Letters to the editor

A G T S P !

(paoho)))

Is is dark and cold outside. Sunset at 4.30PM. Cars rushing by on 4-lane street out side to go home. Across street is back of a low class shopping mall.

We lost a check for $10,000 today and were attacked by extreme panic. "Aaaaaah!".

We started efforts to compensate for the problem. Went across the other street to our bank, USBank, with Abhiseka, NGD's son. Talked with our Branch Manager, Elizibeth about her cat and farm and wired $10,ooo from NIOS to Goloka Education in Bombay for 150-Sanskrit sets.

The revolution begins.

She put a stop payment on the $10,000 check.

We came back and went through our world of files for the fourth time --and--  finally found the check! We had not even signed it yet as a precaution. It was where it was supposed to be but we thought it was a $200 donation from Dr. Desai and didn't look at the details!

Ooof!

Also did work on our Bhakti Vaibhava, Canto Four Studies. More to do.

We see that we are not "pure devotees" or Rupa goswami. Srila Prabhupada is a pure devotee. We have to make more progress. It is not that we have to work "harder", we have to just work more consciously. It is so simple to just get absorbed in dove-tailing some Karma, typing letters,  in Krsna's service but not stay on the Jnana-yoga or dhyana-yoga, or pure Vaidhi bhakta yoga level.

Ooof.

Old age pushes you to perfection.

Our eyes burn from the screen.

Our breathing is a little congested from old age.

Our feet are a little swollen.

Our neck aches from screen etc.

We have pain in our inguinal ligaments from something.

We have a little indigestion from not honoring Prasadam properly.

Now our right ankle has started to itch.

And it is dark, lonely, and cold here (but the electric heater is making it too hot, but we don't want to get up to go over to adjust it).

And it is 5.48PM... but that is O.K. because now we can go for a quick bath before NGD calls from the Mad House and says he is on the way home. Then we take off in the dark and drive in Rtadvaja Swami's, Mother's car, to NGD home and get a little association with the family and go for our 44-1/2 minute walk. Have two jackets, hat and gloves. We sing Gaura-arati on the drive over. Because of your association we will sing Shayana arati Bhajan on the way back. 12-minute drive.

Except for our little 12' x 12' office the rest of the mobile home is like 50`F. About 10`C. We have another electric heater in the bath room and we turn it on 30-minutes before we go for a bath. It works pretty good.

Floor is still foot burning cold, but water heater is good.

This office is nice because we have our own private cave.
Good internet.

Association of Lord Nrsmha deva and Srila Prabhupada.

Pretty regulated chance to do service. Become more self realized.

We have to learn how to do better Karma yoga. Look for more things that we can dovetail into useful service for Krsna. Won't be the best like Janana--yoga etc. but will be better than sleeping and then we will become more expert and come to more jnana-misra-bhakti yoga!

Jaya!

AGTSP.   paoho and bw!

AGTSP
paoho
6.15PM. The sun sets at 4.30PM now and so it is kind of depressing in the evening. Also, we are a Sannyasi so we are alone a lot and have to work alone like Hanuman looking wof Sita alone.

It can become very intense, depressing, causing doubt, but also can get a lot done this way.

We are O.K. We will put a letter we wrote Dr. Samaresh after this. It gives some perspective on our situation. Answered about five letters. Very nice. Had a hellish fight with the Money Gram people. They decided that Arya-srestha das, Karuna-shakti devi dasi
 and I were like drug dealers and thus they would not transfer the money we are trying to send for M. Jambavati's auto-biography and dental surgery. Some went. It is funny. We will try to send another way.

At the time of death we become very morose and the only enthusiasm is our transcendental relation with Krsna, and that can be like the sun!

The letter to Dr. Samaresh explains the general challenges and so far we are doing well adjusting our work load and then we can more easily see what Krsna wants.

O.K. Post that letter and then maybe go get the Money Gram refund and then go to NGD's and Mother Matsya and Abhiseka's and Radha-Natabara's Ashrama, and go for our 44.5 minute evening, night-time walk. Is down to freezing a night now. We got our warm jacket from Tandavika's house. We offer Lord Nrsmhadeva a blend of two bananas, apple juice and some p-nut butter for breakfast, and his kitri of of green split peas and rice and potatoes and carrots and celery with ghee and salt for lunch.

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AGTSP!    paoho   How are you-all?  We are in Tennessee for almost one week now. We have a bunch of spider bites or something all over one part of our beloved body. Maybe some fever from them also.

It is good in that it makes us detached from our love of skin and try to find the Lord within.  Oink!   Oink!   WHOOp!  WHHOooP!

Also, with our own office-ashrama-cave, it is real opportunity to really see who we are, what is our devotion, psycho-physical nature. We have a chance to try things that we have wanted to do for 35-years and see what is the result. The main thing we want to try is to be a pure-devotee. Abandon all religion inspired by material or even spiritual  sources different from our own personal Dharma.

Japa Joe is a life-line for us now. We get 16-rounds done early and then after that we can do a lot of experimenting, actually follow our Sannyasa-dharma.

Is the same for you all?

Most important thing is we have to write. What to write? Hmmm, still not completely clear in terms of projects, but...  that is a very central issue because trying to do Writing Projects may be an even more basic problem, mistake.
There is a comment that Rudyard Kipling, Nobel Prize in Literature, could not write more than poems and short-stories. His novels are a collection of short stories, articles.

We chant our rounds. Our beads are our worshipable Deity. Four principles gross AND subtle. "In this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we require everyone to rise early in the morning, by four A.M.,and attend mańgala-ārati, or morning worship, then read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, perform kīrtana, and so forth. Thus we hold continuous activities in devotional service twenty-four hours daily. This is called sato vṛtti, or following in the footsteps of the previous ācāryas who expertly filled every moment of time with Kṛṣṇa conscious activities." NOI 3.

Full morning and evening program.

Sankirtan Partners - That very much grows out of this Blog. If you don't participate in this Blog then pretty much you are not a member of the ASA Cosmic Traveling Sankirtana Party.

Sankirtan Targets - (Targets?) People we are trying to preach too. They come from this Blog also. Academic and cultural groups. Wherever you go, whomever we meet...

...  O.K. Japa, Diary, Gayatri-sandhya...  [Pretty cold here now] We are adjusting.

[[Wonder if we will die from these spider bites. ]]

KIRTANIYA SADA HAREH

AGTSP

paoho

Here we are in Houston still. We just answered a whole peck of letters with lots of news and content. We will do a summary of these meetings as soon as we reach our base in Tennessee.

It has been very very intense. There are always many emotional pains in doing Sankirtana. We expect that we will become more expert as time goes on. The fundamental thing is that there is great, great opportunity for Sankirtan, preaching, on a local and global scale at this time.

We have answered to the letters up to 1 week and 10 hours. No URGENT letters.

Now we have to look at Yahoo.

Take a quick bath.

Call our driver for tommorrow.

Chant six more rounds to our 26/day.

Give initiation to Bhaktin Govinda from Mexico.

Then we will have intelligence what we else we should do.

TOMMORROW we are booked in to Group B-4 for the flight o Tennessee at 4.50PM. Abhiseka will take us to see NGD, M. Matsya, and Radha - Natabara. Then we will go to our cave on the top of the hill about ten minutes away for the night.

Also tommorrow is skype with Abhrirama of Peru, BhaVai partner, Upendra, Hawaii SB class!

O.K. Yahoo, bath and temple!

AGTSP

paoho... 6.09PM... Gotta bathe, clean, etc. in 21-minutes for the meeting with the school organization committee and the lawyer. About 500-parents have expressed interest in the school. Planning for Sept 2014.

O.K. Try to answer some more letters later. Hare Bolo!!

BW/TB

AGTSP
paoho

NOTES from Today's Japa Shop.