Hare Krishna Gurumaharaja
Please accept my humble obeisancess 

Couple of months since i write to you, please forgive my negligence.
I just want to share with you how excited and happy I'm because after many fail tries finally the opportunity to visit Holy places in India became real for me. Im been waiting for this all my life, i feel unqualified but i have the intense desire to have the experience. 
Please give us your blessing to open our hearts and minds and see a spark of all that nectar and knowledge in the Holy Dham. I will be traveling with a family from Dallas, all Bhakti Charu Maharaja disciples, we are planning to travel for about a month and visit Mayapur and Jagannatha puri (from may 31 to july 5). I will be back in Houston for teacher training and the symposium in July.
Im doing Giriraj parikram almost every day asking for blessings, focusing in chanting and reading about Mayapur dham and lord Caitanya teachings book. 

I would like to ask your recommendations to try to avoid commit offenses  an for a specific reading that i should to do.  

Thank you so much for your infinite mercy Gurumaharaja, without YOU all this could not be possible for me. 

So many realizations this last few months, all reminding me that i can take cheaply the service that im getting, i should to appreciate and treasure it. 

Mother Urmila was visiting with her Sri manah-siksa translation and commentary  book, And made me realized how big my ego was, feed it by pride and a fake idea about myself, i realized so many of my anartas (many of them subtles  like attachment to recognition and pride) and i think the best thing to do is just be Humble, keep chanting and keep doing service. ! 

And more recently Radhanath swami maharaja was visiting with his book The Journey Within, one of his motivator to generate the book is Bhakti Thirta Swami. maharajas was talking about him and when he was leaving his body, the impact that Maharajas Bhakti thirta left in him. Vaisnava association ! We can not continue is this path without the vaisnavas. 

Im getting so much association here. Subhra and CC are becoming very essential for my spiritual guidance. Gurudeva, How we choose a Siksa guru?   What are the characteristics that Siksas show ?. What is the protocol?
I really enjoyed their association last Dallas Ratha Yatra. I trust and i feel comfortable with them. 

I feeling motivated in my service in the School Gurudeva, everytime that i teach something i think in the difference that I'm making in this children's minds, i feeling happy to think that I'm facilitating space to be one step closer to Krishna. 

Always seeking for you lotus feet mercy

Yours in service
Govinda Pramodini Devi Dasi

HpS - AGTSP. paoho. Thank you for this letter!    May Krsna bless you with His utmost mercy. Actually really try to see extraordinary mercy that He is sending to you now. Sometimes we want this and that but Krsna and Radha know that we need something else, so we make it hard, or even impossible for them to send us the right thing.
Seems to us you are doing pretty well getting the mercy.

Of course, best of wishes in your trip. Don't try to go too many places, or all you will see is the inside of trains, taxis, buses or planes. Practically, any place you stay in India and chant Hare Krsna will be an enormous experience. Why should this be the last time you go?!   Go every year!

The book I like the best is 'Vrndvana-dhama-mahimamrta' by Prabodananda Sarasvati.
You can download it at: http://www.jayarama.us/archives/vdm.doc

Sudama Swami said that Prabhupada said that anyone who enlivens us in devotional service by citing relevant words from the scriptures or the previous Acharyas is a Siksa-guru.

It does not need to be formal.

It needs to be practical. The pujari who trains you how to Deity service is a Siksa-guru. Your Sankirtan leader can be a Siksa guru.

O.K???

Write a lot while you travel, even stupid everyday stuff. Six years from now it will be PURE NECTAR.