Letters to the editor

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!

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!!!