Hare Krsna
AgtSP
paoho. We made it to Houston. Hari Lila das is looking at this letter.
We answered so much mail. Prepared for the Third Canto, Bhakti vaibhava class tonight. We wish we could do more.
We can't do everything, so we have to set out priorities.
Hare Krsna!!! The wind it blows,
The snow it grows,
But naught the matter if our rain-coat holds.
Do the things around us touch our heart?
Are we conscious of what is happening in our heart?
I am very conscious of my face: The set of my lips, the tensions in my eyes.
Is my face happy??? Aaaah, then "I" must be happy.
We see some happy things in the world around: Trazan married Jane, but then we see how this affects our heart.
What is in your heart?
We try to put the light of God therein. To sing and dance and before it bend.
To saturate the world around with the love we find from it.
To let the tale of T and Jane, but reconciled with this base, in our heart.
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We didn't get up until too late! FMP was very robust with 11-participants.
Then we offer Potato potage to Lord and kept half in our tiffin for lunch.
Japa, banking research, calls MOE with good results, off to the Smyrna Medical Center to meet with Dr. Amit Singh. We got lost in the GIGANTIC maze, but he found us and looked at our leg.
"It's not going to go away", hesitant pause, "I think you should go on the steriods again".
We walked across the lobby. $15. 15-capsules for 15-days.
Back to the Bank --- Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna --- $2000 for South America, $11.53 for NIOS credit card, $101 for HHR account .... Take lunch, take the pills:
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p in air pressure in the heart. The nausea, but it should work. That's life: The best use of the bad bargain. Get three extra years of life now, by selling three extra years at the other end. Ha! Ha! Hare!
O.K. NGD gone to Chicago with family. Excellent news from Candra mukhi, Thakur Ji et al in Peru. We go for a walk with Dr. Desai. Tomorrow is PDP in the morning. Last yard work. Packing. "Prak-kathana".
PRIORITIES:
1. Kirtaniya sada harih
2. 16-good rounds daily +++
3. 4-principles strictly (chocolate???)
4. FMP
5. FEP [FEMP]
6. Sankirtan [ Blog, Yahoo, Telefone. meeting with partners and making plans. One partner is the Supersoul]
6.a. - Writing Prak-kathana (Foreward to NOI)
Can we live on Havisanna and milk each night at eight?
Well, we can try it.
Trying different services for Krsna. Even Prabhupada was experimenting in the new world. Speculation on the basis of Sastra. How fun is KC! We can contribute something new!
- All the letters answered up to three days ago.
- Got a little rash on our leg. May be poison ivy.
- Conference call to India with Rama-giridhari Das. Houston Education Symposium is going well. Very solid educators registered.
- Then one with Dr. Samaresh. He is little sick from the weather. He is getting help from a printer who can do the pre-press work etc. He is getting very passionate about the technical, materialistic, nature of modern education. He says that obviously the Temple and the University were one in the past and we should be pushing to go back that way.
- Then called , "Robbie". He said he could cut our grass. He is a neighbor and only wanted $ 35 instead of $50 like a professional. Waiting for him to come I attacked the hedge where the poison ivy lives. Very careful not to touch it and wash the clothes and tools afterwords. May have to decimate the hedge (unless we get decimated).
- Let Brother Ass rest as he wanted today and then just cooked Havisanna, Split Garbanza bean and rice kitri. Little mik tonight.
- It is 6.37PM. Full light outside. Traffic has died down. NGD just called that he is home from the Mental Hospital, so we will close up the cave and head for his house, 11-minutes, and go for a walk, and sing Gaura-arati and kirtan.
O.K.
Sankirtan!
Thank you for all the wonderful letters.
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!!
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!