Letters to the editor

AGTSP

paoho

It's 6.53PM here in ISKCON (ASA) Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Darker than the inside of a goat outside. Fall has come very quickly in the past few days. It's very depressing because we are alone without another human, what to speak of spiritual, being insight, just the lights of cars passing on the main road and the Sushi Barn and Gas station.

Our memory doesn't always enliven us because we do a lot of little things everyday on different projects, so sometimes it seems that we aren't doing anything for Srila Prabhupada. When we stop and make a list it seems that we are doing something. Of course it is nothing like the really great devotees in ISKCON, but we are aspiring to make a real, unique contribution still.

Hare Krsna.

Our regular Sadhana will save us.

Now we will stop for Gayatri.  Ommmm....

We caught up with the mail to one week ago. We almost caught up with our BhVai reading. Is very very nice chapter, INstructions OF MAharama PRthu. Really it seems like more than one week to go through it and to really appreciate the purports and content would take at least a month of daily classes. Prabhupada especially noted this chapter out of all of our literature for understanding political science.

O.K. Gayatri: At 7.15PM we go with Nitai-gaurasundara and Mataji and maybe Abhiseka to Visnu carana Das' parents house for some evening program. We made very satisfying offerings to Lord Nrsmha deva today. We are learning to prepare the Bhoga better.

Bh. Daniel came by and bought $38 of books.  We talked with Laksmana agra Ja by telefone in Peru for 20-minutes. We listened to M. Urmilla DD's Hawaii class and did our own powerpoint show for tommorrow. It is in the Archives as sb 1.8.45.

Hari Bolo!!!  Now we shall merge into the Mystical Mantras, and have nice Kirtan at VCD parents house w/ NGD MMD and Abhiseka and Syama gopal Das and his wife. They are millionaires I think. Of course Krsna is a $1,000000000000000000000... aire.

AGTSP!
paoho.  6.03PM.  We answered some letters but still have letters from one week and one day old to work on. We could be better devotees, more efficient, but we are really doing pretty well. We just have a lot of work to do.
We are becoming always more concentrated.
O.K. Now we drive in Rtadhvaja Swami's mother's car to Nitai-gaurasundara Das home. It is about 12-minutes from here, but we will stop at K-Mart (nice name, no?) and buy a few supplys. Then we will go for his regular walk, 45-minutes.
Read the KRSNA book and come back.
We wanted to answer more letters.
Post our ABC notes and read our BhVai verses.

Hmmm..
 

ABC
We are still with the BhVai classes Saturday in English and Tuesday in Spanish on Startmeeting.com.

Friday at 11.30AM is the Hawaii class. Google ISKCON Hawaii.

Daily 1.30-3.30 AM is Japa Joe.

Some other stuff going on with Japa-sankirtan and we are plannng to do a formal reading of Tamal Krsna Goswami's book from Oxford or Cambridge Press. You can get it at Amazon. That will be part of our Carl Jung work.

Join us, get a copy. It's called "A Living Theology of Krsna Bhakti".

   A G T S P !
  (((paoho)))     3.49AM - R(-3/32)   ...   Ooops!   We missed Japa Joe this morning. 1st time this month I think(?).   Too many cookies last night. We got confused in all the Rathayatra rush and ate too many too late!   We apologize for our lust. We have to try to be sure that it will never happen again.

"Oh, I can control my senses. I can have delicious cookie Prasad hanging around and not be affected", said Tom Brown.

"Ha!  Ha!  Ha(re)!", said Buck White, "You idiot! Put it deep, deep, deep in your intelligence! Never have more than you need for Lord Nrsmhadevas direct offerings alone in your house. You must live life a Sannyasi not a Grhastha.

You may possibly be a pure devotee by effort, but not yet by spontaneous habit.

Live like a Madhyama-adhikari.  You still have material attachments, but you can keep them under control by INTELLIGENCE and work very enthusiastically to remove them."

O.K.   ...   Unlimited service (based on Japa-nama) to day.

See you later.

P.S. We did our best to get to the mail yesterday but that was an honest failure. We just had too much work to do with the Hawaii, SB class preparation. It is at 11.30AM today.

AGTSP

paoho

We worked very hard from 7AM to 11AM to ge the tickets for South America and India fixed.

Dec 25 - Miami to Lima
January 1 - Lima to Buenos Aires
January 12 - BsAs to Santiago
January 24 - Stg - Lima
January 29 - Lima - Miami
 = = = = = = = = = = =
Feb 8th (9th) - Nashville to Delhi

We land in Delhi early in the morning and then probably just go from International to Domestic and go on to Kolkata so we can have as much time as possible with Dr. Bandopadhaya. That will be like 9th to 15th. Then we go to Mayapura for the ILS meetings. Everyone could join that group. After that, ~23rd we will go to Lucknow and Vraja and back to USA the 1st of November.

We are really focusing on three things:

1. Carl Jung x Bhagavata
2. Education in ISKCON
    
3. Auto biography of Jambavati Devi Dasi
   
   We are killing ourselves for Krsna. Our eyes are dying. Our teeth are dying. Arthritis here and there. Feet swollen, but respiration and heart O.K.
   We can die for Krsna or we can die for sense gratification of this donkey.
   Yet, we are going to die.
   Dying for Krsna is fun!

More letters to answer. Read them!!  Many good questions.

Thank you!!  Oink, oink!   Whoop!   Whoop!,  QUack! Quack!

AGTSP
(paoho)  Friday - 27th, 5.53PM.   We just finished the Yahoo mail and now we have to go to NGD ashrama for internet meeting with our BhVai partner, Upendra Das. Canto Four, Maharaja Prthu's Horse Sacrifice.

We just could not get to the Blog mail for three days now!  We have letters from 1 week 6 days ago.

We doing a lot of work for this Nashville Rathayatra. Happens once a year. Think we will catch up on the mail. We looked for any letters with 'URGENT' in the Subject field and didn't see any. Feet still rather swollen. Maybe is sympathy for Laksmana agraja Das.

O.K. See you in a few moments.

TB / BW

 A G T S P !
  (paoho)

10.30AM:    We pushed and pushed and  p u s h e d   yesterday but could not get to our Letters or DTC here.     So, we're catching up now.

1) We did a Japa-Flyer for the Japa Booth.  That will be at the Celebrate Nashville Festival (5th October). We've posted it at:  www.jayarama.us/archives/japa-flyer-c.docx

The 18-bead Japa malas came from Astasakhi DD and the devotees in Mexico. They are great.    Now we have to make up a little Booklet on Japa to go in the packet with the beads and small pack of incense and a mini-DVD!

JAPA - KIT!!!

2) We are getting our work pace down to a sane level. We thought that we were just cheaters and that we just had to punish our body and mind and work harder. From the last Kapi-dhvaja we can see that this is not a fact. We are trying to do toO much. We have to reduce our work, adjust our work, change pace of work. This of course means adjusting our relationships with the people we are working with.

In the last KDh we have a nice analysis of that.

We hope this helps you in your life also.

Hare Krsna,   Hare Krsna!

O.K.   [Om Kesavaya-namah]   -     We burned a DVD of M. Jambavati DD's  Sankirtan stories and now we have to investigate sending it by DHL to Mexico. Also we will go to the Party Store to look for bags and the banner place to see about making a banner for the Japa Booth.

3) We have to do our accounting for ASA, especially the accounts for ASA/NIOS for the past few months. On Friday we will give all this to Sriman Abhaya Naranyan who is doing the bookkeepping for NIOS .

Enough work for one day, no?

We have 21 rounds done. Nice Bhakti-vaibhava study. Great Japa Joe workshop this morning. Robust breakfast. A nap.

O.K.  Here we go>>>>>          ....Hang on.  Always take some books with you in case you meet somebody to take them.