DTC Tu(7)

11 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

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((((((((((((((((((paoho ((((((((<<<                    Here we are 3.34AM in Mad Mad Drid, Spain!    We could not poast the monkey toast   [last night]   because we had to call Kolkata post!    Now we're here and have your ear so tell you all that's near and dear.....   Hare!    Hare!        Hare...    Give up this morbid movie show and at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada you please go. Nimbecile our brains arrest and make us think we can never be the best and dearest boy at Krsna's feet, but that's not true, Goloka's  sweet.

            ...  We have to kill this demon heart and then our life with our dearmost friend restart.            There is no more amiable retreat than  a humble servant at Guru-Krsna's feet [in the dust]

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         Hare Krsna!!                  Hare Krsna....     Forget the big and good and small... There Maha     -      MAHA    -     M  A  H  A      Mantra   is your all...            ...   Hare Hare / Hare Krsna, Hare ...
                     Be Bold!   Die this breath!                      Krsna's shakti's all that's left....

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         Wee r stil in Maadrid.         Our bead bag and our book bag a bucket and blanket, no more formal etiquette.              Now bath Kirtan.  then >>>=====> the best room in the house...   the Temple Room!!!                     Thank you.   Please join/lead us!!!

DTC Th(2)

11 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

             A  G  T  S  P !         (((paoho)))  &  BW.             We are much better. Rested and recovered a little bit.   The internet connection would not work for Japa Joe this morning but we got 16-rounds done before Mangala arati.    Rodrigo from Chile, made a hole in the 150 year old wall and we have cable now.

We are like limiting it to two classes a day and three challenging emotional dialogs each day.   Ha!    Ha!        Ha!                  I guess World War Two was a "challenging emotional dialog".    Die for your country!            Ooooof!                Strange.            Look for areas of agreement about Krsna rather than primarily disagreement.

O.K.  (Ommmm  Krsnaya-namah)                 8.50PM.       Rest the head.  Go to bed.   Read about "Krsna Enters Mathura".   We have to train people how to have the right attitude. Once you have that the thoughts and acts and possessions will follow.

Mail answered up to three daze ago...

Oink!              Oink!                Whoop! / WhooP!

              Thank you....           . . . .'o..

DTC We(1)

11 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

      AGTSP   (((paoho)))      We have arrived in Madrid after like 35-hours of travel from Kolkata to Lake Town to Mumbai to Brussels to Madrid.      Exhausted but pure.  Japa Joe tommorrow we hope.

DTC Tu(30)

11 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

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                           P   !   (((paoho)))...    Here we are sitting in the Mumbai airport at Gate Eight.   It is midnight, to that means it is changing from Tuesday to Wednesday.  I don't know how we survive if there is no Krsna!   Our life is full of austerity. Of course, guys in Africa or World War II or...   have it a      LOT      worse, but we go on with this physical and emotional and intellectual stress for a long time. I guess all the time.

Well, our entire process is suicide, so why can we complain.  The only question is whether you are actually killing the soul disease which makes you sick, selfish, way down deep.
   JUDGE BY THE RESULTS.
We are carrying on a brief case and our two-gallon metal bucket. EVERY time they want to see the contents at the Security Point. This evening, 30-minutes ago, the security guard wanted to see Lord Nrsmha deva, so I unwrapped him.  He put up his arms and said, "Jaya, Nara hari!"       Almost all the Security Guards and Immigration people say, "Hare Krsna".

Our flight is at 2.20AM!    We have two hours to chant Japa.     Guess we will start Japa Joe tomorrow morning again in Madrid.     We ate some fried bread chips that Hari-krsna Das gave to us in Radha Govinda temple in Kolkata. 

Our stomach and Hari-bowls seem to be dealing with it O.K. (but not perfectly) so far.

Strange place: About 12-fourteen year old girls and two ladies cut'n up. One family of like HIppies doing some Tai Chi.  The Gate is deserted.   About 55-people within view, in a room the side of three basket ball courts.  Oink!  OInk!  Whoop!    Whoop.

             ON the shuttle flight to here they served Chicken or Veg.  A LOT of people took the Chicken.  India has changed a lot in the last 4-years.   Everyone is going to hell, but the Stewards still call all the ladies, "Mum", and it is chicken and not beef!
            We are Krying in distress that we cannot give any K.C. to people.  Hare Krsna.
Well, I guess we chant some Japa.   We got Skype set for "Away".   This USB modem turns into a pumpkin in about two hours.

Hare Krsna.  Hare Krsna.                  The whole trip to India and Australia so far reminds us of Srila Prabhupada's comment to Jayatirtha Das: Wherever you make the endeavor you will find that the preaching is good.   So, many people are helping the Sankirtana, but we feel afraid to rely too much on anybody...   Especially ourselves .. Ha!    Ha!     Ha!             We kind of try to Chant HK / HR and put any service into immediate use.

                Hey!    We didn't know this thing has a camera!!           This is a picture of us here.  See, the beard!    We are trying to "Dress our age".   People look at us and say, "Don't give the old guy too much work".   Actually the Immigration line was like 20-minutes long, but when we came to the front door guy he looked at us and said, "This way Bobba, fast lane".  So we used our cane a little bit so that people wouldn't be envious of us and went through more quickly.

It's a fact though, its a lot of stress on our heart standing for a long time lines.

O.K.  Lets try one more picture!

DTC (Mo/29)

11 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

                           AGTSP!                  (paoho)))))>>>>   Oink!       Oink!          Whoop!    wHOOp!!!!                1.16PM in the Radha Govinda Temple in Kolkata.  We just answered all the letters up to three days ago and all the CALENDAR DEVELOPMENT letters...    Hard work, but fun.  NOw we need a knap!!!  We save our breakfast for lunch.   It is super arrangement.  B'fast is alway more in the mode of goodness.   You can look at it and just see it, color, less oil, simple...         Then we carry our tiffin with us and can feel its delighful weight and then wait to enjoy it.            Jagannatha Prasad.

We had tipical day yesterday with Japa Joe - Mangala arti with 100 B'caris - Gave SB class to about 200 devotees - Sunday Feast class with struggle with translation (makes us feel like we got rocks in our mouth) - Some challenging questions, but we survived.    Then  ----   Got a Taxi to Lake town and worked with Dr. Samersh for about 4-hours. Half the time falling asleep while reading papers for the Museum book.
Taxi back to the Temple and in bed by 9.45PM!
                Oink!/Whoop!             -    Hari-krsna Das, all the devotees so helpful here.

O.K.  We              naaaaaa p!

                 [hart is o.k. but could be little better.      hot /  humid here.   there are problems in all our  Temples.        Tomorrow we start the      ----= { l o n g    trip to Madrid! ------}

DTC Th(25)

11 years, 8 months ago by hps in DTC

    A G T S P !   (((paoho)))   Here we are in Kolkatta Temple. We have nice room. The devotees have been so, so helpful.  It was long hard trip from Australia and our time is getting booked up here pretty fast.
   Our work with Dr. Samaresh is going pretty good.
   All the different projects seem pretty much under control.   We are still having heart fatigue.  We adjust the work and that definitely helps, but doing nothing seems the greatest strain on the heart.   If we are going to die, better to die doing Sankirtan.

   Probably 90% of our readers face the same confrontations.  O.K.  We adjust our schedule, work, as best as we can and then push ahead inspite of the heart squeezes. The regular Sadhana like that really seems to do the heart good.

  Thank you again, Australia devotees.

   Tommorrow is Rabindra Bharati lecture. We have to write and abstract next.
    We have 23/32 rounds done.
   Dr. SB is coming to the Temple after Museum meeting.  NOw it is 4.27PM. Sun has gone.  Birds singing. Little warm but O.K.   Radha Govinda are so nice.
    The Kapi-Dhvaja is supposed to go today.
O.K.    Letters answered up to 3-days ago.        We do our abstract now.