Hare Krsna Maharaja,

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

I was planning on having the letter come at the start of March based on the timeline for initiation.

On the 2nd, Mother Nidra, Abhay Prabhu and I celebrated your vyasapuja with a bhoga offering, puspanjali, arati performed by Mother Nidra while I led kirtan, and I shared some of my intentions for serving you and offered some promises I made to you and rememberances of when we were in Houston.  It was very nice.

On New Years Eve we had maybe 20 or so devotees chanting at an event downtown and the crowds that gathered around us to dance would get so large that police had to try to get them to make way for others to have room to get by.  It was ecstatic, I wish every day was like that.

Maharaja, I have big plans that I want to begin work on in 5 years that I am not at all qualified for.  My intention is to try to prepare myself for them from now until then, and to be brahmacari for around 3 years or so for intense purification and training starting shortly.  It seems the closer I get to Krishna, the more I think about falling back to a safer, less intense position and slowing or stagnating my advancement, and the more I think about that, the more I want to surrender fully to His instruction and never leave His lotus feet ever again.  I am just a rascal with no bhakti, but how could I deny myself to Him, and how could I live otherwise?  While I do not feel qualified to do anything good, I can not imagine turning back now.

I am looking forward to being purified by your presence again when you come to New Badarikashrama again!  We have 7 brahmacaris now, and could have 11 or 12 including myself by the time you are here again!

Hoping that somehow or other I can serve you well,
Bhakta David II

HpS - Jaya!  AGTSP paoho.  Thank you for the nice letter. Your life and journey are very  nice to hear about. We will be touring USA in the fall.

I hope the DTC gives enough news of us. You can see that we have little time for anything right now. In USA in four days.