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Hare
Krsna

HareRama...   Monkey/Piggy from Alabama, or rather Tennessee.     This state borders on eight other states!

We have done a lot of werke 2-day: Blog. Yahoo. FMP. Sent the "Art and the Say-cred" file to Ambo Rsi Das...  (It took 30-minutes to upload and 15% of our Data for the month!  Yet, it was WORTH it. [When Ambo getz it up, it will knock of your ksockz off!!!]).

It is a nice Sunday here. 2.30PM.     We're sitting on the floor in our little, little, living room in our little, little Mobile Home looking out the front door at OUR little, little pear tree. and green grass. and cars racing by on Medical Center Park way.    (Sunshine on our shoulders makes us happy...)

At 5PM we will go-for-a-walk with NGD and the Murfreesboro All Boys Marching Club.

* * *THE EYES don't ache or tear too much any more but Foe Kus is still crud and so we can't use the computer too much.

***Getting so much work done every day!

Hare Krsna!

You see from the other letters what's happening.

By God's mercy we got 18/21 rounds done!   We had five left over from yesterday!!

Oink! Oink!   Whoop!    Whoop!
Krsna wants to play night and day. We want to help as we may.
Srila Prabhupada knows,
how,
with our help,
the fun it grows and grows.

That's all.

Hare Krishna MAharaj pamho agtsp.

Maharaj now I am in Los Angeles temple I landed here on 18 of April. Am doing services here and living in the asrama. I can stay legally here three months so that’s my plan for now.

Communication whit the Manor was good but Parama karuna Prabhu told me that for them to recibe me was ok at the middle of May  but I was having a very difficult time there in Barcelona so I couldn’t wait and I decided to visit the prabhupad disciples here in LA.

Am writing  this from my phone so please forget any mistakes I just wanted to let you now what’s happening. Hare Krishna.

HpS - ASA -  AgtSP!   Agt Rukmini Dvarkadisha!   Svavasa Prabhu, Gauda-canda Prabhu.   So nice to hear from "Rey Jorge".      As long as you can breath the L.A. air the Temple has always been a great place for spiritual advancement. Of course, it is a great place to get entangled in Maya with Hollywood, Venice Beach, Beverely Hills.  Devotees say that L. A. can also stand for Lost Angels, no?    -[;o)/\____

Become our investigative journalist in New Dvaraka. Send us news about the efforts to find where Ravana has taken Sita for us!

Thank you for all of your enlivening  responces, Maharaja.

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!!!!   Sorry it has taken a week to answer this letter!   Traveling we are constantly meeting with devotees and no time to handle anything but URGENT mail!!!  We are back in our Base Camp now.

PAMHO

The sun is rising at 6:52 here in Boise. I have been waking up at 4am. I am trying to see the bed as an enemy and cultivate the desire to play in Prabhupada’s band.

HpS - Super Dog!!  (See attached photo).

My apologizes for the two letters that were similar. I thought the first one didn’t get posted so I wrote it again. I am still getting acquainted with the blog here.

HpS - ASA ---  Another sign of a pure devotee . . . NOI Three. 

I will give you an update in a month. 

AGTSP!

Thank you again, Maharaj. 

Your aspiring servent, 

-Nick

HpS - You seem to be on the right path and making enormous progress. At this pace we shall get to The Emeral City in just a few more days and then meet The Wizard of Oz and he can tell us how to get back to Kansas (or rather Goloka!).   Thank you so much.   Will your family come for the initiation???

Haré krsna GuriGur por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias

Seguimos en vrindavan es una bendición estar aquí , los ekadasis vamos a Govardhan parikram por las mañanas tengo servicio en la cocina para los devotos . Ayer que fue ekadasis fuimos a parikram y un baba me regaló una sila, me dijo que se llamaba Gopal Giriraj, entonces mi pregunta es si usted me da sus bendiciones para adorarla?

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!    Have you been following a strict Brahminical standard for six years???   It is very serious thing. It is like having a baby. You can't just forget Him because you are tired of Him!!

También quiero informarle que deseo formalizar mi relación con una devota que conocí en paraguay y que me ha acompañado hasta en mi viaje a india es discípula de Hridayananda Maharaja , es de paraguay su nombre es Nitya Rupa dd.

HpS - Awk!   Esposa, Sila!!      What do you mean "me ha acompañado hasta en mi viaje a india". You are traveling alone with an un-married girl!!   Dios Mio!   Es un escandulo!   Please more details. Do here parents, Temple President, Guru, know that the two of you are exchanging smiles and intimate talks?  Both the Sila and the Wife could be O.K. but let's be careful here!

Estamos viendo que será lo que Krsna nos tenga preparado , por ahora la idea es regresar a Asunción-Paraguay y distribuir prasadam y además estamos llevando deidades y lo necesario para un centro de prédica . Usted que piensa Gurudev?

HpS - ASA --  translate.google.com ---    It could all be very, very nice!   Of course it could be a catastrophy also. Waiting for your answers. Follow what you read in Prabhupada's books, chant 16-nice rounds and discuss your plans with sane devotees and sane people, and you should be O.K.  Super!

Perdone mis ofensas y siempre agradecido por su guía y inspiración que me permiten seguir adelante .

Su teterno sirviente Rohini kumar das.

ASA - Your association is always very nice for us!!!  Cooking for devotees in Braja is no small honor!

Dear Maharaja
pamho agtsp
Thank you very much for the invitation to Lima for Art and the Sacred. We are truly honoured. After much consideration with my good wife Dhanesvari we are thrilled to inform you that we accept your invitation. We have purchased our tickets already. My wife, our two daughters and I will all be in Lima from approximately 9th - 29th October 2018. We are very much looking forward to meeting with you again and assisting with this grand event in anyway possible.

HpS - 'are Krsna, Mate!!!     AgtSP.    We just got back to Murfreesboro, our Base Camp, and things do seem to be sorting out. Had to pay the gardener, pay the smog tester, pay the auto registration, chase out the rat, pay the auto insurer, deposit the NIOS donations, pay-refuel our Body, Buddy .... Can The Dhanesvari Devi Dasi, Mother of Two, write to the Abhirama thakura Das and get you all into the Event Management Team?    I think you will find that there is a LOT of FUN work to do. You can even bring Primitive art from Australia.

We should have the link up for the S U P E R promo video that Oscar did in just a few moments.

A story.

This morning we drove to Brisbane. Passing us with great speed were two motorcycle riders who had thrown caution to the wind. Swerving in, around and through the array of vehicles moving in unison, it was like we were nothing but a stage for their selfish thrill seeking. The first rider to pass us was the alpha. He slowed to the legal speed in front of us then he sat up, lent to the side in a relaxed position and put his left hand on his thigh as if to say “65mph is my casual speed”. Arriving shortly after was the second rider who’s body language was timid and who appeared to be being pulled along by the influence of the first rider. Initially I was angry. How could they be so disrespectful to put the lives of myself and others in danger? After passing the fixed speed-camera check point they raced off weaving through the four lanes of traffic, putting all the weekend drivers on alert and on edge again. In watching this display I remained angry at them for a few moments until I realised that I do this also. In fact many of us do. If our commitment in life is “me” then everyone else around us, every other personality and object becomes the extras, the stage and the props for the “me  show”. Not only do we then need others for our “me show” we actually think it is our right to have them. The motorcycle riders disappeared from relevance and we proceeded to the Brisbane Jaganatha Ratha Yatra where thousands gathered to pull Jaganatha back to Vrindavan in time for the eternal Radha Krishna show.
Ys
Dhruvananda Das

ASA - Such an incredible story!     I remember some poetic lines coming on just that theme when I was stranded in the San Jose airport in Costa Rica for 5i-hours in transit. One young woman was walking back and forth with that kind of egoistic attitude, very well dressed.

I can I be a Temporary Standup, Standout,  in your Spectacular?
Can I be an Extra in your Movie Show?

But the bizarre thing is that when you acknowledge peoples false egos, they feel really flattered and then they are willing to listen to other comments!

Prabhupada says in like Canto One where M. Yuddhisthira is seeing ill omens, about Chapter 13 or 14, that when the asses run in herds striking the ground with their feet that feel very respectable, "We are the asses!".

I saw two biker guys like that waiting for the light to change in front of our Temple in San Jose, reving their engines, and saluted them and they saluted back, "Another guy you dresses and lives like he wants to live. Hare Krsna, Dude!".

Prabhupada: A demon does not have to be an extremely ugly person or someone with fangs or horns. He can be very handsome. A demon is someone who is concerned with his own sense gratification even at the expense of others.

Great fotos.    The picture of the Boar Hunt is a Super Classic. One thing it makes you think of is the fight between Lord Varaha and Hiranyanksa.  https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/3/18/10

Thank you.... Sir.

On Saturday, May 5, 2018, 3:02:42 AM CDT, Paul OSullivan, prana das wrote:
Hare Krishna Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisnaces. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
1.       I am requesting information about the status of sales of SV series including the picture dictionary (Which the Goloka Trust now have as an asset in their portfolio)

2.       The status of the SV 2 publication – printing and distribution plan

3.       Audit figures of available stock in hand – full break down

4.       Plans for completion of SV Bk 3

5.       Overall plan for the future development, marketing and distribution of the materials.

Please note that we have no official position on the IP of the Sanskrit materials – nothing is yet signed.

I would suggest that in light of the responses to the above questions we might review the current status quo. Whatever will be best for the interest of all stakeholders, most importantly, the potential end users.

I have been going to contact the US Goloka Foundation for a long time, but unfortunately, my health had taken a turn for the worse and I had obvious other priorities. When I received the diagnosis I was Vice Principal of the New Govardhan School in Australia, in charge of the secondary college. Now I will perhaps focus on personal projects, tutoring and online development as I can no longer make long term commitments to school expectations.

Although they are keeping my position open I don’t see myself back in that role for a long time to come, if ever again. Therefore, I have a renewed interest to push the Sanskrit agenda and I have some channels to achieve some degree of success. I have had recent communications with the CEO of Avanti schools (before diagnosis)  as well as home schoolers in Australia who are still keen to take the resources. I am confident that other ISKCON Schools will be interested once we have a complete package for them to utilise (and they know it is available).

Let’s have another look at the IP and make a realistic decision on where it will best flourish and serve as many stakeholders as possible. It is no use if the resources simply gather dust in someone’s godown for the next 20 years. However, if the resources are moving and the projections look healthy then no need to change the status quo. That’s a decision that will be best taken by your core members in the Trust, whom I have full respect for and faith in your decision-making capacities. You are all much more experienced in number crunching than I will ever be and therefore I leave it in your capable hands.

Please get back as soon as possible as I have to begin a new chapter in my life. I am currently in Malaysia, 3 weeks into an Ayurvedic treatment for cancer and will be finished here in 2 weeks time. I will fly back to Melbourne and either start Chemo or remain solely on the Ayurvedic medicine depending on the progress of the tumour. Either way I will be anxious to get back into some form of livelihood, depending on Krishna’s master plan of course.

Ys Prana dasa

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ASA - Hare Krsna,

Prana Das et al,

First please accept our humble obeisances and in general we have been talking about you and your good fortune. Lucky rascal!   Got notice of your transfer.  Probably end up being a classmate of Nimai in Nadia. Get milk sweets made by Mother Saci. Damn rascal!  Leaving all of us here in Tennessee.

In general, I and NIOS don't have much going with the Sanskrit initiative directly. We bought about 30 or the full sets a few years ago. We tried about three different schemes to get them moving, even translated the Teachers Guide into Spanish, but nothing systematic is happening. Krsna Culture in Texas continues to sell the few sets we have with them.

The Goloka Foundation is not doing anything yet. We are keeping it running as a place holder only and any work right now is being done through NIOS, which again is some beginning, though serious efforts by RGD and Mother Ambica.

They are using your system to some extent in Goswami School in Houston I think. Harilila Das will respond about that.

Personally I am always trying to develop systematic education based upon NOI. I have wanted for a long time for someone to develop a little Sanskrit education booklet that will be the same pocket size as the NOI.

Hari-venu had a little intro that helped me a lot.

I think there is a BIG difference between Sanskrit learning for old folks (above 7-years old) and kids who grow up with it. At 30-years or any age we can develop a Practical Knowledge, something we can use in our practices of investigation and preaching, but real fluency usually seems to have to start from childhood, no?

Very happy to hear from you and be of any service.

HpS - ASA - NIOS (Goloka Foundation (A Texas non-profit corporation))