Hare Krishna !!!!

All Glories to Guru Maharaj.

All glories to Srila Prabupad.

Please accept my humble obeisance unto your Lotus Feet Guru Maharaj 🙏🙏🙏.

I very happy when I listened your Jop Joe [Japa Joe] and Online classes. This is the greatest opportunity and kindness to listen your Jop Meditation for me Guru Maharaj.

From long times I was searched to listen your Jop Meditation directly, And once day Guru Maharaj you recorded short type video in our What's app group. When I received you video and listen your Jop my mind is full excited and feeling happiness.

So Thank you very much Guru Maharaja you listen my heart beat.

Questions 1: Dear Beloved Guru Maharaj, as a disciple, how can I perform service (seva) so that you will be pleased with your disciples?"

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna. So, nice to hear from you. Name of group is "Japa Joe". I think this is the link to the history of the name and our Anjana Suta Academy and some of our philosophy of Japa.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/5/#bb5954 gives nice explanation of Guru and Disciple. Myself, anyone in ISKCON, are disciples of Srila Prabhupada. We all accept him as our uttama adhikari guru, Founder and Acharya of ISKCON.

He defines Disciple as one who follows the Discipline of another. Chanting sixteen enthusiastic rounds minimum and following four principles, taking initiation from one of his initiated disciples according to the rituals, makes us his disciples. Of course, I, you, everyone, have specific disciplines, details we apply under his authority.

I served with the Bhaktivedanta Institute under his authority. That was a discipline which most people don't follow.

Other devotees don't sleep unless they can distribute one book daily.

So, as our disciple, when you are following Srila Prabhupada's discipline, we are very pleased, nourished, by you efforts.

Thank you.

Especially during Kartika he instructs us to offer lamps to Damodara and chant the D'astaka: http://kksongs.org/songs/n/namamisvaram.html.

If you follow our discipline as academically inclined people, then you want to memorize the astaka and learn the word by word meanings.

Just because we have become ISKCON Diksa guru for some, does not mean that we are the only or even ultimate siksa guru for them under Srila Prabhupada's Siksa Guru position. GBC is ultimate managing authority.

Questions 2: Guru Maharaj, how can I perform service (seva) in this holy month of Kartik Damodar to receive the mercy (kripa) of Krishna?"

HpS - Also, nice question. Answer above, no?

Yours most innocent disciple.

Kapidhvaja Das

Tripura, India

HpS - Does our answer help?

More Questions?

Hope you are well situated in ISKCON mission in Tripura!!

TlgaSP Pamho! 

Amado Gurudev por favor acepte nuestras reverencias! Feliz Damodara Masa para Usted! Disculpe demora en responder. 

Con mi hija estamos bien, tratamos de mantener una buena consciencia y servicios. 

Estamos muy felices porque tendremos su asociación presencial, es una gran misericordia y motivación.

 Yí Lin está muy emocionada.

He comenzado a estudiar online para obtener un título de Terapeuta. Ésto me permitirá acompañar a niños y adultos que enfrentan ansiedad, traumas y demás. 

Espero tener las bendiciones para ser útil en servicio y ayuda. 

Yí Lin le envía muchos cariños, le gusta mucho verlo por goto. 

Gracias por su infinita bondad

Con cariño, una aspirante a discípula

Edd

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TlgaSP. Pamho!

Beloved Gurudev, please accept our obeisances! Happy Damodara Masa to you! Sorry for the delay in responding.

My daughter and I are doing well; we try to maintain a good conscience and service.

We are very happy to have your in-person association; it is a great mercy and motivation.

Yi Lin is very excited.

I have begun studying online to obtain a Therapy degree. This will allow me to accompany children and adults facing anxiety, trauma, and more.

I hope I have the blessings to be useful in service and help.

Yi Lin sends you much love; she loves seeing you on Goto.

Thank you for your infinite kindness.

Love, an aspiring disciple.

Edd

HpS/ASA - Thank you. Yes, agtSP!!! How old is Yi Lin? Is her family heritage of she of Chilean origin?

Dear Maharaja and devotees;

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

All glories to Guru and Gauranga.

Sunday, October 19, 2025, at 7.30am, Houston time (CST ~~ time zone)

We will continue reading Madhya Lila; 16.156 onwards.

The Lord's Attempt to Go to Vrindavana)

We might be able to cover about 40 verses.

Thank you to H. G. Nikunja Bihari for willing to doing Spanish translation for class on October 19, for reading notes of CC and also Maharaja's class.

H. G. Mitravinda Mataji will be back up for H. G. Nikunja Bihari prabhu, in case there are some technical issues.

Maharaja, thank you for engaging everyone in reading systematically books of Srila Prabhupada. Your comments for email notification helps the students to think about incorporating new changes in class; thank you for your guidance and your valuable association.

Your Servant

Upendra Dasa

October 6, 2025

pamho, AGtSP!

TILL DEATH DO WE PART.

  Thought I’d better write before I’m dead, too busy to be this old, yet, am learning to pace better. The jobs are all odd now, aside from “Harinam,’it seems to be a re-honed destiny, bringing reality.

Now having to fix our gate and fence, occasional side work in the trades and keep vigilant with dear Subhra’s compromises in career.

She’s now doing administration and I monitor her stress from the “slaughter house of knowledge.”

Regardless she sometimes, covertly, influences sincere people into the Temples’ fold, something unintentional and quite bold for modern Academic standards.

While all the juggling & balancing go on, the 16-4 is truly what sustains us in days that are sometimes too long. It is our foundation in our house of gyrations, along with some sincere effort in our Buddhi aspirations... carry on, chant the Holy Song!

 YUGA DHARMA FIRST.

 Speaking of duty, the “Gate” has 2 posts out, one to go, then 3 specifically placed 4X’S.

Today just digging out and then off to Gainesville (GNV) for Friday Harinam. Tuesdays we do Harinam in Alachua, seems to help lessen my conditioned state, God knows I do need association, out for now, digging in the dirt, got another post out, one to go... if it wasn’t warped I could of left it there, se la vie.

. . .

Showered up and heading to GNV, 4pm Hari Nam at 13^th & University across from the UF campus, we’ve got a few devotees, mostly seniors and Prabhupada disciples, still more to come, we’re on for 90 minutes, more or less, preferably more! Looks like it will be even more, Football game tomorrow, we come and chant at the pre-game entrance, a lot of good exposure.

. . . 

   Keeping pace on japa this morning, have to keep it going, and then we can focus on the Harinam this afternoon. If done right it will also free time for a bit of the “Honey-Dues” at the house. ‘Grha’ is a tricky ashram and I now know why Vanaprastha is offered, it’s to keep a vision of dharma to prevent from getting buried in a deep-well covered with grass.

   Finished our Saturday “bonus” Kirtan at the “Gator Game,” now back at our abode, we had a good group of about 25 devotees at the University of Florida, quite few new Russians visiting, we all managed to get fired up enough that the rain held off till we left, free shower after a balmy campus Kirtan. Devotee association really does keep us enthusiastic. Next game is October 17^th in Jacksonville, time for road tour.

 DAILY SEVA TAPASYA.

     Been keeping up with Yantra-Japa now for almost 3 years now, and have been getting some presentiments of shortcomings. If more focus is not applied, sleep becomes an enemy in this “jotting-japa” (as with any japa) and may now see actual deflection of concentration on paper. When my autopilot takes over during nod-offs, immediate scrawls or disfigured shapes graphically appear on the chart.

  The good part is I may retro-fit some fresh mantras in to correct, whereas on mala I tend to lose track. With age, that “sleeping” tendency gets to easy. When consciousness and lethargy hover together it is almost a third state of consciousness, very self-deceptive. Standing up, spray of water, or even a short break does help restore attentiveness. I know this will be an ongoing battle till the end. Challenge is on!

. . .

  Well, well, time does tell, another project within another project. Likened to dominoes, one leads to another. This is a formula that becomes quite a task in daily affairs, along with lifetime practices, yet the needful brings to needed fulfillments, not just for the self, but to persons in “need,” this why the art of seva is so rewarding, it’s not for us... it is US! We are complete when engaged and temporarily surcharged to perform, then rest until the next service; this is peremptory training in my humble opinion. Be it duty or decreed, it will bring satisfaction in selfless activities, just what we need, thus fulfilling closings in daily services, enchanting our Soul and pleasing the Supreme, a worthy goal.

HpS/ASA - Jayananda Das commented that you don't need a big, very significant service at every, even any moment. You just need to always be engaged in service. That service is the best way to be engaged in more intense and broadly significant service. "vidya vadu jivanam"

Kartika

It’s that time again! The month of enhanced awareness and sacrifice, do what I can, maintaining always is a good start.

Love the extra songs with the pastimes, breaks routine to tangible notions of devotion. Pet project is the completion of the SFRY SEVA book and sending it to Granthraja Prabhu. 1st day in, guess this is a good time to drop this letter at the Monkeys tree.

HpS - Maybe learning word by word meanings of part or all of the song.

Learn how to respond to the song without a song sheet. how to lead without a song sheet.

we are reading Vrndavana Dhama Mahimamrta as translated by his grace kusa krata das. posted details on the WhatsApp group!

Thank you for your most valuable time.

sincerely, C.C. your servant in training. 

hps/asa - how much is our time worth by the hour???? is there soul-money? USA Karmi paycheck is in Wally Dollars, no? Money that can be exchanged for any goods or services at Walmart.

We are getting paid in dollars that can be exchanged for things at K-Mart??

[Remember. Money is just Monkey spelled with a K (for KRSNA) inserted in the middle. 😱

Have lots of Mon(k)ey! It's good for you!

Of course, we are eternal and possessed of unlimited energy. Self recharging AAA cells. Thus, all we want to do is serve Krsna.

Haw Haw Hare!

We are manufactured to work for free, forever.

For Go, Gopa, Gopi Govinda-nandana!

Who is Self absorbed in His own narcistic pleasures!

Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna...

Hare Krishna, Maharaja pamho.

hps/asa - all glories to srila prabhupada!!!

well, I think it’s good Maharaj; I see devotees there serving Krishna nicely. I offer my obeisances to them.

frankly speaking I don’t think I can do anything there; actually and unfortunately I don’t feel almost any atracción to that place.

hps - what place is that???

let us see if we can find a previous letter to you.

...

looks like the bhakti vedanta manor???

...this year I have visited probably less than 10 times; my misfortune. but I don’t feel bad about it. I do understand it’s okay I just need to protect myself the best I can and try to be in the places that I feel inspired and willing to chant more and more.

now I am working in the tattoo shop of my sister with herself and also my mom too so I try to engage them in the distribución of books here in the shop, we have a very wide public so it’s a good opportunity.

but yes I feel like increasing my devotional activities more and more so I am already making plans to do so maybe in the uk at least for short periods of time or maybe even a lifetime.

also I am removing some of my most visible tattoos like my head and neck so I look more like a Prabhupad disciple; so yes trying everyday… chanting the holy names and having faith that Krishna will provide the intelligence and everything else needed to make further development in Krishna consciousness.

Maharaj please be merciful unto me and give me some light so I can see the path clear and clear. 🙏🏾

Hare Krishna thank you Maharaj.

Bhakta Jorge

that guy who came across Srila Prabhupad books by merely accident.

hps/asa - you seem to be running along in the right direction.

yes.

there are different paths and ways to move toward the wonderful city of braj!!

where you will meet the society you love.

and misses you.

and is watching you at every minute on celestial security cameras.

one path you might try immediately is to sit down with your soul and ask it.... "how many rounds can you chant daily for the next two weeks eg. ekadasi to the next ekadasi".

then do it.

if your mind says, no, then you stop breathing until it does what you both know it can do.

can be one round each year on janmastami.

one round a day for two weeks.

four...

16...

this is a path in from Nectar of Devotion.

Thank you!!!

THank you very much!!!!!!

You've got work to do.

Querido Gurudev: Pamho. TgSP y sus seguidores fieles.

Es una gran noticia saber que finalmente ha decidido venir a España y darnos su asociación. Estamos muy contentos por ello. Si Dios quiere estaremos en el aeropuerto esperando su llegada el dia 25. Si Papa Noel viene en el mismo vuelo y no tiene vehiculo tambien podemos llevarlo a Nueva Vrajamandala.

En cuanto a hacer algún programa en la Universidad Complutense, parece difícil en esas fechas. En Navidad la Universidad está cerrada y los profesores, tradicionalmente, suelen estar con sus familias. Quizás a la vuelta de India podríamos mirar algo. De los contactos de profesores que tengo en Antropologia ( Borja, Alex y Mónica), creo que solo Mónica sigue en la Universidad Complutense (no se si tiene alumnos o esta en algún cargo administrativo). La última vez que contacté con Borja estaba en Alemania y Alex en Málaga -los dos trabajaban con Mónica en la UCM pero ya han volado del nido. Le preguntaré a Mónica si se puede hacer algún programa en la Universidad o nos puede presentar a algún compañero que pueda tener interés.

En lo personal, ya llevo casi cuatro meses viviendo en Brihuega y la experiencia es bastante positiva. Programa matinal completo de lunes a viernes y la asociación de devotos que se han tomado en serio la vida espiritual. Además de los devotos españoles, tenemos visitas de otros devot@s itinerantes como Purushatraya Swami, Arcita Prabhu, Murti devi dasi (Brasil), etc. que nos inspiran con su ejemplo para seguir con entusiasmo el proceso.

Quedamos a la espera de sus noticias y necesidades para poder atenderlo lo mejor que podamos.

Esperando se encuentre bien de salud (al menos mental) se despide

su sirviente

Jayanta das

HpS/ASA - TlgaSP!!! pfanrh.... gracias su car ta ta.... si, entendo de las fechas. idea es que posible podemos reuna con unos professores o otros, devotos academicos, payasos, cual quiere, para realizar programas despuese de volver de india.

swami yadu esta en media de comprar boletos para el viaje a india y pronto vamos a terner mas detalles de fechas.

esta contruido su caban en nvm???????