Letters to the editor

14 Letters in about 1 hour and 20 minutes!    AGTSP    paoho.   That's 80minutes/14 letters = 5.714285714285714 minute/ letter.   We have little headache etc after doing it but is mercy.  Unless we can serve the devotees we will probably serve our senses.

Now it in Monday 5.36PM in Srivasa Thakur, Kumari Gita-priya and Srimati Mailini devi dasi's home,ashrama.         We have 14-rounds only today.  During Japa Joe we were losing conneccion, napping!   Happens, very very rarely.   We had 8 hours of classes both Saturday and Sunday.

   Now we have got the last of our stuff from CCD and M. Subra's home and our other luggage packed.  We leave at 7.30AM for the airport here in San Jose and arrive in Franklin (at Tandavika, Musa, Kosa, and M. Minas home) at 9.30PM time here!  Long trip. We can chant some more rounds on that trip.    Will be a lot of physical stress, pain, but is worthwhile.

We are now finished with our Europe, India, USA, South America, global travel. Now we have to put writing about Goloka in the front. If our energy returns and it is good for writing then we will go to South America.  Europe and  India... the rest of the world.

In any case we are all going to die (so better to die doing Sankirtana).

          Sunday, SKYPE with Me, Rama-giridhari and Nitai-gaurasundara.  Abhiseka, NIOS, Sri(ni)vasa et al are looking to import 350 of the Goloka Education Sanskrita sets and sell them!!!            Arrange a consultation visit for Prana and Rama-giridhari for the Houston Temple for establishing the first NIOS-Goloka Education Primary School in USA.

        Talked with Dr. Samaresh this morning. Distributing our books with him is going ahead, albeit slow. As more people can help Abhiseka, the more we can do.

              O.K.  At 6.30PM we go to evening program in Rasa Das' home.   Still have lots of rounds to chant, Bh. Vai to read and bath.  Guess we do the bath and chant Japa in route and more tommorrrow and read tommorrow.

KRSNA book and hot milk when we return.  Thank you!!

          AGTSP    paoho....   It's 1.24AM.    We have 6-minutes before we start Japa Joe. We are in Srivasa Pandita Das' home/ashrama in Fremont (San Francisco) California.  Our health is fine for a 65-year old ass.       We are doing all kinds of Bhakti-vaibhava and MED programs here.  Again it has been very,  very busy!   We have 1 week and 6 days worth of letters to answer.  Today we should get to them!

Yesterday we got up for Japa joe at 1.12AM.  Washed, water, cherrys, Japa-joe, 30-minute nap, yahoo mail, mangala arati, unexpected trip wit Srivasa to Vaisesika Das home and read Radhika's book, left it with Vais, talked with him about ed. dev, b'fast, little nap, more mail to rama giridharai about goloka education, to berkeley with sridhara, 2-hours with lokanatha das, drive 3-hours, little K'video, take rest!!!

OK>   Japa Joe!!!    Thank you!

          A G T S P !
         (((paoho)))
Here we are in ISKCON Boise, Idaho. It was a long hard journey from Denver, Colorado, but we made it. Ananta-rupa Das and Radhika and Gopala, Prabhu Yadubara Das, Panda-vijaya and Adrian are here with other devotees, family, from Vrndavana, Utah, Seattle etc.   We worked like cross-eyed beavers to get our Power Point show on Jagannatha Rathyatra ready for last night . It is posted at the Web-page (4.7MB) and the semi-final revision of Japa Joe (6.4MB) also:

         www.jayarama.us/archives/jagannatha-rathayatra-boise.pptx

         www.jayarama.us/archives/japa-joe.pptx

Now we are getting ready to leave for Rathayatra at 9AM. It is 8.08AM now. We have 17/26 rounds done.

We answer some letters.

We have a packed schedule:
~Today Ratha from 9AM-1PM. Arati-Prasadam (Class?) 1-3PM. Evening Program [Yadubara Prabhu]
~Friday - SB AM with Evening Program by M. Visaka DD 
~Saturday - SB by Srivasa Pandita Das; Picnic - Taking Jagannatha to Vrndavana Forest by HpS; EP Yadubara Prabhu.
~Sunday - Lecture: Appearance of BvThakura by 11AM by ASA.

Things to Do:
1. Sastric Educational Development for Sesa Das and Vraja-bihari Das.
2. MED Web-page with Dinadayal and Rama-giridhari Das
3.1 NIOS - Primary School Franchise Development with Rama-giridhari Das
3. 2 NIOS - Dr. Bandyopadhaya
4. Bh.Vai for San Jose.

5. Stuff on the Calendar each day (like Hawaii Class!).

AGTSP

paoho

Here is a link that Professor Annette sent us of photos from the University program in Ft. Collins, Colorado.

https://plus.google.com/photos/102301315643587258434/album/5894943170505977409

Also, Srila Prabhupada is always citing the Instructions of Lord Rsabadeva. Even in NOI.  They include 5.5.5    easy to remember     and start at 5.5.1...   And he cites them in the Gita at 5.2!!!

The Madrid Rathaytra was a booming success with nice litte cart, hundreds of devotees, maybe 500,000 plus people in the street seeing the parade, clapping, snaping, chomping prasadam!

Now it's 4.50PM.   Busy all day.     Actually went for a walk under the nice trees.  Saw BEAUTIFUL old, elegant, brick homes. Reminded us of Vrndavana!   Ostensibly we were going to to the Dollar Store to look for a frame for a super drawing that Sugopi gave us so that we could give it out as a present at the Education Symposium tonight.   We were wondering if this was all Maya and we should have our "nose to the grind stone" instead.

We found a frame.  Chanted a lot of rounds.  Got refreshed.  Looked at the Dollar Store offerings and then went to the counter.    "How much is that?"

"That will be $1.08"

               Oink!   Oink!                     Whoop!  Whoop!             Honk!  Honk!           Piggy, Monkey, Hamsa here.      AGTSP....   ((paoho)))))))        How are you?   We have a head ache.   AFTER LUNCH we went to the Temple room and chanted 4-rounds.  That's always so super.  It is aftenoon in Vrndavana.  Radha and Govinda are resting confidentially with all Their friends. We are keeping a look-out across the fields that no one comes to catch Them.

Then back to our cave in the ASA Camp.  Bought our Nashville < > Richmond ticket for 26th August < > 3 September.  It is just two hour trip.    Then paid the Visa card on line.   Then Washed our laundry.  Then answered six letters on the Blog.  We do cell phone on the weeked so we get one week old the letters by Monday.  Now we're back up to five days delay and tommorrow well be back to our 3 daze lag.

When will we do the Yahoo mail??????

We have a headache.        Just started to rain, here in Denver.  Smell of wet summer grass.  Thick grey clouds and darkness descending.   Very close to nature here.

Saturday was a PACKED home program,  22,000-18,000,000 Godzillion people.  Many good Bhajan leaders.  About five hours time out and back.             Sunday feast was divided between me and Kratu Prabhu.  We did "Hamlet and Arjuna", by popular resquest.    You see, we know how to do this stuff pretty well, now.  Many years seeing audience reactions so now we need to take all these shows and write them down, and make suggestions for others to get to work.   Western Dudes can appreciate Shakespare, directly or indirectly.  You can't be considered a great literary figure in Western culture unless you do SOMETHING in relation to Shakespear.     Its like writing a Vedanta sutra commentary.

Lots of people we have not seen for years here.   Lots of ideas in the letters.  I think we do about 2-letters in 15-minutes.  If we are worth $200/hour then that's $25/letter, no?  Actually with Ashrama, internet connection expenses I think its about $35/letter.   Its worth it.  Nice news from people and then we can of course easily make nice comments.

             This rain is nice.  Hot here and then the rain gives variety.  Denver is actually a very mystical and nice place.    If you drive for 15-minutes in any direccion you are in the country and then it is 8-hours to the next big city.   Open, open, open high, dry hills and mountains.  Lots of cattle ranchers.         Your mind always keeps the ambience in the background, so there is a feeling of room to breathe.

O.K. We read some Sticks and Stone!

  A G T S P !    (paoho)         We arrived in Denver!         All Wednesday morning in Houston we were packing, final emergency meetings and then to the airport. Cramped...   in the aeroplane. A beautiful young girl sat next to us.   Booooop!   What a wonderful view out the plane window.....    Never even looked at her face.         Landed.         Lost in the Denver airport.  Giant place.        Found the Train to the Baggage area.    Choo!    Chooooo!     Chooo!              Monkey swung on the bars and straps on the way there.   People looked at him without too much aghast.  "After all, Marge, he's a monkey."

    Got phone call from Bhakta Adam: "Waiting for you in the waiting area.  Call when you got your bag."...........   Sine said, "Your Bags on Carousel 5", but actually they were in Carousel 6.   Waited.  Chanted.  First bag came.      ...      ...      ..   Second bag didn't come.  Maybe it got left on the airplane that has now go to San Diego...   Waited.  All the people gone, three bags on the carousel, but not ours.     "Excuse, me Miss, my bag is not here".   "What is your name?".      "Here this is your bag!".....   Oh, my God, how embarrassing.  I didn't recognize it upside down!   O.K. Call Adam.  Go outside.  There are six different pick-up lanes...  "May I help you?"       "Yes, my friend is coming to pick me up.  Which lane should I go to?"...

You have to go one level down.   This is only for buses and taxis.

          How do we get there?

Go back inside or take the stairs there.

            Plunk!    Plunk!     Plunk!  ....  Bouncing our two bags with 25KGs of books down the stairs.    Cut our ankle a little....      Found a space by the curb.  Bh.  Adam sees us.  Loads us.  Its rather hot.   Off we go!!                 asDFgh@#$5^

BA:   Oh, goodness.   The engine is overheating.

         We stopped by the side of the road just outside the BIG TERMINAL  117 cars/minute are roaring past us.   Look at the engine.  The water is boiling.  (Its rather hot in the sun).   Then . . . .    a police car pulls up.  Real big, nice black police guy, asks intelligent questions and then says that the BIG TERMINAL has free towing to the gas station nearby.  O.K.  We call Bhakta Noah and he and all the B'caris will load into the van and pick us up and we can go directly to the program in Boulder.           Tow truck comes. Lifts the front of our car starts to pull it...   SREEECH!    The back tires are locked in 4-wheel drive and wont turn.  He puts it down and puts special wheels under our wheels and starts to pull it.....   Thunk-itty!    Thunk-itty!            One of his special tires is flat...    It disintegrartes in smoke and the tow truck calls a tow truck.   We get to the gas station.  Sit under a tree.   The big black police guy is a Deacon in a Baptist Church.  He takes a book and all in all we talk for about 20-minutes.  He is a Madhyama adhikari.  Very nice guy.  He says he's really looking forward to reading our book.  Tells the Gas Station people to take good care of us.

Krishna, did you arrange all that for us to meet this guy????

O.K. Brahmacaris show up.  All in Safron, Noah, Matthew, Adam, Peter.  Notice anything unusual about their names.           Boulder after 45-minutes.  High class college town.  All kinds of young, vegetarian people.   About 40-devotees sittinng in the park chanting.  Very, very nice. Taking with people.  Rather hot and Rather exhausted.   Back in the van....   get to to our room at 9.30PM  (10.30PM Houston).    Little rustic, but in the Ashrama!   The internet doesn't work!!   "Well ask Bhakti Joseph tommorrow".

             Body starved.....  Prayed to God, Lord Nrsmha Deva to help us!!!!   We ate three nice cookies and took rest.  Couldn't get on Japa Joe...    Woke up at 1.15AM  but mostly rested...             Morning program.  One hour to get internet going. 19-rounds done.  NO SB CLASS!  (Jaya!   We are learning).   Where is laundry.  Where is President?       Where is Krsna House for program tonight.           Listen to M. Urmilla's Class from Hawaii.  Tommorrow we give class.            Internet from the Ashrama is only 2-bars.  Doesn't deal with Webex...  Trying to get key so we can get into the Temple Room at 1.25AM for Japa Joe.

       ... O.K.      Radha Govinda's arati for noon has just started.      They are beautiful.  Denver is beautiful.   5,500 feet high.  NOTHING in any direction from here.  Cowboy town.  Lot of people we haven't seen for 5-10-20 years!

        Let's go take bath.  Wash our clothes.    See if we can do e-mail from the ashrama.  We've finished the first draft of the Japa-Joe Powerpoint show.  Now we are starting a Word document of a Dialog with Carl Jung.    We have to see how our energy level works out as we put writing in the forefront and then we can see how we are going to travel.  Maybe we just go to South America for two weeks only....    Travel can be good and bad for writing.  We have to really put writing in the front.   It's going to be hard.  It requires surrender and harder work than we are doing!!      Thank you.   .     Your life is the same I bet..! !         AGTSP!!!!