Jai, Sri Krsna!
Esteemed Professor, Master Harsh et al,
Here we are still in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Our health is still very delicate with need to rest as much as 9-hours in a day now. Our best medical advice is that we have to continue to adjust our work to live according to our Donkey's age.
In this regard we are basically working to develop a list of priorities and schedule that we can maintain personally and then responding from that perspective to the suggestions of others.
As of now this NIOS work is one of the very topmost priorities for us. We have had a series of discussions on maintaining the functioning of NIOS by shifting its operation to Texas and joining a broader educational corporation there, Goloka Education. This is taking time and energy and we shall be sending you particular notices on this.
Of course we have had our local work with Dr. Ravi and the big Celebrate Nashville Festival this weekend.
I received the final bill from Ma Saraadia press and now we only wait for the general accounting for this one project from your good self.
In this maze of NIOS work two projects seems prominent to us: Distribution of the books we have and the co-operation with the National Library of Peru on the annual journal, "Solaris", and an international conference on "Psychology of the Sacred". Both of these are moving along well with very, very senior scholars and editors. Particularly we have a meeting scheduled by phone tomorrow night with the Director of the Library, who has been beleaguered by hosting the International Monetary Fund, with Presidents and Representatives of 50-nations in Peru. He has written an EXCELLENT paper on the history of religion and psychology and at this point we are looking for someone who wants to go ahead very, very seriously in a dialog between Sri Caitanya's Bhagavata School and Occidental view of nature with this perspective of Jung. Unless we get this the journal and symposium will not have life. Can you help in this?
Besides NIOS and its administrative work, there is of course our personal Sadhana, without which we would be dead. We keep that from 4.30-5.30AM On-Line and are committed to four classes on SB and BG weekly in Spanish and English.
These classes we feel should satisfy our very great debt to our ISKCON disciples and students.
Finally, we have our obligations as members of the Executive Committee of ISKCON'S Ministry of Education but we feel that those are being satisfied by their relationship with the aforementioned Sadhana Bhakti publication and education work.
Of course, there is more work to be done, structuring our strategy, but in-spite of all these challenges we are making tangible progress.
We will try to call both you are Harsh tomorrow and look for any mail from you as soon as possible.
We are anxious to hear about any work you are doing and if Pranava Das has contacted your good self.
HpSwami
NIOS - ASA
