change our lives to a more sublime and austere one.

I have continued with the 16 daily rounds, the four principles and the three gayatris despite the irregularities of my health.

This morning I was listening to a kirtan by Radhika Das from London, performed in a theater and I thought, wow how good the violin, the saxophone, the guitar sound in that kirtan, I looked at the audience and thought, wow, yet they are only gratifying their senses.

Maya wants to tear us into a thousand pieces in this material world!!! because that gratification is what envelops us in wanting more and more and fills hundreds of theaters with music, but a kirtan, that, brings us closer to Krsna, we dance for Krsna and transform that lust into love as Bhakti Tirtha Swami says.

I am grateful that my mind and heart are drawn to the sadhu sanga, from which I was away due to my health and only interacted online, that is where I saw who my friends in Krsna Consciousness really are, the prayers of the devotees are powerful and their actions too.

Everything we delve into the Vedic scriptures are small pearls that we string together in our necklace to offer to Krsna, I hope I can do it for the 6 Goswamis too, their blessings are always required for our advancement.

When I heard that he was in the hospital for arrhythmia, I despaired, because he would not go to Houston and would only be at home offering prasadam for the two of us with my husband, I felt selfish and it was also the first time that I would be here in Gainesville for his Vyasa Puja, last year we were able to go visit him and the year before that we made a prasadam for the devotees of Puerto in his honor, but this year Krsna Caitanya! I wanted with all my heart to share his glories in association. To my surprise, a Hindu devotee came the very night we learned of his health and returned a parka I had lent her for Janmastami (when we made the garlands in the cold flower room) and left me a donation for my health, which immediately made me think oh we will do a Vyasa Puja for Gurudev!

In less than three days we started everything, alone with Syam, the entire Krsna House community is in Puerto Rico and almost all the devotees were on their last day of the year, so we were able to celebrate and glorify him together with 10 devotees with whom we sang, glorified and a devotee from Miami named Isvaku Das, gave an excellent class, each devotee gave a glorification of him and a devotee who did not know you saw a class and investigated about you and the impression he got was exactly how you are.

Thanks to the help of the devotees who guided me through the details: Mother Rasa Manjari from Peru, Prabhu Laksmana Agraha, Candra Mukhi Dasi, Prabhu Ram Narayana from the Dominican Republic and the Laksmi of Cintanami Dasi from Chile and Vaisnava Dasi from Alachua, we succeeded.

Gurudev, you have always told us that with kirtan, devotees, and prasadam, a Vyasa Puja can be celebrated. Absolutely true, Gurudev!

Your servant prostrates at your feet

LaksmiRadha DD.

I attach the photographs of your Vyasa Puja Gurudev and as the Beatles would say, “With a Little help from my Friends”.

HpS - Removal of 'private parts', male or female, is going to happen to everyone at death! So, if we can go through it now, as devotees, we are the most fortunate.

Chant Hare Krsna through all these experiences even one time to be free from the attachment forever.

Then we can see that all the power, beauty, of our genitals is just a reflection of the real spiritual, erotic, nature of us, soul, in the real atmosphere!

Go ahead!

Respects to your family!!