All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru Maharaj.

Hare Krsna, dear Guru Maharaj. Please accept my humble obeisances at Your sweet lotus feet.

HpS - Are you sure they are not hooves???

Yes, Guru Maharaj, I teach as well as do a little research on Clinical Physiology. My research area of interest is Yoga. So I work on Autonomic nervous system functions. I do not practice Medicine as I can't afford the time .

Guru Maharaj , 3 of the matajis who were part of the group offering raas dance at Guru Maharaj's last visit to Manipur would like to get initiated. They are chanting and following the regulative principles. They are joining morning and evening classes regularly. We participate in temple programmes too. How do we go about the initiation? From whom should they be initiated?

HpS - I would really like to act as Diksa guru for Srila Prabhupada, Founder Acharya of ISKCON. It can be a nice service, but I really see that I cannot handle the Karma. It is a broader topic, but in some ways to our comprehension, it is the job of a younger man.

Yet, we can be Siksa guru. ISKCON GBC law says that disciples can elect someone as a formal Siksa guru along with the Diksa guru at the time of initiation.

This gives interesting perspective on femal Diksa guru also, no?

Means for example that with everyone's agreement and clarification some one could accept Mother Urmilla Devi Dasi as Siksa guru and H. H. Romapada Swami as Diksa under under Srila Prabhupada.

So maybe we can be involved as Siksa guru with them. Other than that H. H. Haridas Das Swami seems like a qualified person to be Diksa guru.

What do you all think of that?

What does he think of that?

Guru Maharaj, how do we remain steady and consistent in our devotional services? How do we reach the su sukham kartum abhyayam state?

HpS - ASA --- In summary it seems that devotional service is practically described in the first text of NoI. Then texts two and three tell us how to remain steady in executing text one. Does that help? Of course, if we are talking about "nistha" (https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/4/10/#bb1200), steady, then more depth, no?

Your insignificant servant,

Sarad Gaurangi DD

HpS - No, very significant servant. Radha Krsna candra! H. H. BS Damodara Swami, Ki Jai!