Letters to the editor

8.16AM

We are in Guest House, "Self Discovery Center", in Temple complex in Atlanta. Yesterday was furious Rathyatra. They have found no good place to do the festival so they did it downtown which has very few people on weekend. Yet, there were some there and the congregation devotees also got prolonged assiciation with Temple devotee.

Jananivasa Das from Mayapur is giving class at 8.30AM.
Today is celebration of Pannihati Festival. It is the big annual festival here. about 500-devotees here with many personal booth. Our GBC Secretary, Tamohara Das is here. We raided th refrigerator here and found old oranges, bananas, p-nut butter and marmalde. We cleaned the refrigerator.

Nitai gaura sundar and family and most of the devotees from Nashville are here. Several devotees from Pery, Tarapota, are here.

We showed the NIOS book several times.    O.K. Lets go for class.

AGTSP paoho.     Got up late but had nice Mangala arati but could not do the rest of the program online.  Then packing and travel to Atlanta and here we are in the Atlanta Temple. Jananivas Das from Mayapura and Sruti kirti Prabhu are here. So many devotees. Loud Kirtana. We rode with Manis and wife and two kids. NGD family has also arrived.
Answered all the mail up to 3-days ago.
Saturday is Rathayatra and Sunday is the Pannihati Festival.
Time to take rest. BIG day tomorrow.

As Prabhupada says, 'Devotees are always overwhelmed buy the amount of service to be done."

AGTSP paoho

10.08PM    Bed time. Long day. We looked up Claudio Naranja on the Wikipedia from Sananda Devi Dasi's letter. Interesting person. It is amazing to us if people have not encountered ISKCON by this point, this Hare Krsna movement.

We should be accepted into the academic community. Our content is so nice. Guess it just proves that most people are crazy.

Hmmmm.   Time for lunch and to write some poetry?

(Guess we are mad. Talking about lunch at 10.08PM).

Hare Krsna. Surrender to the Holy Names and they will lead you to the land of the living. Happily living. Hanging out with Krsna. Using all the crazy things in this puppet show for Him.

AGTSP PAOHO & BW !!!     We just finished answer like 10-letters. Our backside is sore from sitting. Ha!   Ha!  Ha!       We are feeling weak. Is natural. This material world is sucking energy from everyone: Martya loka...  a place of death.     Only solution is chant Hare Krsna!

Then we can see the Sankiritan devotees of the Lord with clear vision.

Krsna is not a cruel person. He is a very funny, happy person. He is the son of Nanda Maharaja and wants to help everyone in Vrndavana to be happy and prosperous. We can help him do that!

 A G T S P !
    paoho

9.55PM.    Quit'n Time!    Long, full day of service. We seem to be getting a little bit better at how to control our senses. We come up with some full-body work everyday - ironing the clothes, cooking Lord's Lunch, going the Office Supply Store.  We expected our energy to be back to normal by Tuesday and it looks about right. We are getting near death, 76-years old, so we are being FORCED to change our life style.

We are contacting everyone about future events: West Coast Tour, Houston Education Conference, South American Tour. Thus, talked with Visvambara Das and Rasa-candra for about 20-minutes each. We are working to get our Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu, NOD, seminar organized for San Jose etc.
It is really nice. Each time we learn to improve it. Practical Progress in Purusottama Yoga.

O.K. Rest now.

See you tomorrow.

We answered a long letter at Yahoo from Basu Gosh Prabhu from India and didn't get to the Blog, though we looked for any "Urgent" letters.

Hare Krsna!!!!!!!

Herd cows, make rich flavored yogurt for Vrndavana.

AGTSP

paoho

6 minutes past midnight. We answered five new and three old letters. Only 10-in the box. Abhi' and LAD were supposed to write to us here about meeting dates but we did not see any letters from them. I guess everything is coming through.
Our physical energy is returning and we are getting our feet on the ground. We have communicated with:

Visvambara Das
Dr. Samaresh
NgDas
Srivasa Pandita Das
Upendra and Srinivasa Das and Radha-krsna Das.
We can't get ahold of Hari-lila Das and
Had nice talk with Pandava in Seattle.
Tandavika here in Nashville.

Our Plans for Serving Krsna are getting more organized. This education symposium in July is 90% fixed and the tour of San Jose, Seattle, Boise about the same. Seems that we will work on our NOD-BhVai seminar. It is intellectually very interesting and extremely important for any devotees personal spiritual life also.
O.K. Some more Japa.