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AgtSP. Paoho. We made it to Richmond. Out was a long hard journey, 8-hours of travel in hellish boring, cramped planes, no one to talk to.
Now we will have BG class in just few minutes.
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How big is your world?
How much control do you have?
Do you have control over body?
Can you make it defecate and urinate in a socially acceptable way? Can you play the social roles related to your psycho-social station?
It will all fall apart sooner or later, no?
We will be weak, seeing decay and destruction in all parts of our social empire, city of nine gates.
Will we lose the association of all the devotees who are our friends in ISKCON?
Will we just surrender to Lord Jagannatha and go with Him forgetting everyone else is that is what He asks?
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Sunday
4.30 p.m.
At the house of Vijay and Veena Narain.
About 25-devotees here for a five hour Kirtan.
3-1/2 hours have passed. It is amazing how much variety there is in chanting the Holy Names: Rhythms, feeling. I can see that I may chant because it is a social thing that I feel will give me freedom from bad events, to my family, body, or I may chant for celestial sense gratification, or... I may chant and think of the Deities, Radharani and Krsna, and then want to chant with a certain meaning... A world of Maha-mantra.
Krsna, we are very weak. We seem to be falling down. All our strength, to the last moment seems to be dedicated to holding on the lotus feet of Your servant, Acharya, and chanting HK/R.
If you give us any strength and intelligence this body will act.
DTC 12(Wed)
AGTSP. Paoho
Crazy as six doggies.
1.22PM. Delaying our 2nd Gayatri a little. Did all the mail. Had FMP and breakfast with Musa and Tandavika. Doing good reading on PdP work, mail. Now quick look at Yahoo mail, letter to Yamunesvara Das with copy to the Patraka Das... Then bath, Gayatri, laundry, Japa, water, walk (cold but sunny), more PdP, BG (with NGD), (((Prabhupada, 'Let there be a Temple'))).
Hmmm. Headache already. Risk of brain stroke = 31%.
Read part of Prabhupada. Drink juice.
DTC Tu(1)
Happy, Hare Krsmas!
5.42PM. We are half mad! Maybe 75% Been a long day. LAD said after one typical day of preaching in Peru, 1.30AM to 9.30PM, "If I had worked like this when I was working for the Sir Isaac Newton School (Beverly Hills, posh, school) then I would have become a millionaire".
Oink!
Now we want to do Gaura-arti and relax, enjoy life in relation to Krsna. Read World Classical Literature with Lord Nrsmha deva.
From the Harvard Classics at Gutenberg....org, we find the Analects of Confuscious. First three are:
1 - I care little who makes a nation's laws if I have the making of its ballads.
2 - The young child ought to be obedient at home, modest from home, attentive, faithful, full of benevolence, spending spare time mostly upon poetry, music, and deportment.
3 - A son ought to study his father's wishes as long as the father lives; and after the father is dead he should study his life, and respect his memory.
#1 says that we are looking toward cultural conquest, improvement.
Nice letters to/from Mexico, Peru...
If you don't know what to do, chant the Holy Names, They will for certain inform you.
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AGTSP
paoho & bw... Dinged as a Donkey, Dunged as a Roach. Its 5.15PM and outside its as dark as the inside of a goat.
We read of Krsna play today and we want to go there soon.
But don't change you bodies, just get illumination of the pastimes that are all around you at the end of your spoon.
DTC Fr(24)
3 gayatris.
51 degrees! DARK.
90-minutes with Rama-giridhari Das and Minstry today. Very useful. Recovering from Long Weekend! So much work. Hare Krsna!!!!!! Hare Krsna.
Now go to NGD home.
Need to call Girivaradhari Das in India.