Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisance’s.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

From Bhakta Luciano Macchiavelo Chile

I think this is the second time I send a message to the Blog, your nicknamed me Bhakta Lucifer (whick I find so funny). Luciano + Macchiavello =Lucifer 

A lot has passed since I asked to be your disciple like 4 years ago and formally asked for refugee a little under 2 years back. But I am slowly advancing as a devotee, maybe to slowly but I do feel at heart that I am advance. But I have kept going regularly to the temple.

At this moment I have no formal service, but I do a few things:

1: help in harinam.

2: Community Data Base.  Me and another Bhakta under the guidance of the temple president will be building a database of ALL Iskcon devotes in Chile.

3: Milk products for temple Deities. This service sprang  out of nowhere…  I buy countryside milk products for temple deities and deliver it to the Deity kitchen.  I collect money from devotes, but I end up financing most of this service from my own pocket.

ASA -   Excellent. Krsna loves you!

2 months ago I started working for a  USA company called Troll and Toad  which area  of business is collectable games, my job is basically buy collectable cards in Chile and send them to the company in USA, and help them in events in America Latina, I am traveling each weekend and in November I go to Puerto Alegre brazil fro an international Magic Game event.

Its strange that Krisna is pushing me to administrating Money, for my company (they sent me us$6000 last month), for the Milk for the Temple  Deities and a devotee that I will not mention has a family member deposit money in my account, I keep that money safe and when he needs me to from abroad he sends me a message to hand it over to another devotee.

ASA - -  Karma, karma, karma - Men, money, women.

The temple President Prabhu Amara Gouranga has been giving me space to sit in at his new administration meetings, he is in dire need of devotes who can and want to administrate and he is slowly giving me space to try and see where I can be useful.

Also  I do informal service of administrating 3 Facebook groups:

1: Lacto vegetarians in Chile 460 members

2: harinam Saknirtan Iskcon Chile

3 Congregacion Iskcon Chile. This has been very nice it started off with no members and I started adding devotees and Bhaktas, under the permision of the temple Presidente. It now hs 266 memebrs.  It’s a closed group so it’s a online space where devotes can post stuff more internal issues and share devote stuff for Chile. I see a lot of potential here. It has been conflict free upto now. I have a bit of a reputation as a heavy facebook argumentor… so the trouble makers avoid me ( I was participating a lot on vegan vegetarian  facegroups and gave the Vegans that offended devotes a hard time and gained the respect of a few of their leaders always a gentle man).

My relationship with the devotees has not been easy. I am a gentle man but very critical, not in an offensive way but because I want to help develop a strong community for preaching. Thus my neophyte stage always clashes with a few devotes. But I feel I have gained the respect of many due to my sincerity.

Today I went to temple and gave my respects top Srila Prabhupada and he looked at me grave, too serious, almost angry. My first thought was “Guru” You.  I need to develop a relationship with Guru.

“ 3weeks ago I was given Goura Nitay Dieties from the Chilean Brhamchari called Hari Das Chaitanya (personal assistant of Jayapataka Swami), he brought them from Mayapur.

I should have then asked you permsion to worship them but never got around to doing it.

My Sadhana is below par.

I have problem with my rounds, for that I am trying to get up very early to do at leastt 4 rounds around 5:30. A.m. and during the day fill in the rest.

I have no attraction for meat  and have not eaten meat/eggs etc for more than 10 years

I have no attraction for alcohol and not drank for more than 10 years

I have never done drugs.

I once smoked for 2 weeks (to try and fit in but that was stupid of me)

I do not gamble and the lst time I played a lottery ticket was like 3 years ago.

I tend to have a regular fall down in illicit sex, every few months someone appears to seem like the perfect wife… but not work….

Please guide and advise me.

With  your permission can I worship Guora Nitay?

Is there anything I can do for you?

Your aspiring servant

Bhakta Luciano

Trying to be the servant of the servant

My respects

HpS - ASA -- It is so, nice to hear from you!    We walked in talking circles in the pavillion back of the Temple, no?  All of your activities seem very nice.   Of course, the essence is to bath your self in the Holy Names.

Get up early and get your rounds done!