Spain~ Madrid
Hare Krishna, Dear Gurudev, Thank you for your time and for keeping a small reminder of who I am.
I deserve it, haha.
Yes, it was here in Spain. I haven't been to Lima in eight years. But I'm planning to go there at the end of this year.. I stopped dealing with the fines a long time ago; I now work at a Europcar car rental company.
A few days ago I visited New Vrajamandala, and thanks to a brother, I learned that you're located on the outskirts of or near New York. Is that correct?
On the other hand, what you say is true, except that insects, despite being much simpler or more basic, never act with hatred, revenge, or a desire to destroy for the sake of destruction, nor do they kill for pleasure, power, hatred, or ideology. Apparently, according to Fromm, it's a pathology specific to human beings. He identifies it as a tragedy exclusive to our species. Anyway...
Fortunately, we hope this pathology will transform into love, so today we have an altar at home again, with Gaura-Nitai, Jagannath, Baladeva, and Subhadra, a small Murti of Prabhupada, your photo, and that of Bhakti Bhusana Swami, the master of my partner and wife Devayani.
The truth is, I'm a little slow with the rounds. I'm not even getting to 16 yet, pffff!!! But I think it's just a matter of time. There are also battles in the mind, right? How could I approach this situation?
Well, for now, this is my news. I have nothing more to say, except that I always remember you.
Is there still anything I can do for you?
With love and affection,
Bhadra Vardhana.
HpS/ASA - Thank you, Prabhu. AgtSP!!!!
- Our Base Camp for many years was Nashville, Tennessee. It is rather far from New York. USA is VERY big. Nashville is like 2-1/2 hours by direct flight from New York. We have a movie on Vimeo about Nashville as a good place for a Teacher Training College for ISKCON. It is in the USA Middle-South.
- We remember that Srila Prabhupada said that if the trees could walk, they would take over the world. Trees and bushes look so peaceful, some offering fruits and flowers, but we imagine that if we suddenly saw them transformed into human bodies they would be like crazy, lusty, savage brutes, ready to kill, eat, torture foe sadistic pleasure, everyone that they could catch and we would feel grateful that they were chained by one foot to the earth. So, this lust and destructive gratification in there amongst the insects, but they enjoy it almost like vegetables. They are FORCED to experience their gratification. Forced to give external good and bad products. Maybe some little Karma. We see vicious chimpanzee, dogs, though mostly dogs do not have the level of free choice like humans, but to some degree, if they have a good master, then they can be in the mode of goodness, and feel shame and regret when they have been greedy and lusty and angry, no?
- Practically, getting back to 16-rounds a day, our Acharya's standard, he discusses it in one letter and even in the NoD. We have cited this many times and would like to have an Encyclopedia ASA, that collects all this advice of ASA, HpS, Monkey, Piggy, UG et al. Maybe six different GOOD devotees have tried to collect stuff and like us failed. Maybe Tom Brown can do something in his old age. Yet, in general, Srila Prabhupada says that if we try, we can get back to the standard. Even try to catch up the rounds we missed. He recommends fixing some vow that you really know with your honest introspection that you can keep. Eg. I will chant 12-rounds a day until Janmastami! Then when you mind whines and says that it cannot do it, you tell your mind, sit down and stop this whinning and do it! Then we get the experience, remember the experience, that chanting 16-nice rounds is the greatest thing I can do for money, Sankirtan, family service, health!!
O.K. Thank you. 8.54PM. We look at some of the Annual Reports and chant our Gayatri, sunset is like 9PM here, now.
We have been mostly Camping in Houston since December!!
