paoho - Am insane! Aaaaaaaaaaaaeiaa! (more than normal) . looking back . we got up early saturday morning for our 4.30-5.30 am, on-line program, then sandhya arati here in srivasa, malini and gita das' home. then we had our online bh-vai program on-line. we reviewed all six cantos. then drove to the San Jose Temple and gave class from 7.30-9.00 with about 25-55 devotees and big on-line audience. then back to newark, dave picked us up and we drove for three hours to sacramento on hi-way 80. There were thousands of cars and somtimes the super-expressway was crawling at five minutes per mile for 15-minutes. Of course, LOT of wonderful 'guhyam akyati prcchati' with dave and then 60-70 - devotees, full hall, for the regular saturday program in sacramento, drove to Dave and Kalindi's home, got settled into their new home, waited up a little late for Jaya-krsna Das to come with our Japa beads that we had left in the rush in the downtowm Sacramento center. Up Sunday morning for mangala arati, FMP, on-line. Then home program with 40-devotees, youths, families, new people who had had out of the body experiences. INTENSE questions, challenges, local plums, oatmeal and cream, back in the horse-less carriage and back across the Central Valley in the beautiful semi-arid savanah with golden hills to Fremont where the pipes had broken and water was gushing down the stairs out into the street.
Crocodiles had come to play but Gita (age 7) didn't let them bite or smoke cigarrettes. Rested and then Dave took us to the San Jose Temple. While Srivas and Mother Malini called the contractors. The San Jose lecture was Isopanisad and again, packed Sunday Feast lecture of software engineers and Silicon Valley executives. Had to cut the Question and Answer session short because the arati was starting. Went outside under the trees during the arati and about 15-devotees followed us and more intense personal questions, presentations of 'In God We Trust' documents that we kept trying to collect properly. Good-bye to Dave and another devotees took us back across the Bay to Fremont and ***rested*** (after a bowl of ice-cream). Ooooof!
Piggy: And you don't have any time for anything else, no?
HpS: No... We have all the pressure of the programs in Texas and South America etc, but as you can see, we just don't have the psychological and emotional strength to deal with these things.
Devil: Look, this Texas program is your idea, HpS, and unless its a big success we are going to cook your soul in hell for ever!
HpS: Aaaagh! We agreed that a committee would do the work and we would just have to give direction.
Devil: No, excuses, so what if people have other engagements.
Piggy: Hari Bolo! Haw!! Haw!!
... Srivasa Pandita Das just came and said that M. Malini has made pancakes for all of us. O.K. We will take some. Got 14 rounds done today (3 from yesterday) and full morning program. Didn't get any call from Peru and we were to weak to push the class. Guess we are doing O.K. We have kind of manageable paperwork load today. Or new phone is doing well.
Hare Krsna. See you in a minute.
M/P/UG/HpS
Things are just the same for you, no?
Haw! Haw!!!! Haw Ray!
