Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

He surfs the mind's delightful waves.
   He cannot change the ocean, no matter how much he raves.

Are we authorized to chant the Holy Names?
   Then no power on Earth, or Indra-loka, can retain your tongue.
Accept the impetus to work that from your Japa-Kirtan's sprung.

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~ All letters answered up three days ago, including "Urgent" ones.
~ Gave Hawaii class. We put a fair amount of work into that -- preparation.  Always refine your preaching goals. Krsna and Balaram are doing that, adjusting Their preaching to audience, time, place and environment. If you need to change your audience, Krsna will inform you.
~ Today is Dvadasi, so we also shaved. We do it every two weeks because we might get skin-cancer if we save daily. Gillette Mach-4 blades were like $4 each! So we bought this package of BIC one blade razors at $2 for eight. Unless you are VERY careful they cut your face like a butcher.  Sannyasa Karma, Dharma.
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!
Vande guroh sri carana aravinda. ! ....

AGTSP

Paoho.

Today is Ekadasi. We focus on the question: Who am I?    Tomorrow lettuce (let us) focus on the question: Who are we?    If we know who we are, to some extent, then we can relate to others.

Third Day, Trayodasi: What is the plan?  Then we can develop our Calendar (based upon self knowledge and knowledge of others (a solid floor)).

Caturdasi: What things do we need to accomplish the Plan. Of course, that shall be the final Kapi-Dhvaja itself.

The unfortunate conclusion of the first days work is that we are Pleasure Seeking. Well P'pada says the same from the Vedanta Sutra: Anandamaya 'bhyasat. The Jiva is basically pleasure seeking. [Vis. Jayananda's first visit to P'pada.]

Seeking pleasure we want to associate with Krsna and the cowherd boys. They are having the most fun. We are not egoistic pleasure seekers. We can find pleasure once we have an honest relation with Krsna. Krsna does not claim to be perfect. He is trying to do His job, be God of the Universes, to the best of His ability, then He gets back to Braja as soon as possible and tries to deal with all the problems and puzzles that come up there along with everyone else.

To see it, we have  to join it, but if we have grevious misconceptions about Krsna in Vraja, P'pada in ISKCON (?) then we will be looking TOTALLY the wrong way when He tries to reveal it to us.  Good conceptions are goo background for direct experience.

When you try to understand who you are, you must be ready to eliminate everyone who is not related to your real self.

We stand in an empty space at the feet of Srila Prabhupada. We don't remember what anyone else has said about him. We just want to know him, from this perspective, directly. We will live or die with that relationship.

Then we add the forest, the ocean, the town, the boys, the families. That's enough.

[[[The Gopis scare us]]]

Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada!    Nitai-Nimai!!   Hare Krsna / Hare Rama!  Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! 

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP!!!    Paoho & Bw.    We have felt rather exhausted to day. Maybe is because we stayed up late last night and didn't get up so early for chanting before Mangala arati.
We did some more grass cutting and introduced ourselves to our new neighbor. His name is Paul. He was with the military in Alaska. We had a nice discussion about cosmology, immortality of the soul, why we are both in Tennessee.

He is a very nice person.

Now we have a ton of rounds to do. It is 5.00PM, but that is O.K.  It was too hot to chant during the day. We are pretty alone here. Everyone has gone to the Sadhu-sanga. We will get Abhirama Das association tomorrow.

We have so many dutys, and we are so stupid, insincere, we hope Krsna can give us some perspective how to be useful to everyone.

Hare Krsna!
 

Kirtan, Kirtan, Kirtan.
 

We will call NGD and everyone. They should be driving back from Sadhu Sanga Festival now!
 

   The Light of Lord Caitanya
          Will change the Kali yuga!

A Donkey stepped on our Nookie-nueces and a bull (elephant) crushed our Kears.

Our only hope is the mundane fiction that the Lord pours in our ears.

Surrounding His lotus feet, this exo-shakti, makes the contrast clear.

Can we achieve a position of perfection so that even Satan is pleased with our years?

Hare Krsna!

Hare Rama!    AGTSP!!!     Paoho & Bw.      We just finished our Saturday Night Live with Spanish language devotees. Was so nice. We read from the Lila-smaranam of Uddhava at the beginning of Canto Three.     First we have to get in Goodness, then we can appreciate the transcendental Form and Pastimes of the Lord as: A giant Hog, A giant Fish, Maha-visnu or whatever He wish!

We have letters from five days, but we are t i r e d!

(Rat One: No you are lazy and greedy! You are a cheater! Taking bananas and baked potatoes and giving nothing in return.).

ASA: Maybe so, but better to just chant Hare Krsna and look for Krsna's lotus feet and join the festival. It is going on. This is the greatest place in the universe, 902 Hillcrest Dr; Murfreesboro, TN; USA.

All the city can come and join the fun we are having.

Of course, it depends toe tally on Krsna. He is fun. He is having a good time with Laxmi as Naryana. It is like a picnic sponsored by the school where everyone is 16-years old more or less, and one student is the greatest adn He has His regular Girlfriend and everyone is just experiencing all the different oportunities of the Spiritual Disneyland, Vaikuntha.

But we have to participate with our contribution: The Catsup!

Today we had two Classes!  Hosted Musa and Tandavika Das. TD had driven for two hours to South of here to Cokeville to pick up Musa. He had been for one week at the Students State Week. The American Legion sponsors about 150-high school kids who divide into 2-parties and get elected to different jobs in the State Government. Musa ran for Governor and got the nomination from his party but lost to the kid from the other party.

He was amazed at how rustic was the consciousness of the Kids. His opponent was serious that they should build a wall and keep people from coming from Kentucky, the State south of Tennessee, and taking jobs from people here. He also said that women are messing up the work force. They should not be allowed to work. Amazing. The real Governor, Head of the State Militia, two Senators and others were there. He was a amzazed at how uninformed they were about history, actual State and Federal administration etc.

Hmmmmm.   Kali-yuga.    It happened in Germany, madness took over.   Only solution is to get your own umbrella and pass them out to others. If it gets bad people will have motivation to hear about Vaikuntha!

Hare Krsna!
See you in Sankirtan-space!!!

Oink!

Whoop!

   E=mc*2!                Oooof!    Are we tired, and our nose (we all use Brother Asses nose) burns from allergy. It is hot, but the allergy is not realy very bad at all. Our Yoga seems to help a lot.

With the fan the heat is O.K., and our work seems to be under control. We want to answer all the letters today. We want to do all the work today, but some of these things are complicated to do.

For example, we interviewed Dr. Kalyan Kumar Chakraborty while we were in Delhi last February and Sri Hari Das recorded it on our cell phone. It was a good interview. They want it for the Peru Symposium, but when I look for it on my cell phone I see many files with nothing but numbers for their names. Many numbers.

O.K. plug the phone into the computer... it doesn't see any files this time!!!!

Wait (Super soul?), turn the cell phone on.

Ahhhh!  Now it sees files.

Ahhhh!   Sort them by date created.    Ahhhh!  This one, now that one?  Yes.  O. K. transfer it to the computer.

Now look for a free Large File Transfer Service.  Look!    Loook!     LOOK!                Select. Blah!   Blah!     Blah!     Sign up. Start the transfer.       God!    It is free but it is so slow that after two hours it is still loading!   (If you pay more it will be faster!)

Try another...  It is worse.

Try to upload it to our Web Page.   That takes time to learn how to do it.

It works (after 20-minutes) and gives us time to chant three rounds.

Ooof!

Did ART get it?         Yes, Ajata Das is subtitling it.

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Having the FMP Crew there makes getting up early so much easier.

We struggle with proper Prasadam, our house, NIOS work, our greed etc.

Hare!   Hare!            Could be a whole lot worse.    We are doing a little bit, but big results depend on Krsna.   So many nice friends, tools, very nice Masters.

Now it is 2.36PM.  R-17.   No walk with NGD tonight, there is an Office Party for Rodney's retirment. He has been NGD's Nurse Practical for many years.  I hope they stay in touch, but why? Krsna is the only friend, master, lover, no?   He must be Rodney's Friend.

We offered instant Grits to Krsna with celery and carrots.

We should do the work on NIOS/Microsoft Charity rules, but our brain is tired.

We really enjoyed giving the Hawaii class today (got a little heroic), but not many comments.  Maybe we are mad.

Piggy: Well 'mad', is a foregone conclusion. 'Madder than we thought we were', is a better consideration., 'madder than others', maybe.

Wake up Lord Nrsmha deva. Offer some mixed nuts (like ASA Membership) and soaked cranberrys and put some milk on the warm.

We also did yard work today. Some plants stick up so high the hand push lawn mower won't cut them. So we went out and worked on them one by one. Felt satifying to see the flat horizon later.

O.K. (Ommmm Krsnaya-namahaaaa)

   'x' <Whoof!

      'qp'  < Moooo!

TRASH
The Monkeys lived in cyber space,
   On a vessel named, Guru's Grace.
They dined on floating sea-weed scum,
   That they ate with non-toxic children's Rum.

And then when desperation was about break,
   They got a news that the Fortress they could take.
They came out of Cyber-space with cannons roaring and celery and carrots flying and routed or converted the monist and nihlists for ISKCON's Divine Grace.

Prabhupada is above, all politics and quarrels,
   But Prabhupada is also intrigued with the details of the ISKCON world.
Salty or Salsa, fill your cup to the rim,
  Chanting the Vaisnava's saced hymn.