AGTSP paoho. Here we are in Buenos Aires, 4.11AM.
Got here are 3Pm Yesterday. Nice association with Kesava Swami and all the devotees. Now we are running to the airport and from Cordoba to the rural educational retreat with Param-padam Das et al. Don't know if there will be internet there.
AGTSP!!!! Paoho. Sankirtana!
Jaya Sri Krsna!
Esteemed Professor et al,
We are being called to he car to go to the airport for our next country, Argentina. It is 5.53AM. We are leaving at 6.00AM. We are feeling mild heart agitation, so should be little more tranquil. Have 13 of 16 daily malas done.
Tried to call you last two days but an Indian voice says, "Cannot be connected now, try later". Will try again.
Yesterday we arranged a Very nice lunch with.
Alejandro Salazaar - Director of "Sattva" and very intelligent social-political fellow here in Peru,
Miguel Polo - Head of Philosophy at San Marcos University. We gave him a copy of his entry in our Muesum book and the recent university of Chicago, 4-volume translation of "Journey to the West". He was very happy.
Walter Leon - Senior Professor of Achitecture at Ricardo Palma Univeristy
Oscar Natars - Director of Integro, one of the most famous avant garde theater groups in Peru.
All our collaborators for years.
We set 5th February for a big NIOS event - ""Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encoutner of Carl Jung with the Peruvian Collective Sub-conscious". We plan to have a publication and short movie out of it.
AGTSP (paoho) . . . Here we sit in Tiqueplaya, in Ashrama of Mathuresa Das. We attach a picture down below of the vista from our window. We're in the country, the cocks greet the sun and the smell of the wet earth and flowers hover in the air.
The third day of the National Festival is underway, its 6.15 in the morning.
Mathuresa Das spoke of the GBC and we spoke of MOE. Later we presented "Our Philosophy of Education".
Today we'll speak on the basic principles of Bhakti-yoga: 16/4 - FMP... and tomorrow we leave at 5AM for two flights that will take us to Lima.
Our basic work is just the same: MoE, BhVai, Sankirtan w/ CGJ etc.
As explained we are deleting all the mail except Nama-acharya, Patrak, Nikunjabihari and Jiva Goswami Das and Candra Mukhi D D. You can reach us through them.
Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!
hAre kRsna, haRe krSna ! AgtSP. Paoho.
Ooof! Are we every tired. It is 9.32PM. We are in Mathuresha Das' home, hacienda, temple, in Tiqueplaya, Bolivia. Since we left Murfreesboro at 6AM the 31st December with Abbhaya Ji we have taken 8-car trips, 4-plane trips and passed both nights in the airplanes. Several programs with devotees, UNESCO, and ISKCON education groups.
O
ink! Our energy is pretty good!
Our service appears to be of some benefit.
Here in Bolivia it is the National Annual Festival with so, so, many nice devotees.
Krsna seems to be keeping the level of stress in hand so that we don't get sick and die.
Good internet here.
Will not even look at the Letters to this Blog, not Annual Reports, but you can reach us through Patraka Das in Peru, Nikunja-bihari Das in Argentina and Jagat-guru Das in Chile.
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!
So wholesome life.
Now we will read the Tattva-sandarbha that we found here and take rest!!!!
Very best of wishes for your Sankirtan.
We hope to hear all about it when we get back to USA!!!!
Kapi Dhvaja on Sunday. <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />
Aaaaaaa! All the Annual Reports read and answered!
Incredible.
Gaura kishora Das Babaji only had one disciple.
(Prabhupada had ove a thousand, no?)
It is hard work, Sankirtan, but we feel that it is mercy too. We can contribute a little bit to the Yatra. You, readers, many, are doing much much more sacrifice for Srila Prabhupada than we are.
So we try to improve.
Grateful that we can do something.
O.K. No more reports accepted. Whoop! Whoop! If you didn't report them maybe you should return your Japa beads and revert to your secular name.
Oink! Oink! (Unless they repent and are sincere!).
3.56PM Sun is heading for the horizon. Tomorrrow is New Year's eve day. We leave at 6AM for the air-port. We start the trip tonight so we don't have to begin it on Ekadasi. Now we go do some last minute shopping etc. for the trip.
Thank you. Hari Bolo!
Various fall-downs. Eg. not getting up for Mangala arati. Various. General Idea: Get association. Make a pact with someone else to wake each other up. Make a report in the Blog of your Mangala arati score.
Sangat sanjayate kamah: Our desires and ambitions develop from the company we keep.
We take some Chocolate covered P-nuts sometimes when in stress, traveling. Ramanuja Das asked Prabhupada if Insia pickles were in the mode of goodness, and Srila Prabhupada said, "No, but we take a little". Our Sankirtan life sometimes puts us in the association of passion and ignorance.
So maybe a little pickle.
But... are you addicted? Are you doing it for sense gratification or as a result of your austerity to do Sankirtan? How o find out? Give it up for a month.
So, along with one Pujari we are going to renounce all chocolate for one year.
If we are failure or success we will report next year.
Anybody else have new year's vows! <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://www.hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />