Hare Krsna

Hare Krsna, Gurudev

All Glories to Sri Sri Goura Nitai

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

All Glories to you

Please accept my humble obeisances.

After quite some time, here I am, resuming contact with you. I hope you read my letter. How is your energy? Here I receive your messages from the WhatsApp groups, thank you for that.

In my previous letter I told you that my beloved Tulasi Vrinda Dasi has arrived in this world, a very interesting and joyful personality. Motherhood has fully taken over me, making me experience feelings such as austerity, renunciation of results, giving selflessly, discipline, starting over after a lost battle, dealing with my own frustration, and has taught me to see new perspectives in life. My priorities have shifted, my time is vanishing, and tiredness is a constant.

The mental load has overwhelmed me on several occasions, and the need to indefinitely give up my own desires for a greater good—these are just some of the thousands of things Tulasi has taught me since her birth.

My love overflows when I see her, I feel that with every hug I can breathe again, and I feel proud of every small achievement in her early path of life.

She shows signs of devotion like putting her hands together when the altar is opened, even though it wasn’t a gesture that was taught to her. She interacts with a figure we have of Lord Ganesha, she leaves [loves?] toys to Goura Nitai, and helps me ring the bell during artik.

I want to humbly ask you, Gurudev, to please grant your special blessings to Tulasi so that she may always stay connected to Srila Prabhupada and the parampara, and thus learn to love Krsna throughout her life.

ASA - "These are not ordinary children. Krsna does not send ordinary people to be the children of devotees. You have big responsibility to protect them so that that can grow up and do wonderful things for Krsna", Letter from Srila Prabhupada that we remember.

As for me, I work, I’m disconnected from my Sadhana. I try to chant and to connect, sometimes in an effort to recover my rhythm. I’m no longer so critical of my process and understand that perhaps this is a moment in which I have to fulfill my family responsibilities, and I hope to be able to bring order back to my life so that the spiritual can once again take precedence.

Sorry for the length of my letter, but prolonged absences require lengthy explanations.

Thank you for being my Guru.

As I read in another letter, I’m sending some photos for your eyes only. I hadn’t sent updates because I resisted sharing photos of my family, and that letter gave me the impulse—thanks to those Vaisnavas too!

Reverences Gurudev

With much affection,

The one who always wishes to serve you

Rati Mañjari Dasi

(P.S. I translated it into English using ChatGPT)

HpS/ASA - So, I guess we should not share the photos unless they are espionage for the CIA, no? I guess as Sannyasis we must share them with some responsible Grhasta.

If you can't chant 16-rounds a day, then fix some number you can do. Maybe three rounds a day. You will find that it does not take strength, it gives strength!