Hare Krishna Gurudev, 

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

We are super exhausted because all these responsibilities. Sometimes we want to run away with SB to a cave ( jajaja Arjuna...).

Today is Balaram purnima, so we beg for Bala!! Bhakti yoga rules!!

We meditate in BG 18.8 and have great realization, do not abandon things only cause they are difficult.

How to balance material life with spiritual life?

HpS - ASA --- Of course, there are pages of answers to this in the SB etc. Krsna's whole life in Dvaraka is a demonstration of this, but one simple formula that we think we heard from Bh'vinode Th. is that Morning is for your Spiritual Life. Don't look at you cell phone while you chant your rounds. Day time is for MAKING MONEY (with both hands), and evening is for Enjoying (go to the Super market with your family-friends and look for toys for your altar, watch KC DVDs).

How do we know what is essential, what is athyahara, prayasas?
ASA - On the basis of scripture, from the opinion of good men, from the Lord in the heart (bead-bag [Kirtan]).

We feel more and more that rural vaisnava community and cow-grazing is the way to go!!

ASA - Let's go! We planted and apple tree and rose bush on Janmastami and herd the neighbor's cats, but as we go lets take the cats and as many people as we can with us, no?

Mode of goodness seems so far away!!
ASA - Rome wasn't built in a day, and by the right means it's all play.

Thank you Gurudeva for all your inspiration. We really feel we are doing nothing for you!!

Please forgive us, we are super stupid and always busy,

Struggling to follow your footsteps,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HpS - So much of our service to each other is the example we set in our local life. We are inspired to hear of Los Platanos. How is Maha-jana's child?

Por favor acepte mis más respetuosas reverencias.

Todas las glorias a srila prabhupada.

Mi muy querido gurú maharaja ahora q tengo cuenta en esta página le escribiré más a menudo para mantenerme en comunicación y haceptar cualquier servicio que usted m quiera dar.

Por el momento estoy en servicio de las deidades de jagannatha, baladeva y srimaty subhadra leyendo el srimad bhagavatam y cantando mis rondas aunque aún me es algo difícil despertarme temprano.

Esperando noticias suyas mahajara y rogando a Sri krishna que se encuentre bien esperaré con ansias su respuesta.

Su sirviente eterno dharmaraja dasa.

HpS - ASA ---- Tan, tan bueno oir de Vd. Pensar en Alto Peru. Pico del mundo.  Que pasa con la iniciacion de Duglas????   Como esta la demas familia y Yatra???   Arjuna tuvo que dejar la asociacion de sus familiares como Bhisma, Duryodhana et al para servir a Krsna.    Oooof, la mas gran desafio!    No va a cama temprano por que queda despierta tarde con unos amigos, associados?

AGTSP!!!    paoho...  We can't find the collection of recipes right away that Nama' Das sent??!   It must be somewhere, but we hope he still has it and can continue to edit this book.

Here is Page One to BACHELOR BEANS - Recipes for Real Men:

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SOAK SOME SPLIT PEAS over-night and then boil them lightly in the morning while you chant one round of Rosary. Then add about the same amount of rolled oats (little salt and butter) and continue the light boiling for another round.

Transfer the whole Peas Porridge to your pot and settle down in front of your plate with your hands folded and your head bent and mumble a few heartfelt prayers to the good Lord who gave you life, and the father and mother who reared you. If you stay a real bachelor like that your whole life you will never have any problem which is not both an immediate opportunity, and a doorway to eternity for you and all.

Our greatest personal focus now is the writing project Prefaced below. We take this up with Radhika-ramana Das' assurance of help and of course all of you who read this now.
AGTSP!!!     paoho...

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DR. SINGH’S DINNER PARTY
A Multi-cultural View of Sankhya
(Science and Engineering in the Vedas)

Preface

Are your Top-hat and Tails straight?  Is your wife’s bouquet in bloom? We are going for a dinner party, both remembered and imagined and our host shall be Dr. T. D. Singh of the Bhaktivedanta Institute. We sat at such tables with such distinguished guests as Prof. Henry Stapp of the Livermore Laboratory; Dr. T. D. Singh, both Doctorate in Chemistry and traditional Bengali monk; Nobel Laureates Charles Townes; Sri John and Lady Eccles; Dalai Lama et al. Our aim is to build at least a little foot-bridge across the chasm that separates the cosmology, medicine, physics, psychology of the West from the East. Over this bridge we think that many valuable items like the rare perfumes and crystals goblets unique to China and Venice may pass, for the unprecedented benefit of our beleaguered modern world.

Who are these Monkeys in splendid livery who hold the door open to this enchanted carriage? Let us see how that is revealed as the different phases of the night progress, but at least let us say that scholarship in theology, Indology, electrical engineering, biology and psychology from Oxford, Berkeley and the far distant Calcutta University shall not be lacking.

Hare Krsna.

We could get really depressed really easy. We face the same challenges as you all. It is 7.00PM. It is almost dark outside. Definitely dark in our cave.    Good thing is our little air-conditioner is working enough to keep it cool enough to write. 95* outside this room.

NGD is the center of our real Vaisnava association here, and we have been immersed in ritual festivals the last two days and this evening he is drowing with rounds to catch up so we are alone in this Big, Impersonal, World.  (Boo Huu Huu!).

Actually a lot of it is that it is dark, our stomach is not pumping energy and we are alone.

After this letter we will go to Wal-Mart and look for a jar. There will be light and many people there and we can look at over 1-million Gismos and chant our last six rounds. With the hope of developing our eternal relations with all of our Sankirtan partners today, tommorrow and during the next year.

Janmastami was the best we ever had. Of course, previous ones have individual events that were also perfect, but this one was the best. We did hard, hard, hard physical labor for 3-hours planting a pear tree and a rose bush. That kept our senses fully active. (We hit a big hard root and had to remove it). Then the evening program was very nice with 20-minutes Kirtan, 20-minutes Reading and 20-minutes Japa for about two hours. After that more devotees and guests came and so we had to accomodate their attention with more culturally oriented programs. Also, we gave the Hawaii Janmastami SB class. There is very elevated peer association there.

On Janmastami we take a little milk at midnight, stash as much Maha-prasadam as we can get, and then take it after Mangala-arati. The sun hasn't risen so the fast for Srila Prabhupada hasn't started then. There was way, way, way too much chili in the offerings for us and we were suffering a lot from that, but made some adjustment with milk and cookies for Srila Prabhupada's feast.

We would have liked for people to chanted differently etc. but we expect that maybe until we get to Goloka we may still find imperfections in the Kirtan's etc as far as we are concerned.

We can smile. We can laugh at the Witch. We are doing practical work for Krsna.

Don't become depressed and try to drown your sorrows in Burfee or Mango-nectar.

I don't think we will answer anymore mail tonight. It is mostly practical and nothing practical can be done after 8PM.    O.K.  Chanting Japa, going out the the Bright City Lights.
Krsna book.

See you tommorrow!

Best of wishes for your Gaura-Sankirtan work!

We sent the following letter to Beverely and Darrol with copies to Radhika and NGD:

Jaya Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Scholars, Friends et al,
We are first concerned that you are all well and in the best of spirits. We have not heard from Jungian Psychology in New York or Inter-faith Dialog out of Canada since we parted in Peru!  We wrote to Beverely and called once but have not heard. Any problems?

We have continued with our little efforts to illuminate the world while also being seduced to some degree by the forces of darkness in the form of too much nighttime orange juice and ice-cream.

Ramon continues with great enthusiasm in these educational lines we saw blossoming in Peru. With the new President and his newly appointed Minister of Culture, Ramon may continue as Director of the National Museum for another five years, but in any case he has already been directly invited by the new President to be his Director of the Bi-centennial events for the anniversary of Peru's liberation from Colonial, political, domination. Of course, the question of liberation from intellectual and cultural domination immediately  arises and to this extent he is very, very open to literary or other contributions from Indian or other perspectives that address this issue in very practical ways.

"Solaris" magazine is going out in Spanish and we are already expanding our dialog with Trans-personal Psychologists. We are quite advanced toward publishing the English edition. Our current strategy is to work toward a world-wide symposium in 2018 on "Art and the Sacred", and during 2017, smaller, effective dialogs with professionals in the area of "Psychology and the Sacred". "Solaris" would be the backbone of developing all this. Very personally we are starting to work very seriously on a book on "Sankhya", which is the whole cosmology of the Vedic wealth. We are enjoying the help of Alejandro, Miguel Polo  and Professor Ravi Gupta. We hope to do something very useful.

Our heath is pretty good for 68-years old. Our office/Ashram was invaded by sometimes mean spiders while we were gone, but we seem to be winning that war. Our religious institution, ISKCON, is growing. For example, receiving a robust personal letter of congratulations from the new Prime Minister of England, and of course, along with that facing new, very serious challenges that are complete different from the ones that it originally faced as a young evangelical movement (God's Marines).

What is your news?    We are based in Nashville until January 1st, then go for some Symposia and other work in India until third week of February. This October-November, we will be in a little tour of Chicago, Richmond, Raleigh and D.C. Any work we can do for you?  We would certainly like your help in this "Solaris" and other work!

Sincerely,
Hanmatpresaka Swami
Prof. H. H. Robinson
NIOS