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Prabhupada !     Paoho....    12.08AM. Just got up. Fighting sore throat fever. Eating pretty light. Girivaradhari-gopal Das and Sriman Harsh Pradhan arrived. We did a lot of work on the Book Release. So hot here you can't walk on the stones without shoes.
Now we are preparing to receive Dr. Samaresh's Taxi. He and Mataji just arrived at the airport and now they are trying to contact the driver and then about 45-minutes travel to the ISKCON Glory of India Cultural Complex. She pulled a ligament so we have to see how she can traverse incline.
O.K. Japa!
Press-relations, Temple Administrator, Yuddhisthira Govinda Das, has been an million dollar help.
Harsh is our room-mate. He is pacing back and forth chanting Japa.
Param vijayate Sri Krsna Sankirtanam!

A G T S P !        paoho.

9.11PM.
Room 11, ISKCON Glory of India Vedic Cultural Complex Guest House.

T I R E D!      Some headache.      Stomach, diaharrea 1%.      So, so, so much work today for Book Release, Spain Calendar, Daily Sadhana, Jet Lag, Personal Instructions.

We sit in the General Mess and take a little fruit and then save the rice, beans, tortillas and vegetables in our pot for lunch.
Eating once a day with little fruit in the morning and cow's milk in the evening.

Bhakta Umesh, maybe 40-Bhaktas in the Temple, dress in Yellow, washes our clothes etc.

Dr. Mukundakam Sharma agreed to be Chief Guest for the Book Release and Education Seminar. He was Justice of Supreme Court and now Director of several Trusts and President of a very prestigious University in Delhi. We are paying air fare and accomodation for six very senior scholars from Dehli and at least three or four more are coming from other parts of India.

Prana Das and HpS will be representing the opinion of the Rupanugas.

Also, worked on visiting Vrndavana with Dr.  and Mrs. Samaresh. She has never gone before.

Time to sleep.

Thank you so much for helping us be of some service to ISKCON!

Tommorrow Harsh and Girvaradhari Das arrive. We will put them and Rturaja right to work. They have to get a copy of the letter to Dr. Lokesvara and then go directly to his office. He is Director of the ICCR (Indian Counsel on Cultural Relations). No foreign organization can do cultural programs in India without their permission. Also they organized several banks to help Saunaka Rsi's Oxford Center projects.

Good Night!

Hare Krsna  /  Hare Rama

AGTSP paoho & bw
It is 12.59 AN in the morning here in the ISKCON, Dehli, Glory of India, Temple Guest Palace. We are in Room 11 and outside it is 87-degress. It was 111-degress yesterday. That's fine. We grew up in Sacramento where it was triple figure temperatures all summer long. We have excellent room ($20/day for paying gooses) with excellent air-conditioner.

The Temple has been super, super, super hospitable.

We have mild headache. Looks like our flash of diahrrea is under control. It was 31-hours from Murfreesboro to Sant Nagar (Temple Street).
Trip was hell, but pretty efficient. Radha Carana and Tunga-vidya Devi Dasi's were the first disciples to come. Now Rtu-raja Mazumdar from Shilong.

Sri Hari gave us one full day of million dollar help. Aja gave us a cell phone which we are just learning how to use.
We talk with Dr. Samaresh like 11-times a day. There is so much last minute logisitics and we are getting overwhelmed with the organizational features of what is happening, but we fight to keep Brahminical.

We met Yuddhisthira Govinda Das yesterday. He is a super-man. He is very nice, fully informed of the higher political community in Delhi. He is involved with Rasa-raja and Saunaka Ris's educational efforts in India.
Our Book Release Ceremony is still going on under Krsna's leadership. To this last minute we still do not have any heavy dudes confirmed, but still general promises. In any case we go ahead. 50-copies of the book are printed. Six professors from Bengal have tickets on the same flight. Several more from Allahabad, Haryana and Madra.
It is not just a book release, but a Two-Day Seminar on "Education in Ancient India and Man-Making in Modern Times".
O.K> 1.08AM.

We look for messages from Candra/Bihari and erase any others.
Oink!!!     Oink!!!   Whoop!    Whoop!

AGTSP

paoho

1.11 PM  -  R(11), G 1/3 . . .  It has been a pretty Krsna conscious day.     Our eyes hurt. They hurt a lot now.  That is because we look at the computer and read to much maybe. Have to look at the sky more.

We mowed the lawn yesterday. It is fun. It takes about one hour. First we have to beat on the lawnmower to get it going. Then it roars and off we go. The motor moves the wheels.

The lawn is wth hills and holes so we have to use a lot of effort to turn, lift etc.   Brother Ass feels very good, tired after words.   We also trimmed the rose bush, dead branches.

We do a lot of work.

Today we are trying to contact everyone. We do that the day after Ekadasi. Tomorrow we will do the Banking, Buy the travel Tickets, do our Shopping and Saturdayy is Nrsmahadeva's Festival. Tomorrow is Jayananda's Festival.

He actually grabbed us once from behind. Put his arms around us to embrace us. We were living in Sacramento and struggling like hell to be Krsna conscious. We would drive the 1-1/2 hours to the Temple in San Francisco some times. So, we had just parked our car in the street in the Mission District and were walking to the Temple when someone grabbed us us from behind.

We were amazed. Our body reacted auto-matically with this Karate stuff. You drop down while shooting your arms forward. That breaks the grip. Then you bring your arms back to strike your assailant with your elbows. Because the embrace was light we reacted lightly and didn't punch bruises into s pure devotee, but we were little embarrassed. Jayananda Das laughed.

Then he said that it was really good to see us. How had we been? Of course that question stimulated feelings of fatigue and stress and he immediately sensed them and said, "Please accept my humble obeisances", like anybody who was suffering to follow Srila Prabhupada was worthy of his respect.

The HELL for arranging the Book Release in India continues.   We finally got a formal refusal (polite) from the President of India.   Shoot for the Rhinocerous.   But Dr. Samaresh is like "niscayena" walking the Earth in a human form, so now, even though there is only one week left we have turned the Big Guns of NIOS ( Ha!  Ha!      Ha!

                        Ha!
 Ha!!!)       Towards the Chief Minister.   He has said that it is possible but he has some little bit of other work to do trying to help with the results of the Earth quake in Nepal (that killed 10,000 people).   We are being sarcastic.  We think of our effort as very little, but maybe it is very important.

Draupadi didn't realize what she was born to cause. Probably would have committed suicide if she really saw what her existence meant.

So Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!

We are keeping our 16-rounds, FMP on the Internet.   Bh.Vai with San Jose.   Lots of work for the Ministry. 

We have been making a lot of progress for the end of July Symposium.
We will post the calendar under a different Blog post here.
We have a lot of pain in our waist.   It is from all this work.  Our eyes and waist a   scranched.    In the middle of all the turmoil: Rasa-lila or Kuruksetra, we just have to hold on to Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet in our heart and pray - HK / HR. Krsna will give us intelligence where to put our little grains of sand.
We have answered all the mail up to three days ago.

We won't be accepting letters from 4th - 27th May except from Candramukhi devi and Kunja-bihari Das. Why them???  Because they are bi-lingual, are on the FMP every day, and God wants to torture them. (Ja! Ja! Ja!)

1.34PM  ....  Dr. Samaresh just called us!!!!  ( Midnight in Kolkata and hellish weather (I told him no more news from Sri Hari Das (in Mathura) and that I was catching up on my mail. He asked if I had had lunch, and I said, no. I asked it he ever slept and he said that it was alright and that if I could call ofter 1/2 hour we could do some more writing work!)

O.K. We post our Calendar thing.
We might answer some URGENT letters while we are traveling and will try to post information.

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP

paoho & bw

We died ten minutes ago.   We called India six times, changed tickets three times. Studied SB with out Study Partner, lived on Milk, Fruut and Nutz.
Edited and sent the invitee list for the book release.

Conference with Prana Das, Rama-giridhari Das,

Met Bhadra Das in te Temple at mangala arati.

Now we will have a Pow'r Nap and go to Ksiti Kapoors's Place!!

10,000 psychiatric students will be there.

AGTSP

paoho..... Hare Krsna....   5.42PM                   H e a d a c h e !               4-9AM in the Temple.     9-10.30 AM Invitee list for Book Release.    10.30AM Call to India to Harsh the Hero and Professor Samaresh.   11-12 AM - Hawaii SB class. Lunch.   Recreational reading.   2.30-5.00PM. Prana and me met with Visvambara on the phone about the end of July Symposium. Lot of good work.

Some of Caitanya and SUbhra et al's ginger candy and milk and alll the lettrs up to three days ago.

Now rest the brains...   6.20 go to Evening Program at Jiva Goswami's house.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

1/3 Gayatri (missed our noon one)...     15-rounds done  (headache (rest)).

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.   We are making tangible progress.