HAre KrSna! Prabhus and any CIA or FBI agents reading!
We are sitting on the floor of the living room/dinning room of our mobile home in the Boro. It is 82-degrees outside of this room, but we have a little portable air-conditioner working here.
Oink!
We keep remembering over and over again that this is just a movie, a stage show where we are using puppets to talk to each other and not looking at each other really.
All kind of like a madhouse.
If we really saw each other, at least talking for us, then we would see such selfish, cruel, people. In Srila Prabhupada's shadow we can keep physical and mental gentleness.
Today is Ekadasi. Doesn't matter too much to us. We are trying to only eat fruit, milk, carrots, nuts every day. Potatoes on Sunday.
If we eat beans and grains they go more to our stomach and then we "think" from our stomach. Seems better at this point to think from our heart, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.
We think of so many devotees, M. Palika and Caturatma for example, and how nice they are. They have no reason to be nice. They are intelligent. They could be competitive and materialistic, but they chose to be devotees. To really see if they are pleasing Krsna, as they have heard about Him from Srila Prabhupada.
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We had an extremely shocking dream last night. We were like someplace in Vrndavana and there was one Mataji, younger devotee, 26-32, with everyone and she was talking about something and then she went into this like lament, "Oh, Radharani, my Mistress, when will you give up this cruel separation from You and let me serve you again! Let me come back to you again!"
It was really heart rending. We are coming apart at the seams just remembering it.
Krsna is the property of Radharani, because She serves Him with Her last ounce of strength, but She is not selfish. She shares Him with Her friends, arranges that they can walk with Him, joke and play with Him personally. Of course, it is very intense and they may only want 15-seconds of that once a year, but She is not selfish.
Is that where we belong?
Are we meant for Vaikuntha, Ayodhya, Mathura?
All these places are just expansions of Vrndavana. Perspectives for the improvement of Vrndavana. They are best with some of that perspective. You think Vrndavana is a very old place? No, it has just started. No, none even knows what to do there yet. Just started. Oh, yes, there is a bigger world but Vrjabasis just forget about that. Vrndavana is like a little village, town, in the middle of a great forest with one road coming in and then going out. Sometimes people come down the road, but in general, Vrajavasis just forget about the rest of the world because they have so many problems and preoccupations in their own world.
6.11PM - NGD just called. He is going to the program at Vijaya Ji's home tonight. It will be in Hindi, Radha-ramana Swami is here for three nights. We walked together for weeks on the Braja-mandal Parikrama everyone year. You get to know people in that experience.
We asked him and Mataji to pick us up at 6.45PM. We can sit in the class and also go on the porch and do FEP in English.
O.K. Pack up and some Japa!
The Holy Names, The Holy Names, if you don't know what to do then just chant the Names, then you will get all good advice about how to get the greatest gain.
