Hare Krsna. 7.17PM We are as tired as 17-tired donkeys. What should we do? Our rounds are 99.99% done. Get up early and get your rounds done! [Don't eat late at night] Three online programs. Big educational meeting. Family picnic. Yet, all effective. What to do now??? If you don't know what to do, Chant, Chant, Chant, The Holy Names of Gaura-Krsna, Will surely inform you. Oink! See you in your heart! Hare Krsna!
AGTSP
paoho
You can see from the other letters that we made it to Houston and we are starting to work on the Goloka Foundation, Sastric Education and the international work as well. We are STRUGGLING to get more and more profound Sadhana so that we can do better and better service. Of course the Full Morning Program is 90% of our enthusiasm and intelligence, but honoring Prasadam and work during the day is also super important.
Today we have had a good schedule.
Went for a walk in the sunshine.
Talked with RK Das and Hari-lila about the programs. In two minutes NGD will call and we will update on the NIOS work and everybodies health. Then we are scheduled to talk with GF accountant about what is required to incorporate in Texas and what work his office will do, and see if we know him and we can be friends. Can only deal with so many non-friendly people in one day.
Then... 7PM, off to Ksiti Kapoor's house for evening program with 25-doctors and PhD students about Gurukula and etc.
Tommorrow: 7.45AM, Pada-padma in the Temple and at Start Meeting. 6PM, Noche Sabado Vivo, at Start Meeting, and Sastric Education, devotee Picnics, individual consultancy meetings.
Hari Bolo!
AGTSP
Paoho
& BW
Here we are, Monkey/Piggy. It is 6.24PM. We had many adventures today. We read one chapter of "From Good to Great". As suggested by Srinivasa Das, it has many of the same conclusion about successful management tasks as we have. Very useful for us.
Also, Lokannatha Das, our old Puppetteer friend called from San Francisco. He has Parkinson's syndrome now. It is nice. Pushes him off the gross platform.
Daniel and Alysya came to visit from Murari farm, so we talked for our one hour. Lot of little details. Getting ready for the education meetings in Texas. We reviewed our India travel and discovered that we had booked the Nashville, Newark flight backwards, so we had to change it and it cost us $200! Feeble minded, but also so many details in traveling so much.
That's basically it. Talk with NGD every night and read world history.
Gaura arati, Krsna book, Kirtan.
Take rest!!
Oink! Grank! WHoop!
We are exhausted. It is 3.34PM. We have done 11-rounds, two Gayatris, little cleaning, little house work. Lots of fruit (juice) and little Yogurt and Nuts, all the letters in Yahoo.com and Blog, up to three days ago.
Now we want to quit....
[Read about 15-pages. FMP. Called Manis about NIOS tax filings. Has taken a LOT of effort to get it done, and we are not the Secretary nor a Director!]
No Lofty learning.
No, NIOS - India.
No, PPTX for tomorrow morning or evening.
We are basically demons.
Monkey/Piggy - Maybe you are just hungry?
HpS/ Brother Ass - Hmfff! Yes, a little more Prasadam, but real thing is the mind. We have to merge the mind in transcendence. We are actually getting a headache from this mental work. We need intellectual work now. The mind and senses going into ignorance.
All the letters were super, no? Jorge's poetry was nice.
This movement goes on by the mercy of its Mothers.
O.K. We'll chant Hare Krsna and see you on the "other side", Mangala arati!!!!!!
[We wear Sannyasa dress when we go to the market etc. here, I don't see much reaction from the store manager et al, but if we think about it, what can they say. It must be like seeing a Kangaroo in your Kroeger's market at 7AM in the morning. They must remark about it to their co-employees. Who was that Buddhist Monk. He was buying glue and orange juice, just like and ordinary human being!]
Hare Krishna Maharaja, Pamho, AgtSP.
Yes; to go to Vrindavan.
Maha-bhavi Manager temple; he went to Vrindavan for two weeks.
Murari-caytania is my faithful companion;
He is Lithuanian; He is married, and his son Arjuna.
He is good; chants the holy name. he has 30 years and is a carpenter; his family is in Lithuania.
just us two here.
Yesterday at the party on Sunday; Marga-mana gave the class; Yudistira cook; I clean the bathrooms.
Sanatani and Yudistira are married and two children; kamala-gopi, and Noah, he has another mother.
Marga-mana is married; two children.
His guru fell down.
HpS - Let's hope he gets back up (In a wonderful way!)
Many more details! Gustav is a bhakta with enthusiasm.
ISKCON norway ... the lotus feet of Prabhupada!
-First pure knowledge.
-Come up to the eternal platform.
- .........
jaya Rama ekadasi!
Well, time flew.
the new year is almost here.
Krishna consciousness, such an interesting thing.
we do this because we think it is good; and we will not go to hell.
but the Cowherd Boys do not know "who is God"
umm ...
that's a little strange ...
HpS - Are you sure Krsna is God? Hmmmmm? Or would you just love Him because you love Him, even if you might go to hell. Of course, Hell is forgeting Krsna, no?
and what is the name of the mother of Krishna's flute ???
This seems more complicated than I thought.
And what about Putana?
HpS - ASA - She is the sister of ....(?).
Prabhupada: This movement is for the first class of men.
but that kind of intelligence is that???
HpS - Even if has third or fifth class habits, cow killer, when he hears to Message from the Messenger, Prabhupada, then he is honest with himself, admits his problem. Trys to change, and then P'pada, ISKCON, give him, us, 1st class habits. O.K???
We are looking for 1st class men (at heart) and giving them 1st class habits.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
hare hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
Maharaj muchas gracias - Thank you very much for your support!
HpS - Thank you very much for your leadership. Sounds like you have a good team there. Get to work! Make it a great team. Do something in the time you have.
AGTSP paoho
How are you?
It is 9.46PM, bed time. We have 15/16 rounds done. We will chant one more and take rest.
So many things happen in one day that it is difficult to remember them all.
Good Full Morning Program at startmeeting.com. Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi led the Kirtan. Maybe it was the connection, but the time she allowed for us to chant the response to the Gurvastakam prayers was a little short. When we lead, we chant the response softly to ourselves and I guess that gives enough time for the other participants. She and many others lead nicely.
Is very important to learn the word-for-word meaning of the Astakam. Then you can chant with meaning, feeling, especially if you chant in front of your Deities.
Then we continued with some more Japa.
Guru-puja and apples, cranberrys and yogurt breakfast offer with Musa.
Went over the letters and got very depressed over some of the projects, but we don't lose enthusiasm. We just realize that things are not going the way we want them to, so we try another way. Later, Bean pancakes and peas porridge for lunch offering.
Nappppppp... Got up with a lot of enthusiasm. Calendar calls to Peru, locally and Full Evening Program. I wake up Gaura-Nitai here in our Franklin Ashrama and Musa puts Them to rest at 8.30PM. So, we are getting a rhythm: 'Jaya Radhe, Jaya Krsna, Jaya Vrndavan' bhajan and Kirtan, then KRSNA book, then last Tweet/DTC.
We always remember that Nava-yogindra Swami told us that Prabhupada told him that if you chant 16-enthusiastic rounds, follow the four principles strictly, keep a full morning and evening program, and see that everyone under your authority does the same thing, then you will have no problems. Of course, for us it is a big problem when we can't preach. Having applied this we see that it always works.
Happy life. Vraja life.
O.K. Guess that is all for now.
We opened a Yahoo Group for Solaris Editors to work on the Magazine. Oscar has agreed to write an article. Will you? The Call for Papers will be out soon. We discussed with ART and we will change the Spanish, Saturday night symposium to 6PM Nashville time, 7PM Lima time, maybe fix a calendar, like 'First Saturday of the month, Pada-padma, Second Saturday...".
Progess.
Good night.
