Letters to the editor

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           paoho   ....  Saturday = 1AM   BhVai-Forum with Peru.   1.30-3.30AM Japa Joe Joe Joe!  ..  10-12PM   BhSastri (NOD)  Seminar in Temple = 200-devotees!     Emergency calls to Manipur and India.    7-9.30PM   Evening program, Bhakti vrksa =  200-devotees.   11PM-San Jose, BhVai....   Dead in the water!!!     Couldn't do Japa Joe.  Rested little bit then up for Mangala arati.

           Sunday was lot lighter but still packed.  Lot of guests want to say, "Hello".   Individual talks with devotees.      Yet, much better than before.          O.K.   Read letters. 

            Very gratifying.  TKU SP!!!!!

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      (((paoho)))
Here we are in ISKCON Sydney, Australia, Radha-gopinatha Mandir. We are about 75% perfect. As far as our imperfect analysis goes.   Trying to work with more devotion.
Now its, 6PM, dark outside. Sun just left. Little cool, Autum.

Today we had 1AM Bhakti-vaibhava meeting with Nimsar in Peru.  Was very , very useful. They are very sincere in using the San Jose Study Guides and reading with real intention.

1.30-3.30AM - Japa Joe with important chats about schedule for Spain.  HK  HK!

10-12 AM - NOD, BhSastri class in the a PACKED TEMPLE room with about  100 devotees on Sadhana bhakti. Very, very ispiring audience. Raktaka Das is filming. He also made a mad Punjabi breakfast for all the devotees and the puris, subji and sweet rice were all quickly exhausted.

7-9PM - "A Crash Course on BG" at a big Temple Yoga center.

11PM - Another Web-Ex teleconference on BhVai, SB 4.2, with San Jose, Boise!!!   We have 15 of our 25-rounds done. Is time for Gayatri. We have to call Sanjaya in Mayapura about NIOS book shipments. We answered all the letters to our Yahoo account. Other tasks seem to be on schedule.

Our eyes are distorted, little weak, and will probably stay that way.

Our heart is rather O.K.    Our attitude has become, work hard, eat healthy diet and let life or death come as it will.

O.K.   Gayatri, call Sanjaya and we answer Blog letters.

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      (((paoho)))           Here we are in Sydney still.   The Kapi-dhvaja went on time yesterday. We just updated the Web-page to put Srila Prabhupada's name on the first page. Our allergys have finished but we have been having these uncomfortable arhythmias the last few days.

Let's check our pulse right now. . .66/minute, and no noticeable irregularities.  Hmmm.  Maybe it's better.   We've gotten a regular diet, more sane work load etc.  Jaya!

Last night was the first of a three day seminar on NOI.   We showed our two powerpoint shows and then tonight we will focus on Verse Eight. About 60-devotees in the Temple. Very great people. Beautiful Temple. Donations of 85-dollars and distributed 10-NOIs.

Let's look at the news from others.  We are two-weeks and one-day behind on the letters.  Maybe we can catch up now.  4.42PM

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.   AgtSP!       paoho.      We just arrived in Sydney Temple. The flight was on Jet Star and it went from Melbourne to here, but then continued on to Honululu!  So, we had to go through immigration and everything both in Melbourne and here!               Ha!    Ha!      Ha(re)!                  Then devotees were waiting at the Domestic Terminal and we arrived at the International Terminal, and there was a Jet Star flight from Melbourne on Domestic arriving all the time!!!!!       Happens all the time.   We just chanted Hare Krsna loudly while we were waiting and walking here and there and it was fun.  People benefited.

M. Madhumanjari, Adi-adri and Jitendriya Das and many temple devotees gave us friendly welcome.  We had garbanza beans, rice, carrots and some other stuff Nrsmhadeva Mahaprasadam.  It's 5.46PM and getting dark.   Raktaka Das is with us all the way.  He is taking Prasadam now in other room with other devotee. 7PM is Gaura-arati.  Now we will go to the Temple room and chant more rounds.  Chant 124-daily. If you do it with sincerity Krsna will dictate excatly what He wants to do in His current plan of work, adventure.

Later we hope that we can do a little more work.

  A G T S P !
  paoho

Monkey - Piggy here in beautiful Melbourne by the Sea Australia.  A really opulent, big Temple.   Old building. Prabhupada built....    Yesterday we had Japa Joe from 1.30-3.30AM, SB class (full temple room) from 7.30-9.00AM, drive to Prof. Mabbett's beautiful  home in the hills one hour and excellent program there with about 7-fantastic indologists until 5-pm, one hour drive to the Urban Yoga Center with two hours with fantastic new age, Western people, then up at midnight for our San Jose Bhakti-vaibhava program (all ekadasi and change for time for daylight saving's time), then no Japa Joe to get minimal sleep and then SB class this morning.

Raktaka Das, Madhumanjari Devi Dasi, Dhanesvari and Dhruva and so many are REALLY helping us.  We are learning a LOT about our body. The LOB programs are going well. We are meeting any temples and devotees who want to develop these.

We canceled 1/2 of the programs they had planned for Sydney, Next stop and now feel like we are going to be able to handle our BhVai, NIOS, and MED work.

O.K.  >>>>==========>   Letters.

AGTSP     (((paoho)))        -         We've made it to Melbourne. It's old and cold and a big Temple that was a 19th century boy's school with lots of people coming to visit to pay homage to the Dieties and ask for blessings and KC.

How are you?

Dhanesvari Devi Dasi and Dhruvananda Das are here. We are flying everywhere with Raktaka Das. So far their have been donations of $2,000. We may pay for the fuel costs! When we got to the airport we discovered the flight was cancelled and they put us on a different flight. It was nice because we could work in the airport, clean, no allergy and get our review of Rasa-mandala Das' Philosophy of Education General Guidelines to Collaboratively Producing an ISKCON Ministry of Education Paper done, and Score our last paper from Radha-desa.
Brisbane was nice in many ways but not even once we got our regular Ayurvedic Diet. That alone may reduce this nasty allergy reaction that is plaguing us. Our ears were stressed by the flight and our hearing   >>muffffled<<<   by the time we landed. Seems back to its 65-year old normal.   Our eyes are still strained and distorted.  We have to adjust to a 65-year old body. We got 32-rounds done.

Now time for Japa-Joe, Thursday morning!!!                From JJ we hope to get Krsna's instructions, plan of work, clear!!!   Hare Krsna!!