I can’t believe I found your blog through Sol’s site! I’m gonna add you to my blogroll too Its amazing to read about Cape Town yatra on the net - we have an amazing devotee community! See you at ratha yatra next week in Durbz - you coming rite?

Dandavats
Svasti

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Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

100 dandavat pranams.

It’s so nice to see you blogging! I somehow stumbled onto your blog and suddenly got overwhelmed by such nice memories of the time I spent with the devotees in Cape Town. Actually I constantly think of all of you, at least three times a day. This seems to be Krsna’s answer to my deep hankering to know how the devotees are all doing in Cape Town and what they are up to. It’s been so long! Thank you for providing all these updates.

After Cape Town, I returned to Mauritius where I worked for a few months, and currently I’m in the UK continuing my postgraduate studies, which are now more focused on ISKCON-related seva under the compassionate guidance of Braja Bihari Prabhu. Things are far more challenging here, in that sadhu-sanga is extremely rare but somehow by the mercy of the vaisnavas my spiritual standards are being maintained and I do get to visit devotees and temples as often as possible. [Was at London Soho temple for Gaura Purnima - that was ecstasy beyond bounds]

Please please convey my dandavat obeisances to Radha Sanga Prabhu and ask her how is her mrdanga playing!! I still get to do this service here, teaching really basic Mrdanga at the ISKCON Newcastle temple whenever I go there. I am actually still using the same old teaching format I used with Radha Sanga Prabhu herself, and by her mercy it’s working here also with some of the Newcastle temple congregation members! I however do lament that I have no mrdanga of my own here, and can’t even afford to buy one yet as everything is so expensive in this country. Please request her blessings on my behalf. She is a very exalted vaisnava.

Also kindly convey my most humble obeisances at the dust of the lotus feet of Mayapurchandra Prabhu and Suvarna Prabhu. I constantly take shelter of the really fond memories of their association! All glories to them!

And the prasadam of the mystical cook of all times - Yugala Kishor Prabhu. Thinking about such things can sometimes wreck the mind with distress, considering that here I cook for myself, and my cooking is literally to keep body and soul together So I will not dwell on that for too long.

I really miss the cape town devotees, the sunday feast kirtans, the classes of Shyamananda Krsna Prabhu. When will the day come again when I can accompany the singing of Mukunda Caran Prabhu? When will I chant japa again in the Bramha-Muhurta in the association of the most saintly Kobus Prabhu? When will I again be blessed with the sweet friendship of Nitai-pada Kamala prabhu and the thoughtfulness of Vraj Krsna Prabhu? I do not know. I have to keep praying. Maybe one day, maybe in a few years, if Krsna so desires.

100 Dandavat pranams to all of you, please kindly forgive whatever offences I might have committed knowingly or unknowingly during the too short time I have been blessed with your personal association.

Kindly remember me in your prayers to Sri Sri Nitai Mayapurchandra. The blessings of all of you is everything I am made of, for I have no real taste for devotional life. I dependent on the mercy of all of you.

Lilamayi Subhadra Prabhu, please continue your compassionate task of inspiring the conditioned souls by sharing the depth of your realizations. All this is really amazing stuff! All glories!

I hope you are all well, enjoying sound health and in ecstatic Krsna Consciousness.

Aspiring to be the servant of the servant of your servants,

Bhakta Ved

PS: I just remembered with a lot of embarrassment how I accidentally dropped half my cup of lassi (or something) on you during the Janmastami 2005 feast, out of sheer clumsiness; I don’t think I apologized thoroughly enough for that. Please kindly forgive my offence.